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  • one solitary life
    17 January 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Nature is an oxymoronic creature. On the surface it can be breathtaking in its beauty and panoramic displays of life. Yet its very existence depends upon death. Herbivores kill and consume plant life in order to survive. Carnivores kill and consume other animals. And omnivores kill and consume both.
    Although their position at the top of the food chain has caused most humans to become omnivores, this dominant position has also compelled them to exploit plants and animals not simply for (…)

  • Devil protects his own
    15 January 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by David R. Hoffman, Legal Editor of Pravda.Ru Copr.
    The recent assassination of Pakistani opposition leader Benazir Bhutto—who prior to her death had been heralded as a champion of democracy and moderation—compelled me to examine the phenomenon that George Bernard Shaw once termed “the extreme form of censorship.”
    I subsequently learned that those who stand for justice, peace, tolerance and positive social change are disproportionately the victims of assassination, while those who (…)

  • Sarkozy reinvents France for bling era
    31 December 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    John Lichfield: Our Man In Paris
    The republican monarchy invented by Charles de Gaulle – aloof, discreet, solemn, haughty – vanished last week somewhere between Cinderella’s castle and Space Mountain.
    Nicolas Sarkozy wants to reinvent France for the 21st century. He has started by reinventing the French presidency for the Age of Celebrity. The President of the Republic has become the host of a permanent chat show; the only contestant in a "Big Brother" house called the Elysée Palace; the (…)

  • A People’s Revolution in New Orleans - So begins the Civil War in the United States (video)
    29 December 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    "The New Orleans City Council has unanimously voted to move ahead with the demolition of 4,500 units of public housing. Under the plan, the city’s four largest public housing developments will be razed and replaced with mixed-income housing. Hundreds of people were turned away from the City Council meeting with pepper spray and tasers. Many were arrested."
    "Footage by Luisa Dantas and Michael Boedigheimer of JoLu Productions, Robbie Leppzer of Turning Tide, Jacquie Soohen of Big Noise (…)

  • Births of Babies in Unlikely Places — Or the Grinch Who Impeded Gay/Lesbian Equality
    24 December 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By James Nimmo
    During this winter solstice time in America some of you will consider again the birth of babies in unlikely places, such as a particular middle-eastern stable during the Roman era approximately 2,000 years ago. And while reading about the 2007 Sissy Awards at www.advocate.com I got to thinking about another unlikely birth place, a particular lesbian womb of the early 21st century. The animal stable birth is well publicized by the anecdotal writings of the Middle Eastern (…)

  • ROSALIE BERTELL: Health&Environmental Costs of Militarism
    22 December 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Rosalie Bertell, Ph.D., GNSH Presented in Barcelona, Thursday, 24 June, 2004
    Abstract: There has been a fundamental change in the nature of war and militarism since World War I, and this change has escalated out of control since World War II. The use of toxic gas as a weapon, poisoning of water ways or air, and using chemicals in warfare broke the taboo against widespread and indiscriminative killing of non-combatants,.
    This trend escalated during WW II through carpet bombings, the (…)

  • Union Group Stages Countrywide Protest in San Francisco
    20 December 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    Labor union “Unite Here” held a protest outside Countrywide’s financial center in San Francisco today (19 dec), expanding their ongoing “Don’t Deposit at Countrywide” campaign.
    Protestors held signs that read “Don’t feed the bank that bites you” and passed out leaflets to passer-bys with the message, “Don’t Feed the Animals.”
    The group wants Countrywide to help the scores of at-risk borrowers who are already behind on their mortgages, a group the union believes will be ignored in favor (…)

  • DEAN REED, AMERICAN REBEL
    17 December 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By David R. Hoffman
    From the beginning he was destined to become an “American Rebel.” Even his name presaged this reality. Dean, his first name, was the last name of the actor James, who became a cultural icon after his 1955 appearance in the movie Rebel Without a Cause. Unfortunately that same year, just as this twenty-four-year-old actor was beginning to enjoy his fame, he died in a car crash.
    His last name was Reed, shared with the radical journalist John, an eyewitness to the (…)

  • Sarkozy to create a ’French Pentagon’ military HQ
    12 December 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Anna Willard
    PARIS – President Nicolas Sarkozy wants to regroup France’s different military commands into one new headquarters on the edge of Paris, a ministry official said on Monday.
    The commands of the navy, the army, and the overall military command, will move in 2012 to one building in southwest Paris next to the existing air force command, the official said.
    Around 10,000 people will be based at the new site in the Balard district, including the 5,000 already located in the (…)

  • SARKOZY
    10 December 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By IGNACIO RAMONET Le Monde Diplomatique
    Like the pied piper of Hamelin, Nicolas Sarkozy initially enchanted eminent figures on all sides with his verve and brio. The media were equally spellbound and joined in the mass hysteria. France was virtually hypnotised by this disconcertingly hyperactive president, fizzing with vague plans.
    The scales began to fall from everyone’s eyes when the true nature of the sideshow was revealed. The magician was just a neo-liberal in disguise.
    This was (…)