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...Roger S. Gottlieb Poisoned Profits: The Toxic Assault on Our Children , by Shabecoff Philip Shabecoff Alice Random House , 2008 Copyright © Tikkun magazine 2009 C U L T U R E...

... regional cloud seeding, a process that disrupts weather patterns through the use of toxic chemicals such as silver iodide. More generally, it would refuse to recognize corporate personhood, explicitly place the rights of community and local government above the economic interests of multinational...

... of cleaning up toxic wastes, the reality is that capital will go anywhere it smells high profit margins. Thus, we now have a new growth industry of toxic cleanup firms which rake in enormous profits from government superfund contracts. These do slipshod work and use the EPA to impose cleanup mechanisms...

... and economic fabric of Chester has been shredded by three equally powerful forces: toxic education, ecological violence, and poverty pimping. The worst schools in Pennsylvania C h e s t e r ’s s c h o o l s a r e t h e w o r s t in P e n n s y l v a n ia . Until recently, the school...

... Christ as his lord and savior. I hear versions of this story almost every day. Many of them were exposed to institutions and religious leaders that pinned on God their own bigotry and small-mindedness. And this exposure was toxic. It was toxic to their faith and toxic to their lives in general. And so...

...European culture was cautious about psychedelics, as the continent’s native varieties were mostly toxic, like mandrake (bottom) and henbane, with effects similar to jimsonweed (top), a plant in the datura family. ...

... gaming laws. AIG’s derivatives unit was a huge casino, selling phantom insurance with hardly any backing, for which we now have to pay. The tally for the past six months: four bailouts, $160 billion, some very hard-to-take bonus payments, and no bottom in sight for a sinkhole of toxic debt...

... into an exceptionally toxic cultural environment ultimately resulting in extrajudicial killings. The murder of skittles-and-iced-tea-packing Trayvon Martin and the subsequent acquittal of his murderer George Zimmerman, which effectively sent the message that a black male life is expendable if any armed person happens...

... suffering there will be.” Pawel Kuczynski ( pawelkuczynski.com ) If the U.S. Left doesn’t take rapid action to force ecological concerns onto the national agenda, we may soon find ourselves in the nightmare that mainland China is already experiencing: a toxic new age that forces children to wear...

...Pete Souza/White House When Obama signed the health care reform bill in March 2010, he was widely praised for attaining health coverage for 34 million uninsured people. The issue has now become politically toxic. ...

... automobiles, skyrocketing cancer and health costs due to toxic pollution, and the catastrophic depletion of resources that are no longer cheap and abundant. Like the environment, the idea of community is often reduced by government programs to that of a laboratory where individuals are fit into programs...

... around us to offer mutual support, it may be nearly impossible to sustain our work in the long term. Social justice groups are, of course, not immune to the problems of the larger society, and highly toxic dynamics can develop. Sometimes we need to take a break or leave altogether when faced...

... in history, in toxic economic, political, media, educational, and religious environments. Dare to love. Dare to fail. Dare to experiment. Dare to be happy. Dare to pray. Admire those who live lives of daring and show us the way. Let love and justice be the bottom line in all your decision-making...

... of prayer. Yet across the country and the world, young people of many faiths are coming to­ gether around the shared value of service. They are changing the toxic conversation about religion and build­ ing the Am erican dream of a place in which freedom for one relies on freedom...

... together. The epiphany without the technique. A psychedelic vision of Oz, without the yellow brick road: no way to get there. Many people have been working at it. The cutting edge of social transformation today is in the technique, the how to overcome our toxic conditioning and learn to cooperate...

... Swami: and do you think it works ? pression one might get depressed over I ’m a bit confused. Sometimes I think Candace B. Wright the economy. But just because there is you are being wise, other times it seems Huntsville, Alabama toxic news out there doesn’t mean you like...