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POPSBush Regime Freezes Solar Energy We've got less than 10 years to make a significant shift over to renewable energy sources. Now, presumably at the behest of the oilmen to whom GWB is beholden, the Bush regime has announced a go-slow policy on solar energy.
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POPSGo Veganic Veganic farming is finally catching on in the USA. It's caught on more quickly in Canada, Europe, and the UK. Elsewhere, farmers in "developing" countries are increasingly rejecting the "Green Revolution" fertilizers and pesticides pressed on them via neo-colonialism and returning to traditional practices, many of which turn out to be veganic.
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POPSTruth vs Sincerity Quote from the 1961 Iris Murdoch essay, "Against Dryness," which is about varieties of fiction but includes this provocative philosophical assertion.
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POPSThe Other Kind of Climate Change In "Weather Warfare," published by the reputable UK magazine The Ecologist late last year, Michel Chossudovsky exposes U.S. military experiments in climatic warfare. You can find the article in pdf here and an archive of research articles on weather warfare here
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POPSExporting Trauma In "America's Top Exports: Grief, Sorrow, and Loss," vegan lefty Micky Z is sparked by his own recent bereavement to reflect upon the trauma that US actions visit on people around the world.
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POPSSex Trafficking and the Taste for the "Exotic" At least a million children are enslaved in brothels in Asia, to which men from the US and Europe travel specifically for the purpose of unrestricted "sex" with unfree women and children who literally can't say no, lest they be beaten or killed for doing so. But exploitation of enslaved Asian women isn't limited to Asia. For those men who can't afford to be sex tourists but still crave the "exotic" and passive Asian woman of their stereotyped fantasies, enslaved women are trafficked into the USA. China, Thailand, and Korea are among the top countries from which women are trafficked into the USA for purposes of prostitution. Here are some quotes from an important story about the women enslaved in the Korean "massage parlors" found in many cities. Click on the link for the full story.
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POPS"We put the meat on the pole, not on the plate" The latest in the ongoing saga of treating women like meat as a misguided means of trying to get people to quit eating meat. The owner's comment says more than I ever could about the ways that sex workers are seen by the men who make money by peddling their flesh.
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POPSOrthodox Erasures I found this comment in a book review of Mbah & Igariwey's <i>African Anarchism</i>, which I recently finished reading. White leftists often use the same specious argument against veganism and animal liberationism, thereby erasing the existence and experiences of people of color while purporting to be taking an antiracist position. That's one of many reasons I'm so eagerly awaiting the publication of the Sistah Vegan anthology. I'm also less than thrilled by the common conflation of "white" and "middle class," which not only erases poor and working class white folks but also colludes in the racist conflation of "poor" and "of color."
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