The Greanville Journal

BY JOHN BUCHANAN
Originally at The New Hampshire Gazette Vol. 248, No. 1, October 10, 2003

Jokes may not be too far from the mark when one studies the historical record, most of it carefully kept under wraps for decades.

PART ONE

WASHINGTON - After 60 years of inattention and even denial by the U.S. media, newly-uncovered government documents in The National Archives and Library of Congress reveal that Prescott Bush, the grandfather of President George W. Bush, served as a business partner of and U.S. banking operative for the financial architect of the Nazi war machine from 1926 until 1942, when Congress took aggressive action against Bush and his “enemy national” partners. [Read more →]

Tags: Indecent Plutocracy, Investigative Reporting, Presidential Tyranny, Fascism US Style, Obstinate History, The Contemptible Media, Imperial Policy by Greanville
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By Ben Aris in Berlin and Duncan Campbell in Washington DC
Dateline: Saturday September 25, 2004 / The Guardian (UK)

Far-fetched satire or irrefutable revelations?

Rumours of a link between the US first family and the Nazi war machine have circulated for decades. Now the Guardian can reveal how repercussions of events that culminated in action under the Trading with the Enemy Act are still being felt by today’s president

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Tags: Fascism US Style, Presidential Tyranny, Indecent Plutocracy, State Crimes, Pathetic Idioten, Obstinate History, Capitalism for Dummies, Imperial Policy by ascetorix_ariz20
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BY WILLIAM BLUM

“People on the March” (quarto stato)—An idealization tableau of the working class in Italy.

Editors’ Note: This is a chapter from Killing Hope: US Military and CIA Interventions Since World War II. In our view this chapter by Blum raises a perennial question, namely, who gives the US the “right” to interfere at will as if it owned the world? American exceptionalism, inculcated among the US population by ubiquitous indoctrination, is nothing more than a malignant form of collective narcissism, a runaway case of selfishness blocking a decent analysis of our own actions. How would Americans feel if a superpower many, many times stronger than the US chose to meddle in US elections to the extent we routinely have done in other countries, and even openly threaten military action if the outcome of said elections was not to its liking? Is that the way to spread democracy and build good will around the world?

As Blum himself puts it:

“If you flip over the rock of American foreign
policy of the past century, this is what crawls out …

invasions … bombings … overthrowing
governments … suppressing movements
for social change … assassinating
political leaders … perverting
elections … manipulating labor unions …
manufacturing “news” … death squads …
torture … biological warfare …
depleted uranium … drug trafficking …
mercenaries …

It’s not a pretty picture.
It is enough to give imperialism a bad name.”

Chapter 2. Italy 1947-1948—Free elections: Hollywood style

“Those who do not believe in the ideology of the United States, shall not be allowed to stay in the United States,” declared the American Attorney General, Tom Clark, in January 1948.{1} [Read more →]

Tags: Communism, Fascism US Style, Indecent Plutocracy, Capitalist Intelligence Agency, Bourgeois Democracy, Book Reviews, Europe Matters, Classic Archives, Imperial Policy by Greanville
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PAUL HARRIS, New York Correspondent Dateline: The Observer (U>K>)| Sunday July 22, 2007


Henry Kravis, Jewish-American financier of legendary fame for his LBO sleight-of-hands, and loyal Bush/GOP supporter. The cesspoool of high finance has rarely produced an specimen as disgusting as Kravis, and all his millions can’t hide that simple fact. He more or less personifies the mores of the American plutocracy. Unfortunately, he’s got plenty of playmayes and imitators

The American Dream of riches for all is turning into a nightmare of inequality. But a backlash is brewing, reports Paul Harris in New York.

EDITOR’S NOTE: Be sure to read our companion article by Michael Parenti, “The Rich are Our of Sight,” right on this journal.

On the surface, Mark Cain works for a time-share company. Members pay a one-off sum to join and an annual fee. They then get to book holiday time in various destinations around the globe. But Solstice clients are not ordinary people. They are America’s super-rich and a brief glance at its operations reveal the vast and still widening gulf between them and the rest of America. [Read more →]

Tags: Indecent Plutocracy, Pathetic Idioten, Capitalism for Dummies, Toxic Culture by Greanville
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BY MICHAEL PARENTI (Originally published in December 2002)

Microsoft billionaire Paul Allen is rich, very rich, and he’s not afraid to show it. Just like fellow softcom billionaire Larry Ellison’s boat, “Rising Sun”, which boasts a 452 ft displacement, at 416 ft long (approx. 1.5 city blocks), ‘The Octopus’ is one of the world’s largest yachts (it’s more like a cruise liner) and cost a whopping $200 million. [The Octopus] has a permanent crew of 60, including several former Navy Seals. It has two helicopters, seven boats, a 10 man submarine and a remote controlled vehicle for crawling on the Ocean floor. The submarine has the capacity to sleep eight for up to two weeks underwater.

On average, owners must spend a minimum of 10 percent of the purchase price every year to keep these yachts in good working condition and cover crew salaries. Therefore “Octopus” which cost Allen US$200 million requires a US$20 million annual budget.
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Tags: Classic Archives, Indecent Plutocracy, Pathetic Idioten, Toxic Culture, Corporadoes, Imperial Policy by ascetorix_ariz20
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