Children Born Today Have A Fifty-fifty Chance

In Its Present Terms, The Global System Values Property Over Human Life.

The Great Multinationals Are Unwilling To Face The Moral And Economic Contradictions Of Their Own Behavior - Producing In Low-wage Dictatorships And Selling To High-wage Democracies. Indeed, The Striking Quality About Global Enterprises Is How Easily Free-market Capitalism Puts Aside Its Supposed Values In Order To Do Business. The Conditions Of Human Freedom Do Not Matter To Them So Long As The Market Demand Is Robust. The Absence Of Freedom, If Anything, Lends Order And Efficiency To Their Operations.

Everyone Cares For Disabled People, Right? What They Don't Care For Are Genuine Civil Rights For Disabled People. Mary Johnson Tells The Tortuous, Enraging Story Of How Congress Enacted A Law That Instead Of Protecting Against Discrimination Has Turned 'the Disabled' Into A Political Punching Bag.

If There Is A Mystical Chord In Democracy, It Probably Revolves Around The Notion That Unexpected Music Can Resonate From Politics When People Are Pursuing Questions Larger Than Self... I Have Seen That Ennobling Effect In People Many, Many Times- Expressed By Those Who Found Themselves Engaged In Genuine Acts Of Democratic Expression, Who Claimed Their Right To Define The Larger Destiny Of Their Community, Their Nations.

A Newly Elected Representative Quickly Discovers That His Job In Government-aside From Making New Laws-is To Act As A Broker, Middleman, Special Pleader And Finagler.