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And the wars drag on...
Posted: Wed, Apr 30, 2025 10:08am PDT
Trump Won’t Change, But His Foes Must...
Posted: Mon, Apr 28, 2025 11:19am PDT
Free market doctrine aims to liberate the economy from government “interference”, but Polanyi challenges the very idea that markets and governments are separate and autonomous entities. Government action is not some kind of “interference” in the autonomous sphere of economic activity; there simply is no economy without government rules and institutions....
Posted: Thu, Apr 24, 2025 4:37pm PDT
CRD covers the fight for national healthcare and national organizing for May Day...
Posted: Mon, Apr 21, 2025 6:21pm PDT
Lee Siu Hin-The story of China's Pandas Aid supporting the people of Gaza--Report from Our Fourth Trip to Egypt for Organize Medical Humanitarian Mission to Gaza, Egypt March 30-April 5, 2025...
Posted: Mon, Apr 14, 2025 9:55am PDT
Today, voter bribery is a crime. It’s illegal to pay people for their participation in an election, plain and simple. Despite this, Elon Musk has been flagrantly bribing voters, both in last year’s presidential election and most recently in the high-profile election for a seat on the Wisconsin Supreme Court....
Posted: Sat, Apr 12, 2025 5:17am PDT
The U.S. Government is the greatest danger to World Peace...
Posted: Thu, Apr 10, 2025 5:26pm PDT
Trump regime freezes funding for Cornell, Northwestern University
An official says the pause in funding includes grants and contracts with the federal departments of health, education, agriculture and defence....
Posted: Wed, Apr 9, 2025 3:36am PDT
The editors of the right-wing National Review urged Congress to take back the power it has ceded to Trump, calling it “preposterous that a single person could enjoy this much power over…the global economy.” They decried the ”raw chaos” of the last week that has made it impossible for any business to plan for the future....
Posted: Wed, Apr 9, 2025 1:14am PDT
The US Conference of Catholic Bishops and Jubilee USA Network wrote President Trump encouraging him to build on debt relief efforts from his first term to address poverty and stabilize food and fuel prices....
Posted: Tue, Apr 8, 2025 6:00am PDT
TUCSON, Ariz., April 7, 2025 — The Trump administration’s plan to sell federal public land for sprawl development could bulldoze endangered species habitat, canyons and forests across the West — from protected red cliffs in Utah and national monuments in New Mexico, according to a new map analysis from the Center for Biological Diversity....
Posted: Mon, Apr 7, 2025 1:18pm PDT
The April 5th 'Hands Off' rally in Berkeley...
Posted: Sun, Apr 6, 2025 5:28pm PDT
The bigger story is Trump’s consolidation of power — substituting loyalists for experts across the government, using retribution to intimidate others, purging the government’s independent inspectors general,... giving Elon Musk authority to cut spending and roll back regulations, and readying a massive tax cut for the wealthy and big corporations.. Americans don’t abide aristocracy....
Posted: Sat, Apr 5, 2025 5:00pm PDT
After World War One, the United States and others stopped protectionism. They had already gained their economic advantage over other countries, and wanted to pull up the ladder, and prevent other countries from doing what it had done — public investment, raising living standards, the economy of high wages to increase labor productivity....
Posted: Thu, Apr 3, 2025 4:35pm PDT
The State of Vermont is one of the coldest places to live and snows 5 months a year, sometimes more. Republican Governor Phil Scott has kicked pregnant women out of the homeless shelter motel program if they are less than 6 months pregnant. They have no where to go....
Posted: Wed, Apr 2, 2025 8:47pm PDT
Fossil Fuels Drive Interlinked Crises That Harm Health, Wildlife, Planet...
Posted: Tue, Apr 1, 2025 2:15am PDT
The retaliatory taxes imposed by China and other nations on U.S. goods had “negative employment impacts,’’ especially for farmers, the study found. These retaliatory tariffs were only partly offset by billions in government aid that Trump doled out to farmers. The Trump tariffs also damaged companies that relied on targeted imports....
Posted: Mon, Mar 31, 2025 12:13pm PDT
Americans are not supposed to hear the other side of the story when it comes to major international conflicts, such as the proxy war in Syria or the civil war in Ukraine, or Israel's mistreatment of Palestinians. Only the State Department's accounts of these events are allowed, even when those accounts are themselves propagandistic, if not outright false....
Posted: Mon, Mar 31, 2025 6:25am PDT
The exaggeration of the Russian threat is notorious. The fear of Russia has served the US ruling circles [and the military-industrial complex] well for more than seventy years. In 1948 they began to stir up fear of war in order to save the US aircraft industry, which almost collapsed at the end of the Second World War....
Posted: Sun, Mar 30, 2025 9:51am PDT
He said he considered leaving the US in 2017, but that the second Trump administration has “definitely” proved worse than the first. Stanley’s profile has also risen since then after the publication of several books on propaganda and fascism. The Toronto Munk school is building a program with the view that there’s an “international struggle against democracy."...
Posted: Thu, Mar 27, 2025 12:13pm PDT