BAATHIST RETURN and THIS WEEK'S BIG EVENTS

Well, the following development in Iraq is/was predicated on Allawi's PREDETERMINED return and the Arab Baath(MINUS Socialist) Party:

HERE

http://www.azzaman.com/english/index.asp?fname=news\2010-05-19\kurd.htm

Events surrounding Iran/Iraq regime change press inexorably forward, a la President Hillary Clinton's globe trotting, international arm twisting, negotiations, threats, intimidation, bribes, guarantees, etc.

Meanwhile, GREEK CP LED LABOR and their UNITED FRONT who HIT A HOME RUN OUT OF THE BALLPARK and a STRIKE HEARD AROUND THE WORLD WITH LABOR ACTION ONGOING AND ANOTHER GENERAL STRIKE PROMISED TOMORROW (which I eagerly anticipate), continues to cause global reverberations echoing throughout world markets, as I remarked in my previous posts.
(See this month's posts).

Nonetheless, obliging, up and coming, "third world EMERGING MARKETS," i.e., speculative bubbles, are the antidote, the KEY, to "Old World" order economic problems.
The meaning within my context of third world should be obvious.
PRIVATIZED and integrated into capital markets.
Stripped and devoid of formerly NATIONALIZED industries, resources and public services.
REACTIONARY and RESTORATIVE Colonialism.

In relation to the above AND ALL my previous posts on this theme, can the headlines and timing below get any better?
They speak for themselves.
I found myself chuckling.
For how else to respond?:

"Greek PM Heads to the Middle East..." tomorrow, on the day of the second Greek General Strike:

HERE

http://www.zawya.com/Story.cfm/sidZW20100519000121/Greek%20PM%20Heads%20To%20Mideast%20As%20Debt%
20Woes%20Hammer%20Euro

AND, part of Hamid Jafar's octopus and empire, Crescent Petroleum, proudly announces their deal with Russia's Rosneft, no doubt, an arrangement negotiated with Hillary's concurrence, agreement and/or participation:

HERE

http://www.zawya.com/Story.cfm/sidZAWYA20100519113054/Crescent%20Petroleum%2C%20Rosneft%20Sign%20Oil%20Deal

At this point, I wish to indulge, for lack of better description, a personal note, editorial commentary, observation.
In much earlier posts, I advised or warned or promised everyone Hillary Clinton is a FORMIDABLE (both English and French terms) adversary, unlike our absolute, know nothing, zero, empty headed, manufactured, adolescent, juvenile, childish, petulant, condescending puppet and PR front man in the White House.
Clinton works quietly in the background MAKING and determining policy, as well as carrying it out, of course.
She is NOT stupid, ignorant, uninformed, dumb, naive, and she did build a professional career for herself over time based on advocacy group litigation, etc.
It would have been nice if she were on OUR side, instead of theirs.
That is/was WHY Hillary's former Presidential primary campaign took on new, unexpected dimensions, characteristics, opening possibilities when her campaign was suddenly challenged, undermined by the dirty, filthy, obscene NAZI tactics and Hitler youth rallies of those financing Obooma who, by the way, did smear the US working class as a bunch of racists.
Not exactly endearing.
At which point, she/it/they had the POSSIBILITY of bolting, splitting the Democratic Party and LEADING a PRINCIPLED, INDEPENDENT, THIRD PARTY movement and challenge.
PRECISELY THAT IS WHY THE ESTABLISHMENT WAS SO AFRAID.
Thus, Hillary, her followers and their mushrooming, multiplying, organic organization and nascent coalition building standing behind her at that point HAD to be neutralized.
And, then, Hillary, herself, stood at an historical juncture and opted for status quo power.
Perhaps, in addition, she justified her self-serving capitulation in the service of empire juxtaposed to the undesirable fate of a martyr, a bullet in her head, or, hounded into personal bankruptcy.
It takes lots of courage, commitment, heroism, bravery, principled steadfastness AND A UNITED FRONT to FIGHT the FASCIST Establishment.
This is not a Hillary excuse or apology.
She DID HAVE A CHOICE and she MADE IT by abdicating and allowing her UNITED, POTENT ORGANIZATIONAL CHALLENGE, BROAD BASED MOVEMENT, FORCE, ARMY standing BEHIND HER to be disassembled, dismantled, disarmed, fragmented, dissolved, melted and evaporated, incorporated back into the arms of the two party, oligopic NAZI system, betrayed, with no place else for them to go.
In return, Hillary's powerful status and career was retained, reconfirmed and reassured.
Thus, another opportunity squandered, confrontation deferred and contradictions deepened.