I started thinking about how I’d create a political platform for the council elections, here it is. 1. Council to commit to the creation of wealth in working communities not support for big businesses. Privatization Profits are reducing services not increasing them. 2. The council budget to be administered by the residents 3. local ward […]
By Chris Hedges May 15th 2022 Israel, which shoots hundreds of Palestinians a year, routinely includes reporters and photographers on its target lists. Shireen Abu Akleh, the Al Jazeera reporter with more than two decades of experience covering armed conflicts, knew the protocol. She and other reporters remained last Wednesday in the open, clearly visible […]
BYHAMZA ALI SHAH Earlier today, Israeli forces killed Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh in cold blood. Tragically, it’s nothing new for Israel, which has made a regular practice of killing reporters. This morning, many of us woke up to the news that veteran Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh had been killed in the […]
BYSIMON GRASSMANN : Jacobin https://jacobinmag.com/2022/05/scientific-discovery-competition-capitalism-genius-exploitation We’ve been conditioned to believe that scientific advances come from individual geniuses making breakthrough discoveries. That’s wrong. On February 2, the Joe Biden administration announced the revival of a major cancer research initiative. With cumulative funding of $1.8 billion, the “Beau Biden Cancer Moonshot” aims to boost discovery in cancer […]
BYSTEVE EARLY AND SUZANNE GORDON In Texas, National Guard members faced painful cuts and absurd assignments by Republican governor Greg Abbott. So they did what many exploited workers before them have done: they organized a union. When a group of Texas workers started discussing job problems and what to do about them a few months […]
By Chris Hedges The Democratic Party is hoping to thwart an election rout by running against the expected Supreme Court decision on abortion. This is depressingly all that is left of their political capital. The Democratic Party – which had 50 years to write Roe v Wade into law with Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton, and […]
AN INTERVIEW WITH MANON AUBRY France’s Greens, Socialists, and Communists have joined a coalition supporting Jean-Luc Mélenchon for prime minister. He has proven that a transformative program is the best way to inspire millions — and to deny Emmanuel Macron a majority in parliament. INTERVIEW BYDavid Broder From Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership of Labour to Bernie […]
Tucker Carlson devoted seven minutes of airtime to reading it. Donald Trump heaped praise on it. Why did this Twitter analysis resonate so widely on the right? https://outsidevoices.substack.com/p/author-of-the-mega-viral-thread-on?s=r NOTE FROM GLENN GREENWALD: On Friday, a relatively obscure Twitter user with fewer than 7,000 followers — posting under the pseudonym MartyrMade — posted one of the […]
As public anger grew over gruesome and medically useless dog experiments funded by Fauci’s agencies and budgets, his media allies came to the rescue with a pack of lies. By Leighton Woodhouse https://substack.com/profile/1335044-leighton-woodhouse OUTSIDE VOICESHow the Corporate Media Launched a Disinformation Campaign to Protect FauciAs public anger grew over gruesome and medically useless dog experiments […]
Damning letter implores Keir Starmer to intervene – or face complaints to EHRC and Electoral Commission Three Leicester councillors have accused the Labour party of excluding women, Muslims and whole branches in order to rig its selection process to prevent the city’s mayor facing a selection battle. A letter from the councillors to Keir Starmer, […]
by Alexey Sakhnin and Liza Smirnova3 May 2022 “Tired of debts and loans? Want to change your way of life? Want to be respected, a source of national pride?” reads an ad posted on every lamppost in Kaluga, a Russian city of 450,000 people roughly 200km from Moscow. “Contract from four months, net salary from […]
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