By Jim Hightower | Otherwords.org
The gagged townspeople of Sanford, New York are suing their town board over the infringement of their First Amendment rights. It’s one thing for Big Oil to bust into our communities, groundwater, and economic well-being with the hydraulic fracturing natural gas boom. Now, in addition to poisoning the [...]
By Jill Richardson | Otherwords.org
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Checklists have become more common for surgeons. But according to Curtiss, she’s the only one producing checklists on hospital care for patients.
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By Jill Richardson | Otherwords.org
Coke Still Needs to Get Real. The soda giant’s slick campaign to make us think its products are getting healthier might change public perceptions — but it won’t make soda good for you. Does Coca-Cola think we’re all really stupid?
For the first time, the company is using [...]
Groundwater levels remain at very low levels in many parts of the country, particularly in the Rockies, the Great Plains, and the Southeast. Except where otherwise noted, content on this site is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
By Pat Wilson | Blog
The creativity and spirit of a region come to light and give meaning to being our brother’s keeper.
A swirling tropical depression that formed late in October 2012 off of Nicaragua came to New York as a pre-Halloween nightmare, bringing the destruction of a hurricane to the ‘things’ of New [...]
By Ocean Robbins | YES! Magazine
Studies show that gratitude has an inverse correlation with depression—the more grateful you are, the happier you are. Eleven thinkers, throughout the ages, on why being thankful matters. There’s an old saying that if you’ve forgotten the language of gratitude, you’ll never be on speaking terms with [...]
By Sarah van Gelder | YES! Magazine
Two recent polls said between 49 and 61 percent of American voters are calling for a third party and said they would seriously go for one.
Like many of us here at YES!, medical doctor Jill Stein has been frustrated by the narrowness of [...]
By Chipotle and Coalition of Immokalee Workers |Press Release
Chipotle becomes the 11th company to join the CIW’s Fair Food Program, which is designed to create a sustainable tomato industry through respect for the rights and concerns of all involved. DENVER, October 4, 2012 – Chipotle Mexican Grill and the Coalition of [...]
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The good man understands what is right,
the bad man understands profit.
—Confucius
“The greatest country, the richest country, is not that which has the most capitalists, monopolists, immense grabbings, vast fortunes, with its sad, sad soil of extreme, degrading, damning poverty, but the land in which there are the most homesteads, freeholds — where wealth does not show such contrasts high and low, where all men have enough — a modest living— and no man is made possessor beyond the sane and beautiful necessities.”
–Walt Whitman (1819-1892)
'He leaves us a lesson, which is to never accept any injustice.'
–The French President, François Hollande, speaking of Stéphane Hessel, dead at age 95.
“I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around [the banks] will deprive the people of all property until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered…”
–Thomas Jefferson
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Above the law
"The laws, Cicero wrote in the days of the Roman Republic, “are silent in time of war.” But what if the war has no end, no defined enemy, no defined territory? How can markets work if the financial behemoths are too big to fail and too big to jail? If the national security state has the power of life or death above the law, and Wall Street has the power to plunder beyond the law, in what way does this remain a nation of laws? " --Katrina van HeuvelRead it on WP
Waking From My Moral Coma
"It is the killing, it is the permanent war, it is our deranged national priorities. It is the system we live under which requires the serial deaths of all those innocents to maintain our economic health that should appall us. We sup upon the blood and bonemeal that is the byproduct of the idea that is America, and we sleep. And we sleep." -William Rivers PittRead it on Truthout
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By Gardner | Blog
Whether we are Tea Party believers or Occupy Wall Streeters, we know that our politicians are not working for us, and even seem very comfortable with the erosion of the middle class and the fall in everyone else’s standard-of-living.
It was strange, coming out of the blue like that, but [...]