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Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair Al King and other United Steelworkers (USW) activists spent much of the past year piecing together support for about 600 union miners in Minnesota laid off by Cleveland-Cliffs. He and leaders across the union collaborated to secure a 26-week extension of state unemployment benefits. King, the USW Local 6511 president, helped to search for training and part-time employment opportunities to give his coworkers options as the layoffs dragged on. He also threw his support behind the possible development of a manufacturing plant on the Iron Range with the potential to generate 200 jobs—one more potential…
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Palestinians are not leaving their villages in the West Bank because of “tensions” or “clashes.” They are being driven out through a calculated campaign that weaponises sexual terror, military impunity, and land bureaucracy to make life unlivable. This article lays bare an illegal project of forcible transfer, enabled by the Israeli state and met with open international complicity through inaction. A Palestinian family does not abandon its home in darkness because life has become merely difficult. A mother does not send her daughter away because conditions are unpleasant. A shepherd does not give up the land that fed his family…
Forty years after the Chernobyl meltdown, too many people are still drawing the wrong conclusions. Source link
One of the beneficiaries of Virginia’s aggressive attempt to gerrymander the state for Democratic advantage could be a former federal prosecutor whose campaign for Congress hinges on his efforts Source link
Photo by Brad Ritson The source of Russia’s global power derives not from sophisticated technology, an advanced service sector, or a cadre of entrepreneurs. Russia’s power is almost entirely backward-looking. Its geopolitical position rests on a base of prehistoric vegetation. That vegetation, of course, has ended up as Russia’s reserves of oil, natural gas, and coal. About one-quarter of the country’s government revenues comes from fossil fuel sales. Those revenues ensure that Russia’s superpower status can’t be boiled down simply to its possession of nuclear weapons. Russia is not “Upper Volta with nukes” as the Soviet Union was famously dismissed. Petrodollars give it…
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An IPO could value it at close to $2 trillion. Whether it’s worth that depends on how you value Elon Musk’s chances of transforming civilization, writes Patrick McGee. Source link
In one of the scariest moments in modern history, we’re doing our best at ScheerPost to pierce the fog of lies that conceal it but we need some help to pay our writers and staff. Please consider a tax-deductible donation. One crazed man holds the fate of the world in his hands and his name is Donald Trump. Can his administration, the U.S. system, the War Powers Act, Russia or anybody else stop him? asks Joe Lauria. Joe Lauria for Consortium News Donald Trump “indefinitely” extended the ceasefire with Iran on April 21 and over the last 12 days…