Friday, November 6, 2026

Should McDonald’s & Monsanto Have the Same Rights as People? A Debate on Corporate...

Five Years ago the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that corporations are people and have the same rights a person has. This has led to companies, like Monsanto and McDonalds, fighting against new laws in order to protect their businesses. Seem fair?

If this is artificial intelligence, let’s go with real stupidity

With AI, no matter how sophisticated it might seem, the consequences in war are apt to be horrific.

2016: The Year of the Know-Nothings?

There's always a deep pool of intolerance and bigotry below the surface of a society. The societies that incubate the terrorists we fear most are no exception.

DC Gyrocopter Pilot Remains Defiant After Indicted on Federal Charges

After Doug Hughes landed his gyrocopter on Capitol Hill last month in an attempt to spread public awareness regarding dark money, the Florida postal worker faces a prison sentence for his nonviolent protest against rampant political greed. Where's our freedom of speech?

Why Native American women are going after Europe’s banks to divest from Big Oil

“Indigenous women ... often are the ones to call out injustice when they see it immediately. We saw that at Standing Rock.”

Here are the most racially bigoted right-wing media segments of 2016

Here are the most bigoted stories and statements from right-wing media figures over the last year
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Former deputies arrested after man dies in police custody

“While we can never take away the pain of the Ambler family, the grand jury has sent a clear message that no one is above the law.”
The blue and beige entrance of the Karnes County Civil Detention Center.

ICE slashed detention facility inspections by 36% even as detentions and in-custody deaths surged

No facility on the agency’s own website showed evidence of more than one inspection last year, though the standards call for two, and the number of people held in detention rose 78% over the same period.

There were 61 victims of gun violence in Chicago during Christmas weekend

The number of homicides in the city skyrocketed this year.

No charges against guards who killed inmate in scalding shower

This is just the latest of multiple investigations into allegations of prisoner abuse within Florida’s prison system.