“Chi non lavora, non fa l’amore” By Gaither Stewart (Dateline: Rome) A popular Italian evergreen from the 1970s depicts a contemporary conundrum for many Europeans: “Chi non lavora, non fa l’amore” go the lyrics. The woman tells her man, “If you don’t work, there will be no love-making in this house. If you strike and [...]
Establishing an “Arc of Crisis” ORIGINALLY at Global Research, July 10, 2008 Many would be skeptical that the Anglo-Americans would be behind terrorist acts in Iraq, such as with the British in Basra, when two British SAS soldiers were caught dressed as Arabs, with explosives and massive arsenal of weapons.[1] Why would the British be [...]
Dateline: Global Research, March 28, 2009 Newspaper reports seem surprised at how high banks are bidding for the junk mortgages that Mr. Geithner is now bidding for, having mobilized the FDIC and Fed to transfer yet more public funds to the banks. Yet bank stocks are soaring: that is what is bidding up the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA), [...]
NO MATTER WHAT THE “OBAMA CULTISTS” SAY… When it comes to health care, Barack Obama is a hater, and a dishonest one at that. An honest and ethical hater tells you where she or he stands, and throws down the appropriate facts. President Obama doesn’t do this. He has claimed for years to be a [...]
NO MATTER WHAT THE “OBAMA CULTISTS” SAY… President Obama knows there is no blank slate and there never was. That’s not even honest hating. It’s hypocrisy. And it’s not leadership, it’s caving to the parasitical private insurers. “…the Obama Administration’s emerging health care plan is expected to be based upon a model that has failed [...]
Making a “profit center” out of jailing kids / By Rowan Wolf I HAVE LONG BEEN ENRAGED by the idea of for-profit corrections facilities. It is just not a good idea to make locking people up (or detaining them) profitable. In a capitalist system such as the U.S., profit becomes king – ruling over all [...]
“An early skeptic about the left-handed phenom from Chicago, I’ve never had any illusions about Obama’s commitment to left-wing “change.” Yet that’s exactly what pundits across the political spectrum say Obama is putting forth.”
MATT TAIBBI takes on porn-stached New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman’s greenish ways. /// WHEN SOME TIME AGO A FRIEND OF MINE told me that Thomas Friedman’s new book, Hot, Flat, and Crowded, was going to be a kind of environmentalist clarion call against American consumerism, I almost died laughing. [READ ON]