Last Wednesday?s presidential

A Guy Called LULU — Tue, 09 Oct 2012 16:28:49 +0000

In reply to Don?t you just want to speak

Last Wednesday’s presidential debate, and the flurry of fact-checking that followed, helped sustain the illusion that Republicans and Democrats are bitter rivals...

The Commission on Presidential Debates, a private corporation both parties created, ensures independent candidates will be excluded, and more generally that the events will remain the sterile, predictable spectacles familiar to viewers.

http://www.counterpunch.org/2012/10/09/honduras-now-open-for-political-m...

Don?t you just want to speak

A Guy Called LULU — Tue, 09 Oct 2012 16:11:58 +0000

In reply to Disaster on autopilot: The discrediting of U.S. military power

Don’t you just want to speak to those negotiators the way you might to a child: No, don’t do that! The urge to return to the scene of their previous disaster, however, seems unstaunchable. You could offer various explanations for why our policymakers, military and civilian, continue in such a repetitive — and even from an imperial point of view — self-destructive vein in situations where unpleasant surprises are essentially guaranteed and lack of success a given. Yes, there is the military-industrial complex to be fed. Yes, we are interested in the control of crucial resources, especially energy, and so on.

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Last Wednesday?s presidential

Don?t you just want to speak