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Since early 2011, Obama's been waging proxy war on Syria. Imported death squads masquerade as freedom fighters. The scheme's familiar. It repeats. It reflects US imperialism's dark side. In the 1980s, CIA-recruited mujahideen fighters battled Afghanistan's Soviet occupiers. Ronald Reagan called them "the moral equivalent of our founding fathers." He characterized Contra killers the same way. —Stephen LendmanFor over a century now US ambassadors have acted as fifth columns in the nations they are embedded in, their role chiefly to foster corporate and plutocratic power and coordinate machinations against any truly pro-democratic government.•••••"The dead end identity politics of SF Pride, which sells out a peace hero like Bradley Manning to curry favor with the American ruling class, is what I had in mind. The empire loves your tameness, irrelevance and cowardice, SF Pride. You don’t bother the American ruling class — a five foot two, 105 pound soldier does because he has a conscience and because he didn’t make comfort the guiding principle of his life...." —Randy Shields

OpEds: Fairness and Sustainability – Taking the FAS-Track

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Jan 052013
 
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by Diane Gee, Editor, The Wild Wild Left

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“Why should we say no to socialism of the 20th century? Because socialism of the 20th century is purely a product of Western culture. It’s as if the West had two children: one greedy child that they named “Capitalism” and one generous child that they named “Socialism.” But neither of them questions the fact that development and progress are the essential goals of humanity. It doesn’t matter that the planet is burning.” ~ Santiago Arconada, Venezuela

Economics is not a thing.  It’s a contrived process, miles of convoluted intestinal tracts, twisting sinews, spasming to pass along fetid human flotsam and degraded resources with every value leached out along the way leaving nothing in its wake but the product it defecates.  We all know how lovely that is. Continue reading »

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Who Won in the Fiscal Cliff Deal?

 AMERICAN STUDIES, ANNOTATED NEWS, CORPORATE OWNED PARTIES, POLITICAL ECONOMY, PUTRID CORPOMEDIA  Comments Off
Jan 022013
 
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As expected, not the deal that the majority deserved, but largely a pretext to make the ordinary citizen and the poor bear the brunt of the expenses incurred by a plutocratic regime.—Eds.

By Salvatore Babones
salvatoreBabonesWho won in the fiscal cliff deal? The lawyers won.

Well, not just the lawyers. The lawyers, the doctors, the dentists, the middle managers, the advertising executives, the whole MBA crowd.

Who won in the fiscal cliff deal were all those individuals making between $113,700 and $400,000 per year. For couples the numbers will be slightly higher, but still in the lower six figures. They’re the ones who will pay the least in new taxes. Continue reading »

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For Whom the War Bill Tolls

 ANNOTATED NEWS, ANTI-CORPORATISM, ASSHOLES, BASTARDS & CRIMINALS, CLASS STRUGGLE, CORPORATE OWNED PARTIES, POLITICAL ECONOMY, PUTRID CORPOMEDIA  Comments Off
Jan 022013
 
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Greg Mankiw, Harvard economist but, in our view,  chiefly a corporate whore and propaganda asset for the status quo. Mankiw was chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers under George W. Bush. In 2006, he became an economic adviser to Mitt Romney and continued during Romney’s 2012 presidential bid.[1][2] He is a conservative[3][4][5][6] and he writes a popular blog, ranked the number one economics blog by US economics professors in a 2011 survey. That in itself says something about professional economists today.—Eds

STEPHEN GOWANS, What’s Left

The $1 trillion-plus Iraq and Afghanistan wars were the first US wars since the American Revolution to have been fought without a general tax increase to cover them. Without tax increases to pay for the Pentagon’s ballooning budget, the country’s debt as a percentage of GDP has grown. Since a rise in debt relative to income can’t continue indefinitely without undesirable consequences, politicians are looking for ways to arrest the trend. It’s very likely that the burden of covering the costs of ran-away US military spending will fall upon poor and middle-income Americans. High-profile economists like N. Gregory Mankiw are preparing public opinion for eventual rate hikes, concealing the role played by US war spending in driving up the percentage of debt to GDP, and blaming growing entitlement spending on the need to raise taxes.

Harvard economics professor N. Gregory Mankiw, economic policy adviser to George W. Bush and Mitt Romney, and author of a widely used introductory economics textbook, weighed in this Sunday in The New York Times on the growing ratio of US debt to gross domestic product and what to do about it. [1] Continue reading »

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A social primer on Social-Capitalism

 AMERICAN STUDIES, ANNOTATED NEWS, BATTLE OF COMMUNICATIONS, CAPITALISM & SOCIALISM, CLASS STRUGGLE, CULTURE & CRITICISM, HUMOR, POLITICAL ECONOMY  Comments Off
Dec 222012
 
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Let’s suppose that you have lots and lots of walnuts. Walnuts have plenty of protein and will satisfy your appetite and keep you alive. Let’s suppose I have grapes, lots and lots of grapes. Grapes are full of vitamin C and can keep me alive. Let’s say some lady comes by and she has lots and lots of apples. Apples have lots of vitamin A, and those Golden Delicious apples can keep her going for years and years. Continue reading »

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The Plutocrats and the Placeholder President

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Dec 152012
 
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Austerity, Obama-Style

Former President of the United States Bill Clinton speaks to attendees at The U.S. Conference of Mayors in Seattle

Bill Clinton was the first to float the plan to privatize Social Security in earnest. The idea was to let our good friends on Wall Street manage a bit of the money for us, for a fee of course.

by ROB URIE
In Quentin Tarantino’s movie ‘Jackie Brown’ the illegal arms dealer played by Samuel L. Jackson laughs as he recounts the sales slogan used by the manufacturer of the ‘Tech Nine’ semi-automatic weapon—“the most popular gun in American crime, like they proud of that shit.” Mere weeks after Barack Obama was re-elected farce is added to tragedy with his supporters complaining that while the Republican proposal to cut Federal government spending and social insurance programs is all bluster and misdirection, their guy (Mr. Obama) has a real plan to do so—like they’re proud of that shit. Thanks just the same folks, but I’ll take the fake plan. Continue reading »

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The UK’s NHS stifled bit by bit—can a socialist island survive in a toxic capitalist sea?

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Nov 262012
 
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Massive job losses in UK’s National Health Service
By Robert Stevens, wsws,org

Editors’ Note: It’s clear the British capitalists and their willful minions like the scummy Tony Blair are doing their best to make “socialism”—in this case the revered National Health Service, now 64 years old and still standing—look bad and eventually unacceptable. In that manner, sneakily, they create the conditions for a return to the rotten private healthcare model, as we have in the US.  Defunding —an old tactic—is utilized widely in the US to declaw consumer and environment laws. Public awareness and above all combativeness are critical to stem the constant tide of reaction issuing from the establishment.


The ongoing offensive against the National Health Service (NHS) has led to 28,500 health workers losing their jobs since the Conservative Party/Liberal Democrat coalition came to power in 2010. Continue reading »

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