The modern university cannot function without the support of the military-industrial complex. ( archive.is )
"The administrators are correct: Their institutions do function in concert with the war machine powering Israel’s genocidal war; their mission does depend on maintaining this alliance, even at the cost of brutalizing their students; and it is this material reality, more than anything else, that explains the ferocity of their...
Texas governor pardons murderer of BLM protester ( www.workers.org )
Perry, a 30-year-old white man who had posted numerous racist statements on social media, drove his car into the crowd and killed Garrett Foster, one of the protesters. Foster, who was also white, was pushing his life partner in her wheelchair when he was gunned down....
Supreme Court set to begin hearings in April on a case that could potentially make it a crime to be homeless ( www.workers.org )
A SCOTUS decision favorable to Grants Pass would open the door for cities across the U.S. to apply even more draconian policies against houseless people, while making no provisions to ensure adequate housing exists. Rather than allocating necessary resources to address problems of chronic homelessness, many cities are already...
Record numbers in the US are homeless. Can cities fine them for sleeping in parks and on sidewalks? ( apnews.com )
The U.S. Industrial Base Is Not Prepared for a Possible Conflict with China ( features.csis.org )
There are Sixty-Nine Cop Cities being built or already built since 2020 across the US. ( isyourlifebetter.net )
Five reasons American decline appears irreversible ( thehill.com )
Mudslides, flash flooding threaten tens of millions in California ( www.usatoday.com )
US officials: "We realize that efforts, implied or explicit, to shape or change the PRC over several decades did not succeed" ( www.whitehouse.gov )
High court backs Starbucks, undermines workers’ rights (as usual) ( www.workers.org )
The fact that Starbucks took the case of the Memphis 7 all the way to the Supreme Court, months after bargaining began, exposes its absolute hypocrisy....
Much of US braces for extreme weather, from southern heat wave to possible snow in the Rockies ( abcnews.go.com )
Netanyahu set to address US Congress on July 24 as calls for protests grow ( www.presstv.ir )
Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu is set to address a joint meeting of Congress next month, a move that is sparking calls for protests across the United States....
Biden Can’t Pay His Way Out of Fighting Cold War II ( www.bloomberg.com )
Bloomberg publishes an article by the famous historian Neil Ferguson “Any great power that spends more on interest payments on its debts than on defense will very soon cease to be great,” writes Ferguson. He notes that, unlike the first Cold War and the war on terror, the United States does not want to send its soldiers...
Another day, another chapter in the never-ending debacle of the F-35. Production quality has reached new embarrassing lows. ( www.defensenews.com )
Three U.S. wars threaten World War Three: $95 billion targets Palestine, Iran, Russia and China ( www.workers.org )
A majority of the supplemental package is $61 billion to Ukraine to prop up a collapsing [neo]fascist régime that is so mired in corruption that huge amounts of equipment are pirated and resold on arrival....
Whistleblower Josh Dean of Boeing supplier Spirit AeroSystems has died ( www.seattletimes.com )
US economic growth slows but inflation grows ( www.bbc.com )
The Pentagon’s $52,000 trash can ( responsiblestatecraft.org )
Who’s Really in Charge ( www.kenklippenstein.com )
Suicides rates among US construction and mine workers at alarming levels ( www.wsws.org )
An analysis published last December by the CDC, based on data collected in 2021, reported that the suicide rates in these industries are nearly double the average of all occupations and the highest of 20 industry groups examined....
The US Still Continues its Quest to Hide Torture ( www.fairobserver.com )
US executive pay rises at fastest rate in 14 years ( www.ft.com )
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Joe Biden distorts D-day ( www.workers.org )
The powerhouses of [neo]imperialist propaganda — think Hollywood — present World War II and especially the Normandy landing as the Western imperialist powers’ contribution to a heroic victory of Western democracy over totalitarianism, meaning over Adolf Hitler and Nazism....