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?
••• I WAS BORN IN 1934 IN BOSTON, MA, raised in a modest middle income family, attended public schools, received a Harvard BA in 1956 and a Wharton MBA in 1960. After six years as a marketing research analyst, became part of a new small family business in 1967, remaining there until retiring in 1999. [...]
Timeo Americanos Et Dona Ferentes! I fear the Americans even if they bring gifts “I fear the Greeks even if they bring gifts” Aeneis ~~~ Virgil . When you’re wounded and left on Afghanistan’s plains, And the women come out to cut up what remains, Jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains [...]
The New Yorker’s Profile on Wikileaks’ Founder Julian Assange Assange, whose historical effectiveness should shame the mainstream media, is a harbinger of a new type of brave mass communications beyond corporate control T h e H O U S E on Grettisgata Street, in Reykjavik, is a century old, small and white, situated just [...]
Partnered with NATO, America’s military/industrial/media collaborators misportray US wars as humanitarian, hiding their imperial purpose – state terrorism against millions, showing an utter disregard for the law, truth, humanity or justice. CALLING ITSELF “THE INTELLIGENCE AGENCY OF THE PEOPLE, ” WikiLeaks is “a multi-juristidictional public service designed to protect whistleblowers, journalists and activists who have [...]
What’s the truth behind the Manson murder spree? There’s more to this story than what the government and police ever admitted. CHARLES MANSON WAS NEVER A HIPPIE. His real family included con artists, pimps, drug dealers, thieves, muggers, rapists and murderers. He had known only power relationships in an army of control junkies. Manson was [...]
Obama…the man who incarnated change we can believe in… Different, huh? To a great extent, only in our imaginations. Dreams and illusions are what this column is about. ____________________________________________ STEVEN JONAS MD, MPH | Crossposted at http://blog.buzzflash.com/jonas/199 Posted on Fri, 07/23/2010 • With original sampler comment thread __________________________________________________________________ I JUST SAW INCEPTION — a great, [...]
ARCHIVES Real hacktivism is at least as old as October 1989 when the US Deptartment of Energy and NASA machines worldwide were penetrated by the anti-nuclear WANK worm. The worm was the second ever to be unleashed, but its provenance was a curious contrast to its forebear. For you see, worm #1 had been traced [...]
The chaos and disorder in the world created by capitalism are increasing exponentially. That constitutes a very serious problem for the elites who till now have been able to stave off the inevitable loss of power by alternating so-called democratic regimes with more openly authoritarian ones in the mainstay of their homebase, the US, and [...]
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 [...]
