Author: nick

The Source link

One would think that delivery drivers would be natural supporters of delivery services. Not if you’re the International Brotherhood of Teamsters.  Through lobbying efforts and lawsuits, the union has made itself the primary enemy of any business or industry that might ship goods or drop off packages without employing unionized drivers (or any drivers, for that matter).  The Teamsters have come out in force to support New York City’s Delivery Protection Act (DPA), which would require companies like Amazon to hire delivery drivers as full-time employees—an effective ban on the company’s current practice of hiring out deliveries to smaller subcontracting…

What Happens When Jews Don't Fight Source link

Washington's $40 Trillion Debt Milestone Source link

Abby Martin joins CN Live! to discuss her newest film, The Earth’s Greatest Enemy, about U.S. militarism, empire and environmental destruction.  8 p.m. Tonite! There have been about 70 major empires in world history beginning with the Akkadian Empire founded by Sargon the Great in Mesopotamia 2334 BCE. The United States Empire may well be the last. A continuation of the British empire after breaking with London, the Americans conquered their own continent in genocide; built its early economy on slavery; seized remaining parts of the decrepit Spanish Empire and then dominated the non-communist parts of the world following the…

Medicaid and Transgender Treatments for Kids Source link

You can’t keep a bad idea down. You fight it with all weapons at hand—science, reason, research, history, and, when they fail, yelling—until you are sure it is dead as a doornail. Then, one day while you are quietly reading the latest terrifying news, you see a revenant: the corpse reawakens. For us, that was last year’s blockbuster, Amy Griffin’s The Tell, which told readers that although she had no evidence supporting her MDMA-triggered “recovered” memory of being sexually abused in middle school, she knows it happened. No corroboration from teachers or classmates about it, no supporting evidence from the…

Britain Must Meet Putin's War of Words With Action Source link

Instead, thanks to a cascade of institutional dysfunction that will go down in history as uniquely bizarre and condescending—even by the considerable standards of higher ed misadministration—Jason Arday found himself in an environment where no one would say no to him, where no one would ask follow-up questions (at least out loud), and where people covered for him rather than holding him accountable. As a result, he did significant harm—to the scholars he plagiarized, the peers he wrongly beat out for a prestigious position, and (everyone keeps forgetting this) to the parents of nonverbal kids with autism, who are frequently…

The strategy is being overseen by Elbridge Colby, the Pentagon’s policy chief, who has long called for the U.S. to prepare to fight a “limited nuclear war,” reports Dave DeCamp.  Nuclear weapon test Dakota, June 26, 1956. (U.S. Dept. of Energy /Wikimedia Commons) By Dave DeCampAntiwar.com The Pentagon is reportedly drafting a new nuclear strategy that’s expected to emphasize the use of tactical nuclear weapons to give the president more “options” in a potential nuclear conflict. The strategy, first reported by NBC News, is being drafted by the Pentagon’s policy chief, Elbridge Colby, who has for more than a decade called…