Three years on from Britain's exit from the EU, the deep impact on our economy and national standing is now undeniable, writes Adam Bienkov
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Last week, the Royal College of Nurses (RCN) announced further strike days, set to be their ‘biggest to date’. Nurses will be joined by ambulance drivers and paramedics, while junior doctors are currently balloting; in education, teachers and support staff in England and Wales are set to be the next group of workers to walk […]
Washington, Kiev and the EU have been furiously lobbying Latin American governments to provide weaponry to Ukraine, but they still want no part of this war.
At a gathering of the National Restaurant Association’s legal arm, lawyers and executives grappled with a worker uprising.
With intense scrutiny on the sending of transgender offenders to women's prisons, Sian Norris reports on the much-ignored safety issue impacting incarcerated women – self harm
At a gathering of the National Restaurant Association’s legal arm, lawyers and executives grappled with a worker uprising.
Sam Bright reports on the scale of pollution being pumped into the North Sea
By Kevin Gosztola / The Dissenter Attorneys and journalists, who visited WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange while he was living under political asylum in the Ecuador embassy, amended their lawsuit against the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) for allegedly spying on them. The complaint [PDF] filed in the Southern District of New York now even more explicitly […]
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"What is the common vision to guide the Global South out of this crisis?" asked the Progressive International. "What is the plan to win it?"
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Biden said "No" when asked if the US would send F-16s to Ukraine, but the US previously ruled out providing other arms it eventually sent.
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By Ralph Nader It is showdown time. Senator Bernie Sanders, new chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee versus Big Pharma. The self-described “democratic socialist” from a safe seat in Vermont has long been a Big Pharma nemesis. He has issued detailed critiques of what others have called a “Pay or Die” […]
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France’s eight major trade unions united for the first time in 12 years to combat government proposals to raise the retirement age to 64.
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Russia, India, and Iran press ahead with new International North-South Transport Corridor. Will Adani crisis and Iran-Azerbaijan tension derail it?
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Popular discussion about controlling global population growth tended to focus on the birth rate. But the death rate also is a powerful variable in the world’s population dynamics.
"(The plan) shows direct disregard for the sovereignty and self-determination of Pacific peoples and the ocean their livelihoods depend upon."
The religious right largely opposes government regulation to protect the environment, but this hasn’t always been the case.
Recent additions to the Heap of Links… “Art is artifice plus, one hopes, a hint of genius… Such hints can shine through… in the most unlikely, indeed the silliest places. There is of course no reason why AI should not also be such a place” — Justin E.H. Smith (University of Paris 7) defends AI art, sort of “I do not think a degenerated scholasticism is the right historical metaphor for our time and era. I think late antiquity Hellenistic philosophy is where we should see ourselves” — “We are in a syncretic age. And I believe that is why we will soon be forgot,” says Liam Kofi Bright (LSE) “Ethics are mostly an afterthought for… profit-driven organisations, a compliance hoop they must jump through.
On this week’s Lever Time: David is joined by Russell Brand to discuss his evolution from comedian to political content creator, and we interview the authors of Chokepoint Capitalism.
A new bill would allow prisoners to get time off their sentence if they donate their organs or bone marrow.
Programa do governo da Bahia usa tecnologia para mapear crimes e premiar redução de mortes violentas – mas exclui estatísticas de violência policial nos monitoramentos.
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