Saturday, August 2, 2025

The white horse and the humvees—Standing Rock is offering us a choice

Right here, between the barricades on a North Dakota highway, is a pivotal confrontation between two world views, two futures.

The nasty fallout from North Carolina’s powerful hog industry

What smells more -- the politics or the pigs?

Is Donald Trump a threat to animals?

In Virginia TV ads, Humane Society Legislative Fund argues he is.

Paris climate agreement becomes official international law

The Paris agreement seeks to create a more transparent system that will allow the public to monitor how well goals are met by each country as climate change progress is made.

The Doubt Machine: documentary explores Koch Brothers’ war on climate science

The Doubt Machine definitely adds some useful personal context and also draws the clear connections from the denial-sphere to the Koch brothers.

World’s first wave-powered buoy turns seawater into drinking water

Besides providing a constant source of clean water, the SAROS can help island nations curb their use of dirty energy.

A Colorado ballot measure could make it nearly impossible to ban fracking

Green groups hope to someday amend the Colorado constitution so communities can ban fracking. An industry-sponsored amendment on the state's Nov. 8 ballot could block that.

The Standing Rock victory you didn’t hear about

The day 40 to 50 Native water protectors kept 250 militarized police from attacking camp.

North Dakota’s public bank is funding police repression at Standing Rock

In the present political reality, cops and soldiers are brutally cracking down on Standing Rock protesters, and BND is funding it, and that makes BND not truly apolitical, but a facilitator of injustice.
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Standing Rock chair: Obama could stop the Dakota Pipeline today & preserve Indigenous sacred...

Meanwhile, on Wednesday, police deployed pepper spray and tear gas against dozens of Native American water protectors during a standoff at Cantapeta Creek.