Huntingdon Life Sciences is a U.K.-based company, with a lab in New Jersey, that kills 500 animals a day (including beagle puppies) so that pharmaceutical and other corporations using its… Read more »
environment
Save the planet, end the rip-offs: Nationalize the energy industry!
Profiteering by Big Oil might just be the thing that pushes U.S. consumers over the edge into insurrection mode. Given what’s happening at the gas pump, that’s not so wild… Read more »
Latest “anti-terror” scare: environmentalists
“Bread and circuses” was coined by the satirist Juvenal to describe how the Roman Empire avoided social unrest: it kept the masses fed and entertained. But to justify the funding… Read more »
Celluloid saviors: Why the world doesn’t need Superman—or Al Gore
In multiplexes near you, the world is ending. On one screen, Lex Luthor is about to create a new alien-derived land mass that will make mincemeat of the already existing… Read more »
The Green Party: offering a real challenge to business as usual, or just Capitalism Lite?
Democrats cashed in this past election thanks to public disgust with Republicans. But when the Democrats don’t change things (again), where will voters turn? What candidates or parties can they… Read more »
Seeing red over phony green reforms
This time, it was an article in a local paper that raised my blood pressure. Called “Lukewarm to Global Warming,” the Feb. 4 Seattle Times piece described how cautiously state… Read more »
Acting green while chasing gold: the corporate-college connection
Thanks to medical research over the past 50 years, everybody knows that cigarette smoking is linked to cancer, emphysema, and a host of other life-threatening conditions. But imagine how things… Read more »
The destruction of a great river system
If there were ever a case for a planned economy, it’s unfolding in Australia, the planet’s driest inhabited continent. Agriculture is in crisis in the Murray-Darling basin, one of the… Read more »
U.S. military: destroyer of the environment
It’s no secret that Planet Earth is wading into heavier environmental disaster by the hour. Be it deforestation, pollution, climate changing greenhouse gas emissions, or species extinction, the global ecosystem… Read more »
An inconvenient truth: Carbon trading won’t stop climate change
Greenhouse gas emissions, primarily from the burning of fossil fuels, trap heat in the atmosphere and cause earth’s temperatures to rise. Even oil giant Exxon Mobil no longer denies that… Read more »
