CORRUPTION

[redstar2000]

Here's an interesting article from Harper's Magazine about how corruption in American politics actually works.

The Great American Pork Barrel (http://harpers.org/TheGreatAmericanPorkBarrel.html)

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[violencia.Proletariat]

Dont forget budget impounding! :lol:

[Publius]

Don't you find Harper's to be a little...bourgeois?

[ComradeOm]

I'm impressed. I was under the impression that American politicans were cheap... they'd settle for a few golf trips to Scotland while the Russians were making off with entire industries.

[redstar2000]

Originally posted by [email protected] 24 2006, 08:18 PM
Don't you find Harper's to be a little...bourgeois?
Petty-bourgeois, actually. :)

I think Harper's is probably the "left-most" mainstream publication in the U.S.

Its paid circulation is only about a quarter-million...but that puts it light-years ahead of the tiny Leninist tabloids here.

You wouldn't ever read Harper's for a Marxist analysis of anything...that's simply out of their league.

But you might have a look if you want to see what a rational bourgeoisie might do...if it had a chance to run things.

The editor, Lewis H. Lapham, is not only an excellent writer in his own right...but he has very high editorial standards. He's a scion of the ruling class himself, went to all the "right schools", and somehow got it into his head that the "mythology of America" as the "home of the free" was or at least ought to be real.

It's amusing that he almost signed up with the CIA as a youth fresh out of college...but gave up on the idea after an interview with some of its members. He was stunned by their "lack of seriousness". :lol:

So I highly recommend Harper's...it may be the best publication in the U.S. today.

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[Publius]

Petty-bourgeois, actually. :)

I think Harper's is probably the "left-most" mainstream publication in the U.S.

Its paid circulation is only about a quarter-million...but that puts it light-years ahead of the tiny Leninist tabloids here.

I should say so.

I've seen a few of the far-leftist rags in a local Borders -- I flipped through them and was unimpressed.

I managed to gather that coherent graphical design is 'not dialectical enough' or something because they were on par with the art direction found in a Jr. High school paper.



You wouldn't ever read Harper's for a Marxist analysis of anything...that's simply out of their league.

I would think the situation reversed.



But you might have a look if you want to see what a rational bourgeoisie might do...if it had a chance to run things.

The editor, Lewis H. Lapham, is not only an excellent writer in his own right...but he has very high editorial standards. He's a scion of the ruling class himself, went to all the "right schools", and somehow got it into his head that the "mythology of America" as the "home of the free" was or at least ought to be real.

It's amusing that he almost signed up with the CIA as a youth fresh out of college...but gave up on the idea after an interview with some of its members. He was stunned by their "lack of seriousness". :lol:

So I highly recommend Harper's...it may be the best publication in the U.S. today.

Which probably isn't saying much.

Newsweek and Time are sensationalist rags, the New York Times is an overated shell of a paper full of bloviating knobs like that insufferable mustache-with-a-cliche Tommy Freidman, the Nation is Clinton Democrat adoring fap-fest, US News and World Report is slighly better than Time and Newsweek simply because it didn't have 15 fucking pages of ejaculation for the sucktastic insta-celebrity Bode 'What the fuck kind of name is that' Miller and the rest of the Olypmic cadre of vampiric ego-sodden bastards.

PC Gamer is probably the best US publication, actually.

Atlantic Magazine is decent, if a little too self-important and adulatorily erudite.

[redstar2000]

Originally posted by Publius
Which probably isn't saying much.

You have a point. American journalism today is exceptionally wretched.

I get my news from the internet almost exclusively...and especially rely on the BBC, The Economist and the English-language port of Der Spiegel.

I also like the NYC Indymedia site...though much of it is fluff.

I also like a couple of blogs: Direland and Lenin's Tomb.

The only American news source that I regularly visit is the San Francisco Chronicle -- not all that great but occasionally something of interest.


I managed to gather that coherent graphical design is 'not dialectical enough' or something because they were on par with the art direction found in a Jr. High school paper.

Well, having been in that position myself, I can tell you it's strictly a matter of "on the job training". Learning how to develop an attractive layout for a tabloid format takes time...and, of course, an understanding of why that's politically important.

And now, of course, it's becoming less important...we reach enormously more people on the internet with our ideas than all those little tabloids ever did put together.

And the numbers climb dramatically with every passing year. When I started my own small site, I was lucky to get 10 or 15 visitors per day; now I'm not that far from getting that many visitors per hour. Indeed, while this site was down, I had 18 visitors in a single 15-minute period! :D


Atlantic Magazine is decent, if a little too self-important and adulatorily erudite.

Self-important is right! They don't post any of their articles on the internet for free.

Screw em!

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[Monty Cantsin]

I read New Left Review and Monthly Review... NLR has some really PoMo Crap though...

for daily news i've got "the australian" a centerist paper...and the ABC online. and other internet sources.

[Atlas Swallowed]

Originally posted by [email protected] 25 2006, 06:04 AM
The only American news source that I regularly visit is the San Francisco Chronicle -- not all that great but occasionally something of interest.

The Village Voice is decent as far as US rags go(not saying much) and the comics are quite amusing.

I prefer The Guardian over BBC in the British press.

[Hegemonicretribution]

Originally posted by Atlas [email protected] 25 2006, 12:44 PM
I prefer The Guardian over BBC in the British press.
I would second that, although as always it is to be taken with a pinch of salt.

The one upside is that they openly admit when they were wrong, (most of the time at leat) unlike most major news groups.

[Amusing Scrotum]

Originally posted by Atlas [email protected] 25 2006, 12:44 PM
I prefer The Guardian over BBC in the British press.

I don't know how much of the paper they put "on-line", but The Independent is in my opinion, the best mainstream British News Source.

You'd probably be able to get it as a paper in some parts of America. I know I was able to buy it in Austria - although the paper was one from two days ago.

[hajduk]

Originally posted by [email protected] 24, 2006 08:31 pm
Here's an interesting article from Harper's Magazine about how corruption in American politics actually works.

The Great American Pork Barrel (http://harpers.org/TheGreatAmericanPorkBarrel.html)

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in movie "Syriana" one politician said
"without corruption we will never exist"
problem is becouse common people use bribe and corruption thinking that is the normal thing to do when you have someone in hospital and you bribeing the doctor or director some firm to give job for your relative etc.
first you must change the minds of common people about bribe and corruption then you can do more steps in the manner to destroy corruption in your state

[Jazzratt]

hajduk, stop spamming.