James Petras: More uncompromising than ever before, and a thorn under the saddle for many fellow progressives. Dateline: Wednesday, november 26, 2008 Prominent progressive intellectuals By Stephen Gowans | [print_link] James Petras has taken issue with progressive public intellectuals (PPIs) who endorsed the Obama candidacy on pragmatic grounds and who argued the Democratic candidate is [...]
Noam Chomsky: Tireless critic of Western imperialism. Routinely blackballed by the corporate media he remains far less well known and influential at home than abroad. Dateline: ZNET November 25,2008 / By Noam Chomsky | [print_link] The Election The word that immediately rolled off of every tongue after the presidential election was “historic.” And rightly so. A [...]
First American billionaire John D. Rockefeller, the father of “Standard Oil”, and grandaddy of ExxonMobil. All energy industries used by the industrial revolution—from coal to oil— have a history smeared with blood, but few match oil for its nefarious effects, including now not only involvement in endless wars, but the puncturing of the biosphere. By [...]
Millions stand behind him. But too many of the wrong kind. In time, as more betrayals of ordinary Americans pile up at the hand of Obama and his lieutenants, racism may resurface among white blue-collar workers who will find in Obama the perfect target for their frustrations. Unless he makes good on some of his populist [...]
More and more people may soon feel that the “choice” was not deep enough to be meaningful, except in the narrowest of senses. An Administration in Search of a Progressive The Team Obama Should Have Picked By RAMZI KYSIA | [print_link] I feel cheated. I feel betrayed. [...]
By Bill Van Auken | [print_link] Dateline: 25 November 2008 \ World Socialist Web Site “The source of these [Citigroup] huge losses is largely the bank’s reckless speculation in the form of subprime lending and securitization-all in pursuit of astronomical bonuses for Citigroup’s traders and senior executives…” Barack Obama used his press conference Monday to deliver a [...]
Carefully engineered myth and reality clash hard in Obama. But both his policies and advisors will soon tell us how much hope for change is justified—if any. By Paul Street | [print_link] Barack Obama and his followers continue to revise the history of his ascendance, pretending his campaign was rooted among the “outsiders.” The public line [...]
The American “disease” of cultural arrogance, exceptionalism, Manifest Destiny, capitalist individualism, and human supremacy over nature was already clear and dominant in John Winthrop and among the English Puritan colony he headed. The colony’s land was taken from Native Americans with Winthrop’s excuse that the natives hadn’t “subdued” the land and thus had no “civil right” [...]
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