Editors' Blog
Senate Blocks Republican Push for Big Oil Bailout
From SierraClub.orgSenate Rejects Big Oil BailoutNow Must Act to Spur Clean Energy, End Oil Dependence
Republican alternative on climate legislation #fail
From Sierra Club:For Immediate ReleaseJune 9, 2010
Where's Bill O'Reilly's Immigration Retraction?
From Fair.orgJune 4, 2010 Fox News host Bill O'Reilly has repeatedly cited one reason to support Arizona's harsh new anti-immigrant law: the state's exploding crime rate.
Venezuelans Praise Jilted Pitcher
In a letter to Detroit Tigers pitcher Armando Galarraga, the Ambassador of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela in the U.S., Bernardo Álvarez, expressed his congratulations to the Venezuelan-born baseball player and highlighted that both his achievements in baseball and his humble response to a mistaken call by umpire Jim Joyce have made the Venezuelan people proud.“For more than just your achievement I am proud to commend you for the attitude you displayed given the circumstances, notably after umpire Jim Joyce admitted his error in calling the Cleveland Indians player safe at first,” wrote Ambassador Álvarez in the letter dated June 4, 2010.
Lift Travel Ban on Cuba
For more on the bill, read the article on HR 4645 in the People's World.
Obama administration sends BP initial bill for oil spill
From Deepwater Horizon Incident
Pass the Local Jobs for America Act
14.6 million U.S. workers unemployed.
Communist Party condemns Israeli attack
From CPUSA.org
Israeli human rights group calls for "independent" investigation of attack on ships
31 May '10: Open an immediate investigation into the action to gain control of the flotilla to Gaza
Why do we need the capitalists at all?
From the essay "America Beyond Capitalism:A Socialist Stew Prepared for Liberals and Conservatives "by Bertell Ollman Gar Alperovitz's book, America Beyond Capitalism (2004), is of great importance to socialists, despite his casual dismissal of socialism, his equally off-hand use of the Soviet Union to represent the dangers of socialist planning, and his unwillingness to traffic in such stock socialist categories as "capital accumulation," "class," "class interests," "class consciousness," and "class struggle." So, what gives? One of Marx's greatest achievements in Capital was to show that capitalists, understood as the owners of the means of production, do not make a necessary "material" contribution to the production of wealth, and, therefore, that production can go on without them.
