Workers Sue Starbucks After Company Accused Them of Kidnapping Their Manager
Starbucks employees filed a lawsuit against Starbucks accusing them of defamation. Filing kidnapping or assault charges against workers earlier this year after they waged a labor protest — charges that the union said were totally false and were later dismissed by the police. Workers at a South Carolina unionized store confronted their manager with a […]
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Truss continues MP charm offensive ahead of elections to the executive of the 1922 committee
Following an interview with BBC Television in which Liz Truss claimed that she ‘will lead the Conservatives into the next general election’, the prime minister will attempt to further sure up her parliamentary colleagues today. Having spoken last night to the ‘One Nation’ group of Conservative MPs on the left of the party, the prime […]
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An e-petition with over 600,000 signatures calls for a general election
A petition was created online and signed by many thousand of people calling for an earlier general election. E-petition 619781 has over 630,000 signatures. The petition closes on January 28, 2023. It reads: “Call an immediate general election so that the people can decide who should lead us through the unprecedented crises threatening the UK.The chaos […]
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“Negotiation” Needed Before Jan. 6 Committee Agrees to Live Trump Deposition
A subpoena asking former President Donald Trump to appear before a House select committee investigating the January 6 Capitol attacks would require him to agree to only appear on live television, one member said. Rep. Adam Kinzinger, a congressman from Illinois who is one of only two Republican members of the committee, implied that conditions […]
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Ketanji Brown Jackson Cleverly Turned the Right’s Own Judicial Theory Against It
During the Supreme Court’s oral argumentsIn Merrill v. Milligan a case that could deal a severe blow to the Voting Rights Act, Ketanji Brown Jackson powerfully rebutted right-wing attacks on voting rights by using her own “originalist” analysis of the 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments to explain why congressional district maps cannot constitutionally be drawn […]
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Biden’s National Security Strategy Is a Defense of US Domination, Not Democracy
The Biden administration just released their new National Security Strategy. It is designed to restore and enforce Washington’s domination over global capitalism and the international state system against pretenders to its throne as the imperial hegemon. As the document puts it, the world order is at an “inflection point;” “the post-Cold War era is definitely […]
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Have the “Guts” to Lead on the Economy
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont), offers a piece of advice to Democrats with just weeks before the November midterm election: speak up about economic issues or risk losing control in Congress and, possibly, even risking democracy itself. Chuck Todd in an interview NBC’s “Meet the Press” on SundaySanders said that Democrats need to go beyond social […]
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Raphael Warnock Blasts No-Show Herschel Walker During Debate
Sen. Raphael Warnock on Sunday blasted his Republican opponent Herschel Walker — represented at the Atlanta debate by an empty podium to the Democratic incumbent’s left — for lying about his “well-documented history of violence” and opposing student debt relief, prescription drug price reforms, and other popular policy moves. “I think Herschel Walker, if he […]
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The Commons react to Jeremy Hunt’s fiscal plan
After his emergency fiscal declaration this morning, the new chancellor declared his plans in the House of Commons. He is reversing “almost all” tax measures announced in the growth plan three weeks ago. Hunt said, “We will no longer be proceeding with the cuts to dividend tax rates, the reversal of off-payroll working reforms, the […]
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New Film Explores Untold Radical Life of Civil Rights Icon Rosa Parks
AMY GOODMAN:Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat in a bus in Montgomery, Alabama to a white passenger on December 1, 1955. This was the day that the modern civil rights movement was born. One network described her in 2005 as a tired seamstress. They said she wasn’t a troublemaker. But the media got […]
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