Entries from May 2008
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 […]
[Read more →]
Tags: Uncategorized
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, […]
[Read more →]
Tags: Abominable Speciesism · Academic Battlefields · Animal Liberation · Animal Suffering · Animals & Environment
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 […]
[Read more →]
Tags: Uncategorized
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 […]
[Read more →]
Tags: Uncategorized
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 […]
[Read more →]
Tags: Uncategorized
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 […]
[Read more →]
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
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
By […]
[Read more →]
Tags: Abominable Speciesism · Animal Liberation · Animal Suffering · Animals & Environment · Ideological Combat · The Logical Misanthropist · Toxic Culture