End For-Profit Healthcare Early in the morning of December 4, in downtown Manhattan, a masked gunman fatally shot 50-year-old Brian Thompson. Thompson was the CEO of UnitedHealthcare, America’s largest private health insurance company, and his killer was waiting for him as he left his hotel for a shareholders’ meeting. Five days later on December 9, […]
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Vilgot Karlsson The state of emergency and the coup attempt were a desperate attempt by an unpopular president. President Yoon Suk Yeol of the People Power Party (PPP) sought to attack his opponents in an ongoing and bitter capitalist power struggle and to disarm a labor movement that was preparing for battle. The state of […]
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Jubilant crowds on the streets of Damascus have been celebrating what until recently seemed unthinkable — the fall of Bashar al-Assad’s hated regime. The Syrian army collapsed while the regime’s over-burdened allies in Moscow and Tehran could only look on, hanging their erstwhile ally out to dry. The lightning offensive by Turkish and US-backed right-wing […]
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This autumn’s devastating torrential rains in Spain, hurricanes in the Caribbean Sea and typhoons in Southeast Asia are a warning of the apocalyptic future that looms unless the world can quickly halt global warming. The devastation is a direct consequence of 2023 and 2024 being the hottest years on record, with global temperatures peaking at […]
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UN climate summit an expected failure The main purpose of COP29, the twenty-ninth UN climate summit — this time held in the oil dictatorship of Azerbaijan — is said to have been to devise a plan for how rich countries can support poor countries’ financing of climate adaptation and transition. COP29 was instead a manifestation […]
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Grace Bodie and Abram Mardan On December 8, Taylor Swift’s 21-month world tour, Eras, ends in Vancouver. It included 149 shows and was the highest-grossing tour of all time, raising over US$1 billion. There is no doubt that Swift has talent and stamina, and has an exceptional support team to make it all happen – musicians, […]
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November 25 is the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women. It is 35 years since the École Polytechnique massacre in Montréal on December 6, 1989, when fourteen women engineering students were murdered, and another ten women and four men were injured. Violence against women continues to be scourge of society. December 6, […]
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On November 15, 55,000 postal workers walked off the job. After a year of failed negotiations with Canada Post, the two sides are still far apart. Key Demands The higher cost of living has had a real impact on postal workers, who haven’t seen an increase in several years. One worker, Bryan, said that being […]
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Trump (And Trumpism) Can Be Defeated Kelly Bellin For many of us, horror at the coming Trump administration is only matched with horror that more than 74 million Americans voted for him. Going into public since November 6th poses the constant question: who around me just voted for an extremely high-profile rapist? How many of […]
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