AS THE GREANVILLE POST WARNED A FEW DAYS AGO, the single payer ticket is being used cynically by the Democrats as their road to victory in 2018 and beyond. Mkhiber notes, “Bernie had no Senate co-sponsors for his single payer bill until a couple ofREAD ON
James Petras: The Politics of Military Ascendancy
JAMES PETRAS—What Mattis seeks in these mad fits of aggression is nothing less than capitulation on the part of the Russian government regarding long held US military objectives – namely the partition of Syria (which started under Obama), harsh starvation sanctions on North Korea (whichREAD ON
From Great Wars, Come Great Consequences
GREG MAYBURY—After noting that for nations to obtain and secure power ‘it is essential to ignore the moral laws of man and of God’, he had the following to say: ‘…promises must be made only with the intention to deceive and to mislead others toREAD ON
Rohrabacher vs. The Machine
MIKE WHITNEY—Rohrabacher recently met with WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange who assured the Congressman that Russia did not hack Democratic emails and give them to WikiLeaks during the 2016 presidential campaign. Of course Assange has made the same claim many times before, the difference now isREAD ON
Condemned to Repeat It: History as Rerun
JASON HIRTHLER—For more than a year we’ve been told we now live in a new era—an era of fake news. The claim has been trotted out again and again, in places high and low. It is largely used by neoliberals to defame Donald Trump. ButREAD ON
THE RUSSIANS ARE COMING FOR PEACE: PENTAGON ON ALERT!
RON RIDENOUR Bear in mind that propaganda is not necessarily synonymous with lying, rather “to propagate”, “to cause to increase the number” of supporters to the views presented. My writing here, and generally, is propaganda. I hope it is effective propaganda for a good cause:READ ON
The Left Wing of the Permissible: the Politics of Michael Harrington
JIM CREEGAN —The split among Democrats and union chiefs resulted in the breakup of the Socialist Party. In 1972, the Socialist majority who remained loyal to Johnson/Humphrey and the Meanyite union right wing, and continued to support the war, followed Max Shachtman and Bayard RustinREAD ON
We Are All Prisoners of the Police State’s Panopticon Village
JOHN WHITEHEAD—As Thill noted when McGoohan died in 2009, “The Prisoner was an allegory of the individual, aiming to find peace and freedom in a dystopia masquerading as a utopia.” The Prisoner’s Village is also an apt allegory for the American Police State: it gives the illusion ofREAD ON
The Empire’s Hustle: Why Anti-Trumpism Doesn’t Include Anti-War
AJAMU BARAKA—The current work on the part of the United National Antiwar Coalition to encourage concentrated public educational work on Afghanistan in October, the new coalition to oppose U.S foreign military bases and CODEPINK’s military divestment campaign being launched in October are just some ofREAD ON
Obama cashes in on Wall Street appearances, report says.
Obama cashes in on Wall Street appearances, report says. Original can be found here. FOXNEWS—LIKE THE LUDICROUS bloated book advances secured by Obama and his wife in recent months, Barack Obama, last month, addressed clients of Northern Trust Corp. in New York to aREAD ON
A Cure For Mad Trump Disease
JOHN RACHEL—We’re losing the battle! Time to change tactics! We have to do something soon. We’ve lost so much time, momentum, misplaced so much faith and hope, squandered energy and dreams on pointless protests and ill-fated schemes, invested time and trust in unworthy leaders and duplicitousREAD ON
Gallup: 71% of Americans are “Dissatisfied with the way the nation is being governed”
Americans, who strongly admire their military, like to think that its most senior leaders rise on merit. This is not, however, the way the military promotion system actually works. Officers who reach the rank of general have usually been identified and sponsored at a youngREAD ON