How to increase the likelihood of having a healthy child

Reasons America spends more on prisons than on Higher Education

What happens when as a nation we become obsessed with honoring Officialdom and Authority

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America's descent into poverty, it's a reality

Genetically engineered foods

5 weird and terrifying consequences of climate change

The temptations and perils of blind obedience to authority

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Professor Henry Giroux holds the Global Television Network Chair of English and Cultural Studies at McMaster University in Ontario Canada. He was previously the Waterbury Chair Professor at Penn State University and Director of the Forum in Education and Cultural Studies.

Professor Giroux is a leader in the field known as critical and public pedagogy – a term to describe the nature of spectacle in our new media, body politic and corporate education. He is a prominent advocate of radical democracy, which opposes the powers of neoliberalism, corporatism, and religious fundamentalism that is now diminishing our population’s sense of civic virtue, free-thought and well being. He has been named among the top fifty educational thinkers of the modern Period.

Henry has authored many books, his most recent being “Twilight of the Social: Resurgent Publics in the Age of Disposability”

The terrorist fear sham – and media promulgation of it

Professor John Mueller is the Woody Hayes Chair of National Security Studies at the Mershon Center at Ohio State University, where he is also a professor of political science.  He is also a senior fellow at the Cato Institute think tank. His areas of special research include international and foreign policies, democratization and terrorism and national security measure related to the war on terror.

Professor Mueller is the author of several books focusing on national security, including “Terror, Security and Money: Balancing the Risks, Costs and Benefits of Homeland Security” and “Atomic Obsession: Nuclear Alarmism from Hiroshima to Al-Qaeda, both published by Oxford University Press.  His more recent research paper – “The Terrorism Delusion: America’s Overwrought Response to September 11 appears in the Summer issue of International Security journal and is available online. It is an important deconstruction of the evidence behind serious terrorist threats that government and media would like us to believe.

Newsmaker Harvey Wasserman on potential effects of the closing of Indian Point

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Your calls

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A special long-form program with Justice Party Presidential candidate Ross “Rocky” Anderson. Rocky is the former two-term mayor of Salt Lake City, serving from 2000 to 2008. He is the executive director of organization High Road for Human Rights.  Prior he practiced law in Utah for 21 years and was listed in Best Lawyers in America.  A former member of the Democratic Party, he left over its evisceration of the Constitution and it having morphed as a flip side of the GOP. Among his achievements and positions

·      Listed by Business Week as one of the top 20 activists in th world on climate change and has received many awards from various environmental organizations ·      Recognized by the Human Rights Campaign as one of the top 10 advocates for GLPT equality ·      A leading opponent of invasion of Iraq and the only US mayor who advocated for the impeachment of George Bush ·      As mayor of Salt Lake City he succeeded in reducing incarceration of those convicted for minor crimes such as drug possession and rather created restorative justice programs that earned him his second World Leadership Award.

What will two apples a day keep away?

Chemicals from heating food

Mental Health and heredity

Wall Street's land grab in Africa

America in decline

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Dr. Lucija Tomljenovic is an early career postdoctoral fellow. She received her PhD in Biochemistry, from the Comparative Genomics Centre at James Cook University in Townsville, Australia. In 2010, she joined the Neural Dynamics Research Group at the University of British Columbia to work on with renowned neuroscientist Prof. Christopher Shaw’s and is currently researching the neurotoxic effects of aluminum vaccine adjuvants. Lucija is also an Associate Editor of the Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease.   She and her colleagues are among the few courageous university researchers undertaking independent and honest experiments into vaccines

The shock and humiliation of being strip-searched for trivial offenses

Human Nature: What mistakes the Baby Boomers made that impacted Gen Y

Michael Ruppert on 911 foreknowledge

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News update – Recent solar X-Flare report

Matthew Stein is an engineer with a degree in mechanical engineering from MIT and a National Merit Scholar. He is the owner of Aloha Aina Builders, which specializes in hurricane resistant, energy efficient and environmentally friendly homes, and is also president of Stein Designs which invents consumer and commercial water and bacteriological filtration systems, photovoltaic roofing and other energy efficient and sustainable products.

Matt writes extensively on sustainable preparedness and self-sufficiency in the face of predictable and unpredictable catastrophic scenarios and conditions. In addition to writing on the future of perfect storms for the Huffington Post, he is the author of several exhaustive books on how people can prepare themselves for having to rely on our own resources and ingenuity, most notably “When Technology Fails: A Manual for Self-Reliance, Sustainability and Surviving the Long Emergency” and “When Disaster Strikes: A Comprehensive Guide to Emergency Planning and Crisis Survival.”