In 1942, German intelligence officers rounded up skilled Jewish prisoners and launched Operation Bernhardt, a clever scheme designed to counterfeit hundreds of millions…
How the Financial Bailout Really Works
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Halloween Sugar
I actually sketched out four Halloween comics—and scrapped them all—before coming up with this one. The challenging part is demonstrating the negative health effects of sugar without…
The Choices We Make
by Derrick Jensen | We all face choices. We can have ice caps and polar bears, or we can have automobiles. We can have dams or we can have salmon…
Fantastic Fixes for Low Energy
by Connie Strasheim | Energy. We sufferers of chronic illness could all use a bit more of the stuff, and every little blip in our internal and external environments alters how much we have at any given moment.
Rebellious teens: pawns for tobacco companies
by Julie Genser | When my friends and I started smoking in seventh grade at age 12, we thought we were trés cool. Some of us loved the thought of doing something our parents did but we were still considered “too young” for.
Toxic Chemicals Contribute to Colds and Flu
by Debra Lynn Dadd | You probably are aware that giving your immune system a helping hand can ward off colds and the flu. But did you know that common exposures to toxic chemicals in your everyday life can actually increase your chances of becoming sick?
Get Healthy by Getting out of Victim Mode
by Connie Strasheim | “Poor me!” Yes, it’s time to eat some worms. You’re broke, jobless, and you have nobody with whom to cuddle at night because you’re too sick to be in a romantic relationship.
Message From The Stars
by Derrick Jensen | The message from the stars that sustained me as a child—that the cruelty we take for granted is not natural—sustains me to this day. For I know that beneath the fear and hatred, beneath the urge to control…
“I’m too Sick to Be in a Romantic Relationship”
by Connie Strasheim | Is this just another one of your excuses for staying single? Or is it an idea based on your friends’ marriages, struggling because one of the partners has a chronic illness?
The Normalization of Trauma-Inducing Behavior
by Derrick Jensen | No one emerges from trauma unscarred. Having been severely traumatized, it becomes the work of at least a lifetime to de-normalize the trauma—to recognize it for the aberration it is—and to begin to re-inhabit your body, your senses, your mind, to re-inhabit relationships, to re-inhabit a world…
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