The number of new unemployment insurance claims edged down last week to 236,000. This brought the four-week average to 245,000, just over 4.0 percent higher than the year-ago level. However, the number of continuing claims rose by 37,000 to 1,974,000, which is 7.0...
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Unhoused and Then Displaced Like Me
I’m a native Oregonian. The central part of the state has been my home for more than a quarter century. It’s where I expected to build my life. It’s also where I fled after a harrowing marriage with a husband who threatened my life. With no money, no job, and no...
Death Traps: “The American Aid”
Image by Ash Hayes. About two months ago, an agreement was reached to establish several distribution centers in Gaza for food and humanitarian aid, supervised by a group of Americans. This initiative came after over three months of complete closure of the crossings,...
The Worst Bill in Modern US History
President Trump’s so-called “Big, Beautiful Bill,” now on the floor of the Senate, is the most dangerous piece of legislation in the modern history of our country. It is a gift to the billionaire class, while causing massive pain for low income and working class...
Regarding Ken Paxton: “Now Let Him Enforce It”
Photograph Source: LiwenAristodemos – CC0 “John Marshall has made his decision” regarding relations between the Cherokee Nation and the United States, US president Andrew Jackson supposedly said of the US Supreme Court’s chief justice in 1832. “Now let him enforce...
Conservation Innovations: How Sustained Resistance Is Saving One of the Earth’s Most Critical Rainforests From Corporate Greed
Photograph Source: Tbachner – Public Domain In Indonesia’s Leuser Ecosystem, orangutans swing through the treetops, rhinos roam free, and elephants share the land with tigers. It is the last place on Earth where they still coexist in the wild—and it’s under siege. The...
The Five Percenters: NATO’s Promise of War
Photograph Source: Ministerie van Buitenlandse Zaken – CC BY-SA 4.0 The confidence trickster was at it again on his visit to The Hague, reluctantly meeting members of the overly large family that is NATO. President Donald Trump was hoping to impress upon all present...
Mamdani’s Magnificent Primary Win—What Follows
Youtube screenshot. People are asking about my reaction to Zohran Mamdani’s spectacular and decisive upset in the Democratic primary victory for Mayor of New York over ex-Governor Andrew Cuomo. Mamdani’s victory was so overwhelming that Cuomo conceded generously,...
Starvation and Profiteering in Gaza: Talking with Francesca Albanese
Photograph Source: Syeda Amina Trust – CC BY 2.0 There is not much more that can be said about the unfathomable levels of devastation the genocide in Gaza has reached. Francesca Albanese, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territories,...
The Wretched History of Regime
Photograph Source: موسسه مطالعات و پژوهش های سیاسی – Public Domain “If we have to use force, it is because we are America; we are the indispensable nation. We stand tall and we see further than other countries into the future, and we see the danger here to all of...
On Board the Madleen, Trying to Break the Seige of Gaza
Berlin. Yasemin Acar is a Berlin-based activist who was aboard the Freedom Flotilla’s ship “Madleen”, a mission followed by millions on social media, as the ship tried to break Israel’s siege of Gaza. After attending Berlin’s largest Palestine protest ever last...
The Meaning of Zohran Mamdani’s Victory
Zohran Mamdani. (Photo: Bryan Berlin, via Wikimedia Commons) Zohran Mamdani. (Photo: Bryan Berlin, via Wikimedia Commons) Zohran Mamdani. (Photo: Bryan Berlin, via Wikimedia Commons) Zohran Mamdani. (Photo: Bryan Berlin, via Wikimedia Commons) Zohran Mamdani. (Photo:...