IMMANUEL WALLERSTEIN LOOKS AT THE GLOBE AND FINDS TURMOIL AND THE BUTTERFLY EFFECT IN THE “MIDDLE RUN” FUTURE. While predictions for a given year are a “fool’s mission” and those for centuries in the future only too easy to make, those for the “middle run” of a decade or so hence are subject to [...]
` PRESIDENT OBAMA’S “KILL LIST” A REVOLUTIONARY STEP IN THE POWERS OF THE PRESIDENCY. (New York Times) ` President Obama and the current administration have already shown a willingness to embrace highly controversial and legally questionable tactics in pursuing groups and individuals deemed a threat to U.S. interests or branded a “terrorist” by U.S. [...]
HOW DOES A CAPITALIST COUNTRY DEAL WITH A CRISIS IN EMPLOYMENT? BY CUTTING UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFITS, OF COURSE. (World Socialist) A political “deal” between the Obama administration and a Republican congress is now coming home to roost as some 200k American workers are slated to be cut off from “extended” unemploymet benefits—half of them in the [...]
“ALL THEY CARE ABOUT, IN THE END, IS THE WAR ITSELF—OR RATHER, WAR ITSELF.” (Chris Floyd) The April 1 annnouncement by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton that the U.S. government will be help arm the “Free Syrian Army” opposition comes as no surprise to Chris Floyd, although the real “fools” being played by these and [...]
Is the American jobs crisis really over? Or is the country about to enter a new phase of rampant underemployment? These are the questions being raised following Friday’s release of the latest government jobs report. Politicians from both sides dialed up their standard reactions to news on the jobs front — Democrats and the White [...]
Widespread outrage met Bank of America’s recent decision to begin charging fees for customers to use their debit cards, and the nation’s largest bank eventually reversed course and scrapped the $5 charge. But if you think that was the extent of the bank’s venture into controversial fees, you would be wrong. While not as broad [...]
While the country sits in the grip of a historic recession and economic downturn, numerous states are taking aim at the victims of this crisis and placing unprecedented — and potentially unconstitutional — new burdens on those that rely on government aid to survive. Proposed in 36 states and signed into law among a smaller [...]
If you don’t have a job, you’re out of luck; even Democrats on Capitol Hill are joining the chorus of conservatives in opposing federal unemployment benefits for individuals facing over one year without work. It’s a shift that will likely have devastating implications for millions of Americans as soon as next January. The irony of [...]
WHEN URI AVNERY SPEAKS…. (AntiWar.com) …World leaders, especially those in Israel, had best listen carefully. Surveying the popular unrest now sweeping across the Middle East, Avnery brings the explanation down to the singular fact of the collaboration of Egypt and other Arab states with the U.S. and Israel in their agenda of promoting the suppression [...]
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