World-News

Andy Kroll, TomDispatch: ''The revelers watched in stunned disbelief, cocktails in hand, dressed for a night to remember. On the big-screen TV a headline screamed in crimson red: 'Projected Winner: Scott Walker.' ... At the election night party for Walker's opponent, Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett, supporters talked and cried and ordered more drinks. Barrett soon took the stage to concede, then waded into the crowd where a distraught woman slapped him in the face.''

http://truth-out.org/news/item/9714-how-the-wisconsin-uprising-got-hijacked



Secretive Group Suppressing Voting in Maine Partly Funded by Wisconsin Businesses

Lee Fang, Republic Report: ''Republic Report has found some of the money going into [American Justice Partnership], the group that tried to prevent same-day voter registration in Maine. And it s a surprising source: Wisconsin. Tax forms from the Wisconsin Manufacturers and Commerce Issues Mobilization Council Inc. show that the group, which is run by corporations like the Boldt Company and Wausau Paper, provided at least $865,000 to the group.''

http://truth-out.org/news/item/9726-secretive-group-supressing-voting-in-maine-partly-funded-by-wisconsin-businesses



Election Countdown 2012: Florida Voters File Lawsuit to Stop New Attempt to Purge Voter Rolls, and More

Lambert Strether, Naked Capitalism: ''In today s Election Countdown 2012 news: a Florida-based voting rights organization and two Florida voters filed a lawsuit to prevent the Secretary of State from a new attempt at purging the voter rolls, Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad joined a lawsuit seeking to overturn a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency rule...''

http://truth-out.org/news/item/9715-election-countdown-2012-florida-voters-file-lawsuit-to-stop-new-attempt-to-purge-voter-rolls-and-more



Strategic Lessons in Lost Elections for Workers' Movements Everywhere

Richard D. Wolff, Truthout: ''Last week s elections in Wisconsin and in San Diego and San Jose, California, brought victories for capitalists' over workers' priorities. Majorities of voters endorsed politicians' plans to ease state and city budget difficulties by cutting public employees' jobs, wages, pensions and rights to bargain collectively with employers over those crucial dimensions of their lives.''

http://truth-out.org/news/item/9745-lost-elections-strategic-lessons-for-workers-movements-everywhere



Why Did Walker Win Wisconsin?

George Lakoff and Elisabeth Wehling, Truthout: ''The Wisconsin recall vote should be put in a larger context. What happened in Wisconsin started well before Scott Walker became governor and will continue as long as progressives let it continue. The general issues transcend unions, teachers, pensions, deficits and even wealthy conservatives and Citizens United. Where progressives argued policy ... conservatives argued morality from their perspective and many working people who shared their moral views voted with them and against their own interests. Why? Because morality is central to identity and, hence, trumps policy.''

http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/9751-the-wisconsin-blues



With the American Left in a Smoldering Wreck Post-Wisconsin, Who s to Blame?

Matt Stoller, Naked Capitalism: ''We are not alone, and the system is weak. There is an international movement, led at this moment by Alexis Tsipras of Greece ... to reject the destructive neoliberalism that has run our world for forty years. These movements are contagious. Meanwhile, the financial system is teetering on another meltdown, and meltdowns do create opportunities for new social movements... If we can figure out how to interrupt the stream of profit and commerce ... then the revival can come much quicker than anyone imagines.''

http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/9819-with-american-left-in-smouldering-wreck-whats-next

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In the Shadow of the Corporate State Madhouse
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/06/11-2

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Wisconsin: Death throes of the beast

C4SS Center for a Stateless Society
by Kevin Carson

06/10/12

The state has always been 'the executive committee of the ruling class.' But in many times and places, it s had the autonomy to promote the long-term interests of the ruling class as a whole, and the long-term stability of the system, even if it meant lowering short-term profits or the profitability of particular economic sectors. One function of the state, when it functions ideally on behalf of the ruling class as a whole, is to overcome prisoners? dilemmas in which individual capitalist rapacity undermines the sustainability of capitalism as a whole...

http://c4ss.org/content/10623


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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