Serbia was “character-assassinated” by Western propaganda. The campaign against Serbia was for the most part a tissue of lies and biased reporting. This man, Fikret Alic, was presented to the West as a victim of Serbian brutality, a concentration camp inmate. That was a lie. The man was standing outside the barbed wire. Still, even [...]
For most Americans, the defense of “Americanism” is indistinguishable from the defense of capitalism, aka “the free enterprise system”—its favorite euphemism. Only in America can a citizen opposed to capitalism be denounced as “un-American.” By Gaither Stewart / Patrice Greanville The dismal demise of the American Dream (if it ever really existed), the dream not [...]
The four salopines of SATC’s Dolce Vita: Charlotte, Carrie, Miranda, and Samantha. Well-packaged role models of compulsive bourgeois consumerism (cum sexual voyeurism) diabolically concocted to titillate the masses. Selfishness, pettiness, banality and promiscuity (disguised as women’s liberation) never looked so enticing. BY JOHN STEPPLING / VOXPOP’S PLACEBO ART MONITOR I wanted to try to link together [...]
By John J. Simon Ecology The Moment of Truth—An Introduction John Bellamy Foster, Brett Clark, and Richard York Originally published in MONTHLY REVIEW, July-August 2008 IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO EXAGGERATE the environmental problem facing humanity in the twenty-first century. Nearly fifteen years ago one of us observed: “We have only four decades left in which to [...]
And ignorant and passive, too, if you’re an American. Rolling the Dice Once Again – in Iran By BAR executive editor Glen Ford *”The Lords of Capital have always chosen to resolve their contradictions through war.”* Share on Facebook
By facing social problems (such as growing inequality and instability) alone and separate from their fellows, most people remain at the mercy of the superrich, which now completely control all levers of American government and determine the quality of life for the vast majority of the population. America’s Middle Class Can’t Take Much More Punishment [...]
The latest in a long line of false champions of the people. Let’s Get Real / Guest editor: Morris Berman Dear Friends, I thought this article by John Pilger, the British journalist, on Barack Obama was too important to pass up, especially in view of the fact that most Americans have not read “Dark [...]
The grotesquely hyperdiscussed New Yorker cover. Are you fed up yet? A classical case of much ado about nothing, typical of a political culture that constantly substitutes banalities for serious reporting. And these jokers call themselves journalists and professional commentators. Where Obamaism Seems to be Going Originally at www.blackagendareport.com/index.php / Edited by Glen Ford, Editor [...]
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