From Conducive Mag- Korea to Haiti: Lessons in Overseas Adoption Corruption March 8, 2010Arrested by Haitian authorities for trying to cross illegally into the Dominican Republic with 33 so-called orphaned children, whose parents were later found to be alive, U.S. citizens and Idaho Baptist missionaries Laura Silsby and Charisa Coulter remain imprisoned in Port-au-Prince pending investigation of alleged child trafficking. Seeking to save... […]
- Stressed Graduate Student March 8, 2010Dr. Mai Kieu-Loan offers relationship advice to a female law student and highlights the differences in how men and women handle dating in graduate school. […]
- Preserving Relationship with Parents Despite Their Disapproval Over New Job March 4, 2010Conducive advice columnist, Dr. Kathy Hahner, gives advice on preserving the relationship with one's parents despite tension over a new do-gooder job. […]
- FEBRUARY/MARCH 2010 February 25, 2010ISSUE 6 FEBRUARY/MARCH 2010 […]
- A Bronx Girl Goes Home February 5, 2010The murder of a cousin takes Conducive editor Heather Tirado Gilligan back to her home in the Bronx, and back to the childhood and experiences that continue to shape her. […]
- Using Anger Constructively February 4, 2010Conducive advice columnist, Dr. Kathy Hahner, gives advice on using anger constructively. […]
- Looking Back to the Future? January 30, 2010Humankind, both collectively and individually, has a strange little quirk. We ignore the past when it holds valuable lessons that go against what we want to hear or believe. Our insistence in doing this has negatively affected our future many times, both as individuals and as a society. We give... […]
- Campaigns Take Individual Involvement To New Level January 28, 2010The production and consumption of bottled water contributes to waste, pollution, toxins, and the bottled water industry’s interest in controlling our water resources. As a result of these negative impacts, many people have vowed to stop buying bottled water. If you have successfully ditched bottled water, and want to stay... […]
- REDUCING THE SUICIDE STIGMA Suresh Unni's Story January 21, 2010There are many ways of coping with the loss of a loved one. For Suresh Unni, solace is found in sharing his brother's experience with depression and eventual demise from suicide. Through his work as a clinical social worker and therapist and participation on the board of directors of the... […]
- Dating a Separated Person January 18, 2010Conducive advice columunist, Dr. Kathy Hahner, gives advice on dating a separated person. […]
- Korea to Haiti: Lessons in Overseas Adoption Corruption March 8, 2010
Author Archives: Corey Hill
People’s World Conference on Climate Change
So, everything didn’t go exactly as planned in Copenhagen. At the climate summit, commonly known as COP15 (the fifteenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change-in case you were curious), prominent nonprofits were locked out of the debate, and more than a few accusations surfaced that [...]
Eat your Broccoli, America! Iran, the West, Nuclear Weapons, and Hypocrisy.
In a joint statement released by the White House, the United States and the European Union "condemn the continuing human rights violations in Iran" since last year's June 12 presidential election. In the face of ongoing human rights violations, the United States and the European Union are now said to be considering further sanctions. Now I am not here to argue that the Iranian regime is friendly to the human rights interests of the people of Iran. The people of Iran are oppressed, and they deserve freedom, just like everyone else.
Posted in Current Events, Politics & Economy Tagged broccoli, IAEA, Iran, Iraq, nuclear weapons, United States 3 Comments
Supreme Court Helps Make Elections Better
We the corporations of the United States of America, in order to create a more favorable investment climate, evade regulation, and increase quarterly earnings, do declare these truths to be self evident…
Thank you, Supreme Court, for staying true to the glorious principles upon which this country was founded. Primarily among them: the untrammeled right of [...]
Blame Canada
Blame Canada.
December 29, 2009–In response to the humiliation they endured at the hands of anti-corporate pranksters at the Copenhagen conference, officials from Environment Canada convinced an Internet Service Provider to block access to two websites the pranksters created to pull off their elaborate hoax. Claiming that they wished to avoid creating ‘confusion’, and that [...]
Posted in Environment, Science & Technology Tagged Canada, Climate Debt Agents, copenhagen, The Yes Men 3 Comments
The curious math of un-people
Europeans arriving on the shores of the New World faced a serious dilemma: How to claim this valuable land for themselves when there already millions of people living here?
Columbus was quick to find an answer:
“They do not bear arms, and do not know them, for I showed them a sword, they took it by [...]
Posted in Culture & History Tagged capitalism, indigenous people, Thanksgiving, un-people 2 Comments
Not so sweet: Post-Halloween reflections on chocolate’s dark side
Child slavery is a rampant problem in the chocolate industry, well known to manufacturers. Yet the problem persists.
Cold War Myths and the Endurance of Fiction
It is a great testament to the power of these towering falsehoods that one can speak of the Cold War as an ideological struggle without being laughed out of the room. Certainly powerful forces were at play in the conflict between the Soviet Union and the West, but not the ones so readily referenced in mainstream analysis.
Posted in Culture & History Tagged Angela Merkel, Berlin, Berlin Wall, Cold War, Mikhail Gorbachev, propaganda Leave a comment
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