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OpEds— The  wages of bottomless greed and public confusion are becoming evident everywhere we look BY GUI ROCHAT IT IS A SIMPLE FACT that we are addicted to energy consumption. This is much like the drug trade, because it is not battling the suppliers that will diminish the import and consumption of drugs, but the [...]

The audacity of Hope

Obama is not a Hitler, but certainly approaches Thatcher, the darling of the upstart Reagan, in his betrayal of the background he grew up in BY GUI ROCHAT IT IS TRULY AUDACIOUS and courageous to keep up hope in this world of Obamaniac persuasion. We are forced to believe in a progress which does not [...]

Class wars

The struggle is old, and it has taken many phases, but, as Marx and Lenin predicted, we have reached the end of the line, and could be facing the most decisive battle of all. We must choose between a highly seductive barbarism or true civilization grounded in social justice and a permanent peace with the [...]

GUI ROCHAT: Catch as catch can

The salesmanship of hope we can trust in and change we can hope for, has resulted in a deep distrust of the executive amongst the public, so Obama is being hoisted by his own petard. Like Tony Blair he has the gift of the charming gab and in fact he is surely intellectually Blair’s superior, [...]

OpEds: The Supreme Court ruling on corporate political spending

The age of judicial politicization has formally arrived. BY TOM ELEY Dateline: 23 January 2010 THE RULING ISSUED THURSDAY by the United States Supreme Court lifting long-standing restrictions on corporate financing of elections represents a far-reaching attack on democratic rights. The 5-4 decision ensures that the American political system will be dominated even more directly [...]

Shadowy elites in the USA

By Gui Rochat, Senior Editor   I have always had difficulties to understand exactly who the elite and the establishment are in the US, despite having come across them often enough. Unlike in Europe, where the titled elites and the large industrialists, many times inter-married for prestige, are easier to identify because they form a [...]

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