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Elder Care Homes Rake in Profits as Workers Earn a Pittance

Jennifer Gollan AP
Residential senior care homes profit handsomely by paying their workers poverty wages. The profit margins can be huge and, for violators of labor laws, hinge on the widespread exploitation of thousands of caretakers, many of them poor

5 Ways You Can Support the School Climate Strikes

350.org Team 350.org
Over 1.6 million students across the globe have been striking on Fridays: for the climate, for our future. Here’s 5 ways you can support students going out on strike again on 24 May, and answer their call for real climate action.

The Yellow Vests of France: Six Months of Struggle

Richard Greeman Socialist Project
Six months ago, on November 17, 2018, Yellow Vests burst ‘out of nowhere’, with autonomous local units springing up all over France like mushrooms. The immediate cause was to protest an unfair tax on fuel, but demands expanded quickly...

Media Bits and Bytes - May 21, 2019

Portside
Breaking up big tech; Internet iron curtain; Ditching the social network; Vaccinating against fake news; Big media, little media; Going indie; WhatsApp hacked

Jewish Morality Is Criticism of Israeli Policy

Shira Lipkin; Amira Hass
Israel is not my birthright writes a U.S. Jewish author, raised to think the country was ours by divine right. But this horror in Gaza has challenged even my deepest beliefs. The Haaretz' Gaza reporter, daughter of Holocaust survivors, writes, 'If victory is measured by the success at causing lifelong trauma to 1.8 million people (and not for the first time) waiting to be executed any moment - then the victory is yours.'

Netanyahu's Gaza Game Plan

Marilyn Katz In These Times
In my visits to Israel I've met with and been at demonstrations with the thousands of both Palestinian and Israeli activists who know that Israel is at a turning point, that it faces a clear choice. They assert that it is exactly with one's enemies that one negotiates to find peace. Americans - Jewish or not and whether we wish to or not - have the opportunity and the responsibility to ensure that Israel makes the right choice. The United States is not a bystander.

Harry Potter and the Battle Against Bigotry

Tom Jacobs Pacific Standard Magazine
Kids who identify with the hero of J.K. Rowling's popular fantasy novels hold more open-minded attitudes toward immigrants and gays.

Why Is Washington Risking War With Russia?

Katrina vanden Heuvel and Stephen F. Cohen The Nation
Kiev's siege of the Donbass, supported by the Obama administration, is escalating an already perilous crisis.