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The International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers scores significant, preliminary win against Boeing on alleged retaliatory firings. Boeing is expected to appeal.

The closure of the last shipyard in Belfast would end centuries of ship building in the city. A group of workers are demanding the U.K. nationalize the yards.

The recent raids in Mississippi came one the first day of school, thus separating parents from their children—a situation not unknown in the ongoing anti-immigrant-demagoguery of the Trump Administration.

Our strategy is simple: mobilize millions of Americans across this country to stand up and demand that politicians choose a side, the American people or the pharmaceutical corporations.

As Brown University’s Costs of War research project recently pointed out, the Defense Department “remains the world’s single largest consumer of oil – and as a result, one of the world’s top greenhouse gas emitters.”

The charitable reading is that Ready Or Not understands how moneyed entitlement knows no gender—that the only way to break the arbitrary yet destructive grasp of the super-rich is to chop it off, or possibly light it on fire.

Workers Getting Woke; Exporting Theocracy; GOP's Memo; Trolling Antifa; Arabic-Hebrew Theater; Evangelicals Face 2020; Banning "The Hunt"; Jay-Z's Football Fumble

What Trump has called an “invasion” was actually a corporate recruitment drive.

“Christian Zionism is an extremist ideology, but it’s also incredibly broadly held and is part of a larger Christian package of belief. Most people who hold it don’t realize they’re holding really hateful beliefs..."