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15
Oct

THE DEMOCRATS’ BETRAYAL—TWO UNUSUAL TAKES

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Categories: PARTY FRAUDS, Anti-War Work, Class Analysis, American Politicians, Appalling Hypocrisy Annals, Bourgeois Democracy, Indecent Plutocracy and Imperial Policy Tags: No Tags.


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’

15
Oct

Soaring Executive Pay Attacked by Shareholder Activists

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Categories: Class Struggle, Capitalist Ways, Bourgeois Economics, Indecent Plutocracy, Toxic Culture, American Way of Life and Corporadoes Tags: No Tags.

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’

12
Oct

It’s the Oil —hard lessons in realpolitik

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Categories: The US MIlitary, American Politicians, Anti-War Work, Appalling Hypocrisy Annals, Indecent Plutocracy, Obstinate History, State Crimes, American Way of Life and Imperial Policy Tags: , , , , , , , , .

By Jim Holt
London Review of Books

Editors’ Note: The LRB and Holt are British mainstream liberals, conservative at times, a position Cyrano is certainly not comfortable with nor endorses. But this article presents a plausible explanation for what otherwise would have to be a case of historically unprecedented and criminally insane meddling in the affairs of another nation. But the fact this analysis posits a rational scenario for this murderous war is not exactly comforting.

Iraq is ‘unwinnable’, a ‘quagmire’, a ‘fiasco’: so goes the received opinion. But there is good reason to think that, from the Bush-Cheney perspective, it is none of these things. Indeed, the US may be ‘stuck’ precisely where Bush et al want it to be, which is why there is no ‘exit strategy’. Continue reading ‘It’s the Oil —hard lessons in realpolitik’

08
Oct

Freedom Rider: Ahmadinejad Sane, Bush Crazy

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Categories: Anti-War Work, Unredeemable Scum, Polemicist, Revolution & Counter-revolution, Warmongering, American Politicians, Indecent Plutocracy, The Left & Pseudo Left, The Contemptible Media, Zionist Footprints, State Crimes and Mediocrats Tags: , , , , , .


The poisoner in chief, for an already repugnantly poisoned nation.
By Black Agenda report (BAR) editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Dateline: Wednesday, 03 October 2007

A famous old English song is titled, “The World Turned Upside Down.” Such appears to be the insane vantage point through which the Bush regime, and many ordinary citizens, view reality: in reverse. U.S. media and politicians behave as if they are already at war with Iran, a nation that has been brutalized over generations by Americans, but whose president spoke of world peace and an end to “dark plots” during his visit to this country. Deafened and blinded by arrogant, ignorant, unthinking hatred, Americans responded with venom in quantities toxic to all rational thought. The Poisoner-in-Chief, George Bush, has made great strides in turning much of the nation into a Cuckoo’s Nest. Continue reading ‘Freedom Rider: Ahmadinejad Sane, Bush Crazy’

08
Oct

The State Dept.’s Murderous Guardians

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Categories: Indecent Plutocracy, Appalling Hypocrisy Annals, Capitalist Whores, Unredeemable Scum, Presidential Tyranny, Bourgeois Democracy, Corporadoes, Middle East, Zionist Footprints and Imperial Policy Tags: , .

“We have established a global presence and provide training and tactical solutions for the 21st century. Our clients include federal law enforcement agencies, the Department of Defense, Department of State, and Department of Transportation, local and state entities from around the country, multinational corporations and friendly nations from all over the globe.”

Blackwater corporate website

“I would like to have the largest, most professional private army in the world.”

Gary Jackson, president of Blackwater USA

“Blackwater . right now has contracts that [Gary Jackson] says are so secret that he is not able to tell one branch of the Feds that he’s working for a different branch of the Feds.. Much of the interview I had with them was couched in this — this almost cowboy-like secrecy. They were very proud of being on these top secret missions.”

Barry Yeoman, author of “Soldiers of Good Fortune,” on Democracy Now

Continue reading ‘The State Dept.’s Murderous Guardians’

07
Oct

HISTORY ANNALS: Hugo Chávez on the Failed Coup

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Categories: Socialism & Communism, Media Reform, Indecent Plutocracy, Obstinate Conscience, Obstinate History and Imperial Policy Tags: No Tags.

President Hugo Chávez interviewed by Marta Harnecker, Monthly Review, Sept. 2005

This article is excerpted from Understanding the Venezuelan Revolution: Hugo Chávez Talks to Marta Harnecker published by Monthly Review Press. The book covers a wide range of topics, including Chávez’s political formation, the transformation currently taking place in Venezuela, and its place in the global context. In what follows, Chávez recounts the events of the failed coup d’etat of April 11, 2002.—Eds.

Continue reading ‘HISTORY ANNALS: Hugo Chávez on the Failed Coup’

07
Oct

Where Are the Lawyers of America?

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Categories: Appalling Hypocrisy Annals, Anti-War Work, Class Analysis, Ideological Combat, Indecent Plutocracy, Presidential Tyranny, Corporadoes, State Crimes, American Way of Life, Bourgeois Democracy and Establishment Whores Tags: No Tags.


Nader, controversial, especially to the “Anybody But Bush” crowd who continue to scapegoat him as the main factor that “lost” the election in 2000, despite a huge amount of evidence that Gore ran a lackluster campaign and finally the election was stolen, is still a powerful reminder of how far this republic has to travel before it begins to live up to its own image.

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. Continue reading ‘Where Are the Lawyers of America?’

04
Oct

“Capitalism and Freedom” Unmasked

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Categories: Capitalist Whores, Bourgeois Economics, Ideological Combat, Capitalist Propaganda, Indecent Plutocracy, Corporadoes, Academic Battlefields, American Way of Life and Mediocrats Tags: No Tags.

Milton Friedman, best known for his free-market fundamentalism, and accordingly eulogized when not downright canonized by establishment apologists, was a shameless enemy of the people. Blessed with the kind of obscenely long life that apparently befits all scoundrels (dead at 94; Reagan at 84; Ed Bernays, 104) this contemptible mystifier of social science and intellectual prostitute for the plutocracy lived long enough to preside over criminal applications of his fraudulent “economic science”, most notably in Chile, where his vulturish “Chicago Boys” created a model of capitalist “development” with the usual lopsided traits of a nation deeply divided in terms of wealth distribution and political power, with the poor, of course, bearing the brunt of Friedman’s “free society.”

BY STEVEN LENDMAN
Dateline: Thursday, October 04, 2007

AN ERA ENDED on November 16, 2006 when economist Milton Friedman died. A torrent of eulogies followed. The Wall Street Journal mourned his loss with the same tribute it credulously used when Ronald Reagan died saying “few people in human history have contributed more to the achievement of human freedom.” Economist and former Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers called him a hero and “The Great Liberator” in a New York Times op-ed; the UK Financial Times called him “the last of the great economists;” Terence Corcoran, editor of Canada’s National Post, mourned the “free markets” loss of “their last lion;” and Business Week magazine noted the “Death of a Giant” and praised his doctrine that “the best thing government can do is supply the economy with the money it needs and stand aside.” Continue reading ‘“Capitalism and Freedom” Unmasked’

02
Oct

A Q and A For The People Of A Forsaken Republic: Addressing the origins of the Who’s-Your-Daddy Nation

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Categories: Socialism & Communism, Revolution & Counter-revolution, Capitalist Propaganda, Indecent Plutocracy, The Contemptible Media, American Way of Life and Imperial Policy Tags: No Tags.


Aznar and Bush, two men who should answer before a new Nuremberg court for deliberate crimes against humanity, beginning with the launching of unprovoked wars. Bush, Cheney, and their criminal neocons are still at it, of course, now plotting some pretext to attack Iran.

BY PHIL ROCKSTROH

“We must become the change we want to see.”
– Mahatma Gandhi

“In any case, I hate all Iranians.”
–Debra Cagan, Deputy Assistant Secretary to Defense Secretary, Robert Gates

How many times do we, the people of the US, have to go around on this queasy-making merry-go-round of propaganda and militarism before we shout — enough! — then shutdown the whole cut-rate carnival and run the scheming carnies who operate it out of town? It is imperative the nation’s citizens begin to apprehend the patterns present in this ceaseless cycle of official deceit and collective pathology. This republic, or any other, cannot survive, inhabited by a populace with such a slow learning curve. Continue reading ‘A Q and A For The People Of A Forsaken Republic: Addressing the origins of the Who’s-Your-Daddy Nation’

29
Sep

The Bush-Aznar tapes: glimpse of a gangster preparing for war

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Categories: Appalling Hypocrisy Annals, Indecent Plutocracy, Capitalist Propaganda, American Politicians, Anti-War Work, Presidential Tyranny, Bourgeois Democracy, Middle East, Europe Matters, Zionist Footprints, State Crimes and Imperial Policy Tags: No Tags.


“Don’t wait up for me, darling.” Bush patting one of his European concubines in crime.
By Bill Van Auken | 29 September 2007
A solidarity post with World Socialist Web Site
WSWS : News & Analysis : North America

THE TRANSCRIPT OF THE FEBRUARY 2003 discussions between US President George W. Bush and Spanish Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar published Wednesday by Spain’s largest daily, El Pais, provides fresh documentary confirmation of what is already a widely known historical fact. That is: the Bush administration was determined to wage a war of aggression to conquer Iraq and was not about to allow international law or compromise settlements to interfere with its long-planned invasion. Continue reading ‘The Bush-Aznar tapes: glimpse of a gangster preparing for war’

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