michael098762001's Comments (36)

“Vietnam Cambodia Burma Landmine Project on Vermont TV http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDnmzPLiAgE http://www.projectcensored.org/top-stories/articles/12-pentagon-plans-to-build-new-landmines/”

“Thank you for writing this informative post.I knew a number of Iranian-American students radcals in '79 in L.A. at C.S.U.N. I've always assumed after they graduated they were swept in the repression of the Left in Iran in the late 80's.”

“To have had a , "Buy american, " clause in the Cash for Clunkers bill would have violated WTO agreements. Wonder why you disregard as a Marxist-Leninist, the benefit to foreign proletarians of having a good job, building cars in Brazil, for example? Sure it pays better than than whatever off the books, informal economy job some slum dweller might otherwise have selling popsicles on the street.”

“But, that would be an incursion into what a neo-marxist economist like Max might call, "the logic of capital(is­m)." Outsourcing and other aspects of the capitalist division of labor are as old as capitalism itself.”

“More of his (more explicitly Marxist) writing can be found at http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/econ/RM_test.htm , the website of the post-modernist, Marxist academic journal, Rethinking Marxism.”

“http://cpj.org/reports/2009/07/daniel-ortegas-media-war.php
Nicaragua Special Report: Daniel Ortega's Media War”

“Disaffected Sandinistas say Daniel Ortega has become a dictator - Times Online http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article6718537.ece
http://cpj.org/reports/2009/07/daniel-ortegas-media-war.php
Nicaragua Special Report: Daniel Ortega's Media War”

“(Delusional Daniel.)

By Blake Schmidt

July 17 (Bloomberg) -- Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega said an alleged plot to overthrow him by U.S. intelligence agencies and domestic political opponents will fail because he has the backing of his country’s armed forces and police.

“They’re thinking about a coup in Nicaragua to create chaos and anarchy and to call U.S. troops to come take the government away from the people,” Ortega said in a statement on the presidential Web site.

Ortega and his allies in Latin America, including Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and Bolivian President Evo Morales, regularly say that their governments are the targets of coup plots. Honduran President Manuel Zelaya was deposed at the end of June and sent out of the country after he refused to obey court orders to reinstate the head of the military.

Ortega said Honduran business leaders and U.S. officials had a “hand” in the ouster, even if President “Barack Obama didn’t have any idea the coup was coming.”

Ortega also accused the acting Honduran government of dressing up its soldiers to look like Nicaraguan troops and attacking Honduran barracks in a plot to frame the Nicaraguan military.

To contact the reporter on this story: Blake Schmidt in Granada, Nicaragua at bloomberg.netoomberg.net.
Last Updated: July 17, 2009 12:01 EDT”

“A dissident caucus in AFSCME in the 70's, produced that ad. You'd know that if you had sources in the labor movement.”

“For the fans of Norman Finkelstein here, a polemic vs. him by a European Trotskyist who calls him out on his "Holocaust Industry, " bilge, I take the cite from a blog of a Pennsylvania academic who has democratic socialist viewpoints, http://jeffweintraub.blogspot.com/2006/04/finkelsteins-follies-dangers-of-vulgar.html Finkelstein’s Follies: The Dangers of Vulgar Anti-Zionism (Tobias Abse)”

“http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/g-gordon-liddy-voice-of-unreason-534135.html

G. Gordon Liddy is vibrating with rage. "Environmentalism is a form of pagan fundamentalism. These green wackos are fanatics like al-Quaida. Just like them," he quivers. "Osama believes there are 72 virgins waiting for him. The environmentalist believes human beings cause global warming. They both want to wreak havoc because of their mad beliefs. What's the difference?" I am lying on a hotel bed in New York City listening to Liddy's radio show and trying to figure out how I can possibly interview this man in half an hour. "Why should we listen to these fulminating feminists, proselytizing poofters, the environmentally ill, these multilateralist UN one-world government worshippers and other politically correct castrati?" he is demanding. "Why?"”

“(Continued) http://www.reason.com/blog/show/129413.html
The article is filled with innuendo and unsupported assertions. On learning that some of Palin's 1996 campaign literature described her as "the Christian candidate," for example, Blumenthal and Neiwert assert confidently that this was a "subtle suggestion" that her Lutheran opponent was really Jewish. The authors also make a lot of the AIP's sympathy for southern separatists, implying that the group has a racist core. They don't mention that the pan-secessionist party is also friendly to Lakota separatists, Hawaiian separatists, Puerto Rican separatists, and crunchy-granola Vermont separatists -- all of which impies that it's not whiteness but devolution that drives the organization.

But enough about the AIP. What does the Salon story tell us about Palin? Basically, that she and a few right-wing populists (a) worked together on some gun-rights issues, (b) worked together on some property-rights issues, and (c) uh...well, they were together, man.

This is what "Ayers! Ayers! Ayers!" sounds like in Salonese.”

“From a blog of a leftist law professor, with tons of critical material on Ayersand Obama. Obama/Ayers Update: NY Times Responds Again to Global Labor
I received a second email tonight from the New York Times reporter Scott Shane regarding his story on the Obama- Ayers connection. My response comes first and then his email. http://globallabor.blogspot.com/2008/10/obamaayers-update-ny-times-responds.html”

“The Ayers "We Were Just Trying To Do Property Damage" Lie [Andy McCarthy]
http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=ZDJhM2ViZWVkODIxMGUzOTcxMGJhYmVlODVjZTY1ZGY=
Just to add to the observations of Jonah's reader, I've addressed Ayers' preposterous claim about only wanting to damage property, not kill people, in a prior post — and Jonah has talked about this, too. Anyway, here are the major points from my prior post:

[I]n 1970[,] three of [Ayers'] confederates, including his then girlfriend Diana Oughton, were accidentally killed when the explosive they were building to Ayers specifications (Ayers was a bomb designer) went off during construction. As noted in Ayers' Discover the Networks profile, the explosive had been a nail bomb. Back when Ayers was being more honest about his intentions, he admitted that the purpose of that bomb had been to murder United States soldiers:

That bomb had been intended for detonation at a dance that was to be attended by army soldiers at Fort Dix, New Jersey. Hundreds of lives could have been lost had the plan been successfully executed. Ayers attested that the bomb would have done serious damage, "tearing through windows and walls and, yes, people too."

10/04 12:35 PM”

“Can we expect to see denunciations of George McGovern and Howard Zinn, both fighter pilots in WWII who dropped many bombs on innocent Germans?”

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“I love MSNBC 'cuz they are extreme liberals. And to quote one conservative who us left-liberals learned to appreciate late in his life,"extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice."”

“Um, the LGF'ers are mocking y'awl mercilessly,
http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/31337_Naomi_Wolf_Bravely_Speaks_Truth_to_the_Palin_Police_State/comments/#ctop
In the book on Nixon by David Greenberg, in the chapter on New Left perceptions of Nixon he relates all the underground press (and a few mainstream outlets) in '72 alleging Nixon was going to declare martial law and cancel the Nov. 72 elections. On Slate, IIRC, you can find a piece by Ron Rosenbaum relating the investigation he did on this as a young journalist back then.
The Militia Movement of the Far Right was also full of nuts who said Clinton was going to do the same in '96.”

“Sometimes it takes a Neo-Con, aargh, to point out Democratic Left disingenuousness,
Click this URL for the complete list of the zillions of dollars the Lehman Brothers CEO gave to Democrats. http://frum.nationalreview.com/post/?q=ODZiNjA3YzE5MGJjNGIwMjNjMDIyYWNmZmJmNGNlNzM=

Tuesday, September 23, 2008

WHOSE Wall Street Friends? Part 1

Josh Marshall today:

I think Kos, Digby and Kilgore have this about right. The Republican/McCain plan is to get the Democrats to bail out the GOP's Wall Street friends and then run against them for doing it.

um, sure.

Here's the FEC page for Richard Fuld of Lehman Brothers:

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“U.S. SENATOR PATRICK LEAHY

CONTACT: Office of Senator Leahy, 202-224-4242


VERMONT

Leahy-Authored Language Strikes Court Stripping Provisions
In Bush Bailout Proposal
http://leahy.senate.gov/press/200809/092208a.html”

“Forgot to add this citation. By a leftist sociologist, Jerry Lembcke, "CNN's Tailhook Tale, " on when CNN was shnookered by another set of FAR RIGHT wingnuts in the John Birch Society about a supposed US Government PLOT to kill a bunch of Vietnam POW's.”

“Almost all of this hoohaw is via FAR RIGHT opponents of McCain, one being Vietnam Veteran Ted Sampley (exposed as a fraud in this book on POW's, Prisoners of Hope: Exploiting the POW-MIA Myth in America, excerpted here, http://www.miafacts.org/prankster.htm )
who alleges McCain wasn't even tortured, was given a nice set up in another Hanoi hotel
w/hookers and booze, was brainwashed by the Vietnamese and has been an agent
of the Vietnamese regime ever since. The other main source is a newspaper published by Willis Carto, an explicit white supremacist, called The American Free Press, formerly The Spotlight.”

“Ah, the ironies, citing Joy Division, with their fascist aesthetic (the cover of their first ep was taken directly from a still of Leni Riefenstahl's, "Triumph of the Will.") for a anti-McCain demo.

>...As the old guard of Grand Rapids -- and that description cannot be well disputed -- filed into the field house, yet another sign was hoisted above the protest line, quoting roughly from Joy Division:

"Leaders of men -- born out of frustration -- won't grant us our salvation.­"”

“Ah if you rad the book by left-liberal Rick Perlstein on the Goldwater campaign you will recall that the MSM of 1964 did portray Goldwater as a Fascist loon.”

“http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=43ed5462-7b41-4bd1-98c0-c53cdcc3979e
This is absolutely topic A in Washington economic circles, whereas someone at the University of Chicago Business School--even someone as sharp and enlightened as Goolsbee--would probably be a little more insulated from it.*

P.S. Also, don't miss Paul Krugman's point: Furman was hired to be the director (i.e., broker, coordinator, explainer, synthesizer, etc.) of economic policy, not the chief policy-mak­er...

*Don't get me wrong--academic economists talk about this stuff quite a bit. And they tend to talk about it a lot more precisely than we do in Washington. But the volume and reach of the discussion at a place like Chicago--or even more policy-oriented places like Harvard--probably doesn't match what goes on in Washigton, if only because the typical economics department explores a much broader range of questions (even if the questions themselves are pretty narrow).

Update: If you're thinking through how these positions would translate into jobs in an Obama administration, I'd guess Furman would be the guy you'd install as head of the National Economic Council (the policy coordination body--i.e.­, what Gene Sperling did in Clinton's second term) and Goolsbee would be the guy you'd want to head the Council of Economic Advisers (the administration's in-house think-tank­--i.e., what people like Joe Stiglitz did for Clinton).

--Noam Scheiber”