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This last month has shown America that society will gladly tolerate vigilante violence, provided a vigilante chooses the right target.
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As Inequality Soars With Bloated Executive Pay, U.K. Group Demands "Radical Action"
Reporting that CEOs in the U.K. earn 162 times more than the average worker, the High Pay Centre calls on government to put immediate caps on executive salaries.
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Toying With Climate: Greenpeace Launches Protests to Rid Shell Oil Branding from Legos
The joint Shell/Lego relationship – which involves some 16 million Lego Ferrari-branded toy cars being distributed to kids at Shell stations around the world – is worth about $116 million.
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Anti-Homeless Spikes Stir Outcry In London
More than 600 people quickly signed up on Facebook to attend a protest while a petition on Charge.org calling to end the anti-homeless spikes attracted over 113,000 signatures in a matter of days.
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Absurd Record Costs Of London Commercial Real Estate Reflects Widened Wealth Gap
As office buildings surpass the height of the property boom prices in 2007, London’s extreme commercial property costs are representative of today's outrageous levels of wealth and expenditures.
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Remeasuring the Games, Brazil and England Crash Out Early In the "Inequality World Cup"
In an attempt to highlight the gap between rich and poor in those countries with teams represented, aid agency Oxfam has rebranded this the "Inequality World Cup."
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Ready to Be Heard, 1.5 Million British State Workers Prepare Massive July 10 Strike
Government employees are infuriated by a state pay offer of just £14,000 ($23,500) – a 1% raise that fails to keep pace with the 1.9% rate of inflation which has gripped the country.
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Outrageous Decline in British Healthcare A Result of Cuts and Privatization
How fiscally responsible is it for the government to subsidize big banks with taxpayer money while insisting it has to make billions in cuts to the National Health Service?
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Inequality and Poverty Causing Shocking Number of Child Deaths in Great Britain
Child health experts in the U.K. are now warning that social and economic inequalities have become a matter of life or death.
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Worker Militancy Gaining Momentum As British Firefighters Strike Over Pensions
Firefighters across the U.K. are heading to the picket lines to protest changes to their pensions – the latest unrest in Britain over government austerity measures.
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U.K. Teacher Strikes Reveal Public Sector Unrest As Trade Union Power Grows
A series of teacher strikes over pensions, pay and conditions in England and Wales are the most recent example of larger nationwide resistance to austerity and privatizations.
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President-elect Donald Trump isn’t just appointing incompetent buffoons to his Cabinet, but deeply immoral individuals who are completely lacking in family values.
Biden cared more about the appearance of having an independent DOJ untainted by politics than he did about holding an unrepentant criminal ex-president accountable.
The American people clearly spoke, and the drubbing Democrats received requires looking beyond just issue polls, voting patterns, campaign strategy, or get-out-the-vote tactics.
The recent decisions by two of the most influential national newspapers of record to not publish their endorsements of Vice President Kamala Harris says a lot about how seriously they take Trump’s threats to democracy and his promises of vengeance against his enemies.
This last month has shown America that society will gladly tolerate vigilante violence, provided a vigilante chooses the right target.
If the Democrats’ theme of 2017 was Resistance, the theme for Democrats in 2025 needs to instead be Opposition — and these two GOP senators may be the models to emulate.
President-elect Donald Trump isn’t just appointing incompetent buffoons to his Cabinet, but deeply immoral individuals who are completely lacking in family values.
Biden cared more about the appearance of having an independent DOJ untainted by politics than he did about holding an unrepentant criminal ex-president accountable.
The country has never moved as close to the course it took under Benito Mussolini as it is doing now — and even if Meloni is not a neo-fascist politician, she has put herself in a position to appeal to and broaden fascism's political base.
On the eve of the historic November vote, it seems important to ask: What's wrong with men, how did we get here, and can we change this?
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The recent decisions by two of the most influential national newspapers of record to not publish their endorsements of Vice President Kamala Harris says a lot about how seriously they take Trump’s threats to democracy and his promises of vengeance against his enemies.
Posted 1 month 3 weeks ago
The American people clearly spoke, and the drubbing Democrats received requires looking beyond just issue polls, voting patterns, campaign strategy, or get-out-the-vote tactics.
Posted 1 month 1 week ago
As Trump’s campaign grows increasingly bizarre, his team appears to be more tightly controlling his movements and carefully scripting his public appearances to minimize the negative impact his erratic behavior may have on undecided voters in swing states.
Posted 1 month 4 weeks ago
Biden cared more about the appearance of having an independent DOJ untainted by politics than he did about holding an unrepentant criminal ex-president accountable.
Posted 2 weeks 6 days ago
The country has never moved as close to the course it took under Benito Mussolini as it is doing now — and even if Meloni is not a neo-fascist politician, she has put herself in a position to appeal to and broaden fascism's political base.
Biden cared more about the appearance of having an independent DOJ untainted by politics than he did about holding an unrepentant criminal ex-president accountable.
