The Corporate States of America and the Pathology of Capitalism

An opinion expressed by Charles Sullivan, a Master Naturalist and community activist: The U.S. is an occupied territory that could more accurately be described as the Corporate States of America. The systems of power do not allow the voice of working people to be heard or their collective will to be acted upon. Despite the […]

The beginning of a fullblown banking crisis

Let’s say Joe Blow bought a house in 2005 for $400,000 believing the hype that “Housing prices can only go up”. But by 2008, Mr Blow is underwater because housing prices have dipped and his house is only worth $300,000. Even worse, he has to put his house on the market fast because he just […]

The European Spring – Is Revolution underway?

Has Capitalism hung itself in its excess? Underlying what I prefer to call the Mediterranean Spring rather than the European Spring are a host of symptoms of a highly infectious pandemic of rejection of the capitalist system. The movement of the movements infecting Spanish youth camping on the plazas of their nation today is transversal. […]

Capitalist Imperialism 101

Imperialism has been the most powerful force in world history over the last four or five centuries, carving up whole continents while oppressing indigenous peoples and obliterating entire civilizations. By “imperialism” I mean the process whereby the dominant politico-economic interests of one nation expropriate for their own enrichment the land, labor, raw materials, and markets […]

The economic crisis creates major demand for change

Years of government and media propaganda in America has given the people in America a false vision of what democracy should look like. At this particular point in U.S. history, most of the people in this country are not sharing in the wealth of our immensely rich nation. Eighty percent of our population jointly shares […]

The Gulf Oil Spill and the Capitalism in all of us

Like any good apocalyptic vision of self-wrought hell, the greatest environmental disaster in U.S. history has its inherent poetry. It’s not just the incredible photographs of the spill that are, in turns, heartbreaking, stunning, otherworldly and downright Satanic in their abject revulsion. It’s not just the statistics that tell us how many millions of gallons […]

The U.S. funding enemies to maintain trillion dollar War Racket

The reasons behind the seeming addiction to U.S. wars is as easy to 1, 2, 3 … #1) Wherever there is a war, look for CIA/IMF/private military war profiteers covertly funding and supporting BOTH sides in order to keep the wars raging and the profits rolling in. As former CIA Station Chief John Stockwell explained: […]

United States declines as national debt grows

The problem for America is that its greatness has always been rooted in its economic dominance. The United States is no longer the sole power towering over the post-Cold War era. “It’s not so much we’re declining, other countries are coming up,” said James Baker, Former U.S. treasury secretary, and U.S. secretary of state. America’s […]

Avatar the biggest anti war film of all time

Avatar may well be the biggest anti War film of all time. Avatar stands against everything the West is identified with. It is against greed and capitalism, it is against interventionalism, it is against colonialism and imperialism. Avatar puts Wolfowitz, Blair and Bush on trial without even mentioning their names. [From the blog of Gilad […]