Social Issues – Iran has taken extreme steps in its war against Western influences by banning the most obscenely offensive product in its market – Barbie. There has been a ban on Mattel Inc.’s Barbie in Iran since 1996 due to its “destructive cultural and social...

LGBT Issues – Sex traffickers from notoriously anti-gay states including the UAE, Qatar, and Saudi Arabia, are reportedly luring LGBT youth from universities in Africa into the international sex trade. Shocker! Students at Kenyatta University in Nairobi were offered high paying jobs and...

Social Issues – Every year, Action for Boston Community Development (ABCD), helps thousands of families with fuel assistance and food. Due to the increasing number of households in the Boston area that are unable to afford these basic things, ABCD has launched a “Winter Emergency...

Environment – A New Year is upon us and for those of you who have made resolutions to be more eco-friendly or greener in your home, we have put together a few tips and tricks by Michelle Kaufmann, renowned eco-designer, for you. Happy Greening! Even the most green-minded of us...

Animal Rights – The Sloth Sanctuary of Costa Rica is not only home to Buttercup, the world’s most photographed sloth, it is also home to legendary sloth whisperer, Judy Arroyo, who nurses injured and orphaned sloths back to health. When Buttercup turned up on Arroyo’s...

LGBT Issues – Orlando, Florida will soon have a lot more going for it other than Disney and Universal, when the new domestic-partnership registry goes into effect on Jan. 12. The city unanimously approved the registry earlier this month, making Orlando the “first city in Central...

Environmental Issues – With all the stories in the news lately about beached whales dying, it’s nice to have a happy story about a whale for a change. Michael Fishback, co-founder of The Great Whale Conservancy (GWC), saved a young humpback whale from certain death. Fishback...

Social Issues – First an ad campaign fashioned after a thriller movie trailer, now this. Ron Paul has released yet another ad campaign, this time targeting technology and spy thriller fans. This campaign is a direct attack on Newt Gingrich and depicts a woman scrolling through a touch...

Environmental Issues – Once a year, thousands of Flamingos literally flock to protected wetlands on Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula, to find love-or to get it on-however you want to look at it. Marco Antonio Plata, head of the National Park for the Mexican Flamingo and Celestun...

Animal Rights – It seems as if animals are forming their own revolutions these days, what with the Yvonne the cow, Waldo the bull, the hunting dog in Salt Lake City, and now, Eli, a bulldog in Florida. Eli, waiting for his opportunity to play his part in the Animal Revolution, found the...

Opinion – It’s not every day that you get an email from Anonymous, so imagine our surprise, albeit a very pleasant surprise, when we received the following article from one of the Anons. Flattered, we are, that they would think of us. Anonymous – Declaration of Supercedence....

Celebrity Charities – Just in time for the holiday season, Nicki Minaj and Mattel have teamed up to create a one of a kind Barbie doll modeled after the pop sensation, that will be auctioned off for charity. The Barbie ties perfectly into the sensation that Minaj has created for her...

Social Issues – The elections in Egypt are in full swing as the citizens prepared to vote in the run-off parliamentary elections for one of 52 candidates who will fill “a third of the 498 seats in the lower house.” That is after two more rounds of voting, which will end in...

Social Issues – In what is proving to be another election where the American people are going to be forced to choose the candidate that is the lesser of all the evils, Ron Paul is taking a new approach with his campaign ads. His latest ad, targets – well action movie loving...

Human Rights – Less than two weeks after outgoing President Ali Abdullah Saleh signed a deal to turn over power to his deputy, violence erupts during a march in Taiz, Yemen’s third largest city. Reports indicate that a woman was killed by forces loyal to the outgoing president,...

Social Issues – In what is becoming a regular occurrence, another unmanned U.S. drone spy plane has been shot down; this time Iran (again) did the shooting. According to The Guardian, “an unidentified military official quoted by the official Ima news agency on Sunday warned of a...

Social Issues – Pastor Wesley Joseph Wingo and his wife Linda Wingo, the founders of Angel Food Ministries, a Georgia-based ministry providing groceries to needy families at discounted prices, are accused of using funds from the charity to buy “jewelry, athletic equipment, clothes,...

Animal Rights – On a quiet morning in Salt Lake City, Utah, the dog stared at the man he is forced to call his master while they silently glided through the water; as the master climbed out of the boat to move duck decoys, the dog decided to act, and shot his master right in the...

Social Issues – Eight Robin Hood clad protesters marched on Thursday to bring awareness to World AIDS Day, and when they decided to lay down in a cross walk in Broadway near City Hall and demand a “tax on the rich to pay for AIDS research”, they were promptly arrested. No...

Animal Rights – In September we informed you of the race to freedom by Yvonne, the rebel cow who escaped death in Bavaria by calling for a Cow Revolution. Well, it seems her cries for freedom have “moooved” Waldo, a bull in Milford, Connecticut, who escaped in July. Waldo,...

Environment – Go Green – Buy Organic – You’re an Earth Killing Bastard if you use plastic – and countless other mantras we all hear on a daily basis. Going green doesn’t turn you into the Incredible Hulk, and it doesn’t mean you are about to blow...

Human Rights – A man run over by an armored tank dies as Egyptian security forces continue to clash with protesters just days before the parliamentary elections. The Interior Ministry “expressed regret for the death of the protester, identified as Ahmed Serour,” and indicated...

Environmental Issues – In the battle for environmental conservation, a storm rages, and our only option is to change the minds of those in alliance with the dark side. Or, it could just be that the folks over at VW are opposing environmental laws and while lobbying against them, Camden...

Environment – Ever wonder what happens to radioactive nuclear waste once it has been processed? Well, several thousands of activists in France and Germany who staged a peaceful protest in Dannenberg, Germany on Saturday know, and got hosed for their attempt at stopping it. German...

Animal Rights – The Chicago Lincoln Park Zoo announced that the endangered baby gorilla born nine days ago has died of head trauma. Workers found the baby gorilla on Friday as “she was being carried around by her mother.” Zoo officials allowed the Bana, the 16-year old...

Human Rights – A report detailing abuses to crush pro-democracy protests, which was recently released, resulted in thousands of people taking to the streets to rally against the Bahraini government in the Shi’ite village of Muqasha. The Sunni-dominated government says it has...

Environment – Throwing away garbage has become something good for the environment in Durban, South Africa. Landfills, normally filled with unwanted waste, toxins, and methane gas, are now being used in a new and innovative way, which, for a change, is something positive in regards to...