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Religious Trauma Syndrome: How Some Organized Religion Leads to Mental Health Problems | Alternet
Mexikaresistance.com Editor’s Note: Religion is a mental disorder! At age sixteen I began what would be a four year struggle with bulimia. When the symptoms started, I turned in desperation to adults who knew more than I did about how to stop shameful behavior—my Bible study leader and a visiting youth minister. “If you ask … Continue reading
Monsanto Conquest Meets Aztec Resistance – CIP Americas
Monsanto has a map for conquering the world and Mexico is in the center of it. For nearly two decades the transnational corporation that manufactures the pesticides used across the planet has been trying to take over the global seed market with genetically modified (GM) seed. If successful, most of the food we grow and … Continue reading
Monsanto CEO Hugh Grant Rakes in $3 Million from Shares As Biotech Giant Continues Destroying Planet | Alternet
The head of agribusiness giant Monsanto is raking in cash while his company continues to help destroy the environment. Barron’s reports that Chief Executive Officer Hugh Grant sold 30,000 shares of stock in Monsanto on January 22. That sale netted over $3 million. “Grant’s direct holdings now stand at 423,382 shares, a stake of less … Continue reading
There Is No Stopping Climate Change Unless We Can Mobilize Against Plutocracy | Alternet
Humankind’s greatest crisis coincides with the rise of an ideology that makes it impossible to address. By the late 1980s, when it became clear that manmade climate change endangered the living planet and its people, the world was in the grip of an extreme political doctrine, whose tenets forbid the kind of intervention required to … Continue reading
Should Chiapas Farmers Suffer for California’s Carbon?
“We are not responsible for climate change—it’s the big industries that are,” said Abelardo, a young man from the Tseltal Mayan village of Amador Hernández in the Lacandon jungle of Chiapas. “So why should we be held responsible, and even punished for it?”
Science-Based Medicine » CAM and Creationism: Separated at Birth?
Over the past weekend, I had the opportunity to attend CSICon in Nashville, Tennessee. The Committee for Skeptical Inquiry (“CSI”) combats all sorts of pseudoscience, including creationism/creation science/intelligent design and alternative/complementary/integrative medicine. Our own Team SBM was ably represented by Harriet Hall, David Gorski and Kimball Atwood, whose presentation highlighted the credulous acceptance of CAM … Continue reading
Does TV Help Make Americans Passive and Accepting of Authority? | Alternet
Historically, television viewing has been used by various authorities to quiet potentially disruptive people—from kids, to psychiatric inpatients, to prison inmates. In 1992, Newsweek (“ Hooking Up at the Big House ”) reported, “Faced with severe overcrowding and limited budgets for rehabilitation and counseling, more and more prison officials are using TV to keep inmates … Continue reading
Aboriginals Spearhead Anti-Pipeline Protests in B.C. – ICTMN.com
Melina Laboucan-Massimo’s family has felt the impacts of an oil spill disaster firsthand on their Lubicon Cree territories in Alberta: burning eyes, headaches, nausea and dizziness.
Join the Blockade of the Keystone Pipeline
The next great battle of the Occupy movement may not take place in city parks and plazas, where the security and surveillance state is blocking protesters from setting up urban encampments. Instead it could arise in the nation’s heartland, where some ranchers, farmers and enraged citizens, often after seeing their land seized by eminent domain … Continue reading
Brainwashed by Junk Food? New Study Reveals Fast-Food Logos “Imprinted” in Children’s Minds | Alternet
Do your children light up when they see those golden arches?
