David North

The annual give-away of about 100,000 new H-1B lottery slots has just ended, with the question being: How many have applied this time around under the new rules?

One of the legal ways that non-migrants can make money from the migration business is to lend money (for bonds) to illegal aliens in trouble with the law. The bonds are designed to make sure that an alien involved shows up at scheduled court hearings and meets other requirements.

The commentary below appeared in the October 9, 1995 issue of the International Workers Bulletin, the US predecessor of the World Socialist Web Site. It was written in response to the not-guilty verdict returned by the jury in the O. J. Simpson double-murder trial, and the subsequent claims that this result was in some sense a blow dealt to a racist justice system. Similar comments have now been made in the wake of Simpson’s death, at the age of 76. He outlived his two victims, Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman, by nearly 30 years.

In March 2022, Congress revised the then-suspended EB-5 immigrant investor program in several ways; one was to create a series of carrots that would (hopefully) cause alien investors to put their money into particularly useful segments of the American economy.

Twenty-five years ago, on April 20, 1999, two students at Columbine High School in Jefferson County, Colorado, near Denver, killed 12 fellow students and one teacher, and wounded 24 others (21 by gunfire), before committing suicide. The pair, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, entered the school building armed with rifles, shotguns and handguns. They had also built 99 improvised explosive devices and carried four knives. Their original plan, never realized, involved the deaths of hundreds or more people.

On July 24, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will address a joint session of the US Congress at the invitation of the leaders of the Democratic and Republican parties. They have extended this honor to the Israeli Hitler in the midst of a genocidal war that has so far resulted in the deliberate murder of more than 40,000 Palestinian residents of Gaza, of whom more than 60 percent are women and children.

This article was originally published as a thread on Twitter/X here.

I have sent the letter below to an outstanding historian of the Civil War era.

On Sunday, November 10, at 3 p.m. EST, the Socialist Equality Party is hosting an online event, “The Election Debacle and the Fight Against Dictatorship.” Register and join the event at: wsws.org/FightTrump

On November 23, a podcast sponsored by Bay Area middle-class radical Steven Zeltzer—a longtime opponent of the Socialist Equality Party—invited Democratic Socialists of America member and Zionist-funded historian Aidan Beatty to promote his scurrilous biography of Gerry Healy. Zeltzer assembled a panel of four other Socialist Equality Party haters to laud Beatty’s hackwork.