On December 23, 2003 the US government officially acknowledged the outbreak of
BSE (bovine spongiform encephalopathy) in a herd of cattle in the state of
Washington.This is officially the first case of mad cow in the US, but is in
reality the second case of an outbreak in the integrated Canadian and US cattle
industry. The farming and cattle crisis is at root a reflection of the
crisis of capitalism worldwide and a result of "globalization".
The
crisis in housing is a product of the capitalist system. Yosef Mikhah looks at
the effects it has on working people, and the need for a socialized plan of
quality housing for all. From the latest issue
of the US Socialist Appeal
Guantánamo Bay, an American army base containing 3,000 US military
personnel, is located at the southern end of Cuba. It has over the past two
years been used as a prison for 660 detainees from the ‘War on Terror’.The
use of the base as a prison for ‘enemy combatants’ has generated a great
deal of controversy. This term‘enemy combatants’conceals the fact that the
prisoners have no rights whatsoever and exposes the hypocrisy of the US
government.