The McCains: Profiles in Privilege. The GOP is breaking all-time records for dishonesty and pandering, and the Democrats are not exactly innocent bystanders. Still, lesser evilism triumphs. By Chalmers Johnson, Tomdispatch.com. Posted October 8, 2008. A small election victory won’t drastically turn around any of the darker challenges our country faces — only a [...]
Nobel Prize winner Milton Friedman: the most overrated economist of the 20th century. In time, perhaps, even the University of Chicago will be embarrassed by its hagiographic treatment of such notorious intellectual prostitute. Like Kissinger, Friedman spent his professional and private life kissing the rump of the rich, and furnishing clever apologies for their reign [...]
In this provocative essay senior editor Gary Corseri argues that the enemy has always been “us”. No need to look for external threats. The Trojan Horses of Our Demise have been the corrupt values we lived by and honored unquestioningly for generations, while “the going was good,” without ever stopping to examine the real implications [...]
Barack and Michelle Obama. Barack—along with McCain— had no trouble helping the establishment propaganda machine scare the people and provide the rationale for Congress to approve the “rescue” package. Shameless, and he’s not even president yet, and he needs the people’s vote. Imagine how he’ll act later. By Richard C Cook | [print_link] OCTOBER 1, [...]
By Jason Miller [print_link] 10/2/08 Proudly surveying our kingdom from atop the capitalist pyramid, we US Americans have deluded ourselves into believing we are at the pinnacle of cultural, social, political, and economic evolution. We fancy ourselves to be so exceptional that we are entitled to a perpetual blessing from “our” Christian God. Break out [...]
October 1, 2008 Is the bailout necessary? ANP: View Point – Economist Dean Baker says we don’t need the Bailout Source: The Real News Network / ANP
The financial crisis may be the number one issue on US voters’ minds, but there seems to be no leadership at work in Washington, comments Pepe Escobar. The Wall Street bailout rejected by Congress and then approved by the Senate may not be the solution. It’s up to foreign analysts and economists to tell it [...]
Mia Farrow, along with George Clooney, Bono, etc., has been prominent in lending a liberal face to the Darfur propaganda noise. Well-meaning though she may be, her activism in this issue shows the dangers of combining dilenttantism with serious politics in a world in which hypocrisy and cynicism are quick to exploit intellectual laziness or [...]
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