“If Amazon can afford to pay its CEO $214 million last year it can afford to give their workers a $5-an-hour raise and a safe workplace,” said Sen. Bernie Sanders. After months of working in what they say are unsafe weather conditions for wages that leave them struggling to afford basic necessities, more than 150 workers […]
“The Pentagon has some serious explaining to do,” said one reporter. “Now consider how many strikes go unexamined by Western media.” The last known missile launched by the U.S. during its 20-year war in Afghanistan—the August 29 drone attack in a Kabul neighborhood that killed 10 civilians—was described by Gen. Mark Milley as a “righteous strike” that targeted a parked […]
“If Nabisco can rake in billions of dollars in corporate profits, they can afford to treat their workers with dignity and respect.” Employees at Nabisco’s flagship plant in Chicago walked off the job Thursday, joining workers at three of the leading snack maker’s other U.S. plants who are demanding better working conditions, an end to foreign outsourcing, and […]
“It is extremely alarming that the warmongers most reliant on Trump’s blank checks are secretly meeting in the middle of the night as the clock nearly runs out on the Trump administration.” The alarming possibility of a military attack on Iran—a nation that has long been in the sights of war hawks in the United […]