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Jose Bove fights the Mc-Domination of the world
by: Michael Driessen - printed on 02-28-2001
This past summer in France, a mustachioed, pipe-smoking sheep farmer held the French’s regard in the headlines of Le Monde, with the attention usually reserved for soccer heroes: his name was Jose Bove. In August of 1999, Jose led a group attack on the McDonald’s near his farm in the south of France. His trial, held this summer, drew a crowd of over 15,000 people, and Bove commanded a following of thousands more.
Independent Media: Defender of freedom and democracy in this world of evil
by: Tyson Lazzaro - printed on 03-27-2002
Disclaimer: The CIA had no input into this article. Prior to writing this I have met with no pentagon officials, FBI Agents, or received any directives from the pentagon's Office of Strategic Influence regarding what I should print here.
Independently published media is quickly becoming the last bastion of truly free press in a medium filled with cooperate lapdogs and official line propagandists aiming to mold you into complacent Orwellian drones, thinking only in "acceptable" parameters.
‘That’s the thing about Christmas in Ghana’
by: Isaac Vanderburg - printed on 01-31-2001
It is an organic story, really. In 1969 two Peace Corps volunteers went to Ghana, West Africa. They taught English to the Twi-speaking children of villages called Aducrom and Laarte. They ate fufu and banku and redred and nkatiekwein. They did all the things that volunteers do: teach, travel, work, wander, laugh and cry. Of course, they couldn’t help but to love the kids they taught, love the work they did, and love most of Ghana in general.
Should We Attack Saddam? - Questioning the Question of the Day
by: Jeff Gauthier - printed on 09-25-2002
What should the U.S. do to contain Saddam Hussein? This is the question that the Bush administration has pressed to the forefront of U.S foreign policy, and the one that currently defines the limits of legitimate debate in most of the mainstream media. While the hawks maintain that the only way to stop Saddam from pursuing his evil agenda is to mount a full-scale war against Iraq, the doves call for more weapons inspections and/or the tightening of sanctions against the country.
Deforestation, our two-faced friend
by: Nicole Ulacky - printed on 10-10-2001
The snowball of events that has caused our current planetary environmental condition was started long ago. It has been handed down, generation to generation, only to grow with each successive passing. We can thank our parents and grandparents, and grandparents’ grandparents, and all of those before them, for throwing us into a phase of environmental degradation that is nearly unfixable. To say the least, the environmental problem facing our generation is of enormous proportion.
Children of Abraham Need to Return to Common Faith
by: Fr. Gary Ruzicka - printed on 11-03-2000
The situation in the Holy Lands is sad because all of the people involved consider themselves the Children of Abraham. Each considers Abraham their “Father in Faith.” As tragic as it may be, religion is the source of the conflict. For Israel, the sign of being chosen as the Children of Abraham is the sign of the Land. Therefore they cannot relinquish it. The solution to the whole problem might be to return to that common heritage as “Children of Abraham” and concentrate on what they have in common.