Major civil liberties, media freedom, and human rights groups speak out against the arrest of Julian Assange
Who is Julian Assange and why is he important? Julian Assange is an Australian journalist who founded WikiLeaks in 2006. Julian was the editor of WikiLeaks until September 2018: six…
Monsanto argues Roundup victim should receive less money because of imminent death
– by Dr. Joseph Mercola – In August 2018, a California jury found Monsanto (now owned by Bayer AG) negligent in the case of a man suffering from the effects…
International women’s movement seeks to reunite Korea
There is a desire for reunification on both sides of the DMZ, as shown by the Monument to Reunification near Pyongyang, North Korea. Photo by Bjørn Christian Tørrissen – by…
Bastards and bodhisattvas – from high hopes to high office
– by Geoff Olson – This month I’ve been tasked to write on “why voters don’t trust politicians once they get into power.” The simple answer is that they’re all…
Breaking the internet feedback loop
– by A.N. Turner – You, me and everyone we know We are drowning in a sea of free information. The Internet is in our businesses and homes, our bedrooms….
What Leo Tolstoy had to say
The Russian writer Lev Nikolayevitch Tolstoy (1828 – 1910) – usually rendered as Leo Tolstoy – was a philosopher and social activist who had a major influence on the development…