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 [...]
The Tornado and Other Man-Made Disasters
Our Economic System is Driving Climate Change by KEN KLIPPENSTEIN The ancient Greeks attributed weather to the god Zeus; today we can safely attribute it to industrial capitalism and its voracious consumption of fossil fuels. The carnage left by a tornado in Oklahoma yesterday is just the latest in our economic system’s daunting body count. [...]
Witness tied to Boston bombing suspect killed by FBI
By Barry Grey and Nick Barrickman, wsws.org Twenty-seven-year-old Ibragim Todashev was shot and killed early Wednesday morning while being interrogated by police and intelligence officials in an Orlando, Florida, apartment. Todashev, a friend of Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev and, like Tsarnaev, an ethnic Chechen, was reportedly being questioned by a Federal Bureau of [...]
Classical Essays: The rise and fall of Napoleon Bonaparte – Part One
PART ONE OF FOUR Editor’s Note: The core truth about Napoleon is still a matter of debate. Napoleon, opportunist or usurping though he may appear to a modern Marxian obswerver, not to mention Anglo-American mainstream historians tainted with Francophobic hatred and contempt for the French and their revolution, was also seen as a threat by [...]
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 [...]

OAKLAND CLASH FIERCE: Marine Vet wounded, tear gas & flash-bang grenades thrown in downtown Oakland (VIDEO)

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Oct 262011

An impertinent question: Why do Americans seeking to demonstrate their grievances according to the Constitution-protected rules of free speech are treated as delinquents and denied this elementary democratic right? Isn’t the behavior of police a direct denial of Constitutional freedom to assemble and petition? Where are the courts? Where is the Obama justice department? Hmmm. These things can’t happen in America, eh? The American people have been gradually robbed of their free speech guarantees by creeping municipal and state “permitization.” No prior permit is required by the Constitution and to accede to this practice is to insure its continuity. —Eds

NOTE: PLEASE SEE OUR ADDENDUM, A FIRSTHAND REPORT BY JOSHUA HOLLAND
A BROADER SEGMENT OF AMERICANS of all races and classes (except the top) are beginning to taste police repression for the first time. It’s clear that the ruling orders think that the two-pronged approach, intimidation and co-optation, will succeed in controlling this burgeoning movement. While some will undoubtedly stop open participation, many will go on putting pressure on the system, as it is the system’s core dynamic that created the crisis and it’s not ready to abandon it any time soon. Watch video below Continue reading »

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Obama’s vaunted housing plan misses the mark: as usual, too little, too late

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Oct 262011

AS SEEN ON THE DYLAN RATIGAN SHOW (MSNBC) 10.25.11
With special analysis provided by Andre Damon (see below)

NOW THAT THERE’S A RE-ELECTION campaign to worry about Obama, the supreme con artist, is suddenly popping all over the place mouthing all sorts of fiery populist rhetoric. The usual suckers will fall for that act, of course, but the man is still who he is, a profoundly compromised politician in the service of plutocratic interests. As far as Obama is concerned, photo ops and soundbites can still advance the cause, ergo, this sudden spate of ”help the people” initiatives.

Credibility Rating: (acceptable)

Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy Continue reading »

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Occupy Obama

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Oct 262011

How to Turn Up the Heat on Democrats

Obama and his “business as usual” Democrats and faux left demagogs are a huge obstacle to the birth of real progressive politics in the US. They must be opposed at all times and removed from the equation.

by JOHN STAUBER

President Barack Obama is no longer running unchallenged in all the major primary states, thanks to activists in Iowa who are focusing their Occupy Wall Street activism onto the headquarters of the Obama for President campaign office this Saturday, October 22, in Des Moines.

The “Occupy Obama” event is being organized in part by veteran rabble rouser Hugh Espey (left) and his highly effective Iowa Citizens for Community Improvement, a grassroots force that has been fighting for economic and social justice since the 1970s. CCI members are already participating in Occupy Wall Street actions in nine Iowa towns. Occupy Obama seems a logical next step to escalate the movement further into national view and create the potential for debate and organizing within the Iowa presidential caucuses in January. Continue reading »

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OpEds: Occupy Wall Street movement at a crossroads

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Oct 262011

EVENTS CONTINUE to demonstrate that sooner rather than later the protest movement may need to organize itself into a tougher, better organized party of the working people.

By Joseph Kishore, WSWS.ORG

The Occupy Wall Street protests against inequality, which began in New York City over a month ago and have since expanded to hundreds of cities and towns throughout the United States and internationally, have arrived at a political crossroads.

The ruling class has responded with a two-pronged strategy. Attempts to channel political discontent back within the political system have been combined with a growing wave of arrests and stepped-up police violence.

#OccupyOAKLAND protester (left) wounded by police in recent clashes. Where’s the outcry in the media, and above all, Obama and the rest of the politicians?

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A CHANGE IN WAR POLICY?

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Oct 262011

Mark Vorpahl, Worker’s Action

The bottom line for our time is: Believe NOTHING the powerful tell you, especially when the message comes from their main shills, like Barack Obama

Two back-to-back victories, from the point of view of those in power, has left some commentators speculating that U.S. foreign policy has turned a page towards a less militaristic approach under the guidance of President Obama. These events are the killing of Colonel Qaddafi, leading Libya’s new leaders to declare liberation, followed by Obama’s announcement that all U.S. troops in Iraq will be back home by the end of the year. Continue reading »

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From Tahrir to Wall Street: Egyptian Activist Asmaa Mahfouz Speaks at Occupy Wall Street

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Oct 262011

AS SEEN ON DEMOCRACY NOW!

Egyptian activists show their support for the American Occupy movement: “Don’t be afraid of the Government!” is the message.
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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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