Saturday, January 11, 2025

How awesome is ‘awesome’?

Will the U.S. military under Lloyd Austin's leadership recover its long-lost awesomeness?

How worker solidarity protects what’s left of the middle class

Union contracts provide decent wages and benefits along with safe working conditions, retirement security and a means for workers to stand up for themselves.

Witnessing the demise of the principles of ethics and morality in the America of...

What is happening to America and its people?

How community schools are helping a hard-hit city dig out of tough times

Rocked by vanishing industries and charter school expansions, Erie public schools are fighting back with a “transformative” education approach.

Rethinking work—and life

People are rethinking where their story is going and how they can take it in a better direction.

Ethiopia conflict by US design

The U.S. and her puppets (UK, EU etc) have, to the incredulity of many, stood behind the terrorists and not the government of Ethiopia, or the Ethiopian people.

Our new art ‘appreciation,’ billionaire-style

Fine art has never been more financially lucrative — or less central to our culture.

Our future vs. neoliberalism

As human beings, we have the same collective power that human beings have always had to build a better world for ourselves and our children - and now is the time to harness that power.

Discontent by design: The lost world of The West

The Culture of Pleasure sits tightly within and feeds the pervasive Ideology of Consumerism, a socio-economic model that has poisoned the environment and led to the commodification of everything, and everyone.

Why America needs a national program of paid sick and family leave

America remains the only major industrialized country without a universal paid leave program.