Capitalism and Health: A Talk by Dr. Susan Rosenthal (Saturday, September 28, 2013 – Oakland, CA)
Saturday, September 28, 2013 (Oakland, CA) The purpose of health care should be to provide for the well-being of every person – not for companies to make profit. Health care workers face this conflict on the job every day. Every day, they are immersed in human suffering yet denied the means to alleviate that suffering. The […]
AC and BART Contracts – What Can Be Done?
Workers at AC Transit are voting on the latest contract proposal this Tuesday. And for BART workers the clock is ticking with the cooling off period ending at midnight on October 10. For months now the bosses have mobilized their forces to try to impose takeaways on Bay Area transit workers. The heads of BART […]
Say No to the Slaughter in Syria
The U.S and Russian governments continue their chess match with the lives of the Syrian people. Last week, Russia made a move that pushed the U.S. to temporarily delay its aggressive march to an open war on Syria. The Russian government took advantage of the widespread opposition to any U.S. bombing of Syria – internationally […]
NO! To The Bombing Of The Syrian People
The U.S. military stands ready to bomb Syria. President Obama and other supporters of this planned assault claim that Syrian dictator Bashar Al-Assad has used chemical weapons against Syrian civilians and killed a thousand people. Whoever used these horrific weapons against a civilian population is indeed a monster, whether it was Assad’s forces or those […]
No to Missile Strikes Against Syria!
Last week, President Obama made the case that the U.S must carry out missile strikes against the regime of Bashar Al-Assad in Syria. Supposedly this would stop the brutal repression that Assad is carrying out against the Syrian people using chemical weapons. In fact, this has nothing to do with helping the Syrian people, and […]
The Surveillance State: Waging War on All of Us
Since September 11, 2001, in the name of national security, the U.S. government has given itself enormous new powers to watch and control people in the U.S. From surveillance cameras being installed in public streets and aerial drones patrolling cities, to local police departments employing military-grade weapons and tactics – the U.S. has embarked on […]
Syria – Still in the Crosshairs of the U.S.
Today Syria is being torn apart by a bloody civil war. Since 2011 the ruling regime of Bashar Al-Assad’s Ba’ath Party has faced an uprising that has threatened to overturn his rule. Since the beginning of the conflict, over 100,000 people have been killed in the fighting, and about 2 million or ten percent of […]
War Destroys the Lives of Soldiers
Since September 11, 2001, over two million Americans have been sent off to war in Iraq or Afghanistan. More than half of them have been deployed more than once, and many four times or more. But for those soldiers who return from war alive, the effects of the war follow them home, staying with them […]
Capitalism – a System of Constant War
We live in a world ravaged by endless war. The estimated death toll from wars in the 20th century was around 187 million, not to mention the millions of people whose lives were ruined in the aftermath of these wars. The wars of the past century and of today cannot simply be explained away as […]