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Selling bipolar disorder – Crazy-making Pharma expands definitions

DRUG BUST by Alan Cassels Has there ever been a period when you flew off the handle over little things? Needed less sleep? Felt irritable? Answered yes to any of these? Now ask yourself this: “Is it really depression or could it be bipolar disorder?” These questions are designed to suck you into the world represented by a four-page ad promoting...

A Canadian thank-you note to Jon Stewart

A Canadian thank-you note to Jon Stewart

Dec 5, 2010

November 2, 2010 by Jennifer Andison, Victoria, BC photos by Geoff Olson The haters and the snickerers are already taking whacks at the newest piñata in town: Jon Stewart’s Rally to Restore Sanity. Actually, I am finding it easier today to ignore them than I usually do, as I myself just recently returned from the East End of the National Mall in...

Comic conciliation

Comic conciliation

Dec 5, 2010

Stewart and Colbert’s Rally to Restore Sanity article and photograph by Geoff Olson On Oct 29, just a few days prior to the mid-term elections, Comedy Central’s Stephen Colbert and Jon Stewart hosted the “Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear” in Washington DC. Although the “fake news” anchors disavowed any partisan purpose,...

Humanizing the economy

Humanizing the economy

Dec 5, 2010

co-operatives in the Age of Capital by John Restakis What is now needed is a recasting of the economic paradigm. And so the question must be asked: was the enormous hope for change that was placed on the outcome of the 2009 election a massive act of self-deception?… America seems to be at the tipping point of something momentous, of hope affirmed and...