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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

Liberal Apologetics for Obama’s Criminality

 AMERICAN STUDIES, BOUGHT POLITICIANS & PHONIES, CLASS COLLABORATION, CORPORATE CRIMINALITY, CORPORATE MENTALITY, CORPORATE OWNED PARTIES, FALSE DEMOCRACY, GOVERNMENT CRIMES, GREAT HYPOCRISY, PLUTOCRATIC POWER, PUTRID CORPOMEDIA, WAR CRIMES & CRIMINALS  No Responses »
May 142013
 
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Drones and Guantanamo
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by NORMAN POLLACK

As we know, Candidate Obama in ’08 pledged to close Guantanamo; President Obama, now in his Second Term, as we also know, lied so egregiously, on a matter of extreme importance to the every meaning of the rule of law (because puking on Magna Charta and centuries of jurisprudential wisdom and morality by sanctioning and adopting the practice of indefinite detention—and all that follows, from denial of habeas corpus to affording the accused the right of counsel), that anything he says must be viewed with skepticism, if not worse.  Continue reading »

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Ideologues Don’t Make Corrections

 AMERICAN STUDIES, ANTI-CORPORATISM, ANTI-NEOLIBERALISM, ANTIWAR, BOUGHT POLITICIANS & PHONIES, CLASS COLLABORATION, CORPORATE MENTALITY, CORPORATE OWNED PARTIES, GREAT HYPOCRISY, IMPERIAL APOLOGISTS & COLLABOS, PUTRID CORPOMEDIA, WAR CRIMES & CRIMINALS  No Responses »
May 142013
 
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By Joe Giambrone

REAGAN: Some presidents lie much more than others but they all lie. Reagan was an asset because of his ability to "amiably" avoid the truth. Obama is his equal or his better.

REAGAN: Some presidents lie much more than others but they all lie. Reagan was a prized  asset to the ruling circles because of his ability to “amiably” disinform. Obama is his equal or his better.

Ideology is the modern plague, because ideologues have all the answers already.  Every event, every situation fits the mold of their beliefs, and contrary evidence is discarded in the service of bolstering said ideology.  This is easily seen in the people one disagrees with on a regular basis, but nearly never acknowledged in one’s own determinations. Continue reading »

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Marx 21 Congress: Anti-Marxists meet in Berlin

 ABOMINATIONS, ALERTS, ANTI-CORPORATISM, ANTI-NEOLIBERALISM, ANTIWAR, BOUGHT POLITICIANS & PHONIES, CAPITALISM & SOCIALISM, CLASS COLLABORATION, EU.Germany, FALSE LEFT, INTERNATIONAL REPORTAGE, The EU, WAR CRIMES & CRIMINALS  No Responses »
May 122013
 
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Exposing the faux left in Europe

By Johannes Stern, wsws.org

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The “Marx Is Muss” [“Marx is a must”] congress taking place this weekend in Berlin is a shabby operation organised by the Marx 21 group aimed at promoting right-wing and imperialist policy under a pseudo-left garb. Marx 21 is a faction inside the German Left Party, with links to the International Socialist Tendency. Continue reading »

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The Radical Center and Armed Revolution

 ABOMINATIONS, AMERICAN STUDIES, ASSHOLES, BASTARDS & CRIMINALS, BATTLE OF COMMUNICATIONS, BOUGHT POLITICIANS & PHONIES, BOURGEOIS VALUES, CLASS COLLABORATION, CORPORATE MENTALITY, CORPORATE OWNED PARTIES, CORPORATE TELEVISION, FEMINISM, IDIOTIZED PUBLICS, KULTURKAMPF, LIBERAL BETRAYALS  No Responses »
May 112013
 
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A Challenge for the Left
by ROB URIE
The liberals —especially bourgeois feminists—are already salivating at the prospect of a Hillary presidency. That's the kind of "center" that constitutes the worst obstacle to making progress on the left.

The liberals —especially bourgeois feminists—are already salivating at the prospect of a Hillary presidency. That’s the kind of “center” that constitutes the worst obstacle to making progress on the left.

Following release of the results of a recent Fairleigh Dickinson University poll showing 29% of registered voters in the U.S. believe armed revolution to ‘protect liberties’ may be necessary the self-appointed political ‘center’ went into full conniption in defense of the established order. Visions of shotgun wielding Tea Partiers were trotted out, racists no doubt, storming the Capitol to roll back the radical progress President Barack Obama and a blameless Congress have made to save ‘our fledgling democracy’ from the predations of empire, the corrupting influence of money in politics, the growing and conspicuous divide between haves and have-nots, the murderous militarism of the war industry and the oppressive machinations of a militarized police. Accurate descriptions of official policies to which the citizenry might legitimately object were prominent in their absence. Continue reading »

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Not Your Daddy’s COINTELPRO: Obama Brands Assata Shakur “Most Wanted Terrorist”

 AMERICAN STUDIES, BATTLE OF COMMUNICATIONS, BLACK AMERICA, BOUGHT POLITICIANS & PHONIES, CLASS COLLABORATION, CORPORATE MENTALITY, CORPORATE OWNED PARTIES, CULTURE & CRITICISM, DEMAGOGUERY, GREAT HYPOCRISY, POLICE & REPRESSION, PUTRID CORPOMEDIA  No Responses »
May 082013
 
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by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon

Assata Shakur could not have been named “most wanted terrorist” without the explicit approval of the first black president and his attorney general. In doing so, they have declared open war on the black liberation movement, something that J. Edgar Hoover and COINTELPRO were only able to do in secret. Continue reading »

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The Black Press Ponder Obama-Love

 AMERICAN STUDIES, BLACK AMERICA, BOUGHT POLITICIANS & PHONIES, CLASS COLLABORATION, CORPORATE OWNED PARTIES, CORPORATE TELEVISION, GREAT HYPOCRISY, MEDIA CRITICISM  No Responses »
May 052013
 
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From our archives: articles you should have read the first time around but didn’t. Originally, Wed, 06/27/2012.

A Black Agenda Radio commentary by Glen Ford

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Barack Obama’s top African American aide assures Black journalists that the president has “genuine love” for the Black community. It is an insubstantial line of inquiry, the product of “an infantile obsession with the inner world of the Obamas that is wholly disconnected from the real world of economic policy, and of war and peace.” Unfortunately, in the Age of Obama, Steve Harvey, the “professional media ignoramus,” passes for a journalist.

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