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It is up to the people to stand up for principle and morality when their institutions and public officials refuse to do so. The fates of those who are maimed or killed by our government's policies are inextricably intertwined with our own; we must listen and respond to their cry for justice.
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Citing the obesity epidemic, some food activists want “junk food” banned from the Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program (SNAP — the food stamp program). As of 2011, about 46 million people nationwide are in the program. Clearly this would be a major hit for the “junk food” manufacturers, which include name-brand Big Food companies. Coca-Cola,...
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Globalization’s most troublesome dimension is that it is first and foremost based upon a philosophy that distorts the very meaning of truth. Globalization and neoliberalism represent a fundamental attack on humanity’s historic pursuit of truth. As a Bush senior aide put it to Ron Suskind in 2002, explaining that the people in the White...
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How does the U.S. President, a man who ran on a platform of hope and change, maintain a “kill list” and declare that he has the right to assassinate anyone he pleases as long as he regards them as “terrorists,” including Americans?
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Our country is awash in genetically modified foods, fracking, drones, armed guards and RFI chips, yet, when we look at these things in a rear view mirror to see a reversed image, we see something far more frightening, as the seeds of perverted science can only prosper in the soils of perverted government. Other...
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An increased minimum wage for America’s poorest non-agricultural workers rests in the hands of the 535 members of Congress and the President, all of whom are wealthy and in many cases multi-millionaires. Is it democracy to have the interests of one group -- the poor -- in the hands of a group that has...
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If government wants to really tackle the obesity epidemic, it must first see obesity for what it is: a symptom. Government, especially at the federal level, could deal with the issues that result in mass obesity, if it weren't so busy blaming the individual consumer and aiding the industries that are driving the...
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What Bradley Manning did in releasing the materials that show war crimes routinely being committed by the U.S. government and the government and military’s systematic lying and hypocrisy, is what every person should do when they learn that crimes are being committed. Manning ought to be lauded as a heroic whistleblower, rather than treated...
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Over a decade of military madness, running wars with tax cuts, tax cuts have now become the primary instrument of economic policy against malaise. The answer to every economic problem is now solved with tax cuts. The Obama stimulus was 30% tax cuts, $500 billion for 304 million Americans and $286 billion for corporate...
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A society that equates material rewards with success and that relies upon material success to motivate people is also saying—and must say—that success equals having things that others do not have. This turns society into a zero sum game of winners and losers and structurally encourages a sense of entitlement among the “winners”
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