By Neenah Payne Thanksgiving is one of the most popular holidays in America. More people travel to be with family for Thanksgiving than at any other holiday. We look forward to the terrific foods — especially the turkey. It’s a “feel good” holiday because we…
By Neenah Payne Americans are taught that the Boston Tea Party ignited the American Revolutionary War because the colonists found the British tea tax tea intolerable. That’s part of the story, but it misses the pivotal turning point of our history — one we need…
By Neenah Payne November is Native American Heritage Month, an opportunity to learn from the many rich traditions of Native Americans. Native American Day: Learning The Way of Earth explains that Dr. Zach Bush warns we are in the Sixth Great Extinction and human survival…
By Neenah Payne Some calendars still call this holiday “Columbus Day” which teaches us to celebrate conquest. It does not teach us how to collaborate with other cultures or to survive on this planet. Fortunately, over 50 cities and states have adopted “Indigenous Peoples Day”. That encourages us…
By Neenah Payne Americans flock to the Amazon to drink ayahuasca with shamans. However, for most Americans, Native America is the ignored Big Pink Elephant in the living room. Although many of our states, cities, and rivers carry Native names, most Americans ignore the existence…
By Daisy Luther From 1932-1933, a mass genocide took place in Ukraine. Millions of people, including children, were deliberately starved to death by the USSR during the Holodomor event. A state-organized famine was deployed when the Ukrainian people continued to thrive and keep their cultural…
By Lawrence Wittner and Joseph Mangano In 2020, Harvard University’s T. C. Chan School of Public Health began a five-year study, funded by the National Institutes of Health, that will examine the connection between early life exposure to toxic metals and later-life risk of neurological…
By Jennifer Wood Clinical Dysautonomia Disguised As Neurasthenia All These Years In 1941, Dr. Mandel Ettelson Cohen was assigned the job of finding out why so many Second World War soldiers were reporting heart symptoms. President Roosevelt (FDR) had created the Committee of Medical Research…
By Neenah Payne Americans take frozen foods, foods shipped across the country, and supermarkets for granted. That allows us to enjoy foods year round when they are out of season in our area but are shipped from California and Florida and elsewhere. However, this was…
By Neenah Payne My First Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) Program explains that I joined my co-op’s CSA program in early June after watching Ice Age Farming – “Solutions Watch” with James Corbett in which Christian Westbrook (The Ice Age Farmer) recommends joining a Community Supported…
By Kirsten Dirksen When developers bought the land that Skip Connett and Erin Flynn were farming in Austin TX, and planned to turn their fields into RV lots, the couple conceived of a plan to save their farm and add an attraction to the development….
Op-Ed by Neenah Payne Most people recognize that the world is in very serious trouble in multiple ways — the global economy is increasingly at risk, the world’s rainforests are being destroyed as are our soils which undermines the health of our plants and animals…
