44+ min ago   (698+ words) Amid a deepening political crisis triggered by growing popular opposition to the escalating war against Russia, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky went on a tirade over the weekend against free and open elections, declaring that a vote would “destroy the country....

57+ min ago   (702+ words) On August 13, 28-year-old worker Jonathan Stepp was killed while operating a pot hauler at the Cleveland-Cliffs Burns Harbor Works in northwest Indiana. Stepp, of Merrillville, Indiana, was a young father and a second-generation member of International Union of Operating Engineers…...

1+ hour, 34+ min ago   (1044+ words) At least a dozen left-wing political organizations in 11 countries have publicly backed the campaign to free Bogdan Syrotiuk, the 27-year-old Ukrainian socialist sentenced to 15 years in prison on August 10 for opposing the war. The petition demanding his release has drawn…...

1+ hour, 35+ min ago   (776+ words) On Friday, the media conglomerate Paramount Skydance launched a political witch-hunting campaign charging the actor Mark Ruffalo with antisemitism for criticizing Oracle CEO Larry Ellison and his family’s ties to Israel and the ongoing genocide in Gaza. A spokesperson for…...

2+ hour, 21+ min ago   (919+ words) On August 20, 800 migrant workers took off on foot from the Tapachula, on Mexico’s southern border, towards Mexico City. The migrants, from El Salvador, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Venezuela, Cuba and Haiti, including entire families with pregnant women, children and the elderly, unable…...

3+ hour, 34+ min ago   (205+ words) In a disaster reminiscent of Love Canal, systematic survey and cleanup have begun of areas contaminated with materials containing the radiologically active element thorium, located in Niagara County, western New York state. These were initially identified by the U.S. Department of…...

3+ hour ago   (778+ words) In its Security Threat Environment report, released on August 13, New Zealand’s domestic spy agency, the Security Intelligence Service (NZSIS) baldly claimed that the People’s Republic of China (PRC) is the sole country engaged in espionage in New Zealand “at scale....

3+ hour, 7+ min ago   (1015+ words) The dangerous Hawk Fire continued to burn Monday outside Reno, the center of Nevada’s second-largest metropolitan area, after forcing tens of thousands of people from their homes and covering large sections of the city in smoke. By Monday afternoon, the…...

3+ hour, 31+ min ago   (992+ words) The announcement last week that Australian government debt had passed the $1 trillion mark has delivered further pressure from the representatives of finance capital for deeper cuts in social spending, making it clear that the savaging of the National Disability Insurance…...

3+ hour, 34+ min ago   (604+ words) Six children are dead. To divert widespread public shock and concern, the government offered thoughts and prayers, denounced foreign online cults and video games, and legislators demanded to lower the age at which the state can imprison children. However, the…...