Yearly Archives: 2017
Why one Native family is donating their fracking proceeds to benefit Indian Country
A new fund will support deeply researched investigative journalism that reports on critical issues in Indian Country.
Conservationists sound alarm on plummeting giraffe numbers
This is just the beginning of a giraffe recovery.
Faces of pain, faces of hope
The message of the consumer society, pumped out over flat screen televisions, computers and smartphones, to those trapped at the bottom of society is loud and unrelenting: You are a failure.
The evil that guns do
The firearms lobby suggests that because morality can’t be legislated, the evil of gun violence can only be controlled by... more guns.
10 reasons the US should stick with the Iran nuclear deal
Toying with a serious nuclear agreement to influence Iran in other areas is simply irresponsible and dangerous.
Judge denies bail to alleged NSA leaker Reality Winner, citing her admiration for Snowden...
Federal Judge Brian Epps of Augusta, Georgia, said his decision to deny bail was based in part on comments by Winner that she “admires Edward Snowden and Julian Assange.”
This land is your land
The trial in tiny Cavalier, North Dakota, in remote Pembina County, was heartbreaking.
Harvey Weinstein admits to sexually assaulting model in leaked NYPD audio
Filipina-Italian model Ambra Battilana Gutierrez wore a wire to capture evidence that Weinstein made unwanted sexual advances.
The pipeline protest before Standing Rock
Last year’s water protectors garnered worldwide attention, but several pipeline fights – such as the Enbridge Sandpiper pipeline victory – got little public notice.
Climate scientists attack Tony Abbott’s ‘misleading’ speech to Global Warming Policy Foundation
Abbott told the GWPF that rising carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuel burning could be “beneficial.”