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Bill McKibben — Clinton’s Environmental Failure

It seems just a tad early to be thinking about the 2016 election — unless, apparently, you’re Hillary Clinton. According to Maureen Dowd in The New York Times, she sent handwritten notes to losing congressional candidates and invited big Irish-American donors on a trip to Dublin this week. “She has enormous strength in …

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Shocking Report Explodes 5 Myths About American Education

A new international report [3] demolishes several deeply held myths about our educational system. The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) report, which compares the educational systems of over 30 developed nations, provides data that, when it comes to education, proves we’re so far from being number one, that the entire idea …

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A New “Lost Generation?

My weekend plans to check out a potential doomstead having blown up, I found myself on Saturday night at a birthday party for a young Occupier who just turned 30. This is a young man from a neighboring Occupy group who had proven himself to be very intelligent: whenever he …

The Dr. Peter Breggin Hour – 04/23/12

My guest is Chris Stankovich PhD an athletic counselor from Columbus, Ohio, who brings a fresh perspective about how to empower young people not only in their sports endeavors but in their lives.  A positive approach consistent with the best in empathic therapy. Podcast: Play in new window | Download (12.7MB) …