Новости за 23.02.2016

According to a recent book by Northwestern University economist Robert Gordon, there is no objective foundation for an end to economic stagnation in the United States.

The lowering of interest rates, quantitative easing and now negative interest rates are only compounding financial instability and laying the basis for another crisis.

The circumstances surrounding Woodfox’s trial and incarceration epitomize the brutality of the United States prison system, and the arbitrary and sadistic manner in which judicial authorities mete out their punishments.

The WSWS spoke to residents about the ongoing water crisis which has revealed fundamental problems of American society, including unprecedented levels of social inequality.

Not one of the speakers mentioned the cutting of health spending by the last Labor government, kept in office by the Greens.

After the AWU and other unions helped impose savage cost cutting, the Australian steel manufacturer doubled its profits.

The most powerful storm ever recorded in the region has produced a mounting humanitarian crisis.

The second head of the California Coastal Commission was fired last week as the result of a political campaign backed by Democrats tied to developers.

A special session of the Louisiana state legislature convened on Sunday to close a $2.9 billion deficit.

Police opened fire last week with rubber bullets on residents who had gathered to protest against water shortages amid the worst drought in recent memory.

Having led a “Harper Lite” campaign advocating austerity, no tax hikes on the rich, and increased military spending, NDP leader Tom Mulcair now claims to be battling social inequality.

The Socialist Party’s shift to the right and the rise of the National Front since last year’s terror attacks in Paris are for now undermining Sarkozy’s support in ruling circles.

Fears of collapse and panic sell-offs on the stock market have halved Deutsche Bank’s value over the course of a year to €20 billion.

Under the cover of scholarship, an increasing number of academics and intellectuals are using the media to propagate backward, right-wing ideas.

For seven years, the Obama administration has stymied any resumption of the six-party negotiations to resolve the nuclear standoff with North Korea.

For decades the Indian bourgeoisie and its political hirelings have manipulated and incited caste and communal divisions, the better to divide the working class.

The first responsibility of a socialist in the referendum on “Brexit” is to reject all appeals for working people to fall in behind one or another faction of the bourgeoisie fighting over which strategy best upholds the interests of British imperialism.

The Obama administration’s demand that Apple hack a single iPhone is the spearhead of a concerted drive to undermine the use of encryption worldwide.