"There is a cross to bear when you go out there far enough, departing severely from what's permissible, like what Paul Robeson did." -- Richard Martin Oxman The Vets Administration…
"Nadine Gordimer once said that socially-conscious writers should write as if they were dead. For unless they did they'd never find the courage to tell the truth. Well, that's only…
"Why do so few educational institutions make use of authentically independent journalists who really risk their lives daily to provide us with details which are intentionally ignored by the mainstream…
"...if every aspect of the non-military sector instantly stopped generating greenhouse gases, the military’s carbon footprint alone will propel the world toward catastrophe." -- Barry Sanders When Jimmy Carter occupied the…
"When Occupy was chanting '99%' they weren't accounting for how many folks were drugged coast to coast...on what. What the cost of that was." -- Rachel Oxman There's a gladiatorial…
"Gramsci and Hedges underscore the fact that learning must be directed by a strong moral and ethical framework." -- from Pedological Advice for Perilous Times Adapted from Joseph Conrad's…
"My understanding is that the elderly demographic has increased dramatically in Japan, and that many old folks are so desperately lonely because of the radical social changes which have taken…
"Toddlers drugged with psychiatric medication?" -- Martha Rosenberg in a very good article Pfizer, Merck, Celgene, and GlaxoSmithKline are major league drug dealers responsible for lots of citizens descending…
It doesn't do much good to point out that mothers are going to keep crying their souls out -- losing their lovely children -- unless those mothers themselves are willing…
“We speak not only to tell other people what we think, but to tell ourselves what we think. Speech is a part of thought.” -- Oliver Sacks According to Talk Talk…
There are three poisonous elements in the Apple iPhone I'd like to spotlight here to put you on the spot. There are many more horrific aspects to the high…
John Steinbeck wrote Of Mice and Men midway through the 1930s, the most creative decade of his career. During that time he was becoming increasingly concerned, it seems, about social…
"The NGO-ization of politics threatens to turn resistance into a well-mannered, reasonable, salaried, 9-to-5 job. With a few perks thrown in." -- Arundhati Roy What Arundhati Roy says about NGOs…
"In some sections of South Africa 38% of men, two in five, admit to having forced a woman to have sex, but what's going on in Cape Town right now…
"We are missing our deadlines." -- S. Suzuki It would be like saying the state of San Francisco when you should have said the state of California. Waikiki is…
The percentage of moisturizers sold in the United States as "fragrance free" that contain a fragrance is 45. Of moisturizers sold as "hypoallergenic" that contain a common allergen it's…
"Do you know what it's like on the outside?" -- from the Bee Gees' New York Mining Disaster 1941 The mudslides in Montecito and elsewhere throughout southern California are…
"Ay, of a snail, for though he comes slowly, he carries his house on his head—a better jointure, I think, than you make a woman. Besides, he brings his…
"I know I am going to have terrible problems with this painting, but I am determined to do it...." Picasso to Dora Maar in anticipation of creating his now world…
"You don't want to be a spiritual slug." -- Howard Zinn, speaking at the University of California-Santa Cruz, 2004 "There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than…
Co-Written by Valleria Ruselli and C. Russell There are monumentally important new films which break away from the usual journalistic cliches, and experiment with the documentary format in order to…
"What if violence against women is not a by-product of war, but rather a major cause of it?" -- a question posed by Leith Greenslade in a 2014 article…
"Trump campaigned significantly using Garcia Zarate as a scapegoat in 2016." -- one of the author's home schooled teens This article is important because it underscores what's wrong with teachers…
"...the crown prince has broken forever the great compromise that exists in the kingdom: between the royal family and the clergy, and between the tribes." -- Robert Fisk As Robert…
by Valleria Ruselli and the Oxman Collective "If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal." -- Emma Goldman "If voting made a difference, they wouldn't let us do it." --…
"Too many educators have pigeon-holed their disciplines. This or that does or doesn't fit in my classroom. Old school nonsense, particularly with the way in which high tech utilitarianism…
“The old Lie: Dulce et decorum est Pro patria mori.” — Wilfred Owen drawing upon Horace’s Odes Kipling’s Plain Tales from the Hills, Forster’s Passage to India, Orwell’s Burmese Days and Paul Scott’s Jewel in the Crown are…
For a reduction of violence on the U.S. domestic front educators on all levels will have to do what I suggest here, or attempt to implement or embrace some…
“We live in one global environment with a huge number of ecological, economic, social, and political pressures tearing at its only dimly perceived, basically uninterpreted and uncomprehended fabric. Anyone…
"Billy Graham, a key figure at the Christian Woodstock in 1972, once compared life to a golf course, where it was only important to follow the rules in order…
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