Who’s in Control of Health Care?
The system will not improve unless there is democratic control of health care, which means something akin to Canada’s single-payer system. The central issue in health care can … Read more
Jim Hightower’s Column
Political commentary column by Jim Hightower. Often serious, but Jim uses his trademark biting satire to make important points.
A Rube Goldberg Inflationary Spiral
Rube Goldberg himself couldn’t have dreamed up a more fantastical diagram for obscuring a straightforward economic power grab. It seems like the price of everything from used cars … Read more
Change That Matters
Profiteering industries have been trying to demonize the Rights of Nature movement and change that matters. As you would expect, corporate leaders have responded to the idea of … Read more
Rights of Nature: An Indigenous Idea
The Rights of Nature concept is an organic outgrowth of the reality that Earth and its many creatures and elements are inextricably connected. If an inanimate, self-serving, monopolistic … Read more
Corporations Win Olympic Gold in ‘Downhill Ethical Backflip’
The collective ethical backflip has been quite impressive: from the high ethical bar of human rights into the pits of crass, unprincipled commercialism. By far the top team … Read more
The ‘Tree That Owns Itself’ Should Have a Right to Exist
Why not grant self-protective rights of law to our invaluable natural systems? The “Tree That Owns Itself” should have a right to exist. As an old axiom notes, … Read more
How Corporate Greed is Causing Tornado Deaths
For years, an effective, cheap defense against tornado deaths has been readily available: Safe rooms. But corporate bosses can’t be bothered. In its ranking of business values, corporate … Read more
We’re Talking About Power
What power do people really have if we can’t even control what’s in our dinner and where it comes from? In 1971, Susan DeMarco, Susan Sechler and I … Read more
Manufactured Meat
This is not hamburgers versus veggie burgers, both of which are from nature. Rather it’s meat versus manufactured meat, or faux meat. Who needs farms and ranches when … Read more
Team Greed Plays Big-Time Sports!
We might worship the teams that actually play, but our money mostly goes to Team Greed, the ruling clique of billionaire barons. ‘Tis the season, right? Traditionally, the … Read more
