By Stephen Lendman || Dateline: Tuesday, February 19, 2008 Although the US/NATO/Western European alliance is once again meddling in the Balkans to suit their own purposes of resource and strategic acquisition, the Western publics are being told a far different story, selling our support for Kosovars as siding with “democracy-loving” populations wishing to escape the [...]
It takes audacity, backed up by a whole chorus of fawning psychophants, and the embrace of the system, to claim that selfishness is a virtue. But in America the lady became rich and influential peddling precisely such oxymoronic drivel. Fifty years after it was first published, Ayn Rand’s most influential book offers a vital clue [...]
By Joel S. Hirschhorn After many years of political disappointment, more progressives, liberals and conservatives — and certainly moderates and independents — know in their hearts that voting for Democrats or Republicans is a waste. Just imagine if voter turnout was cut to 25 percent or less! Let the whole world see Americans boycotting [...]
The Latin American revolution. This is the specter that the Pentagon, the CIA, and the vast US taxpayer-supported apparatus of military intervention and subversion in foreign nations is sworn to stamp out. It’s not about drugs. It’s just old-fashioned class struggle. Dateline: Monday, February 18, 2008 A puppet of US policy, Colombia continues to be [...]
GOODBYE old friend So long Fidel around for fifty years The source of many lies And focus of great fears
By Fred Weston and Alan Woods Dateline: Wednesday, 20 February 2008 ON TUESDAY, February 19, Fidel Castro announced he was resigning his position as President of Cuba. This comes 19 months after Castro underwent stomach surgery. In fact he has not been in public since then. The media coverage since Castro announced his retirement has [...]
By Carolyn Baker |Dateline Thursday, 14 February 2008 FOUR YEARS AGO, I wrote “Why I Will Not Vote In 2004” for which a number of readers thanked me profusely while another segment of readers sent scathing emails questioning how I could be so cynical and unpatriotic.
Mecca—a beehive of fundamentalist piety as incomprehensible to Americans today as it might have been to the Crusaders. DIALOGS FROM voxpop By John Steppling & Guy Zimmerman************************************ I REMEMBER PETER BERG, the director of the new Universal film The Kingdom, from the one summer he participated at the Padua Hills Playwrights Festival. He struck me [...]
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