Today's Stories

March 20-22, 2009

Alexander Cockburn
On the Edge of the Volcano

Paul Craig Roberts
When Things Fall Apart

P. Sainath
Slumdogs vs. Billionaires

Robert Weissman
Lessons From AIG

Saul Landau
Sliding Down in Anger: If We Bail Out the Banks, Why Shouldn't We Own Them?

David Michael Green
Obama and the Altar of Greed

Greg Moses
Winter Soldiers Come to Texas

Ron Jacobs
Pakistan in Turmoil: an Interview with Farooq Tariq

Michael D. Yates
A Nation of Immigrants

John V. Whitbeck
Happy Birthday, Iran!

Andy Worthington
The Case of Ahmed Zuhair

Linn Washington Jr.
Supreme Test: the Latest Twist in the Mumia Case

David Ker Thomson
Actions: Things to Do Instead of Hailing the Chief

Laurent Jacque
Is the Euro Doomed?

Rannie Amiri
The Middle East's Jittery Monarchies

Reiko Redmonde /
Larry Everest
The Cold-Blooded Murder of Oscar Grant

Kenneth Couesbouc
Where has the Consumption Gone?

Martha Rosenberg
Meltdown in the Drug Industry

Alan Farago
The Recession, the Developers and Baseball

Richard Rhames
Invisible But Not Completely Insolvent

March 19, 2009

Dave Marsh
Sir Bono: the Knight Who Fled From His Own Debate

Paul Craig Roberts
Was the Bailout Itself a Scam?

Mike Whitney
Why Business is Hysterical About Card Check (And Why America Needs It)

Sam Smith
The Economy in Two Eras of Democrats

Harvey Wasserman
The Crash of France's Nuclear Poster Child

Binoy Kampmark
Back Into NATO: the End of French Exceptionalism

Kathy Sanborn
Broken Culture: the Desecration of Iraq's Art Treasures

Christopher Brauchli
Taxing Problems

George Wuerthner
Permanent Damage From Temporary Logging Roads

Diann Rust-Tierney
New Mexico Abolishes the Death Penalty

Website of the Day
Bailout Plan: "Cross Your Fingers and Hope"

March 18, 2009

Michael Hudson
The Real AIG Conspiracy

Paul Craig Roberts
Israel's American Chattel

Nelson P. Valdés
Why Obama's New Cuba Rules Violate the Constitution

Jonathan Cook
Bedouin Villages Left in the Dark Ages

John Ross
The Death of the American Newspaper

Yifat Susskind
Where Are We Leaving Iraqi Women?

Dave Lindorff
Who's Calling the Shots Now?

Frances Moore Lappé
The City That Ended Hunger

Richard Grossman
Beware the Madoff Diversion!

Rev. William E. Alberts
On Being Whole Not Holy

Website of the Day
Three Weeks in Cuba: a Painter's Perspective

March 17, 2009

Michael Hudson
Mr. Bernanke Spreads the Fire

James G. Abourezk
Show Business: AIG and the Posturing Democrats

Harry Browne
Ireland's Blast From the Past

Joanne Mariner
U.S. Human Rights Abuses in the War on Terror

Alan Farago
The National Ponzi Scheme

Dean Baker
Getting Lehman Bros. Wrong ... Again

Peter Morici
Cuts for Autoworkers, Bonuses for Derivatives Traders

Bill and Kathleen Christison
Obama and the Empire

Richard Gott
Victory for the Left in El Salvador

Walter Brasch
Dog Mutilations vs. Cosmetics

Website of the Day
Single-Payer Action

March 16, 2009

Pam Martens
Has a Comedian Just Saved America?

Uri Avnery
The Rape of Washington

Mike Whitney
Bernanke's Witness Protection Program

Ralph Nader
Americans Want Justice for Wall Street Crooks

Nikolas Kozloff
Down But Not Out: the Latin American Right

John Walsh
Redbaiting on the Left

Ron Jacobs
A Call for Common Sense

Binoy Kampmark
The Case of Tim K

Stephen Fleischman
Coxey's Army Will March Again!

Christian Christensen
A 25-Year Misunderstanding: Springsteen's "Born in the USA"

Scott Handleman
Shooting Tristan Anderson

Website of the Day
Clean, Green, Sustainable

March 13 / 15, 2009

Alexander Cockburn
The Parable of the Shopping Mall

Peter Lee
What the Chas Freeman Fight Was Really About

Diana Johnstone
NATO's Global Mission Creep

David Harvey
Is This Really the End of Neoliberalism?

Petrino DiLeo
Inside Obama's Housing Plan: Will Millions be Left Out in the Cold

David Ker Thomson
Tender to the Earth

Eric Ruder
Massacre in Slow Motion: an Interview with Haider Eid on Gaza

Fred Gardner
Cannabidiol Now!

David Yearsley
Music Torture

Saul Landau
How Israel Gives Jews a Bad Name

Laura Carlsen
Drug War Doublespeak

Robert Weissman
We Told You So

John Goekler /
Merle Lefkoff
The Struggle in Saffron

Tom Barry
Imprisoning Immigrants for Profit

Kathy Sanborn
Money Out of Thin Air

Chris Mobley / Leela Yellesetty
Criminalizing Poverty: the Jail Seattle Doesn't Need

David Michael Green
The Perils of Being Right and Wrong

Alan Maass /
Lee Sustar
A Socialist Moment?

Christopher Brauchli
Pity, the Poor Tax Collectors

Richard Morse
Clinton in Haiti

Lorenzo Wolff
Taking It From the Streets: From Springsteen to the Wu-Tang Clan

Poets' Basement
Springate and Johnston

Website of the Weekend
Hear the Buffalo

March 12 , 2009

Sharon Smith
Bottom Feeders at the Trough

Christopher Ketcham
Full Spectrum Penetration: Israeli Spying in the United States

Mike Whitney
Haircut Time for Bondholders

Ray McGovern
Obama Caves to the Lobby

Eric Toussaint /
Damien Millet
The Doublespeak of a Discredited IMF

John Ross
The War is Not Over

M. Reza Pirbhai
Men in Black: Another View of Pakistan

Chris Floyd
Lost Liberty Blues: Prisons, Profits and the Banality of Evil

Steve Early
Why Labor Doesn't Need a "House of Lords"

Quentin Gee
Hiding the Costs of Coal

Website of the Day
Amadee Coral Reef: a Spherical Panorama

March 11 , 2009

Mike Roselle
From Birmingham to Coal River: Why is the Environmental Movement So Timid?

Paul Craig Roberts
The Criminal Injustice System

Henry A. Giroux
Academic Labor in Dark Times

Nikolas Kozloff
The Death Cries of the Salvadoran Right

Norm Kent
I am Patient Number 380206011

Mitu Sengupta
Reforming the World Bank: Different Image, Same Tune?

Ludwig Watzal
The Structure of Israel's Occupation

David Macaray
The Battle Over EFCA Has Begun

William S. Lind
Rounding Up the Usual Suspects

Martha Rosenberg
A Merger From the Folks Who Brought You Vytorin

Website of the Day
American Indicator: One in Fifty Kids are Homeless

March 10 , 2009

Franklin Spinney
What Israeli Peace Process?

Vijay Prashad
What Did Hillary Clinton Do?

Stan Cox
There's No Free Lunch on Your Browser: the Internet's Energy Drain

Zoltan Grossman
Coffee Strong: Listening to the G.I. Voice at Fort Lewis

Reuven Kaminer
Pure and Unadulterated Racism

Jonathan Cook
Memoricide in the West Bank

Dave Lindorff
Business Rules

Brian McKenna
How Anthropology Disparages Journalism

Harvey Wasserman
Is This the End of the Age of the Automobile?

Corey Pein
He Told You So

Website of the Day
AIG and Systemic Failure: $1.6 Trillion in Insured Deriviatives

March 9 , 2009

Pam Martens
Madoff and the Sorkin Affair

Ralph Nader
Too Big...Period

Peter Lee
Meet Gulbuddin Hekmatyar: the US's Worst/Best Hope for Afghanistan?

Mike Whitney
Geithner's Charade

Peter Morici
Fixing the Banks: Treasury's Doomed Strategy

Dean Baker
Why Do We Need a Private Health Insurance Industry, Anyway?

Steve Ault
Kiss Thailand's Tolerance for Gays Goodbye

Stephen Lendman
Guantánamo Under Obama

Farooq Sulehria
Tennis Without Spectators

Belén Fernández
Chávez, a Cockfight and the Caracazo

Website of the Day
How Lincoln Learned to Read

March 6-8 , 2009

Alexander Cockburn
Harlots High and Low

Chris Floyd
Tangled Up in Karl

Uri Avnery
Remember Ophira?

Dave Lindorff
Kiss the Banks Goodbye

Mark Weisbrot
The Crisis vs. the Dogma

David Ker Thomson
Against Work

Phil Aliff
Soldier Suicides

Rebekah Ward
Georgia Injustice: Another Young Life Wrecked

Tracey Briggs
How Capitalism Feels in the Head

Dean Baker
Depression Nostalgia?

Daniel P. Wirt, M.D.
Remove the Handle From the Health Insurance Misery and Death Pump

Carl Finamore
The Recovery Plan: Save Us From Those Who Would Save Us

Wajahat Ali
The Pakistani Monster

David Michael Green
Smart is the New Stupid

David Macaray
The Minimum Wage Revisited

Michael Dickinson
On Financial Fools Day

Susie Day
Line in the Sand

Bob Sommer
Echoes of the Townhouse Explosion

Ben Sonnenberg
No Forgiveness for the Bourgeoisie: Buñuel's "The Exterminating Angel"

David Yearsley
Sonic Fakery in "Slumdog" From the Mozart of Chennai

DC Larson
They're Writing Those Depression Songs, Again

Lorenzo Wolff
Live Truth: Music Sans Headphones

Poets' Basement
Dominquez, MacNeil and Buknatski

Website of the Weekend
The Environment & Obama: a Conversation with Jeffrey St. Clair

March 5 , 2009

James G. Abourezk
This Time It's Mrs. Clinton's Turn

Kathleen and Bill Christison
U.S. Military Aid to Israel

Robert Weissman
Wall Street's Best Investment: Paying for Public Policy

Patrick Cockburn
My Day at the Terror "Charity"

William Blum
Being Serious About Torture...Or Not

Robert Fantina
From Iraq to Afghanistan: Augmentation All Over Again

Saul Landau
The Unseen Crisis

Benjamin Dangl
Striking a Blow Against the Beer Cartel: a Grassroots Victory in Utah

Christopher Brauchli
The New Leaders of the GOP

Website of the Day
The Angola 3: 36 Years of Solitude

March 4, 2009

Marjorie Cohn
Blueprints for a Police State

Mike Whitney
Blowing Up the Economy: How Securitization Lit the Fuse

Ron Jacobs
The Banality of Occupation: the Rand Papers

Ashley Smith
War by Another Name

Joanne Mariner
Obama's War on Terror

Dan Bacher
The California Water Wars: Why It's Not a Conflict Between Fish and People

Mark Engler
Will the Winds of Change Reach El Salvador?

Franklin Lamb
"What's Hezbollah Done for Us Lately?"

Cal Winslow
Slugging It Out in California

David Mandelzys
Apartheid Week

Website of the Day
Guantánamo: the Definitive Prisoner List

March 3, 2009

Conn Hallinan
Ethnic Cleansing and Israel

Fawzia Afzal-Khan
The Long, Dark Night of Pakistan

Brian M. Downing
The Changing Game in Afghanistan

Robert Larson
External Damnation: Companies are Designed for Destruction

Daniel P. Wirt, MD
Single-Payer Health Reform

Russell Mokhiber
Burn Your Health Insurance Bill!

William Loren Katz
Obama, One Ape and Two Newspapers

Kathy Sanborn
The Lazy Man's Guide to the Economic Crisis

Pauline Imbach
A New Start for the World Social Forum?

Christopher Ketcham
The Best Journalism You'll Write is Priceless

Website of the Day
The Surveillance Self-Defense Project

March 2, 2009

Andrea Peacock
A Poisoned Town's Shot at Justice

Paul Craig Roberts
Obama's Budget

Peter Lee
Pakistan Lurches Toward the Abyss

John Blair
Locking Down Big Coal

Peter Morici
Treasury's Flawed Plan for Citigroup

Uri Avnery
10 Ways to Kill Fatah

Michael Donnelly
Resistance to the War on the Wild

Fred Gardner
The Judge Who Ruled Marijuana is Medicine

Sonia Nettnin
Middle East Medical Mission Heroes

Andrew Lehman
A New Deal for the Web

Website of the Day
Pentagon Papers II?

Feb. 27 - March 1, 2009

Alexander Cockburn
Is Nancy Pelosi Really Against War Crimes?

Harry Browne
Where the Cheats Have No Shame

Anthony DiMaggio
From Bush to Obama: Seven Years of Wartime Propaganda

Sasan Fayazmanesh
Dennis Ross and Iran: the Fox and the Chicken Coop

Mischa Gaus
The Banks' War on Workers

Felice Pace
The Economy and the Big Picture

Mike Whitney
Is Free Market Capitalism Possible Without Accountability?

Lee Sustar
Blaming the Autoworkers

Peter Lee
The Other Side of the Coin in Afghanistan

Nicole Colson
Ruining Young Lives for Profit

Roger Burbach
Et Tu, Daniel? The Betrayal of the Sandinista Revolution

Rannie Amiri
King Abdullah Has No Robes

Missy Beattie
Owning Disaster

Dave Lindorff
America's Stupid Health Care Debate

Robert David Steele Vivas
Intelligence for the President--and Everyone Else

John Ross
Teotihuacan Gets Mickey-Moused

Ralph Nader
Civic Heroism Awards

Yves Engler
Haiti's Harsh Realities

Alan Farago
The Story of Leonard Abess, Banker

Zulfikar Majid
Understanding Kashmir

David Yearsley
Don't Stay Up Too Late, Johan!

Charles R. Larson
Sleeping with Dogs

Kim Nicolini
Spitting at Dark Times: Mike Leigh's "Happy-Go-Lucky"

Lorenzo Wolff
So You Wanna Be a Garage Rock Star

Poets' Basement
Puthoff, Payne, Gaffney and Gray

Website of the Weekend
Sleep Now in the Fire

February 26, 2009

Dave Lindorff
Obama's Address to Congress

Jonathan Cook
Israel's Military Mephistopheles

Patrick Cockburn
Did the US Learn Anything in Iraq?

Mike Whitney
The Geithner Put

Eamonn McCann
"Make Bono Pay Tax"

Tim Wise
Eric Holder and the Whitewashing of Racism

Tom Barry
Napolitano's Hard Line

Harvey Wasserman
Obama's Excellent Atomic Omission

Adam Turl
The Enemies of Unions and the Lies They Tell

David Macaray
When People are Fired Illegally

James McEnteer
Rush to the Rescue: Limbaugh's Secret Plan to Save the Economy

Website of the Day
The Carbon Casino

February 25, 2009

Chris Sands
Afghanistan: Chaos Central

M. Shahid Alam
Israel in 1948: Poised for Expansion

Chris Floyd
Obama's Non-Withdrawal Withdrawal Plan

Dave Lindorff
Wall Street and Bernanke: the Blind Leading the Blind

Norman Solomon
The Slow Pullout Method

Rachel Godfrey Wood
Neoliberals Do The Amazon

Niranjan Ramakrishnan
Teacher and Student: the New Class Struggle

Ron Jacobs
It Ain't Over Till It's Over

Nadia Hijab
The First Waltz

Dennis Loo
The Water Line

Website of the Day
Hitchens Gets Stomped by Syrian Nerd

February 24, 2009

Paul Craig Roberts
How the Economy was Lost

Uri Avnery
Coalition Theory

Peter Morici
Is Nationalization Inevitable?

Jonathan Cook
Arab Parties Face Most Hostile Knesset in History

Paul Fitzgerald /
Elizabeth Gould
The Man Who Shouldn't be King (of Afghanistan)

Andy Worthington
Who is Binyam Mohamed?

Brian Horejsi
Crisis Creates Hope for Reality

Julia Stein
I was a Writer for the Government

Norm Kent
How Judges Disgrace the Bench

Rachel Smolker /
Brian Tokar
Biofuels, Promise or Threat?

Dennis Loo
The Water Line: Doing What Must be Done

James McEnteer
The Oscar for Denial

Website of the Day
How to Destroy a Fox News Anchor

February 23, 2009

Michael Hudson
The Language of Looting

Mike Roselle
On Cherry Pond: Going Up Against Big Coal in W. Virginia

Patrick Cockburn
The New War in Iraq

Franklin Spinney
Obama Steps on the Pentagon Escalator

Einar Már Guðmundsson
A War Cry From the North

Ralph Nader
How Credit Unions Survived the Crash

Jordan Flaherty
A New Orleans Intifada?

Helen Redmond
Ted's Table: Kennedy and the Corporate Lobbyists Craft a Health Plan

Dennis Loo
The Water Line

Harvey Wasserman
Jet Crashes and Nuclear Reactors: Feds Ignore a Serious Risk

Terry Lodge
The Intelligence is Wrong

Website of the Day
BadCreditReport.Com

February 20 / 22, 2009

Alexander Cockburn
The Lawyer's Tale

Michael Neumann /
Osha Neumann
Remove Our Grandmother's Name from the Wall at Yad Vashem

Ismael Hossein-zadeh
Herbert Hoover Copycats

Paul Craig Roberts
Bill of Rights Under Fire

Linn Washington Jr.
The NY Post's Chimpanzee Cartoon

Saul Landau
On the Road Again

Marjorie Cohn
War Criminals Must be Prosecuted (And Their Lawyers Too)

Binoy Kampmark
Cricket and Cartels: the Fall of Sir Allen Stanford

Dave Lindorff
Using the Recession to Hammer Workers

David Yearsley
Edward Said's Greatest Musical Writings

David Macaray
A Closer Look at the Employee Free Choice Act

James McEnteer
Last Mambo in Minnehaha

Rick Salutin
A Canadian Looks at Obama

Wayne Clark
South Carolina Nears the Abyss

Richard Rhames
Got Farms?

Stephen Martin
Silver Mist Descending

Mitu Sengupta
Slumdog Millionaire's Dehumanizing View of India's Poor

Charles R. Larson
Slumdog Reality?

Richard Morse
Carnival Ramble in Haiti

Lorenzo Wolff
Desperation in an Unavoidable Groove

Poets' Basement
Three Poems of Tu Fu (Trans. K. Rexroth)

Website of the Weekend
Ron Paul: What If the People Wake Up?

February 19, 2009

Norman Finkelstein
The Cleanser: Lobbyists Whistle Up Cordesman to "Prove" Israel Waged a Clean War in Gaza

Harry Browne
How Ireland Went Bust

Robert Bryce
Why the Promise of Biofuels is a Lie

Brian M. Downing
The Winding Road: From Western Europe to Kyrgyzstan

Fred Gardner
The DEA Chief's $123,000 Flight

Andy Worthington
Obama's Uighur Problem

Wajahat Ali
Aftermath of a Beheading

Laura Carlsen
A New Attitude at the White House Toward Bolivia and Venezuela?

Deb Reich
Gaza: Choose Life!

Christopher Ketcham
Crisis? What Crisis?

Website of the Day
Taking Back NYU

February 18, 2009

Paul Craig Roberts
President of Special Interests

Mike Whitney
Trouble at Treasury

M. Shahid Alam
Afghan Pitfalls

Patrick Cockburn
A Real Surge at Last

Conn Hallinan
Death's Laboratory

Dave Lindorff
Whatever Happened to Antitrust?

Rannie Amiri
The Perils of Blogging in Egypt

Gareth Porter
Pushing Back Against Petraeus on Pullout Risks

Eric Hobsbawm
Remembering V. G. Kiernan

Christopher Brauchli
The Pope's Predicament

Martha Rosenberg
It's the Cymbalta Stupid

Website of the Day
Red Gold

February 17, 2009

Michael Hudson
The Oligarchs' Escape Plan

Mike Whitney
The Global Ditch

Ralph Nader
The One-Dimensional Congress

Joanne Mariner
Benchmarking Obama: How to Evaluate the New Administration's Counter-Terrorism Policies

John Ross
Commodifying the Revolution: Zapatista Villages Become Hot
Tourist Destinations

Belén Fernández
The Venezuelan Referendum From the Back of a Pickup Truck

Mats Svensson
Who is a Terrorist?

David Macaray
Why America Needs Labor Unions

Gregory Vickrey
$400 in Change

M. Junaid Levesque-Alam
Another Hamastan?

Michael Dickinson
Unrest in Istanbul

Website of the Day
Take a Stand for Open Access

February 16, 2009

Patrick Cockburn
Iraq Reconstruction: the Greatest Fraud in US History?

Oscar Guardiola-Rivera
The Truth About Colombia's New Emperor

Paul Craig Roberts
Who Remembers Guns and Butter?

Uri Avnery
Livni's Bitter Options

P. Sainath
The Meltdown: Whose Crisis Is It?

Dedrick Muhammad / Michael Brown
White Recession, Black Depression

Carla Blank
A New New Deal for the Arts

Patrick Irelan
Venezuela Ends Term Limits

Dan Bacher
Is Delta Pumping Driving Salmon and Orca Decline?

Fidel Castro
Chavez's Clarion Call

Harvey Wasserman
Hail to the Spleef: Did George Washington Smoke Pot?

Website of the Day
Mining Black Mesa

February 13 - 15, 2009

Alexander Cockburn
On the Rocks

Joshua Frank
The Myth of Clean Coal

Mike Whitney
Geithner's Coming Out Party

George Ciccariello-Maher
Venezuela's Term Limits: More Hypocrisy From the NYT

Nikolas Kozloff
Venezuela Beyond the Referendum

Brian M. Downing
Pakistan on the Brink

Paul Craig Roberts
Deficit Nonchalance

Christopher Ketcham
Israel's Ball Boys

Ron Jacobs
At a Campus Sit-In Against Israeli Occupation

Dave Lindorff
Why Can Judd Gregg See What Obama Can't?

Alan Maass
Lincoln at 200

Chuck Spinney
Grassley Sounds Off on Obama's Man at the Pentagon

Phil Gasper
Mr. Darwin's Reluctant Revolution

Stephen Lendman
A Short History of Business Handouts

Charles Thomson
Tate Cruises: Caveat Emptor on the High Seas

Kathy Sanborn
The Suicide Rush

Saul Landau
Bowled Over

Len Wengraf
The Nightmare in Somalia

Harvey Wasserman
Striking a Blow Against Nuclear Power

David Macaray
An Easy Call for Obama on Joining a Union

Tom Stephens
Four Freedoms, Four Changes

Seth Sandronsky
Lincoln and the Collective Mind

David Yearsley
On the Road Again

Lorenzo Wolff
Freaking Out With Danny Barnes

Kim Nicolini
The Body of the Worker: What "The Wrestler" Says About the State of America

Poets' Basement
Anderson, Buknatski and French

Website of the Weekend
The Iranian Revoution and the US Dual Containment Policy: a Presentation

Weekend Edition
March 20-22, 2009

Spin, Professor Propeller-Head, Spin...

Barack and the Jets

By STEPHEN MARTIN

Sometimes, during the 30-minute briefings that Mr. Summers delivers in the Oval Office nearly every day, Mr. Obama addresses him as Professor, as in, “What do you think, Professor Summers?” Sometimes, as he did in the Roosevelt Room one recent afternoon, Mr. Obama tweaks him and his fellow policy wonks, dubbing them “the propeller-heads.”

--NY Times February 16, 2009.

"Professor propeller-head Summers’ is about to meet an ‘Autumn’.
As followed by a ‘Winter’.

We are indeed ‘talking ‘ of  discontent.

Do you think Professor Summers as a ‘propeller- head’ could teach Nero to fiddle - or indeed explain the meaning of ‘no bread’ to Marie Antoinette through spin of his ‘propeller’?

One type of revolution  leading to another type of  revolution being avoided as it were?

The Economy is tanking.

It is a stinking mess resultant of greed unregulated; a putrescent emanation of fowl quarters spiritual-  an abomination of division as abrogation writ large.  

Look out the window – see yonder ‘For Sale/To Let sign’?

While striving for restraint of anger by way of turn of phrase in submission to this esteemed organ of American Democracy, at the back of mind a growing sentiment as to ‘having had enough’.

It is time to ‘cut the crap’.

Should one believe that ‘Propeller- heads’ exist in an ‘age of Jets’; that policy wonks have  panacea?   

‘Tweak me, for wonder that  I dream - form of nightmare?’.

That is, the neo liberal orthodoxy represented  in  false modesty of aspiration towards ‘instrumentalism’ as opposed to ‘essentialism’,  just  meaning  ‘more of the  same’, and daily the numbers grow as testify to sufferance.

How many angels can dance on the head of a pin, Professor propeller -head?

How many dispossessed and marginalised before fascism the only way?

Save us from the wonks of policy, the corporate larcenists, the Stateless bastards who would profit from misery, and the nightmare of full spectrum dominance as would tightly circumscribe same for gain.
Save us from the ‘think tanks’ as would more accurately be referred to as ‘stink tanks’, such be the odor of intellectual prostitution, form of propeller- head spinning in unison - with purpose  of blowing smoke the way of mirror.

Save us from the ‘propeller- heads’?

Sadly concerning POTUS 44  - it is the same cruel game.

Put knobs on of the bed on which a whore lies down upon, and the end result is unchanged -  as per etymology realised.

A whore being a whore by any other name.

Same old  treachery of screwing.

As of  poor by rich.

Polarisation of Economic Depression meaning more of the former, less of the latter, brought about by wilful deliberation of greed.

It to be a fire sale of assets; with the smart money yet waiting to ‘invade’?

The money as brought about this whole tragedy for such ‘gain’ – the result of ‘scorched earth policy wonk’ propellers spinning in  ‘think tank’?

Does propeller-head ‘theory’ encapsulate, as in paradigm being ‘outdated’., the sufferance of people unable to find work; the desperation of trying to make ends meet, the resurgence of  ‘gangmaster’ as jackal of Capitalism, the rage of those aware of the meaning of ‘outsourcing’ – those who can look at the list of the wealthiest individuals and see ‘Walmart’ as as sign of the times; as being condemned to ‘buy cheap and pay dear’ – sight of ‘vicious cycle’ clear?

Is it indeed an ‘externalisation’  thing?

It; a matter of arbitrage of labor as supports the disparity of wealth and income distribution as is successful – as reflected in the fact that five out of the top ten wealthiest Americans rely upon Walmart as a business model of ‘retailing’?

What do you think of   ‘Walmart’   Professor Summers?

How does thy propeller spin; so accordant?

Is it the way ‘forwards’?

As cried from the rear while front rank dies?

The fly on the wall in Roosevelt room shall in all likelihood never hear such ‘conversation’; or at best such as would be ‘moderated’ to corporate line of media ownership in parallel of   ‘Uncle Sam’ – as founding father of Retail Empire?

Such as care for those as work for them as  to make them reliant upon food stamps indeed; such subsidy by State as yet another form of the bailout of the wealthy?

Such  as ‘forerunner’ or ‘prototype’?

For money does not only talk – it sings and dances - despite as Mr Diamond sang all those years ago.

But the song here is by Mr Taupin, as sung by Mr John.

‘Signs’ of being ‘plugged in to the faithless’ (unranked almost, such be the stench; I mean what is ‘worse’; a turd in a swimming pool or the full blown belly of dead rat in a sewer - and questions ‘of such ilk’ as liable to cause smidgen of disgust, ‘think tank’ contemplated as ‘stink tank’) or of this bloody awful mess worsening; that the propellers aren’t spinning fast enough in this ‘age of  jet engine’ - with it’s own variety of  pollution pernicious?

Spin faster, spin deeper, spin higher, spin further– just keep  on spinning, keep on ‘plugging into the faithlessness’?

Forget about the Jets as you think Propellers?

This sucker going down the plug hole as a vicious cycle; as best laid plan of low quarters of ‘humanity’ going agley.

Things are out of control -  it may even be time to ‘bring on the Panopticon’.

Being the further destruction of lives systematic; the casting aside of pretence towards civility,  breach of ‘social contract’ – otherwise known as  ‘fortified playground’ for the Stateless aka ‘out of sight rich’, the world become as one large concentration camp as realisation of ‘maximisation of profit’?

A  ‘theoretical concept’ worthy of propeller- head?

Where marginal costs equal marginal revenues do propeller- heads sink to Onanism over such conjectures restrained, as per Jeremy Bentham over ‘Panopticon’. (See below)?

So to  the ‘signs’. 

The progressive ‘plugging in to the faithless’ as it were.

As in: ‘Screw you-  I’m plugged in!’?

No 1. You know somebody who has lost their job; who has had their livelihood ‘removed’, who has worked for years for the same company which has ‘folded’. You may know this person as a spouse or near relative – it may even be you as you look in the mirror, to shave or check application of cosmetics.

No 2. You are in fear of losing your job – this realisation of frailty strikes a resonance of empathic dimension commonly expressed as ‘Oh, shit!’ in the contemplation - moderated by the attempt to seek distraction.

Not worth thinking about, indeed.

- Leave it to ‘the propeller heads’?

No. 3.  The ramifications of fear are manifold and diverse dependant upon the ‘baseline’.

To some people this ‘recession’, in reality a ‘depression’, amount to no more than the same old crap – there is no more downhill for such to run and pour upon same. 

So buried as to be ‘silenced’;  as in the ‘silent majority’ - and as in growing.

Where the  same old shit just means even less as ‘subsistence’.

Chalk them up:

Per Capita imprisoned ;and then proportion as per race representative.

Childhood poverty.

Per Capita ‘American unseen’; buried under a floodtide of crap with  nowhere else to go.

It is becoming more difficult for this to remain; the trailer parks are overflowing and people living in autos are better off than the homeless.

This  as the shining of the beacon of Democracy in the free world, that even as burns so dimly such as  may yet be seen so clearly?

Spin - propeller-head!

No. 4. We ‘tighten the belt’. We give up, as according to our  former privilege, some of the ‘little luxuries.’ We start to ask questions of the previously unquestionable. The rich irony of this seam is that most of the garbage we have we don’t really need anyway. This is really bad news for a lot of people who make their livelihoods on the basis of purveying same. ‘newspapers’ as travesty of truth, magazines with their glossy ads for products which fewer and fewer can afford, sports utility vehicles, transatlantic flights, organic skin restoration creams, floral arrangements – the list could go on and on. As will the tragedy.  Somewhere near the end of the line is the rationalisation that in so doing without, ‘ the planet’ is being helped – but perversity transcends limitations when on is designing such as ‘ The Titanic’ – once the World’s biggest Ocean going liner don’t you know – and promoted as  unsinkable, till those particular propellers drove ‘The Titanic’  headlong against an iceberg.

- Who mentioned propellers?

No. 5.  Incidental aside - ever noticed how bulleted lists abbreviated by number are in the ‘negative’ (As in No)?

‘Wanted to say ‘Yes’ – but the world is an abbreviated bullet list as per agenda item’?

Leading to:

‘Ain’t on the agenda no more because of such desire as to affirm’?

‘Its life Jim’ – and just as we know it - as made by parasite?

The tightening of belt accelerates the process as ‘lock in’ to the sinking of the unsinkable;  the floral arranger loses job; the writer as for the ‘free press’ is laid off , as floral design artist variant, the person who works the machine that  puts the organic cucumber in the facial restoration cream (‘anti-aging’ don’t you know) ceases to be ‘economically participative’.

Another loss -  another euphemism?

What says the propeller- head as the vicious cycle turns as of Economy going down plughole?

Give him or her a ‘tweak’ ?

As of Democracy become Fascism such propulsion –  just a little ‘tweak’  here and there all as required?

No.6.   The snake begins to sing –Ka’n you dig it?

Somewhere between ‘five’ and ‘six’ as far as ‘ten’ goes is the ‘tipping point’; kind of like a cruel indictment of the failures of Democracy as a ‘garden of earthly delight’, in failure to recognise the ‘hybrid vigour’ of weeds. The world shrinks by way of ‘reality’. The ‘message’ becomes as ‘massage’ let alone the ‘medium’, dimensions of constraint cause blurring  - Comedian becoming Politician, and vice versa.

The focus is a lot of effort; perchance too much.

There is a calculation of fear in such as to lead one to refer to oneself as  ‘ditto head’ voluntary. Subsidy as dominance of media by Corporate interest prevails. The collective summation of the weakness becomes ‘strength’ fascistic.

- Is this how ‘willing executioners are made’?

Not so much by a ‘bang’ - as collective summation of ‘whimper’?

Bottom line; how the individual accommodates to the lie on grounds of survival?

The  daily crust  being one of pragmatism.

No 7.  The boot begins the stomp.

There is some residual sense as ‘innate’ of truth remaining?

Voices of protest ‘exist’ – but they are readily reduced to being as ‘wolves howling in wilderness’.

The summation is the small huddle of privacy – but fear not,  such as ‘propeller-head’ have the answer, apropos of ‘Panopticon’ as ‘power of mind over mind’. Jeremy Bentham as old whore intellectual, epitome of‘ ‘Propeller-head’ with ‘felicific calculus’ no less; as attempt to reduce things that cannot be reduced without tragedy, as archetypical

Empiricist as would be ‘conscious’.

Make that omelette - break those eggs?

Support of the  abomination of ‘power of mind over mind’, for such the Panopticon seen -as  an onanist poring over pornography ‘sees’?

But, now ‘the quietness’ has begun, now we cannot speak, as the fear has gripped by larynx,  mere  ‘by  product’ of  hold on throat?

The ‘short and curlies’ next indeed.

As heart and mind follows…

No 8. The division is cast out, such the ‘music of dance’.

Fancy  gloves though has old MacHeath, dear …

Reading between  the lines.

The ‘round up’ has begun, such the fear palpable as for the kicking into action of ‘list’ as built up contingent in the taking down.

Not that you will learn of it through the media.

The medium is the massage become, such as the perversity of rape of humanity by ‘the man’; and much as to the bleeding consequent despite attempted ‘lubrication by spin’.

As of propeller- head.?

Euphemism lives through such, as per reality imitated .

The ‘Krystal’ of the ‘Nacht’ has been well and truly shattered; apropos of ‘awe kicking in’.

It is indeed the music of the night. Boot stomping stuff.

As  such darkness has fallen at ‘noon’ – apropos of Koestler.

No. 9.  The Disappearances. 

Whatever happened to Leon Trotsky – as ‘The Stranglers’ sang?
An ice pick through the head was the reality of Leon as dissident . Dissident, subversive – the euphemisms could go on and on.

But the ice pick ‘lives’ -  to be applied to cranium!

‘Whenever I hear the word ‘Trotskyite’ I reach for my ice pick’?

Five will get you nine dear, Old Macky is back in town?

Those who ‘actively dislike’ POTUS 43 – see here mine best effort concerning eulogy – should yet have appreciation of his being tool .

So long Posse Comitatus,  hello cattle prod, meet me in ‘Guantanamo on the Hudson’ - after ‘extraordinary rendition’ ?

- And the euphemisms  just keep on coming.

No 10.  The ‘inescapable lightness of being’.

See here, it says in the small print as best laid plans.

Says about love being ever victorious over hate as contains within seed of own destruction. Says here about never darker as when light is about to dawn. Says about how ‘emissary of the dark one’ will hold up an outdated paradigm in popular phraseology aka colloquial vernacular while knowing what is to go down in the intention.

What does that mean exactly; ‘in the intention’?

Any answers ‘Professor Propeller-Head’?

Hey kids, plug into the faithless
Maybe they're blinded
But Barack makes them ageless?

- As could be sung in ‘Barack and the Jets’.

Stephen Martin can be reached at: stephenmarti@yahoo.com

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