With the coming of summer, South Korea's 'Boknal' dog-eating festival is under way, writes Anneka Svenska. Known for the extreme cruelty deliberately inflicted on dogs to improve the taste of their meat, Boknal is a barbaric relic rooted in ignorance and pseudo-medical superstition whose time is well and truly up.
… is because of their water content. Torture and deprivation from the moment of … Forced to endure deprivation and unimaginable torture from the moment they are born until …
The true nature of western civilization is hard to grasp from within, says Professor John McMurtry, because we perceive it through media whose primary purpose is not to convey the truth, but conceal it. What is actually playing out is a global war of empire and capital against the Earth and her people, backed up by the omnipresent threat of overwhelming force.
… kernel in the dispossession, maiming, lashing torture and legal murder of individuals for no … personal and peaceful offenses can be legally tortured, maimed and murdered. All of this is … the Spanish Inquisition, secular despots, US torturers, the Israeli occupation, or a mullah …
Brexit is part of a corporate campaign to remove, undermine and attack European Union regulations and increase the rate of growth and profit. But these very regulations are necessary for the protection of the environment - and life itself. PROFESSOR JOHN McMURTRY, author of The Cancer Stage of Capitalism: from Crisis to Cure, raises the alarm.
… European Central Bank’s post-2008 financial torture of Greece and other poorer EU nations …