“military overstretch,” “self-interested and warring elites,” “Addiction to luxury and decadence,” “failure to keep pace with … technological demands,” “ossified” bureaucracy, “loss of civic virtue,” “unsustainable environmental practices”,

What country does this describe?

This is explosive stuff. A new study by RAND, by far the most influential policy Think Tank in the US, concludes (as shared in this 👇WaPo article by David Ignatius):

'The United States might be stumbling toward a decline from which few great powers have ever recovered.'

The…

Nancy Pelosi called for the F.B.I. to investigate college protesters demanding a cease-fire in the Israel-Hamas conflict, suggesting activists may have ties to Russia.

Netanyahu called the activists “anti-Semitic mobs”

Pelosi and Netanyahu have to go.

nytimes.com/2024/01/28/us/…

🇺🇸 US military interventions in foreign countries since WWII:
 
🇮🇷 Iran: 1946
🇨🇳 China: 1946-1949
🇬🇷 Greece: 1947-1949
🇮🇹 Italy: 1948
🇵🇭 Philippines: 1948-1954
🇰🇵 Korea: 1950-1953
🇮🇷 Iran: 1953
🇻🇳 Vietnam: 1954
🇬🇹 Guatemala: 1954
🇱🇧 Lebanon: 1958
🇵🇦 Panama: 1958
🇭🇹 Haiti: 1959
🇨🇩…

Greenhouse gas emissions per person (Mt CO2 eq), world's largest economies.

🇨🇦 Canada: 19.6
🇺🇸 US: 18.2
🇷🇺 Russia: 17.1
🇯🇵 Japan: 9.2
🇨🇳 China: 9
🇩🇪 Germany: 9
🇬🇧 UK: 6.5
🇮🇹 Italy: 6.5
🇫🇷 France: 6.1
🇧🇷 Brazil: 4.9
🇮🇳 India: 2.4

According to Climate Watch and The World Bank

Breaking News …….

Israel has not presented credible evidence to support its claims that UNRWA staff were members of “terrorist” groups, an independent review for the United Nations led by a former French foreign minister has said.

aljazeera.com/news/2024/4/22…

The Ontario Labor Relations Board ruled today that an agreement btwn Uber & UFCW that provided UFCW with limited rights to represent Uber drivers is not confidential and can be made public.

A redacted version of the agreement will be made available.

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Vote for a certification of a hamilton gig work delivery local is closed. workers have been bombarded by messages from Uber & Skip the Dishes to vote no on a union. Organizers have no access to do the same since they don't have contact info for all workers. Does that sound fair?

Members of gig workers united are at the labour board to support our comrade today. Workers know the truth because of how they are treated by Uber. Uber treats us like employees and it’s time they took on the responsibilities of an employer. 1/?

Arbitrator awards 65,000 Ontario hospital workers 6% wage increase.

ottawa.citynews.ca/2024/04/19/arb…

“Today’s arbitration decision will lift the spirits of frontline hospital workers who are struggling with impossible workloads in a staff retention crisis,” added Michael Hurley, President of OCHU-CUPE.

Brilliant decision by Bill Kaplan
MichaelHurleyCUPE

ottawa.citynews.ca/2024/04/19/arb…

As many people continue to struggle with rising rents and the cost of living in the city, over 300 tenants in four Toronto apartment buildings are participating in a rent strike that has been going on since last year.

nowtoronto.com/news/rent-stri…

Our government is complicit in the slaughter of innocent people in Gaza.

Today, we filled Parliament Square to demand a permanent ceasefire and an end to arms sales to Israel.

We are a movement for peace — and we aren’t going anywhere.

Massive Ontario Labour news, the OLRB report this week shows CUPW applying for union certification at BOTH Uber and Skip the Dishes! The report does not outline the scope, but this is a massive step in unionizing gig workers! Daily Union Elections #ONLabour

Canadian Heritage was warned names listed for commemoration on “Victims of Communism” monument in Ottawa could be linked to Nazi collaborators and war criminals.

What we really need is a memorial for the “Victims of Capitalism”.

readthemaple.com/expert-warned-….

Wildly profitable grocery chains are lobbying Doug Ford to get out of environmental obligations for their garbage plastic packaging. It's shameful and the answer must be a hard no.
cbc.ca/news/canada/to…
#PlasticPollution

Industries, businesses and institutions make two-thirds of Ontario's garbage. It's too easy for them to dump, burn and export instead of reduce, reuse and recycle | The Narwhal

twitter.com/thenarwhalca/s…

Bell fired more than 6,000 people while BCE Board members raked in profits and hiked dividend payouts. Today, we’re exposing the Bell Board for who they really are – a privileged group of corporate elites.

board.shameonbell.ca

#CanLab #ShameOnBell

UK says arms exports to Israel will continue.

UK has banned exports before.
Margaret Thatcher’s government suspended arms exports following Israel’s 1982 invasion of Lebanon, while Tony Blair’s government blocked sales of some military equipment in 2002.

independent.co.uk/news/uk/politi…

Major Canadian news sources have a huge credibility problem with half of the population saying they do not trust them.

CBC News , CTV News , Globalnews.ca , The Globe and Mail , National Post