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Edelman stops global heating denial work

mercredi 16 septembre 2015 à 02:00

The PR company Edelman has been pressured into ending its work for global heating denialism.

Thanks to those who signed the campaign which helped bring this about.

US chicken processing plants

mercredi 16 septembre 2015 à 02:00

Working in a US chicken processing plant is hell on the workers, because they are forced to work too fast.

Deadly bombing in Thailand

mercredi 16 septembre 2015 à 02:00

The Thai government says that a deadly bombing was human traffickers' revenge for a crackdown, and was not motivated by politics.

Privatization of government services

mercredi 16 septembre 2015 à 02:00

To replace privatized public housing with expensive condos, a UK company offered a wheelchair-bound man an inaccessible replacement apartment.

Since he rejects that useless offer, he gets one more option: homelessness for him and his family.

This is an instance of how privatization of government services creates both opportunities and pressure to cheat people. In practice, those companies get their profit by underserving the public and/or paying workers less.

There may be some public services that don't really need to exist as public services, but the rest should not be privatized.

Refuge for torturers and war criminals

mercredi 16 septembre 2015 à 02:00

Will the US become the refuge for all the world's torturers and war criminals?

It is already the refuge for American war criminals such as Bush and Cheney.