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Has anyone ever noticed patterns to gas prices?Around here; a couple days before a holiday, prices drop about 20 cents on average. The day after the holiday they are right back where they started. Hmm an oil abundance that lasted 4-5 days? Or a conspiracy to get people to travel and thus spend more...
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Recently several blurbs I’ve heard on the news have caught my attention. There seems to be a lot of discussion and movements towards creating a “Livable wage”. While I agree that poverty and homelessness are a problem, what many fail to see is that it isn’t just in far off distant lands. It’s hitting...
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In a remote section of South Dakota just north of Nebraska lies an Indian reservation known as Pine Ridge. At one time largely agricultural, it became hugely attractive to the U.S. government when it was discovered that beneath the Indian lands lay one of the largest uranium reserves in the United States. All through...
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Millions of human beings around the world are forcibly detained, their liberties removed by governmental authorities. Anyone who takes seriously the immediate potential for replacing capitalism with a world of real abundance and freedom knows already that the great majority of crimes are either crimes against property or involve the illegal trafficking of property...
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Published by The Socialist Party of Great Britain to mark the centenary of its formation, ‘Socialism or Your Money Back’ presents a ” . . .running commentary from a socialist perspective of the key events of the last hundred years as they happened. Two world wars, the Russian Revolution, the General Strike and the...
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Born in 1912, Harry Morrison became convinced of the case for socialism as a young man, having been influenced by an older brother who had heard the case for socialism in Toronto, Ontario. Morrison first visited Boston around 1937 but soon traveled west to California. He returned to Boston in 1939 where he met...
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Scientific socialism rejects the delusive concepts that make up religion. This does not mean that socialism is committed to any fanatically narrow conceptions of rationality such as characterized some nineteenth-century materialisms. It means that socialism is opposed to superstition in any and all forms. Socialists see human beings as fully capable of shaping human...
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In response to the 1995 Oklahoma bombing and the threat of more terrorist activity, the lawmakers are giving the law-enforcers more power and the courts swifter and more severe punishment for those found guilty. There are those who fear this will infringe on the “rights” of the average citizen; rights guaranteed by the constitution....
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The summer of 1994 saw “America’s pastime” jettisoned at mid-season. This marked a most bizarre, and even to this day, unpredictable turn of events. Compounding the confusion and bitter bewilderment of baseball fans all across America was the startling fact that both sides in the conflict — the team owners and the players —...
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The commercial society in which we live, which is called capitalism, is widely regarded as the most acceptable form of society. Colleges and Universities offer no alternative to it, even though they recognize that modern society was Itself an alternative to a previous form. Respectable public figures scorn all suggestions of change, even though...
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