Wednesday, November 30, 2005
[ This is the story of an officer and West Point professor, Col. Ted Westhusing, some of whose last words were: "I came [to Iraq] to serve honorably and feel dishonored.” “A psychologist reviewed Westhusing’s e-mails and interviewed colleagues … [and] concluded that … Westhusing struggled with the idea that monetary values could outweigh moral [...]
Wednesday, November 23, 2005
[ Here's another point of view on the Thanksgiving Holiday. --BL ]
23 Nov. 2005 | AlterNet
by Robert Jensen
One indication of moral progress in the United States would be the replacement of Thanksgiving Day and its self-indulgent family feasting with a National Day of Atonement accompanied by a self-reflective collective fasting.
In fact, indigenous people have offered such [...]
Friday, November 18, 2005
November/December 2004 | Mother Jones
by Bill McKibben
With no help from the Bush administration — but plenty from Europe, Japan, New York, and California — solar power is edging into the mainstream.
If you’re like most Americans, you’ve spent your life invisibly attached to an electric meter. When you wake up and switch on the light, you [...]
Wednesday, November 9, 2005
8 Nov 2005 | Haaretz
by Amos Harel and Arnon Regular
The vital organs of a Palestinian boy mistakenly killed by the Israel Defense Forces last week have been transplanted into the bodies of six Israelis, after the boy’s family donated his organs “for the sake of peace between peoples,” Israel Radio reported.
Tuesday, November 1, 2005
2005 Sept. | Ode
by Jurriaan Kamp
What is money? Do we need more of it to solve some of the world’s problems? Or is money the cause of them? Ex-banker Bernard Lietaer thinks the latter is the case. And he has the solution: a new kind of money.
You have no idea what money is. Bernard Lietaer [...]