Cartoon Politics: Rupert Murdoch, The Pro-Israel Lobby And Israel’s Crimes ACTIVISTS & HEROES, AMERICAN STUDIES, ANNOTATED NEWS, ANTI-CORPORATISM, ANTIWAR, ASSHOLES, BASTARDS & CRIMINALS, CITIZEN TOOLS, CORPORATE OWNED PARTIES, CULTURE & CRITICISM, GOVERNMENT CRIMES, GREAT HYPOCRISY, IMPERIALISM, INSULTS & RANTS, PUTRID CORPOMEDIA Comments Off Jan 312013 Veteran draughtsman Gerald Scarfe. In the latest issue of the Sunday Times of London he depicted Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu building a wall, and squeezed between the bricks, Palestinian bodies. He is using blood to hold the wall together, and the caption on the drawing was, “Will cementing the peace continue?” By David Cromwell, Senior Editor, Media Lens A crucial element of pro-Israel political lobbying is the reprehensible smearing of justified criticism of the Israeli state as ‘antisemitic’. Thus, a recent cartoon by Gerald Scarfe in the Sunday Times provided a convenient target for outrage. Continue reading » Did you like this? Share it:
Vomitorium, but quick! UK media lines up behind campaign to extradite Assange and silence WikiLeaks ACTIVISTS & HEROES, ANNOTATED NEWS, CITIZEN TOOLS, GOVERNMENT CRIMES, GREAT HYPOCRISY, IMPERIALISM, INSULTS & RANTS, MEDIA TURDS, PUTRID CORPOMEDIA Comments Off Aug 242012 By Julie Hyland, WSWS.ORG, a socialist organization Assange, crucified, on cue from their masters, by a pack of hypocritical media bastards. Considering its repeated complicity in huge crimes against humanity, the sanctimonious mainstream Western media is not only a disgrace, it’s a criminal organization.—Eds The British media has played a venal role throughout the ongoing efforts to witch-hunt and silence WikiLeaks and Julian Assange. But it has plumbed new depths following the decision by Ecuador to grant his request for political asylum. The WikiLeaks founder sought refuge in the Ecuadorian embassy in London on June 19, when it became apparent that UK authorities intended to extradite him to Sweden. In his statement delivered from a window at the embassy on Sunday, Assange gave fresh evidence of Britain’s efforts to flout international law with its threat to derecognise the embassy and send police to arrest him. He described how he had heard police “storming” through internal fire escapes earlier in the week. Continue reading » Did you like this? Share it:
POISONED PENS: The Rise and Fall of Cocaine Cola ANTI-COMMUNISM, BATTLE OF COMMUNICATIONS, CAPITALISM & SOCIALISM, CONSERVATIVES & REACTION, DEBATING POINTS, INSULTS & RANTS, THE COLOR LINE Comments Off Jul 092012 Editor’s Note: From time to time we offer our readers examples of rightwing communications ranging in quality and intent from frank lunacy to insidious distortions of fact. The piece below qualifies as the latter. Served on the libertarian site LewRockwell.com,(1) which bills itself as “anti-war, anti-state, and pro-market,” it packs the peculiar mix that makes libertarian rants so frustrating at times, a combination of useful facts distorted by ludicrous statements that have little respect for truth. In Jarvis’ piece, the front part with its historical summary of the Coca Cola company is sound enough, but his tendentious attack in the bottom part, focusing on what he (like all libertarians) regards as a suffocating government, is pure poppycock. For one thing, the courts would not have given the black defendants in the case he cites the millions they did if there had been no sufficient proof. To make that part of the story stick we would have to believe Jarvis that Coca-Cola was a pauper that could not properly defend himself, and/or that the courts were uniformly part of “the government”, a murky classification that confuses the executive with the judicial branch. Corrupt and compromised as American courts may be—especially the SCOTUS, which has become under Roberts a highly politicized institution—most members of the judiciary remain a power apart. But, friends, such realities do not usually carry much weight in the face of a determined corporatist’s doctrinaire compulsions. Perhaps more offensive, it takes a great deal of effort to ignore the transparent racist undertones of Jarvis’ tract, who the bioblurb aptly describes as “an unreconstructed Southerner.” Caveat emptor!—P. Greanville(1) In fairness, LewRockwell.com however does perform a valuable service due to its principled antiwar posture, often allowing antiwar voices from the left to be featured in its pages. Whether a libertarian antiwar stance is consistent with an overwhelming love for savage capitalism is something to be discussed another day. Continue reading » Did you like this? Share it:
Adam Carolla Rails Against Occupy ‘Ass Douches’ In Rant: ‘F**king Self-Entitled Monsters’ ANNOTATED NEWS, CONSERVATIVES & REACTION, HEADLINERS, INDECENT SLIMEBALLS, INSULTS & RANTS Comments Off Feb 272012 by Jon Bershad | Mediaite, December 1st, 2011 Carolla: Supreme asshole as a chosen career, but laughing all the way to the bank.His current celebrity could be seen as an advance from his ridiculously unfunny previous venue, The Man Show. So, what was it that inspired the Occupy movement? Was it a growing realization that the privileged had been gaming the system, making transition between social classes nearly impossible? Was it annoyance at a corrupt collusion between politicians and banks, one that kept those responsible for ruining our economy for future generations out of prison? Or was it simply a feeling that, were no one to speak up, things would continue to get worse? Well, according to Adam Carolla, the blame lies squarely on one sinister culprit; participation medals. In a lengthy rant on his hugely popular podcast, Carolla explained just how growing up in a culture of entitlement had created a generation of, as he sees it, “ass douches.” Continue reading » Did you like this? Share it:
