With the introduction of iPhone 5, Apple Inc. is now the world’s richest company, valued at over $625 billion. Given its momentum, the firm in another year or so could be worth a trillion dollars. It is more than just…
Monthly Archives: October 2012
Education Profiteering; Wall Street’s Next Big Thing?
by jeff.faux •
The end of the Chicago teachers’ strike was but a temporary regional truce in the civil war that plagues the nation’s public schools. There is no end in sight, in part because — as often happens in wartime — the…
Barry Commoner and the Dream of a Liberal Third Party
by jeff.faux •
Barry Commoner died on September 30 at the age of 95. The New York Times called him “a founder of modern ecology and one of its most provocative thinkers and mobilizers in making environmentalism a people’s cause.” Among many accomplishments,…
Big Dollar, Little Democracy (review of Republic Lost: How Money Corrupts Congress – and a Plan to Stop it, by Lawrence Lessig))
by jeff.faux •
Money talks.. It is also a conversation stopper. Almost any discussion among progressives of what is really needed to solve the nation’s multiple crises typically ends in despair when someone says, “But they will not accept that,” they being…