The time change is going to screw up my dogs again! If you have inside pets, then you know they are creatures of habit. They will follow the schedule of the human master. However, when the clocks go springing, they have NO clue. They know when their bladders are…
As Oprah would put it , “I had a light bulb moment.” A male friend and I were sitting on the deck of his beautiful home, slinging back cocktails and contemplating the economy and many of life’s mysteries. (I love these few and far between moments with him. I…
By: Jackson Stevens With headlines ripped straight out of a Charles Dickens novel, finding out that a homeless man gets 15 years for stealing $100 while another man (richer, of course) gets only a 40-month slap-on-the-wrist sentence for committing one of the US's largest corporate fraud cases by stealing…
By OcJim In full riot gear, a phalanx of several hundred police – Oakland, state, and neighboring communities -- violently dispelled peaceful Oakland participants of the Occupy Wall Street movement in the early dawn hours of Tuesday morning and again Tuesday night, using tear gas canisters, rubber bullets and…
By: Tom Hastings @ Hastings on Nonviolence Environmental sustainability is one way we can help to prevent war. That, of course, is because no matter what the nominal reason for war, one underlying reason is often resource capture. Yes, it's true that we say we hate them because they…
By Jim Hoover Herman Cain is thought to be a "stalking horse" for the Koch Brothers, who have poured a great deal of money into their causes, mostly through politicians and political action groups formed to promote their interests. Cain doesn’t seem to have a viable organization in primary…
After almost nine years, 4,479 fatalities, 33,169 soldiers wounded, 12,000 Iraqi civilian deaths and an almost a trillion dollars spent, the Iraq war is finally over. In a press conference Friday, President Obama announced that U.S. troops will be pulled out of Iraq by the end of the year,…
By: Tom Hastings @ Hastings on Nonviolence Wall Street is certainly a locus of appropriate focus for a movement that hopes to break the cycle of extreme disparity of wealth and income in our world, but the Pentagon may actually be a better place to contend. Why? Without violence…
By Tom Hastings @ Hastings on Nonviolence The fight is on. Some school boards are taking bribes from the Pentagon in exchange for access to elementary school children. Some parents are beyond outraged and have buckled up for a serious battle. This is underway in my town, Portland, Oregon.…
By Jim Hoover Not too much has changed in the graven-god-scene since the early Aztecs used razor-sharp obsidian knives to snatch beating hearts pulsing with blood out of their sacrificial victims. Heart-extraction was viewed as a way to liberate the istli (a fragment of the Sun’s heat) and reunite…