Happiness & Success
Achieving Happiness Through Acceptance of Life
The quest for happiness often leads to frustration, as many fail to realize that the...
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- Written by: Robert Reich
In an era of Trump, some of you may be succumbing to the following four syndromes:
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- Written by: Frances Moore Lappé and Adam Eichen, BillMoyers.com
Many Americans remain in shock and outrage, unable to grasp how a man who told bald-faced lies, who ridiculed and defamed others, and who boasted of sexual assault could yet ascend to the presidency of the United States.
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- Written by: Ralph Nader
Optimists are hoping for a Trump makeover. They cling to his brief victory remarks suggesting that he wants to be the “president of all the people.”
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- Written by: Arun Gupta, YES! Magazine
Taking a lesson from Standing Rock, we must be careful with language while working toward progress in the Trump years.
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- Written by: Costantino Grasso, University of East London
Until its president, Park Geun-hye, was impeached over alleged corruption and cronyism, South Korea seemed like a relatively virtuous country as far as corruption goes.
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- Written by: Carl Greer PhD, PsyD
We worry about the condition of the world we will leave to our children, while our children worry about how they will clean up the messes we will leave behind. Increasingly, people all over the globe are coming to the conclusion that we must make radical changes...
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- Written by: Michael Copps, BillMoyers.com
By now, even those who retained slight hope after the election that maybe things wouldn’t be so bad after all have shed their blinders and come to understand that we’re in for the worst of times.
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- Written by: Robert Reich
On the evening of December 7, minutes after a local Indiana union leader, Chuck Jones, criticized Trump on CNN for falsely promising to keep Carrier jobs in the U.S., Trump tweeted, “Chuck Jones, who is President of United Steelworkers 1999, has done a terrible job representing workers.
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- Written by: Alaa Tartir, OpenDemocracy
In a context of growing injustice, reclaiming the importance and the meaning of the word resistance is more urgent than ever.
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- Written by: Robert Reich
Democracy depends on a free and independent press, which is why all tyrants try to squelch it. They use seven techniques that, worryingly, President-elect Donald Trump already employs.
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- Written by: Paulo Coelho
My literature is totally committed with a new political attitude – human beings in search of their own identity. My books don’t talk about the old and used up process of the right/left but there is a revolution that is slowly rising up...
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- Written by: Sylvia Clute
How to effect regime change without war was demonstrated by the nonviolent revolution in India led by Mahatma Gandhi. Gandhi pioneered satyagraha, the resistance of tyranny through mass nonviolent civil disobedience. Positive change occurs when committed people work for it...
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- Written by: Robert Reich
Trump’s First 100 Day agenda includes repealing environmental regulations, Obamacare, and the Dodd-Frank Act, giving the rich a huge tax cut, and much worse.
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- Written by: Jill Stein Campaign
The Stein/Baraka Green Party Campaign is launching an effort to ensure the integrity of our elections. We are raising money to demand recounts in Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania-- three states where there is a significant need to verify machine-counted vote totals. Please donate to this initiative today.
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- Written by: Robert Reich
Who will become the next chair of the Democratic National Committee? This leadership contest has significant implications for the future of American politics. The choice will help determine how the Democratic party responds to its extraordinary defeats in recent years, ending with the election of Donald Trump.
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- Written by: Jim Patterson, Vanderbilt University
Imagine a company that has to fire and hire 3,000 key employees every four or eight years.
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- Written by: Robert Jensen, YES! Magazine
Feeling anxious about life in a broken-down society on a stressed-out planet? While the dominant culture encourages dysfunctional denial — pop a pill, go shopping, find your bliss — there’s a more sensible approach: Accept the anxiety, embrace the deeper anguish, and then...
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- Written by: Robert Reich
It is time for a New Democratic Party. The old Democratic Party has become a giant fundraising machine, too often reflecting the goals and values of the moneyed interests.
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- Written by: InnerSelf Staff
Donald Trump has done incalculable damage to America – eroding the trust and social cohesion the nation depends on.
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- Written by: Jim Mandelaro, University of Rochester
It was a contentious campaign, with charges of sexual misconduct, corruption, and greed. One candidate was labeled a criminal, the other a coward. Personal attacks came on a daily basis.
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- Written by: Robert Jennings, InnerSelf.com
It's time to throw off our self-imposed shackles of Washington lobbyists and billionaire oligarchs, of wall street greed and corporate malfeasance, and of neocons, neoliberals, and political hacks to empower our lost unified American spirit.
