How social media supports animal cruelty and the illegal pet trade
Images of chimpanzees and other species appear cute, but they may actually depict animals in dangerous situations. Here’s how to tell what’s safe to share — and how that helps conservation.
Public spaces private control
The world of Neoliberalism attempts to reduce everything to a commodity, but public spaces are not simply a financial asset to be sold off to the highest bidder.
Does Elon Musk have a right to destroy Twitter?
Do we really think that the super-wealthy should be allowed to control so much wealth and wield so much influence?
Fortune Magazine Names Monsanto One Of The “World’s Most Admired Companies”
For those of you who don’t know, Monsanto is one of the wealthiest multinational corporations in the world and is also one of the most ruthless. But they have a false image of innocence.
Did the Press Take Down Bernie Sanders?
The rebellious nature of the Vermont senator's presidential bid didn't fit the mainstream media's predetermined scenario.
The problem goes way beyond Kellyanne Conway: Trump’s team of TV surrogates constantly lie
Have we ever had a modern-day press secretary who put so many substantial lies up on the board in just a few short weeks?
Neither idiots nor useful: Our politically underachieving liberal churches
In suggesting that liberal churches are neither idiots nor useful, I’m purposely implying a stark contrast with churches whose members are useful idiots.
‘What to the slave is the 4th of July?’: James Earl Jones reads Frederick...
On July 5, 1852, in Rochester, New York, he gave one of his most famous speeches, “The Meaning of July Fourth for the Negro.”
‘The greatest purveyor of violence in the world’
“A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death."
Mass shootings, children being gunned down in cold blood; a dark stain on the...
We Americans may not realize it, but we are being mentally conditioned by this government to accept these mass shootings as a part of our culture, embedded in our society.