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To Have A Shot At Not….

"Nadine Gordimer once said that socially-conscious writers should write as if they were dead. For unless they did they'd never find the courage to tell the truth. Well, that's only…

Another Kind of “Troubles”

 "Why do so few educational institutions make use of authentically independent journalists who really risk their lives daily to provide us with details which are intentionally ignored by the mainstream…

Two Worthy Questions for Earth Day

  "...if every aspect of the non-military sector instantly stopped generating greenhouse gases, the military’s carbon footprint alone will propel the world toward catastrophe." -- Barry Sanders When Jimmy Carter occupied the…

How Masochistic

"When Occupy was chanting '99%' they weren't accounting for how many folks were drugged coast to coast...on what. What the cost of that was." -- Rachel Oxman There's a gladiatorial…

Mothers Moving Menacingly….

It doesn't do much good to point out that mothers are going to keep crying their souls out -- losing their lovely children -- unless those mothers themselves are willing…

Of Rats & Men

John Steinbeck wrote Of Mice and Men midway through the 1930s, the most creative decade of his career. During that time he was becoming increasingly concerned, it seems, about social…

Real Resistance Has Consequences

"The NGO-ization of politics threatens to turn resistance into a well-mannered, reasonable, salaried, 9-to-5 job. With a few perks thrown in." -- Arundhati Roy What Arundhati Roy says about NGOs…

Cape Rape

"In some sections of South Africa 38% of men, two in five, admit to having forced a woman to have sex, but what's going on in Cape Town right now…

It’s What They Do

  The percentage of moisturizers sold in the United States as "fragrance free" that contain a fragrance is 45. Of moisturizers sold as "hypoallergenic" that contain a common allergen it's…

 Expose Our Guernicas

"I know I am going to have terrible problems with this painting, but I am determined to do it...." Picasso to Dora Maar in anticipation of creating his now world…

The Slug Factor

  "You don't want to be a spiritual slug." -- Howard Zinn, speaking at the University of California-Santa Cruz, 2004 "There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than…

No One Dies For Their Country

  “The old Lie: Dulce et decorum est Pro patria mori.” — Wilfred Owen drawing upon Horace’s Odes Kipling’s Plain Tales from the Hills, Forster’s Passage to India, Orwell’s Burmese Days and Paul Scott’s Jewel in the Crown are…

Children As Songbirds

  “We live in one global environment with a huge number of ecological, economic, social, and political pressures tearing at its only dimly perceived, basically uninterpreted and uncomprehended fabric. Anyone…

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