"My Momma raised a Hell-Raiser!
Stress gettin' major
Lord be my Savior!"
---Tupac Shakur

"To the extent that the United States was governed by anyone during the decades following World War II, it was governed by the President acting with the support and cooperation of key individuals and groups in the executive office, the federal bureaucracy, Congress, and the more important businesses, banks, law firms, foundations, and media, which constitute the private sector's `Establishment."
---Samuel Huntington, Harvard University, "The Democratic Distemper"--The Trilateral Commission

"One percent of the nation owns a third of the wealth. The rest of the wealth is distributed in such a way as to turn those in the 99 percent against one another: small property owners against the property-less, black against white, native-born against foreign-born, intellectuals and professionals against the uneducated and unskilled. These groups have resented one another and warred against one another with such vehemence and violence as to obscure their common position as sharers of leftoversin a very wealthy country..."[Emphasis ours.--Ed.]
Howard Zinn, A People's History of the United States.

We need a revolution now.

Lots of countries are now planning to look to biometrics - identifying their citizens by fingerprints, voice-prints, and iris scans, among other innovative technological tricknology --- as a means of classifying us much better than the usual ways of showing our "papers."

The corporate government, misnomered the "multinationals" are extremely excited about the possibility of re-cataloging you and me in this way. Man, I'm jazzed.

IF you wanted to ask G21 what we think about politics I suspect you'd be surprised. Or maybe not. We would talk about the new mercantilist government, the Establishment(as defined above by one of its denizens from Harvard, expecting that we the people would not read it) and the irrelevance of political parties.

Wait! I take that back. Rather, we would say that the Ruling Class political parties in the United States, corporate lackies and toadies to a one, should be abandoned. You could do yourself the biggest favor in the world to disavow both Democrats and Republicans and pick ANY OTHER PARTY.

AND let me get this straight: Our country is becoming the laughing stock of the world, going into yet another Constitutional crisis because A POLITICIAN LIED.

Ohmigod! What if someone clued the Talking Heads inside the Beltway, and the Mouthpiece Media, that BANKERS STEAL, and the MILITARY/INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX(Thank you, President Eisenhower for that moment of Clarity!) is DESPOILING AND POLLUTING THE PLANET? Would that lead to a shortage of Valium and Prozac?

"Stop now, Rod! Or we take you away."

Those of you following international events know that--- as predicted in G21 last month --- the situation in Cambodia has quickly escalated toward critical. Hun Sen's forces are in contradiction: they shoot Buddhist priests and students down on the street, and threaten to arrest all opposition leaders, then by midnight recant that because of strong-arm tactics by the (US dominated) IMF and their desire to rejoin the "community of nations" in the UN and ASEAN.

Let's have a clue. This is bogus, and engineered.

Our old pal, Stephen Solarz, felt so bad about his "miracle on the Mekong" statement that he had to do a mea culpa piece in the New York Times this week to try to explain himself. Is he now washing his hands, over and over again, like Pontius Pilate?

I stand by my original reporting: Mirage on the Mekong.

Our staff writer, Jeff Winbush, directed me to the fact that we are now listed with TurnLeft, "The Home of Liberalism on the Web" this Labor Day weekend.(Go to their "Culture" section, then click on Ezines.) I am genuinely surprised that they would accept the G21 considering that we are more radical than liberal. I'm still gratified, of course.

Finally, here's the deal. I feel like what is happening in Cambodia today is an example of what Malcolm X called "the chickens coming home to roost."

Students of history will know that he was castigated for that statement, a reference as it was to the assassination of President John Kennedy.

But Malcolm was usually too much on the beam. I'll give you an example. Here's what he said about the March on Washington, orchestrated(in part) by Martin Luther King, Jr:

The Negroes were out there on the streets. They were talking about how they were going to march on Washington... That they were going to march on Washington, march on the Senate, march on the White House, march on the Congress, and tie it up, bring it to a halt, not let the government proceed. They even said they were going out to the airport and lay down onthe runway and not let any airplanes land. I'm telling you what they said. That was revolution. That was revolution. That was the black revolution.

It as the grass roots out there in the street. It scared the white man to death, scared the white power structure in Washington, D.C. to death; I was there. When they found out that this black steamroller was going to come down on the capital, they called in... these national Negro leaders that you respect and told them, "Call it off," Kennedy said. "Look you all are letting this thing go too far." And Old Tom said, "Boss, I can't stop it because I didnt' start it." I'm telling you what they said. They said, "I'm not even in it, much less at the head of it." They said, "These Negroes are doing things on their own. They're running ahead of us." And that old shrewd fox, he said, "If you all aren't in it, I'll put you in it. I'll put you at the head of it. I'll endorse it. I'll welcome it. I'll help it. I'll join it."

This what they did with the march on Washington. They joined it.... became part of it, took it over. And as they took it over, it lost its militancy. It ceased to be angry, it ceased to be a march. It became a picnic, a circus. Nothing but a circus, with clowns and all...

No, it was a sellout. It was a takeover.... They controlled it so tight, they told those Negroes what time to hit town, where to stop, what signs to carry, what song to sing, what speech they could make, what speech they couldn't make, and then told them to get our of town by sundown...

We need to abandon the kind of manipulative politics exhibited by the Kennedy administration's orchestration of that march, and the black "leaders'" abandonment of the the ideals of the people they claimed to represent.

We need to recognize that both so-called political parties are the tools of the Oligarchy. If this democratic experiment is to succeed, if it has a snowball's change in this hell, we need to get busy.