Excerpt: “Let’s take the Russia business. Let’s say all the claims are true. Suppose Russia tried to interfere in the American elections. That ought to make people laugh hysterically. There is huge interference in American elections. It comes from the corporate sector. They practically buy the elections. In fact, there is extensive work in mainstream academic political science…
Excerpt from the New York Times’ “California Today,” by Jill Cowan: On Tuesday, Gov. Gavin Newsom issued a formal apology to California’s Native American communities. Here’s more from my colleague Tim Arango about the apology and what it means: In 1851, California’s first governor, Peter Burnett, told the Legislature to expect war “until the Indian race…
The effort to divest from Wall Street—and stop environment-killing projects gained momentum after the historic pipeline protest. Here’s what a city needs, and could gain, from municipal banking. by Deonna Anderson (posted Jan 02, 2019 in Yes Magazine) In February 2017, Seattle became the first city to pass legislation to divest from a financial institution…
Published on Saturday, June 15, 2019 by Common Dreams by Ernest A. Canning We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of the few, but we can’t have both. – Supreme Court Justice Louis D. Brandeis It is not hyperbole to suggest that Senator…
Editor’s Note: I first ran across this essay, a commencement address given by Paul Hawken to the lucky University of Portland graduating class of 2009, in a beautiful book of inspirational essays called Hope Beneath our Feet. When I wrote to Hawken to get permission to reprint it, his reply included this postscript: “I went to Nevada Union High…