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President Ahmadinejad's Speech At The Durban Review Conference On Racism
2009-04-26 18:39:00
The following is the speech of the Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad at the Durban Review Conference on racism in Geneva on April 20.Mr. Chairman, honorable secretary general of the United Nations, honorable United Nations high commissioner for human rights, Ladies and gentleman:We have gathered in the follow-up to the Durban conference against racism and racial discrimination to work out practical mechanisms for our holy and humanitarian campaigns.Over the last centuries, humanity has gone through great sufferings and pains. In the Medieval Ages, thinkers and scientists were sentenced to death. It was then followed by a period of slavery and slave trade. Innocent people were taken captive in their millions and separated from their families and loved ones to be taken to Europe and America under the worst conditions. A dark period that also experienced occupation, lootings and massacres of innocent people.Many years passed by before nations rose up and fought for their liberty an...
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Weed It and Reap
2009-04-24 03:26:00
or A Cautionary Note for Useless Eaters and their ElitesBy Joseph Fasciani4/23/09On the 08 February 1975, about thirty-three years ago, I was inspired one sleepless night in Winlaw, BC to write this poem-thing, the title of which is half as long as the poem:late one night last week,I got the Rachel Carson bluesOh silent Spring,where are you going?We had so many questionsto ask of one another.Granted, it's not much of a poem, but it meant something to me then, as it does now to all-too-many more of us. Dr Rachel Carson's warnings? were quickly understood by people of all ages and class, and we modified our lives accordingly. When I graduated High School in 1960, I noticed the few of my cohort who went into the natural sciences as a career or profession.The 'Green Revolution' was the hype back then, just as Genetically Modifi- ed Organisms [GMO] and GM seeds are today. I only recently learned that the green colour referred not to botany or horticulture, as we thought, but was sele...
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Lies And Torture - When Policies And Words Diverge
2009-04-24 03:21:00
By Emily Spence4/22/09?The United States is committed to the worldwide elimination of torture and we are leading this fight by example.? -- President Bush in June 2003?I'm aware our national security team met on this issue. And I approved ... I told the country we did that. And I also told them it was legal. We had legal opinions that enabled us to do it.? -- President Bush in April 2008 about interrogation tactics used on detainees.?As Americans, we can take enormous pride in the fact that courage has been inspired by our own struggle for freedom, by the tradition of democratic law secured by our forefathers and enshrined in our Constitution. It is a tradition that says all men are created equal under the law and that no one is above it.? --President Obama in November 2008Based on legal precedence, there is plenty of evidence that interrogation techniques used in Guantanamo Bay and other US run facilities, such as Abu Ghraib, constituted torture in violation of US and internationa...
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F-U-CLA
2009-04-22 06:35:00
Posted in solidarity with SAENThe Stand-off Begins!April 22, 2009 meet at the corner of Le Conte Avenue and Westwood Blvd., L.A. - 10:30amAfter a recent car fire bombing of UCLA vivisector David Jentsch, the primate killer has started a counter group called UCLA "PRO-TEST.? This is a chapter of the original ?PRO-TEST? group started at Oxford University in the United Kingdom, and is designed to disrupt anti-vivisection animal rights protests and activities.What they?re actually in for is a shock.Stop Animal Exploitation Now has scheduled a rally/protest in honor of World Laboratory Animal Liberation Week at UCLA for April 22nd, at 10:30am. The UCLA Chapter of "PRO-TEST" are staging their own rally to coincide with SAEN's rally! The "PRO-TEST" rally begins at 11:30am!As a result of the uprising against animal rights activists by the PRO-TEST scum, all anarchists are asked to attend this event in black block to confront, videotape, and photograph the scum from "PRO-TEST? in solidarity...

Shit Happens
2009-04-21 07:56:00
Scatological Eschatology; A Report on the Current Manageability of Human Excrement And a Brief Nomenclature of Contemporary Defecatory TerminologyA Narrative by Frank Joseph Smecker4/21/09Humphrey plumped himself down in the defecatory position upon the porcelain bowl?s seat. As always, he ensconced himself snugly and partook in a crossword puzzle from one of the crossword puzzle books he kept tucked in the magazine rack beside the toilet. Almost like an automaton, he unwittingly placed letters in the allotted cuboid spaces on the page as he pushed out his ordure. A cloacal stench wafted from below, undetectable by the eyes, but easily recognized by the olfactory organs. As he sent his terminal turd bowl-bound, and heard the familiar hollow ?kerplunk? of its plummet into the murky fetid water, a sense of ennui overcame Humphrey at the thought of the ensuing wipe. ?Another day, another tree rubbed on my ass and smeared with shit, another flush into the great unkown?? Humphrey thought...
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Banned in the UK! How the Home Office ?Protects the Public Good?
2009-04-19 01:15:00
Steve Best speaking to a group of anti-vivisection activists before the UK implemented its own version of the Iron CurtainBy Steve Best4/18/09?God save the Queenthe fascist regimethey made you a morona potential H-bomb.Oh God save historyGod save your mad paradeOh Lord God have mercyall crimes are paid.When there's no futurehow can there be sinwe're the flowersin the dustbinwe're the poisonin your human machinewe're the futureyou're future.? ? Sex PistolsPrelude"The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion." ?Frederick DouglassI have a deep, abiding, ethical concern with the suffering of animals. In the late 1980s, when I was a committed human rights activist, the animal rights struggle became my ultimate choice and existential meaning. The more I learned about the enormity of animal suffering, the more radical my positions became, shifting from animal welfare to animal rights to animal liberation, and finally to total liberation politics that articulates h...
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Jentsch continues to perform these evil experiments.....
2009-04-19 01:14:00
James "David" Jentsch (L)Founder of Pro-Test Chapter at UCLAUCLA Psych-Behavioral Neurosciencejentsch@psych.ucla.edu Anonymous dispatch from someusarnews4u4/18/09David Jentsch is another sick, perverted primate vivisector who addicts primates to crystal methamphetamine and other terrible drugs like PCP. His official title is ?Associate Professor for Neuropsychopharmacology Using Animal Models of Neuropsychiatric Disorders.? He has done hundreds of primate experiments publishing papers in obscure journals for his own ego and greed. Nothing that will help humans has ever come from any of his torturous experiments on non-human primates. Some of his most recent titles of the papers he's published says it all; "Neurochemical Determinants of Methamphetamine-Induced Cognitive Deficits in Monkeys,? ?Dimensions of Impulsivity Are Associated with Poor Spatial Working Memory Perform ance in Monkeys" and "Frontal Cortical Dopaminergic Dysfunction Correlates with Impaired Cognitive Performance i...
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THE NEW CLASS AND THE WORKERS
2009-04-19 01:13:00
By Gaither Stewart4/17/09(Rome) Protests, broken heads and hundreds of arrests at the G20 in London, bloody demonstrations in Kehl and Baden Baden and Strasbourg at celebrations marking the 60th anniversary of NATO, workers uprisings across the face of France, and on Saturday in Rome?s Circus Maximus a mammoth manifestation organized by the CGIL trade union underline the abyss separating the New Class of capital from labour. The current and spreading revolt of labour against capital seems to mark the second phase of the crisis of capitalism, as a consequence of the financial crisis caused by the New Class of an elite that has illogically chosen to separate itself from labour in the Occidental world.When the Yugoslav Communist Milovan Djilas wrote his book, The New Class, he was referring to a ?political? bureaucracy in Yugoslavia. Today?s global New Class consists of the financial class that has bought and subjugated its second component, the political class, which fronts for it, pr...
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Why I am not a Primitivist
2009-04-17 07:11:00
By Jason McQuinn Simulposted with Insurgent DesireThe life ways of gatherer-hunter communities have become a central focus of study for many anarchists in recent years, for several good reasons. First of all, and most obviously, if we are to look at actually-existing anarchist societies, the prehistory of the species seems to have been a golden age of anarchy, community, human autonomy and freedom. Various forms of the state, enclosures of the social commons, and accumulations of dead labor (capital) have been the axiomatic organizing principles of civilized societies from the dawn of history. But, from all available evidence, they seem to have been entirely absent in the vast prehistory of the human species. The development of civilization has been the flipside of the steady erosion of both personal and communal autonomy and power within precivilized, anarchic societies and the remnant life ways still surviving from them.Furthermore, in the last several decades within the fields of...

For Peter Young, Animal Activism is Liberating
2009-04-16 00:49:00
9/2/08Simulposted with Mark Hawthorne's Striking at the RootsIn 1997, Peter Young and another activist raided six fur farms in the U.S., releasing an estimated 8,000 to 12,000 mink and 100 fox. Soon after the sixth raid, a farmer in Wisconsin notified police that a suspicious car was driving past a mink ranch. Alerted by an FBI report regarding recent animal liberations on fur farms, police stopped Peter and the other activist, who refused to consent to a search of the vehicle. The car was impounded while authorities waited on a search warrant. When the car was finally searched, police discovered incriminating evidence, including addresses of fur farms with notations indicating their size, fence structure, parking availability and proximity to nearby homes. By then, Peter and the other activist were gone.Peter was wanted by the FBI for seven and a half years before being arrested in California in 2005. He faced a total of 82 years in prison. Peter?s lawyer got the felony portion of...
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Instrument of Power
2009-04-16 00:25:00
By Vi Ransel4/15/09Do you really not understandthat you are an instrument, a tool,used by your "superiors"to conduct their business as usual?While you gather in gangs and packsand beat up others in your economic class,men with your same color and all of the moneykeeping breaking it off - Big Time - in your ass.You keep bending over, taking it, their authority, that is,obediently doing all of their dirty work.You allow them to take everything for themselvesand all you get it is this lousy T-shirtthat says "white power". Not yours. Theirs.If you had any, power, that is,you'd be openly pissed off at the cause - them -and stop beating up on people who are only the symptoms.While Richie Rich was outsourcing our jobsand foreclosing on Americans' homes,shutting off Grandma's electricityand turning her healthcare claims downyou were busy beating up Black guys,Mexicans, Arabs and Asiansinstead of standing up and facing the factyou'll never be - and never were - one of them,those guys on ...
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Green Scare State Terrorism
2009-04-16 00:13:00
by Stephen LendmanApril 28, 2008In May 2005, FBI Deputy Assistant Director for Counterterrorism John Lewis told a Senate panel that ecoterrorism is "one of today's most serious domestic terrorism threats." Then the FBI's James Jarboe estimated that two organizations (the Earth Liberation Front - ELF and Animal Liberation Front - ALF) committed over 600 criminal acts since 1996, causing over $43 million in damage. For his part, Lewis said both groups committed more than 1100 such acts since 1976, "conservatively" resulting in around $110 million in damages.What's going on, and is there anything to these charges? Coming from FBI sources makes them highly suspect, especially when there are two types of documented cases:-- people guilty of non-violent offenses called "terrorism" and given excessively harsh sentences; and most disturbing-- innocent people targeted, accused, convicted and sentenced to hard time for environmental activism or supporting animal rights; and that's on top ...
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"Experts Say" - The Rest Of You Are Morons
2009-04-15 23:32:00
By Sylvain Lamoureux 4/15/09I am so tired of supposed 'intelligent' people telling me that 'experts say' this and 'experts say' that or that a 'study' says or suggests something. Usually these experts and studies are referring to things which could be considered 'common sense' or which demands a change in one's perception, judgments, beliefs and behaviour.I did a Google News search for the exact phrase "experts say" and came back with 20,198 hits. The same search with "scientists say" comes back with 3691. Why is it that scientists and their opinions don't get the exposure that 'experts' do? This search is only in the 'News' section of Google. If you search within years, you can notice that the results have grown significantly over the decades. Here are some of the good ones I saw:"Experts say anyone can be target of clever con artists" - thanks for that bit of 'clarity' - now what does this really say? It tells us be 'be on our guard' and to 'look out for ourse...
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ECONOMIC SABOTAGE
2009-04-14 03:58:00
By John ZerzanIt?s amazing that so many insurrectional anarchists allow themselves to be drawn into energy-draining, rhetorical debates with liberals who attempt to turn strategic issues into moralistic ones, i.e. their attempts to define property destruction and economic sabotage as ?violent?, and thus, control the rage of those who have clearly identified their oppressors and who are rising up against their rule. Reverence for property is loyalty to capitalism and to the values of the system that some of us are serious about destroying, not reforming. We know that our enemy worships property, and that the source of their power - in the world that they?ve created - is their stolen property and wealth and we have no reverence whatsoever for anything the system uses to oppress us. If we?re attempting a genuine jailbreak out of the prison of this society, if we?re ready to make a move on our oppressors while there is still time, then we have to strike blows against them that hurt, and...
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Radio, Newspaper Exposure of UCLA Pro-Vivisection Organizers
2009-04-14 03:33:00
Apologists for Animal Abuse Exposed in MediaSimulposted with NAALPOLos Angeles, CA: In an article today in the LA Times, as well as radio interviews on KPCC/NPR Radio , UCLA primate vivisector David Jentsch has exposed and poorly defended the immense suffering of non-human primates in his and his colleagues' laboratories. Jentsch faired badly when confronted by physician and Press Officer Jerry Vlasak, MD, and has served nicely to bring the issue of animal exploitation into the mainstream media.Jentsch declined an offer to debate Dr. Vlasak directly on KPCC Radio, as other vivisectors have declined similar requests to discuss the scientific validity and ethical consequences of their outdated, scientifically fraudulent, and cruel practices experimenting on non-human animals.Last week, Jentsch, who addicts non-human primates to PCP and methamphetamines before killing them, announced his formation of Pro-Test UCLA, a group of faculty and administrators who had apparently intended to de...
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Happy Easter for Canadian Rabbits
2009-04-13 05:40:00
Animal Liberation Front Frees Rabbits Destined for SlaughterSimulposted with NAALPOQuebec, Canada: In a communique received today by the North American Animal Liberation Press Office, the Animal Liberation Front claims to have freed captive rabbits exploited for Christian rituals in Quebec, Canada.The brief communique reads:April 11, Bunnies in Quebec liberated from petting zoo. Their fate after Easter was unknown, to be sold to the highest bidder (farm to be slaughtered or testing lab) --ALF.Although not delineated in the communique, typical liberations of domesticated animals by the ALF also involve their placement in homes where they can live out their lives in comfort, unmolested and uneaten by humans.Thousands of rabbits and young chickens are rounded up every easter and peddled to children and their parents in a bizarre aberration of a religious festival that is purported to celebrate the murder of Jesus Christ, a largely fictional character in Christian theology. According to...
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Daniel McGowan, Another "War on Terrorism" Victim
2009-04-11 23:07:00
AP Photo and captionDaniel McGowan waves to friends and relatives as he is lead back to the Lane County jail in Eugene, Ore. , after a court appearance, in this Jan. 25, 2006, file photo. In June 2007, McGowan was sentenced to seven years in prison for arson by a federal judge in Eugene who heard a number of cases involving the activities of the radical Earth Liberation Front.By Stephen Lendman08 April, 2009Of so-called "eco-terrorism" in his case, a term believed coined by Ron Arnold, executive director of the Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise (CDFE), a radical right wing group established on July 4, 1976 "to continue (the) Revolution of liberty, free enterprise and individual initiative....without hindrance by government."According to Sourcewatch:"Arnold blurred the boundaries between nonviolent civil disobedience and more contentious tactics such as vandalism and sabotage," (mostly rejected by environmentalists) by equating property damage to "terrorism as a societal thre...
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The Stink of Privilege
2009-04-11 22:21:00
By John Steppling4/11/09There was a revealing little piece this week by Tanya Gold, in The Guardian. Now, Ms Gold is not an op-ed columnist, but mostly a human interest sort of writer. In any event, the article in question is titled *I?ve had it With Posh Hotels; the People who work in them hate you*.It?s a pretty insightful little piece, but hardly revelatory. What IS, however, revelatory, are the comments. I would say the ratio is about 80% negative, attacking Ms Gold for being a spoil sport and a poseur (huh?). Now, since I was a boy I have never understood how anyone could be comfortable with having other people do things for them.....carry luggage, wait tables, cut their grass, etc. Honestly, if I can do it myself, then somehow I thought I should do it myself. In addition, I?ve always felt uncomfortable knowing that these service sector workers hated me. When I worked in Hollywood, I was put up on a number of occasions at very high end hotels. I finally came to ask my agent to ...

Speciesism: Alive and Well
2009-04-11 21:26:00
By Edward S. Duvin4/8/09Simulposted with Animals In PrintSpeciesism: the belief in the inherent superiority of one species over another.To many of us, fighting this bias is the principal reason we became involved in the animal liberation movement, but this quest for a larger vision of family has yet to take hold among our own ranks ? much less the public.The continuing debate over companion animals is a frightening example of our movement?s propensity to engage in selective morality, applying different standards to various species. Billions of farm animals suffer terribly each year, but no one would suggest that our movement take over meat-packing plants to operate them more humanely. Instead, we use our energy to vigorously protest the meat-based agriculture system that injures nonhumans and humans alike. With companion animals, however, society uses and abuses them for profit and pleasure, and our movement obligingly operates the slaughterhouses to dispose of the "throwaways."Inst...
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Obama's Top Economic Adviser Is Greedy and Highly Compromised
2009-04-11 21:04:00
By Matt TaibbiApril 10, 2009"But Summers, a leading architect of the administration's economic policies and response to the global recession, appears to have collected the most income. Financial institutions including JP Morgan, Citigroup, Goldman Sachs, Lehman Brothers and Merrill Lynch paid Summers for speaking appearances in 2008. Fees ranged from $45,000 for a Nov. 12 Merrill Lynch appearance to $135,000 for an April 16 visit to Goldman Sachs, according to his disclosure form." -- Washingtonpost.comSo I guess that $45,000 speaking fee from Merrill Lynch wasn't technically a bribe because Summers wasn't named to Obama's economic transition team until Nov. 24 ?a full 12 days later. I'm sure Larry Summers had absolutely no inkling whatsoever that he was going to be one of the key advisers to the new administration on Nov. 12.It likewise makes perfect sense that Merrill Lynch, a company just months removed from having to be rescued from bankruptcy by an 11th-hour, pseudo-state-...
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Prayer for the Dying: The Thing Worse than Rebellion
2009-04-09 11:13:00
By Jason Miller4/9/09?The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion.?--Frederick DouglassIn an eerily ironic twist of fate, less than a month after I wrote a satirical interview with a despicable, fictitious proponent of our anthropocentric and ecocidal American Way of Life[1], an avaricious and bellicose way of life that is definitely a ?thing that causes rebellion,? I found myself engaged in an email exchange with a rabid and very real mouth-piece for our capitalist culture of death and domination. But before I get into the emails themselves though, let me establish the basis for our fascinating ?dialogue.?To maintain its hegemony, the ruling class of the dominant culture has to rally the masses against an existential threat in order to justify the existence of a police state apparatus in our so-called ?liberal democracy,? or as my ?email friend? semi-accurately pointed out, constitutional republic (more on that later). Fortunately for them, the crypto-fascist ...
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Thomas Paine's Corner Has Moved!
2009-01-17 07:37:00
Thomas Paine's Corner (TPC) is now sponsored by the Transformative Studies Institute (TSI), where scholarship bridges with activism to foster community involvement that will alleviate social problems. Jason Miller, the founder and publisher of TPC, has also become TSI's senior blog editor and director. TPC, TSI's official blog, has relocated to http://www.thomaspainescorner.org/ or http://thomaspainescorner.wordpress.com/. TPC will continue to relentlessly pursue relief for exploited sentient beings and total liberation of human animals, non-human animals and the Earth.Thomas Paine's Corner is a site dedicated to advancing universal human rights, fostering social and economic justice, and supporting the cause of all oppressed, exploited, and impoverished human beings on our Earth.
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Thomas Paine's Corner Has Moved!
2007-07-07 21:56:00
Thomas Paine's Corner , a persistent voice for the oppressed sentient beings of our Earth since March 10, 2005, has completed its integration into Cyrano's Journal Online, one of the finest radical publications in existence. Founded in print in 1982 by its highly regarded editor and publisher, David Patrice Greanville, Cyrano's has consistently provided a wealth of information, quality analysis, inspiration, commentary, and proposed solutions to the laundry list of problems caused by our depraved system.Visit us and bookmark the new links at:http://www.bestcyrano.org/THOMASPAINE/ ANDhttp://www.bestcyrano.org/We will no longer publish new material at http://civillibertarian.blogspot.com/. However, this URL will remain enabled as an archive for the 2500 plus articles we have published since 2005.Thank you for your ongoing readership and support!Thomas Paine's Corner is a site dedicated to advancing universal human rights, fostering social and economic justice, and supporting the cau...
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The Militarization of American Youth
2007-07-04 06:46:00
NOTICE TO OUR READERS: The editors will be most grateful for your attention at the end of this feature. Thank you.by Bryn Lloyd-Bollard RECRUITMENT LIES Across the country, the U.S. military is failing to meet its recruitment goals. To address this problem, the Pentagon has been rapidly expanding its programs designed to entice young people to enlist. It is now spending $3.4 billion dollars annually, an average of $14,000 per new recruit. Using flashy marketing campaigns, television spots, and even developing its own videogames, the Army is bombarding young people with images that glorify guns and violence. Recruiters use elaborate PR strategies: they set up shop at malls, movie theaters, sporting events, and concerts, and they cruise around town in decked-out Humvees that blast music popular among teenagers. The military presence in our nation's public schools is growing at an alarming rate. Educational institutions in working-class areas are prime targets of military recruit...
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Reinventing a War Criminal
2007-07-03 22:09:00
NOTICE TO OUR READERS: The editors will be most grateful for your attention at the end of this feature. Thank you. By Stephen Lendman7/3/07Britain's most despised and discredited man ended his 10 year reign June 27 when he stepped down from office transferring his ruling Labor Party's leadership to successor Gordon Brown. He had no choice because of seething public displeasure over his allying with George Bush's illegal wars on Iraq and Afghanistan. Most Brits oppose them, yet the vast majority of Labor and Conservative MPs, including new prime minister Gordon Brown, supported them early on, now may have second thoughts, but are constrained by close relations with Washington making them reluctant to back down from what they once disingenuously trumpeted as a noble cause.That's an open question; however, the London Guardian's Jonathan Steele posed and answered June 29 if Mr. Brown was listening. Steele's message to "The new man in No 10" is "seize the day....break with Bush now...
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A Night to Remember
2007-07-03 21:32:00
By Vi Ransel7/3/07Undaunted,the captain steers our economytoward Third World statuswhere growth runs up againstthe iceberg of interest paymentson the Titanic national debt.Like Ahabhe feverishly pursuesthe Great White Whale of deficit,slashing taxes for rich constituenciesand extorting increased military spendingwith the threat of international terrorism,which leads Congress to make cutsby jettisoning the lifeboats of social programs.Citizensplaint an S.O.S.while the King of the Worldmortgages their future to the Communist Chineseand the haves, and have-mores, his base,pull campaign contribution stringsas Congress plays "Nearer My God to Thee"and the Ship of State begins her descentbeneath the Social Darwinist, neoconservative sea.His laissez-faire majestytorpedoes the Social Safety Netand the American People jump,or are pushed overboardin individual, privatized lifejacketsas the United States sailsback to The Gilded Agewith a fleet of golden yachtsbearing Wall St. and Inherited Wea...
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Stop Buying Stuff?a reminder
2007-07-03 01:14:00
NOTICE TO OUR READERS: The editors will be most grateful for your attention at the end of this feature. Thank you.BY FRAN FORSTADT7/2/07Over the years I have become more and more discouraged and angry at this nation?s refusal to acknowledge, at a national level and in a consistent way, the harm we do our planet and its life forms. Our Environmental Protection Agency is so lame that I have to ask whose interests it serves. Profit, not health, is the prime motivator in all business. Industrial processes which poison the air, water, and soil have been developed and left in place for decades because to change them will reduce profits. Of course, NOT changing them continues to poison the planet and sicken its organic populations, but for so long now that consideration has been pushed aside.The ?sickness industry,? interconnected through pharmaceuticals, insurance, and the grossly expensive medical establishment, then makes money ?curing? the conditions that industry has caused. This whol...
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The attacks on SICKO make me sick
2007-07-02 13:51:00
NOTICE TO OUR READERS: The editors will be most grateful for your attention at the end of this feature. Thank you.BY PATRICE GREANVILLECOMMENT AND OPINION BY THE EDITOR OF CYRANO'S JOURNAL 7/2/07 Well, judging from what we are beginning to see, it didn't take too long for the mainstream media to regain its footing, atone for its earlier honest hoorays for Moore's film, and figure an angle from which it might preserve the remnants of its tattered honor while still fulfilling the dirty job its corporate masters demanded it to do, which was to badmouth Michael Moore's brave documentary, SICKO, into complete ineffectiveness. The spectacle makes me sick. Just a few days ago CNN's Anderson Cooper offered on his program 360 a glimpse of the subtle and not so subtle maneuvers being frantically worked out by the elites as they scramble to repair the huge breach on their disinformation wall created by Moore's near irrefutable expose of the American healthcare system, an industry wh...
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What is heroism?
2007-07-01 18:12:00
NOTICE TO OUR READERS: The editors will be most grateful for your attention at the end of this feature. Thank you.Photo: Bobby Mueller, president of the Vietnam Veterans of America Foundation (and a true hero), left, argues with a protester as he disrupts a ?John Kerry Lied? rally put on by Vietnam Vets for the Truth, at Upper Senate Park, Sunday, Sept. 12, 2004, in Washington. By Gene W. DeVaux ????????????????????Activist and columnist???????????????????? 7/1/07 A Google alert came in this morning. It was related to my KC Indymedia submission from December of 2004 (which follows): People routinely refer to our troops in Iraq as heroes. What is heroism in an unjust war? Charley Gibson of Good Morning America, as so many news people do, referred to our troops in Iraq as heroes. I flinch when I hear that. Can we give blanket praise to all who are fighting in this unjust war? Some have probably performed heroic deeds. Others have committed crimes against the Iraqi people, and h...
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Big Oil and Big Media V. Hugo Chavez
2007-07-01 17:47:00
NOTICE TO OUR READERS: The editors will be most grateful for your attention at the end of this feature. Thank you. By Stephen Lendman 7/1/07 On June 27, the New York Times and Wall Street Journal vied for attention with feature stories on oil giants ExxonMobil and ConocoPhillips "walking away from their multi-billion-dollar investments in Venezuela" as the Journal put it or standing "Defiant in Venezuela" as the Times headlined. Both papers can barely contain their displeasure over Hugo Chavez wanting Venezuela to have majority ownership of its own assets and no longer let Big (foreign) Oil investors plunder them. Those days are over. State oil company PDVSA is now majority shareholder with a 78% interest in four Orinoco joint ventures. That's up from previous stakes of from 30 to 49.9%. That's how it should be, but it can't stop the Journal and Times from whining about it. What ExxonMobil and ConocoPhillips reject, oil giants Chevron, BP PLC, Total SA and ...
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