America's willful destruction of Europe
Hopefully all the corporate and political leaders of western Europe will read Billyard's blogpost and finally come to the realization that they're being played by Uncle Sam.
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America Declares Economic War Against Europe
https://off-guardian.org/2017/08/01/america-declares-economic-war-agains...
"So, already the US oligarchs have greatly reduced the effectiveness of this enormous European and Russian investement, and this is already war by the US oligarchs (and their congressional agents) against Europe and Russia; but the new sanctions aim to go even further to absolutely cripple Europe and Russia..."
Seems to me that Europe has also inflicted quite a bit of wilful destruction on America ... I mean the whole thing, from Ellesmere Island (is there an Inuktitut name?) to Tierra del Fuego...
It seems odd commentary when looking at different imperialist powers.
Diana Johnstone has a very strange affinity for Marine Le Pen. While I share her dislike of Hillary Clinton (and Trump, of course) the she-wolf of the Front national is hardly more recommendable.
https://louisproyect.org/2016/06/29/diana-johnstones-poisonous-nativism/
So far(still reading), that's a pretty good takedown of Diana Johnstone, who from what I've seen seems to be a slightly loopier version of Rachel Marsden. However, in critiquing the idea that Le Pen's views are considered moderate in the US...
I suppose so if you are referring to the sort of people who listen to Rush Limbaugh every day and look like the people Diane Arbus photographed.
That bit about Diane Arbus was hardly neccessary, and only provides ammunition to the right-wing and pseudo-left populists who want to say that the "globalists" look down on ordinary people.
I didn't like that either (I may write to him to tell him so, and why) but I thought that on balance it was a good critique.
By the way, you should write to him too. He was in a huff, but it sounds so terribly "New York Leftist". One criticises the REASONS people are too fat or too thin, poorly dressed, have bad skin or teeth etc. Not attack the victims of predatory capitalism.
Diane Arbus also looked at a lot of physically, intellectually or psychologically disabled or atypical people. She did seem a bit voyeurist at times, but I think she was also reminding us that they are humans.
So far(still reading), that's a pretty good takedown of Diana Johnstone, who from what I've seen seems to be a slightly loopier version of Rachel Marsden. However, in critiquing the idea that Le Pen's views are considered moderate in the US...
I suppose so if you are referring to the sort of people who listen to Rush Limbaugh every day and look like the people Diane Arbus photographed.That bit about Diane Arbus was hardly neccessary, and only provides ammunition to the right-wing and pseudo-left populists who want to say that the "globalists" look down on ordinary people.
I kind of take a shining to the people in her photos
I didn't like that either (I may write to him to tell him so, and why) but I thought that on balance it was a good critique.
Yeah. The unfortunate thing was, he was on pretty solid ground with "the kind of people who listen to Rush Limbaugh", but then he had to go and spoil it with references to how people dress(and that's being charitable, assuming he didn't mean the physical characteristics of Arbus' subjects).
Part of me thinks that the attempt to re-baptize Le Pen as a leftist is simply because there was no authentic left-winger in the final ballot, so some people decided to latch onto the candidate whose economic policies were closest to the left(albeit in a totally shallow, tossing-money-from-balcony kind of a way). I suspect if an actual leftist had made it to Round 2, people wouldn't bother searching for nuance in the positions of Ms. Le Pen.
I kind of take a shining to the people in her photos
I see what you did there.
My favourite was always "Child With a Toy Hand Grenade". I also find it interesting that she was married to Alan Arbus, who played Dr. Sidney Friedman on M*A*S*H.
Part of me thinks that the attempt to re-baptize Le Pen as a leftist is simply because there was no authentic left-winger in the final ballot.
I don't. I think the reason why some of these commentators promote fascists is because they and their racist policies pose the biggest threat to the status quo parties, and to the political stability of these countries generally.
... and in some cases because they support their authoritarian, anti-press policies.
The rebranding part? That's just to sucker people in.
I kind of take a shining to the people in her photosI see what you did there.
My favourite was always "Child With a Toy Hand Grenade". I also find it interesting that she was married to Alan Arbus, who played Dr. Sidney Friedman on M*A*S*H.
Colonel Flagg: "Freedman, is that "ei" or "ie"
Hawkeye: Two "e"'s as in "freedom." That's what got you confused.
Jeebus. Not only did I duff "Freedman", he was also played by Allan (not Alan) Arbus.
I'mma crawl back in bed now.
Interestingly, if you read the Kubrick site's archiving of Pauline Kael's review of The Shining, the webmaster(probably Kubrick's daughter or someone working for her) puts a bracketed exclamation point after Kael's speculation that the image from the movie was inspired by the Arbus photo, presumably to refute the claim.
I dunno, it seems pretty self-evident to me, though I suppose any two pictures of two girls the same size standing next to each other will tend to look the same. I wonder if Kubrick had explicitly told his daughters that the photo wasn't taken from Arbus.
Washington and Brussels: Running in Reverse - by James Petras
http://www.unz.com/jpetras/washington-and-brussels-running-in-reverse/
"...Washington, hampered by its current internal divisions, is stumbling backwards and forwards towards major catastrophes. The breakup of internal cohesion in Washington and Brussels has led to more frantic efforts to externalize their problems through warfare, in order to retain state power.
Washington and Brussels have targeted four major countries: Russia, China, Iran and Venezuela. The build-up for waging economic warfare includes daily hysterical demonization of these nations in the mass media. The resort to wierd propaganda ploys, accusing Vladimir Putin of 'rigging' the US Presidential elections, has paralyzed US domestic policy, turning Washington into an insane asylum of continental dimensions..."