Sky-High Gas Prices Are the Cost of Wall Street Domination, Not Supply and Demand
The following is a lightly edited transcription from The Punch Out with Eugene Puryear, a daily news podcast that comes out Monday through Friday, 5pm ET. Subscribe here. Major oil and gas companies are swimming in cash right now due to the increase in oil prices that began with the war in Ukraine. Of course, […]
Hurtling Towards Climate Disaster: New IPCC Report Gives Shocking Glimpse of The Future
The following is a lightly edited transcription from The Punch Out with Eugene Puryear, a daily news podcast that comes out Monday through Friday, 5pm ET. Subscribe here. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the main United Nations entity that studies and presents reports on the climate crisis, continues to release stunning documents about what […]
Why Sanctions on Eritrea Make No Sense
Commercial activities in Asmara | Photo: BT News Eritrea is one of the most demonized countries on earth. The very fact that in the West it is often referred to as the “North Korea of Africa” speaks volumes. It too is wrapped in a web of decontextualized, distorted and falsified information all in the service […]
DSA Organizer Responds to White House & Media Attacks, Explains Anti-NATO Position
The Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) released a statement on the war in Ukraine that condemned Russia’s invasion. But it has been attacked by the White House nonetheless for demanding the United States withdraw from NATO and “end the imperialist expansionism that set the stage for this conflict.” Austin Gonzalez, member of the National Political […]
Puerto Ricans Aren’t Taking Austerity Lying Down
Recently Puerto Rico has seen large protests by workers in the public sector, demanding raises, better working conditions, and more secure retirement. Dr. Adriana Garriga-López, Associate Professor of Anthropology at Kalamazoo College & Adjunct Professor at the University of Puerto Rico, Cayey campus, joined The Freedom Side Live to break down the context of the […]
Port Truckers Fight for Fair Wages, Benefits
Truckers at California ports are petitioning to unionize with the Teamsters union and be treated and paid fairly. Drivers for XPO Logistics Inc. are denied health insurance through their job and face poverty wages because they are unfairly classed as “contractors” rather than employees.. Kristal Romero, Port Division Coordinator with the Teamsters, explains the situation […]
Journalist: ‘Anonymous U.S. Intelligence Officials’ the Only ‘So-Called Evidence’
Russia announced a pull-back of troops from the border with Ukraine, but U.S. officials have accused Russia of lying and continuing their build-up. All the while U.S. media coverage has parroted the official U.S. spin. Ben Norton, journalist & editor of the new outlet and podcast Multipolarista, goes over the media’s misleading role in the […]
German Parliamentarian: ‘Peace Can Only Exist with Russia, Not Against Russia’
Germany has emerged as the center of skepticism towards escalation in the US-Russia-Ukraine conflict, Why? MP Sevim Dagdelen, Die Linke spokeswoman for international politics and disarmament in the German Bundestag, explains the historic and contemporary context; and offers an alternative vision for European security.