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Trudeau parades as workers’ defender, but Canada’s unemployed face ‘disaster capitalism’

September 15, 2020 By Elizabeth Rowley

With a minority government in the midst of a pandemic and the worst economic crisis in a century, the Liberals are vulnerable to pressure from labor and the left.

United Food and Commercial Workers: OSHA’s Smithfield fine ‘a slap on the wrist’

September 14, 2020 By Mark Gruenberg

WASHINGTON—The Trump regime’s $13,494 fine against the infamous Smithfield pork production plant in Sioux Falls, S.D.—a plant where company failure to protect workers against the coronavirus infected at least 1,300 of them and endangered the whole...

Tug-of-war in Germany between forces for peace and militarists

September 14, 2020 By Victor Grossman

As in the U.S., the militarists push for war while Germany and Europe can clearly benefit from peace.

Nearly two decades after 9/11, military-industrial complex is stronger than ever

September 11, 2020 By C.J. Atkins

65 times more Americans have perished from COVID-19 than died on 9/11, and our greatest national security threat resides in the White House.

The rule of big oil causes misery in the Middle East

September 11, 2020 By Conn Hallinan

Covid-19 is not the Black Death, but its impact may be civilizational, weakening the mighty, raising up the modest, and rearranging axes of power across the globe.