The heat on CNN to dump right-wing nativist news host Lou Dobbs has reached a boiling point. Several grassroots and Internet campaigns urging CNN to drop Dobbs in response to his relentless hate-talk are gathering momentum and tens of thousands of signatures. Will Dobbs finally be stopped from using his on-air bully pulpit to bash [...]

I am sending this along from Donna Bassin, a friend who practices clinical psychology. Read, heed, and distribute widely. -SG We, the members of Section IX of Division 39 of the American Psychological Association (APA), hereby (1) declare our unequivocal opposition to any involvement of psychologists in interrogations in detention centers that violate U.S. and/or [...]

This is a solicitation to a collective philosophical reflection… one I’m sure many have made before us. My own ignorance of what has or has not been said on this subject is a vast ignorance. I have spent precious little time — compared to the time I invested in all sorts of other things — [...]

from Counterpunch: all need to read and re-distribute this eloquent statement, the honest humanity of which breathes a little life and plain courage back into journalism. September 15, 2009 My Flower to Bush, the Occupier The Story of My Shoe By MUTADHAR al-ZAIDI [Mutadhar al-Zaidi, the Iraqi who threw his shoe at George Bush gave [...]

One’s outrage these days can feel like you’re trying to drain the ocean a cup at a time. You get very tired, but the ocean seems to take little notice. So I spend far less time riveted to what passes for news. It’s a self-care imperative. But there is a belly-bug going around, one that [...]

Obama’s WAR IS NOT THE ANSWER either. It is better to hear the rebuke of the wise than to hear the song of fools. – Ecclesiastes 7:5 The Game “You lie!” -Congressman Joe Wilson (R-SC) President Barack Obama is now under siege by a vocal right-wing – and I’ll name it, racist – attack. The [...]

Hat tip to marxmail for this link. http://www.bookforum.com/inprint/016_03/4340 Sept/Oct/Nov 2009 Positively Delusional John Summers Positive thinking should never be the same after Barbara Ehrenreich’s Bright-Sided. But as Ehrenreich herself shows in a sketch of the movement’s history, its theorists, hucksters, and practitioners have thumbed their noses at reason ever since Mary Baker Eddy popularized New [...]