For Profit Corporations with a Social Conscience Focus

There Is a Way! Beyond the Big, Bad Corporation New corporate models focus on ownership, governance, sustainability and social benefit. May 21, 2012  |  Tara Lohan  As our political system sputters, a wave of innovative thinking and bold experimentation is quietly sweeping away outmoded economic models. In New Economic Visions, a special five-part AlterNet series edited by economics [...]

American Democracy: The Illusion and the Truth

Money, democracy, and Oligarchy. the hidden hand of power http://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/peopleandpower/2011/10/2011102683719370179.html

What are the Foundations of the Occupy Movement?

The Occupy movement now exists worldwide as a diaphanous web of people who have been united in their pain and seek change.  The issues vary from country to country but at the base is economic collapse and the tyranny of the few that separates the 99% from the 1%.   Governance by multinational corporate entities [...]

The Dilemma Drug of Legalization

I have always admired George Will for the precision and focus of his arguments.   Whether I agree or disagree with his position is besides the point; his analyses of many issues are difficult to rebut. – Carlos The drug legalization dilemma By George F. Will, Published: April 4 The human nervous system interacts in pleasing and addictive ways [...]