The coal industry and its allies have taken advantage of the state of confusion surrounding the place of oil and other sources of energy in our lives by running a campaign which amounts to nothing else but a (surprise!) bald-faced lie. Here’s the ad as it should have been done, in honesty: Share on Facebook
Non-volunteer feline being experimented on at USC. The supposed worthiness of a cause does not void the necessity for prior consent by those who have the most to lose. Heartrending issues; elusive answers “The global Animal Liberation Movement is an abolitionist movement that demands the end to all forms of animal exploitation, not merely reducing suffering; [...]
BY JOHN STEPPLING Pinter, in younger years. [print_link]. Although his plays were not overtly political, in his private life he never hid his leftist sympathies, which became more deeply entrenched and vocal with the passing of time. The death of Harold Pinter leaves a gaping hole in the cultural consciousness of the west, and maybe [...]
Dickens’ story—like much of this great author’s body of work—packed a powerful indictment of a young, freewheeling capitalism. Notably, the villain-hero, Ebenezer Scrooge, was a moneylender, a financier, who eventually sees the light, quite literally, and mends his ways. In real life, such “epiphanies” are rare, as ruling classes, despite exceptions, put self-interest above all [...]
Michael Moore proposed (and we thought it a fine idea) to nationalize the US car industry outright, forcing new leadership into the industry, and giving the new entity a mandate to turn out advanced fuel efficient vehicles with no enviromental costs. This would have implied a serious search for advanced alternative energy and transport technologies [...]
Presidents Morales and Chavez, embracing. United by much more than just a common political ideal. Published on North American Congress on Latin America (http://nacla.org) More Than 100 Experts Question Human Rights Watch’s Venezuela Report By teo Created Dec 17 2008 – 12:29 | [print_link] In an open letter to the Board of Directors of Human [...]
“Class is a dirty word in that it gets close to the truth about who governs and for whose benefit.” -Michael Parenti Michael Parenti interviewed by Jason Miller [print_link] 12/24/08 In the land of those who think they’re free and the home of savage capitalism, class is indeed a dirty word. Remember, we’re a nation [...]
Kentucky banker Robert M. Duncan, a proud GOP operative for several decades. Shamelessly serving a party that since Nixon has staged at least three “presidential coups” to overthrow what’s left of the American constitution and its fragile formal democracy. By Walter Brasch THE CHAIRMAN OF THE Republican National Committee may have begun an [...]
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