“Ali Khedery is chairman and chief executive of the Dubai-based Dragoman Partners. From 2003 to 2009, he was the longest continuously serving American official in Iraq, acting as a special assistant to […]
“Iraq is now a failed state…”
Latest Crisis in Israel
The kidnapping and murder of three Israeli settler teens was criminal in every sense of the word – on both “moral” (whatever that means) as well as political grounds. It strengthens official Israeli […]
Oscar Perez-Giron and the Fight for Justice
Another week, another victim of apparent police murder. Below is a link to a video, along with some commentary/reporting, of one of the latest of these murders – the apparent police murder […]
Iraq: “Things Fall Apart”
Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; […]
“What is lacking….”
Yesterday, I went to a memorial for a long-time socialist fighter who had died recently. He had never given up the struggle, and as was fitting, all of those who spoke not […]
Seattle’s Minimum Wage Ordinance: What Does It Mean?
On Monday, June 2, the Seattle City Council unanimously passed an ordinance raising the minimum wage in that city to $15 per hour for some workers starting in April of next year […]
Corporate America gets a set-back… from the far right
Gerald Seib, the Wall St. Journal’s “Washington correspondent”, described matters perfectly when he wrote: “Most business leaders don’t particularly like getting their hands dirty in political fights. So they have tended to […]
Radio Show on the Union Leadership
Last Saturday (6/7), the editor of this blog site – John Reimann – was on WEFT’s radio program “World Labor Hour,” in a discussion on what has happened in the US labor movement, […]
India: Background to Election of Modi
by Roger Silverman The sweeping electoral victory of the BJP under the leadership of Narendra Modi has been greeted worldwide with a mixture of euphoria and alarm. For big business, the justification […]
“Citizen’s Income” Campaign
The basic problem under capitalism revolves around the clash of interests between the working class majority and the small minority who own the capital – the capitalist class. Whenever this clash comes […]