George Monbiot
Most of the countries that might abandon nuclear power are likely to replace it not with renewables but with fossil fuel, and that this is a major...
Responsibility
We may never know the motivations of the man who shot Congresswoman Giffords, but here are some things we do know: 1. We know there are extremest...
The Kalama Sutta... Words of Wisdom
-Do not believe anything on mere hearsay. –Do not believe in traditions merely because they are old and have been handed down for many generations and in...
DADT repeal wins!
In a historic victory for the military, the Senate Dem leadership, the White House, and the civil rights of embattled gay and lesbian service-members -- and in a...
Budget Perspectives
I was just listening to C-SPAN and heard the Republican argument, "We must ask our government to do what American households must do... Live within their...
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You Should Have Listened to Farrakhan When You Were at His Table: New Black Panthers Turn on Obama in an N-Word, Uncle Tom Tirade (Content Warning)
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India’s great moral leader Mohandas Gandhi famously said that there is enough on Earth for everybody’s need, but not enough for everybody’s greed....
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I know, I know. Another "feedback" thread = Bitch & Moan session. But really, whatthehellisthisshit? The Current Community, at least online, posts...
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Perhaps we should hold hearings on the radicalization of Republicans instead. http://www.cnn.com/2011/POLITICS/03/10/radicalization.hearings/index.html?hpt=C2
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The Sons of Confederate Veterans has launched a campaign to recognize a Confederate General and KKK leader on a special Mississippi license plate. The NAACP and other...
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Excellent video on the false priorities of modern life...Nigel Marsh is the author of "Fat, Forty and Fired" and "Overworked and Underlaid."
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Really excellent and candid video on the state of politics in the US. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCPz2SzROFQ
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"The initiative will be officially launched next month at the start of "LGBT History Month" – an initiative to encourage teaching about lesbian,...
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"Since the creationist and intelligent design crowd (they’re the same crowd) want creationism taught in the public schools, it’s only fair that the...
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"A hacker group behind online attacks on companies that withdrew services to WikiLeaks busted through the defenses of a computer security firm working with...
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Video of Yves Engler on Reaganomics http://www.therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=6227 On...
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by Jeremy Scahill If it weren't for Al Jazeera, much of the unfolding Egyptian revolution would never have been televised. Its Arabic and English language...
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Hansen, director of the Nasa Goddard Institute for Space Studies and one of the world's leading climate scientists... had hoped that politicians would respond to...
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John de Graaf http://www.utne.com/Politics/Thirty-Hour-Workweek-John-de-Graaf.aspx Pollsters find time stress a constant complaint among Americans. Until the...
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"Those who make secular revolution impossible will make extreme Islamist revolution inevitable." For decades beginning during the Cold War, US policy in...
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In tonight's State of the Union address, the President focused much attention on innovation to create jobs and spur economic growth. The two Republican rebuttals...
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Recent hyperspectral imaging of Thomas Jefferson’s rough draft of the Declaration of Independence shows that Jefferson made an interesting word correction when...
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Thursday night marked the final "Daily Show" of the year -- and the decade -- and Jon Stewart devoted the entire program discussing something near to his...
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