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26 Jun 2019

Siemens cuts another 2,700 jobs in the energy sector

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Elisabeth Zimmermann  Just a few weeks after the Siemens Supervisory Board unanimously decided to spin off the company’s entire energy ...

France: What should be done with Arnault’s $100 billion?

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Will Morrow  Last week, French billionaire Bernard Arnault, the CEO and leading shareholder of luxury fashion retail group LVMH, became...

Trump plan will slash Medicaid and food stamps

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Norisa Diaz The Trump administration is working to escalate the transfer of wealth from the working class to the financial aristocracy ...

US House votes down amendment to block NSA collection of the personal communications of American citizens

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Kevin Reed On June 18, the US House of Representatives voted 283-175 against an amendment that would have limited the government’s abil...

Honduran military invades university and shoots down students

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Andrea Lobo About 40 soldiers invaded the campus of the National Autonomous University of Honduras (UNAH) firing live ammunition and te...

300,000 demonstrate in Prague against right-wing Czech government

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Markus Salzmann  An estimated 300,000 people protested in the Czech capital of Prague last Sunday against the right-wing government of ...

Strike by Taiwanese flight attendants points to growing workers’ discontent in global airline industry

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Ben McGrath Flight attendants from Taiwan’s EVA Air are on strike demanding higher wages as well as a reduction in long working hours. ...

Australian Labor Party embraces huge tax cuts for richest 5 percent

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Mike Head “I don’t regard someone who’s earning $200,000 a year as being from the top end of town… It’s a good thing that people all as...

US schools erecting a massive digital surveillance infrastructure, choking dissent and free speech

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Doug Martin Despite popular concerns over the violation of civil liberties and the right to privacy, 63 school districts in at least 20...

Britain at centre of international “corporate tax haven network”

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Simon Whelan Research by the Tax Justice Network (TJN) advocacy group shows how Britain is at the centre of an international web of tax...