On AlterNet: fear

Stories, blog posts, and videos tagged as "fear"

Why We Have Emotions (And Why We Should Not Fight Them)

Susan Johnson, Psychotherapy Networker. May 22, 2012.

Emotions are necessary for survival. But they can also spin out of control.

What If We Stopped Freaking Out About Climate Change?

Sven Eberlein, AlterNet. April 5, 2012.

Fear is paralyzing us. How do we get over it, and find our way back to courage, power and joy?

Biometric Door Locks and Bulletproof Windows: How Occupy Wall Street Is Scaring the Heck out of the 1%

Sarah Jaffe, AlterNet. November 1, 2011.

Are the sustained protests in Manhattan's Financial District and around the country getting to the wealthy bankers who are being targeted?

Why Big Pharma (and the Public) Doesn't Want an Addiction Vaccine

Walter Armstrong, The Fix. October 10, 2011.

Scientists and sobriety veterans alike seem to agree that the addiction vaccine is an unachievable goal, but they also seem to disapprove of the dream itself.

Welcome to the Shari'ah Conspiracy Theory Industry

Sarah Posner, Religion Dispatches. April 1, 2011.

How the American right demonizes Islam for political gain.

Study: Conservatives Have Larger 'Fear Centers' in Their Brains

Daniel Tencer, Raw Story. December 30, 2010.

British study shows conservatives' brains tend to have larger amygdalas, which responsible for primitive emotions.

Oscar Grant, a Victim of American Fear

Adam Serwer, The American Prospect. July 9, 2010.

Why even decades after the civil-rights era, a cop shooting an unarmed black man is barely a crime.

Cars, Riptides, Lightning -- All More Likely to Kill You Than Terrorists

Tom Engelhardt, TomDispatch.com. February 14, 2010.

Any attempted terror attack, no matter how poorly executed, raises a national alarm -- and our paranoia only adds to the power of the imperial presidency.