Category: Politics

In the almost-year since MSNBC’s The ReidOut was born, NewsBusters readers have seen host Joy Reid and the show foment dangerous and incendiary rhetoric against conservatives and Republicans. Wednesday’s show was one of the worst as Reid and a cast of characters painted right-leaning Americans as terrorists who want to commit mass murder, deny Black… Continue reading Dangerous Rhetoric: Reid, Pals Paint GOP as Terrorists Who Want to Create Another 9/11

Instead of hourly raises, recent contracts have offered workers lump-sum bonuses, Labor Notes reports, with wages going up barely at all for many workers. Box drop technician Monk Drapeaux-Stewart told Labor Notes his pay had gone up only 77 cents in 12 years. “Milk’s gone up. Meat has gone up. Everything has gone up,” another worker who’s been at Frito-Lay… Continue reading ‘We don’t feel like we’re respected,’ Frito-Lay workers say as they strike over pay and long hours

For four long years Republicans across the nation stood idly by fawning over Trump even as he created immeasurable damage to the nation, its relationship with its allies, and inflicted no small amount of economic harm to many American industries. All the while, Republicans acted as if they were ignorant of the damage Trump’s slash… Continue reading Cowardly Republicans Beg President Biden To Do What They Refused to Do Under Trump

Music Business Worldwide’s audience doesn’t need much tutoring about how big a problem the global industry’s so-called ‘black box’ has become. For the few in need of a reminder: the ‘black box’ refers to the pile of performance and mechanical royalties from around the world that, due to industry failings, don’t get paid out to… Continue reading Could this technology, built by a Grammy-winning producer, blow up music’s ‘black box’ once and for all?

Tokyo governor vows city's medical system is ready for Games Source link

France fines Google 500 million euros over copyright row Source link

Indonesia's June exports seen up 50% year-on-year, but pace slowing: Reuters poll Source link

The running joke of the Trump presidency—okay, one of the running jokes—was the constant pronouncements of an upcoming “infrastructure week” or that some kind of infrastructure deal was in the offing. Nothing. Ever. Happened. Meanwhile, ask the people of Jackson, Mississippi—who watched as the government at every level failed for decades to invest in keeping their… Continue reading Republican screwups on infrastructure hurt people from Kentucky to Michigan to Mississippi to NYC

WHO warns against mixing and matching COVID vaccines Source link

Citi to sell Venezuela operations to BNC Source link