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Patrick Martin writes for the World Socialist Website (wsws.org), a forum for socialist ideas & analysis & published by the International Committee of the Fourth International (ICFI).
(4 comments) SHARE Monday, May 12, 2014 The criminalization of political opposition in America
Severe penalties are being imposed on individuals who are not criminals, but political opponents of the policies of the Obama administration and corporate America, for which they have become victims of police violence and provocation. The cases involve people who took part in peaceful, legal protests in New York City and Chicago, only to be framed up and convicted on felony charges.
SHARE Thursday, November 14, 2019 Democrats begin impeachment hearings with denunciations of Russia
The first day of public, televised hearings on the possible impeachment of President Trump was dominated by denunciations of Russia by House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff and the first two witnesses, current State Department officials George Kent and William Taylor.
(2 comments) SHARE Saturday, January 27, 2018 Conflict in Washington escalates with report Trump sought to fire special prosecutor
The main significance of the Times report is that it amounts to a further warning to Trump not to attempt to remove Mueller, under conditions where the White House is currently negotiating the terms under which Trump himself is to give testimony in the Russia investigation.
(1 comments) SHARE Tuesday, February 4, 2020 With Sanders headed to victory, Iowa Democratic Party blocks release of caucus results
The Iowa Democratic Party has refused to release results of the caucuses held throughout the state on Monday night to determine the allocation of delegates for the party's presidential nomination. Officials are now saying that they hope to have results "some time Tuesday."
(1 comments) SHARE Saturday, August 13, 2011 Once again: Why Obama won't--and can't--be Roosevelt
Obama chose to continue the bailout of the banks begun by Geithner, Bernanke and Bush's treasury secretary, Henry Paulson, and then to greatly expand it. Every aspect of the new administration's financial and economic policy was driven by the determination to restore solvency to the investment banks, stock traders and hedge funds, at the expense of the working class.
(5 comments) SHARE Sunday, March 8, 2015 US orders 7,700 children deported without court hearings
The fact that deportations of unaccompanied children take place at all is outrageous. That the numbers are in the thousands, if not higher, demonstrates the brutality of the crackdown on Central American migrants conducted by the US government, in direct contradiction to the public pretense of sympathy adopted by President Obama.
(6 comments) SHARE Monday, February 15, 2016 Republican debate in South Carolina: Lies, mudslinging and an important truth
The ninth Republican presidential debate of an already interminable primary campaign was another two-hour session of reactionary posturing and mutual mudslinging in which the four leading candidates denounced each other as liars -- and were telling the truth when they did so.
(4 comments) SHARE Monday, August 21, 2017 Big business, military tighten their grip on Washington
Trump has increased the grip of the military and corporate America over the government to an extent unprecedented in US history. It is 56 years since President Dwight D. Eisenhower, in his 1961 farewell address, warned of the dangers to democracy posed by the rise of the "military-industrial complex."
SHARE Sunday, June 30, 2019 First Democratic debate: Demagogy on social issues, silence on war
Four hours of nationally televised debates Wednesday and Thursday among 20 Democratic presidential candidates demonstrated the gigantic disconnect between the claims of this pro-war, pro-corporate party to be driven by concerns for the well-being of working people and the reality of poverty and oppression in America, for which the Democratic Party is no less responsible than the Republicans.
(1 comments) SHARE Sunday, December 30, 2012 White House, Congress extend police-state FISA law
Unlike the massively publicized deadlock over tax increases and budget cuts slated to take effect New Year's Day (the "fiscal cliff"), the two parties had no difficulty working together to pass legislation to maintain the police-state powers of the American intelligence apparatus.
(1 comments) SHARE Saturday, February 1, 2014 Obama’s plan for long-term jobless: A teaspoon to bail out the ocean
So ludicrous is the contrast between Obama's pompous rhetoric and his minimalist proposals that even the usually compliant corporate-controlled media has been compelled to take note. Typical was a prominent article in the Washington Post, headlined, "Obama Once Disdained Clinton's Small Steps and Now Takes His Own."
(3 comments) SHARE Friday, December 23, 2016 Trump names billionaire corporate raider Icahn to slash regulations on business
In appointing billionaire corporate raider Carl Icahn to a high-profile advisory role -- in charge of slashing government regulations on Wall Street, the oil monopolies and other giant corporations -- Donald Trump has once again underscored the radically right-wing character of his administration's domestic economic and social policy.
(1 comments) SHARE Monday, March 5, 2018 Ruling class conflicts in the US target inner circle of Trump White House
There is mounting concern that Trump is too erratic a figure to be relied on as the "commander-in-chief" of American imperialism, particularly under conditions of a growing movement from below, from the American working class, to oppose the policies of big business and both of the political parties that represent and defend corporate America.
(1 comments) SHARE Saturday, July 14, 2012 Voting rights in America under attack
Texas is only one of the states that have enacted voter ID requirements and other measures aimed at curbing voter registration and reducing the number of people able to vote, in the name of a fight against "vote fraud." There have been virtually no documented reports of voter impersonation, the type of fraud that could be prevented by a photo ID requirement.
(6 comments) SHARE Wednesday, February 15, 2017 Behind the Flynn resignation and Trump crisis: A bitter conflict over imperialist policy
Justice Department officials informed the White House several weeks ago that Flynn had discussed US sanctions on Russia with the ambassador, and that his repeated denials of that fact were false. A transcript of the Flynn-Kislyak conversation is reportedly circulating at the highest levels of official Washington.
SHARE Thursday, February 27, 2020 Attacks against Sanders intensify ahead of South Carolina primary
Bernie Sanders is likely to take an insurmountable lead in convention delegates in the March 3 "Super Tuesday" primaries, held in 14 states, including California, Texas, North Carolina and Virginia. Those contests take place just three days after the February 29 primary in South Carolina.
(4 comments) SHARE Wednesday, January 29, 2020 Democrats embrace war hawk Bolton in Trump impeachment trial
Leaked excerpts from a forthcoming book by former national security advisor John Bolton have staggered the Trump White House and overshadowed the efforts by Trump's lawyers to mount a defense in the Senate impeachment trial,
(4 comments) SHARE Thursday, January 23, 2020 Democratic Party establishment wages war on Sanders
In an extraordinary interview published Tuesday, the 2016 Democratic presidential candidate, Hillary Clinton, denounced Sanders and refused to commit herself to support Sanders if he wins the Democratic presidential nomination this year.
SHARE Wednesday, September 7, 2011 US Postal Service demands right to slash jobs
Donahoe said he was not seeking a congressional appropriation of funds to bail out the postal service, but rather legislative action to allow USPS to conduct its affairs like a private corporation -- in other words, the right to force postal workers to pay for the financial crisis through cuts in jobs and benefits.