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18
Oct

SMOULDERING ISSUES: Green Is The New Red

By ascetorix_ariz20 4 Comments
Categories: Fascism US Style, Appalling Hypocrisy Annals, Animal Liberation, Abominable Speciesism, Obstinate Conscience, American Way of Life, Corporadoes, Toxic Culture, Controversy and Animals & Environment Tags: No Tags.


Britches in the arms of an ALF member, with stitches removed. This stump macaque became famous when animal liberation “terrorists” raided the lab where she was being subjected to frivolous experimentation, and found her eyes had been sewn shut as a form of early maternal and sensorial deprivation. (See below) As a critical part of the establishment complex, a lot of universities work hand in glove with corporations, the military and other institutions in projects that the public would readily disallow if properly informed.

BY WILL POTTER // Dateline: “Green is the New Red: How the Bush Administration Is Using Terror Laws to Prosecute Nonviolent Environmental Activists,” Counterpunch, May 04, 2006.

A version of this article was also published by Earth First Journal and Green is the new red blog

• Reproduced here with comments from Green is New Red blog

The Red Scare was less about evidence than really great PR. Joseph McCarthy and crew flacked one word so relentlessly, so virulently, that it became a political albatross to hang around anyone’s neck. The true meaning of the word fell by the wayside: communism became a fluid brand to slap on the enemy of the hour. Continue reading ‘SMOULDERING ISSUES: Green Is The New Red’

07
Oct

HISTORY ANNALS: Hugo Chávez on the Failed Coup

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Categories: Socialism & Communism, Media Reform, Indecent Plutocracy, Obstinate Conscience, Obstinate History and Imperial Policy Tags: No Tags.

President Hugo Chávez interviewed by Marta Harnecker, Monthly Review, Sept. 2005

This article is excerpted from Understanding the Venezuelan Revolution: Hugo Chávez Talks to Marta Harnecker published by Monthly Review Press. The book covers a wide range of topics, including Chávez’s political formation, the transformation currently taking place in Venezuela, and its place in the global context. In what follows, Chávez recounts the events of the failed coup d’etat of April 11, 2002.—Eds.

Continue reading ‘HISTORY ANNALS: Hugo Chávez on the Failed Coup’

27
Sep

The lessons of Ahmadinejad at Columbia

By Greanville 2 Comments
Categories: Zionist Footprints, American Way of Life, Obstinate Conscience, Appalling Hypocrisy Annals, Middle East, Academic Battlefields, Obstinate History, Establishment Whores, The Contemptible Media, Toxic Culture and Imperial Policy Tags: No Tags.


The Iranian President at the United Nations.

COMMENTARY By Jerry Mazza /•\ Online Journal Associate Editor | Dateline: Sep 26, 2007 // Fraternal crosspost

The Ahmadinejad visit to New York provided the media and its associated political class with yet another feeding frenzy to exercise their well developed talent for high-handed hypocrisy. Obviously it helps when the target is long preceded by and shrouded in obstinate ignorance and consequent confusion in a culture where history is only of peripheral interest, and where vociferous Zionism has a de facto chokehold on almost all critical institutions—from Congress to the media, and certainly academia. It also doesn’t help matters much that the Iranian leader—like most US imperial targets—is scarcely adept at juggling the symbols of American propaganda, and is often quite skilled at shooting himself in the foot. Like many smaller-power leaders who stand in defiance to probably the most hypocritical empire on record, they do not seem to fully understand the importance of communicating clearly and forthrightly with the US public above and through the curtain of thick distortions certain to be deployed by the corporate media and professional politicians (two sides of the same coin). And therein they miss fine opportunities to neutralize at least some of the poison being continuously spread around by these agents of imperial propaganda as they character assassinate the leaders and cultures marked for eventual physical attacks. It’s high time these leaders made an effort to understand and master this very special but essential language that could—up to a point—lessen the probabilities of such an attack.—Eds.

Continue reading ‘The lessons of Ahmadinejad at Columbia’

19
Sep

Greenspan on 60 Minutes: It was all Bush’s fault

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Categories: Unredeemable Scum, Bourgeois Economics, Indecent Plutocracy, Obstinate Conscience, State Crimes and Establishment Whores Tags: No Tags.


As a disciple of Ayn Rand, Greenspan shares her notion that selfish pursuits are morally salutary.
BY MIKE WHITNEY Dateline: Wed Sep 19, 2007

SIMULPOSTED AT
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Alan Greenspan’s appearance on 60 Minutes was preceded with all the pomp and ceremony of a royal wedding. The public relations blitz dragged out for a whole week.

What profound truisms would the elusive former-fed master divulge to the News Magazine’s withered-coquette, Leslie Stahl? Would he produce his crystal ball and forecast America’s blurry economic future in mangled Fed-speak? Or would he focus on the startling gyrations in the stock market and the “frothy” conditions in the slumping housing market? The suspense was nearly unbearable. Continue reading ‘Greenspan on 60 Minutes: It was all Bush’s fault’

19
Sep

At What Price, Safety?

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Categories: Appalling Hypocrisy Annals, The US MIlitary, American Politicians, Anti-War Work, Indecent Plutocracy, Communism, The Contemptible Media, Toxic Culture, State Crimes, Obstinate Conscience and Obstinate History Tags: No Tags.


Sheehan friends and relatives in demonstration in Virginia. Cindy presents a HUGE problem to the system’s apologists: a person of unshakable conviction who is firmly “on the left.” So far efforts at character assessination have failed, but should she gain public office, the most likely tack will be to kill her credibility with faint praise, suggesting she’s too “naive” about the world, she’s a one-trick pony, and so on. Media whores have their work cut out for them with Cindy.

BY CINDY SHEEHAN Dateline: September 19th, 2007

I am consistently amazed at things that right-wing nut jobs throw at me to justify their support of an unjustifiable war. Seriously, when you watch Generals, Ambassadors, Senators and Congress Reps and pundits who still cheerlead for a miserable, failed and murderous policy you can almost see the skepticism in their eyes, too. They know they are lying for their masters now, if they, like George and Dick didn’t always know they were lying. Continue reading ‘At What Price, Safety?’

18
Sep

BUSH UNMASKED: The Uncompassionate Conservative

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Categories: Moral Depravity, Appalling Hypocrisy Annals, American Politicians, Indecent Plutocracy, Bourgeois Democracy, Toxic Culture, State Crimes, Obstinate Conscience and Obstinate History Tags: No Tags.

BUSH UNMASKED, By Molly Ivins. FROM THE CLASSIC FILES OF ALLEN L ROLAND Dateline: Tuesday, September 18, 2007


“Out Bush murderer!” screams this billboard in Uruguay during Bush’s recent trip to Latin America. Apparently many foreigners see what “W” is all about better than many Americans.

It’s not that he’s mean. It’s just that when it comes to seeing how his policies affect people, George W. Bush doesn’t have a clue : —Molly Ivins

TO FULLY UNDERSTAND George W Bush ~ you must listen to fellow Texan and columnist Molly Ivins who interprets why George Bush ” is genuinely disconnected from the impact of his decisions on people .” Continue reading ‘BUSH UNMASKED: The Uncompassionate Conservative’

11
Sep

HIDDEN WAGES OF WAR: How Many Dead? How Many Mad?

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Categories: Obstinate Conscience, Indecent Plutocracy, Investigative Reporting, Zionist Footprints, Middle East, The Contemptible Media, Dispatch from Paris and Imperial Policy Tags: No Tags.


Flight carrying badly injured soldiers out of Iraq.

BY SHAYNE NELSON

The Iraq War’s “hidden casualties” is yet another scandalous instance of media malfunction which somehow favors the warmongers amongst us. This post challenges the accuracy of the official tallies. What would the world do without citizens’ journalism?

Back in the Seventies a French journalist told me a not-so-hard-to-believe tale of the Vietnam war, from his days as a war correspondent in Vietnam for the French newspaper Le Monde. He said that every evening during that conflict, a huge jet full of dying soldiers took off from Saigon, headed to Japan. He said that war correspondents in Saigon called it ‘The Flying Coffin,’ since most of the soldiers aboard the plane, though still alive, were so badly injured that most of them would soon be dead. Continue reading ‘HIDDEN WAGES OF WAR: How Many Dead? How Many Mad?’

18
Aug

Bye-Bye Baghdad

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BY “ANONYMOUS” | Topical research associate: Auveline Robinson
As published on 8.17.07 by fraternal site, Truthdig

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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 written anonymously in order to offer an uncensored account.

I have been living and working in Baghdad for the past 16 months and will be leaving next week for good. I am one of those overpaid Department of Defense contractors, or, as some would call me, a “war profiteer.” Yes, I have profited. I am out of debt and have money saved. But it has cost me. I am a changed man. I have become hardened. I almost feel like a zombie. Continue reading ‘Bye-Bye Baghdad’

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 Tags: No Tags.

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

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Categories: Appalling Hypocrisy Annals, Animal Liberation, Moral Depravity, Obstinate Conscience, The Logical Misanthropist, American Way of Life and Toxic Culture Tags: No Tags.

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’

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