The Greanville Journal

By David Irving

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Conservatively speaking, approximately 100 million vertebrates in the world are experimented upon annually by the animal research industry of which approximately 22 million animals belong to the United States. Most of the animals are killed after research. While the animal research industry has managed successfully to brain wash the public into thinking animal research consists primarily of medical research, that is not the case. A large portion of animal research takes place in the cosmetics industry, the military, the EPA, the FDA, private research laboratories for industrial use, animal food companies, and others. [Read more →]

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Original Dateline: November 09, 2004

A SHOW HOSTED BY AWARD WINNING JOURNALIST AMY GOODMAN

Republished as a public service

AMY GOODMAN: We speak with John Perkins, a former respected member of the international banking community. In his book Confessions of an Economic Hit Man he describes how as a highly paid professional, he helped the U.S. cheat poor countries around the globe out of trillions of dollars by lending them more money than they could possibly repay and then take over their economies. [includes rush transcript]

John Perkins describes himself as a former economic hit man–a highly paid professional who cheated countries around the globe out of trillions of dollars.

20 years ago Perkins began writing a book with the working title, “Conscience of an Economic Hit Men.”

Perkins writes, “The book was to be dedicated to the presidents of two countries, men who had been his clients whom I respected and thought of as kindred spirits–Jaime Roldós, president of Ecuador, and Omar Torrijos, president of Panama. Both had just died in fiery crashes. Their deaths were not accidental. They were assassinated because they opposed that fraternity of corporate, government, and banking heads whose goal is global empire. We Economic Hit Men failed to bring Roldós and Torrijos around, and the other type of hit men, the CIA-sanctioned jackals who were always right behind us, stepped in.

John Perkins goes on to write: “I was persuaded to stop writing that book. I started it four more times during the next twenty years. On each occasion, my decision to begin again was influenced by current world events: the U.S. invasion of Panama in 1980, the first Gulf War, Somalia, and the rise of Osama bin Laden. However, threats or bribes always convinced me to stop.”

But now Perkins has finally published his story. The book is titled Confessions of an Economic Hit Man. John Perkins joins us now in our Firehouse studios.

• John Perkins, from 1971 to 1981 he worked for the international consulting firm of Chas T. Main where he was a self-described “economic hit man.” He is the author of the new book Confessions of an Economic Hit Man. [Read more →]

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The Mad Av treatment—well, let’s be fair, every candidate gets it these days.

Of Obama, Democrats, and the Power Elite

By Patrice Greanville and Jason Miller

CHARISMATIC, ARTICULATE, SMOOTH, AND INTELLIGENT, Barrack Obama is the living embodiment of his vague, ethereal, and tantalizing messages of “hope” and “change.” To millions upon millions of US Americans desperate to purge the naked imperialism and blatant criminality of the Bush administration from the White House, Obama IS hope and change. Yet like many establishment liberals before him, Obama is no cure for the malignant creep toward fascism plaguing our nation. If elected, at best he will merely serve to postpone the inevitable a bit.

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By Dr. Steve Best

[The introduction and questions providing the catalyst for Best’s deconstruction of capitalism, corporatism, speciesism and the like are by CJO Associate Editor Jason Miller]

5/17/08

“As ye sow, so shall ye reap…”

E N D L E S S RESOURCE WARS, globalization, privatization, profits over life, exploitation, raping the Earth, poisoning and irradiating the environment, exponentially criminal levels of unnecessary suffering caused by the concentration of wealth into the hands of a few, Climate Change, alarming rates of species extinction, Peak Oil, a jungle of cronyism and corruption so dense you couldn’t hack your way through it with the sharpest of machetes, and increasingly powerful monopoly entities intensifying their stranglehold on the “free market” are the rotting fruits that comprise the bitter harvest we are reaping by the bushel-basketful. [Read more →]

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The non-threatening candidate.

Tracking Obama: The End of Truth

Presidential Politics 2008 - Obama

Wednesday, 07 May 2008

By BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley

A Barack Obama presidency would certainly be a first - the first time that “most black people will end their historic progressive politics and applaud this country’s criminal activity just because the head criminal looks like them.” Despite the fact that African Americans overwhelmingly agree with the thrust of Rev. Jeremiah Wright’s critique of American society, history and government policies, they will undoubtedly vote in huge majorities for the Illinois senator who has repudiated Wright. “Obama’s campaign has been filled with a laundry list of lies” and promises to continue on that track. But, as with Colin Powell’s lying, international lawbreaking term in high office, “most black people [will make] excuses for him and for his crimes.” Although verbally less bellicose than Hillary Clinton, Obama is no less the warmonger in substance. [Read more →]

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Remarks by Harry Belafonte’s about Paul Robeson to the Veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade

Harry in his late 70s. A towering example of commitment to higher values. [This is a reposting of our first special review in the Outstanding Artists & Performers Series.]

[Note: The event was intended to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade’s arrival in Spain. The reunion took place at Boro of Manhattan Community College, 199 Chambers St at West St, New York City, on Sunday, April 27, 1997, at 2:00pm. What follows is a transcription of an audio tape recording of the event. Harry Belafonte was introduced by Henry Foner, Master of Ceremonies and Retired President of the sponsoring union.]

Harry Belafonte:

[prolonged applause] Thank you very much. Thank you. When I came in, and looked around, I saw groups of people related to this afternoon’s events, most of them looking somewhat older than myself … [laughter] … all smoking! I mean, I never saw so many cigarettes in my life! And I was thinking, you know […] when you’d have generations of future anti-fascists [??] set a better example! As a footnote I would like to tell you that I, selfishly, would like to see each and every one of you, live for another hundred years! [applause] [Read more →]

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BY SUKI FALCONBERG

MEXICO CITY — This prostitute, her identity unknown, was killed in a hotel, 1999.

5/6/08

Over the last few months, I have seen a number of articles in the Las Vegas press that fill me with sadness. The first by local journalist Kristen Peterson is called “Glamour Girls of the Streets” (Las Vegas Sun, 4 Dec. 2007) and recounts how photojournalist Jonnie Andersen heads out to take pictures of Las Vegas street prostitutes. According to Peterson, “The girls in Jonnie Andersen’s recent photos emit joy, dignity, sensuality and strength.” [Read more →]

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