Max Blumenthal arrest exposes hypocrisy of western media and ‘human rights’ NGOs
Here’s an idea for media outlets and NGOs concerned about the appeal of Russian public relations efforts: start doing your jobs by holding your own authoritarian politicians and politicized police forces to account.
Yale law students protest alum Brett Kavanaugh, demand investigation of sexual assault allegations
Yale students will “continue speaking out, speaking to the press, until we feel there is a full and fair investigation.”
#MeToo in Indian Country; ‘We don’t talk about this enough’
Sexual harassment in Indian Country is an inconvenient and deeply uncomfortable truth.
Emergency response
Police have fatally shot more than 1,200 people with mental illnesses since 2015, according to the database.
Burning books (or rather book companies)
Think of this as the modern capitalist version of burning books, though as with those fossil-fuel companies, it is, in reality, more like burning the future.
3 creative solutions to protect water, wildlife, and a warming city
In the heat zone of Louisville, Kentucky, 170 residents have been trained as “citizen foresters.”
The aftershocks of the economic collapse are still being felt
“…the political fallout of the global financial crisis is only just getting started. The real confrontation, it seems, is yet to come.”
War, peace and presidential candidates
So what hope is there that one of the parade of Democrats seeking the presidency in 2020 could be a real “peace candidate?"
In an unequal America, empathy, not just housing, has become too pricey
Empathy for the plight of the homeless, meanwhile, is withering away, particularly among society’s most fortunate, as the social distance between that top and the rest of society widens.
Ties of blood
Our deep and abiding connection with Mother Earth is what compels us to fight to protect it.