- Chevron's $80 million ad campaign gets flushed
Resource Type: Article
Published: 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 campaign with a satirical version of their own. The activists' version highlights Chevron's environmental and social abuses -- especially the toxic mess the oil giant has left in Ecuador, which Chevron has been attempting to "greenwash" for years.
- Connexions Digest
Volume 12, Number 2 - Issue 48 - Winter 1988-89 - A Social Change Sourcebook
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1989
- Cynicism From Above: Cynicism From Below
Resource Type: Article
Published: 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
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2010
Noam Chomsky takes a day off.
- Fire Ants Are Being Laced with Homosexual Chemtrails to Bite Christians And Convert Them To Homosexuality
Resource Type: Article
Published: 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 gay endorphins. Sources confirm that several exclusive gay clubs collected the spent sweats of late-night homosexuality, then sent them to a laboratory where in-vitro techniques were used to create this potent new form of biological homosexual chemtrail.
- Flatly Outrageous
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2005
The flat earth society is not the equivalent of the Fraser Institute.
- Kenyan grafitti artists target vulture politicians
Resource Type: Article
Published: 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
Resource Type: Article
Published: 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 confirmed that "Three Strikes, You're In!" is a hoax.
- Noam Chomsky Announces Las Vegas Residency
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2016
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - April 1, 2017
April 1 issue
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 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 critically - and enjoy.
- Ouch ads
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1975
- Outrageous Campaigners Show Size Isn't Everything
Resource Type: Article
Published: 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 be described as "radical theatre of the streets".
- Random Shots: Balkan Wars, Now and Then
Against The Current vol. 81
Resource Type: Article
Published: 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
Resource Type: Article
Published: 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 scenery never changes.
- Random Shots: Dubya's Many Axes of Evil
Against The Current vol. 97
Resource Type: Article
Published: 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
Resource Type: Article
Published: 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
Resource Type: Article
Published: 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 about twenty minutes.
- Random Shots: New and Old Millenia
Against The Current vol. 85
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2000
Kampfer prepared for Y2K by stockpiling ammunition. He figured that would get him anything else he needed.
- Random Shots: Notes for Life Under Siege
Against The Current vol. 95
Resource Type: Article
Published: 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 of people. It's safety that is an aberration and an illusion.
- Random Shots: Of Drugs and Diamonds
Against The Current vol. 99
Resource Type: Article
Published: 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
Resource Type: Article
Published: 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
Resource Type: Article
Published: 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 generations. One would think that the 18th Century international convention on piracy, which declared pirates to be the general enemies of all mankind rather than any particular state, might be conveniently applied here.
- Random Shots: Stranger Than Cinema
Against The Current vol. 87
Resource Type: Article
Published: 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 Cuban flotsam?
- Random Shots: Teens and Other Freaks
Against The Current vol. 94
Resource Type: Article
Published: 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: Tender Loving Care
Against The Current vol. 92
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2001
A kinky personal ad?
- Random Shots: That Was the War That Was
Against The Current vol. 82
Resource Type: Article
Published: 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 troops: “If you allow them to cheer, another time they will feel entitled to hiss.”
- Random Shots: The Kings of the World
Against The Current vol. 98
Resource Type: Article
Published: 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 paper.
- Random Shots: The Prices of Progress
Against The Current vol. 93
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2001
Back in 1965 you could fill your gas tank for $3. Of course, that was two hours pay back then.
- Random Shots: In Praise of Viagra Mania
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1998
Comments on random current news topics
- Random Shots: Red Flags Over Motor City
Resource Type: Article
Published: 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.
Comments on random current news topics.
- The Red Menace Interviews Prime Minister Trudeau
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1977
An exclusive interview with Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, published in The Red Menace and nowhere else.
- The Secret Life of Saeed
The Pessoptimist
Resource Type: Book
A hilarious portrayal of Saeed, a Palestinian turned Israeli informer. Combining fact, fantasy, tragedy, and comedy, the luckless adventures of Saeed reveal the absurdities of the positions taken by Israelis, Palestinians, and Arabs.
- Total terrorism solution
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2016
Hoax highlights failures of military, security approaches to terrorism.
- Trump the Gardener
Resource Type: Article
Published: 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 would build a mighty wall along the US Mexican border, what he really meant was that he would impose a 'saner, more sensible immigration policy'.
- Yes Men punk TPP and US Trade Ambassador with fake "Corporate Power Tool Award"
Resource Type: Article
Published: 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 ACTA to establishing punishing copyright laws that include mandatory surveillance and censorship. The Yes Men crashed the gala, taking the podium to present Kirk with a "Corporate Power Tool Award."
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