THE SURRENDER OF CENTER-LEFT PARTIES

But Milne makes a further point. The rise of neo-fascism in Italy, and elsewhere, is tied to the collapse -- or rather the surrender -- of center-left parties to the pernicious doctrines of the Right. Everywhere, these parties ---

• Democrats in America,

• Labour in the UK, various

• Social Democrats throughout Europe –
  

have turned themselves into pale copies of conservative parties, adopting policies that have

• degraded society,

• destroyed communities,

• entrenched injustice,

• rewarded greed,

• poisoned the earth,

• embraced militarism and aggression,

• inflicted vast suffering on developing nations (through the straightjacket of "market reforms," i.e., corporate-crony welfare),

• subverted democracy,

• diminished liberty and

• gutted the very notion of the common good.

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the Democrats – and New Labour and other craven centre-left parties – have embraced the Right's agenda of elitist domination, militarism and scorn for the common good because they agree with it.

• Any figures with genuinely "progressive" views have been winnowed out or marginalized by the big money machines that run the parties.

• Such people are always a minority amongst the self-interested factions who vie for domination over a nation's affairs, of course. But there used to be a more substantial minority of such folks in U.S. politics, with enough leverage to sometimes affect national policy and even score some successes.

• But this strain has been almost completely bred out, as we have seen in the latest Democratic Congress – the most reviled and unpopular Congress in American history.]

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In the current U.S. presidential campaign, we can see this dynamic of center-left collaboration with the Right – which has been going on for almost a quarter-century in America – playing itself out once again. Barack Obama's "surge" to the Right –

• as exemplified by his vote for the tyrannical FISA measure – is just another iteration of this process.

• Likewise, his embrace of the Terror War; true, he wants to do it more "efficiently," and perhaps add a few more targets – in Pakistan, say – but he still wants to do it.

He makes no bones about continuing this militarist project which has already

• killed hundreds of thousands of innocent people,

• bankrupted the national treasury,

• and is now – through the Terror War oil price spike – strangling the entire national economy.
  

All of this – especially the Terror War's continuing brutalization and coarsening of the national ethos – is meet food for neo-fascism to feed upon.

WHY THE "SHADOW GOVERNMENT" HAD JFK MURDERED

JFK had within his reach the financial resources to get elected, and more than enough money and influence to build a solid political machine to assure himself two terms in office,

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JFK wasn’t beholding to the cunning Wire Pullers. He was a free agent. JFK could stand aloof from those contrivers. He didn’t need them.

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JFK had a natural built in electoral constituency--a voting block--who favored his candidacy.

• He was an intellectual, of Irish descent,

• Roman Catholic,

• young and a WWII Veteran, to boot, possessing a hero-like image. And, for the most part,

• large segments of the African-American community felt a special kinship with him.

• The women loved him also. He was charming and better looking than most Hollywood stars of that era.

• Many, too, in the rank and file of the then feisty Labor Movement were attracted to and inspired by his candidacy for the Oval Office.

• The bosses of the Union Movement, with some notable exceptions, like Jimmy Hoffa, were inclined to give JFK the benefit of the doubt.

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For all of the above reasons, JFK was a threat to the Shadow Government. (1) After he was elected, he alarmed them further by showing a strong streak of independent thinking! He consistently put America’s interests first.

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Jim Marrs

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In his latest book: “The Rise of the Fourth Reich: The Secret Societies That Threaten to Take Over America,”

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“By mid-1963

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• He was threatening to disband the CIA...

• withdraw U.S. troops from South Vietnam,

• close the tax breaks of the oil-depletion allowances;

• tighten control over the tax-free foreign assets of U.S. multinational corporations...and

• decrease the power of both Wall Street and the Federal Reserve System. In June, 1963, Kennedy ordered the printing and release of $4.2 billion in United States notes, paper money issued through the Treasury Department ‘without paying interest’ to the Federal Reserve System, which is composed of twelve regional banks all controlled by ‘private banks’ whose owners often are ‘non-Americans.’”

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• JFK also opposed Israel’s nuclear weapons scheme.

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after

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Lyndon B. Johnson, succeeded to the presidency,

• JFK’s policy towards that controversial Nuke-producing project was reversed.

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Peter Dale Scott in his tome, “Deep Politics and the Death of JFK,” insisted that

• JFK clearly wanted a withdrawal of U.S. troops from Vietnam, whether military conditions on the ground allowed it or not. On Oct. 11, 1963, JFK issued “NSAM 263” to that effect. LBJ reversed that directive, too, with “NSAM 273.”

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Daniel Ellsberg of the Pentagon Papers fame, a courageous truth teller, had heard from his then Pentagon boss, John McNaughton, in 1964, that Robert McNamara, the Secretary of Defense,
and JFK, had an agreement that they would close out Vietnam by 1965.


1. For the purpose of this commentary, the term “Shadow Government” is used to refer to the ultra-criminal entity hidden from public view which orchestrated JFK’s assassination. I am convinced, but I can’t prove in a court of law, that he was murdered as the result of a conspiracy. What the nation witnessed, in my opinion, on Nov. 22, 1963, in Dallas, TX, was nothing less than a coup d’etat.

EHUD BARAK AND NOTES ON THE HEZBOLLAH PRISONER RELEASE

And none of the Western coverage is pointing out the cruel and inhumane role of Ehud Barak in 1978: the man who shot Dalal Mughrabi while she was dead. He pulled her by the hair (only after she died as he would not dare do that to an alive Dalal) and mutilated her body before tearing her shirt off. Such are the sexual perversions of the former prime minister of Israel. And as for the details of the deeds of Dalal and her comrades, don't ever believe Israeli accounts of "enemy" operations. The state consistently lies and consistently fabricates. And that saying from the Babylonian Talmud applies to Israel: the punishment of the liar is that he is not believed even when he tells the truth.

HERE IS A VIDEO OF JOHN WEARING JOE'S HAND UP HIS REAR, PUPPET AND PUPPET MASTER

Oh yea, that's right. USA public opinion has figured out that there is some kind of difference between shias and sunnis so it cant be al-queda. Must be something else, extremist terrorists or something. Whatever.

HERE IS A COUPLE OF PICTURES OF JOHN WEARING JOE'S HAND UP HIS REAR, PUPPET AND PUPPET MASTER

WE THE PEOPLE, ARE ITS NATURAL PREY, AND ITS ONLY TRUE ENEMY

Antifa (in comments) said:

• There will be no prosecutions, nor even any investigations of the crimes of the two Bush terms.

• There will be no payback nor recompense to those deceived, robbed, and killed.

• There will not even be a Truth Commission to simply explore without vengeance an accounting of how our Republic went further afield than even the Third Reich in some ways.

For that would be a farce. That would be asking half the whores in the bordello to sit in judgment of the shocking escapades and easy virtues of the rest. Such a trial couldn't stand up long enough for the opening statements.

The entire Congress, the full House and Senate will need to be dragged before honest investigators and prosecutors and their conduct compared to the written laws of the land, to the oaths of office they took, and to the Constitution they have rendered moot if there is to be an accounting of our failure as a Republic.

Because none of this will ever happen, our nation will slide all the more readily into an authoritarian hell where the corporatist State is what matters, is all that matters, and every citizen is but fodder for its maw.

• From banks and corporations too big to fail it is no step at all to a Federal government too big to fail.

• The only inalienable right left in America is for the Federal government to increase its size, budget, strength, reach, power, purse, armaments, and control.

We, the people, are its natural prey, and its only true enemy.

THE FIFTH COLUMN

I now believe there is a major revolt afoot in the land of the free and the home of the brave and this article is the latest in a long line and is the clearest and bluntest expression of that sea change to date.

http://www.antiwar.com/scheuer/?articleid=13139

There was a time not too long ago when words such as these would dare not be uttered, and censorship and punishment would be swift and complete. The author of this piece is Michael Scheuer. His bio is here

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Scheuer

He is a retired 22 year CIA employee and the author of Imperial Hubris, which is, in my opinion, one of the best books outlining the disaster of the neocon foreign policy and its antecedents.

This sea change began with the publication of Walt and Mearsheimer’s The Israel Lobby and it has continually picked up more steam ever since.

The best blog that I know of that is chronicling (and cheerleading) this change on a daily basis is written by a liberal Jew, Phillip Weiss and found here

http://www.philipweiss.org/mondoweiss/

Over the last month I have increasing seen the Neocons referred to, in many forums, as “fifth columnists”. This is extraordinarily pejorative.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifth_column

In times of imperial and economic collapse scapegoats are sought, but in this case the actual criminals are well known and available to be brought to justice.

Every time I think that this is as far as it will go, it goes a little further.

IRONY WARS

Horsey: A John McCain magazine cover

ISRAEL AND ITS FIFTH COLUMN

Israel and its Fifth Column in this city seek to stampede us into war with Iran. Bush should rebuff them, and the American people should tell their congressmen: You vote for 362, we don't vote for you.

Last week, Mossad's chief, Meir Dagan, was here to make the case for war on Iran. This week, Defense Minister Ehud Barak visits Dick Cheney and maybe Bush. Next week, it is the head of Israel's armed forces.

Some 220 members, a majority, have endorsed House Concurrent Resolution 362. This virtual war resolution "demands" that President Bush initiate a blockade to halt all Iranian imports of refined petroleum products and impose "stringent inspection requirements on all persons, vehicles, ships, planes, trains, and cargo entering or departing Iran."

A Democratic House that came to power denouncing the rush to war on Iraq is about to vote to demand that Bush commit an act of war against Iran.

The front men for 362 are liberal Gary Ackerman of New York and conservative Mike Pence of Indiana. But the juice behind them is that of the Israeli lobby AIPAC, which is marching in step with Israel.

BASTILLE DAY

The king must die so that the country can live.

-Maximilien Robespierre

THE BLACK PANTHERS MEETS OSAMA BIN LADEN

The Republican Campaign 2008

HORMUZ

Through this narrow waterway, only 34 km wide, pass the ships that carry between a fifth and a third of the world's oil, including that from Iran, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Qatar and Bahrain.

MOST OF the commentators who talk about the inevitable American and Israeli attack on Iran do not take account of this map.

Iran dominates the whole length of the Strait. They can seal it hermetically with their missiles and artillery, both land based and naval.

The mighty American navy is menacing Iran - but the moment the Strait is closed, it will itself resemble those model ships in bottles. Perhaps it is this danger that made the navy chiefs extricate the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier Abraham Lincoln from the Persian Gulf this week, ostensibly because of the situation in Pakistan.

IRAN IS now a regional power. It makes no sense to deny that.

The irony of the matter is that for this they must thank their foremost benefactor in recent times: George W. Bush. If they had even a modicum of gratitude, they would erect a statue to him in Tehran's central square.

Today it is already clear that the real American aim (as I have asserted in this column right from the beginning) was to take possession of the Caspian Sea/Persian Gulf oil region and station a permanent American garrison at its center. This aim was indeed achieved - the Americans are now talking about their forces remaining in Iraq "for a hundred years", and they are now busily engaged in dividing Iraq's huge oil reserves among the four or five giant American oil companies.

THE REAL TARGET OF FISA

Submitted July 9, 2008 - 1:31 pm by Steven Hunt

"...FISA campaign a waste of time--given that the US security state already gets the info they want through a variety of channels.

And Greenwald will act totally suprised and outraged when it comes out that the US government is focusing on

• leftists,

• stalwart environmentalists,

• indigenous rights activists,

• socialist, etc.

instead of Islamic 'terrorists'. A cursory review of US history in the past hundred years would inform anyone that the consistent target of the security state are democratically minded insurgents on the left of the spectrum.

I even take it as a given that they moniter this website on a regular basis. Why would I expect anything different than this in a country where the plutocratic elites jealously guard their power?"

THANKS JESSE, NO, SERIOUSLY, THANKS

Submitted July 10, 2008 - 4:01 pm by Vik Murthy

...could Jesse Jackson's remarks being broadcast all over the cable punditocracy today have been scripted and choreographed? Here's my rationale:

1. Jesse Jackson is not stupid, and is the father of an extraordinary loyal Obama backer. He also happens to be Chicago-based, which is big-time Obama country.

2. Jackson was on Fox News when he made the remarks, and had to have known that anything he said was fair game for red meat-seeking tabloid journalists.

3. Jacksons' comments actually crudely play to Obama's advantage ... it reverberates Obama's ability to speak truth even when the truth hurts (I hate to compare this to Clinton's Sista Souljah moment, but that's the best analogy I can come up with), tempers concerns from white Democrats that Obama is beholden to his African-American base and highlights his faith-based initiatives.

4. It neuters any of McCain's perceived momentum or foreign policy advantage over Iran's missile tests by completely co-opting the news cycle.

5. Jackson's delivery of the comments look scripted to me.

THE OLD OBAMA

• supported pulling out of Iraq within 16 months,
• called the D.C. gun ban constitutional,
• backed the subjection of telecom companies to expensive lawsuits for cooperating in the terror surveillance program,
• opposed welfare reform,
• pledged to renegotiate Nafta,
• disavowed free trade and
• was strongly against the death penalty in all cases.

THE NEW OBAMA

• not so much

WORDS FROM DR PHIL

McCain's top economic adviser Phil Gramm tells America to suck it up and stop complaining about the economy:

"You've heard of mental depression; this is a mental recession," he said, noting that growth has held up at about 1 percent despite all the publicity over losing jobs to India, China, illegal immigration, housing and credit problems and record oil prices. "We may have a recession; we haven't had one yet."

"We have sort of become a nation of whiners," he said. "You just hear this constant whining, complaining about a loss of competitiveness, America in decline" despite a major export boom that is the primary reason that growth continues in the economy, he said.

Emily Dickinson's insight on how to reach critical mass in overthrowing tyrants:

Tell all the Truth but tell it slant

Tell all the Truth but tell it slant -
Success in Circuit lies
Too bright for our infirm Delight
The Truth's superb surprise

As Lightning to the Children eased
With explanation kind
The Truth must dazzle gradually
Or every man be blind -

JOHN B. JUDIS IN HAARETZ

In 2000, George W. Bush ran as if he, too, was going to be part of the consensus. If anything, he was going to be a little less eager to intervene overseas than his father or Bill Clinton, but no one expected major changes, certainly not with Colin Powell as Secretary of State.

After September 11, however, Bush confounded his critics and supporters alike in the foreign policy establishment by embracing a foreign policy that had been developed by dissenting neo-conservatives in Washington.

Taken as a whole, it represented a break with 60 years of American foreign policy:

• stridently nationalist rather than internationalist,

• contemptuous of international law,

• clothed in the language of American exceptionalism but in fact embracing 19th century German Machtpolitik,

• endowed with what one British journalist once called America's "illusion of omnipotence,"

• and committed to a theory of geopolitics that assumed that the world could be easily shaped by the exercise of American force.

So as we head into the 2008 election, the question is whether the next American president will continue George W. Bush's foreign policy or revert to the kind of foreign policy that America followed from 1940 to 2000.

Of all the leading candidates, the only one who has embraced the neo-conservative vision is John McCain, who since 1998 has been advised by, and followed the approach of, Washington neoconservatives (Those interested in the details might up the profile of McCain I did in The New Republic last year.) In McCain's favor, he does not have the Bush administration or the typical neo-conservatives? contempt for international law. But McCain is also, as one disillusioned Bush supporter told me, a "warrior" who sees the world as a playground in which slights have to be avenged. Witness his recent flip comments about bombing Iran or his proposal to "take out" Iraqi leader Muqtada al-Sadr. So McCain is the major question mark.

On the Democratic side, I can say with some assurance that all the major candidates would attempt to build on the older internationalist foundations of American foreign policy. Their administrations would be sequels to the George H.W. Bush and Clinton administrations not to the George W. Bush administration

Right Web profile of John McCain

You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad. Aldous Huxley








"Take away the right to say "fuck" and you take away the right to say "fuck the government." —Lenny Bruce, 1923 - 1966)






"In times of universal deceit, telling the truth will be a revolutionary act." - George Orwell








Conspiracies are more common than what the psyop mass media hammered in meaning has led us to think.

When your fiancee is planning to leave you because of a wealthier bloke, or your wive gracefully plots to file for divorce in order to take half of your assets, they are conspiring against you. When your boss considers you are doing a great job but you are outperforming everyone, even him, and sets up a plan to get you out of the way for fear you might put him down, he is conspiring against you.

Even the most famous conspiracy theory is that some cavemen with box cutters were able to kidnap four commercial planes in order to make the world tremble, in the infamous 9-11 attacks.

Even in the current case of GOC trying to sell the story about a conspiracy of the Colombian intelligence against the FARC. Tying loose ends and coming up with another version, is automatically referred to as conspiracy theory, just as mind control puppeteers expect sheeple to claim, in order to ridicule arguments that could set them up against the wall. - Jaime Bustos




Statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting blame upon the nation that is attacked, and every man will be glad of those conscience-soothing falsities, and will diligently study them, and refuse to examine any refutations of them; and thus he will by and by convince himself that the war is just, and will thank God for the better sleep he enjoys after this process of grotesque self-deception.
- "Chronicle of Young Satan", Mark Twain

Man is the only animal that deals in that atrocity of atrocities, War. He is the only one that gathers his brethren about him and goes forth in cold blood and calm pulse to exterminate his kind. He is the only animal that for sordid wages will march out...and help to slaughter strangers of his own species who have done him no harm and with whom he has no quarrel. ..And in the intervals between campaigns he washes the blood off his hands and works for "the universal brotherhood of man"--with his mouth. - Mark Twain




"The men the American people admire most extravagantly are the most daring liars; the men they detest most violently are those who try to tell them the truth." --H. L. Mencken








"The only thing new in the world is the history you don't know." –Harry S Truman

ALJAZEERA ON AIPAC

It is said to be the most powerful interest group in Washington DC - but what is the Israel lobby? And how exactly does it operate?

That is the question for this week's Inside USA.