Japans makabrer „Kuhhandel“ um die Wale

June 22, 2008 in Animal Protection - Tierschutz, Scandal - Skandale - Lobby

Samstag, 21. Juni 2008
Anfang Februar hat Japan in den Meeresschutzgebieten der Antarktis den Walfang erneut aufgenommen. Als Sinnbild der Ungeheuerlichkeit ging ein Foto um die Welt: Es zeigt, wie eine Zwergwalmutter und ihr Junges über eine Rampe ins Innere eines Walfangschiffes gezerrt werden. Japan ist sich bewusst, w…
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Walfangverbot wieder auf der Kippe?
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This Land Is Their Land

June 18, 2008 in USA

CARL POPE
The Unbearable Arrogance of Oil huffingtonpost.com — Why is the Bush Administration looping back to its old, and often rejected, demand for more drilling, in the Arctic and off our beaches? Is this simply lame-duck autopilot? Who was the audience? It turns out to be a very small, very elite, and very attentive audience. [...]

Why Aren’t We Shouting the Battle Cry of Freedom?

June 16, 2008 in USA

BERNIE HORN
Why Aren’t We Shouting the Battle Cry of Freedom? Freedom is, quite simply, the most popular political principle in America. After years of warrantless wiretapping, illegal imprisonments, and torture, we should all be saying the F-word with regularity. I mean freedom. Why do progressives seem allergic to this word? Why aren’t we shouting the [...]

Blame Rising Oil Prices on Bush

June 11, 2008 in USA

EDWARD J. MARKEY
Why Is Bush Helping Saudi Arabia Build Nukes? online.wsj.com — What country is three times the size of Texas and has more than 300 days of blazing sun a year? What country has the world’s largest oil reserves resting below miles upon miles of sand? And what country is being given nuclear power, [...]

Making the World Safe For Gluttonous Oil Profits

June 9, 2008 in USA

RAYMOND J. LEARSY
Making the World Safe For Gluttonous Oil Profits huffingtonpost.com — This administration has virtually done nothing to arrest the nation’s slide toward becoming an oil patch supplicant. In doing nothing, other than occasional ineffectual lip service, and worse still supporting policies favorable to oil industry interests they have made a bad situation far [...]