The 1963 Mass Struggles Advanced the Cause of Civil Rights: From Birmingham to Detroit and Washington, D.C., the people set the world stage In 1963, despite the tremendous campaigns aimed at breaking down legalized segregation and…
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Commemorating the 50th Anniversary of the Organization of African Unity (OAU) the Forerunner of the African Union (AU) Initiator: Michigan Emergency Committee Against War & Injustice (MECAWI) Date: Saturday, May 25, 2013 Location: Detroit, Michigan…
The Times Was Right to Report — at Last — on a Secret Drone Base President Bush wants to keep the U.S. military presence in Saudi Arabia despite reported grumbling from the Saudis that they would like…
Is the United States preparing to let the French hang out to dry in their dramatic military intervention in Mali? In the cynical game of big power rivalry, a setback for the old colonial patron in…
Those concerned about “The New World Order” speak as if the United States is coming under the control of an outside conspiratorial force. In fact, it is the US that is the New World Order….
From the Montgomery Bus Boycott, the Marches on Detroit and Washington to the sanitation strike in Memphis, civil rights and labor worked to break down U.S. apartheid Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. would…
Following the re-election of Barack Obama in last week’s US presidential poll, Washington and its allies have stepped up their war drive against Syria. In the most serious escalation of the 20-month conflict in the…
US Interests Section conducting subversive activities, Cuba says The Republic of Cuba says the United States diplomatic mission in Havana is conducting subversive activities devised to destabilize the government of…
The Virtual Recovery Since mid-2009 the US has been enjoying a virtual recovery courtesy of a rigged inflation measure that understates inflation. The financial Presstitutes spoon out the government’s propaganda that prices are rising less than 2%. But anyone who purchases food, fuel, medical care or anything else knows that low inflation is no more real that Saddam Hussein’s weapons of mass destruction or Gadhafi’s alleged attacks on Libyan protesters or Iran’s nuclear weapons. Everything is a lie to serve the power-brokers. During the Clinton administration, Republican economists pushed through a change in the way the CPI is measured in order to save money by depriving Social Security retirees of their cost-of-living adjustment. Previously, the CPI measured the change in the cost of a constant standard of living. The new measure assumes that consumers adjust to price increases by lowering their standard of living by substituting lower quality, lower priced items.
Washington IMAGINE a presidential candidate who spoke with blunt honesty about American problems, dwelling on measures by which the United States lags its economic peers. What might this mythical candidate talk about on the stump?…