Just came across a must-read piece on the threat of mass extinction by Julia Whitty in the Independent (reprinted from Mother Jones). We now understand that the majority of life on Earth has never been - and will never be - known to us. In a staggering forecast, [eminent Harvard biologist ...

... but this article I found on AlterNet today is interesting nonetheless. Norman Solomon and Jeff Cohen talk about the media's collective silence (in the tributes that pop up around this time every year) regarding Martin Luther King Jr.'s activities following the passage of the civil rights acts in ...

I opened my email today to discover that The Onion's running a special issue this week: The War in Iraq - Celebrating Four Years of Winning. Highlights include "Bush Announces Iraq Exit Strategy: 'We'll Go Through Iran'", and this opinion from the American Voices segment titled "Public ...

No one likes a country rampant with sexism and homophobia, especially one run by religious extremists. Least of all us at G7. But to be fair, this applies not only to the USA, but also to Iran. Nonetheless, it was funny to see Iran offer to shut down all ...

You may have heard lots of hullabaloo in the media as of late regarding Hugo Chavez being granted the power to legislate by decree in Venezuela. Now, I'm no fan of giving anyone power to do anything generally - especially if that person is not myself - but the ...