Pinky does Hawaii(unofficial)history

As North Korea is said to be threatening Hawaii with missiles, and the U.S. scrambles to get their “interceptors” ready — you may wonder, when did the Pacific archipelago incite threats from North Korea. It all starts with a little annexation and some illegal occupation of a sovereign nation… Pinky explains.

health/life insurers invest $4.4B in tobacco

Dr. Wesley Boyd finally got the green light to publish his explosive findings about exactly what health insurers were investing in, after editors and fact-checkers went through it for weeks. And then came the bomb: The New England Medical Journal ran the findings that prove US, Canadian and British health and life insurance firms [...]

nihilism rising: dissecting the trend

Nihilism — the malaise of not caring what happens, and the feeling of not being able to change what is projected upon you — has been a major player in the attitudes of citizens of the industrial world. Most people don’t vote, don’t rally, and many aren’t  involved in their local communities. Recently a lot [...]

Rep.Kucinich: Real costs of war

Rep. Dennis Kucinich spoke yesterday before the U.S. House on the wars the US has brought to Iraq and Afghanistan:
“A new administration and the same old war, and expansion of the war in Afghanistan. We cannot afford these wars spiritually. They are wars of aggression, and they’re based on lies. We [...]

30 current wars, but everything is holy

As more than 30 wars continue around the world today, many are framed in terms of protecting something holy, or about lives or beliefs more “holy” than the enemy’s. As individualism and misplaced patriotism divides people in the war-soaked dichotomies of terrorist/civilian, statist/rebel, capitalist/communist — is it worth reciting Blake’s idea that everything is holy, [...]

real-cost pepsi detournement

Most likely one of the cutest detournements of the soda pop industry, by Lawrence Yang.