Political Media Review

Scare tactics are very effective in a culture of fear. And if the United States government has been successful in one aspect of the culture, it’s creating a climate of fear.

Truths Among Us: Conversations on Building a New Culture is an important collection of in-depth interviews that prolific author Derrick Jensen conducted with a handful of radical thinkers you should become more familiar with if you’re not already.

In the early 1990s, animal rights activist Rodney Coronado organized and carried out a series of Animal Liberation Front attacks against the fur industry in a campaign called Operation Bite Back

Using art as a medium, or platform, for ideological proselytizing has always been a difficult process for the artist. Will the political content outweigh and compromise the aesthetics, or will the artist’s style dilute and deflate the message? Derrick Jensen walks a fine line in his fiction; as a radical political thinker and primitivist evangelist, he is peerless.

Another Dinner is Possible is not a boutique cookbook. It doesn’t offer elaborate dishes that will impress dinner party guests, nor will it help convert your omni friends and family to a vegan diet.

It’s no secret that Stephen Harper’s Conservatives have designed their environmental policy to fit a full-speed-ahead exploitation of Alberta’s tar sands. It’s important, therefore, to have an understanding of the industry’s environmental impact.

Information is important, but stories­ are essential. While scientists can tell us about the extinction of species­ and the loss of Arctic sea ice, we need stories to help us make sense of these events.