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Anti-Capitalist Meetup: Capitalism and the Exploitation of Labour
Today, I am going to address a discussion which we have alluded to in the Anti-Capitalist Meetup. Specifically, the issue of Capitalist relation of production and the exploitation of labour in...
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Anti-Capitalist Meetup: Capitalism is just slavery with a few extra steps -
a full array of Chocolate Weapons that will let you satisfy your sweet tooth, while being tastefully tactical in appearance except when you want to get past airport securityEating ice cream can be so...
View ArticleMajority Report: How the Other Half Banks
Hi Everybody, Michael Brooks here from the Majority Report. The Majority Report is a daily progressive talk show and Podcast hosted by Sam Seder. We take deep dives into policy and also do a lot of...
View ArticleHillary Clintons Disrespect to Black Women at the Democratic Town Hall Should...
During Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clintons February 23rd Democratic Town Hall in South Carolina, Hillary Clinton used various grieving black mothers and widows to land black votes.Hillary Clinton's...
View Article"Losers, Get Out-a' Here !"
Losers, Get Out-a’ Here !“I’m an Exploiter, Teddy. And guess what Exploiters do ? They Exploit situations and people. I’m into Exploitation, Teddy ! Exploitation without hesitation in every...
View ArticleGE and JPMorgan Chase CEOs (Inmelt and Dimon) Attack Bernie! They Are the...
The CEO of General Electric is mad at Bernie for speaking the truth. A lot of that going around. "GE has been in business for 124 years, and we've never been a big hit with socialists," Immelt said in...
View ArticlePoop Me A Cup of Joe
Humans show an amazing capacity to make life miserable for any animal that can help them make a buck. Evidence of this can be found in Bali, where civets are held in horrific captivity in order to...
View ArticleThe "League" of Men
There’s a multi-community, multi-ethnic class of people who have formedan exclusive organization for “hobbyists” of Asian prostitutes in which members would review sex workers, help bring them to the...
View ArticleAmerican eyes
Stuff the stars and stripes down your throat Choke on it, quiet your consciousness, do not allow it to breathe Wrap the great flag around your bloody heart, it will soothe you, let it become you...
View ArticleImpossible Choices: Study finds US teens in many communities forced to trade...
Earlier this week, the Urban Institute released a report on an exploratory study meant to gauge the impact of hunger and food insecurity on teenagers. The study is available on their website and is...
View ArticleToday's Trump Fundraising Email Targets Donors Who Can Barely Afford to Donate
Yesterday I wrote about how I received afundraising solicitation from the Trump campaign, apparently aimed at boosting his numbers just prior to the month-end FEC reporting deadline. I’m on Trump’s...
View ArticleSororal Hope: To the Elders of White Christian America
Oddly enough, my wife is a woman. She is also a first-generation immigrant. She is the daughter of a working Colombian family who, by faith, family, thrift, and hard work, prospered in a white...
View ArticleForever 21, TJ Maxx, Ross use factories that paid workers $4 an hour,...
The Department of Labor is saying that big box retail outlets like Forever 21, TJ Maxx, and Ross Dress for Less have been using criminally cheap labor in the United States. By using independent...
View ArticleIn today's episode of 'Pimping the Presidency' ...
The presidency of the United States is actually an institution, not an individual. As an institution, it must be protected. Most people get that idea. But how much does it cost to protect that...
View ArticleA letter to Edgar Maddison Welch, and others newly concerned with human...
A letter to Edgar Maddison Welch and others newly concerned with human trafficking;First of all, let me congratulate you on becoming aware of, and sensitized to, the horrific crime of human...
View ArticleTrump's America Is About Screwing Working People
Jo Ann Wise worked for Hardees for 21 years. Starting at $4.25 an hour in 1984, her ending salary was $8.00 in 2005. After accounting for inflation, that was a 2 cent raise over 21 years.Ms. Wise...
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Anti-Capitalist Meetup: The Tech Revolution Needs Us
Technology is terrific. Technology is terrible. Or, in a mashup of Dickens with current norms of ahistorical, absolutist proclamations: these are the best of times; these are the worst of times. More...
View ArticleJared Kushner uses lawfare to extort money from poor tenants in Baltimore.
While much of the discussion of Kushner’s real-estate empire has focused on glitzy high-rises in New York City, Kushner also owns far more modest low-rise residential rental complexes across the...
View ArticleMoveOn Teams Up with Animal Abusing Mega-Corp To Allegedly Get Mega-$ Out of...
We are all familiar with hypocrisy. However, when we see it coming from the Left, it’s cringe-worthy.I received the following money-grubbing email today. I have given to MoveOn in the past and receive...
View ArticleResistance is Not Futile...but What Are We For???
At The Risk Of Summarizing The Obvious!™(And a Plea for Action)We no longer live in a democracy. Call it an Oligarchy (rule by the few), or, better yet, call it a Plutocracy (rule by the rich).-It...
View ArticleTop AR Republican tries to distance his use of cheap 'Christian' rehab labor...
One of myriad reasons that big business loves the big business of private prisons and the “war on drugs” is that it provides them with ample opportunities to exploit cheap labor. In that same vein...
View ArticleServing the Few, Conning the Many (The M.O. of the G.O.P.)
This piece will be appearing this week in newspapers in my very red district, VA-06.*******************************In a piece here some months ago, I argued that the especially dark nature of the...
View ArticleUnion strike looms as Columbia University refuses labor negotiations with...
According to the Columbia Spectator John Coatsworth, provost at Columbia University in New York City, sent an email to the graduate student union admonishing them for a.) being a union, and b.)...
View ArticleLatest Pearson Mis-Education Slips and Stumbles
According to the Financial Times, Pearson, the global mis-education company, lost $3.63 billion in 2016, largely because of heavy losses in United States higher education textbook and high-stakes...
View Article“Inequality in America: The Rise of Oligarchy and Collapse of the Middle...
Tonight at 7 p.m. eastern, Senator Elizabeth Warren, filmmaker Michael Moore, Professor Darrick Hamilton, Senator Bernie Sanders, and others will hold a town hall in the auditorium of the US Capitol...
View ArticleBook Review: The View from Flyover Country, Dispatches From The Forgotten...
Sarah KendziorMacmillan BooksISBN: 9781250189981----------Pocket the keys, sign in, walk the length of the machines, 90 degree left turn into the lockers, open #35, another day, May 10th, 2018.“Good...
View ArticleBad Milk
This story is absolutely mind-boggling, from multiple angles.Devin Nunes’s Family Farm Is Hiding a Politically Explosive SecretIn a deep dive into what's behind Devin Nunes' family dairy farm quietly...
View ArticleResource mining for battery components is terrible For Mother Earth. Let’s do...
I was watching the news today and a concern piece came on. It seems some people don’t want the electric vehicle revolution. They’d rather stick with fossil fuels because getting at the cobalt, lithium...
View ArticleTrump sons quietly fire hunting retreat caretaker after 18 years of...
Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump are stark reminders that there is no such thing as a “master race.” While it remains to be seen whether one or the other, or both (fingers crossed) will be indicted for...
View ArticlePicks of the Week from the Daily Kos Community, Apr. 13 (and a Community...
Salutations, dearest Community! It’s Saturday and time again for Picks of the Week, and what lovely picks they are. As I curate this list every Friday, it’s truly a joy to see the knowledge so many of...
View ArticleUber's IPO one of the worst performing in U.S. stock market history, but...
The yammering cheerleaders of CNBC were in full glory mode Friday morning, talking up the initial public offering of “ride-share” behemoth Uber which made its debut on the New York Stock Exchange....
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The Fortress Part One of Five: Unacknowledged and Unprotected.
A Michigan court tasked with protecting its most vulnerable citizens has become home to a roiling controversy charging abuse, exploitation, robbery and neglect.By Gretchen Rachel Hammond Editor:...
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The Fortress Part Five of Five: Protected by Secrecy and Ageism
A Michigan court tasked with protecting its most vulnerable citizens has become home to a roiling controversy charging abuse, exploitation, robbery and neglect.By Gretchen Rachel HammondEditor:...
View ArticleNew York to pay incarcerated laborers 65 cents an hour to make hand sanitizer...
In Monday's press briefing on coronavirus, New York State Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced that to help address its rapid spread, statewide shortages in hand sanitizer, and price gouging from major online...
View Article...For The Good Of Humanity.
It is (to be extremely diplomatic about it) the height of intellectual dishonesty to argue that when we attempt to look back objectively over the last five centuries of America's entire development,...
View ArticleI am so sick of the misogynoir, especially on Women's History Month!
I so despise hot takes that come from absolute spitefulness, like this tweet.xCry me a river...the plight of being a game show host, fairly unknown actress, to suffering in a palace, w tiaras & 7...
View ArticleAnti-Capitalist Meetup: Some Thoughts on "Care"
One of the most obvious things that has become clear during the pandemic is the importance of care in our societies. What became very clear in this economic crisis and the pandemic is that the care...
View ArticlePay To Play
There’s been a lot of talk recently about raising the minimum wage in this country. It’s criminal how little money most people are paid for their labor in this, the wealthiest country in human history....
View ArticleLook Everybody! WaPo Talked to a Real Worker!
In all the obnoxious, fetid waft of discussion on the current restaurant worker shortage our pathetic, lazy journalism corps has faithfully parroted the owner line that unemployment insurance is the...
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This Week in the War on Women 11/21-27/2021: Woke Edition
An offensive opinion column in The Hill ran across my news feed yesterday, “Plain truths don’t matter to the woke folks who now rule America”. Please don’t look for it, I’ll give you the gist and would...
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Anti-Capitalist Meetup: Celebrate International Worker's Day, Unite
Happy International Workers’ Day, May Day, and Labour Day.xxYouTube VideoTake some time to relax, enjoy family and friends, be proud of your contributions, and be thankful for organized labor, who have...
View ArticleVerizon joins the Price-Gouging Parade
Add Verizon to the list of US corporations gouging customers over unspecified rising costs. From an email received 6/30/2022:“Due to rising operational costs, you’ll see an increase of $6 per month on...
View ArticleMy birthday wish: Be helpful to someone here
As I reflect today on one more year gone by, I realized that with a little age I have come to enjoy working through different perspectives. I did not remotely enjoy that effort in my young adulthood,...
View ArticleSLAVER ANTS
This Kurzgesagt video just dropped today on YouTube. It’s about the Polyergus ant.Poly = many, abundance; erg = work.xxYouTube VideoMeet Polyergus, the most intense of the slaver ant tribes….Polyergus...
View ArticleWages of Suffering
A bit dramatic of a title, but bear with me.My second diary, because I have a lot of thoughts and opinions. It starts with a story, and I forewarn will be a bit of a rant at times. In my thirties and...
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What Has the Labor Movement Done for Us? — The Week in Editorial Cartoons,...
A Message from President BidenxThis Labor Day, I stand with every worker who has lifted our nation to new heights – and with the unions who gave them power and voice.Workers built America. It's my job...
View ArticleAbout Football, Children's Beauty Pageants and SELL
This time last ‘year, I was driving the neighbor's boys to the bus stop, so they could catch the bus to football practice.There were many reasons why I didn’t like doing it. For starters, I hate...
View ArticleCEO of GM sticks her $30 million foot in her mouth during interview about wages
Detroit’s three big automakers failed to negotiate a new contract with the United Auto Workers Thursday night, triggering a targeted strike that could spread if a deal isn’t reached. General Motors,...
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ACM: Economic stagnation, Incompetent Economic Policies and Neoliberalism
This piece develops from a talk I gave at a meeting discussing the economic situation in Britain and how this issue will play out locally in London. It also provides some suggestions where we can...
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Anti-Capitalist Meetup: Days of Commemoration
This seventh day of April, 2024 marks 6 months since the Hamas attacks on Israelis and subsequent horrific cleansing of Gaza launched by Israel. The Biden administration keeps isssuing confusing,...
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