Boeing investigates quality problem on undelivered 787s ( www.reuters.com )
Philadelphia mayor plans prisons for drug users ( www.workers.org )
This time around, Parker has outdone herself in her plots against the drug-using community. Her budget has earmarked $100 million to create a facility to treat Substance Use Disorder. Dubbed the “Riverview Wellness Village,” This creation will provide treatment, job training, Medication Assisted Treatments such as methadone,...
NEA Educators for Palestine call on union to un-endorse Biden ( www.workers.org )
Members of Educators for Palestine had already introduced their NBIs for consideration and a vote by NEA members. They seek to educate union members on the crisis for Palestinians under [neocolonial] occupation. This includes having the NEA “use its digital communication tools to educate about the history of the Nakba.”...
US Air Force fleet’s mission-capable rates are stagnating. ( www.airforcetimes.com )
US workers in debt to buy groceries - 'I had to downgrade my life' ( www.bbc.com )
Seymour Hersh: The Foreign Policy Biden is Putting On the Ballot ( seymourhersh.substack.com )
Hard paywall....
Storm Beryl kills three, knocks out power for 2.7 million in Texas ( www.reuters.com )
July 8 (Reuters) - Tropical Storm Beryl brought howling winds and torrential rain to southeast Texas on Monday, killing at least three people, flooding highways, closing oil ports, canceling more than 1,300 flights and knocking out power to more than 2.7 million homes and businesses....
Antidemocratic Supreme Court rules that Trump is above the law ( www.workers.org )
On June 28, 2024, the Supreme Court declared that presidents have “absolute immunity” from prosecution. These nine appointed justices declared that any sitting and former president’s actions are officially above the law, just two weeks before Trump’s scheduled July 11 sentencing. In an effort to gaslight the people of...
Cost of Sentinel ICBM Swells Again to $214 Million a Missile: Sentinel projected to cost 81% more than originally forecast ( www.bloomberg.com )
Philadelphia: Police attack pro-Palestine march ( www.workers.org )
The pro-Palestine rally was called on the U.S. Independence Day holiday to focus on [neo]imperialism’s support for [Herzlianism]. The rally gathered at Rittenhouse Square near Walnut and 19th streets starting at 6 p.m., and nearly 1,000 people participated in the march that followed. Militant chants and a lead banner called...
Community outrage over Utica police killing of teenager ( www.workers.org )
Mway and a friend were profiled, stopped and frisked by Utica police. A terrified Mway fled the encounter. He feared for his life, as many people of color do when they are stopped by police....
Biden’s aging is seen as accelerating; lapses described as more common ( www.washingtonpost.com )
The SCOTUS is complicit in destroying the environment, waging class war against us ( www.workers.org )
Also on June 28, the same far-right SCOTUS justices responsible for the EPA decision overturned a landmark 40-year-old ruling that became known as the “Chevron” doctrine. The Chevron doctrine came out of a 1984 SCOTUS decision in Chevron v. Natural Resources Defense Council....
‘Nurses Against Genocide’ protest the American Nurses Association’s silence ( www.workers.org )
One of the organizers who participated in the action said: “We coordinated online from different states. All of us are full-time, working nurses who participate in activism regularly, including staging actions like this one. Not everyone could make it in person, but there were nurses from across the country who helped outline...
The UAW Strike May Have Finally Set Us Up for a General Strike ( www.teenvogue.com )
More troops are quitting the military over Gaza ( youchu.be )
Over one hundred activists gathered at Harvard Square to shut down Elbit Systems ( www.workers.org )
At the rally an organizer called for further direct action in the U.S. imperial core: “We are here, because we absolutely have to be, because this genocide is being carried out with our dollars, in our name, by entities, by companies that we do not have to let keep operating, that we can close down.”...
Confrontation at Asia Society: Fiery Activist Jose Vega Challenges Pottinger on US-China Policy ( m.youtube.com )
Oh No, Now The US Has To Stop Imprisoning Ex-Presidents For Their Crimes! ( caitlinjohnstone.com.au )
Debate merely (re)exposes two enemies of the people ( www.workers.org )
It was telling, however, that for one issue Biden forcefully defended his foreign policy against Trump’s. That exception concerned NATO and the proxy war in Ukraine against Russia, which Biden backed 100%....
New York City: Solidarity with the Kenyan, Haitian masses ( www.workers.org )
Jason Cohen of Friends of Swazi Freedom noted that the Kenyan police killed at least 20 people on the day they stormed parliament protesting the finance bill and that on June 27 they reportedly killed 250 people as they left a protest....
The first 6 months of 2024 were the hottest ever measured across the USA
US Supreme Court Says Trump Immune From Prosecution for Official Acts ( sputnikglobe.com )
WASHINGTON (Sputnik) - The US Supreme Court said on Monday that former US President Donald Trump can claim immunity from prosecution on election subversion charges as it relates to official acts as president, although he could still face prosecution for unofficial acts....
Oregon’s striking nurses: ‘Patients over profits’ ( www.workers.org )
Providence, one of Oregon’s largest corporations, owns one-quarter of Oregon’s health care market. The yearly income of Providence CEOs has risen to $10 million. The nurses are being offered a 7% raise the first year and only 3% in subsequent years, less than the annual rate of inflation....
