Organizing the Unorganized: The Teamsters Take on Amazon Progressive
Over 100,000 New York City public school students were homeless last year, data show. NYTimes
Teamsters Seek Dollar General Vote in Latest Test of Union Clout Bloomberg
Friendship Dairies workers vote unanimously to strike over 2 key issues Yahoo
Climate change
COP26: Military pollution is the skeleton in the West’s climate closet Middle East Eye
COP26: Fossil Fuel Lobbyists Outnumber Any Nation’s Delegates ConsortiumNews
Why the Pentagon Is Equipping the F-35 With a Thermonuclear Bomb Popular Mechanics
Nicaragua
President Ortega: Nicaraguan People Vote for Peace and Not for War – Washington Interventionism Activated Orinoco Tribune
Crisis worsens on Poland-Belarus border as migrants congregate and troops are mobilized CNN
Twilight capitalism Michael Roberts
The book begins with the ‘here and now’ – and so with COVID pandemic. Over two chapters, the authors spell out the origins and course of the pandemic, making, in my view, a key point. The COVID slump may have been triggered by a global health crisis, but even before the pandemic struck, global capitalism had been in a period of depression exhibited by low economic growth and poor productive investment and, above all, by low and falling profitability of capital – the key ingredient of ‘twilight capitalism’.
Murder By Any Other Name Consortium News
Scott Ritter explains how the murder of Zemari Ahmadi and nine family members by a U.S. drone attack in August was whitewashed by the Pentagon.
Rome is burning YouTube
This song goes out to all those people who have gone into action to end state organized racist violence and oppression and all forms of racism.
Trump coup attempt
On October 20, 2020 — just a few weeks before last year’s election — the Claremont Institute and the Texas Public Policy Foundation issued a detailed roadmap for overturning the presidential election, the Bulwark reports.
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