Editor’s Note: The Greanville Post, an independent left publication, is not affiliated with any party, but we do agree with much of the below analysis. We look forward to the emergence of a vanguard party of the left, disciplined and capable of confronting one of the most deeply entrenched and vicious plutocracies in history. —PG

Statement by Jerry White, SEP candidate for US president

With his appearances at college campuses over the last few days, President Obama officially launched his reelection campaign. The carefully crafted media events, complete with vetted audiences of cheering college students, were an exercise in empty demagogy. Read more…

By David Graeber

Occupy is shedding its liberal accretions and rapidly turning into something with much deeper roots, creating alliances that promise to transform the very notion of revolutionary politics in America. when OWS re-emerged in the spring, the abandonment of the liberals, the drying-up of the money, have become an almost miraculous blessing.

The US press seems to have decided that the Occupy movement is no longer a story. Pretty much no matter what we do…”

BY STEVEN JONAS

Framing the issues and controlling the key words that define them is essential to victory in politics, especially in the age of all-out professional propaganda.—Eds

Central to the Presidential election are the issues of the role of the Federal government in our society and what should be the future of such Federal government programs as Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid. Central also is what the role of the Federal government should be in the regulation of personal behavior, especially in the realm of sex and sexual relations. Read more…

By Paul Craig Roberts

If you believe in murdering your opponents, not debating with them, dispossessing the powerless, creating a fictional world based on lies and paying the corporate media to uphold the lies and fictional world, you are part of what the rest of the world perceives as “The West.”

Cross-posted from Paul Craig Roberts

Living in America is becoming very difficult for anyone with a moral conscience, a sense of justice, or a lick of intelligence. Consider:

We have had a second fake underwear bomb plot, a much more fantastic one than the first hoax. The second underwear bomber was a CIA operative or informant allegedly recruited by al-Qaeda, an organization that US authorities have recently claimed to be defeated, in disarray, and no longer significant. Read more…

False Flag—We wish to thank wanttoknow.info for their excellent contributions to this and other important topics.
Summary of False Flag Operations and False Flag Terrorism

 
Italian Prime Minister Aldo Moro was kidnapped by the Red Brigades and ultimately killed in 1978.  It has since been known that the Red Brigades were deeply infiltrated and manipulated by Western intelligence services as a tool to manufacture chaos and terror in Italian society.

“False flag terrorism” occurs when elements within a government stage a secret operation whereby government forces pretend to be a targeted enemy while attacking their own forces or people. The attack is then falsely blamed on the enemy in order to justify going to war against that enemy. Or as Wikipedia defines it:

False flag operations are covert operations conducted by governments, corporations, or other organizations, which are designed to deceive the public in such a way that the operations appear as if they are being carried out by other entities. The name is derived from the military concept of flying false colors; that is, flying the flag of a country other than one’s own. False flag operations are not limited to war and counter-insurgency operations, and have been used in peace-time; for example, during Italy’s strategy of tension.

The term comes from the old days of wooden ships, when one ship would hang the flag of its enemy before attacking another ship in its own navy. Because the enemy’s flag was hung instead of the flag of the real country of the attacking ship, it was called a “false flag” attack. Read more…

Editor’s Note: We normally do not present materials from the New York Times for reasons that are obvious to our readership, but sometimes, even the highly compromised “Grey Lady” can’t avoid reflecting without spin some of the urgent facts besieging our world.  Hence a piece like this, authoritative and straightforward, but we wonder where the Times’ editorialists have been since climate change became established fact.  Surely they realize that in a nation of “sleepers” totally enveloped in corporate propaganda nothing short of constant repetition and agitation about this issue can generate enough public awareness and mobilization to force the unspeakably corrupt and criminally negligent American political class to do something beyond cheap rhetoric. In failing to do so, the Times and its ilk simply fill their assigned roles in the corporate priority agenda, namely to put the ruthless plutocratic interest, the rarified interest of people who inhabit a bubble of extravagant privilege, above and ahead of everything else, regardless of consequence to human, beast, or nature itself. By the way, for those of you who savor irony, painfully inadequate and tardy as the response to global warming has been, the propaganda prostitutes and loonies on the right continue to paint a different picture, one in which the world is already gripped by a supposed “mass hysteria” about global warming. Their main goal is of course to deny that there is such a thing as anthropogenic climate change. If you don’t mind getting your blood pressure raised by more than a few degrees, take a look at this elaborate nonsense, still all too common on the web and throughout the mainstream media. —PG

By JAMES HANSEN
The New York Times