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In the U.S.

Save our homes — by any means necessary

August 3, 2021 Stephen Millies
  Eleven million families face being thrown out of their homes. That’s because the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) ban on evictions and foreclosures expired July 31.  So at least 30 million people have no […]
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No tears for war criminals: Donald Rumsfeld was U.S. torturer-in-chief

July 5, 2021 Stephen Millies
For the people of Iraq, Donald Rumsfeld was their Hitler. The former Pentagon boss killed over a million people in Iraq. The country is still occupied by Big Oil. Nobody in Iraq is mourning Rumsfeld, […]
PatriceLumumba
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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The Rosenbergs were heroes

June 25, 2021 Stephen Millies
In his funeral eulogy for Ethel and Julius Rosenberg, W.E.B. Du Bois declared, “They died because they would not lie.” The Rosenbergs were burned to death in the electric chair by the U.S. government on […]
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Wealth taxes? We could do better than taxing the rich

June 22, 2021 Lallan Schoenstein
A message to those who leaked the tax records of the extremely wealthy who do not pay taxes: Whoever leaked this report deserves a reward for revealing the information. Access to these tax reports is […]
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Bosses lie about ‘labor shortage’ to keep wages low

June 9, 2021 Gary Wilson
The May unemployment report wasn’t much better than the April disaster.   Business news site CNBC summed it up: “Job creation disappointed again in May, with nonfarm payrolls up what normally would be considered a solid […]
DeporterinChief
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An open letter to President Joe Biden, as his broken promises pile up

June 7, 2021 Greg Butterfield
Dear President Biden, Your broken promises are piling up. I took note of these headlines in just the last couple of weeks: “Joe Biden Surrenders On Federal Unemployment Benefits,” “Biden Drops Student Loan Forgiveness From […]
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Karl Marx: Capitalism produces unemployment

June 6, 2021 Gary Wilson
In Capital, Karl Marx wrote about the laws of capitalism and the ruthless capitalist competition for greater profits. In the drive to increase profits, capitalists try to reduce their costs by increasing productivity through the […]
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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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Community organizers force veto of attack on renters’ rights

May 22, 2021 Andre Powell
Renters and tenant rights groups in Baltimore successfully forced the mayor to veto a bill that they would introduce rental security-deposit insurance — so-called surety bonds, a predatory practice by landlords that essentially makes the […]