"How are they going to pay for this? Oh wait, that question only gets asked when it comes to social programs that benefit the working class." | Continue reading


@commondreams.org | 5 years ago

Youth-Led Marches Across the Globe Demand Immediate and Ambitious Climate Action

"Climate change is our last chance to either fix colossal systems of inequality or reach a chaotic state where your privilege ultimately decides if you live or die." | Continue reading


@commondreams.org | 5 years ago

Anthony Bourdain–'As Honest and Fearless in His Words as He Was in His Travels'

Bourdain "didn't look down on foreign places he visited and their 'quaintness/backwardness/insert-usual-derogatory adjective.' He dived in, hungry to experience. His wasn't the Orientalist gaze. He saw humanity (and food) everywhere, and connected with it." | Continue reading


@commondreams.org | 5 years ago

No, We Can't Have It All (2010)

An Excerpt from 'Endgame, Vol. 1: The Problem of Civilization'.. We all face choices. We can have ice caps and polar bears, or we can have automobiles. We can have dams or we can have salmon. We can have irrigated wine from Mendocino and Sonoma counties, or we can have the Russia … | Continue reading


@commondreams.org | 6 years ago