Rebel Yell: Resistance and Renaissance in the Age of Terror
September 4, 2008
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The whole world absent-mindedly turns its back on these crimes; the victims have reached the extremity of their disgrace: they are a bore. – Albert Camus, The Fastidious Assassins.
The “War on Terror” is a brutal and criminal enterprise launched by George W. Bush and fully supported by John McCain and Barack Obama, both of whom have pledged not only to continue its deadly operations but to expand them to new killing fields. Iran, Pakistan, Russia’s “soft underbelly” in the Caucasus – these and other regions have been
John McCain’s selection of Sarah Palin seems to have thrown the media-political-blogospherical establishments into a tizzy. It’s hard to see why. Sure, Cleese would have been better than Palin — more gravitas, louder voice. And of course, the late, lamented Graham Chapman would make a better president than any of the four ticket-toppers of the two major parties. I mean, even now he would be better, despite being dead and British and all.
Only once, briefly, did I find myself in a room where CNN was blaring on a tiny television set. As it happened, it was 
When it comes to determining the true thrust and implication of world events, the old adage is still valid: “Follow the money.”