There is no visible sign that the current politicians in the US are willing to see the need for change.

So, there is enormous instability in the global economy with a shift of winners and losers.

To create a world in which life can flourish and prosper we must replace the values and institutions of capitalism with values and institutions that honor life, serve life's needs, and restore money to its proper role as servant. I believe we are in fact being called to take a step to a new level of species consciousness and function.

There is a huge shift taking place in the global awareness in the last 5 years with strong views about globalization and the power structures of major corporations.

In the US, most progressives start to see the differences between internationalism and economic globalization.

The proper goal of an economic democracy agenda is to replace the global suicide economy ruled by rapacious and unaccountable global corporations with a planetary system of local living economies comprised of human-scale enterprise rooted in the communities they serve and locally owned by the people whose wellbeing depends on them.

Europeans say they are proud of their social fabric, of strong rights for workers and the weak in society.