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Below are groups and resources (books, articles, websites, etc.) related to this topic. Click on an item’s title to go its resource page with author, publisher, description/abstract and other details, a link to the full text if available, as well as links to related topics in the Subject Index. You can also browse the Title, Author, Subject, Chronological, Dewey, LoC, and Format indexes, or use the Search box. Connexions LibraryChevron's $80 million ad campaign gets flushed Article 2010 A day-long comedy of errors, and Chevron's waking nightmare, began when Rainforest Action Network and Amazon Watch, together with the Yes Lab, pre-empted Chevron's multi-million dollar "We Agree" ad c... Connexions Digest: Volume 12, Number 2 - Issue 48 - Winter 1988-89 - A Social Change Sourcebook Serial Publication (Periodical) 1989 Cynicism From Above: Cynicism From Below Swift, Richard Article 1980 The state bureaucracies of Eastern Europe are unable to accept any challenge to their right to decide and control. Exhausted Noam Chomsky Just Going To Try And Enjoy The Day For Once Unclassified 2010 Noam Chomsky takes a day off. Fire Ants Are Being Laced with Homosexual Chemtrails to Bite Christians And Convert Them To Homosexuality Article 2015 Fire ants are being laced with homosexual chemtrails and then dumped in neighborhoods with higher per capita rates of Christianity. The homosexual chemtrail concoction contains a high concentration of... Flatly Outrageous Diemer, Ulli Article 2005 The flat earth society is not the equivalent of the Fraser Institute. Going to the Dogs (and Babies): Against The Current vol. 89 Kampfer, R.F. Article 2000 Activists are attempting to end the practice of terminating racing greyhounds that run out of the money. The dog-racing industry will retort that that's going to make it harder to motivate the ones th... Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - April 1, 2017: April 1 issue Diemer, Ulli (ed.) Serial Publication (Periodical) 2017 Other Voices always strives to present you with alternative views on important topics. This issue offers some really alternative perspectives and even some "alternative facts." As always, read critica... Outrageous Campaigners Show Size Isn't Everything Tatchell, Peter Article 1992 OutRage! therefore consciously tries to make its protests informative and amusing. It projects it's political message with wit, style, humour and theatricality. Indeed, a typical OutRage! action could... Random Shots: Annals of Combat: Against The Current vol. 90 Kampfer, R.F. Article 2001 Even if Nader were elected president, the multi-national corporations would be reluctant to give up their dictatorial power. That's when we bring out the rifles. Random Shots: New and Old Millenia: Against The Current vol. 85 Kampfer, R. F. Article 2000 Kampfer prepared for Y2K by stockpiling ammunition. He figured that would get him anything else he needed. The Red Menace Interviews Prime Minister Trudeau McLaughlin, Tom Article 1977 An exclusive interview with Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, published in The Red Menace and nowhere else. Total terrorism solution Article 2016 Hoax highlights failures of military, security approaches to terrorism. Trump the Gardener Longley-Cook, Giles Article 2017 In an interview defending his Presidential candidate, Silicon Valley billionaire and undisguised self-interested Randian fanboy Peter Thiel assured the public that when Donald Trump asserted that he w... Yes Men punk TPP and US Trade Ambassador with fake "Corporate Power Tool Award" Doctorow, Cory Article 2012 US Trade Ambassador Ron Kirk was in Dallas to kick off a corporate power-event to drum up support for the foundering, secretive Transpacific Partnership, a secret treaty that builds on the work of ACT... Sources LibraryKenyan grafitti artists target vulture politicians Chonghaile, Clar Ni 2012 A crew of Kenyan grafitti artists are making murals that urge citizens not to re-elect corrupt politicians who have a legacy of exploiting tribal differences to gain power. McDonald's Denies NYPD Deal to Give Happy Meals to Stop and Frisk Victims 2012 McDonald's denied participating in a campaign called "Three Strikes, You're In!" that rewarded New Yorkers who have been victims of NYPD's stop and frisk policies with a Happy Meal. The Yes Men have c... Random Shots: Balkan Wars, Now and Then Against The Current vol. 81 Kampfer, R.F. 1999 At the NATO summit, it was decided that the organization would not tolerate genocide if practiced by non-members who did not possess nuclear weapons and were within artillery range of Europe. Random Shots: Daimler and Dubya Chronicles Against The Current vol. 91 Kampfer, R.F. 2001 Daimler-Chrysler CEO Juergen Schrempp has pledged not to sell off the Chrysler division. Not that anyone was lining up to buy it. All the same to us on the line: If you're not the lead dog, the scener... Random Shots: Dubya's Many Axes of Evil Against The Current vol. 97 Kampfer, R.F. 2002 The concept of an Axis of Evil seems to derive from a 1942 Captain Marvel comic-book series about the Monster Society of Evil. Of course, that's a little before Dubya's time. Random Shots: Go And Do Likewise Against The Current vol. 83 Kampfer, R.F. 1999 Most of us are glad to see a spouse commit a misdemeanor, e.g. violating a diet or a budget. It gives us license to go and do likewise. Random Shots: Life Imitates Art Against The Current vol. 100 Kampfer, R.F. 2002 In the movie version of “The Sum of all Fears,” the terrorist nuke is hidden in a cigarette vending machine. In real life, if placed in an underground parking garage, it would have been ripped off in ... Random Shots: Notes for Life Under Siege Against The Current vol. 95 Kampfer, R.F. 2001 When one thinks of of communities around the world that have been under siege for decades, one wonders how the U.S. will cope in the absence of a quick fix. Return to normal? This is normal for a lot ... Random Shots: Of Drugs and Diamonds Against The Current vol. 99 Kampfer, R.F. 2002 Marx characterized religion as the opium of the people. For some cults, it seems to act more like viagra. Random Shots: People and Other Animals Against The Current vol. 88 Kampfer, R.F. 2000 People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals has taken out an ad urging college students to drink beer instead of milk, to avoid exploiting cows. Sounds like a good excuse to me. Random Shots: Pirates, Gladiators and Assassins Against The Current vol. 96 Kampfer, R.F. 2002 Dubya may come to regret his efforts to classify his crusade against terrorism as a war. The legal ramifications of waging war against a non-governmental organization may keep the lawyers busy for gen... Random Shots: Stranger Than Cinema Against The Current vol. 87 Kampfer, R.F. 2000 Looking at the Elión Gonzalez case, how many people remember “Popi,” a 1969 movie starring Alan Arkin as a poor Puerto Rican janitor who tries to put his kids on Easy Street by passing them off as Cub... Random Shots: Teens and Other Freaks Against The Current vol. 94 Kampfer, R.F. 2001 Many parents are annoyed by the popularity of “freak-dancing” among today's teenagers. Of course, annoying parents is the teenagers' main purpose in life. Random Shots: That Was the War That Was Against The Current vol. 82 Kampfer, R.F. 1999 Notice how quickly the Chinese government reined in those public demonstrations at the U.S. embassy in Beijing. Perhaps they remembered Wellington's attitude towards expressions of opinions by the tro... Random Shots: The Kings of the World Against The Current vol. 98 Kampfer, R.F. 2002 Carrying on a tradition dating back to the Crimean war, they've come out with a set of trading cards for the Dubya Crusade. The cards used to come with cigarettes, then bubble gum. Now all you get is ... Random Shots: The Prices of Progress Against The Current vol. 93 Kampfer, R.F. 2001 Back in 1965 you could fill your gas tank for $3. Of course, that was two hours pay back then. Random Shots: Red Flags Over Motor City Kampfer, R.F. 1998 THE GOOD NEWS is that there were about a million people waving red flags in the streets of Detroit. The bad news is that it was on account of some hockey game.
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