Ah, the companies that care about me, and indeed, humanity, and indeeder, improving shareholder return. What a bettr* world it would be, if they had it their way, which they [ … ]
Amazon buying Whole Foods? United Food Workers Union joins the #resistance
The United Food and Commercial Workers International Union has joined the #resistance against Amazon acquisition of Whole Foods. “No employment decreases are arranged because of the arrangement,” a delegate said [ … ]
Economic War Crimes: Dismantling Former Yugoslavia, Recolonizing Bosnia-Herzegovina
Text of Michel Chossudovsky’s 1996 article (updated in 2002) published as a chapter in the The Globalization of Poverty and the New World Order, Global Research, Montreal, 2003 Click image [ … ]
The cold war. Amazon against the world. U.S. Rep Cicilline asks for hearings
The Amazon Whole Foods acquisition is a work in progress and so is the resistance. We’ve been pundited and corporate propagandizing to one side and my posts are the murmurs [ … ]
Debt and Magical Thinking
Humanity appears to default to magical thinking when faced with untenable situations that demand systemic change. “Earth’s economy glorifies waste. Its economists rejoice when a product is disposed as [ … ]
A no BS review of Amazon bookstore
I went to the Amazon Bookstore today on an errand to audit its well-being. I am wary of any store that has a greeter. I think they said ‘can I help [ … ]
Ah the Snowflakes
A young man of my acquaintance recently ended his intimate relationship with a girl that had lasted some years, and announced the fact to the world on Facebook, together with [ … ]
Public Service Announcement: The US Labor Market is Still Losing Ground Relative to Trend
We keep hearing how good the labor market is these days. We’ve created more than 16 million jobs since the financial crisis! Unemployment is the lowest since 2001! Time to [ … ]
Seneca on Values
This letter from Seneca to Lucilius has lingered with me since I first read it. The words that most circulate in my head “In the case of many men, their [ … ]
We Do These Things Because They’re Easy: Our All-Consuming Dependence on Debt
A world in which “we do these things because they’re easy” has one end-state: collapse. Our national philosophy now is “we do these things because they’re easy”– and relying on [ … ]










