Monday, September 2, 2024

■ Today's Top News 


'Admission of Guilt': UK Suspends Some Arms Export Licenses to Israel Over Gaza

"Finally—but this is both too little and too late," said the International Center of Justice for Palestinians.

By Jessica Corbett



On Labor Day, Champions of Working Class Vow to Defeat Trump

"The facts are clear: Democrats are the party of labor, and the Biden-Harris administration has been the most pro-labor administration in our lifetime," said a pair of supporters.

By Brett Wilkins



Biden Says Netanyahu Not Doing Enough to Free Hostages

"Netanyahu has been citing Biden's ironclad support of him as the *reason* he does not have to work harder to get a hostage deal," said one observer.

By Brett Wilkins



After Weekend Walkouts, Hotel Worker Strikes Grow on Labor Day

"We refuse to accept wages that can't support our families. It's insulting. And it ends now."

By Jessica Corbett



Israel Kills 11 in Bombing of Gaza Shelter as Urgent Polio Vaccination Effort Begins

"We cannot vaccinate children and families who have to flee for safety," said a spokesperson for the U.N. Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East.

By Jake Johnson



Israeli General Strike Protests Netanyahu's 'Cabinet of Death'

"The Israeli government places no value on human life—whether of its Gazan subjects or of its own citizens," said the Israeli group B'Tselem.

By Jake Johnson


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■ Opinion


Trade Unionism vs. the Oligarchy on Labor Day and Every Day

The working people of our country are increasingly aware of the unprecedented level of corporate greed and power we are now experiencing, and the outrageous level of income and wealth inequality that exists.

By Bernie Sanders


We May Have No Real Choice This Election, But We Have a Huge Choice to Make Afterwards

The choice is not who to vote for, but what we do after the votes are counted.

By Phil Wilson


This Labor Day, Working Families’ Earned Social Security Benefits Are at Risk

Trump and the Republican Party want to slash Social Security benefits—or worse–because they don’t believe in it. In fact, at its start, they called it socialism and voted against its creation. Today, it puts the lie to their view that government is the problem, not the solution.

By Nancy J. Altman


Beware the Republican Plot to Steal the 2024 Election

From Georgia to Arizona, Nevada to Michigan, Republicans are mounting an all-out assault on the election process that journalist Ari Berman refers to as a “five-alarm fire for democracy.”

By Amy Goodman,Denis Moynihan


'Loser Donald' and 40 Other Nicknames 'Trump the Grifter' May Not Like

The old saying that you have to give a bully his own medicine is an “evergreen” because it works.

By Ralph Nader