wsws.org — 4+ hour, 8+ min ago
Australian Labor governments push homicidal "live with the virus" program
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The Victorian Labor government is ending a lockdown amid more than 2,000 infections a day, while its Queensland counterpart is the first administration in Australia to adopt policies aimed at reintroducing COVID in a jurisdiction where it has been eliminated....
aljazeera.com — 4+ hour, 30+ min ago
Killings trigger fear, memory of dark past among Kashmiri Hindus - Al Jazeera English
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Siddiq Wahid, a historian and former vice-chancellor of Islamic University of Science and Technology ... anthropology at the South Asian University in New Delhi. ... Within two hours of the killing of Makhan Lal Bindroo on October 5, assailants shot and killed another ... Police blamed rebel group The Resistance Front, or TRF, for the killings. ... Sanjay Tickoo, a leader of the local Hindu community, talks to the Associated Press in Srinagar ... ...
wsws.org — 4+ hour, 22+ min ago
Australian Greens keep their mouths shut on the new anti-democratic electoral laws
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loathed Liberal-National government of Scott Morrison. ... In New South Wales, the Greens combined with the other parliamentary parties--Labor, Liberal, National ... government with the Labor Party, as they did under Julia Gillard from 2010 to 2013. ... " party on issues such as climate change, war and social justice. ... The Socialist Equality Party (SEP) is conducting a determined campaign in the working class to overturn ... ...
wsws.org — 4+ hour, 21+ min ago
Opposition to USW and UAW tentative agreement at Dana grows as details leak of new alternative work schedule
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By Wednesday night, workers from Dana plants in Warren, Michigan, Pottstown, Pennsylvania and Louisville ... the company and the United Auto Workers (UAW) and United Steelworkers (USW) unions. ... John Deere and Volvo Trucks met on Tuesday night to discuss a common strategy. ... The day after highlights of the local agreement at auto parts maker Dana's Fort Wayne plant were released ... plant in Dublin, Virginia this summer, warned his counterparts at Deere and Dana about what to expect ... ...
msnbc.com — 2+ day, 13+ min ago
How Colin Powell's death is being weaponized by anti-vaxxers
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at Brookings' Center for Health Policy. ... Conrad Williams Jr. / Newsday via Getty Images By Dr. ... A man gets his third Covid-19 vaccine shot at Kennedy Memorial Park in Hempstead, N.Y., on Thursday.J ... She served in the Obama administration as director of policy for the Office of Intergovernmental Affairs ... Kavita Patel, MSNBC Opinion Columnist The death of Gen. ... ...
axios.com — 5+ hour, 16+ min ago
Parents in Michigan and Virginia sue attorney general over action on school board threats
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Loudoun County Public Schools in Virginia and Saline Area Schools district of Michigan, "including the ... Of note: Neither the Loudoun County Public Schools nor the Saline Area Schools are named in the suit. ... A group of parents in Michigan and Virginia accused Attorney General Merrick Garland in a federal lawsuit ... school staff.Why it matters: The lawsuit, filed by the conservative American Freedom Law Center on behalf ... Association to President Biden, the FBI and the Secret Service asking for their protection against threats ... ...
msnbc.com — 5+ hour, 4+ min ago
Another criminal investigation reportedly looking at Trump golf course tax scheme
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of Donald Trump's Westchester County golf course which paperwork appears to show has some inconsistent ... Rachel Maddow explains new reporting that the town of Ossining, N.Y. has received a subpoena in an investigation ... value assessments that may have raised suspicions of tax fraud.Oct. 21, 2021 ... ...
theowp.org — 4+ hour, 55+ min ago
Polish Challenge Prompts Secession Worries For Post-Brexit E.U.
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the cultural rifts between Western, Protestant, liberal democratic countries and Eastern, Catholic, ... Polish prime minister Mateusz Morawiecki has called talk of a Polish exit “a harmful myth which the opposition ... Vera Jourova, the European Commissioner for Values and Transparency, said, “[I]f we don’t uphold ... industry commissioner Thierry Breton said he did not believe “for one second” that there would be a ... Financially, the ruling is expected to negatively impact Warsaw. ... ...
aljazeera.com — 4+ hour, 56+ min ago
Brazil's Bolsonaro accused of crimes against humanity over COVID
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On Monday, Giovanna Gomes Mendes da Silva, 19, spoke tearfully of her parents' deaths and having to take ... de Aragao, director of strategy at political consulting firm Arko Advice. ... Jair Bolsonaro speaks at a ceremony at the Planalto presidential palace, in Brasilia, Brazil, Wednesday ... If the Attorney General does nothing, we will go to the Supreme Court and also to the International Court ... after the United States. ... ...
countercurrents.org — 4+ hour, 51+ min ago
Melbourne: The Longest in Lockdown
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Binoy Kampmark_ was a Commonwealth Scholar at Selwyn College, Cambridge. ... That other city of long, crippling lockdowns, Buenos Aires, saw such institutions as La Flor de Barracas ... Email: [email protected] Australia, UK, Apartheid Israel & Deadly Premature Lifting Of Anti-Covid ... The Economist Intelligence Unit glowed with praise, designating the city the world's "most liveable" ... In 2021, the _Herald Sun_ would look with envy across the pond to note that Auckland in New Zealand has ... ...