1848+: Last and First Men

http://www.marxmail.org/msg94009.html August 1, 2011 — Monthly Review Press has kindly given permission to /Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal/ to publish *”The growth imperative of capitalism”*, an exclusive excerpt from Fred Magdoff and John Bellamy Foster’s just released /*What every environmentalist needs to know about capitalism*/. *John Bellamy Foster* will be a featured international guest [...]

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http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111904888304576474071349760158.html Why Americans Are So Angry Republicans want the entire burden of deficit reduction to be carried by the elderly, the sick, children and working families. By BERNIE SANDERS The rich are getting richer. Their effective tax rate, in recent years, has been reduced to the lowest in modern history. Nurses, teachers and firemen actually [...]

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http://www.marxmail.org/msg93969.html Poor Ralph Nader, as a Disillusioned Democrat, Delusional Democrat always trying to push the Democrats to the ‘Left’, life for the man must be very difficult. O woe is the lot of Atlas! Was the victory of Democrat Barack Obama to be the pinnacle of his …uh…success as a pusher man? Or is there [...]

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http://www.marxmail.org/msg93983.html Flacking as always for Obama, they wrote in an editorial: “Now the only hope left for avoiding default on Tuesday is for the Senate to piece together a compromise that can pass with bipartisan majorities in both chambers.” They continue to play on the totally phony “debt ceiling” crisis in order to blame the [...]

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The Price of the Housing Bubble The Weird Battle Over the Debt Ceiling By DEAN BAKER http://www.counterpunch.org/baker07282011.html Policy debates in Washington are moving ever further from reality as a small elite is moving to strip benefits that the vast majority need and support. The battle over raising the debt ceiling is playing a central role [...]

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NY Times op-ed July 27, 2011 Obama and His Discontents By TA-NEHISI COATES The administration of President Obama has never held much regard for its left flank. Admonished by the vice president to “stop whining,” inveighed against by the president himself for “griping and groaning,” the liberal critics have been generally viewed by the White [...]

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Counterpunch July 26, 2011 Obama’s Wrecking Crew By MARSHALL AUERBACK It’s actually a bit over the top and unfair to compare Barack Obama with Herbert Hoover – unfair that is, to the memory of Herbert Hoover. The received image of the latter is the dour, technocrat who looked on with indifference while the country went [...]

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http://www.alternet.org/story/151707/are_your_humanitarian_heartstrings_being_tugged_in_the_name_of_empire Are Your Humanitarian Heartstrings Being Tugged in the Name of Empire? By James Peck, Metropolitan Books Editor’s Note: Open up a newspaper, go online, watch cable news, and it won’t take long to see reporting on human rights tragedies across the planet. The stories can tug on your heartstrings, they can recount spectacular and [...]

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Published on Tuesday, July 19, 2011 by YES! Magazine http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/07/19-8 How is it that our nation is awash in money, but too broke to provide jobs and services? by David Korten The dominant story of the current political debate is that the government is broke. We can’t afford to pay for public services, put people [...]

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The Enemy is Washington By PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS http://www.counterpunch.org/roberts07222011.html Recently, the bond rating agencies that gave junk derivatives triple-A ratings threatened to downgrade US Treasury bonds if the White House and Congress did not reach a deficit reduction deal and debt ceiling increase. The downgrade threat is not credible, and neither is the default threat. [...]

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