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 are the central and most important beings on the planet.

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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

The death of the Wild West

On the wild lands of the western United States, free-roaming mustangs can still be seen thundering across the open range. These spaces, however, are growing fewer and farther between — and if

The FBI’s longstanding anti-Black surveillance

On October 6th of 2017, a leaked official report detailing FBI’s August 3 intelligence assessment was obtained by Foreign Policy. The FBI report warned of what they called “black identity extremism” (BIE),

The effectiveness of AV’s vegan outreach

You’ll often hear people involved with “animal rights” organisation Anonymous for the Voiceless (AV) claim that AV’s method of getting people to “go vegan” is the most effective. How is this measured?

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