As a physician, I see the earth as a patient in the intensive care unit. We have an acute clinical crisis on… — Helen Caldicott Copy Share Image
In many ways the culmination of [Judith Butler's] thinking to date, 'Parting Ways' will confirm Butler's place at the forefront of debate… — Jacqueline Rose Copy Share Image
On the home front, public services have been left threadbare by years of cash constraints, and a ballooning benefits bill and the… — Cathy Newman Copy Share Image
If we are really serious about preventing another crisis like the 2008 meltdown we should simply ban complex financial instruments, unless they… — Ha-Joon Chang Copy Share Image
So how does the machine work that you have a financial crisis? How does deleveraging work - what is the nature of… — Ray Dalio Copy Share Image
The teacher crisis is something we are really worried about during the byelection in Mount Albert. I counted, across a month, seven… — Jacinda Ardern Copy Share Image
The Franco-German tandem at the core of post-war European integration has become lopsided. Relations between Berlin and Paris are unusually poor, with… — Zanny Minton Beddoes Copy Share Image
AIDS respects no national boundaries; spares no race or religion; devastates men and women, rich and poor. No country can ignore this… — Laura Bush Copy Share Image
And they just slam the door. And they don't peek into that land any more. And they forget that teens and tweens… — Lauren Myracle Copy Share Image
The global financial crisis is a great opportunity to showcase and propagate both causal and moral institutional analysis. The crisis shows major… — Thomas Pogge Copy Share Image
There's a difference between just gaining access to a commodity as opposed to a spirit that allows us to live a life… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
America is a land of big dreamers and big hopes. It is this hope that has sustained us through revolution and civil… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
President Bush broke the law and lied to the American people when he unilaterally authorized secret wiretaps of U.S. citizens. But rather… — Anthony Romero Copy Share Image
We ought to approach this challenge [of global warming] with a sense of profound joy and gratitude: that we are the generation… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
So often times we see these films that erode human dignity...films that deny the transcendent moral order of the moral universe. They're… — Jason Jones Copy Share Image
I think that both Russia and other international actors, including those who are more actively engaged in the resolution of the Ukrainian… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
Essentially I see the new atheism as largely part of the crisis of the left. Having failed to carry through its agenda… — George Pattison Copy Share Image
Neoliberalism, arguably, sets the course for this kind for this kind of neo-extremism, this right-wing extremism that we are facing. The only… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
It seems that Canada's historic mission is to come to the selfless aid both of its friends and of complete strangers, and… — Kevin Myers Copy Share Image
Increasingly gang violence and organized crime, together with climate change-driven natural disasters, are displacing more people as wars are fewer on the… — Jan Egeland Copy Share Image
Similar questions were posed to Allende as to me. Allende was told that he blamed everything on a conspiracy, on the economic… — Nicolas Maduro Copy Share Image
“Suckers think that you cure greed with money, addiction with substances, expert problems with experts, banking with bankers, economics with economists, and… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
There's always a crisis somewhere, and you get the satisfaction of solving the problem. And then, there's always the mystery of whether… — Rebecca Eaton Copy Share Image
This is the permanent tension that lies at the heart of a capitalist democracy and is exacerbated in times of crisis. In… — Tariq Ali Copy Share Image
One intriguing subplot of the economic crisis is the failure of most economists to predict it. Here we have the most spectacular… — Robert J. Samuelson Copy Share Image
But another thing I know is this — we can’t steer ourselves out of this crisis by heading in the same, disastrous… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
During the 1960s, large groups of people who are normally passive and apathetic began to try to enter the political arena to… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The political ramifications of our festering financial and economic crisis have reached the sidewalks of New York, as well as other large… — Jerry A. Webman Copy Share Image
he economy favors throughput over quality and craftsmanship, and economists are terrified because the American savings rate has crept upward from about… — Denis Hayes Copy Share Image
With the loss of the American dollar as its own currency and its devaluation, I think that people will not even be… — Anjem Choudary Copy Share Image
When you have a crisis, the crisis itself becomes one of your biggest asset if that crisis is bad enough. Everyone get… — Carl-Henric Svanberg Copy Share Image
I found myself thinking a lot about my own spirituality. What it means to be Jewish, what it means to forgive, what… — Tod Goldberg Copy Share Image
We're facing growing climate change, more floods, more droughts, more crisis on a planetary level, and the systems we put in place… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
The problem with not saving is it can often mean you're - a crisis away from, as we've seen in some cases,… — Derek Kilmer Copy Share Image
I tend to do something for two years then move on to something new. Yoga, then biking, then weight lifting, then back… — Brad Meltzer Copy Share Image
I am extremely active in the foster care crisis in this country. Everything that I do is pretty much with the end… — Jen Lilley Copy Share Image
If you are interested enough in the climate crisis to read this post, you probably know that 2 degrees Centigrade of warming… — Jeff Goodell Copy Share Image
For the last several decades, there was a prevailing belief among traditional economists that the markets were rational and self-correcting. Alan Greenspan… — Kabir Sehgal Copy Share Image
Given Mr. Obama's lack of experience as an executive, and his past performance in crises such as the oil spill, it is… — Jim Talent Copy Share Image
Republicans in Congress have two choices here: They can act responsibly and pay America's bills, or they can act irresponsibly and put… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image