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A slave has only external value. A slave is a thing. This is what we have done to animals. Animals are property. Animal welfare laws cannot work because they are based on balancing the interests of humans and nonhumans. As long as animals are chattel property the animal owners win.
By Joan Brunwasser
Government Ends Threat to Jail James Risen but Danger to Journalists and Whistleblowers Remains
Government Ends Threat to Jail James Risen but Danger to Journalists and Whistleblowers Remains
Freedom of the press depends on media outlets being able to provide the public with information about powerful people and institutions that those powerful people and institutions don't want publicized. If whistleblowing is shut down, freedom of the press suffers. Politically and legally, the situation with Risen in the Sterling trial is apt to be a hugely important test case that will cast a long shadow for the future.
By carol wolman, MD
Fukushima update 1-5-15
While the fuel rods are out of the pool atop Unit 4 at Fukushima Daiichi, Units 1, 2, 3 are still too hot to approach, and the groundwater problem is intractable, and getting worse.
Fukushima update 1-5-15
While the fuel rods are out of the pool atop Unit 4 at Fukushima Daiichi, Units 1, 2, 3 are still too hot to approach, and the groundwater problem is intractable, and getting worse.
Apparently the government doesn't like when people use seed banks to save and trade their crops.
No lover of democracy can hate the Trans-Pacific Partnership enough. While the reasons to detest TPP--and above all TPP fast track--are abundant, no prior article has captured its full loathsomeness by pinpointing its deep political significance. Nothing short, that is, of rapidly streamlining the slow, ongoing political castration of the U.S. public. Metaphorically speaking, a project worth of Dr. Mengele.
Homelessness is increasing all over America but the numbers from New York are shockingly high compared to most of the US Empire's failing cities.
By David Swanson
Presidents Are Gods
A former Governor of Virginia is expected to be sentenced to a long stay in prison. The same fate has befallen governors in states across the United States, including in nearby Maryland, Tennessee, and West Virginia.
Presidents Are Gods
A former Governor of Virginia is expected to be sentenced to a long stay in prison. The same fate has befallen governors in states across the United States, including in nearby Maryland, Tennessee, and West Virginia.
By Dave Lefcourt
Name any national problem and issue in contemporary America where a real solution has been carried out?
Name any national problem and issue in contemporary America where a real solution has been carried out?
Name any nat'l problem & issue in contemporary America where a real solution has been carried out? From health care, gun control to the environment among the issues facing America real solutions are found wanting. Solutions are known but big money-corporate, individual, special interest & dark money from anonymous sources control the entire electoral, political process & agenda preventing any real solutions from being enacted.
We leave things out. Sometimes it's an innocent, unintentional omission.
There's a difference between the idea of a necessary conflict between science and religion, and the notion that conflicts merely happen at some times, for some individuals or religious groups. The latter is obvious and irrefutable -- but the former is seemingly contradicted whenever we see a prominent religious believer who also strongly embraces scientific realities. And it looks like we might be seeing, right now, the most prominent one of those in a long time: Pope Francis. On the Big Bang, he remarked that it is "considered to be the origin of the world" and "does not contradict the creative intervention of God." And then there's evolution. "God is not ... a magician, but the Creator who brought everything to life," said Francis on the occasion. "Evolution in nature is not inconsistent with the notion of creation, because evolution requires the creation of beings that evolve."
Science brings me close to God because it describes the universe and creation, and that brings me close to the creator," said Nicaragua's most prominent living poet in an interview a few weeks before his 90th birthday. "For me this is a prayer." "I am a revolutionary," Father Cardenal declared with vigor. "Revolutionary means that I want to change the world." "The writer who denounces, criticizes, rises up against power, defies the establishment" is a concept that is still very much alive in Latin America, Mr. Ram-rez continued. "We have to have hope that the world will change," he elaborated. "And, going back to modern science, it has been shown, with the discovery of the Big Bang, the great explosion in which the whole cosmos was born, that we are in an incomplete universe. That is why there is evolution -- because the universe is incomplete."
Leelah Alcorn's suicide exposed many things - especially the conditions of "unconditional" love.
Want to influence a casino bid? Polish your corporate image? Not be labeled a racist? Then you need to pay Al Sharpton. "Once Sharpton's on board, he plays the race card all the way through," said a source who has worked with the Harlem preacher. "He just keeps asking for more and more money."
Stuart Scott, a longtime anchor at ESPN, died Sunday morning at the age of 49. His contributions to the sports lexicon are writ large. But they are only one aspect of his legacy. When he passed away, he left behind so much more. He inspired his colleagues with his sheer talent, his work ethic and his devotion to his daughters, Taelor, 19, and Sydni, 15. He defied convention and criticism to help bring this network into a new century. He spoke to the very athletes he was talking about with a flair and a style that ESPN president John Skipper says, "changed everything."
By Martha Rosenberg
Cutting Down On Meat But Not Exactly A Vegetarian? You are a Reducetarian Says New Group
Cutting Down On Meat But Not Exactly A Vegetarian? You are a Reducetarian Says New Group
Many are trying to reduce meat eating because the industry contributes to global warming, water pollution and fish kills, appalling and often underreported worker and animal abuse and even harms the economy.
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