Posts Tagged ‘striking’

The Striking Parallels That Threaten Turkey’s President As Election Nears

Recep Tayyip Erdogan came to power 20 years ago amid the aftermath of a massive earthquake and a financial crisis. The same conditions exist now. Source

Striking the Right Note – Rare Bone Flute Unearthed in Kent

A pre-development dig by Cotswold Archeology at Herne Bay in Kent, England, has uncovered evidence of settlement from the Bronze Age to the Roman period and again in the medieval period. Read more Section:  Artifacts Other Artifacts News History & Archaeology Read Later  Source

Poll: Oz Within Striking Distance of Far-Left Fetterman in PA Senate Race

Dr. Mehmet Oz is within striking distance of his radical Democrat opponent John Fetterman in Pennsylvania’s U.S. Senate race, per a poll.

Iran unveils new precision-striking drone

TEHRAN- Days after the Iranian Armed Forces demonstrated their drone prowess in extensive drills, the Defense Ministry presented a brand-new, cutting-edge combat drone called Ababil (Flock of Birds) that is can hit targets with accuracy. The new drone was unveiled on Saturday during a Defense Ministry show that was attended by Parliament Speaker Mohammad Baqer […]

US forces in Syria, Iraq on ‘high alert’ after striking Iran-backed militias

US forces in Syria and Iraq are on “high alert” for potential attacks by Iran-backed militias, amid renewed strikes against them by Washington. Speaking to Sky News Arabia, US Central Command (CENTCOM) commander, General Michael Kurilla, stated that American forces in Iraq and Syria are “closely monitoring” the situation in the two countries. “We have […]

US forces in Syria, Iraq on ‘high alert’ after striking Iran-backed militias

US forces in Syria and Iraq are on “high alert” for potential attacks by Iran-backed militias, amid renewed strikes against them by Washington. Speaking to Sky News Arabia, US Central Command (CENTCOM) commander, General Michael Kurilla, stated that American forces in Iraq and Syria are “closely monitoring” the situation in the two countries. “We have […]

US forces in Syria, Iraq on ‘high alert’ after striking Iran-backed militias

US forces in Syria and Iraq are on “high alert” for potential attacks by Iran-backed militias, amid renewed strikes against them by Washington. Speaking to Sky News Arabia, US Central Command (CENTCOM) commander, General Michael Kurilla, stated that American forces in Iraq and Syria are “closely monitoring” the situation in the two countries. “We have […]

US forces in Syria, Iraq on ‘high alert’ after striking Iran-backed militias

US forces in Syria and Iraq are on “high alert” for potential attacks by Iran-backed militias, amid renewed strikes against them by Washington. Speaking to Sky News Arabia, US Central Command (CENTCOM) commander, General Michael Kurilla, stated that American forces in Iraq and Syria are “closely monitoring” the situation in the two countries. “We have […]

Joe Biden ‘Deeply Disappointed’ by Supreme Court Striking Down Gun Limits in New York

The Supreme Court ruled 6-3 against a New York law requiring “proper cause” to obtain a concealed carry license in the state.

OIC calls for release of hunger-striking Palestinian prisoner

The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) on Tuesday called for the release of a Palestinian prisoner, who has been on a hunger strike for 141 days in protest against his detention without trial by Israel, Anadolu News Agency reports. Hisham Abu Hawwash has staged an open-ended hunger strike to protest his arrest under Israel’s policy […]

‘On the brink of death’: Family of hunger-striking prisoner pleads for his immediate release

Palestinian prisoner Hisham Abu Hawash, 41, entered his 140th day on hunger strike on Monday, January 3rd, and according to his family, is in such critical condition that he could “die at any moment.” Abu Hawash was arrested by Israeli forces in October 2020 in the middle of the night from his family home in […]

Tester to Join Manchin in Striking Down OSHA Vaccine Mandate

Sen. Jon Tester (D-Mont.) has announced that he will join Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) and all 50 Senate Republicans to strike down President Joe Biden’s private sector vaccine mandate. “I’m not crazy about mandates,” Tester said on Tuesday, though he added that he supports mandates aimed specifically at health care workers and military servicemen. Tester, […]

Let’s Find Alternatives To Striking

What is a trade union movement? It is reasonable to say that it consists of co-workers in motion, colleagues who stick together and act together. This has to be distinguished from union bureaucracy i.e. representatives above the rank and file, and paid union officials outside the collective of workers. In the Swedish labor market we have small, scattered […]

US Accuses Iran Of Striking It’s Base In Syria, After Vowing A Response

Unnamed US Officials have stated, to the Associated Press, that they believe Iran was behind an attack last week against an American base in Syria. After the attack occurred, CENTCOM vowed that a US response would come. Is the Biden administration willing to risk war with Iran? Last Wednesday a coordinated set of drones and […]

Nabisco Workers Are Now Striking In Oregon, Colorado And Virginia

Above Photo: Mike Burlingham is one of the striking workers at the Nabisco plant in Portland, August 14, 2021 (KOIN) Oregon By Koin. Striking workers at the Nabisco Bakery in Northeast Portland held a rally Saturday to highlight their demands for a fair contract. Bakery workers, who walked off the job on Tuesday, were joined […]

Striking Coal Miners Return To New York To Picket Investor

Above Photo: Warrior Met, formed by a group of investors to take over the Brookwood mines when the previous owner went bankrupt in 2016, demanded that the miners work up to seven days a week and take a $6-an-hour pay cut, accept reduced health insurance, and give up most of their overtime pay and paid […]

Striking Alabama Coal Miners Take Protest To Wall Street

By William Thornton, AL.com. June 23, 2021 Above Photo: Members of the United Mine Workers of America protested in New York City Tuesday, June 22, 2021, showing solidarity with striking miners in Alabama. About 14 striking Alabama mine workers have taken their case to Wall Street this morning. Chanting “no contract, no coal,” the miners […]

Biden To Begin Drone Striking Any Reporter Who Asks Him A Reasonable Question

WASHINGTON, D.C.—In a recent press conference, Jen Psaki announced that President Biden would be taking a new approach to spontaneous, yet completely reasonable questions from the press: he will simply drone strike those who ask them.   “The President should not be obligated to deal with the threatening and dangerous pressures of answering simple, straightforward questions from our press,” stated a fiery Psaki. […]

Hunger-striking Navalny moved to prison hospital

But the opposition leader’s physician, Dr. Yaroslav Ashikhmin, said Saturday that test results provided by the family show Navalny has sharply elevated levels of potassium, which can bring on cardiac arrest, and heightened creatinine levels that indicate impaired kidneys. “Our patient could die at any moment,” he said in a Facebook post. Reports about Navalny’s […]

Hunger striking activists seek to end the Yemen blockade

The war on Yemen has lasted six years and killed over 100,000 people. The amount of Yemenis experiencing food insecurity is rapidly rising. According to the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) 16,500 people in the country were living under famine conditions at the end of 2020 and they estimate that number could rise to 47,000 […]

Support Grows For Striking Columbia University Graduate Students

By Josh Varlin, WSWS. March 29, 2021 Above photo: Columbia strikers picketing. Today marks the beginning of the third week of the Columbia University graduate workers strike. The courageous struggle by over 3,000 graduate student-workers for improved wages, benefits and working conditions continues to receive support from workers at Columbia and more broadly throughout the […]

Biden is discovering his presidential power by striking in Syria. How far can he take it?

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WATCH: Striking French refinery workers & climate protesters clash with police outside office of oil giant Total

Protesters have clashed with French police outside of Total’s head office in La Defense, Paris as striking employees and climate activists accuse the oil giant of jettisoning jobs while failing to protect the environment. Employees of the Grandpuits refinery, who have been striking for five weeks following the announcement that the plant would be converted […]

Striking Workers Halt Construction At Future Amazon Warehouse

By Lauren Kaori Gurley, Vice. February 9, 2021 Above photo: Teamsters. Workers walked off the job at the site of a future Amazon warehouse in Oxnard, California on Thursday because Amazon’s contractor hired non-union, out-of-state workers for the project. Roughly 75 workers walked off the job on Thursday at the construction site of a future […]

Second wave of locusts striking hard-hit East Africa

A second wave of desert locust swarms has begun striking an already hard-hit East Africa in recent weeks after heavy rains and a late-season cyclone sparked a new round of breeding, with swarms invading Kenya and southern Ethiopia, according to the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations. The first wave of locusts […]

‘Q-Anon’ Bears Striking Resemblance to Bolshevik Psy-Op From 1920s Known As ‘Operation Trust’

By Chris Menahan “Operation Trust” was a Bolshevik counterintelligence operation run from 1921 to 1926 aimed at neutralizing opposition by creating the false impression that a powerful group of military leaders had organized to stop the communists’ takeover. Here’s an except on the “Trust” operation from pages 13-14 of Soviet defector Anatoliy Golitsyn’s book, “New […]

Striking Farmers Shut Down India’s Punjab to Protest Agriculture Law

Hundreds of unionized farmers and their supporters in India blocked roads and highways in Punjab on Tuesday, paralyzing traffic and shutting down commerce to protest what they describe as “anti-farmer” agricultural laws passed in September. Farmers’ unions called for a nationwide strike after five rounds of talks with government officials failed to resolve their grievances. […]

Interview With Striking Nurse In Philadelphia Suburb

Above photo: Fox 29 Philadelphia. Nurses at St. Mary Medical Center outside Philadelphia went on strike Tuesday morning, demanding safe staffing ratios to confront the growing numbers of Covid cases in Pennsylvania. Left Voice spoke with Drew, one of the nurses walking the picket line. On Tuesday, November 17, nurses at St. Mary Medical Center […]

This week in pictures: The most striking images from this week’s top stories

This week Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny posted a photo of himself from hospital and said that he was breathing on his own in his first statement since his suspected poisoning. The EU parliament passed a non-binding resolution to impose sanctions on Belarus’ leader Alexander Lukashenko over his disputed re-election and violence perpetrated against protesters. […]

In pictures: The most striking images from Belarus protest

Tens of thousands of protesters again hit the streets of Minsk to demand the resignation of Belarus president, Alexander Lukashenko. More than 125 people were arrested at Sunday’s demonstration, according to police sources, but Ales Bilyatsky, of the Viasna human rights organisation, said in excess of 200 protesters were detained. The protests were sparked after […]

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