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The war on salaries: Enough is enough

Jeff — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 16:55:06 +0000

US radicals came up a century ago with sound proposals for a maximum income, enforced through progressive taxation, to ensure that the rich couldn’t so easily buy political influence, as well as to adjust inequality | by Sam Pizzigati | Le Monde diplomatique

If the state can expropriate wealth, why not rather expropriate the means of wealth production and place them under public ownership with workers’ control? The distribution of wealth is ultimately the result of the distribution of the ownership of social production. The wealthy are rich due to their ownership of capital; therefore abolish private property in the commanding heights of the economy.

Nicaraguan Voters Deepen 21st Century Socialism on all Fronts

Jeff — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 16:42:42 +0000

By John Riddell interviews Felipe Stuart Cournoyer | Axis of Logic

Whitewashing Black History Month

Jeff — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 09:10:41 +0000

Arizona’s suppression of Mexican American studies fits a pattern of making history serve an exclusionary nationalist mythology | Gary Younge | The Guardian

Wall Street, Small Business, and the Limits of Corporate Personhood

Jeff — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 13:50:54 +0000

An Interview with Doug Henwood | by Sasha Lilley | MR Zine

New York Times Continues to Conceal U.S. Role in 1965 Indonesia Coup

Jeff — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 13:48:10 +0000

By Conn Hallinan | Foreign Policy in Focus | “Why is the New York Times concealing the key role that the United States played in the 1965 coup in Indonesia that ended up killing somewhere between 500,000 and 1 million people?”

The CIA’s Cassandras: Paid to be Ignored

Jeff — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 17:38:09 +0000

by Gabriel Kolko | Counterpunch | “At no time has the U.S. based its foreign policies on facts — as opposed to its conceptions reliant on sheer wishes, interests, or pretensions, (its ambitions are often a mixture of all of these). Nor has it had fears that are warranted by reality. It has needs, whether economic or geopolitical.”

Rainbow Cuba: the sexual revolution within the revolution

Jeff — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 17:36:51 +0000

Links | “This work will help put to bed the lies and distortions propagated by the powerful United States (US) propaganda machine: that the Cuban Revolution is undemocratic, homophobic and tyrannical. My visit to and study of Cuba finds that there is no basis to these claims.”

Robert Fisk: Turkey’s Long Road to Reconciliation

Jeff — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 20:45:12 +0000

The Independent | Many Turks believe their country should own up to its history, however inglorious

Spring Confronts Winter

Jeff — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 19:49:02 +0000

Editorial by Mike Davis | New Left Review | Will a deepening economic crisis, now engulfing much of the world, necessarily speed a global renewal of the Left?

Václav Havel: another side to the story

Jeff — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 18:12:12 +0000

The Czech leader was a brave man, but the voices of those who lost out after communism’s demise are seldom heard | Neil Clark | The Guardian

“Lauding Havel is not only doing a disservice to the millions of ordinary people in eastern Europe who have not been served well by his politics, but to the innocent men, women and children killed by the western military adventures he supported. While Havel was a man of undoubted talent and intellect, it’s time we stopped eulogising people simply because they were anti-communist dissidents, and instead look at the bigger picture.”

Atleo says Indian Act blocks First Nations progress

Jeff — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 09:46:19 +0000

CBC.ca | Failed colonial policies plague First Nations to this day and are the biggest obstacle to progress, National Chief Shawn Atleo said Tuesday as he called for a “reset” of their relationship with the federal government.

How The Oligarchy Gets Politicized

Jeff — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 19:02:19 +0000

A Short History of Elite Responses To Political-Economic Crisis | By Alan Nasser | CounterPunch

What the Establishment Isn’t Telling You about Libya

Jeff — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 09:56:35 +0000

By Anthony Dimaggio | Znet | The blatant hypocrisy of “democratic intervention” in Libya, coupled with U.S. support for brutal dictatorships throughout the rest of the world, is generally not considered a legitimate issue of discussion in U.S. political culture.

Bill Davis and Progressive Conservatives from a bygone era

Jeff — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 14:34:05 +0000

By Rick Salutin | Rabble.ca | The old Progressive Conservatives shared the zeitgeist of an earlier time. It involved a sense of the usefulness of government and the importance of some kind of social solidarity.

The West and the Rest in a One-Model-Fits-All World

Jeff — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 13:49:46 +0000

By Pepe Escobar | Escobar’s analyses are always pertinent.

“The Social-Democratic Illusion”

Jeff — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 15:24:58 +0000

Social-democracy promised an ever-better future for future generations, a sort of permanent rising level of national and family incomes. This was called the welfare state. It was an ideology that reflected the view that capitalism could be “reformed” and acquire a more human face. | An op-ed by Immanuel Wallerstein

Michael T. Klare: America and Oil Declining Together?

Jeff — Fri, 16 Sep 2011 15:40:16 +0000

America’s rise to economic and military supremacy was fueled in no small measure by its control over the world’s supply of oil.

Using Privilege to Challenge the State

Jeff — Sat, 10 Sep 2011 18:17:22 +0000

Noam Chomsky: Responsibility of Intellectuals, Redux | Boston Review

After 9/11, Was War the Only Option?

Jeff — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 08:49:44 +0000

By Noam Chomsky | In These Times | The succession of horrors across the past decade leads to the question: Was there an alternative to the West’s response to the 9/11 attacks?

Dr. David Graeber on Debt: The 1st 5000 years & the origin of markets

Jeff — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 15:42:40 +0000

An RT interview.