On the 10th anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq, we look at a massive new report by a team of 30 economists, anthropologists, political scientists, legal experts and physicians about the Iraq ... Read More or Watch Video →
+ TruthOut offers “US Climate Bomb is Ticking: What the Gas Industry Doesn't Want You to Know” by Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers. Excerpt: “We spoke with experts - Cornell engineering professor Dr. Anthony Ingraffea and biologist and author Dr. Sandra Steingraber - to explore what the newest studies show and to bust common myths about gas shale hydraulic fracking. The path out of this situation is a combination of promoting sound science, ending the extraction economy and employing direct action to weaken the stranglehold of industry on the political process. It is time to end the "all of the above" energy strategy which ensures going over the climate tipping point and instead commit to a carbon-free, nuclear-free energy economy.” | Read the article
+ TruthOut offers “Will Capitalism Destroy Civilization?” by Noam Chomsky. Excerpt: “Dewey called for workers to be 'masters of their own industrial fate' and for all institutions to be brought under public control, including the means of production, exchange, publicity, transportation and communication. Short of this, Dewey argued, politics will remain ‘the shadow cast on society by big business.’
"The truncated democracy that Dewey condemned has been left
in tatters in recent years. Now control of government is narrowly concentrated
at the peak of the income scale, while the large majority 'down below' has been
virtually disenfranchised. The current political-economic system is a form of
plutocracy, diverging sharply from democracy, if by that concept we mean
political arrangements in which policy is significantly influenced by the
public will.
"There have been serious debates over the years about whether
capitalism is compatible with democracy. If we keep to really existing
capitalist democracy – RECD for short – the question is effectively answered:
They are radically incompatible.
"It seems to me unlikely that civilization
can survive RECD and the sharply attenuated democracy that goes along with it.
But could functioning democracy make a difference?” | Read the article
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