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[ad_1] In the United Kingdom, the ruling Labour Party has proposed expanding “equal value” pay laws so workers can bring equal pay claims based on race and disability, not just sex. Under these laws, employees can argue they deserve the same pay as workers in completely different jobs if the jobs are judged to be of equal value. This approach has already generated huge lawsuits, including cases against the Birmingham City Council, where female teaching assistants won compensation after being paid less than mostly male garbage collectors, and against major retailers such as Asda, where store employees claimed they should receive…

[ad_1] Photograph Source: Subin Siby – CC0 “What if all the cockroaches come together?” – Abhijeet Dipke Marx and Engels issued the historic call: “Workers of the world, unite! You have nothing to lose but your chains!” Today, that summons returns with renewed urgency and takes a new form: Young people of the world unite and resist. Youth today possess the courage, imagination, anger, and numbers to change the course of history. They have grown up in societies paralyzed by cynicism, loneliness, desperation, and hatred, conditions that isolate people from one another and teach them to regard cruelty as inevitable.…

[ad_1] Photo by Taylor Rooney One of the glaring inconsistencies of American life is that the culture prides itself on “individual freedom,” but insists on blind participation in collective ritual. The inculcation of the conformist impulse begins early with the daily recitation of the “pledge of allegiance” in classrooms, and in a display of national arrested development, it continues with an almost identical exercise before every sports event, where the national anthem plays with expectation that everyone in the audience will dutifully rise from their seats, remove their hats, and show great reverence for…what exactly? The flag, as prevalent bumper…

[ad_1] Last September, the U.S. military fired the first of 63 strikes against 67 small fishing boats in the Caribbean Sea and Eastern Pacific Ocean. The spate of killings in Operation Southern Spear has claimed 221 lives so far, according to the Washington Office on Latin America, a human rights organization. In April, President Donald Trump boasted about the effectiveness of his extrajudicial maritime strikes against alleged drug traffickers, claiming his methods had stopped 98.2 percent of all drugs coming into the country by ocean or sea. However, new evidence from those inside the Trump administration shows the strikes have not…

[ad_1] Expanded war: Egyptian authorities “said Thursday that the country had come under attack, blaming an explosion at one of its ports the previous day on an unidentified drone,” per The New York Times. “Earlier, Saudi Arabia also acknowledged direct involvement in the war for the first time, after conducting joint strikes with U.S. forces on Iranian-backed militias in Iraq on Wednesday.” Fighting between the U.S. and Iran shows no signs of slowing or stopping, and may even be heating up: “U.S. Central Command said it carried out a two-hour operation launched at midnight targeting Iran’s Revolutionary Guards’ military command centres and…

[ad_1] Soccer player Ghiggia (Uruguay) scores a goal that silences a whole nation. Illustration by Paola Bilancieri. In 1950, the match between Brazil and Uruguay was the final of the 1950 FIFA World Cup. In the final game of the tournament, Brazil needed only a draw to become world champions. Its rival, Uruguay, smaller, slower, supposedly outmatched, needed a miracle to win. On the morning of July 16, 1950, Rio de Janeiro woke as if to a coronation. The streets pulsed with drums, paper flags, and the certainty of a nation rehearsing its own triumph. Convinced that Brazil would be…

[ad_1] Recent images from the White House showed a familiar scene: Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky once again making a pilgrimage to meet President Donald Trump. The stated purpose for this visit was to secure continued American support for Ukraine’s struggle against Russia, particularly through the provision of more air defense missile interceptors. In the days before the meeting, Ukraine had launched a strike against an Iranian ship in the Caspian Sea, and then scrambled to contain the diplomatic fallout. The rationale seems clear: The attack was timed to immediately precede Zelensky’s U.S. trip, apparently with an eye to impressing Trump…

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[ad_1] The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) plans to nearly triple the number of surveillance towers along U.S. borders over the next decade, according to a federal audit. An annual Government Accountability Office (GAO) assessment released this month on the DHS’ acquisition oversight and risk management reported that the DHS plans to increase its “Integrated Surveillance Towers Program” from the 830 current towers to 2,300 by the year 2034. In addition to more funding for construction of a physical border wall, the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBA), signed into law by President Donald Trump on July 4, 2025, included…