Politico: EU issues muted response to Greek migrant shipwreck

While corporate media implies all is well with the EU’s largest economy, government statistics tell another story. Read HERE

We face a double crisis as the twenty-first century unfolds. On the one hand, it is an ecological crisis: climate change and several other Earth System pressures are exceeding planetary boundaries to a dangerous extent. […]

Thomas Piketty calls for an annual wealth tax, in addition to a progressive income tax and inehritance tax. Not only in the USA, but in Europe as well. Read here