America is Empire. Our foreign policy is to promote and protect multinational corporations, put down obstructionist democracies, sell arms, and engage in perpetual war. We protect the interests of our arms customers and US corporations by patrolling the planet with war ships and stationing American troops on almost 1,000 US military bases in 150 countries…
Animal Rights advocates believe animals have the same right to be here as do humans. Animal Rights advocates believe animals have the same rights not to be exploited, enslaved, or murdered as we humans claim for ourselves. Animal Rights advocates believe the test of the value of life is not intelligence, reason, or speech, but…
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On substantive issues of military belligerence and interventionism in the affairs of foreign countries, there is little difference between Hillary and the Republicans. Same goes for such issues as political campaign financing, lobbyists, Wall Street, breaking up the too big to fail banks, and the appointment of industry hacks to departments, regulatory agencies, and even…
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Societal changes are glacially slow. Four hundred years of slavery in America. Five hundred years before women could vote. And the enslavement, exploitation, and murder of animals since the Dawn of Time. Each day One Hundred Fifty Million animals are brutally murdered in slaughterhouses. Six million per hour. One hundred thousand while you read these…
There is all the difference in the world between politics and advocacy. Those of us who are trying to improve the lives of animals do not have the luxury of selecting candidates with whom we agree on most issues. We must prioritize what can and cannot be accomplished politically. Animal lives hang in the balance…
There is no moral distinction between a grunt who works in animal agriculture and a grunt who worked in the Nazi death camps. Animal rights activists consider all sentient life to be equally valuable, and the only distinction between the two are man-made law and human mores. No economic deprivation could possibly have justified being…
You know those crazy right wingnuts who play soldier on the weekends? The Ammon Bundy types who storm bird sanctuaries? The inbred duck hunters? The Second Amendment types? Sure you do. If you are at all like I am, you are appalled by their politics, their blood lust for hunting, their religious zealotry, and their…
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Armory of the Revolution 