5:02 PM by
Greanville
Nader, a tireless crusader for an America that might one day live up to its promise.
Who Will Confront the Unprecedented and Unconstitutional Concentration of Executive Power?
BY RALPH NADER
The rogue regime of George W. Bush and Dick Cheney — so widely condemned for its unconstitutional, criminal Iraq war, its spying on Americans illegally, its repeated illegal torture practices, its arrests and imprisonment of thousands in this country without charges and its
pathological secrecy and corporate corruption — still has not felt the heat of the 800,000 practicing lawyers and their many bar organizations. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted in Appalling Hypocrisy Annals, Anti-War Work, Class Analysis, Ideological Combat, Indecent Plutocracy, Presidential Tyranny, Corporadoes, State Crimes, American Way of Life, Bourgeois Democracy, Establishment Whores | 1 Comment »
12:22 AM by
Greanville
Few contemporary American politicians incarnate the false promise of liberalism as well as Democrat Hillary Clinton (along with husband Bill, the master opportunist “triangulator.”) If Hillary were to gain the White House, the Clintons would constitute another dynasty in presidential politics, and although rabidly denounced by the insane and hypocritical US rightwing punditocracy as wild leftists, in international terms they barely merit the label of mild “centrists.”
BY SUSAN ROSENTHAL
Dateline: September 17, 2007 CROSSPOST AT AUTHOR’S BLOGSITE: SUSAN’S BLOG
Part I (September 17) discussed the deepening conflict between the rulers and the ruled and the disagreements within the elite on how to address the nation’s problems. Part II (below) compares liberal efforts to preserve the system with socialist efforts to replace it. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted in Capitalist Propaganda, American Politicians, Class Analysis, Indecent Plutocracy, Bourgeois Democracy, Corporadoes, American Way of Life, Imperial Policy | 6 Comments »
12:02 AM by
Greanville
Are Warren Buffet and his ilk— “enlightened” capitalists or merely shrewd self-serving plutocrats, and does it really make a difference?
BY SUSAN ROSENTHAL
Dateline: September 17, 2007 CROSSPOST AT AUTHOR’S BLOGSITE: SUSAN’S BLOG
AMERICA IS DEEPLY DIVIDED. For one thing, most Americans want an end to the war against Iraq and some form of universal health care, while the ruling class is committed to the war and to sacrificing social services to pay for it. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted in Capitalist Propaganda, Indecent Plutocracy, Capitalist Whores, PARTY FRAUDS, Class Analysis, Presidential Tyranny, Bourgeois Democracy, The Left & Pseudo Left, The Contemptible Media, State Crimes, American Way of Life, Imperial Policy | 1 Comment »