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The Four Eras of the American Right | Consortiumnews

The Four Eras of the American Right | Consortiumnews

By Robert Parry

As the world ponders why the American Right – through its Tea Party power in Congress – is threatening to shut down the federal government and precipitate a global economic crisis by defaulting on U.S. debt, the answer goes to the self-image of these rightists who insist they are the true defenders of the Founding Principles.

This conceit is reinforced by the vast right-wing media via talk radio, cable TV, well-funded Internet sites and a variety of books and print publications. Thus, the Tea Partiers and many Republicans have walled themselves off from the actual history, which would show the American Right to be arguably the opposite of true patriots, actually the faction of U.S. politics that has most disdained and disrupted the orderly constitutional process created in 1787.

President James Madison.

Indeed, the history of the American Right can be roughly divided into four eras: the pre-Confederate period from 1787 to 1860 when slave owners first opposed and then sought to constrain the Constitution, viewing it as a threat to slavery; the actual Confederacy from 1861 to 1865 when the South took up arms against the Constitution in defense of slavery; the post-Confederate era from 1866 to the 1960s when white racists violently thwarted constitutional protections for blacks; and the neo-Confederate era from 1969 to today when these racists jumped to the Republican Party in an attempt to extend white supremacy behind various code words and subterfuges.

It is true that the racist Right has often moved in tandem with the wealthy-elite Right, which has regarded the regulatory powers of the federal government as a threat to the ability of rich industrialists to operate corporations and to control the economy without regard to the larger public good.

But the historical reality is that both the white supremacists and the anti-regulatory corporatists viewed the Constitution as a threat to their interests because of its creation of a powerful central government that was given a mandate to “promote the general Welfare.” The Constitution was far from perfect and its authors did not always have the noblest of motives, but it created a structure that could reflect the popular will and be used for the nation’s good.

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The Pan-Asian Anchor: 'Mandarin Returns Home' -- SAT Scores Climb for As...

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 'Mandarin Returns Home' -- SAT Scores Climb for Asian Americans - New America Media According to The National Center for Fair and O...

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This is a must see movie.  

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The Pan-Asian Anchor: How the US is enabling Syriastan By Pepe Escobar

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 The Chinese anarchist movement - Robert Scalpino and George T. Yu | libcom.org

Underground Facilities: Intelligence and Targeting Issues U.S. Intelligence: Hiding of Military Assets by "Rogue Nations" and Other States a Major Security Challenge for 21st Century

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Recovery hype: American capitalism's weapon of mass distraction You don't have to be a Marxist to see how the 1% tries to fool us that we too are sharing in their renewed wealth. But it helps BY Richard Wolff

For 99% of us, income has risen just 0.4% over 2009-2012; for the top 1%, it's climbed by 31.4%. Photograph: Scott Houston/Corbis

From President Obama on down, defenders of the status quo insist that the US economy has "recovered" or "is recovering". Some actually see the world that way. They inhabit, imagine they inhabit, or plan to soon inhabit the world of the infamous top 1%. Others simply seek security in life by loyally repeating whatever that 1% is saying.

Here is the "recovery" that they see. The top 1% of income-earners in the US took 19% of the national income in 2012, the largest share since 1928. That 1% also saw their average income rise by 31.4% from the current crisis's low point in 2009, through 2012. The top 1% certainly enjoyed a recovery.

In total contrast, income for the other 99% rose by an average of 0.4% during the same period. Many of those people actually saw their earnings drop. That was not a recovery, not even close. For the vast majority of Americans, the recovery hype is just a weapon of mass distraction.

The economic reality is driven home by this graph from the Wall Street Journal

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Syrian Rebels Embrace al-Qaeda | Consortiumnews

Syrian Rebels Embrace al-Qaeda | Consortiumnews

Asia Times Online :: Hapless superpower and wandering minstrel By M K Bhadrakumar

Asia Times Online :: Hapless superpower and wandering minstrel

When bombs and drones are the only thing a waning empire has left  to offer.
The sane members of the world  community stop listening. 

Henry A. Giroux | Beyond Savage Politics and Dystopian Nightmares

Henry A. Giroux | Beyond Savage Politics and Dystopian Nightmares

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We now live in a nation where doctors destroy health, lawyers destroy justice, universities destroy knowledge, governments destroy freedom, the press destroys information, religion destroys morals, and our banks destroy the economy.

—Chris Hedges

What kind of society emerges when it is governed by the market-driven assumption that the only value that matters is exchange value, when the common good is denigrated to the status of a mall, and the social order is composed only of individuals free to pursue their own interests? What happens to democracy when a government inflicts on the American public narrow market-driven values, corporate relations of power and policies that impose gross inequities on society, and condemns young people to a life of precarity in which the future begins to resemble a remake of dystopian films such as Mad Max (1979), Brazil(1985), RoboCop (1987), Minority Report (2002), District Nine (2009), Comopolis(2012) and The Purge (2013). What makes American society distinct in the present historical moment is a culture and social order that has not only lost its moral bearings but produces a level of symbolic and real violence whose visibility and existence set a new standard for cruelty, humiliation and the mechanizations of a mad war machine, all of which serve the interests of the political and corporate walking dead - the new avatars of death and cruelty - that plunder the social order.[i] READ MORE

Paraguay’s Militarized Democracy

Paraguay’s Militarized Democracy

The title to this article could very easily read:
America's Militarized Democracy.
Wake up, stand up, and be counted.
Before it is too late. 

Looting the Pension Funds: How Wall Street Robs Public Workers By MATT TAIBBI Rolling Stone

Looting the Pension Funds: How Wall Street Robs Public Workers | Politics News | Rolling Stone

People Want Full Medicare for All | Common Dreams

People Want Full Medicare for All | Common Dreams

Documentary BBC - A History of Syria (2013)

What Then Can I Do? Ten Ways to Democratize the Economy By Gar Alperovitz and Keane Bhatt

What Then Can I Do? Ten Ways to Democratize the Economy
The richest 400 Americans now own more wealth than the bottom 180 million taken together. The political system is in deadlock. Social and economic pain continue to grow. Environmental devastation and global warming present growing challenges. Is there any path toward a more democratic, equal and ecologically sustainable society? What can one person do? READ MORE(Image: JMRosenfeld; Edited: Jared Rodriguez / t r u t h o u t)

Financial Core of the Transnational Corporate Class – Censored Notebook, Investigative Research

Financial Core of the Transnational Corporate Class – Censored Notebook, Investigative Research

The Pan-Asian Anchor: Former Warlord Primed For Afghan Presidency | The ...

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He looks to me like he is in a casting call line for the role of Moses. 

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Weaponized Profits: The US Health Care System | Common Dreams

Weaponized Profits: The US Health Care System | Common Dreams

Here is a list of Most efficient health care countries.
I am in S/Korea right now.
It comes in at number 8.
U.S.A. comes in at number 46.
The difference is beyond words.
My wife spent 3 nights in a hospital due to a minor accident.
It cost $90.00.
I will spell it out so that there is no question of  missing zeros.
Ninety dollars.
To see a doctor and have normal care is less than $15.00 a visit.
Three day supply of medicine is less than $5.00.
They allow one annual teeth cleaning for a total cost of $12.00.
These services can all be done as a walk in, with no appointment necessary.
I will be going to the hospital this week for the complete annual check up. And I mean complete. They check everything, I might even have to spend the night.
Can't wait to see what that will cost. :-)
We have been getting screwed in America for decades.
Why?
Because our congresssritters are in the pockets of the insurance corps.
They are the ones that write the legislation.
The critters are only messengers for the parasites that control our health care.
Health care belongs on Main St., not Wall St.

Path to Autocracy: Could America Become a Police State?

Path to Autocracy: Could America Become a Police State?

Promises and Betrayals - Middle East - History Channel Documentary

Iran and the Petrodollar Threat to U.S. Empire

New Left Project | Articles | Iran and the Petrodollar Threat to U.S. Empire
First published: 08 August, 2012

The Profits of War and De-Stabilization: Capitalism and US Oil Geo-Politics by ROB URIE

...........................Rough variants of capitalism were behind the growth of industry in the West and industry is the primary military / non-military user of oil. The strategic economic importance of oil to capitalist economies precedes its geo-political import because industry (an economy) is needed to build the military materiel of geo-politics before modern warfare is even possible. This is true from the genesis of industrial capitalism through the production – destruction cycles of economic / geo-political actors across modern history. The oil shocks of the 1970s were sold as geo-political in nature with the first in 1973 even called the ‘Arab Oil Embargo’ even though Iran, then still a U.S. client state, and Venezuela, were the main OPEC members in favor of embargo and both had little quarrel with U.S.-Israeli relations. And multi-national oil companies based in the U.S. were the primary actors holding oil off of world markets to raise the price. What was demonstrated with the embargoes was the effect that suddenly limited access to oil had on Western industrial economies that were structured to be wholly dependent on plentiful supplies at relatively low cost. Lacking the independent imperial relations needed to secure plentiful, cheap oil France and Japan both aggressively moved their nuclear energy programs forward. Given the relative immobility of nuclear energy, as opposed to nuclear weapons, these programs were conceived and built for economic purposes. The embargoes caused swift, steep recessions and the paradox in Western economics of rising prices coincident with falling economic production. The modern storyline of U.S. energy dependence / independence was borne here and the last embargo in 1979 resulted from oil-rich Iran declaring its independence from the U.S. And the hard turn right in Western academic economics evolved from the seeming paradox of ‘stagflation.’ READ MORE

Elites’ strange plot to take over the world BY MATT STOLLER - Salon.com

Elites’ strange plot to take over the world - Salon.com

US Army Veteran-Turned-Jihadist Jailed for Fighting in Syria Freed After Plea Deal

Army Vet Fighting in Syria Gets Plea Deal - ABC News

US Army Veteran-Turned-Jihadist Jailed for Fighting in Syria Freed After Plea Deal

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US nearly detonated atomic bomb over North Carolina – secret document | World news | The Guardian

US nearly detonated atomic bomb over North Carolina – secret document | World news | The 
Guardian

The bomb that nearly exploded over North Carolina was 260 times more powerful than the device which devasted Hiroshima in 1945. Photo: Three Lions/Getty Images

UN Stamps Out Measure to Reign In Nuclear Israel | Common Dreams

UN Stamps Out Measure to Reign In Nuclear Israel | Common Dreams

US gun-crime map: interactive Which US states have the most homicides in which firearms were used? Where has gun crime fallen? Click on a state to explore it - or use the dropdown menu to choose different ways of seeing the data

US gun-crime map: interactive | News | theguardian.com

America’s Afghan Victims | The Nation

America’s Afghan Victims | The Nation

A boy, injured during a NATO air strike, lies on a hospital bed in Afghanistan’s eastern Kunar province, February 20, 2011. Reuters/Stringer

SHAME SHAME SHAME on  America and 
the "willing".
All for a pack of lies. 
And guess what?
The American people bought it hook line and sinker.
And they will buy it again the next time.
All in the name of security,  empire and exceptionalism. 

Stalin said "The death of one man is a tragedy, 
the death of millions is a statistic."
We have entered the gates of hell.

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The man who stopped World War III and sacrificed his career | Russia & India Report

The man who stopped World War III and sacrificed his career | Russia & India Report

US outlines regional strategy for Afghan security | Russia & India Report

US outlines regional strategy for Afghan security | Russia & India Report

Kabul government should feel satisfied about the western commitment to provide the underpinning of security. Source: Reuters / Vostock Photo

LiveLeak: U.S. Navy vs Spanish Coast Guard. Spanish Coast Guard 1 U.S. Navy 0. LMFAO.

'Should there be a need': The inside story of Israel's chemical and biological arsenal | The Times of Israel

'Should there be a need': The inside story of Israel's chemical and biological arsenal | The Times of Israel

What weapons does the Jewish state possess? Why did it seek them? And could Assad’s apparent capitulation prompt calls for a wider cleansing? 

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Brazil prepares for digital divorce from US-dominated internet | GlobalPost

Brazil prepares for digital divorce from US-dominated internet | GlobalPost