Celebrity news reader, the “perky” Katie Couric. Yea, give us one of those 60-million-dollar smiles, Katie. Everything is scrubbed clean of all authenticity, blandified, and prepared for mass consumption in a culture where the corporate bottom line is king. You can only guess what this woman is really like, but surely the non-threatening smile and [...]
Deconstructing Biden | [print_link] Biden is no prize, by a long shot, but he’s at least a fighter, and a guy who may give the repulsive Republican ticket a run for their money. Not politics, just spectacle, in an age of pseudo-democracy and worse entertainment. Of course, from the people’s perspective, all the corporate party [...]
Pepe Escobar, Correspondent, The Real News Network
Principle apparently never enters the picture when it comes to winning the White House, nor for that matter, intelligence, for Barack Obama has thought it prudent to simply join the American plutocracy’s bandwagon of chauvinist threats and hypocritical denunciations toward Russia, in the face of abundant evidence that Georgia was the original aggressor. [See our [...]
Thank the corporate class that controls the US for the re-igniting of the Cold War, this time around even more dangerous than before. The policy of encircling Russia with nuclear weapons is one that we would not tolerate for a second if applied to us, yet we expect Russia to accept it docilely in view [...]
Real News Network interview with Prof. Minqi Li, an anti-capitalist roader critical of the current system in China, and onetime jailed dissident. Interviewer: Paul Jay. Support The Real News Network.
From our Classical Essays archives || [print_link] BY GROVER FURR Dateline: The Montclarion, October 31, 1996, p. 11 I’d like to shed a little light on how politics works in the US. It’s important not to take either “conservatives” or “liberals” at face value. By those terms, I mean not working people who identify with either [...]
BY GAITHER STEWART | [print_link] As ruler of the U.S.S.R. from 1929 to 1953, Joseph Stalin was in charge of Soviet policies during the early phase of the Cold War. He adopted the name Stalin, which means “Man of Steel,” while still a young revolutionary. “I regard class differences as contrary to Justice.” (Albert Einstein in [...]
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