BY STEPHEN LENDMAN Dateline 8-29-7 Peter Coors (standing), scion to family of reactionary tycoons that has distinguished itself for its antilabor practices and support for the most extreme rightwing politicians in the land. He ran for a seat as Colorado’s senator, but lost to Dem Ken Salazar See Part I at http://www.bestcyrano.org/THOMASPAINE/?p=241 on this same [...]
BY SHAYNE NELSON Le Scoop: Cécilia Sarkozy (born as Cecilia María Sara Isabel Ciganer, later Ciganer-Albéniz, born November 12, 1957 in Boulogne-Billancourt) is the wife of French president Nicolas Sarkozy.//PARIS (AFP)—Cecilia Sarkozy is a fiercely independent former model and PR executive unlikely to fit easily into the discreet role of first lady. // Of Jewish-Spanish [...]
BY “ANONYMOUS” | Topical research associate: Auveline Robinson As published on 8.17.07 by fraternal site, Truthdig Bloodbath is not a metaphor in Iraq, thanks to the Cheney/Bush war. Editor’s Note: The author of this article is a contractor who has lived and worked in Baghdad. His identity is known to Truthdig’s editors, but he has [...]
BY SHAYNE NELSON One of those sonorous buses, referred to by the author. Paris the way it really is these days—the good, the bad, the ugly, and the plain annoying. The city has changed, warns the author. It’s no longer a Vincent Minelli “American in Paris” backdrop, and probably never was. [CLICK HERE TO WATCH [...]
BY STEVEN BEST A “downed” cow dragged to slaughter. Transportation to the slaughterhouse is just the culmination of her awful fate. “Downers” are animals who have been severely injured or become ill in the process of being raised “for food.” Other “downers”—this time a couple of hogs, one of which cannot stand at all, also [...]
BY PETER SINGER DATELINE: October 2006 Most factory-farmed animals are confined for life in completely unnatural surroundings, reduced to mere abstract units denied the status of living creatures, and manipulated relentlessly to maximize profits. Alongside Big Pharma, agribusiness is one of the most corrupting influences in American politics. For low meat prices, the animals, the [...]
BY WILLIAM BLUM President Castro addressing the Cuban people in Havana. FROM OUR APPALLING HYPOCRISY ANNALS The existence of a revolutionary socialist government with growing ties to the Soviet Union only 90 miles away, insisted the United States Government, was a situation which no self- respecting superpower should tolerate, and in 1961 it undertook an [...]
Carl Sagan, the celebrated astronomist and distinguished humanist, who seriously objected to the notion that humans have an inherent “right” to do as they please with animals and nature. BY KATHY FRESTON Dateline June 29, 2007 There is a growing sense these days that the issues that plague our planet — war, injustice, and blatant [...]
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