Dozens of the largest low-wage employers in the United States manipulated their own rules during the coronavirus pandemic to hand wealthy CEOs substantial raises while their vulnerable frontline workers struggled to get by with inadequate paychecks, meage ...[
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Bill Gates, one of the world's richest men and most powerful philanthropists, was the target of criticism from social justice campaigners on Sunday after arguing that lifting patent protections on COVID-19 vaccine technology and sharing recipes with the w ...[
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Progressives are pushing back against President Donald Trump and federal agencies including U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the Pentagon that attempted to co-opt Martin Luther King Jr.'s messages Monday, saying they are in fact perpetrators o ...[
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President Donald Trump is demanding lawmakers raise the second round of stimulus checks to $2,000 per person, from $600.
“I am asking Congress to amend this bill and increase the ridiculously low $600 to $2,000, or $4,000 for a couple,” Trump said in ...[
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In the first full week of his 2020 campaign, former Vice President Joe Biden continued to dominate cable news coverage on CNN, Fox News and MSNBC. According to … ...[
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In this super-global era, living standards for most working people in the West have stagnated and most gains have gone to the top. Establishment politicians have few answers except to blame the people themselves for having insufficient skills. People not ...[
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THE broadcasting watchdog has launched an investigation into Alex Salmond’s TV show.
Ofcom is examining whether the former First Minister’s debut on a Kremlin propaganda channel breached guidelines on accuracy and “materially misled” viewers.
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Seen in the simplest terms, the story of political economy over the past four decades is a class war between capital and labour, which capital has won hands down. The battlefield is littered with evidence of labour’s defeat: nugatory pay awards, precari ...[
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The four-decade-long assault on our democratic institutions by corporations has left them weak and largely dysfunctional. These institutions, which surrendered their efficacy and credibility to serve corporate interests, should have been our firewall. Ins ...[
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In an appalling piece, NYT backs, rationalizes pedophilia and calls for removing punishments against pedophilia. The article opens with "Think about your first high school crush..." ...[
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