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Australia: Labor government tightens war-related powers over universities
1+ day, 10+ hour ago (1014+ words) In another sign of war preparations, the Albanese Labor government is moving on multiple fronts to escalate its imposition of strict controls over Australia’s universities, particularly targeting any links to universities in China, as well as Russia and Iran. This…...
Bernie Sanders’ AI letter: A bankrupt appeal to the oligarchs
1+ day, 9+ hour ago (691+ words) On August 10, Senator Bernie Sanders sent a letter to Sam Altman of OpenAI, Dario Amodei of Anthropic and Mark Zuckerberg of Meta demanding that they “pause AI development” and “stop building machines that humans cannot control,” promoting it with an…...
IG Metall union and works council toast brutal cuts at German steel plant
1+ day, 10+ hour ago (545+ words) Steelworkers in Duisburg are being subjected to an unprecedented assault on their livelihoods— planned, organised and enforced by the IG Metall union bureaucracy. Thousands of jobs are being cut at Thyssenkrupp. At Hüttenwerke Krupp Mannesmann (HKM), IG Metall, the works…...
Anglicare report shows deepening rental crisis for Australian workers and welfare recipients
1+ day, 9+ hour ago (552+ words) The 2026 “Rental Affordability Snapshot” released by the Anglicare charity found almost no rental properties that were affordable for people relying on meagre government welfare payments. The Snapshot examined all 48,776 properties listed on the national rental market over one weekend in…...
Sailor jumps overboard in suicide attempt on USS Abraham Lincoln
1+ day, 10+ hour ago (797+ words) Revelations of a suicide attempt by a sailor aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln—alongside accounts of other sailors being prevented from going overboard—have brought to light the mounting crisis of morale among service members in the nearly six-month US…...
Australian war crimes whistleblower David McBride released from prison
1+ day, 9+ hour ago (864+ words) David McBride, a courageous whistleblower, was released from prison in Canberra on Thursday. McBride had been behind bars for 27 months, not for any wrongdoing, but for having helped to expose war crimes, including murders, committed by Australian special forces during…...
Sri Lankan government rejects returning wartime military-occupied land
1+ day, 10+ hour ago (834+ words) The Sri Lankan government has ignored the continuing demands by Tamils in the North and East to return their lands seized by the military during the decades-long civil war and declared that land belonging to civilians will remain under military…...
Johannes Stern on RT: Bogdan Syrotiuk convicted “for socialist thoughts”
1+ day, 10+ hour ago (691+ words) Johannes Stern, editor-in-chief of the German-language edition of the World Socialist Web Site, appeared live Friday on RT, the Russian state broadcaster, to discuss the campaign to free Bogdan Syrotiuk, the 27-year-old Ukrainian Trotskyist sentenced to 15 years in prison for…...
Three executions in a single day in America: Far more than a scheduling coincidence
1+ day, 11+ hour ago (537+ words) Three men were put to death in the United States on Thursday, August 13, the first time since January 7, 2010 that three executions were carried out in a single day. Tennessee and Oklahoma killed their prisoners within 30 minutes of each other in…...
US CEO pay surges to record highs
1+ day, 12+ hour ago (947+ words) Median compensation for chief executives at S&P 500 companies reached $17.3 million in 2025, according to the AFL-CIO’s 2026 Executive Paywatch report, released Thursday. Excluding Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, average S&P 500 CEO compensation rose 21 percent in a single year, from…...