"We are being bamboozled by lobbyists, it's time for democracy to be restored," Deepak Chopra told his guests, Arianna Huffington and Dylan Ratigan at a DeepakHomeBase (DHB) event this week. The topic? Getting money out of politics and ending corporate personhood, a theme central to Ratigan's new book,...

"Right now, veterans and their families are bearing the burden of the health impacts of a decade of war," Lt Col. Windy Hendrick, Air Force fighter pilot told the group gathered for the day-long seminar on Integrative Medicine in Action hosted by the Bravewell Collaborative. Working with the...

"If it's so safe, why does it need loopholes?" asked Barbara Lee Jackson, referring to the infamous Halliburton Loophole in the 2005 Energy Bill, which exempted the practice of hydraulic fracking from most environmental standards.

She was one of over a hundred members of the public, who waited on...

"New Yorkers shouldn't become unwilling data points in a mass health experiment, " says Sandra Steingraber, the ecologist-biologist author of Raising Elijah and Living Downstream. "I want to be able to tell the 3,300 people diagnosed with cancer today, and the 3,300 people diagnosed tomorrow, and the next day, and...

According to a recent Forbes magazine article, Aubrey McClendon, the CEO of Chesapeake Gas, and the chief proponent for fracking, consumes $20,000 bottles of wine. Like many CEO's, he travels by corporate jet. Yet in an employee memo, McClendon felt himself bested by the citizens calling for water and health...

"It's game over for slowing climate change, if we proceed with the Tar Sands XL Keystone Pipeline." So says Bill McKibben of 350.org quoting NASA scientist James Hansen. In a rousing talk McKibben gave to the attendees at Green Festival L.A., (which took place...

Even without grokking the science of climate change, it's obvious that novel weather events have increased around the country and the world. Thanks to Hurricanes Irene and Lee, at summer's end, torrential rains swept the Northeast region, flooding the areas where New York's food comes from. In these upstate regions...

Last week, Deepak Chopra invited Mark Ruffalo, a well-informed advocate of water defense, to dialogue with him about fracking, the fast-forward gas drilling practice that has colonized 23 states thus far. Chopra and Ruffalo met before a studio audience at DeepakHomeBase, (the new social media salon co-launched by...

Being an activist celebrity is a blessing and a curse. On the one hand, some people secretly question whether you have sufficient expertise to weigh in on weighty matters. On the other hand, many issues of urgent social concern don't get attention without a star attached to the cause.

How to separate fact from fiction in evaluating fracking, the new and burgeoning next phase fossil fuel proffered by the gas and oil industry? Although recent New York Times stories covering the economic side of the fracking equation provoked the gas industry to cry "foul," and accuse the Times of...

By now, most people know that in his so-called "sweat lodge," James Arthur Ray disrespectfully borrowed traditional Native American sacred practices for use in his endurance boot camp, in order to produce "abundance" in the gullible participants. Two of those participants died. Like many, I feel sad for the families...

On the day of the rapture that never happened, I interviewed Lynne McTaggart on my radio show, "Connect the Dots." The author of the new book, "The Bond: Connecting Through the Space Between Us" (Free Press, 2011 ). McTaggart told me that she wrote "The Bond" because "We're in crisis...

If there are any people on earth who can teach us about the lessons learned from living in an unjust society, while seeking every opportunity to reinstate core human rights and caring values, it's the people of South Africa.

A group of South Africans, and their friends and supporters...

A newly discovered pathogen, visible only under an electron microscope, is destroying plants and undermining the health of livestock -- thereby posing a deadly risk to the U.S. food supply, a senior plant pathologist warned USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack.

In a January 2010 letter to Vilsack, (a...

As a native New Yorker, who was in the city during 9/11, the death of Osama bin Laden provides less comfort than it may for those who experienced 9/11 via the media, interpretation, and symbol. For me the experience was visceral. To this day, I have never seen a video...

Last week, I was in Boston attending the National Conference for Media Reform, hosted by Free Press, a 10 year old organization to whom we owe thanks that the internet, thriving with creativity, connection, and diversity, does not resemble television. Although in a few days, that could change thanks to...

Dr. Ricki D. Robinson, M.D. honored World Autism Awareness Day with a thoughtful blog that superbly navigates between this steadily rising health concern and a medical model that has been challenged to find either an explanation or a treatment approach.

Our health scientific research model studies one...

Family farmers, seed businesses and organic agricultural organizations filed suit against Monsanto in New York court on March 30th. According to the Public Patent Foundation (PUBPAT) which filed on their behalf, the plaintiffs were forced to sue preemptively to protect themselves from future accusations of patent infringement when Monsanto's genetically...

In this special blog, I'll share with you what my 30-year survey of the most powerful, little known and guaranteed health interventions has revealed.

There is no pill you can swallow, food you can buy, nor gizmo that confers complete protection from pervasive toxicity, skewed societal consensus or invisible radiation....

In an article published in the Lancaster On-Line, Ted Borawski, a geologist who is the Chief of the Minerals Section in the Bureau of Forestry, in the Pennsylvania State Department of Conservation and Natural Resources (DCNR), is quoted making an anti-semitic comment about documentary filmmaker, Josh Fox, whose...