Posts Tagged ‘seventy’

Seventy Five Years Later, Toll Of Taft-Hartley Weighs Heavily On Labor

The Taft-Hartley Act was the centerpiece of big business’s counterattack against a labor and people’s movement that had, over the previous decade, won major improvements for working people on factory floors and in the halls of Congress. From 1936 through World War II, the new industrial unions of the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) — […]

The Nakba: Seventy Years of Oppression, 1948-2018

May 15th marks the 70th anniversary of Israel’s statehood. Palestinians refer to this as the Nakba, the Catastrophe, when more than 700,000 Palestinians left their homes from fear or were forcibly removed by Israelis who took their homes. On this 70th anniversary of the occupation, the people of Gaza have been staging a non-violent demonstration, The […]

Ending seventy years of exile for Palestinian refugees

As I write this piece 47 Palestinians have been shot dead and thousands injured in Gaza by the Israeli army since the beginning of the “Great Return March” on March 30th. The March demands the realization of the right of return of Palestine refugees to the territory from which they were displaced between 1947 and […]

Could This Be The Biggest Find Since The Dead Sea Scrolls – Seventy Metal Books Found In Cave In Jordan Could Change Our View Of Biblical History

SHEPHERD’S DISCOVERY THAT UNEARTHED A TREASURE TROVE The Dead Sea Scrolls, counted among the most important archaeological finds of the modern era, were discovered in a cave (pictured) by a Bedouin shepherd in the West Bank. The scrolls consist of 30,000 separate fragments making up 900 manuscripts of biblical texts and religious writings from the […]

Seventy “new cracks” discovered at Belgium’s ageing Tihange nuclear power plant

nsnbc : Experts discovered new, additional cracks in reactor 2 at the Tihange nuclear power plant, located near the city of Liege, said Belgian […]

From Paris to Boston, Terrorists Were Already Known to Authorities

The case for expanded surveillance of communications, however, is complicated by an analysis of recent terrorist attacks.The Intercept has reviewed 10 high-profile jihadi attacks carried out in Western countries between 2013 and 2015 (see below), and in each case some or all of the perpetrators were already known to the authorities before they executed their plot. […]

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