The world has lost an incredible thinker and doer. I have lost an amazing friend. A void exists where before it was filled with David's optimism, humour and joy.
Corporate State
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Winner Take All: "99 Homes" and the Foreclosure Crisis that Still Reeks of Injustice
The film takes a refreshing, reverse look at the real estate and foreclosure debacle – without the sexy Wall Street glitz and gloss.
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Hundreds Of Thousands Protest In Berlin Against EU-U.S. Trade Deal
Up to a quarter of a million people marched in the German capital Saturday to protest the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership, which they say is openly anti-democratic.
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In the Era of the Hunger Artist, We're Crowdfunding Just to Survive
Welcome to nightmare capitalism, survival-by-popularity, the real Hunger Games: where we're forced to go online and crowdfund our way to rent payments, child support, illness recovery and more.
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Meet the Secretive Committees that Run the Global Economy
An overlapping and highly integrated network of institutions, committees and secret meetings of ad-hoc groups collectively make up the most powerful and informal political structure in the world.
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Local Resistance Can Overthrow Our Political Masters
We will have to dismantle the corporate state, piece by piece, from the ground up – no leader or politician is going to do it for us.
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"Inequality Is Not Inevitable": A New Plan to Fix the Rules Structuring Our System
Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz has led a report called "Rewriting the Rules of the American Economy," which seeks to simultaneously reform the financial sector and wrest power from the 1% while redistributing wealth to workers.
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Record Spending By GMO Supporters Can't Stop the Growing Alliance for Organic Food
Corporations like Monsanto and Coca-Cola have poured more than $50 million into the fight against GMO labeling in the first half of 2015 alone.
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North Carolina Imposes New Taxes on Car and Appliance Repairs to Fund New Tax Cuts for the Rich
How will the state pay for these new tax cuts that primarily benefit the rich? By raising taxes on the poor, of course.
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Ben Bernanke Admits Wall Street Execs Should Have Been Jailed
The former Fed chair says that, in addition to banks and corporations paying billions in fines for their illegal activities that triggered the economic meltdown and Great Recession, individuals should have also been held accountable.
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Buying Detroit: Why A Not-So-Public Auction Could Devastate City Homeowners
The largest known municipal foreclosure sale to date, the Detroit home sell-off could be a modern take on Manifest Destiny – luring would-be frontiersmen and speculators from across the world to try their hand at “buying Detroit.”
