Forget Afghanistan or El Salvador. The real takeover threat these days is in Barbuda. Okay, you never heard of the place. Neither have most people, which doesn’t bother Barbudans much. Barbuda is no industrial or strategic giant, and it’s not part of the Third World. It’s more like an Other World nation a tiny Carib...
Federal and State agencies created to protect people’s health and environmental safety have been reinvented as legal shields to protect the world’s most toxic agrochemical companies from people On June 15 a panel of federal judges from the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals will meet in Honolulu to hear oral arguments ...
Essay by Jonathan Greenberg from the book “Buying America Back” In 1982, I completed a year-long assignment as the chief researcher for the first Forbes Magazine listing of the 400 wealthiest Americans . At that time, we placed 19 people on the list who had made their $100 million-plus net worth from the business...
Bernie Sanders has run the most successful grassroots campaign in American history, and his second American revolution provides the first real opportunity that We, the People, have had to overthrow our corporate-corrupted government and replace it with a system that benefits the public interest, our shared ecology, and a peaceful fut...
Essay from the book “Buying America Back“ By Jonathan Greenberg When it comes to wastefulness, no country on earth can compete with the United States. According to the Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development, the average citizen of other industrialized nations creates about 750 pounds of garbage per year....
Is the Big-Spending New Team at The Museum Of Natural History Gilding the Dinosaur? By Jonathan Greenberg For most of it’s 123-year history the American Museum of Natural History was run by a dignified, old-money crowd, a Waspy elite that shunned ostentation and relied upon a proper old-boy network for funding. Indeed, i...
Inspiring people-power signs from SF Civic Center rally on August 26, 2017, when tens of thousands marched to reject hate and racism On Saturday, August 26, thousands of Californians rallied for a ‘Peace Love and Understanding” event outside San Francisco’s Civic Center. Tens of thousands of others turned out...
The aqueduct system and corporate water giveaway are rooted in century-old plantation-era water “contracts.” Later this week, Maui’s citizens will have a chance to speak out against a 30-year extension of a rigged plantation-era water system that for more than a century has diverted the majority of all the water from vibrant s...
Led by more than 70% of the youngest voters in this country, we, the reformist Bernie supporters who INSIST on honest government for the public interest, are the future of the Democratic Party. As Bernie Sanders exits the race for President, I join in the sadness expressed in this video; in the tears and disappointment seen in the ...
Facing a political hailstorm in response to naming himself the powerful Chairman of Maui’s County Council through an illegally rigged secret pre-election, Mike White yesterday issued a statement on the Council’s public website defending his actions. White’s response doubles down on his dishonesty. He is now using the taxpaye...