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In the U.S.

Capitalism needs you to die quicker

September 23, 2022 Stephen Millies
“Americans are dying younger, saving corporations billions,” ran an Aug. 8, 2017, Bloomberg headline. It continued: “Life expectancy gains have stalled. The grim silver lining? Lower pension costs.” That was over two years before the […]
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Fear of an educated working class

September 15, 2022 Stephen Millies
Former U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer didn’t have to worry about student loans when she graduated from Brooklyn College in 1962. Whites then comprised over 90% of the students in the City University of New York […]
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Black workers, history, and building union membership

September 14, 2022 Karen Juanita Carrillo
There’s been a growing worker union movement in 2022. Workers are turning to labor unions at traditionally non-union companies like Trader Joe’s, Amazon, REI, Target, Chipotle, Starbucks, Apple, and more. “Seventy-one percent of Americans now […]
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Star eyewitness who named Queen of England in abduction of aboriginal children dies suddenly in Vancouver hospital

September 9, 2022 Struggle - La Lucha
Originally published at Censored News on March 1, 2011.  A Special Report by Kevin D. Annett March 1, 2011 William Combes Eyewitness, 1952-2011 Update: William Combes died of lethal injection at St. Paul’s Catholic hospital […]
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Their debts and ours

September 9, 2022 Stephen Millies
The entire student loan program amounts to loan sharking. Forty-five million people owe $1.7 trillion. Every cent should be wiped off the books. The compound interest collected by the banksters is strangling millions. People in […]
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‘Billions for Ukraine – We say billions for Jackson’

September 6, 2022 Struggle - La Lucha
December 12th Movement Press statement September 2, 2022 In 2022, in the richest country the world has ever seen, Jackson, the capital of Mississippi, has no water for drinking, cooking, bathing, flushing a toilet, or […]
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3.8 million tenants in the U.S. could be evicted in the next two months

September 5, 2022 Peoples Dispatch
According to the United States Census Bureau, 3.8 million tenants are likely to be evicted in the next two months. Comparatively, only 3.6 million eviction cases were filed in the entire year of 2018. In 2018, the Eviction Lab […]
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On Jeff Bezos’s $500 million yacht fiasco

September 4, 2022 Kermit Leibensperger
Heard the news about Jeff Bezos’ $500,000,000 yacht? I wanted to wait a little while to write something and submit it for publication — just to be sure Big Boss Jeff hadn’t slyly succeeded in […]
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Largest arms transfer in history: Biden escalates U.S. proxy war in Ukraine

August 25, 2022 Gary Wilson
While announcing a minimal $10,000 student debt relief plan, Biden announced another $3 billion additional military expansion in Ukraine.  Earlier this month, when Senators Elizabeth Warren and Chuck Schumer said the debt relief plan should […]
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Why does Washington prefer war drive over negotiating Brittney Griner’s release?

August 6, 2022 Gloria Verdieu and Melinda Butterfield
On Aug. 4, a Russian court convicted Brittney Griner of drug smuggling and possession and sentenced her to nine years in jail. She was arrested in February for carrying cannabis vaping cartridges through the Moscow […]