From David Horowitz to David Brock, partisan turncoats who abandon their youthful convictions often receive generous attention from their newfound cohort. Perhaps this explains the recent embrace of John Perkins, a former corporate consultant and author of Confessions of an Economic Hit Man. Remarkably, his book, which uses an insider’s perspective to construct a forthright critique of neoliberal globalization and U.S.… return to article
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Reader Comments (7)Page 1 of 1 pagesearstwhile leftist wannabees pandering to the VERY SOURCE OF THE DESTRUCTION OF THE SOCIAL SAFETY NET, THE WAR IN IRAQ, & THE RISE OF FASCISM in this country to sell the lefts worst enemy as its best friend & vice versa…. wow… I geuss I’ll have to wait through the destruction of reality (again) & see how badly you’ve crippled yourselves (again) so that HARMING PEOPLE AS SPORT becomes (somehow) acceptable part of your polite society???????????
enjoy your new life as a voice of the rights (new) left wing:)you are crazy to sell people lies like that in ignorance of the real deal.
Posted by dave on Apr 4, 2005 at 2:42 AM Blah Blah Blah. At least if you criticize the left use some correct grammar and coherent sentence structure. Aren’t all you conservatives for diagramming sentences and the like, since that’s a traditional way of teaching English? Well, you should take your own advice and practice a little. And maybe learn how to use that caps key a little better.
erstwhile leftist wannabees, a la “There once was a hermit named” Dave, give me a break.
Posted by anoj on Apr 5, 2005 at 4:34 AM Dave,
It seems that there is something you are desperately trying to tell us. LOL.
Posted by Lefty on Apr 7, 2005 at 9:16 AM Earth to Dave,
Please, take your meds, OK?
That made the reddog seem coherent.
If anyone has any doubts as to the WB and IMF’s perfidity just look at their records of relieving poverty. Pretty sad, isn’t it? They just keep shoveling the old BS like it was gold.
Posted by luminous beauty on Apr 7, 2005 at 10:49 PM Perkins is probably fake. Just look at his homepage, ok?
http://www.johnperkins.org/
Posted by Oskar Shapley on Apr 16, 2005 at 7:16 PM You can attend a 4-day John Perkins workshop on ‘Shapeshifting’for $1000! Act now!
Posted by Rayhorn on Apr 22, 2005 at 12:24 AM Since John Perkins’ skeleton of a book is wholly and utterly devoid of MEAT, I would suggest all filthy RIGHT WINGERS spend some time smelling and tasting my FILTHY CLUMPS! Now ... no filthy, lurid RIGHT WINGER, upon partaking of my sweaty and stinky carbunkles, could reasonably ask: “Where’s the beef?” Let’s get matters in hand, people, and go straight to the heart of RIGHT WING FILTH! The RIGHT WING is the most venal, criminally psychopathic group of collective individualists the world has ever known. They are truly psychopathic! The RIGHT is a perverse mixture of diabolical possession and original sin run-riot! Can’t you see the spit forming on the sides of their conspicuously large (in case of males) frames, in cosmic irony of the fact that they clearly look like their mom’s but act like sadistic he-men. Double chins, massive gut bags, and towed out little feet operate to reveal these NEO-FASCISTS for what they are: PURE, UNBRIDLED FILTH! Similarly, the females of the RIGHT WING are a bunch of sadistic stinkbreaths in power suits! Soccer moms, sex offender vigalante’s, and they all look, again ironically, like DAD!
The RIGHT WING is a hateful lot, they are perversely violent, cruel, and they are absolutely going down! The day is coming when these filthy miscreants are being literally SLAUGHTERED in the streets. And I for one am going to smish my CLUMPS on their twitching corpses, screaming gleefully: “TWITCH, YOU SADISTIC FILTH, TWITCH!”
Yes indeed! It will be a glorious day when the victims of cruelty and tyranny and terror begin SLAUGHTERING the RIGHT WING in spectacles of public carnage! Ball bats! 5 Irons! BEAT!! BLUDGEON!! BRAINS!! MUCH TWITCHING AND FROTHING OF BLOOD AND BRAINS, AND T W I T C H I N G!! TWITCHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!
THE FILTHY, VILE, LURID, DESPOTIC NEOFASCIST NEW RIGHT! PIGS! HOPEFULLY, ONE DAY SOON THEY WILL ALL GET THEMSLVES PROPERLY BALL-BATTED INTO PUDDLES OF STICKY BRAIN GOO AND SPLINTERED SKULLS! By the way, if and when this wonderful day of justice should arrive and, upon walking by NEW RIGHT corpse, it should be allowed for anyone to either pee or poop on the vile corpse, without penalty.
Have a very nice day!
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