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November 30, 2007

A Diary of the Onset of the Greater Depression

By:Rowan
By Carolyn Baker of Speaking Truth to Power Carolyn Baker Reviews Danny Schechter's e-book SQUEEZED (Click on link to Download) For more years than I can count I've heard Danny Schechter's name bandied about in progressive circles, but for all...
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November 27, 2007

Moral Primitivism Anyone? A Satirical Examination of an Apologia for Industrialized Torture

By:Rowan
By Jason Miller of Thomas Paine's Corner "Again, if PETA is putting something out, I will always have my doubts - they see things one way and one way only. Theirs. In many ways the activists in this country are...
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November 21, 2007

Black Friday:Why this one is especially dark

By:Rowan
By Carolyn Baker of Speaking Truth to Power A few moments ago I posted on my site the MSNBC version of "The Coming Consumer Crunch" which forecasts severe and painful belt-tightening for American families in 2008. Then when I checked...
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November 19, 2007

Compare the Democratic Candidates on Global Warming

By:Rowan
Living on Earth and Grist and Grist sponsored a Democratic candidate forum in Los Angeles on Global Warming and America's Energy Future. Only Kucinich, Edwards, and Clinton bothered to show up - which dramatically narrows the candidate field for me....
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Middle Class Angst: The Politics of Lemmings

By:Rowan
By Stan Goff writing for Speaking Truth to Power Suburbia is also a spiritual wasteland, a place where the wonder of nature is desecrated ubiquitously with corporate logos and all the artifacts of late technological society. There is a common...
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November 18, 2007

Oil and Climate

By:Rowan
By Marilyse Crise de l'énergie et changements climatiques, La fortune et la famine, La Fontaine, 18 novembre 2007 Energy crisis and climate change, wealth and famine, La Fontaine, November 18th, 2007...
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November 7, 2007

Xylitol Poisonous For Dogs

By:Rowan
This is for the dog lovers and the dog people in your life. Xylitol, a sweetener increasingly used in chewing gum, candy, cookies, and even toothpaste, is potentially fatal to dogs. While humans process only a small percentage of xylitol,...
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November 4, 2007

The Switch Has Been Flipped: It's Too Late for Solutions

By:Rowan
By Carolyn Baker of Speaking Truth to Power This past week I attended another screening of "What A Way To Go: Life At The End Of Empire". My intention was not to see the documentary yet again-perhaps for the fifteenth...
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November 3, 2007

Our Masters, Ourselves

By:Dale
By Dale Allen Pfeiffer of The Mountain Sentinel Those of us living in the US live in a fascist system, right now, today. We live in a system where powerful corporations call the shots, both nationally and globally. They do...
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