A World in Which Truth is a Dying Species by GAITHER STEWART Rome. Hidden away somewhere within the labyrinth of the Pentagon there must be a top secret euphemism department engaged in the invention of the Orwellian surrogate words that have crept surreptitiously into the American English vocabulary and from there translated into many other [...]
Editor’s Note: By sheer coincidence the badly under-reported subject of US military bases around the world (and their purposes) is finally receiving some serious attention in various essays and two forthcoming books, one by David Vine, the author of this article, an anthropologist and critic of US foreign policy at American University, and Lily Pad [...]
THE GREEK AFFAIR: SYMBOL OF THE CRISIS OF THE EUROPEAN UNION OR PARADIGM OF EUROPE’S SALVATION It is an ironic twist of history that Greece, the cradle of Western culture, today, 2500 years after the acme of Hellenic glory, appears on the stage of history in the best of cases as victim, and in the [...]
By ED DUVIN, Editor at Large Follow this link to Broken Movement, Continued. The founder of this publication, Patrice Greanville, and I made our way to the beginnings of the “activist” animal rights movement in the 1970s, believing it was an overlooked bastion of exploitation. Ignoring the intrinsic interests of our nonhuman family makes a [...]
By Patrice Greanville, TGP The Founding Fathers: a communist cabal? How would Jefferson be handled these days by the establishment’s commentariat? – Down the centuries, and especially in the age of “managed democracy” a lot of hot air has been heard in sanctimonious quarters on the matter of when violence is “legitimate” as a solution [...]
No. 1 in our Tactics & Strategies discussion series— How can a revolution succeed when our rulers have well-armed and well-manned militaries at their command? COLUMN: PAUL D’AMATO [1] January 20, 2012 THOSE WHO rule will not give up their power peacefully. Try to disrupt one of their events–like meetings of the World Bank and International Monetary [...]
BY BARRY GREY, WSWS.ORG Corzine embodies the financial parasites at the top 0.1 percent of the income ladder whose swindling precipitated the global economic crisis and who have, with the assistance of Obama and his counterparts around the world, further enriched themselves from the social catastrophe they created. Even by the debased standards of American [...]