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The UnCapitalist Journal

"Commentary and Perspective on International Economy, Trade, Corporations, Labor, Poverty, & Social Justice”


July 23, 2008, 2:19 am, 323810
I know little that is genuine truth, but of this I am most certain: the United States government, as a matter of policy set each and every day to practice, systematically and of necessity ...


July 20, 2008, 12:19 pm, 322359
The Obama campaign has moved to shift policies to the political center, away from the more liberal rhetoric advanced by the candidate earlier in the primary season a recent report indicates.

The Senator skillfully mangled a participle in an attempt to distance himself from the eloquence for ...


July 4, 2008, 2:19 am, 315220

July 2, 2008, 2:19 am, 314113
I went to the shoe store in town, this evening. That's where a former student of mine works. He promised to give me a great deal on some shoes The ones I'm wearing I've had for about three years, and it's getting hard to glue what's left of the soles ...


June 30, 2008, 4:19 pm, 313376
In an interview on CNN, investigative journalist Seymour Hersch, who has just exposed an on-going $400 million covert military/intelligence operation being prosecuted by the Bush Administration ...


June 30, 2008, 12:19 am, 312972
The Senate has just confirmed Bush nominee Elizabeth Duke as the newest Governor of the Federal Reserve Board. Ms. Duke is a commercial banking insider with massive holdings (which she ...


June 27, 2008, 10:19 pm, 312534
John McCain is calling former President Jimmy Carter a "lousy" commander-in-chief.

That is just plain harsh.

Maybe if Mr. Carter's abortive attempt to rescue the American ...


June 26, 2008, 6:19 pm, 311934
The RIAA has really, seriously lost their collective mind. From Wired:

The recording industry and U.S. radio companies have squared off for decades about whether AM and FM radio broadcasters should pay royalties to singers, musicians and their labels.

...


June 24, 2008, 2:19 am, 310322


The House and Senate are considering a non-binding resolution demanding that President Bush take action on severe sanctions against Iran. This piece of work looks almost identical to ...


June 23, 2008, 4:19 am, 309829
For many years, American conservatives have criticized judicial activists — judges who read into the United States Constitution that which is not in the plain language of the document. This criticism extends ...