The Greanville Post —Vol. VII- 2013

Things to consider—

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

Classic Essays: Hail the Reds

ACTIVISTS & HEROES, AMERICAN STUDIES, ANTI-CORPORATISM, ANTI-NEOLIBERALISM, ANTIWAR, CAPITALISM & SOCIALISM, CITIZEN TOOLS, CLASS STRUGGLE, CONSERVATIVES & REACTION, CORPORATE OWNED PARTIES, COUPS & CIVIL WAR, EXTREME WEALTH, FALSE DEMOCRACY, IDEOLOGICAL STRUGGLE, IMPERIAL APOLOGISTS & COLLABOS, IMPERIALISM No Responses »

May 162013

What’s Left: Hail the Reds
By Stephen Gowans

"The Great Patriotic War" (WW2) was for the Soviets a defining moment. Out of nowhere, the USSR was able to outmanufacture and beat back the strongest war machine on earth.

“The Great Patriotic War” (WW2) was for the Soviets a defining moment. Against all odds, the USSR was able to outmanufacture Germany and beat back the strongest war machine on earth.

www3.sympatico.ca/sr.gowans/reds.html

Over the seven decades of its existence, and despite having to spend so much time preparing, fighting, and recovering from wars, the Soviet Union managed to create one of the great achievements of human history: a great industrial society that eliminated most of the inequalities of wealth, income, education and opportunity that plagued what preceded it, what came after it, and what competed with it; a society in which health care and education through university were free (and university students received living stipends); where rent, utilities and public transportation were subsidized, along with books, periodicals and cultural events; where inflation was eliminated, pensions were generous, and child care was subsidized. Continue reading »

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Spain’s Indignados Movement at the Crossroads

ACTIVISTS & HEROES, BOUGHT POLITICIANS & PHONIES, CAPITALISM & SOCIALISM, CLASS STRUGGLE, CORPORATE OWNED PARTIES, CULTURE & CRITICISM, EU.Spain, TACTICS & STRATEGIES No Responses »

May 162013

Two Years Old, Time to Grow Up

by TOM GILL

One of the great disappointments with – and indeed key weakness of – the indignados movement in Spain, which this May 15 celebrates its second birthday, has been its failure to pursue a strategy that turns power in the streets into the real power needed to change the world. Continue reading »

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Introducing the VICE documentary series [VIDEO]

ANNOTATED NEWS, ANTI-CORPORATISM, BANKING & FINANCE, BOUGHT POLITICIANS & PHONIES, CAPITALISM & SOCIALISM, CITIZENS' MEDIA, CLASS STRUGGLE, CORPORATE CRIMINALITY, CORPORATE OWNED PARTIES, MEDIA CRITICISM No Responses »

May 142013

VICE’s founder Shane Smith.

NOTE: This post is intended to introduce you to the HBO VICE brand of documentaries. Articles commenting on VICE’s origins, politics and characteristics can be found elsewhere on this site. Please refer to those. Continue reading »

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Global corporations and the Bangladesh building collapse

ABOMINATIONS, ANTI-CORPORATISM, ANTI-NEOLIBERALISM, ANTIWAR, BOUGHT POLITICIANS & PHONIES, CAPITALISM & SOCIALISM, CLASS STRUGGLE, CORPORATE CRIMES, CORPORATE MENTALITY, CORPORATE OWNED PARTIES, EXTREME WEALTH, GREAT HYPOCRISY, IMPERIAL APOLOGISTS & COLLABOS, INDECENT SLIMEBALLS No Responses »

May 082013

Peter Symonds, wsws.org
Update: The casualty count is now approaching 900, and there’s news of another building collapse with hundreds of victims.

While the world of fashion trots out their pampered creatures in front of avid cameras all over the world, the actual makers of these garments suffer poverty and death through hyper exploitation.

While the world of fashion trots out their pampered creatures on the red carpet all over the world, the actual makers of these garments suffer poverty and death through hyper exploitation. You know who Heidi Klum is, but do you know who this person is? In the world of power and fame, anonymity is death.

Two weeks after the Rana Plaza building collapse, global retail giants that source their garments in Bangladesh such as Walmart, Primark, Benetton and others are engaged in a cynical public relations exercise to distance themselves from the tragedy and preserve their image and their profits.

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The eternal question: to vote or not to vote

ACTIVISTS & HEROES, AMERICAN STUDIES, ANTI-CORPORATISM, ANTIWAR, BOUGHT POLITICIANS & PHONIES, CLASS STRUGGLE, SICK SOCIETY, TACTICS & STRATEGIES 2 Responses »

May 072013

Here’s Randy Shields answer—

Jill Stein: te countryproducexs decent people, but we must create the political space.

Jill Stein: the country produces decent people, but we must create the political space.

Straight outta La Jolla

Nonvoterz with Attitudes

by Randy Shields
(Originally posted on 17 November 2012)

I was recently taken to task by an elections boycott advocate from San Diego for voting for Jill Stein, which inspired the following thoughts. Continue reading »

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May 022013

The Inequality Machine

by SERGE HALIMI, Editor in Chief, Le Monde Diplomatique
REPRODUCED AS A PUBLIC SERVICE FROM COUNTERPUNCH, A FRATERNAL SITE

Some revelations come as little surprise. It’s not really news that some politicians love money and like to spend time with those who have lots of it. Or that they sometimes behave like a caste that is above the law. Or that the tax system favours the affluent, and that the free circulation of capital enables them to stash their cash in tax havens. Continue reading »

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There’s violence and there’s violence

Revolutionary Violence vs Institutionalized Violence

"There were two 'Reigns of Terror,' if we could but remember and consider it; the one wrought murder in hot passions, the other in heartless cold blood; the one lasted mere months, the other had lasted a thousand years; the one inflicted death upon a thousand persons, the other upon a hundred million; but our shudders are all for the "horrors" of the minor Terror, the momentary Terror, so to speak; whereas, what is the horror of swift death by the axe compared with lifelong death from hunger, cold, insult, cruelty and heartbreak? A city cemetery could contain the coffins filled by that brief terror that we have all been so diligently taught to shiver at and mourn over; but all France could hardly contain the coffins filled by that older and real Terror - that unspeakable bitter and awful Terror which none of us has been taught to see in its vastness or pity as it deserves..." —Mark Twain, writing about the French Revolution.

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