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Are
you being manipulated into buying things you don't want or need? In my
book Meatonomics, I show that animal food producers control our everyday
food-buying choices with misleading messaging, artificially low prices,
and heavy control over legislation and regulation.
If
you watch the anarchist tirades coming from extremist Republicans in
the House, you'd think they believe that the government that governs
best is a government that doesn't exist at all.
By Lilly Martin
The Bad Guys in Kenya are the Good Guys in Syria? Opinion piece, comparing Al Shabab attack in Nairobi, Kenya with the Free Syrian Army.
We do not live in a "winner-take-all" Nation. We increasingly live in a "cheater-take-all" system.
In our new series, YES! Magazine investigates what it will take to strengthen our local economies for the benefit of all.
By Younes Abdullah Muhammad
Obama's Reverse-Pivot to the Middle East Offers Yet Another Opportunity for "Change" President Obama's well-organized speech in front of the UN General Athe ensuing battle for the future of the Middle East, as opposed to Asia, will determine the near-term geopolitical future and balance of power in the world for at least a generation to come.
Endless
war is the ultimate end game plan of the U.S. Nat'l Security state.
Better to have war, drone strikes, JSOC raids, proxy wars by mercenaries
& private Pentagon contractors & the endless war on terror
rather than to pursue peace which is the last thing it wants. Peace
means no justification for the unnecessary trillion in defense spending.
It's also better to keep the people in fear wanting security @ any
cost.
U.S.
military threats against Syria dominated the opening of the United
Nations General Assembly debates on Sept. 24, but voices from Latin
America and the Caribbean answered them, loud and clear. Bolivian
President Evo Morales put the responsibility for war and devastation
squarely on U.S. imperialism. He called for a "court of the people, of
major defenders of human rights" to file a case against the U.S.
government for crimes against humanity. Brazilian President Dilma
Rousseff also expressed outrage at US spying, which she said included
sensitive corporate and economic information that could be used by
capitalist competitors.
How
does anarchism differ from libertarianism? How should a progressive
liberal who supports government programs (such as Social Security,
Medicare, public education, and public transportation) respond to
libertarian and anarchist attacks on government? Finally, how do
anarchists expect to defang corporations without government power?
Tor
-- which stands for The Onion Router -- is an open-source public
project that bounces its users' internet traffic through several other
computers, which it calls "relays" or "nodes," to keep it anonymous and
avoid online censorship tools.
"I don't think any human being could read this book and not be strongly moved - and maddened."
Today's
language is lacking in words to adequately describe the kind of lout
Faust was. Where are "rake" and "cad" when we need them? When words lose
precision, they lose meaning. Bring back 'libertine."
Most
proposed gun controls, touted as "common sense," don't actually make
any sense at all. Are we trapped or is there something we can all do to
ratchet back the violence?
"Police
responded to reports of a self-immolation at the National Mall on
Friday. The man was rushed to a local hospital by helicopter after using
fuel to set himself ablaze near the National Gallery of Art in the
middle of the mall, which remains closed due to the U.S. government
shutdown."
When
the US invaded Iraq in 2003 Sundus Shaker Saleh, an Iraqi single mother
of 3, lost her home & her property, & was forced to flee to
Jordan.
Beth
Lily Redwood is a photographer and animal activist based in Overland
Park, Kansas. Beth's photographs of animals are stunning and capture an
innocence and sentience in the animals that is undeniable.
Is California Senator Dianne Feinstein ignoring logic and journalism history?
"With
the U.S. government on the verge of a shutdown, credit rating agency
Standard & Poor's made it clear this level of brinksmanship in
Washington is precisely why the U.S. isn't triple-A rated anymore.
While S&P's ratings services team indicated they don't expect to
downgrade the U.S.' sovereign credit rating this time around, they
warned that failing to reach an agreement by mid-October would most
probably lead to the Treasury missing debt payments, and therefore the
first-ever U.S. debt default."
Is the Government Shutdown really Political maneuvering or is it Hostage Negotiation?
A Description of the Tea Party War on the United States and its remedy along with cited statutes.
when
the American intelligence contractor Edward Snowden revealed a list of
secret programs the US and British intelligence services had been
working on - it seemed the state had amassed a capability beyond all
expectations- intercepting and storing vast amounts of everyday internet
traffic.
National
parks are closed. Food safety inspections have been curtailed. The
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will be halting its flu
program--just as the flu season is arriving. Of course, hundreds of
thousands of American families will have to go without paychecks because
a breadwinner employed by the federal government has been furloughed.
At
a private luncheon, several Senate Republicans -- Dan Coats of Indiana,
Ron Johnson of Wisconsin and Kelly Ayotte of New Hampshire -- assailed
Sen Ted Cruz of Texas, who has led the movement to block funding for the
health law. Ayotte asked Cruz to disavow the group's effort and
demanded he explain his strategy. When he did not, several other
senators, including even Mitch McConnell, joined in the criticism of
Cruz. "It just started a lynch mob," said a senator who was present.
Despite the uproar,Cruz did not offer a plan for how his party could
prevail in the shutdown battle and suggested his colleagues were
defeatists.
Can
the woman who this spring excited tens of thousands of Texans enough to
get them to come to the state capitol to back her filibuster of an
assault on reproductive rights now excite hundreds of thousands who
don't usually cast ballots in off-year elections to come vote?
With
the U.S. government shutdown and a threatened credit default, Tea Party
Republicans are testing out a new system of national governance in
which they get their way -- or else. But is this the beginning of a new
Jim Crow era of imposed white supremacy or just the white man's last
tantrum?
Washington
should be racing to talk to Iran to find an exit from the longest
running unnecessarily sustained neither-war-nor-peace conflict since the
cold war. An unnecessary armed conflict with Iran, which might easily
be avoided, could well be the final blow that will sink the American
ship of state.
With
another jobless recovery at hand, it is tempting to accept any position
offered to you. But there are 12 kinds of companies you don't want to
work for. Here are the warning signs.
While
leaders on both sides of the aisle in the House and Senate attempt, and
often fail, to be courteous to each other in public, the acrimony they
feel towards their counterparts is becoming more and more obvious and
concerns staff members. Boehner and McConnell have nothing to do with
their Democratic counterparts and Reid and Pelosi are content to avid
social contact with Republicans.
The
news we receive has become so neutered it is useless, Truthseekers. The
only time the journalists bring their A-game against our elected
officials is when they're caught with their pants down. If it ain't
sexy, it ain't making the headlines.
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By Kevin Anthony Stoda
"If everyone stands on tiptoe, no one sees better": Social Limits to Growth Revisited only a few years after the Club of Rome's bombshell Report, Fred Hirsch published Social Limits to Growth. Its impact on the intellectual climate was somewhat muted but no less important. Hirsch does not for a minute deny the Club of Rome's central claim that there are physical limits to economic growth - limits which require every sensible person who cares about the future of humankind to repudiate the dangerous dream of...
The Forgotten Occupation Of Lebanon.
This subject should be and should remain on the table, side by side with the nuclear issue, otherwise the Lebanese government and Lebanese people will remain indefinitely slaves for the Iranian ayatollahs.
I find his statements outdated, ignorant, and toxic to a large majority of the human population.
While
the health care bill's strongest defenders are bragging that they can
save a hundred dollars or whatever, America continues to pay . . .
continues to pay . . . CONTINUES to pay more than twice as much as any
developed first world country in the world for their health care. These
are chump corporate discounts, folks, for anyone with the integrity to
admit it.
From
its highest levels, United States' policy is entirely controlled by
power-lust, money and by the personal, class and national interests of
its so-called "leaders." They laugh at popes and believers with their
silly prayers and naïve talk of forgiveness, reconciliation, dialog,
diplomacy, and beating swords into plowshares. Power and money rule
their world. Karma awaits. . .
Does
Netanyahu see himself as the reincarnation of Winston Churchill,
standing proud and undaunted against a continent engulfed by the Nazis?
And where does that leave Barack Obama? WE KNOW where Netanyahu and his
followers constantly remind us. Obama is the modern Neville
Chamberlain. Chamberlain the Appeaser. The man who flourished a piece of
paper in the fall of 1938 and proclaimed "Peace in Our Time."
Legal
action against Limbaugh is called for; he has no right to use public
airways to intentionally misinform Americans as a tactic to accomplish
far right political objectives.
With
Republicans and Democrats blaming each other for the current government
shutdown it's interesting to know Christians from both parties, and in
particular male Christians, have the power to end the shutdown
immediately.
Avoid purchasing items or procuring services from the companies that supported the Republicans in 2012.
The
top cheerleader of the US pivoting is Japan -- and Japan is widely
regarded, in different shades of gray all across Southeast Asia, as a US
puppet. What is certain is that the Obama no-show only reinforces the
predominant perception that current US foreign policy is an absolute
mess. And that while the US does shutdowns, China does business.
Income
inequality is widening,the rich are richer than ever, corporate cash is
at an all time high, poverty is increasing, huger is on the rise, many
working poor live in shelters, homelessness is rampant--and Congress
passes a bill calling for deep cuts in the food stamp program.
Dr.
Kris Neuhaus is under attack by Kansas anti-abortionists and the
state's government, with the witch hunters trying to steal her family's
home and farm now that they've already stolen her medical license. Help
her fight back, writes TCBH! journalist Dave Lindorff
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With
the Koch boys and their paid for henchmen scurrying to do away with
government by privatizing everything from educating our youth and giving
up on the future of this nation, to feeding our people, to prisons, to
mail services, to actually even outsourcing our government to the likes
of ALEC, Outsourcing America Exposed is one group to watch in order to
be apprised of how we are being taken for a ride while giving our
nation, and our tax dollars, away.
"Senate
Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) were
caught on a hot mic Wednesday discussing talking-points for the
shutdown by local news station WPSD 6."
Becoming Two Countries in 2014 (Tom Hayden)
Sobering analysis of the 2014 and 2016 electoral prospects. Due to gerrymandering, Republicans will likely retain or strength control of the House.
"Of
those who ended up featured in an appallingly hilarious clip on
Kimmel's show, not a single one knew that Obamacare and the Affordable
Care Act are one and the same thing. All but one of the interviewees
expressed dislike for Obamacare and gave a variety of reasons for hating
it -- it is socialist, it has holes in it, it forces everyone to buy
into it, it is anti-American and, I'm not making this up -- it will lead
to gun prohibition. They like the Affordable Care Act, however, because
it is, well, affordable."
"The
White House said Friday it will take down parts of Healthcare.gov, the
primary website for the Affordable Care Act, from 1:00 -5:00 a.m.
Saturday and Sunday. HHS officials said that they will be taking down
the "application part of the website" for scheduled maintenance this
weekend, according to NBC News' Kristin Welker. The announcement was
red meat for critics of Obamacare, who have been largely silent since
the health care law rolled out earlier this week."
"There
are numerous press reports Friday that Speaker John Boehner has told
some Republican House members that he won't hang tough on a debt ceiling
fight. He'll agree to use a combination of Democratic and establishment
Republican votes to hike the ceiling."
"The
U.S. House of Representatives prepared for a Saturday session but with
no expectations of progress on either the shutdown or a measure to raise
the nation's $16.7 trillion debt ceiling. Congress must act by October
17 in order to avoid a government debt default."
How Many More Black Boys Have to Die? | Common Dreams
How Many More Black Boys Have to Die? Article discusses gun control, Stand Your Ground, kids being killed, and more.
At
a rally on Thursday morning, members of the Congressional Progressive
Caucus vowed to oppose a Republican "grand bargain" that includes cuts
to social insurance programs. Thursday morning, more than twenty liberal
members of the House gathered outside the US Capitol, along with a
large group of retirees and other activists. The message was simple:
they will not support cuts to Social Security or other safety net
programs.
Bill
Still's history of money, given during his presentation to the IFFS
(International Forum on Financial Systems) conference in Istanbul,
Turkey on Sept. 11-12. Still makes the case for debt-free Sovereign
Money, past and present.
House
Republicans who got elected by calling themselves pro-life Christians,
continue to take food out of the mouths of hungry babies, force poor
parents to miss work because child care is shut down, and even
jeopardize military death benefits for widows and orphans.There is
nothing Christian about taking food from the poor. Faithful America,
along with a diverse group of Christian leaders offer a petition to
sign, saying, " the members of Congress who call themselves Christians
may finally have to start answering for their deeply unchristian
behavior."
The
government shutdown is best understood as an elaborate staring contest.
The real losers are the furloughed federal employees who can't afford
to wait for their next paycheck. But among the Republicans and Democrats
playing this game, someone will eventually blink. Each party enters the
stalemate with a different set of assumptions. Many Republicans believe
that a shutdown hurts Democratic interests and constituencies more than
it hurts theirs. Democrats simply look back to the shutdowns of 1995-96
and hope for a replay. Those episodes caused Bill Clinton's approval
ratings to rebound, paving the way for his death-defying reelection,
while Newt Gingrich's tumbled, never to recover.
"I
need my paycheck. That's the bottom line," Rep. Ellmers told ABC
affiliate WTVD. "I understand that there may be some other members who
are deferring their paychecks, and I think that's admirable. I'm not in
that position." Elmers is an RN, her husband is a surgeon. She makes
$174,000 annually ... guess it's a stretch to get by on both their
incomes in North Carolina, where the cost of living is lower than 26
other states.
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