IN HEADLINES this week: Initially used to keep tabs on countries of "strategic importance" to the United States, this Obama-era surveillance program is now being panned to the home front. And with it, a reworking of the doctrine on homeland defense, putting the policing of dissident activities in the purview of the Pentagon.
Far beyond recycling, new studies show that we need to cut our meat and dairy consumption severely. The destruction caused by big ag can not be underestimated - it's time to reconsider dinner.
OUR INTERVIEW this week: Dr. Sheila Vakharia has a PHD in social work and now works with the Drug Policy Alliance on issues such as harm reduction and common sense legislation. She's also written extensively on the issue of addiction and how our War on Drugs paradigm leaves out socio-economic factors that lead to addiction, opting instead for a simplistic and scientifically inaccurate personal failure model.