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What Obama did and didn’t say

President Barack Obama’s State of the Union address to Congress was an effort to touch the right buttons to retain…

February 5, 2014

Workers’ struggle in Cambodia: the back story

When the police in Cambodia shot and killed four people Jan. 3 during a workers’ demonstration calling for higher wages…

January 11, 2014

U.S. & Japanese imperialism threaten China

The capitalist press is busy speculating on the motives of the People’s Republic of China in setting up an Air…

December 5, 2013

U.N. climate conference fails to agree to reduce pollution

More than 190 countries attended the 19th United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, this one in Warsaw, Poland, which…

December 2, 2013

No to Pentagon pressure on China

All over the world, but especially in the East Asia and Pacific region, people are worried about a deliberate provocation…

November 30, 2013

Two opposing views on climate change

Nov. 10 — Haiyan, a disastrous Class 5 super-typhoon, just roared across the Philippines with winds believed to have set…

November 12, 2013

A brief history of ‘marriage,’ part 22

Patriarchal heterosexual marriage under slavery & feudalism In her well-researched book, “Marriage, a History,” Stephanie Coontz suggests that one of…

November 3, 2013

Why capitalists fear abundance

What is the big problem in today’s world? Is it scarcity? Not enough food, shelter, clothing and other necessities? Not…

October 27, 2013

A brief history of ‘marriage,’ part 21

Marriage comes under control of the state The widespread employment of agricultural production in certain areas of the planet generated…

October 20, 2013

U.S. and Japan sign military pact

The wars the Pentagon has been waging to grab control of North Africa and Southwest Asia haven’t gone well for…

October 11, 2013