Don't we all need more helping hands from foreign bankers and the boys in uniform?
"America is like that slutty rich bitch roommate whose keeps raiding the fridge and stealing the crew's rent money for crack and anime merch, and Romney is like this awkward but nice Christian friend trying to tell her she needs help. But America keeps freaking out and saying "You don’t fuckin’ OWN ME! You think you’re better?” and Romney is like, “Noooo…I just, um…I think it’s time someone created some boundaries for you?”. But she just blow him off and heads out with her black pimp boy friend.
This article, GOP Edition
Not so funny anymore is it ?
Seriously, the Greeks on the street today are part of the same struggle we are in against right wing plutocracy, except the Greeks are infinity more fucked now then we are.
Wait why is the article taking the side of German austerity, and bashing Greeks as lazy whiners, when their stranded of living and political sovereignty is being smashed by the EU-IMF troika imposing policies that we would despise coming from the GOP? I mean, what the hell?
Well they had the excuse of allying with Khomeini in 1979, along with a lot of secularists, liberal, and socialist Persian, that there was still a realistic chance of creating a progressive democracy in the struggle against the abominable Shah. And it should be remembered they were among those who struggled in 1980-81 against the Islamist hijacking of the revolution . Fighting against their own people in Saddam's war of aggression, though, certainly marked the turn towards becoming a glorified mercenary band.
Well that would be an exciting thriller twist, but considering several Iranian scientists have died in explosions several times in the last three years, the Iranians would have to be very special in the head to be killing of useful educated people off instead of having them continue work on the nuclear project their so intent on, without even pretending to believe them guilty of disloyalty or heresy, like even the flakiest top Stalinist dictator or Arab monarch would do. It seems rather very counter-intuitive to me, but elaborate what you have in mind.
There are hundreds of oppositional new-stations and newspapers in Venezuela, many of them same political orientation, and journalistic quality, as our own Fox news. Related to this is the continued existence in parliament and in many parts of the state bureaucracy of a robust political opposition, mostly made from the right, but some notable liberal and leftist members as well. The news station you probably most had in mind was allowed to run out its licence because it had openly supported a military coup backed by our very own Bush. I would think that is a very good reason for a leftist government to deny its enemy's continued ownership of blatant propaganda machine for its undemocratic efforts.
Considering the long history of American undermining of South American with any left wing and/or anti-imperialist agenda, whether they come to power by the ballot box like Allende or by armed revolution like Fidel, and considering that the US has sought to undermine the democratically elected Hugo with measures ranging from sanctions to encouraging the coup attempts of the Tea-Party equivalent opposition, I would be paranoid myself if I was in the man's position. Why do we feel the need to put Chavez in the same class of crazy as a fucking loser like Bachmann ?
The revolution, any REAL Revolution we will get in this country, is not going to be restricted to a homogeneous groups of whomever you (or I) deem "norms". Breaking down the covers of social normalcy in a spirit of carnival is a common feature you will come across in the history of great human struggles (American, French, Russian, ect). And revolutions generally begin with plurality of different demands, so let them by all means "bitch" about our drug policies, or our collusion with crap foreign governments, as well against Wall Street banksters. All social evils are part of the same family of cancers that rot the human spirit, so why not ?
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