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Entries from May 2008

Hope, Change, and Pissing in the Wind

May 29th, 2008 · No Comments

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 […]

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Evolve or die: Can we shed our moral primitivism before it’s too late?

May 18th, 2008 · 1 Comment

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, […]

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Tags: Abominable Speciesism · Academic Battlefields · Animal Liberation · Animal Suffering · Animals & Environment

The non-threatening candidate

May 10th, 2008 · No Comments

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 […]

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Harry Belafonte addresses the Lincoln Brigade

May 9th, 2008 · 1 Comment

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 […]

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Tears for forgotten women

May 7th, 2008 · 6 Comments

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 […]

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The Ruthless Id

May 6th, 2008 · 2 Comments

NOTE: This is part of a dialog between our VOXPOP editors John Steppling and Guy Zimmerman. For the complete discussion please visit VOXPOP, which, while focusing on the arts, theater, cinema and politics, is also part of Cyrano’s Journal.

I THINK GUY THAT your points about Iron Man are right, and it’s worth taking […]

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Tags: American Politicians · American Way of Life · American brainwash · Bourgeois Democracy · CJO'S OpEds · Capitalism for Dummies · Capitalist Ways · Class Analysis · Class Struggle · Europe Matters · John Steppling · european union

Their Tears

May 4th, 2008 · 1 Comment

Animals also have rights. Animals also do not want to suffer. They want to be treated humanely. They want to receive love and affection. And they certainly want to live out their natural lives. They do not want to die or be killed before their natural end. This is also their right. - Garda Ghista
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Tags: Abominable Speciesism · Animal Liberation · Animal Suffering · Animals & Environment · Ideological Combat · The Logical Misanthropist · Toxic Culture