THE GREAT DEMOCRATIC PARTY IMPLOSION AS A RESULT OF GROSS BETRAYAL BY PHIL ROCKSTROH | Dateline: 6/21/07 Why did the Democratic Congress betray the voting public? Betrayal is often a consequence of wishful thinking. It’s the world’s way of delivering the life lesson that it’s time to shed the vanity of one’s innocence and grow-the-hell-up. [...]
PHOTO CAPTION: The bitumen-impregnated sands of Alberta, Canada are said to rival the oil reserves of Saudi Arabia, but extracting and refining it from these sandy clumps requires a great deal more energy than the light to medium crude of the Middle East. Sunco currently produces 1 million barrels of synthetic petroleum a day from [...]
INNOCENT ANIMALS ALL OVER THE WORLD ARE BEING CONDEMNED TO RAPID EXTINCTION ON ACCOUNT OF MANMADE GLOBAL WARMING. BY GEORGE MONBIOT Dateline: May 12, 2007 [Note: This is a reply to Cockburn's second article on climate politics and climate change, which, while it did not directly respond to Monbiot's or Mann's first reply to Cockburn's [...]
CLIMATE DENIER (!) ALEX COCKBURN. HIS MOTIVES FOR THIS UNCHARACTERISTIC STANCE, which makes him an objective ally of criminals outfits like ExxonMobil, ARE HARD TO FOLLOW. BY GEORGE MONBIOT | SOURCE: ZNet Magazine | Science Dateline: May 03, 2007 [Note: Click here for Alexander Cockburn’s precipitating article “From Papal Indulgences to Carbon Credits Is Global [...]
BY CAMILLO “MAC” BICA In Part One and Part Two of this article, I asked the reader to utilize her ability to think and offered a theoretical analysis of what I termed “moral casualties.” I argued that as soldiers experience the horror and cruelty of war, especially guerrilla/counterinsurgency war such as was the case in Vietnam [...]
Eli Lilly CEO Sydney Taurel received a 5-year $37-million compensation package for heading a company whose ethical standards are indistinguishable from those of a common criminal. BY WILL HALL | Originally at ADBUSTERS MAGAZINE For pharmaceutical giant Eli Lilly, death and injury are just a cost of doing business. When Zyprexa, Lilly’s drug to treat [...]
BY JUSTIN PODUR | Originally at Znet Magazine | Dateline: May 11, 2007 In recent years, a number of important contributions have influenced the growing debate on global warming. Paul Baer and Tom Athanasiou’s book, Dead Heat, from a few years ago, was excellent. Noam Chomsky’s latest book, Failed States, mentions global warming as one [...]
BY MATT TAIBBI | Dateline May 10, 2007 There is a growing number of people out there who believe the Reid-Pelosi Iraq war supplemental is a gigantic crock of shit, and who think the Democratic Party leadership should now officially be labeled conspirators in the war effort. I’ve even seen it suggested that Reid and [...]
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