The Rich Getting Richer The Class War at Home By BILL QUIGLEY October 25, 2010The rich and their paid false prophets are doing a bang up job deceiving the poor and middle class. They have convinced many that an evil socialism is alive in the land and it is taking their fair share. But the deception cannot last – facts say otherwise.Yes, there is a class war – the war of the rich on the poor and the middle class – and the rich are winning. That war has been going on for years. Look at the facts – facts the rich and their false paid prophets...
Saturday, 30 October 2010
Friday, 22 October 2010
VIVE LA RESISTANCE!
VIVE LA RESISTANCE! Thank God for FranceBy MIKE WHITNEY Weekend EditionOctober 22 - 24, 2010Thank God for France. While American liberals tremble at the idea of sending an angry e mail to congress for fear that their name will appear on the State Department's list of terrorists, French workers are on the front lines choking on tear gas and fending off billyclubs in hand-to-hand combat with Sarkozy's Gendarmerie. That's because the French haven't forgotten their class roots. When the government gets too big for its britches, people pour out onto...
THREE CHEERS FOR THE FRENCH STRIKERS!
THREE CHEERS FOR THE FRENCH STRIKERS!By ALEXANDER COCKBURNWeekend EditionOctober 22 - 24, 2010The strikes and demonstrations that have brought France to a near-halt are provoking the usual patronizing commentaries in the United States and United Kingdom. Those pampered French workers, not to mention school kids, are at it again, raising hell just because sensible President Sarkozy points out that the French pension system is simply not affordable and the retirement age must be raised from 60 to 62. It’s time for a reality check, of the sort just...
Thursday, 21 October 2010
When Banks Are the Robbers
When Banks Are the RobbersPosted on Oct 19, 2010By Amy GoodmanThe big banks that caused the collapse of the global finance market, and received tens of billions of dollars in taxpayer-funded bailouts, have likely been engaging in wholesale fraud against homeowners and the courts. But in a promising development this week, attorneys general from all 50 states announced a bipartisan joint investigation into foreclosure fraud.Bank of America, JPMorgan Chase, GMAC and other big mortgage lenders recently suspended most foreclosure proceedings, following...
French Demonstrations Mark the End of an Era
French Demonstrations Mark the End of an EraPosted on Oct 20, 2010By William PfaffPARIS—The plethora of unwanted strikes and student and youth unrest in Western Europe is a morbid condition.Speaking medically, plethora is an overabundance of blood in the body, connected with the choleric temperament that medieval physiology described. The word “colere” means anger, fury, in French. The rest of the Western world has other words to match.It is not pension claims that are driving the current political uproar. It is popular fury at the people who created...
Wednesday, 20 October 2010
France Erupts Sarkozy Under Siege
France EruptsSarkozy Under Siege By PHILIPPE MARLIÈRE October 20, 2010When he entered the Elysée palace in 2007, Nicolas Sarkozy dreamed of a glorious destiny. Enthusiastic commentators predicted that his casual populism would revamp the Bonapartist right, and that his Gallic brand of neoliberal policies would sell the “American dream” to a mistrustful population. Things have not gone according to plan. Sarkozy wanted to be the French JFK; today he looks more like Louis XVI awaiting trial in 1793. He may escape the guillotine, but his presidency...
A Tale of Two Nations Red Hot France; Tepid Britain
A Tale of Two NationsRed Hot France; Tepid Britain By TARIQ ALI October 20, 2010France is grinding to a standstill as millions of workers and students erupt in the streets at the government’s prposal to raise the retirement age from 60 to 62. Across the Channel, the new Tory Chancellor has announced savage cuts in public expenditures that will slice away more than a million jobs, drive workers out of south east England and doom the country to years of austerity (unequally imposed, bien sur.) Yet the response has been muted. A few years ago, the...
Saturday, 16 October 2010
The War on Terror
What's It All About?The War on TerrorBy PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS Weekend EditionOctober 15 - 17, 2010Does anyone remember the “cakewalk war” that would last six weeks, cost $50-$60 billion, and be paid for out of Iraqi oil revenues? Does anyone remember that White House economist Lawrence Lindsey was fired by Dubya because Lindsey estimated that the Iraq war could cost as much as $200 billion?Lindsey was fired for over-estimating the cost of a war that, according to Joseph Stiglitz and Linda Bilmes, has cost 15 times more than Lindsey estimated. And...
Friday, 15 October 2010
On the Road with Ahmadinejad in Lebanon
"Isn't This One Fine View?" On the Road with Ahmadinejad in Lebanon By FRANKLIN LAMB Weekend EditionOctober 15 - 17, 2010Qana.He came, he saw, he conquered.As he watched the Iranian President blow kisses to cleaning workers at Beirut’s airport during his departure for Iran early this morning, a Lebanese Christian historian commented “This Persian’s glory at the moment is arguably greater than Caesar’s following Rome’s second conquest of Britain”.And the Iranian president did indeed throw much more than a stone at US-Israel projects for Lebanon,...
Wednesday, 13 October 2010
YOU CANNOT CRITICIZE ISRAEL IN THIS COUNTRY AND SURVIVE
YOU CANNOT CRITICIZE ISRAEL IN THIS COUNTRY AND SURVIVEHelen Thomas Cries, Denies Anti-Semitism, Calls President Obama 'Reprehensible'Text by Associated Press MARION, Ohio — In a radio interview, former White House correspondent Helen Thomas acknowledges she touched a nerve with remarks about Israel that led to her retirement. But she says the comments were "exactly what I thought," even though she realized soon afterward that it was the end of her job."I hit the third rail. You cannot criticize Israel in this country and survive," Thomas told...
From Apartheid South Africa to Palestine "To Exist is to Resist"
From Apartheid South Africa to Palestine "To Exist is to Resist" By PATRICK BOND October 13, 2010On a full-day drive through the Jordan Valley late last month, we skirted the earth’s oldest city and the lowest inhabited point, 400 meters below sea level. For 10,000 years, people have lived along the river separating the present-day West Bank and Jordan.Since 1967 the river has been augmented by Palestinian blood, sweat and tears, ending in the Dead Sea, from which no water flows out, it only evaporates. Conditions degenerated during Israel’s land-grab,...
The Real Bibi His Father's Boy
The Real BibiHis Father's BoyBy URI AVNERY October 13, 2010Which is the real Netanyahu?- Bibi the weakling, the invertebrate, who always gives in to pressure, who zigzags to the left and to the right, depending whether the pressure comes from the US or from his coalition partners?- The tricky Likud chief, who is afraid that Avigdor Ivett Lieberman might succeed in pushing him towards the Center and displace him as the leader of the entire Right?- Netanyahu, the man of principle, who is determined to prevent at any cost the setting up of the...
The Waning of Obama Fanon, D'Souza, Obama and the Echoes of Colonialism
The Waning of Obama Fanon, D'Souza, Obama and the Echoes of ColonialismBy VIJAY PRASHAD October 13, 2010Barack Obama, Dinesh D’Souza and I went to college at almost the same time. Obama was at one end of Los Angeles (Occidental College), while I was at the other end (Pomona College). “We smoked cigarettes,” Obama wrote in Dreams From My Father, “and wore leather jackets. At night, in the dorms, we discussed neocolonialism, Franz Fanon, Eurocentrism, and patriarchy. When we ground out our cigarettes in the hallway carpet or set our stereos so loud...
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