Archive for May, 2009

Democratic Socialists? Democrats Not Half That Good

Posted by Bob Fitrakis on May 25th, 2009

By Bob Fitrakis May 25, 2009 Article below.

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The Republican National Committee recently dropped its resolution to brand the moderate pro-corporate Democratic Party “Socialists.” As the late, great Democratic Socialist leader Michael Harrington liked to tell it when he testified before a dying Senator Hubert Humphrey on the Humphrey-Hawkins Work Bill, that would theoretically [...]

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Why Isn’t Obama Turning To The Credit Unions?

Posted by Bob Fitrakis on May 12th, 2009

by Bob Fitrakis & Harvey Wasserman May 12, 2009 As hundreds of our hard-earned billions are being poured into corrupt, greed-driven, lethally inefficient banks, the Administration, Congress and corporate media have studiously avoided the one sector of the banking industry that actually works—the credit unions. Throughout the United States there are hundreds of these people-powered [...]

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