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Richard White John D. Rockefeller and John D. Rockefeller Jr. in 1915. American liberals of the Gilded Age were suspicious of vast corporate wealth, which they saw as a major cause of poverty. / Library of Congress Speaking in New Haven in 1860, Abraham Lincoln told an audience, “I am not ashamed to confess that 25 years ago I was a hired laborer, mauling rails, at work on a flat-boat—just what might happen to any poor man’s son.” After his death, Lincoln’s personal trajectory from lo...

Summary Over the past three decades, Lebanon’s ruling class—which comprises intertwined political and business elites—has run the country into the ground. To survive its ongoing accumulation of challenges, including the financial crisis that erupted in October 2019, Lebanon requires a revamped state backed by a new economic model with social justice at its core. Tax reform is central to such an endeavor—and to ensuring that the state has the means both to deliver basic services and to t...

December 11, 2020 —  Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal reposted from Left Voice — More than a century ago, Eduard Bernstein claimed that it was time for socialists to abandon their revolutionary goal of overthrowing capitalism. He argued that the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) should adopt a reformist approach that strictly relied on legal channels, such as elections in which socialism could slowly be voted into power. To support his position, Bernstein cited th...

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And send the impeachment trial of u.s. President Donald Trump in the u.s. Senate to say this Sunday key players once again argued why their efforts to get Ukraine to launch investigations on a political rival are impeachable offenses at war and his removal from office senators swear an oath of impartiality but the public and leader of the Senate has previously said he is working hand in hand with the White House magine that they are sure and the judge comes into the courtroom and says look Ive ...

G.m.t. Hello Im Jamie Roberts and this is the b.b.c. World Service in America the working day is closing down in Asia Monday is just a memory for most of the continent is well into Tuesday will gather of a 2 time zones together and business masses but German engineering John seaman says it will not turn its back on its deal to help build a new Australian coal mine must despite climate change protests whats it take to be an adult in Japan well find out what coming of age means how a film about a...

All the truth from all the people by independent investigative journalist then what were left with is to make decisions about what is right who is right who is wrong what we should believe or not believe from all the partisans involved but heres whats crucial at no time has the identity of the whistleblower who supposedly held this damning information who is a person of high attics who just seemed to have one day said enoughs enough and Im going to go to Adam Schiff which he denied then he ackn...

And 3 years of probation Jackson said in closing that she was certain the criminal justice system is not going to see Gates again Brian Lucas n.p.r. News Washington the Senate is voting on a bipartisan sanctions package for war crimes in Syria N.P.R.s Deborah Amos reports in addition to Syria Russia and Iran are also targeted the legislation is named after a Syrian police defector who smuggled more than $50000.00 pictures of torture victims out of Syria on the thumb drive in his sock this Caesa...

I always question the the notion that the system is rigged in the sense that 1st I think social resentment is just built into human society because we are not all equal all the time and also this sense that the system isnt working for them I find it sometimes I find it difficult to accept that in a society where even the poorest people are living longer healthier and more affluent lives and surrounded by technology and conveniences and other aspects of their life that are so woven into the worl...