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Here's How to Eliminate Most Corruption
Tuesday, 9 July 2013, 10:48 am | John Spritzler
Everybody--even corrupt people--say they are against corruption. But corruption is rampant nonetheless. How come? It's not because corrupt people, when caught, are not punished. China even uses the death penalty for corruption, as reported in today's ... More >>
Socialism and Communism? NO! Democratic Revolution? Yes!
Monday, 8 July 2013, 11:12 am | John Spritzler
Are Socialism and Communism good ideas, which unfortunately have been stigmatized because bad people who don't really believe in these ideas do bad things in their name? Or are they truly bad ideas whose implementation by genuine followers leads ... More >>
Why They're Rioting in Sweden
Friday, 24 May 2013, 11:36 am | John Spritzler
The Guardian article here describes rioting in Sweden against "unemployment and poverty." The article reports that: "After decades of practising the Swedish model of generous welfare benefits, Stockholm has reduced the role of the state since the 1990s, spurring ... More >>
A Ruling Class vs. Revolutionary Response to Prostitution
Thursday, 23 May 2013, 1:00 pm | John Spritzler
A New York Times article today reports on how the economic misery inflicted on Greeks has forced many into prostitution in order to survive. Here is an excerpt: "With the country heading into the fifth year of economic depression, and unemployment ... More >>
Jump Off the Treadmill of Defeat!
Wednesday, 22 May 2013, 12:10 pm | John Spritzler
Americans are on a treadmill of defeat. That's why things are getting worse, not better. Working class and "middle class" Baby Boomer parents know that things are getting worse. They know that that life is a lot harder today for their children ... More >>
Uri Avnery's Specious Attack on the One State Solution
Tuesday, 14 May 2013, 5:04 pm | John Spritzler
Uri Avnery may be the most sophisticated defender of Israel's ethnic cleansing of Palestinians. He defends this ethnic cleansing while posing as a great friend and sympathizer of Palestinians, supposedly proven by his opposition to Israel's occupation ... More >>
How The Nation Magazine Makes the World Safe for Plutocracy
Wednesday, 1 May 2013, 4:56 pm | John Spritzler
The Nation magazine's target audience is people who want to read journalism that comforts the afflicted and afflicts the comfortable. What readers of The Nation don't realize is that the magazine's purpose is to protect the most comfortable people ... More >>
Global Wealth Equality: What would it mean?
Wednesday, 5 December 2012, 5:41 pm | John Spritzler
How much wealth would people have if all of the wealth in the whole world were shared equally? The total personal (as opposed to government-owned) wealth of the world in the year 2000 was approximately $300 trillion. More >>
Media Don't Tell the Real Reason Israel Kills People in Gaza
Tuesday, 27 November 2012, 2:36 pm | John Spritzler
The reason Israel periodically kills men, women and children in Gaza is not because Hamas fires rockets. Nor is the purpose of the killing to weaken the power and influence of Hamas (every reporter regardless of political orientation notes that the effect ... More >>
John Spritzler: A Misunderstanding about Democracy
Tuesday, 3 April 2012, 10:33 am | John Spritzler
www.NewDemocracyWorld.org A Misunderstanding about Democracy By John Spritzler March, 2012 Source: http://newdemocracyworld.org/revolution/misunderstanding-democracy.html More >>
What Causes a Political Sea Change?
Tuesday, 21 February 2012, 11:31 am | John Spritzler
I learned what causes a sea change in people’s political behavior at Dartmouth College, in 1969, a year after I graduated. Here’s the story. As a student at Dartmouth from 1964 until my graduation in 1968 I was very opposed to the War in Vietnam. More >>
John Spritzler: Newt Gingrich's Brilliant Insight
Monday, 12 December 2011, 12:53 pm | John Spritzler
U.S. presidential aspirant, and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich recently declared that Palestinians are an "invented" people. This is a brilliant insight that lays the basis, finally, for a real solution to the Middle East conflict. Gingrich simply ... More >>
John Spritzler: A New Path For Israel?
Tuesday, 18 November 2008, 10:32 am | John Spritzler
Hours after resigning as prime minister of Israel on September 21, 2008, Ehud Olmert gave an interview to the Israeli newspaper, Yedioth Ahronoth ( excerpted in the New York Review of Books), in which he seems to have made a 180 degree turnaround from ... More >>
John Spritzler: Uri Avnery Is Dead Wrong
Wednesday, 2 May 2007, 10:11 am | John Spritzler
Uri Avnery, in his The Bed of Sodom , attacks the idea of a One-State Solution to the Palestine/Israel conflict, i.e. the solution that says make all of historic Palestine from the Jordan river to the Sea be a single democratic state with equal rights for ... More >>
Which Direction for the Anti-Zionist Movement?
Thursday, 13 April 2006, 12:34 am | John Spritzler
When John J. Mearsheimer from the University of Chicago and Stephen Walt from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government published their article-- The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy -- with copious footnotes online at the KSG and without the footnotes ... More >>
John Spritzler: What Will It Take to Win?"
Friday, 14 October 2005, 10:51 am | John Spritzler
I have been working with a lot of very dedicated people in the Somerville Divestment Project (SDP) to get the City of Somerville, Massachusetts, to divest from Israel. More >>
John Spritzler: Howard Zinn's Unacceptable Regimes
Tuesday, 23 August 2005, 1:20 pm | John Spritzler
A Critique of Howard Zinn's Unacceptable regimes in Iraq and the US by John Spritzler More >>
