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 [...]
BY KATHY FRESTON Originally at ALTERNET.ORG http://www.alternet.org/story/47668/ Livestock destroy the environment, so fill your bowl with veggies instead of veal. What we eat is as important as what we drive. Perhaps more so. President Herbert Hoover promised “a chicken in every pot and a car in every garage.” With warnings about global warming reaching feverish [...]
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