Capitalists and capitalist corporations – even wealthy and powerful ones like Amazon, Ford and General Motors, or ExxonMobil and British Petroleum – are always competing with one another to cut their labor costs in order to produce their commodities more...
The Netflix mini-series Painkiller depicts the grim tragedy of the opioid crisis caused by Purdue Pharma. It pulls no punches revealing how the Sacklers, a family of wealthy business owners, actively marketed OxyContin to patients experiencing mild to severe pain,...
More than 11,000 people have been killed in floods caused by Storm Daniel in Libya. That is only an estimate, and there are fears that as many as 20,000 people might be dead. The death toll is the result of the bursting of two major dams near the city of Derna,...
On September 8, an earthquake of magnitude 6.8 hit southern Morocco, 50 miles southwest of the city of Marrakesh. The earthquake devastated the region of the Atlas Mountains. Nearly three thousand people are believed to be dead after the earthquake and thousands more...
In the early hours of Friday, September 15th, union officials of the United Auto Workers (UAW) called on 12,700 workers at three assembly plants to shut them down. This was part of the strategy of the UAW in dealing with the contract expiration of the “Big Three” auto...
