"The 851-page report – which is subject to an independent inquiry led by QC Martin Forde – blames former Labour officials opposed to Corbyn for hampering his efforts to tackle abuse and sabotaging the party’s 2017 general election campaign."

The shutdowns have resulted in near unprecedented unemployment levels, and a major economic downturn in Canada. In response, the federal Liberal government implemented several emergency relief funds, including the Canadian Emergency Response Benefit.

"Israel’s targeting of Palestinian cultural centres is not arbitrary, it is part of their strategy to erase the indigenous Palestinian identity from the city. Since Israel’s illegal occupation of Jerusalem in 1967, Israel has been engaging in a war of demographics in order to maintain Israeli majority in the city."

Bolivia is the latest in a long line of thriving democracies destroyed as U.S. institutions cheer and lend support.

As is often mentioned, the purchasing power of the minimum wage hit its peak in 1968, at roughly $12 an hour in today’s dollars. However, productivity (output per hour work) has more than doubled over the last 52 years. This means that if the minimum wage had kept pace with productivity growth it would be over $24 an hour today.

Yesterday, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez stood up and gave one of the finest speeches recently heard on the House floor, calling out not just Florida representative Ted Yoho for having called her “disgusting,” “out of your freaking mind,” and a “fucking bitch” on the steps of the Capitol in front of reporters on Tuesday, but also elucidating how that kind of language is normalized and deployed against all kinds of women, on all kinds of days.

"Bolivia is the latest in a long line of thriving democracies destroyed as U.S. institutions cheer and lend support."

By Prabhat Patnaik | The real problem with the World Bank’s poverty estimates, is that its International Poverty Line is set at an impossibly low level, which greatly underestimates world poverty. This is a point which many on the Left have been making for a long time; but now even a UN Report prepared for the Human Rights Council has made the same point quite emphatically.