News and Analysis from the United States
Today is the celebration of the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. holiday in the United States. While it is ostensibly celebrated to promote the Civil Rights Movement, one wonders why MLK, among all other more active and progressive civil rights… Read More ›
Who Are the Actors in the Transition to Socialism? Essential to the realization of socialism is a vision of the class and social forces that have to be assembled to win political power. At the center of this assemblage is… Read More ›
Reaction is Growing In recent months since the election of President Obama, the first black President of the United States, right-wing and racist/racialist movements have sprung up on the political stage with renewed vigor. While this is nothing new,… Read More ›
(Warning: Minor Spoilers) Avatar, the latest film by James Cameron, lives up to the hype. Throughout James Cameron’s career he has created blockbuster after blockbuster, from Aliens in 1986 to the famous Titanic in 1997. Cameron’s movies usually are long,… Read More ›
The Nobel Peace Prize has always been a joke. Alfred Nobel was a 19th century military-industrialist who invented dynamite as a weapon. He was called the “Merchant of Death” throughout his career. The fact that he used his fortune to… Read More ›
No question has been more confused by capitalist scholars than that of the state, since no other question is as vital to the interests of the ruling classes. Capitalist ideologists picture the state as some kind of “supernatural force” standing… Read More ›
What Is the Error of this Book? This book will doubtlessly go down in history as the favorite palm book of the elitist, petty-bourgeois American social democrats and liberals. If you are looking for a manual on how to look… Read More ›
There is a widespread popular myth that the capitalists are entitled to their compensation, as well as the value of other peoples’ labor, simply because they take “risks” or because they come up with original ideas for production of goods…. Read More ›
War President Obama: 30,000 More Troops to Afghanistan Obama: “We Did Not Ask for This Fight” Bush: “We Did Not Seek This Conflict” Obama: “New Attacks are Being Plotted as I Speak” Bush: “At This Moment … Terrorists are Planning… Read More ›
By Krista Lee Hanson The current economic crisis people are facing in this country—especially the millions of workers losing their jobs, the unemployed and underemployed who can’t find work, and the millions of families facing eviction from their home—offers… Read More ›
The United States Army recently released a study investigating the psychological effects of soldiers serving in occupied Afghanistan. According to the study’s findings, the mental and emotional toll of waging an aggressive, imperialist war against the freedom-loving peoples of Afghanistan… Read More ›
Events in Maricopa The Maricopa County Sheriff’s office arrested 27 people Monday night in Arpaio’s 13th anti-immigrant raid in the Latino Community. The Sheriff’s office says 18 of these arrests were of undocumented immigrants. The two-day raid utilized helicopters and… Read More ›
Lately, various ideas and concepts that have been more heavily promoted in popular capitalist-owned media and culture for years are suddenly noticeably peculiar/ sinister. The one concept that has struck me most recently as both strange and completely absurd is… Read More ›
As we look at the crisis today, we see more and more that what Karl Marx said on the double character of capitalism rings truer than ever. In this system, “when wealth is produced, poverty is produced also.” In the… Read More ›
The results of a recent Cornell University study are shocking: 90% of black children, 90% of children in single-parent homes and nearly 50% of American children as a whole will eat meals provided for by food stamps at one point… Read More ›
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