Workers’ party leader had been held for 580 days for corruption but court rules incarceration unlawful until appeals exhausted
The Institute for Policy Studies host a discussion on U.S.-Cuba relations with Miguel Fraga, First Secretary of the Cuban Embassy in Washington, DC.
Prof Michael Hudson takes listeners through the new economic model of kleptocracy in a German interview. He has some tough advice for Germans, for democratic supporters.
The Democratic Party is less than enthusiastic about two rising third-party campaigns, echoing national tensions between progressives and the establishment.
> "In Philadelphia, the Working Families Party went all in, backing two candidates who ran third-party bids — one of them, Kendra Brooks, took a seat that had been held by Republicans since the ’50s. Typically, WFP allies with Democrats, but this time the party ran on its own, aiming for two spots the city charter reserves for minority party council members. Brooks, with no help from the Dems, knocked out a Republican — shifting the balance of power left in the City Council. "
> "In Philadelphia, the Working Families Party went all in, backing two candidates who ran third-party bids — one of them, Kendra Brooks, took a seat that had been held by Republicans since the ’50s. Typically, WFP allies with Democrats, but this time the party ran on its own, aiming for two spots the city charter reserves for minority party council members. Brooks, with no help from the Dems, knocked out a Republican — shifting the balance of power left in the City Council. "
"The widening probe raises questions about whether the U.S. government might seek to take over the UAW."
"The Saudi operation to track its critics has only escalated in recent years. In June 2018, Saudi officials hacked into Mr. Abdulaziz’s phone using spyware the Saudi government had bought from NSO Group, an Israeli firm, according to researchers at Citizen Lab, a security research lab at the University of Toronto.'
"Cuba has been praised for its advances in child health, which a paper published this week in the British Medical Journal (BMJ) attributes partly to the socialist island’s empowerment of women along with other socioeconomic measures."
And disability rights group Disabled People Against Cuts (DPAC) warned voters ahead of the December 12 election that her anti-welfare rhetoric is reflective of wider Conservative attitudes.
"Court documents from the U.S. District Court for the Western District of North Carolina, obtained by Queen’s Park Today, reveal Workman was indicted on nine counts of “falsely and willfully” representing himself as a U.S. citizen in order to register to vote and cast a ballot in the May 2000 presidential primary race and the 2002 U.S. general election in Avery County, NC."
Senior party figures accused of profiting from the state by overcharging for election kits
It's no secret there is resentment among scientists here about what many believe is a marginalization of their work by the West.
Joel Lamika, who runs an Ebola smartphone app at the institute, says many foreign governments want to stamp their flags on the work Congolese have done.
"They want to claim like it's theirs," he says. "But it is theft."
Lamika says perhaps one good thing that has come out of this latest Ebola outbreak is that it is giving the world a chance to rewrite history.
Muyembe, he says, is a national hero. His picture is on a huge banner in front of this institute. During previous Ebola outbreaks, and especially the huge one in West Africa that killed more than 11,000 people, the the scientific community used Muyembe as an example of someone who had gotten it right. Under his leadership, Congo had managed to quickly quell nine previous outbreaks.
Joel Lamika, who runs an Ebola smartphone app at the institute, says many foreign governments want to stamp their flags on the work Congolese have done.
"They want to claim like it's theirs," he says. "But it is theft."
Lamika says perhaps one good thing that has come out of this latest Ebola outbreak is that it is giving the world a chance to rewrite history.
Muyembe, he says, is a national hero. His picture is on a huge banner in front of this institute. During previous Ebola outbreaks, and especially the huge one in West Africa that killed more than 11,000 people, the the scientific community used Muyembe as an example of someone who had gotten it right. Under his leadership, Congo had managed to quickly quell nine previous outbreaks.
"Allow me to reiterate what happened here: An 11-year-old boy is criminalized because of a piece of clothing. The next day, his rightfully angry mother is not only dismissed in her concerns, but also made out to be a criminal."
The mayors of Oakland, Sacramento and more than a dozen other California municipalities are joining San Jose in a campaign to buy out the investor-owned PG&E and turn it into a giant customer-owned cooperative.
Something Special Children’s Centre is attempting to make our jobs even more difficult by taking away vital health benefits that we rely on in the event of serious illness or injury. They have gone so far as to lock us out of the workplace when all we want is to keep our health benefits as they were in previous contracts.
"This model of privatized profits and socialized costs is the same one that has allowed Wall Street firms to speculate and reap enormous profits, while always counting on the public coffers to bail them out in a crisis. In the case of PG&E, the enormous damages they have had to pay for the fires caused by their infrastructure have led the company to declare bankruptcy, a condition from which it will have to be bailed out with public funds in order to ensure the continuous supply of electricity."
"While it’s impossible to profile shoplifters – the crime transcends gender, age and all socio-demographic strata, and about one in 11 people commit it – evidence suggests the rich actually do steal more than the poor. The paper cited most often to support this theory, Prevalence and Correlates of Shoplifting in the United States (American Journal of Psychology, 2008), states that people with incomes of $70,000 shoplift 30% more than those earning $20,000 a year."
Every year, I look at measuring the US rate of profit a la Marx. Official data are now available in order to update the measurement for 2018 (not 2019 yet!). As usual, if you wish to replicate my …
The Triumph of Injustice: how the rich dodge taxes and how to make them pay is a new book by the inequality experts, Gabriel Zucman and Emmanuel Saez. It’s a searing indictment of American tax syst…