Category Corporations/Capitalism
Two Minnesotas, A Choice: Sacrifice Zones and Extraction Economics or Long-Term Quality-of-Life
Water and contamination: Choose Life or Death
Kavanaugh Hearings: Toxic Masculinity is Endemic to the Far Right, Henry Giroux
An interview of Henry Giroux on the Kavanaugh Hearings: Government run amuck and the ramifications beyond the hearings
Chris Hedges: American Anomie
The reconfiguring of American society into an oligarchy and the collapse of our democratic institutions have left most of the population disempowered. … Ruleless-ness means the norms that govern a society and create a sense of organic solidarity no longer function.
The Necessity of Moral Resistance in the Face of Militarism | Rev. Dr. William J. Barber, II
Confronting head-on America’s war economy and militarism, the necessity of non-violent moral dissent, moral resistance and moral vision …
Tomgram: Engelhardt, History, Memory, and Donald Trump
Still, don’t for a second imagine that Donald Trump won’t be remembered. He will — into the distant future in a way that no other American president is likely to be.
Jim Hightower: Corporations Are Waging All-Out Class War
Now, the time of a new democratic rebellion is upon us again, for We the People are suddenly in the grip of a brutish level of monopolistic power.
Tomgram: Nick Turse, Victory in Our Time (The U.S. Military is Winning. No, Really, It Is!)
Expressed differently, the United States has not won a major conflict since 1945; has a trillion-dollar national security budget; has had 17 military commanders in the last 17 years in Afghanistan, a country plagued by 23,744 “security incidents” (the most ever recorded) in 2017 alone; has spent around $3 trillion, primarily on that war and the rest of the war on terror…
Chris Hedges: The Slaves Rebel
Prisons in America are a huge and lucrative business. The private prison contractors Corrections Corporation of America and The GEO Group have annual revenues of $1.6 billion and more than $2 billion, respectively.
Noam Chomsky: Media Obsession with Russia and the Stories Not Being Covered in the Trump Era
The fate of organized human society, even of the survival of the species, depends on this [US relations with Russia].
Iran in the Crosshairs-Again! Soraya Sepahpour-Ulrich
It is not clear how insane U.S. policy can get under Trump’s leadership, or that of his warhawk advisors.
The fight to save the internet continues…take action now!
The Senate has already passed its version of the Congressional Review Act (CRA) resolution to save Net Neutrality. Now it’s the House’s turn.
Minneapolis 2040 Plan: SWLRT Up-Zoning, by Susu Jeffrey
Everbody pays the regressive sales tax to transport only one percent of the county’s population.
The Resurgence of Political Authoritarianism: An Interview With Noam Chomsky
…the furor about alleged Russian interference with our pristine democratic process reveals profound indoctrination — in capitalist, not democratic, values.
The Media Never Mention the No. 1 Cause of Climate Change, by Lee Camp
Our illogical, immoral meat consumption will kill our planet, kill our future and possibly kill your family.
U.S. Congresswoman Betty McCollum says No New Nuclear Weapons and other good news
Women Walk for Peace in Korea
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