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Wildlife Conservationists and their “Stockholm Syndrome”

Margi Prideaux OpenDemocracy
A noted wildlife author and activist charges many of the largest international wildlife conservation organizations are acting “like captives suffering from Stockholm syndrome.” Instead of fighting a destructive economic system, conservation non-governmental organizations (NGOs) are bonding with its brutality. They are increasingly working with corporations against indigenous communities who have been as maltreated by big business and globalization as the wildlife.

Tiananmen Square

Patrick Daly Americas Review
The Tiananmen Square protests of 1989, crushed by China's military forces, no longer attract much editorial space, but the protests for freedom and the massacre that followed linger in history and in the conscience of the California poet Patrick Daly.