This is hard-hitting, no-punches pulled journalistic writing of a kind that is long gone in the mainstream media cesspool of political correctness and deliberate circumvention.

Professor Petras’ name may have some connection to the Latin “petra” for rock. If so, he is well-named for he stands on rock-solid truth and percipience. Add his name to the pantheon of our best elder-statesmen social critics and political writers. (With Chomsky long gone into the “deep structure” of language and imperial rationalizations, and with the venerable Mr. Zinn fading into Obama boosterism, the pantheon requires some irrigation now.)

Thanks, James, for naming names, telling it like it is and telling it how it’s gonna be. May you add many years to your “fifty year membership in the class struggle.”

true words ringing loud and clear. I keep hearing Jim Morrison, “This is the end, beautiful friend, this is the end, my only friend, the end.” Its resonating words have to somehow, someway carry us on to better days of conscious awakening, kindness toward our neighbors and planet, and compassion for life and truth, with all heartless, mindless egotism blown to the wayside of our historical path to the world’s demise.

Best to you.

an excellent read, perhaps pissed off but with clear justification as outlined in this piece. An historical election/moment indeed, the greatest con job yet to be pulled over the nation and easy to detect pre-election based on his campaign advisors and his own voting record. He has surrounded himself with experienced, elite hawks who will commit themselves to the facial restructuring and spring cleaning of their hegemonic empire; a clip here and a tuck there, we’re on our way!

More to follow, thanks.

Best to you.

Obama could also end up being the first black president to be impeached…

Moreover, an Obama regime may actually prove worse than Bush, difficult as that is to imagine. In Britain, Tony ‘New Labour’ have used their official status as the ‘lesser evil’ to do things that would have met with much greater opposition if done by the Tories (EG: the wars, Private Finance Initiative, erosion of civil rights, etc), cheered on by their supposedly ‘progressive’ & ‘liberal’ apologists.

Fucking ‘liberals’ are as much the problem as ‘conservatives.’ They magnify their minor differences to conceal their essential unity as servants of capitalism/imperialism.

Obama is part of a long legacy not just two or three or four administrations but over 200 years of expansionism, exceptionalism and imperial empire occupation, wealth grabbing rule.

“Our” presidents are caretakers of the kingdom, no more, no less. They get the spotlight, blame/credit for much of which is beyond their control. The wheels are turning and Obama’s job is to learn his cues and make sure he keeps that speechifying voice of his in shape – that’s all he’s got and we’re going to be pretty damn tired of hearing it, when he keeps using it to make it look like there’ll be better days a comm’n.

The empire is at its end; he has the gawdawful job of not getting in the way as the great masses of workers, destitute, homeless, beggars (which is what most Americans will be as we journey into death on the installment plan). The crash is going to make the 30s look like a picnic.
It’s happening. As the truth can no longer be held at bay, it will become an ugly reality.

The only hope is to stay away from the national picture; create a local economy, import/export with your neighbors, create local currencies or time banking, invest locally, shop and buy what you need and can make – locally, make sure your farms are alive and well – if not do something about it; and by all means protect your food and water.

The great infrastructure of America is ebbing. The oil prices going from 140 USD down to near 50 USD is like a tsunami as the tide goes out before rushing back with a furry at 250 USD per barrel. And alternatives – try lanterns and candels. We were a horribly selfish people. First we used slaves than we drained the world of its resources for our “comfort” and endless buying sprees and horrible decadence as it filled the biosphere, with endless war machinery, after killing millions with the first and only atomic explosions, and massacres of indigenous people; all the while convincing ourselves that “they” were jealous of “us”.

Exceptional? In the end we are tied to our beginnning. Is it pure selfishness or just stupidity? Or both?

Good article, thanks. How long with the faithful continue to hold out hope, do you think?

You sound really pissed off.

It saddens me to tell you that the best that humanity, collectively and over the long haul, could have ever hoped for was to avoid global thermonuclear war and/or to not whack the environment. Perhaps one out of two isn’t so bad for a pretension and limited species.

Get outside and enjoy what’s left while you can.

A republic is a state or country that is not led by a hereditary monarch, but in which the people (or at least a part of its people) have impact on its government. The word originates from the Latin term res publica, which literally translates as “public thing” or “public matter”.

We need to change that at least a part of its people part and of course there will be a few who don’t like this idea well they will just have to get over it or go to Colorado we the people will give them the whole State if they promise to stay there and build there own World that would be very interesting to see just how that played out. Money Island old very old book. I wonder how the domination on money island Colorado would work out for them.