No Country Safe for Labor Rights
[Photo: Wisconsin unions fight Walker’s efforts to destroy collective bargaining. (CUNY]
By Pete Dolack
Source: Systemic Disorder.
[Photo: Wisconsin unions fight Walker’s efforts to destroy collective bargaining. (CUNY]
By Pete Dolack
Source: Systemic Disorder.
[Photo: Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro]
By Paul Street
Source: CounterPunch.
Let me digress slightly to give one example, out of many possible, of the dilemma we face. I do believe that Russia intervened in the 2016 election with the aim of first, destabilizing the US government, and second, bringing Trump to the presidency. However, I also know that the US (and NATO under guidance of same) have been provocative and a true threat to the sovereignty and stability of Russia. I fully support the right of Russia and its people to stand as full partners in the league of nations. However, they are not (currently) friends of the United States. So when FBI Director James Comey showed exceedingly bad judgement in his role in destabilizing those same elections, it would be warranted (in my opinion) to ask him to step down from his position. However, Trump fired him to disrupt (and hopefully end) the FBI investigation into the Russian intervention and the possible Trump campaign cooperation, in those elections. Hence, one ends up supporting Comey. Similarly with AG Jeff Sessions, who anyone who supports civil rights would fight (and did fight) to keep out of that office, ends up being supported to stay in office against Trump’s efforts to remove him to stop the same investigation. It is diabolical. Which brings us back to the MSM that on one hand is doing a semi-credible job on keeping Trump’s world threatening actions in front of the public, yet is no less corporate-interested and anti-liberty when dealing with all matters international. With all that said, it is a relief to share Paul Street’s excellent discussion of the events in Venezuela as the MSM has taken its position to assist in overthrowing the Venezuelan government.
[Photo: A teen raising the flag of Palestine in Al-Aqsa Mosque Compound. (Photo: Quds Press, file)]
Ramzy Baroud, PhD
[Graphic: Past Memories (Piri Tanyay]
By Barbara Millar
[Photo: Sheriff Oddie J. Shoupe of the White County.”]
By Southern Poverty Law Center