Author: Stephen Millies

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Imperialism and global politics

Stop the U.S. Base in Okinawa!

December 28, 2018 Stephen Millies
Dec. 18 — Thirty people braved the cold wind in front of the Japanese Consulate on New York City’s swanky Park Avenue today to protest the building of a new U.S. military base on Okinawa. […]
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Im/migrants and refugees

Hands off Patricia Okoumou!

December 21, 2018 Stephen Millies
Patricia Okoumou, the courageous woman who dramatically climbed the Statue of Liberty on July 4th to protest the jailing of 15,000 immigrant children by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, was found “guilty” in Federal Court […]
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Capitalism and Marxism

Bloodsucking capitalists: a U.S. specialty

December 17, 2018 Stephen Millies
Besides steel, another vital industry for developed societies is machine tools. These include lathes, drill presses, gear cutters and milling machines ― the machines that make or form machine parts. U.S. industry helped pioneer external […]
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Labor and strikes

Spectrum strikers still fighting

December 16, 2018 Stephen Millies
Members of International Electrical Workers (IBEW) Local 3 in the New York City area have been on strike against the Spectrum cable monopoly since March 28, 2017. The 1,800 strikers are fighting Charter Communications, which […]
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China

Trump is our enemy ― not China

December 16, 2018 Stephen Millies
The lying bigot in the White House wants us to hate the People’s Republic of China. Trump claims that China is ripping us off. How so? China isn’t the only country that runs a trade […]
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In the U.S.

Let the people vote on Amazon!

December 8, 2018 Stephen Millies
One hundred thousand schoolchildren in New York City are homeless. Lead paint contaminates thousands of apartments in the city’s housing projects. But both New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio and New York State Gov. […]
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Capitalism and Marxism

What’s the matter with GE?

December 7, 2018 Stephen Millies
General Electric had $122 billion in revenues last year. But in June it was kicked off the Dow Jones Industrial Average. GE’s replacement was Walgreens Boots Alliance. A few decades ago, Walgreens was just a […]
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Capitalism and Marxism

It wasn’t mistakes, it’s capitalism

December 7, 2018 Stephen Millies
GE’s mess isn’t really the result of faulty boardroom decisions. Capitalism’s inner workings — whose laws were discovered by Karl Marx — guaranteed it. Why did Jack Welch and his successor Jeffrey Immelt bet the […]