BY NAOMI KLEIN Book Review: Naomi Klein, The Shock Doctrine: the Rise of Disaster Capitalism, Metropolitan Books, September 18, 2007, 576 pages, $28 (US) [CROSSREFERENCE: Review of The Shock Doctrine by Susan Rosenthal] I met Jamar Perry in September 2005, at the big Red Cross shelter in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Dinner was being doled out [...]
BY SUSAN ROSENTHAL Naomi Klein plowing through her research notes while writing The Shock Doctrine, an important book, but one that, as our reviewer shows, is marred in some significant respects. Klein, in the manner of so many liberals (“left-liberal” in her case)–is a far better diagnostician of the horrors and cynicism of capitalism than [...]
BY ALEX MILLER INTRO & REMINDER TO THE READER Betrayed by the rightwing social-democrat Friedrich Ebert (whom Luxembourg had once tutored in economics) and at his behest, Rosa was captured by the Freikorps (a rightwing militia of decommissioned soldiers soured by the First World War defeat and manipulated by the German plutocracy) and promptly assassinated. [...]
Criminal and freemarketer Bush and his “loyal” opposition. To whom is Pelosi “loyal” we may ask? To the abstract interests of the establishment as reflected in the current status quo? Or to the ordinary citizens? BY JOHN PILGER Dateline // Crosspost from Johnpilger.com, a fraternal site 17 Oct 2007 John Pilger marks the European release [...]
Excerpted from Revolutionary Worker #1236, April 11, 2004, posted at http://rwor.org This is a republication of an article of permanent interest. Note that what this article says— despite the fact it was written three years ago—has been abundantly verified over the last year, culminating with the Blackwater pseudo-hearings in Congress in late September (2007). A [...]
Eloquent caption indeed, despite the typos and the clueless technician at CNN. BY STEVEN JONAS UPDATED: OCT 17, 2007 The Political Junkies.net Column No. 167 The US government use of torture is in the news once again, and as long as BushCheney are in power it will be, off and on. For they have made [...]
By Nancy Wartik || Crosspost with The AARP Magazine \\ November & December 2007 The lust is gone. The fires are out. What happened? Is there anything you can do to rekindle love’s passion? *Names of interviewees and their partners have been changed for privacy. When she was in her 30s, Margaret Monaghan* ended a [...]
BY JEREMY SCAHILL Bush’s “Whores of War,” or, maybe, more appropriate, the boys from the “Coalition of the Billing.” TOPICS OF PERMANENT INTEREST Crosspost at THE NATION, where it originally appeared, and to whom we are grateful: http://www.thenation.com/doc/20070402/scahill_vid [first posted online on March 15, 2007] Jeremy Scahill reports on the Bush Administration’s growing dependence on [...]
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