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Georgia: The War Which Will Help McCain Win By Yuri Baranchik
Strategic Culture Foundation Georgia has done a great job as the proving ground during the five-day war. With the help of this war, those who are promoting the Republican nominee in the US presidential race have found out all they needed to know. It was a part of Washington’s plan that Russia would respond resolutely Continue reading
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Law ‘n’ disorder By William Bowles
Far from being secure in its post-Communist world, Capital reveals to all and sundry just how insecure it is. But it is no simple matter to simply dispose of the ‘luxury of democracy’ as and when the State dictates, it has after all spent the better part of a century convincing us that capitalist ‘democracy’… Continue reading
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The Lesser of Two Evils By William Bowles
Much play has been made of ‘tactical voting’, especially by the ‘left’ pundits, the argument being as ever, that we have to keep the Tories out. But the ‘good old days’ of a ‘real’ Labour government are long gone (were they ever there in the first place?). In any case, the chances of a Tory… Continue reading
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Media Lens: Iraq and Zimbabwe – A Tale of Two Elections
In January, we showed how the British print and broadcast media were all but unanimous in celebrating the January 30 elections in Iraq as the country’s “first democratic elections in fifty years”. As we noted, this was an excellent example of how the corporate mass media function as a de facto propaganda system for state-corporate… Continue reading
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Media Lens: Priorities of Power – The Real Meaning Of Elections In Iraq
In truth it is quite wrong to describe the corporate media as ‘mainstream’. We wouldn’t describe Flat Earthism as mainstream geology, nor would we describe Mein Kampf as mainstream political philosophy. There isn’t a cultural or philosophical tradition on the planet that takes seriously the idea that truth-telling can be reconciled with greed. The idea… Continue reading
The New Dark Age 