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

President Obama, One Corporate Puppet Among Many

AMERICAN STUDIES, ANTI-CORPORATISM, ANTI-NEOLIBERALISM, BANKING & FINANCE, CONSERVATIVES & REACTION, CORPORATE CRIMES, CORPORATE CRIMINALITY, CORPORATE OWNED PARTIES, CULTURE & CRITICISM, GREAT HYPOCRISY, HUMBUG CENTRAL 1 Response »

Apr 152013

By Carl GibsonThe people of the United States should rightly interpret this latest slew of betrayals in government as proof that we live under the thumb of a corporate tyranny, not a legitimate constitutional republic. And we should come together to decide what a functional new government would look like, and reject the assumed legitimacy of our corporate ownership’s puppet government.Source: Reader Supported News

President Barack Obama in Tucson, Arizona, 01/12/11 (Photo: Jewel Samad/Getty Images)

This year, the New Deal turned 80. And those same New Deal programs championed by FDR, a Democrat, defined the bedrock of the American left political achievements for all others who would seek the presidency. Now, the corporate takeover of our government has proven that those New Deal programs can be slowly dismantled by a Democrat president, as the Obama administration fully digs its heels in on an austerity agenda. Continue reading »

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Margaret Thatcher Was a Privatization Pioneer, and This Is the Story of How Her Agenda Did Nothing But Make Life Worse for Millions of People

ABOMINATIONS, CAPITALISM & SOCIALISM, CLASS COLLABORATION, CONSERVATIVES & REACTION, CORPORATE MENTALITY, CORPORATE OWNED PARTIES, FALSE DEMOCRACY 1 Response »

Apr 112013

Michael Hudson’s blog [1] / By Michael Hudson [2]

Thatcher with fellow reactionary Ronnie Reagan. By any sensible standard, master criminals both.

As in Chile, privatization in Britain was a victory for Chicago monetarism. This time it was implemented democratically. In fact, voters endorsed Margaret Thatcher’s selloff of public industries so strongly that by 1991, when she was replaced as prime minister by her own party’s John Major, only 35 percent of Britain’s voters supported the Labour Party – half the proportion registered in 1945. The Conservatives sold off public monopolies, used the proceeds to cut taxes, and put the privatized firms on a profit-making basis. Their stock prices rose sharply, making capital gains for investors whose ranks included millions of Britons who had been employees and/or customers of these enterprises. Continue reading »

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Glenda Jackson launches tirade against Thatcher in tribute debate

ACTIVISTS & HEROES, BETTER HUMANITY, BOUGHT POLITICIANS & PHONIES, CAPITALISM & SOCIALISM, CONSERVATIVES & REACTION, CORPORATE CRIMINALITY, CORPORATE MENTALITY, CORPORATE OWNED PARTIES, EU.Britain, IMPERIALISM, INDECENT SLIMEBALLS, MEDIA CRITICISM, MORAL BACKWARDNESS, RIGHTWING & WACKOS 1 Response »

Apr 112013

The great actress Glenda Jackson takes the floor in the British house of Commons to tell the “distinguished” assembly busily praising the departed skunk how she feels about the Iron Lady.

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The problem is over

AMERICAN STUDIES, BOUGHT POLITICIANS & PHONIES, CONSERVATIVES & REACTION, CONTROVERSY, CORPORATE MENTALITY, CORPORATE OWNED PARTIES, CULTURE & CRITICISM, DEMAGOGUERY Comments Off

Apr 112013

BY MIKE INGLES

Joe Manchin: Like King Canute he’s telling the sea waves to roll back. Does he really believe it will work?

Problem: People, a great many people, some only 6-years-old, are being massacred by unstable folks with access to semi-automatic weapons.

Solution: The senate has agreed to close the loophole allowing sane people who want to own guns to register their automatic weapons.

Am I the only one in America that sees a disconnect here? I mean how does registering a weapon, that ultimately falls into the hands of a lizard king, going to save a child in a quiet schoolhouse? Continue reading »

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Apr 102013

By Julie Hyland and Chris Marsden, wsws.org

Margaret Thatcher, the friend of Chile’s fascist dictator General Augusto Pinochet and supporter of the apartheid system of racial discrimination in South Africa, has died of a stroke at the age of 87.

Neither the media’s eulogies to Thatcher as a great stateswoman, nor the staging of a day of national mourning complete with military honours, can conceal the fact that she died arguably the most hated figure in British politics. Continue reading »

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Germany’s One-Party System

AMERICAN STUDIES, BOUGHT POLITICIANS & PHONIES, BOURGEOIS VALUES, CAPITALISM & SOCIALISM, CLASS STRUGGLE, CONSERVATIVES & REACTION, CORPORATE MENTALITY, CORPORATE OWNED PARTIES, EU.Germany, FALSE DEMOCRACY, GREAT HYPOCRISY Comments Off

Apr 102013

On September 22, 2013, Germany will hold general elections. These elections will be observed with special attention given what it will mean for the austerity policies of the Merkel government and the ‘Euro crisis.’ From an anti-austerity and socialist perspective, the elections are also important with regard to the situation for the new German Left Party Die LINKE. Despite growing economic and social inequality, the Left Party stands at just 8 per cent in opinion polls.

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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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Things to consider—

President Obama, One Corporate Puppet Among Many

Margaret Thatcher Was a Privatization Pioneer, and This Is the Story of How Her Agenda Did Nothing But Make Life Worse for Millions of People

Glenda Jackson launches tirade against Thatcher in tribute debate

The problem is over

OPEDS: Thatcher’s legacy

Germany’s One-Party System

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