Today's Events

I spent all day writing exam questions and a study guide for my students. I hardly had time to exercise or work on my own research. My significant other brought a very bright young man to spend the night at home. Both he and Joe are presenting papers at the Brecht Forum tomorrow. Grover is also discussing his most recent book on Khrushchev. He undertook the painstaking job of reading and analyzing primary documents in Russian. Unlike some of the liars and frauds that publish in the field of Soviet Studies, Grover reads, writes, and speaks Russian as well as 10 other languages. He should have been a linguist!


Today our imperial forces and their lapdogs, France and the UK, started bombing Libya. All in the name of "demokkkracy." They bomb Libya but stand aside while Saudi Arabia and Bahrain slaughter the opposition. However, those two countries do what their masters tell them to do. They protect the interests and oil revenues of American and multinational corporations. And they call this fighting for "democracy?" Is the American public that stupid? Our own people are out of work, state workers and public employees are being disenfranchised and unions dismantled, but we do nothing to fight back. How much longer are we going to put up with the destruction of the American working-class and middle-class? It's a prelude to economic slavery. Wake up America!