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Hedges: How Our Demented Capitalist System Made America Insane | | AlterNet
Seeded on Mon May 14, 2012 10:28 AM EDT (AlterNet.org)
When civilizations start to die they go insane. Let the ice sheets in the Arctic melt. Let the temperatures rise. Let the air, soil and water be poisoned. Let the forests die.
Muslim Woman Convert, Wins $5 Million Verdict From AT&T For Discrimination
Seeded on Wed May 9, 2012 7:36 PM EDT (The Huffington Post)
Religious freedom applies even to non-Christians. Ms. Bashir converted from Christianity to Islam and was targeted with anti-Muslim epithets such as "towel-head". Wins $5 million in lawsuit against employer AT&T. Can they hear her now?
Reclaiming the Moral Center of America
Tue May 1, 2012 7:36 AM EDT
For many of us progressives, it has been obvious that we are upholding traditional American values that are under attack by powerful right-wing extremists. We tend to express our American values as ethical rather than moral, because the religious right constantly uses the …
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How do Conservatives and Liberals See the World? on Vimeo
Seeded on Tue Feb 7, 2012 11:17 AM EST (BillMoyers.com)
How can we tone down the anger and rancor in the Conservative vs.
The Most Heroic Response To The Susan G. Komen Foundation You Will Ever See | MoveOn.Org
Seeded on Sun Feb 5, 2012 12:27 PM EST (MoveOn.org)
This video is exceptional, the statement of one woman who is surviving breast cancer. It is graphic and educational, passionate and cogent. What the Susan G. Komen Foundation has done is not reparable. It is a cataclysmic fail.
15 Selfish Statements from the "Conservative" Meme Machine
Sat Feb 4, 2012 10:48 PM EST
Our society is becoming more deeply aware, thanks in part to the Occupy Wall Street movement, of the immense shift in values that has occurred over the past few decades. America has transformed from a country being embarrassed about its private drive to “k …
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Are We All Greedy Jerks?
Seeded on Wed Feb 1, 2012 4:14 PM EST (AlterNet.org)
Check on your own comfort level regarding the greed that permeates our culture. Things may be improving, but our materialism runs deeper than many think. Photo credit: Svilen Milev
When it comes to accepting evolution, gut feelings trump facts
Seeded on Tue Jan 24, 2012 4:39 PM EST (Science Daily)
Some scientists are beginning to understand that it is not "fact" that creates acceptance of new concepts, like evolution or global climate change, but rather our gut inclination to believe those facts. This is influenced by the culture and beliefs of people around us.
Holy Capitalism !!! Fundamentalism of the Fiscal Kind.
Thu Jan 12, 2012 10:14 PM EST
Holy Capitalism: Here is How The Republican Conservatives Take Religious Faith in God and Transform it into Economic Faith in the "Invisible Hand" of the Free Market.
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Baby Boomers Declare Occupy Wall Street Protestors to be Protected - Join in!
Sun Nov 20, 2011 4:37 PM EST
We, the Baby Boom Generation, victims of the immoral and illegal war against Viet Nam, decided and declared that our children would not be subject to a draft forcing them to serve in immoral and illegal wars. And it came to pass that the draft was abolished.
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