Daydreams of a military coup over the Constitution.

When I see the worsening degeneracy in our politicians, our media, our educators, and our intelligentsia, I can’t help wondering if the day may yet come when the only thing that can save this country is a military coup.

Good on you, Uncle Tom.

I find you skillful and knowledgeable too.

An Unsustainable System

Anti-Capitalism in Five Minutes

By ROBERT JENSEN

We know that capitalism is not just the most sensible way to organize an economy but is now the only possible way to organize an economy. We know that dissenters to this conventional wisdom can, and should, be ignored. There’s no longer even any need to persecute such heretics; they are obviously irrelevant.

How do we know all this? Because we are told so, relentlessly — typically by those who have the most to gain from such a claim, most notably those in the business world and their functionaries and apologists in the schools, universities, mass media, and mainstream politics. Capitalism is not a choice, but rather simply is, like a state of nature. Maybe not like a state of nature, but the state of nature. To contest capitalism these days is like arguing against the air that we breathe. Arguing against capitalism, we’re told, is simply crazy.

We are told, over and over, that capitalism is not just the system we have, but the only system we can ever have. Yet for many, something nags at us about such a claim. Could this really be the only option? We’re told we shouldn’t even think about such things. But we can’t help thinking — is this really the “end of history,” in the sense that big thinkers have used that phrase to signal the final victory of global capitalism? If this is the end of history in that sense, we wonder, can the actual end of the planet far behind?

We wonder, we fret, and these thoughts nag at us — for good reason. Capitalism — or, more accurately, the predatory corporate capitalism that defines and dominates our lives — will be our death if we don’t escape it. Crucial to progressive politics is finding the language to articulate that reality, not in outdated dogma that alienates but in plain language that resonates with people. We should be searching for ways to explain to co-workers in water-cooler conversations — radical politics in five minutes or less — why we must abandon predatory corporate capitalism. If we don’t, we may well be facing the end times, and such an end will bring rupture not rapture.

Here’s my shot at the language for this argument.

Capitalism is admittedly an incredibly productive system that has created a flood of goods unlike anything the world has ever seen. It also is a system that is fundamentally (1) inhuman, (2) anti-democratic, and (3) unsustainable. Capitalism has given those of us in the First World lots of stuff (most of it of marginal or questionable value) in exchange for our souls, our hope for progressive politics, and the possibility of a decent future for children.

In short, either we change or we die — spiritually, politically, literally.

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Chris Floyd, author of Empire Burlesque: High Crimes and Low Comedy in the Bush Imperium, explains America’s proxy war in Somalia and some of the liars in the mass media who aid and abet this mass murder.

Of course they do.

Thanks Matt.

for today:

First hour Chris Floyd on America’s war in Somalia.

Second hour, you me and the news.

Stream it live at KAOS959.com 11am - 1pm central.

(512) 646-6446.

Rest of the show.

Well, this is just swell: a girl is stoned to death by a crowd of 1000 people while the cops stand by and watch. And I thought that Kurdistan was the success story of the ‘liberation’ of Iraq, right? Ain’t that the part of Iraq which has full US and Israel support and where US forces are not constantly attacked by insurgents? Well then - where were these forces when all this happened?

Totally sickening

Lets try to get the proceedings from this conference as there should be plenty of interesting materials generated by the speakers.

Former CIA Officers Phil Giraldi, Ray McGovern, Larry Johnson, Jim Marcinkowski, Vince Cannistraro, and David MacMichael, along with two other people that worked in high level intelligence and national security positions, were not impressed with Mr. Tenet’s activities this past weekend, to say the least.

You can read the letter in it’s smoldering entirety at No Quarter.

In this clip with Tucker Carlson, he claims to know, rather than just suspect that the Ledeen, Chalabi, Ghorbanifar, Larry Franklin, Pollari Rome cabal was behind it.

Reminds me of Justin’s article saying it was former CIA guys Wolf and Clarridge. I believe they were contractors for the Rendon Group.

Looks like I need to interview Larisa Alexandrovna again…