The Greanville Post —Vol. VII- 2013

Things to consider—

Since early 2011, Obama's been waging proxy war on Syria. Imported death squads masquerade as freedom fighters. The scheme's familiar. It repeats. It reflects US imperialism's dark side. In the 1980s, CIA-recruited mujahideen fighters battled Afghanistan's Soviet occupiers. Ronald Reagan called them "the moral equivalent of our founding fathers." He characterized Contra killers the same way. —Stephen LendmanFor over a century now US ambassadors have acted as fifth columns in the nations they are embedded in, their role chiefly to foster corporate and plutocratic power and coordinate machinations against any truly pro-democratic government.•••••"The dead end identity politics of SF Pride, which sells out a peace hero like Bradley Manning to curry favor with the American ruling class, is what I had in mind. The empire loves your tameness, irrelevance and cowardice, SF Pride. You don’t bother the American ruling class — a five foot two, 105 pound soldier does because he has a conscience and because he didn’t make comfort the guiding principle of his life...." —Randy Shields

The major sea change in media discussions of Obama and civil liberties
The controversies over the IRS and especially the AP phone records appear to have long-lasting effects By Glenn Greenwald, guardian.co.uk Barack Obama Photograph: Alex Wong/Getty Images Due to the controversies over the IRS and (especially) the DOJ’s attack on AP’s news gathering process, media outlets have suddenly decided that President Obama has a very poor record [...]
Argentina’s General Videla and the “war on terror”
By Bill Van Auken, wsws.org Gen. Jorge Rafael Videla died May 17 at the age of 87 as the result of injuries suffered from a fall in a prison shower. He was remembered as the head of a savage military dictatorship that between 1976 and 1983 murdered and “disappeared” some 30,000 Argentine workers, socialist militants, [...]
Rise Up or Die
By Chris Hedges Joe Sacco and I spent two years reporting from the poorest pockets of the United States for our book “Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt.”We went into our nation’s impoverished “sacrifice zones”—the first areas forced to kneel before the dictates of the marketplace—to show what happens when unfettered corporate capitalism and ceaseless economic expansion [...]
PBS Killed Wisconsin Uprising Documentary “Citizen Koch” To Appease Koch Brothers
By Brendan Fischer, PRWatch | Report “Citizen Koch,” a documentary about money in politics focused on the Wisconsin uprising, was shunned by PBS for fear of offending billionaire industrialist David Koch, who has given $23 million to public television, according to Jane Mayer of the New Yorker. The dispute highlights the increasing role of private money in “public” television and raises [...]
Why Obama Will Walk Away Unscathed by the Current Political Scandals
by Pascal Robert, Black Agenda Report Don’t worry about Barack Obama. He’s far too useful to the rulers of America to be derailed by scandal, or even a combination of scandals. “Obama’s neoliberal government giveaways to private corporations and mercenary foreign policy already make him too valuable to the guardians of American empire to have [...]
Obama’s War on Free Expression
by Stephen Lendman It’s the most fundamental right. Without it all others are endangered. Obama’s waging war to destroy it. He’s done so throughout his tenure. He targeted AP. He did so unjustifiably. A previous article discussed it. Did you like this? Share it:
The Jesuit Pope – Who is Francis and who he pretends to be
Written by Esquerda Marxista editorial board Wednesday, 15 May 2013 The election of Pope Francis marks a turn in the prolonged crisis of the Catholic Church. It is important for revolutionaries to understand the reasons for the ongoing struggle within the Church. Far from moving to the left, Francis is trying to entrench the Church in [...]
Apple CEO defends multi-billion-dollar tax dodge
By Andre Damon, wsws.org Apple CEO Tim Cook used his appearance Tuesday at a hearing of the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations—called to investigate Apple’s evasion of billions of dollars in taxes—to call for a sharp reduction in the corporate tax rate. The senators on the committee, Democratic and Republican alike, agreed with Cook [...]

The Credit Rating Hoax

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Apr 242011

Obama is setting himself up to fashion another “grand compromise” with the right. He will explain this is the “adult” thing to do. But his supporters may once again see betrayal. As the polls keep reporting, the populace is overwhelmingly opposed to any political deal-making that punishes them again for a catastrophe they did not cause. People seem to know it is wrong to dump more pain on them while the real malefactors are not held accountable for their sins.

William Greider | The Nation April 20, 2011

Standard & Poor’s, the self-righteous credit-rating agency, has a damn lot of nerve. It provoked scary headlines by solemnly threatening to “short” America. That is, downgrade the credit-worthiness of US Treasury bonds unless Congress and the president oblige creditors by punishing the citizenry with severe budget cuts. What a load of crap. Continue reading »

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Trump beats all

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Apr 242011

DAVID MICHAEL GREEN

Trump

Every once in a while you get a development that nicely symbolizes the present state of American culture (or, perhaps, “culture”).

Like Madonna, for example. Or Jersey Shore.

Presently, it’s the rise of Donald Trump, who has lately been sitting at the top of polls conducted among Republican voters as to their presidential choice for 2012. Continue reading »

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Obama’s broken promises kick-off campaign for 2012

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Apr 242011

Plus que ça change…

The 2012 presidential elections will probably show, once again, the strong hold that the “Lesser Evil” has over the mind of the American voter, as Obama presents himself as the only “sane” alternative to the Republicans. But while the moneyed classes may still gloat in the masses’ stupidity, times are indeed a-changing, and certainly not thanks to Barack Obama, but perhaps because of him. After 2012 fewer and fewer Americans will believe there’s a dime’s worth of difference between the two faces of the corporate party. And that critical realization may finally point a substantial number to question the system itself. Don’t expect overnight epiphanies, but once the system and not superficial personalities or manufactured issues are in play anything could happen. The world will have real change or it will have revolution. In both cases, revolutionary change is in the cards. Continue reading »

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FILMS THAT INSPIRE: Hope in Waste Land (Video)

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Apr 242011

TGP’s Honor Video Series—

“Waste Land”
A Film by Lucy Walker

I RECENTLY BUMPED INTO THIS LYRICAL, SPELLBINDING FILM on our threatened PBS, a film made by the gifted Lucy Walker (more below)…a documentary of all things about garbage, or more precisely about Brazilian artist Vik Muniz’s work among people who pick through literally mountains of garbage every day and night—the fabled catadores—in one of the world’s largest landfills—the Jardim Gramacho in Rio de Janeiro—and still not only manage to maintain their dignity and humanity but provide indelible lessons on how to act in the face of near insurmountable odds. Could a story like this be captured in the US? Have our poor—let alone our middle class— lost the common sense these humble protagonists exude? Perhaps. That is indeed one of the questions that may haunt us after encountering the stories described in this film. This is a “must watch” for any American, and an indispensable experience for anyone working to change this nation. —P. Greanville

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MSNBC’s O’Donnell to GOP leaders: You’re out of sync even with your own people

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Apr 242011

O'Donnell: Often like a bulldog, BUT he does shill for the Democrats a bit too much.

IN THIS SEGMENT of “The Last Word” MSNBC’s Larry O’Donnell berates Republicans for being out of sync with most of America, including many of their own rank-and-file. Their continued attempts to rewrite the tax code to benefit the corporate superrich are beginning to meet with mounting resistance and rejection across America. (4.22.11) Continue reading »

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REPORT: The 46 Year-Long Republican War On Medicare

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Apr 242011

Editor’s Note: Killing Medicare (and Social Security) has always been high on the plutocracy’s agenda. The corporadoes and super rich HATE and above all FEAR such programs, because they work. Their example is dangerous. They’re like shiny islands of efficiency and generosity in an ocean of putrid, mean-spirited capitalist waters, colored everywhere by selfishness. —P. Greanville

By Zaid Jilani

Paul Ryan (podium) with fellow GOP liars and criminals. Naturally, they all express admiration for Ronald Reagan, perhaps one of the most malignant politicians in American history.

LAST WEEK, in a dramatic vote, the House of Representatives voted to effectively end Medicare by voting for Rep. Paul Ryan’s (R-WI) budget proposal. Under Ryan’s plan, the public health insurance system known as Medicare would be replaced with a system of inadequate subsidies seniors would use to purchase private insurance.

All but four House Republicans voted for Ryan’s plan. Since the vote, Republicans have been engaged in a major public relations effort where they are claiming they actually are “saving Medicare” by ending its status as public health insurance program and handing seniors over to insurance companies. Yet Main Street Americans don’t appear to be buying the GOP rhetoric, as they are angrily confronting Republican Members of Congress at their town hall events, demanding to know why they want to end Medicare. Continue reading »

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There’s violence and there’s violence

Revolutionary Violence vs Institutionalized Violence

"There were two 'Reigns of Terror,' if we could but remember and consider it; the one wrought murder in hot passions, the other in heartless cold blood; the one lasted mere months, the other had lasted a thousand years; the one inflicted death upon a thousand persons, the other upon a hundred million; but our shudders are all for the "horrors" of the minor Terror, the momentary Terror, so to speak; whereas, what is the horror of swift death by the axe compared with lifelong death from hunger, cold, insult, cruelty and heartbreak? A city cemetery could contain the coffins filled by that brief terror that we have all been so diligently taught to shiver at and mourn over; but all France could hardly contain the coffins filled by that older and real Terror - that unspeakable bitter and awful Terror which none of us has been taught to see in its vastness or pity as it deserves..." —Mark Twain, writing about the French Revolution.

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