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November 30, 2007
A Diary of the Onset of the Greater Depression
By:RowanBy 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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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...
November 27, 2007
Moral Primitivism Anyone? A Satirical Examination of an Apologia for Industrialized Torture
By:RowanBy 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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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...
November 21, 2007
Black Friday:Why this one is especially dark
By:RowanBy 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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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....
November 19, 2007
Compare the Democratic Candidates on Global Warming
By:RowanLiving 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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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...
Middle Class Angst: The Politics of Lemmings
By:RowanBy 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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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...
November 18, 2007
Oil and Climate
By:RowanBy 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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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,...
November 7, 2007
Xylitol Poisonous For Dogs
By:RowanThis 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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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...
November 4, 2007
The Switch Has Been Flipped: It's Too Late for Solutions
By:RowanBy 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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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...
November 3, 2007
Our Masters, Ourselves
By:DaleBy 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...