Brooklyn, N.Y. — Fifty people gathered in the icy cold outside Brooklyn’s federal court for a news conference on Jan. 7. They were fighting to save temporary protected status (TPS) for 59,000 Haitians and hundreds of thousands […]
Black lung disease is a terrible way to die. Coal miners’ lungs become crusty and useless, according to Dr. Robert Cohen, a pulmonologist at the University of Illinois. Towards the end, Dr. Cohen told National […]
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Patricia Okoumou, the courageous woman who dramatically climbed the Statue of Liberty on July 4th to protest the jailing of 15,000 immigrant children by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, was found “guilty” in Federal Court […]
Besides steel, another vital industry for developed societies is machine tools. These include lathes, drill presses, gear cutters and milling machines ― the machines that make or form machine parts. U.S. industry helped pioneer external […]
Members of International Electrical Workers (IBEW) Local 3 in the New York City area have been on strike against the Spectrum cable monopoly since March 28, 2017. The 1,800 strikers are fighting Charter Communications, which […]
The lying bigot in the White House wants us to hate the People’s Republic of China. Trump claims that China is ripping us off. How so? China isn’t the only country that runs a trade […]
One hundred thousand schoolchildren in New York City are homeless. Lead paint contaminates thousands of apartments in the city’s housing projects. But both New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio and New York State Gov. […]
General Electric had $122 billion in revenues last year. But in June it was kicked off the Dow Jones Industrial Average. GE’s replacement was Walgreens Boots Alliance. A few decades ago, Walgreens was just a […]
GE’s mess isn’t really the result of faulty boardroom decisions. Capitalism’s inner workings — whose laws were discovered by Karl Marx — guaranteed it. Why did Jack Welch and his successor Jeffrey Immelt bet the […]
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