The Greanville Post —Vol. VII- 2013

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We're engaged in a protracted mass communications battle, a contest of propagandas, Their object is to prop up the system's legitimacy; ours precisely the opposite. The core of a system's illegitimacy is nothing more nor less than its easily demonstrable Orwellian nature. If it claims to be a democracy it must be a plutocracy; if it proclaims to defend the safety of its population, it actively endangers it; if it struts around loudly shouting its allegiance to freedom and the rule of law, it is in actuality a cynical hidden dictatorship; If it brags about its "free press", then you know for sure that it is an abject, servile tool of the power elites. Of course the most infamous contradiction is that when this hypocritical scum kneel before the altar of peace they are actively engaged in making war. On and on. Always the opposite of what it claims. In America, especially, anyone awake can see that readily. But unfortunately the majority are still asleep.—Sean Lenihan •••The cowardice and duplicity of Congress, above all, the Democrats, and the subservience of the media, exhibited in their response to the exposure of the NSA spying programs, encourage the military and intelligence agencies to go even further in their drive toward dictatorship. Mark Udall, the Democratic senator presented as the most “outspoken” critic of the spying programs, began his interview Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union” program by pledging his support to the “war on terror” and denouncing leaks of classified information.—Barry Grey••••From Athens to Paris to Brazil, there is growing realization that politics as usual just won’t cut it anymore. We will always lose if we play by their rules rather than invent new forms of struggle, new social movements, and new sensibilities. The defense of the earth requires immediate and decisive action: logging roads need to be blocked, driftnets need to be cut, and cages need to be emptied. But these are piecemeal and reactive measures, and in addition to these tactics, radical movements and alliances must be built that unites struggles on behalf of humanity, nonhuman animals, and the earth in a politics of total liberation. Resistance is the oxygen of the future. Live to resist, resist to live.—Steve Best••••For 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.

Keystone XL Activists Labeled Possible Eco-Terrorists
Green Scare Continues by STEVE HORN Documents recently obtained by Bold Nebraska [1] show that TransCanada – owner of the hotly-contested Keystone XL (KXL) [2] tar sands pipeline – has colluded with an FBI/DHS Fusion Center in Nebraska [3], labeling non-violent activists as possible candidates for “terrorism” charges and other serious criminal charges. Did you like this? Share it:
Gangsta Government
Awake and Take Back Your Republic! by WILLIAM O’CONNOR “I’ll let you have the $10,000 for three points. That’s only because I know you.” I’m listening to Tony yak, my Shylock. Yak, yak has earned the moniker. He never gives his mouth a rest. Yak’s giving me the loan at street price: $30 for every [...]
Edward Snowden Had a Breaking Point, Where He Decided to Risk It All to Fix This Country — What’s Yours?
By Kevin Zeese [2], Margaret Flowers [3] When Edward Snowden [4] reached his breaking point, the world saw the truth about the vast extent of spying by the NSA on Americans and people around the world. In an act of conscience, Snowden released secret information, saying “My sole motive is to inform the public as to that which is done in their [...]
Spying, Control and Murder Under the Imperial Presidency
Surveillance and the Corporate State by ROB URIE With all of the fear mongering the subject has received in recent decades, Americans have in fact had remarkably little to fear directly from ‘terrorism.’ While actual attacks have been spectacular—they were designed to garner attention, they are both rare and far less dangerous than opportunistic politicians [...]
The Judicial Lynching of Bradley Manning
By Chris Hedges FORT MEADE, Md.—The military trial of Bradley Manning is a judicial lynching. The government has effectively muzzled the defense team. The Army private first class is not permitted to argue that he had a moral and legal obligation under international law to make public the war crimes he uncovered. The documents that [...]
Edward Snowden: Profile in Courage
Whistleblowing in the Name of the Constitution by CHRISTOPHER H. PYLE Edward Snowden may go down inhistory as one of this nation’s most important whistleblowers. He is certainly one of the bravest. The 29-year-old former technical assistant to the CIA and employee of a defense intelligence contractor has admitted to disclosing top secret documents about [...]
Camping Out: Roberto Benigni’s “Life Is Beautiful”
From our archives— Camping Out: Roberto Benigni’s “Life Is Beautiful” Kurt Jacobsen [from New Politics, vol. 7, no. 3 (new series), whole no. 27, Summer 1999] KURT JACOBSEN is a research associate in political science at the University of Chicago and reviews films for the London Guardian. Prefatory note: As a movie buff I was baffled and [...]
Memorable quotes from Snowden interview
Free citizen Dennis Leahy, affiliated with Facebook’s group Edward Snowden Supporters, to which I also subscribe, is making the following material available. Share as widely as you can.—Sean Lenihan Here is a listing of 27 quotes, pulled from the Edward Snowden interview: #1 “The majority of people in developed countries spend at least some time interacting [...]

Egypt’s Morsi: Biting the bullet / Take #1

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Nov 252012

As depicted by the UK’s Guardian: Egyptian protesters hold a banner depicting President Mohamed Morsi as a pharaoh during a demonstration over his presidential decrees. Photograph: Andre Pain/EPA

Eric Walberg

At last Egyptian politics is moving. President Mohamed Morsi is slowly building on his summer ‘coup’, when he stared down Egypt’s generals and put his men in the top army and defence positions, following terrorist attacks in Sinai which the army, so old and bumbling, so involved in Egyptian internal politics, failed to prevent. Continue reading »

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Meet the Bi-Partisan Group of Senators Pressuring Obama to Speed Up Destruction of the Planet

ANTI-CORPORATISM, ASSHOLES, BASTARDS & CRIMINALS, CAPITALISM & SOCIALISM, CLIMATE CHANGE, CONSERVATIVES & REACTION, CORPORATE CRIMINALITY, CORPORATE OWNED PARTIES, GOVERNMENT CRIMES, INDECENT SLIMEBALLS, SAVING THE PLANET Comments Off

Nov 252012

This list is normative—meaning every one of the Senators included in this roster of crooks and malefactors is only an iota “worse” than the rest of their confreres in the US Congress. In fact the entire top layer of the US government today, very much in the pockets of the plutocracy, is a thoroughly antisocial and anti-ecological organism, a cynical pseudo democracy with little substance left, but loads of toxicity. Incidentally, it’s not surprising to re-encounter the notorious DINO Max Baucus among the villains, since Baucus, representing the most reactionary forces in his state of Montana, can be remembered for his prominent role as point man in the torpedoing of the single payer option during the phony healthcare reform battle, a posture he sustained with ample support from Obama, Pelosi and the rest of that traitorous cabal. And the list has another feature worth noting: it is totally bipartisan.—S. Lenihan

The putrid Max Baucus. Far from unusual, unfortunately.

By William Boardman

The White House is expected to decide whether Keystone XL can be built some time in the next month or so, and all it takes to proceed is a Presidential signature. For President Obama, this decision will be a clear signal defining his real priorities: stopping the rise of the oceans and healing the planet, as he campaigned, or settling for short term economic gains with unknown long term consequences. Continue reading »

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Freedom Rider: American Guilt in Gaza

AFRICA, AMERICAN STUDIES, ANTIWAR, ASSHOLES, BASTARDS & CRIMINALS, CLASS COLLABORATION, CONSERVATIVES & REACTION, CORPORATE CRIMINALITY, CORPORATE OWNED PARTIES Comments Off

Nov 252012

By BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley

Israel is often described as a regional superpower, but the whole world knows that’s only because the Jewish State is backed to the hilt by the global superpower: the U.S. The fruits of Israeli policy towards the Palestinians, “the carnage, the broken bodies, and the dead children can all be laid at America’s door.”

“In the eyes of the rest of the world, the American people become complicit in Israel’s crimes.” Continue reading »

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Cory Booker: The Second Coming of Obama – Only Worse

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Nov 252012

Cory Booker: Rising flotsam, it never ends. Another big-mouth charlatan designed to pseudo-lead the masses. Glen Ford is right in zeroing in on this new class of Uncle Tom. Anyone surprised the media gives him so much preferential attention?—Eds

A Black Agenda Radio commentary by Glen Ford
The Lords of Capital have more than one Great Black Hope. “If there had been no Barack Obama, Cory Booker would have been Wall Street’s choice as the First Black President.” Newark’s mayor is fiercely loyal to his friends in the ruling class. “One thing Cory Booker cannot abide is anyone bad-mouthing his rich people….” Continue reading »

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NORWAY, SCOTLAND, AND WHY I WAS WRONG ABOUT THE ARC OF INSOLVENCY

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Nov 252012

Norway’s state pension fund has topped the United Arab Emirates’ Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (ADIA) to become the largest sovereign wealth fund in the world…”

Last week Iain Macwhirter wrote an excellent article ‘Face reality: We could be as prosperous as Norway.’ It was a must read essay, not least because it was written by the journalist who coined the term “the arc of insolvency” in relation to Iceland and Ireland after the 2008 banking crash. Interestingly, Macwhirter is now dissociating himself from the widely used, albeit inaccurate, meme. The information in his article needs to be discussed and disseminated in Scotland as widely as possible which is why we’re re-blogging it here. Iain Macwhirter has also re-blogged it on his excellent Now and Then blog with a new title for the article. We’re going with the new title. Continue reading »

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Occupy Movement Finds Mission Combating Disaster – and Disaster Capitalism

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Nov 252012

A Black Agenda Radio commentary by Glen Ford

When the Hurricane hit, Occupy movement activists wanted to do good in the hood. However, their mission has inevitably become political as well as humanitarian. “Occupy Sandy illuminates how economic and political power shapes the geography of pain.” Continue reading »

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A perverse (but very American) riddle

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Nov 252012

Our friend Woody NinetyNiner Konopak is quite flummoxed. He explains:

Democrats: Idiots or frauds? Maybe both.

I regularly experience a phenomenon that I do NOT understand: People on the “left” showing, explaining, demonstrating HOW the GOPhux can ‘return to relevancy,” and “rescue its reputation,” and I wonder: WHAT THE FUCK?

Why do Democrats and other opponents of the reactionary, theo-fascist GOPhux care if the Greedy, Oleaginous Perverts “fix” their party? Isn’t a BROKEN GOP better both for the “left” and for the “people?” Isn’t a “broken” GOP exactly what the DIMS, and progs, and rads, and Libs should wish for?

Why do they proffer nostrums and solutions to “bring back,” or repair, the GOP?

It seems to me that any true partisan of the DIMS would applaud EVERY and ANY faux pas, every gaffe, every stupidity, imbecility, and idiocy that the worst minds on the Right could dream up–every lie, every equivocation, every weasel–and ENCOURAGE ‘em to continue; would DARE ‘em to surpass themselves.

Can somebody ‘splain this to me? Continue reading »

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Obama’s Mideast Policy Burns

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Nov 252012

By BAR executive editor Glen Ford

The U.S. believes it can manipulate jihadi fighters in a holy war against the West’s enemies in the Muslim world. However, “Israel’s murderous assault on Gaza threatens to unravel the Salafist-Qatari-Saudi-NATO axis, for one simple and irreducible reason: there is no place for the racist settler state in this post-Arab Spring equation.”

“The Euro-American strategy to divert and control the Arab Spring through an armed alliance with Muslim fundamentalist fighters and their royal Arab financiers, has always contained a fatal flaw: Israel.” Continue reading »

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Many topics to choose from

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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