Jane Mayer Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Readers’ Favorite Nonfiction (2016) Why is America living in an age of profound economic inequality? Why, despite the desperate need to address climate change, have even modest environmental efforts been defeated again and again? Why have protections for employees been decimated? Why do… Continue reading
An account linked to Luigi Mangione, a suspect in the killing of UnitedHealthcare’s CEO, left a trail of book reviews online. Matt Sledge, Nikita Mazurov December 9 2024, 4:39 p.m. (TheIntercept.com) A reward poster with surveillance photos of a man suspected in the shooting of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson who… Continue reading
San Francisco State University lecturers and faculty held a New Orleans-style funeral march on campus Wednesday afternoon to call attention to colleagues who were laid off or face layoffs due to the university’s planned budget cuts. Demonstrating faculty said the budget cuts are due to administrative mismanagement, while school officials… Continue reading
December 12, 2024 (info@sfpublicpress.org) Destroyed Records, Dying Witnesses Consign San Francisco Radiation Lab to ObscurityHow did a celebrated Navy atomic research center nearly vanish from public consciousness? Many records were classified and others shredded, including documentation of human experimentation.After running the world’s first doctoral program in radiation biology, James Newell… Continue reading
BY NINA TURNER (jacobin.com) Nina Turner reflects on the outpouring of anger at our for-profit health system in the wake of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson’s killing — and her concern that without radical change to our political system, political violence will continue to escalate. Our new issue, “Bye Bye Bidenism,”… Continue reading
Meyerson on TAP Sinema and Manchin Burnish Their Legacy Yesterday, S&M voted to hand the NLRB over to union-busting Republicans. You might have thought we were done with the dynamic duo of Sens. Kyrsten Sinema (I-AZ) and Joe Manchin (I-WV), whose senatorial careers end later this month. After all, as The Wall… Continue reading
Alameda County is the first county to divest from genocide and implements Ethical Investment – $32 million divested from Caterpillar. Alameda County Board of Supervisors voted unanimously to divest from corporations that are guilty of human rights abuses, environmental destruction, and systemic oppression by Hank Pellissier, Dec 12, 2024. https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2024/12/12/18871425.phpAlameda County divests from… Continue reading
RADICALIZED: Truth Survives Podcast • Dec 9, 2024 • Full Episodes and InterviewsHelp keep independent investigative journalism alive by supporting radpod @ Patreon: / radicalizedpodcast Radpod also has youtube memberships available with perks: / @radicalizedpod Nancy MacLean is the William H. Chafe Professor of History and Public Policy at Duke University and… Continue reading
Federal Trade Commission Chair Lina Khan testifies before the House Judiciary Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. on July 13, 2023. (Photo: Graeme Jennings/Pool/AFP via Getty Images) “The FTC is doing what our government should be doing: using every tool possible to make life better for everyday Americans,” said… Continue reading
U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) speaks at NHTI Concord’s Community College on October 22, 2024 in Concord, New Hampshire. (Photo: Scott Eisen/Getty Images) “Killing people is not the way we’re going to reform our healthcare system,” he said. “The way we’re going to reform our healthcare system is having people… Continue reading
