Spectrezine

Spectrezine's friends at the Institute for Working Class History in Chicago are organising a conference at DePaul University, Chicago during May Day weekend 2010 on the subject of more than a centu

TweedleKerry, TweedleBush: US voters face choice which is no choice

by Greg Palast

A Lament for Liederkranz and the Pawhuska Town Square

By J. Quinn Brisben

Last December the New York Times described the anti-WTO protesters in Seattle as "flat-earth advocates." It’s true that many of the progressives there wanted no part of "progress" if it meant surrender to the rules of a few gigantic and undemocratically controlled financial institutions whose vision of the future is the Orwellian one of "a boot stamping on a human face—forever." The protesters were in favor of sea turtles, Roquefort cheese, a plain cup of coffee at the local greasy spoon, and effective labor unions controlled by their members. It should not have surprised the WTO and even many of the demonstrators that the various protesting groups got along so well with each other.