Peter Scott Smith

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Stories to help you live both skilfully & joyfully in these difficult times

Flávio Bolsonaro — the son of former far-right president (and sworn enemy of the Amazon rainforest) Jair Bolsonaro — is in a dead heat in polling to win Brazil’s presidency in just a few weeks. If he

Call your Democratic members of Congress and primary candidates and tell them to get up off their fat AIPAC-funded assess, find one vertebrae for a spine and FIGHT!

You’re not gonna see this in corporate media!

Nothing will change until people exercise the power that lays before them every day they awaken to more uncertainty and betrayal.

As ugly as it is to contemplate, the first act of resistance is to see things as they are. In fact, that is the most radical step of resistance.

Video reading by Tim Foley:

Video reading by Tim Foley:

Safe abortion has always been a union issue. Because when politicians choose to turn abortion from a reproductive health procedure into a criminal offence, it’s not their rich mates who lose access t...

Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. had faced pressure to recuse himself from the climate case because he owns stock in oil companies.

The UK may end up assisting Tel Aviv by reinforcing a preposterous distinction between 'illegal' Jewish settlements and a supposedly 'law-abiding' Israel

For decades, we couldn’t trace the link between new fossil fuel projects and their damage to people and planet. But now we can.

Trump administration appears to have bet on the wrong horse, with renewables surging and coal power shrinking despite his bluster and conspiracy theories.