Today's Stories

May 15-17, 2009

Alexander Cockburn
King of the Hate Business

May 14, 2009

Michael Hudson
Where Russia Went Wrong

Andy Worthington
The Poisoned Mosaic: Judge Condemns Guantánamo Evidence

Paul Craig Roberts
The Impotent President

Jonathan Cook
The Pope's Pilgrimage: Legitimizing Netanyahu?

Ray McGovern
See No Evil: Ugly Questions for General Myers

Lance Selfa
The Limits of Liberalism

David Green
The Deportation of Demjanjuk

Dave Lindorff
Obama Channels Cheney

Frida Berrigan
Nuclear Options

Sue Udry
The Bybee Question

Website of the Day
Our Bombs: Tracking US Air Strikes

May 13, 2009

Brian M. Downing
The Road Out of Iraq

Gareth Porter
Gen. McChrystal and Afghanistan

Robert Sandels
Obama and Latin America: No Light, All Tunnel

Ricardo Alarcón
Cuba: Measure of a Revolution

Eric Walberg
NATO in Georgia: Fun and Games

Dave Lindorff
The Sinking of GM: When Captains of Industry Don't Go Down with the Ship

Deepak Tripathi
A Culture of Abuse

William S. Lind
Back to the Balkans: Hillary and the Sleeping Dragon

Kevin Zeese
A Populist Health Care Rebellion

Franklin Lamb
Lebanon: From Perdition to Redemption?

Website of the Day
Beth McIntosh: The Wild Ride

May 12, 2009

Gary Leupp
The Bomb Iran Faction

Richard Neville
The AfPak Blues: Corpses of the Kids by the Truckload

Wajahat Ali
Obama Chooses a Reliable Dictatorship

Dean Baker
The Banker Boys Are Alright! Time to End the Bailouts

Franklin Lamb
What Palestinian Refugees Need From Lebanon's Elections

Norman Solomon
A Progressive Challenge to Jane Harman

Paul Craig Roberts
Beware the Hate Crimes Bill

Lisa M. Hamilton
Let's Grow a New Crop of Farmers

Bob Fitrakis /
Harvey Wasserman:
Why Isn't Obama Turning to Credit Unions?

David Macaray
Wading Through the Grassroots

Website of the Day
Electronic Police States

May 11, 2009

Andrea Peacock
No Justice for Libby

Michael Hudson
Gordon Brown Spills the Beans on the IMF

Patrick Cockburn
Who Killed 120 Civilians?

Ralph Nader
The Single-Payer Taboo

John Kelly
Pseudoscience and Wrongful Convictions in the War on Drugs

Saul Landau
Cuba's Biggest "Crime"

Dave Lindorff
Blaming the Dead Victims

David Michael Green
Get Obama

Anthony Papa
Gov. David Paterson Does the Right Thing

Paul Krassner
Jon Stewart and Truman, the War Criminal

Website of the Day
Generational Homelessness

May 8-10, 2009

Alexander Cockburn
Dead Souls

Jeffrey St. Clair
Echoes of Amchitka: 40 Years After America's Biggest Nuclear Blast, the Damage Continues

Paul Wolf
Obama's Axis of Obedience

Steve Niva
Iraq: The Return of the Suicide Bombers

Neve Gordon
Jailed for Caring

Mike Whitney
Has Bernanke Pulled the Economy Back From the Brink?

Warren Hinckle
DiFi vs. Marilyn Chambers

Serge Halimi
In Praise of Revolutions

Gareth Porter
The Pakistan Conundrum

Sharon Smith
Something Stinks at Whole Foods

Andy Worthington
Obama's New Gitmo Policy: Back to the Bush Era?

Mark Weisbrot
Hillary and Latin America

Rosa Miriam Elizalde Cyber Command and Cyber Dissident: More of the Same?

David Macaray
Recessions and Labor Unions

Missy Beattie
The Real Housewives of War

Ron Jacobs
Mothers and War

Diane Farsetta
About Face on Pentagon Pundits?

Ramzy Baroud
War Without Context

Phelie Maguire
Living Next to Settlers

Robert Fantina
Party of Rush

Kevin Zeese
A Break From the Past in the Drug War?

Margaret Flowers, MD
The Baucus 8: Why We Risked Arrest for Single-Payer

Dave Lindorff
The Joke's on Us

Richard Rhames
Revenge of the Tundra

Ben Sonnenberg
Let the Right One In: A Vampire Visits a Welfare State

Kim Nicolini
Sin Nombre: Giving Faces to People Who Don't Have Names

Stephen Martin
The Riotous Action of the Complete Banker

Charles R. Larson
The Commencement Address You'll Never Hear

David Yearsley
Jean Ferrard, Organist Extraordinary

Lorenzo Wolff
Death Cab for Cutie: Surprisingly Familiar

Poets' Basement
G.S. Heiligschreib and David Farrelly

Website of the Weekend
Zombie Bank

May 7, 2009

Paul Craig Roberts
Criminalizing Criticism of Israel

Chris Floyd
A Full-Court Press for Pakistan War

Andy Worthington
Mixed Messages on Torture

Alan Farago
No Place Like Home: a Stress Test for Land Use, Not Just Banks

Ray McGovern
Deux ex Machina on Torture?

Dave Lindorff
Stain Removal: Impeaching the Torture Judge

Eric Toussaint /
Damien Millet
Why is There Rampant Famine in the 21st Century?

Ana M. Malinow, MD
Why We Need a Single-Payer Health Care System

Jeff Armstrong
Freeing Leonard Peltier: What Would Warren Harding Do?

Norman Solomon
A Green New Deal

Website of the Day
The End of Lake Mead?

May 6, 2009

Doug Peacock
The Fate of the Yellowstone Grizzly

Patrick Cockburn
Afghans to Obama: Get Out, Take Karzai With You

Richard Neville
The Torturer's Apprentice

Manuel Garcia, Jr.
To Power a Nation: Nuclear Bombs or Sunshine?

Winslow T. Wheeler
Of Pork and Baloney: Obama's Defense Budget

Deepak Tripathi
Pakistan in Crisis

Stephen Soldz
A "Natural Reaction": APA Ethics Policy-Maker Endorses Torture

Reuven Kaminer
Nice is Not Enough: Obama vs. Netanyahu and Lieberman

David Macaray
The Chrysler-UAW Deal

Kevin Zeese
Why We Were Arrested at the Senate Finance Committee Hearings

Marjorie Cohn
Stanford Antiwar Alums Call for War Crimes Investigation of Condoleezza Rice

Coalition for an Ethical Psychology
Investigate Psychologist and Health Provider Complicity in Torture

Website of the Day
Who's Behind the Financial Meltdown?

May 5, 2009

William Blum
Torture and Mr. Obama

Uri Avnery
Netanyahu's Plan

Steven Higgs
Autism and Toxic Pollution

Dean Baker
Why Economists Should Learn Arithmetic

Daniel Wolff
The Education of Rachel Carson

Sibel Edmonds
The Broken Congress

Carole King Klein
A New Chance to Save the Northern Rockies

Fidel Castro
Giving One's All

Belén Fernández
Oil and Aguardiente in the Ecuadoran Elections

Dan Bacher
Schwarzenegger's Big Lie About Fish vs. Jobs

Website of the Day
"I Married Isis on the Fifth Day of May"

May 4, 2009

James G. Abourezk
The AIPAC Spy Case

Jeff Leys
Obama's War Budget

Patrick Cockburn
Afghan Ayatollahs Press Marital Rape Law

Andy Worthington
A Start on Guantánamo, But Not Enough

Jaime Avilés
Mexico's Plague-Bringers

David Swanson
An Even Worse Bybee Memo

Paul Craig Roberts
Working with Jack Kemp

P. Sainath
Celeb Crusades and the Death of Politics

Eugenia Tsao
Canada's Obama and the Cult of the Prof

Benjamin Dangl
Protest and Rubber Bullets in Paraquay

Sami Al-Arian
Mourning William Moffitt

Website of the Day
"Soldiers Are Cutting Us Down": Kent State, May 4, 1970

May 1 - 3, 2009

Alexander Cockburn
Game-Changers: Specter Jumps, Souter Quits

Gary Leupp
Dropping the AIPAC Spying Case

Peter Linebaugh
The Key to the Bastille

Jeffrey St. Clair /
Joshua Frank:
Half Life of a Toxic War: Iraq's Wrecked Environment

C. G. Estabrook
Minion of the Long War

Patrick Cockburn
Kabul's New Elite

Mike Whitney
Economy on the Ropes

Pierre Sprey /
Winslow Wheeler
What "Sweeping Overhaul" of the Pentagon?

Andy Worthington
Al-Marri's Plea Deal: Dictatorial Powers Unchallenged

Mairead Maguire
Stand Up to Israeli Apartheid: a Letter to Obama From a Nobel Peace Prize Laureate

Nadia Hijab
The Israel Boycott is Biting

Diane Farsetta
Life, Death and Water Policy

Michael Calderón-Zaks
The Déjà Vu Flu: Why Much of the Discussion About Swine Flu is Racist

Richard Rhames
When Piggies Come Home to Roost: Swine Flu and the Industrial Meat Gulags

Russell Mokhiber
Inside the Beltway Baucus

Ramzy Baroud
Clinton's Unpromising Start

Rannie Amiri
Understanding Lebanon's June Elections

Deb Reich
No Talking, Dammit!

Steven Higgs
Indiana Criminalizes Dissent: Roadblocks on the NAFTA Highway

Brian Cloughley
Malice in Blunderland

David Michael Green
The Party's Over

Farzana Versey
Sex, Swat and Susan Boyle

Jim Goodman
Think Before You Eat: Agriculture and the Environment

Carl Finamore
New Prescription for a Healthy Union Movement

Christopher Brauchli
The Sounds of Silence: the Texas Option

Susie Day
The Real Cause of Unemployment: Employees!

David Yearsley
Nuts Over Beethoven

Lorenzo Wolff
Three Minutes of Perfection

Peter Stone Brown
Dancing with Dylan

Poets' Basement Dominguez, Orloski and Springate

Website of the Weekend
May Day Europe

April 30, 2009

Ellen Cantarow
Obama and "Two States": Seamless Continuity From Bush Time

Dana L. Cloud
The McCarthyism That Horowitz Built

Paul W. Lovinger /
Jeannette Hassberg
A Nation of Laws

Binoy Kampmark
Swine at the Trough: the Business of Pandemics

Brian Downing
The Perils of Modernization in Afghanistan

Frank Snepp
Tortured by the Past

David Swanson
The Wrong Torture Question

Conn Hallinan
The Coming Asian Storm

Ron Jacobs
Not Dead Yet: an Interview with Jerry Gordon on the State of the Antiwar Movement

John Goekler
The Only Path to a Middle East Picnic?

Jasmine L. Tyler /
Anthony Papa
An End to Crack/Powder Cocaine Sentencing Disparity?

Website of the Day
Emergency Petition: Stop Coal Industry Intimidation of Activists

April 29, 2009

Joann Wypijewski
Death at Work in America

Patrick Cockburn
The Taliban's Roads to Kabul

Andy Worthington
Cheney's Twisted World

Chris Floyd
The Specter Diversion

Dave Lindorff
No More Excuses: a Specter is Haunting the Democrats

Jeremy Scahill
The Nuremberg Truth and Reconciliation Commission?

Doug Henwood
Zionist Lobby Targets Another Tenured Professor: an Interview with William Robinson

Michael Hudson
Will Iceland be Handed Over to a New Gang of Kleptocrats?

Russell Mokhiber
My Ron Pollack Problem--And Yours

Eric Toussaint
Ecuador at the Crossroads

Website of the Day
An Interview with Leslie and Andrew Cockburn on "American Casino"

April 28, 2009

Uri Avnery
A Little Red Light: On Israeli Fascism

Jeremy Scahill
Obama's Iraq: the Picture of Dorian Gray

Dean Baker
The Perfect Gift for Wall Street: a Financial Transactions Tax

Michael D. Yates
At the Factory Gate

Conn Hallinan
Georgian Plots? Saakavili's "Order No. 2"

John Stauber
Beyond MoveOn

Tom Barry
The Failed Border Security Initiative

Harvey Wasserman
Who Pays for America's Chernobyl Roulette?

Jeff Nygaard
Pirates, Profits and Propaganda

Frederico Fuentes
Why the U.S. Still Hates Cuba

Website of the Day
The Man Behind the Hood

April 27, 2009

Pam Martens
The Far Right's Plot to Capture New Hampshire

Patrick Cockburn
Torture? It Probably Killed More Americans Than 9/11

Andrew J. Bacevich Guardian of the Status Quo: Obama's Sins of Omission

Mitu Sengupta
The Bloodbath in Sri Lanka

Franklin Lamb
Hillary Does Beirut: The 165-Minute Swoop-In

Firmin DeBrabander
Crimes of Economic Madness

Dave Lindorff
Wide Open to Pandemic?

Russell Mokhiber
How Corrupt is That?

Mike Whitney
Pinter's Message to Obama

Mark Weisbrot
Overhauling the IMF

Rev. José M. Tirado
Iceland's New Dawn: How the Right Got Trounced

Website of the Day
American Casino

April 24-26, 2009

Alexander Cockburn
Putting the Bush Years on Trial

Marjorie Cohn
Torture Used to Try to Link Saddam with 9/11

Andy Worthington
Who Ordered the Torture of Abu Zubaydah?

Jeremy Scahill
Are Leading Democrats Afraid of a Special Prosecutor to Investigate Torture?

Chris Floyd
Top of the Heap: the Democrats' Teachable Moment on Torture

Mike Whitney
A Housing Crash Update

Anthony DiMaggio
Obama and the Housing Crisis

Chris Kromm
Democratic Lobbyists Key to Fight Against Employee Free Choice Act

Saul Landau
Seventeen Months in "the Hole:" an Interview with the Leader of the Cuban Five

Dave Lindorff
Free John Walker Lindh

Greg Moses
The Debt Looters

Joshua Frank
Calling for a Coal Moratorium: an Interview with Ted Nace

Fred Gardner
Collective Farming and the Lynch Case

Manuel Garcia, Jr.
Homework, Testing and Stealth Apartheid in Education

David Michael Green
Of Tea Parties and Teleprompters

Ramzy Baroud
Middle East Spies: a New Front in Gaza's Conflict

Rannie Amiri
Mubarak's Expanding Enemies List

Laura Carlsen
Mr. President, Calderon is Not Mexico

Richard Morse
The Haitian People Need a Lobbyist

Nikolas Kozloff
Protecting the Bald Eagle: a Task Now Falling to ... Hugo Chavez?

Kent Peterson
The Fight to Save Mexico's Mangroves

Robert Bryce
The Ethanol Scammers Rent a General

Niranjan Ramakrishnan The Financial Experts

Ron Jacobs
Torture is More Than Just "Harsh Tactics"

Richard Rhames
Roman Legends, Book Burning and History's Hunt

Stephen Martin
Wherefore Art Thou American Dream?

David Yearsley
Rodgers, Hammerstein, Michener and Nostalgia's Clammy Embrace

Poets' Basement
Khalil and Mankh

Website of the Weekend
Doug and Andrea Peacock on Grizzlies and Edward Abbey

April 23, 2009

Eamonn Fingleton
How the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times Buried the Madoff Scandal for at Least Four Years

Ray McGovern
Obama Plays Hamlet on Torture

Michael Ratner
The Torture Commission Trap

Alan Farago
The Quicksand Economy

Rob Larson
Business Gets Carded

Nadia Hijab
The Real Heroes of Durban

Fawzia Afzal-Khan
Deconstructing the Taliban

Dave Lindorff
Are Members of Congress Being Blackmailed?

Helen Redmond
Selling Out Single-Payer: the "Public Option" Con

Adam Federman
The Battle Over New York's Marcellus Shale

Website of the Day
An Interactive Map of Vanishing Employment Across the Country

April 22, 2009

Chris Floyd
The Fatal Thread: Torture, War and the Imperial Project

Joanne Mariner
Torture Evidence and Terror Blacklists

Vijay Prashad
Obama's Afghan Plan: Fracturing the Antiwar Movement

Gareth Porter
U.S. Lacks Capacity to Win Over Afghans

Dean Baker
The Tyranny of Bad Economics

Peter Morici
Housing Sales and Fixing the Economy

Winslow T. Wheeler
Eliminating Bad Pentagon Habits

Barucha Calamity Peller
The Battle to Take Back the New School

Harvey Wasserman
Chernobyl Could Happen Here

Aisha Brown /
Dedrick Muhammad
White Privilege in the Americas

Teo Ballvé
Obama's Feel Good Meeting with Colombia's Uribe

Website of the Day
Ahmedinejad's Durban Speech: What He Actually Said

April 21, 2009

Randy Rowland
Lindy Blake's Great Escape

Dave Lindorff
Jay Bybee's Conspiracy to Torture

Fidel Castro
The Secret Summit

George McGovern
Pull Out of Iraq This Year

Greg Moses
The Unemployment Channel

Benjamin Dangl
Argentina Remembers

Sonia Nettnin
Saving Lives in Gaza

Frank Barat
The Death of Bassem: a Shooting at the Wall in Bil'n

Binoy Kampmark
Legal Purgatory and John Demjanjuk

John V. Walsh
Code Red for Single Payer

David Macaray
SAG Should be Praised, Not Assailed

Website of the Day
Bonus Man: For Executive Assholes Everywhere

April 20, 2009

Mike Whitney
Housing Bust Comes Roaring Back, Worse Than Ever

Andrea Peacock
Histrionics and Legalisms in Missoula

Henry A. Giroux
Ten Years After Columbine: the Tragedy of Youth Deepens

Liaquat Ali Khan
Drone Attacks on Pakistan's Indigenous Tribes

Fred Gardner
Obama's DoJ Backs Prosecution of Medical Marijuana Providers

Stephen Soldz
Obama, Blair, Panetta and the Torture Memos: Praising Moral Cowards, Ignoring Real Heroes

Nadia Hijab
Obama's Multi-Polar Middle East

Dave Lindorff
The Meeting in Trinidad

P. Sainath
India's Press Nixes "R" Word

Nelson P Valdés
A Modest (Transition) Proposal to Obama

Mark Engler
American Empire Foreclosed?

Belén Fernández
The FARC Can't Dance

Website of the Day
Dear Mr. Buffett...

May 15-17, 2009

The Profession of No Belief

Lipstick Nightmare for Spin Merchant

By STEPHEN MARTIN

It is not a field of a few acres of ground, but a cause, that we are defending, and whether we defeat the enemy in one battle, or by degrees, the consequences will be the same.

Thomas Paine.

The above quote ‘prescience epitomised’?

Globalization far beyond a ‘few acres of ground’; as much as Earth seen  by way of  issue and control of money the cause of enemy as must be defended against?

Whether ‘together’ as   never before – or apart as ‘forever’ - sense of ‘wandering son’ prevailing  as way of perdition being hegemonic?

‘Stateless Bastard’ being so as to ‘Justice’ incorporated – but that there be ‘War’ such the treachery as so to be undeclared by ‘Ubermenschen’ in vain apperception as constituent of cause?

As ‘the drone’ launches another missile; death of innocent rationalised by ‘free press’- concerning   ‘far off land’ which has something so desired?

‘Artificial insemination’ demanding getting of syringe; such the farm, such the breed -  such the swine?

Let alone the absence of declaration as arrogation of right, ‘New American Century’ so standing:  and ‘Thousand Year Reich’   redux?

Remember Poland?

Way of ‘Canned Goods’?

As ‘Generation of Swine’ so treacherous would be hunted by another ‘son of Thomas’?

So it goes.

‘Human nature’, not of itself vicious – but as to that of bastard progeny as so being ‘Stateless’ different matter?

That there be further blood spilled, further sufferance leading to ‘gain’ as consequence following ‘cold’; as silver leads to gold,  such the heartlessness; such the machination  of  the control and issue - as whence there be abrogation in cause?

‘Know thine enemy’ being advice worthy of Machiavelli; but that it takes such ‘Paine’ and sufferance of  humanity?

Must forgive - for in such naiveté there be a ‘tread’ of dare as recognises ‘Angel’?

And much the ‘Doubting’ there must be Thomas – form of ‘Paine’?

War being waged such juncture cause of taxation being ‘hidden’ the subject of this small article.

For there circulates amongst the body humane such hidden parasite vicious as to be viral, and as ‘swine’ would so tax dialectic as to be degenerated to such reduction effected; as would make of  wondrous beauty mere ‘currency’ as ‘contemporaneous’; ‘time being money’ as ‘triumph’ of  the ephemeral in illusion; form of ‘Corporatism’; sponsored ‘International’ by ‘complete banker’  - as Necrotroph?

2009 – ‘The Year of the Pig with Lipstick’ as may be said in China?

Such the ‘cynicism’ as ‘symbiosis’ indeed, as seen by another Thomas (POTUS 3).

Such sense as ‘Economics’ be comprehended by look in wallet or purse – or  upon ‘Statement’ digital as bank; such being  aspect of  ‘Panopticon’?

‘Enemy of the State’ indeed, such the ‘morality’ caste…

Figures at the end of the day reflecting ‘quality of life’ –   as so ‘allowed’ - such being the ‘permit’ as granted to International Banker?

As ‘Turn of Screw’?

A parasitical, warped minority as would so reduce by way of ‘gain pragmatic’; as would ‘ feed’  from  illusion; way of ‘worship’ of  filthy lucre,  stand to ‘gain’ accordant by way of deception in the turning of belief through ‘spin’?

As causes this writer to spit?

Say nought of ‘rage, rage against the dying’ - as put a Thomas concerning ‘of the light’?

The minority control as determines categorisation, as divides way of ‘for or against’; as would use language to rationalise what amounts to no more than mere lust for lucre -  to  cry of ‘more’?

In worship of Mammon -  despite ‘sense of law’ known?

But that the following should so ‘stand’ as in the resounding of pity transcending scorn for those so ‘intimate with greed’ as ‘sup with long spoon’  be demanded whence Statelessness of the bastard so delineated.

As in:

It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving, it consists in professing to believe what he does not believe.

Thomas Paine.

Again, again – here be ‘Paine’?

As but one right amongst many such being the transcendence– should election be so exercised  as being ‘man’, sense of homo sapiens  -  and  gender disregarded?

Herein a small profession, such as being ‘exercise’, seen by moral genius quoted above as to ‘self true’ in the cleaving; as  ‘humanity legitimate’  be platitude - or simple truth the expression ‘un modulated’- being out of mouth of  ‘eternal child’ as ‘puer aeternus’?

That the current situation Economic be so hurtful, so punitive, so derisory of humanity in the consequence of systemic failure spun by way of illusion propagated as to be interpreted as mere ‘happenstance’; and not  the wilful product of scheme of gain in abrogation of rights of man as potentiality so gifted in breath of life as is found to be wanting resultant of the trying by exercise of reason judicious of  the ‘aspiration’ of bastard Stateless - as to lead towards professing:  ‘No belief!’?

That so many suffer?

As in ‘Thar she blows!’  biggest pig ‘snorting’ at trough seen, as ‘whale of a swine’,  such the Statelessness of the bastard realised, as challenge to spin- form of ‘lipstick applied’ the disguise cosmetic?

Such the ‘crying of the lot’ asked of Thomas?

As in: ‘Do not believe in Politics as profession’ averted?

Such the ‘Paine’ being as lipstick in huge quantity, however artfully applied, cannot disguise?

As  ‘Dream On – Stateless Bastard!’  be the product of scheme ‘gang agley’?

In Britain at this time there is much questioning of ‘Professional Politicians’, who are referred to as ‘honourable member’.

The ongoing scandal of taxpayer being ‘ripped off’  by said   ‘honourable member’ , as would lead to profession of  ‘No belief’?

In a fascinating yet ‘understandable’ turn of events, (of which more at another juncture concerning ‘onion peeled’), there has been a clear and determined focus by a  British ‘free press’ under ‘freedom of information’ on what could be referred to as ‘small pork’ of Professional Politicians - and question of the applicability of ‘honourable’ in the ride upon ‘gravy train’ as leads to snout in trough; form of outrageous expenses claimed – and paid.

For taxpayer in Britain the whistle has been well and truly blown – ‘game’ on!

 Small pork being the expenses claimed from the taxpayer.

As ‘gouge of the profiteer’; or ‘act of worship’ of International Banker such the subjugation as imitation sincerest form of flattery, ‘in for a cent, in for a dollar’ prevailing – but who ‘coins the currency’ the real power in such idolatry the question as would not be asked? (Courtesy of Thomas)

Revelation occurring despite the protest of ‘Politicians Professional’ who wished to keep it private, keep it secret; as far as the taxpayer funding such excess be ‘cognisant’?

To keep profession private, as it were, and as being of ‘no belief unrecognised’  -  as not to ‘lead toward profession'?.

‘Look over there, not here!’, indeed.

Or: ‘You have no right to look here!’?

The term ‘pork’ in American Politics being associated with the ‘stuffing’ of legislation with benefits directed by way of State, or Corporation, and upon which ‘Interest Group’ thrives.

‘Big  pork’.

The Politician so sponsoring such clause pragmatic, oft hidden, oft obscure in the phrasing, as may claim ‘due representation’ where State or Corporation so located therein, is involved, by way of benefits conferred in the representation reflected in the allocation of resources being thus ‘efficacious’ and legitimate contended  -  and ‘kickback’ by way of ‘quid pro quo’  having come to be disguised in many ways as to be not directly connected?

Whence ‘big pork’ so ‘cut’; becomes ‘little pork’ –  way of the application of the knife by ‘Old Macky’  as announcement : ‘Back in town’?

So it goes, so it goes.

As to whence ‘others’ benefit in the ‘honour’ of representation the ‘cause’ as primacy?

The ‘kickback’  being when ‘big pork’ become ‘little pork’ - as when ‘share’ finds way into pocket of  ‘person’ professing to be politician  small by way of ‘due reward’.

- As to when self benefits in the honour so degraded of representation the ‘cause’?

You know when that shark bites…

Halliburton, Tamiflu, Wall St, Shock and awe; the French saying as to ‘the more things change the more they remain the same’ –  all  about ‘Pork’?

But…

Cut to ‘the chase’

The origins of  all ‘pork’ the accumulated resources of taxation; the contribution of Citizen towards  Government as supports Law and Order being determined under Politics or  ‘Moral Economics’, in control of the barrel given over by way of ‘trust’.

And that there be  ‘Democracy’!

As on ‘Greenback’ as moved from Silver, moved from Gold  to Fiat the way of International Banker, and as to change of promise not being  mere ‘solicitation’ –  the music of ‘snake charmer’ resonating?

The reptile of ‘money as belief’ so rising from ‘basket’, such being the ‘case’?

Or should that be ‘worms’ as can opened given the precedence of International Banker over mere Politician Professional?

As toilets once designed in Germany to so discover by way of examination of stool, given fondness for   ‘Schwein’?

‘Personal Pork’ in case of the consideration of current case of scandal political as ‘surprising conjunction’: in Britain the direct benefit of Politician professional  by way of ‘recompense’ under allowance claimable, and as determined by beneficiary,  is as thereby susceptible to ‘distortion’ - as when a system regulated by beneficiaries  will lead to ‘distortion’, aka ‘corruption endemic’.

Or should that be unregulated; way of ‘laissez faire’ or ‘free markets’ – as in ‘enjoinment’?

Honourable?

Those who make the laws for themselves, such sense as being above the rest, such the ‘honour’ of political representation; the spirit of such laws readily degenerated to mere pragmatism in form of snout guzzling at trough by way of ‘adjusted recompense’  -  way of the letter?

As worship occurring at the feet of International Banker who care not who makes the laws – so long as they have control of the issue of money?

As:  ‘when a body meet a body, coming through the rye’?

Such as would be ‘caught’, as per Mr. Salinger; such the pragmatism delineated in the transcendence?

Caught - when humanity  professes :

 ‘NO BELIEF!’?

Addendum.

Some of those claims in detail made by  ‘honourable members’  as professional in Britain at taxpayers expense, and expressed in Dollars:

(Amounts approximate given fluctuation in exchange rates –  ‘challenge and be damned further’ - as you know who you are, and what you are, indeed. Such being the volatility.)

$16  for pornography watched in a hotel room.

$ 180,000 claimed on a relative’s house as being ‘main home’

$15,000 paid to son as ‘assistant’

$25 paid for a remembrance wreath for those fallen in war. (And as laid)

$90,000 claimed for living in parent’s house.

The list goes on.

Swimming pools, horse manure, tennis courts, ‘moat’ being cleaned and chandeliers.

All heaped upon the back of the taxpayer - by Politician serving International Banker.

But that lipstick be applied upon and such snouts not be seen, whence such sufferance surrounding as abounding?

But that the contrast not be seen midst the sufferance; that the honour not be questioned?

As nightmare for British spin merchants, as there be not enough lipstick to hand?

Side note oblique:

The Bilderberg Group meeting began yesterday - all our troubles seeming so far away?

Lord Conrad Black sending apologies, one wonders?

Currently incarcerated as result of ‘crimes discovered’.

As in my dreams all such criminals will be one day - and better dreams than nightmares?

‘No lipstick required’  - when ‘Justice prevails’ as the truth out, as it will – and there being no need for profession concerning belief?

The real question: ‘Ain’t life beautiful?’

As Thomas Paine realised in thought as in deed, and as led to prescience epitomic?

Form of   ‘Common Sense’ – as ‘Counter Punch’ be  ‘pamphleteer digital’?

Stephen Martin can be reached at: stephenmarti@yahoo.com

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