Poverty is created. There’s no simpler way of saying it. It’s as true as truth can get, but it’s not very popular in the corridors of power. The story we usually hear is that poverty is natural, the fault of poor people themselves, just something we should expect as a...
This essay is a joint TomDispatch/Truthout report. I lived in Anchorage for 10 years and spent much of that time climbing in and on the spine of the state, the Alaska Range. Three times I stood atop the mountain the Athabaskans call Denali, “the great...
I believe most people, if polled, would say that they value health, peace, and the protection of natural resources like clean water, fertile land, and unpolluted air. I do! Don’t you? However when looking at a typical American meal, what is present are items that...
Many of us have social causes that we care about because they impact us directly or because we care about those who are directly impacted. Social justice activists stand up and advocate for protection from discrimination based on race, gender, national origin, skin...
The United Nations is gearing up to launch its post 2015 agenda this year. The agenda is to adopt the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs); a list of goals that address the most urgent issues of our time. It’s a grand list but it misses out on the main, the root...
