Thursday, January 1, 2015

2015 was to have been the year poverty was to have been eradicated

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2015 was to have been the year to end poverty... Ending Poverty by 2015: Progress on Millennium Declaration Goals (MDG) In 2000, world ...

Happy New Year

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Welcome to another year of employer harassment, intimidation, firings, poverty wages, rising prices and more of these dirty imperialist w...
Tuesday, December 30, 2014

What lies ahead for U.S. in Iraq and Afghanistan?

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The headline in today's newspaper asks: What lies ahead for U.S. in Iraq and Afghanistan? Of course, the question as asked, is onl...
Monday, December 29, 2014

The Wall Street Journal tries to stifle the movement against racist police murdering people of color and police brutality. The WSJ cries "mayhem."

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The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) in big, bold headlines sends a message to its bribed politicians that it will only tolerate "progressi...
Sunday, December 28, 2014

The hypocrisy of a Minimum Wage "increase"

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The big, bold headlines in newspapers across the country told us yesterday that the Minimum Wage is "going up" in some twenty sta...

Something to think about...

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Are you willing to pay the price to protect Wall Street's interests in Africa? What is the price we pay? Do we forgo health care and chi...

Stop the deportation of U.S. war resister Joshua Key from Canada

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Can we help? http://www.communitynewscommons.org/…/former-ndp-mla-fight…/ It would seem to me every single person reading this should be ...
Saturday, December 27, 2014

A "few bad apples" or a massive network of brutal police repression?

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These police are becoming even more brutal as they attempt to cover up their crimes now being publicly exposed from one end of the country t...
Friday, December 26, 2014

Wall Street owns Jeb Bush and Hillary Clinton

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A variety of different articles have painted the Democratic Party as "Wall Street leaning." The Democratic Party is much more than...
Friday, December 19, 2014

In typical Obama style, he partially normailzes relations with Cuba and then places restrictions on Venezuela

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So, Obama partially normalizes relations with Cuba and a day later takes reactionary measures against Venezuela. It will be interesting to s...

Police violence against the people... especially the severe racist edge of this police violence must come to an end

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There is a lot of talk coming from those in power--- from Obama on down--- about how to reform the police departments in this country but th...

Why haven't we learned lessons from LBJ and his disastorous escalation and continuation of the Vietnam War?

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Yesterday I visited the President Lyndon B. Johnson museum in Johnson City, Texas. The tour guide explained how Johnson got his "left e...
Wednesday, December 17, 2014

Finally the Cuban Five are free!!!

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http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/obama-us-re-establishing-relations-with-cuba/ar-BBgUJV0?ocid=mailsignout Some good news... Now is th...

Two choices: bust up the big banks or take them over?

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U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren is calling for "busting up" and "breaking up" the big banks: https://www.youtube.com/watch...
Tuesday, December 16, 2014

The KKK not past history in Texas

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I am visiting Texas. Yesterday I went to the Bob Bullock Museum in Austin, Texas. At this museum a few blocks from the Texas State Capitol b...
Wednesday, December 10, 2014

Ethics and morality

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Ethics and morality under capitalism. Some people push the idea that some kind of new ethics and morality beyond greed can be created unde...
Sunday, November 30, 2014

Do you need a bunch of overpaid party hacks to do your thinking for you?

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Trust yourself based on what you see happening in the world around you and your real life experiences; chances are good you know more than y...
Tuesday, November 25, 2014

Ferguson--- A travesty of justice.

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Ferguson--- A travesty of justice. Blame Obama and Holder for not going after this racist cop and the racist Ferguson Police Department for ...
Monday, November 24, 2014

What is the condition of the working class today?

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"The condition of the working-class is the real basis and point of departure of all social movements of the present because it is the ...
Sunday, November 23, 2014

An interesting article about the Minimum Wage/Living Wage Movements by Steven Greenhouse in today's New York Times... BUT---

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http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/23/business/how-a-coalition-pushed-for-a-hotel-workers-minimum-wage.html?smid=fb-share&_r=0 But, are thes...
Friday, November 21, 2014

More money for militarism and wars

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What could we do to improve the lives of people with this kind of money and resources? Bloomberg.com November 21, 2014 U.S. Aircraft Carri...
Wednesday, November 19, 2014

Is there a link between problems with foster care in this country and incarceration?

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Recently a group of reform minded people were granted a meeting with the head of the Michigan Department of Corrections. During this meeting...
Monday, November 17, 2014

The time has come to break free from the two-party trap.

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Haven't we heard this talk of "fighting back" from these same millionaire labor leaders over-and-over again with no attempt m...
Thursday, November 13, 2014

Robert Reich offers Hillary Clinton advice...

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I told this to Robert Reich who is backing Hillary Clinton for President with the advice that she should mouth his "economic populism:...
Tuesday, November 11, 2014

Just what is Richard Trumka's idea of a "new economy?"

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Richard Trumka held another one of his press conferences claiming he was expressing the anger of the American people over the direction of t...

Are we fed-up yet?

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I find it interesting so many of the people associated with the Citizens United movement claiming they are for getting big money out of poli...
Thursday, November 6, 2014

Did Obama's supporters vote for him so he could work with the Republicans?

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I think this is a question his supporters are going to have to answer.

Congratulations to the Green Party of Minnesota; their candidates did very well.

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The Green Party in Minnesota did really well in the 2014 elections which should put them in a position to start winning.
Wednesday, November 5, 2014

Blame Obama and the Democrats.

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Obama's and the Democrats' dirty imperialist wars, combined with the austerity measures being shoved down our throats to pay for the...
Thursday, October 30, 2014

The hypocrites bandy about "facts" and "figures" as millions of children go to bed hungry.

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Have you ever noticed how politicians, the pundits and the media always toss around "facts" and "figures" based on very ...