Open the Gates: #DeOccupyConfirmationBias | Mickey Z.

Photo Credit: Mickey Z. Mickey Z. -- World News Trust “Truth comes to all of us at different degrees and levels.” --Lenny Bruce Feb. 27, 2012 -- So, there I am at the gym -- teaching someone how to t ...

Occupy Yer Mind: #RightHereRightNow | Mickey Z.

Photo credit: Mickey Z. Mickey Z. -- World News Trust Feb. 23, 2012 "It has to start somewhere. It has to start sometime. What better place than here? What better time than now?" -- Zack De La Rocha ...

Corporate Power vs. Animal Rights: #DeOccupyAETA (Mickey Z.)

Mickey Z. -- World News Trust “We know we cannot be kind to animals until we stop exploiting them -- exploiting animals in the name of science, exploiting animals in the name of sport, exploiting ani ...

PILLOW TALK: Hollandazed (Deborah Goodwin)

A blog by ShapeShiftas' designer Deborah Goodwin Feb. 1, 2012 (ShapeShiftas) -- I made a perfect hollandaise for the broccoli the other night, inspired by Suzanne's beautiful eggs. (OK, Suzanne's chi ...

PILLOWTALK: How Hard Could It Be? (Deborah Goodwin)

"Our Simple Pumpkin, Halloween 2011" courtesy of Jackie Knoch Shitemi Nov. 1, 2011 (ShapeShiftas) -- I was missing good bread, bakery bread, chewy "artisan" bread, baguettes in particular. Like the k ...

The World After Industrial Civilization Goes (Jan Lundberg)

Usher in the "new" economics of local self-sufficiency and community cooperation Imagine no possessions I wonder if you can No need for greed or hunger A brotherhood of man* - Imagine, John Lennon *L ...

Ground Your Warplanes, Save the Horn of Africa (Ramzy Baroud)

Ramzy Baroud -- World News Trust July 21, 2011 -- “When you are hungry, cold is a killer, and the people here are starving and helpless.” Not many of us can relate to such a statement, but millions o ...

Dante’s Slope (David Glenn Cox)

David Glenn Cox -- World News Trust July 17, 2011 -- I have been at loose ends now for two, could it be going on three years? Without a phone or an address to call my own, I have access to these thin ...

Why the revolution must start in America (Chris Hedges)

Tyler Hicks / Redux / The New York Times Audio version read by George Atherton – Right-click to download June 16, 2011 (AdBusters) -- The unrest in the Middle East, the convulsions in Ivory Coast, th ...

Deus ex Machina: Will economic collapse save us from climate catastrophe? (Dan Allen)

June 17, 2011 (Energy Bulletin) -- “I don’t think the American public has gripped in its gut what could happen.... We’re looking at a scenario where there’s no more agriculture in California.” --Stev ...

Inflation Hits Money and Lies (Joel S. Hirschhorn)

Apr. 16, 2011 -- How do the powerful keep the U.S. population dumb and distracted? A key tactic has been using methodologies that produce totally misleading underestimates of key economic factors. Fi ...