ST. LOUIS, April 11, 2018 – Today the Animal Legal Defense Fund, the nation’s preeminent legal advocacy organization for animals, scored a major victory for endangered animals living in captivity. A three-judge panel of the Eighth Circuit issued a unanimous decision upholding a district court’s 2016 ruling that Cricket Hollow Animal Park (formerly Cricket Hollow Zoo), a roadside zoo in Manchester, Iowa, violated the Endangered Species Act (ESA) by providing substandard care for the four tiger...

The financial sector that has gone off course should serve the real economy again in the future. The exchange functions like a gigantic casino with the difference that a casino is more transparent and is easier to understand. Throwing some sand in the gears with a transactions tax would slow down the speculation. Only opening the exchanges two days a week would be better....

We need to dismantle toxic masculinity and build a generation of men who aren’t afraid to openly discuss their emotions....

BALTIMORE, MD (April 2, 2018) – The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), the nation’s premier civil rights organization, issued the following statement following the fatal shooting of Stephon Clark by a Sacramento police officer and the acquittal of the officers involved in the shooting of Alton Sterling in Baton Rouge in 2016....

As Adolf Hitler rose to power, principled conservatives in Germany convinced themselves that he could be controlled. Compromises, concessions, and countermeasures are necessary for America after the budget attacks on the poor, seniors, the disabled, students, and children....

As Adolf Hitler rose to power, principled conservatives in Germany convinced themselves that he could be controlled. Compromises, concessions, and countermeasures are necessary in America after the budget attacks on the poor, seniors, the disabled, chidren, and students....

Adding unnecessary fluoride chemicals into public water supplies is harmful to health. Politics, not science, keeps it going. Profiteers include legislators, corporations, organized dentistry and others - not those forced to drink fluoride-laced tap water and eat and drink restaurant and supermarket foods & beverages made with fluoridated water without their knowledge of fluoride content. Yet, there's no dispute that a little too much fluoride damages bones and children's teeth....

The revelation of secretive HSI/ICE participation (ICE was not listed on the Urban Shield website as a participating agency) follows a series of disturbing incidents at the event, including the presence of the Oath Keepers vigilante extremism group in an Urban Shield-branded community fair giving out literature to the public in an Alameda County Sheriff's Department pavillion, the use of vendor Strategic Operations in secret after the Alameda Board of Supervisors vetoed the vendor due to blat...

Vandals Destroy Crosses, Eagle Feathers at Oak Flat Campground...

There is outrage over the nationalist economic policy of "America First." The parallels to the 1929 system crisis are obvious. The unstable house of cards on the world financial markets could finally collapse. Credit-financed demand is created for a goods-producing industry that suffocates in its own productivity....