Japan: Two Major Parties Collude on Participation in Bush's War
Regarding the movement toward establishing a “two-party system,” the DPJ has put more emphasis on its “confrontational tactics” since Mr. Ozawa became its leader. The LDP and the DPJ share the same political line concerning the main political issues.
Defeating the Extreme Right, Key to Democracy
The US economy is increasingly driven by war spending, compelled by the parasitism of the giant military corporations through armaments production and the profit orgy gained from privatization of the Iraq war.
Bush’s Blast against Latin America’s “False Populism” May be Getting it All Wrong
Politicians find it exceedingly difficult to explain free trade's virtues without drowning the listener in a torrent of common coinage.
Indicted! Barry Bonds Busted by a Broken System
Barry Lamar Bonds faces thirty years in prison because the Department of Justice is a corroded husk of political decay. The baseball Home Run King has now been officially indicted on perjury and obstruction of justice charges.
House Votes to Bring the Troops Home, Again
The US House of Representatives passed a bill yesterday (11-14-07) that provided $50 billion in war funding. The bill would also mandate a change of direction in Bush's failed Iraq war policy.
The Monarchy's Clash with Socialism
In November 2007 at the Ibero-American Summit in Santiago de Chile, the King of Spain Juan Carlos pointed his finger at Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez and asked him, 'Why don't you shut up?', after Chávez had called José María Aznar Spain's former Prime Minister a fascist.
Freedom of Speech and Information: Erosion by Stealth
A coalition of major media players recently released a report from an audit into the state of free speech in Australia. It is a disquieting document.
Slavoj Zizek on the Dilemmas of Capitalism
Slavoj Zizek begins his new article in the London Review of Books (11-15-07) with the words, “One of the clearest lessons of the last few decades is that capitalism is indestructible.”
Union Activists Energized for 2008 Elections
Off-year election results in state and municipal races on Nov. 6 show union voters are already energized for 2008, AFL-CIO President John J. Sweeney says.
PKP Celebrates Historic Anniversaries With Call for Democratic Struggle
On November 7, 2007, the Partido Komunista ng Pilipinas (PKP-1930) celebrated the 77th anniversary of the public proclamation of its founding and the 90th anniversary of the Great October Socialist Revolution with a motorcade and public assembly
