One of our images born of the creative power of the masses (and delivered to us in full glory by Superkommissar Maksim) has been chosen to adorn a scholarly book cover in Italy. We have been contacted by the author Donatella Della Ratta and prepared a high-resolution image for her cover designer. We expect the books to arrive shortly and hope this is not some capitalist ruse but a mighty progressive blow at Western imperialism.

In English, it reads:

A Hussein in the White House
What the Arab world thinks of Barack Obama


Link to the book on the publisher's website
Donatella Della Ratta; Augusto Valeriani, eds. (5 February 2009).
Published by Odoya
Bologna, Italy
ISBN 978-88-6288-027-5.


UPDATE:

Mediaoriente blog describes this book in English:

We have just released a book -unfortunately, it is in Italian only for the moment- that analyses how Arab media -Tv stations, Panarab newspapers- but also people – bloggers, university students- have talked about Obama and the future challenges he will afford in the Arab world. I have edited the book with my colleague Augusto Valeriani, and we got very interesting countributions from all over the Arab world and US. The book, entitled “An Hussein at the White House. What the Arab world thinks about Barack Obama” (Odoya 2009), features essays from: italian-algerian sociologist Khaled Fouad Allam; Lawrence Pintak, director of the Kamal Adham Center for Television Journalism (American University of Cairo), and “his” bloggers; Amer Al Sabaileh, professor at the University of Amman, and his students; Jihad N. Fakhreddine, Gallup Regional Research Director for Mena Region; Adil Radoini, Italian sociologist invited to follow the elections in the US by US embassy in Rome; mass media expert Enrico De Angelis. Plus Augusto Valeriani, Associate research fellow at Arab media centre of Westminister University and myself.

The blog provides a link to the author's bio with the list of her books and publications:

Donatella Della Ratta is an independent researcher and consultant specialised on media and new technology, with a key focus on the Arab world. She has got a 10 years experience in university as teacher and researcher, in television as tv author and producer, and in journalism.

As a media consultant and independent researcher, she has worked for many Italian and international clients as: Rai television marketing and research department; Mediaset research and development department; European Parliament, Foreign Affairs Committee, Brussels; Cccb (Centre of Contemporary Art and Culture) Museum of Contemporary Arts, Barcelona.

She has lectured in many international events as: Mip tv Cannes tv market (France); Apem Committee of Euromed Parliament, Italian Parliament, Rome, (Italy); Ars Electronica festival, Linz (Austria); Aula 06 Helsinki, (Finland); European Journalism Observatory Ejo, Lugano (Switzerland); Chaos Computer Club, Berlin (Germany).

Praise Marx from whom all equality of wealth flows! This is a glorious day!

Does that mean more money for the party?

My original lo-res image was not suitable for printing; Red Square did all the heavy lifting in preparing the image. So I'd like to nominate him for Beet of The Week.

Isn't that just like the I-talians? - printing a book no one can understand.

Let's all pull together now in uniform diversity.
Oprah '16

Let's all pull together now in uniform diversity.
Oprah '16

Just remember, Red Bubba: You are unique and special, just like everybody else.

Betinov, have you been watching Barney the Dinosaur again?

Barney Frank's a dinosaur TOO????

And, of course, who can forget other Cube-inspired books of, by, and for B. Hussein Obama...

Today should be proclaimed a People's Holiday in honor of the People's glorious cover art achievement. The People™, Comrades. We must think about the People™… And their Children™… And the Elderly™ who may be living with them, the People™, and their Children™.

Unfortunately, Italian is not one of the languages I know. But I rejoice all the same!

Here's another Cube-inspired books of, by, and for B. Hussein Obama. I found it in the back of the bookcase and was it ever dusty.

Congratulations to the Obamissar of Agitprop as his products are incredibly equal!

Is Italy prepared to handle that much CHope?!! Recommend the Obamissar of Pimpin and Dealin' redistribute some People's CHope Nose Candy ™ to prepare them for the transition.

Say, will the peaceful america-hating Jihadist will finally have a place in the American society?

Wasn't it that wise old sage Obamaghandi that stated "I AM YOU AND YOU ARE ME AND WE ARE WE, TOGETHER COMRDAES....... or something like that?

The Cube's influence to the world reaches far. Way to go Maksim

Meow wrote:Today should be proclaimed a People's Holiday in honor of the People's glorious cover art achievement. The People™, Comrades. We must think about the People™… And their Children™… And the Elderly™ who may be living with them, the People™, and their Children™

Meow, I think that you are stuck in a fugue. No doubt from that ketamine that you stole.

You have forgotten <i>Gaia</i>, you silly commissar! Don't you know that if you forget Gaia the Holy Gore will come to your house, when he's not driving the Oscar Mayer Weeniemobile, and instruct you on the Sacred Rites of the First Church of Climatology?

Do <i>not</i> do this. I don't care about your defenses. You will never be able to withstand this.

Commissar Theocritus wrote:
Meow, I think that you are stuck in a fugue. No doubt from that ketamine that you stole.

You have forgotten <i>Gaia</i>, you silly commissar! Don't you know that if you forget Gaia the Holy Gore will come to your house, when he's not driving the Oscar Mayer Weeniemobile, and instruct you on the Sacred Rites of the First Church of Climatology?

Do <i>not</i> do this. I don't care about your defenses. You will never be able to withstand this.

HA! I DARE Al Gore to get to my compound err place of residence. While Meow's may not be able to withstand the AlGore, I'm well protected with my advance run of The People's Rifle in the hands of those who build them. Any person trying to get in will be faced by an unstoppable wall of steel! (All four loyal workers and peasants who are building them, assuming AlGore shows up during the shift change and everyone is on time and sober)

BTW, what does it mean when the workers demand a "paycheck"? Is not the State taking care of all their needs? Must I pay them too?

Comrade7.62, a paycheck is an outmoded notion. The State takes all and dispenses all--keeping 72% for expenses. (This is the actual welfare number.)

But do not be too sanguine about being able to stave off the attack of the Holy Gore. Who do you think taught His O'liness to levitate? He can rise on his wingéd feet and float, as gently as a dove, or a Roswell UFO*, over the walls of your compound and if you think that Pupovich is good with talent shitting, you ain't seen nothing yet.

*The Holy Gore was born a bit over eight months after the Roswell UFO sighting.

Commissar Theocritus wrote:*The Holy Gore was born a bit over eight months after the Roswell UFO sighting.

For some reason, Theocritus, that reminds me of this wonderfully romantic Newsweek article.

Sighing and swooning, bosom heaving, Jessica Bennett breathily gushes:

<br>The theory is almost too perfect to be true. Barack Obama, the son of politically progressive parents, was born Aug. 4, 1961—almost nine months to the day after John F. Kennedy was elected to the White House. Is it possible Obama was conceived on that historic night?

She goes on about the masses making whoopee on the night of Obama's election victory, speculating on the delightful prospect of a baby boom come August 2009, with nary an unromantic mention of the burdens this will place on beleaguered Mother Earth and everyone suffering under a sucky economy.

And not a peep about a possible spike in abortions.

Pinkie, thank you for that image of Comradette Jessica Bennett. I'm sure that she's a SUS (Sister Under the Skin) of the woman who proudly proclaimed that she would be very <i>glad</i> to Monica Our First Black President, William Jefferson Blythe Clinton.

I read your link and found Mrs. Haupt gushing about her husband Mr. Haupt having drunk a bottle and a half of wine and then wanting to make an election baby. I hope that Mrs. Haupt had some chemical help, for let us remember, I believe, Mercutio, about wine: "It makes a man stand to, and then not stand to." Although there are some Rethuglicans who say, completely without justification, that the O-bots are a bunch of broke-dicks. A group of Obama babies will put paid to that rumor.

I would be fascinated to see the maternity wards on nine months, if nine months is the proper gestation for a baby inspired by the beneficent aura of His O'liness. I hope that this is like one of those science-fiction television series where they all come out looking strangely alike, and starting in say six months (my guess) we will have our new Obamajugend ready to march into a future more equal, more just, and more perfect than any future that has ever been or will ever be in the history of time, until the universe, in a trillion years, collapses after even the electrons have degenerated into just a few photons.

But this raises a problem. Do we need to have dormitories for the brood-mares who will gestate these young princelings? They should be instantly taken into care and monitored by our finest OB/GYNs, lest one of the smoke or drink or cross the road and endanger one of the Obamajugend.

Also, Pinkie, I clicked on another link and found <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/id/168933?tid=relatedcl">that His O'liness can save the publishing industry!</a>

People, it seems, are waiting in line to buy hexerai about His O'liness. This may invigorate the printed press as people want keepsakes, and even coffee-table books, which will convince their co-religionists that they might after all be able to read, despite having going to public schools run by the teachers' unions.

But there is one thing that I'm not sure about. If January 20 was the Second Coming, does that mean that His O'liness was the product of a Virgin Birth? Which means that we don't know if he's black or not.

Alas, I am missing the provocative image of another Progressive XX.

But I did find a link under "related articles" with the title:Can Obama Save the Media Industry?

Snicker. These lower-level progressives. Totally unaware that it was the Media that Made Obama!

Double-Take...hold on, I am suspecting a capitalist plot. The Media made Obama...to further its own financial interests? We might as well have elected Ron Paul!

No, no, no! The media are the first among useful idiots, as defined by dear Lenin. The media <i>wants</i> to have the leg of a powerful person to hunch.

We must quickly inform the new world order of the potential influx of infidels prior to the winter solstice.

Ther must be a gov't sponsored catastrophy that will offset the population boom of the great one's people. We must also ensure that this tragedy of fortune is in a Rethuglican stronghold so that those votes can be changed from Red to Blue post-burial.

Dear Nansky, just call down to Duval County, Texas, which put Landslide Lyndon Johnson over the top after it was found how many votes he needed to win. They have voter-fraud kits.]

And they've gotten better now. When Landslide Lyndon got in, the needed votes were all in alphabetical order. They're randomized now.

Although it's less of a problem considering the years that the NEA has improved our education.

Fortunately, the rethuglicans are no match for the great progressives, they even vote their own demise at whim of The One.

Our Comrades in ACORN will use 4 billion of the peoples capitalist cache for the greater good.

Why settle for only Texas when there are 56 more states to buy according to The One.

When is His Excellecy and President for Life, B. Hussein Obama, going to transfer his Brownshirts (ACORN) over to his new Civilian National Security Force (Blackshirts a la SS/Gestapo)?

These all seem like a glorious reads, I can't wait to be forced to read one of these texts for an essay in one of my classes from our great Marxist Professors.

HOOLAY! Big party cheers for glorious book cover make excellent tingles in legs. Maksim, you gonna go far, baby. Just remember us little, uh, less equal than other, people here at the labor camp when you hit the big show.

Commissar Theocritus wrote:

Meow wrote:Today should be proclaimed a People's Holiday in honor of the People's glorious cover art achievement. The People™, Comrades. We must think about the People™… And their Children™… And the Elderly™ who may be living with them, the People™, and their Children™

Meow, I think that you are stuck in a fugue. No doubt from that ketamine that you stole.

You have forgotten <i>Gaia</i>, you silly commissar! Don't you know that if you forget Gaia the Holy Gore will come to your house, when he's not driving the Oscar Mayer Weeniemobile, and instruct you on the Sacred Rites of the First Church of Climatology?

Do <i>not</i> do this. I don't care about your defenses. You will never be able to withstand this.

When the Holy Gore descends upon my humble abode, I hope I have enough rice cakes and Evian to offset my post chili carbon emissions (well, actually it wasn't me - it was the dog).

Commissar Theocritus wrote:Comrade7.62, a paycheck is an outmoded notion. The State takes all and dispenses all--keeping 72% for expenses. (This is the actual welfare number.)

But do not be too sanguine about being able to stave off the attack of the Holy Gore. Who do you think taught His O'liness to levitate? He can rise on his wingéd feet and float, as gently as a dove, or a Roswell UFO*, over the walls of your compound and if you think that Pupovich is good with talent shitting, you ain't seen nothing yet.

*The Holy Gore was born a bit over eight months after the Roswell UFO sighting.

Ahh, The Gore levitates too? Crud. I must begin work on a People's Anti Aircraft Gun at once! Perhaps something with rubber bands and ball bearings wrapped in old copies of Pravda.

Comrades! Do not disesteem the Holy Gore! He is the most useful of useful idiots! Who else can keep Larry King so occupied?

Let us always remember the major use of the Holy Gore. He is a tried and true progressive, a child of Washington, a princeling of the Beltway, and everyone can look down on the fool.

Now you gotta love that.

His Protruberance, the Holy Gore, at work:<br>

The Holy Gore wrote the Holy Goran. Not agreeing with it is INTOLERANCE of Different Opinions(tm).

Skinnee Jay, a Made Progressive declaims from the roof tops that diversity is all and that we ought to be free. But a Made Progressive instantly trashes any deviance from the Received Wisdom and the Current Truth, because lucubration is dangerous and thought is subversive. Only faith will do.

Just remember that some people are more diverse than others.

I am not very diverse, and my shame quotient is unbearable.

Must...make...papier-mache...Bushitler...to...atone...

Comrades,

This is glorious for (1) does not Italy have the strongest Communist party in Europe, (2) will this not be a poke in the eye of Mussolini's daughter's fascist party, (3) isn't it right that Islam take over the Vatican that Mussolini made a separate entity, and (4) isn't it great that the guys up there in Milan, the ones who have voiced secession of northern industrial Italy and opposition to mass (Muslim especially) immigration be riled to the point of having strokes?

It makes me want to hug a Fiat (but not by fiat)!

Audi! ("Now hear this!") We will never allow the secession of a functioning part of a country from one which does not function. If we do, next thing we know the EU will be jettisoning Greece, and we all know we can never be more than the lowest common denominator.

This by the way explains American education.

It is said that in Japanese elementary schools today, the best and worst athletic performers are prevented from taking part in PTA kids' sports events, which every school holds from time to time, lest someone win or lose by too much. Now, harmony (和, wa) is highly valued in Japan, but people are beginning to realize (I hope) it's gone far too far.

Sorry, not far enough: All participants should be tied together so they can either complete simultaneously or in clearly delineated equal intervals.

We have almost completely removed the true purpose of education (https://righteousrantings.blogspot.com/ ... art-3.html) and soon we will be indoctrinating the youth to our purposes!

Behold, the Cleansing of the Mind! Dissent becomes Intolerance, Free Speech becomes Hate Crime, and True Diversity becomes Social Stigma! The New Status Quo will be once again under siege by the New Sub-Culture of Conservatism (boo...hiss)!

mmmm, maybe ive been in Texas too long but i thought mundo was world in spanish

It is; Latin for world is <i>mundus</i>. Or one of the words. French: <i>monde</i>.

"Unus Mundus" ~ Jung

It's all relative! Nothing can be seen as wrong! There is no such thing as evil! Multi-culturalism erases the hated evils of judgment from our society!

Whoopie!

some are more whoopie than others...

How I love moral relativism. All systems of belief are equally valid, so we don't have to have ethics. We can just have tastes and we can boo all the Rethuglicans who are bigoted and prejudiced for insisting on ethics. For that's just not on.

And since we believe that all systems are equal why not just be as hedonistic as we want? And when that gets boring, it's just a short trip to nihilism.

Nothing matters!

When we finally lose our fear of everything (God, government, social recrimination, etc.) we will truly be free!

Then we can enact the Glorious American Jihad against the world! We will destroy all dissenters and leave only Scorched Earth in our wake!

Not even outer space will hide you from our wrath...

*giggle*

Frankly I think that we will continue on in time that is frozen, so that even the electronics stand still. Eventually before the end of the (elected) term of His O'liness entropy will continue to the point that even the electrons and neutrons decay and the entire universe will be composed of a few photons.

After that time we will see the rest of the Rose Law Firm billing records and we will have full disclosure about who paid for the college of His O'liness and where he was born.

Don't forget the missing Columbia U days...

We are the hollow men
We are the stuffed men
Leaning together
Headpiece filled with straw. Alas!
Our dried voices, when
We whisper together
Are quiet and meaningless
As wind in dry grass
Or rats' feet over broken glass
In our dry cellar

Shape without form, shade without colour,
Paralysed force, gesture without motion;

Those who have crossed
With direct eyes, to death's other Kingdom
Remember us--if at all--not as lost
Violent souls, but only
As the hollow men
The stuffed men.

Welcome back, Abe. Haven't heard from you for a while.

That verse is familiar some how...WWI poetry?

The Hollow Men ~ T.S. Eliot

Well said, ABCDarius Rex!

T. S. Eliot. "The Hollow Men."

The final quatrain is my favorite bit

T. S. Eliot wrote: This is the way the world ends<br>
This is the way the world ends<br>
This is the way the world ends<br>
Not with a bang but a whimper.

Change the conjunction in the last line and it could be on a cenotaph for the Clinton White House.

Haven't read that since high school in 1973; and that, gentlemen, exhausts my knowledge of English poetry. Literally read more in Latin than English but I was struggling with the syntax and vocabulary of the Virgil and don't remember that.

Except

Non credo Obamam etiam ferentem dona.

Which, if I remember, is paradiorthosis of "I do not trust the Greeks, even bearing gifts."

I have finally received the hard copy of the book, will post a picture next to the Red Cube when I take one.

In the meantime, another appearance of this picture in Italy, in Jan 30, 2009 issue of L'Ultima, illustrating an article titled OBAMA IL FARAONE.

Click here for a large readable picture if you read Italian.

I finally made the picture of the book next to the monitor with this article and the People's Cube at the ready:

Commissarka Pinkie wrote:

Commissar Theocritus wrote:*The Holy Gore was born a bit over eight months after the Roswell UFO sighting.

For some reason, Theocritus, that reminds me of this wonderfully romantic Newsweek article.

Sighing and swooning, bosom heaving, Jessica Bennett breathily gushes:

The theory is almost too perfect to be true. Barack Obama, the son of politically progressive parents, was born Aug. 4, 1961—almost nine months to the day after John F. Kennedy was elected to the White House. Is it possible Obama was conceived on that historic night?

She goes on about the masses making whoopee on the night of Obama's election victory, speculating on the delightful prospect of a baby boom come August 2009, with nary an unromantic mention of the burdens this will place on beleaguered Mother Earth and everyone suffering under a sucky economy.

And not a peep about a possible spike in abortions.

UPDATE!

Well, crud:

Obama Baby Boom is a Bust!<br>

After Barack Obama won the presidential election on Nov. 4, 2008, supporters around the country celebrated in bars, in parks — and maybe, in the bedroom. Bloggers wrote about champagne and hope, and noting that voters of child-bearing age tended to go Democratic, predicted a baby boom.


Nine months later, babies born out of that election night euphoria should be making their way into the world right now. If an Obama baby boom is true, that is.


“It's romantic idea," says Dr. S. Philip Morgan, a professor of sociology and demography at Duke University, "but don't bet on it."

Voters of childbearing age might tend to go Democratic, but Democratic voters of childbearing age would also be more prone to getting abortions, what with all that bad economy and unemployment stuff and whatever else might make another mouth to feed inconvenient right now.

While Obama won by a landslide in the electoral college, "by the popular vote, only 52 percent of the population was celebrating." The other 48 percent would have been affected in the opposite way and may have been in no mood for making whoopee.

. . .

Still, people like to speculate that somehow the memorable night of Nov. 4 was different. After all, Obama himself was born in August 1961, nine months after John F. Kennedy was elected in November 1960.

Because we all know that's exactly when--and why--Stanley Ann and Barack Sr. had the sex that resulted in Dear Leader!

Red Square wrote:I finally made the picture of the book next to the monitor with this article and the People's Cube at the ready:

Ditto

And look we both have HP monitors. Freaky!

Now everyone will think we're living together, using one monitor.

Shut up, Bruno!

Still, people like to speculate that somehow the memorable night of Nov. 4 was different. After all, Obama himself was born in August 1961, nine months after John F. Kennedy was elected in November 1960.

I was born exactly nine months to the day after John Glenn's first orbital flight. My theory is that Mom and Dad, in a fit of patriotic fervor, had their own launch party. By strange coincidence, it was also one year to the day before Kenndey was assassinated. It was also Thanksgiving Day. That's why I'm special. Or a turkey.

Red Square wrote:

Superkommissar Maksim wrote:

Red Square wrote:I finally made the picture of the book next to the monitor with this article and the People's Cube at the ready:

Ditto

And look we both have HP monitors. Freaky!

Now everyone will think we're living together, using one monitor.

Shut up, Bruno!

Comrades, Comrades, no need to fight like your married, there's enough of Bruno to go around!

Can't we discuss this over a beer with the President?

Only if you wear your burquas! His Oliness B. Hussein has made this request.

How many times do I have to tell you all--Bruno is available to anyone who wants him.

I'll pay the postage.

Don't worry Commissar, I have the same problem with the Woomba Loombas, I've even offered money....

Not a taker one.

Once I took Bruno to Montana and dumped him. He beat me home, as did five things that he'd ordered in the mail.