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• • 19 Nov 08
  • 11:54 pm

  as an example of automatic cynicism the kissinger example proves useful. however, what we find so far is that "And if Barack Obama drinks, as it appears he will, the dark elixir of war and imperial power offered to him by the national security state, he will accelerate the downward spiral of the American empire." http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20081117_americas_wars_of_self_destruction/ Obama’s transition: A who’s who of imperialist policy 19 November 2008 http://www.wsws.org/articles/2008/nov2008/pers-n19.shtml http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20081118_bracing_for_a_major_disappointment/ "The Americans who voted for Barack Obama as president were promised change they could count on, but it rather looks as if they may actually be asked to make do with a …

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• • 20 Oct 08
  • 10:37 pm

  The history of dynamic capitalism is marked by great literature of disintegration. I adapted Balzac's play LE FAISEUR some years ago, as BALZAC'S GODOT. For that is what the speculators at the end are really waiting for: for the gentleman who absconded with the funds to return. It's great comedy but -- of course -- no one wants to put it on! Mr. McArthur is right in many ways but fails to anticipate Lenin who would forecast a big foreign war for the corporate state, MICHAEL ROLOFF Member Seattle Psychoanalytic Institute and Society this LYNX will LEAP you to all my …

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