tantmieux chronicles: How it Begins

By sadi ranson-polizzotti The place of my youth was not what one would call a beautiful part of town. It was North East London and the houses were simple and mostly built brick and each street had a pub on each corner that served as a bookend, hemming us in at every turn; around every [...]

the tantmieux chronicles: on love and all the rest

BY SADI-RANSON POLIZZOTTI There is just so much to say about marriage, relationships, being a wife, being a mistress, being the husband or the lover, the abandoned, the abandonee and i can tell you from all ends, no matter where you are at this moment in time, the situation is difficult for all concerned. Share [...]

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

“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 [...]

Fred Thompson: Desperate Republicans Cheer for a Reagan Wannabe

Vacant-brained Fred Thompson and his GOPer trophy wife. One of the most baffling things about evil is that it often assumes attractive packages. BY MATT TAIBBI | Dateline: Sep 24 2007 I can say exactly when I first knew that Fred Dalton Thompson is dangerous. It is 12:07 p.m. on Sunday, September 9th, in Manchester, [...]

The lessons of Ahmadinejad at Columbia

The Iranian President at the United Nations. COMMENTARY By Jerry Mazza /•\ Online Journal Associate Editor | Dateline: Sep 26, 2007 // Fraternal crosspost The Ahmadinejad visit to New York provided the media and its associated political class with yet another feeding frenzy to exercise their well developed talent for high-handed hypocrisy. Obviously it helps [...]

A Letter to the American Left

BHL, a man of strong opinions and a very high opinion of himself. BY BERNARD HENRI-LEVY [from the February 27, 2006 issue of The Nation] REPUBLISHED AS A PUBLIC SERVICE Editorial Caveat: Who is this diagnostician for the American Left?: In French and US establishment journals, Bernard-Henri Levy, or BHL, as he is commonly known, [...]

Grand Illusion

Giuliani—as phoney as a man in drag. BY BILL CURRY | Dateline: September 24, 2007 The Huffington Post Rudy Giuliani is slipping, if not quite sliding away. In early polls he led Hillary Clinton and every Democrat and was pulling away from the Republican pack, having benefited much from John McCain’s gracious decision to set [...]

America in Crisis, Part II: The Liberal Challenge and the Prospects for Socialism

Few contemporary American politicians incarnate the false promise of liberalism as well as Democrat Hillary Clinton (along with husband Bill, the master opportunist “triangulator.”) If Hillary were to gain the White House, the Clintons would constitute another dynasty in presidential politics, and although rabidly denounced by the insane and hypocritical US rightwing punditocracy as wild [...]

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