The Greanville Journal

By James Petras

Everything you always wanted to know about the betrayal of social democrats but were afraid to ask…

THIS ARTICLE IS CROSSPOSTED WITH ORIGINAL AT MONTHLY REVIEW MAGAZINE, A FRATERNAL PUBLICATION. [First draft 2.2000]

Also by this Author:

U.S. Offensive in Latin America: Coups, Retreats, and Radicalization
The Unemployed Workers Movement in Argentina; The CIA and the Cultural Cold War Revisited

What is the Third Way? Both historically and in the contemporary world, there are numerous examples of political leaders and movements that declare their allegiance to a Third Way—defining alternatives in opposition to what they perceive to be dominant paradigms. In the contemporary world, the best known exponent of the Third Way is British Prime Minister Tony Blair, though a number of other political leaders in Europe and elsewhere have expressed sympathy or support for the rhetoric or substance of Blair’s version of the Third Way. [Read more →]

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[AIRED 11.07.07]

With this entry we inaugurate our webTv service, namely CJtv, by presenting a news clip produced by The Real News Network [ http://www.therealnews.com/web/index.php ], the dream come true for many progressives. [Read more →]

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TIMELESS ESSAYS / A book review by James Petras (November 1999)
Part of a series of articles we republish from time to time due to their lasting relevancy to American and world conditions.

The much revered capitalist apologist Sidney Hook. Considering the kind of venom and destruction he and his ilk sowed in the world, as willing intellectual prostitutes and fronts for the capitalist system, the word scum is too kind a description.

Frances Stonor Saunders, Who Paid the Piper: The CIA and the Cultural Cold War (London: Granta Books), £20.

Also by James Petras: U.S. Offensive in Latin America: Coups, Retreats, and Radicalization; The Unemployed Workers Movement in Argentina; The Third Way: Myth and Reality. [Read more →]

Tags: Capitalist Ways, Capitalist Whores, Imperial Policy // Add Comment »

BY JOHN STEPPLING

A “Hadji” in Mumbai. There are 800,000 eunuchs in India, and it’s usually easy to tell who is and who isn’t. No such luck–for the innocent–in the Western cultural jungle.

I’VE BEEN THINKING of late how it’s actually much less the crass and vulgar merchants of *entertainment* that are a force of cultural destruction, than it is the appointed custodians of *high art* that are to be blamed. The academics (think post-graduate writing programs), the artistic directors (for institutional theatre and dance), the curators and gallery owners and art dealers … as well as the **critics** and cultural mandarins that dispense their verdicts and create the criteria for acceptance into the ‘big game’, all are there to keep anything disruptive out of sight. [Read more →]

Tags: Class Analysis, Capitalist Ways, John Steppling, Guy Zimmerman, Capitalist Whores, American Way of Life, Establishment Whores, Academic Battlefields, Cultural Oddities, Cinema & Television // Add Comment »

BY SHAYNE NELSON, CJO’s Paris Dispatch Chief

File it, dear readers, under the ‘We almost told you so!” as the occasion apparently presented itself during the recent UN sessions when a hearty group of protesters attempted to conduct a citizens’s arrest of this international criminal…

“George W. Bush, you are under citizen’s arrest! You have the right to remain silent. If you give up that right, anything you say can and will be used against you in an international court of law. You have the right to an attorney. If you cannot afford one, the International Court of Justice will appoint an attorney for you. Do you understand these rights?”

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Tags: Unredeemable Scum, American Politicians, Anti-War Work, Revolution & Counter-revolution, Shayne Nelson, Class Struggle, Indecent Plutocracy, Fascism US Style, State Crimes, Dispatch from Paris, American Way of Life, Obstinate Conscience, Bourgeois Democracy, Toxic Culture // 2 Comments »

By Susan Rosenthal

Want to know a secret? A healthy human mind is incompatible with capitalism. Let me explain.

Science tells us that the mind cannot be reduced to an activity of the brain. The mind is created and sustained in a complex dance between human beings. Cut off from social relationships, the mind loses its ability to function. Evidence for this comes from socially-deprived infants and from adults kept in isolation or subjected to sensory deprivation. [Read more →]

Tags: Social Psychology, Class Struggle, Susan Rosenthal, So-Called Medicine, Inner Space, Ideological Combat, The Logical Misanthropist, Capitalist Propaganda, Socialism & Communism, Toxic Culture // 6 Comments »

As befits a true-blue “system politician,” Rudy Giuliani is also a big, stinking heap of excremental lies.
Marty Kaplan || Crosspost with Huffington Post Dateline: October 31, 2007

The best and worst of quality journalism is on display in the New York Times’ coverage of Rudy Giuliani’s repeated claim that his chance of surviving prostate cancer in the U.S. was 82 percent, compared to the 44 percent it would have been “under socialized medicine” in England — you know, the kind of commie docs that Hillary wants to force on us 9/11 manly-men. [Read more →]

Tags: Ideological Combat, Pseudo Journalism, Media Reform, Capitalist Whores, Indecent Plutocracy, American Way of Life // 1 Comment »

BY NAOMI KLEIN

Book Review: Naomi Klein, The Shock Doctrine: the Rise of Disaster Capitalism, Metropolitan Books, September 18, 2007, 576 pages, $28 (US)

[CROSSREFERENCE: Review of The Shock Doctrine by Susan Rosenthal]

I met Jamar Perry in September 2005, at the big Red Cross shelter in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Dinner was being doled out by grinning young Scientologists, and he was standing in line. I had just been busted for talking to evacuees without a media escort and was now doing my best to blend in, a white Canadian in a sea of African- American southerners. I dodged into the food line behind Perry and asked him to talk to me as if we were old friends, which he kindly did. [Read more →]

Tags: Ideological Combat, Class Struggle, Capitalist Ways, BOOK EXCERPTS, Bourgeois Economics, Anti-War Work, Capitalism for Dummies, Bourgeois Democracy, Capitalist Propaganda, Capitalist Whores, Book Reviews // 3 Comments »

BY SUSAN ROSENTHAL

Naomi Klein plowing through her research notes while writing The Shock Doctrine, an important book, but one that, as our reviewer shows, is marred in some significant respects. Klein, in the manner of so many liberals (”left-liberal” in her case)–is a far better diagnostician of the horrors and cynicism of capitalism than a therapist. Her curative recommendations fall way short of what needs to be done.

Book Review: Naomi Klein, The Shock Doctrine: the Rise of Disaster Capitalism, Metropolitan Books, September 18, 2007, 576 pages, $28 (US)

It’s often been said that we are the majority, and they can’t put us all in jail. Naomi Klein proves otherwise. It’s true, they can’t put us all in jail, but they don’t need to. Klein is the anti-globalization author of No Logo: Taking Aim at the Brand Bullies. In her bold new book, The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism, she explains how “radical capitalists” use shock treatment to impose anti-human policies on unwilling populations. [Read more →]

Tags: Revolution & Counter-revolution, War Propaganda, Capitalist Ways, Susan Rosenthal, Ideological Combat, Socialism & Communism, Book Reviews, The Left & Pseudo Left, Middle East, Imperial Policy // 12 Comments »

BY ALEX MILLER
INTRO & REMINDER TO THE READER



Betrayed by the rightwing social-democrat Friedrich Ebert (whom Luxembourg had once tutored in economics) and at his behest, Rosa was captured by the Freikorps (a rightwing militia of decommissioned soldiers soured by the First World War defeat and manipulated by the German plutocracy) and promptly assassinated. Luxemburg’s last known words, written on the evening of her murder, were about her belief in the masses, and in the inevitability of revolution: [Read more →]

Tags: Class Analysis, Socialism & Communism, Warmongering, Class Struggle, Indecent Plutocracy, Fascism US Style, The Left & Pseudo Left, American Way of Life, Communism, Imperial Policy // 2 Comments »