Durban — Supplications of a Dead Man’s Hand
The UN Climate Conference held in Durban last December closed with a hollow whimper. No commitment to real action. No commitment to effective change. Just the continuing slow burn of [...]
Monthly Archives: January 2012
Social Justice Quiz 2012 — Thirteen Questions
Question One. The combined pay of the 299 highest paid CEOs in the US is enough to support how many median salary jobs? 45,000? 83,000? 102,325? Two. The median net [...]
Democratic Elections in the Middle East — Why the Islamists Win (An Analysis)
Part I — Two Democratic Elections There have now been two democratic elections in the Middle East as a consequence of the Arab Spring. One was in Tunisia in October [...]
Fighting 1% Wars
America’s wars are remote. They’re remote from us geographically, remote from us emotionally (unless you’re serving in the military or have a close relative or friend who serves), and remote [...]
Waking in the Half World
Most estimates indicate that by 2030, more or less, annual global oil production will be about half of the peak rate. “Half” the oil with occur at the same time [...]
ACTA — Worse Than SOPA & PIPA
Internet freedom’s on the line. SOPA and PIPA threatened Net Neutrality and free expression. So does ACTA. More on it below. For now, the largest online protest in Internet history [...]
Human Beings with Feet of Clay & Self-Proclaimed Masters of the Universe
Humankind could soon come face to face with an incredible and unprecedented situation. We are spectacularly successful at doing something potentially ruinous of all we claim to be protecting and [...]
Free PDF: Salvation for the 21st Century
Excerpt from the PDF: Some would say that the world will end before the year is out, so that talk of salvation is simply pointless. Some would deny that the [...]
The Pathology of Inequality
Inequality is a disease of society, a cancer growing out of control at one end of the body while the rest of it withers away. It’s not just about the [...]
Cartoon: Five Laws That Would Greatly Improve America
About: Andy Singer is a world renowned cartoonist whose works appear in dozens of newspapers, books and magazines all over the world including The Funny Times, The Bay Monthly, Athens News, La Decroissance, Z Magazine, Random Lengths, Seven [...]
