Hiding From Shame, Addicted to Optimism: The Tyranny of Our Collective Comfort Zones

April 11, 2011 — The technologies that inflicted upon the world the ongoing tragedies in both the Gulf of Mexico and Japan serve a dangerous addiction, an addiction to blind optimism, a habituation of mind that allows us to dwell within provisional comfort zones but renders vast spaces of the world into deathrealms. After each [...]

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Over 800 abuse cases reported in Austrian Catholic institutions

Vienna – Over 800 cases of abuse in Catholic institutions in Austria have been reported so far, a commission tasked with investigating abuse cases announced on Wednesday. A total 837 abuse victims approached the commission, which was set up by the Austrian Catholic Church last year after it was hit by a wave of abuse [...]

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25 Shocking Facts That Prove That The Entire U.S. Health Care Industry Has Become One Giant Money

What is the appropriate word to use when you find out that the top executive at the third largest health insurance company in America raked in 68.7 million dollars in 2010?  How is one supposed to respond when one learns that more than two dozen pharmaceutical companies make over a billion dollars in profits each [...]

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Baghdad’s Neutron Bomb and America’s Nuclear Obama — An Interview with Captain Eric H. May — By Kim Petersen and B.J. Sabri

March 3, 2010 – Few people have heard of the Battle of Baghdad. They might remember Iraq’s information minister, Mohammad Saeed al-Sahhaf, warning of a surprise awaiting invading U.S. troops if they attacked Saddam International Airport. Later, al-Sahhaf claimed that the Iraqi Republican Guard had slaughtered U.S. troops and was in control of the entire facility. [...]

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63 percent of people killed in Iraq war were civilians: report

10 Apr 2011 U.S.-led wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have been causing huge civilian casualties with 63 percent of some 109,000 people killed in the Iraq war being civilians, according to a report on the U.S. human rights record released on Sunday. The figures were quoted from a WikiLeaks trove by the Human Rights Record [...]

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Obama’s Fort Hood Jihadist

We have been hearing for years that the White House is withholding evidence on the Fort Hood jihadi, Major Nidal Malik Hasan. Now comes direct confirmation of this from Hasan’s own lawyer. Major Hasan, also known as Soldier of Allah, according to his business card, mowed down thirteen U.S. soldiers while screaming Allahu akbar on [...]

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Hearing on Limits of Executive Power: Bruce Fein

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