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Butchery Classes and Parties: How Much Do You Want to Know About How Your Meat Gets to Your Plate?
Anneli Rufus - AlterNet,
25 Oct 2010
Does this mean Americans are eating boiled tongue, braised brains and oxtail soup again? “They sure are,” Wilson says with a laugh. Avedano’s offers monthly butchering classes: Students pay $300 each to tackle whole lambs and pigs. “Butcher parties,” where guests throng excitedly around animals being dismembered, are like latter-day raves. Butchery is the new cool.
→ read full articleNINETEEN EIGHTY-FOUR CAME A BIT LATE, BUT ITS BRAVE NEW WORLD ARRIVED JUST THE SAME
Justin O'Connell – Dissident Voice,
12 Apr 2010
In this age of social networking, private daily diaries have been replaced by online profiles. On Facebook, where people’s daily actions, thoughts and relationships are catalogued — sometimes on a daily basis — the CIA and FBI use ads, tailored to individual users, to recruit. To think they also aren’t using social networking sites for intelligence gathering purposes would — you know, considering the twentieth century — be really stupid.
→ read full articleCHILDREN OF GAZA
Channel Four TV (U.K.) – Global Research,
12 Apr 2010
For once, this documentary was an opportunity for the children of Gaza themselves to speak out and to tell their own stories instead of it being told on their behalf by propagandists with a vested interest in how these children are portrayed.
→ read full articleEUROPEAN CAPITALISM’S WEAK LINK?
Antonis Davenellos – Socialist Worker,
11 Feb 2010
Sweeping budget cuts by the Greek government have provoked a fightback by labor unions and students. Tax collectors have already called a 48-hour strike, to be followed by a strike by all public sector workers set for February 10, even as the government demands a 5.5 percent wage cut for public employees. The national trade […]
→ read full articleMAGICAL REALISM — A COUP IN HONDURAS, SO 20TH CENTURY!
Saul Landau and Nelson Valdes – Znet,
26 Jan 2010
"I don’t see why we need to stand by and watch a country go Communist because of the irresponsibility of its own people." — Henry Kissinger, June 26, 1970 [referring to Chile/Salvador Allende] "I’ve heard many in this room say that they will not recognize the elections in Honduras. … What does that mean in […]
→ read full articleWE’VE IGNORED KING ON WAR
Rusty Nelson – The Spokesman-Review,
17 Jan 2010
On Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Monday [Jan 18 2010], hundreds of people will gather, greet friends, hear inspiring words, walk Spokane streets together and promote racial and community harmony. It’s a genuine community event, but some of us experience it more personally because our lives, faith perspectives and worldviews were transformed by the life […]
→ read full articleA CLIMATE CHANGE POLICY PRIMER
Robin Hahnel - ZNet,
14 Jan 2010
Because misconceptions are commonplace a basic tutorial on the logic and implications of regulation, carbon taxes, and tradable carbon emission permits is useful. Hopefully this will correct some common misunderstandings about what different policies do, and do not do, and help leftists and environmentalists who are not professional economists avoid being brow beaten when debating […]
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THE OBAMA DECEPTION
ChangeDaChannel,
28 Oct 2009
The Obama Deception is a hard-hitting film that completely destroys the myth that Barack Obama is working for the best interests of the American people.Wall Street is a Scam, and has taken over Main Street of America. This video reveals those who are the real power behind every government including the USA. They always find a […]
→ read full articleCOULD U.S. OFFICIALS PLEASE TREAT A NOBEL PEACE LAUREATE WITH RESPECT?
Ann Wright, Retired U.S. Army Colonel,
29 Aug 2009
Less than a month ago, in late July, 2009, Nobel Peace Laureate Mairead Maguire was traveling from Dublin, Ireland to Albuquerque, New Mexico to meet Peace Laureate Jody Williams to participate in peace events there. As she arrived at Dulles airport near Washington, DC, from Ireland on July 30, 2009, she passed through the regular […]
→ read full articleWHY DON’T WE CARE ABOUT SRI LANKA?
Dean Nelson,
15 May 2009
Western governments and societies are always quick to condemn atrocities in the Middle East and Africa. But there’s been a lack of comparable outrage over the events in Sri Lanka. Do we have favourites when it comes to civilian casualties? Do we care about some peoples’ suffering more than others? The contrasting levels of public […]
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