Preventable deaths of almost 16,000 patients last year in A&E in England
The Royal College of Emergency Medicine identifies the cause as hospitals being under resourced and pushed to the brink of collapse.
•Tony Robson
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Britain’s defence secretary resigns as Starmer government hit by military spending crisis
The military and the media is demanding that Labour utilise its existing parliamentary majority to push through a vast increase in military spending, while slashing welfare and social services to pay for it.
•Robert Stevens
Lucy Worsley Investigates: The American Revolution: Is this all the BBC can offer on one of the most decisive events in world history?
Worsley’s narratives—whether on the Romanovs, the Peasants’ Revolt, or the English Civil War—consistently displace class antagonism, economic crisis, and mass political struggle, fixating on monarchs, courtiers, domestic interiors and historical cosplay.
•Paul Mitchell
Australian pseudo-left tries to head off rebellion against Labor-union sellout of Victorian teachers
The pseudo-left are trying to keep teachers within the union straitjacket as it works with the Labor government to impose a sellout deal.
•Committee for Public Education
New Zealand’s pseudo-left ISO calls for “anti-war” alliance with pro-imperialist Labour and Green parties
The group’s call to support the bourgeois opposition parties is aimed at trapping workers and youth who are moving to the left and blocking the development of a socialist anti-war movement.
•Tom Peters
UAW bureaucracy announces deal in bid to end American Axle strike
The United Auto Workers bureaucracy is rushing to end the 10-day strike to prevent American Axle workers from linking up with Nexteer, Dana and other parts workers fighting decades of UAW backed wage cuts.
•Kevin Reed
NATO’s war summit to convene in Ankara in July
The NATO gathering in Ankara will be a historic war summit. It will be driven by escalating imperialist war abroad and the suppression of the social and democratic rights of the working class at home.
•Barış Demir
Nexteer worker fired for opposing UAW sellout
The firing of Antwiane Sanders exposes the bureaucracy’s real function: policing workers on behalf of the corporations by suppressing opposition and enforcing labor discipline.
•Sheila Brehm, Jerry White
After week of escalation, Trump threatens ground invasion of Iran
The fascist president has stated at least 38 times since March, by CNN’s count, that a deal with Iran is imminent.
•Andre Damon
What the USPS Workers Rank-and-File Inquiry uncovered about Palmetto RPDC, where 4 workers have died in 2 years
In November 2025, the USPS Workers Rank-and-File Committee launched an independent inquiry into the deaths at the post office because management, federal regulators and the union bureaucracy had failed to protect workers.
•Jane Wise
Students across Chile protest criminalization of youth and education cuts
Several generations of Chilean students have passed through an educational system systematically stripped of resources, handed to profiteers and disrupted by closures and regulatory failures.
•Mauricio Saavedra
Merz’s government statement: War abroad, social counterrevolution at home
World power politics, attacks on social rights and military rearmament are Merz’s priorities ahead of the European Council meeting in Brussels in mid-June.
•Johannes Stern
Canada Post workers vote reluctantly for concessions-filled contracts as government-backed jobs massacre continues
After over two years of the CUPW leadership isolating postal workers, conniving behind the scenes with management and the government, and blocking any attempt to broaden the fight to other sections of workers confronting the same attacks, the prevailing mood among workers was that they had no option but to accept
•Daniel Berkley
Educators in US and UK support fight against Australian Education Union sellout
Teachers in the United States and Britain have sent messages of solidarity to teachers and Education Support staff in Victoria fighting a sellout union-Labor deal.
•Committee for Public Education
“Work or starve”: Trump’s SNAP cuts drive millions from food stamp rolls
Veterans, individuals experiencing homelessness, parents whose youngest child is 14 or older, and people who were in foster care at age 18 are among the groups stripped of previously held exemptions from providing documentation of work to receive SNAP benefits.
•Kate Randall
US Army Special Operations Forces conduct urban warfare exercises across Los Angeles region
The same military apparatus bombing Iran and funding genocide in Gaza now conducts combat exercises over working-class Los Angeles neighborhoods.
•Marc Wells
Far-right violence against migrants continues in Belfast
Fascist mobs used hit lists that were known to the Police Service of Northern Ireland, to target migrant homes, confirming that the PSNI allowed a pogrom to be mounted.
•Paul Bond
Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
One in two workers at France’s national railways walk out over pay and conditions; further protests across Iran’s cities by high school students, academics, sacked steel workers and medical students as living standards plummet due to US sanctions and savage bombardment; miners at strategic copper mine in the Congo strike over poverty pay and conditions
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Attend UK public meetings: Your Party’s collapse—Time to build the Socialist Equality Party
The Socialist Equality Party’s message to workers and students is that it is time to break out of the cycle of betrayals. Our public meetings will discuss the building of a genuine socialist and internationalist party of the working class.
•Socialist Equality Party (UK)
One million young people in UK not in education, employment or training
Six in 10 NEETs (not in education, employment or training) have never had a job—up from four in 10 in 2005
•Darren Paxton, Jordan Hammond
One-day nationwide strike in Portugal opposes right-wing labour reform
The June 3 strike was the second nationwide strike against Trabalho XXI in six months, after the December 11, 2025 strike--the first in 12 years--which paralysed the country.
•Santiago Guillen
Earthquake off southern Philippines leaves at least 46 dead
The flouting of safety standards in order to cut costs in the Philippines and in countries around the world regularly turns so-called "natural disasters" into man-made ones.
•Ben McGrath
Preface to the book: “The Ukraine War and the Fight for Socialism: The Case of Bogdan Syrotiuk”
The volume “The Ukraine War and the Fight for Socialism: The Case of Bogdan Syrotiuk” brings together for the first time the most important statements and articles on the case.
•Johannes Stern
Sri Lankan President pledges separate courts for Buddhist monks, placing them above the normal law
The Dissanayake government’s move is a further step in strengthening the Sinhala-Buddhist chauvinist state and towards autocratic rule.
•Pani Wijesiriwardena
Trump orders second day of new strikes on Iran, vowing to attack “very hard”
The United States bombed Iran for a second consecutive day Wednesday, with the US military announcing that it had begun striking “multiple targets” in Iran at 5:15 p.m. Eastern time. CBS News reported Wednesday that two US officials said the targets included ammunition depots, command-and-control nodes and warehouses.
•Andre Damon
US consumer prices jump as workers pay for American imperialism’s war on Iran
Skyrocketing energy prices are devastating the living standards of tens of millions of working people.
•Patrick Martin
FBI raids pro-Palestinian activists at University of Michigan, indicting 8 and arresting 7
The Trump administration escalated its political persecution of anti-war protesters on Wednesday, as the FBI and federal law enforcement agencies raided homes across southeast Michigan and unsealed a 63-page indictment charging eight individuals associated with pro-Palestinian activism at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.
•Barry Grey
4 workers dead at Palmetto: The safety crisis, the privatization drive, and how postal workers can fight back
These were not simply tragic accidents but the lethal results of austerity. Preventing them requires an organized movement from below, not beholden to management, toothless regulatory agencies or corrupt union officials.
•USPS Workers Rank-and-File Committee
Trump signs $70 billion blank check for ICE and Border Patrol after Democrats enable passage
The bill funds the immigration Gestapo through the end of Trump’s term without a single restriction on its operations.
•Jacob Crosse
Hersheypark workers in Pennsylvania reject 4th tentative agreement, vote to strike
While workers have demanded strike action, the bureaucracy of the Chocolate Workers Local 464 is keeping them on the job.
•Douglas Lyons
“I would be willing to strike”: New York transit workers prepared to fight for their needs
The MTA claims there is “no money,” in the richest city in the world, for pay that keeps pace with inflation. Meanwhile, around 15 percent of the MTA’s overall budget is spent servicing debt to Wall Street firms like BlackRock and Vanguard.
•our reporters
Collapse of Franco-German fighter jet project exposes sharp tensions
The Future Combat Air System (FCAS), considered a lighthouse project of Franco-German plans to arm Europe into an independent imperialist great power capable of standing up to both the US and China, has failed spectacularly.
•Peter Schwarz
ICE abducts mother at Ann Arbor middle school
The Trump administration’s targeting of the Detroit metro area, the historic heart of the American auto industry and home to nearly a quarter million manufacturing workers, makes it clear that ICE is not engaging in narrow immigration enforcement but a terror campaign aimed at the working class as a whole.
•Anthony Callahan
Students across Chile protest criminalization of youth and education cuts
The protests were directed against Kast’s newly installed fascistic government and its across-the-board spending cuts in the public sector in service of Chilean and international capital.
•Mauricio Saavedra
Mr. Nobody Against Putin: A portrait of Russian working class life, but in the service of NATO
Under the cover of a generally humane portrayal of the impact of the Ukraine war on a beat-up working class Russian town, the film, at its core, promotes typical US-NATO anti-Putin politics.
•Andrea Peters
Washington meddles in Peruvian election with runoff too close to call
A paper-thin margin separates the two candidates as the Trump administration openly maneuvers to shape the outcome in Washington's favor.
•Francis Portocarrero
Counterpunch extols “socialism with Mexican characteristics”
As Sheinbaum's approval ratings fall amid spending cuts and deepening social crisis, Ottenberg offers a pseudo-socialist fig leaf to a government facing growing opposition from below.
•Andrea Lobo
Platner wins Democratic Senate primary in Maine
Platner’s promoters—large sections of the Democratic Party and the trade union apparatus, most avidly its so-called “progressive” wing—present him as a genuine representative of the working class. He is nothing of the sort.
•Jacob Crosse, Barry Grey
Far-right pogrom burns out immigrant families in Belfast
The family of stabbing victim Stephen Ogilvie defended “migrants who make a deeply valuable contribution to our country” and insisted, “We do not want this terrible tragedy to be used to divide people or fuel hostility.”
•Robert Stevens
An opponent of the class struggle attacks Trotsky, writes a cautionary tale of the 1926 British General Strike
This review makes clear that Trotsky’s writings are the working class’s indispensable guide to this critical historical experience.
•Thomas Scripps
Educators strike in Australian capital as public education crisis deepens
Teachers and school assistants in Canberra will join a 24-hour strike this Thursday over essentially the same issues of poor pay and deteriorating conditions that confront educators everywhere.
•Kaye Tucker
Wall Street anxiously awaits speculative SpaceX launch
The launch comes in the wake of last Friday’s sharp fall of tech and AI stocks, which sent a tremor through financial markets
•Nick Beams
Record One Nation polling underscores crisis of Australia’s two-party system
The far-right party is a temporary beneficiary of explosive social discontent that will increasingly find expression in the struggles of the working class.
•Oscar Grenfell
May 8: How the Soviet Union’s victory over the Nazis is being erased from memory
The commemorative day on May 8 in Germany is being used ever more shamelessly as an opportunity to falsify history and create the ideological conditions for the wars of the present.
•Katja Rippert
IG Metall union accepts closure of Mahle auto components plant in Neustadt an der Donau
The union is celebrating the plant closure and loss of 400 jobs as a great success, as it has achieved "a significantly improved financial safeguard." Previously, the workforce had proved that it wants to fight to preserve jobs.
•K. Nesan
Trump booed at Madison Square Garden during NBA playoffs
Thousands of basketball fans booed President Trump during his appearance at a playoff game in New York between the New York Knicks and San Antonio Spurs.
•Sandy English
Will Lehman issues open letter to UAW members and delegates on eve of Constitutional Convention
Lehman, the Mack Trucks worker waging a rank-and-file campaign for the presidency of the United Auto Workers, distributed an open letter Tuesday to a list of 300,000 UAW members maintained by the federal monitor.
•Our reporters
US railroad CSX plans to reduce human track inspections following government waiver
Automated Track Inspection, used in conjunction with human visual inspections, can be used to greatly increase railway safety. Instead, they are being used to cut jobs on behalf of profit.
•Bill Mertz
A tribute to Gordon S. Wood (1933-2026), historian of the American Revolution
In a career spanning six decades and numerous books, articles and lectures, Wood established himself as the foremost historian of the American Revolution and the Early Republic.
•Tom Mackaman, David North
DSA candidate Raman advances to Los Angeles mayoral runoff as Democrats seek new “progressive” face
The Los Angeles race lays bare the Democratic Party’s increasing reliance on the DSA to contain working class opposition to inequality, war and austerity.
•Marc Wells
The “Big Shrink”: Over half of 50 largest school districts in US facing deep cuts as war on education escalates
Behind the talk of “enrollment decline” stands a conscious ruling class drive to gut public schools and hand education over to private profit.
•Nancy Hanover
“Workers at Flint Assembly and Nexteer should stop production”: Anger mounts against UAW collusion with American Axle strikebreaking
UAW officials at GM's Flint Assembly plant are allowing the company to truck in axles from the strikebound American Axle plant (Dauch Corp.) in Three Rivers, Michigan.
•Sheila Brehm, Jerry White
An opera and an art exhibition in New York focus on Mexican artists Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera
Both avoid serious examination of the complex lives of these great artists of the 20th century.
•Fred Mazelis, Clare Hurley
Pseudo-left parties support new Danish government committed to massive war budget and tax cuts for the rich
That the decision was ultimately taken to integrate the Socialist People’s Party and Red-Green Alliance into government, or at least some form of support for it, speaks to the recognition within the ruling class that they require a political cover to proceed with their agenda.
•Jordan Shilton
Homeless Congolese man Yves Sakila killed at hands of security guards outside Dublin department store
A homeless Congolese man, Yves Sakila, resident in Ireland since childhood, was killed last month in Henry Street, Dublin. He had been chased and forced to the pavement by private security guards of Arnotts department store.
•Steve James
The way forward for resident doctors: Unite all NHS workers against Starmer government
The BMA and other health unions—Unite, Unison, the GMB and the Royal College of Nursing—are suffocating a unified fightback by National Health Service workers.
•NHS FightBack
Israel bombs Iran on the 100th day of the US-Israeli war as fighting spreads across Lebanon and Gaza
Israel bombed Central and Western Iran before dawn Monday, striking air defenses, missile launchers and a petrochemical complex used by the Revolutionary Guard, hours after Iran fired a barrage of ballistic missiles at Israeli cities.
•Andre Damon
Workers Struggles: The Americas
A nationwide strike by Mexican teachers continues, while an eight-week strike by thousands of Nova Scotia care home workers has been suspended by the union ahead of a contract vote.
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Debate blocked at Australian Education Union “briefing” on sellout deal in Victoria
At an AEU meeting, officials declared out of order a resolution opposing their agreement with the state Labor government.
•Our correspondent
Fired “60 Minutes” journalist reveals pro-Trump censorship at CBS News
In a lengthy interview with the New York Times, Scott Pelley details the demands by newly installed corporate bosses for a pro-Trump slant in coverage.
•Patrick Martin
Gordon S. Wood, 1933-2026: Leading historian of the American Revolution
Gordon S. Wood, 92, a leading historian of the American Revolution, died Sunday after being struck by a car. His career spanned more than half a century, most of it at Brown University, where he trained generations of early Americanists and helped shape modern interpretation of the Revolutionary era.
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3 women dead in 25 days: Social murder in Michigan prisons
Four women have died in seven months at Michigan’s only women’s prison, where toxic mold, privatized medical neglect and bipartisan austerity have created deadly conditions.
•Stephen St. Clair
Prominent New Zealand entertainer Lynda Topp denounces government’s military budget
The speech by one of the country’s foremost entertainers fiercely denounced government cuts to the arts budget amid soaring military spending.
•John Braddock
As its contract expires, the Detroit Federation of Teachers hands its podium to the school superintendent
The DFT invited the school superintendent to the union meeting in order to stump for a millage vote, endorsing Proposal S, which will fall on Detroit renters to pay.
•Phyllis Steele
Sri Lankan police arrest Tamil rapper under draconian Prevention of Terrorism Act
The World Socialist Web Site and the Socialist Equality Party condemn the arrest of Sangeethsan Ganeskumar—a blatant attack on freedom of expression—and demand his immediate and unconditional release.
•P.T. Sampanthar
Renegotiation of US-Mexico-Canada trade pact faces hurdles
The USMCA (US-Mexico-Canada) trade pact is due for review on July 1, with negotiations likely to run past the deadline.
•Don Knowland
Modern slavery in Italy: 4 migrant farmworkers burned alive in a minivan
The workers were massacred in Calabria by gangmasters in a system of hyper-exploitation whose conditions were created by Italy’s government and “opposition.”
•Marc Wells
Canada’s Liberal government preparing massive onslaught on worker rights with revision of Labour Code
Carney has his eye on a far-reaching re-write of labour laws that will deeply erode what remains of federally regulated workers’ right to strike and their precarious ability to bargain independently of government interference.
•Carl Bronski
Postal workers demand investigation into Demarcus Little’s death, fourth in two years at Palmetto facility
An ongoing inquiry by the USPS Workers Rank-and-File Committee has documented the absence of written safety protocols, the lack of defibrillators and medical personnel, blocked cell phone signals and dangerous emergency-response failures at the Palmetto Regional Processing and Distribution Center.
•Jane Wise
European powers pledge arms to Ukraine while issuing ultimatums to Russia at London summit
The E3, represented by British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, French President Emmanuel Macron, and German Chancellor Friedrich Merz gathered in Downing Street and issued a joint five-point declaration.
•Robert Stevens
Construction workers at Hinkley Point C nuclear plant locked out after safety protest
The lockout was reinforced by a major police presence, with photographs shared by workers showing a fleet of police vehicles stationed around the site.
•Tony Robson
David Attenborough at 100, an appreciation
Attenborough continues to explore new scientific opportunities and discoveries in covering all aspects of the natural world. His series are distinguished by a systematic approach, to groups of organisms or specific eco-systems, grounded in the history of science.
•Paul Bond
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•David North
100 days of the US-Israeli war of aggression against Iran
The war has had two major effects: a deepening of the global crisis of the capitalist system and an enormous escalation of the global class struggle, not least within the United States.
•WSWS Editorial Board
Four workers dead at Palmetto—the consequence of decades of cuts and the drive to privatize USPS
Four workers have died at the Palmetto Regional Processing and Distribution Center in Georgia in the past two years. The most recent, Demarcus Little, told a supervisor he felt unwell last week, collapsed, and died.
•USPS Workers Rank-and-File Committee
“We need to join hands in a common fight!”: Open letter from Nexteer Workers Rank-and-File Committee to our brothers and sisters on strike at American Axle
Nexteer workers who have voted down three UAW-backed contracts are fighting to join American Axle workers in a common strike.
•Nexteer Workers Rank-and-File Committee
Who stands to lose: Future faces of the Medicaid work requirement cuts
These profiles are hypothetical composites drawn from the documented demographic patterns of the Medicaid expansion population and the known mechanisms by which work requirements produce coverage loss. They represent no single individual, but they exemplify millions.
•Kate Randall
Trump denounces California election, defends January 6 attackers
The US president walked out of an interview with NBC when asked to provide proof of his claims about “rigged” elections.
•Patrick Martin
Stellantis in Germany: 650 engineering jobs at Opel in Rüsselsheim on the line
In April 2026, Stellantis announced elimination of 650 of the remaining 1,650 jobs at the Rüsselsheim, Germany development center, without hiring replacements, in open violation of an ongoing “Future Collective Bargaining Agreement.”
•Marianne Arens
Court rules that Trump’s name must be removed from the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
A Washington DC federal district judge ruled that the president’s stacking of the board with his loyalists and placing the Trump name on the Kennedy Center was a “procedurally defective and substantively unlawful action.”
•Kevin Reed
Medicaid work requirements threaten coverage for millions as Trump escalates class war on the poor
The Congressional Budget Office estimates that the work requirement provisions in Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill will reduce federal Medicaid spending by $326 billion over 10 years—the single largest source of savings in the legislation—and strip coverage from an estimated 5.2 million adults by 2034.
•Kate Randall
Australia: Gold mining company handed meagre fine for worker’s amputation
A 23-year-old labourer’s arm was ripped off by a drilling machine at the Cadia East mine near Orange, New South Wales. Almost three years later, the company was fined just $750,000.
•Leonard Johns
Scientists expelled by police at diabetes conference as Trump administration accelerates dismantling of biomedical research
The expulsion of leading researchers from the American Diabetes Association conference by armed police exposes the capitulation of medical institutions to the Trump administration’s fascistic anti-science agenda.
•Benjamin Mateus
This week in history: June 8-14
Charleston Five longshoremen face state repression; Jimmy Carter clinches Democratic presidential nomination; Two of "Trenton Six” convicted in racist frame-up; June Tenth movement in Korea against Japanese rule.
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Australia: Poor communities hit by largest diphtheria outbreak on record
Most cases have occurred in the Northern Territory, with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders, among the poorest and most oppressed layers of the Australian population, the hardest hit.
•Gary Alvernia
The Philippines engulfed in acute political and constitutional crisis
The Senate standoff in the Philippines has spiraled into a constitutional crisis that Marcos is exploiting to expand his presidential powers and tear up the 1987 charter restraints.
•John Malvar
Ann Arbor public school teachers enter sixth month without a new contract
Ann Arbor Public Schools teachers have now gone nearly six months without a contract following their near-unanimous rejection of a tentative agreement.
•Anthony Callahan
No to the censorship of anti-war meetings! Against the militarization of the University of Stuttgart!
The university is to be brought into line, critical voices are to be silenced, while the campus is being transformed into a military research facility and recruitment ground for war.
•International Youth and Students for Social Equality
Attendees speak on Socialist Equality Party public meetings marking 1926 British General Strike
WSWS reporters spoke to some of those attending the lecture series held by the Socialist Equality Party (UK) last month marking the centenary of the 1926 general strike.
•Our reporters
Gary Stevenson and the dead end of wealth-tax reformism
The capitalist state is not a neutral instrument that can be picked up and aimed at the wealthy by a sufficiently determined government. It is an organ of class rule.
•Ioan Petrescu
Nexteer workers call for walkout to join with American Axle strikers
The UAW bureaucracy is seeking to impose a fourth sellout tentative agreement after autoworkers at the Saginaw steering plant rejected the first three and voted by 86 percent to authorize a strike.
•Stephen St. Clair, Barry Grey
Madison, Wisconsin nurses facing harassment over unionization effort after hospital calls union pin “Equivalent to a KKK Pin”
Nurses at SSM Health St. Mary’s Hospital have filed for a union election with the SEIU amid management intimidation, but the fight for safe staffing and patient care requires rank-and-file organization independent of a union whose history is one of isolating and betraying workers.
•Evan Aneigner, Bill Shaw
“We're getting duped both ways”: New York transit workers speak out on sellout Long Island Rail Road contract and the fight ahead for subway and bus workers
These struggles are two parts of a growing confrontation between the New York working class and the financial oligarchy that dominates the city.
•our reporters
Fourth death in 2 years at Palmetto, Georgia, USPS facility: Demarcus Little dies after reporting feeling unwell
Little was the father of a 21-year-old son, Demarcus Jr., and a four-year-old daughter, Lauren. Those who knew him described him as kind, considerate and an all-around great guy.
•Jane Wise
Israel escalates assault on Lebanon and drives to annex Gaza
Israeli strikes killed at least four people in Southern Lebanon on Friday, and the military ordered the forced displacement of nine more towns and villages in the Sidon district.
•Andre Damon
How the Democrats enabled the allocation of an extra $70 billion for Trump’s immigration Gestapo
The nearly $70 billion funding package is the outcome of a political operation carried out by the Democrats to strangle the mass movement that erupted after the murders of Renée Nicole Good and Alex Pretti.
•Jacob Crosse
Vote No to AEU-Labor sellout! Build independent rank-and-file committees! Fund education not war!
The Committee for Public Education urges educators and workers to join the meeting to discuss how to develop the fight against the sellout deal between the Australian Education Union and the Victorian state Labor government, and the underlying austerity and war agenda of the federal Labor government.
•Committee for Public Education
Australian unions celebrate real wage cut for 3 million workers
The Fair Work Commission admitted that the meagre 4.75 percent increase to award wages would not “be sufficient to close the real wage gap entirely.”
•Martin Scott
Germany fails to gain seat in UN Security Council election
Germany lost the vote for a non-permanent seat on the UN Security Council to Portugal and Austria, reflecting growing global opposition to its imperialist foreign policy and militarism.
•Peter Schwarz
More warnings on the state of the US and global financial system
A recent report by three former high-placed financial officials has warned that the rise of debt and the activities of nonbank financial institutions is increasing vulnerabilities and that a “perfect storm” could be brewing.
•Nick Beams
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