The egg recall is only the latest in a long list of health, labor and environmental violations, as well as numerous charges of animal cruelty. The recalls underscore the vulnerability of the population to the most preventable illnesses because of the subordination of public health and food safety to the profit motive. Corporations have been [...]
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The New York Times and the Afghan documents
July 28th, 2010
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I guess they think they should decide what we need to know. The overriding significance of the tens of thousands of documents posted by WikiLeaks is their detailed exposure of the atrocities carried out by the US occupation against the people of Afghanistan. The cumulative impact of one report after another is a portrait of [...]
The Sherrod affair and American social reality
July 27th, 2010
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Divide and conquer at it’s finest. But the real story here says something very different. It speaks to the fact that there are two Americas, divided sharply along class lines. The political and media establishment could so seriously misread the Sherrod case in part because it is insulated by a hundred layers of wealth and [...]
A lie exposed
July 20th, 2010
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Is this what you would call progressive social reform? In fact, Obama’s plan to gut health care was part of the unfinished business of the corporate-government offensive against the working class launched in the 1980s. This was also signaled by the Democratic president’s attack on health benefits for auto workers during last year’s forced bankruptcy [...]
Judge sentences US civil liberties lawyer Lynne Stewart to 10 years
July 17th, 2010
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I guess everyone is not entitled to proper representation. It is clearer than ever that this “chilling effect” was precisely the government’s aim in prosecuting Stewart. The prosecution, indeed persecution, of the civil liberties lawyer for nearly a decade, has been bound up from the beginning with the government’s “war on terrorism,” which was launched [...]
Liberal television host Rachel Maddow solidarizes herself with US military in Afghanistan
July 15th, 2010
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“Liberals” aren’t so liberal. Maddow is part of the upper-middle-class liberal left. She is a product of a period in which questions of personal identity, at the expense of social class, emerged as the major component of the American liberal outlook and the orientation of the Democratic Party. The striving for privileges by sections of [...]
Obama’s “jobs program”: Poverty wages and mass unemployment
July 10th, 2010
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If this is “the right direction,” I’d hate to see the wrong one. The administration is impervious to the needs and wishes of millions of workers who are struggling to keep a roof over their heads and their families fed. But Obama jumps to attention when Wall Street speaks.
US anti-immigrant campaign spreads beyond Arizona
July 8th, 2010
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The rich and powerful just love to put up scapegoats to turn us against each other. An extensive 1997 report by the National Research Council (NRC) of the National Academy of Sciences concluded that over their lifetimes, immigrants contribute more to public revenue, with an average of $80,000 in taxes, than all combined benefits received. [...]
Heat wave exposes decrepit infrastructure in US, Canada
July 8th, 2010
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I’m sure glad our socialist fire departments aren’t run as for profit organizations. A major heat wave in the eastern US and parts of Canada has further exposed the decrepit state of infrastructure in North America and the perilous conditions created by private ownership of utilities.
Supreme Court nominee Kagan placates Republican right at confirmation hearing
July 2nd, 2010
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It amazes me that liberals will always say we need to vote for the lesser of two evils in Presidential elections because they might get to choose a Supreme Court Justice. But look at the people they pick. In choosing Kagan to replace Stevens, for years the most liberal member on the court, especially in [...]
