by Stephen Wing | Sep 1, 2024 | Uncategorized
When Joe Biden passed the baton to Kamala Harris, it snapped the nation out of a sickly spell of déjà vu, and just in time. We no longer face a re-match of two elderly white males. But the danger of a second Trump presidency is no less real, and the stakes far higher...
by Stephen Wing | Aug 1, 2024 | Uncategorized
In Part 1, back in May, I suggested that the corporate economy owes its imperial powers not to some “Divine Right of Corporations” but to the money we spend to buy its products. Global corporations rule the world on our behalf, exploiting its labor and resources to...
by Stephen Wing | Jul 1, 2024 | Uncategorized
A global race is on to see who will host the next nuclear disaster, and as always the U.S.A. is determined to take the lead. On June 18 the Senate passed the so-called ADVANCE Act, pledging billions of taxpayer dollars to the most expensive, inefficient, and toxic...
by Stephen Wing | Jun 1, 2024 | Uncategorized
This essay originally appeared in Co-Options, published by our food co-op, Sevananda. I worked there for nine years and ran its recycling program. I also did layout for the paper for a while, including several of my own essays. Dawn and I have been co-op members for...
by Stephen Wing | May 1, 2024 | Uncategorized
Though I have only one vote to cast on Election Day, opportunities to vote my conscience come along every day of the year: every dollar I spend is a vote for some commercial enterprise eager to supply my demand. Just because I hand that dollar over to strangers in...
by Stephen Wing | Mar 1, 2024 | Uncategorized
Arriving in the U.S. in 1970, a missionary kid coming “home,” I missed the Sixties completely. But I had a front-row seat for the sequel, the Seventies. Plunged into sudden immersion in an alien culture, I witnessed firsthand the colonization, commodification, and...
