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What’s the Matter With Pennsylvania?
From our friend at Marx and Coca Cola Recently at a campaign event Barack Obama made the following comment about the dying Rust Belt towns in Pennsylvania: You ...
Breaking News: SEIU Invades Labor Notes
Written by FN Brill. 10:30 PM Saturday April 12 The Service Employees Industrial Union (SEIU) has sent in several bus loads of members to disrupt the annual meeting of Labor ...
Social Responsibility and Corporations
Written by Janet Surman Millions, billions even, are spent by corporations in PR attempts to green up their images. Not spent to improve conditions for their workers, ...
Selecting a US President: The Invisible Primaries
The expression “invisible primary” comes from Arthur T. Hadley, The Invisible Primary (Prentice-Hall, 1976). A more recent study refers to the “money primary” (Michael J. Goff, The Money Primary, Rowman & Littlefield, 2004). The ...
The Visible Man
From our friend at Marx and Coca-Cola blog: Last week Barack Obama gave a big speech in Philly on race in America, mostly to distance himself from comments ...
We Could Live To Be 1,000 Years Old but for Capitalism
Written by Dr. Who The latest book by Aubrey De Grey, “Ending Aging” (St. Martin’s Press, 2007), raises the mind-bogglingly provocative possibility that science may within 20 ...
The “Logic” of Capitalism!
Written by FN Brill From the Lehigh University newspaper: In early August, representatives from Sands BethWorks appeared before the Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board to announce that the opening of ...
That’s How Grateful We Are…
Written by FN Brill A 1992 Chumbawamba song about the 1956 Hungarian Revolution, “That’s how grateful we are” tells the story of the famous felling of a statue of ...
How Money Downed the Minneapolis Bridge
Written by Dr. Who The Associated Press reported this week that in 1989, bridge inspectors had warned that pigeon droppings were accumulating on the steel beams of ...
Free Software and Socialism
Written by John Bissett and originally published on Socialism or Your Money Back. The law treats physical property and intellectual property (IP), much the same despite the ...
