Investigative reporter and cultural critic, Naomi Klein’s latest book is This Changes Everything.  In it, she makes a powerful case that the predatory brand of capitalism currently practiced in the U.S. and much of the rest of the world fosters egregious inequality and is highly destructive to human well-being and the health of the biosphere, on which we all depend. (more…)

According to research just released by the Pew Survey, 84% of the world’s human population is living on less than $20/day, a level that is right at the poverty line in the U.S.  That’s 17 out of every 20 people, about 6.2 billion people, on the planet barely surviving. (more…)

There are currently nearly 7.4 billion people on earth. At least a third of those people are struggling to survive.  The insecurity that goes with the daily challenge to find food, clean water, and safe place to sleep is like an anchor and chain impeding progress. (more…)