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Cargo Giant in Baltimore Crash Silenced Whistleblowers

Regulators cited Maersk for its “illegal policy” blocking employees from reporting safety concerns to the Coast Guard.

Biden Gaza Strategy Panned As ‘Mess’

Strain of aiming to influence Israel’s actions without leverage and also avoiding starvation is showing, say analysts

The Greatest Baseball Films

Most baseball films are pure entertainment. But baseball is often the setting for notable films that tell a bigger story about America’s social conditions. As the Major League Baseball season begins, here are 13 examples.

Why Is US Letting the Oil Industry Destroy the Planet

The men who made the intentional decision to murder my father are long dead; the men and women who today are plotting to render much of our beautiful planet uninhabitable are very much with us…

Global Left Midweek – March 27, 2024

Politics above — politics below

Israel Defies UNSC Demand for Gaza Ceasefire

The report concludes that Israel’s policies in Gaza give “reasonable grounds to believe that the threshold indicating Israel’s commission of genocide is met.”

The Surprising Link Between Budgeting and Good Health

Health outcomes and life expectancy improve in counties where residents have greater opportunity to engage in civic life.

Single-Payer Healthcare Would Save Money and Lives

Our current way of doing things is inhumane and unsustainable, and it is essential that we transition to a system which prioritizes patient care over profit.

The Biden Netanyahu Rift

Is the Israeli-American ‘special relationship’ in danger, or are the two leaders merely playing a game of political survival?

Dispatches From the Culture Wars – March 26, 2024

Sustaining democracy with collective action
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Through a Grid, Darkly

Adrienne Raphel Los Angeles Review of Books
This book, writes reviewer Raphel, "is both a memoir and a cultural analysis of American crosswords from the 1910s through the 2010s."

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Taking a Hammer to It

Jeremy Hsu New Scientist Magazine
An eye-opening read traces today’s collective rage against big tech back to the Luddite uprising the industrial revolution.

Labor

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Ron Carey’s Lessons in Labor Movement Reform

Steve Early Rand Wilson Jacobin
The late and legendary Teamsters reform leader Ron Carey briefly succeeded in a monumental task: turning around a corrupt and conservative union. Today’s aspiring reformers looking to revitalize their own unions can learn from his career.

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Worker-to-Worker Unionism: A Model for Labor To Scale Up

Eric Blanc Jacobin
At the heart of the current uptick in union organizing at companies like Starbucks has been “worker-to-worker unionism.” That model could be key to scaling up organizing and revitalizing the labor movement.

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UMWA Joins Fight Against Landfill

Shawn Street UMWA
Placing a landfill on this site [Moss 3 Preparation Plant occupied by miners during 1989 Pittston strike] is a snub to not only those surviving workers but Russell County’s proud labor heritage.

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AFSCME’s DC 37 Retirees Hearing Didn’t Settle Anything…

Joe Maniscalco Work-Bites
The Judicial Panel hearing ostensibly called to decide if AFSCME President Lee Saunders acted appropriately in taking over control of the DC 37 Retirees Association and suspending its officers in February has only sparked more questions.

Friday nite video

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Mary Lou Fulton | Many More Of Us

Combine the fight for women's freedom with a funky groove and you get Many More of Us, a new rocker from award-winning songwriter Mary Lou Fulton.

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The Captured Supreme Court

Right-wing donor interests aim to capture the Supreme Court and achieve through the Court what they cannot through the elected branches of government.