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- We are looking to brands for poetry and for spirituality, because we're not getting those things from our communities or from each other.
- Terrorism doesn't just blow up buildings; it blasts every other issue off the political map. The spectre of terrorism - real and exaggerated - has…
- This same economic system, based on short-term growth and endless profits is also the reason for pretty much everything else that is lousy in our…
- It seems to me that our problem has a lot less to do with the mechanics of solar power than the politics of human power—specifically…
- In pragmatic terms, our challenge is less to save the earth from ourselves and more to save ourselves from an earth that, if pushed too…
- Either greed belongs in a war zone, or it doesn't. You can't unleash it in the name of sparking an economic boom and then be…
- What we have been living for three decades is frontier capitalism, with the frontier constantly shifting location from crisis to crisis, moving on as soon…
- protected businesses never, never become competitive ... Halliburton, Bechtel, Parsons, KPMG, RTI, Blackwater and all other U.S. corporations that were in Iraq to take advantage…
- Extreme violence has a way of preventing us from seeing the interests it serves.
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