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The NYC mayor said the historic strike is about “who deserves to benefit from this system.”

Joseph H. Thompson, a career federal prosecutor who was the acting U.S. attorney for Minnesota last year, was among those who resigned as the Justice Department sought to examine the woman’s supposed ties to activist groups.

The stark bifurcation of corporate victories and weak labor data raises concerns among economists of jobless growth jeopardizing the U.S. workforce, as well as a K-shaped economy, where the rich get richer while the poor get poorer.

The genocide in Gaza radicalizes Zionism’s long-standing colonial project. But Israeli leaders’ open rejection of any future possibility of a Palestinian state have undercut their own international legitimacy. Interview by Bafta Sarbo. I

What does the Rhodes interview indicate about the future of Oath Keepers?

Donald Trump is weak and aggressive, while his advisors are unscrupulous. The mini-Nazis he has surrounded himself with are rushing to deploy military power to mask their total failure on the domestic front.

The new dietary guidelines, which were released Wednesday and emphasize protein, meat, cheese and milk, were informed by a panel of experts with several ties to the meat and dairy industries.

While the introduction of robotics at Amazon is still in an early phase, the technological transformation underway continues existing practices of work intensification, degradation, and displacement.

Sit-Down Strikes Were Powerful; Now They’re Illegal (1937), Sixty-Two People Own the Same Wealth as 3.6 Billion (2016), Red Dye No. 2 Was Banned 50 Years Ago; Why Did It Take So Long? (1976), New York Gets the News About Racist Terror in Dixie (1868)

Events keep demonstrating Donald Trump’s absolutely limitless claims of power to do anything. So nobody should be surprised at the resounding claim that his agents can kill people in cold blood, and they’re immune from any scrutiny.