March 2012
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February 2012
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“A new study co-authored by MIT economist David Autor shows that the rapid rise...”
– Peter Dizikes, When (and where) work disappears (via pantslessprogressive)
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Extreme poverty in US has more than doubled since... →
A policy brief recently issued by the National Poverty Center (NPC) reveals that the number of households in the US living on less than $2 a day per person has increased by 130 percent since 1996, from 636,000 to some 1.46 million today.
This means that some 4 million people in “the richest country on earth” (according to US capitalism’s apologists) are surviving on less than $60 a month...
Anonymous asked: Hello, my friend and I recently got into an argument over the educational system. I argued for greater federal control over education instead of state control. Having a set core curriculum for all public schools (Math, Science, English and Social Studies) mandating the use of unbiased internationally written textbooks. While, she stated that greater federal control would lead to propaganda and...
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The Doom Loop →
In 1989, the CEOs of the seven largest banks in the US earned an average of $2.8 million, almost a hundred times the annual income of the average US household. In the same year, the CEOs of the largest four UK banks earned £453,000, fifty times average UK household income. These are striking inequalities. Yet by 2007, at the height of the financial sector boom, CEO pay at the largest US banks...
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Why President Obama is the Least Socialistic... →
The Republican presidential candidates keep calling Barack Obama a socialist. If they’re trying to invoke the Red Menace like Republicans of past campaigns, they’re a generation too late. Americans between the ages of 19 and 29 have no memory of the Cold War. Today they have a more positive impression of socialism than they do of capitalism.
The word “socialism” can be applied to a...
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Anonymous asked: What is your opinion of the Green Party of the United States or in general and why isn't it as large or influential as the Green Party in Europe?
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Anonymous asked: What are your thoughts on Trotsky?
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Anonymous asked: Feelings on Stalin?
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The Susan G. Komen Foundation debacle and the US... →
The announcement this week by the Susan G. Komen Foundation that it would cut off funding to Planned Parenthood unleashed a popular backlash, with hundreds of thousands expressing their outrage via social networking sites. Komen abruptly reversed its decision on Friday, but not before the move had exposed the advocacy group’s capitulation to extreme-right, religious forces.
Komen has provided...
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“Even by the standards of today’s “international community,”...”
– Tariq Ali, The Obama Syndrome
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Israel threatens war against Iran within months →
Even as the US and its European allies intensify punitive economic sanctions against Iran, there are growing signs that Israel is threatening military strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities in the coming months. While the Obama administration has cautioned Israel against military action at this stage, there is no indication that Washington has vetoed such an attack.
Washington Post columnist David...
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“If campaign narratives are to be believed, Barack Obama is busy dismantling...”
– Edward Luce, “The mirage of Obama’s defence cuts”
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January 2012
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LUCIO MAGRI: 1932–2011 →
Lucio Magri was a unique figure in the European Left— the only significant revolutionary thinker of his time whose thought was inseparable from the course of the mass movements of the decades through which he lived. He was incapable of a theoretical reflection that was not rooted in the real actions, or inactions, of the exploited and oppressed. That was normal in the generation of Gramsci,...
“Western post-Marxists — living in countries where the absolute or relative...”
– Mike Davis, “Spring Confronts Winter”
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Anonymous asked: In the President Obama's State of The Union address he stated:"...if you're an American manufacturer, you should get a bigger tax cut. If you're a high-tech manufacturer, we should double the tax deduction you get for making products here." even though I agree with removing tax breaks for companies that outsource, is giving tax breaks for companies that don't/...
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Obama outlines plan to put higher education on... →
In a speech at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor Friday, President Obama outlined his proposed changes to federal college financial aid programs. Presented as a program for college affordability, Obama’s plan in fact sets the stage for further attacks on the right to quality higher education at a time that millions of students are drowning in debt.
Obama’s speech capped a three-day ...
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