Today's Stories

April 24-26, 2009

Marjorie Cohn
Torture Used to Try to Link Saddam with 9/11

April 23, 2009

Eamonn Fingleton
How the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times Buried the Madoff Scandal for at Least Four Years

Ray McGovern
Obama Plays Hamlet on Torture

Michael Ratner
The Torture Commission Trap

Alan Farago
The Quicksand Economy

Rob Larson
Business Gets Carded

Nadia Hijab
The Real Heroes of Durban

Fawzia Afzal-Khan
Deconstructing the Taliban

Dave Lindorff
Are Members of Congress Being Blackmailed?

Helen Redmond
Selling Out Single-Payer: the "Public Option" Con

Niranjan Ramakrishnan The Financial Experts: Malgudi on the Mississippi?

Adam Federman
The Battle Over New York's Marcellus Shale

Website of the Day
An Interactive Map of Vanishing Employment Across the Country

April 22, 2009

Chris Floyd
The Fatal Thread: Torture, War and the Imperial Project

Joanne Mariner
Torture Evidence and Terror Blacklists

Vijay Prashad
Obama's Afghan Plan: Fracturing the Antiwar Movement

Gareth Porter
U.S. Lacks Capacity to Win Over Afghans

Dean Baker
The Tyranny of Bad Economics

Peter Morici
Housing Sales and Fixing the Economy

Winslow T. Wheeler
Eliminating Bad Pentagon Habits

Barucha Calamity Peller
The Battle to Take Back the New School

Harvey Wasserman
Chernobyl Could Happen Here

Aisha Brown /
Dedrick Muhammad
White Privilege in the Americas

Teo Ballvé
Obama's Feel Good Meeting with Colombia's Uribe

Website of the Day
Ahmedinejad's Durban Speech: What He Actually Said

April 21, 2009

Randy Rowland
Lindy Blake's Great Escape

Dave Lindorff
Jay Bybee's Conspiracy to Torture

Fidel Castro
The Secret Summit

George McGovern
Pull Out of Iraq This Year

Greg Moses
The Unemployment Channel

Benjamin Dangl
Argentina Remembers

Sonia Nettnin
Saving Lives in Gaza

Frank Barat
The Death of Bassem: a Shooting at the Wall in Bil'n

Binoy Kampmark
Legal Purgatory and John Demjanjuk

John V. Walsh
Code Red for Single Payer

David Macaray
SAG Should be Praised, Not Assailed

Website of the Day
Bonus Man: For Executive Assholes Everywhere

April 20, 2009

Mike Whitney
Housing Bust Comes Roaring Back, Worse Than Ever

Andrea Peacock
Histrionics and Legalisms in Missoula

Henry A. Giroux
Ten Years After Columbine: the Tragedy of Youth Deepens

Liaquat Ali Khan
Drone Attacks on Pakistan's Indigenous Tribes

Fred Gardner
Obama's DoJ Backs Prosecution of Medical Marijuana Providers

Stephen Soldz
Obama, Blair, Panetta and the Torture Memos: Praising Moral Cowards, Ignoring Real Heroes

Nadia Hijab
Obama's Multi-Polar Middle East

Dave Lindorff
The Meeting in Trinidad

P. Sainath
India's Press Nixes "R" Word

Nelson P Valdés
A Modest (Transition) Proposal to Obama

Mark Engler
American Empire Foreclosed?

Belén Fernández
The FARC Can't Dance

Website of the Day
Dear Mr. Buffett...

April 17-19, 2009

Alexander Cockburn
Thin Ice From Here to the Horizon

Saul Landau
Infiltrating Alpha 66: a Conversation with Gerardo Hernandez, Leader of the Cuba Five

Franklin Lamb
Persia Rising

Ralph Nader
The Greedsters Are Back!

Fred Gardner
Obama's Chimerical Marijuana Policy: a Guide for the Perplexed

Dean Baker
A Win-Win Solution: Tax the Rich!

Rannie Amiri
The Curious Case of Benjamin Netanyahu

George Wuerthner
The War on Predators

Dave Lindorff
No Amnesty for Torturers

David Swanson
Personal Torture Laws

Jim Goodman
The Control of Food

Kathy Sanborn
Economic Fallout Hits Families Hard

Don Monkerud
Economic Recovery for Whom?

Manuel Garcia, Jr.
The People's Money

David Michael Green
Home of the Barricaded, Land of the 'Fraid

Nelson P Valdés
The OAS Charter, Cuba and the United States

Manuel Gomez
From the Bay of Pigs to Trinadad and Tobago

Dr. Susan Block
On Sex Addiction: the Deadliest Sin?

Ramzy Baroud
Non-Violence in Palestine?

Christopher Brauchli
Banning Barbie

Stephen Martin
Statelessness: the Final Frontier

Ron Jacobs
Tearing the Whole Building Down: the Dead in Greensboro

David Yearsley
Monkey Music

Lorenzo Wolff
A Song for the End of the World

Poets' Basement
Moser, McTeer and Buknatski

Website of the Weekend
New England Journal of Medicine Report on Civilian Deaths in Iraq

April 16, 2009

Mike Whitney
A Bulletin From the Captain of the Titantic

Russell Mokhiber
The Top 10 Enemies of Single-Payer

Ronald Teska
From Iraq to Appalachia

Gareth Porter
Predator Blowback

Paul Fitzgerald /
Elizabeth Gould
Thinking Like an Afghan

Benjamin Dangl
Latin America Changes

Kevin Pina
Haiti: Obama's First Foreign Policy Disaster?

Robert Bryce
Another Ethanol Producer Goes Bust

George Wuerthner
See the Forest: the Value of Dead Trees

Paul Garon, David Roediger and Kate Khatib The Surreal Life of Franklin Rosemont

Website of the Day
Socialism and the Facebook Generation

April 15, 2009

Kathleen and Bill Christison
Solving Palestine While Israel Destroys It

Ray McGovern
W, the Torture Decider

Robert Sandels
Is There a Latin American Policy?

Heather Williams /
Paul Baker
Carbon Cap and Trade: How Wall Street will Game the Regs and Trash the Planet

Jack Willoughby
The Lessons of the S & L Crisis

David Swanson
Habeas at Bagram?

Paul Craig Roberts
94 Years of Serfdom

Sara Mann
Norman Rockwell and the Perils of Nostalgia

Kenneth Couesbouc
John Maynard's Martingale: How Keynes Got Rich

Binoy Kampmark
Tax Haven Hypocrisies

Kekuni Blaisdell, Lynette Hi'llani Cruz, George Kahumoku Flores, et al.: An Urgent Letter to Obama on the Rights of Native Hawaiians

Website of the Day
Taxa: the Paintings of Isabella Kirkland

April 14, 2009

Conn Hallinan
The Afghan Rubik's Cube

Mike Whitney
Why is Goldman Sachs So Scared of Mike Morgan?

Peter Morici
Taxing Grandma to Subsidize Goldman Sachs

Greg Moses
Economic Curveballs: the Laffer Posse

Fidel Castro
Obama's Cuba Policy: Not a Word About the Blockade

Robert Weissman
No Blank Check for the IMF

Rebecca Macaux /
Philip Primeau
Somali Piracy and American Foreign Policy

Carmelo Ruiz-Marrero
The Dubious Revoution: Biofuels, the Next Generation

Dave Lindorff
Snatch-and-Jail Justice: the Ugly War on Immigrants

Walter Brasch
The Resurrection of Intolerance

Benjamin Day
Why Has the Press Failed Us in Reporting on Health Care Reform?

Website of the Day
The Appraisal Bubble

April 13, 2009

Patrick Cockburn
Iraqi Militia Fear Reprisals After US Exit

Uri Avnery
Our Dissonance

Jeremy Scahill
A Test Case for Habeas Corpus: Will Obama Prosecute the Somali Pirate in a US Court?

Martha Rosenberg
Suicide Syndrome: Are VA Protocols Behind Iraq Vet Suicides?

Karl Grossman
A Radioactive Extension for Aging Nuclear Plants

Nadia Hijab
Still Waiting: Obama and American Muslims

Sam Smith
America's Cultural Bear Market

James McEnteer
Peru's Shining Example

Sean McMahon
Globalizing Politicide: Israel's Strikes on Sudan

Namihei Odaira
Makota's "Campaign Against Poverty"

John V. Walsh
Bossnapping

Website of the Day
Declining IRS Audits for Big Financial Houses

April 10 / 12, 2009

Alexander Cockburn
Resurrection and Revenge

Chris Floyd
Hope Abandoned: Obama Protects CIA Torture Memos

Mike Whitney
"Liquidate the Banks; Fire the Executives!" Warren's Devastating Report to Congress

Saul Landau
How the Media Bought the Surge

M. Reza Pirbhai
Obama's Afghanistan Plan and India-Pakistan Relations

Franklin Spinney
The Art of the Scam: Wall Street and the Pentagon

Rannie Amiri
Iran's Elections: Why Arab Leaders Want Ahmadinejad to Win

William Blum
The Ideology of Barack Obama

Matt Vidal
Why Card Check Would Help the Economy

Jeff Howison
Death of the Square Deal

Jeff Leys
Resisting the Af-Pak War: the Creech Air Base Arrests

Dave Lindorff
America's Imperial Wars: Why We Need to See the Horrors

Ramzy Baroud
Israel Investigated: But Will It Repent?

Missy Beattie
The Grateful Dead, Wounded and Displaced

Fred Gardner
Fakes Left, Goes Right: Obama's Crossover Dribble on Marijuana Policy

Harvey Wasserman Another $50 Billion for Rust Bucket Nukes?

Suzan Mazur
A Revolution in Biology: an Interview with Nobel Laureate Paul Nurse

Bernard Umbrecht
German Capitalists Take Fire

David Macaray
A Word Clooney, Hanks and Baldwin Should Learn: Solidarity

Janet Kauffman
How to Starve (or Feed) a River

Ron Jacobs
Daring to Struggle, Failing to Win

Norman Solomon
Getting a Death Grip on Memory

Michael Winship
Let the Railsplitter Awake!

Richard Rhames
Empire, Ennui and Extra Cheese

Wanda Fucha
Brother, Can You Spare a Million Bucks?

David Yearsley
My Journey to the Heart of Rahman

Lorenzo Wolff
Getting Beyond the Black-and-White: Jason Isbell's Challenging New Album

Ben Sonnenberg
Rossellini's Louis XIV: "Neither the Sun Nor Death Can be Gazed Upon Fixedly"

Jeffrey St. Clair
Savage Incongruities: the Photographic Life of Lee Miller

Poets' Basement
Corseri and Corzett

Website of the Weekend
The Palestine Chronicle Needs Your Help!

April 9, 2009

Mike Whitney
The Decade of Darkness

Patrick Cockburn
What It Would Take to Mend Fences with Islam

Stephen Soldz
Caught on Tape: Diagnostic Abuse of Veterans

P. Sainath
The Rise of the Shoe-cide Bomber

Ellen Cantarow
Israel's Master Plan for Transfer

Gareth Porter /
Jim Lobe
Obama and Israel's Threat to Strike Iran

Jeremy Scahill
How Many Democrats Will Stand Up Against Obama's Bloated Military Budget?

Jerry Kroth
Saving GM From Bankruptcy--With the Stroke of a Pen

Binoy Kampmark
Fujimori Convicted: A Measure of Justice in Latin America

Fidel Castro
My Meeting with the Black Caucus

Website of the Day
Bird Song Radio

April 8, 2009

John Prados
The Af-Pak Paradox

Bill Moyers /
Michael Winship
Changing the Rules of the Blame Game

Winslow T. Wheeler
The Tooth Fairy and the Defense Budget

Russell Mokhiber
PBS Lashes Back

Kathy Sanborn
Depression Fury

Rev. William E. Alberts
If the Shoe Fits: Bush and Al-Zaidi

James McEnteer Rashomon and the Binghamton Shooter: the Rush to Interpret Jiverly Wong's "Statement"

Nadia Hijab
Olmert's Nightmare

Adam Turl
Card Check on the Ropes

Kevin Zeese
Escaping the Drug War Quagmire

Website of the Day
Walk Score Your Neighborhood

April 7, 2009

David Price
Counterinsurgency's Free Ride

Uri Avnery
Who's the Boss?

Chris Floyd
Talking Peace in Prague, Dropping Bombs in Pakistan

Winslow T. Wheeler Defense Cuts: Gates and the System

Marjorie Cohn
Prosecuting the Bush Torture Team: Spain Leads the Way

Dean Baker
Hands Off Social Security

Diana Johnstone
NATO, Strasbourg and the Black Block

Dave Lindorff
Politicizing Accounting

Martha Rosenberg
Life on HBO's Factory Hog Farm

Evelyn Pringle
Motherhood and the Psycho-Pharmaceutical Complex

Website of the Day
Gaza: Closed Zone

April 6, 2009

Michael Hudson
The IMF Rules the World

Andy Worthington Bagram: Guantánamo's Dark Mirror

Ray McGovern
Profiles in Cowardice: Eric Holder and Colin Powell

Deepak Tripathi
The Pakistan Enigma

Mike Whitney
Bernanke's Financial Rescue Plan: a Glide-Path to Destitution

Norman Solomon
Meet the New Escalators: the Democrats and the Afghan War

Jonathan Cook
Israel Railways Accused of Racism in Firing of Arab Workers

Judith Bello
Justice for the Developmentally Disabled

Deena Metzger Blackwater in Liberia

Dr. M. Kamiar
"There's No 'Eye' in Iran:" Obama's Pronunciation Problem

Website of the Day
Prison Talk

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

Reza Fiyouzat
The Iran/US Rapproachment Dance

Michael Boldin
The War on Drugs is a War on You

Christopher Brauchli
The Pope's Batting 50-50

Charles R. Larson
Too Much Stuff

Susie Day
Bernie Breakout Shocker!!

Stephen Martin
Gordon Brown's Chicken Run at the G20

Kim Nicolini
"Last House on the Left:" Vigilantes of the Bourgeoisie

David Yearsley
Homage to Moog and Mallards

Phyllis Pollack
An Interview with Legendary Rock Producer Chris Kimsey on Working with the Stones, Ronnie Wood, Jimmy Cliff, Peter Tosh and Saint Jude

Poets' Basement
Foley, Valentine and Kozak

Website of the Day
The Corner Store

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

April 24-26, 2009

Jester in the House

Wherefore Art Thou American Dream?

By STEPHEN MARTIN

‘It is a game, everything is a game.[ ..]It is a game in order to survive’.

Samuel Beckett.

This one goes out to the ones I loathe.

The ones trying to hide lying eyes as would deceive concerning dream turned to mere illusion, - experience of other real as nightmare resultant of the relishing of filth, not forbidden as to be so  - such the ‘Statelessness’, such the absurdity; such the ‘theatre’.

The ones as would turn screw further on humanity.

As ‘sword’ be ‘double edged’,  this one goes out to the ones I love, as R.E.M. so sang, and as such embrace ‘eyeball to eyeball’ welcomed; ‘empathy’ so seen  leading to cry of  ‘Yo!’

Love realising as many proscriptions as demanded, as antonym of form of   ‘slippery slope of hatred and division’  being avoided -  abrogation such responsibility being easier as ‘road’ broader and more incorporative’;  hence the ‘more travelled’ - lest  one be ‘ever so careful’?

Easier to play game as ‘Corporatist’ to ‘survive’ such being the theme of times in which we ‘live’?

Easier the ‘Song of Executioner’ be willingly enjoined as ‘Moritaten’- such the ‘song sheet’  or  ‘State of play’ of the ‘Game’’?

Say nought of ‘spirit’ – lest ‘Zeitgeist’ be ‘invoked’?

Stateless bastards forbidden not to relish filth, as they have nothing - as Samuel  Beckett  so put?

‘Flush’ seen as prevailing the game played in order to survive by Stateless  so soon to be busted by ‘State’, in unexpected ‘trumping’ through cognisance humane - call it ‘symbiosis’ if you will; apperceived by Beckett in so far as ‘resonance’ mine small mind can attain; as would clasp hand held of genius being ring round the world to cry of ‘Aha!’ so enjoined - such being ‘folly’ – as can  lead to ‘wisdom’?

‘It’ being a game in order to survive – so now dominated by the ‘waiting’ for  extra Gold from scheme of expropriation as to  cause of gnash of teeth - and  be  the  wail of  Stateless bastard concerning ‘illegitimacy’  not being furthered by way of  ‘best laid scheme’ -  fingers as would so grasp as to expropriate further being  ‘Burned’?

‘The Heat is On!’ as Glenn Frey sang - but bitch failing to bear bastard so resultant, as in quote masterful as to prescience by Brecht; to the distinct deprivation of glee -  and  scheme of bastard playing out as ‘abortion’, in an abrogation as would make of glory of life mere object in expropriation; form of gold and the possession  thereof as ‘power’ -  and of scheme ephemeral ‘gan agley’?

Do not rejoice?

‘Tell me  - can you feel it’?

‘Can you ‘dig it’ in the bridge being too far?

We as can so dig -  being yet as them as would be dug over in the furrowed path of illusion dominant ?

As arising from ‘hearing’ cry of  ‘D’oh!’ made by Stateless Bastard in realisation of  ‘things refusing to go as planned’ – in the  failure to elicit empathy concerning cry made  by as of  ‘Homer’ as ‘underclass representational’?

Scheme falling apart as:  ‘This ain’t rock and roll, this is Genocide!’  as song going;  humanity pulled out of ‘oxygen tent’, ‘latest party’ being ‘New Democrat’ -  and Stateless bastard seen as ‘Diamond Dog’?

As ‘counter spin’ or ‘punch’ be ‘morphogenetic’ such ‘theory of field’ the game; as concept of rodent learning maze as Empiricism transcended to puzzlement of  ‘paradigm’  - as monkey learning to wash potato, as there be ‘noosphere’  writ of  - and. upon - by  such as  Teilhard De Chardin; ‘Humanity’ communicated large : form of ‘game’?

As the transcendence of illusion so mysterious and wonderful as to deny best laid scheme; such ‘reality’ being glorious?

- For dreams can  travel  ‘further’ and ‘faster’ than nightmares, as reason for the waiting of latter as would be dominant as per scheme for there to be ‘catch up’ in  the denial, as per the curious intransigence of virtue face of pragmatism – and to cause of ‘D’oh!  as ‘ verbal exclamation’ by bastard as would gain through sufferance inflicted upon the intransigent as virtuous; upon those forbidden to relish filth - such the Statelessness?

‘Waiting for gold’, indeed, as ‘gain’ to be realised following on from scheme; way of ‘dream’ illusory as nightmare ‘reality’ under deliberation of expropriation as product such objective; cry of ‘ D’oh!’ expressive of the disappointment of ‘stupidity’ under ‘grace abounding’ to such  as should have known better in failing to allow for ‘factor unknown’ -  in the relishing of filth - being as would be denied by  ‘spin’?

As to be ‘only in America!’, way of   ‘Homer’; Land of Security’ so pronounced as prefix the vernacular colloquial?

As indeed   ‘lacking’ in ‘Department’?

As in ‘Ain’t no Fortunate Son’ indeed.

But ‘enough!’.   as ‘more, more!’ be so denied– even although as in the title as play, this small article be ‘deconstructed’ - as ‘rationalisation’ failing to prevail, form of ‘spin’,  such as ‘Rove’ seen as ‘Goebbels’?
- Such the ‘club’ as being afoot?

There being recognition as  to things being so broken as  ‘All the Chief’s Horses, and all the Chief’s Men, cannot put together again’ – but that the  ‘Hail ’ would go on?

‘The Chief is dead.  (Long live) Hail to the Chief!’

Yet another ‘Humpty Dumpty’ falling off wall in number increased as applied to POTUS, way of ‘Democracy’ as ‘game’; way of ‘survival’; way of ‘failure to step up to the plate Presidential’ in representing  ‘demos’ - so it goes?

This small article  having the objective of  detailing the ‘State of play’;  ‘game’ as would be so construed by ‘nobody’  and as diarised, to  shout of  ‘Pooter!’ such sense as concerning Globalization- as the struggle consequent of little man ‘Reichian’  to make sense of  ‘madness’  all around as  ‘triumphant’; form of joining dots apropos of understanding ‘game’ -  in order to ‘survive’?

Whom shares increasing by having little material, but abundant in the possession of spirit- as yet be humane – and as such forbidden to relish filth?

Such being the failure of abrogation to prevail-  as look into eye can tell?

For a ‘game’ indeed it is; as in such child like realisation of truth must never be forgot; though abomination be forgiven in the aspiration of humanity as would be;  or indeed as to the eternal  truth of the incarnate - ‘all being born of gravedigger’s forceps’  apt as quotation  from Samuel Beckett readily caste as ephemeral in the spin - and  ‘Game On!’ directed at body of humanity, form of ‘brother and sister’ -  not   difficult to ‘explain’?

For what written of herein is aspect of ‘survival’ such sense, as would be elicited from  ‘margin’?

- ‘Brother, can you spare an ideological dime?

As ‘sword’ indeed ‘double edged,’ and as not being beyond those as would live by, as would die by’?

There being a certain freedom, as ineluctable beauty; in ability exercised to so ask questions so requisite as to obscurity as to refuse to be ‘headed off at pass ’ through ‘spin’ - as  ‘blood’ of Stateless Bastard upon ‘ideological sword’  be  characterised as ‘bleeding edge’- such the wielding by  mere ‘clown’ as ‘jester’ as will not ‘yield’?

As would never give a inch - lest yard be taken?

As will be by much greater through simple determination to pursue life; form of   ‘liberty and the pursuit of happiness’?

‘Life,  Jim - as we knew it once – and shall again’?

Stateless Bastard as would be the ‘rub’ to American Dream, perchance, not so much as to flickering rapid of ‘eyelid’ - but of ‘forked tongue’?

In any event, ‘flickering’ interpreted as ‘ephemeral’ through knowledge of the eternal;  way of   ‘render unto Ceasar’ so  recognised?

Thus being foregoing, let’s get down to ‘brass tack’, or ‘razor wire’  - as ‘furtherance’  upon  ‘barbed’.

The message on the ‘wire’ for Stateless Bastard being:

 ‘Fuck you - and the horse you rode into town on!’, so stated to ‘rider Apocalyptic’; such being the ‘storm’; such ‘the door’ as would be held open to misery and despair by whore subjugate to service of expropriation?

As whence unto illusion ‘life’ becomes ‘forfeit’; as when those whom loved as ‘Brother’ or ‘Sister’ would be caste thereby as  but  ‘collateral damage’ to scheme of mere Stateless bastard to precipitation of smidgeon of disgust the body humane?

Thus; this Economic Depression seen as no ‘accident’, as ‘lone gunman’ theory be avoided, as Economy as War be ‘understood’ - despite ‘complex rationalisation and wilful obfuscation’ by Stateless bastard - or stooge thereof as ‘representational’?

The threads as would so unravel elaborate tapestry of lie in the revelation of truth such as would be hidden hanging evident through the sufferance -barely requiring ‘grip’ exercised upon and ‘will’ to ‘pull’ -  to cause of whole rotten edifice crashing down -  such the good greater attained?

Humanity shall ‘get a grip’, and has such ‘collective will’ as part of the game, as will be played in ‘order to survive’?

- As in challenge thrown down to Stateless Bastard – ‘Spin this -  if you can’?

Thus, the transition from POTUS 43 to POTUS 44 -  a ‘continuation’, form of ‘same game, different name’ - concerning ‘survival’?
Some of the people can be fooled some of the time, some of the people can be fooled all of the time -  but all of the people cannot be fooled all of the time

As Stateless Bastard should read to cause of tear – albeit reptilian, as of crocodile, such as would be seen as ‘weep’ reflecting illusion as real?
People have memories; eyes with which they can see - and we have the capacity to distinguish between truth and lie.

Rhetorical device not the  prerogative of the Stateless thereby?

As a ‘rule’?

For are ‘we’ not as ‘brother’ or ‘sister’?

The following being  exemplary illustration of  memory recalled;  use of eyes to see and application of moral sensibility in the game as survival’ reflecting upon as how POTUS 44 sees it through choice of ‘financial team’ - as ‘clowns’ such sense as ‘wrong team’ being ‘sent in’?:

(Say nought of sheer brilliance in the ‘cut to chase’ made thanks to ‘Will’?)

 ‘We have failed bankers giving advice to failed regulators on how to deal with failed assets. How can it result in anything but failure? If they are going to get any truthful investigation, the Democrats picked the wrong financial team. Tim Geithner, the current Secretary of the Treasury, and Larry Summers, chairman of the National Economic Council, were important architects of the problems. Geithner especially represents a failed regulator, having presided over the bailouts of major New York banks.’

William Black, article here in Counterpunch.

- Whence there must be return to the truth as so seen, as in: ‘Ain’t no choice really’ – to slap of head and utterance of ‘D’oh!’ by  Stateless?

 ‘Wherefore art thou, ‘American Dream’’?

As in the turning to nightmare as small oligarchy as would be has succeeded in gaining such power and control as that the ambition be Global Domination enjoined; as that corruption be spread as ‘Pandemic’, in the triumph of illusion over reality in sense of any balance approximating ‘Justice’ abandoned?

Names such as Geithner, Summers, Bernanke, Paulson, even Presidential such as Bush or Obama thus sense as of mere ‘flunkey’ or ‘stooge’ to tapestry of illusion born of lie; of those who merely serve the interests of oligarchy as would be so revealed  -  given following of the money as ‘joining of dots’?

Of those who serve the ones as must be loathed?

So revealed as to be reviled?

The real abomination is as underlies, as requires ‘clip on nose’ whence such quarters as ‘crime scene’   entered with objective of investigation?

The real names as be in the shadows darkest, or waters murkiest as enable ‘paranoia’ such the control of belief as degeneration?

Subterfuge layered upon subterfuge in sense of wilful obfuscation prevailing as form of disguise - but that ‘the game’ be seen clear as ‘survival’ in layer of onion  peeled?

The manipulation of belief such as to engender servitude as debt peonage for humanity the game, way of ‘survival’ -  as  ‘expropriation by financier’?

Thus the battle cry of  the Stateless:

‘Saddle humanity with debt, then ride them all the way to hel1!’ - such the expropriation as would be the relishing of filth by  way of abrogation; as ‘pound of flesh’ demanded to tortuous scream of ‘more, more!’  resounding-  and  flag of red, white and blue so waved?

The ‘bottom line’: look at the ‘gain’ as from these times of sufferance; who has the money being as guilty party in similar sense as robber be proven by possession of stolen goods, and as expression of  shift of power as ‘possession’?

Remembering not so much ‘ The Alamo’ as   ‘ The Exorcist’ thereby?

The likes of Dick Cheney as but ‘small fry’ readily observed in the intimacy of association of Military Industrial Complex  and profit through war, or Rumsfeld  as but mere ‘Don’ in sense of Gangster parasitic hiding in the shadow of Capitalism as mutualist -  to  ‘The  Carnegie defence’?

‘Do not shoot the millionaires, etc…’

‘Even when parasite ‘necrotrophic’ would present as ‘mutualist’  in the ‘symbiosis’, such being the spin denied -  but reality  as overwhelms, pragmatic as biological, daily bread so reduced as form of deprivation?
And   to such sufferance the body humane thereby delineated…..

But being as of little consolation to know that Stateless Bastards shall face their time in Court  humane in the reestablishment of true order in the game of survival and as per order; as per ‘game outcome’ given the sufferance engendered?

For the havoc in the war wrought by those as less than dogs, as have nothing, as forbidden not to relish filth, and so doing under compulsion resultant of degeneracy possible,  has been immense, and shall continue to be for some time yet, alas.

 ‘We’ ain’t seen nothing yet’  as was sang; such the ‘overdrive’?

But when ‘we’ do, ‘they’ also shall truly see something, and as shall lead to notoriety truly caste?
 By way of such ‘flux’ as to constitute ‘Force Majeure’  in the transition to opposite?

‘those who have ‘something’, as are humane by ‘election true’, as in where revolution starts, as in ‘heart’ and as of soul -  are compelled to abhor filth, and to act accordant such insight’?

Something so simple as can be to ‘look in eye’ - or as ‘great notion’ communicated - sometimes?

Simple -  as a  line drawn which will not be crossed?

As is within the ‘ken’ of American body of humanity -  ‘never give a inch’?

For indeed it is a ‘game’ of ‘survival, and as ‘fittest’ be ever so thus refined, ‘symbiosis’  prevailing over ‘parasitism’ -  as Beckett so explained?

Form of  ‘Mutualism’?

In any event, the absurdity is monumental enough, without the need for further clown being sent in.

- But what  about  ‘jester’?

-Does it take a clown, such as a jester, to recognise a clown indeed – even though there not being   ‘fellowship in the service’  prevailing?

‘Do not shoot the jester’ indeed - for he or she be but messenger?
As being unto humanity facing war wrought upon by  Stateless Bastard as dog:

‘Look them in the eyes before you send them down, back where they belong!’

In the re-establishment of control over belief,  form of denial of ‘spin’ as refusal to ‘give a inch’?

Sometimes being a great notion.

As  ‘Ocean, Ocean, I’ll beat you in the end’?

As will be, so accordant, such being the Book?

Game  being as of ‘survival’; as Beckett claimed.

Name of life, but as we know it;   and as kidder not be kidded.

 - Or is there a Jester in the House, as it being of cards?

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

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