en-us https://www.intensedebate.com/users/1373930 Comments by A Buddha Nature http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/56194.htm#IDComment1096767392 You left out perhaps the most important voice of the left for the last 50 years, everyone of those you mentioned would not argue, Noam Chomsky! Sun, 17 Jan 2021 15:39:45 +0000 http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/56194.htm#IDComment1096767392 http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/55299.htm#IDComment1091581047 I do like Wolff's take on the situation through a Marxist lens, it is view you do not get.Marx should be taught in all economic courses, wither you agree or disagree with his views it gives you a such a clear way to look at the dangerous attributes of capitalism and the damage they can cause in the wrong hands. Sat, 4 Jul 2020 12:03:57 +0000 http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/55299.htm#IDComment1091581047 http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/51945-c.htm#IDComment1077717159 "The purpose was to pretend peace until more land had been stolen, more checkpoints erected, more night raids made on Palestinians’ homes and more weapons tested over Gaza." This has been the deception from the beginning, as David Ben-Gurion said, "We must do everything to insure they [the Palestinians] never do return.... The old will die and the young will forget." Sun, 21 Jul 2019 20:06:12 +0000 http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/51945-c.htm#IDComment1077717159 http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/51954-c.htm#IDComment1077715849 "Iran retaliated by sinking Iraqi ships. The US didn’t like it and shot down an Iranian civilian plane as a warning." Perhaps I was being naive but never heard that they had shot that down on purpose that it was a case of mistaken identity.. I do remember that George H.W. Bush side of the incident, " that he would never apologize for something the US had done", quite an arrogant statement showing just how low they really are. Sun, 21 Jul 2019 19:40:24 +0000 http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/51954-c.htm#IDComment1077715849 http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/51250-c.htm#IDComment1070026735 This is guyis either a straight out bullshit artist or need to go back and study the history of the US labor movement, they built the middleclass supported by the Communists and socialist parties that exsisted at the time. They forced FDR into the new deal by threating him if he didn't do something to help the people the millions they had organised would revolt. He can' t slide this by me, I studied Marx! Mon, 11 Mar 2019 04:28:58 +0000 http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/51250-c.htm#IDComment1070026735 http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/51209-c.htm#IDComment1069813111 See was not arrested for debt, she was arrested because she did not, appear in court.. Police do not arrest people for debt they carry out the court order that requires them to arrest her if they stop her for say a traffic violation and the warrant shows up. They don't even know why the warrant was issued, just that their is one and they have to follow through on it. I have been through this. Tue, 5 Mar 2019 20:30:30 +0000 http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/51209-c.htm#IDComment1069813111 http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/51116-c.htm#IDComment1069362654 As Marx wrote, that the division of labor, the engine of capitalism, "robs us of our species essence". Sat, 16 Feb 2019 16:24:38 +0000 http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/51116-c.htm#IDComment1069362654 http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/51109-c.htm#IDComment1069359641 Well things are as they alway are, chaos for a buck. While the world splinters the elites run to the bank with their ill- gotten gains.. Sat, 16 Feb 2019 13:47:43 +0000 http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/51109-c.htm#IDComment1069359641 http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/51094-c.htm#IDComment1069289295 When reading truths like this I always think of these two quotes from Einstein: "Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind." “The pioneers of a warless world are the youth that refuse military service.” ___________________________________________________________________ What I have to say about it is this:People can only be lied into war, for no real truth would allow it. Wed, 13 Feb 2019 14:38:41 +0000 http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/51094-c.htm#IDComment1069289295 http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/50847-c.htm#IDComment1067718197 Gary Webb: In His Own Words (2002) | CIA Cocaine Dark Alliance Tue, 1 Jan 2019 10:41:22 +0000 http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/50847-c.htm#IDComment1067718197 http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26657.htm#IDComment105762868 The maxim of Thucydides, " that the strong do as the wish, while weak suffer as they must". Seems is the philosophy of the elite. One both Thatcher and her cohort Reagan embraced completely in the early eighties . Look what they have sowed. Sun, 24 Oct 2010 13:49:31 +0000 http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26657.htm#IDComment105762868 http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26655.htm#IDComment105756880 I don't believe the U.S. government would ever consider war with China a viable option.The western powers have always feared the Chinese simply because their huge population. Now that they have become somewhat of formidable military power, I believe a war with them is completely off the table. At least from a sane point of view.. (But, we all know that the militarists in the U.S. have never been known for their sanity). The [s]ane thinking of the west, is that they could completely over run you with shear numbers.They could throw Wave after wave of bodies at you. That scares the hell out of the Western powers. Lets hope that the Chinese government never develops a foreign policy as aggressive as the U.S. We would all soon be speaking Mandarin Then again what scares me more then having to learn Mandarin as my native tongue. Is the insane militarists in the U.S. might consider a scorched earth policy. You know better dead then Red!. Sun, 24 Oct 2010 12:53:41 +0000 http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26655.htm#IDComment105756880 http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26656.htm#IDComment105751497 Do these morons really believe what they say ? So- called terrorist attacks are a response to illegal invasions, and occupations, by people that have no other options by which to fight back against their oppressors. You really want to stop so-called terrorism? Stop participating in it. Unless of course your motives are really about something else? Sun, 24 Oct 2010 11:59:30 +0000 http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26656.htm#IDComment105751497 http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26659.htm#IDComment105750599 99.9 % of the US population will never see this, or hear of it. And, 99.8 don't care. Sun, 24 Oct 2010 11:51:59 +0000 http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26659.htm#IDComment105750599 http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26664.htm#IDComment105679605 "U.S. National Security Strategy " our forces will be strong enough to dissuade potential adversaries from pursuing a military build- up in hopes of suppressing, or equaling, the power of the United States". International affairs specialist, John Ikenberry, describes the declaration as a " grand strategy" that begins with a fundamental commitment to maintaining a unipolar world in which the U.S. no peer competitor, " a condition that is to be " permanent [ so] that no state or coalition could ever challenge [ the US] s global leader, protector, and enforcer! And for pregnant women rushing to a hospital to give birth who are murdered? Well you were sacrificed for the "U.S. National Security Strategy". Sun, 24 Oct 2010 00:01:36 +0000 http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26664.htm#IDComment105679605 http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26668.htm#IDComment105598386 Communism didn't fail. Stalin- ism did! Sat, 23 Oct 2010 12:20:18 +0000 http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26668.htm#IDComment105598386 http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26666.htm#IDComment105521125 "His opponents say imposing higher taxes would kill the economic recovery because the rich spend, invest and hire more than everyone else, faintly echoing the plutonomy theme laid out by Deutsche Bank's Kapur". I hear all this talk against raising taxes on the top 10% using the argument that raising taxes on them kills business investment because they are the ones who create businesses. Yet during the Eisenhower years the tax rate in the U.S. on the top 1% was over 90%. And during the Kennedy years it was 74%.. During that period the middle class flourished like it never had before..There was plenty of business growth. The wealthy of that time had simply accepted the higher tax rates and continued to invest. After all they were still living pretty well. So, I think this tired old augment that raising taxes on the wealthy is counter productive, is rubbish. Sat, 23 Oct 2010 01:36:52 +0000 http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26666.htm#IDComment105521125 http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26667.htm#IDComment105511177 Kinda shows you where GW's real priorities were - Instead of heeding the 4 times that British intelligent s warned them in the month of August, prior to the attacks of 9/11, that something big involving the hi-jacking of aircraft was coming. [H]e was concerned with coming up with a way to privatize SS. Remember that line " absent a new pearl harbor" in the PNAC document? They talk of how they need something like a new pearl harbor to implement their policies to bring about "THE NEW AMERICAN CENTURY". Then it happens! There is a saying: " that is no such thing as coincidence in politics". Sat, 23 Oct 2010 00:30:42 +0000 http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26667.htm#IDComment105511177 http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26670.htm#IDComment105506204 French Senate Passes Sarkozy Bill to Raise Retirement Age - Bloomberg Oct 22, 2010 7:00 PM AT France’s Senate approved President Nicolas Sarkozy’s bill to raise the retirement age by two years as labor unions promised to maintain their protests for an eighth week. Lawmakers in the Sarkozy-controlled upper house of Parliament voted 177 to 153 late yesterday, clearing the way for final passage. A comparable measure was approved by the National Assembly on Sept. 15. A panel comprising members of both chambers is scheduled to meet Oct. 25 to merge the bills. - Bloomberg Might be a good time to buy stock in guillotines ? Fri, 22 Oct 2010 23:44:26 +0000 http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26670.htm#IDComment105506204 http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26658.htm#IDComment105420619 Perhaps another type of prejudice that exists against the Obama's is not a racial one, but one of class. Many people see the Obama's as members of an elite financial class in America - one seemingly detached from the work a day world. One where people run their lives as they wish, not as they are told. And they do so at the expense of others. The divide of race and politics is just hyped to hide the other. The elites have always believed strongly, that the power must be kept out of the hands of the masses at any cost. As one of the forefathers said: "Political power, must be in the hands of “the wealth of the nation,” men who can be trusted to “secure the permanent interests of the country”—the rights of the propertied—and to defend these interests against the “leveling spirit” of the general public. If the public were allowed to participate freely in elections, their “leveling spirit” might lead to measures to improve the conditions of those who “labor under all the hardships of life, and secretly sigh for a more equal distribution of its blessings.” - James Madison So, true democracy was never the intent.. The goal was to create a look a like that would convince the masses that the playing field was level. Keeping the control as far as the elite were concerned, where it belonged.. In their hands! Feel like you are living the matrix? Fri, 22 Oct 2010 12:45:20 +0000 http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26658.htm#IDComment105420619