Opposition

War is Peace: How “Eco-terrorist” Scare-mongering Helped Pass the AETA

Industry groups have said again and again that Congress needed to pass the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act this week because the original legislation, the Animal Enterprise Protection Act, didn’t go far enough. There are loopholes in the law, they say, that allow for “tertiary targeting.” They also have said again and again that the expanded […]

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Hollywood Eco-terrorists Support Right to Arm Bears

Those eco-terrorists in Hollywood are incorrigible. You’d think they’d have learned their lesson after being slammed for Hoot, which was nothing more than soft-core eco-terrorism for kids. But no, they’re back at it again, this time with Open Season, an animated anti-hunting terrorist communiqué. Those militants Ashton Kutcher and Martin Lawrence star in a film […]

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Industry Group Picks Up the Pace, Hopes to Rush Through “Eco-terrorism” Law

The Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act has been introduced and reintroduced in Congress for years, always floundering, and this year it looks like industry groups are making a full-court press to get the draconian law passed. The Senate and House Judiciary committees may markup the bills as soon as next week. The National Association for Biomedical […]

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Animal Testing Groups Play Dumb About Big Money Ad Campaign

The same ad that “mysteriously” appeared in The New York Times earlier this month also ran in The Washington Post this week. Clearly these folks have big money and they’re not afraid to toss it around. I wasn’t shocked to see another ad in one of the top five newspapers in the country, and won’t […]

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Architect of Domestic Spying Program Nominated to Head CIA

The former head of the National Security Agency, who designed and ardently defended Bush’s domestic spying program, today was nominated to head the CIA. Air Force General Michael V. Hayden has been Bush’s go-to man on the illegal spying program that lets the National Security Agency eavesdrop on Americans’ calls and emails without a warrant.

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New Article on Green Scare Published by Counterpunch

I have a new article in Counterpunch on how the government landed a conviction of nonviolent activists on “terrorism” charges. Check it out and please let me know what you think! Here’s an excerpt highlighted by the good folks at Food Fight: “It’s not enough to cowardly distance ourselves from the ‘eco-terrorists,’ as many did […]

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Children’s Movie Called “Soft Core Eco-terrorism for Kids”

As if they hadn’t sunk low enough already, key players in the Green Scare are now going after a children’s movie. The teenage characters in Hoot, which opens this Friday, fight to end a development project that threatens a population of endangered owls.

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