Politics

Money in US Politics and Supporting Bernie Sanders

Money in US Politics and Supporting Bernie Sanders

February 3, 2016

Bernie Sanders is the only candidate not in the pocket of the rich and corporations. To even begin to think about how to work our way out of our many problems and to capitalize on the opportunities, we need to retrieve our politics from the tsunami of money that now controls it. Bernie Sanders is a step in that direction.


Economy

Thomas Friedman’s It’s a 401(k) World – facile, misleading

Thomas Friedman’s It’s a 401(k) World – facile, misleading

May 21, 2013

Reading this op ed leaves one with the notion that these changes have arisen through some immutable forces of nature. He fails to mention that in parallel with the individual being more and more alone in the world, big corporations and governments are becoming ever more well integrated, feeding at each others’ troughs.