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Agriculture, the service economy, sexual exploitation, manufacturing, construction and domestic work drive today's enslavement around the world.
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Shortly after the U.K. fell from being the world's fifth biggest economy, a new report shows that Britain is, in no unvarnished terms, infested with poverty.
By hustling away homeless people to save Windsor from being seen in an unfavorable light, Britain lost control of its homelessness problem – and revealed a different facet of the country's modern, austerity-driven "brand."
On the morning of Saturday, April 14, feelings of dismay, disbelief and division engulfed Britain after the nation awoke to images of RAF tornadoes loaded with missiles taking to the night sky on flight to Syria.
The steep Tory-led austerity cuts have fostered a national police force that simply doesn't have the budget or resources to tackle rising crime – in particular the hate crimes that exploded after Brexit.
More and more local branches of banks are closing their doors throughout the U.K., many in rural and less affluent communities, which is having a direct financial impact on residents nationwide.
Hospitals throughout Britain have been operating in chaos in recent weeks, driven by a surge in admissions forcing up to 12-hour delays for patients being treated in emergency wards. A decade of harsh Tory austerity policies are to blame.
When news emerged last month that Donald Trump was cancelling his February stop in London, much of the country erupted in elation as campaigners hailed the president’s U-turn from Britain a “huge victory for our movement.”
In an awkward and disconcerting backlash last month, the Democratic Unionist Party told Downing Street that any Brexit agreement that gave Northern Ireland a separate trade regime from the rest of Britain would endanger the U.K. government.
Even after Britain's “worst decade for productivity growth since 1812 – when Napoleon was busy invading Russia,” the age of austerity is far from over – and the inequality gap in the world’s sixth richest country is only widening.
"Women in low-wage jobs, like hotel cleaners or farm workers, experience high levels of harassment because they do not have the bargaining power to push back."
Agriculture, the service economy, sexual exploitation, manufacturing, construction and domestic work drive today's enslavement around the world.
Thanks to the Electoral College, leftists have perhaps the final say this November over whether democracy can hold on for at least another four years, or if fascism will take root and infect all facets of the federal government for decades to come.
What remains unknown is whether post-truth Republicans will succeed in 2024 as the Nazis did in 1933.
Based on details that have emerged about Trump’s presidential agenda, the far-right Heritage Foundation plans for the next GOP president to have all the tools necessary to demolish multicultural democracy and establish a white, Christian ethnostate that imposes a gender apartheid not unlike the Taliban’s Afghanistan.
Like Hitler, Trump has a unique command of propaganda, a captivating public presence, and he knows how to drive home narratives beneficial to him and harmful to his enemies.
Agriculture, the service economy, sexual exploitation, manufacturing, construction and domestic work drive today's enslavement around the world.
Thanks to the Electoral College, leftists have perhaps the final say this November over whether democracy can hold on for at least another four years, or if fascism will take root and infect all facets of the federal government for decades to come.
History shows there are no “one-day” dictatorships. When democracies fall, they typically fall completely.
What remains unknown is whether post-truth Republicans will succeed in 2024 as the Nazis did in 1933.
Based on details that have emerged about Trump’s presidential agenda, the far-right Heritage Foundation plans for the next GOP president to have all the tools necessary to demolish multicultural democracy and establish a white, Christian ethnostate that imposes a gender apartheid not unlike the Taliban’s Afghanistan.
Based on details that have emerged about Trump’s presidential agenda, the far-right Heritage Foundation plans for the next GOP president to have all the tools necessary to demolish multicultural democracy and establish a white, Christian ethnostate that imposes a gender apartheid not unlike the Taliban’s Afghanistan.
Thanks to the Electoral College, leftists have perhaps the final say this November over whether democracy can hold on for at least another four years, or if fascism will take root and infect all facets of the federal government for decades to come.
What remains unknown is whether post-truth Republicans will succeed in 2024 as the Nazis did in 1933.
History shows there are no “one-day” dictatorships. When democracies fall, they typically fall completely.
Agriculture, the service economy, sexual exploitation, manufacturing, construction and domestic work drive today's enslavement around the world.