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First of all a number of founding documents of the European Union and the Canadian Constitution recognize both the right to establish unions and the right to collective bargaining. What other civilized nations think and do when they express moral values superior to our own, establishes the inferiority of our values. The United States' history regarding the civil rights of non-whites, underscores that just because we do not now see a right as a part of the law, does not make our action morally correct nor our morality superior. In terms of domestic law, Congress has sighed on to some of the international agreements regarding labor rights, and as such these have, all be it limited, legal standing. http://law.onecle.com/constitution/article-2/25-domestic-obligations-of-executive-agreements.html On 19 June 1934, the US Congress passed a joint resolution authorizing the President to join ILO. On 20 August 1934, the US government and took its seat at the ILO. A number of ratified tr...

Is what the right posits about low taxes just B.S.? Evidence this: In Norway, Start-ups Say Ja to Socialism

The suppression of rights is tyranny. The stability of democracy is in its capacity to give voice to aspirations of the people. If the voices are in conflict, then open debate and reasonable compromise is in order. Politics *is* the art of compromise. What is happening in Madison Wisconsin is symptomatic of tyrannical usurpation of power, not an effort to resolve the structural financial problems of a state. The structural financial problems can be resolved without specialized tax codes written by the business magnet contributors to the governor's campaign coffer. The structural financial problems can be resolved without usurping the rights of workers. The whole apparatus of the state government is being pivoted in support of a radical business magnet agenda, funneling power and money into the hands of a corporate oligarchy. The agenda cripples the power of people to build new businesses and ossified the existing corporate oligarchy. Our future is in public education and a...

Forward is the motto emblazoned on the Wisconsin flag. America and Wisconsin share the belief that *we* are a light to the world, the *we* hold the torch of liberty high, the *we* stride before the huddled masses, *forward* into a future that assures justice, *forward* into a world of limitless opportunity. It is the America that believes in that commitment to *forward* progress that I write this for. Eleanor Roosevelt, the widow of President Franklin D. Roosevelt was appointed as a delegate to the United Nations by President Harry S Truman. On December 10, 1948 she presented to the world, a gift of liberty drafted from the poetic heart of the America dedicated to *forward* progress; the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. In her address to the UN General Assembly introducing the declaration she said: "We stand today at the threshold of a great event both in the life of the United Nations and in the life of mankind. This declaration may well become the international Magna Cart...

Note from editor: Please revise the following political cartoon. Replace Rail-Road President with Koch Brothers. Put two "pet dogs" next to Rail-Road President/Koch Brothers. Label pet dogs "Cato Institute" and "Americans for Prosperity." Give the "Americans for Prosperity" pet a small monkey on a chain labeled "Tea Party." Raise the amounts to reflect real campaign contributions.

Wisconsin's suicidal drive to consolidate the rule of the corporate oligarchy has moved forward under the command and control the the  lumpenproletariat  leader, Governor and  Principate , Scott Walker. Any act which furthers the decline of workers rights, eliminates the cumbersome instruments of democracy, or moves our economy into dependency on monopolies, trusts, cartels, or oligopolies, is OK with Scott. Any ecological concern about the transformation of the global environment by carbon emissions, make no difference this rainy Wisconsin day in February. As any youthful Tea Party young pioneer knows, the scientists at the Cato Institute (funded through the magnificent benevolence of the Koch Brothers  and Exxon) have disproven the negative effects of  anthropomorphic induced climate change , discredited renewable energy, and shown the economic futility of any...