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[ad_1] From the Ohio State Employment Relations Board in In re City of Youngstown, decided in December by Chair W. Craig Zimpher, Vice Chair Sandra Drabik Collins, and Board Member Robert Walter, but just posted on Westlaw: City violated RC 4117.11(A)(1) when Fire Chief yelled at, physically threatened, uttered racially oriented names (i.e., “punk ass white boys”), and accused Union President and Vice President of being “racist” when they requested information about, and demanded to bargain over, effects of offering EMT class to bargaining unit employees, constituting restraint and coercion in exercise of rights guaranteed to them. City violated RC…

[ad_1] Jake Johnson for Common Dreams Three progressive candidates emerged victorious from U.S. congressional primaries in New York on Tuesday, overcoming millions of dollars in spending by corporate interests and AIPAC with grassroots campaigns that centered the working class. Brad Lander, the former New York City comptroller, defeated Democratic Rep. Dan Goldman in New York’s 10th Congressional District, nearly doubling the incumbent’s vote count with over 90 percent of ballots tallied. In New York’s 13th, Darializa Avila Chevalier — who was recruited by Justice Democrats — defeated five-term incumbent Rep. Adriano Espaillat. Claire Valdez, a New York state assembly…

[ad_1] Economic pragmatism to overcome sanctions, geopolitical tensions, and self-inflicted losses. Ahmed Adel, Cairo-based geopolitics and political economy researcher. Despite ongoing geopolitical tensions, sanctions, and the fallout from Russia’s 2022 Special Military Operation in Ukraine, economic incentives are quietly positioning many Western companies for a potential return to the vast Russian market. While political narratives dominate headlines, the logic of business—rooted in profit, market share, and long-term stability—remains a powerful counterforce. Hundreds of Western firms remained in Russia after 2022, generating billions in revenue, while those that exited have incurred massive losses, with foregone sales estimated at up to €400…

[ad_1] In a trial set to begin June 24, California’s Attorney General Rob Bonta is asking a court to do something that should alarm every American, regardless of where they stand on abortion: punish nonprofit organizations with ruinous fines for speaking about a lawful medical treatment. The target is not fraud. These charities offer their services for free. It is not patient harm. There is no evidence of any patient being harmed. It is not even illegal conduct. The underlying treatment remains perfectly legal. The target is speech. Heartbeat International and Real Options are pro-life nonprofits that provide information and…

[ad_1] Millions of American workers are stranded in jobs without career mobility. Here’s what we need to ease the problem of stalled careers. [ad_2] Source link

[ad_1] The Iranian schoolhouse in Minab stands as a warning that goes beyond a single strike, or company, or war. It warns of a future in which technological power advances faster than public accountability. Vijay Prashad for Z Network In the southern Iranian city of Minab, where the heat rises from the earth in shimmering waves and the reality of imperialism lingers in every port and military installation, a missile struck a school on Feb. 28. The strike killed 156 people, notably 120 schoolchildren, which the Iranian government immediately called a “blatant crime.” The United Nations called the attack “a grave violation of humanitarian law.”…

[ad_1] Image generated with Grok by xAI. In 399 B.C., Socrates chose to drink hemlock and suffer a painful death rather than submit to the state and live a life devoid of critical examination. He would be horrified to see how close we have come to constructing his nightmare: a society willing to jettison free speech and embrace state-defined “safety” over the messy, painful, and necessary work of questioning why we believe what we believe.  The nation’s founders viewed freedom of speech and the press as essential to a free society. Not as privileges granted by the government, but as fundamental, pre-existing natural rights derived from self-ownership. This philosophical framework…

[ad_1] JD Vance points at Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif during a press briefing on the Iran ceasefire negotiations. (Screengrab from video posted to X.) By some miracle, Donald “Blockade Everybody” Trump may have achieved a peace deal with Iran. That is, if and only if he decides to snap a leash on the U.S. attack dog in the region, namely Israel, whose nearly universally loathed prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, flatly rejected el jefe’s deal the minute it was announced. As observers far more astute than yours truly would note, this is all for show. Israel will do exactly what…

[ad_1] As I sat down to write this column, I knew there was only one possible topic – an international dispute that had the United States throwing its weight around and the other side refusing to back down. No, not the Iran negotiations. I’m talking about the much more consequential battle between President Donald Trump and Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni. History may record that the first one involved nuclear weapons, terrorism, and the future of the Middle East. But the other involved an Italian mother being told she begged for a photograph. Trust me, that’s the more dangerous conflict.…

[ad_1] Starmer, the Man Who Couldn't Do It [ad_2] Source link