On November 4, 2008, the United States appeared to be shaking free from centuries of racism and inequality. For a brief moment, Barack Obama's historic presidential victory led many to note the victory of democratic values over segregation and racial anger directed primarily at minorities. Not everyone was ecstatic ... And here lay the problem ... .
Countries like Canada have started to notice the democratic backsliding of the United States...Freedom house, an international group that promotes global democracy, noted further that. ... Experts have always debated the ideal state ... These insights matter enormously for understanding whether power and wealth make people worse ... In short, it is fascism ... .
Today, as the world produces more food than ever before, more than one in ten people on Earth are hungry. But the hunger of almost 1 billion people is taking place at the same time corporate food producers sell the food, manipulating production and prices which reap enormous profits ... In “Stuffed and Starved,” Raj Patel writes ... .
“I found myself in the difficult position of having to decide on a course of action which would answer the American threat, but which would also avoid war ... To be sure, the quest for important knowledge from the past does not only inform judgment in the present but judgement in the future ... a free and honest press and a free and honest education ... 141..
As the mass of corpses - both military and civilian - pile up in the Russia-Ukraine Conflict, one is forced to ask why the United States and Western Europe haven’t learned the most basic lessons from past military engagements ... The first mistake was failing to grasp Putin’s mindset, found in his autobiography, “First Person ... It had nowhere to run ... .
Whatever one thinks about PresidentVladimir Putin, he is simply following the United States and Western Europe’s blueprint for invading and occupying Ukraine... In other words, any society that derives its power “solely” from a constitution and the will of its leaders is undermining democracy-an ideal that has rarely been put into practice.
There has always been a fundamental paradox with humankind. The human mind is both genius and pathetic, brilliant and idiotic, patient and impulsive, modest and arrogant, and cooperative and belligerent. But according to a new report, many Americans have embraced the latter traits of the human mind instead of the former ... .
In late 2008, as the global economy collapsed, the largest Ponzi scheme in history was uncovered. Bernie Madoff had orchestrated a massive fraud, raking in at around $64 billion. Families were ruined. Life savings were lost. And though Madoff landed in prison, a maddening question remained. How had he gotten away with it for so long ...Capitol.
Economic inequality has no solution in the United States. Attempts at even superficial efforts of redistribution, for which there has been little to no political support, tend only to slow inequality and economic insecurities ... Trucking firms are experiencing the same problems. looters ravaging trucks ... CallAmerica for what it really is.
Damning information about the deadly workplace disaster at an Amazon building in Illinois, along with texts showing the company threatened to fire drivers facing tornadic conditions if packages were not delivered, summons another deadly workplace tragedy in 1968 during the era of segregation ... Consequently, their deaths were due to Jim Crow laws ... Dr.
(1) The winners in our highly inequitable economy might declare themselves social justice warriors, but they do not act like it. Such was the 50th annual meeting of the World Economic Forum (WEF). The WEF, which brought together high-profile business and political leaders from all over the world, called their annual meeting The Great Reset.