2020

From Salmonella to Workers’ Injuries: Trump Races to Weaken Environmental and Worker Protections on Way Out

By Isaac Arnsdorf ( ProPublica) – Six days after President Donald Trump lost his bid for reelection, the U.S. Department of Agriculture notified food safety groups that it was proposing a regulatory change to speed up chicken factory processing lines, a change that would allow companies to sell more birds. An earlier USDA effort had […]

Employment

Facing Holiday Rush, Frontlines Retail Workers Urge Billionaire Bosses to Share the Wealth

Inequality.org

By Chuck Collins | – ( Inequality.org) – This essential workforce is hustling to help holiday shoppers while also organizing hazard pay and other COVID-19 protections. This Cyber Monday, frontline essential workers will be hustling to help holiday shoppers — while also fighting for dignity, hazard pay, and other protections as COVID-19 infection rates spike […]

Debt

The Pentagon couldn’t Protect us from the Pandemic: Will Biden dare Cut its Budget?

Tomdispatch

By William D. Hartung and Mandy Smithberger | – ( Tomdispatch.com ) – Now that Joe Biden is slated to take office as the 46th president of the United States, advice on how he should address a wide range of daunting problems is flooding in. Nowhere is there more at stake than when it comes […]

Featured

Why the world is Safer if Biden can Reinstitute Iran Nuclear Deal

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Iran has no nuclear weapons, and no nuclear weapons program using diverted enriched uranium. It has a civilian nuclear enrichment program. Argentina, Brazil, Iran, Japan, the Netherlands and South Korea all have enriched uranium, and all of them have forsworn building nuclear bombs. Argentina, Brazil and Iran have in the […]

Democratic Party

Republicans have become the Party of Zombies and Loss at Polls won’t stop them from Coming for Biden

John Feffer

( Foreign Policy in Focus) – How else would you describe Americans who deny a pandemic that’s killed 250,000 people and the election that repudiated Trump? The 2017 film Bushwick begins like a lot of zombie flicks. An unsuspecting couple is walking through a subway station in the working-class neighborhood of Bushwick in Brooklyn. The […]

Germany

Germany dedicates $11 bn. to joint Green Hydrogen Plants abroad for Imports to Power its Fuel Cells

Clean Energy Wire

By Benjamin Wehrmann | – ( Clean Energy Wire) – A new project launched by Germany’s development cooperation organisation GIZ is supposed to prepare the ground for large-scale imports to sustain the country’s budding hydrogen industry as early as 2021, Klaus Stratmann writes in Handelsblatt. The project, dubbed H2 Global and launched by the GIZ […]

Domestic Terrorism

Greece had a neo-Nazi Problem, too; here’s how Athens dealt with it

The Conversation

By Georgios Samaras | – When a wave of right-wing extremism hit Greece in 2012, few would have predicted that Golden Dawn, one of the groups involved, would grow to become the third largest party in the Greek parliament. This was the beginning of a long period of turmoil in Greek politics that saw a […]

Donald Trump

In Bid to Kill a Biden return to Iran nuclear Deal, Israel Assassinates Leading Nuclear Scientist

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Iranian newspaper Ettela’at reports that on Friday, what it called “armed terrorist elements” mounted an assault on the automobile carrying Dr. Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, who was badly wounded in the midst of the clash between his security team and the assailants and was transported to hospital, where he died of […]

censorship

Israel’s growing strategic threat to our freedom of speech

Asa Winstanley

( Middle East Monitor ) – There is an old saying that you should not put the fox in charge of the hen house. It makes perfect sense, and yet that’s exactly what Western governments are increasingly starting to do when it comes to their freedom of speech policies. All bluster about “cancel culture” aside, […]

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