Why it is wrong, and probably deadly, to impose contact on isolated Amazon forest tribes.

We should also note that extracting oil from those regions implies destroying first the Amazon forest, then global civilization.

If we leave 80% of the fossil fuel reserves in the ground, as we need to, there is no reason to extract any from those areas.

Robert Reich: Would You Rather 2 or 3 Big Health Insurance Companies, or Govt. Run Single Payer?

The owners of Walmart run a large chain of private "charter schools", and lobby against applying safety or educational standards to them on the grounds they are private, but call them "public schools" when it suits them.

We should call them "public expense, private control" schools.

As Propaganda Rains Down in US, Real Bombs Kill Scores of Civilians in Yemen.

The July 4th "terrorism warning" proved as bogus as all the others.

UK corporate welfare amounts to around 150 billion dollars a year.

The reason the government cuts welfare for the poor instead of cutting welfare for the rich is simple: its politicians are funded by the rich.