Editors' Blog
Pres. Obama calls settlement with Black farmers "fair"
After Tim Wheeler's article posted yesterday on how Republicans have blocked the award of more than $1 billion to African American farmers who faced discrimination by the USDA, a reporter today asked President Obama about the case:
Urgency of the 2010 elections
This quick note comes from the Alliance for Retired Americans:
White House calls for end to tax loopholes for Big Oil to pay for new infrastructure projects
In a teleconference with reporters following President Obama's economic policy speech in Cleveland, Ohio today (Sept.
Fidel discusses anti-Semitism and nukes
This new post by The Atlantic writer Jeffrey Goldberg about his recent conversation with former Cuban President Fidel Castro is very interesting.
Don't be fooled: Republicans pose direct threat to Social Security
Corporations and billionaires who control a network of right-wing, Republican Party think tanks and Tea Party organizations are demanding more tax breaks for themselves, blocking climate change legislation, and are pushing to destroy Social Security.
Who's responsible for the slow recovery?
FreeStateDem over at DailyKos posted this interesting item on the recovery act with some great links today that is worth a read.
A Happy Labor Day
It's Labor Day in America and Labor Day is what we make it. Historically, labor day was fought for by Peter Maguire, a socialist and founder of the Carpenter's Union in the last decades of the 19th century. Eventually, Maguire was defeated in his union by conservative "business unionists" who rejected both socialism and the building of a labor party for what they called "bread and butter" or "pure and simple" trade unionism, that is, mnaking the union run like a business in the existing capitalist system, negotiate with capitalists as fellow businessmen, and gain the highest wages possible for their members (clients might be a better term) by closing off the labor market – which with unions like the carpenters meant discriminating against minorites and women as members and also not really trying to organize the unskilled, mass production workers, because that was both very difficult and would upset the capitalists, since dividing the working class was the capitalism most important tactic.
