Monday, August 26, 2019  Wendy's Billionaire Owner Spurns Farmworkers While Profiting Off Pension Funds Derek Seidman, Truthout Wendy's billionaire owner Nelson Peltz has made most of his fortune managing the pension funds of union workers. Yet, when it comes to the low-wage farmworkers who keep Wendy's supplied, he has refused to join the Coalition of Immokalee Workers' Fair Food Program, which ensures them better wages and safer working conditions.
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Trump Reportedly Suggests Using Nukes to Stop Hurricanes Jake Johnson, Common Dreams As he refuses to take action to combat the climate crisis, which scientists say is making extreme weather events more intense and devastating, President Trump reportedly suggested deploying a vast nuclear arsenal to stop hurricanes before they reach the U.S.
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The Economy Looks Grim for Workers, But Might Not Bring Recession Dean Baker, Truthout While the economy looks grim for workers as companies put off investment amid the uncertainty over Trump's tariffs, it seems unlikely that we will have a recession. This is because, over the last four decades, there has been a huge shift in the economy away from areas highly sensitive to the business cycle. Sectors such as housing construction are no longer large enough to lead a recession now.
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Let's Build Up Communities Instead of Pouring Funds Into Police Oversight Alex S. Vitale, Truthout When we turn every social problem over to the police, especially in poor communities of color, the result is going to be violence, unnecessary incarcerations and corruption. Policing is an inherently coercive and violent tool that no amount of oversight and training can fix. We should be investing instead in restorative justice programs that provide communities the social support systems to resolve their own problems.
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After Being Pardoned by Trump, Joe Arpaio Will Seek Seventh Term as Sheriff Matthew Rozsa, Salon Joe Arpaio, the former Maricopa County sheriff who was pardoned by President Trump in 2017 after being convicted of criminal contempt, announced Sunday that he will seek a seventh term in the law enforcement post in 2020. Arpaio was convicted in 2017 after he refused to stop racial profiling as the county sheriff.
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Mysterious Russian Nuclear Missile Accident Sparks Fears of "Chernobyl Redux" Amy Goodman, Democracy Now! Questions are swirling over a mysterious nuclear accident in northern Russia on August 8. Seven people, including five nuclear scientists, died in an explosion, which caused a radiation spike in the surrounding area -- and possibly as far as Scandinavia. U.S. experts suspect the explosion was caused during a test of a nuclear-powered cruise missile.
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The Digital Privacy of Young People on Probation Matters Vaidya Gullapalli, The Appeal An estimated 4.5 million people in the U.S. are under "community supervision" -- subject to supervision as a condition of probation or release on parole. Community supervision looms large in the youth criminal punishment system as well. As with the adult system, probation conditions can be onerous and counterproductive. Too often they grant probation officers sweeping powers of surveillance over the young people subject to supervision.
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France Upstages Trump at G7 by Inviting Iran to Salvage Nuclear Deal Juan Cole, Informed Comment In a surprise development, Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif suddenly flew to Biarritz on Sunday for meetings on the sidelines of the G7 summit. He clearly was invited at the insistence of French President Emmanuel Macron, who is still attempting to salvage what he can of the 2015 Iran nuclear deal, which restricted Iran's enrichment activities.
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Free College Is a Good Start, But Low-Income Students Need Additional Support Jennifer Steele, The Hechinger Report In a crowded field of Democratic hopefuls, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren have set themselves apart with a proposed rethinking of how Americans pay for higher education. While the senators' plans for eliminating undergraduate tuition are key steps, they should include part-time students, who are disproportionately low-income.
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Move Over Wall Street, People's Banks Are Coming to Replace You Phoenix Goodman, Truthout The public banking movement is gaining traction across the U.S., raising hope that we may see the first new U.S. public bank in 100 years in the foreseeable future. Fed up with Wall Street's looting of the public trust, cities and states are moving toward a public banking option that will be accountable to the public. A transformation in U.S. banking would have far-reaching effects on global capitalism and democracy itself.
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States With Fracking Bans Are Still Building Fracking Infrastructure Jen Deerinwater, Truthout While the U.S. as a country lags behind several European countries when it comes to bans on fracking gas, individual states like Vermont, Washington, Maryland and New York have passed bans on fracking. However, the bans are not comprehensive and allow certain types of fracking as well as the construction of fracking infrastructure that's used to transport fracked gas.
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