This is the last year that the United States will participate in the United Nations COP meetings as Trump formally withdraws from the Paris Agreement. What are activists in the US to do?
"When a society falls into the death grip of an oligarchic class, the result is always catastrophic."
The Sierra Club deserves credit for coming around to a progressive stance on population, immigration, and minorities.
Trump is an effective con man who has a good sense of what animates his voting base. ...that withdrawing a few hundred troops would appeal to the sector of the population that resonates to his message that America is foolishly expending its blood and treasure to help “unworthy” people...
[Trump] had kvetched about the plight of US workers and made some noise about ending unending wars, but was he for real?
Only about 25 percent of Republicans (36 percent of the more savvy millennials) recognize that humans are responsible for global warming. Shocking figures.
Personal ethics are irrelevant. Capitalists are about acquisition and exploitation.
"This wondrous planet, so full of mystery, is a paradise. All I want to do is give everything I have, my energy, my love, my labor — in gratitude for what we are given. " —Christi Belcourt, Native American Artist, about her featured art at the recent Minneapolis Institute of Arts exhibit of Native American Women’s art, Hearts of Our People.
Eight of the 12 jurors found Scott Warren not guilty. The government will now retry Warren in November on new charges.
We will save ourselves only by pitting power against power. We will save ourselves by building mass movements to overthrow corporate power.
Alternative economy with community health and wealth building
The original doctrine of socialism meant government ownership of the means of production—heavy industries, railroads, banks, and the like. Nobody in national politics today is suggesting such a takeover. As one quipster put it, “How can Washington take ownership of the banks when the banks own Washington?” Consumer rights advocate and former presidential candidate Ralph More
