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Greenspan on 60 Minutes: It was all Bush’s fault


As a disciple of Ayn Rand, Greenspan shares her notion that selfish pursuits are morally salutary.
BY MIKE WHITNEY Dateline: Wed Sep 19, 2007

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Alan Greenspan’s appearance on 60 Minutes was preceded with all the pomp and ceremony of a royal wedding. The public relations blitz dragged out for a whole week.

What profound truisms would the elusive former-fed master divulge to the News Magazine’s withered-coquette, Leslie Stahl? Would he produce his crystal ball and forecast America’s blurry economic future in mangled Fed-speak? Or would he focus on the startling gyrations in the stock market and the “frothy” conditions in the slumping housing market? The suspense was nearly unbearable. [Read more →]

Tags: Unredeemable Scum, Bourgeois Economics, Indecent Plutocracy, Obstinate Conscience, State Crimes, Establishment Whores by Greanville
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At What Price, Safety?


Sheehan friends and relatives in demonstration in Virginia. Cindy presents a HUGE problem to the system’s apologists: a person of unshakable conviction who is firmly “on the left.” So far efforts at character assessination have failed, but should she gain public office, the most likely tack will be to kill her credibility with faint praise, suggesting she’s too “naive” about the world, she’s a one-trick pony, and so on. Media whores have their work cut out for them with Cindy.

BY CINDY SHEEHAN Dateline: September 19th, 2007

I am consistently amazed at things that right-wing nut jobs throw at me to justify their support of an unjustifiable war. Seriously, when you watch Generals, Ambassadors, Senators and Congress Reps and pundits who still cheerlead for a miserable, failed and murderous policy you can almost see the skepticism in their eyes, too. They know they are lying for their masters now, if they, like George and Dick didn’t always know they were lying. [Read more →]

Tags: Appalling Hypocrisy Annals, The US MIlitary, American Politicians, Anti-War Work, Indecent Plutocracy, Communism, The Contemptible Media, Toxic Culture, State Crimes, Obstinate Conscience, Obstinate History by Greanville
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Democrats pack in their antiwar charade


“Hiya folks, I’m John Kerry. I’m full of shit and how do you like it?!” Extrapolate Kerry’s name for any name in the Democrats’ leadership roster, not to mention the GOP, and you get closer to the unspoken truth.

BY BILL VAN AUKEN Dateline: 19 September 2007 World Socialist Web Site | A fraternal site

Little more than 10 months after winning the leadership of both houses of the US Congress thanks to a swelling tide of opposition to the war in Iraq, the Democratic Party has largely abandoned even the pretense of a struggle to bring the war to an end. [Read more →]

Tags: Indecent Plutocracy, Appalling Hypocrisy Annals, American Politicians, PARTY FRAUDS, Presidential Tyranny, State Crimes, Obstinate History, CJO'S OpEds, Middle East, Imperial Policy by ascetorix_ariz20
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