Building the Democratic Economy from Preston UK to Cleveland OH, The Laura Flanders Show
Alternative economy with community health and wealth building
CLIMATE CHANGE, MILITARISM AND WAR (Video)
The Paris talks signalled an important change in the climate movement as thousands of activists gathered from all over the world to organise global action.
Flowers and Zeese | Visions For The Future
We’ve seen time and again that when people lead, the leaders follow.
Flowers and Zeese | Visions For The Future
We’ve seen time and again that when people lead, the leaders follow.
Henry A. Giroux | America’s Addiction to Terrorism
Giroux discusses torture, militarisation, surveillance, racism, education and austerity ... and draws the links to the military-industrial-academic complex.
John Pilger | A Blow for Peace and Democracy: Why the British Said No to Europe
The pith helmets may have long gone, but the blood has never dried. A nineteenth century contempt for countries and peoples, depending on their degree of colonial usefulness, remains a centrepiece of modern “globalisation”, with its perverse socialism for the rich and capitalism for the poor--
Chris Hedges | 2008 All Over Again
Will the American public passively permit another massive bailout of the banks? Will it accept more punishing programs of austerity to pay for this bailout? Will a viable socialism rise out of the economic chaos to halt further looting of the U.S. Treasury and the continued reconfiguration of the economy into neofeudalism?
Flowers and Zeese | Brexit Backlash Against EU, A Revolt Against Elites
The Brexit vote showed how out of touch the elites are with the lives of the people in England. They are unaware how austerity, unfair incomes and lack of wealth makes life unbearable for many. The same is true throughout the globalized economy, which is rigged for the 1% around the world.
Noam Chomsky: My Hopes for the Future
Destruction of ISIS by any means that can be imagined might lay the basis for something worse, as has been happening quite regularly with military intervention. The state system in the region imposed by French and British imperial might after World War I, with little concern for the populations under their control, is unraveling.
Truthdig: 442 Mental Health Experts Call for an End to Austerity
Counsellors and psychotherapists in the public and private sectors find themselves at the coalface in responding to the effects of austerity politics on the emotional state of the nation [Great Britain]. By Alexander Reed Kelly truthdig.com April 19, 2015 potamos.photography (CC BY-ND 2.0) Austerity cuts and “neoliberal thinking” among policymakers are having a “profoundly More