One in 28 US Kids Has a Parent in Prison: Study (Daniel Tencer)

Oct. 1, 2010 (Raw Story) -- The United States' exceptionally high rate of incarceration is causing economic damage not only to the people behind bars but to their children and taxpayers as a whole, a ...

Animal Rights/Vegan Issues: Where's the Left? (Mickey Z.)

Mickey Z. -- World News Trust March 17, 2010 -- In a recent article, I discussed how America’s top liberal (sic) eco-spokesperson, Al Gore, conveniently ignores the primary cause of climate change: f ...

Homophobia, Religion, And The Collapse Of Industrial Civilization (Carolyn Baker)

Oct. 3, 2010 (CarolynBaker.net) -- His face is everywhere-on the internet, on TV, and throughout print media -- that gentle, timid, barely-smiling young man with red hair, glasses, and a prodigious t ...

'Good Food,' A Movement, Not Just A Movie (Carolyn Baker)

WATCH TRAILER Sept. 22, 2010 (CarolynBaker.net) -- While the movie "Good Food" spotlights organic farming in America's Pacific Northwest, if you've been paying any attention to the mood of consumers ...

Integrity Failure: BP Shifts Blame for Deepwater Horizon Disaster (Lindsay Beyerstein)

An oil slick reaches shore July 4 in Gulf Shores, Ala. Millions of gallons spilled into the Gulf since the April 20 Deepwater Horizon disaster. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images) Sept. 9, 2010 (In Th ...

Sleep Deprivation May Spur Serious Mental Problems, Study Finds (Kanoko Matsuyama)

Aug. 31, 2010 (Bloomberg) -- Sleep deprivation may trigger serious mental illnesses in young people that persist into adulthood, researchers in Australia found. Young adults who habitually sleep fewe ...

Damn That Dick Nixon! (David Glenn Cox)

David Glenn Cox -- World News Trust July 19, 2010 -- We all know in the long history of our great nation that truly the most vile and wicked President to ever hold the keys to the Oval Office was Ric ...

From Despair To Impassioned Inspiration (Carolyn Baker)

When despair for the world grows in me and I wake in the night at the least sound in fear of what my life and my children's lives may be, I go and lie down where the wood drake rests in his beauty on ...

A breakthrough in AIDS research (Thomas H. Maugh II)

A pair of naturally occurring antibodies are able to kill more than 90% of all strains of HIV, researchers say. The finding could lead to the development of new treatments and a possible vaccine. Jul ...

Deepwater Horizon: The Worst-Case Scenario (Richard Heinberg)

June 20, 2010 -- (Post Carbon Institute) -- Reports from the Gulf of Mexico just keep getting worse. Estimates of the rate of oil spillage from the Deepwater Horizon wellhead just keep gushing (the l ...

Toxic Undersea Oil Plumes Lurk in Gulf of Mexico (Jessica Resnick-Ault)

Tests confirm the existence of oil plumes in the Gulf which BP CEO Tony Hayward has disputed. Photographer: Derick E. Hingle/Bloomberg June 8 (Bloomberg) -- Undersea clouds of oil that kill marine li ...