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Angelina Jolie, Corporate Science, and “Prevention” | Mickey Z.
Photo credit: Mickey Z. Mickey Z. -- World News Trust “Corporate science puts profit before the public interest. Corporate science is often secretive, not peer-reviewed, laden with lobbying power, and driven by profit-seeking strategies.” - Ralph Nader By now, I’m guessing the vast majority of you have heard about movie star Angelina Jolie choosing to have a double mastectomy to reduce her ris...
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The Song Remains the Same | John Michael Greer
May 8, 2013 (Archdruid Report) -- If you always do what you’ve always done, a popular saying nowadays has it, you’ll always get what you’ve always gotten. Most people accept that readily enough in the abstract. It’s when they attempt to apply this logic to their own lives and thinking that they get tripped up, because self-defeating patterns very often arise from a mismatch between basic presuppo...
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Wanna' Know About Terror? Ask a Native American (What We’re Up Against) | Mickey Z.
Photo credit: Mickey Z. Mickey Z. -- World News Trust April 28, 2013 “I did not know then how much was ended. When I look back now from this high hill of my old age, I can still see the butchered women and children lying heaped and scattered all along the crooked gulch as plain as when I saw them with eyes still young. And I can see that something else died there in the bloody mud, and was buri...
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The Religion of Progress | John Michael Greer
April 10, 2013 (Archdruid Report) -- To suggest that faith in progress has become the most widely accepted civil religion of the modern industrial world, as I’ve done in these essays, is to say something at once subtler and more specific than a first glance might suggest. It’s important to keep in mind, as I pointed out in last week’s post, that “religion” isn’t a specific thing with a specific...
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Speciesism: Left Out Of The Left Forum? Mickey Z.
Photo credit: Mickey Z. Mickey Z. -- World News Trust April 17, 2013 “Your old road is rapidly agin'/Please get out of the new one/If you can't lend your hand/For the times, they are a-changin'” - Dylan In 2010, I was part of an animal rights (AR) panel at the Left Forum (LF). To the best of my knowledge, this was one of the first -- if not, the first -- AR panels ever presente...
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The Fate of Civil Religion | John Michael Greer
April 3, 2012 (Archdruid Report) -- To describe faith in progress as a religion, as I’ve done in these essays numerous times, courts a good many misunderstandings. The most basic of those comes out of the way that the word “religion” itself has been tossed around like a football in any number of modern society’s rhetorical scrimmages. Thus it’s going to be necessary to begin by taking a closer lo...
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Copy Editing for Total Liberation (Until Every Cage is Empty) | Mickey Z.
Photo credit: Mickey Z. Mickey Z. -- World News Trust Feb. 13, 2013 Almost everywhere I look, I witness radicals and revolutionaries participating in, exploiting, and sanctioning the illusory privileges of speciesism. For example, I was recently part of a panel of seven people, discussing climate change, fracking, tar sands, eco-defense, and more at a NYC event. Outside of a tangential referen...
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But Wait… Where Do You Get Your Protein? | Mickey Z.
Photo credit: Mickey Z. Mickey Z. -- World News Trust Jan. 1, 2013 "You tell me you like the taste/You just need an excuse." - Ian MacKaye Since I’m doing a talk called Occupy the Climate: Hurricane Sandy, Eco-Activism, & the Vegan Option on Jan. 12 in NYC, I figured I’d preemptively address some common questions and comments: “You eat what you eat and I’ll eat what I eat. It’s...
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Fir-Free Xmas | Mickey Z.
Photo credit: Mickey Z. Mickey Z. -- World News Trust Nov. 29, 2012 "Gee, do they still make wooden Christmas trees?" - Linus It’s not even December and I’ve already caught sight of my neighborhood’s most clearcut (pun very much intended) sign that Santa season is fully upon us: Christmas tree lots hawking pines and firs long-since separated from their roots. According to the Natio...
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It’s All About Faith | Hal Cohen
Hal Cohen -- World News Trust Nov. 24, 2012 There is an episode of "The West Wing" about faith titled, "Belief in Things not Seen." One definition of faith from Merriam-Webster is, "firm belief in something for which there is no proof." I like thinking about faith in this way. I believe in God (I wouldn't have capitalized the G otherwise). That being said, my ...
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Kung fu nuns teach cosmic energy to CERN scientists | Robert Evans
Nov. 16, 2012 -- GENEVA (Reuters) -- A dozen kung fu nuns from an Asian Buddhist order displayed their martial arts prowess to bemused scientists at CERN this week as their spiritual leader explained how their energy was like that of the cosmos. The nuns, all from the Himalayan region, struck poses of hand-chops, high-kicks and punches on Thursday while touring the research centre where physici...
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