America Is Declining at the Same Warp Speed That’s Minting Billionaires and...
From Alternet: http://www.alternet.org/tea-party-and-right/how-quickly-america-declining-same-warp-speed-thats-minting-billiionaires-and Not a single U.S. city ranks among the world’s most livable...
View ArticleThe Piketty Panic
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View ArticleThe Nature of Capitalism and the Challenge for the LGBT Community
From The Huffington Post: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dana-beyer/the-nature-of-capitalism-and-the-challenge-for-the-lgbt-community_b_5252841.html?view=print&comm_ref=false Dana Beyer 05/02/2014...
View ArticleWhy Walmart Is a Threat to Organic Food
Let me guess? Because eating organic food will no longer have that upper class elitist thing going for it if you don’t have to buy it at Whole Paycheck? Because it will no longer be a statusy thing if...
View ArticlePurity balls, Plan B and bad sex policy: inside America’s virginity obsession
From The Guardian UK: http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/may/05/purity-balls-america-virginity-obsession We are teaching girls that their virginity makes them special. But we’re also...
View ArticleThe Problem With Automatically Labeling Drag Queens as Cisgender Gay Men
From Huffington Post: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/j-nelson-aviance/post_7434_b_5233848.html?utm_hp_ref=gay-voices J Nelson Aviance 04/29/2014 [A transgression is] … an action that involves the...
View ArticlePope Francis urges governments to redistribute wealth to the poor — maybe...
Wow Gee… A Pope who actually sounds like he is channeling the words of Jesus instead of the anti-Christ aka Ayn Rand. From Raw Story:...
View ArticleThe New Abolitionism
From The Nation: http://www.thenation.com/article/179461/new-abolitionism?page=full# Averting planetary disaster will mean forcing fossil fuel companies to give up at least $10 trillion in wealth....
View ArticleHow materialism makes us sad
From The Guardian UK: http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/may/07/how-materialism-makes-us-sad-empathy-charity The more we spend, the less happy we are. Can this explain why affluent...
View ArticleOne Billion People Still Practise Open Defecation, Endangering Public Health: UN
From Huffington Post: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/05/08/one-billion-open-defecation_n_5289049.html By Tom Miles 05/08/2014 GENEVA, May 8 (Reuters) – One billion people worldwide still practise...
View ArticleAround the World, Social Unrest Starts with Soaring Food Prices
From Alternet: http://www.alternet.org/food/when-hunger-strikes The climate change-fueled battles over food and resources have already begun. By> Stefanie Krasnow May 5, 2014 From 2008 to 2014,...
View ArticleThis Planet Comes with Limits
From Common Dreams: http://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/05/09-4 by Carl Safina Published on Friday, May 9, 2014 by CNN When I was in my 20s, a girlfriend surprised me by saying that we didn’t have...
View Article“Devastating” Impacts of Climate Change Increasing
From Truth Out: http://truth-out.org/news/item/23660-devastating-impacts-of-climate-change-increasing By Dahr Jamail Tuesday, 13 May 2014 “One does not sell the land people walk on.” ~ Crazy Horse A...
View ArticleThis Is What a Holy Shit Moment for Global Warming Looks Like
From Mother Jones: http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2014/05/west-antarctic-ice-sheet-collapse According to two new studies, the collapse of much of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet may now be...
View ArticleLanguage Controversy: My Queer History and the Fur Coat in The Garbage
From Huffington Post: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/corvette-hunt/language-controversy-my-q_b_5232451.html?utm_hp_ref=gay-voices Corvette Hunt 04/30/2014 My last name is Hunt. When I was in third...
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