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Some Links And Open Thread
An interesting portrait: I’ll Be Your Mirror – What Pakistan sees in Imran Khan – Caravan Magazine
How Merkel kicked out Berlusconi. (Not sure about this tale. There is certainly an agenda and some spinning behind it. Still an interesting read.) Deepening Crisis Over Euro Pits Leader Against Leader – WSJ
Because they can. The racist land-robber tribe plans to kill more defenseless people: IDF confirms preparations for extensive future Gaza military action – Haartez
Obama administration secretly preparing options for aiding the Syrian opposition – The Cable/FP
I for one do not believe for a minute that the ongoing U.S. operation against Syria has not been planed and implemented months, if not years, ago. Spinning this now preparing options out to the media is only to announce the implementation of the next stage.
Another stupid default judgement: Crackpot Anti-Islam Activists, "Serial Fabricators" and the Tale of Iran and 9/11 – Gareth Porter/Truthout
Saying the obvious about what never was the real issue: Mossad chief: Nuclear Iran not necessarily existential threat to Israel – Haaretz
"Getting to Yes" never was part of the plan: Keeping Iran From Saying Yes – Paul Pillar/National Interest
AMERICA’S DRIVE FOR MIDDLE EAST DOMINANCE SETS THE STAGE FOR ATTACKING IRAN—NEVER MIND INTERNATIONAL LAW (OR EVEN U.S. INTERESTS) – Levretts/Race For Iran
Australian TV on Kill/Capture raids in Afghanistan: In Their Sights (video, 45 min)
Another interesting portrait. A former Mujahedin/Taliban telling his life: We Felt No Mercy – Maisonneuve
“I told the Americans many times, ‘Don’t do what the Russians did. Why do you do this? Why don’t you learn or listen to people who’ve been there?’ If they did two years ago what they’re doing now, there would be no war. They do everything at the last possible minute, after they fail.
The last sentence sounds just like Churchill.
Actually, corporations are the heart and soul of America. They provide its citizens with countless goods and services, efficiently and cheaply, and provide employment for millions.
Jesus, this is right out of the Corporatist Lobbyist playbook. It’s where Libertarians fail, well, one of the places they strongly fail. Tyranny comes in many forms. Currently, it is provided by a collusion of corporations and state, with corporations precipitating that takeover, unlike Nazi Germany where the direction was from state to corporation. Still, it’s the collusion that counts as Fascism. Ron Paul Libertarians want to remove the state part of that equation and leave corporate tyranny to rule the day, thus removing any possibility of an outside influence, meaning any Government that could have been for and by the people, to the extent that was ever possible, now will no longer even be possible, and the Corporate Mafia can now take the gloves off and go to work at eliminating any and all of its perceived dissidents in whatever manner it chooses….as it’s been doing abroad for an eternity now, it seems.
I lived in Texas, Don, so I didn’t just pass through it like you. Read Russ Baker’s Family of Secrets and understand that Texas is ground zero in the Fascist Putsch that has taken hold in the last fifty years. Obviously, my comment about nuking it is tongue and cheek, but there is a point to it. On other forums I have heard what cowards the “terrorist arabs” are because they hide in and amongst the general population, however, take a look at the U.S. Tell me where the U.S. terrorists are not hidden amongst the general population, using its citizens as human shields, whether they’re witting, or not? So, I propose that all these fascist scum, if they’re not cowards, and we know they are, be willing to relocate and congregate as one in a state of their own, and I think Texas is the perfect location for them. See, that way, any enemies they create, domestically and abroad, and there are already many and there will be many more, will know how and where to find them, and if they feel a need for retributive punishment, will punish the evildoers instead of those who wanted no part of their sadistic, twisted and destructive ways.
And, I will finally add, asserting that corporations are the “heart and soul of America” is oxymoronically appropriate in every way. Since Corporations have no heart and no soul, the implication is that “America” has no heart and no soul, so truer words have never been articulated.
http://whowhatwhy.com/
Posted by: Morocco Bama | Jan 1 2012 19:10 utc | 40
Hmmm….can’t speak for this blog, because I just ran across it, so I’m not sure if it has an agenda. It does, I’m sure, as most blogs do have one, but nonetheless, it raises some interesting points…namely who and what makes up Ron Paul’s support, or at least part of that support.
http://www.dialoginternational.com/dialog_international/2011/12/ron-paul-and-the-neo-fascists.html
But the editors of eigentümlich frei fail to point out who many of these enthusiastic supporters for Ron Paul really are. The New York Times published an excellent article on support for the Paul campaign from white supremacist groups in the US who were enthusiastic subscribers to Ron Paul’s racist newsletters in the 1990s.
The TImes piece, however, is incomplete in that it fails to explore Ron Paul’s contacts with prominent neo-fascist groups both in the US and abroad. For example, in November of this year Ron Paul met with Marine LePen, leader of the French neo-fascist Front National (FN) and a serious opponent of Sarkozy. In Germany, the völkisch-national weekly Junge Freiheit has written extensively – and admiringly – about Ron Paul as the father of the Tea Party movement, which the editors Junge Freiheit would love to replicate in Germany as the vanguard of a neo-fascist movement. A reporter for Junge Freiheit – Kristof Berking – even traveled to the US to attend a Ron Paul “Rally for the Republic”. Berking has compiled a useful “Internet Guide the Ron Paul Revolution” and also writes about Paul for eigentümlich frei – demonstrating the close links between libertarianism and neo-fascism. Junge Freiheit’s American Cousin – the “intellectual” white supremacist site Alternative Right has written approvingly of Ron Paul’s racist newsletters and the site’s senior editor – Professor Paul Gottfried – has endorsed Ron Paul.
The NYTimes piece points out that Ron Paul was heavily influenced by the Libertarian thinker Murray Rothbard, who tried to build a Libertarian political movement in the 1970s and 1980s. Rothbard’s most famous disciple is the German-born Libertarian anarcho-fascist thinker Hans Hermann Hoppe (also, incidentally, a contributor to Junge Freiheit) who, in his 2001 book Democracy: The God That Failed advocates a new feudalism centered on a cult of private property where enemies of the “natural order” – Gays, Lesbians, Democrats, etc. – would be forcibly expelled or detained:
“There can be no tolerance toward those habitually promoting lifestyles incompatible with this goal. They-the advocates of alternative, non-family-centered lifestyles such as, for instance, individual hedonism, parasitism, nature-environment worship, homosexuality, or communism-will have to be physically removed from society, too, if one is to maintain a libertarian order.” -Hans Hermann Hoppe, Democracy: The God That Failed
Now, I have to say that I find it hard to swallow that the New York Times could possibly produce an excellent piece. Obviously, the NYT wants to smear Paul, and we know the reasons why, but that doesn’t necessarily give Paul a clean bill of health. I think DaveS on the other thread said it all too well. He said:
As far as RP is concerned; I figure he’s just another maggot politician who has managed to keep playing the game by talking to the fringe. One of the reasons I don’t trust him is – can anyone really say what his policies would be? He seems almost as good a chameleon changing his beliefs to fit the times as the rest of the assholes in Congress. He just has talking points that resonate with a lot of people, like a certain senator from Illinois who talked a fine talk but doesn’t even begin to walk the walk. Not that I was surprised.
Greenwald has shown himself to be an absolute idiot and is now a captive of his audience. Instead of him owning his own criticism of Paul, he instead practically endorses him, and the electoral process, in his permanent reactionary state to the MSM and his ceaseless mission to provide the crossfire opposite to anything it says or puts forth.
Posted by: Morocco Bama | Jan 1 2012 21:15 utc | 41
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