Author: Scott Scheffer

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Environment

Extreme weather events and capitalism: a deadly combination

August 5, 2021 Scott Scheffer
Climate scientists around the world are alarmed by a triple climate-change-related crisis that hit the western U.S. and Canada in June and July.  Normally climatologists are careful in their assessment of extreme weather events, under […]
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Cuba

Answering U.S. media lies about Cuba

July 25, 2021 Scott Scheffer
In the wake of U.S. sabotage of the Cuban economy and efforts by the CIA’s National Endowment for Democracy (NED) to build counter-revolutionary sentiment, the anti-imperialist and socialist movement needs to be strong and united, […]
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Around the world

U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan doesn’t mean peace

July 18, 2021 Scott Scheffer
In April, President Joe Biden announced that the U.S. war in Afghanistan would finally end after 20 years of horrible imperialist destruction. Initially the idea was that the troops would pack up shop by Sept. […]
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Capitalist crisis

Fight attacks on unemployed workers coast to coast!

July 3, 2021 Scott Scheffer
July 2 — Governors of 26 U.S. states have opted to reject federal benefits for unemployed workers that were enacted in March 2021 as part of the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security (CARES) Act. […]
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LGBTQ+

Pride fight-back action at historic Los Angeles site

June 30, 2021 Scott Scheffer
In Los Angeles, hundreds gathered for a Pride event June 26 that began with a spirited rally at the Black Cat Tavern — the historic site of one of the earliest LGBTQ2S demonstrations against brutality […]
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In the U.S.

No one is laughing at Biden’s joke about U.S. interference in elections

June 26, 2021 Scott Scheffer
At a June 16 news conference after meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin, Joe Biden was asked about the phony accusations of Russian interference in U.S. elections. Incredibly, he responded by saying: “How would it […]
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Capitalism and Marxism

Climate change and capitalism

June 12, 2021 Scott Scheffer
As ice weighing more than 20 million Empire State Buildings melted from Greenland during the 20th century — and even faster in the last 25 years — the redistribution of mass has caused the earth […]
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In the U.S.

Big investors gobble up trailer parks, profit from housing crisis

June 5, 2021 Scott Scheffer
In September 2020, a company called “CPI Superstition Sunrise RV Resort, LLC” purchased a mobile home park (MHP) in Mesa, Ariz., for $88 million — a record price for Arizona. The new owner concealed its […]
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China

Were new attacks on China created in a Trump lab?

May 30, 2021 Scott Scheffer
May 29 — This week the level of attacks on China regarding its success against COVID-19 has been elevated to a fever pitch. The Biden administration has all the major U.S. media in tow.  A […]
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Korea

History of U.S. betrayals and People’s Korea’s strong defense policy

May 11, 2021 Scott Scheffer
The Biden administration said April 30 that it had completed its review of the diplomatic relationship with the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK or North Korea) and concluded there is little hope for an […]