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AFSCME Local 3299 rams through poverty contract on University of California workers
29+ min ago (891+ words) On Friday, the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) Local 3299 announced the approval of a new contract with the University of California (UC) system. They claim the contract was approved by 96. 4 percent and will cover 42, 000 UC service…...
Governments escalate the global war on online anonymity
25+ min ago (803+ words) Four months ago, the World Socialist Web Site analyzed the coordinated international offensive to abolish online anonymity and impose universal systems of digital identification under the cynical pretext of "child safety." Since that report, the assault has entered a far…...
Democrats join Republicans to attack Trump over Iran negotiations
53+ min ago (898+ words) The announcement Saturday by the Trump administration that it had "largely" reached an agreement with Iran has drawn denunciations from broad factions of the US political establishment, with Democrats joining Republicans to attack the proposed agreement as insufficiently advantageous to…...
Chemical disaster at Garden Grove, California aerospace plant displaces 50, 000 people
1+ hour, 1+ min ago (858+ words) On the afternoon of May 21, a catastrophe decades in the making announced its arrival through venting clouds of toxic vapor rising above a densely packed stretch of North Orange County, California." A 34, 000-gallon steel storage tank at GKN Aerospace Transparency…...
Trump administration moves to force green card applicants out of the US
1+ hour, 28+ min ago (468+ words) The Trump administration has announced a sweeping new attack on immigrants legally living in the United States, directing many green card applicants to leave the country and apply through US consular offices abroad, a process that could separate families, destroy…...
Rising unemployment in Australia points to Iran war's deepening impact
2+ hour, 10+ min ago (1261+ words) Job losses among younger workers in Australia pushed up the seasonally adjusted unemployment rate from 4. 3 percent in March to an almost five-year high of 4. 5 percent in April, according to the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS). These official results, while understating…...
AI-fuelled Wall Street frenzy raises concerns
2+ hour, 14+ min ago (1359+ words) Either the US stock market has entered a kind of financial heaven where earthly economic laws no longer apply, or the conditions are being created for a crash and a consequent financial crisis of major proportions. The market boosters adhere…...
New Zealand budget attacks workers and students, boosts the military
2+ hour, 13+ min ago (865+ words) New Zealand's right-wing coalition government is sharply accelerating its assault on the working class, in order to protect the wealth of the super-rich and to fund a major increase in the size of the military in preparation for war. That…...
Jailed 37 days for a Charlie Kirk meme: Tennessee man's settlement exposes the fraud of Trump's "Anti-Weaponization" Fund
3+ hour, 22+ min ago (732+ words) On May 20, Perry County, Tennessee agreed to pay $835, 000 to Larry Bushart, a 61-year-old retired law enforcement officer, to settle a federal civil-rights lawsuit alleging that his arrest and 37-day detention over a Facebook meme critical of Donald Trump and Charlie…...
This week in history: May 25-31
4+ hour, 55+ min ago (707+ words) The prosecution's case centered on an alleged conspiracy orchestrated by fugitive Saudi millionaire Osama bin Laden. US officials had placed a $5 million bounty on bin Laden, who was also listed as a co-defendant. Efforts to capture the suspected mastermind failed,…...