Activist Post: Independence Criminalized: The Great Wall of Bureaucracy Comes to America

Activist Post: Independence Criminalized: The Great Wall of Bureaucracy Comes to America: "If people let government decide what foods they eat and what medicines they take, their bodies will soon be in as sorry a state as are the souls of those who live under tyranny.  -- Thomas Jefferson


Michael Edwards
Activist Post

The purge of the farming class in various Communist dictatorships is well documented.  The regimes in China (1958-62) and Russia into the Ukraine (1920-39), identified those who were independent of state control, and implemented a heavy-handed oppression designed to turn true productivity toward collectivist goals."

Franzen Reviews Stir Backlash From Women - Jenna Goudreau - The Other Half - Forbes

Franzen Reviews Stir Backlash From Women - Jenna Goudreau - The Other Half - Forbes: "Jonathan Franzen’s new novel Freedom has garnered heaps of critical acclaim and the cover of Time magazine. It’s also stirred up a heated debate about who receives critical acclaim. I’ve been watching with interest for almost a week as writers and critics wax poetic about who’s in and who’s out among elite literary circles. The problem, many are saying, is that women are usually out."

I Am for Sale, Who Will Buy Me? The Epilogue in Afghanistan | BlogHer

I Am for Sale, Who Will Buy Me? The Epilogue in Afghanistan | BlogHer: "Editor’s note: This is a follow-up from the essay that ran in January, I Am For Sale, Who Will Buy Me?, by a writer who faced a forced marriage. Thanks to an outpouring of help from readers and others, she was able to match the bride price and buy her freedom. This is what her life has been like since then."

Freedom From the Known - Jiddu Krishnamurti

Freedom From the Known - Jiddu Krishnamurti: "FEAR, PLEASURE, SORROW, thought and violence are all interrelated. Most of us take pleasure in violence, in disliking somebody, hating a particular race or group of people, having antagonistic feelings towards others. But in a state of mind in which all violence has come to an end there is a joy which is very different from the pleasure of violence with its conflicts, hatreds and fears."