‘Inexcusable’: Amazon Under Fire After Warehouse Collapse Kills at Least Six
“Requiring workers to work through such a major tornado warning event as this was inexcusable.”
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Hoisted from Comments: How the Democrats Lost Flyover
The Democrats shafted flyover and flyover is returning the favor.
Read more...How ‘Big Oil’ Works the System and Keeps Winning
Oil and gas interests have refined their techniques to stay a step ahead over decades. Don’t look for those plans to stop anytime soon.
Read more...How To Compare Incomes Across Countries
Economists’ comparisons of incomes make social democracies look bad by not attributing value to government healthcare and cheap college.
Read more...Presidential Commission on the Supreme Court Throws Ball Back to Biden
Surprise, surprise. Biden’s Supreme Court commission fails to endorse any plan to expand the membership if the Supreme Court.
Read more...How Congress Loots the Treasury for the Military-Industrial-Congressional Complex
Sixty years after Eisenhower’s warning about the military-industrial complex, the “weight of this combination” of corrupt generals and admirals, the profitable “merchants of death” whose goods they peddle, and the Senators and Representatives who blindly entrust them with trillions of dollars of the public’s money, constitute the full flowering of President Eisenhower’s greatest fears.
Read more...Why Amazon Is Terrified of Its U.S. Workers Unionizing
Amazon continues to abuse its warehouse workers, both in its day-to-day treatment of them and in its thuggish, law-breaking campaign to prevent unionization in the US. By Sonali Kolhatkar, the founder, host and executive producer of “Rising Up With Sonali,” a television and radio show that airs on Free Speech TV and Pacifica stations and […]
Read more...Pentagon Blasted for ‘Unacceptable Failure’ to Reckon With Civilian Casualties
The United States has not lived up to its legal and moral commitments or its own stated policies to protect civilian lives.
Read more...How Would the Left Treat an Illegitimate Election?
The lack of any interest in improving election systems in the US leaves what purports to be the left exposed to chicanery.
Read more...Profiting from the Carbon Offset Distraction
Carbon offset markets allow the rich to emit as financial intermediaries profit and undermine efforts to cut greenhouse gasses.
Read more...Congress ‘Asleep at the Switch’ as Biden Continues Trump-Era Ploy to Privatize Medicare
Call or write your Congresscritters to amplify the >1,500 physicians who warn that “direct contracting” threatens “Medicare as we know it.”
Read more...Foreclosure Looms for Homeowners Who Thought They’d Won, Thanks to Top New York Court Ruling
Foreclosure suits from the financial crisis era get a new life thanks to a ruling by a conflicted New York judge.
Read more...Ohio Jury Finds Three Pharmacy Chains Liable in Opioids Trial; Judge to Decide on Damages Award in Spring
This is the first opioids jury verdict yet handed down; thousands of opioids cases remain pending.
Read more...The NRA Could Be Winning Its Long Gun Game Even as It Appears To Be in Dire Straits
The NRA may have done its job. Gun support may not longer depend on its aggressive lobbying.
Read more...Go Private for the Treatment You Need, NHS Tells Patients
NHS patients are being refused treatment, discharged too early and pushed towards private referrals.
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