Friday, October 21, 2011
Blood Simple
Another international leader murdered, another legal and historic abomination, another chorus of cheers from the gibbering class, another day in the USA.
Another view of the victim of Obama's latest bloodletting; and about chickens coming home to roost . . .
Wednesday, October 19, 2011
The Unpeople
In news from Yemen, the U.S. government is being accused of killing a 16-year-old U.S. citizen in a drone strike last week. The teenager, Abdulrahman al-Awlaki, became the third American killed in Yemen in a U.S. drone strike in the past three weeks. He was the son of Anwar al-Awlaki, the U.S.-born cleric assassinated in a separate drone strike last month. Initial news accounts reported Abdulrahman al-Awlaki was 21 years old, but his family says he was only 16. They said he was born in Denver in 1995. Nasser al-Awlaki, the boy’s grandfather, said, "To kill a teenager is just unbelievable, really, and they claim that he is an al-Qaeda militant. It’s nonsense. They want to justify his killing, that’s all."
Chris Floyd.
Tuesday, October 18, 2011
Monday, October 17, 2011
What's Wrong With This Picture?
Playful? Against the most sophisticated and deepest police state in human history? Against the most vicious and selfish money class?
Chris Hedges aside, my hunch is that things have become so bad, that normal political action has become so delinked from consequence, the only chance for a weakening of Corporate suffocation is to start making Jamie Dimon, Ben Bernanke, Lloyd Blankfein, Tim Geithner, Larry Summers, Brian Moynihan, Hank Paulsen, Dick Fuld, John Mack, John Thain and all their apparatchiks very physically uncomfortable.
One year later, the permanent Egyptian comprador class is stronger and more entrenched than ever. And whatever happened to all that jumping and yelling in Wisconsin? (Besides the carceral anti-union laws going into effect.)
France, Russia, Mexico, Cuba, South Africa, the Congo, China, Iran, Algeria, Nicaragua, the antebellum South -- all successful revolutions against much weaker established states than USA 2011. And not one of them playful.
A Kent State/Jackson State event may be in the offing. Then back to iPhone apps?
Once again, Mr. Twain:
"There were two 'Reigns of Terror', if we could but remember and consider it; the one wrought murder in hot passion, 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 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."
Sunday, October 16, 2011
Thursday, October 13, 2011
Liars
Not that assassinating the Saudi Ambassador (and the rest of the "royal family") isn't a great idea. . .
Ray McGovern, Justin Raimondo, Patrick and Alexander Cockburn, Gareth Porter.
Pretty rich smoke coming from a regime that just summarily executed three U.S. citizens. . .
Ray McGovern, Justin Raimondo, Patrick and Alexander Cockburn, Gareth Porter.
Pretty rich smoke coming from a regime that just summarily executed three U.S. citizens. . .
Monday, October 10, 2011
Sunday, October 9, 2011
Friday, October 7, 2011
Thursday, October 6, 2011
Wednesday, October 5, 2011
Zeke
My favorite basketball player (and GM) of all time. Pure heart.
Jonathan Abrams with a beautiful piece.
Monday, October 3, 2011
Sunday, October 2, 2011
Together
There are no excuses left. Either you join the revolt taking place on Wall Street and in the financial districts of other cities across the country or you stand on the wrong side of history. Either you obstruct, in the only form left to us, which is civil disobedience, the plundering by the criminal class on Wall Street and accelerated destruction of the ecosystem that sustains the human species, or become the passive enabler of a monstrous evil. Either you taste, feel and smell the intoxication of freedom and revolt or sink into the miasma of despair and apathy. Either you are a rebel or a slave. -- Chris Hedges
Go.