Fred Goldstein

U.S. escalates Ukraine crisis

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry flew to Kiev on March 4 and laid flowers at the site of a…

March 5, 2014

U.S. imperialism’s new Cold War and Ukraine

The following is a summary of highlights from a talk on the Ukraine crisis by Fred Goldstein to a Workers…

March 2, 2014

U.S., EU out of Ukraine! Stop Washington’s threats!

The present crisis in Ukraine and the Crimean peninsula was provoked by the seizure of political power in Kiev by…

March 1, 2014

From Ukraine to Venezuela: U.S. wages dirty wars

Destroying the Ukraine government through an armed insurrection is part of a broader strategy by U.S. imperialism to colonize the…

February 26, 2014

The trillion-dollar student loan bubble

A recent issue of Bloomberg Business Week ran a feature headline: “Student Loans, the Next Big Threat to the Economy?”…

February 21, 2014

Políticas imperialistas y las olimpiadas

Esta es la era del imperialismo. Los Juegos Olímpicos no pueden escaparse de ser arrastrados a las grandes luchas contemporáneas…

February 19, 2014

Imperialist politics and the Olympics

This is the age of imperialism. The Olympic Games cannot escape being drawn into the major contemporary struggles playing out…

February 13, 2014

Subprime loans drive auto recovery

The scramble for profits is again leading to overproduction and the pushing of high-interest loans, this time in the auto…

February 12, 2014

The ‘recovery’ and the rich

Between 2009 and 2012, years of so-called U.S. economic “recovery,” 90 percent of the increase in consumption was accounted for…

February 6, 2014

Porqué $1,3 millones que GM invierte, crean sólo un puesto de trabajo

El 13 de diciembre, la General Motors anunció con gran fanfarria que iba a invertir $1,3 mil millones de dólares,…

February 5, 2014