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Free-marketeers have their history wrong

Sat, 25 Jul 2008 14:58:36 EDT

As he refines his economic message on the campaign trail this summer, Republican John McCain has made it clear that, previous positions notwithstanding, he has now embraced the Republican economic orthodoxy: eliminate regulation, cut taxes on corporations and the wealthy and the free and unfettered market will take care of everything.

LETTERS: JULY 26

Sat, 25 Jul 2008 14:51:13 EDT

Struggle vs. supply and demand
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EDITORIAL: A �Change America� platform

Sat, 25 Jul 2008 14:45:51 EDT

Under the title �Listening to America,� the Obama campaign issued an open invitation to voters to organize meetings in their homes, union halls, churches and schools this month to discuss what planks should be added to a 2008 �Platform for Change.� In the past, the Democratic Party platform was written by �paid professionals,� the call said. �This year, that�s going to change.�

EDITORIAL: The good war?

Sat, 25 Jul 2008 14:42:36 EDT

The good news is Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama continues to project withdrawing U.S. combat troops from Iraq by mid-2010. The bad news is, he is proposing to transfer a significant number of those troops to Afghanistan.

From 2001 archives: What's lurking behind the war in Afghanistan?

Tue, 21 Jul 2008 12:00:00 EDT

This article was first published Nov. 17, 2001. As the war in Afghanistan garners more attention with calls for more troops, we rerun this here as a contribution to the discussion.

There is little wonder that the Bush administration – with its vast ties to ultra-right ideologues, oil, finance, military industries and intelligence agencies – seized upon an incredible human tragedy to push their own agenda.

EDITORIAL: Hungry for change

Fri, 17 Jul 2008 15:18:08 EDT

Karl Marx once noted, �The rate of profit is the motive power of capitalist production. Things are produced only as long as they can be produced with a profit.� Does this apply to food?

EDITORIAL: A welcome pledge

Fri, 17 Jul 2008 15:16:31 EDT

After the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, the United States had the chance to do something good and right, Barack Obama said in a major Iraq policy speech this week. But a failure of leadership and ideas on the part of the Bush administration led us down the wrong path.

LETTERS: July 19

Fri, 17 Jul 2008 15:14:56 EDT

Speaking out for Nader
Best take on Obama
How loathsome
Note of thanks
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Texas agency defies history

Fri, 17 Jul 2008 15:10:59 EDT

A fruitful way to understand the fanatical efforts of America�s right wing is to realize that they want to turn back the clock and the calendar. Their efforts are clearest within the Texas Education Agency, where crazy scandals are epidemic.

Justice for immigrants is a united effort

Fri, 17 Jul 2008 15:04:18 EDT

As I left the theater after watching �The Visitor� I started thinking about all the things we have lost in the last eight years. Loss of civil liberties and justice are a couple of the main casualties that have been delivered to the working class behind the veil of the �war on terror.� This movie highlights the human victims of the terrorism that has been used against all of us.