The Joke’s on You
Steve Almond, The Baffler [from The Baffler No. 20] Among the hacks who staff our factories of conventional wisdom, evidence abounds that we are living in a golden age of political comedy. The New York...
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View ArticleDebating Bill Maher on Muslims, Islam and US foreign policy
The HBO host has become a leading advocate of the view that Islam is uniquely violent and threatening. Does that hold up under critical scrutiny? By Glenn Greenwald, guardian.co.uk, Saturday 11 May...
View ArticleMedia courtesan Melissa Harris-Perry tells Snowden to give himself up
MSNBC slut outdoing herself in the service of the empire. The very definition of a corporate Democratic apparatchik. Way to go Melissa! Meanwhile, absent an acknowledgement, Gary Leupp sends his third...
View ArticleWhy Tom Friedman Is the Ayn Rand of Our Times
AlterNet [1] / By RJ Eskow [2] Friedman If Thomas Friedman didn’t exist, America’s high-tech entrepreneurs would have had to invent him. Come to think of it, maybe they did. The dark science-fiction...
View ArticleThe unlikely life and sudden death of The Exile, Russia’s angriest newspaper.
MEDIA—Kulturkampf Lost Exile Matt Taibbi and Mark Ames, co-editors of The Exile, a subversive English-language newspaper based in Moscow, whose decadelong run came to an abrupt end in 2008. Inset: A...
View ArticleA Nation Brought to the Verge of Ruin
A Bi-Partisan Crisis by PAUL STREET In the Hands of a Moneyed Oligarchy Unctuous Rose with socialite fashion tycoon “Princess” Diane v.Fursternberg. A natural born courtier for the elites. Recently on...
View ArticleThe Grim Truth Behind the ‘Scandinavian Miracle’
The Guardian [1] / By Michael Booth [2] Swedes protesting rightwing government’s unemployment benefits cuts. For the past few years the world has been in thrall to all things Nordic (for which purpose...
View ArticleUkraine and the pro-imperialist intellectuals
Alex Lantier, wsws.org The very presence of subtle imperial collaborationist Slavoj Žižek should alert us to the dubious pedigree of any “progressive” initiative. The “Open letter on the future of...
View ArticleARCHIVES: Chris Hitchens, the Great Apostate
Adonis Diaries— From Atheist, anti-war, and socialist: To extreme Bushist Junior and liberal capitalism apostates? Posted by: adonis49 on: December 19, 2011 Who is this late Christopher Hitchens?...
View ArticleFrance Under the Influence
The Ambiguity of Charlie Hebdo by DIANA JOHNSTONE Paris. The Charlie Hebdo terrorist assassinations struck France at a moment when it has an unpopular government and a weak President, when factories...
View ArticleJohn Oliver on the refugee crisis
EYE ON THE MEDIA John Oliver is no flaming radical, we know that, and his course is generally erratic if not woefully propagandistic and misguided when speaking about foreign policy issues. But from...
View ArticleOpEds: Is China Capitalist or Socialist?
OPEDS Bob Treasure, The Guardian, Australia SOCIALISM TODAY The actual nature of Chinese society continues to baffle seasoned political theorists and common observers. ver since the People’s’ Republic...
View ArticleSyria and the pro-imperialist pseudo-left
CARRYING OUT THE CRIMINAL AGENDA OF THE 0.00001% ACROSS THE GLOBE ALEX LANTIER, SENIOR ANALYST, WSWS.ORG Dateline: 27 September 2016, first iteration This week, as criticism of the US-Russian...
View ArticleChris Hedges “The Legacy Of Barack Obama Has Been The Near Collapse Of The...
“The Legacy Of Barack Obama Has Been The Near Collapse Of The Left!” Why contributing to the Greanville Post is urgent and makes sense. CLICK ON THIS BAR AND FIND OUTAmong the many progressive and...
View ArticleA Nation Brought to the Verge of Ruin
A Bi-Partisan Crisis by PAUL STREET In the Hands of a Moneyed Oligarchy Recently on his syndicated talk show, the power-worshipping interviewer of influential elites Charlie Rose worried that...
View ArticleThe Grim Truth Behind the ‘Scandinavian Miracle’
The Guardian [1] / By Michael Booth [2] Swedes protesting rightwing government’s unemployment benefits cuts. For the past few years the world has been in thrall to all things Nordic (for which purpose...
View ArticleOpEds: Is China Capitalist or Socialist?
OPEDS Bob Treasure, The Guardian, Australia SOCIALISM TODAY The actual nature of Chinese society continues to baffle seasoned political theorists and common observers. ver since the People's' Republic...
View ArticleSyria and the pro-imperialist pseudo-left
CARRYING OUT THE CRIMINAL AGENDA OF THE 0.00001% ACROSS THE GLOBE ALEX LANTIER, SENIOR ANALYST, WSWS.ORG Dateline: 27 September 2016, first iteration his week, as criticism of the US-Russian cease-fire...
View ArticleChris Hedges “The Legacy Of Barack Obama Has Been The Near Collapse Of The...
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