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textJoe Biden Needs an Intervention: An Open Letter to DNC Chair Tom Perez by Norman Solomon
"It takes two wings to fly."...
Posted: Thu, Apr 30, 2020 10:21am PDT
textHousing Justice Organizers Across Nation Announce Mass Rent Strike Campaign by Posted by Lynda Carson
“We Strike Together” to Launch in Response to Exacerbation of the Housing Crisis Fueled by COVID-19; Hundreds of Thousands from All 50 States Join in Solidarity to Demand Rent Relief...
Posted: Wed, Apr 29, 2020 3:47pm PDT
textHashtag#General Strike by Lukas Hermsneier and Susan Boos
How do you prepare for the time when the affluent society crumbles? French intellectuals have even declared a new science - "collapsology." Solidarity is the humane and enlightened answer, not the assault rifle. Rep. Omar proposes a rent and mortgage moratorium until the pandemic fades. Landlords can find other ways to make money than rents and evictions....
Posted: Wed, Apr 29, 2020 4:57am PDT
textThe Deterioration of the United States by Troy Prouty*
COVID-19 is just a Virus. Propaganda is the Disease....
Posted: Wed, Apr 29, 2020 3:11am PDT
textApril 25, 2020: Nationwide Cancel Rents Protests by Repost
We face a second rent day, May 1, when at least one third of renters nationwide will not be able to pay the rent due to the pandemic lockdown. Yet no governor, Democrat or Republican, has demanded that the rent be cancelled since the renters who live from paycheck to paycheck face immediate eviction when the lockdown ends as they cannot pay any back rent....
Posted: Mon, Apr 27, 2020 9:30am PDT
textState pays Corona aid to tax tricksters by SZ.de
Thousands of companies want help from the state during the Corona crisis. The state of their tax morale is not under scrutiny. In the US, billionaires gained an additional $308 billion between 1990 and 2020 while tax obligations decreased 79%....
Posted: Mon, Apr 27, 2020 6:29am PDT
textThoughts and Theses on the Corona Exceptional State by Rolf Gossner
Heribert Prantl rightly asks whether the Corona crisis could become "a blueprint for action in real or supposed extreme situations". And possibly not only in extreme situations, but also in everyday life. For the state of emergency in the modern prevention state, in which we have been living for a long time, tends to mutate into the legal normal state of crisis prevention....
Posted: Fri, Apr 24, 2020 7:08am PDT
textSome Progressives Are in Denial About Trump’s Fascist Momentum by Norman Solomon
"Get rid of the malignancy in the White House"...
Posted: Thu, Apr 23, 2020 7:01pm PDT
textSean Hannity and Rick Scott's best sheriff friend under DOJ and Fl DOH investigation by SCOTT A HUMINSKI
The Justice Department and Florida Department of Health are investigating Sheriff Carmine Marceno for civil rights abuses, human rights abuses, ADA violations and felony abuse of disabled adults....
Posted: Thu, Apr 23, 2020 3:09am PDT
textThe car industry and the climate crisis by Stephan Kroll and Christian Hofmann
The car companies should now be converted into providers of mobility needs based on socio-ecological sustainability. Reduction of working hours - short full time of an average of 30 hours/4 days per week for all - is part of the neceesary radical change to save human lives amid plutocratic neoliberalism....
Posted: Wed, Apr 22, 2020 2:35am PDT
textShakespeare on Trump by Entering 6th Week of Quarantine
As we enter the 6th week of quarantine due to Nazi Trump’s inexcusable delay in preparing for a pandemic which was known to be a threat in November 2019 , the benchmark of literature in the English language, Shakespeare's writings, teach us that Trump is not an aberration....
Posted: Mon, Apr 20, 2020 11:25am PDT
textBlame the Covid-19 failure on your governments, not on China by Davide Mastracci
The anti-Chinese narrative is based on false statements and serves to distract people from the failure of neoliberalism. Build hospitals and make health care universal! Cut military spending in half! Testing, not imprisonment, abuse and neglect!...
Posted: Mon, Apr 20, 2020 6:42am PDT
textFreedom of Assembly is Sick by Maximilian Pichl and Doug Henwood
For decades, this country was governed as if the climate crisis were a myth. However, it favors natural disasters and diseases that are difficult or impossible to treat. The denial of these problems and the refusal to deal with the destructive effects of capitalism are the reason why the USA is particularly ill-equipped to face future challenges....
Posted: Thu, Apr 16, 2020 4:31pm PDT
textBernie’s Pivot for Biden Isn’t Pleasant. But Trump Must Be Defeated. by Norman Solomon
Magical thinking and politics don't mix...
Posted: Thu, Apr 16, 2020 2:23pm PDT
textSome Issues Regarding the Pacifica Bylaws Election by Akio Tanaka
Following are some of the issues that came up during Pacifica Bylaws election....
Posted: Wed, Apr 15, 2020 7:42am PDT
textA Perspective on the Pacifica Bylaws Referendum by Akio Tanaka
Pacifica still need a functional Board that can ensure the financial health of the Foundation....
Posted: Tue, Apr 14, 2020 2:33pm PDT
textCorona pandemic: Black Swan on the Way to Depression by Ralf Streck
An adequate taxation of international corporations and the abolition of tax loopholes have also been waited for in vain. The question is whether the broad masses have learned anything from the last crisis, whether they can build up such strong pressure not to be asked to pay again for the costs of rescuing large companies, banks and states....
Posted: Tue, Apr 14, 2020 5:03am PDT
text10th Amendment on Presidential Powers; Destruction of Food Crime Against Humanity by Basic Education
Contrary to Nazi Trump, his powers are limited by the 10th Amendment to the Constitution. Meanwhile, neither he nor any governor is buying the vegetables and milk being destroyed by farmers who lost schools and restaurant customers and donating the food and milk to food banks where millions of starving people line up every day for food, or what is left of the food since the food banks are running out of food....
Posted: Mon, Apr 13, 2020 6:19pm PDT
textUS COVID-19 Response Was Set to Fail Even Before Trump by Leon Kunstenaar
Primitive labor system far behind those of other countries has national health impact...
Posted: Mon, Apr 13, 2020 3:43pm PDT
textHistory of an eventful myth: the 8-hour day by Elias Felten and Thomas Ritt
Since industrialization, it has been the norm for wage-earners of all ages, including children, to work 15 to 16 hours a day. There was no time for rest. An impoverishment of the working class was the result....
Posted: Sat, Apr 11, 2020 4:14am PDT
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