News Releases
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ADL: Not a Civil Rights Group, an Advocate for Israel
“Musk and the ADL perform this dance in which Musk rallies his racist base, and the ADL gets to present itself as if it’s an antiracist organization. It isn’t — the ADL is an advocate for Israel and for key positions of the U.S. right, including anti-CRT and the notion that antiracist organizers are agents of ‘Soviet’ ideology, in their own words.”
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As 9/11 Anniversary Nears: “Time to Reassess the War on Terror”
For the most part, the American public is left in the dark — unable to give the informed consent of the governed, while Washington’s bipartisan allegiance to perpetual war persists in the name of stopping terrorism.”
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How the Myth of “Efficiency” Advanced Deregulation, Aided Corporate Mergers, and Devalued Labor
“There is no empirical research to suggest that mergers that increase concentration actually lower costs and pass on the benefits to consumers. As one district court commented, ‘The Court is not aware of any case, and Defendants have cited none, where the merging parties have successfully rebutted the government’s prima facie case on the strength of the efficiencies.’”
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Labor Day: Best and Worst States for Workers in America
Oxfam America released its 2023 edition of the Best States to Work. The five lowest-ranking states “have a minimum wage stuck at the federal level of $7.25, none mandate paid leave, and all have so-called ‘right-to-work’ laws on the books.”
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Charges of “Flaws” in Protocols as Japan Dumps Fukushima Water Into Pacific
“Japan and TEPCO claim that they are filtering the radioisotopes out, but only 40 percent of the tanks have been analyzed for radioactivity and not all isotopes were searched for. Radioactive hydrogen, called tritium, can’t be filtered at all.”
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Effects of the Medicaid “Unwinding” on Children
As of August 23, at least 5,366,000 Medicaid enrollees have been disenrolled since states began the process of disenrolling people from Medicaid after a three-year pause during the Covid-19 pandemic, when people could not be kicked off the program.
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“The U.S. Says No to Affirmative Action — Until It’s Time for War”
“It’s well established that military recruiters target low-income schools and youth of color. The U.S. invests exponentially more in its military than in education, and according to the New York Times, ‘majority-minority schools are nearly three times as likely as majority-white schools to have a JROTC [Junior Reserve Officers’ Training Corps] program.’ In some schools – particularly those that are underfunded – military instruction can even become embedded in the curriculum in surprising and troubling ways.”
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Artificial Intelligence for Mental Health?
Woebot Health, a mental health company that uses artificial intelligence, is testing a new functionality using large language models (LLM). Some psychotherapists critique the trial.
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King’s Dream and Economic Exploitation
“The name of the march was The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. King and others were looking at the economic conditions. He himself spoke of how ‘America has given the Negro people a bad check, a check which has come back marked “insufficient funds.”‘
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Homelessness and Opioid Deaths
Deaths among people experiencing homelessness in Denver have spiked nearly 50 percent since last year.