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Carmen Van Kerckhove

"I noticed very early on that when people complimented my appearance, they always singled out my European features and not my Asian features," says the founder of Racialicious.com. "I started paying attention to the Eurocentric beauty ideals that pervade much of the world." more

- 06 Nov 09
- 9:41 pm
I think it is great that we do have the opportunity to use a drug to save someone from an overdose. But what does this say about us? At Novus Medical Detox Center we treat patients who became addicted to OxyContin--legal …

Posted by Harm Reduction: The Anti-Drug
- 06 Nov 09
- 12:18 pm
The USW/Mondragon agreement to talk further is significant even though it is pretty vague. However to take the most "optimistic" view of this development without some sense of the limitations integral to an approach within the context of neo-liberalism leaves us …

Posted by Steelworkers Partner With World’s Largest Worker-Owned Co-Op
- 06 Nov 09
- 12:22 pm
Bernard, I'd really like to read your analysis. When I click on the link, it takes me to a page with the right headline, but no body text.

Posted by Steelworkers Partner With World’s Largest Worker-Owned Co-Op
- 06 Nov 09
- 4:16 pm
I would like to salute to my glorious professor for such a great suggestion: Nobel for Malalai Joya and not Obama! Yes the Nobel Peace Prize Committee might have proved its dignity if it has awarded the prize to the bravest …

Posted by War, Peace and Obama's Nobel
- 06 Nov 09
- 5:54 pm
There is something incredibly anti-thinking going on in the West - for example, with New Age adherents often believing that we even choose our parents. So, once again, it's all our responsibility. There is nothing we're not responsible for. "Just think …

Posted by The Dark Side of the Bright Side