Month: July 2022

The mainstream media is noting the global food crisis and pointing to the war in Ukraine as the cause, but the food crisis has long predated this war. …

Democrats are spending money on ads highlighting far-right Republican primary candidates, hoping that they will be easier to defeat in the general elections. …

As working conditions in the rail industry have worsened, Biden has used an executive order to create a board to mediate a labor dispute and prevent rail workers from striking for 60 days. …

Joe Manchin refuses to support any legislation on the climate crisis, but the rest of the Democrats aren’t much better. Meanwhile, they all support more money for the military. …

Despite condemning the Saudi Crown Prince for the murder of Jamal Khashoggi in 2018, Biden is now being friendly with the Crown Prince to get more oil. …

Europe is experiencing an unprecedented heat wave that has already killed over 1,900 people. Temperatures across …

Iranian women are protesting “National Day of Hijab and Chastity” by not wearing hijabs. …

A Baltimore squeegee worker has been charged with first-degree murder for self-defense. …

The Sri Lankan working class gives an example of what is possible elsewhere. …

Argentinians are protesting against the government and the IMF’s loan conditions. …

Arizona’s restriction on filming police is an attack on our rights. …

A review of “Severance,” a science-fiction thriller about the separation of personal life from work life. …

Sri Lankan protesters have seized the homes of the President and Prime Minister, forcing them to resign and flee. …

A recent shooting involving a squeegee worker and a motorist has brought up the issue of what to do about squeegee workers. Politicians for years have been unable to help, because they are unwilling to challenge the racist, profiteering system. …

Over 580,000 unhoused people live in the United States, and Chattanooga, TN is one location …

Last week President Biden awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom to seventeen people. Much of …

We recommend seeing the San Francisco Mime Troupe’s 2022 play, “Back to the Way Things Were”. …

Baltimore continues to persecute Keith Davis, despite numerous discrepancies in the prosecution’s case in previous trials. …

Officials in Akron, Ohio have declared a state of emergency over protests against the brutal murder of Jayland Walker by the police. The real emergency is the ongoing police brutality against Black people — not property damage! …

Last week, in the Dobbs v. Jackson ruling, the Supreme Court ripped the fundamental human …