There was an excellent panel on Actually Existing Barbarism sponsored by Socialist Register. The first paper was read at such speed it exhibited contempt for its hearers, but nevertheless seemed to have some quite good material on continuity in U.S. domestic policy. Jan & I walked out on the third speaker out of embarassment for him. The second speaker was on continuity in U.S. foreign policy over the administrations of Bush,*Clinton,Bush, Obama, and I suspect provided a find basis for seeing how things will be going. Obama is asimply a more efficient mass-murderer than Bush, and one capable,as Bush was not, of organizing serous public support for his murderous policies.
Carrol ravi wrote: > > Despite (and not forgetting) his murderous assault in Somali waters, I > am beginning to feel a wee bit positive about Obama in light of his > Chavez, Cuba and even Iran, engagement and comments. I think his > comment (below) is quite a significant challenge of ingrained ideology > and confrontational, binary frameworks: > > "They would have us make the false choice between a rigid, state-run > economy and unbridled and unregulated capitalism;" > > He goes on to posit right-wing paramilitaries as equivalent to left- > wing insurgents (or rather the other way around), which is, IMHO, an > insult to the history of the region (Central/South America), but I > will take these crumbs, nonetheless. > > --ravi > > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
