- Break away from conventional trickle-down economics.
A future-friendly economics is necessary, and possible.Poverty is man-made, and not inevitable.
Produced by a myopic worldview, there is an alternative.
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The Madness of Caligula
According to the German editor Heribert Prantl, Caligula showed his madness by appointing a goat to his seat in the Roman senate. His successor burned all his decrees and orders. The Madness of Caligula http://www.ancient-origins.net/history-famous-people/madness-caligula-00 The story of Caligula is … Continue reading
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Why Tax Cuts for the Rich Solve Nothing by Joseph Stiglitz
Why Tax Cuts for the Rich Solve Nothing by Joseph E. Stiglitz, July 27, 2017 https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/tax-cuts-for-the-rich-solve-nothing-by-joseph-e–stiglitz-2017-07 Although America’s right-wing plutocrats may disagree about how to rank the country’s major problems – for example, inequality, slow growth, low productivity, opioid addiction, … Continue reading
The Theater of Good and Evil by Eduardo Galeano, 90 pp
Voices of Sanity Reaching out for Peace, 90 pp The Theater of Good and Evil by Eduardo Galeano is on pages 3-4 Thanks, Arvind Gupta! Enjoy the feast! http://www.arvindguptatoys.com/arvindgupta/sanity.pdf
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The Missile Attack Ordered by Trump is a Serious Crime
The Missile Attack Ordered by Trump is a Serious Crime by Dieter Deiseroth, Michael Lueders, Albrecht Mueller and Ralph Hartmann http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2017/04/434637.shtml Assad’s regime defends itself against an international alliance that seeks his overthrow in violation of international law. Whoever wants … Continue reading
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The Paranoid Style in American Politics by Richard Hofstadter
Trump is determined to reduce government to chaos! http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/3/13/1642640/-Cartoon-Campaign-flashback The Paranoid Style in American Politics by Richard Hofstadter, Harpers, November 1964 http://harpers.org/archive/1964/11/the-paranoid-style-in-american-politics/ “The megalomaniac’s view of oneself as the Elect, wholly good, abominably persecuted, yet assured of ultimate triumph; the … Continue reading
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Without Social Democracy, Capitalism Will Eat Itself by Karin Pettersson
Without Social Democracy, Capitalism Will Eat Itself by Karin Pettersson, Feb 10, 17 https://www.socialeurope.eu/2017/02/without-social-democracy-capitalism-will-eat/ The Golden Age has now been gone longer than it lasted and the world it sprung from doesn’t exist anymore. Once a balance was struck between … Continue reading
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Bernie Sanders: “Despair is not an option”
to read the interview with Bernie Sanders published in The Guardian, March 10, 2017, click on https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/mar/10/bernie-sanders-interview-trump-democratic-party-resistance The senator talks about his fight to make the Democratic party more attractive to working-class people – and on taking his progressive populism … Continue reading
Who Says It Can’t Happen Here? by Harvey Kaye
We have endured 40 years of creeping authoritarianism and it now appears that it may run right over democracy. We must resist and act in solidarity. Who Says It Can’t Happen Here? by Harvey Kaye to read Harvey Kaye’s article … Continue reading
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The Lie of the Civilized Western World by Sascha Pommrenke
The Lie of the Civilized Western World by Sascha Pommrenke, Oct 2015 http://la.indymedia.org/news/2017/02/294938.php “Terrorism is the war of the poor and war is the terrorism of the rich,” Peter Ustinov said and thereby contradicted the media picture “we,” the West … Continue reading
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Trump and the Consequences: Democracy at a Crossroads by Albrecht von Luecke
Trump and the Consequences: Democracy at a Crossroads by Albrecht von Luecke, December 2016 http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2017/01/434101.shtml A “descent society” came out of the former ascent society of the postwar… What appears here is another form of democracy, without the constitutional state … Continue reading
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