Opinion
We must incriminate the basic rules of capitalism: An interview with Paul Boccara
March 22, 2009Communist economist Paul Boccara has just published a book about the transformations and the crisis of global capitalism, in which he deals with the financial crisis, among other topics. Paul Boccara puts forward proposals to initiate...
Read moreEditorial: April 4 March on Wall Street
March 20, 2009Last fall, Congress approved $770 billion to stave off financial collapse, to free up credit, to staunch the hemorrhage of layoffs and foreclosures. But the layoffs and foreclosures have gotten worse. The nation’s economy continues to...
Read moreAIG: It’s obscene
March 18, 2009Gregory Robinson is dead. Shot in a car. He threw himself on a baby in the back seat while the gun fired from an unknown assailant. He was only 14. His family said he died a...
Read moreA cure for todays Black depression
March 17, 2009We knew that 2009 would be a historic year, with the inauguration of the first African American president and the deepening of what is likely to be the most serious fiscal crisis since the Great Depression....
Read moreCOMMENTARY Denial is more than a river: The anti-immigration lobby exposed
March 14, 2009The Southern Poverty Law Center released a bombshell of a report last month entitled “The Nativist Lobby, Three Faces of Intolerance.” The report is a bombshell because it ties three leading “immigration reduction” groups to a...
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