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Software Developers in Oakland Are Putting People Over Profit

How coders are working on creating community participation and democratic design. By Damon Orion The webzine ShiftMag points out that 80 percent of software developers worldwide are unhappy with their jobs, yet 68 percent code outside the workplace as a…

Can You Afford Climate Change?

Consumer pocketbooks are taking the heat. Climate change is no longer a theoretical issue that will happen at some distant point in the future, like 2050 or 2100. Already, unprecedented climate change is happening on a regular basis and clobbering…

Do Other Animals Have Consciousness? Science Could Force Us to Rethink Our Relationships With Them

The broad consensus is that many species are sentient. By Marjorie Hecht Humans have had relationships with their pets for thousands of years, talking to them, coddling them, and imbuing them with human attributes. But are these animals “thinking,” and…

California Passes First U.S. Clothing Recycling Law

California is tackling the problem of textile and fashion waste with the country’s first law that requires clothing companies to implement a recycling system for the garments they sell. By Cristen Hemingway Jaynes Governor Gavin Newsom recently signed SB 707, the Responsible Textile Recovery Act. The new law…

Nuclear Annihilation Threatened by Revival of 20h Century McCarthy Era Cold War & Red Scare

The world may have dodged an immediate bullet when the US intelligence agencies warned, this week, that by giving in to Ukraine’s pleading for long range missiles that could attack targets deep into Russia, we would be poking the Russian…

Women’s leadership and resilience in Mexican politics: Claudia Sheinbaum, new Mexican President

In a country marked by deeply rooted patriarchal structures, Claudia Sheinbaum has risen as one of Mexico’s most relevant political figures, breaking barriers and challenging stereotypes that for generations have limited women in power. A scientist by training and the…

Julian Assange’s full testimony to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) in Strasbourg

“Mr. Chairman, esteemed members of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, ladies and gentlemen. The transition from years of confinement in a maximum-security prison to standing here before the representatives of 46 nations and 700 million people is…

Climate Week/NYC – Oh, Well!

Climate Week/NYC September 22-29, 2024, was underway and expected 100,000 attendees for cocktails, hors d’oeuvres, and expensive rooms in NYC’s ultra-expensive hotels amidst breast-pounding speeches and promises to fix civilizations’ biggest threat to continued existence. For over 30 years, climate…

Veterans Group to D.O.J.: Impanel Grand Jury, Indict Blinken

Department of State officials call him out for lying to Congress “That report and its flagrant untruths will haunt us.” A national veterans’ organization today called for a grand jury to indict Department of State (DOS) Secretary Antony Blinken and…

The Most Important US Presidential Election of Our Lifetime: The Rightward Trajectory of the Two-Party System

Left-liberals plea every four years that this really is the most important election ever and time to hold our noses and send a Democrat to the White House. The manifest destiny of US world leadership, we are told, is at…

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