Inequality

By Civic Media Observatory | – ( Globalvoices.org ) – Whether on a date or at a family gathering, one topic of conversation is on everyone’s lips in Turkey: the country’s deepening economic crisis. There are several angles to the story. While Erdoğan’s government argues that the country is in an “economic war” against enemies, […]

Employment

America as a Sacrifice Zone

Liz Theoharis

( Tomdispatch.com ) – In the American ethos, sacrifice is often hailed as the chief ingredient for overcoming hardship and seizing opportunity. To be successful, we’re assured, college students must make personal sacrifices by going deep into debt for a future degree and the earnings that may come with it. Small business owners must sacrifice […]

Donald Trump

From the Greatest Generation to the Trump Generation: Can America’s Drastic Decline be Reversed?

Tom Engelhardt

( Tomdispatch.com) – I find nothing strange in Joe Biden, at 79 (going on 80), being the oldest president in our history and possibly planning to run again in 2024. After all, who wouldn’t want to end up in the record books? Were he to be nominated and then beat the also-aging Donald Trump, or […]

Climate Crisis

How Climate Emergency could further Punish Inflation-Ridden Economies, with Record Heat Waves across US, UK and Europe

The Conversation

By Derek Lemoine, University of Arizona | – Hundreds of millions of people struggled to keep cool amid a sweltering summer heat wave as cities across the U.S. and mainland Europe experienced record-high temperatures. In the U.K., thermometers topped 104 Fahrenheit (40 degrees Celsius) on July 19, 2022, the highest ever recorded. While all this […]

Employment

Does the Future Belong to People Who Profit Off Our ‘Excessive Wealth Disorder’?

Sam Pizzigati

( Inequality.org ) – If Dustin Hoffman should ever do a remake of The Graduate, the classic 1967 film that launched his famed cinematic career, what might be the 2020s update for that film’s most iconic exchange? A good many of us still fondly remember that poolside party scene. A 21-year-old “Benjamin” gets pulled aside […]

Arab World

Many Young People in Middle East, struggling to see Bright Future, want to Emigrate to West

The Conversation

By Georges Naufal, Texas A&M University | – The Middle East’s population is growing almost twice as fast as the world overall, and one-third of its people are under the age of 15. As Joe Biden takes his first trip to the region as president, he plans to focus on the prospects for peaceful international […]

Food Insecurity

How Far Right Legislators are Criminalizing Homelessness and Recreating Debtors’ Prisons to Please the Rabid Trump Base

H. Scott Prosterman

In today’s America, it is increasingly difficult to tell government officials from criminals. A case in point is the Tennessee legislature, which just criminalized homelessness as a felony , which is surely is a crime against man, nature, humanity and natural law. As of July 1, it will be a felony in Tennessee to camp […]

Employment

Why Keeping Workers Poor Is actually Bad for Business

Sam Pizzigati

( Otherwords.org) – CEOs at America’s biggest low-wage employers now take home, on average, 670 times what their typical workers make. But we don’t just get unfairness when a boss can grab more in a year than a worker could make in over six centuries. We get bungling and inefficient businesses. Management science has been […]

Climate Crisis

Oil Profiteering: High Gas Prices, Climate Change, and the War in Ukraine share a Common Cause

OtherWords

By Lindsay Owens and Hebah Kassem | – ( Afterwords.org) – Amid the ongoing atrocities in Ukraine, rising gas prices, and the existential threat of climate change, policymakers in Washington have a long list of crises to address. But there’s one step that could help mitigate all of them: reducing our dependence on oil — […]