Op-Ed

[An edited version of this talk was presented to the Veterans for Peace conference in Portland, OR, on August 4, 2011.] My title is ambitious and …

Atomic cloud bursting over Hiroshima, 2 minutes after the explosion, at 8:17 AM. (Photo: UN Photo/Mitsuo Matsushige) The United States assumed the mantle of Western civilization immediately …

(Image: JR / Truthout; Adapted: daliborlev, willc2, _Davo_) Standard & Poor’s downgrade of America’s debt couldn’t come at a worse time. The result is likely to be …

On a tour led by Libyan government officials, two men survey the damage of building said to be a law school following an alleged air strike by NATO two …

Thursday night Madrid’s city centre offered a glimpse of what Western democracies have become, as thousands of unarmed nonviolent civilians with their hands up in the air shouting “these …

(Photo: SpeakerBoehner / Flickr) Have you seen, anywhere, in any media, or even heard reported or repeated on NPR, the following sentence? “We have changed our assumption …

(Photo: Jameel Winter / Flickr) Stroll by any Whole Foods seafood counter and you will see color-coded fish: Green for fully sustainable, yellow for partially sustainable, and red …

President Reagan walks along the White House colonnade, 1981. (Photo: Wikimedia) From time to time, someone under 30 will ask me, "When did this all begin, America's …

President Barack Obama in the Oval Office, July 11, 2011. (Photo: Pete Souza / White House) What are we to make of the Obama-brokered deal on debt …

This is part of a series of blogs based on excerpts adapted from the 2nd edition of Agenda for a New Economy: From Phantom Wealth to Real Wealth. I …