Trump’s $1 Trillion Infrastructure Plan: Lincoln Had a Bolder Solution | Ellen Brown

Painting by Andy Warhol Web of Debt Blog Nov. 14, 2016 Donald Trump was an outsider who boldly stormed the citadel of Washington DC and won. He has promised real change, but his infrastructure plan a ...

The Working Class Won The Election | Paul Craig Roberts

Paul Craig RobertsNov. 9, 2016 (PaulCraigRoberts.org) -- The U.S. presidential election is historic because the American people were able to defeat the oligarchs. Hillary Clinton, an agent for the Ol ...

Reflections on a Democracy in Crisis | John Michael Greer

Donald Trump at the New Hampshire Town Hall at Pinkerton Academy, Aug. 19t 2015. By Michael Vadon. Flickr (CC BY-SA 2.0)Nov. 9, 2016 (Archdruid Report) -- Well, it’s finally over, and I think it’s fa ...

'Tired of Waiting' for Politicians, Minimum Wage on Ballot in Four States | Lauren McCauley

"We all know that our economy is broken. We have seen that elected officials are just failing to do anything about it," said Jonathan Schleifer, executive director of The Fairness Project. (Photo: Wi ...

The Last Gasp of the American Dream | John Michael Greer

John Michael GreerNov. 2, 2016 (Archdruid Report) -- Just at the moment, many of my readers -- and of course a great many others as well -- are paying close attention to which of the two most deteste ...

By Cooperating With Washington On Syria Russia Walked Into A Trap | Paul Craig Roberts

Vladimir PutinOct. 24, 2016 (PaulCraigRoberts.org) -- A month ago I wrote a column, “He Who Hesitates Is Lost -- And Russia Hesitated.” The consequences of this hesitation are now apparent: 1. A UN r ...

Seven Questions about Technology You Aren’t Even Allowed to Ask | Antonio Regalado

Sex robots, climate hacking, and the true cost of medicine made our list of taboo technology topics. July 28, 2016 (MIT Technology Review) -- What technologies and questions about technology are just ...

The Unique Human Capacity for War | Michael Brenner

Trench warfare during World War I. One characteristic that sets humans apart from other animals is the capability to organize sustained warfare against members of their own species, a troubling fact ...

Rigged Elections Are An American Tradition | Paul Craig Roberts

Paul Craig RobertsOct. 21, 2016 (PaulCraigRoberts.org) -- Do Americans have a memory? I sometimes wonder. It is an obvious fact that the oligarchic One Percent have anointed Hillary, despite her myri ...

The Future Hiding in Plain Sight -- John Michael Greer

John Michael GreerOct. 19, 2016 (Archdruid Report) -- Carl Jung used to argue that meaningful coincidences -- in his jargon, synchronicity -- were as important as cause and effect in shaping the deta ...

The Real Humanitarian Crisis Is Not Aleppo | Paul Craig Roberts

Paul Craig RobertsOct. 16, 2016 (PaulCraigRoberts.org) -- Why do we hear only of the “humanitarian crisis in Aleppo” and not of the humanitarian crisis everywhere else in Syria where the evil that ru ...