tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-184389982008-05-07T14:17:22.620+01:00Sean M. MaddenBlogger229125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18438998.post-68125735557978635082008-05-05T13:57:00.018+01:002008-05-07T14:17:22.734+01:00

Introduction by Sean@iNoodle.com: The below essay by Eric Larsen was published and introduced into the public realm via an email which Eric sent to his mailing list on Friday, May 2. I am republishing the entire piece here because Eric's site crashed very shortly after this piece's debut into impolitic society. His site-hosting ISP is now giving him 24-to-72-hour assurances of full recovery.

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Introduction by Sean@iNoodle.com: I post the below article not because I give a damn about Hillary's campaign being deliberately sunk. Nor would I give a rat's ass (a favored expression of my dead father) if Obama's or McCain's was similarly sunk. Huge hoorays, rather, would be in order were all three to go down along with the permanent political establishment which parades these shameless

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by Paul Craig Roberts Online Journal Contributing Writer Apr 16, 2008, 00:14 Exactly as the British press predicted, last week’s congressional testimony by Gen. David Petraeus and Green Zone administrator Ryan Crocker set the propaganda stage for a Bush regime attack on Iran. On April 10 Robert H. Reid of AP News reported, "The top US commander has shifted the focus from al-Qaida to

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by Sean M. Madden Online Journal Contributing Writer Apr 10, 2008, 00:12 A Nation Gone Blind: America in an Age of Simplification and Deceit By Eric Larsen Shoemaker & Hoard, 2006 ISBN: 1-59376-098-1 291 pp.; $16.00Two years have passed since Eric Larsen’s A Nation Gone Blind was published -- two long years during which time I, and doubtless many others, would have been less pained had I, we,

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by Lewis Seiler & Dan Hamburg published February 4, 2008 (This article appeared on page B-7 of the San Francisco Chronicle) "The power of the Executive to cast a man into prison without formulating any charge known to the law, and particularly to deny him the judgment of his peers, is in the highest degree odious and is the foundation of all totalitarian government whether Nazi or Communist."

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PLEASE NOTE: For any of you with whom I have recently corresponded, I would greatly appreciate your either forwarding copies of our correspondence (ideally, both incoming and outgoing) to sean@inoodle.com or, perhaps, sending me a blank email so that I may add your email address to my web-based-email address book. It would seem, at least until further notice, that my rather voluminous email

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An Interview of Eric Larsen by Eric Larsen on the Subject of A Nation Gone Blind: America in an Age of Simplification and Deceit Click here for the original source of this interview. NOTE TO THE READER (also by Eric Larsen): What you're about to read isn't really an interview at all, but an essay. That is, it's an interview of me, yes; but it's an interview that was conducted by—well, me too.

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by Joel S. Hirschhorn Information Clearing House February 1, 2008 Perhaps a global political apocalypse has already arrived. Activists and dissidents should understand that evil forces and tyrannical governments have evolved. Just as human knowledge and science expand, so do the strategies and instruments used by rulers, elites and plutocrats. By learning from history and using new

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by Michael Boldin "It is inaccurate to say that I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office." H. L. Mencken Politicians would never try to mislead us would they? The American People deserve honesty from their government; but one would be hard-pressed to prove that, in practice, we receive

Sean M. Maddentag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18438998.post-26951129664602705042008-01-30T08:54:00.000Z2008-01-30T08:54:05.507Z

More of the looting of America, including our children and their children and so on, for the sake of the relative very few whose greed has grown grotesque. However, let us not forget that it's far from just Bush who's to blame but, rather, a wholly bipartisan elite hiding their unity behind a sea of dichotomous language. *** One Bush Left Behind by Greg Palast January 29, 2008 Here’s your

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The above is a 9-minute preview of the film, Zeitgeist. The two-hour film is available for viewing (free) via the film's official website. This YouTube video was sent to me by a dear friend in response to my Open Letter to Amy Goodman. Thank you, E.

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ALTERNATIVE MEDIA CENSORSHIP: SPONSORED BY CIA's FORD FOUNDATION? by Bob Feldman Original Article Part 1: The multi-billion dollar Ford Foundation's historic relationship to the Central Intelligence Agency [CIA] is rarely mentioned on Pacifica's DEMOCRACY NOW / Deep Dish TV show, on FAIR's COUNTERSPIN show, on the WORKING ASSETS RADIO show, on The Nation Institute's RADIO NATION show, on David

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Sean M. Madden's open letter to Amy Goodman is in response to the following January 23rd Democracy Now! headline: Economics Journalist Robert Kuttner on the "Most Serious Financial Crisis Since the Great Depression": "This is the Result of Rightwing Ideology and the Political Power of Wall Street"Is it? Or is it the result of a one-world ideology shared amongst the elite of the so-called

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ShiftShapers has an interesting article, and comment thread, on his GNN blog entitled, "Waiting for the Apocalypse: The Ideology of Collapse & the Avoidance of Revolutionary Responsibility".

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Thinking for yourself is now a crime by Paul Craig Roberts 01/04/08 "ICH" -- -- What was the greatest failure of 2007? President Bush’s “surge” in Iraq? The decline in the value of the US dollar? Subprime mortgages? No. The greatest failure of 2007 was the newly sworn in Democratic Congress. The American people’s attempt in November 2006 to rein in a rogue government, which has committed

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Nixon Was Bad. These Guys Are Worse. by George McGovern Washington Post Sunday, January 6, 2008; B01 As we enter the eighth year of the Bush-Cheney administration, I have belatedly and painfully concluded that the only honorable course for me is to urge the impeachment of the president and the vice president. After the 1972 presidential election, I stood clear of calls to impeach President

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Franklin Delano Roosevelt vs. the Banks: Morgan's Fascist Plot, and How It Was Defeated Part II (an excerpt follows; full article) by L. Wolfe Printed in The American Almanac, July 4, 1994 It was becoming increasingly obvious to Butler and many others that the American Legion was a stooge of these fascist bankers. As early as 1923, the legion's Commander in Chief Alvin Owsley, had openly

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I came upon the below article, published in early September, while researching the Pecora Commission. As a brief introduction to this commission, I shall include, immediately below before the aforementioned article, an excerpt from the Pecora Commission entry in Wikipedia: The Pecora Commission is the name commonly used to describe the commission established on March 4, 1932 by the United States

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As a follow-up to today's earlier post, I decided to also include an excerpt from a recent New York Times article, by Eric Schlosser, which helps to further contextualize the Immokalee slave-labor story. *** The prominent role that Burger King has played in rescinding the pay raise offers a spectacle of yuletide greed worthy of Charles Dickens. Burger King has justified its behavior by claiming

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Does this not speak to my post from yesterday concerning The Grapes of Wrath and its relevance to the present? *** Migrant workers chained beaten and forced into debt, exposing the human cost of producing cheap food by Leonard Doyle in Immokalee, Floride Published: 19 December 2007 The Independent Three Florida fruit-pickers, held captive and brutalised by their employer for more than a year,

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And the great owners, who must lose their land in an upheaval, the great owners with access to history, with eyes to read history and to know the great fact: when property accumulates in too few hands it is taken away. And that companion fact: when a majority of the people are hungry and cold they will take by force what they need. And the little screaming fact that sounds through all history:

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Simply put, read this. "This" is an 18-part article written by Catherine Austin Fitts. It is long, but it is essential. Take your time. Read it in chunks, perhaps a few parts each day. Explore her hypertext-linked footnotes and other resources. And do your own research on the side. Catherine Austin Fitts previously served as Managing Director and Member of the Board of Directors of the

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Published on Friday, November 2, 2007 by The Nation by John Nichols Broadcast media’s gate-keeping “stars” have done just about everything in their power to keep the matter of presidential accountability off the radar of the American people. That was evident during the most recent Democratic presidential debate, when NBC anchors Brian Williams and Tim Russert meticulously avoided following up

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Naomi Wolf on The End of America: Letter of Warning to a Young Patriot. It not only can happen here, it is happening here. Mussolini created the blueprint (with inspiration from Lenin), Hitler elaborated on it, Stalin studied Hitler... Here's how it works (notice how many Bush & Co. is using now.): 1. Invoke a terrifying internal and external enemy 2. Create a gulag 3. Develop a thug

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In a cover piece for the New Statesman, John Pilger evokes the memory of Germans 'looking from the side' at Bergen-Belsen to describe the challenge facing us in the West as the Bush/Blair 'long war' becomes 'perhaps the greatest crisis of modern times'. by John Pilger April 12, 2007 "ICH" -- The Israeli journalist Amira Hass describes the moment her mother,

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