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Understanding the Impact of Whistleblowing
Summary of research on the weakness of "whistleblower protections" and on the impact of whistleblowing in terms of damage to workers' physical, financial, and psychological health...
Posted: Sun, Sep 1, 2024 9:20am PDT
In CNN Interview, Harris Dodged Gaza Genocide and Damaged Her Election Prospects
Evading complicity in war crimes...
Posted: Fri, Aug 30, 2024 11:12am PDT
The Disordered Soul and Presidency of Donald J. Trump: Platonic Reflections on 45
Knowledge, skill, and experience are essential in all human endeavors, at least if excellence is our standard. The next question should be equally obvious: why would we exempt political leaders from having the requisite knowledge, skill, and experience, even in a democracy?...
Posted: Wed, Aug 28, 2024 1:11am PDT
Trump: Philosopher Mogul
Herbert Marcuse described the Happy Consciousness, the amoral product of the technocratic age, in which “guilt feeling has no place”. A person with such a deficiency, Marcuse says, “can give the signal that liquidates hundreds and thousands of people, then declare himself free from all pangs of conscience, and live happily ever after”....
Posted: Tue, Aug 27, 2024 5:08am PDT
Why Are Liberal Zionists Cheering as Harris Echoes Biden on Gaza?
Democrats pledge continued arms for Israel as it makes Gaza hell on earth...
Posted: Mon, Aug 26, 2024 8:10pm PDT
Newsom: Elected officials protect all CA communities don't delay safety-zones around wells
Gov. Newsom needs to keep his promise to stop polluting communities whose citizens live too close to oil and gas operations, say over 500 CA elected officials who signed a letter for 2,300 feet safty zones around wells...
Posted: Mon, Aug 26, 2024 2:08pm PDT
Legislators Should Vote No on SB1277
The parent of two young Jewish children urges legislators to vote no on SB1277, which legislates a biased, pro-Israel version of genocide education....
Posted: Sat, Aug 24, 2024 4:59pm PDT
Supreme Court ruling against homeless also has made America meaner to Russians.
The American campaign against its own homeless people has also triggered a increased cruelty to Russians inside of Russia....
Posted: Sat, Aug 24, 2024 2:14pm PDT
Crisis Beyond the Bubble
The speculative air is slowly leaking out of the global valorization machine – but hardly anyone seems to have noticed. At the beginning of 2024, the World Bank warned of a “lost decade,” the worst economic performance in more than 30 years. Without a “major course correction,” the 2020s will go down as a “decade of missed opportunities,”...
Posted: Thu, Aug 22, 2024 6:21am PDT
Biden’s Convention Speech Made Absurd Claims About His Gaza Policy
Bombast with bombs...
Posted: Tue, Aug 20, 2024 3:22am PDT
Digital Demagogue: The Critical Candidacy of Donald J. Trump
Demagogues make assertions or arguments without regard for truth. Ceaser adds that the demagogue relies on appeals to three main emotions: envy, fear and hope. Religion is a powerful tool of the demagogue, since the speaker’s invocation of the divine can inspire all three of those passions. They pander to passion, prejudice, bigotry and ignorance rather than appealing to reason....
Posted: Sun, Aug 18, 2024 6:11am PDT
Blue-yellow hypnosis
The human frame of thought and evaluation is being twisted by politicians and the media in the Ukraine conflict... Black can be turned into white and white into black at will. Once the entire system of interpretation has been twisted, it is easy to make an act or a situation appear morally “good” or “evil”. In this way, people become accustomed to two categories of state crimes....
Posted: Thu, Aug 15, 2024 10:16am PDT
The Ghost of Hubert Humphrey Is Stalking Kamala Harris
The similarities are eerie...
Posted: Thu, Aug 15, 2024 9:28am PDT
Europe's left: the time for tactics is over
Across Europe, we are experiencing a crisis of democracy; a systemic crisis that cannot be solved with the old structures and offers, in terms of personnel and programmatic. This is an opportunity for the left to put forward candidates like Li Andersson in Finland or Dadgostar in Sweden:both formulate a clear new policy that prioritizes social justice combined with climate justice....
Posted: Tue, Aug 13, 2024 2:31pm PDT
Update from the Casey Support Committee: August 12, 2024
Latest update, including indictment overview, a note on Black August, solidarity statements, & guidelines for writing or sending money....
Posted: Tue, Aug 13, 2024 1:11pm PDT
Totalitarian Economy and Paranoia of Terror: The Death Wish of Capitalist Reason
While the financial capitalist crisis mechanisms of shareholder value threw billions of people into poverty and despair, the majority of the global intelligentsia mockingly sang the song of capitalist democratic optimism. They now have paid the price: When critical reason is silenced, its place is taken by murderous hate....
Posted: Sat, Aug 10, 2024 1:46am PDT
Our passive society
The attack to destroy organized labor and the whole New Deal system occurred. After the upsurge of protest in the 1960s and early ’70s against the corporatist regime of centrist liberalism, the most reactionary sectors of big business launched a massive count counterattack which, as we know, has been wildly successful....
Posted: Wed, Aug 7, 2024 11:20pm PDT
Facundo Jones Huala Lleva 40 Dias en Huelga Seca
LIBERTAD INMEDIATA A FACUNDO JONES HUALA!...
Posted: Wed, Aug 7, 2024 8:15pm PDT
"Tear Gas Tim" - Tim Walz's executive orders to repress the George Floyd Uprising
A timeline of the facts....
Posted: Wed, Aug 7, 2024 8:31am PDT
Attack on Deutsche Bahn’s Railway Infrastructure – Sabotaging War & Colonialism (Germany)
DB’s rail network is a central component of military infrastructure and is used by the Bundeswehr and NATO for troop movement and, together with highways, is a backbone of transporting armaments such as tanks and heavy war equipment around the world and in active theaters of war....
Posted: Tue, Aug 6, 2024 7:26am PDT