Dogs Show Empathy to Crying People, Study Shows
15,000 years of experience tells humans that dogs ‘feel our pain.’ Now a new study suggests that the empathy is real. Researcher and psychologist Deborah Custance from the University of London...
View ArticleIt’s Official: The Dingo Did Take The Baby
32 years after Azaria Chamberlain disappeared in the most famous baby snatching since the Lindbergh baby, an Australian coroner has finally ruled that, yes, a dingo did it. The nine-week-old was...
View ArticleRancher’s Tricks Against Indigenous in Paraguay Backfire
Ranchers in Paraguay who tried to trick an indigenous tribe into signing away their land have got their comeuppance. The ranchers wanted legal access to land of the Ayoreo, who live in the northern...
View ArticleLGBT Organizations Join Coalition Against ‘Stop And Frisk’ (Video)
In a move seen as a breakthrough, LGBT organizations are joining in the coalition against the practice of “Stop and Frisk” by the New York City Police Department. “Stop and Frisk” has been widely...
View ArticleCautious Welcome For Obama DREAMers Commitment (Video)
There has been a cautious welcome for the announcement today that undocumented youth will no longer be automatically deported. Heartland Alliances National Immigrant Justice Center (NIJC) said that:...
View ArticleU.S. Military Ban So-Called “Military Bible”
All four branches of the U.S. Military have revoked their approval of the Military series of Holman Christian Standard Bibles (HCSB). The Holman Bible is a modern English, Baptist translation that was...
View ArticleWashington Man Saves Bald Eagle (Video)
Robert Hutton from North Spokane, Washington has admired bald eagles his entire life, collecting figurines of the majestic bird since he was a kid. So when he spotted an injured eagle in the middle of...
View ArticleWading Among the Climate Deniers (Video)
Peter Sinclair, the producer of the YouTube series, Climate Denial Crock of the Week, attended last week’s “Denia-Palooza,” organized by the Heartland Institute. They’re the Koch Brothers funded...
View ArticleU.S. Immigration Law Drives Entrepreneurs Offshore (Video)
America’s immigration laws are so bad that entrepreneurs are anchoring off international waters in order to get some business done. A new company, Blueseed, is planning a huge ship to anchor 12 miles...
View ArticleMost People Want Michelle Obama’s Hair Straight? (Slideshow)
56% of Americans want the First Lady to have straight hair? Say no to “Afro”? Well, it’s a web poll, but it has struck a nerve for a number of black women and, of course little “Lamestream Media”...
View ArticleIt’s 2012, Christian Campus – Biola University Students Want Equality
A Christian university 26 miles from West Hollywood is being “rocked” by information that it has ‘the gay’ on campus. Biola University in La Mirada, California is asking to talk with a group of...
View Article2011 ‘Tumultuous Year’ For Human Rights
The U.S. State Department has released its annual human rights report, a couple of months later than usual. It describes 2011 as a “tumultuous and momentous year” and amidst the usual suspects, detects...
View ArticleWatch Gay Military Cadets Graduate (Video)
2012 is the first year in which openly lesbian and gay cadets are graduating from military academies across America, since the repeal of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” (DADT) last September. At the U.S. Air...
View ArticleShould We Care If Politicians Might Commit Suicide?
An Australian MP under investigation for misuse of union resources has asked the media if it’s trying to “push him to the brink” of suicide. Labor MP Craig Thomson is under multiple investigations over...
View ArticleSuccess! UK Backs Down on Buzzard Plan
The UK has quickly backed down on plans to control buzzards after an outcry which included a 2,500 signature strong Care2 petition. The plan was to spend £375,000 (US $586,000) on capturing Buzzards...
View ArticleAnother Indigenous Tribe In Danger of Extinction (Video)
The Wayúu people are in danger of becoming extinct. According to Amnesty International, this indigenous group is one of 34 Colombian nations that are in immediate danger of disappearing forever if...
View ArticleEgypt’s Islamist Candidate Woos Opposition, Christians
Mohammed Morsi, the Muslim Brotherhood candidate in Egypt’s run-off election for the Presidency, has made a series of pledges on women, Christians and how he will work with other political forces. In a...
View ArticlePure Joy As 2-Year-Old Catches First Wave (Video)
This video will — I promise — make your day. Made by Chet Harvey, from Somis, California, it’s of his two-year-old son Owen’s first encounter with surfing. The grommit’s joy is absolutely infectious....
View ArticleTake Action! Stop Killing of 500,000 Pigs in Chile (Video)
After an environmental disaster at the world’s largest pig factory in Chile, the government said it would evacuate half a million pigs — but now the factory owner wants to kill them all. The crisis...
View ArticleBushmeat Could Cause Next Pandemic (Video)
We now know that HIV, the virus which causes AIDS, likely originated in chimpanzees and we also know that it likely spread from forest origins deep in Cameroon and then to the Congo during a period of...
View ArticleSea Lions Vs. Salmon: A Wildlife Protection Dilemma
At the Bonnerville Dam, on the Colombia River between Oregon and Washington, smart sea lions are creating a conservation nightmare as they eat up threatened Chinook salmon and steelhead. Hundreds of...
View ArticleAre Shale Gas Lobbyists Winning?
Does a new report by the International Energy Agency (IEA) which talks about a “golden age” of gas, as well the rebranding of gas as “green” by a European Union program, mean that the industry...
View ArticleDeath for Gays? Not Really a Fringe Evangelical Thought
We seem to be entering a period of exposure for extremist Christians with the latest being one Pastor Curtis Knapp of New Hope Baptist Church in Seneca, Kansas, saying that gays should be killed: They...
View ArticleViolence Against Black Africans Escalates In Israel
Ten African refugees had a lucky escape on Sunday when their apartment was firebombed in another escalation of violence against Africans in Israel. They were trapped in a ground-floor apartment when...
View ArticleCherokees Protest Elizabeth Warren
Despite what liberals believe, despite what many on this website have said, the fact is that many Native Americans are angry with Elizabeth Warren. Now a group of Cherokees has formed Cherokees Demand...
View ArticleCatholic Hospital Denies Gay Man HIV Medicine
A Catholic hospital is being sued for denial of HIV medication to a gay man “for going against God’s will.” Trinitas Regional Medical Center, says Joao Simoes, admitted him last August but then denied...
View ArticleBloomberg’s Big Gulp Ban’s Mockery Challenge (Video)
If New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg wants to ban large sugary drinks, he doesn’t just have to get other politicians to say yes, he needs to get it past public opinion. And straight away the proposal...
View ArticleUncertain Future For Brazilian Forests
As Brazil gears up to host the Rio+20 United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, it is being strongly criticized for a failure to stop the destruction of the Amazon rain forest. At the end...
View ArticleEnd Buffalo Slaughter Say Native Americans (Video)
The Montana-Wyoming Tribal Leaders Council is invoking its trust responsibility to try to get Montana and the U.S. government to protect wild buffalo. The last wild buffalo live in Yellowstone National...
View ArticleWatch The Laramie Project Film (Video)
Back in 1998, 22-year-old student Matthew Shepard was tortured and murdered for being gay in Laramie, Wyoming. The murder, much like the recent coverage of individual suicides, was not the first hate...
View ArticleUpdate: Native American Allegedly Branded in Hate Crime
Update: Indian Country Today Media Network has reported that the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Department of Health and Human Services have commenced an investigation into the alleged attack,...
View ArticleForced Sterilization Of Thousands of Women in U.S. – Call for Government Apology
The forced sterilizations of tens of thousands of women in the U.S.A. for more than 60 years until the late 1970s has been apologized for by several states, and now there is a call for the Federal...
View ArticleChildren Taught to Obey Genocide Orders in US Schools
An after-school program which the Supreme Court has ordered that public schools have to resource is teaching children that they must obey genocide orders. The lesson is contained in the second week of...
View ArticleThe Boy Who Felt Obama’s Hair (Video)
It’s become an iconic image and the most popular one in the White House itself: the President bends down to allow a five-year-old boy to feel his hair. It’s traditional when staff leave that they get...
View ArticlePoor Being Fracked in Pennsylvania (Video)
Residents of the Riverdale Mobile Homes Park in rural Lycoming County, Pennsylvania, are being evicted and offered little compensation to make way for a fracking operation. The residents are poor and...
View ArticleDeported to Torture: UK Shame Over Tamil Refugees
The British government is continuing to deport Tamil asylum seekers to Sri Lanka despite more evidence emerging that some of those removed are being tortured. As I reported last year, there is a wealth...
View ArticleCatholics Plan Bomb Attack On Gay Parade
Catholic nationalists in Croatia are planning to petrol bomb a gay parade on Saturday in the city of Split. Last year the 200-strong march was attacked by thousands of people and there were 13...
View ArticleBoy Scouts To Review Anti-Gay Policy (Video)
Following a campaign, the Boy Scouts of America (BSA) has said it will review the policy which bans lesbians and gays from participation. The campaign stepped up after Jennifer Tyrrell, a Cub Scout den...
View ArticleConservative Rabbis Approve Gay Marriage
In what has been described as a “landmark moment,” the conservative branch of Judaism has established rituals for same-sex wedding ceremonies. The Committee on Jewish Law and Standards of the...
View ArticleGun Pose Gets Aussie Swimmers in Trouble
In a move which will perplex many Americans (but probably not anyone else), two Australian Olympic swimmers are in trouble for posing with guns. The picture taken in a Californian gun shop of Nick...
View ArticleUpdate: Catholics Plan Bomb Attack On Gay Parade (Video)
A gay pride parade in the Croatian city of Split, which Catholic nationalists in Croatia said they were planning to bomb, went off without trouble on Saturday. Authorities brought in 700 police and...
View ArticleUgandan Catholics Want “Kill the Gays” Bill Revived
Uganda’s Catholic Bishops have reversed their position and joined other religious leaders in demanding the revival of the notorious bill which allows for gays to be executed. The Anti-Homosexuality...
View ArticleProminent Pastor Preaching In Support of Gays (Video)
As Care2 has been reporting, various videos have surfaced recently of pastors (it’s always pastors) saying delightful things about gay people; like they should be killed or beaten when young or they’re...
View ArticlePenguin Sex Shocked Early Explorer (Video)
A century after they were first written, an early Antarctic explorer’s notes on the sexual habits of the Adélie penguin have been published. Dr. George Murray Levick (1876–1956) spent a winter watching...
View Article42% of America Hates Gay Kids, Says New Survey
A new survey of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender young people has revealed that nearly half of America is hostile to them. And most of the youth say they plan on moving away from where they...
View ArticleEuro 2012 Racism Fears Start To Play Out (Video)
Fears that the Euro 2012 football tournament would be marked with racist incidents are already playing out, only a few days after its start. UEFA, the Union of European Football Associations, is...
View ArticleBear Killed For Eating Dead Body
A black bear in British Columbia has been killed after snacking on a dead body it found in a car. Police said that they killed the bear because they thought it could be a danger to others as the body...
View ArticleMexicans Protest Media Bias in Presidential Election (Video)
Tens of thousands of Mexicans took to the streets Sunday in protest against media bias in their Presidential elections. Britain’s Guardian newspaper has unearthed evidence of corruption in how Mexico’s...
View ArticleEU to Fund Global Gay Rights
The European Union has announced that it will spend €20 million on funding anti-discrimination projects in the ‘Global South’. It says that “discrimination hampers development.” The funding will fight...
View ArticleThe Forgotten History of Gay Marriage
Christian tradition has changed from the point where same-sex relationships were not just tolerated but celebrated.
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