The Omnivore’s Dilemma
I just finished reading, Michael Pollan's The Omnivore's Dilemma...
"It’s about Profit"
I received this link in response to the "How Much Longer" post a while back: "It's about profit. End the profit, and you end the problem." Has anyone seen the film, "LORD OF WAR"?http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_of_Warhttp://www.imdb.com/title/tt0399295/
Little Lessons Learned so Early.
This is an email submission I received a while back. With the start of another school year, I thought it apt to reprint the exchange here. My daughter came home from Kindergarten: "I hate it. My teacher is nice, but there aren't ANY brown kids, and no brown teachers. Not anywhere. I don't think they …
The Brooklyn Rail: Critical Perspectives on Art, Politics, and Culture
An Anarchist in the Hudson Valley In Conversation: Peter Lamborn Wilson
The Culture of Self-Deception
Yes, we can insist on a purging of public lies - a true reform. But we repeat a major blunder if we conclude that the problem of self-serving deception belongs to someone else. ''When I talk about the contaminated moral atmosphere,'' Havel presumed to tell his fellow citizens, ''I mean all of us.'' Read "the …
Hezbollah, Hamas and Israel: Everything You Need to Know
As the tv networks give unlimited airtime to Israel’s apologists, the message rolls out that no nation, least of all Israel, can permit bombardment or armed incursion across its borders without retaliation. The guiding rule in this tsunami of drivel is that the viewers should be denied the slightest access to any historical context, or …
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the Conflict in the Middle East
Robert Fisk Reports From Lebanon on the Israeli Bombing of Qana That Killed 57, Including 37 Children
The Peculiar Disappearance of the War in Iraq
AS America fell into the quagmire of Vietnam, the comedian Milton Berle joked that the fastest way to end the war would be to put it on the last-place network, ABC, where it was certain to be canceled. Berle's gallows humor lives on in the quagmire in Iraq. Americans want this war canceled too, and …
Alix Ohlin
Stories are the way we understand the world. Fiction writers are just maybe a bit more upfront about it, that's all.
How Much Longer? By Eduardo Galeano
07/28/06 " IPS " -- - One country bombed two countries. Such impunity might astound were it not business as usual. In response to the few timid protests from the international community, Israel said mistakes were made. How much longer will horrors be called mistakes? This slaughter of civilians began with the kidnapping of a …