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LifestreamAccording to a recent study, Americans are more wary of atheists than they are of Muslims, Jews and homosexuals. Can I claim persecution now, can I? Anti-atheism?
Interestingly, the respondents associated atheism with “criminal behavior”, “rampant materialism” and “cultural elitism.” Because obviously, materialism, crime and etnocentrism are phenomena that are foreign to predominantly Christian America. America [...]
Archive for March, 2006
Factory farming is rearing its bloated, decomposing and antibiotic-injected head.
Drive through Don Oppliger’s Feed Yard in Clovis, New Mexico, and you’ll see 35,000 head of beef cattle confined to pens that stretch across the flat, barren landscape.
The constant shuffling of hooves raises a bacteria-laden dust cloud that’s carried by the prevailing winds into west Texas, [...]
Due to our own diligent efforts to tame nature, the world’s rivers are now facing disaster.
We have used our engineering skills to harness the Earth’s water systems. Now we are paying the price.
The UN’s triennial World Water Development Report, compiled for an international conference in Mexico City which opens on Thursday, warns that “we have [...]
Sploid has caught on to the militarization of the American police force. A process fairly long in the making that is anything but random and that illustrated one of the dangers of a militarized society where “experience” is drawn from foreign atrocities.
Clad in black, grunting weirdly and trained in terror, America’s police-state death squads are [...]
Outspokenness and dissent aren’t in fashion in America. Not that they ever were. Democracy Now! reports that Harry Belafonte has had several speaking engagements canceled with no apparent reason given and that he was disinvited from the Coretta Scott King funeral and the planned eulogy. Apparently the King family and the organizers were pressured to [...]
To paraphrase the infamous quote. Agonist notes that Coca-Cola once more stands accused of ravaging developing countries for resources.
Coca-Cola has been heavily criticised for causing extreme water shortages in developing countries where supplies are scarce.
New evidence from campaign group War on Want appears to show that Coca-Cola has had a serious impact in communities in [...]
David Galbraith apparently likes V for Vendetta too and noted this after reading the interview with Alan Moore. I think it pretty much sums up Libertarianism succinctly and without the philosophical sugarcoating and tiptoeing.
On the right Libertarianism is pretty simple - its about gun nuts. But it seems that on the left, Libertarianism is often [...]
Foreign Policy has a small photo essay of hulking ships moored in Bangladesh for the 200,000 strong shipbreaking industry to dismantle. Eerie.
Certain parties and individuals have started lobbying for the purchase of 2 Boeing C-17 aircraft to enable Sweden to fulfil its unfortunate role in the Nordic Battle Group and beyond. Or so the Swedish press reported. Interestingly, Googling the topic points to Boeing pushing the deal long before it reached elected officials or indeed the [...]
Boing Boing notes that the EU INSPIRE directive has become a way for greedy corporations to make citizens pay for access to geo data that they have already been taxed for. Not so unlike what has been proposed in the U.S. with regard to NOAA. Besides being a neoliberal insult and a ripoff, it also [...]
