Stop the Wars at Home and Abroad!
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By Calla Mairead Walsh, published on Socialist Action, May 29, 2023 When the Devil rules, no good work goes unpunished. [jb] Thousands of Cubans gather to celebrate the country’s National Rebellion Day, a yearly commemoration of the Cuban revolution. While Biden doubles down on Cuba’s designation as a so-called “State Sponsor of Terrorism,” the US people are increasingly calling for[…]
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by Margaret Kimberley, published on Black Agenda Report, June 7, 2023 There is an understandable yearning for a progressive president. But like dreams of happily ever after endings, the fantasy is just that. In 2015, Black Agenda Report co-founder Bruce Dixon coined the term “sheepdog” to describe the role that Bernie Sanders would play in the 2016 presidential campaign. Dixon[…]
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by Margaret Kimberley, published on Black Agenda Report, May 24, 2023 Joe Biden is continuing the ignoble tradition of colluding with republicans while pretending to fight them. The latest debt limit drama is another betrayal of the people. When Joe Biden was first elected president his propagandists and their friends in corporate media told us that he was “the most progressive[…]
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by Berry Grey, published on the World Socialist Website, May 28, 2023 The debt ceiling agreement announced Saturday night by President Joe Biden and Republican House Speaker Kevin McCarthy is the outcome of a bipartisan conspiracy, using a manufactured crisis to intensify the assault on social programs and make the working class pay for the war against Russia and war[…]
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by Margaret Kimberley, published on Black Agenda Report, April 5, 2023 If democrats were smart, Donald Trump would be a disgraced former president, forgotten by all but his most ardent admirers. But they aren’t smart and they may have given him a political resurrection. Donald Trump is back in the news. He is facing a 34-count indictment for paying people[…]
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By Wei Yu, Nuvpreet Kalra and Melissa Garriga, March 31, 2023 Last Thursday, a Congressional hearing took place where the TikTok CEO was grilled for five hours on the grounds of “security concerns.” This was days after the FBI and DOJ launched an investigation on the Chinese-owned American company. Isn’t it ironic that while the US government is putting TikTok[…]
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by Jeff Mackler, published on Socialist Action, March 24, 2023 President Joseph Biden presented his third annual budget proposal at $6.8 trillion on Thursday, March 9. A day later Silicon Valley Bank (SVP), in Santa Clara, California, the nation’s 16th largest, declared bankruptcy, followed days later by New York City’s Signature Bank. A half dozen others faced similar and immediate[…]
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by Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies, March 15, 2023 March 19th marks the 20th anniversary of the U.S. and British invasion of Iraq. This seminal event in the short history of the 21st century not only continues to plague Iraqi society to this day, but it also looms large over the current crisis in Ukraine, making it impossible[…]
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by Phil Wilayto, circulated by the Virginia Defenders of Freedom, Justice and Equality, February 22, 2023 A few of us from the Virginia Defenders and the Odessa Solidarity Campaign attended the Rage Against the War Machine rally held Feb. 19 in Washington, D.C. Our purpose was to observe and evaluate the event, and also reach out to any well-meaning people[…]
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Published on People’s Dispatch, February 4, 2023 Conservatives in the House of Representatives passed a resolution “denouncing the horrors of socialism” and opposing the implementation of socialist policies. Link to: H. Con Resolution 9 On Thursday, February 2, the United States House of Representatives passed a resolution denouncing “the horrors of socialism.” All 219 members of the Republican party voted[…]
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