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The global Depression is the result of the US sub-prime crisis, It was directly caused by Bill Clintons enthusiastic signature on the Republican Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act. Saying “Today I am pleased to sign into law S. 900, the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act. This historic legislation will modernize our financial services laws, stimulating greater innovation and competition in the financial services” and with the stroke of a pen Clinton (1) unleashed predatory banks and lenders by repealing regulations put into place in the 1930′s to prevent another depression.
The expected happened. The housing bubble inflated beyond sustainable limits and then exploded, creating havoc in the markets, the current Depression and massive, intractable unemployment. Five years after the crisis unemployment remains steady, hovering around 15%.(2)
Clintons Depression is a global problem and there is no recovery on the horizon. That’s true for the US, for Japan, which has been in a slowdown crisis for over a decade, and for growing areas of Europe . A slowdown is deepening even in China, the engine of global economic activity (3). The Depression is a crisis of over-accumulation of profits by business owners due to union busting and austerity. The rich, whose income soared obscenely (4) because of deregulation and union busting, are in hoarding mode (5), refusing to invest well over $10 trillion in hoarded wealth back into the economy. Meanwhile, austerity and other measures to increase their profits are driving up unemployment, homelessness and poverty.
Banks have been largely successful in recovering their assets by transferring their debt to governments through means like TARP and other giveaways which in the US alone amount to gifts of over $7.7 trillion to the rich. (6)
Today growth is slowing across the globe and in all the main sectors of the economy. The Eurozone is the weakest link in the capitalist world and it’s unfolding collapse will bring down the US, China and all the rest.
The good news is that people are fighting back. Revolution is sweeping across North Africa, Iran and Iraq. In Europe movements like the indignados are growing. Here in the US we saw the explosion at Madison and on the West Coast docks, the heady growth of the Labor left and Occupier groups.
All this is occurring with the rapidly escalating and at this point unstoppable global ecological crisis as a backdrop.
The conditions are in place for a main force battle between workers and the rich and no one will be unaffected by that as it unfolds.
Centrists will soon have no place to hide.
(1) http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=56922#ixzz1z3tXAzzxIt repealed
(2) http://portalseven.com/employment/unemployment_rate_u6.jsp
(3) http://www.dailyfinance.com/2012/05/17/chinas-economic-slowdown-foreshadows-trouble-for-the-u-s/
(4) http://video.cnbc.com/gallery/?video=774262511&play=1
(5) http://blogs.wsj.com/wealth/2010/07/13/worlds-rich-are-hording-10-trillion-in-cash/
(6) http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/business/2011/11/fed-gave-banks-trillions-in-bailout-bloomberg-reports/
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Occupy,sadly,is not going to be the outcome of all this.
Climate may change,what they will do with the masses will not.
Have a wonderful independence day.
Senator Sanders actually names names of people who were sitting on the board of the Fed at the time of the bail-out. Their banks and businesses benefited from Fed actions. These criminals just helped themselves to $4 trillion dollars of our money. America is close to 16 trillion in debt and these guys stole what amounts to 25% of our national debt. Amazing isn’t it…This document never even made the news. One of the biggest thefts in American history and nobody is prosecuted…Pathetic!
http://readersupportednews.org/news-section2/318-66/11895-sanders-releases-explosive-bailout-list
“The conditions are in place for a main force battle between workers and the rich …”
Police forces have been militarized throughout the world but particularly here in the USA. Pushback from the 1% will be harsh.
The radicalization as a whole and the Occupiers role in it are still in their infancy. One wing of the Occupiers – the group that fought with dockworkers on the West Coast remind me very much of the Wobbly youth my grandma described.
Unless they fall into the same trap as SDS – vacillating between community organizing and inept, juvenile and often police directed attempts at terrorism – they should be around for awhile.
November 28, 2011 Bloomberg “The Federal Reserve’s ‘breathtaking’ $7.7 trillion bank bailout – A new report on the 2008 financial crisis reveals some shocking numbers that dramatically exceed the $700 billion TARP bailout… Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke says that newly revealed details about the Fed’s bank bailout were kept secret to prevent a stigma against banks that took part. A new report by Bloomberg Markets Magazine details trillions of dollars in secret federal loans made to the big banks during the 2008 financial crisis, a process that helped them rake in billions of dollars in undisclosed profits.”
It’s the biggest criminal transfer of wealth in human history.
Agreed, but it always has been.
when i wrote 2 years ago how this country was a police state and was being turned into a huge prison people laughed and ridiculed the truth.
when i said the world would experience the worst economic climate known to man , no one took me serious.
when i said drones would be flying over your head and governments main purpose would be armed control over its population, people lol and boasted of their belief in obama and what “america stands for”
well,,no point in my going on as the frogs still dont know they are in the water.
want more proof that OMG even the people here are frogs?…80 comments on a post wondering if zimmerman will be charged with perjury…5 comments here while we are thisclose to living in a country resembling the stone ages.
The world is being asset-stripped.
Thank you, America, for being the perfect host.
It seems as though even among other liberals and Progressives, we are distracted and divided. The problems I see are that there are so many problems and problems compounded by other problems…Where does one begin to fix this mess?
It is a good thing we do have watch dogs to report on cases such as the Martin case as police are generally out of control and making up their own rules.
Now that corporations are people and with this latest ruling corporations are tax collectors, What protections do we actually have against the new corporate government?
“Capitol Hill sources have confirmed that Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner and Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke are demanding that Congress prepare emergency legislation for yet another hyperinflationary bailout of the hopelessly bankrupt trans-Atlantic financial system. For the past week, the two men have been meeting secretly with leading Congressional Democrats and Republicans, demanding that they draft new legislation to bailout the banks on an even larger scale than after the 2008 collapse.
According to several congressional sources, Geithner and Bernanke have pledged that they will do everything in their power to flood European banks with bailout funds through the Federal Reserve, but they candidly admit that it may be impossible, and that congressional action may be required. If the crisis hits, they warn, there must be legislation already prepared, because the speed and magnitude of the crisis may require extraordinary intervention to ‘save the system.’”
http://larouchepac.com/node/23152
“The idea that the euro has ‘failed’ is dangerously naive. The euro is doing exactly what its progenitor – and the wealthy 1%-ers who adopted it – predicted and planned for it to do.
That progenitor is former University of Chicago economist Robert Mundell. The architect of ‘supply-side economics’ is now a professor at Columbia University, but I knew him through his connection to my Chicago professor, Milton Friedman, back before Mundell’s research on currencies and exchange rates had produced the blueprint for European monetary union and a common European currency.”–Greg Palast
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/jun/26/robert-mundell-evil-genius-euro
The European and American Oligarchy who were the financial and spiritual backers of European and American fascism [see Gen. Smedley Butler re: the Oligarchy's attempted coup on that "traitor to his class," FDR] were never tried at Nuremburg. That was one gold-plated rabbit hole that was off limits because while the Battle of WWII was over, and a lot of plebes died, and some grubby little German Nazi tools would hang or take the cyanide, men, like Prescott Bush who kept the money flowing to them, would move onwards and upwards in the world, marching to the Oligarchy’s dream of “A New World Order” same as “The Old [Feudalistic] World Order.”
They are almost there.
“There will be, in the next generation or so, a pharmacological method of making people love their servitude, and producing dictatorship without tears, so to speak, producing a kind of painless concentration camp for entire societies, so that people will in fact have their liberties taken away from them, but will rather enjoy it, because they will be distracted from any desire to rebel by propaganda or brainwashing, or brainwashing enhanced by pharmacological methods. And this seems to be the final revolution.” Aldous Huxley
With the exception of Tunisia the revolutions in North Africa as you call them are stalled. The “revolution” in Libya – the one that you Americans and your NATO lapdogs formented is in fact a counter-revolution and quite literally the first thing the temporary government did was abolish the food subsidies and free health care. They also established a central bank and gave undertakings to abide by IMF guidelines.
The western attempt to overthrow the Syrian regime is sliding into civil war.
The Egyptian “revolution” – you think the Ikhwanis are revolutionary? Truly? Allow me to react to that in a way somebody of your culture might understand.
Bwaaaaaaaaaahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!
The you talk of the Iranian “Revolution” that would be the counter-revolution the one which involves removing all food subsidies from the poor and requiring them to pay whatever rent the market will bear for their homes, pay for their education, and to pay for their health care.
Then you talk of the revolution in my country? What revolution?
I don’t know what I despise more your completely typically American ignorance or your even more typically American insistence that everyone else conform to the blinkered idiocy of your ludicrous stereotypes. If the counter factual delusional nonsense you have written above is the best the American “left” can come up with it’s no wonder that you lose every political struggle you engage in.
Mohammed Ibn Laith
Thanks for a dose of reality.
No shit. Watch tv for, like, 20 min, and all you’ll see are a shit ton of ads for drugs… most of them “happy” pills. Of course, now the SCOTUS has made sure that we 99%ers are in thrall to the BigHealthIns in order to get our daily dose of “happy pills,” which I presume makes the 1% mightily happy, too.
Only those with an a-historical perspective would deny that revolutions are underway across North Africa and in Iran against the mad ayatollahs and in Iraq by the oil workers union. Revolutions, as even the most clueless should know, move along in fits and starts.
A sort of manic cluelessness seems to characterize the rest of your post. I suspect that facts won’t change a mind like yours but the truth is that you have no clue about what most Americans think. Many of us oppose intervention in Syria and opposed it in Libya. The Muslim Brotherhood is not revolutionary, no one here said it was. Try not to invent things. Hopefully the Brotherhood will take a hard line with the zionist bunkerstadt but that’s unclear. What is clear is that they have nothing to offer workers and small farmers. Religion and superstition won’t end infaltion or the global Depression.
The Iranian revolution, led by workers, students and youth, women and GLBT folks and not the figureheads idolized on TV will have to develop a socialist program to defeat the mad ayatollahs. Your description of what they stand for is, simply put, a fantasy and a particularly inept untruth.
You and Rush Limbaugh will have to get together to tell each other fanciful tales about why the left will lose. Just don’t bother trying to tell those tales to real people who live in the real world.
What part of the word “stalled” are you too thick witted to understand?
The only revolution that has succeeded is the one in Tunisia where a conservative Islamist party – Ennahda, won enough of the votes to be able to dominate a coalition government that is now enacting the Islamist social reforms the Tunisian people voted for.
In Egypt the (very) conservative Muslim Brotherhood have convincingly won every electoral contest.
In Libya the counterrevolution loudly applauded by warmongering American leftists using “R2P” – the latest western imperialist excuse for agression has resulted in a pro-western savagely repressive regime worse than the one it supplanted.
In Syria you Americans are doing your best using the same “R2P” claptrap to foment civil war.
Spare me please blatant falsehoods such as this:
Not enough of you to count oppose these interventions. A miniscule and politically utterly ineffective minority of American political eunuchs oppose these interventions.
Your characterisation of the “green revolution” in Iran is too ludicrous to require refutation.
How interesting that the moment somebody contradicts you that you immediately resort American warmonger rhetoric about “mad Ayatollahs” – they were sane enough to throw out they corrupt and vicious American imposed Shah in 1979 and have been sane enough to keep you Americans out ever since. You might like to note that in Iran under the “mad Ayatollahs” that UNLIKE in America access to university education is expanding. That UNLIKE in America the average university student is female and studying one of the scientific disciplines such as biology, physics, medicine, chemistry, engineering etc. That UNLIKE in the West Women graduates in Iran dominate both traditional pharmaceuticals and the new genomics based pharmaceutical industries. UNLIKE in the West women graduates increasingly dominate both medicine and dentistry.
Nor is the advance of women in Iran confined to such fields. There are already women lecturing in theology in the seminaries in Qom -there are already women mujtahids within a decade there will be woman ayatollahs.
As to the oil union in al-Basrah – the union that repeatedly has to beg the Sadrist movement for protection. Is that the union you’re referring to? Goodness me yes it is that union.
You don’t know what you’re talking about kufr. You spout utterly contra factual nonsense and then when challenged by somebody who actually lives in the region and who unlike you knows what they’re talking about you immediately adopt the tactic of the dishonest loser and resort to ad hominem.
I despise you Purdue, I despise you utterly, I despise your intellectual and moral dishonesty, I despise the mindless obedience with which you spout your ruling class’ propaganda about “mad Ayatollahs”. You and your ilk Purdue are merely latest examples of that sad and contemptible phenomenon “the useful idiot”.
Bye bye please enjoy your well earned sojourn on history’s trash heap.
Mohammed Ibn Laith.
“I despise you Purdue, I despise you utterly, I despise your intellectual and moral dishonesty, I despise the mindless obedience with which you spout your ruling class’ propaganda about “mad Ayatollahs”. You and your ilk Purdue are merely latest examples of that sad and contemptible phenomenon “the useful idiot”.
I pity you, Mohammed. I pity you so utterly and completely and deeply. Because, even if you have valid points to speak, and the world would be better for listening to your wisdom, no one will ever pay heed to you. The venom issuing from your pen could be the centerpiece of a new book, “How to Alienate Friends and be Ignored by People”.
It is so terribly difficult to muster a veneer of courtesy when you have to deal with such Al Kufr Ul Akbar. I’m sure that you are storing up your celestial rewards for your efforts. But really, wouldn’t the world be a better place without all of us Kafirs.
It’s not really possible to talk to someone as confused and bathed in venom as MIL. He says bye by, so maybe he’ll go relate his fantasies elsewhere. Unless, of course, he’s lying.
The “Euro Crisis” more and more appears to be a on paper only contrivance that denys the realities of what Europeans have assembled post WW2 across Europe in ways of infrastructure buildouts,industrial achievements,social concepts of the public commonwealth and preserved/conserved culture found across all of Europe. This “Euro Crisis” is only a crisis in the sense that the global 1% have been stupid and want others to pay them for being stupid.
So Benz Inc. is worthless? BMW is worthless? Renault,Fiat and Audi are worthless? So Airbus is worthless? So Siemens is worthless? The European railways are worthless? France,Spain and Italy are worthless? The cities of Paris,Madrid and Rome are worthless? Nonsense.Just to start what would be a very long listing.
This Euro regime can be gone tomorrow and be replaced by another “Euro” or some other created currency or all European nations can go back to the pre Euro individual nations currencies. It is all on paper or computer screen. People are still buying bread,wine and talking about football or the weather.
The Europeans could throw out the Euro next week and what would it matter?
The Europeans should throw out the Euro next week and declare the next day that the Euro monetary unit is now back again minus the 1% games and claims.
People across Europe would still be buying consumer goods,energy and using both. So where was the “crisis”? On paper or on a computer screen is where.
It is plainly evident what took place in the USA in mid to late 2008 was a contrived scheme to plunder the American USG Treasury and American taxpayers of what now appears to well north of 5 Trillion $$ to prop up the 1% pirates and credit/debt derivatives idiots for being too greedy,too long and not wanting to face the consequences of their own self selected,imposed stupidity.
Now we read the American $$ Regime wants to interfere/intervene with the Euro. It is not too difficult to surmise the why,who and what questions and answers in light of the late 2008 1% Bail Out that both R INC. and D INC. with their two front men — Bush and Obama — put in place and the post 2008 American real estate mortgages fraud and bad paper trails debacle.
This “Euro Crisis” is all on paper and computer screen as it largely is about such esoteric measurements and scalings of wealth gains and losses that for most of us humans who stumble along at the edges of this current post WW1 global money regime are not going to see or feel any big difference. Or ever be able to do much about it up or down or sideways. We 99% suffer now. Or will suffer then. It is not our crisis. It is the One Percenters Crisis. Let them crash. Let them have to start over. The wealth is still there as it always was. Only a different set of humans will be able to say “it’s all mine” instead of the current collection of greedy fools.
Mohammed Ibn Laith — I liked your comments above. I concur with the pov you expressed very well. The “R2P” Big Lie for Libya and the Libyans was a return to Pillage/Plunder Colonialism done for Earth INC. by the tools of Earth INC. — the Pentagon/CIA and it’s European puppet NATO. Thank you for saying what you did. Clearly the coming attack on Tehran and Iran is all about putting Tehran and Iran back into the post WW1 colonial power’s chains.
The American Empire was linked up with the British Empire financially in early 20th century in a clear bid to leverage those two Empires fortunes and opportunities. Soon WW1 came along and guess who went to fight for the British Empire? The American Empire. The French lucked out and were on the right side of the Surrender Table post WW1. The Germans? Not so lucky. The Russian Empire? Gave birth to the Reds and both WashingtonDC and London spent the next seventy years undermining the Reds. Now Red Communism is dormant or tamed/usurped by Red Commune Capitalism ( See China ) only to be replaced with Keffiyeh Terrorism which conveniently orbits around Islamic nations and peoples who also happen to be sitting on lots of oil. American Empire and British Empire now want to run this 21st century like they did the 20th century. They deserve the fate they have earned so well. Iraq and Libya two examples as to why here in 2012. Whatever is going to fall down on Iran will be worse and both the British and American Empires should know how grievous the error of attacking Iran was. Nothing less will stop them. These two Empires have ruled too much for too long. The waste and abuse of their ruinous debris trails has become unbearable for much of humankind on this planet.
Now who is stereotyping? Did you know that “laith” is a Scottish spelling of “loathe?” Fitting, since your reply to what is at least an intelligent analysis is particularly loathsome. Not to mention coming to a predominantly American website and bashing Americans.
There is no civilized way to deal with the likes of you. So I’ll just say, “Piss off.”
Second on Mohammed’s posts. I tend to agree with eye witnesses. Its pretty obvious who is responsible for the majority of death and destruction in the world – theres only one empire
I notice that when faced with facts by somebody who (unlike you) lives there and (unlike you) knows what he’s talking about that you immediately resorted to name calling and then like a good little serf you repeated the PNAC talking points about “mad ayatollahs”. A useful idiot indeed.
I notice also that (unlike you) Mohammed and his comrades successfully resisted violent imperialism – they defeated your American army the one that ran away out of Irak having first committed warcrime after warcrime after warcrime.
That (unlike you) Mohammed and his comrades spend a lot of time and money feeding, clothing, and giving shelter to the quite literally millions of desperately poor orphans created by your country’s war against the people of Irak.
I notice that (unlike you) Mohammed and his comrades run courses and provide business start-up loans and training for the desperately poor women who are widowed by your country’s war on the people of Irak.
I notice as well that (unlike you) Mohammed and his comrades run clinics and health services for the poorest of the poor in Irak.
There’s a big difference between somebody such as Mohammed who knows what he’s talking about and who has a solid record of successfully standing up to imperialism and helping its victims and you. He’s succeeded in resisting tyranny whereas you are just another failed rabble rouser.
You’re a loser and a useful idiot in another way too. Not only did you write a heap of blatantly false nonsense, not only did you immediately resort ad hominem and name calling but you also immediately resorted to repeating American warmonger lies about “mad ayatollahs” – thereby providing evidence that Mohammed’s contention that the American “left” is just as bad as the American “right” in its moral and intellectual bankruptcy, in its warmongering, and in its contempt for the peoples of the Middle East. You can be absolutely certain that the screenshots he’ll have taken of your half-assed stupidity will be translated and used as evidence as to why dialogue with the American “left” is a waste of time because when it comes to the middle East there’s no difference NONE between you and the American imperialist right wingers.
Idiocy and arrogance of the sort you’ve engaged in above are the reason why the American “left” has lost its political battles.
mfi
Try to come up with a coherent and rational argument would you. Because as things stand there’s no reason whatsoever why anyone would want to engage in dialogue with a pack of losers such you and perdue
mfi
Second Alosha’s motion above.
mfi
considering America outspends the rest of the world on military budgets…53 cents for every dollar paid in taxes goes to the military industrial complex. Yep, there is no denying that fact.
I also agree that it is easy for us over here to make arm chair decisions about the rest of the world…One of my last roommates in college was from Damascus, Syria. He told me he only paid 12 dollars a year for medical school and that was after they raised the rates…Me, not my parents or any other donor paid $56,000 for 1 year at a Dartmouth graduate program…no grants, no stipends…(under grad loans + grad loan= lifelong enslavement…Oh yeah…Public health at Dartmouth means public health if you can afford to pay for it…I told them to shove it.
Lest we forget…We trained, armed and then abandoned most of those people over there…I would be pissed too.
America has not ratified U.N. provisions on human rights or women’s rights or the rights of children…We are such Mavericks…
I notice that when faced with facts by somebody who (unlike you) lives there and (unlike you) knows what he’s talking about that you immediately resorted to name calling and then like a good little serf you repeated the PNAC talking points about “mad ayatollahs”. I oppose the mad ayatollahs because I’m gay and they murder thousands of gay men and boys. And because I’m a trade unionist who supports the struggle of women and the fight against austerity imposed by the greedy pig like ayatollahs. Your support for the mad ayatollahs is putrid.
I notice also that (unlike you) Mohammed and his comrades successfully resisted violent imperialism – they defeated your American army the one that ran away out of Irak having first committed warcrime after warcrime after warcrime.
You notice nothing and you misinform very badly. I and tens of thousands of Americans opposed the invasion and occupation of Iraq, Afghanistan, US support for the zionist bunkerstadt and attacks on Libya and other nations.
That (unlike you) Mohammed and his comrades spend a lot of time and money feeding, clothing, and giving shelter to the quite literally millions of desperately poor orphans created by your country’s war against the people of Irak. like I notice that (unlike you) Mohammed and his comrades run courses and provide business start-up loans and training for the desperately poor women who are widowed by your country’s war on the people of Irak. I notice as well that (unlike you) Mohammed and his comrades run clinics and health services for the poorest of the poor in Irak.
Did you just make that up? Do you have a shred of proof? What planet are you really from? And What makes you think someone MIL has human contacts, much less comrades?
There’s a big difference between somebody such as Mohammed who knows what he’s talking about… What we know about MIl is that he’s he a right winger who dismisses the Iraqi labor movement and that he defends the mad ayatollahs. The fact that you admire that says all we need about you..
Not only did you write a heap of blatantly false nonsense, not only did you immediately resort ad hominem and name calling but you also immediately resorted to repeating American warmonger lies about “mad ayatollahs”… The personal attacks all come exclusively from MIL and his alter ego, ryourself. I made up the term ‘mad ayatollahs’, not the State Department. The mad ayatollahs record of mass murder of GLBT folks, women, students and trade unionists is well documented. People who deny that record are liars. Period. Full stop.
You can be absolutely certain that the screenshots he’ll have taken of your half-assed stupidity will be translated and used as evidence as to why dialogue with the American “left” is a waste of time Imagine my horror and fear.
By the way Mohammed, in Ireland the common spelling is Iraq, not Irak. And don’t be daft, Mohammed, the left is winning, not losing. It’s the rightwing, which you represent, who are the losers. You’ll find out as the Arab/muslim revolution gains momentum and wins victory after victory.
Perdue I couldn’t give a flying fuck about your sexuality, the fact that you’re gay and a trade unionist doesn’t give you license to write a load of delusional nonsense. So here’s a little dose of reality for you. The revolutions in the Middle East are largely Islamist based. Among other reasons that’s because it’s the Islamists who provide the schools, clinics, food, and income support to the poor and needy. What the peoples of the Middle East get from the Islamists is what they want and need all they’ve ever got from you Americans “left” and “right” alike is violence and oppression. That’s the reality get used to it.
Mohammed and his comrades kicked the shit out of that pack of murdering rednecks in uniform known as the United States Armed Forces. Said forces ran away from Mohammed’s country leaving behind billions of dollars worth of newly constructed “enduring bases” several hundred million dollars worth of TOE. and of course an awful lot of dead civilians, widows, and orphaned children. Running away because your soldiers can’t take what’s being dished out to them Perdue is a military operation engaged in exclusively by losers. I know about the peace movement but the reason the US armed forces left Irak is because their soldiers couldn’t take what the resistance was dishing out to them. Your country’s soldiers left Irak not because of the remarkably ineffective peace movement of which you say you were part but because American soldiers and their assorted mercenary sidekicks couldn’t cope with what the resistance did to them. (BTW Your country’s soldiers can’t cope with what the Afghans are doing to them either).
I mentioned the most important legacy that you Americans left in Irak the grinding poverty in which the widows and orphans caused by the American war against the Iraki. What economic and social support those widows and orphans get they get from Islamists or in the case of the Christian minority from the Catholic and Orthodox churches not the communists, not the trade unionists, certainly not from people like you, from the Islamists.
Let’s deal with the rest of your nonsense. Actually Mohammed is an Islamist not a right winger or a left winger how very telling that you lack the intellectual flexibility to be able to deal with the politics of the region on its own terms.
Nor do you have any idea what either he or I think of the human rights record of the current Iranian government – you don’t know and it wouldn’t advance your argument if you did know so you’re taking the intellectual coward’s way out and you’re making it up.
Minor point, the correct transliteration for العراق is Irak. Feel free to drop by the site on which both Mohammed and I write and apologise for your typically American ignorance and arrogance but you’ll have to do it in the language in which the site is written.
mfi
Islamists are right wingers, that’s why they’re opposed the working class Arab/muslim revolution. That’s why you support the mad ayatollahs, the Ahmadinejad regime and their mass murders of unionists and GLBT folks. That’s disgusting.
The rest of what you say is composed of inept lies.
America is the home of “public relations” and modern advertising and propaganda.
The first seeds of the monster propaganda tree were sprouted by William Randolph Hearst, who in the words of Hunter S. Thompson “badly bent the spine” of American journalism at a key phase of its life. Hearst spent a lot of money promoting imperialism, racism, sexism, and all the other ‘isms’ used to distract and divide the majority of Americans from each other.
The refinements to the propaganda process came during wartime, particularly World Wars I and II. World War II required the propagandists to convince Americans to back the Soviet Union wholeheartedly for the duration of the war and then, at the war’s end, suddenly do a complete reversal, seeing it as irredeemably evil.
Look up the history of Edward Bernays, the “Father of Public Relations”, to see just how long and how expertly American minds have been manipulated. Here’s just one of his exploits:
Unlike me – you’re new here or you wouldn’t write the shite you write about people who again unlike you have a long record of living and working in the middle east for human rights. You’re an idiot Perdue lazy and arrogant fat arsed American civilian who masturbates his entirely justified inferiority complex by spouting lies and self-righteous trash. Christ have pity on Iranian gays and trade unionists because with self absorbed incompetent buffoons such as you for friends they sure as hell don’t need enemies.
To hell with you.
mfi
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is the only ME place you could go and get lynched, you stupid fuck.
not get lynched.
Religion is the enemy, whether it’s islamist, judaist or chirster. Religion is always a right wing instrument of the rich. Cultists who think they’re for progress are just kidding themselves.
People who practice or support the kind of the religious violence carried out by the right wing, like the ayatollahs or Iran and Iraq, American colonialists in Afghanistan or the zionist ethnic cleansers in Palestine against unionists, women, GLBT folks, students and youth are disgusting.
Workers and their allies will, by fits and starts, build the kind of movement that will crush the mad Ayatollahs, finish driving out the American colonialists and their NATO satellites and it’s final victory will come when it retakes Jerusalem and Jaffa.
Nothing can stop that, especially lies and personal attacks that indict the political ignorance about revolutions and the ineptness of those who make them.
The zionist bunkerstadt uses ethnic cleansing and apartheid against Palestinians. It’s a very junior partner of the US and wouldn’t last a week without US support. It, like the US, is a hotbed and homophobic and racist violence.
In terms of racism rabid zionists use their theories of the inferiority of Palestinians as an excuse to commit mass murder on a regular basis and individual murders on a daily basis. They force Palestinians into slave labor, using their version of apartheid. They deny Palestinians health care, public utilities, a proper diet and education. They force the remnants of Palestinians into giant concentration camps in Gaza and on the West Bank. zionists engage in increasingly violent race riots against Africans in the bunkerstadt.
“Dozens of African asylum seekers were injured as race riots broke out in Tel Aviv on Wednesday night. … But after inflammatory speeches the demonstration broke out into violence. Witnesses reported seeing men and women being beaten and shops and properties being attacked. Police said nine people were arrested. The protesters were addressed by politicians including Miri Regev and Danny Danon of the ruling Likud Party. According to the Israeli newspaper Ha’aretz, Regev described the asylum seekers as a “cancer in our body,” and promised to do everything “in order to bring them back to where they belong”. The Guardian
zionists, all zionists are racists.
In terms of anti gay violence in the bunkerstadt it’s on a par the same phenomena in the US, adjusted for population size and in both countries it’s underreported. “One day after a masked gunman opened fire at an LGBT youth center in Tel Aviv, killing two and wounding 13 others, Associated Press reports that hundreds of Israeli police are combing nearby streets in an effort to track down the murderer”. Gay City New NY The murders occurred eleven months and I havn’t heard of any arrests being made.
The zionist bunkerstadt has no legitimacy. It was nailed onto the body of the Palestinian people by racist European zionists who learned all the wrong lessons from the Nazi’s – they learned how to use ethnic cleansing and apartheid.
(Rightwing islamists, zionists and christers all refer to me as a ‘stupid fuck’. I’m flattered.)
In the words of Mary McCarthy, every word you post