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From “Dominion” to Domination: The Duplicity and Complicity of Matthew Scully by Steve Best, Ph. D.
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EmailIn 2002, arch-conservative Matthew Scully wrote a book called, Dominion: The Power of Man, The Suffering of Animals, and The Call to Mercy, that was universally and uncritically acclaimed by the animal advocacy movement. Because this movement is overwhelmingly single-issue in its focus, and in most cases doesn’t care about a person’s views or politics except how they relate to animals, no one had a problem with the fact that Scully was a senior speechwriter for President George W. Bush. He wrote some of the key fear-peddling diatribes that got Bush elected and he was recently re-enlisted to help Bush sell the Iraq war “surge” to the American people.
overkill by john vaillant
April 2003 Atlantic Monthly
“I was always interested in animals,” says Thomas Venezia, recently the subject of an extensive criminal investigation stemming from his hunting practices. “I always wanted to be near them”
by John Vaillant
Overkill
Until January of last year, when a federal judge fined him $4,500, confiscated $15,000 worth of his equipment, and banned him from hunting anywhere in the world for five years,
the actual activist by craig bayer
Can one be an activist and be himself? To most activists, it’s a probably a silly question. They live and breath activism, it’s their passion in life, they do what they have to do and enjoy doing it. Non-activists probably understand the question better, because they understand how hard and futile it sometimes seems to be an activist.
silber way - by craig bayer
Boston University—with the help of the city of Boston, has named a street after former BU president John R. Silber called “John Silber Way”. Apparently it was done with the public blessing of the city’s mayor Thomas Menino. Some people may be pleased by this development, some may be amused, some may be disgusted.
silber way - by craig bayer
Boston University—with the help of the city of Boston, has named a street after former BU president John R. Silber called “John Silber Way”. Apparently it was done with the public blessing of the city’s mayor Thomas Menino. Some people may be pleased by this development, some may be amused, some may be disgusted.