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  • No We Can’t
    15 September 2009 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Or is it, No, We Won’t? Or, No Way, No How? Or, perhaps, No, we shouldn’t expect to limit our ideals to shallow campaign sloganeering?
    Poor President Obama, who’s gifted with a rare talent for silky, resonant rhetoric, made a promise he’ll never keep — Yes We Can. Sure, it sounded great, particularly as an antidote to the Neocon nightmare W had supported. But, really, how was it ever going to be possible? A New World? A New Politics? A New Way of Thinking? No way. Not even close.
    Now (…)

  • We Can’t Break Up the Giant Banks, Can We? Yes We Can!
    14 September 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    We Can’t Break Up the Giant Banks, Can We? Yes We Can!
    by Washington’s Blog
    Global Research, September 14, 2009 Washington’s Blog - 2009-09-13
    Top economists and financial experts believe that the economy cannot recover unless the big, insolvent banks are broken up in an orderly fashion. In response, defenders of the too-big-to-fails make one or more of the following arguments:
    (1) The government does not have the authority to break up the big boys (2) To break up the banks, the (…)

  • WHEN I SPEAK, I TREMBLE
    14 September 2009 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Since the beginning of recorded time, history has taught one immutable lesson: Evil is resilient, and even when it appears to be vanquished, it often reemerges in a different form. This resiliency is dramatically increased in environments where people who dream of a better world are unable to speak because nobody can hear them, or unwilling to speak due to fear or intimidation. In such milieus any hope for progress or positive social change is more illusory than real.
    The people of the (…)

  • Meet the new boss: “The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power.”
    13 September 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    The word from The White House’s Briefing Room is that Obama is going to continue the national emergency declared on September 14, 2001 by the Bush administration.
    The full briefing is available below, but before reading it, it might be worth while reading the following quote from George Orwell’s 1984, it should help put things into perspective.
    “The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power. Not wealth (…)

  • The Boomers are Out of Time – And Out of Money
    12 September 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    The Boomers are Out of Time – And Out of Money
    By Bill Bonner, 09/08/09 London, England
    Clowns to the left of us…jokers to the right…
    The Simpleton’s Analysis:
    Consumers cut back. The economy sank.
    Now, government must take action. It must help people out and take up the slack.
    The downturn took $12 trillion off Americans’ net worth. The feds have pledged about $12 trillion to fix the problem.
    But wait, where does government get any money?
    Hey, they borrow it, just like (…)

  • 68.4% of weapons sold to foreign powers are supplied by the US: “Quit arming the fuck’n world Man!”
    8 September 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    The business of death and destruction is booming for weapons manufacturers operating in the United States of America.
    As reported in the New York Times, according to a new Congressional study, “the United States signed weapons agreements valued at $37.8 billion in 2008, or 68.4 percent of all business in the global arms bazaar.” This is 10-times more than their closest rival, Italy, at $3.7 billion.
    Keep in mind that this boom in business is occurring during a global economic (…)

  • Shock and Awe’t
    7 September 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    I went to school with a guy who became big in the art world, and that’s how he pronounced it: awe’t. He was from New York. He called himself Reggie in those days, but now he prefers Reginald, thinking it I suppose more befitting of his age and social status. I can understand that. I had an aunt that everybody called "Baby" until she died, in her late 70s, which must have been hard. But Aunt Baby didn’t die in a penthouse, in fact never lived in one, though she did once invest in a racehorse. (…)

  • 9/11, Antisemitism and Denial
    7 September 2009 par (Open-Publishing)
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    It is often pointed out that antisemitism (or anti-Semitism), meaning "anti-Jewish," is a misnomer since the word Semitic, strictly speaking, refers to a number of peoples, including Jews and Arabs, and a number languages, including Hebrew and Arabic. In the case of 9/11 conspiracy theories, however, the term is properly inclusive, since both Arabs, or Muslims, and "Zionists," or Jews, have been fingered as the culprits. The US government conspiracy theory, of course, is that 19 Arabs did (…)

  • Falling into the Trap
    7 September 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    By David Glenn Cox
    KUNDUZ, Afghanistan (Reuters) - A U.S. warplane summoned by German troops fired on hijacked fuel trucks in Afghanistan before dawn on Friday, killing as many as 90 people in an incident that could trigger a backlash against NATO.
    A friend of mine was a Vietnam vet and had told me his story of a young Vietnamese child who had run towards the lead armored personnel carrier in the column directly ahead of his own. The boy was perhaps nine or ten, and as he ran towards the (…)

  • AS THE WORLD TURNS: AMERICA LEFT BEHIND
    6 September 2009 par (Open-Publishing)
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    JAZZMAN CHRONICLES. DISSEMINATE FREELY.
    As the world turns away from the American century, leaving behind the antiquated and self-defeating war on drugs, a war that the late William Burroughs rightly derided as an excuse to create an international police apparatus, leaving behind the global economic scheme that impoverishes nations while enriching corporations, leaving behind the Cold War, the imperialist wars and the wars on terror, America is stuck in reverse, desperately clinging to (…)