Bush Budget is Painful for Low-Income Americans
From veterans to impoverished children, college students and vulnerable senior citizens, the $2.57 trillion Bush administration budget for 2006 misses no opportunity to do harm.
SACP Calls for Expansion of Essential Services
Sout African Communist Party calls for expansion of essential services and land.
'Free' Market Ideologues Favor Tyranny of Profit
Melchior Palyi, Chicago School economist, whose writings connecting the 'welfare state' to 'totalitarianism' were used as part of the campaign against comprehensive national health insurance.
Cuban Health Care: A health program without precedent
It could well be that Cuba's Medicine, the Medical Sciences, the health of its people and sister and friendly nations that have the highest profile and future
No justification for continued SDF deployment in Iraq
The number of countries that deploy troops in Iraq will decrease from 37 to 20. The U.S. Bush administration is trying to dissuade them but has been unable to change the trend.
Bush's New Defense Budget
When the Bush administration released its budget for 2006, the news media, as usual, had a tough time in making sense of the government’s proposals for defense spending.
Social Security and Bush's War Budget
With Bush propagandizing about the fiscal 'crisis' of Social Security and his critics on the left and right pointing to a bloated $600 billion budget deficit, it is time to look at where all the money went.
Bush is Out to Unravel the New Deal
The Social Security Act was passed in 1935 in the midst of a vast increase in labor organizing and militancy leading to the formation of the CIO, the great sit down strikes, the organization of millions of new workers.
Bush’s Judicial Nominations are Hardly Mainstream
President Bush has re-nominated seven candidates for the federal appeals courts. Each was blocked by Senate Democrats during his first term.
World Welcomes Kyoto Treaty
Despite US rejection, the Kyoto treaty to fight global warming goes into effect today amidst continuous reports bearing ominous news about the future of the environment.
