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10
Oct

FILM REVIEWS: Au Hasard Balthazar by Robert Bresson

By Greanville 1 Comment
Categories: Abominable Speciesism, CINEMA REVUS, The Logical Misanthropist and Cinema & Television

Balthazar, finally at peace. This film by Bresson is probably the most haunting film ever made.

C L A S S I C >>>>F I L M

Movie Reviews \\\ Editors’ Note: At Cyrano we do not intend to reinvent the wheel. When we have a movie review written by one of our editors or associates, we run it. When we don’t, we still run the film and use a review in public distribution that we think does the job. The point is not ego but education of the public sensibilities, especially since we believe that all great art is moral. This ecumenical approach is further suggested by the rise of the Net, and of citizens’ journalism, which provide a wealth of reviews from different quarters: readers’ commentary on films, professional evaluations by well-known critics, and so on. Cyrano’s reviews tap all of these sources without prejudice, as amateur reviews are often freer in their expression than commercial ones. But rarely does one single review capture all there’s to be said about an important film, so sometimes we run two or even three “takes” on a given title. When we do, we think they deserve it.

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01
Oct

Loving Animals

By Greanville 0 Comments
Categories: Abominable Speciesism, Animal Liberation and The Logical Misanthropist

By Eduardo Lamazon*

Life for most animals can hardly be described as such. That is, it early on ceases to be life in the greater sense of the term, quickly devolving into an intense pain that serves as punishment for going along with a human coexistence that is entirely out of their control. Continue reading ‘Loving Animals’

17
Aug

Rethinking Revolution: Animal Liberation, Human Liberation, and the Future of the Left

By Greanville 1 Comment
Categories: Obstinate Conscience, Moral Depravity, Appalling Hypocrisy Annals, Animal Liberation, American Way of Life, The Logical Misanthropist, CJO'S OpEds, Toxic Culture, Controversy and Animals & Environment

BY STEVEN BEST
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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.”

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Other “downers”—this time a couple of hogs, one of which cannot stand at all, also waiting to be taken to the abattoir. How much suffering must transpire before humans start paying real attention to our species’ atrocious tyranny over fellow creatures? Although many will surely deny it, including quite a few on the Left, it’s clear that human supremacist attitudes easily qualify as the earliest and least recognized form for fascism. Factory farms, by treating living, breathing animals as mere cogs in an ruthless industrial profit machine, are one of its most obscene manifestations. How long are we going to allow this to go on?

“Animal liberation may sound more like a parody of other liberation movements than a serious objective.” —Peter Singer

“Animal liberation is the ultimate freedom movement, the `final frontier.’” —Robin Webb, British ALF Press Officer

Introduction: Framing the Unframed Issue

It seems lost on most of the global anti-capitalist and anti-imperialist Left that there is a new liberation movement on the planet – animal liberation – that is of immense ethical and political significance. But because animal liberation challenges the anthropocentric, speciesist, and humanist dogmas that are so deeply entrenched in socialist and anarchist thinking and traditions, Leftists are more likely to mock than engage it. Continue reading ‘Rethinking Revolution: Animal Liberation, Human Liberation, and the Future of the Left’

16
Aug

Factory farming: A pressing moral issue

By Greanville 0 Comments
Categories: Appalling Hypocrisy Annals, Animal Liberation, Moral Depravity, Obstinate Conscience, The Logical Misanthropist, American Way of Life and Toxic Culture

BY PETER SINGER
DATELINE: October 2006
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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 environment and rural neighborhoods pay steeply.


There is a growing consensus that factory farming of animals - also known as CAFOs, or concentrated animal feeding operations - is morally wrong. The American animal rights movement, which in its early years focused largely on the use of animals in research, now has come to see that factory farming represents by far the greater abuse of animals. The numbers speak for themselves. In the United States somewhere between 20 million and 40 million birds and mammals are killed for research every year. That might seem like a lot - and it far exceeds the number of animals killed for their fur, let alone the relatively tiny number used in circuses - but 40 million represents less than two days’ toll in America’s slaughterhouses, which kill about 10 billion animals each year. Continue reading ‘Factory farming: A pressing moral issue’

15
Aug

Shameless Name Dropping

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Categories: The Logical Misanthropist, Controversy and Animals & Environment

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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. Continue reading ‘Shameless Name Dropping’

15
Aug

Vegetarian Is the New Prius

By ascetorix_ariz20 0 Comments
Categories: Moral Depravity, The Logical Misanthropist, Brickbats and Animals & Environment

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BY KATHY FRESTON
 Originally at ALTERNET.ORG Continue reading ‘Vegetarian Is the New Prius’

24
Jul

The Forgotten Specter: Death by Nuclear Radiation

By Greanville 0 Comments
Categories: The Logical Misanthropist, State Crimes, Pathetic Idioten, Animals & Environment and Imperial Policy

What the use of Nuclear Weapons really means
BY FRANCESCA CAIGATTI
Picture taken of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki on August 9, 1945.
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It is beyond my comprehension how our president or any world leader can loosely and irresponsibly talk about nuking ANYONE on this planet, as has become so popular these days. The first time I heard words to that effect out of our president’s mouth I thought that alone was grounds for removal from office because it indicated a serious lack of understanding about what he was talking about … or, even worse, that he did know and would do it anyhow. And here he is seven years later, still acting as if nuking somebody is actually a choice. Did/does he understand what nuclear bombs DO? He is certainly not speaking for the American people when he threatens half the world with the use of these weapons! Continue reading ‘The Forgotten Specter: Death by Nuclear Radiation’

22
Jul

The steer who escaped into our conscience

By Greanville 0 Comments
Categories: Obstinate Conscience, The Logical Misanthropist, Toxic Culture and Animals & Environment

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BY RALPH R. ACAMPORA
July 22, 2007

The story many Long Islanders have followed during the past few weeks of an escaped steer on the North Fork whose notoriety landed him a refuge away from the abattoir gets more perplexing the more you think about it. From a strictly agribusiness point of view, of course, the fugitive livestock presented only the problem of recapturing an ornery investment before its due harvest. Bad cow - get back into the pen. Continue reading ‘The steer who escaped into our conscience’

19
Jul

Die Stupid

By ascetorix_ariz20 4 Comments
Categories: The Logical Misanthropist, Pathetic Idioten, Toxic Culture, Cinema & Television and Imperial Policy

BY JOHN STEPPLING
Dateline: July 2007
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Inpolite, infantile question: With so many American supermen of Scots-Irish ancestry, I don’t understand how the Irish don’t control the world already…

“There is an underscoring of collective anxiety in this film, everyone, from ordinary citizen to wonk- defense specialist, all seem nervous….even before anything jumps off. It is portraying a culture of deep almost bottomless anxiety…”

I have this three-week break before I go to Norway, and my girlfriend is already there, and school is over, so I have a lot of time on my hands……which is my excuse for going to see Die Hard 4 yesterday. Now, on the heels of your very good post on Arts and Entertainment, and our dissection of the pathogenics of *24*, I think a quick glance at the Bruce Willis franchise is in order. Continue reading ‘Die Stupid’

18
Jul

The Delusions of the Last Rightwing Remnant: Freerepublic.com

By ascetorix_ariz20 7 Comments
Categories: The Logical Misanthropist, Pathetic Idioten, Toxic Culture, CJO'S OpEds and Imperial Policy

BY MICHAEL D. RECTENWALD
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Originally published by The Rec Report / Citizens for Legitimate Government

Only a small minority in the United States maintains an unwavering faith in the administration of George W. Bush. Most of the country has finally discovered Bush and his ilk are liars, thieves, incompetent hacks, and mercenary madmen. Only a few true believers remain. These few are reflected in the unwavering statistical minority of 30%-33%, who still support Bush, and apparently will support Bush, no matter what he does. This remnant, or as Steven Colbert called them, “the backwash,” will never sway. Like the Christian martyrs of old, they will go to their deaths swearing allegiance to their master. One might wonder who this faithful remnant is, and just where its members might be found. Well, a narrow and vociferous margin can be found screeching on Freerepublic.com. There, they are apparently alive, but judging from what they hold to be ‘reality,’ not so well. Continue reading ‘The Delusions of the Last Rightwing Remnant: Freerepublic.com’

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