Fantastic response to change
We have gotten some great responses to the announcement last week that the People’s Weekly World/Nuestro Mundo is publishing daily online.
McNamara and wars lessons which way do we go now?
On July 6, Neil deGrasse Tyson, head of the Hayden Planetarium, Twittered, “Wondering how many who watched fireworks on July 4 did so because it's fun, forgetting that it commemorates exploding bombs during warfare.” That same day, Robert S. McNamara, the former defense secretary, died at 93. He was second only to President Lyndon Baines Johnson as the most hated figure of the Vietnam War era.
Is the economic crisis over?
Beware of talk of better economic times around the corner. We may be over the worst of it; we may have avoided a 1930s-type depression; but it’s quite another thing to suggest that we are on the road to recovery.
An end to violence
Against the background of the bloodiest century in human history and this decade of war, genocide, boycotts, and threats and counter threats, thanks in large measure to the Bush administration and, in a larger sense, our own imperialism, humanity is seeking a new world order in which peace and justice are its organizing principles.
LETTERS: Horror in the desert, Capitalism exposed, A sample of readers comments
Horror in the desert Re: Retraining for what? World supports Zelaya A sample of comments from www.pww.org
PEOPLE BEFORE PROFITS On the road to economic recovery
This week, July 4, 2009, on the road to economic recovery. The official unemployment rate now exceeds 9.5%--the worst in at least 25 years. The unofficial -- including discouraged, underemployed, and otherwise discarded workers -- rises above 15%. African-American and Latino men are taking the hardest hit. Urban unemployment among young men now nears 50%. Some call unemployment a 'lagging indicator' -- but unchecked, it will become the leading, and controlling, indicator.
EDITORIAL Madoff is just tip of the iceberg
Finance capital went to confession, told the judge its sins, and he administered the penance — 150 years in the clinker for 79-year-old Bernard Madoff.
EDITORIAL Big step backward
The city of New Haven threw out a fire department promotions exam because it yielded results that did not promote equality.
Apologizing for the rich aint what it used to be!
In the good old days one of the most enviable of jobs was that of a commentator or writer whose responsibility it was to explain to us in the mass audience why rich people are so necessary to maintaining a strong economy. On a normal Monday morning they began their work day by issuing ready-made pronouncements that disposed of any proposal that might have resulted in even the slightest reduction in wealth for anyone who is rich.
Opinion: The morally bankrupt family values Republican leadership
This week, second term Gov. Mark Sanford of South Carolina disappeared for six days, leaving the state without a chief executive who could make decisions in an emergency.
