‘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 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...How the Build Back Better Bill Would Save Workers’ Lives
Build Back Better promises to strengthen OHSA. Why is it is in such sorry shape and why has Team Dem said little about workers’ protection?
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...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...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...‘We Are Fighting Back’: Global Black Friday Strikes and Protests Seek to #MakeAmazonPay
Workers around the world held Make Amazon Pay protests to obtain fair wages, end Amazon’s tax avoidance, and lower its impact on the planet
Read more...Why Don’t We See Headlines Touting the Pentagon’s Hefty Price Tag?
ions on how the press is a reliable Pentagon cheerleader.
Read more...How the Pandemic Helped Spread Fentanyl Across the US and Drive Opioid Overdose Deaths to a Grim New High
The jump in opioid deaths during the pandemic was due significantly to distribution changes that favored fentanyl.
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.
Read more...Michael Hudson on Truth Jihad Radio Discussing Super Imperialism, Rentierism, and the American Political Duopoly
Michael Hudson gives a wide-ranging talk, including American policy in the post-war era, how economics ignores debt, and class warfare.
Read more...Why the UK (and US) Left Is Wrong To Be So Dismissive of Non-Violent Struggle
Some voices on the left advocate violent tactics. Is this recommendation well informed or desperate?
Read more...Jobs Grow — Along With the Pandemic Gap Between Rich and Poor New Yorkers
The example of New York City shows that the rich are continuing to pull ahead during the Covid respite.
Read more...Experts on Inflation: Prognosis, Political Fallout and Who’s Really to Blame
Some non-mainstream experts discuss inflation: what is driving it, how long it might persist, and what if anything the officialdom can do.
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