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Patrice Greanville is Cyrano's Journal Online ( http://www.bestcyrano.org/ ) founding editor and publisher. He may be reached at cyranoeditor@optonline.net
Wednesday, February 16, 2011 Is libertarianism the answer? | The Greanville Post
Is libertarian ideology a solution to the problems caused by megacorporations? Can turning the clock back to the early years of capitalism, freeing it of all political and social restriction, really deliver an optimal system of social organization? The author thinks not.
Wednesday, January 12, 2011 The rise of the IT guerrillas Patrice Greanville
The WikiLeaks IT guerrillas realize that dependable information--the truth about the real state of the world and the forces responsible for the endless crises, crimes, horrific unnecessary suffering, and wholesale terrorism--can indeed ultimately make people free, and aim to facilitate the process. The enormous beneficial potential of WikiLeaks seems to be obvious to many top thinkers on the left, including Daniel Ellsberg, the brave whistleblower to whom Julian Assange is most frequently compared, but, not too surprisingly, the point either eludes or is shamelessly ignored by prominent liberals like Katha Pollitt and Rachel Maddow.
Sunday, March 25, 2007 Look Out, It's a Paper Tiger! By Paul A. Donovan (1 comments)
This country needs a reshuffing of our existing values, argues the author. But the Democrats ain't doing the leading.
Saturday, March 24, 2007 Darfur & The Politics of Naming: Genocide, Civil War, Insurgency By Mahmood Mamdani | (4 comments)
Darfur should be a cautionary tale for easily misguided liberals, who apparently never learn, while it presents an opportunity for business for Western-based, corporate-styled human-calamity agencies, such as Save the Children, who find a raison d'etre in ministering to the stubborn wounds caused by backwardness, and the effects of colonialism and neocolonialism.
Tuesday, March 20, 2007 Cyrano's Journal Online | Excerpt from The Birthday Party: A Memoir of Survival By Stanley N. Alpert* (2 comments)
"My law enforcement career dealt with contamination of the air, water and land, threatening the basic quality of human life. Industry in America needed to be properly regulated and violators relentlessly pursued by the federal, state and local governments. Otherwise they gave you widgets plus some surprisingly nasty free gifts: asthma, genetic mutations, filthy air, and lakes and oceans where the fish gasped..." Must read!
Friday, March 16, 2007 Cyrano\'s Journal Online | The liberal war on democracy By John Pilger (1 comments)
A crisp comparison of the vibrant, from the grassroots-on-up democracy being built by Pres. Hugo Chavez in Venezuela, with 65% support, and the flaccid, deeply undemocratic regimes we have now in the West, and still insist on calling them "democratic".
