[youtube=http://youtu.be/8hHR90k-zlw] Published on Apr 16, 2014 http://www.democracynow.org - A new reports finds the killings of environmental and land rights activists worldwide has tripled over the past decade. The group Global Witness documented 147 activists who were killed in 2012, compared to 51 in 2002. The death rate is now an average of two per week. Almost More
Transitioning from an industrial model of agriculture to a system benefiting small-scale producers - a step governments must support - will not only alleviate worldwide hunger and poverty, but will reduce carbon emissions, the UN's Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food concludes in a new report. By Ven. Bhikkhu Bodhi Truthout.org | News Analysis Monday, 14 April (Photo: Chris More
[youtube=http://youtu.be/FntPbLGH3IY] Published on Mar 29, 2013 Short poem film by Heid E. Erdrich, Art Direction by R. Vincent Moniz, Jr., Animation by Jonathan Thunder. Sound by Gabe Siert. Additional visual art by Carolyn Lee Anderson, Andrea Carlson, and Angie Erdrich. Subscribe or “Follow” us on RiseUpTimes.org. Rise Up Times is also on Facebook! Check the Rise Up Times More
Conversion of the war industry would create more jobs with the same amount of money that is now spent building weapons. Those jobs could be building public transit, wind turbines, solar systems, doing home weatherization, hiring teachers, repairing infrastructure and more. By Bruce Gagnon Organizing Notes Saturday, April 5, 2014 A group of a More
We have a choice over the next 15 to 20 years as to what kind of world we want to create over the next 100,000 years. By Juan Cole InformedComment JuanCole.com April 5, 2014 A Gallup poll has found that only 35% of Americans are concerned about climate change, and that proportion is barely up from More
We have a choice over the next 15 to 20 years as to what kind of world we want to create over the next 100,000 years. By Juan Cole InformedComment JuanCole.com April 5, 2014 A Gallup poll has found that only 35% of Americans are concerned about climate change, and that proportion is barely up from More
Photo: ridhamuslim.blogspot.com We Speak for the 70 Percent by Susu Jeffrey We speak for the 70-percent. Our bodies are 70 percent water. The surface of the earth is 70 percent water. We are the water people on the water planet. If you could wring out a rock you'd get water. Water is the More
In retrospect, Russia-bashing was the main media event of the Sochi Olympics since the U.S. "lost" in the medal count. The Ukraine crisis has put the Olympics in the past tense and presented an opportunity for the old Cold War team to field a new crisis. Pres. Obama is following the Clinton policy of pushing More
In retrospect, Russia-bashing was the main media event of the Sochi Olympics since the U.S. "lost" in the medal count. The Ukraine crisis has put the Olympics in the past tense and presented an opportunity for the old Cold War team to field a new crisis. Pres. Obama is following the Clinton policy of pushing More
[youtube=http://youtu.be/T_ActyAoqVQ] Daniel Ruthenberg-Marshall Published on Mar 2, 2014 On March 2, 2014, over one thousand young people marched on the White House demanding President Obama reject the Keystone XL pipeline and uphold his commitment to protecting out environment. Hundreds of these students then handcuffed themselves to the White House fence in the largest youth act of More
Tomgram: Ira Chernus, What Ever Happened to Plain Old Apocalypse? By Ira Chernus TomDispatch.com February 25, 2014 Read Tom Engelhardt's introduction here. Wherever we Americans look, the threat of apocalypse stares back at us. Two clouds of genuine doom still darken our world: nuclear extermination and environmental extinction. If they got the urgent action they deserve, they would be More
From the Center for Media and Democracy (PR Watch) by Dave Saldana, Director, Writer, and Producer of "Keystone PipeLIES Exposed," a new short film that is a production of the Center for Media and Democracy Investigative Fund The proposed Keystone XL pipeline would cover 1,179 miles, from Hardisty, Alberta, Canada, to the refineries of Port More
