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

IRS Scandal Headlines: More Than Meets the Eye

AMERICAN STUDIES, ANTI-CORPORATISM, ANTI-NEOLIBERALISM, ANTIWAR, CORPORATE CRIMES, CORPORATE MENTALITY, CORPORATE OWNED PARTIES, CULTURE & CRITICISM, EXTREME WEALTH, FALSE DEMOCRACY, GREAT HYPOCRISY No Responses »

May 182013

by Stephen Lendman

The rot is systemic, bipartisan. Both JFK and Nixon set up “enemies” lists to harass via the IRS and other agencies. They are not the only presidents to do so.

More than targeting political enemies is involved. More on than below. The practice is longstanding. Republican and Democrat administrations use the IRS abusively. During the Coolidge administration, Republican Senator James Couzens investigated the IRS’ predecessor – the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR). Continue reading »

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Putin v. Obama et al

ABOMINATIONS, AMERICAN STUDIES, ANTI-CORPORATISM, ANTI-NEOLIBERALISM, ANTIWAR, ASSHOLES, BASTARDS & CRIMINALS, BOUGHT POLITICIANS & PHONIES, CORPORATE MENTALITY, CORPORATE OWNED PARTIES, PUTRID CORPOMEDIA, RUSSIA, SYRIA, WAR CRIMES & CRIMINALS No Responses »

May 182013

by Stephen Lendman

Obama with Erdogan: photo-ops to legitimate the crimes they plot behind closed doors.

Obama with Erdogan: Standard hypocrisy at work—photo-ops to legitimate the crimes being plotted behind closed doors.

On May 16, the Wall Street Journal headlined “Russia Raises Stakes in Syria,” saying:

Russia “sent a dozen or more warships to patrol waters near its naval base in Syria, a buildup that US and European officials see as a newly aggressive stance meant partly to warn the West and Israel not to intervene in Syria’s bloody civil war.” Continue reading »

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OpEds—War and Pain: Nothing New Under the Sun

ANTI-CORPORATISM, ANTI-NEOLIBERALISM, ANTIWAR, ARTS & FILM, CULTURE & CRITICISM, HISTORY, IRAN, IRAQ, WAR CRIMES & CRIMINALS 2 Responses »

May 172013

By Gaither Stewart

An ancient war formation was nothing to laugh about. Imagine standing in a field with nothing but a sword, a spear, and a shield against an advancing mass of men sworn to kill anyone in their path.

The world goes round and round and human beings say and do the same things again and again. So that it seems there is truly nothing new under the sun. Man’s perplexing unchanging behavior and the ways of the world have again led me back to the ancient Greeks, just to take a look. And what do I find there? I find the same warmongers and pacifists of today, identical war parties and peace parties, arms industries and anti-war writers, the generals who predictably “just love war”, and, as one might expect, the same identical massacre of women and children as everyday in America’s wars, now conveniently called “collateral damages”. Continue reading »

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Can Working from the Inside Change the Democratic Party?

AMERICAN STUDIES, ANTI-CORPORATISM, ANTI-NEOLIBERALISM, ANTIWAR, BOUGHT POLITICIANS & PHONIES, CONSERVATIVES & REACTION, CORPORATE OWNED PARTIES, IDEOLOGICAL STRUGGLE, TACTICS & STRATEGIES No Responses »

May 162013

by Ron Ridenour

Can the passion of the Occupy Movement be turned to taking over the Democratic Party, or is the Democratic Party a lost cause?

Occupy Wall Street’s dynamic grass roots movement is quiescent and may or may not return. Its respite or demise is due to a combination of deliberate and apparently nationally directed police violence and federal, state and local government spying, as well as to its own lack of political direction. It remains a political space to focus tremendous energy and passion, and draw to it many millions of the 99%. Continue reading »

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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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May 162013

Efrain Rios Montt Sent to Jail

by John Grant

I saw the masked men
throwing truth into a well.
When I began to weep for it
I found it everywhere.
- Claudia Lars (El Salvador)

Those of us who have struggled for peace and justice over the past decades don’t have much to celebrate these days. But the news from Guatemala that a female judge — Yasmin Barrios — was able to successfully manage a trial in that benighted nation and convict former President Efrain Rios Montt of genocide is something to rejoice about. It suggests it’s no longer business as usual in Latin America — especially vis-à-vis the United States. 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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