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Let 2005 rest then, as a monument. A gravestone for the 6 million children the Food and Agriculture Organisation estimates died in the hideous torture of starvation and starvation related disease that year. The FAO report, released on 22 November, also informs us that malnourishment also contributes to holding back educational attainment and brings...
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We have received the following report on the recent riots in France as seen by a migrant worker there. At the end of October there was a heavy riot in the suburbs of Paris as a result of a police identity card control. Three African immigrants, one from the west coast and the other...
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The disaster following Hurricane Katrina is yet another tragic result of a system that does not work in the best interests of its people in general. Relatively few of the deaths, which have as yet to be determined, will be directly attributable to the storm itself, but rather to the unfortunate geography of the...
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Let us make no mistake about it. The capitalist class is engaged in an ongoing class war with the working class. Those of us who must work for a living possess economic interests diametrically opposed to those who live off our surplus value. The recent Bankruptcy bill signed by President Bush makes this very...
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In an Associated Press report earlier today, much of the tsunami aid that Sri Lanka is receiving is for the most part useless. Aid workers on the island report that many boxes contain things like winter coats, high-heeled shoes, and thong underwear. One box from Australia even contained bottles of Viagra. While aid workers...
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A big issue where I live is the rise in housing costs. For some years now, the price of housing in Southern California has been skyrocketing. What is required to buy even a modest home here would buy practical palaces in other parts of the country. Renting isn’t easy either. Poorer neighborhoods are being...
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“The Primary Freedom of the Press lies in not being a Trade” (Karl Marx, Rheinische Zeitung, May 1842.) “Freedom of the press belongs to those who own one” (Anon) For the last twenty years there has been increasing public awareness that journalistic integrity and the capitalist press are uneasy bedfellows. Various writers, particularly in...
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A recent episode of the PBS program Now, broadcast nationwide in most states on 4/22/2005, announced gravely not only that “scientists are convinced our Earth is warming, and with scary consequences,” but also and even more gravely that “meanwhile industry funds a campaign to do nothing.” The program quoted Dr. Richard Alley, professor at...
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Here’s some interesting figures regarding Tsunami relief funds: Bush has promised $15,000,000. Which is 79 minutes worth of Iraq War funding. News is in that in an emergency ministerial meeting, India’s Prime Minister has just promised $22,896,393 for Sri Lanka alone. With $1,144,819 more for the Maldives. Oh wait! That’s right we need to...
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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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