1848+: Last and First Men

Rad Green mail http://www.archive.org/details/tth_100927 There’s a HUGE written news synopsis on site this morning with lottsa links to what everyone from the Catholic Worker, to Anti-Fascist organizations, to EX-State Department officials are saying about this COINTELPRO-like invasion of our right to protest and organize and details on the Pentagon’s treatment of US soldiers in Afghanistan. [...]

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Republican Economics as Social Darwinism By Robert Reich|Sep 26, 2010, 2:30 PM|Author’s Website

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The Super-Rich Get Richer, and Everyone Else Is Going Down the Drain Only twice before in American history has so much been held by so few, yet they’re going to keep their fat tax cuts. September 24, 2010 | The super-rich got even wealthier this year, and yet most of them are paying even fewer [...]

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Obama’s Massive Power Struggle with the American War Machine Even if Barack Obama is seriously betting on his exit strategy, the Pentagon wants infinite war.

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Ahmadinejad defends 9/11 remarks Iran president challenges UN to set up fact-finding mission to investigate whether attacks on US were a conspiracy. I am no fan of the Iran President, and his take on 9/11 conspiracies is distorted, making his point a misfire. But it is sad to wonder what Obama’s place is here: is [...]

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mxmail This dissertation, blocked since 2005, is now available from ProQuest, a dissertation database that many or most college and university libraries subscribe to: “Kill anything that moves”: United States war crimes and atrocities in Vietnam, 1965–1973 by Turse, Nicholas, Ph.D., Columbia University, 2005, 1025 pages; AAT 3174910 Turse is turning this into a book, [...]

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MARX IS BACK Read a three-part series of articles on Karl Marx and his contribution to the socialist tradition. http://socialistworker.org/series/marx-is-back The return of Marx In the last 150 years of U.S. history, you can’t point to a generation whose most active, radical layers have not been drawn to the ideas of Karl Marx. February 16, [...]

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We Once Had 55% of the World’s Manufacturing Capacity Poverty Rising By SAUL LANDAU counterpunch

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NY Times September 8, 2010 Court Dismisses a Case Asserting Torture by C.I.A. By CHARLIE SAVAGE WASHINGTON — A federal appeals court on Wednesday ruled that former prisoners of the C.I.A. could not sue over their alleged torture in overseas prisons because such a lawsuit might expose secret government information.

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The Slump Goes On: Why? September 30, 2010Robin Wells and Paul Krugman

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