Don’t tell my mother I work at the White House. She thinks I play the piano in a whore house.

The incredibly and forever dangerous Bill Ayers. A real or imagined nightmare to the likes of John McCain, Palin, and even that card-carrying idiot, Joe “the Plumber,” but an example of commitment to moral duty to those who can see the truth.  The Anti-Empire Report | [print_link] Read this or George W. Bush will be [...]

Our Joe Bageant discusses the election and poor whites

THE AMERICAN NEWS PROJECT (ANP) traveled to Winchester, Virginia to get Joe Bageant on video, talking about his book Deer Hunting with Jesus, the upcoming election, corporate control of damn near everything, and why poor people without medical insurance are opposed to expanded access to health care. On its web site introduction, the American News Project described Joe’s book [...]

Health Care: Basic Human Right or Privilege? [AUDIO]

Dr. Stephanie Woolhandler | [print_link] BACK IN THE 1970S the Wall Street Journal, no communist organ, ran a small item on its front page, acknowledging that recent polls showed no less than 70% support for a universal public health care system. With such level of support we might imagine that most American politicians would have [...]

How these gibbering numbskulls came to dominate Washington

By George Monbiot  | [print_link] Like the late Jerry Falwell, and, not too long ago, the now unmasked Jimmy Swaggart, Jimmy Bakker, and Ted haggard, the notorious charlatan and mind poisoner James Dobson currently enjoys an enormous power base. The Louisiana-born fundamentalist evangelist produces the daily radio program Focus on the Family, which is broadcast [...]

Remind me again – Who won the Cold War?

Despite his obsession with prosecuting the Vietnam War to a victorious conclusion, Lyndon B. Johnson passed legislation that the Right could denounce today as flaming communism. By David Michael Green | [print_link] 10/26/08 Okay, you’re gonna need to fasten your seatbelt for this one. Here’s a quiz for you: Who was the third most ‘socialist’ [...]

DEFINITIONS: THE BOURGEOISIE

Delacroix’s Liberty Leading the People, one of the many heroic tableaux commemorating the bourgeoisie’s struggle against the moribund feudal order. The imagery is romantic and promises a utopia of classless brotherhood, but the social organization consolidated under bourgeois rule soon showed deep cleavages between rich and poor, and a penchant for exploitation of the lower [...]

Spreading the Wealth: The politics of class warfare

Although the rich have waged “class warfare” for ages on the unsuspecting masses, they’re quick to denounce as “rabblerouser” anyone who raises the issues of lack of egalitarianism and deficient democracy in the U.S. In America and elsewhere, hypocrisy has always been a strong suit of those living in privilege. The McCain-Palin ticket, just like [...]

Election 2008: Chomsky on the “Lesser Evil” option

IN THIS EXCLUSIVE new VIDEO interview with The Real News Network, chief correspondent Paul Jay probes Noam Chomsky’s views on the nature of the US party system and the logic of voting “the lesser evil.”  Chomsky says while it’s true that the two parties are essentially like factions of one party – the party of [...]

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