In defense of abolishing the police

Criminal justice in the US has evidently not shed itself of the violent racism and Christian theocracy out of which it was built and attempts to reform it are polluted by corporate

Using animals to take over the world

The history of exploiting animal labor in the expansion of global capitalism has gone broadly overlooked. Can we truly consider our ecological and social movements revolutionary if it excludes our moral obligations

An end to fox hunting

In August 1958 several members of the League Against Cruel Sports put some fake trails in the area where a hunting drive was going to take place. It was the first hunt

Iran’s dustbowl migration

It seems only a few decades ago, when Iran was home to some of the Earth’s most fertile and agricultural land. Large permanent rivers flowed through and contributed sediment-rich soil to the

Morality and our lives with animals

The traditional point of view in western intellectual thought – and one which is reflected in our own day-to–day views – is that of human exceptionalism, or anthropocentrism: the belief that humans