Just over half of states in the U.S. are struggling with slowing economic activity, which could be a signal of a looming recession, according to new research from the St. Louis Federal Reserve Bank.
Risk Of Recession In U.S. Increasing, Finds Fed Research
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Chris Hedges: America’s Theater of the Absurd
The 15 rounds of voting it took to install Kevin McCarthy as Speaker of the House is part of the carnival of folly that passes for politics.
Chris Hedges: America’s Theater of the Absurd
The Federal Reserve is poised to punish workers even as paychecks have been shrinking
The big jump in hourly pay in November isn’t inflationary. Working families’ real earnings are no higher than they were before the pandemic.
The Federal Reserve is poised to punish workers even as paychecks have been shrinking
Media Prescribe More ‘Pain’ for Workers as Inflation’s Only Cure
Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell is profit’s prophet and the corporate media are his cultish devotees, joining hands to sacrifice working people. In this cult, profit is sacrosanct.
Media Prescribe More ‘Pain’ for Workers as Inflation’s Only Cure
[2011] The Tyranny of Defense Inc.
In 1961, Dwight Eisenhower famously identified the military-industrial complex, warning that the growing fusion between corporations and the armed forces posed a threat to democracy. Judged 50 years later, Ike’s frightening prophecy actually understates the scope of our modern system—and the dangers of the perpetual march to war it has put us on.
The Tyranny of Defense Inc.
Biden calls on Congress to impose rail contract in a major assault on workers’ democratic rights
President Biden published a statement Monday night calling on Congress to intervene to block a national rail strike and impose a contract which tens of thousands of railroad workers voted down. A few hours later, outgoing Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced the House of Representatives would take up such a bill this week and send it to the Senate with the “hope that this necessary, strike-averting legislation will earn a strongly bipartisan vote…”
Biden calls on Congress to impose rail contract in a major assault on workers’ democratic rights
Is the cure for inflation worse than the disease?
The last year of inflation has disproportionately hurt low-income and nonwhite families — those with the least flexibility in their monthly budgets to absorb higher prices.
Is the cure for inflation worse than the disease?
Weak US jobs report not weak enough: Financial markets plunge
The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) reported Friday morning that just 263,000 jobs were added in the month of September, down from 315,000 in August. The total of new jobs matched the previous low, in April of 2021, for monthly job creation over the past 20 months.
Weak US jobs report not weak enough: Financial markets plunge
Losing national identity is the greatest defeat of a nation
Stand by Ukraine’s anti-fascist resistance!
A very successful online meeting to mobilise international support for the Free the Kononovich Brothers campaign took place on Thursday 25th August, with 50 participants from Ukraine, the Russian Federation, the USA, England and Scotland. Organised by the London-based International Ukraine Anti-Fascist Solidarity campaign (IUAFS), the seminar called for the release of the Kononovich brothers and all Ukrainian political prisoners, and for the restoration of all political and media freedoms.
Stand by Ukraine’s anti-fascist resistance!
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A very successful International Ukraine Anti-Fascist Solidarity campaign (IUAFS) online meeting was held on Thursday 25 August, with speakers from Ukraine, the USA and Russia, at which one of the key speakers was former Labour Party MP Chris Williamson. We are very pleased to publish his superb contribution here.
The Ukraine war – end the silence on the left
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