Category Archives: Marty’s Blog

Posted on May 21, 2014 By Robert Reich     A sign reads “People Over Profits” behind a child on a man’s shoulders at a protest. Luciano Castillo (CC BY 2.0) This post originally ran on Robert Reich’s Web page. For years Americans have assumed that … Continue reading →

TUESDAY, APRIL 22, 2014 CHARLES HUGH SMITH This is how empires collapse: one complicit participant at a time. Before an empire collapses, it first erodes from within. The collapse may appear sudden, but the processes of internal rot hollowed out the … Continue reading →

Posted on Apr 13, 2014 By Chris Hedges The most prescient portrait of the American character and our ultimate fate as a species is found in Herman Melville’s “Moby Dick.” Melville makes our murderous obsessions, our hubris, violent impulses, moral weakness and … Continue reading →

4/2/2014 Michael Moore I am opposed to the death penalty, but to every rule there is usually an exception, and in this case I hope the criminals at General Motors will be arrested and made to pay for their pre-meditated … Continue reading →

04/01/2014 Jeremy Rifkin This post is excerpted from Jeremy Rifkin’s new book, The Zero Marginal Cost Society: The Internet of Things, the Collaborative Commons, and the Eclipse of Capitalism, published today by Palgrave Macmillan. The capitalist era is passing… not … Continue reading →

MARCH 31, 2014 Frank Bruni Over recent days the notices have gone out, an annual ritual of dashed hopes. Brown University offered admission to the lowest fraction ever of the applicants it received: fewer than one in 10. The arithmetic … Continue reading →

Posted on Mar 26, 2014 By Robert Reich Charles and David Koch should not be blamed for having more wealth than the bottom 40 percent of Americans put together. Nor should they be condemned for their petrochemical empire. As far as I … Continue reading →

March 26, 2014 Written by Daniel Schmachtenberger, Critical Path Global in support of the Worldwide Wave. Economics, Values and Our Collective Fate Underneath and driving all of the major problems in our world is the fact that people are more financially incentivized … Continue reading →

David Brooks March 21, 2014 VANCOUVER, British Columbia — The TED conference is dedicated to innovation. Most of the people who give TED talks are working on some creative project: to invent new bionic limbs for amputees, new telescopes, new … Continue reading →

Posted on Mar 1, 2014 By Robert Reich House Speaker John Boehner says raising the minimum wage is “bad policy” because it will cause job losses. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce says a minimum wage increase would be a job killer. Republicans … Continue reading →