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He tried to organize Home Depot’s first union. Now he’s unemployed.

The Real News Network | 2023-03-06, 19:36

A wave of grassroots labor struggles is sweeping the country, with more and more workers bringing union organizing to their workplaces for the first time. Among the rank-and-file workers leading shopfloor struggles is Vince Quiles of Philadelphia, a longtime

Our World and How We Behave in It.

GlobalResearch | 2023-03-06, 18:38

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Switzerland: Insanity – Leopards to Germany

GlobalResearch | 2023-03-06, 18:38

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Peru and the People’s Defenses

GlobalResearch | 2023-03-06, 18:38

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Biden Administration Targets Senate Judiciary for Constitutional Demise

GlobalResearch | 2023-03-06, 18:38

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U.S. Special Forces Want to Use Deepfakes for Psy-ops

The Intercept | 2023-03-06, 18:29

U.S. Special Operations Command, responsible for some of the country’s most secretive military endeavors, is gearing up to conduct internet propaganda and deception campaigns online using deepfake videos, according to federal contracting documents reviewed by

Inquest Highlights Abuses in Canada’s Immigration Detention

Human Rights Watch | 2023-03-06, 18:15

A coroner’s inquest into the 2015 death of Abdurahman Hassan, a refugee from Somalia, has brought to light shocking details about Canada’s immigration detention system and abusive conditions in provincial jails. In response, 40 organizations have on the

The Gender Pay Gap Has Barely Changed In Two Decades

Truth Dig | 2023-03-06, 17:47

The gender pay gap – the difference between the earnings of men and women – has barely closed in the United States in the past two decades. In 2022, American women typically earned 82 cents for every dollar earned by men. That was about the same as in 2002,

Food Corporations Earn Billions While Millions Go Hungry

Truth Dig | 2023-03-06, 17:47

Imagine being able to provide food, shelter, medicine and clean drinking water for the 230 million most vulnerable people on Earth, and still having a cool $2bn in spare change. That’s the equivalent of the entire economic output of Gambia rattling around in

Wounded Knee, Fifty Years On

Truth Dig | 2023-03-06, 17:47

The world had largely forgotten about Native American people by the early 1970s, said Marcella Gilbert. Native populations had been decimated by disease and colonization; their sprawling homeland where ancestors had roamed was splintered into reservations. The

Bangladesh: Urgent emergency measures must aid all impacted by fire in Rohingya Refugee camps

Amnesty | 2023-03-06, 17:37

Responding to the news of a devastating fire on Sunday at the Cox’s Bazaar Rohingya camp in Bangladesh which has left around 12000 refugees homeless, Yasasmin Kaviratne, the regional campaigner for South Asia at Amnesty International said: “The Government

West African people’s movements call for greater unity as France announces military ‘reorganization’

The Real News Network | 2023-03-06, 17:11

This story originally appeared in Peoples Dispatch on March 4, 2023. It is shared here under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 (CC BY-SA) license. The prime minister of Mali’s transitional government, Choguel Kokalla Maïga, concluded a visit to

This Herbicide Is Everywhere. But Should It Be?

Truth Dig | 2023-03-06, 17:11

When it comes to international bullying, the U.S. has never been shy about throwing its weight around. But sometimes the victims resist. That’s the case with plucky Mexico, which is pushing back hard against American demands that it cancel a planned ban on

Was the Earthquake in Turkey and Syria Man-made?

GlobalResearch | 2023-03-06, 17:08

*** Four questions for Claudia von Werlhof about war and patriarchy, the world war against Mother Earth and the technical possibilities of triggering earthquakes. With thoughts from Rosalie Bertell’s last essay. The earthquake in Turkey and Syria has once

Pakistan: Blanket ban on critical speeches ‘disturbing demonstration’ of threat to freedom of expression

Amnesty | 2023-03-06, 16:44

Responding to the ban on broadcasting speeches of ex-Prime Minister Imran Khan and suspension of transmission of private news network ARY TV in Pakistan by the Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (PEMRA) on Sunday, Rehab Mahamoor, research assistant

‘Things are not looking so great in Great Britain’: UK university faculty hit the picket lines

The Real News Network | 2023-03-06, 16:17

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H17lASsAJKw&feature=youtu.be The United Kingdom is undergoing a massive wave of industrial action this winter as the cost of living crisis bites. Most recently it’s been the university higher education professionals who

Potential For Solutions: Kosovo And Serbia Agree “In Principle”

OWP | 2023-03-06, 15:58

Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic and Kosovo Prime Minister Albin Kurti met to discuss proposals on improving relations and ending the ongoing political crises between the two countries. More specifically, the talks focused on how to implement an EU-endorsed

Q&A: Why Haiti’s ‘mafia state’ needs a homegrown solution

The New Humanitarian | 2023-03-06, 15:41

Republish this article SANTIAGO Haiti's future seems more uncertain than ever: gang-violence has reached unprecedented levels, hunger is at a record high, and emergency aid is failing to meet the country's most pressing needs amid a deepening political crisis