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Saturday, April 6, 2024

■ The Week in Review

'You Are an Inspiration,' Sanders Tells LA Hotel Workers Fighting for Just Contracts

"The message of today is we are sick and tired of the greed of corporate America," Sen. Bernie Sanders said at a union rally in downtown Los Angeles.

By Jake Johnson • Apr 6, 2024

Youth Organizers Launch 'Protect Our Power' Campaign to Reelect the Squad

House progressives "have shifted the political narrative to center young people's leadership on the most pressing issues of our generation—from climate justice, labor rights, and abortion access, to anti-war foreign policy."

By Jessica Corbett • Apr 5, 2024

After Months of Progressive Outcry Over Biden Israel Policy, Establishment Dems Pile On

Sen. Tim Kaine warned that the status quo in Israel's war on Gaza "is not working."

By Julia Conley • Apr 5, 2024

Doctor at Israeli Detention Camp for Gazans Blows Whistle on War Crimes

"Just this week, two prisoners had their legs amputated due to handcuff injuries, which unfortunately is a routine event."

By Brett Wilkins • Apr 4, 2024

'Beyond Parody': Biden Pushing for $18 Billion Warplane Sale to Israel

"Does anyone wonder why Netanyahu ignores Biden's pleas for restraint in Gaza?" asked one critic.

By Brett Wilkins • Apr 3, 2024

Campaigners Beat 'Greedy' Insurance Giants Exploiting Medicare Advantage

"The private insurance industry is used to getting its way, but this year we out-organized them," said one People's Action leader.

By Jessica Corbett • Apr 2, 2024

Forbes Billionaires List Shows 'Utterly Unconscionable' Wealth Growth of World's Richest

The Forbes Billionaires List "is essentially an annual calculation of how much of the wealth created by the global economy is captured by a tiny caste of oligarchs rather than being used to benefit humanity as a whole."

By Julia Conley • Apr 2, 2024

US Economy Performs Far Better Under Democrats Than Republicans: Study

Democrats have handled the economy better than Republicans since at least 1949.

By Thor Benson • Apr 2, 2024

'Indictments Now,' Says UN Expert After Israel Massacres World Central Kitchen Workers

"Israel is crossing every possible red line, still with full impunity," said Francesca Albanese, the United Nations special rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territories.

By Jake Johnson • Apr 2, 2024

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■ Opinion

Why Are Politicians Still Courting the Nefarious Fossil Fuel Lobby?

High-level government participation in an oil and gas industry conference shows official disdain for the public interest; it’s time to make fossil fuels politically toxic.

By Basav Sen • Apr 5, 2024

Memo to Shawn Fain: Please Launch 'Workers United Against Mass Layoffs'

Imagine what the UAW could help ignite if its well-honed technical and political skills were used to create a new organization that intervened in these layoffs?

By Les Leopold • Apr 4, 2024

Andrew Biggs Is An Expert—On Destroying Social Security

Biggs has spent decades trying to take away retirement benefits from Americans, by any means necessary.

By Alex Lawson • Apr 4, 2024

Meet the Secretive Rich Funding Efforts to Keep Others Poor

With both millionaires and homelessness on the rise in the U.S., right-wing donors are bankrolling a nationally coordinated move to end experiments in basic income.

By Sam Pizzigati • Apr 3, 2024

The NYT Finds US Complicity in Genocide Unremarkable

By refusing to cover a new U.S. shipment of vast quantities of 2,000-pound bombs to Israel, the Times gave a boost to the process of normalizing the slaughter in Gaza, as if this was unnewsworthy.

By Norman Solomon • Apr 2, 2024