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Habitual Labor abuser Saudi Arabia elected to UN body Promoting Workers

By Brian Whitaker | ( Al-Bab.com ) | - - In a grotesque development earlier this week, Saudi Arabia – a world leader in the exploitation of migrant workers – won a…

Retraining Workers for Climate Action: How the Light Gets In

H. Patricia Hynes | (Informed Comment) | - - Every now and then I re-visit these lines of the Canadian poet and songwriter, Leonard Cohen: Ring the bells that cannot ring Forget…

American Workers in Age of Trump just aren’t being Paid Fairly

By Josh Hoxie | ( Otherwords.org ) | - - Imploring people to simply work harder ignores the fact that most jobs don’t pay enough to get ahead. The gap between the…

Why $54 bn for Pentagon won’t fix US Security

By Rajan Menon | ( Tomdispatch.com ) | - - Donald Trump’s supporters believe that his election will end business as usual in Washington. The self-glorifying Trump agrees and indeed his has,…

As Trump Budget Hurts Old, Meals on Wheels Sees Donations Surge

TeleSur | - - One in six seniors "struggles with hunger," according to Meals on Wheels, which provides free services to those who cannot afford to pay. Meals on Wheels America, the…

Wind Power Juggernaut Really doing for 100K Workers what Trump only Promised

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Big news on the wind power front. First, it has emerged in the US as the number one renewable energy source, generating more…

The Rural-Urban Divide in the US in 6 Charts!

By Brian Thiede, Lillie Greiman, Stephan Weiler, Steven C. Beda, Tessa Conroy | (The Conversation) | - - Editor’s note: We’ve all heard of the great divide between life in rural and…

Let them eat iPhones: Jason Chaffetz on Health Care & the Poor (Young Turks)

Cenk Uygur | (The Young Turks Video Clip) | - - TYT metadata: "Poor people don’t fund Jason Chaffetz’s campaigns, so they can take a long walk off a short pier. Cenk…

Is the answer to Alt-NeoNazism Bernie’s Democratic Socialism?

TeleSur | - - Maria Svart of DSA speaks to teleSUR about how her organization is using Sanders’ vision to fight Trump and neoliberalism within the Democratic party. While the U.S. has…

Renewables now creating more jobs than Coal, Oil and Gas

TeleSur The findings of a new U.S.report bolster climate justice movement arguments that transitioning to renewables will not only save the planet but save the economy. The U.S. Department of Energy found…

Feature, not Bug: Trump’s Chaos Theory of Government

Jacek Rostowski | (Project Syndicate) | - - WARSAW – In the weeks since Donald Trump’s inauguration as President of the United States, it has become clear that he intends to roll…

“This Land:” The pro-Immigrant Radicalism of Lady Gaga and Guthrie at Half-Time

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - By beginning with Irving Berlin's "God Bless America" and then switching to Woody Guthrie's "This Land is your Land," Lady Gaga (Stefani Germanotta,…

Even in the Trump Era, Inequality can be Reduced

By Josh Hoxie | (Otherwords.org) | - - With Washington looking hopeless, it's up to local communities to close the gap between the richest and the rest. In a lot of ways,…

Trump won b/c we Let ourselves be Divided & Conquered: Standing Rock was the Opposite

By David Korten | Yes! Magazine ) | - - We’ve been pitted against each other for too long. Now is the time to come together to fix our corrupt political systems.…

It’s the Economy, Stupid: Ending ‘Religious’ Violence in the Middle East

Moha Ennaji | (Project Syndicate) | - - FEZ – The escalation of radicalism, violence, and civil wars in the Middle East since the so-called Arab Spring revolts began in 2010 has…

Election Postmortem: Did the Labor Unions get Taken for a Ride?

By Andrew Kolin | (Informed Comment) | - - According to a recent article in the Wall Street Journal, “Labor Unions Step Up Presidential Election Spending,” labor unions contributed to Hillary Clinton…

Four years of Trump could really sink the planet

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - I argued that President Obama's carbon-reduction plan wasn't anything to write home about. He wanted to reduce our annual emissions from 5.4 billion…

How can Progressives get through the Next 4 Years? Organize!

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Anti-Trump demonstrations have broken out all over the country in the wake of his surprise victory on Tuesday. Latinos are afraid he will…

Why the White Working Class Rebelled: Neoliberalism is Killing Them (Literally)

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - The Democratic Party has been the Establishment for eight years, and the Clintons have arguably been the Establishment for 24 years. Since the…

Can America’s Middle Class make a Comeback?

By Munir Moon | (Informed Comment) | - - The middle class is getting crushed. But there is hope. The most common argument about the middle class destruction is the declining or…