Thank You, Anita Hill Op Ed piece regarding sexual harassment in the workplace and the connection to the #MeToo movement....
Posted: Wed Apr 25, 2018 8:33AM
White's In Minneapolis Area Suburbs Putting Monkeys Up To Hurt Black People I think whitie in the suburbs is putting monkey words on park benches or bridges or monkeys in the store, dollar store and grocery stores to intimidate Blacks that want to be there too....
Posted: Wed Apr 25, 2018 8:33AM
Religion Has Made More Lunatics Than Asylums To Fill Them These guys probably believe it's the end of the world and now can do anything. Robert Ingersoll....
Posted: Wed Apr 25, 2018 8:29AM
SF Tenants Continue Fight To Save Homes From Demolition The Midtown Tenants Association and supporters gathered at SF City Hall today to continue their fight to save their homes from demolition by the city....
Posted: Tue Apr 24, 2018 11:40PM
UN Forum Wrestles with Economic Policies 10 Years After Financial Crisis Islands Call for Officials from governments, the IMF, World Bank, the private sector and NGOs meet this week at the United Nations for the Financing for Development (FFD) Forum....
Posted: Tue Apr 24, 2018 12:32PM
What Gun-Control Activists Should be Talking About Gun-control activists should be pushing for Extreme Risk Protection Orders, not the repeal of the Second Amendment....
Posted: Tue Apr 24, 2018 12:24PM
The West refused to support Azerbaijani opposition at the last moment On April 11, 2018, early presidential elections took place in Azerbaijan with a predictable win of the sitting head of state Ilham Aliyev. Major oppositional parties of the country refused to put forward their candidates and notified that they would not accept the results of the elections....
Posted: Tue Apr 24, 2018 1:30AM
Vehicular Profiteering Downtown Will Punish the Poor and Drive Away Customers Santa Cruz City Council is set to rubberstamp increased parking fees, new parking meters, a two-hour "Move Along" vehicular law, "no vending from vehicles", and a "no vehicles above 6' in height" requirement along Pacific Ave. and adjacent streets at its 1:30 PM wesession tomorrow. It's item #18 on the so-called "Consent Public Hearings" section of the agenda....
Posted: Mon Apr 23, 2018 11:40PM
Homeless regulations will affect People's Park community Newly proposed regulations on the homeless will substantially affect the People's Park community. Berkeley city council is holding a special meeting to codify new city legislation to place restrictions on sleeping and stashing gear on sidewalks....
Posted: Mon Apr 23, 2018 1:10PM
IMF and World Bank Meet on 10-Year Anniversary of Financial Crisis World leaders, finance ministers, the private sector and nongovernmental organizations begin the Spring International Monetary Fund and World Bank meetings on the 10-year anniversary of the global financial crisis....
Posted: Fri Apr 20, 2018 2:17PM
The Market is a Universal Totalitarian Religion The market accepts and rejects like a Calvinist God. The market only promises itself. Its highest goal is the economic boom. The Christian God's reign was not of this world. In contrast, the market theocracy makes this side into something otherworldly. The cult of money and the comodity eclipses the outlandishness and absurdity of all its predecessors....
Posted: Fri Apr 20, 2018 7:11AM
Public Banking: Bringing Taxes Back To Us Public banking will bring great equality and economic prosperity to local regions...
Posted: Thu Apr 19, 2018 11:17PM
The Shortwave Report 04/20/18 Listen Globally! A weekly 30 minute review of international news and opinion, recorded from a shortwave radio and the internet. With times, frequencies, and websites for listening at home. 3 files- Highest quality broadcast, regular broadcast, and slow-modem streaming. Radio Havana Cuba, Sputnik Radio, and NHK Japan....
Posted: Thu Apr 19, 2018 4:03PM
Puerto Rico Should Cut Debt and Protect Poor Say Island Religious Leaders As Puerto Rico's oversight board considers a fiscal plan, major religious leaders say the final plan should cut debt, prevent austerity and reduce child poverty. San Juan's Catholic Archbishop, Puerto Rico Evangelical Bible Society leader and the Executive Director of the island's Catholic Charities sent a letter to the oversight board....
Posted: Wed Apr 18, 2018 1:50PM
Discrimination of Persons With Disabilities Individuals are discriminated every day due to their disability. End this now, it's simple....
Posted: Tue Apr 17, 2018 10:02PM
Lawsuit Confronts Kern County Over Broken Promise to Protect Imperiled Hawks, Important Farmland Nearly $3 Million Set Aside for Conservation Instead Transferred to General Fund...
Posted: Tue Apr 17, 2018 1:53PM
IMF World Economic Outlook Report Raises Concerns for Long-Term Growth The International Monetary Fund releases its World Economic Outlook (WEO) Report, forecasting global growth in the short-term and raising concerns on possible economic downturns beyond the next few quarters....
Posted: Tue Apr 17, 2018 8:27AM
Book Review: "The New Bonapartists" In the figure of Bonaparte, the state made itself independent over society at a time when the bourgeoisie lost the capacity to rule the nation and the working class had not yet gained that ability. Aren't conditions similar nowadays in the many de-industrialized regions of the US, England, Germany or Poland? The whole world cheered him as the deliverer of society, Marx wrote....
Posted: Mon Apr 16, 2018 3:40AM