Dasani Tap Water and Advertisements of Quality
I like water. A lot. I mean I really really like it. It tastes good. It keeps me alive. It’s, dare I say, a human right, not to be commercialized or commodified so only those who earn enough money can buy it, not like the 3 billion or so people who live on less than [...]
Beheadings
Right now, proportional responses aside [because they don't seem to fit much anymore when dealing with w.Caesar's regime], my only question is why would revenge killings just stop at one? I suspect one act of revenge will not be the end of it. Rumsfeld’s dismissive, insulting, condescending minimization of his knowledge of American torture games [...]
The Saudis, oil, and re-electing w.Caesar
Saudis urge OPEC to hike oil output: Oil minister seeks 1.5-million-barrel-a-day rise So I saw Bob Woodward talking with Mike Wallace on 60 Minutes a few weeks ago. Of the many astounding things they discussed about w.Caesar, one stuck in my mind: how w.Caesar’s buddy, Saudi ambassador to the USA, Prince Bandar [good friend of [...]
George Monbiot’s Career Advice for Idealistic Journalists and Those Who Want to Shake the World
Monbiot‘s pretty astounding. As I was developing the whole Politics vein of dgiVista.org, I came across this Monbiot piece about how to be idealistic, free and really really useful in the world. When unsure about the direction I’ve been taking with this [whole] site [actually], I serendipitously read this piece. The result? What you see [...]
Michael Moore and Disney: a Symbiotic Relationship?
Michael Moore announced yesterday that Disney will not allow its Miramax production arm to release Moore’s “Fahrenheit 9/11″ film: http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/message/index.php?messageDate=2004-05-04 Today, the New York Times editorial page took Moore’s side: http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/message/index.php?messageDate=2004-05-06 This is no big surprise. Big corporate interests owning big media and censoring big criticism. Moore’s books have gained from viral marketing, particularly when [...]
Why we should REALLY fear the United States of America
May 6, 2004 editor@adbusters.org Dear Editor, Tess Rheinhardt’s analysis of why the unilateralist USA abhors the multilateralist International Criminal Court in Issue #53 is quite poignant. But the “legality of their [the USA's] rampage through history” would not actually be on trial at the ICC because this international court does not have retroactive jurisdiction. No [...]
Rumsfeld Apologizes for Abuse of Iraqi Prisoners…No Wait, He Doesn’t
God forbid Donald Rumsfeld actually apologizes for US soldiers abusing Iraqi prisoners. Jim Garamone from the American Forces Press Service certainly interpreted Rumsfeld’s comments as an apology. Then Garamone sent out an email with the press release declaring a major moral statement from the US Secretary of War. The beginning of that email is below. [...]
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