Eve Ottenberg

So the dockworkers’ strike is off for now, with a promise that it could resume in January. Did union bureaucrats accept a 62 percent pay hike in return for ending their three-day, early October walkout as part of a deal to help the Harris presidential campaign? If so, you can hardly be surprised. They endorsed her, and most of labor, with the notable exception of Teamsters president Sean O’Brien, regards a possible Trump presidency with the alarm reserved for earthquakes or tornados.

Photograph Source: SriMesh – CC BY-SA 3.0 Roughly 20 million Americans live in trailer parks, and in recent years rents there, like everywhere, shot up.

Photograph Source: Bair175 – CC BY-SA 3.0 Years have passed since president Joe Biden allegedly ordered the bombing of the Nordstream 2 pipeline, and the dust has long settled.

Photograph Source: Prime Minister's Office (GODL-India) If there's one thing the recent BRICS summit in Kazan revealed, it's that when you

Right now, it's still up to Joe “All War, All the Time” Biden to end the wars in Gaza and Ukraine. He has the power to do so, and to pretend that he doesn't is arrant nonsense.

One of the most consequential races in this past election was for U.S. senate in Nebraska, where Independent Dan Osborn lost to Republican Deb Fischer.

Brooklyn brownstone. Photo: Jeffrey St. Clair. With over 2,300,000 renters in New York City, it's a good bet most of them had to pay exorbitant brokers' fees to land their apartments.

Coastal flooding, lower Columbia River. Photo: Jeffrey St. Clair. Hotter oceans kill plankton, upon which the entire maritime ecosystem depends.

Photograph Source: The White House – Public Domain Having failed thus far to ignite Nuclear Armageddon, what's up next for the U.S. military industrial complex?

Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair It's been a bad few months for democracy. Election results offensive to the European Union were annulled