The Dog Gets It
By Paul McGowan From PS Audio When HiFi Family member Ed Spilka sent me the following note I just had to smile. How many times have I heard a similar story? Too many times to count. And here’s the thing….
The Letter: Fear
By Perry Michael Simon From All Access As with a lot of things in life, radio people live with an undercurrent of fear. We fear losing our jobs. We fear making that one mistake on the air or on social…
Humanity’s #1 environmental problem is consumption—climate change is just one of the byproducts
By focusing the climate fight on what we emit, not what we consume, we are destined to fail—net-zero emissions policies aren’t enough to prevent catastrophe. By Reynard Loki / Independent Media Institute Solving the global climate crisis is not going…
Cryptocurrencies: Are Some Banks on the Wrong Side of History?
By Nigel Green From Newsmax Banks and other financial institutions who still refuse to recognize major cryptocurrencies, such as Bitcoin, as a legitimate asset class are putting themselves on the wrong side of history. The cryptocurrency market shedding more than $1…
Sir Ronald Sanders: Get illegal migrants vaccinated
By Sir Ronald Sanders From MENAFN Not vaccinating illegal migrants against the coronavirus would be a fatal mistake in every country. Unvaccinated persons pose a real threat to subduing COVID-19 and will delay the opening-up and recovery of economies. There…
Reynard Loki: Most Americans don’t approve of Animal Testing—Will the U.S. Congress finally pass legislation to end it?
The Humane Research and Testing Act seeks to move the U.S. toward more ethical methods of researching human disease that don’t involve animals. By Reynard Loki / Independent Media Institute The life of a mouse or a rat is an…
Sir Ronald Sanders: Vaccine refusal is as dangerous a pandemic as Covid-19
By Sir Ronald Sanders, From Antigua Observer Vaccine refusal is fast becoming as dangerous to human health and to economies as the Covid-19 pandemic. In 2019, even before the novel coronavirus was confirmed and began its spread around the world,…
If we don’t protect 30% of the natural world by 2030, Earth may be unfit for life
We are to blame for the biggest extinction event in human history. But there is a solution if we take urgent action now. By Reynard Loki / Independent Media Institute The natural world is in a state of crisis, and…
The Letter
From All-Access If you do one job for a couple of decades, you’re going to find certain things repeating themselves. Write a column that long and you end up revisiting some themes, and by “revisiting” I mean “repeating yourself ad…
How Bill Gates set the stage for Modi’s disastrous response to COVID-19 in India
India’s incompetent, vainglorious leadership, combined with the right-wing belief in magical capitalism, has led to the disaster that the country is now facing. By Prabir Purkayastha / Globetrotter While the incompetence of the Indian government is starkly visible in its…