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Volume: 26
Number: 1
THANK YOU Dear Friends, February 1 marks one year since Ralph died. It does not seem possible that he has been gone so long, as the pain is still so fresh. I would like to thank all of you for your outpouring of love and help. Your visits, calls, letters, articles, and wonderful remembrances on…
This winter, many in the United States are struggling harder to put food on the table, to hold on to a job, to secure a warm home month-to-month. For many, debts have become harder to pay, and some are faced with a wrenching choice between paying the mortgage and paying for food or heat. In…
Karl Bissinger: Hope, No Matter What A shorter version of this article was printed in the winter issue of WIN as a memorial to Karl, who died on November 19, 2008, shortly after his 94th birthday. For Karl Bissinger, the road to the War Resisters League and the Peace Pentagon was a long and winding…
According to a quotation by Jim Reid that you and Fred Magdoff included in your article entitled “Financial Implosion and Stagnation” (Monthly Review, December 2008), the U.S. financial sector has made around $1.2 trillion of “excess” profits in the last decade relative to nominal GDP. How has the structure of the capital economy contributed…
Make Levees, Not War! “I like the War Resisters League,” proclaimed Grammy Award-winning folk-country icon Steve Earle at the WRL’s 2008 annual peace award event, “because you’re about constant vigilance against any war, for any reason … anywhere in the world!” Earle headlined an all-star concert at Brooklyn’s Lyceum on December 12, 2008, in an…
Flower, Peace Come Together: Imagine Peace Edited by Philip Metres, Ann Smith, and Larry Smith Bottom Dog Press, 2008 205 pages, $18 (paperback) Some say a fleet of ships is the loveliest vision on this dark earth, but I say it’s The one you love most. —Sappho (625–570 B.C.E.) So sang Sappho, Greece’s “Tenth Muse,”…
Shut it Down Witness Against Torture: The Campaign to Shut Down Guantánamo Edited by Anna Brown, Matthew Daloisio, Michael Foley, Patrick Stanley, and Matthew Vogel Yellow Bike Press, 2008, 164 pages, $15–$25 As the history books are written, few words or places will symbolize the Bush years more than “torture” or Guantánamo. While much of…
Food Chained Stuffed & Starved: The Hidden Battle for the World Food System By Raj Patel Melville House Publishing 2007, 398 pages, $19.95 In an absurdist Monty Python skit, Graham Chapman asks to have “eggs, bacon, Spam, and sausage without the Spam.” To which Terry Jones replies, “You can’t have eggs, bacon, Spam, and sausage…
A Call to Conscience Winter Soldier: Iraq and Afghanistan Eyewitness Accounts of the Occupations by Iraq Veterans Against the War and Aaron Glantz Haymarket Books, 2008, 240 pages, $16.00 Heart-rending, shocking and awful, tear-jerking, infuriating, and guilt-inducing, Winter Soldier: Iraq and Afghanistan is difficult, even painful, to read. This compilation of some of the testimonies…
We celebrate a moment when hope is replacing cynicism about political change because of the transition from an administration with a policy of endless war to one that promises a foreign policy based on diplomacy. People are hopeful about new possibilities in domestic and foreign policy under the Obama administration, but they also worry…
One danger in a time of disaster is to lose sight of recent lessons. For example, the growth of economic inequality during the last 30 years has completely disproved the myth that a rising economic tide lifts all boats. Instead, we learned that some boats can be lifted spectacularly high, while others sink deeper…
The current economic crisis people are facing in this country—especially the millions of workers losing their jobs, the unemployed and underemployed who can’t find work, and the millions of families facing eviction from their home—offers plenty of opportunities for the change President-elect Obama has promised the nation. Given that one of the root causes…
Banking should be rather like an old-style utility—something so essential to all of us that it should be regulated like electricity used to be before the preposterous experiment with utility deregulation. And if the government is bailing out and nationalizing banks and other financial intermediaries, why not keep some of them in the public…
At the capitalist system’s core lies its central conflict. On one side, corporate boards of directors pursue ever more surplus extracted from productive workers. On the other side, workers seek ever more wages and benefits and better working conditions that reduce the surplus available to employers. Perpetual class conflict results between capitalists and workers…
A Legislative Agenda for the First 100 Days Let’s imagine that, after several months of drafting, the final touches are being placed on what has come to be known as The First 100 Days: A Working People’s Agenda for the First 100 Days of the Incoming Democratic Administration. This project has identified several key…
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