June 19 marks the 60th anniversary of the assassinations of Ethel Rosenberg and Julius Rosenberg at Sing Sing prison in New York. The Rosenbergs were convicted in a show trial of violating the 1917 Espionage Act by “stealing” atom bomb secrets for the Soviet Union, a charge which was totally false. Today, that same law [...]
Apple bites workers at home & abroad
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Editor June 16, 2013 » Add the first comment.
Workers and small business people complain a lot about taxes — and rightfully so. Too often, however, some especially in the middle class buy into the right-wing argument that their taxes are high because of “wasteful” government social programs meant to alleviate the worst aspects of poverty in the U.S. Nothing could be further from [...]
The Syrian pretext
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Editor June 15, 2013 » Add the first comment.
The reactionary terrorist gangs trying to overturn the Syrian government of Bashar al-Assad are near collapse after a military defeat in the town of Qusair on the Lebanese border. Leading U.S. militarists — the most prominent being Sen. John McCain — are attacking President Barack Obama for allowing this collapse. The result: The Obama administration, [...]
Justice, not smears, for Trayvon Martin
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Editor June 5, 2013 » Add the second comment.
George Zimmerman, the racist vigilante killer of Trayvon Martin, has launched a campaign through his lawyers to smear his victim. He wants to portray Martin, and indeed every Black youth, as a criminal gangster deserving of the death sentence that he, in fact, meted out to the unarmed 17-year-old on Feb. 26, 2012, in the [...]
Gay scouts in the BSA
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Editor May 30, 2013 » Add the first comment.
On May 23, 61 percent of 1,400 voting members approved a measure to allow openly gay youth to participate in the Boy Scouts of America — one of the largest youth organizations in the U.S., with the participation of more than 2.6 million young people. The new membership policy, set to go into effect on [...]
U.S. hands off Syria, Venezuela!
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Editor May 29, 2013 » Add the first comment.
Recent U.S. threats against Iran, Syria and, yes, Venezuela show that this time of capitalist economic crisis brings with it the danger of new imperialist wars and interventions. In late May — in news that got more publicity in the Israeli media than in the U.S. — the U.S. Senate unanimously approved a resolution backing [...]
IRS: the real scandal
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Editor May 23, 2013 » Add the first comment.
Republican politicians and reactionary media outlets have joined the ultrarightist Tea Party types in an all-out attack on the Internal Revenue Service and, by extension, on the Barack Obama administration. Instead of meeting this unwarranted and unsubstantiated attack head-on the way it deserves, the Democrats have caved in, forcing the IRS to apologize to the [...]
‘Nakba’ means disaster, but not surrender
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Editor May 15, 2013 » Add the first comment.
May 15 marks the 65th anniversary of the beginning of what Palestinians and their supporters call the Nakba, “the disaster,” which followed the illegal founding in 1948 of the state of Israel, with the full cooperation of international imperialism. The founding of the Israeli state was accompanied by massacres and the forced removal through terror [...]
Shut Guantánamo down!
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Editor May 12, 2013 » Add the first comment.
They won’t try us. They won’t let us live in peace, and they won’t let us die in peace.” — Fayiz al-Kandari, hunger striker at the Camp Delta, U.S. military prison, Guantánamo Bay, Cuba (The Guardian, May 4). In the face of a growing number of hunger strikers, now numbering as many as 130 of [...]
Condemn big-brand exploitation
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Editor May 1, 2013 » Add the first comment.
Any real war on terror would start by hunting down those responsible for the textile factory collapse outside Dhaka, Bangladesh. Start from the bottom, round up the subcontractors who place the job orders. Then the garment factories owners who ordered workers back into the Rana plant. They ignored the big crack in the wall. Then [...]
