The new leaders of the UAW have come out swinging, and in quickly growing numbers, members are stepping up to prepare for a strike.
Posted inThe Chris Hedges Report
70 years after Iranian coup, the British still won’t confess to their crimes
Iranian filmmaker Taghi Amirani joins Chris Hedges to discuss his documentary ‘Coup 53,’ which uses newly discovered archival material to expose how the CIA and British intelligence worked clandestinely to overthrow Mohammad Mosaddegh 70 years ago.
Posted inPolitics and Movements: US
New biography reveals what MLK really said about Malcolm X—and what the FBI really said about MLK
Jonathan Eig’s ‘King: A Life’ is the first major biography in decades to be written on the civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr.—and the first to include recently declassified FBI files on King and the Civil Rights Movement.
Posted inClimate Crisis
Amid Maui fire devastation, Big Oil tries to kill Hawaii climate lawsuit
“The people of Honolulu and Maui deserve their day to put Big Oil on trial,” said the Center for Climate Integrity.
Posted inPolitics and Movements: International
El Salvador’s model of authoritarianism may be spreading to countries like Costa Rica and Honduras
Under the guise of fighting organized crime, El Salvador’s president Nayib Bukele has ruled with an iron fist under an authoritarian state of exception, and leaders in neighboring countries, worryingly, may be preparing to follow his lead.
Posted inPolitics and Movements: US
The nonsensical ‘right and left need to unite to take on elites’ take that just won’t die
Two diametrically opposed groups of people, operating under two totally different definitions of “the enemy,” cannot unite in any meaningful sense.
Posted inEdge of Sports TV
Reactionary nihilism of Trump and ‘anti-woke’ right on full display after US women’s soccer defeat
The same people who vilify and attack trans athletes, and claim they’re doing so to defend the sanctity of women’s sports, are showing how much they also hate women’s sports and women “who dare not ‘know their place.’”
Posted inPolitics and Movements: International
30 years after Yugoslavian socialism, Slovenian unions fight for the workers capitalism has forgotten
When Yugoslavian socialism collapsed three decades ago, Slovenian workers faced a new reality of capitalist exploitation, but they got McDonald’s in return. We talk to trade union leader Ana Jakopič about the class struggle in Slovenia today.
Posted inPolitics and Movements: International
Jujuy stands up against multinational mining companies and anti-democratic reforms
Protests in northern Argentina continue against controversial constitutional reforms that criminalize protest and clear the way for lithium extraction at the expense of Indigenous rights.
Posted inEconomy and Inequality
Landmark rent stabilization bill shows how communities can fight the housing crisis
“Rent stabilization is essential to ensure that tenants… can continue calling Montgomery County their homes. Families and children cannot thrive if they are concerned about being pushed out.”