Новости за 23.04.2024

What makes an income tax “fair”? Right-wing lawmakers the nation over have a ready answer. To be fair, they tell us, an income tax needs to be “flat.” Their core claim: In an evenhanded tax system with no axe to grind, everyone would pay tax at the same rate. What approach, flat taxers argue, could More

Israeli politicians, including Benjamin Netanyahu, have made references to air bombings of Germany and Japan during WWII as well as the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki to justify their genocide of Palestinian people. In response to global outrage against the continued “unconditional” US military aide to Israel, US law makers have also legitimized US More

During 2023, Washington made formal promises to Venezuela it had no intention of keeping. It is obvious now that the aim was to lay the groundwork for discrediting the upcoming Venezuelan presidential elections, to bolster the extreme, violent opposition parties they favour, and to waste precious diplomatic time and energy of the Venezuelan government. These More

“Can we still see universities as places to learn and produce knowledge that, at the risk of sounding naïve, is for the greater good of humanity, independently transient of geopolitical skirmishes?” Wanning Sun from the University of Technology, Sydney, asks in hope.  “The history of universities during the Cold War era tells us that it is precisely at More

The discovery of LSD-25 was one of the twentieth century’s greatest discoveries.  Some writers have said that event is on par with the discovery of nuclear fission and the development of the atom bomb in its historical importance. I don’t know if I can state that unequivocally, but I can will vehemently argue that LSD is More

Former Senator Bob Graham passed away on April 16 at the age of 87.  Graham had been one of the most outspoken opponents of the Iraq War.  But his brightest legacy was his perennial fight against the cover-up of role of the Saudi government in September 11 terrorist attacks. Graham was chairman of the Senate More

Persuading any Southern autoworkers to join a union had long been one of the U.S. labor movement’s most enduring challenges, despite persistent efforts by the UAW to organize this workforce. To be sure, the UAW already has members employed by Ford and General Motors at facilities in Kentucky, Texas, Missouri and Mississippi. However, the union More

Translator’s note: April 25 is a national holiday in Italy. It commemorates the liberation of Italy from Nazism and fascism after a long resistance movement during World War II, ending in 1945. On April 20, 2024, Italian novelist Antonio Scurati—author of the Strega prizewinning and international bestseller M: Son of the Century, the first of More

It’s a testament to the contradictions of our present barbarity that while the whole world recognizes that crimes against humanity, if not the crime of genocide itself, are being committed by the State of Israel against the Palestinian people, the political-economic institutions of the U.S., and their dutiful servants in government, academia, entertainment, and elsewhere, More

April 24 is Cordillera Day, when many remember and honor Macliing Dulag, a key Pangat tribal elder in Kalinga whom Philippine government soldiers murdered on that day in 1980. Macliing Dulag unified the Cordillera people’s opposition to the World Bank-funded Chico Dam project. Since 1985, Cordillera Day has evolved into an indigenous peoples’ movement for More