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War is a Racket: Fox Guarding Hen House; Stock Buybacks Rip Off Taxpayers
Earlier this month, the House and Senate Armed Services Committees named eight commissioners who will review President Joe Biden’s National Defense Strategy and provide recommendations for its implementation. But the Commission on the National Defense Strategy is largely composed of individuals with financial ties to the weapons industry and U.S. government contractors.
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Regulators Could Break Up Wells Fargo — If They Stay Strong
“Last week, prodded by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), the main big-bank regulator of Wells Fargo, known as the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), said it is looking at new ways to tame megabanks, which show signs of being ‘too big to manage,’ including breaking them up.”
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Confronting the Corporate Exploitation of Tweens
This massive abduction of our children into a manipulative and exploitative virtual reality, separating them from their parents, communities, nature and even their teachers — reality in a word — calls for action.
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Peru: Protests, Oligarchy and Racism
“In the eyes of Castillo’s supporters, this triumphalist celebration, the constant insults, the obstruction of presidential functions, and the abusive way that justice was served, all show that Peru is stuck in an oligarchical past. There is a ruling class that resists allowing the poor and working classes to be represented in the highest echelons of power. The lesson is: Even if such Peruvians managed to reach the highest political spheres, they would still be treated like inferiors.”
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New Dem Leader Jeffries “Has Record of Defending Human Rights Violations”
Jeffries has been highly critical of Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch, as well as Israeli human rights groups like B’tselem, for their recognition of Israel’s imposition of an apartheid system on Palestinians. Despite the overwhelming evidence in human rights reports that Israel’s policies meet the international definition of apartheid, Jeffries has dismissed the conclusions.
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Patient-Nurse Ratios: Chronic Problem Made Worse by Pandemic
Strikes at two major New York City hospitals, Mount Sinai main hospital and Montefiore Medical Center, ended last week. More than 7,000 nurses had struck, making it the largest nursing strike the city saw in decades.
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The Davos Billionaire Class is Seeing Their Wealth Skyrocket
The global billionaire class is gathering this week in Davos, Switzerland to talk about the ongoing ‘polycrisis’ — a term embraced by the World Economic Forum (WEF) to describe the convergence of ecological, political, pandemic and economic disruptions. The one acute crisis they won’t talk about is the extreme levels of concentration of wealth and power happening across the globe.
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Supreme Court Set to “Eviscerate the Right to Strike”
“The radical right-wing Supreme Court is about to deal a severe blow to the right to strike — the most potent weapon workers have to obtain justice”, wrote Professor Cohn of the Thomas Jefferson School of Law in light of the Glacier Northwest, Inc. v. International Brotherhood of Teamsters Local Union No. 174.
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Moderna Plans Huge Price Hike for Covid-19 Vaccine
Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) has begun petitioning Moderna against a price increase on its Covid vaccine from $26 to $130. Moderna announced the price hike last week as Covid vaccines shift to the commercial market.
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MLK’s Call to Get on the “Right Side of the World Revolution”
In 1959, five months after being stabbed in Harlem, King addressed the War Resisters League’s thirty-sixth annual dinner, where he praised its work and linked the domestic struggle for racial justice with the campaign for global disarmament: ‘Not only in the South, but throughout the nation and the world, we live in an age of conflicts, an age of biological weapons, chemical warfare, atomic fallout and nuclear bombs … Every man, woman, and child lives, not knowing if they shall see tomorrow’s sunrise.’
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“With a tiny staff, it has managed to place on the air and in newspapers, points of view otherwise excluded from the national debate.”
Howard Zinn