Nobel Peace Prize Goes to Human Rights Campaigners in Ukraine, Belarus, Russia
Friday’s 2022 Nobel Peace Prize went to two human right groups, Memorial in Russia and Center for Civil Liberties in Ukraine. Ales Bialiatski was also in prison. The Norwegian Nobel Committee recognized their work in challenging power and protecting fundamental human right in war-ravaged neighboring countries. We speak with Anna Dobrovolskaya who was the executive […]
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Wage Growth Slows Even as Unemployment Ticks Back Down to 3.5 Percent
The September employment report indicated that the labor market remains strong. However, wage growth appears to have slowed. According to most predictions the report showed a gain in employment of 263,000 jobs. The unemployment rate fell to 3.5 percent, which is the lowest level in half-century. Despite this strength in wage growth, September saw a […]
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Conor Burns sacked amid misconduct claim
Conor Burns, Bournemouth West MP has been dismissed by the government in the wake of a misconduct investigation. The complaint is believed to be about an incident that occurred in a bar at the Conservative party conference in Birmingham earlier in the week. While the complaint investigation is ongoing, Burns has been fired from both […]
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Biden’s Marijuana Pardons Are Good — Legalization Would Be Even Better
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont) has referred to as for marijuana to be legalized within the wake of President Joe Biden’s shock announcement that his administration will likely be pardoning hundreds of easy federal marijuana possession prices and contemplating shifting to decriminalize hashish on the federal degree, often known as descheduling the drug. Whereas Biden’s transfer […]
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Conor Burns sacked amid misconduct claim
Bournemouth West MP Conor Burns has been sacked from the government following a misconduct complaint. The complaint is understood to refer to an incident that took place at a bar during the Conservative party conference in Birmingham earlier this week. Burns has lost both his job as a trade minister and the party whip while […]
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Media’s Reaction to Biden’s ‘Where’s Jackie?’ vs. Trump’s ‘Coco Chow’
By now, everyone who follows politics should recognize that the liberal media will deliberately ignore embarrassing gaffes by President Joe Biden, especially if they suggest he’s not mentally sharp enough to be the president. Biden asking, “Where’s Jackie?” about a congresswoman killed in a car crash two months ago was a TV black hole: nothing […]
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Trump Erased Millions of Possible PPP Fraud Flags in Last Days in Office
An explosive new investigation of data from the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) finds that, in Donald Trump’s final days in office, his administration rushed to eliminate oversight for loans which were flagged for potential fraud or further investigation — and wiped flags from nearly every one of the largest PPP loans. The Project on Government […]
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600 Million Metric Tons of Plastic May Fill Oceans by 2036 If We Don’t Act Now
As the private transport sector shifts to green hydrogen, batteries, and biofuels, fossil fuel stakeholders are looking for new revenue streams in the petrochemical and plastics industries. That’s bad news for a world already swimming — literally — in plastic pollution. Product manufacturers and other upstream forces could reverse the petrochemical trend, but only if […]
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‘Socialism is only possible when the economy is under public control’
Socialism has not been a recurring present in Britain’s government. The 1945 general election led to the return of Britain’s first Labour majority government and an election manifesto that declared it to be a socialist party. The Attlee government established the modern welfare state, the NHS, and nationalized public utilities. We have not seen a […]
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Unacceptable custody time limits now facing those on remand
The Criminal Bar Association (CBA), has initiated an indefinite strike to increase attention on unacceptable time frames for people being held in custody within the UK justice systems. The strike action only adds to the existing backlog of approximately 60,000 cases. Where it is necessary for defendants to be held on remand, ‘custody time limits’ […]
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