I’m watching Real Time with Bill Maher tonight and can’t believe what I’m hearing. He’s talking to Michael Moore about his new movie and he says that if we don’t have capitalism the only other option is communism. In other words, we either keep what we have now or we switch to what they had [...]
This story illustrates everything that is wrong with the justice system in the US. We are more interested in the letter of the law then we are in the spirit of the law.
If you want a concise primer on how the ruling class functions, this article will tell you everything you need to know.
The Russian revolutionary Lenin nailed the real nature of this kind of “democracy” in his short book State and Revolution: “To decide once every few years which member of the ruling class [...]
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Once again, the ruling class blames us for all the trouble this country is in.
“Government programs alone won’t get our children to the Promised Land,” Obama declared. In other words, black workers can expect no significant social assistance from the Obama administration. Instead, Obama claimed that what is needed is “a new mind [...]
This is what happens when politics and greed trump science
The greatest obstacles to this are not technical ones, but rather the social contradictions of world capitalism: poverty and lack of medical facilities in large parts of the world, the political influence of major corporations, including the giant pharmaceutical firms, the division of the [...]
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Obama administration indicates military commission trials to resume
In other words, the evidence which the government wishes to use against detainees is fatally tainted by the use of torture or by its hearsay character. Such “evidence” is disallowed in any civilian court that adheres to minimal principles of due process laid down by the [...]
It looks like any investigation of the Bush administration’s war crimes will be behind closed doors.
The result is the spectacle of a US political establishment—where the White House and both houses of Congress are controlled by the Democratic Party—that is incapable of enforcing its own laws, despite ample public evidence of violations that [...]
Criminal actions as policy.
The reference to “policy disagreements” is a political canard. At issue are not questions of political judgment, policy preference or legal interpretation, but barbarous crimes against humanity, actions universally condemned around the world—torture, abduction and “disappearance” of prisoners, incarceration in secret prisons, outright murder.
Obama exonerates CIA torturers
In closing, the US president declares, “This is a time for reflection, not retribution … nothing will be gained by spending our time and energy laying blame for the past. Our national greatness is embedded in America’s ability to right its course in concert with our core values, and to [...]