Tree Huggers, Unite! (before they’re all gone) | Mickey Z.

Photo credit: Mickey Z. Mickey Z. -- World News Trust Dec. 11, 2013 “For me, trees have always been the most penetrating preachers. I revere them when they live in tribes and families, in forests and ...

Earthlings Unite! (Bees, Grasshoppers, Earthworms, etc.) | Mickey Z.

Photo credit: Mickey Z. Mickey Z. -- World News Trust Dec. 7, 2013 Too often, we humans like to see ourselves as above or perhaps not even connected to the “animal” kingdom. But the more we learn abo ...

The Other Collateral Damage: Non-Humans | Mickey Z.

Photo Credit: Mickey Z. Mickey Z. -- World News Trust Dec. 4, 2013 “You care more about animals than humans.” This declaration/accusation is a common method of deflection employed by confused activis ...

Recognizing the Gates... and the Gatekeepers | Mickey Z.

Photo Credit: Mickey Z. Mickey Z. -- World News Trust Nov. 8, 2013 In his book, The Pig Who Sang to the Moon: The Emotional World of Farm Animals, Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson writes: "I was told by som ...

Eco-Defense = Self-Defense of Collective Soul | Mickey Z.

Photo credit: Mickey Z. Mickey Z. -- World News Trust Nov. 5, 2013 “I don't even call it violence when it's in self defense; I call it intelligence.” - Malcolm X Let’s say you’re a handy man/woman/hu ...

One Year Post-Sandy: Climate Changes, Tactics Don’t | Mickey Z.

Mickey Z. -- World News Trust Oct. 29, 2013 “Sometimes people hold a core belief that is very strong. When they are presented with evidence that works against that belief, the new evidence cannot be ...

Reinventing Square Wheels | John Michael Greer

Oct. 23, 2013 (Archdruid Report) -- The issues raised in last week’s post on The Archdruid Report cut far closer to the heart of our predicament than many of my readers may realize. It’s not just tha ...

Human/Non-Human Holocausts: Hiding in Plain Sight | Mickey Z.

Mickey Z. -- World News Trust Sept. 23, 2013 “Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from defeat.” - Sartre There’s an animal liberation meme making the rounds in which th ...

Speciesism: Coming Home to Roost | Mickey Z.

Photo credit: Mickey Z. Mickey Z. -- World News Trust Sept. 20, 2013 “While we ourselves are the living graves of murdered beasts, how can we expect any ideal conditions on this earth?” - GB Shaw Onl ...

Great Feelings of Love (for ALL earthlings) | Mickey Z.

Photo credit: Mickey Z. Mickey Z. -- World News Trust Sept. 11, 2013 “At the risk of seeming ridiculous, let me say that the true revolutionary is guided by a great feeling of love.” - Che Guevara On ...

U.S. allows states to legalize recreational marijuana within limits | David Ingram

WASHINGTON, Aug 29 (Reuters) -- In a move marijuana advocates hailed as a historic shift, the Obama administration Thursday began giving U.S. states wide leeway to experiment with pot legalization an ...