Dateline: Global Research, April 29, 2009 IF WE ARE TO BELIEVE WHAT OUR TRUSTED INTERNATIONAL MEDIA REPORT, the world is on the brink of a global pandemic outbreak of a new deadly strain of flu, H1N1 as it has been labelled, or more popularly, Swine Flu. As the story goes, the outbreak of the deadly [...]
BY WILLIAM KLEINKNECHT
“The continuing fallout from Reagan’s policies – the meltdown of the financial sector, widening income inequality, the emergence of lockdown America, the obscene inflation of CEO compensation, the end of locally owned media, market crashes, blackouts, drug-company scandals, rampant greed and materialism — is all around us. As D.H. Lawrence once wrote in another context, “The cataclysm has happened, we are among the ruins.”‘
Notes Associate Editor Gary Corseri: “Jeff Huber describes a situation in which a kind of covert military coup has already occurred here in the Land of the Free. It’s more complicated than one man’s ambition. The effects of this “coup” have been so wide-ranging, and have become so entwined with our political, economic, psychological, and, even spiritual, lives, we’ve lost sight of its dimensions, its insidiousness and perniciousness….”
IMAGE: Ronald Reagan in 1976, Gov. of California. It was the beginning of the ascent to the White House, with awful consequences for America and the world. Reagan’s foreign policy was marked by naked imperialism, interventionism in poor countries, and smug rhetoric. Today, Obama’s policies aim to fulfill the same imperial mandate, under similar demogoguery.
“For leftists, Obama has been a total bust. He’s escalated the war in Afghanistan, increased the cross-border bombings of Pakistan, hemmed and hawed about prosecuting war crimes, refused to actively lobby House members to make it easier for workers to organize (EFCA), and surrounded himself with bank industry reps who’ve committed $12.8 trillion to sinking financial institutions with no assurance that the money would be repaid. Apart from a trifling bill on stem cells, Obama has done absolutely zero to confirm his bone fides as a liberal. The truth is, Obama is neither liberal nor conservative; he’s simply an inspiring orator and a skillful politician who has no strong convictions about anything.”
ARTICLES OF PERMANENT INTEREST The following article appeared in Left Business Observer #71, January 1996. It was written by Doug Henwood, editor and publisher. Antiglobalization Since the heavily advertised death of socialism, if there’s an idea that unites much leftish economic thought today, it’s that globalization is the root of many evils. It’s a strangely amorphous enemy, [...]
ARTICLES OF PERMANENT INTEREST The following article appeared in Left Business Observer #63, May 1994. It was written by Doug Henwood, editor and publisher. CRIME IS HOT AGAIN, reportedly having surpassed the economy in the public mind as problem number one, and the opportunist Clinton is all over the issue. In a February 15 Ohio speech to [...]
IMAGE: Congresswoman Jane Harman (D-Cal) with a representative of Israel’s Knesset. ///// “Israel’s spying on its staunchest ally and biggest benefactor is nothing new. But it’s wasted effort: Our Rulers tie themselves and us in knots proving their passion for that socialist [sic] sand-dune. For starters, both Israel and the Feds consider us taxpayers a cash cow for Israelis. Since 1949, Our Rulers have milked us of at least $108 billion on Israel’s behalf, according to the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs’ painstaking and conservative analysis. And that’s to say nothing of the wars we fight against Israel’s enemies, nor the billions we spend policing her neighbors.”
OBAMA’S CABINET: BY THEIR DEEDS AND WORSHIP THOU SHALT KNOW THEM… When it comes to the enormous crisis we all face, as ordinary citizens, Lawrence Summers and his ilk are the problem, not the solution. No man who is an unrepentant admirer of Milton Friedman should be serving on any cabinet supposedly in the service of [...]
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