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Science of Evil
Mohawk Nation News: "Evil is man-made immorality and a main influence on Western society. Capitalism and self-promotion are the main values. It is created by psychopaths, based on slavery and "warfare." Warfare is mass murder of those who refuse to fit in...
Mar 11, 2010, 11:38am
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International Women's Day: Why we celebrate on March 8th
Aileen OCarroll: "International Women's Day is an expressly political day. In 1907 women sweatshop workers marched in New York and thus the first International Women's day was born...International Women's day is a celebration of those women who make things better.
Mar 6, 2010, 10:35am
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It was the war itself that was wrong
Adrian Hamilton, UK: "The primary reason why Blair and all those who went along with him in Cabinet and out should be dragged in chains through the streets of Britain is that they took this country to war, without a thought to its alternatives or a regard to its consequences.
Jan 29, 2010, 11:11am
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Jan. 15, 1929: Birth of a Moral Compass, Even for Science
1929: Martin Luther King Jr. is born. Though his work for civil rights and peace will become widely known, he will also deliver an important warning on the perils of technological amorality...In his Oslo lecture after receiving the Nobel Peace Prize "The richer we have become materially, the poorer we become morally and spiritually"
Jan 15, 2010, 3:46pm
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We don't need this culture of overwork
Johann Hari: "From the unlikely pairing of Salt Lake City (work hours - 4 days a week 10 hours per day) and Paris (maximum - 35 hours a week), a voice is calling. It is telling us that if we leave our offices empty a little more, we can find a happier, healthier alternative lying in the great free spaces beyond.
Jan 8, 2010, 11:46am
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Solution to killer superbug found in Norway
OSLO, Norway - Aker University Hospital: There is no sign of a dangerous and contagious staph infection that killed tens of thousands of patients in the most sophisticated hospitals of Europe, North America and Asia this year. The reason: Norwegians stopped taking so many drugs - antibiotics (the more antibiotics are consumed, the more resistant bacteria develop).
Jan 2, 2010, 2:07pm
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IRS steals Crow Creek Indian Territory: Tribe occupying stolen land
The IRS has stolen 7,100 acres from the Crow Creek Indians; the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) has facilitated the land-grab. Tribal leader Brandon Sazue is fasting and occupying the stolen territory with tribal members and supporters. The federales have not yet sent in the army as they did in 1862, resulting in the largest mass execution in US history...
Dec 18, 2009, 1:22pm
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Transforming Education: A Model from North Carolina
Johann Hari: "Research from 1966 study showed - the single biggest factor determining whether you do well at school or not isn't your parents, your teachers, your school buildings or your genes. It was, overwhelmingly, the other kids sitting in the classroom with you. If a critical mass of them are demotivated, pissed off and disobedient, you won't learn much.
Oct 16, 2009, 3:23pm
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Top 15 Reasons to Get Out of Vietghanistan
David Swanson: 1. The planning of 9-11 was done in hotels and apartments in Germany and Spain, and flight schools in the United States. Even Paul Pillar, former CIA deputy chief for counter-terrorism will tell you that an al Qaeda base in Afghanistan would not significantly increase threats to the United States...
Oct 8, 2009, 10:46am
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Neither walls or moats can hold them back...
Roberto Rodriguez: "Played out to its logical conclusion, this dynamic of not providing health care for migrants, in the event of a pandemic, could lead to calls for widespread quarantines and calls for massive dragnet raids, massive incarceration programs and large-scale deportations...
Sep 15, 2009, 12:51pm
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Words Matter
Ralph Nader: "Ever wonder what's happening to words once they fall into the hands of corporate and government propagandists?...Day in and day out we read about "detainees" imprisoned for months or years by the federal government...Doesn't the media know that the correct word is "prisoners,"
Sep 6, 2009, 2:04pm
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We Have the Moral High Ground
Cindy Sheehan: "One cannot obfuscate when innocent lives are being destroyed, here and abroad. We cannot allow "political reality" to get in the way of morality. Human sacrifice is not worth the political reality. Violence, killing, war and more war are NEVER the solution to any problem. Period.
Aug 20, 2009, 5:16pm
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"You gotta get your mind right!"
Mike Ferner: (Note: This speech opened the 24th Annual Convention of Veterans For Peace last weekend in College Park, MD.) "In Paul Newman's 1967 classic, "Cool Hand Luke," the prison boss in the white suit, played memorably by Strother Martin, repeatedly tells Luke to "get your mind right."
Aug 14, 2009, 12:40pm
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Ten Questions for Health Care Town Meeting
Dave Lindorff: Why is Rationing by Income Better Than Rationing by Need? Why should we be allowing politicians who are taking money from the medical industry to write the new health care legislation? If Medicare--a single-payer system here in America--is so popular with the elderly, how come it's no good for the rest of us?
Aug 12, 2009, 4:48pm
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Evaluating Decisions and the Long Term Perspective
Jim Brumm: "Here are three major considerations that we must keep in mind when we evaluate a decision with a long term perspective. The first is sustainability. The best plans and ideas, no matter how profitable, or altruistic, or wonderful they may be, are doomed to eventual failure if the processes driving them are not sustainable over time.
Jul 28, 2009, 2:33pm
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