Things to consider—

Since early 2011, Obama's been waging proxy war on Syria. Imported death squads masquerade as freedom fighters. The scheme's familiar. It repeats. It reflects US imperialism's dark side. In the 1980s, CIA-recruited mujahideen fighters battled Afghanistan's Soviet occupiers. Ronald Reagan called them "the moral equivalent of our founding fathers." He characterized Contra killers the same way. —Stephen LendmanFor over a century now US ambassadors have acted as fifth columns in the nations they are embedded in, their role chiefly to foster corporate and plutocratic power and coordinate machinations against any truly pro-democratic government.•••••"The dead end identity politics of SF Pride, which sells out a peace hero like Bradley Manning to curry favor with the American ruling class, is what I had in mind. The empire loves your tameness, irrelevance and cowardice, SF Pride. You don’t bother the American ruling class — a five foot two, 105 pound soldier does because he has a conscience and because he didn’t make comfort the guiding principle of his life...." —Randy Shields

Zuckerberg Gets an Earful After Promoting Keystone XL

 ABOMINATIONS, AMERICAN STUDIES, ANTI-CORPORATISM, ANTI-NEOLIBERALISM, ASSHOLES, BASTARDS & CRIMINALS, CORPORATE MENTALITY, CORPORATE OWNED PARTIES, ECOANIMAL, ENVIRONMENTAL STRUGGLES, PLUTOCRATS, PUTRID CORPOMEDIA, SAVING THE PLANET  6 Responses »
May 162013
 
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Network Against KXL
by DAVID SWANSON

zuckerbergTIMEMark Zuckerberg’s complaint box is filling up.  The billionaire founder of FaceBook is behaving as destructively as other sociopaths who hoard vast riches while others starve and die for lack of medical care.  And people are letting him know how they feel about it.

Zuckerberg’s new advocacy group FWD.us is running TV ads in support of the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline and oil drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.  A petition asks him to stop.  The comments that people are leaving on the petition ask him to do a number of other things I won’t repeat.  You’ll never guess what they’ve found that rhymes with Zuck.

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If You Meet the Cat-God along the Road

 ACTIVISTS & HEROES, ANIMAL DEFENDERS, ANIMAL MARTYRDOM, ECOANIMAL, INSPIRATIONAL, THE ANIMAL QUESTION, THE HUMAN ANIMAL  1 Response »
May 052013
 
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by Randy Shields

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Cisco, my little black cat of 11 years, died recently of kidney disease.

Back in August of 2000, after working the night shift at a hospital, I drove home at 7 a.m. on an elevated four lane road in downtown Springfield, Ohio. I was in the left lane, heading south, and I could see a squashed black furry creature right on the yellow stripe with cars whizzing by in both directions. As I went by, I was wondering what poor animal this was — a skunk maybe? I turned my head and looked down and a little kitten, very much alive and not squashed at all, looked up at me. Just lying there petrified. I couldn’t imagine how he got to that point without getting hit because there weren’t any houses or green space nearby. He was just plunked down in the middle of car and concrete hell. I drove till I could get off the overpass and turned around. I came back up the other way and, as there was no shoulder, I parked in the right lane, put my flashers on and, for good measure, left the driver’s side door open as a way of saying: “Stand clear, everybody: crazy animal person at work!” Continue reading »

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Indecency remembered: Kitten Stompers at the Supreme Court

 ABOMINATIONS, AMERICAN STUDIES, ANIMAL DEFENDERS, ANIMAL MARTYRDOM, ECOANIMAL, INDECENT SLIMEBALLS, JUDICIAL  5 Responses »
May 042013
 
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Archives: Articles you should have read the first time around but missed.

Alito Dissents as Other Justices Kick Up Their Heels!
by RANDY SHIELDS, Counterpunch, a fraternal site
(APRIL 23-25, 2010)

Editor’s Note: This article is accompanied (see addendum) by a cultural-political analysis provided by the editors of Animal People. It amplifies the comprehension of the issues faced by activists working to eliminate these forms of appalling cruelty.
Alito: Momentarily out of sync with an out of control court.

Alito: Momentarily out of sync with an out of control court.

Last Tuesday the Supreme Court patted America on the back about its specialness, its  sacred right of free speech, by striking down a law which prohibited the selling of “crush” videos where kittens and other small animals are stomped to death for the sadistic sexual satisfaction of, well, people who have a God-given right to sadistic sexual satisfaction and that most defended corollary American right — the right to make money off of it. The  8 to 1 majority decision (http://is.gd/bAK7p) is a straight up over broad interpretation of a very targeted law which let off the hook nearly every other kind of depiction of animal cruelty — hunting, slaughterhouses, bullfighting, etc. –  as Justice Samuel Alito’s WTF! dissent makes obvious.  Continue reading »

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Would You Be Willing to Endure What Farm Animals Do?

 ACTIVISTS & HEROES, ANIMAL DEFENDERS, ANIMAL MARTYRDOM, CORPORATE CRIMES, CORPORATE MENTALITY, CULTURE & CRITICISM, ECOANIMAL, IDEOLOGICAL STRUGGLE, SAVING THE PLANET  1 Response »
Apr 102013
 
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Activism has taken an interesting turn with a movement that was started by Sasha Boojor, 27, from Tel Aviv, which led to three activists branding themselves in public with the number “269″ in an effort to raise awareness about the things that are done to anonymous farm animals every day. Continue reading »

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Another Breakthrough in Hydrogen Energy Challenges Fossil Fuel Dominance

 AMERICAN STUDIES, ANTI-CORPORATISM, BATTLE OF COMMUNICATIONS, CITIZEN TOOLS, CLIMATE CHANGE, ECOANIMAL, ENVIRONMENTAL STRUGGLES, ETHOLOGY, SAVING THE PLANET  Comments Off
Apr 062013
 
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Alex Pietrowski, Staff Writer

Waking Times

hydrogen-Flickr-Leaf-linh.ngan_-300x273Researchers at Virginia Tech have developed a new process that extracts large quantities of hydrogen gas from plants in a renewable and eco-friendly way, offering us another potential alternative to ending our dependence on fossil fuels. Continue reading »

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Whalers and Sea Shepherds collide

 ACTIVISTS & HEROES, ANIMAL DEFENDERS, ANIMAL MARTYRDOM, ASIA AFFAIRS, ASSHOLES, BASTARDS & CRIMINALS, CULTURE & CRITICISM, ECOANIMAL, INTERNATIONAL REPORTAGE, SAVING THE PLANET, THE ANIMAL QUESTION  Comments Off
Mar 262013
 
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From ANIMAL PEOPLE,  March 2013:

By Merritt Clifton

The Bob Barker interposing itself between Japanese whaler and fuel ship.

The Bob Barker interposing itself between Japanese whaler and fuel ship. The Japanese ship later rammed the anti-whaling vessel, partially disabling it.

HONG KONG––A Sea Shepherd Conservation Society video posted to YouTube on February 26,  2013 shows the Sea Shepherd vessel Bob Barker being repeatedly crunched between the much larger Japanese whaling factory ship Nisshin Maru and the Sun Laurel,  a Panamanian-flagged fuel oil tanker reportedly carrying a South Korean crew. Continue reading »

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