Lessons from the First New Deal for the Next One (tags)
Avoiding the Trump Trap (tags)
As US President Donald Trump's popularity continues to drop ahead of November's election, he has sought new ways to stoke the public fear and panic that led him to victory in 2016. The best strategy may be to make Trump's demagoguery a theme of his campaign.
Ukraine's Fascist Roots (tags)
Ukraine
police state
Whatever we think of the Democratic Party, like it or not, in the current political emergency, we are going to HAVE to align with them and vote for every Democrat on the ballot over every Republican — not because the Democrats are that progressive but because the Republicans plan a sweeping Right-wing revolution comparable to the changes Germany went through when Hitler took power in 1933, and the Democratic Party is one essential vehicle we will need to use to stop them.
fascism
Hard Right Extremism in America and Europe (tags)
fascism
Public Enemy Number One (tags)
Fed- engineered crisis.
The U.S. Economy on FIRE (tags)
The current U.S. economic crisis didn't start a few years ago when banks and financial institutions started selling "subprime" real estate loans to high-risk borrowers and then repackaging them as "mortgage-backed securities." It began in the early 1970's as a result of a long-term plan by America's major corporations and business leaders to drive down workers' wages and extract more surplus value — and the workers' response, which was to take on more debt. Any real solution that benefits working people cannot be instituted until the power of the corporate rich over the political system is broken.
Rockefeller y sus negocios con Stroessner (tags)
La Standard Oil de New Jersey, fundada en 1870 por John D. Rockefeller, fue por mucho tiempo la mas poderosa y temida empresa del mundo capitalista
El día que escracharon a Rockefeller (tags)
En la madrugada del 9 de julio de 1938, un acuerdo secreto para que Bolivia y por su intermedio, la Standard Oil company, preservaran la zona petrolífera del Chaco, fue firmado en Buenos Aires.
Huey Long. Sangre sobre el piso de mármol (tags)
A 74 años de realizar sus denuncias contra Rockefeller sobre la guerra del Chaco en el Congreso norteamericano, el senador Huey Long sigue siendo un desconocido para la historia paraguaya que se enseña en escuelas, colegios y universidades. Una muestra más del poderío y dominio ejercido por la embajada norteamericana de Asunción sobre la superestructura cultural paraguaya, sus planes educativos, sus historiadores, medios, periodistas y universidades.
"The People are Boiling with Rage" (tags)
Hurricane Katrina had blown the problems in GW Bush's face that he wanted to be rid of with churches and caritas. The chaotic emergency relief was also a consequence of a policy of state dismantling and deregulation
9/5 Hurricane Katrina Alert: Calls For Progressive Emergency Supports! (tags)
ActionLA Coalition and several other progressive organizations, will launch a national call for a donation drive to supports New Orleans areas progressive agencies for the humanitarian-aid efforts. Detail will coming soon and please donate generosity!
Nat Vanner, Hans Glans, Webguider are all the same fascist troll abusing the newswire.
Lewis H. Lapham is editor of Harper's magazine. Other articles can be found at http://www.harpers.org.
Saving and improving Social Security: The Communist Party’s solution (tags)
Marx’s observation that the task of a movement goes beyond mere interpretation of events was never more apt than when it comes to the struggle to defend – and improve – the Social Security system.