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Made in America is harder than expected Building more roads, modernizing seaports, improving airports and
train stations, and constructing power plants in the country where
construction is most expensive is a huge undertaking that many people fail to grasp....
Posted: Wed, May 7, 2025 4:39am PDT
Accomplices Those who conform, go with the flow, and say little in opposition rise to the top. Those who are not yet sufficiently conformist are corrupted. A great deal of lobbying is carried out to bring members of parliament into line and make them vote the way they want them to. Then the revolving door starts turning, so that after their political career, they get a comfortable, warm, and well-paid job....
Posted: Mon, May 5, 2025 1:09pm PDT
Target Ineffective Programs, Not People, to Save Money An army of researchers, service providers, physicians, community workers, prevention practitioners, and countless others who serve the American public on a daily basis have been either fired or otherwise rendered unable to perform their duties.
A smarter way to cut waste and preserve effectiveness is to invest in an "evidence-based” approach to government. Decades of careful research have identified numerous programs that work and many that don’t. Cutting ineffective programs and providing e...
Posted: Mon, May 5, 2025 9:03am PDT
Applying Saul Alinsky's strategies to the Anti-Trump Resistance Saul Alinsky was a master strategist, starting in the 1940s and particularly in the turbulent time of protests of the 1960’s. His 1971 Rules for Radicals is considered a classic in organizing, It has been utilized by both those on the political Left and Right. Though likely not consciously, as seen below as examples, Trump uses many of the rules himself (some sentences or wording here are taken from How Donald Trump Exploits 12 Of Saul Alinsky's Radical Rules. They can be used in reverse aga...
Posted: Mon, May 5, 2025 8:55am PDT
International Panel from Around World Join Against Repression There will be an international panel against repression on April 26, 2025 that will link up workers and countries around the world...
Posted: Fri, Apr 18, 2025 10:20am PDT
Trump’s Inverted View of America’s Tariff History Without restructuring the rentier financialized economy to move it back toward the original business plan of industrial capitalism,...his program will fail to re-industrialize America. Indeed, it threatens to push the U.S. economy into depression – for 90 percent of the population, that is....
Posted: Fri, Apr 18, 2025 1:34am PDT
Trump's tariff spasm: a serious misunderstanding of capital interests The international financial markets have already reacted: stock prices plunged worldwide, as did gas and oil prices – the latter despite an unchanged supply situation. The 15% decline within a few days indicates that the markets are expecting a decline in demand – in other words, a global recession. All the tariffs were reduced to a maximum 10%....
Posted: Wed, Apr 16, 2025 6:31pm PDT
Yes, Elon Musk’s Vote-Buying Is Against the Law Today, voter bribery is a crime. It’s illegal to pay people for their participation in an election, plain and simple. Despite this, Elon Musk has been flagrantly bribing voters, both in last year’s presidential election and most recently in the high-profile election for a seat on the Wisconsin Supreme Court....
Posted: Sat, Apr 12, 2025 5:17am PDT
Letter from an American The editors of the right-wing National Review urged Congress to take back the power it has ceded to Trump, calling it “preposterous that a single person could enjoy this much power over…the global economy.” They decried the ”raw chaos” of the last week that has made it impossible for any business to plan for the future....
Posted: Wed, Apr 9, 2025 1:14am PDT
In no man's land "Pacifism is the fundamental fight against any kind of suppression of human desire. Pacifism is uncompromising partisanship for the living. Pacifism is militancy, not necessarily political militancy, but militancy in the attainment of inner truthfulness and freedom, because pacifism is the reconciliation of the human being with himself." (Dieter Duhm)...
Posted: Mon, Apr 7, 2025 9:10am PDT
Politics still hasn't understood it Never before has Germany been so rich on the one hand and so poor on the other. The well-known political scientist Christoph Butterwegge speaks of a “torn society”. Over the last 40 years or so, neo-liberals in politics, business, science and the media have been responsible for economic and social upheaval – not least for the political shift to the right.
Never before has Germany been so rich on the one hand and so poor on the other. The well-known political scientist Christoph Butterwegge...
Posted: Wed, Apr 2, 2025 11:58am PDT
The US on the road to censorship Americans are not supposed to hear the other side of the story when it comes to major international conflicts, such as the proxy war in Syria or the civil war in Ukraine, or Israel's mistreatment of Palestinians. Only the State Department's accounts of these events are allowed, even when those accounts are themselves propagandistic, if not outright false....
Posted: Mon, Mar 31, 2025 6:25am PDT
Yale professor who studies fascism fleeing US to work in Canada He said he considered leaving the US in 2017, but that the second Trump administration has “definitely” proved worse than the first. Stanley’s profile has also risen since then after the publication of several books on propaganda and fascism. The Toronto Munk school is building a program with the view that there’s an “international struggle against democracy."...
Posted: Thu, Mar 27, 2025 12:13pm PDT
Interview with Guillermo Kane of Argentina's Partido Obrero 3/7/25 Interview with one of the leaders of Argentina's Partido Obrero
(Worker's Party) 3/7/2025 on the situation in Argentina and the work P.O. is doing....
Posted: Fri, Mar 21, 2025 10:44pm PDT
NLG Condemns the Targeted Detention of Palestinian Student Organizer Mahmoud Khalil FULL TITLE: National Lawyers Guild Condemns the Targeted Detention of Palestinian Student Organizer Mahmoud Khalil and Reiterates its Call for “Sanctuary Universities” to Protect their Students and Workers from Escalating State Repression...
Posted: Thu, Mar 13, 2025 8:26am PDT
In the Shadow of the Statistics. How Donald Trump United Economic and Identity Politics Trump's greatest mobilizing force does not come from a false positive image of his term in office, but from a construction of an enemy. Trump presents China as the external enemy and the “invasion of immigrants” as the internal one. In both cases, a fundamental change in the conservative argumentation pattern can be seen....
Posted: Sun, Mar 9, 2025 12:22pm PDT
In Contempt #50: National Guard Sent in to New York Prisons, Leonard Peltier Comes Home In this column, It's Going Down presents a monthly roundup of political prisoner, prison rebel, and repression news, happenings, announcements, action and analysis. Packed in as always are updates, fundraisers, and birthdays....
Posted: Sun, Mar 9, 2025 11:56am PDT
Demand the Immediate Release of Palestinian Student Activist Mahmoud Khalil from DHS Detention On the evening of March 8, 2025, Columbia University student activist Mahmoud Khalil was detained by the Department of Homeland Security. The arrest comes on the heels of the Department of State’s announcement that it plans to deport students affiliated with pro-Palestine protests. The student, who is Palestinian, is a lawful permanent resident of the U.S....
Posted: Sun, Mar 9, 2025 11:32am PDT
Threats to Student Protest Are Antithetical to the Mission of Higher Education March 5, 2025 - AAUP President Todd Wolfson issued the following statement today....
Posted: Sat, Mar 8, 2025 9:54am PST
The Theory of STUPIDITY` Trump responds to the crises of fires, homelessness, tax avoidance, poverty, and corruption with lies, threats and misconceptions. Following Project 2025, he and Musk have fired tens of thousands of federal workers, demolished USAID, Medicaid and the CFPA. They are crashing the economy and ruining democracy to give $4.5 trillion more to the super-rich!...
Posted: Wed, Mar 5, 2025 4:51am PST