October 2010
Picking Sides
Wingnut Dishwashers Union
wingnut dishwasher’s union, picking sides
“you know i’ve seen the same band so many dozens of times, but with dozens of different names across dozens of different state lines. and i won’t always admit it, but i think that the world’s better off with them in it. and so if we’re picking sides, i guess that i am for every shitty, three-chord, high school, punk band.”
September 2010
FBI raids on antiwar activists: A frontal assault on democratic rights →
wsws.org
Workers, youth and students who oppose the war policies of the Obama administration and all those who uphold democratic rights must defend the antiwar and pro-Palestinian activists whose homes were raided Friday morning by the FBI. These raids are an ominous warning that the US government, unable to convince the American people to support the imperialist wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and a predatory foreign policy around the world, is moving to criminalize open political opposition.
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Those targeted in the September 24 raids are not terrorists stockpiling bombs, but political activists whose “weapons” are leaflets, placards, newsletters and Internet postings.
Why don't Americans support healthcare reform? →
maxistentialist.tumblr.com
So the conventional wisdom is that Americans hate healthcare reform. Turns out they don’t hate it because it goes too far, but because it doesn’t go far enough.
CBS:
A new AP poll finds that Americans who think the law should have done more outnumber those who think the government should stay out of health care by 2-to-1.
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The poll found that about four in 10 adults think the new law did not go far enough to change the health care system, regardless of whether they support the law, oppose it or remain neutral. On the other side, about one in five say they oppose the law because they think the federal government should not be involved in health care at all.Those numbers are no endorsement for President Obama’s plan, but the survey also found a deep-seated desire for change that could pose a problem for Republicans. Only 25 percent in the poll said minimal tinkering would suffice for the health care system.
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Republicans “are going to have to contend with the 75 percent who want substantial changes in the system,” said Stanford political science professor Jon Krosnick, who directed the university’s participation.
“Republican legislators’ passion to repeal the legislation is understandable if they are paying attention to members of their own party,” Krosnick added. “But if they want to be responsive to all Americans, there are more Democrats and independents than there are Republicans.”
“the fact that labour is external to the worker, i.e., it does not belong to his intrinsic nature; that in his work, therefore he does not affirm himself but denies himself, does not feel content but unhappy, does not develop freely his physical and mental energy but mortifies his body and his mind. the worker therefore only feels himself outside his work, and in his work feels outside himself.”
—karl marx, economic & philosophical manuscripts (1844)
