Obama: Sell Tax 'Breaks' As 'Hikes,' Middle Class Buys It!

Seeded on Wed Sep 21, 2011 10:47 AM EDT (World Socialist Web Site)

Obama's plan swaps tax loopholes for massive social spending cuts and potentially mandatory Veteran's health cuts. Is the 'Buffet Rule' what you think, OR is this yet another concession to the fascistic right? Want to know what you'll lose? Better read more ...

medicare, politics, flat-tax, medicaid, reduction, tax-reform, private-sector, class-warfare, fair-share, corporate-tax-cuts

Glorious NATO Forces Exposed -- Worst Way Possible

Seeded on Tue Sep 13, 2011 12:58 AM EDT (The Afro-American Newspapers | Your Community. Your History. Your News.)

Former Congressman Reports On Mission To Libya the French and Danish were ordering the bombings and killings, and giving credit to the rebels. This isn't pretty reading, but it needs to be faced and redressed.

libya, france, denmark, beheading, politics, africa, chaos, qaddafi, tripoli, colonization

London's Fall: Fascistic Crackdown On Freedom?

Fri Sep 2, 2011 1:04 AM EDT

The 2010 G-20 resulted in mass arrests, illegal detentions, gratuitous police violence, an illegal raid on a Graduate Student’s facility and temporary closure of the University of Toronto campus.

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collapse, politics, justice, london, protest, law, uprising, enemy, riots, toronto

Barack Obama and the Debt Crisis: Successful Con Game Explained

Seeded on Sun Aug 7, 2011 8:53 PM EDT (Black Agenda Report)

Analogy For Democratic/Republican, Criminal Cooperation: Every Jeff needs a Mutt, every good cop needs a bad cop. This was the role played by Republicans...

politics, barack-obama, corporate-media, political-fraud, con-game, party-fakery

Verizon Showdown: Calls for New Strike Tactics

Seeded on Sat Aug 6, 2011 11:25 PM EDT (Working In These Times)

Ever Wonder Where It Stops? Tens of thousands of secure jobs with good benefits turn into 'lower-wage, much less secure jobs.' The company reported $10.2 billion in profits in 2010 and its net income for the first half of this year was $6.9 billion

human-rights, politics, verizon, contract-expiration, union-brotherhood

Peace Prize Winner -- Extending US occupation of Iraq?

Seeded on Sat Aug 6, 2011 10:55 PM EDT (World Socialist Web Site)

This Differs From Bush' War Policy ... How?

politics

US Muslim soldier wants to quit Army

Seeded on Sat Aug 6, 2011 1:18 AM EDT (Thfire)

It Begs To Be Asked ... What would happen if Christians had this kind of conviction?

peace, politics, military, islam, dissent, christianity, warmongering

No Jobs For You! (Says The GOP)

Seeded on Sat Aug 6, 2011 1:09 AM EDT (Think Progress)

Job Platform Reconsidered ...

politics, unemployment, eric-cantor, joblessness, end-jobless-benefits

The American "left" And The Debt Ceiling Deal

Seeded on Fri Aug 5, 2011 1:03 AM EDT (World Socialist Web Site)

David Walsh Writes ...

politics, barack-obama, ralph-nader, house-democratic-caucus, congressional-progressive-caucus, rose-ann-demoro, national-nurses-united, congressman-pete-stark, now-socialist-worker

President Obama, Through The Budget Cuts Prism.

Seeded on Fri Aug 5, 2011 12:43 AM EDT (World Socialist Web Site)

So if the deficit limits are a mechanism to see into the President's intention, can are we conclude?

politics, republican-party, budget-cuts, democratic-party, right-wing, paul-krugman, ruling-class, economic-policy-institute, socialist-equality-party, unemployment-benefits

Barack Obama: The Great Capitulator.

Seeded on Sun Jul 31, 2011 11:00 PM EDT (Examiner)

This is an except from an early response to the 'debt limit' deal from the perspective of a democratic socialist.

Recovery? WHAT Recovery?

Seeded on Sat Jul 30, 2011 8:51 PM EDT (World Socialist Web Site)

Andre Damon writes that it is ...

politics, federal-reserve, commerce-department, barack-obama, growth-rate, financial-collapse, economic-contraction, economic-catastrophe, mass-layoffs, stalled-recovery

Debt Limit Bill -- Accept, Or Reject In the Congress Of The Streets?

Fri Jul 29, 2011 11:53 PM EDT

A Simple Question: Having disgraced us before the world once again, the system of sedition which we call the Government of the United States of America has at length done the dirty. Now it's on to the next hurdle.

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politics

Free Labor, No Taxes

Fri Jul 29, 2011 1:47 PM EDT

Prolegomena: This article is not my own work. I received it as an email forwarded to me by a friend. I used Google to make several searches and found nothing.

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politics

Coming To America -- Anders Behring Breivik...

Seeded on Thu Jul 28, 2011 11:23 PM EDT ()

Writes Foreign Policy Magazine: Anders Behring Breivik is not alone. In fact, Europe has many more dangerous extremists than anyone thinks.

politics

Devastating Rebuttal of Obama Speech, Marxist Perspective

Seeded on Thu Jul 28, 2011 12:58 AM EDT (World Socialist Web Site)

Obama delivered a cynical speech whose purpose was to appeal to the American people to support spending cuts that will drive millions of them into poverty while leaving the gargantuan wealth of the financial aristocracy untouched.

politics

ILWU Shows The Strength Of Its Convictions:

Tue Jul 26, 2011 11:15 PM EDT

Itochu Corp, STX Pan Ocean and Bunge North America are huge interests, the first two ranking about 200 on Fortune's Global 500 list.

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politics, justice, resistance, unions, courage, dissent, capitalism, oppression, corporatism, mass-arrests

Layoffs For A Good Purpose: Profits Soar

Seeded on Sat Jul 23, 2011 10:33 PM EDT (Zygor Guides)

Let The Bad Times Roll! As dozens of major corporations announced increased second-quarter profits this week, the US working class was hit with a disastrous new round of mass layoffs.

politics, goldman-sachs, tax-cuts, mass-layoffs, corporate-stranglehold

Unions Must Act Like Unions

Seeded on Sat Jul 23, 2011 10:09 PM EDT (Zygor Guides)

Union Strategy: Concessions ... Unions have been in the concession business for decades. Where this has brought us is plain to see. The very existence of unions is now placed at risk.

politics, concessions, class-warfare, union-busting, capitalist-crisis

GOP Roadmap in Hand, Where Will Obama Land?

Seeded on Sat Jul 23, 2011 9:53 PM EDT (Zygor Guides)

Working In These Times article makes the case that Obama consistently favors Wall Street, giving the wealthy and corporate interests huge tax cuts, furnished on the backs of the poor and working class.

medicare, politics, social-security, tax-cuts, class-warfare, social-spending-cuts

Emasculate The Rich

Seeded on Fri Jul 22, 2011 8:39 PM EDT (Zygor Guides)

From The Closing Line ... ...shear[ing] their rich down to democratic size. That about covers it. But there are other, well-stated lines as well: Our political system is failing to tax the rich because the rich have fortunes large enough to buy off the political system.

politics, political-failure, debt-crisis, richest-1

Debt Ceiling, Class Politics

Seeded on Tue Jul 19, 2011 11:04 AM EDT (Zygor Guides)

America's greatest robbery! No Money: except For Banks. How the middle class and poor carry the rich.

wall-street, medicare, politics, social-security, medicaid, federal-reserve, house-republican, john-boehner, corporate-media, debt-ceiling

Why Won't Obama and Democrats Defend the Public Sector?

Seeded on Tue Jul 19, 2011 12:37 AM EDT (Zygor Guides)

President Obama bought the Republican argument. He repeats the 'live within our means' mantra, and places the 'sacrifice' wholly on working class backs. He presses Democrats for 'something big' on spending cuts.

politics

Mitch McConnell's Mad Memo...

Thu Jul 14, 2011 1:50 PM EDT

Dear Mitch: Elections haven't worked, and therefore the Constitution must be changed? What a SILLY thing for you to say! How exactly does that follow? The premise that elections haven’t worked can lead to any number of conclusions. For example.

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constitution, politics

Spain Is Next: 15-M Movement To New Stage Of Struggle

Seeded on Sun Jun 19, 2011 12:19 AM EDT (International Socialist Resistance)

'The economic boom of the last 2 decades lifted Spain, and its young generation in particular, to new heights with living standards up and a “golden future” was promised to them. These expectations have now come crashing down.

politics, general-strike, spanish-revolution, capitalism-failure, class-battles, inevitable-explosion, market-dictatorship, mass-awakening, revolutionary-democracy

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