Criminal and freemarketer Bush and his “loyal” opposition. To whom is Pelosi “loyal” we may ask? To the abstract interests of the establishment as reflected in the current status quo? Or to the ordinary citizens?
BY JOHN PILGER
Dateline // Crosspost from Johnpilger.com, a fraternal site 17 Oct 2007
John Pilger marks the European release of Michael Moore’s latest film, Sicko, with an examination of why the documentary film-maker exerts such influence, with fans and enemies alike. “In societies ruled by an invisible government of media,” he writes, “no one has broken through like Moore, who breaks every rule by reporting from the ground up, instead of from the top down.” Continue reading ‘Why they’re afraid of Michael Moore’
Excerpted from Revolutionary Worker #1236, April 11, 2004, posted at http://rwor.org This is a republication of an article of permanent interest. Note that what this article says— despite the fact it was written three years ago—has been abundantly verified over the last year, culminating with the Blackwater pseudo-hearings in Congress in late September (2007). A little solid information and class analysis go a long way.
“We have established a global presence and provide training and tactical solutions for the 21st century. Our clients include federal law enforcement agencies, the Department of Defense, Department of State, and Department of Transportation, local and state entities from around the country, multinational corporations and friendly nations from all over the globe.”—Blackwater corporate website
Continue reading ‘After Fallujah: The Truth About the Blackwater Mercenaries’
By Nancy Wartik || Crosspost with The AARP Magazine \\ November & December 2007
The lust is gone. The fires are out. What happened? Is there anything you can do to rekindle love’s passion?
*Names of interviewees and their partners have been changed for privacy.
When she was in her 30s, Margaret Monaghan* ended a relationship because her boyfriend liked sex less than she did. “He thought sex once a week was more than enough,” she recalls. Continue reading ‘Whither Desire?’
We have said it before: If hot air could be used as a viable energy source, Tom Friedman alone could solve the world crisis. The billionaire pundit’s arrogance often matches his ignorance—and is there any point in asking why the NYTimes poo-bahs keep him under contract?
By Steve Jonas / Dateline: Tue, 10/16/2007 -
Tom Friedman has been wrong before about the major issues of our time. He supported “globalization” and apparently still does, even though this is finally being revealed to be not at all about “free trade” (e.g., U.S. sugar), as some observers have known for quite some time. Rather it is about the free export of capital to places where it can make a lot more profit for its owners than it could in the U.S. Tom Friedman originally supported the War on Iraq, even though he wasn’t sure about WMD. And now Tom Friedman is wrong on Gore (for the most part) and on Bush. Continue reading ‘Dr. J.’s Commentary: Tom Friedman: Wrong. Again.’
Britches in the arms of an ALF member, with stitches removed. This stump macaque became famous when animal liberation “terrorists” raided the lab where she was being subjected to frivolous experimentation, and found her eyes had been sewn shut as a form of early maternal and sensorial deprivation. (See below) As a critical part of the establishment complex, a lot of universities work hand in glove with corporations, the military and other institutions in projects that the public would readily disallow if properly informed.
BY WILL POTTER // Dateline: “Green is the New Red: How the Bush Administration Is Using Terror Laws to Prosecute Nonviolent Environmental Activists,” Counterpunch, May 04, 2006.
A version of this article was also published by Earth First Journal and Green is the new red blog
• Reproduced here with comments from Green is New Red blog
The Red Scare was less about evidence than really great PR. Joseph McCarthy and crew flacked one word so relentlessly, so virulently, that it became a political albatross to hang around anyone’s neck. The true meaning of the word fell by the wayside: communism became a fluid brand to slap on the enemy of the hour. Continue reading ‘SMOULDERING ISSUES: Green Is The New Red’
By Jim Booth with editorial comment by Les Blough (AxisofLogic.com)
Dateline: Aug 9, 2007 \ This article first appeared in AXIS OF LOGIC, a fraternal site.
Editor’s Comment: The following article provides another example of the deepening pathology behind the wars in the Middle East. I personally come from an immediate family of “born again christians” who are intent on war to hasten the arrival of Christ in the second coming and armaggedon. Christian Zionism in support of the State of Israel is the centerpiece of their ideology. With grandchildren proudly serving in the U.S. military, my radical christian family members support recruitment of young men and women for training to kill other human beings - all in the name of Jesus. This aggressive christian force is embedded in racism, killing, imperialism and colonization. In my visit to my boyhood home for my mother’s funeral last March, a bumper sticker on a family member’s car read: “Have a good education? Thank a teacher. Got it in English? Thank a soldier”. With recrutiment numbers down, the Pentagon rewards these pro-war christians with a program designed to proselytize soldiers in the field and to provide them with religious motivation to fight and kill.
—Les Blough, Editor, Axis of Logic
Continue reading ‘Military proselytizing, a Baldwin brother, and apocalypse by design…’
By Sam Pizzigati, Special to CorpWatch
June 26th, 2007
cartoon by Khalil Bendib
Peter Rose, a Seattle-based corporate chief executive offficer, took home $4.7 million last year. He thinks that’s quite enough.
“There’s only so much crap you can buy,” he told his hometown newspaper.
His colleagues in corporate America seem not to agree. Continue reading ‘Soaring Executive Pay Attacked by Shareholder Activists’
By Francesco Guerrera and Daniel Pimlott \ Dateline: Financial Times
October 8th, 2007
When, in November last year, Jeffrey Immelt said that paying chief executives wildly more than their senior managers was “lunacy”, he probably did not realise he was opening a fresh debate on a thorny issue for corporate America. Continue reading ‘US: CEO pay disparity rears its head’
BY SUSAN ROSENTHAL July 07, 2007
Times of transition are very difficult.
In good times, people are more open to new ideas and more willing to organize. The fight for civil rights of the 1950s fed the anti-war movement of the 1960s. Both fueled movements for workers’ rights and for women’s, gay and Black liberation. As millions of people moved into struggle, there was widespread belief that we could change the world. Continue reading ‘A Time of Transition’
BY LISA FAGER
Dateline: Wednesday, 03 October 2007
There can be no doubt that much Hip Hop product is pathological. But whose product is it? Industry activist Lisa Fager went to Capitol Hill to school lawmakers on the real purveyors of audio and video mayhem: the music and communications corporations that control the destructive content that saturates the market. Pathology is not limited to musical product; it oozes into the public discourse in the form of racist speech and images that defame the powerless - all for the sake of corporate profit margins. Under relentless media consolidation, music playlists have become uniform indicators of massive payola - “an organized corporate crime.”
Continue reading ‘From Imus to Industry: The Business of Stereotypes and Degrading Images’
