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For Immediate Release:
Tuesday, October 22, 2013
This release is online at http://www.gp.org/index.php/green-party-press-releases/details/4/648.html

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Green Party: “60% of Americans want an alternative party? Let’s talk.”

• Green Party Speakers Bureau: Green leaders available to speak on democracy and electoral reform: http://www.gp.org/speakers/speakers-democratic.php

WASHINGTON, DC — Green Party candidates and leaders said that a recent Gallup poll shows that the recent shutdown left millions of Americans feeling betrayed by both Democrats and Republicans in Washington and open to a major new political party.

According to the poll, “Amid the government shutdown, 60% of Americans say the Democratic and Republicans parties do such a poor job of representing the American people that a third major party is needed.” (“In U.S., Perceived Need for Third Party Reaches New High” Oct. 11, http://www.gallup.com/poll/165392/perceived-need-third-party-reaches-new-high.aspx). See also “Many students would welcome third major political party” (USA Today, Oct. 19, http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/10/19/millennials-want-political-reorganization/3013343/).

Greens called the shutdown, which might reoccur soon as Congress and the White House continue budget negotiations, an opportunity for Americans to discuss the future of U.S. democracy and ending domination by two parties.

• Joe DeMare, Green candidate for Bowling Green City Council in Ohio (http://www.joedemareforagreenfuture.org): “Americans are realizing that the shutdown is a symptom of two-party politics. The shutdown revealed Republicans as the party of irresponsible extremists, but Democrats have also moved far to the right. The solution to shutdowns, sequestration, and the politics of war and Wall Street isn’t compromise or the phony center between the Ds and the Rs. The solution is multiparty democracy and the end of two-party rule. The shutdown proved that America needs a party that refuses corporate contributions and that represents working people — including federal and state employees. That’s why we call the Green Party an imperative for the 21st century.”

• Alfred Molison, Texas Green and a federal employee: “Social Security and Medicare are in danger from both parties. Much of the Obama Administration’s agenda and accomplishments, including the Affordable Care Act and plans to slash Social Security, would have been recognized as Republican ten years ago. The individual mandate was introduced by the Heritage Foundations and promoted by Republicans until Democrats made it the basis of the ACA. The bipartisan debate over the ACA is between two factions that want to keep our health care under the control of for-profit insurance company gatekeepers. The Green Party continues to demand Medicare For All — single-payer national health care, in which patients and physicians, not corporate bureaucrats, make decisions about medical care.”

• Lynne Serpe, Green candidate for New York City Council, District 22 in Queens (http://www.serpeforcouncil.org): “The movement for an alternative party will grow as more Americans vote independently. But we also need election reforms, like Instant Runoff Voting, Proportional Representation, caps on political contributions, public funding for campaigns and repeal of election laws in many states that privilege Democratic and Republican politicians and obstruct other candidates and parties. Greens have advocated these changes since the party was founded and we’re helping to lead the struggle to make the U.S. a real democracy.”

• Marian Douglas-Ungaro, activist for statehood and equal rights in the District of Columbia and member of the DC Statehood Green Party: “Women are among those hardest hit by sequestration, austerity measures, and the recent shutdown. Women stand the most to lose from deals between the White House and Congress to shred the safety net and scale back earned benefits. Greens have different priorities: Cheri Honkala, the Green Party’s 2012 vice-presidential nominee, helped host a meeting in Philadelphia this past weekend of the World Court of Women that focused on poverty (http://economichumanrights.org/?page_id=7). Women of all backgrounds deserve a political party that we can build from the bottom up. Democrats and Republicans measure the health of the U.S. economy according to Dow Jones, the GDP, and corporate profit reports. Greens judge the economy according to how many people are lifted out of poverty.”

• Laura Wells, Green candidate for California Controller in the 2014 election (http://www.LauraWellsSolutions.com): “Richmond, California is the best example of government for the people, not corporations. It is the largest city in the U.S. with a Green Party mayor. Gayle McLaughlin is a champion of solutions for people, and stands up to the biggest corporation in the state, Chevron. Now she’s taking on Wall Street banks, intending to use eminent domain if necessary to keep people in their homes. Why did she move on that idea and other mayors did not? Because she’s a Green and takes no corporate money. My favorite election ever was in Richmond in 2010 when Chevron put $1 million into three races and lost, lost, and lost. The candidates who took no corporate money won. And the people won.”

See also:

“Green Party: After the shutdown, American people still need Medicare For All, Social Security without reductions, deep cuts in bloated military spending”
Green Party press release, October 10, 2013
http://www.gp.org/index.php/newsroom/press-releases/details/4/646.html

“The coming debt-ceiling settlement: The well-orchestrated dance 2.0”
Jack Rasmus, Federal Reserve Chair in the Green Shadow Cabinet, October 15, 2013
http://greenshadowcabinet.us/statements/coming-debt-ceiling-settlement-well-orchestrated-dance-20

“Eminent Domain and More: Green Party Mayor and Nonprofits Create Prototype”
By Rick Cohen, Nonprofit Quarterly, October 22, 2013
http://www.nonprofitquarterly.org/policysocial-context/23100-eminent-domain-and-more-green-party-mayor-and-nonprofits-create-prototype.html

“Editorial: Current discontent with two party system opens door for third party politics”
The Mirror, University of Northern Colorado, October 21, 2013
http://www.uncmirror.com/news/editorial-current-discontent-with-two-party-system-opens-door-for-third-party-politics-1.3097509

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By Pepe Escobar
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/World/WOR-02-151013.html

This is it. China has had enough. The (diplomatic) gloves are off. It’s time to build a “de-Americanized” world. It’s time for a “new international reserve currency” to replace the US dollar.

It’s all here, in a Xinhua editorial, straight from the dragon’s mouth. And the year is only 2013. Fasten your seat belts – and that applies especially to the Washington elites. It’s gonna be a bumpy ride.

Long gone are the Deng Xiaoping days of “keeping a low profile”. The Xinhua editorial summarizes the straw that broke the dragon’s back – the current US shutdown. After the Wall Street-provoked

financial crisis, after the war on Iraq, a “befuddled world”, and not only China, wants change.

This paragraph couldn’t be more graphic:
Instead of honoring its duties as a responsible leading power, a self-serving Washington has abused its superpower status and introduced even more chaos into the world by shifting financial risks overseas, instigating regional tensions amid territorial disputes, and fighting unwarranted wars under the cover of outright lies.
The solution, for Beijing, is to “de-Americanize” the current geopolitical equation – starting with more say in the International Monetary Fund and World Bank for emerging economies and the developing world, leading to a “new international reserve currency that is to be created to replace the dominant US dollar”.

Note that Beijing is not advocating completely smashing the Bretton Woods system – at least for now, but it is for having more deciding power. Sounds reasonable, considering that China holds slightly more weight inside the IMF than Italy. IMF “reform” – sort of – has been going on since 2010, but Washington, unsurprisingly, has vetoed anything substantial.

As for the move away from the US dollar, it’s also already on, in varying degrees of speed, especially concerning trade amongst the BRICS group of emerging powers (Brazil, Russia, Indonesia, China and South Africa), which is now overwhelmingly in their respective currencies. The US dollar is slowly but surely being replaced by a basket of currencies.

“De-Americanization” is also already on. Take last week’s Chinese trade charm offensive across Southeast Asia, which is incisively leaning towards even more action with their top commercial partner, China. Chinese President Xi Jinping clinched an array of deals with Indonesia, Malaysia and also Australia, only a few weeks after clinching another array of deals with the Central Asian “stans”.

Chinese commitment to improve the Iron Silk Road reached fever pitch, with shares of Chinese rail companies going through the roof amid the prospect of a high-speed rail link with and through Thailand actually materializing. In Vietnam, Chinese Premier Li Keqiang sealed an understanding that two country’s territorial quarrels in the South China Sea would not interfere with even more business. Take that, “pivoting” to Asia.

All aboard the petroyuan
Everyone knows Beijing holds Himalayas of US Treasury bonds – courtesy of those massive trade surpluses accumulated over the past three decades plus an official policy of keeping the yuan appreciating very slowly, yet surely.

At the same time, Beijing has been acting. The yuan is also slowly but surely becoming more convertible in international markets. (Just last week, the European Central Bank and the People?s Bank of China agreed to set up a US$45-$57 billion currency swap line that will add to the yuan’s international strength and improve access to trade finance in the euro area.)

The unofficial date for full yuan convertibility could fall anywhere between 2017 and 2020. The target is clear; move away from piling up US debt, which implies, in the long run, Beijing removing itself from this market – and thus making it way more costly for the US to borrow. The collective leadership in Beijing has already made up its mind about it, and is acting accordingly.

The move towards a full convertible yuan is as inexorable as the BRICS move towards a basket of currencies progressively replacing the US dollar as a reserve currency. Until, further on down the road, the real cataclysmic event materializes; the advent of the petroyuan – destined to surpass the petrodollar once the Gulf petro-monarchies see which way the historical winds are blowing. Then we will enter a completely different geopolitical ball game.

We may be a long way away, but what is certain is that Deng Xiaoping’s famous set of instructions is being progressively discarded; “Observe calmly; secure our position; cope with affairs calmly; hide our capacities and bide our time; be good at maintaining a low profile; and never claim leadership.”

A mix of caution and deception, grounded on China’s historical confidence and taking into consideration serious long-term ambition, this was classic Sun Tzu. So far, Beijing was laying low; letting the adversary commit fatal mistakes (and what a collection of multi-trillion-dollar mistakes… ); and accumulating “capital”.

The time to capitalize has now arrived. By 2009, after the Wall Street-provoked financial crisis, there were already Chinese rumblings about the “malfunctioning of the Western model” and ultimately the “malfunctioning of Western culture”.

Beijing has listened to Dylan (with Mandarin subtitles?) and concluded yes, the times they-are-a-changing. With no foreseeable social, economic and political progress – the shutdown is just another graphic illustration, if any was needed – the US slide is as inexorable as China, bit by bit, spreading its wings to master 21st century post-modernity.

Make no mistake; the Washington elites will fight it like the ultimate plague. Still, Antonio Gramsci’s intuition must now be upgraded; the old order has died, and the new one is one step closer to being born.

Pepe Escobar is the author of Globalistan: How the Globalized World is Dissolving into Liquid War (Nimble Books, 2007), Red Zone Blues: a snapshot of Baghdad during the surge (Nimble Books, 2007), and Obama does Globalistan (Nimble Books, 2009).

He may be reached at pepeasia@yahoo.com.
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Conversaciones con Ignacio Ramonet

Varios han sido los libros publicados en el mundo a partir de largas entrevistas o conversaciones con Fidel Castro; pero ninguno como “Cien Horas con Fidel” alcanza la magnitud, la diversidad, la amplitud, el alcance y la transcendencia que tiene esta entrevista realizada entre y periodista francѐs Ignacio Ramonet, director del mensuario parisino “Le Monde Diplomatique”, un de las voces más prestigiosas entre la intelectualidad progresista europea contemporánea, autor de numerosos libros y ensayos sobre temas de comunicación social y politica internacional, uno de los principales impulsores y animadores del movimiento mundial de lucha contra la globalizacion neoliberal y amigo leal y sincero de y de la Revolucion Cubana. Por el nivel de información y sagacidad del entrevistador, por la agudeza y pertinencia de sus preguntas; pero, sobre todo, por la profundidad, franqueza, modernidad y hondura de las respuestas del entrevistado, la apasionante conversación contenida en el ya célebre libro tendrá, sin lugar a dudas, un valor perdurable, más allá de coyunturas y circunstancias. Por ello, la grabaciòn audiovisual de la mencionada entrevista, deviene como un material de notable trascendencia histórico documental.

http://youtu.be/Y-uyCvV8qHU  (Part 1)

http://youtu.be/kKlBHBdaunY  (Part 2)

http://youtu.be/XZ49mBVzizQ  (Part 3)

http://youtu.be/ikWb-71A_N4  (Part 4)

Portrait of Fidel Castro by Antonio Guerrero, one of the Cuban 5

Art by Antonio Guerrero, one of the Cuban 5

By James Thompson

HOUSTON-On 10/20/2013 about 20 progressive community activists joined the striking workers at Maximus Coffee in Houston. It was a beautiful fall day near downtown Houston and activists felt very good about expressing their solidarity with their brothers and sisters on strike at the former Maxwell House coffee plant located at 3900 Harrisburg in the second Ward in Houston. One activist quipped “It is better to be red than dead.” The activists gave gifts of water and snacks to ease the discomfort of the striking workers.

About 250 union organized workers went on strike on October 10, 2013. In contract negotiations, the company proposed 50% wage cuts coupled with about a 30% increase in the cost of health insurance. The company also proposed to violate their own agreement to contribute to the workers 401(k) retirement plans. These heavy-handed tactics forced the workers out on strike. The workers are engaged in an effort to defend their livelihoods, homes and families.

The 250 workers are represented by Local 455 of the UFCW.

One striking worker told me that worker productivity has been steadily rising over the years. He indicated that production has drastically decreased since the strike started. He said that the plant is being run by salaried people while the workers out on strike. Apparently, these managers are not doing a very good job since they are not trained for this work. Obviously, the quality of the product must have drastically reduced. Only a very few workers have crossed the picket line according to him.

Another worker indicated that the economic situation in Houston is relatively stable and she felt that such draconian cuts were inexcusable and unnecessary.

Maximus Coffee revenues, according to the Internet, are between $50-$100 million. Maximus produces coffee for distributing companies such as Folgers, Maxwell House, and others.

Contract negotiations will begin on Tuesday, October 22, 2013. All the workers I talked to indicated that they are eager to return to work and don’t like striking. They expressed hope that the bosses will negotiate in good faith and they can return to work as soon as possible.

This strike, like all strikes, is important for all workers. Obviously, the bosses at Maximus are attempting to bust the union. When one union anywhere is busted, workers everywhere suffer since their bosses may attempt to copycat the success of other bosses. This is why worker unity and solidarity is crucial. Worker unity is necessary for workers to win victories in the class war. As the old union slogan goes “United we stand, divided we beg.” Workers have going for us is that there are more of us than them. When bosses can split the workers into feuding sectors, it is easier for them to lower all of the worker’s wages.

If you live in Houston or can come to Houston, take out a little time to support your fellow workers. The striking workers are walking the picket line 24/7. If you can’t come to Houston, stop buying or consuming coffee produced by Maximus until the strike is over and the workers are back on their jobs. People in Houston should also stop buying or consuming Maximus Coffee. Boycott Maximus Coffee! This includes companies which use Maximus coffee such as Folgers, and Maxwell House.

Following is a complete list of the products that Maximus Coffee group produces:

Beaumont Coffee

Boston Best Products

Cafe D’Irio coffee

Cloverleaf Coffee

Folgers Coffee Products

Maxwell House Coffee Collection’s

Maxwell House Coffee Singles

Maxwell House De-Cafe coffee

Maxwell House Filter Packs

Maxwell House Instant Coffee

Maxwell House International Café

Nestle Coffee Products

Sanka Instant Coffee

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By James Thompson

Now that the U.S. Congress has voted to end the government shut down and raise the debt ceiling temporarily, the US people are beginning to ask “How did we get to this sorry state of affairs?” Congress voted to end the shut down and raise the debt limit until January 15, 2014. This temporary reprieve will give working people a chance to reflect on what has been done to them and where all this came from. Of course, a pall is cast over the holidays so that once again workers will be forced to tighten their belts in preparation for what might come. One can only imagine what this may do to holiday sales.

There are a lot of questions to be answered. One important question is “What are the causative factors which led up to the current financial crisis?” The quick answer is capitalism itself. This must be followed up by asking “What did the capitalist system do that led to the current crisis?”

Although many factors led up to the crisis, one factor would be the US invasion of Iraq. The capitalist government of the United States spent an extraordinary amount of the people’s money on this catastrophe for working people. Estimates range from $4-$6 trillion and this is likely to be an underestimate. Clearly, the results have been ruinous for working people in Iraq as well as the United States. Untold numbers of innocent civilians in Iraq were slaughtered or permanently disabled. As yet uncounted numbers of people from the United States were slaughtered or permanently disabled.

Many people may ask “Why would a ‘democratic’ government conduct such a slaughter?” Many Americans delude themselves by thinking that the US is a democracy for working people. Marxists have long maintained that the democracy in the United States was formed of, by, and for the wealthy classes. One must remember that the “founding fathers” were mostly slaveholders. If working people had had a real voice in the conduct of the Iraq war, it would never have been started in the first place. Certainly working people in Iraq would never have voted for the war and it is highly unlikely that very many working people in the United States would have voted for the war.

So, the question stands “Why did the US government prosecute the war in Iraq?” Marxists also consistently point out that the motive of capitalists that propels them to start and carry out imperialist wars is the compelling drive of capitalists to increase their profits.

The next question becomes “How did the capitalists increase their profits by engaging in the Iraq war?” Interestingly, an article on 12/6/2010 by Cordula Meyer in Spiegel online points out that there is little oil flowing to the United States from Iraq. Instead, contracts to develop Iraq’s oil reserves went to corporations in France, China, Malaysia, Vietnam, Angola, Norway, Britain and Russia in December, 2009.

It also has been documented that around $138 billion went to US contractors with the bulk of it going to Halliburton. Of course, this amount is part of the $4-6 trillion spent by the US taxpayers to conduct the war.

Marxists have also argued that capitalists will spend the people’s money on wars to ensure that capitalist industries will be able to safely conduct their business in foreign countries and reap extraordinary profits even if the war expenditure far exceeds the profits received. In other words, capitalists are happy to sacrifice soldiers and the people’s money as long as they are able to increase profits. From the capitalist’s point of view, it is not necessary for their increased profits to exceed the expenditure of the people’s money as well as the lives of the military personnel.

Another study reported by Amy Jaffe of the James A. Baker, III Public Policy Institute of Rice University concludes that as of about 2007 US corporations were reaping profits of about $150 billion a year from oil production in Iraq. A quick, basic calculation shows us that if this rate of profit remains constant, it would take around 26 to 30 years for the profits gained by the capitalists to equal the $4-$6 trillion extracted from US taxpayers. Of course, the cost as a result of the destruction of the environment due to the war cannot be calculated.

“Who benefits from the war in Iraq?” becomes the next question. It should be clear to all that the obvious beneficiary of this war is not working people. It should be equally clear that the beneficiary is the wealthy classes. The astounding profits have bloated the wealthy to an obscene state. It should be noted that simultaneous tax breaks for the wealthy have also bloated their collective bottom line. The combined income for the top 400 wealthiest individuals in the US for 2012 published by Forbes magazine is about $2.6 trillion. The combined income for the top 500 wealthiest individuals in the US for 2013 exceeds the entire wealth of Russia.

We must never forget that by increasing their profits, the capitalists wage a continual war on the working classes. War profits are particularly beneficial to the capitalists in the class struggle. When the people’s money is spent on war for increased profits, this means that less of the people’s money can be spent on programs to benefit them. In other words, each dollar that is spent on some foreign slaughter can never be spent on education, health care, culture, infrastructure, and countless other programs that benefit working people. This is how the capitalists are winning the class struggle.

There is only one answer to this one-sided struggle. Working people must unite and fight for their interests. Workers must use every means of struggle available to them. Clearly, the senseless slaughter for profits carried out by the capitalists proves undeniably that the fate of humanity depends on the unity of the workers.

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By James Thompson

As the government shutdown drags on and the debt ceiling looms nearer and nearer, a nervous nation and world wonder what is to become of them. Right wing fascists hold the government hostage while centrists quiver and quake at their theatrics. The drama from both sides receives maximum coverage on corporate TV.

Meanwhile, the working class wonders if there is anything that can be done to restore sanity to the nation.

Some may talk of “revolution” or “slow down” or “general strike.” This talk is counterproductive and is the wrong tactic at this stage in the struggle.

The first step in formulating a response to the tactics of the ultra-right is to recognize their skill and effectiveness in fighting the class struggle. For indeed, the government shut down and dithering about whether to raise the debt ceiling is nothing if it is not class warfare. It must be remembered that the government provides essential services to working people in spite of its primary allegiance to the wealthy. Working people benefit from Social Security retirement and disability programs and VA programs. Although flawed, these programs are extremely valuable to working people. This is precisely the reason that the Tea Party extremists want to shut these programs down. The wealthy are fighting the class war while telling working people through the corporate media that there is no such thing as a class war. Working people must recognize that the wealthy will fight the class war no matter what the response is from working people.

How should working people respond to this latest assault?

Some say the definition of insanity is continuing to do what you have been doing while expecting different results.

Working people should use the resources available to them to begin and continue a frank discussion of what is in their best interest. It is clear that years of blind faithfulness to centrist politicians has led the working class nowhere. It is also clear that smaller sectors of the working class have followed right wing politicians and this has come to nothing. There has been no organized left wing in this country since the 1930s for working people to follow. It is time for working people to organize their own political party to fight for their own interests without influence from the wealthy upper class. Social media and the Internet could be harnessed to provide forums for working people to express their views on the current crisis facing this nation. Strategy and tactics to meet the current crisis should be discussed immediately from the working class point of view.

As the discussion progresses, it should become obvious that workers should flex their muscles and exercise their inherent political power.

One way would be to organize mass protests and demonstrations in the nation’s capitol and in other major cities around the country. Participants in these actions should include massive numbers of Social Security recipients, VA benefits recipients and furloughed government employees and their families, friends and allies. Of course, such demonstrations should be multiethnic and include both men and women.

Simultaneously, maximum pressure needs to be put on the right wing members of Congress to fund the government and raise the debt ceiling immediately. Maximum pressure should also be put on the centrists to not cave in to the demands of the right wing to gut Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, Veterans benefits and other programs that benefit working people. Demands to protect undocumented immigrants should be included in negotiations on behalf of workers. This is what is needed at this point in the struggle.

Even if the government shutdown is reversed and the debt ceiling lifted in response to the pressure from the public, the struggle should continue for working people’s interests. Indeed, as working people start to win political victories, progressive demands should increase.

Should the feckless politicians fail to reach an agreement to fund the government and lift the debt ceiling, a new assessment of that stage of the struggle should begin and new tactics will need to be devised to address the conditions at that time.

In addition to recognizing that there is a vicious class war being waged against them, workers need to recognize that there is an alternative to capitalism and it is socialism. Workers also need to recognize that working class unity is the most effective response to assaults from the wealthy classes. When united, workers can accomplish a lot. Working class unity defeated wealthy slaveholders in the US. Working class unity defeated fascism in World War II. Working class unity resulted in the public education system, public works programs during the Great Depression, Social Security, Veterans Administration, Medicare and Medicaid. Working class unity resulted in the end of the Vietnam War as well as the Korean War. Although the current crisis is very serious and possibly critical, working people have faced and overcome crises in the past and can work together to restore sanity in response to the current situation. Working people should remember that we outnumber them and that on a level playing field, our power will eventually surpass the power of the wealthy if we are united.

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