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Are you interested in how you impact the rest of the world, or how others impact the world thereby affecting you? Do you want to do something to improve our world? ... About Us

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I just came across another related article on Care2.com entitled 15 Toxic Ingredients in Personal Care and pasted it below. 15 Toxic Ingredients in Personal Care Nov 9, 2009 By now we’ve all heard that everything from hair serum to sunscreen ca...
November 14
A video by Holly Mosher was featured
Money Talks exposes the questionable tactics that big drug companies use to make record profits by playing with the safety of our family's health care. Using misleading advertising, attractive "drug reps" who wine and dine doctors and other unethi...
November 6
Hellickson hits hard at the fleshy white underbelly of elitist power and greed. Systematic disenfrachisement was built into the design of our Republic by the founding fathers, who left no mention of a democracy, since the birth of our great nation...
November 5

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Harold Hellickson

Political system earns a mulligan

Democracy allocates one vote to each eligible individual. Equality may be implied but in our form of representative democracy, inequality is guaranteed. Each individual vote is not of equal value.

There are but two truths about democracy. The first is the widespread delusion amongst the poor that we have one. The second is the chronic terror amongst the rich lest we get one.(1)

Gerrymandering of districts within the various states assures some 95% retention of incumbent seats in the House. Sev… Continue

Posted by Harold Hellickson on November 5, 2009 at 9:47am — 1 Comment

Ice Goldberg

→What is the West and Should We Defend it As-is?

When asked what he thought of Western civilization, Mahatma Gandhi said, “I think it would be a good idea.” Much of the world’s envy towards the West comes from the misdirection and fear projected from the West by its’ deeds. These deeds are influenced by a collection of shared human needs and values. Philippe Nemo, Professor of Philosophy and the History of Political Ideas at the European School of Management, in his penetrating book, What is the West, questions “whether certain values i… Continue

Posted by Ice Goldberg on October 22, 2009 at 2:17pm — 2 Comments

Ice Goldberg

What is the West's Responsibility?

by Ice Goldberg
June 22nd, 2009

”In fifty years –a single lifetime– the earth has been more radically changed than by all previous generations of humanity” [1]. Taken lightly, total ecological devastation could effectively arrive this century in the form of climate change due to –putting it simply– the global mismanagement of resources. It may even be too late to mitigate if we cannot come to some consensus in short order.

Today’s scientific community has reached a strong consensus regarding t… Continue

Posted by Ice Goldberg on October 22, 2009 at 2:06pm — 3 Comments

Cromag

Dale Maharidge Interview: Covering The Economic Pain Of Real Americans

Is today's media built for these times? Is it capable of covering the widespread economic downturn in a way that conveys the pain so many Americans are feeling to the country and the world? And can it be done in a way that doesn't feel like a view of devastation from 30,000 feet up in the air? For insight, we turned to a man who is built to cover this crisis, Pulitzer-Prize-winning author and Columbia School of Journalism professor… Continue

Posted by Cromag on October 3, 2009 at 9:30am

Cromag

The Powell Memo and the Teaching Machines of Right-Wing Extremists

"the need for a new kind of debate, one that is not limited to isolated issues such as health care, but is more broad-based and fundamental, a debate about how power, inequality and money constrict the educational, economic and political conditions that make democracy possible"

Thursday 01 October 2009

by: Henry A. Giroux, t r u t h o u t | Perspective

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Posted by Cromag on October 2, 2009 at 8:00am

Cromag

Agriculture and Food in Crisis

An Outstanding Overview by Fred Magdoff and Brian Tokar Originally published in the Monthly Review - An Independent Socialist Magazine
Purchase a hardcopy HERE


“Could Food Shortages Bring Down Civilization?,” asks the title of an article by Lester Brown in Scienti

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Posted by Cromag on September 22, 2009 at 4:30pm

Cromag

Inequality and the American Dream

Jun 15th 2006 From The Economist print edition

The world's most impressive economic machine needs a little adjusting

MORE than any other country, America defines itself by a collective dream: the dream of economic opportunity and upward mobility. Its proudest boast is that it offers a chance of the good life to everybody who is willing to work hard and play by the rules. This ideal has made the United States the world's strongest magnet for immigrants; it has also reconciled ordinary Am… Continue

Posted by Cromag on September 21, 2009 at 8:09pm — 2 Comments

Cromag

Words in the Service of Corporate Masters

By Ralph Nader

Ever wonder what's happening to words once they fall into the hands of corporate and government propagandists? Too often reporters and editors don't wonder enough. They ditto the words even when the result is deception or doubletalk.

Here are some examples. Day in and day out we read about “detainees” imprisoned for months or years by the federal government in the U.S., Guantanamo Bay, Iraq and Afghanistan. Doesn't the media know that the correct word is “prisoners,” regardless… Continue

Posted by Cromag on September 21, 2009 at 8:07pm — 2 Comments

Cromag

►Transcribed Speech Iraqi Shoe Thrower Gave on Release from Jail w/ VIDEO

My flower to Bush the occupier: the story of my shoe
"Here I am, free. But my country is still a prisoner of war," said Mutadhar al-Zaidi, the Iraqi who threw his shoe at George Bush, in this speech he gave on his release.

Firstly, I give my thanks and my regards to everyone who stood beside me, whether inside my country, in the Islamic world, in the free world.

There has been a lot of talk about the action and about the person who took it, and about the hero and the heroic act, and the… Continue

Posted by Cromag on September 21, 2009 at 5:30pm

Cromag

Corporate Crime (Nader/Gonzalez)

Corporate crime costs Americans hundreds of billions of dollars a year. Tens of thousands of Americans are killed each year and hundreds of thousands of Americans injured and sickened each year by preventable corporate-bred violence.

From pollution, medical negligence, procurement fraud, product defects, and financial fraud, to antitrust, public corruption, foreign bribery and occupational homicide, corporate crime is widely ignored by politicians – yet acutely felt by all Americans.

Nader/Continue

Posted by Cromag on September 21, 2009 at 3:30pm

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