Paradigm Shift — Our Mission.
This is Paradigm Shift, a newsletter about challenging power at home & abroad.
Journalism is not public relations and we in the West have a responsibility to honestly depict the present failings of neoliberalism and the multitude of ways in which Western prosperity is dependent upon the exploitation of the global South.
Paradigm Shift is about voicing truth to power — not acting as a watchdog for the powerful.
Often it seems the connectedness between American foreign and domestic policy goes unexplored. For instance, Los Angeles allots a massive portion of their city budget to the LAPD, a fiscal mirror of our national defense budget, which, similarly, grows at the expense of social services, infrastructure and education.
Rampant corporatocracy and decades of austerity have wreaked havoc on American communities. Many are desperately fighting uphill battles for an ever-shrinking portion of the economic pie.
Within this dynamic of forcibly imposed scarcity from rapacious oligarchical forces instances of institutional rot abound.
Paradigm Shift is driven by the willingness to seek out injustice & spotlight unsavory truths.
Welcome to Paradigm Shift.
— Perry Budd