Archiv des Autors: Michael Wehle

Norman Solomon, CounterPunch: While outsized profits keep benefiting the upper class and enriching the already obscenely rich, the cascading effects of extreme income inequality are drowning the hopes of the many. Corporate power constrains just about everything, whether healthcare or … Weiterlesen →

Ian Sample, Guardian: It is hard to imagine humans spending their lives in virtual reality when the experience amounts to waving your arms about in the middle of the lounge with a device the size of a house brick strapped … Weiterlesen →

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Henry Giroux, Truthout: The current political moment is dominated by a massive propagandistic machine, fueled largely by right-wing social media platforms that undermine the promise of hope and its foundational political and educational elements that wed truth and the search … Weiterlesen →

San Francisco Chronicle: When restaurateur Eugene Lee learned that Oakland students had created an online petition last week demanding school district officials provide KN95 masks to help protect all pupils during the omicron surge, he sprang into action. Lee, whose restaurant Noodle Belly is opening … Weiterlesen →

Evelyn N. Farkas, Defense One: The only way to reassert the primacy of international law and sanctity of international borders, and contain Russia, may be to issue our own ultimatum. We must not only condemn Russia’s illegal occupations of Ukraine … Weiterlesen →

Richard Falk, CounterPunch: America never purported to become a substantive democracy that extends effective social protection or universal human rights to all of its citizens in the manner of many European countries that have upheld a quite different social democratic contract with … Weiterlesen →

Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light. Though wise men at their end know dark is right, Because their words had … Weiterlesen →