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Since early 2011, Obama's been waging proxy war on Syria. Imported death squads masquerade as freedom fighters. The scheme's familiar. It repeats. It reflects US imperialism's dark side. In the 1980s, CIA-recruited mujahideen fighters battled Afghanistan's Soviet occupiers. Ronald Reagan called them "the moral equivalent of our founding fathers." He characterized Contra killers the same way. —Stephen LendmanFor 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.•••••"The dead end identity politics of SF Pride, which sells out a peace hero like Bradley Manning to curry favor with the American ruling class, is what I had in mind. The empire loves your tameness, irrelevance and cowardice, SF Pride. You don’t bother the American ruling class — a five foot two, 105 pound soldier does because he has a conscience and because he didn’t make comfort the guiding principle of his life...." —Randy Shields

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Disconnect: Soaring Markets/Troubled Economies

 BANKING & FINANCE, CAPITALISM & SOCIALISM, FINANCE CAPITAL, GLOBAL NEOLIBERALISM, GREAT HYPOCRISY, INDECENT SLIMEBALLS, INEQUALITY, MEDIA CRITICISM, PLUTOCRATIC POWER, SICK SOCIETY  No Responses »
May 192013
 

by Stephen Lendman
Capitalism has succeeded in capturing governments around the world.

German DAX stock exchange board.

German DAX stock exchange board. The stuff that dreams are made of.

Forget everything you learned about markets, economics and finance. Perhaps Newton, Galileo, Copernicus, Darwin, Freud, Einstein, and other noted figures were wrong.  Central banks run today’s world. Major ones matter most. Money printing madness controls everything. Love doesn’t make the world go round. Liquidity-driven markets reflect the power of bankers to do it.  Continue reading »

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Can America Come to Terms with Boston Bombing Suspect’s Stated Motives?

 ABOMINATIONS, AMERICAN STUDIES, GREAT HYPOCRISY, IMPERIALISM, PUTRID CORPOMEDIA, THE PENTAGON-MEDIA COMPLEX, WAR CRIMES & CRIMINALS  1 Response »
May 192013
 
Consortium News [1] / By Ray McGovern [2]
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Shocking as it is for most self-righteous, chauvinist Americans to recognize the logic behind the Boston's bombers motives, it is there for all to see.

The surviving “Boston bomber.”

Quick, somebody tell CIA Director John Brennan about the handwriting on the inside wall of the boat in which Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was hiding before Boston-area police riddled it and him with bullets. Tell Brennan that Tsarnaev’s note is in plain English and that it needs neither translation nor interpretation in solving the mystery: “why do they hate us?” Continue reading »

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A new film version of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby

 AMERICAN STUDIES, ARTS & FILM, BOURGEOIS VALUES, CAPITALISM & SOCIALISM, CULTURE & CRITICISM, INEQUALITY  1 Response »
May 182013
 

By David Walsh, wsws.org

Directed by Baz Luhrmann, co-written by Luhrmann and Craig Pearce, based on the novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald

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F.S. Fitzgerald

“It’s not all rubbish,” cried Amory passionately. “This is the first time in my life I’ve argued Socialism. It’s the only panacea I know. I’m restless. My whole generation is restless. I’m sick of a system where the richest man gets the most beautiful girl if he wants her, where the artist without an income has to sell his talents to a button manufacturer. Even if I had no talents I’d not be content to work ten years, condemned either to celibacy or a furtive indulgence, to give some man’s son an automobile.” Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise (1920)

It is unfortunate that during the filmmaking process no one ever turned to director Baz Luhrmann and suggested that his interpretation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby (1925) was wrongheaded and likely to result in an artistic travesty. Continue reading »

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Obama’s New Appointments Prove that He Will Continue to Lick Wall Street’s Boots In His Second Term

 ABOMINATIONS, CORPORATE CRIMINALITY, CORPORATE MENTALITY, CORPORATE OWNED PARTIES, WAR CRIMES & CRIMINALS  No Responses »
May 182013
 

by WashingtonsBlog

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Puts Fox In Charge of the Henhouse … Again

The party line is that Obama’s new pick for SEC boss – Mary Jo White – will be tough on Wall Street.

For example, the Wall Street Journal writes:

Obama Taps Ex-Prosecutor Mary Jo White, Portending Increased Policing of Wall Street

In reality, this is putting the fox in charge of the henhouse. Continue reading »

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IRS Scandal Headlines: More Than Meets the Eye

 AMERICAN STUDIES, ANTI-CORPORATISM, ANTI-NEOLIBERALISM, ANTIWAR, CORPORATE CRIMES, CORPORATE MENTALITY, CORPORATE OWNED PARTIES, CULTURE & CRITICISM, EXTREME WEALTH, FALSE DEMOCRACY, GREAT HYPOCRISY  No Responses »
May 182013
 

by Stephen Lendman

The rot is systemic, bipartisan. Both JFK and Nixon set up "enemies" lists to harass via the IRS and other agencies. They are not the only presidents to do so.

The rot is systemic, bipartisan. Both JFK and Nixon set up “enemies” lists to harass via the IRS and other agencies. They are not the only presidents to do so.

More than targeting political enemies is involved. More on than below. The practice is longstanding. Republican and Democrat administrations use the IRS abusively.  During the Coolidge administration, Republican Senator James Couzens investigated the IRS’ predecessor – the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR).  Continue reading »

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