Daily Archives: March 25, 2021

2021-03-25: News Headlines

Chuck Collins (2021-03-25). Who are the 10 Biggest Pandemic Profiteers? counterpunch.org One year ago, the Institute for Policy Studies published "Billionaire Bonanza 2020: Wealth Windfalls, Tumbling Taxes and Pandemic Profiteers," and began tracking billionaire wealth gains as unemployment surged. We teamed up with Americans for Tax Fairness (ATF) to track the wealth growth of America's billionaires over the last year. This report summarizes the extraordinary growth

Dr. Binoy Kampmark (2021-03-25). Increasing Nukes and Trimming the Military: Global Britain's Skewed Vision. globalresearch.ca Campaigners for the abolition of nuclear weapons had every reason to …

Jim McMahan (2021-03-25). For over a century and a half: Chinese workers abused and superexploited in U.S. workers.org Chinese railroad workers in 1869. The six Asian spa workers murdered in Atlanta March 16 were low-wage workers. They were not respected by capitalism. Their deaths came on a surge of anti-Asian violence. Anybody with an honest view of the U.S. wars against Korea and Vietnam is familiar with anti-Asian . . . |

Peoples Dispatch (2021-03-25). Jordanian security forces crack down on demonstrations on anniversary of 2011 protests. peoplesdispatch.org The protests were called to mark the 10th anniversary of anti-monarchy and pro-democracy protests. Protesters were also demanding an end to the emergency law imposed last year and addressing of several economic issues such as rising unemployment…

Dave DeCamp (2021-03-25). The Netherlands Is Spending Millions to Expand a US Army Weapons Depot. news.antiwar.com The Netherlands is planning to spend more than $40 million to expand a US Army weapons depot that is located in the country, The depot, located in the Dutch city of Eygelshoven, was established in 2016. The Army has multiple depots across Europe where has weapons and other military hardware stored that can be accessed quickly for exercises or during a crisis. | According to the report, the Eygelshoven depot has 450,000 square feet of warehouse storage space and 50,000 square feet of paved storage for heavy vehicles. The de…