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Grand Illusion


Giuliani—as phoney as a man in drag.

BY BILL CURRY | Dateline: September 24, 2007 The Huffington Post

Rudy Giuliani is slipping, if not quite sliding away. In early polls he led Hillary Clinton and every Democrat and was pulling away from the Republican pack, having benefited much from John McCain’s gracious decision to set himself on fire.

Back then the smart money–and it’s a wonder they still call it that– fretted that Hillary was ‘unelectable’. Today she beats Rudy in every poll. Among Republicans he’s again in a dead heat, this time with B-list TV celebrity Fred Thompson. [Read more →]

Tags: Capitalist Whores, PARTY FRAUDS, American Politicians, Appalling Hypocrisy Annals, CJO'S OpEds, American Way of Life, Establishment Whores by Greanville
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America in Crisis, Part II: The Liberal Challenge and the Prospects for Socialism


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 more →]

Tags: Capitalist Propaganda, American Politicians, Class Analysis, Indecent Plutocracy, Bourgeois Democracy, Corporadoes, American Way of Life, Imperial Policy by Greanville
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America in Crisis, Part I: Class Conflict


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 more →]

Tags: 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 by Greanville
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