Apple’s tax dodge: The case for public ownership
Guest Editorials— By Andre Damon, wsws.org The US Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations released a report Monday showing that electronics giant Apple Inc. uses offshore tax shelters to avoid taxes on the majority of its income and cheated the US government out of $9 billion in 2012 alone. That same day, a tornado leveled the town [...]
By Chris Hedges Joe Sacco and I spent two years reporting from the poorest pockets of the United States for our book “Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt.”We went into our nation’s impoverished “sacrifice zones”—the first areas forced to kneel before the dictates of the marketplace—to show what happens when unfettered corporate capitalism and ceaseless economic expansion [...]
Patricio Pron’s “My Father’s Ghost is Climbing in the Rain” by CHARLES R. LARSON, Counterpunch Patricio Pron’s publishers refer to My Father’s Ghost Is Climbing in the Rain as an autobiographical novel. More likely, the book is an autobiography with a few details altered to protect the innocent, although the innocent became victims long ago. The book [...]
Xenophobia Rising in Sweden by S.C. HAHN—Stockholm. •••• Stockholm has been the scene of riots this week, to much of the world’s surprise, with the unrest flaring up in immigrant-dominated neighborhoods on the city’s periphery. The Stockholm media reports cars burning in at least fifteen suburbs, stone-throwing against police, firefighters and ambulance personnel, injured police [...]
Politicized-Militarized Diplomacy by NORMAN POLLACK I am not naïve. Embassies have been centers of intrigue, propaganda disseminators, bases for political intervention in a nation’s internal affairs, intermediaries for the promotion of markets and investments, etc., practices not confined to those representing the US, and hardly confined to recent times. That said, Benghazi (technically, a consulate), signifies, as [...]
OpEds—Capitalism: “Horror Without End”
by John Peterson, Socialist Appeal The stream of distressing news seems to flow endlessly: School shootings from Colorado to Connecticut. Factory collapses and explosions from Bangladesh to Texas. Terrorist attacks from Pakistan to Boston. Crumbling infrastructure from Mexico City to Minneapolis. Kidnappings and torture from Ciudad Juarez to Cleveland. War and civil war from Syria [...]
How Medea Benjamin got to heckle Obama
Speeches given in front of ‘vetted” sycophantic audiences, behind closed doors. A glorified photo-op perfectly apt for a manipulated democracy. Did you like this? Share it:
by Stephen Lendman
Obama plans more wars. The peace candidate can’t get enough of them. Hawkishness defines his agenda. So does belligerently transforming independent regimes into client ones.
The business of America is war. Permanent war is policy. Peace is abhorred. Preventing it is prioritized. So is controlling Eurasia’s vast oil, gas, and other resources unchallenged. Continue reading »
With the support and connivance of the criminal politico-media establishment the fraudulent attacks on Medicare and Social Security continue unabated. Meanwhile, at least 150 million seriously misled Americans live in and fiercely support their own enslavement. This bloc of severely misinformed Americans who, harming their own interest, support candidates and policies that benefit only the superrich constitute an obstacle to the birth of a more democratic republic. —Eds.
Lyndon B. Johnson signing the Medicare Act into official law. Johnson would be regarded as a dangerous leftist by today’s elites.
By Kate Randall, WSWS.ORG.
Thank you, WSWS.ORG
Annual reports by the Social Security and Medicare Boards of Trustees state that trust funds for the government programs are both on “unsustainable paths.” The reports released Monday project that the Medicare trust fund will be exhausted by 2024 and the Social Security fund will run out by 2033. Continue reading »
Alex Lantier, WSWS.ORG
François Hollande, the official socialist candidate. False hope, equivalent to a British laborite like Blair, or a Clinton in US political terms. Nothing good will come from the election of this so-called “socialist”.´—Eds.
The first round of the French presidential election on Sunday starkly exposed the political crisis in France and throughout Europe and the immense dangers facing the working class. The main political beneficiary of four years of global economic crisis, imperialist war in the Middle East and collapsing state budgets was the neo-fascist National Front (FN) of Marine Le Pen. Continue reading »
By Stephen Gowans, What’s Left
North Korea launched a rocket on April 13 to loft a satellite into space–part of the country’s civilian space program. The rocket, based on ballistic missile technology, broke up only minutes after launch. Western state officials and media rebuked Pyongyang for directing part of its strained budget to a rocket launch when it depends on outside food aid. Along with other countries, India “voiced deep concern.” [1] Continue reading »
