By Harry Tag - 01.27.13
Dr. Martin Luther King arrived in Memphis on March 18, 1968 to support the sanitation workers of that city who had been on strike for five weeks. These workers had many grievances that forced them to protest.
Garbage workers had no access to bathroom or shower facilities. They were not issued any protective clothing...
Read MoreBy Donald B. Ardell - 01.27.13
The wellness concept, first expressed by Halbert L. Dunn and promoted to a popular audience in the late 1970’s by my own Rodale Press book, High Level Wellness: An Alternative to Doctors, Drugs and Disease, started out as a positive, life-enriching philosophy focused on principles for optimal well being. For varied reasons, the term wellness was adopted by business interests and others. Unfortunately, the adopters of...
Read MoreBy Mickey Walker-January 27, 2013
2013 seems to find the earth alive and well after the United States narrowly dodged a bullet and did not fall off the Fiscal Cliff. Most Americans hardly noticed. About that same point in time the American agenda was to have fun, welcome in 2013 while wearing pointed hats and tooting paper horns to welcome in the New Year. It’s truly hard to change course, suck it...
Read MoreBy Iris Vander Pluym - 01.20.13
Once upon a time, war profiteering was considered profoundly immoral, or so I am told. Today it is The American Way.
The prospect of decreasing the U.S. defense budget has the Pentagon brass and defense contractors (and their Congressional servants) squawking like chickens that the sky is falling. But here in the wondrous world of reality, even the “drastic” cuts envisioned by the sequester would roll...
Read MoreBy Donald B. Ardell - 01.20.13
Imagine how put off you would be if, at the start of every workday, all employees at your worksite were expected to stand, face the flag and recite the Lord’s Prayer - or passages from the Bhagavad-Gita or the Holy Quran. Unless you were a devotee of the favored religion, you’d...By Loren Adams - January 20, 2013
It’s a massive implosion the whole world notices except for the few combatant principals at close proximity to ground zero: Washington DC. America is now engaged in a different kind of war, an unnecessary sort, that has the potential to bring down the whole house, resulting in a premature finale to the grand experiment [as the republic was affectionately referred to since inception]. We are witnesses to national suicide in progress.
Although Barack Obama won a decisive victory in the 2012...
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