Janine Jackson interviewed Public Citizen’s Robert Weissman about the Boeing scandal for the March 29, 2024, episode of CounterSpin. This is a lightly edited transcript.
U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) speaks to a crowd of unionized hotel workers and allies in downtown Los Angeles on April 5, 2024.,Bryan Giardinelli/Hello@BreatheNewWinds.com
JOHANNESBURG – The relentless siege on Gaza is a dark reflection on humanity. Well over 100,000 Palestinians have been declared killed, injured, or missing over the past six months, and the overwhelming majority are innocent civilians who bear no responsibility for Hamas’s appalling attack on October 7, 2023.
State lawmakers seeking to dismantle unions and implement anti-worker laws have just been handed a new state-by-state roadmap by the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), the corporate-funded bill mill popular with Republican legislators.
Israel is wielding starvation as a weapon of war, imposing a famine on the more than two million Palestinians trapped in Gaza, one million of whom are children. Twenty-seven children have already starved to death since Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant declared, on October 9th, “There will be no electricity, no food, no fuel, everything is closed…We are fighting human animals.”
InsideClimatenews.org ranked U.S. Steel's Gary Works, in Gary, Indiana in 2022, as the largest greenhouse gas emitting iron and steel plant in the U.S. (Adobe Stock)
U.S. Aid Experts Warn Gaza Likely Already Experiencing Famine
A group of U.S. government humanitarian experts on Tuesday privately warned fellow officials that the spread of hunger and malnutrition in Gaza amid the U.S.-backed Israeli offensive is “unprecedented in modern history,” famine is likely already occurring in parts of the Gaza Strip and the pace of hunger-releated deaths will “accelerate in the weeks ahead.”
"This Happens in War" - Benjamin Netanyahu
Researchers say U.S. federal workers are generally high-performing, impartial and minimally corrupt compared with other countries' civil servants. (Adobe stock)
The editorial boards of the nation’s major media organizations must have been frantic last week.
The Indiana College Readiness Report showed 61% of women and 46% of men in the state who go on to college attend an Indiana-based school. (Adobe Stock)
Some of many reasons why there must be a permanent ceasefire in Gaza
Statement from Palestinian members of the national leadership of Standing Together
Members of the Al-Rabaya family break their fast during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan outside their destroyed home by the Israeli airstrikes in Rafah, Gaza Strip, Monday, March 18, 2024. (AP Photo/Fatima Shbair)
The companies listed here have provided Israel with weapons and other military equipment used in its attacks on Gaza, the West Bank, Lebanon, and Syria between October 2023 and January 2024.
Government-backed development projects line the pockets of few to the detriment of most, the Madison-based journalist says in a new book.
Header image: A portrait of Lawrence Tabak, along with the cover of his book “Foxconned.” The orb-shaped building from Foxconn’s Wisconsin campus is superimposed behind Tabak.
An Indiana State Teacher's Association report from 2023 lists raising teacher pay, hiring additional educators and offering more mental health and behavioral support for students as some of the top issues affecting teacher retention. (Adobe Stock)
After yesterday’s primary contests, we appear headed toward a Biden-Trump rematch in 2024. But this year’s election is an entirely different kettle of fish than that of 2020.
My Name Is Rachel Corrie at Playhouse Theatre, London, 2006.
It's Not a Growth Industry,Patrick T. Fallon
Sen. Bernie Sanders, a Vermont independent, said Sunday that the Biden administration needs to make clear to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that if his government wants to continue to receive support from the U.S., Israel must change its policy,on humanitarian aid to Gaza (CBS Face the Nation, March 10, 2024).
[The following is a transcript of an interview with Sen. Bernie Sanders, Independent of Vermont, that aired on March 10, 2024.]
Jonathan Glazer accepts the Best International Feature Film award for The Zone of Interest at the 96th Annual Oscars held at Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles on March 10.,(Rich Polk / Variety // The Nation)
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A coalition of US senators has taken a firm stand against the Biden administration, demanding an immediate halt to military aid to Israel unless the Netanyahu government ceases its obstruction of aid deliveries to the Gaza Strip. With Gaza under the shadow of incessant Israeli bombing, the situation has spiraled into a humanitarian disaster, with children among the most affected, facing starvation and dire conditions.
With over 17 million subscribers, the Morning, the New York Times’ flagship newsletter, is by far the most popular newsletter in the English-speaking world. (It has almost three times as many subscribers as the next most popular newsletter.)
The Wall Street Journal (2/26/24) is concerned that they live among us. They are Arab Americans. And what are they doing to threaten the United States? Voting.
Large numbers of women have entered the workforce in the past 50 years, but the Institute for Women's Policy Research warns it could be decades before they are paid the same as men for the same job. (Adobe Stock)
When my dear friend Asad Rehman asked me to help close this gathering, his specific instructions were to speak about the political situation today and to do it in a way ‘filled with hope’. A bit of a tall order and I’m not entirely sure I can deliver. Let’s see what we can do instead….
Since the Hamas raid penetrated the multi-tiered Israeli border security on October 7, 2023 (an unexplained collapse of Israel’s defensive capabilities), 2.3 million utterly defenseless Palestinians in the tiny crowded Gaza enclave have been on the receiving end of over 65,000 bombs/missiles plus non-stop tank shelling and snipers.
Janine Jackson interviewed the Quincy Institute’s Trita Parsi about the Gaza assault for the February 23, 2024, episode of CounterSpin. This is a lightly edited transcript.
Anderson teacher Ashley Zornes says House Bill 1304 essentially punishes students because a teacher's working conditions are students' learning conditions. (Adobe Stock)
