America’s Zany Economy: Money for Nothing and Your Crap for Cheap
We’re all familiar with the perplexing state of the jobless recovery. More and more Americans are unemployed, underemployed, medically uninsured, and facing foreclosure, while those in the banking and investment sector, whose criminal speculation and fiscal irresponsibility caused the mess we’re in, are making more money than ever before. But, many of us don’t realize […]
United States of America: The Lowest Common Denominator Empire
Like a bottle of milk, all empires have their expiration date. Rome lasted a millennium; the French and British empires had a global reach for centuries. Others were not as successful and disappeared in a few years. This was, of course, the case for the psychotic empire that Adolf Hitler tried to create. He thought […]
Is A New World Order By The People And For The People Possible?
The global community has reached a development impasse. The cut throat management philosophy of global capitalism is not only failing, but collapsing at a noticeable speed-as long as some attention is being paid at what is really going on. Ever since the wind of the Arab Spring, from the Jasmine revolution in Tunisia, blew a […]
Obama’s Withdrawal Strategy Leaves Twice As Many Troops In Afghanistan
When Obama began his Presidency there were close to 38,000 troops in Afghanistan. If he keeps the promises that he will make in his speech tonight, eighteen months months from now, after withdrawing, or reclassifying, 30,000 troops, there will still be 68,000 troops left in Afghanistan. December, 2009, in a speech delivered at the U.S. […]
October 2011 Movement: Open Letter and Press Release
To Global Allies: American Empire An Obstacle to Peace and Justice at Home and Abroad October 2011 Movement Commits to Occupying Freedom Plaza in Washington, D.C., to End U.S. War and Exploitation Today, the October 2011 Movement, a fusion of peace, social justice, environmental, student, and immigrant rights organizations, published an open letter of […]
