Wolin wrote: “One cannot point to any national institution[s] that can accurately be described as democratic, surely not in the highly managed, money-saturated elections, the lobby-infested Congress, the imperial presidency, the class-biased judicial and penal system, or, least of all, the media.”

Taibbi and others respond to On the Media segment about the evils of so-called “free speech absolutism.”

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. explains in this recent video why we all need to stand up now and resist with civil disobedience.

The name comirnaty does not evoke any of the concepts conceived by its marketers. Anyone who can read English will see a foreign word—the name of a dead WWII Russian admiral? 

Zero-Sum, symbolized by an image of hundreds of hand paintings on rock walls. Reaching, until defaced by graffiti from a bleak future?

Those who fail in the struggle against irrelevance would constitute a new useless class. People who are useless from the viewpoint of the economic and political system. And this useless class will be separated by an ever-growing gap from the ever more powerful elite.

Shopping is a distant memory in the city of 2030, whose inhabitants have cracked clean energy and borrow what they need on demand, where every move is tracked and outside the city live swathes of discontents, the ultimate depiction of a society split in two.

“We must take control of our environmental movement and our future from billionaires and their permanent war on Planet Earth. They are not our friends.”—Jeff Gibbs, director of “Planet of the Humans”