Fred Goldstein

Pentagon threatens Iran, supports aggression against Yemen

April 27 — The Pentagon has engaged in a sharp escalation of military tensions in the Middle East by sending…

May 4, 2015

After Ferguson, police go on counterattack: Mass resistance is the answer

April 27 — The arrogant defiance and evasive obstructionism that the Baltimore police have put up in the face of…

April 29, 2015

Slowdown, unemployment plague world capitalism

The finance ministers of the largest capitalist economies exuded gloom and pessimism at the recent Washington meeting of the G-20.…

April 23, 2015

Prison profiteers drive detention of immigrants

The U.S. prison system is more and more becoming a profit center for big private corporations. The detention of undocumented…

April 22, 2015

Sobre Cuba, Irán, Ucrania: Obama, un centrista, cede a la derecha

Los vericuetos de la política exterior del Presidente Barack Obama, desde Cuba a Irán a Ucrania, muestran la capacidad de…

April 21, 2015

On Cuba, Iran, Ukraine: Obama, a centrist, yields to right wing

The twists and turns of President Barack Obama’s foreign policy, from Cuba to Iran to Ukraine, show the ability of…

April 15, 2015

A lesson in liberalism: Ramsey Orta, Mayor de Blasio and the cops

New York -- Ramsey Orta, whose cellphone video of killer cop Daniel Pantaleo choking to death unarmed Eric Garner sparked…

April 14, 2015

Washington finally deals with Iran even as State Dept. reneges on terms

April 6 — The agreed nuclear framework negotiated between the Iranian government and an unholy alliance of imperialist bandits, in…

April 7, 2015

Mass protests, boycott specter make anti-LGBTQ laws bad for business

It is rare when the capitalist class openly reveals its relationship to its political servants. But in the cases of…

April 6, 2015

Bosses get $243 billion subsidy for paying low wages

The capitalist class has found more and more ways to pay tens of millions of workers below-subsistence wages by shifting…

March 30, 2015