Today's Stories

April 3-5, 2009

Alexander Cockburn
From Twin Towers to Twin Camelots

Kathy Kelly /
Brian Terrall
Getting a Closer Look at the Killer Drones

Sue Sturgis
Fooling with Disaster? Startling Revelations About Three Mile Island Raise New Doubts Over Nuclear Plant Safety

Peter Morici
Girding for a Depression

Kathy Sanborn
Homeless in Tent City, USA

Andy Worthington
Britain's Guantánamo: Fact or Fiction?

Rob Larson
Subprime Supreme Court: The Roberts Court Has Become a Powerful New Tool for Business

Saul Landau
Biden and Nixon: a Tale of Two Latin American Experiences

Steve Early
An Evening with Andy Stern

John Goekler
Was Gaza Israel's Waterloo?

Rannie Amiri
Arab League Reconciliation Summit a Bust

Dave Lindorff
Hooray for Juries! A Courtroom Victory for Ward Churchill and Academic Free Speech

Lee Ballinger
Sound Garden: Tom Morello at the Grammy Museum

Ron Jacobs
Artifacts for Survival

David Macaray
AIG Plays the Sympathy Card

John Wight
G20: Capital's New World Symphony

Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
Race in the Obama Era

Mychal Bell
Surviving Jena Six

Missy Beattie
Hoop Hopes, War and Peace

Michael Boldin
The War on Drugs is a War on You

Susie Day
Bernie Breakout Shocker!!

Kim Nicolini
Vigilantes of the Bourgeoisie

April 2, 2009

Robert Weissman
What If Obama Had Treated Detroit Like Wall Street?

Eric Toussaint /
Damien Millet
A G20 Meeting for Naught

George Bisharat
Israel's Impunity Must End

Russell Mokhiber
Something is Rotten at PBS

Franklin Lamb
Has Washington Lost Lebanon?

Gareth Porter
Settling Scores in Iraq: Maliki Draws US Troops into Crackdown on Sunni Rivals

David Macaray
Obama and the Ruling Class: "Only the Little People Pay Taxes"

Chris Genovali
B.C.'s Bloody Grizzly Hunt

Sam Smith
The Politics of Adulation

Suzan Mazur
Is Neo-Darwinism Dead?

Website of the Day
Fighting for Change in St. Louis

April 1, 2009

Chris Floyd
Surging Further Into the Afghan Abyss

Stanley Heller
Israeli War Crimes: Thank God, It Was Only Rumors

Mark Brenner, Mischa Gaus and Jane Slaughter Obama's Perilous Plan for Detroit: Restructure the Big 3, But Not With Bankruptcy

Jonathan Cook
The Slow Demise of Ehud Olmert

Eric Walberg
EU in Tatters: Only the Protesters Have Any Vision

Richard Morse
Why Haiti Can't Forget Its Past

Don Fitz
Guess Who Came to Dinner with a Match? Green Mayoral Candidate's Van Firebombed in St. Louis

Laray Polk
Texas and Evolution

Belén Fernández
12 Años de Soledad?

Harvey Wasserman
Cracking the Media Silence on Three Mile Island

Website of the Day
Pentagon Fraud Investigations Fell, While Contracts Soared

March 31, 2009

Uri Avnery
The Deception Tango

Peter Lee
Ghosts in the Machine: the World's Hottest Cyberwar Battlefield

Nicholas Dearden
A New Global Debt Crisis

Dave Lindorff
The Obama Betrayal

Joanne Mariner
"We'll Make You See Death"

Ron Jacobs
Obama's Pakistan Gambit

Wiliam S. Lind
Another Lost War

David Michael Green
Who Says the GOP Doesn't Have a Plan?

Benjamin Dangl
Beyond Elections in the Americas

Johnny Barber
Meditation in Orange

Dedrick Muhammad
Economic Inequality: the Foundation of the Racial Divide

Website of the Day
How the Obama Dems Took Over the Peace Movement

March 30, 2009

Michael Hudson
Financing the Empire: Do US Face G20 Mutiny?

Patrick Cockburn
What Next in Afghanistan?

Henry A. Giroux
Hard Lessons

Mike Whitney
Where's Eliot Spitzer Now That We Need Him?

Ralph Nader
Where's All the Money Coming From?

Paul Craig Roberts
Obama's War on the (Upper) Middle Class

Jeremy Scahill
The Logistical Nightmare in Iraq

Robert Bryce
The Cellulosic Ethanol Delusion

Jonathan Cook
Remembering Land Day in Palestine

Ray McGovern
Obama Bombs

Website of the Day
Hersh: Syria Calling

March 27-29, 2009

Alexander Cockburn
Obama's Fall Guy

Arno J. Mayer
Too Big to Fail?

Michael Hudson
How the Scam Works

José Pertierra
Gesture for Gesture: How to Free the Cuban Five

Andy Worthington
A Letter to Obama From a Guantánamo Uighur

Mike Whitney
Geithner's Hog Wallow

Winslow T. Wheeler
What Does an F-22 Cost?

Souad N. Al-Azzawi
Iraq: Let the Numbers Speak for Themselves

Dave Lindorff
A Financial History Lesson

Ian Masters
The Zombie Presidency

Barbara Rose Johnston
Water Culture Wars

Jami Tarn
Smearing Tristan Anderson

Diane Farsetta
The Nuclear Industry Targets Wisconsin

David Ker Thomson Against Democracy

Ramzy Baroud
Netanyahu and the Future of the Peace Process

Rannie Amiri
Saudi Shiites' One-Word Demand

Wajahat Ali
Writer as Fighter: the Genius of Ishmael Reed

Nick Egnatz
Whatever Happened to the Fierce Urgency of Now?

Gregory A. Burris
The Insolents Abroad: a Defense of Iceland

Missy Beattie
This Land

Stephen Martin
The Broken Stone of Corporatism

Charles R. Larson
Obama, Smoking and Me

David Yearsley
How They Built Bach's Face (Is the Bard Next?)

Ben Sonnenberg
Won't You Please Get Thee Behind Me? Buñuel's Simon of the Desert

Kim Nicolini
The Mafia Without Moralizing: Garrone's Gomorrah

Lorenzo Wolff
Pat Boone Syndrome

Poets' Basement
Four Poems by Paulann Petersen

Website of the Weekend
Ann Coulter: a Portrait by Ben Tripp

March 26, 2009

Paul Craig Roberts
Is the Bail Out Breeding a Bigger Crisis?

Sharon Smith
Another Blow to Labor ... from the Democrats

Neve Gordon
Avigdor Lieberman, Israel's Shame

Patrick Madden
Why the Geithner Plan Will Fail

Gareth Porter
The Big Con on Iraq

Dave Lindorff
Why Do We Need a Health Insurance Industry?

Hannah Safran
The Israeli Resistance: "Ready to be Traitors"

Keith Newell
Will the Cellphone Please Take the Stand?

Todd Chretien
Behind the Green Collar

Nelson P. Valdés
When It Comes to Cuba and the Media Anything Goes

Website of the Day
G20 Meltdown

March 25, 2009

Robin Blackburn
Media Revolution or Mirage?

Conn Hallinan
Europe in Crisis

David Rosen
Sexting: a First Amendment Challenge for Obama

Jonathan Cook
Turkey's Fallout with Israel Deals Blow to Settlers

Dean Baker
Billions More for Failed Banks

Ron Jacobs
Karzai on a String

Russell Mokhiber
Corporate Liberals vs. Single-Payer

David Macaray
Slice and Dice on Card Check

Dave Lindorff
Geithner's Power Grab

Sarah Knopp
LA Teacher's Sit-In Over Layoffs

Website of the Day
How to Create an Animal Rights "Terrorist"

March 24, 2009

Robert Sandels
Obama and Cuba: Real Change or Minor Tweaks?

Harvey Wasserman
People Died at Three Mile Island

Franklin Lamb
Who Tried to Kill Palestinian Ambassador Abass Zaki and Why?

Michael Donnelly
Obama's Team of Losers

Norman Solomon
Denial and Evasion on Afghanistan

Elizabeth Schulte
The Stark Facts About Violence Against Women

John Goekler
The Most Dangerous Person in the World?

Nicole Colson
Is Justice Finally in Sight for Sami Al-Arian?

Global Balkans
NATO's 78-Day Bombing of Yugoslavia: Ten Years On

William S. Lind
Cat-and-Mouse Off Hainan Island

Website of the Day
Video: IDF Fired on Medics in Gaza

March 23, 2009

M. Shahid Alam
Capitalism From the Standpoint of Its Victims

Uri Avnery
Israel's Most Revolting Law?

Mike Whitney
Zombie Economics: Judgment Day for Geithner

Ralph Nader
Bush the Teacher

Brian Cloughley
Tilting at Afghan Windmills

Dave Lindorff
Toxic Bailouts

Amira Hass
The Rules of Engagement in Gaza: Open Fire on Rescuers

Chris Irwin
When Nonprofit Groups Go Bad

Binoy Kampmark
The Celebrity of Celebrity

Michael Dickinson
Tollbridge Over Troubled Waters

Website of the Day
State of the Birds

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 New Year, 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

David Macaray
The Myth of the Powerful Teachers' Union

Kenneth Couesbouc
Where has the Consumption Gone?

Martha Rosenberg
Meltdown in the Drug Industry

Alan Farago
The Recession, the Developers and Baseball

Missy Beattie
Still Waiting for Change

Richard Rhames
Invisible But Not Completely Insolvent

Stephen Martin
Barack and the Jets

Charles R. Larson
Impeach Obama!

David Yearsley
On Bach's Birthday

Lorenzo Wolff
Manic Levity

Poets' Basement
Three Poems by Gary Corseri

Website of the Weekend
Teachers for CEO Merit Pay!

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?

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

Weekend Edition
April 3-5, 2009

Where There's Greed

Gordon Brown's Chicken Run at the G20

By STEPHEN MARTIN

The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.

--George Orwell, Animal Farm.

Oh what a tangled web we weave,
When first we practise to deceive!

--Sir Walter Scott,  Marmion.

A rich irony betwixt the conjunction of title this small article and  introductory quotation.

Putting aside more insightful interpretations of ‘wealth’  such as  intimated by  genius of ‘tiger burning bright’; not so many years ago a savage  and polemical indictment of ‘free market orthodoxy’ as prevailed in the United Kingdom under Margaret Thatcher as mere ‘reflection’ of the United States under Ronald Reagan, (then as now; such be the spectrum of ‘ wad stuffed full’ – aka ‘take the money and run’ - and as such mirror become the more tarnished?) was written by a ‘man’ with whom I once was proud to share a sense of ‘Statehood’, of Nationality; indeed  of ‘Blood’  as ‘Freedom!’ so seen as oft in cause spilled become against  ‘yoke of oppression’ as would be.

Given ‘prostitute efforts’ recent;  accordant the  ‘blue eyed and  white’ as stated by President of Brazil -  ‘pride’  referred to laurels as humiliation, and question as to ‘fall’  inevitable?

‘Where There’s Greed: Margaret Thatcher and the betrayal of Britain’s future’ is a magnificent polemic penned by the now Prime Minister of the United Kingdom; Gordon Brown.

 What I am about to write grieves me, in as much as ‘belief in man’ can be experienced as ‘betrayal double edged’- and as is to be paralleled by ordinary American as body of humanity concerning Barack Obama as fellow countryman – and in which similar hope was placed by way of vote?

‘Hoping’ not – such be the audacity?

‘Elaboration by pragmatism’   occurring in due course -  as  ‘truth will out’?

Lots of water under the bridge (‘troubled’ as per Simon and Garfunkel – ‘reality’ as per ‘experienced’) since Gordon Brown wrote beautiful and wondrous concerning the ways of  the ‘free market’; of the savage injustice of poverty and immiseration in order that few may benefit; of the destruction of communities and the turning of man against man so that the ways of ‘profit inordinately dominant’ may come to prevail as reflection of the primacy of ‘Greed’?

‘No such thing as Society’ as was the statement then as ‘abrogation hegemonious’, or  as ‘mantra of the Stateless’, by Margaret Thatcher,  now indeed ‘Baroness’, such be the honor  as can be given  where there be absence of  ‘Citizen’?

‘Absence of society’   being as abhorrent a concept as that infamous statement made by Madeline Albright concerning half a million children dying being ‘worth it’?

There be ‘Payne’ in the brotherhood as indeed memories standing unto forgiving- as lead to the saying as by that great American author, Kurt Vonnegut, concerning obscenity:
‘So it goes’?

Foremost, Gordon Brown is no longer in opposition, so to speak, being now the leader of the party in power in Britain, aka ‘Prime Minister’.
 For many years prior  to assuming such mantle Gordon was  subject to the ‘privy’ of ‘money men’, being  Chancellor of the Exchequer of  Britain; daily his ear being whispered into, as bent unto, by the voices of ‘free trade’ and ‘business’ as pragmatism so founded, whilst nurturing  ambition of being the leader of ‘party’; the big man of little Country; such bend as being of by Henry Paulson unto Nancy Pelosi; whence ‘bailout’ first proposed – and same ‘master’ served apropos of ‘sellout’?

Such the ‘eminence grise’ as would be ‘grey’; such the misnomer of ‘leader’ as would be;  as beyond mere ‘puppet’?

As in the choice made of spinmeister:  ‘This puppet or that puppet’?

In such course as concerns gradualism of Gordon’s metamorphosis from ‘Socialist’ to supporter of ‘private public partnership’ and ‘private finance initiative’; and even self confessed ‘admirer’ of Margaret Thatcher;  as rock must be changed by drip  constant;  or as variant of the Chinese water torture concerning ‘brain’;  ‘change’ being introduced by wilful deliberation of the Stateless; those whom require reference as to Bunyan and  ‘Grace Abounding’ as would  be characterised as constituent of  ‘body of humanity’ - or indeed as  Rabbie Burns put  it: ‘ a Man’s a Man for A’ that’?

The change as Metamorphosis of man into insect;  as written of by Kafka; Gregor Samsa being as Gordon Brown such be the awakening the morn of G20?

For it is by the very same criteria as ‘petard’ which Gordon Brown deployed in polemic against ‘free market regime’ concerning the distribution of wealth and the absence of ‘Social Justice’ prevailing under the ramifications of ideology implemented pragmatically as ‘Moral Economics’ aka  ‘Politics’,  as that Gordon himself could be hoisted, or  ‘indicted’ now?- Or should that be ‘inducted’?

The particularities of such open to debate – what is being expressed here is opinion.

One may look from ‘Thatcher to Brown’ indeed, and, but for gender, find it difficult to say ‘which is which’ - on the ‘farm of animals political’?

This, despite  ‘massage of the media’ as message, wilful distortion  by way of ‘corporate line’ in what goes by way of ‘news’ these days; as ‘words speak louder than actions’ – and  ‘form transcends substance’?

‘Things can only get better’, indeed.

Part of the greatness of Democracy is that; in allowing for ‘voice of humanity’ as rich as variant; there is thereby ‘allowance’ for the potential for substance to be represented despite form as would be cast? - As in: ‘Stick it to ‘the man’, Counterpunch!’?

But :  ‘digression’!

The subject of this small article: ‘deconstruction’ of the G20 meeting and Gordon Brown’s role in same as stands to ‘voice in wilderness’, as wolf howling may state ‘Truth’, or ‘out of the mouth of babes’ as may be and within which Democracy as yet lives and breathes and as aspiration in the respiration – and as ‘Only in America’ can yet  be allowed the expression thereof?

First. A  small ‘confession’.

Goodness knows there is enough ‘bad news’ around concerning the consequences of human depravity without adding another ‘two cents worth’ - but  this as must be measured against the freedom of expression and interpretation,  which  ‘Democracy’  as understood to be; and as which such as  this  Organ stands as to ‘liberate’?

Not so much the ‘fifth amendment’ – as  first?

Being said -  let’s get down to ‘brass tack’ by way of exercise of human rights -as has propensity to precipitate label of ‘paranoia’ in the joining of the dots made and  ‘Payneful’ as  can be seen to form?

When ‘Hail to the Chief!’ stated herein, it meaning thanks be for the ability to speculate metaphysical and political, and to ‘air’ same?
‘Chief’’ in the synonymy  being as without the extra ‘l’ as to proclamation of the ‘Stateless’; real belief of humanity being in ‘God’ as expression of humility humane – and knowing  where the Stateless put the ‘l’  thereby? Humanity  ‘eternal’,  Stateless ‘ephemeral’ -  as ‘dynamic’ being ‘worked out’ form of Dialectic?

The point being ‘change’ indeed.

This G20 meeting  the ‘logical’, i.e. cold and heartless ‘ reality’; as of sentential or propositional calculus;  result of  ‘dark event detailed’ through investigation by an as yet unrecognised American brilliant as humane; G. Edward Griffin?

For we so contemplate a  ‘bitch’ in the beholding a beast of proportion of Brecht -  and ‘Jekyll’ as would be in nature turned to ‘Hyde’ as per tale of Stevenson from such Island of Treasure  as ‘Federal Reserve’ originates?

The reality as ‘nightmare’ we are living within  that of the title of this small article-  for greed  indeed present’ as ‘wherein’, as  when  ‘l’   be placed within word of ‘God’,  such that depravity can prevail?

Stateless Bastards worshipping ‘gold’ with best laid plans;  ‘given a inch’ – they have ‘taken a yard.’ - in their ‘sometime’ as ‘great notion’ -  as one ‘Wolfe’ American so howled?

‘Men’ being to such bastards -  as  mere ‘ mice on the farm’ - when ‘Eric Arthur’ meets ‘John’?

‘Great notion’ being that of the ‘feeding off’ of all humanity in the expropriation of energy deemed as ‘surplus’ and categorised within scheme as profit;  rationale being as Jefferson so acutely perceptive detailed concerning ‘hazardous moral pursuit’?
( see here  for a  ‘deconstruction’?).

Plus ca change?

- The curious thing being that the dog did not bark.

Dogs as would now howl at  G20 - say nought of jackal?

As  Mr Griffin details concerning origins of ‘Federal Reserve’ , the strategy  to gain ‘control’ – but not to be seen to do so?

Also as per Mr Griffin, the Federal Reserve a  ‘Cartel’ – but operated in the ‘Public Interest’?

In colloquial vernacular, ‘put your trust in a Banker - and you will be ‘screwed’’?

Or should that last word, in light of ‘Gaussian Copula Function’ as underlying CDS ‘pump and dump’,  be  ‘copulated?’

(Note: author of same function applied as ‘misinterpreted’ now back in China, working for ‘investment corporation’)

- Could have been as of ‘Mossad’, such the inscrutability?

For we all ‘live’ now in the shadow of   ‘hazardous moral pursuit’;  as in ‘of  Capital having been withdrawn?

Say nought of flea riding elephant?

Where has all the money gone – indeed where is it going?

Silly, not  to say stupid, question.

- From the poor to the rich!

Reading Griffin’s brilliant investigative work is as cataract being surgically removed from eye.

The dark secrecy all those years ago peeled back as layer of onion; the comprehension of the transition, as of leverage from gold standard to fiat; from regulation to de regulation, the understanding that ‘paper money’ is only as to ‘belief unfounded’  - as per the value of  such ‘leverage’  rated as ‘triple A’ can be;  ‘first wave’ being handled by Roosevelt and second wave ‘yet to come’ – it’s all there.

The ‘Bitch as bore Bastard’ being back in ‘heat’ – and hoping to give birth at the G20  in a  ‘Yo!’   to ‘Herr. Brecht’s prescience?

The ‘redux’- such be the cunning,  that Gold standard once more again be adopted, only this time around the currency  to be ‘Global’;  same power base prevailing now as all transferred to same dark party – courtesy of whore as would be humane?

Before ‘let’s go round again’?

All that remains being the names?

All done  bar the ‘carving’?

All that remains the ’shuffle of soft shoe’- because Federal Reserve control subsumes IMF and World Bank?

(Ask not of ‘Comex Securities’ such context,  lest a tower  such as WTC7 fall upon your head, or you be pissed upon from great height; ‘paranoid’ as label being but mild form of ‘repression?’)

This; an economic war name of ‘Globalisation’ and the future, of ‘you and yours’ being ‘turned over’ - as in gates of concentration camp economic being opened?

Abandoning hope - being as ‘work shall set you free’?

What bankers American realised years ago, in a railway carriage named ‘Greed’; whence trust put in stranger,  is that real money is substance;  it is ‘Gold’ or similar  ‘precious metal’, mere paper, as mere ‘promise; and that ‘the game’, as of domination, full spectrum, can become ‘really dirty’ thereby?

Currency as  ‘toilet paper’  indeed…

Tell it to the Chinese as about to be ‘stiffed’?

Irony as in they serve also, i.e., the God with an extra ‘l’ – and hell for the rest of us? 

So here one ‘take’ on what is going down at the G20.
‘Some folks are born, made to wave the flag’, indeed.

That is ‘some’, not ‘all’,  Nota bene.

Cannons of Economic Warfare as pointing at you,   as about to go off?
- Give this interpretation any chance of ‘credence’,   and find ‘revival’ in the ‘water’ as ‘aqua vita’ seen ‘clear’ – you ‘fortunate son’?

At least  one party to the Global Economic War being played out sitting on a mountain of gold, truth be told.

The very same standard as whence removed from, as in when currency became ‘fiat’, about to be ‘reintroduced’. After the ‘fiat’ has been ‘leveraged’ of course -  after everyone else has bought into  illusion of ‘too big to fail’.

As in when  all the credit is taken up; as a belief of others given, thence become..

Want to know what the G20 is all about?

It is about the dollar being ‘too big to fail’, or rather those bankers and financiers behind it who have leveraged it ‘to the max’ as a fiat currency, aka hidden from of taxation as expropriation, being ‘too big to fail’ as irony rich.

It is about the ‘negotiation’ of  ‘globalisation’ in which the IMF and World Bank serves the interest of small coterie of bankers who have taken over America, lock stock and barrel, who care not a jot about the suffering of ordinary Americans in this Depression- as wilfully and with calculating cunning scheme of greed unrestrained and rampant brought about.

It is about the financial ‘lebensraum’ of this small coterie of corrupt Bankers as despised by Jefferson, who have used ‘credit’ as in belief given to machinate situation where there can be ‘takeover’ by way of ‘Economic Warfare;  in a  ‘Theatre Global’  as would be ‘The New American Century’ of ‘Full Spectrum Dominance’.

This time  around not just ‘America’, but ‘ The World’!

Now being as these scheming bastards financial are ‘American’ in the pretension, and yourself as an American in the reality, you may think this could be good for ‘America’-- ‘could ’ being the operative term..

These bastards Stateless are inhumane, callous psychopaths whose only allegiance is to profit; form of gold.

If you are not one of the ‘two percent or thereabouts’ of ‘inner party fascistic’ as benefit from this Depression as transfer of wealth from poor to rich then the bad news is yet set to get worse; such be the scheme as ‘best laid plan’.

What these Stateless Bastards have in mind is as much good for America as is ‘Guantanamo’, to be re named as  ‘ School of the Americas’ was;  as benign as  the ‘philanthropic altruism’ of the IMF as experienced by countries such as Chile and Brazil  - and was good for them as seen then.

The mechanics of the G20 ‘shakedown’ being:

Move away from the gold standard, expand the credit.

Leverage the fiat.

‘Suck them in’

‘Too big to fail’.

Destroy through ‘pump and dump’.

Move back to the gold standard having ensured transition of all the wealth by ‘bailout’  - and ‘globalise currency’.
Expand the power base through takeover.

For ‘American Coterie of Bankers’ read ‘IMF and World Bank’ ; and the same ‘proscriptions’ apply as build power in reflection of  the dominance of free market ideology….

Bailout of the wealthy,    the poor to pay.

The foxes as in charge of   ‘chicken run American’ seeking to be in charge of  ‘chicken run Global’

Well here’s the news for Stateless Bastard: Life ain’t no ‘chicken run’.

Humanity  no ‘chicken’ to fowl play , as Democracy no ‘sham’; as the Constitution of the United States  not to be shredded - and pissed upon.
As life ain’t no illusion ‘babe’, albeit   ‘pigs in the city’  have snouts buried deep at the  trough at the moment.

Mine own sadness this debacle - other than greatest being one of the ‘screwed’ alongside progeny - there is old Gordon Brown, running like a stooge  around the world as ‘Statesman’  or  ‘Scatman’ as would be, ‘cap in hand’ as some variant of Quisling, preaching the gospel of the Stateless as would claim not to be ‘American’ such spectrum seen as Global in aspiration.

No prejudice here!

A stateless bastard is a stateless bastard  - as it matters not whether  ‘Vampire’ as per Stoker  comes from Transylvania , Kentucky or Katmandu,  or indeed whether he or she  be blue or brown eyed. Or  indeed a fellow countryman.

A Vampire will suck the life out of you if you let it.

The fact is indeed as Gordon wrote;  all about ‘Where There’s  Greed’, and the things that will be done to satisfy same,  regardless of the consequences to humanity.

And that is the division of the much greater unity as would please God?

What would be going down at the G20  ‘prolegomena’ to the vision of the future, whether as the way American as has become under deception; with no health care or welfare for ‘the poor’ as vast majority, with no caring or compassion evident in  triumph of the Stateless, or as to another way; where there are the seeds of compassion; where life isn’t all ‘dollar and dime’ to new global currency as become, or indeed abandoned as concept unworthy;  whence there become some meaning to the word ‘State’ – as in ‘United States of America’?

What would be going down at the G20 is ‘Statelessness’ – when the people know it as a lie - as Gordon Brown once knew truth afore ‘metamorphosis’ when he wrote ‘Where There’s Greed’?

‘Angry American’ still playing resonant mine small world - as indeed  is ‘Fortunate Son’.

The only answer being ‘ more, more!’ -  where there’s Greed?

It ain’t me – I ain’t no fortunate one?

But that the G20 be the point, such the discord. as refusal to ‘sing from same hymn sheet’;  and  as ‘enough is enough’ is stated? ‘Where There’s Greed’?

Read those words you wrote not so many years ago and weep Gordon- as others have cried a river over belief misplaced?

As in hope be audacity..

Or;

‘Too big to fail’  as illusion - ‘Too small to succeed’ as reality.

So it goes.

And there Gordon Brown went;  more the pity as is the scorn befitting  ‘Quisling’ as collaborator to the Stateless, traitor to humanity.

This small article no pleasure to write.

Pleasure is a personal freedom such as business would take away; and as would be removed  by ‘extraordinary rendition’

My Hero as once was Countryman, or ‘Brother in Arms’ concerning the struggle of humanity, bade ‘fare thee well’.

The audacity of mine hope concerning those  who  believe in ‘gold’ rather than ‘God’ being so ‘strangled’ as to lead unto: ‘No more Heroes’?

- Maybe Barack  Obama has the answer – such indeed, be the audacity of hope body of humanity as State American?

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

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