The United Kingdom’s Conservative Party has voted for Liz Truss to become its new leader, replacing Boris Johnson and making her Britain’s next prime minister. Truss served as foreign secretary under Johnson and has a record of “extreme neoliberal policies,” says British journalist George Monbiot. These include supporting tax cuts for the wealthy, deregulating the fossil fuel industry and refusing to regulate agricultural pollution. Monbiot also warns Truss will undermine the country’s model public health system and labor rights for organizing workers.
New U.K. PM Liz Truss Has “Extreme Neoliberal” Anti-Labor, Anti-Environment Record
Tag: Inequality
TPLF preparing for third round of war + West behind continued fighting in northern Ethiopia
United States of Death? Study Shows Worrying Mortality Rates of Broken Health System
Researchers find that the nation had become an outlier among other rich countries in mortality rates long before the pandemic—and that Americans are dying younger than their peers abroad.
United States of Death? Study Shows Worrying Mortality Rates of Broken Health System
Chile’s Draft Constitution: Undemocratic—or Too Much Democracy?
Chileans will vote in September on whether to approve a new constitution that promises to address inequality and lack of democracy (Reuters, 7/4/22). It would replace the present constitution imposed by the dictatorship of Gen. Augusto Pinochet, who came into power through a US-backed coup in 1973. The nation’s newly elected left-wing leadership is calling for a “yes” vote, although in the much-divided country, the constitution faces steep opposition from the right.
Chile’s Draft Constitution: Undemocratic—or Too Much Democracy?
The value of the federal minimum wage is at its lowest point in 66 years
The value of the federal minimum wage has reached its lowest point in 66 years, according to an EPI analysis of recently released Consumer Price Index (CPI) data. Accounting for price increases in June, the current federal minimum wage of $7.25 per hour is now worth less than at any point since February 1956. At that time, the federal minimum wage was 75 cents per hour, or $7.19 in June 2022 dollars.
The value of the federal minimum wage is at its lowest point in 66 years
32 Years After US Disabilities Act, No Plans to Ratify UN Treaty It Inspired
32 Years After US Disabilities Act, No Plans to Ratify UN Treaty It Inspired
The administration says it supports “disability-inclusive development and humanitarian action” around the world.
Links to:
USAID Announces Commitments at the Global Disability Summit:
In keeping with the “Year of Action” for disability-inclusive democracy stemming from the Summit for Democracy, USAID will support the empowerment of persons with disabilities and their representative organizations to be active participants in civic engagement and the political and public life of their countries.
USAID is weaponizing disability rights for regime change!
Most Americans Don’t Care About Freedom
Here is an interesting short video about the famous book “1984” that shows how it’s becoming true.
Here is another interesting short video about how most Americans don’t care about freedom.
Jun 24, 2022 – Most Americans Don’t Care About Freedom – The Empire Struggles
Related:
Mein Kampf: Hitler’s Love Letter to Western Imperialism
Who will pay for Biden’s new “forever war”?
This week, the United States and its NATO allies pledged to increase their troop presence in Europe seven-fold, in order to prepare for what they called “warfighting against nuclear-armed peer-competitors”–that is, war against Russia and China.
Who will pay for Biden’s new “forever war”?
Related:
Glenn Hubbard’s WSJ Op-Ed: NATO Needs More Guns and Less Butter
Hubbard is a nonresident senior fellow at the right-wing think tank, American Enterprise Institute!
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