January 2010
16 posts
Is There an Ecological Unconscious? - NYTimes.com →
About eight years ago, Glenn Albrecht began receiving frantic calls from residents of the Upper Hunter Valley, a 6,000-square-mile region in southeastern Australia. For generations the Upper Hunter…
t r u t h o u t | Human Rights and Haiti →
Historically, interventions in Haiti have been viewed through the lens of charity. The international community, NGOs, international organizations and donor states have gathered time and again to…
Calling occupants of interplanetary craft →
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I just got this link from a friend and decided it was time to tell about some other sightings of interplanetary craft that I have witnessed. [See my…
Melissa Harris-Lacewell: SOTU as National... →
A contemporary State of the Union address is less an assessment of our national circumstances than it is a collective Rorschach test: an inkblot given meaning by the viewer more than by the subject….
The Big Theories Underwriting Society Are Crashing... →
Many of the ideas and institutions that define our culture are breaking down — and that’s a good thing, say Bruce Lipton and Steve Bhaerman. In their new book, Spontaneous Evolution: Our Positive…
Psychodynamic psychotherapy brings lasting... →
ScienceDaily (Jan. 27, 2010) — Psychodynamic psychotherapy is effective for a wide range of mental health symptoms, including depression, anxiety, panic and stress-related physical ailments, and the…
Are Millennials Cursed? -- In These Times →
The rap on today’s Millennial Generation (everyone born after the mid-1970s) is that they are coddled, overexposed and overindulged. They are told they are special and believe that to be the case….
Legislated to Death -- In These Times →
As the early morning sun rose over Kampala on Oct. 14, 2009, Gug lay in bed and contemplated his life. (“Gug” is a pseudonym he uses on his blog, GayUganda.blogspot.com, which provides a rare view…
t r u t h o u t | Henry A. Giroux on His Book... →
While youth have always represented an ambiguous category, they have within the last thirty years been under assault in unprecedented ways. The book identifies a number of forces—including unfettered…
t r u t h o u t | Advertisers and Politicians Hunt... →
Using a form of marketing known as neuromarketing, corporations and politicians are using MRIs, EEGs, and other brain-scan and medical technology to craft irresistible media messages designed to…
Please Don’t Superdome Haiti (update) | RaceWire →
Life Cycle of a Chair Moth →
Last summer I found a caterpillar on the quilt that I keep on my recliner. I got my bug jar so I could give him a lift back outside but as I stood there looking at him I decided to let him stay…at…
The Gift of Uncertainty →
Strong and healthy, who thinks of sickness until it strikes like lightning? Preoccupied with the world, who thinks of death, until it arrives like thunder? ―Milarepa
Remember always that you…
Surprise! White-Minority Income Gap Continues to... →
Dr. King’s Work Is Yet Undone | | AlterNet →
Drew Westen: Obama Finally Gets His Victory For... →
It is a truly remarkable feat, in just one year’s time, to turn the fear and anger voters felt in 2006 and 2008 at a Republican Party that had destroyed the economy, redistributed massive amounts of…