TNS Posted on Wed Jul 11, 2012 9:26 am. Tags: American Left, Ghadafi, Green Party, left, Libya, revolution, Socialism, Syria
By Christian Wright I like this article, and I am glad it is written. The American left barely exists. The self-consciously “anti-imperialist” American left, in a country of 300 million people, can probably be housed in its entirety in one of our smaller to mid-sized sports areas. Its influence is marginal, but unfortunately this rarely [...]
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Posted in Imperialism, Peak oil, Politics, populism, Socialism
Dave Buccola Posted on Mon Dec 7, 2009 12:37 pm. Tags: capitalism, health care, homeless, Hope, Obama, Socialism, suicide, unemployment
We’re all familiar with the Dow Jones Report. What about a Jones Report? A report on the average American. Is she working? Does he have health care? Does the average American have basic access to the essentials of life?
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Posted in Anti-war, recession, Socialism
Bob Morris Posted on Fri Oct 30, 2009 5:15 am. Tags: Eugene Debs, Socialism
There is so much forgotten history in the US. Like Eugene Debs, who ran for president as a socialist in 1920 from prison and got almost a million votes. He was a labor organizer, and so active in the Pullman Strike of 1896 that it became known as “Deb’s Rebellion.” The government sent in troops, [...]
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Bob Morris Posted on Wed Jul 22, 2009 5:30 am. Tags: capitalism, Goldman Sachs, Socialism, theftocracy
Is SLP the NYSE’s answer to Direct Edge’s “Advance Look” Enhanced Liquidity Provider Program or You Trade You Lose, You Trade Goldman Wins So says Zero Hedge in yet another stunning blog post, this time on how major stock exchanges have, in effect, preferential tiered private clubs that allow the wealthy and connected to get [...]
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Bob Morris Posted on Sat Apr 4, 2009 1:30 am. Tags: capitalism, G20, Socialism
The G20 meeting this week will be viewed as epochal. One era, that of deregulation, has ended, and a new era with much stricter international regulation is beginning. Plus the US is no longer the sole predominant power and the beginnings of a world currency and banking system can be glimpsed. Sounds like a game [...]
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Josh Mull Posted on Sat Mar 7, 2009 8:05 am. Tags: Birth Certificate, Conspiracy, DNC08, Michelle Malkin, Obama, Socialism, Tea Party
During the 2008 Democratic Convention, I ended up covering a confrontation between between Alex Jones and Michelle Malkin. Today is a much different political environment, and it may be time these two rivals joined forces…
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Posted in Politics, Socialism
Bob Morris Posted on Sun Feb 8, 2009 15:18 pm. Tags: Socialism
In many ways our economy already resembles a European one. As boomers age and spending grows, we will become even more French. I hope so. Then the US will have actual, affordable health care for all, among other such socialist interventions. But right now, the socialism has just been for the rich. Or for the [...]
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Bob Morris Posted on Fri Jan 30, 2009 10:42 am. Tags: capitalism, Socialism
T-1000, the self-reconstituting cyborg from Terminator II So, socialism, finally. This has got to be up there with the most unlikely developments of the epoch. After the collapse of planned market economies everywhere, the right’s trouncing of the left, the rise of a near-universal awe of the free market, and the triumph of the unimaginably [...]
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