News Releases
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Overtime Hours for Bullshit Pay
“FedEx CEO Frederick Smith has the largest stockpile in the Low-Wage 100. His personal holdings have grown 65 percent to more than $5 billion since January 2000. By contrast, FedEx median worker pay fell by 20 percent to $39,177 (including $9,267 in health benefits) between 2019 and 2022.”
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Tale of Two Espionage Act Cases – Donald Trump and Jeffrey Sterling
The prosecution of Sterling was based entirely on circumstantial evidence, and he continues to profess his innocence. In his new piece, Sterling wrote that the Espionage Act’s “non-specific language creates an overly broad net that the government and the Department of Justice casts, unfettered in any direction it so chooses. How the Espionage Act is being used is ludicrous, but considering the DOJ’s track record in implementing the outdated law, it would have had a hard time NOT indicting Trump under it.
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Maui and Predatory Realtors and Lawyers
I have a recent graduate whose entire family was displaced by the fire. As you can imagine, there are significant issues that need to be addressed to help Maui. There are deep historical injustices that are bubbling to the surface, particularly as it relates to land and water, in West Maui. Predatory realtors and lawyers are taking advantage of the devastation and inundating suffering communities.
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The Palestine Laboratory: X/Twitter Reportedly Working with Israeli Surveillance Firm
“What happens in Palestine is being exported around the world to over 130 nations in the last decades. Israel is now the world’s 10th biggest arms dealer, selling some of the most sophisticated forms of surveillance to democracies and dictatorships. From India to Saudi Arabia and Rwanda to Greece, Israel’s occupation tools are ubiquitous in the modern state’s apparatus.”
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Axis of War? The Japan-Korea-U.S. Trilateral Alliance
During the Obama administration, U.S. officials (like Blinken) tried to create an alliance with Tokyo and Seoul by encouraging the two countries to end their long-running dispute over Imperial Japan’s cruel exploitation of Korean sex slaves known as ‘comfort women.’
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NYT Minimizing “Forever Chemicals” Threat to Fish and Military Pollution
“The article only mentions the military twice. Where I live in this small area known as southern Maryland, Joint Base Andrews, Naval Support Facility Indian Head, Naval Support Facility Dahlgren, The Naval Air Station Patuxent River, the Webster Field Annex of the Naval Air Station, Patuxent River, the Naval Research Laboratory’s Chesapeake Bay Detachment, and the Naval Academy in Annapolis have severely contaminated the waterways in Maryland, including the Potomac River and the Chesapeake Bay where the crabs, oysters, and fish are dangerous to eat because of their high concentrations of a host of PFAS compounds.”
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Assassinated Ecuadorian Presidential Candidate’s Family Calls Killing a “State Crime”
“Multiple videos show Fernando Villavicencio being escorted by police personnel to a vehicle that did not comply with the most basic security standards. The car was not an armored or bulletproof vehicle. The police confirmed this fact the following day in a press conference, admitting that Villavicencio’s armored car was in Guayaquil where he had been in the morning and that the car arrived five minutes after the deadly attack.”
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Public Pharmaceuticals to Mitigate Drug Shortages
Public pharmaceuticals are the best solution to the ongoing drug shortages in the United States.
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“Blatant Lie”: Secret Pakistan Cable Documents U.S. Pressure to Remove Imran Khan
“One month after the meeting with U.S. officials documented in the leaked Pakistani government document, a no-confidence vote was held in Parliament, leading to Khan’s removal from power. The vote is believed to have been organized with the backing of Pakistan’s powerful military. Since that time, Khan and his supporters have been engaged in a struggle with the military and its civilian allies, whom Khan claims engineered his removal from power at the request of the U.S.”
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Activists Arrested at Nuclear Base in the Netherlands
“activists from the Netherlands, Germany, Italy and the USA worked on a tunnel under the fence of Volkel Air Base with the intention of occupying the runway once again to call society to abolish nuclear weapons and CO2 emissions by the armed forces and to learn to solve our conflicts in such a way that other people and fellow creatures, large and small, plant and animal, do not suffer.”