Thank You for Welcoming Me Home
For Veterans Day, Christian Bauman proposes a linguistic correction inspired by those who served in Vietnam.
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Empathy Marketing 101
Not infrequently, the most convincing testimony to the veracity and potential power of new scientific discoveries is when they're embraced--for profit-driven motives--by corporate America.
Video Volunteers for Social Change: A Conversation with Jessica Mayberry
In a global society dominated by corporate media conglomerates and sensationalist news coverage, we forget that underprivileged voices are important not just as means to forwarding various agendas, but as ends in themselves.
NEUROSCIENCE AND MORAL POLITICS: Chomsky’s Intellectual Progeny
The emerging field of the neuroscience of empathy parallels investigations being undertaken in cognate fields.
Big Government and the Big Easy
“…each proposal must be weighed in the light of…the need to maintain balance between the private and the public economy;” --- from President Dwight D. Eisenhower's “Military-Industrial Complex” speech, 1961 New Orleans languishes today in a state of economic disrepair. With disruptions to the normal balance of life so complete, the traditional paths to economic …
The British Camp: An excerpt from Rory Stewart’s The Prince of Marshes
A Prince cannot avoid ingratitude. --Machiavelli, Discourses, Book I, Chapter 29 Pursuant to my authority as Administrator of the Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA), relevant UN Security Council resolutions, including Resolution 1483 (2003), and the laws and usages of war, I hereby promulgate the following: The CPA is vested with all executive, legislative, and judicial authority …
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The New Civil Service: An excerpt from Rory Stewart’s The Places in Between
I watched two men enter the lobby of the Hotel Mowafaq. Most Afghans seemed to glide up the center of the lobby staircase with their shawls trailing behind them like Venetian cloaks. But these men wore Western jackets, walked quietly, and stayed close to the banister. I felt a hand on my shoulder. It was …
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“I’m Still Alive”: Some Thoughts on Memorial Day
An Impromptu Essay by Matt Borondy Excerpted from the May 26, 2006 Identity Theory Newsletter Recently, a merry band of tiny black ants arrived in my bathroom and fell insanely in love with my fluoride-laced, Cool Mint-flavored mouthwash. The thought actually crossed my mind that the low levels of fluoride would somehow be able to …
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Social Justice Book Reviews: Denis O’Hearn’s Nothing but an Unfinished Song and Nancy Altman’s The Battle for Social Security
Denis O’Hearn’s recent book focuses on the life and death of hunger striker Bobby Sands.
The Silenced Majority
An excerpt from Amy Goodman's The Exception to the Rulers: Exposing Oily Politicians, War Profiteers, and the Media That Love Them From The Exception to the Rulers: Exposing Oily Politicians, War Profiteers, and the Media That Love Them by Amy Goodman Published by Hyperion, April 2004 Copyright © 2004 Amy Goodman with David Goodman The …