NEW – JOHN NICHOLS Beto O’Rourke & What It’s Going Take to Turn Things Around
Written on October 13th, 2018https://www.thenation.com/authors/john-nichols/
NEW – JOAN WILLIAMS – White Working Class – Overcoming Class Cluelessness
Written on September 28th, 2018A friend emailed me JOAN WILLIAMS’ Harvard Business Review article, What So Many People Don’t Get About the U.S. Working Class. Read over 3.7 million times, it’s the most read article in HBR’s 90-plus year history, and I can see why. WILLIAMS is the author of WHITE WORKING CLASS: Overcoming Class Cluelessness in America. “If we don’t take steps to bridge the class culture gap, when Trump proves unable to bring steel back to Youngstown, the consequences could turn dangerous.”
NEW – MILTON BENNETT – The Cult of Trump?
Written on September 14th, 2018I read an interview by Dahr Jamail with today’s guest, cultural communication expert Milton Bennett, at Truthout.org. Titled Is There a Cult of Trump? It spells out the methods utilized – consciously or unconsciously – by Trump to turn his followers into a cult – impervious to outside or contrary influence and united in defense of their aims and their leader. It’s a story of tactics and behavior that transform the Trump phenomenon into something more dangerous than a simple political divide.
NEW – MICHAEL BRUNE – Sierra Club ED, Good news, Bad news, Get Involved
Written on August 30th, 2018California Natural Resources Agency predicts severe heat waves, wildfires, ocean rise will cost thousands of lives and billions of dollars. Trump administration decimates Obama emissions rules for cars and power plants. Rise Up for Climate global day of action Sat 9/8. MICHAEL BRUNE, Executive Director of Sierra Club, shares good news, bad news, and ways to get involved.
https://www.sierraclub.org/michael-brune/bio
NEW – MDMA/Ecstasy Therapy for PTSD Cole Marta MD, LA’s FDA-sanctioned clinical trials Seven McDonald, journalist
Written on August 11th, 2018Michael Pollan’s How To Change Your Mind, once as high as #4 on the NYTimes best-seller list, currently #4 in LA, tells the story of the scientific research as well as his personal experience of guided sessions with psychedelics. Award-winning LA Weekly columnist, Seven McDonald, does the same in an article for Playboy on the therapeutic use of MDMA (ecstasy) to treat PTSD. I’m joined by McDonald and Cole Marta MD, the principal investigator at the Los Angeles site of FDA-sanctioned phase II and III trials with MDMA-assisted psychotherapy for PTSD.
