Due to a sitewide restructuring of Cyrano’s Journal Online, the materials normally scheduled for The Greanville Journal are being now posted on Cyrano’s main portal [http://www.bestcyrano.org/]. The Greanville Journal will soon be thematically repositioned to accommodate television commentary.
Patrice Greanville
Editor in Chief
Cyrano’s Journal Online & Editorial Director, The Greanville Journal
VIST ALSO THESE REMARKABLE BLOGS IN THE CYRANO FAMILY:
Brutish, primitive Afghanistan has been the tomb of many a colonialist enterprise, but the American imperialists never learn from history, and their eyes are set on the Central Asian oil riches…
When US envoy to Afghanistan, Richard Holbrooke met with Afghanistan’s ‘democratically’ installed President Hamid Karzai in Kabul on February 14, he may have just learned of the historic significance of the following day. February 15 commemorates the end of the bloody Russian campaign against Afghanistan (August 1978-February 1989). Read the rest of this entry »
The Reagans at the zenith of their popularity. Few rightwing charlatans can match Ronald Reagan for hypocrisy, no small feat in a field crammed with mean-spirited phonies.
One of Ronald Reagan’s first acts on his first full day in office, January 21, 1981, was to completely shut down the alternate/renewable energy program that Jimmy Carter established in the late 1970s. At that time, a few scientists were already predicting global warming. However, there was little data and most of the science that was going on was in the realm of hypothesis. What was known for sure at that time was that however much more oil and other fossil fuels were eventually discovered, they would eventually run out. There is only a finite supply of the stuff in the Earth. The only variable is that we don’t know just how much there is or how much it would cost to extract every last ounce of it. At some time, if civilization were to be preserved, other sources of energy would have to be developed. Furthermore, at that time it was known for sure that if all of the petro-chemicals were burned up, much of the stuff of modern life, from plastics to pharmaceuticals, would disappear as well. Read the rest of this entry »
“With all of the hysteria, all of the fear, all of the phony science, could it be that man-made global warming is the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people? It sure sounds like it.”—Senator James Inhofe
From humble beginnings as Tulsa mayor and a small businessman, Senator James Inhofe has morphed into one of the most dangerous neocons and right-wing extremists of our time. On the front lines of Bush’s war against civil liberties, peace, and the environment, Inhofe is leading the drive to plunge the planet into chaos and destruction for the glory and profits of the military megamachines and transnational corporations. Behind the flattering self-portrait Inhofe paints in his autobiography lies a profoundly ignorant, corrupt demagogue and power-mongering shill for Bush, the war against Iraq, and global corporate plunder. Online news magazine, Slate, wrote that Inhofe is “widely considered one of the dumbest members of Congress,” but should have added that he is also one of the most dangerous. Read the rest of this entry »
Symbols and objects held sacred by a whole people form a more powerful protective barrier than the highest of walls. Even the Great Wall of China was more a scarecrow than a real barrier to Mongol invaders. In that figurative sense I have imagined here the Russian icon as a historical defense of Russia against circling invaders, against mercenary armies and menacing space shields. Read the rest of this entry »
Too True to be Good:
Some inconvenient truths from the Cold War years.
Russia’s decisive military action against Georgia in response to Saakashvili’s deluded attempt to retake by force the breakaway region of South Ossetia, was widely condemned in most media reports as an act of unprovoked aggression. The British government, more vociferously than those of France, Germany and Italy, has stood “shoulder to shoulder” with its closest ally, George W. Bush, who told the Russians that it was unacceptable in the 21st century to invade the territory of a sovereign state. Saakashvili, willing ally of Britain and the U.S. in their noble mission in Iraq, was compelled hastily to withdraw his 2000 troops from that country as they were needed at home. Read the rest of this entry »
“Bobby” Jindal, the Indian American Governor of Louisiana, and certifiable reactionary by any standard, is now, along with Eric Cantor, making the right noises to emerge as one of the GOP’s future leaders. The American South and its backward constituencies continues to be the albatross around the neck of American democracy, a democracy substantially eviscerated of any substance in the postwar decades, and it didn’t have much substance to begin with.
Dr. J.’s Commentary: Why the GOP is Terrified of Obama
The GOP is indeed terrified of Obama; it is now becoming patently obvious. In the debate over the (first) stimulus package and especially in the aftermath of its passage, they could barely talk about the real issues themselves. (And there surely were some real ones, about stimulus, not tax cuts, to talk about. This was evidenced by some-to-much unhappiness about in various progressive to left-wing quarters.) All GOPers could do was moan and groan about “the failure of bipartisanship” that was, of course, all the President’s fault. Read the rest of this entry »
On February 18, President Barack Obama ordered 17,000 additional U.S. troops deployed to Afghanistan. Obama’s announcement will result in a major escalation of America’s bloody occupation of that war-ravaged country.
Currently, some 36,000 U.S. troops are in Afghanistan, including some 6,000 sent in early January under orders by the outgoing Bush regime. In addition to U.S. forces, 32,000 troops from other NATO countries and a mix of “private military contractors” (armed mercenaries) occupy the Central Asian nation.Read the rest of this entry »
Banking shares began to plunge Friday morning after Senator Dodd, the Connecticut Democrat who is chairman of the banking committee, said in an interview with Bloomberg Television that he was concerned the government might end up nationalizing some lenders “at least for a short time.” Several other prominent policy makers – including Alan Greenspan, the former chairman of the Federal Reserve, and Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina – have echoed that view recently. (Eric Dash, “Growing Worry on Rescue Takes a Toll on Banks,” The New York Times, February 20, 2009) Read the rest of this entry »
**SPECIAL**
Check this video out if you value freedom. HR 1955, proposed by Jane Harman (D-Calif.) criminalizes dissenting speech as essentially seditious and supportive of "terror". It was passed by near unanimity in the House of Scoundrels, with only 6 votes abstaining or not voting. [•]
