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Formerly Chained Dog Meets His New Family


Keane started off life chained in the junk-strewn yard of a pit bull breeder in North Carolina. This dog's story is not unusual. He was chained outside by the time he was 6 weeks old, and his neglect resulted in mange, a painful disease in which the skin often turns bright red and is covered with painful sores and scabs. Dogs with poor nutrition and under a great deal of stress are especially susceptible to it. PETA's fieldworkers regularly visited Keane and provided him with veterinary treatment, but his condition got so bad that his owner eventually gave him to us so that he could finally get the care that he so desperately needed.

Now Keane has a new home and a new canine best friend, and he is living indoors and is well taken care of by a loving family for the first time in his life.
The self-releasing squirrel

Sometimes an animal in distress is more than happy to help us out with our rescue and this was no exception!

Simon recently got a call to rescue a squirrel that had run into a house and was stuck behind the TV. Net in hand, he set off, but this one proved a little easier than he had planned!
Cops vs. Cameras: Will Live Video Give Citizens Even More Power?
You've likely heard about the death of Philando Castilo in Falcon Heights, Minn., a suburb of St. Paul. Castilo was shot by St. Anthony police officer Jeronimo Yanez, July 6, 2016, in the middle of a traffic stop. The aftermath was captured on Facebook Live by Castilo's girlfriend, Diamond Reynolds, and the video went on to be viewed more than a million times.

"I wanted to put it on Facebook and go viral so that the people could see. I want the people to determine who was right and who was wrong," said Reynolds in a Facebook Live video quoted by The New York Times.

What you may not know is that that video represents a new and dynamic shift in power from media and police to citizens.

"We see so many aspects of government, rehearsed," says Jarret Lovell, professor and author of the book, Good Cop/Bad Cop: Mass Media and the Cycle of Police Reform.
"The Police Killings No One Is Talking About": Native Americans Most Likely to be Killed by Cops

A new investigation by In These Times explodes myths about who is most likely to die at the hands of police by revealing that, compared to their percentage of the U.S. population, Native Americans were more likely to be killed by police than any other group, including African Americans. It also found that cases of African-American police deaths tend to dominate headlines, while killings of Native people go almost entirely unreported by mainstream U.S. media. We speak with reporter Stephanie Woodard, who wrote the article, "The Police Killings No One Is Talking About," and with James Rideout, the uncle of Jacqueline Salyers, a 32-year-old pregnant mother and member of the Puyallup Tribe who was killed by police earlier this year in Tacoma, Washington.
The Real Vote Rigging: Republicans Make It Harder for Millions to Vote in 2016 Election

As Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump urges his supporters to be vigilant against widespread voter fraud and a rigged election outcome, we speak with Ari Berman, who argues in The Nation, "This Election Is Being Rigged—But Not by Democrats." He says the true danger to American democracy stems from Republican-led efforts to make it harder to vote. This comes as the 2016 presidential election is the first in half a century to take place without the full protections of the Voting Rights Act.
"Ramshackle" Battle to Retake Mosul from ISIS Led by U.S. Despite Obama Vow Against Boots on Ground

The fight to retake the last stronghold of the self-proclaimed Islamic State in Iraq has entered its third day with a U.S.-led coalition force of about 30,000 that includes Iraqi security personnel, Kurdish fighters, Sunni Muslim Arab tribesmen and Shia Muslim paramilitaries. The Pentagon says U.S. special forces are on the ground in Iraq and taking part in the battle, despite President Obama’s pledge against having boots on the ground. They face an estimated 5,000 Islamic State fighters in and around Mosul. Meanwhile, humanitarian workers say some 200,000 people may need shelter during the offensive. We speak with Patrick Cockburn, Middle East correspondent for The Independent, where he writes that Mosul is bracing for its next bloody chapter after being ravaged by 13 years of war.

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