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 invasion of Cuba. [Read more →]
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 abuse of nature — are intensifying and perhaps moving us toward the point of no return. And that if we don’t snap to attention and start doing things differently soon, we as a civilization, could be in real trouble. [Read more →]
BY KATHY FRESTON
Originally at ALTERNET.ORG [Read more →]
