Corporate Ecocide: It’s Much More Than Monsanto | Mickey Z.

Photo credit: Mickey Z. Mickey Z. -- World News Trust "The earth is not dying. It is being killed, and the people killing it have names and addresses." --Utah Phillips The other night, I started watc ...

Chick-fil-A: The Awful Truth | Mickey Z.

Photo credit: Mickey Z. Mickey Z. -- World News Trust Aug. 6, 2012 "If you don't want to be beaten, imprisoned, mutilated, killed, or tortured then you shouldn't condone such behavior towards anyone, ...

Beware the Nuclear Rogue State (Hint: Not Iran) | Mickey Z.

Photo credit: Mickey Z. Mickey Z. -- World News Trust Aug. 2, 2012 Since quoting Marx makes a writer appear far more serious, I’ll start this piece with a related bit of Marxism... from Duck Soup. Am ...

Coffee Break in Anaheim | Mickey Z.

Photo credit: Mickey Z. Mickey Z. -- World News Trust July 29, 2012 “The fact is that we live in an extremely violent culture, and we all justify violence if it’s for what we believe in.” --Captain P ...

Russian Roulette: A Story of MTA Subway Systems and Inconsistent Wheelchair Accessibility | Michele Kaplan

Michele Kaplan July 14, 2012 -- NEW YORK -- It all began when I got word that the MTA was making the Kings Highway subway stop on the Q & B line, wheelchair accessible. I was thrilled! Finally, I wou ...

Silent Spring For Us? | Paul Craig Roberts

June 19, 2012 (PaulCraigRoberts) -- With her 1962 book, Silent Spring, Rachel Carson got DDT and other synthetic pesticides banned and saved bird life. Today it is humans who are directly threatened ...

Writing Off The Elderly | Paul Craig Roberts

June 15, 2012 (PaulCraigRoberts) -- When neoconservatives, politicians, and high ranking military officers speak of a 30-year war against terrorism, there is no discussion about its affordability or ...

Occupy for All Species | Mickey Z.

Photo credit: Mickey Z. Mickey Z. -- World News Trust May 19, 2012 "If you don't want to be beaten, imprisoned, mutilated, killed, or tortured then you shouldn't condone such behavior towards anyone, ...

The Earth Needs More Than a Day: Why We Occupy (Part 1) | Mickey Z.

Photo Credit: Mickey Z. Mickey Z. -- World News Trust Apr. 20, 2012 "The earth is not dying. It is being killed, and the people killing it have names and addresses." --Utah Phillips April 22 is -- wa ...

What Is ObamaCare? | Paul Craig Roberts

Apr. 10, 2012 (PaulCraigRoberts) -- Growing up in the post-war era (after the Second World War), I never expected to live in the strange Kafkaesque world that exists today. The U.S government can ass ...

The Top Short-Term Threat to Humanity: The Fuel Pools of Fukushima | WashingtonsBlog

Nuclear love. Ben Heine The Greatest Single Threat to Humanity: Fuel Pool Number 4 Apr. 7, 2012 (Washington's Blog) -- We noted days after the Japanese earthquake that the biggest threat was from the ...