Saturday, July 10, 2010

A Call for a Democratic Economy

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from Yes! Magazine. The author reviews a new book by Raj Patel entitled, The Value of Nothing , that calls for an economy brought under demo...

A Union of Capital

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from New Left Project. The article features an interview with a Dutch socialist who explains how European capitalist elites have hyjacked an...

Washington Post and transparency: total strangers

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by Glenn Greenwald from Salon. This esteemed investigative journalist, formerly a constitutional law and civil rights litigator, looks at ho...

With Income Gap at 80-Year High, Solutions Remain Elusive

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from The Washington Independent.  A new report shows that the income gap between rich and poor in America is at an eight-decade high — the ...

Shrinking Labor Force Masks Deepening Jobless Crisis

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from The Washington Independent. The author offers the real stories behind the unemployment headlines and the so-called recovery.

Clinton Renews U.S. Claims On Former Soviet Space

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by Rick Rozoff from Voltaire Net.  The article illustrates and reveals a lot about the hypocrisies of US Empire agents and the very select...

U.S. Hijacks ICC conference

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from Voltaire Net. Read this to learn how the Empire has its way with international organizations that might impede its rule. The ICC is the...

Time out

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A number of years ago a cartoonist, Fred Wright , illustrated some lessons about the profit system.

Jump Starting the First Amendment

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from Counterpunch .  The tired argument that the suspension of a free press and/or free speech is sometimes necessary in the name of nation...

Israel: a Failing Colonial Project?

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from Counterpunch.  ...Israel is not an autonomous state. It could not sustain its current military posture without the annual military g...

The Worst of Times, the Best of Times

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by Alexander Cockburn from Counterpunch.  The author looks at the "state of the Union". Of course, it is not pretty, but it seem...

Private Universities Spend Twice as Much as Publics on Teaching

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from Bloomberg News.  The article reveals how, like most everything else, education is also a commodity under the capitalist system. It a...

What Is the Ultimate Yachting Experience on the Mediterranean?

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by Jamie Johnson from Vanity Fair. This is my weekly offering about the top 1% of our fellow Americans.  After all, they have worries and co...
Friday, July 9, 2010

Obama Is Slow on Global Warming Legislation

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from US News and World Report. Just because the ruling class changes the cast of actors in the play called "Government", why shoul...

Drill or Die

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from Common Dreams. The title refers to the oil industries public relations theme that more drilling is the only alternative. The article go...

Austerity for workers, tax cuts for business—Europe’s class policy

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from World Socialist Web Site. Class war is raging in Europe as in the US. Big business, the banks and the super rich are being increasingl...

Was the Social Security Money “Borrowed” or “Stolen”?

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by Allen W. Smith from Dissident Voice .  Read how the ruling class "borrowed" worker's Social Security fund, and now don...

Time out

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What work is really worth

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from Le Monde Diplomatique.  Most people who grow up in a capitalist society have little idea of how much indoctrination they have been su...

Spinning a Resource War in Afghanistan

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from Toward Freedom.  This is the way the capitalist ruling classes look at the war in Afghanistan and thus shape news coverage in positiv...