Green Social Thought

Produce less. Distribute it fairly. Create a greener world for all.

Subscribe
Donate

Topic: Thinking Politically

  • Greater Of Two Evils: Why The Democratic Party Is Worse Than The Republican Party For 85% Of The U.S. Population

    —

    by

    fitzdon

    Among liberals and all the different ypes of socialists, when the subject of the Democratic Party comes up, there are at least two variations. One is the familiar liberal argument that the Democratic Party is the “lesser of two evils”. For them, the Republican Party is the source of most, if not all problems while…

  • Fox in the Hen House: Why Interest Rates Are Rising

    —

    by

    rsburke
    in

    Ellen Brown http://EllenBrown.com April 22, 2018 The Fed is aggressively raising interest rates, although inflation is contained, private debt is already at 150% of GDP, and rising variable rates could push borrowers into insolvency. So what is driving the Fed’s push to “tighten”? On March 31st the Federal Reserve raised its benchmark interest rate for…

  • Book Review: October; The Story of The Russian Revolution

    —

    by

    rsburke
    in

        What exactly is the legacy of the 1917 Russian Revolution for socialists today? Over the past century much of the discussion has been dominated by two tendencies. For Marxist–Leninists the Russian Revolution was the guiding light leading humanity onward to socialism. For Anarchists and Social-Democrats Russia in 1917 seemed to offer a model…

  • Gun Violence – The War Against Ourselves

    —

    by

    rsburke
    in

      The number of Americans killed by firearms since 1968, including suicides, homicides, and accidental shootings, is 1.4 million, more than the 1.2 million killed in all the wars involving our country from the Revolutionary War to the present. While Americans constitute just under 5% of the world’s population, we account for almost ½ of…

  • I Am Buried Alive in a Michigan Prison

    —

    by

    fitzdon

    Risking understatement, I am buried alive inside Michigan's Marquette Maximum Security Prison. I am locked in a windowless cell measuring 10×8 feet, 24 hours per day. For one hour every other day, I am handcuffed, chained around the waist and allowed exercise and a shower in a small cage. I am not allowed to interact…

  • Arms of America: From Yemen to Florida

    Arms of America: From Yemen to Florida

    —

    by

    scox
    in

    H. Rap Brown was right: violence is as American as cherry pie. It's also as Indian as dal chawal. (Image: Mutant Freedom, chainstitch embroidery on khadi, 48 x 28 inches, 2008] In the United States of America it’s all about the quantity, not the quality, of so-called freedom. That may be because only a few powerful…

  • Amnesty International Winks at Trump’s Economic Attack on Venezuelans

    —

    by

    fitzdon

    Amnesty International told me that it “does not take a position on the current application” of U.S. economic sanctions that Trump’s administration imposed on Venezuela in August “but rather emphasizes the urgent need to address the serious crisis of the right to health and food which Venezuela is facing. In terms of human rights, it…

  • Signs of a French Spring

    —

    by

    rsburke

    This year marks the 50th anniversary of the May 1968 uprising in France. Is it about to happen again? "All Power to the Workers Councils, All Power to the Imagination!"

  • Marielle Franco’s Assassination: One of Tens of Thousands of Black Murders in Brazil

    —

    by

    fitzdon

    Every year, at least 60,000 individuals are killed in Brazil, at least 160 murders every day. The majority of the dead are black, young and from urban peripheries where the state is present only through its delinquent police force. Although the police are not responsible for all these deaths, it directly or indirectly pulls the…

  • Good Panther, Bad Panther

    —

    by

    fitzdon

    The latest Marvel Comics science-fiction movie “Black Panther” is stealth ruling-class propaganda, consistent with its production by the great manufactory of mass consent that is the American corporate entertainment complex. Did you expect something different? If so, why?