Austerity is what our politicians should be demanding from the banks and the corporations, not us. The right to exist is what we should be granting corporations and financial institutions, not the other way around. The constituents should be the most powerful lobbyists in any capital, not the corporations and banks. We’ve allowed our world to be turned upside down.
Globally, a growing majority of people are starting to understand that climate change and global warming mean extreme weather. Last week New-Yorkers were under two feet of snow. In Australia, Queensland is currently experiencing a flood of biblical proportion covering an area as big as France and Germany combined. In 2010, floods killed thousands in [...]
On the advice of many Derrick Jensen’s “Endgame” has been on the ‘should read’ list for years, but somehow I have never gotten around to it. More recently a youtube clip of him reading an excerpt was brought to my attention, so I watched that, and then checked out sections of the books that are [...]
While many policies our government have enacted over the last thirty years or so can easily be deemed Orwellian, one that has everyone jumping and shouting currently is actually about personal choice.
By Anthony Zeitouni TIME magazine named Facebook’s Co-Founder and CEO Zuckerberg, 26, as Time’s Person of the Year 2010. Meanwhile Taimour Abdulwahab al-Abdaly, 28, was recently named the “Stockholm bomber” after he blew himself up in a street in Stockholm last week in a suicide attack. What a paradox, two young men of a similar [...]
