Immediately after Amazon founder Jeff Bezos descended from his brief visit to space last month, he held a press conference in which he inadvertently told us how disconnected he is from the urgent reality that we and our world face. He said “We’re going to build a road...
In late June, the pharmaceutical company Johnson & Johnson announced that it reached a $230 million settlement with New York State after being sued for its role in creating the opioid crisis. Johnson & Johnson manufactured different opioid painkillers for...
An ITV News investigative report discovered that an Amazon warehouse (also known as a ‘fulfillment center’) in Dunfermline, Scotland, destroys hundreds of thousands of stock items every week. Video footage obtained by an undercover reporter reveals hundreds of...
For-Profit Healthcare Healthcare has become a multibillion-dollar industry. Hospital administrators, not healthcare workers, make decisions about worker and patient safety while pharmaceutical companies fund medical research, making their profits off of patient need....
Young people today face a world of crises. It’s clear that this society does not function for the benefit of 99% of humanity. The problem is capitalism: a system where a tiny fraction of the population owns and controls the world’s resources, wealth, and the...
