Columbo: Somebody killed the Gulf of Mexico, Sir. Your fingerprints are all over the place.
Barack Obama: Sorry Lieutenant. Did you ask Bobby Jindal, Mary Landrieu. or Ken Salazar?
FROM OUR ARCHIVES: Fraudulent ideologies 101 — First in a series: Does capitalism really equal human nature? Does capitalism equal human nature? This is an old conservative propaganda chestnut that deserves to be exposed for the defamatory fraud that it is, but most reasonable people would be forgiven for thinking that indeed it does, that [...]
For most Americans, the defense of “Americanism” is indistinguishable from the defense of capitalism, aka “the free enterprise system”—its favorite euphemism. Only in America can a citizen opposed to capitalism be denounced as “un-American.” By Gaither Stewart & Patrice Greanville The dismal demise of the American Dream (if it ever really existed), the dream not [...]
Kenneth Dowst: An interview with Susan Rosenthal, M.D. Curing Our Sick Health-Care System Dr. Susan Rosenthal is a health-care-reform activist and a practicing physician, based in Ontario. Yep! even Canada is in need of radical health-care reform–to say nothing of us poor slobs south of the border, who can’t even get “single-payer.” In a long [...]
Everything we see today could have been predicted—and was—by a simple examination of class dynamics under capitalism. And a better grasp of the system’s inexorable dynamics leading to the chaotic barbarism and crimes against nature we witness in all continents. By Chris Hedges Posted on May 24, 2010 HERE’S TO THE GREEKS. They know what to do [...]
Book Notes • This book is highly recommended by The Greanville Post editors This review is from: JESSE VENTURA & Dick Russell’s American Conspiracies: Lies, Lies, and More Dirty Lies that the Government Tells Us (Skyhorse Publishing, 2010, Hardcover) THIS BOOK is an excellent primer on some of the major political conspiracies in American history, from [...]
Big Brother’s Got the Ju-Ju, Gaia’s Got Them Blues That common womb of American consciousness is dying. Slowly or rapidly, depending on how you assess the global ecocide and peak everything, it is dying. There will be resuscitations along the way, more massive infusions of money, fear and the rawest sort of fantasy fed to [...]
How Big Oil Bought the Interior Department By BILLY WHARTON May 12, 2010 Big oil and coal interests seemed to have reached their high point with the re-election of George W. Bush in 2004. He was a well-heeled oil man, as firmly committed to the military seizure of the world’s oil spigot, as he was [...]
CounterPunch Diary Closet Politics: Is Kagan Gay or Just Looks as Though She Might Be? Obama’s Awful Pick By ALEXANDER COCKBURN May 14 – 16, 2010 SEXUAL POLITICS command passions in American political life far more powerful than those currently focused on Wall Street bankers or on BP. By conventional measures Elena Kagan should [...]
Public relations is the art of lying expertly to the people, on behalf of powerful interests. By that definition, the US government, and especially its presidency, have been completely corroded by this practice. Obama, probably the smoothest demagog in generations, is setting new records in his exertions to sell the status quo’s version of reality [...]
Everyone should understand by now that, regardless of what party is in office, it is corporate power that runs and staffs this nation’s highest offices, and that American presidents are essentially shills for the untouchable plutocracy. By Tom Eley 14 May 2010 As more details emerge about the explosion and sinking of the Deepwater [...]
