The whoremedia refrain: “They died for our country.” Really? ANNOTATED NEWS, ANTIWAR, ASSHOLES, BASTARDS & CRIMINALS, BETTER HUMANITY, CITIZEN TOOLS, HUMBUG CENTRAL, IMPERIALISM, PUTRID CORPOMEDIA 2 Responses » Aug 182012 Patrice Greanville EVERY SINGLE DAY Americans are literally bombarded with “news” and pronouncements about our imperial wars in which those who die in those remote battlefields are consecrated as heroes who “died for our country.” As is the case with all BIG lies, sheer repetition becomes pseudo truth and that’s enough to mislead the public into acquiescence in the US leadership’s global crimes. More tragic, as a result of unrelenting chauvinist propaganda or economic pressure, many families even invest their sons and daughters in such morally repugnant adventures. When losses occur, it is they who carry the pain. Continue reading » Did you like this? Share it:
Imperial Affront: Ecuador Will Face US Wrath for Asylum Decision ACTIVISTS & HEROES, ANNOTATED NEWS, BATTLE OF COMMUNICATIONS, BETTER HUMANITY, CITIZEN TOOLS, CULTURE & CRITICISM, GREAT HYPOCRISY, LatinAm-ECUADOR, MEDIA TURDS, PUTRID CORPOMEDIA 1 Response » Aug 182012 By Chris Floyd Our imperial elites (and their innumerable little yapping media sycophants on both sides of the political fence) simply cannot bear to have American power and domination resisted in any way, at any time, for any reason, anywhere, by anyone. It offends their imperial dignity. It is apparent that the nation of Ecuador will now be in the frame for what American foreign policy elites like to call, in their dainty and delicate language, “the path of action.” Ecuador granted political asylum to Julian Assange on Thursday for one reason only: the very real possibility that he would be “rendered” to the United States for condign punishment, including the possibility of execution. None of the freedom-loving democracies involved in the negotiations over his fate — Britain, Sweden, and the United States — could guarantee that this would not happen … even though Assange has not been charged with any crime under U.S. law. [And even though the sexual misconduct allegations he faces in Sweden would not be crimes under U.S. or UK law.] Under these circumstances — and after a sudden, blustering threat from Britain to violate the Ecuadorean embassy and seize Assange anyway — the government of Ecuador felt it had no choice but to grant his asylum request. Continue reading » Did you like this? Share it:
If this is Stalinism, count me in BETTER HUMANITY, CAPITALISM & SOCIALISM, CLASS STRUGGLE, DEBATING POINTS, IMPERIALISM, REVOLUTION, SYRIA Comments Off Aug 182012 Stephen Gowans, What’s Left Lenin himself might have seen matters the same way. Richard Seymour, the left author and force behind the well-known blog Lenin’s Tomb, has dismissed my critique of his support for Syrian rebels as a pitiable Stalinist diatribe. Have I any reply? a What’s left reader asked. My surmise is that Seymour called my critique “Stalinist” because, in his view, his sympathy for Trotskyist politics could only be significant to a Stalinist, and also because it’s Trotskyists second-nature to denounce critiques from the left as “Stalinist’. (Yes, it’s true, too, the same can be said for many self-identified Stalinists, who are just as quick to denounce critiques from the left of their own positions as “Trotskyist.” ) Continue reading » Did you like this? Share it:
Who Is Paul Ryan? ANNOTATED NEWS, BATTLE OF COMMUNICATIONS, CAPITALISM & SOCIALISM, CLASS STRUGGLE, GREAT HYPOCRISY, INDECENT SLIMEBALLS, PUTRID CORPOMEDIA Comments Off Aug 182012 The media’s image of Romney’s running mate doesn’t mesh with reality Ryan: a Randian avatar parading—with ample media complicity— as sober statesman. BY DAVID SIROTA The GOP’s presumptive vice presidential nominee is the 21st century’s flesh-and-blood embodiment of political deception and media obfuscation. Wisconsin congressman Paul Ryan admires Ayn Rand, and if you believe Republican Party mythology, Ryan is a messianic John Galt who will save America from a secret socialist conspiracy. Thus, in Rand fashion, it’s worth asking: Who Is Paul Ryan? The answer is simple: the GOP’s presumptive vice presidential nominee is the 21st century’s flesh-and-blood embodiment of political deception and media obfuscation. Continue reading » Did you like this? Share it:
