Articles - America & Europe en-us http://www.againstamerica.com/articlelive N/A http://www.againstamerica.com/articlelive bobclarke@orange.fr 20 http://www.againstamerica.com/articlelive/articles/23/1/Bush-rebuking-Russia-Putin-must-be-splitting-his-sides/Page1.html Putin would die laughing if he read this week's American newspapers. The president, George Bush, declared the Russian invasion of Georgia "disproportionate and unacceptable". This is taken as a put-down to the vice-president, Dick Cheney, who declared the invasion "will not go unanswered", apparently something quite different. Bush says that great powers should not go about "toppling governments in the 21st century", as if he had never done such a thing. Cheney says that the invasion has "damaged Russia's standing in the world", as if Cheney gave a damn. The lobby for sanctions against Russia is reduced to threatening to boycott the winter Olympics. Big deal. racmac@csi.com (editorial staff) Wed, 13 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.againstamerica.com/articlelive/articles/6/1/Europes-Anti-American-Obsession/Page1.html The following is an extract from an article by Jean-Francois Revel published on theamericanenterprise.org: What picture of American society is likely to be imprinted on the consciousness of average Europeans? Given what they read or hear every day from intellectuals and politicians, they can hardly have any choice in the unpleasant particulars, especially if they happen to be French. The picture repeatedly sketched for them is as follows: American society is entirely ruled by money. No other value, whether familial, moral, religious, civic, cultural, professional, or ethical has any potency in itself. Everything in America is a commodity, regarded and used exclusively for its material value. A person is judged solely by the worth of his bank account. Every U.S. President has been in the pockets of the oil companies, the military-industrial complex, the agricultural lobby, or the financial manipulators of Wall Street. America is the "jungle" par excellence of out-of-control, "savage" capitalism, where the rich are always becoming richer and fewer, while the poor are becoming poorer and more numerous. Poverty is the dominant social reality in America. Hordes of famished indigents are everywhere, while luxurious chauffeured limousines with darkened windows glide through the urban wilderness. racmac@csi.com (editorial staff) Sun, 05 Nov 2006 00:00:00 -0500