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None of that history excuses the IRS’s apparent selective targeting of conservative groups. I thought that Greenpeace’s Phil Radford said it best when he wrote yesterday in an open letter to Congress : “While we have serious philosophical differences with any number of groups, corpora...
This case highlights important ethical questions, namely whether dolphins should continue to be treated as property under the law. Scientific discoveries over the last five decades clearly demonstrate that dolphins and whales share many traits that were once believed as belonging excl...
At a whopping $57-67 billion per year, the cost of water treatment is considerable, and will be shouldered by the American taxpayer if the mining company is unable or unwilling to pay to clean up the toxic mess. The long-term public liability is enormous, as taxpayers are expected to ...
The model bill was proposed by the American Legislative Council (ALEC), a conservative think tank that’s known for writing controversial model bills such as the “Stand Your Ground ” legislation or laws requiring states to include climate change denial in school curricula. Several of t...
It is fortunate that the courts allowed these four individuals to regain their freedom and their lives; however this ruling didn’t have to do with compassion or understanding for the dolphins themselves — rather it was merely the way that they were procured that contravened the law. P...
“It's telling that the World Bank continues to provide tens of millions of dollars of funding to Dinant when Germany's public development bank withdrew its credit line to Grupo Dinant nearly two years ago as a result of campesino killings and other human rights abuses involving Dinant...
The division has long turned a blind eye to fracking in the state, claiming, as recently as early 2011 , that they weren’t aware where, when or to what extent the controversial drilling method was being practiced in California. Unlike other oil-producing states, California doesn’t req...
Marine mammal defender Ric O’Barry was in Japan in early February to monitor the situation in Taiji and to discuss his new project, a musical event that could end up being larger than the Rolling Coconut Review, which took place in April of 1977. The Rolling Coconut Review was a benef...
