News Source: Mother Jones
| 27 days ago
What we're talking about here is the gaze of the gods, updated in corporate labs for the modern American war-fighter—a gaze that can be focused on whatever runs, walks, crawls, or creeps just about anywhere on the planet 24/7, with an instant
News Source: Salon
| about 1 month ago
It is, rather, an indictment of the corrupt, large-scale factory farming that dominates the American meat market. A journalistic work with a novelistic feel, the book is the result of three years investigating the U.S. meat industry, and it weaves
News Source: Wellington Dominion
| about 1 month ago
A controversial atheist, movie-star musicians and a dance duet between a man and a mechanical digger are all on the cards for next year's New Zealand International Arts Festival. Organisers say they are building a 500-seat venue on the Wellington
News Source: Inter Press Service
| about 1 month ago
Now, small medical companies in emerging economies offer real hope to bring innovative and affordable treatments, a new study has found. "Everyone thinks multinational drug companies can provide the vaccines and diagnostics for neglected tropical
News Source: Sydney Morning Herald
| about 1 month ago
A tax on meat would penalise the poor and have little effect on climate change. British economist Lord Stern called for the world to get off beef and on to broccoli: go vegetarian for the planet...So the author of the influential 2006 Stern Review
News Source: Asian Tribune
| about 1 month ago
United Nations Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial, Summary and Arbitrary Executions Philip Alston is amazed that “It’s extraordinary that it’s the Central Intelligence Agency which is actually operating a missile program, which is actually
News Source: Spiked
| about 1 month ago
Meat is a wasteful use of water and creates a lot of greenhouse gases...A vegetarian diet is better.’ (1) In an interview with The Times (London) this week, Lord Nicholas Stern became the latest high-profile proponent of reducing greenhouse gas
News Source: The Age
| about 1 month ago
Never before has there been such a need for a progressive, environmentally serious political party to influence the Federal Parliament, but time and time again, the Greens have been outflanked by Prime Minister Kevin Rudd and his determination that