Chuck Spinney: Manufacturing Dissent – The Rise of the Tea Party as an Elite Front – Opposite of OWS

Below is an excellent interview with Anthony DiMaggio in Counterpunch.  DiMaggio author of The Rise of the Tea Party, due out in November 2011. He uses the “propaganda model” developed by Noam Chomsky and Edward Herman in their book Manufacturing Consent to document and explain the Tea Party’s organizational dynamics for manufacturing dissent, and he …

Mini-Me: General Strike Enters Current Thinking

“Rush and Crush.” Any questions? Police Violence Sparks General Strike Idea Within ‘Occupy Wall Street’ Occupy Oakland: As injured Iraq vet recovers, occupiers promise to ‘shut the city down’ Union Support for General Strike and Protests Nov. 2 Call for GENERAL STRIKE Nov. 2 – plus Occupy updates Occupy Oakland makes plans for citywide general …

Vatican, Ethics, & Truth II (Full Text Online for Google Translate)

Full Text: Note on financial reform from the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace 2011-10-24 Vatican Radio Please find, below, an unofficial translation of the Note on the reform of the international financial and monetary systems in the context of global public authority, released Monday by the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace. ****************** Pontifical …

Chuck Spinney: From Algeria to Libya –Lessons Not Learned + USG CIA Web of Deceit in Arabia RECAP

The triumphalism in the US surrounding the liquidation of Qadaffi may be short lived.  That is because most Americans do not appreciate how the legacy of anti-colonialism shapes the contemporary cultural DNA in North Africa or how influential that legacy has been in shaping the revolts of what is now called the Arab Spring.  There …

Mini-Me: Iranian (US?) Plot Continues to Unravel UPDATE

Hmmmm.  Can you spell unethical idiocy?  AT BEST, the Iranian Liberation Nut-Jobs.  AT WORST, another Israeli false flag operation.  In the middle, the usual out-of-control lunatic covert action wanna-bees. Robert Steele adds:  if and when this becomes fully exposed, it will qualify as a “precipitant” of revolution, showing the public with stark immediacy the degree …