The Bush Junta: A Field Guide to Corruption in Government (2008)

"Some of the medium's best practitioners take on the Bush Administration just in time for the election in this outraged work of comics journalism.

The Bush Junta: A Field Guide to Corruption in Government is an historical account of the high crimes and misdemeanors of the presidential administration of George W. Bush, as told by an international assemblage of world-class cartoonists. This fact-based, impeccably researched work of comics journalism chronicles the Bush administration in the context of the Bush family dynasty that spawned it. Topics include:

• The Nazi connections of the president's grandfather, Prescott Bush;
• The Bush family's membership in Yale's Skull and Bones Society;
• Former President George Bush's connections to the CIA, the Mafia, and Big Oil;
• His involvement in the October Surprise and Iran Contra scandals;
• The Bush family's strange relationship with the family of John Hinckley (the would-be assassin of President Ronald Reagan);
• The Panama Deception;
• The Persian Gulf War;
• The suspicious business practices of his Bush sons, particularly with regard to the Savings and Loan scandal of the 1980s;
• Young George W. Bush, his troubles with the law, his AWOL military record; George W.'s governorship of Texas;
• The electoral fraud of 2000 that resulted in his presidency;
• Unanswered questions about the terror attacks of September 11;
• The administration's "War on Terror" and its erosion of civil liberties under the Patriot Act and proposed Victory Act;
• The oil-based motives behind the Iraq War and how the public was deceived into supporting the war;
• The administration's shameful record on energy and the environment; and much more.

Also included are profiles of the key players in the current administration, a rogues gallery including Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, John Ashcroft, Condoleezza Rice, and Karl Rove".

"An international array of twenty-five cartoonists have researched, written, drawn, and laid bare the truth on George W. Bush, his family's American dynasty, their sordid business connections and various wars, and the Bush regime itself — in 24 humorous, witty, acerbic, and factual chapters. Ted Rall, Steve Brodner, Seth Tobocman, Lloyd Dangle, Peter Kuper, Carol Swain, Spain Rodriguez, Ted Jouflas, Ethan Persoff and many other freedom-loving cartoonists. A primer to Bushian corruption and malfeasance, The Bush Junta includes chapters on Gulf wars I and II, the S&L scandal, the 2000 Presidential coup, the Bush record on the environment and civil liberties, September 11, the Guantanamo camp, and profiles of such sinister figures as Donald Rumsfeld, Condeleezza Rice, John Ashcroft, and Karl Rove. Plus a series of bumper sticker-sized flyers that you can reproduce and surreptitiously attach to the backs of stalwarts attending GOP rallies".

The Bush Junta:
25 Cartoonists on the Mayberry Machiavelli and the Abuse of Power

Edited by Mack White & Barry Groth

Alex Jones - Introduction
Uri Dowbenco - Foreword
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Marcel Ruijters - The Bush-Nazi Connection
Jaime Crespo - Bad to the Bone
Albo Heim - Super Spook
Larry Rodman - Iran-Contra
David Paleo & Mack White - The Bush-Hinckley Connection
Aleksandar Zograf & Mack White - Operation Just Cause
Jem Eaton - Poppy the President
Kenneth R. Smith - Bush Family Values
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Scott Gilbert - The Skies of Texas
Penny Van Horn & Mack White - The Compassionate Conservative
Carol Swain - Florida 11/7/00
Seth Tobocman - The Carlyle Group
Ted Rail - Checklist for the Neo-Fascists
Mack White - September 11th
Steve Brodner - Environmental Plunder Administration
Alejandro Alvarez - Camp X-Ray Guantanamo
Spain Rodriguez - The War
Ethan Persoff & Jasun Huerta - Your Very Own Information Campaign
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Scott Marshall - Snowflake
Lloyd Dangle - Turd Blossom
Ted Jouflas - With Sweetness
Ethan Persoff - Blacks, Babies, and Battered Women
Mark Landman - The Man in the Shadows
Peter Kuper - Ceci n'est pas une Comic
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Adam Gorightly - Afterword

236 pages of cartoon research featuring some of the Ewings' Closest Friends like: Bush Father, Bush Son, Bush Grandfather, JFK, Castro, Osama, Noriega, Kissinger, Reagan, Sandinistas, Jimmy Carter, Contras, Rumsfeld, Clinton, Saddam, Carlucci, Cheney, Wolfowitz, Adolf Hitler and many other distinguished oil barons, gentlemen and well-wishers.

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Muslimgauze - Silknoose (1995)

Muslimgauze was the stage name of Bryn Jones (June 17, 1961 - January 14, 1999), an extremely prolific British electronic music artist, strongly influenced by everything to do with the Middle East.

Bryn Jones was not a practicing Muslim and never went to the Middle East. His recordings as Muslimgauze, however, qualified him as one of the Western artists most explicitly slanted in his favor of the Palestinian liberation movement. Since the Manchester-native's works were instrumental, most of the political statement was inherent in the packaging: Witness titles such as Fatah Guerrilla, Return of Black September, Hebron Massacre, Vote Hezbollah, United States of Islam and The Rape of Palestine. Jones could have been a potentially controversial figure if his releases were available in anything except severely limited editions -- usually less than one thousand copies of each. Despite their lack of prominence, Jones' blend of found-sound Middle Eastern atmospheres with heavily phased drones and colliding rhythm programs were among the most startling and unique in the noise underground.

The name Muslimgauze was derived from the word "muslin," which is a type of gauze, and changed into an adjective describing the area in which he was interested. He was a staunch supporter of Hamas and the PLO, and he believed Palestine should be "freed from the Zionists." Born in Manchester, England, United Kingdom, he never visited the Middle East, explaining, "I don't think you can visit an occupied land. It's the principle. Not until it's free again."


He first began making music in 1982, under the alias of E.g Oblique Graph, to protest the Israeli invasion of Lebanon. He released three cassettes and a 7" EP as E.g Oblique Graph: Extended Play (1982), Piano Room (1982), the 7" Triptych (1982), and Inhalt (1983). After he changed his name to Muslimgauze, he released a 7" EP (Hammer & Sickle), his first full-length LP (Kabul), and another cassette (Opaques) in 1983. In 1990, the Australian record label Extreme signed him, but he left in 1994 for Dutch label Staalplaat and its sister American label Soleilmoon because his albums were not being released as promptly as he had wanted, and he was also not receiving payment. Since he had put out seven releases since he signed, money was becoming a problem. His output was always very high. In 1995, he had six releases; in 1996, fifteen; in 1997, nine; in 1998, sixteen. After his death, the many record companies he had associated with released unreleased material and re-pressed older, out-of-print material. In 1999, the year of his death, twenty-two new (and old) albums and EPs on several media were released.

Strongly opposed to the use of computers and samplers in music, Jones always recorded his music with old analog equipment, which were never from the United States or Japan. He would record himself playing various Middle Eastern instruments and record voices of Middle Eastern people from old tapes. Jones's music was heavily percussive; a review of a rare live performance notes that Jones used a "backing DAT tape with pretty harsh, rhythmic textures, his sort of patented spiralling hypnotic beat, to which he played on two or three different drums with great skill." He never looped his music; it was all recorded live, and edited/mixed afterwards. The end result was often loud and staticky, with sudden changes in volume. Jones was never concerned with how many copies of his record were sold, or even how much listeners enjoyed his music, but rather how original his music was.


On Wednesday, December 30, 1998, Bryn was rushed to the hospital in Manchester with a rare fungal infection in his bloodstream, for which he had to be heavily sedated all the time. His body eventually shut down, and he died at 22:50 GMT on Thursday, January 14, 1999.


About Silknoose:
Ambient-industrial with Arabian tribal dance influences. According to some, one of Muslimgauze's most impressing works. Fifteen tracks of extraordinary dance floor propaganda. This is one of the albums where the variety is the main driving force: interspersed between the fast paced majority are some slower, lazy paced tracks. A very enjoyable album edging towards the harsher sounds of some later albums. Silknoose was released on cd by Daft Records (D1005 CD) in 1995. In a limited edition of 800 copies.

** thank you for the review, mr sangkoyo!


1 - Moslem Satellite Channel
2 - Gandhi Tentacle Song
3 - Your Arms, Our Opium
4 - Priyanka Tumdesh Chalao
5 - Memsahib Tea Emporium
6 - Qazi Hussain
7- Qazi Hussain (Re-Prize-Al)
8 - Myth And Tyrants
9 - Dish Poison
10 - Azure Taboosh
11 - Sheesh Mahal
12 - Amber Lake
13 - Moslem Satellite Channel
14 - Kalka Male
15- Memsahib Tea Emporium


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Barack Obama - Victory Speech (2008)

Yes, We Can't.

Performed live in Chicago, 5.11.2008

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