Fast Food Workers Shut It Down | On the Picket Line, 9/9
Check out our new weekly segment “On the Picket Line”, a round-up of workers’ struggles! Fast food workers strike and shut it down in Durham, N.C.; UFT strikes deal with the NYC Mayor; New Orleans sanitation workers enter 18th week of strike; labor support of Black Lives Matter.
Persecuting Assange: the Stakes for All of Us
Proceedings against Julian Assange begin today. It’s an effort to intimidate all media outlets that dare publish the Empire’s secrets. WikiLeaks isn’t being punished for telling lies, but for revealing the truth.
2020 09 04 NYC Press Conference
“Powerful message to the NYPD from the organizers of the demo a car drove through on Thursday. Kimberly Bernard said, “The message remains the same, the same message we had on the first day when George Floyd was murdered. Abolish and defund the police!”
Chaos and Crisis: What If Neither Trump or Biden Concede?
On Election Night 2020, the map could show Trump with an overwhelming victory, only to be reversed by the counting of mail-in ballots. We could be headed to the most volatile election in U.S. history, with both candidates refusing to concede. Could this lead to violence on the street? Monica Cruz of BreakThrough analyzes the […]
Breonna Taylor: Prosecutors Offer Deal to Her Ex to Smear Her as Drug Dealer
Prosecutors are trying to smear Breonna Taylor as a drug dealer. Breonna Taylor’s ex-boyfriend, Jamarcus Glover, was arrested on drug charges on August 28th A day after he told a newspaper that Taylor was not involved in drug trafficking. Prosecutors offered him a plea deal, but only on one condition. if he said Breonna […]
California Dems Coddle Cops
Los Angeles County Sheriff’s deputies are in the spotlight this week after killing another person on August 31st, and after new details have emerged of a literal police gang inside the Sherriffs department — known as the Executioners — in which cops are initiated by violence and rewarded for brutalizing and killing community members. […]
Meet the notorious Kenyan police unit trained by CIA and MI6
A notorious Kenyan police unit, linked to dozens of extra-judicial killings, is heavily backed by the CIA and MI6. That is the explosive finding of the British website Declassified UK. Kenya’s elite Rapid Response Teams have been linked, since 2009, to at least 100 “summary executions” and “mistaken killings” per year. That amounts to a […]
UAE-Israel “Peace Plane” Masks Ethnic Cleansing of Palestinians
The first ever commercial flight between Israel and the United Arab Emirates has taken place, and The Times of Israel is calling it the “Peace Plane”. But a better name would be the Occupation Plane. Flight 971, with Benjamin Netanyahu and Jared Kushner on board, took off from Israel’s capital Tel Aviv and landed in […]