EDITOR—A thorough analysis of a major development in labor law affecting millions of people in the US working in the “Gig Economy”. Such people usually face low wages, no health or vacation benefits, and other perks that normally accompany a regular job with a stable employer, such as a big corporation. Sabby looks at the history of the Uber and Lyft drivers’ struggle, and how this court settlement may now reshape this market and other industries relying heavily on “gig” workers.
ANTI-NEOLIBERALISM
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EDITOR—In-depth coverage of George Galloway’s shocking defeat in the general election, underscoring the immense difficulties for third party candidates of overcoming the existing duopolies, and the corrupting power of the mass media behind them. And don’t miss George’s devastating rebuttal of a Zionist’s charges of “racism” at a college debating union—they don’t come much better than that.
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PAUL EDWARDS—Nothing can save this nation because it has ceased to be a nation. A nation is a political entity that represents and defends the interests of a people. America, in contrast, is dirty Capitalism embodied. It is an enormous machine whose only purpose is to grind out profit for its owners, the vacuous billionaire coven.
It has no ideal, no ethic or principle, and so, no animating spirit at its core. If it ever had, beyond lust for money and the power to get it, that spirit has burned out in the bonfire of those vaunted, never implemented, virtues that were its best-selling points.
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How Venezuela Is Overcoming the US Blockade
13 minutes readROGER D. HARRIS—This election is taking place in the context of US unilateral coercive measures. These so-called sanctions have amounted to an actual economic and financial blockade designed to cripple the economy and cause the people to renounce their government. Such outside interference by Washington is tantamount to electoral blackmail.
Yet Carlos Ron, Venezuela’s deputy minister of foreign affairs for North America, is confident that the government party will win. He spoke on June 25 at a webinar organized by the Venezuela Solidarity Network.
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SPENGLER—What is the agenda that the voters of the West have repudiated? America’s elite set out to remake the world according to its own imaginings after the fall of Communism in 1990 and had sufficient power to frog-march the rest of the industrial world into its plan.
The first is a global agreement to isolate and debilitate Russia, expanding NATO to the Russia-Ukraine border. As Donald Trump declared on June 21, that is precisely what provoked the Russian invasion of Ukraine.