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Recommended: Michael Hudson: America’s Deceptive 2012 Fiscal Cliff, Part II
Wage Slavery plus debt peonage — these are the fates awaiting the ‘better off’ members of the 99%, Alan Simpson’s “lesser people.” The ‘worst off’ shall continue to find themselves existing on city...
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Rob Urie, echoing Daniel Goldhagen, wrote: Ten years after the invasion, occupation and widespread destruction of Iraq was set into motion the revisionist apologetics are flying fast and furious. These...
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Serge Halami of Le Monde Diplomatique uses sarcasm to depict the vicious hypocrisy of the bankster elite: A sign of the times Everything was becoming impossible. It was impossible to increase taxes...
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The Nobel Laureate robs old folks
He’s an adult, you know. And every adult knows that the Bankster Golem is insatiable. Senior citizens can be sated, however. With this, for instance:
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Bombs exploded at the Boston Marathon
This is Patriot’s Day, Marathon Monday; it is also Tax Day — but otherwise insignificant. There were at least three explosive devices in Boston; two detonated near the Marathon’s finish line. The...
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Glenn Greenwald discussed the automatic other-blaming, other-bashing found in the American media after every ‘terrorist’ attack: The rush, one might say the eagerness, to conclude that the attackers...
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As a response to the post-Boston Lockdown euphoria, Andrew Levine writes: For anyone who watched the World Trade Center collapse on television in the days after September 11, 2001, the repetitive...
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Serge Halimi, editor of Le Monde Diplomatique, wrote: Some revelations come as little surprise. It’s not really news that some politicians love money and like to spend time with those who have lots of...
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Glenn Greenwald points out that: That the Obama administration is now repeatedly declaring that the “war on terror” will last at least another decade (or two) is vastly more significant than all three...
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This is just a part of Norman Pollack’s apt assessment of Edward Snowden‘s impact on American politics: One person can make a difference in the affairs of state. 21st century political civilization has...
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Norman Pollack accurately characterizes Barack Obama and the liberals who have lost their way while standing in his shadow: Obama’s “Hidden Hand” political strategy in his second term (Peter Baker, in...
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BOA meant DOA
Should anyone find this event surprising? No, they should not. Moritz Erhardt was a commodity. He was nearly fungible. Bank of America could easily find someone to replace him if it had wanted to do...
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As the United States lunges into another reckless, foolish war, we may wish to notice that: Regardless of the trigger mechanism, the [Obama] administration seems intent on pushing through Donald...
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Andrew Levine characterized Congressional Democrats thusly: In Gulliver’s Travels (1726), Jonathan Swift has his hero say of the inhabitants of Brobdingnag: “I cannot but conclude that the Bulk of your...
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With October first approaching
Let us recall a Kathleen Sebelius (Health and Human Services Secretary) interview which dates to 2009: Asked if the administration’s program will be drafted specifically to prevent it from evolving...
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What we have here is a leathel “air quote” war
Filed under: Photo Essay Tagged: Barack Obama, Crimes Against Humanity, Empire, Imperial Aggression, International Law, Israel, Politics, Reactionary politics, Syria, Tom Tomorrow, War Crimes
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The issue recently addressed by Alfredo Lopez is net neutrality and the work some corporations perform which is meant to undermine this practice. Those corporations are mostly the largest providers of...
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On Panitch & Gindin and American decline
Reblogged from LBO News from Doug Henwood: These are comments I delivered at a panel on The Making of Global Capitalism, by Leo Panitch and Sam Gindin, at the Rethinking Marxism conference, held at...
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