The Greanville Post

Flying the flag, faking the news

topeditor — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 17:18:11 +0000

By John Pilger | Friday, September 03, 2010 Edward Bernays, the American nephew of Sigmund Freud, is said to have invented modern propaganda. During the first world war, he was one of a group of influential liberals who mounted a secret government campaign to persuade reluctant Americans to send an army to the bloodbath in [...]

The Anti-Empire Report: Things which don’t go away.

topeditor — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 23:09:06 +0000

Things which don’t go away. Things the American government and media don’t let go of. And neither do I. September 1st, 2010 by William Blum www.killinghope.org Iraq ”They’re leaving as heroes. I want them to walk home with pride in their hearts,” declared Col. John Norris, the head of a US Army brigade in Iraq. 1 It’s [...]

HAMAS

topeditor — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 20:38:11 +0000

The long-awaited peace in the Middle East can only come by accepting realities as they are, and by telling the American people the truth. Such honesty, of course, is in severely short supply. By Gaither Stewart ••• (Rome) On July 20, 2010, Second Protocol, an Italian on line publication, self-proclaimed as a “defender of Human [...]

The Billionaires Bankrolling the Tea Party

topeditor — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 21:33:04 +0000

Now even the New York Times is talking about it— By FRANK RICH | August 28, 2010 [ print_link ] ANOTHER weekend, another grass-roots demonstration starring Real Americans who are mad as hell and want to take back their country from you-know-who. Last Sunday the site was Lower Manhattan, where they jeered the “ground zero [...]

ARCHIVES: The Right-Wing Express

topeditor — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 21:01:55 +0000

WAY OVERDUE DEPT.— The Big Lie machine built by the right (and the establishment) must be broken. But that important feat won’t be achieved until progressives get serious about building their own media and mass communications structure. By Don Hazen, Crossposted with http://www.alternet.org/story/21192/ ® THIS IS AN ARCHIVAL PIECE OF LASTING INTEREST See also this [...]

HEZBOLLAH

topeditor — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 21:43:52 +0000

Terrorists, Insurgents or Resistance? (Rome) Names like Hamas and Mujahideen and Islamic Jihad and Hezbollah that ring strange and scary to the Westerner’s ear and cited over and over in the news create sensations of tension and fear. Hezbollah is a familiar name, often linked to repetitive scenes of tightly knit military formations marching shoulder [...]

Obama’s Iraq speech: An exercise in cowardice and deceit

topeditor — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 02:55:42 +0000

Just the logical result of electing a pseudo-leader, a smooth cutout for the reigning oligarchy. President Barack Obama’s nationally televised speech from the White House Oval Office Tuesday night was an exercise in cowardice and deceit. It was deceitful to the people of the United States and the entire world in its characterization of the [...]

Miasma of Myopia

topeditor — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 17:15:42 +0000

Ed Duvin 31 August 2010 IN ITS MOST DISTILLED FORM, Cicero had it right: philosophy is the love of wisdom. Although every social justice movement relies on sound philosophical underpinnings for its moral foundation, the great ontological and epistemological issues cannot be proven or disproven in the categorical sense. Morality defies proof, and although seeking [...]

ARCHIVES: A billionaire’s sordid work is never done

topeditor — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 19:09:35 +0000

Citizen Scaife BY KAREN ROTHMYER This article is abridged from Speak Out Against the New Right edited by Herbert F. Vetter (Boston: Beacon Press, 1982) A large number of organizations owe their existence to the generosity of one of the richest men in America, Richard Mellon Scaife (right). Scaife, a great-grandson of the founder of [...]

USA a failed state? It may be closer than you think

topeditor — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 02:43:52 +0000

It had to end like this. You don’t allow the amoral rich to run a nation without effective oversight and restraint and expect a just, democratic, and compassionate republic. There’s only one common factor in the failure of great nations: Mismanagement. The USA is heading down a well traveled road to its own Armageddon. Rome, [...]