In the early evening of a summer night in New York City, or Dallas or Los Angeles, or Miami, there is a slow, quiet movement of long, dark-windowed vehicles. They move quietly to centers of activity where bright lights outline the architecture and gowned women and men in expensive suits emerge, smiling and laughing. The [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Human Rights'
Politics: Winning in Class Warfare — Part I
September 15th, 2010 · Comments Off · Capitalism, Culture, Human Rights, jobs, Media, Politics, Populism, taxes, Wall Street
Tags: austerity·billiionaires·Class warfare·Medicare·Neoconservatism·obstructionism·Social Security·tax breaks for the wealthy·taxes·the rich
The “R” Word
August 14th, 2010 · Comments Off · Capitalism, Human Rights, Media, Politics, Populism
In 1917, after generations of serfdom, oppression, starvation and genocide, the people of Czarist Russia took matters into their own hands. Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, transported through Eastern Europe into Russia on a sealed train brought the remedy to the problems of all the peasants…organization and force. He brought a system of organization to establish a [...]
The Bush-Cheney Pro-Poverty Programs
July 26th, 2010 · 2 Comments · Capitalism, Courts and the Law, Culture, Economics, Human Rights, Politics
In 8 years in office, Bill Clinton, in addition to creating 22 million jobs, left office having lifted 5 million people out of poverty. When George W. Bush and Dick Cheney (who have somehow avoided prosecution for war crimes) left office there were about 12 million unemployed and only 3 million jobs had been created [...]
Tags: Bush and Cheney·financial scams·Neocon scams·personal bankrupticies·poverty·sub-prime mortgages·the unemployed and jobs
Expansion, Not Austerity
July 3rd, 2010 · 1 Comment · Corporations and Industry, Economics, Health Care, Human Rights, jobs, Lobbying, Media, Politics, taxes, Wall Street, wars and militarism
We now have a Presidential Commission to make recommendations about the Reagan-Bush-Bush $13 trillion deficit that was created by cutting revenues in half with tax cuts for the rich, while continuing Republican spending and starting two wars. Of course, it is an absurd idea that we must all gather in hushed tones around former Reagan-Republican [...]
Tags: Corporatism·neocon·Neocons·obstruction of unemployment benefits·Scott Brown·the Neocon Party·the Peterson-Pew Commission·unemployment benefits
Disaster in West Virginia
June 17th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Capitalism, Corporations and Industry, Economics, energy, Human Rights, Politics, Populism
There is no way to discuss oil spills without stopping to make a comment or two on the crime, the rape of the Appalachian mountains for coal. Mountain Top Removal, so specific a technique that it has its own name, not just a description is so devastating that environmentalists commonly refer to it simply as [...]
Tags: coal corporation lobbying·coal in electrical generation·Coal lobbyists·dangerous mining practices·Massey Coal·Massey Energy·mining·mining lobbyists·mining risks·Mountain Top Removal·MTR·reckless mining·utility companies·utility company lobbyists
Helen Thomas and the Problem of Palestine
June 9th, 2010 · Comments Off · Human Rights, International affairs, wars and militarism
Helen Thomas is a long-time, award-winning, ground-breaking reporter and columnist for the Associated Press, one of the remaining news services. She has, for many years, lead the press conferences at the White House, asking the first question and often ending the press conferences. She is not technically a member of the White House press corps [...]
Tags: Arab countries·Hamas·Helen Thomas·Israel-Arab wars·Israeli-Palestinian conflicts·Palestine·persecution of the Jews·PLO·the state of Israel