Although Zionists would have everyone believe that all Jews accept Israel and its warlike policies, this is far from the case. Dateline: www.counterpunch.com/finkelstein01132009.html CounterPunch January 13, 2009 || [print_link] Seeing Through the Lies Mr. Obama has to level with the American people. He has to be honest about what is the main obstacle [...]
The Remarkable Synergy of Energytomorrow.org, John McCain, and Calls For Offshore Drilling Originally published at francisrants.com / June 17th, 2008 ||| [print_link] Anybody who has been watching cable news over the last several weeks will notice new ads being put out by theAmerican Petroleum Institute (API), talking about “securing America’s energy future” and inviting us to go to their [...]
By David Walsh In mid-January, Judge Susan J. Crawford, a lifelong Republican and senior administration official in the Bush Administration, publicly admitted that the treatment of prisoners in Guantánamo and other CIA/Pentagon-run facilities “met the legal definition of torture.” Dateline: 28 January 2009 || [print_link] CONSIDERABLE EFFORTS are being made in various quarters to [...]
[print_link] Let us all note that while the GOP is a political association dedicated to advancing the interests of big business and the plutocracy in general, concretized in the so-called “Military-Industrial-Media” complex, which is deeply intertwined with the political class of the US, the Democrats, supposedly the alternative, are similarly beholden to the same oligarchic [...]
A CYRANO’S JOURNAL VIRTUAL UNIVERSITY SELECTION By Michael Parenti ||| [print_link] Excerpted from Chapter 1 of Blackshirts and Reds WHILE WALKING THROUGH NEW YORK’S LITTLE ITALY, I passed a novelty shop that displayed posters and T-shirts of Benito Mussolini giving the fascist salute. When I entered the shop and asked the clerk why such items [...]
A CYRANO’S JOURNAL VIRTUAL UNIVERSITY SELECTION By Michael Parenti Dateline: published in 2009 || [print_link] After the overthrow of communist governments in Eastern Europe, capitalism was paraded as the indomitable system that brings prosperity and democracy, the system that would prevail unto the end of history. The present economic crisis, however, has convinced even some [...]
By Michael Parenti (originally published in 1996) | [print_link] Much of history is a chronicle of immense atrocities. Whenever surplus wealth accumulates in any society, whenever people emerge from a cooperative subsistence economy, some portion of the population will do everything it can to exploit the labor of the rest of the people in as [...]
Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Oh) is playing obstruction politics to extract even deeper tax cuts for the rich than Obama has already offered. Tax cuts for the rich are a form of thinly-disguised “trickle-down” approach to economic stimulus, a chapter from the supply-side economics bible, and both have been shown to be conceptual frauds. In [...]
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