Trauma: How We've Created a Nation Addicted to Shopping, Work, Drugs and Sex. December 26, 2010 | Like this article?
Join our email list: Stay up to date with the latest headlines via email. AMY GOODMAN: From disease to addiction, parenting to attention deficit disorder, Canadian physician and bestselling author Gabor Maté’s work focuses on the centrality of early childhood experiences to the development of the brain, and how those experiences can impact everything from behavioral patterns to physical and mental illness. While the relationship between emotional stress and disease, and mental and physical health more broadly, is often considered controversial within medical orthodoxy, Dr.
Dr. In our first conversation, Dr. DR. And that’s what sets up the brain biology of addiction. The War on Drugs Is a War on Poor People. December 16, 2010 | Like this article?
Join our email list: Stay up to date with the latest headlines via email. America: America: Why R Your Peeps So Dum? If you hang out much with thinking people, conversation eventually turns to the serious political and cultural questions of our times.
Such as: How can the Americans remain so consistently brain-fucked? Much of the world, including plenty of Americans, asks that question as they watch U.S. culture go down like a thrashing mastodon giving itself up to some Pleistocene tar pit. One explanation might be the effect of 40 years of deep fried industrial chicken pulp, and 44 ounce Big Gulp soft drinks. Pearls Before Breakfast - washingtonpost.com. HE EMERGED FROM THE METRO AT THE L'ENFANT PLAZA STATION AND POSITIONED HIMSELF AGAINST A WALL BESIDE A TRASH BASKET.
By most measures, he was nondescript: a youngish white man in jeans, a long-sleeved T-shirt and a Washington Nationals baseball cap. From a small case, he removed a violin. Placing the open case at his feet, he shrewdly threw in a few dollars and pocket change as seed money, swiveled it to face pedestrian traffic, and began to play. It was 7:51 a.m. on Friday, January 12, the middle of the morning rush hour.
ZhFvn.jpg (JPEG Image, 640x2372 pixels) 52 Year Old Who Came to US as a Toddler to be Deported. December 6, 2010 | Like this article?
Join our email list: Stay up to date with the latest headlines via email. Mike Burrows came to America when he was two years old, and has lived here for 50 years. Due to a technicality in harsh anti-immigration laws, he will likely be deported to his birthplace of Canada within weeks, a country that he has no current connection to and no memory of. I was born in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Mike Burrows is the poster child demonstrating the hysteria surrounding the immigration debate in the United States.
The Origin of America’s Intellectual Vacuum - Chris Hedges' Columns. The Origin of America’s Intellectual Vacuum Posted on Nov 15, 2010 By Chris Hedges The blacklisted mathematics instructor Chandler Davis, after serving six months in the Danbury federal penitentiary for refusing to cooperate with the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), warned the universities that ousted him and thousands of other professors that the purges would decimate the country’s intellectual life.
The United States of War Criminals. By Mickey Z. / December 15th, 2010 People from poorer places and poorer countries have to call upon their compassion not to be angry with ordinary people in America. – Arundhati Roy More than half (53.3%) of US tax dollars go to a criminal enterprise known as the US Department of Defense (sic), a.k.a. the worst polluter on the planet.
We hear about tax cuts this and budget that and all kinds of other bullshit from the US government and the corporations that own it…but the reality remains: Roughly one million tax dollars per minute are spent to fund the largest military machine (read: global terrorist operation) the world has ever known. What do we get for all that money? To follow, is but one tiny example that mostly slipped through the cracks earlier this year. On July 23, 2010, Tom Eley at Global Research wrote: With Wealth Highly Skewed Toward the Top, US Ranks 12th in New Measure of Human Development. December 1, 2010 | Like this article? Join our email list: Stay up to date with the latest headlines via email. Twenty years ago, in 1990, the United Nations began publishing an annual Human Development Report. The economists behind this new initiative -- India’s Nobel Prize-winning Amaryta Sen among them -- clearly saw themselves as scholarly subversives. 4 Scenarios for the Coming Collapse of the American Empire.
December 5, 2010 | Like this article?
Join our email list: Stay up to date with the latest headlines via email. A soft landing for America 40 years from now? WHAT MAKES PEOPLE VOTE REPUBLICAN? By Jonathan Haidt. What makes people vote Republican?
Why in particular do working class and rural Americans usually vote for pro-business Republicans when their economic interests would seem better served by Democratic policies? Downsize Nation: Welcome to the New, Smaller American Dream. December 7, 2010 | Like this article?
Join our email list: Stay up to date with the latest headlines via email. Nation of Pill Poppers: 19 Potentially Dangerous Drugs Pushed By Big Pharma. December 5, 2010 | Like this article? Join our email list: Stay up to date with the latest headlines via email. Since direct-to-consumer drug advertising was legalized 13 years ago, Americans have become a nation of pill poppers -- choosing the type of drug they desire like a new toothpaste, sometimes whether or not they need it. But if patients want the drugs, doctors and pharma executives want them to have the drugs and media gets full page ads and huge TV flights (when many advertisers have dried up), is the national pillathon really a problem? Yes, when you consider the cost of private and government insurance and the health of patients who take potentially dangerous drugs like these. Information for Healthcare Professionals: Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors (SSRIs), Selective Serotonin-Norepinephrine Reuptake Inhibitors (SNRIs), 5-Hydroxytryptamine Receptor Agonists (Triptans)
George Carlin ~ The American Dream.