Wednesday, May 08, 2019
Stabbing a defenseless teenage captive to death. Picking off a school-age girl and an old man from a sniper’s roost. Indiscriminately spraying neighborhoods with rockets and machine-gun fire.
Navy SEAL commandos from Team 7’s Alpha Platoon said they had seen their highly decorated platoon chief commit shocking acts in Iraq. And they had spoken up, repeatedly. But their frustration grew as months passed and they saw no sign of official action.
Tired of being brushed off, seven members of the platoon called a private meeting with their troop commander in March 2018 at Naval Base Coronado near San Diego. According to a confidential Navy criminal investigation report obtained by The New York Times, they gave him the bloody details and asked for a formal investigation.
But instead of launching an investigation that day, the troop commander and his senior enlisted aide — both longtime comrades of the accused platoon leader, Special Operations Chief Edward Gallagher — warned the seven platoon members that speaking out could cost them and others their careers, according to the report.
Economist Michael Roberts argues that the fall in the rate of profit is the ultimate cause of capitalist crises.
The US rate of profit 1948-2015 | Michael Roberts Blog
https://thenextrecession.wordpress.com/2016/10/04/the-us-rate-of-profit-1948-2015/
Oct 4, 2016 - Since then, the US rate of profit has been static or falling. And fourth, since about 2010-12, profitability has started to fall again. Finally, the fall in ...
What is the tendency of the rate of profit to fall? | Socialist Review
socialistreview.org.uk/371/what-tendency-rate-profit-fall
Marx defined the rate of profit as the ratio of profit to investment. A long-term feature of capitalism has been the tendency for this rate of profit to fall - for booms to ...
The Falling Rate of Profit - Marxists Internet Archive
https://www.marxists.org/archive/hardcastle/1960/rateofprofit.htm
In the early part of the 19th century the economist Ricardo had his own simple idea about the falling rate of industrial profit. Essentially his idea was that there is
TRUMP GIVES NEW MEANING TO CASINO CAPITALISM
#BREAKING: Trump was up early tweeting his first response to the NYT bombshell tax story.
#BREAKING: Trump was up early tweeting his first response to the NYT bombshell tax story.
SCHEER HYPOCRISY
Take a look at the sign on this table - at Sheer's big speech in Montreal!
NOPE NOT HIS CLIMATE CHANGE POLICY THAT WILL COME IN JUNE
A YEAR AFTER HE ANNOUNCED IT
NOPE THIS WAS MORE WASTE OF DEAD CAPITAL
The Conservative leader's foreign policy speech was a grab-bag of old party favourites - minus the specifics
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