Minneapolis Socialist candidate arrested

 Ty Moore is a socialist candidate for Minneapolis city councilSocialist Alternative City Council Candidate Arrested for Civil Disobedience at Housing Justice RallyPosted by Christopher Gray 55pc on February 27, 2013 ·  Joined by 13 community members, union leaders and clergy, Ward 9 City Council candidate Ty Moore was arrested in a civil disobedience at the Wells Fargo Home Mortgage center, standing up for housing rights for all Minneapolis...

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Crisis in the Vatican: Is Pope Benedict gay?

Pope Benedict: no more red shoes.We reprint this piece below by Andrew Sullivan referred to in the media as the leading Catholic Blogger in the US.  Sullivan's Blog is "The Dish"  One can only imagine the conflict that must occur in the mind of a holy many, any holy man, whose job it is to demonize gays and lesbians and argue to the world that they are a threat to world peace if he or she has inner feelings towards people of the same sex...

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Austerity USA Begins March 1st:

We reprint this article for the interest of our readers. Facts For Working People is not affiliated with Workers' Action. To read more from Global Research click on Center for Research and Globalization in the "links" list to the right.  Bipartisan Project to Impoverish the American People By Shamus CookeGlobal Research, February 25, 2013 U.S. politicians have cried wolf over austerity long enough for the public to ignore them....

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Italy: Goodbye Monti; hello the three Bs!

by Michael RobertsSo it’s goodbye to Mario Monti, the bankers man who took over as Italy’s ‘technocrat’ PM in a coup engineered by the Euro leaders to oust the Murdoch-type right wing leader Silvio Berlusconi back in 2011, when the euro crisis reached a new level and Berlusconi threatened to oppose further fiscal measures (see my post, http://thenextrecession.wordpress.com/2011/11/10/italy-and-greece-rule-by-the-bankers/).  He had to go...

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Immigration: Obama goes where the imbecile Bush feared to tread

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Global economy: Deleveraging and profitability again

by Michael RobertsJP Morgan economists have recently made a study of global corporate profitability.  They conclude that what they call ‘profit margins’ have fallen in Europe and in emerging economies over the past two years.   They also conclude that US profitability has stagnated over the last six quarters, on their measure.  JP Morgan’s measure of profitability is not a Marxist one and it is not even a measure of corporate...

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Senator Julian Assange?

From The Sydney Morning HeraldAssange electoral boostFebruary 25, 2013 - 2:58PMJulian Assange.Julian Assange’s plans to run as a Senate candidate have taken a step forward with his successful enrolment on the federal and state electoral rolls in Victoria.Contrary to the expectations of a number of political commentators, the Australian Electoral Commission has accepted Mr Assange’s enrollment as an eligible overseas elector in the Victorian...

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What the 1% Heard During Obama's State of the Union Speech

Saturday, 23 February 2013 10:09 By Shamus Cooke, Countercurrents Op-EdPresident Barack Obama acknowledges applause before he delivers the State of the Union address at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., February 12, 2013. (Photo: Pete Souza / White House)When President Obama speaks, most Americans hear what he wants them to hear: lofty rhetoric and a "progressive" vision. But just below the surface the president has a subtly-delivered message...

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How Wall Street Preys on Teacher Pensions

by Jack GersonTen days ago Danny Weil published, on dailycensored.com, a scathing analysis of how the biggest predators on Wall Street have been invited in to plunder teacher pension funds -- especially in California and Texas, but throughout the country. Teacher pension trustees now say that there are vast "unfunded liabilities", and politicians like California Governor Jerry Brown are sharpening their knives while they provide quotes to the media...

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Support the Liverpool 47

This is an appeal to help fund a film about the 47 Liverpool Councillors who led the fight of the city against the Thatcher Government. Arti, the film maker, was a young socialist in Liverpool during the campaign. Its been a couple of years in the making and there has been one screening in Liverpool but they are due to do another one in London, linked to Dave Sinclairs Photo exhibition from the time. His photos are excellent Sunday 12th of May at the Richmix, London as part of a programme of events related to Dave Sinclars month long 'The Thatcher...

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Helicopter money and the Chicago plan

by Michael RobertsThe world economy crawls along and mainstream economists remain worried that a typical sustained economic recovery i.e led by rising business investment generating more jobs and a reduction in unemployment boosting consumption, is absent.   The answer of the Austerians is that the economy and the people must wait until the overhang of debt in the major capitalist economies is removed and, primarily, this means a reduction...

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Huge General Strike against austerity in Greece

From Al JazeeraTens of thousands of Greeks have taken to the streets of Athens and other cities as part of a nationwide strike against austerity that confined ferries to ports, shut schools and left hospitals with only emergency staff. Beating drums, blowing whistles and chanting "Robbers, robbers!" more than 60,000 people angry at wage cuts and tax rises marched on Wednesday to parliament in the biggest protest for months over austerity policies required by international lenders. In the capital, riot police fired tear gas at hooded youths hurling...

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Oakland, CA: FBI foils another fake terror plot

We reprint this piece below from the World Socialist Website for our readers interest.  Facts For Working People and this blog are is not affiliated to the WSWS.By Karl Eisner20 February 2013 On February 8, federal authorities arrested a San Jose man for attempting to set off a car bomb outside a bank in Oakland, California. The charges filed against Matthew Llaneza, 28, stem from a months-long operation staged by the FBI’s South...

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