By character and class consciousness Pelosi is simply reacting to events as the wealthy bourgeoise she is. If revolution and true defiance to the status quo will come they won’t come from creatures ensconced in privilege.
TAKE ONE: A VIEW FROM THE LEFT
House Speaker Pelosi lashes out at antiwar protesters
By Patrick Martin \ Dateline: 15 October 2007
Crosspost with the World Socialist Web Site www.wsws.org, which originated the article.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, the most powerful Democrat in Washington, normally maintains a public display of sympathy towards the mass opposition to the war in Iraq—an opposition which propelled the Democrats into control of the House and Senate in the congressional elections last November. Continue reading ‘THE DEMOCRATS’ BETRAYAL—TWO UNUSUAL TAKES’
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’
CINEMA CLASSICS: The Unreal Reality
Directed by Georges Franju
The Georges Franju horror classic reviewed for the Criterion Collection by David Kalat
There is a moment in Eyes Without a Face you’ll know it when you see it, when, according to L’Express, the spectators dropped like flies. At the Edinburgh Film Festival, seven viewers actually fainted, prompting director Georges Franju to crow undiplomatically. Now I know why Scotsmen wear skirts. The movie scandalized viewers so much, the outraged French critical establishment tried to deny that the film even existed. The only English reviewer to admit that she liked it was nearly fired. Continue reading ‘FILM REVIEWS—Eyes Without a Face’
