Toward a Sustainable Future

Hedges: How Our Demented Capitalist System Made America Insane | | AlterNet

When civilizations start to die they go insane. Let the ice sheets in the Arctic melt. Let the temperatures rise. Let the air, soil and water be poisoned. Let the forests die.

Kadner: Kirk talks about tax cuts due to quality health care - Southtown Star

U.S. Sen. Mark Kirk (R-Ill.) on Tuesday released a brief videotape of his recovery process from a severe stroke he suffered Jan. 21. He speaks in a halting voice, thanks his nurses and doctors at the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago and then sends a message to voters. He  …

Reclaiming the Moral Center of America

For many of us progressives, it has been obvious that we are upholding traditional American values that are under attack by powerful right-wing extremists.  We tend to express our American values as ethical rather than moral, because the religious right constantly uses the  …

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99% Spring Launches

April 25—1T Day: Break the link between higher education and the banks on the day student loan debt passes $1 trillion. Students across the country will demand affordable education by taking direct action against banks as well as administrators/regents/trustees who are i …

Subsidies to Big Oil Continue On The Anniversary of BP's Deepwater Horizon Explosion and Massive Spill . . .

It's April 20th, the second anniversary of BP's cataclysmic fail, the Deepwater Horizon Explosion and Unprecedented Contamination of the Gulf of Mexico.  But BP, two years later, is sitting fat and sassy, distorting information about the depths and expanse of the damage from …

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Republicans' Big Government Would Not Affect Abortions Among the Wealthy

The Republican Campaign Against Abortion Does Not Limit the Freedom of the Wealthy and Their Children.  It does not force them to seek back-alley, unsafe abortions.  It is a myth that Republicans are working to prevent all abortions.

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99% Spring Activist Training Is Now OnLine

Activist training for the 99% Spring is now available online.  The training can be completed in less than two hours and does not need to be completed all at once.  The training was created and supported by scores of organizations representing progressives, labor, economic justi …

Battle for the South: Winning Hearts and Minds

According to the recent Public Policy Polling: In Mississippi, 54% of Republican voters think inter-racial marriage should be legal, while 29% believe it should be illegal. In Mississippi, 12% of voters think Obama's a Christian to 52% who think he's a Muslim. In Alabama only 26 …

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Before Our Democracy and the American Dream Slip Away . . .

  There are days when it is discouraging to look around and understand that the labor movement in America is on the verge of obliteration.

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Ilya Sheyman's Progressive Run | The Nation

Ilya Sheyman's endorsement by Russ Feingold is bringing more attention to the grassroots progressive campaign by a young activist in the 10th Congressional District in Chicago's North Suburbs.  This article provides thoughtful analysis of the road for progressive challengers …

Economist's View: Paul Krugman: Pain Without Gain

Paul Krugman assesses the world's experience with "austerity" as a way to improve the economy - and it fails on all counts.

Terminology aside, Pa. natural-gas levy became inevitable

Grover Norquist's Anti-Tax Pledge Dies in Pennsylvania. Fracking Tax/Levy/Fee is a Bi-Partisan Hit. The tax will help pay for infrastructure damage caused by fracking. It is expected to be signed into law this week by Pennsylvania Governor Corbett.

The right's stupidity spreads, enabled by a too-polite left | George Monbiot | Comment is free | The Guardian

Monbiot writes about how Liberals are sitting politely while Conservatives ply truly ignorant and self-destructive notions and programs.  Is it time to stand up and say, "Stop This Foolishness?"

Throw The Tea Party Into Boston Harbor!

Throw the Tea Party Into Boston Harbor (figuratively:) ! Too many conservatives and libertarians are not only opposed to Democrats, but to Democracy, itself. You will hear many of them claim that America is a Republic and NOT a Democracy.

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How a Few Über-Wealthy Donors Helped Buy Republicans a Presidential Field They Hate | Election 2012 | AlterNet

The current Republican candidates have received the vast majority of their "independent" support from donors of over $100,000.

How do Conservatives and Liberals See the World? on Vimeo

How can we tone down the anger and rancor in the Conservative vs.

"Starve the Beast" - How the Radical Right Is Taking Over America

"Starve the Beast" is coming to fruition as the Conservative Republican/Tea Party/John Birch Society strategy for America, the master plan of right wing extremists.  This strategy has been used effectively, beginning with Reagan, to gradually destroy public confidence in gov …

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The Most Heroic Response To The Susan G. Komen Foundation You Will Ever See | MoveOn.Org

This video is exceptional, the statement of one woman who is surviving breast cancer. It is graphic and educational, passionate and cogent. What the Susan G. Komen Foundation has done is not reparable. It is a cataclysmic fail.

Bright Minds and Dark Attitudes

This is the widely-cited research study that has been used to support the position that "conservatives" are less intelligent than "liberals."  Judge for yourself!

15 Selfish Statements from the "Conservative" Meme Machine

  Our society is becoming more deeply aware, thanks in part to the Occupy Wall Street movement, of the immense shift in values that has occurred over the past few decades.  America has transformed from a country being embarrassed about its private drive to “k …

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Are We All Greedy Jerks?

Check on your own comfort level regarding the greed that permeates our culture.  Things may be improving, but our materialism runs deeper than many think.   Photo credit:  Svilen Milev

The Culture War Over Abortion

The Culture War Over AbortionIndeed, there is a huge culture was in the US and at least one element of it focuses on abortion.

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When it comes to accepting evolution, gut feelings trump facts

Some scientists are beginning to understand that it is not "fact" that creates acceptance of new concepts, like evolution or global climate change, but rather our gut inclination to believe those facts. This is influenced by the culture and beliefs of people around us.

Thank You For Standing Up, by Chris Hedges

Hedges implores us to look beyond the political media charades in the headlines and engage in the deeper debate that is taking place in the Occupy Movement, and outlets such as Democracy Now! Link TV and investigative reporting.

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