He who says speciesism says fascism—
By Patrice Greanville ("Pije")Forty-eight thousand million animals—yes, 48 billion creatures—are estimated to die each year as a result of human activities ranging from factory farming to hunting, the...
View ArticleReflections on Gore Vidal's Legacy
By Patrice GreanvilleBorn in 1925 into a socially prominent family, and with more than half a century of prolific work (which continues well into the 21st century), Gore Vidal has become justifiably...
View Article"THE SECRET": Creating a Culture of Cheerfulness as Rome Burns
A REFLECTION ON US CULTURE BY CAROLYN BAKERComment by pije: "Scam artists, charlatans, positivist-thinkers, and mentalists have a long history in the US. Today, cultural maggots like Oprah Winfrey and...
View ArticleThe Real Face of War
By Patrice Greanville ("Pije")The images that the media won't show you."...and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks: Nation shall not lift up sword against...
View ArticleVIRGINIA TECH: Let the healing NOT begin!
BY GARY CORSERI Posted at DK by Patrice Greanville Simulpost at Cyrano's Journal Online and Thomas Paine's CornerWhen I had cable, I found myself using CNN as a kind of background music, deluding...
View ArticlePeggy Noonan: A Whoring She Will Go
Dateline: 5/1/07"Peggy Noonan (born Margaret Ellen Noonan on September 7, 1950 in Brooklyn, New York) is an author of seven books on politics, religion and culture and a weekly columnist for the Wall...
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Shape Up Democrats, Anything But Bush won't do
It takes political courage, not flim-flam, to see something like this happen...BY PAUL A DONOVAN, Assistant Editor, Cyrano's Journal Online (http://www.bestcyrano.org/) Posted by P. GreanvilleWith the...
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The attacks on SiCKO make me sick
Disbelieving Michael Moore interviews British physician.BY PATRICE GREANVILLE OPINION BY THE EDITOR OF CYRANO'S JOURNAL ONLINE ( http://www.bestcyrano.org/ )Well, judging from what we are beginning to...
View ArticleOf Obama, the Democrats & the power elite
Is Obama really the vehicle for genuine change in America? His candidacy has detonated enormous expectations in a citizenry that wishes to go on believing we really live in a democracy where the...
View ArticleBarack Obama's "Last Picture Show" Budget
[“The Last Picture Show” was a 1971 film depicting the decay of small town America. It took place in the fictitious town of Anarene, Texas.]We hear a distant tune reminiscent of America’s high and...
View ArticleThe real story behind the AIG scandals
The Real AIG Conspiracy by Prof. Michael HudsonSimulpost with Cyrano's Journal OnlineIT MAY SEEM ODD, but the public outrage against $135 million in AIG bonuses is a godsend to Wall Street, AIG...
View Article"Left" Obamites prefer Kool-Aid to Struggle / By Glen Ford
FOR SOME TIME NOW a growing segment of the self-defined left has been vituperative in its attacks on fellow progressives who remain unimpressed by Pres. Obama's performance so far, especially as it...
View ArticleHow Chic Was My Progress | By Morris Berman
FOR QUITE SOME TIME now I've been interested in the idea of progress, as well as the Enlightenment's notion that progress is automatic (and somewhat inevitable) and that history eventually unfurls...
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