The United States of America has been under one-party rule since its birth at the drafting of the Constitution. This document was drawn up by a small group of men (the founding “fathers”) representing four major economic interests – money, public securities, manufactures, and trade and shipping. In the conclusion to his classic work...
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USA: Illusions of Democracy
Was the crisis just a mistake?
The Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission set up by the US government reported at the end of January. They concluded that the crisis of 2007 and 2008 was the result of “human action and inaction, not of Mother Nature or computer models gone haywire”, but “of human mistakes, misjudgments, and misdeeds” and so avoidable. Obviously,...
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Rich Politicians
CBS News reports that although the basic pay for members of Congress is $174,000, nearly half — 261, to be exact — are millionaires (there are 535 total members of the House and Senate). Just 1 percent of Americans overall can say the same. 55 members had an average calculated wealth of $10 million...
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The Class War
There is a class war – the war of the rich on the poor – and the rich are winning. That war has been going on for years. Look at the facts – facts the rich and their false paid prophets do not want people to know. The truth is that in the US...
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Not So Socially Mobile
“poverty status at birth is linked to worse adult outcomes” An estimated 14.1 million Americans under age 18 are poor. The longer a child is poor, the worse his or her adult outcomes. Childhood poverty rates, according to the U.S. Census Bureau says the report, have ranged between 15 and 23% over the past...
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US Gap Widens
Socialists often meet with the argument that while capitalism may have been a terrible system in the past, with the awful gap between rich and poor, today we are gradually improving things and such inequalities no longer exists. So what do the anti-socialists make of these recent statistics? “The rich-poor gap also widened with...
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The New Joads
Written by a friends of the WSP. You can contact them here. Not our perspective but important information. On Wednesday, March 18, 2009 a comrade and I drove from San Francisco to investigate the tent city in Sacramento that we had been hearing so much about in the bourgeois media. It had been covered...
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Iraq: Violence Without End Or Purpose?
“Every ten years or so, the United States needs to pick up some small crappy little country and throw it against the wall, just to show the world we mean business.” Michael Ledeen (American Enterprise Institute) Last month 100 U.S. veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan held hearings in Washington to describe...
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Obama, the Rev. Wright and hesitation
The latest scandal that surrounds Democratic Party presidential candidate Barack Obama’s previous involvement with the Reverend Jeremiah Wright and that highlights his difficulty fully disowning this association with the politically radical pastor until a statement unequivocally doing so publicly on April 29th is angrily upsetting his fans and supporters who fear that the time...
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Wage Slavery in America: 90¢ an Hour and -20°F
“This video is about a Red Pill reporters trip to southern Wyoming and the worker abuses he found in the sheep herder camps. All workers were here legally on H2A work Visa’s and the guides for the Red Pill were former Chilean sheep herders who wanted to speak out about the abuse they went...
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