How Dogs Forge a Bond with Rio’s Homeless That Is Life-Saving for Both
A new film by Heloisa Passos for Field of Vision explores the profound and complex relationship between dogs and homeless people in Rio de Janeiro.
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A new film by Heloisa Passos for Field of Vision explores the profound and complex relationship between dogs and homeless people in Rio de Janeiro.
From the start, not even the U.S. military had the audacity to try to obscure that they did this. They left that dirty work to their leading media outlets, which, as usual, are more than eager and happy to comply.
Elite sectors of the West want everyone to avert their eyes from this deep and close relationship with the Saudis for good reason: It single-handedly destroys almost every propagandistic narrative told to the Western public about that region.
Support for human rights abuses and tyranny — not opposition to it — is a staple of U.S. foreign policy. Standing alone, how can anyone believe that the same government that lavishes the Saudi regime with support is waging war or using other forms of violence in order to stop human rights abuses?
For the NYT to tell its readers that the U.S. — one of the leading cluster bomb states on the planet — is actually one of the countries that “have not yet joined the treaty but have abided by its provisions” is nationalistic propaganda of the most extreme kind.
Given how embedded, pervasive, and <em>recent</em> anti-gay sentiment has been in the fabric of American life, witnessing the arrival of full-scale legal equality is surreal.
It shouldn't take the drone-killing of a U.S. citizen to cause a mainstream discussion of how reckless these killings are. But it does. That, by itself, should cause a serious examination of the mindset behind all of this.
People profess affection for cartoons that offend a religion — until the targeted religion changes.
The vast bulk of the commentary issuing from American commentators about the Russian military action in Ukraine involves condemning exactly that which they routinely advocate and which the U.S. itself routinely does. <!--more-->