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Make Your Investments Fuel Change
People around the world are pressing their leaders to act on climate change and fueling change on their own. With U.S. political leadership on climate policy in a shambles, many Americans are taking matters into their own hands. Nearly 400,000 people marched in New...
Corporate Tax Deserters
Corporations love to wrap themselves in the flag with sun-drenched TV commercials that proclaim a deep devotion to American workers and communities. But when it comes to actually taking responsibility for supporting the workers and communities that create the...
Making Windmills out of Warplanes
With the Islamic State's rise, Libya's slide back into civil war, and the conflict brewing between Ukraine and Russia, there's plenty to fear these days. Maybe you've always believed you could count on the U.S. military to protect you from dangers like those, and that...
The Scourge of Siphon-Up Economics
When the Census released the latest data on inequality, most mainstream media outlets shrugged it off. That's quite a contrast from earlier this year when inequality was all the rage. Reporters were scrambling to write about it. In January, President Barack Obama made...
Some Serious Potty Talk
There's a photo-word montage on the Internet in which a little boy, presumably from Africa, looks skeptically at a woman who is apparently from somewhere else. The boy asks, "You mean to tell me you have so much clean water, that you (poop) in it?" Umm…yeah. Yeah, we...
The Little Train That Won’t
I love groups with the gumption to take on big tasks and do what needs to be done — can-do groups that can, and do. But, uh-oh, here comes The Little Train That Couldn't. I'm talking about Congress. Since the earliest days of our US of A, the most basic task of this...
Forcing an Island of Peace to Host a Billion-Dollar Military Base
Back in the spring, an Asian tragedy fleetingly made headlines when an overloaded ferryboat sank on its way to South Korea's Jeju Island. Nearly 300 people aboard the Sewol ferry perished, mostly children. We've been hearing way less about the tragedy unfolding on the...
Destroying a Bridge to Somewhere
Bombing Syria Will Only Make Things Worse
President Barack Obama’s decision to bomb Syria stands in stark violation of international law, the UN Charter, and the requirements of the U.S. Constitution. It contradicts his own commitment, stated a year ago in the UN General Assembly, to reverse Washington’s...
Another Fast Food Stunt
Now here's a dinner I wish I could've attended. I hear it was an elegant evening of fine dining in New York City's chic Tribeca neighborhood. Celebrity chefs prepared a sumptuous spread of international cuisines for this truly unique ballet for the taste buds. The...
