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Reinventing the way meat is made

Joe Castaldo Canadian Business
Making meat and other animal food products that look and taste the same, but don’t necessitate the use of living creatures is the mission of New Harvest, a New York–based non-profit.

Trump Is Carpet-Bombing U.S. Foreign Policy

Phyllis Bennis Foreign Policy in Focus
Already Trump is super-charging U.S. militarism, gutting diplomacy, and punishing the victims of wars Washington started. Donald Trump signed an executive order regarding refugees and entry to the U.S. for a whole swathe of people. In effect, the edict would be aimed at banning Muslims from the United States, demonizing people from Muslim-majority countries across the Middle East and North Africa.

On Walls

Mazin Qumsiyeh Mazin Qumsiyeh Human Rights Newsletter Blog
Donald Trump in explaining how effective “the wall” between Mexico and the US would be said to “ask Israel”. This is one liar asking us to ask another liar! The facts are very clear.

The Never-Ending Indian Wars: Spotlight Returns to Standing Rock

Stephanie Woodard Yes! Magazine
The world has been shocked by North Dakota’s violent reaction to the anti-oil pipeline resistance at Standing Rock. For the better part of a year, people have watched via social media, then increasingly on conventional media outlets, as heavily armed law enforcement officers and private contractors attacked unarmed civilians with rubber bullets, mace, tear gas, batons, and water cannons in sub-freezing temperatures.

Science Off to A Rough Start in the Trump Administration

John Timmer Ars Technica
The evidence is pretty clear: the transition team's policies are problematic and unprecedented. So much so that at least some Trump administration officials have backed away from them once they became the subject of news stories.

Trump’s Threat to Investigate American Voters is a Danger to Democracy

Liz Kennedy and Danielle Root Center for American Progress
In a country where nearly 93 million eligible Americans did not vote in the 2016 presidential election, government officials should be investigating how to make the nation’s electoral process more inclusive, rather than searching for ways to place additional burdens on eligible Americans’ access to the polls.

Donald Trump’s Old Deal for Black America

Jessica Levy African American Intellectual History Society
Trump’s use of the New Deal is emblematic of his campaign and his first week in the White House. When not directly targeting marginalized people, he has often appropriated the language of the left to drum up support for racist, sexist, homophobic, transphobic, and ableist policies.