The functioning of capitalism, its ceaseless quest for ever-greater profit, the engine of the entire global economy, is at the center of every major problem human society faces today: from wars and violence and ecological decay to economic crises and poverty and...
We are living in a world that is overwhelmed with crises. We live in a world threatened by mass extinctions brought on by ecological destruction. We live in a world permanently at war, fueled by the need of corporations and banks to amass ever-greater profits. We...
The Economic and Social Crisis in Front Of Us The 2016 Presidential election is taking place amid widespread economic, political, and social crises. The average income for the bottom 90% is $31,000, and the average income for the top one percent is $27 million. Nearly...
For most of human history, daily issues of society were settled by people themselves, in their communities. There weren’t always police on every street corner with the power to stop, search, and harass people in the name of the law. Police forces were introduced by...
The US has the largest prison population in the world. With five percent of the world’s population, it has 25 percent of the world’s prisoners, half a million more than China, which has five times the population. There are about 2.3 million prisoners in the US and...
