MSNBC host Mehdi Hasan used his major-network platform on Sunday to make the case for Medicare for All as a critical public health measure, pointing to a new study showing that a single-payer system designed to guarantee comprehensive coverage to all could have prevented more than 338,000 coronavirus deaths in the United States. “It̵...
After Apple employees in Maryland voted Saturday to form the tech giant’s first retail store union in the United States, workers’ rights advocates across the country celebrated the “pathbreaking win for labor.” Workers at the store in Towson recently organized into the Coalition of Organized Retail Employees (CORE) and ...
U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders rallied with Jonathan Jackson and Delia Ramirez, a pair of progressive congressional candidates, in Chicago on Saturday. “We desperately need more leaders in the Congress who understand the need to stand up and fight against the corporate greed that is running rampant in this country,” said Sanders (I-Vt.),...
Led by the Poor People’s Campaign, advocacy groups and low-income individuals gathered in Washington, D.C. on Saturday to demand that policymakers “fight poverty, not the poor.” “We are the 140 million poor and low-wealth people, standing together to declare we won’t be silent anymore,” said Rev. Dr. Liz The...
The GOP-packed Iowa Supreme Court on Friday dealt a serious blow to abortion rights in the state amid heightened fears about the future of reproductive freedom nationwide. In a case challenging medically unnecessary restrictions, Iowa’s high court determined that there is no fundamental right to abortion protected by the state constituti...
After Recode on Friday revealed an internal document from last year warns that “if we continue business as usual, Amazon will deplete the available labor supply in the U.S. network by 2024,” critics of the online retail giant’s labor practices renewed calls for improvement. Journalist Jason Del Rey’s reporting on the &#...
WASHINGTON (AA) – US President Joe Biden said on Friday he has no plans to sit down with Saudi Arabia’s de facto leader as he prepares to visit the Kingdom next month. Asked if he would meet with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, Biden said, “I’m not going to meet with” him. “I’m going […]
ANKARA (AA) – Iran’s former top military commander Qassem Soleimani was killed to stop a plot against 500 Americans, according to former US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. “General Soleimani was engaged in a plot to kill another 500 Americans. We had the opportunity to take down that plot, and we did,” Pompeo said in [&...
WASHINGTON (AA) – The US and Ukraine have inked a three-year agreement to boost cooperation in agriculture, particularly food production, as the UN warns of devastating consequences of Russia’s war on global food security. The agreement will see the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) and Ukraine’s Ministry of Agrarian Policy...
As supporters of Julian Assange held a news conference Friday at the United Kingdom’s consulate in New York to demand freedom for the jailed WikiLeaks founder, a trio of leading leftist figures decried the British government’s approval of the ailing Australian’s extradition to the United States. In a statement published ahead...