Thinking about 'what if'

These people, the .01 percent, are mostly childish idiots.

(Alex Pareeme, writer)

Will work for food

Of course it's ultimately going to be about “jobs” in the 2012 American elections, in the European austerity crisis, watching for unrest in China and the whole world festering....

But who among us will figure out how to tie jobs to something much larger, something that will actually resonate? That would be the real Nobel Prize for Peace.

How Much Is Left?

Game over for the climate

Conservative Think TanksLaunch Campaigns to Turn Americans Against Wind Energy

How Wall Street KilledFinancial Reform

The energy wars heat up

Super PAC Believe It or Not!

Leonard Cohen

Why Create Resilient Communities

Chris Hedges, journalist, offered a bleak, personal critique of the American “empire” back on December 28th in New York. His view is that the current system can not be reformed no matter the degree of tentative tinkering we undertake.
The question still remains how we begin the serious creation of new resilient communities, which likely means we will have to confront at some point an increasingly undemocratic status quo. See
http://www.democracynow.org/blog/2009/12/18/chris_hedges Empire of Illusion.