Paul Craig Roberts: Marx and Lenin Reconsidered

Paul Craig Roberts: Marx and Lenin Reconsidered

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Not quite a mea culpa, but headed that way....

Muse tell Glenn Beck to retract endorsement

Muse tell Glenn Beck to retract endorsement

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Good for Muse!

Greek socialists claim victory in election | World news | The Guardian

Greek socialists claim victory in election | World news | The Guardian

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Of course, this will do nothing to quiet the Left is dead meme we've been reading about the last few weeks, will it?

Britain: The denouement looms for Labour

Original article, by Chris Marsden, via World Socialist Web Site:

This was the week that the Labour Party simply died of shame.

Deservedly so. They sold their souls to the City of London for power. Hmmm...sounds like a particluar party in power in the US right now.

Labour’s Brighton conference venue was rarely more than half full, even for party leader and Prime Minister Gordon Brown’s keynote speech billed as his “fighting comeback.” Most of the time there was a sea of empty chairs. Delegates either did not attend the conference at all, or stayed in nearby bars drowning their sorrows. Those that did take their seats had the appearance of the walking dead in a George A. Romero movie—shambling around a cavernous hall without thought, giving only an appearance of the conscious activity of the living.

At least the Democrats had bright young faces as part of their resurgence. But those bright young faces expected 'change we can believe in.' The turn to a cynical view of politics is probably taking place as we speak.

The week’s events began with a declaration to the Observer by Chancellor Alistair Campbell that the party looked like it had “lost the will to live.” On the evening it began, the election results in Germany came through, with the Social Democrats polling just 23 percent, recording their worst result since World War II.

Once again, a party which sold it's soul for power.

I'll let you read the rest of the article. As you read about the demise of Labour (no, they'll still be around, but not in the form their in now if they want to be a strong party), notice the similarities to the Democrats in the US. The question is how do we break the hold of money upon the political system so that real change can take place.

Capitalism, we're through | SocialistWorker.org

Capitalism, we're through | SocialistWorker.org

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Brian Jones' review of 'Capitalism: A Love Story.'

Chronicle of a failed execution

Original article via socialistworker.org:

Liliana Segura, an AlterNet writer and member of the Campaign to End the Death Penalty, reports on the botched attempt to execute Romell Broom--who tried to help his executioners put him to death, only to leave the chamber alive.

Be warned. It's gruesome.

LAST TUESDAY afternoon, on September 17, 53-year-old Romell Broom lay strapped to a gurney inside the death chamber at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility in Lucasville, Ohio, as "medical" staff--also known as an "execution team"--struggled to insert IVs into his arms.

I had a similar problem once when I was a kid. It took fifteen minutes to find a vein to take some blood...after a second nurse was called in.

The point, of course, was to kill him, by the same method currently used in every death penalty state in the country: lethal injection. It's a technique widely seen as perfectly humane, including by the U.S. Supreme Court, which last year ruled that, despite several documented executions gone awry, it does not violate the 8th Amendment ban on cruel and unusual punishment.

I'll let you read the rest. Needless to say, we (the society as a whole) are savages. Which is why we have the death penalty to begin with. My only hope is that the judge will say that you've had your shot at him and reset the sentence to life without parole.