Betsey Piette

Betsey.Piette@workers.org

The Global South, the BRICS+ Summit and Palestine

The potential power of a united Global South was on full display at the United Nations in March 2022. Representatives…

October 30, 2024

Fracking fuels Pentagon aggression

Seemingly out of the blue, fracking has become a hot button issue in the 2024 presidential election. At the Democratic…

October 15, 2024

The billionaire companies behind Israel’s bombs

On May 10,  Secretary of State Antony Blinken addressed Congress and lied. He said: “We do not currently assess that…

October 3, 2024

Historic event in the U.S. celebrates China at 75

October 1, 2024, marks the 75th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China, when Mao Zedong declared…

September 30, 2024

Philadelphia: Billionaires’ mayor okays arena

Philadelphia Mayor Cherelle Parker came out strongly in support of billionaire developers on Sept. 18 when she announced that she…

September 24, 2024

Bhopal: Hiroshima of the chemical industry

Almost 40 years ago, on Dec. 3, 1984, some 27 tons of poisonous methyl isocyanate (MIC) gas, 500 times more…

September 24, 2024

Tariffs, the U.S. and China

On May 10, 2019, then President Donald Trump imposed a 25% tariff on $200 billion worth of goods imported from…

September 23, 2024

The people vs. the billionaires

Philadelphia Several thousand people turned out for the Save Chinatown Coalition rally on Sept. 7 to protest the Philadelphia 76ers’…

September 10, 2024

Philadelphians protest Israel’s assassinations

Philadelphia Hundreds of people demonstrated on Aug. 3 in Center City Philadelphia in solidarity with Palestine and Lebanon in the…

August 8, 2024

Leading Israeli newspaper blames October 7 deaths on Zionist military

On July 8, Haaretz, considered Israel’s most influential daily newspaper, published the results of its thorough, in-depth investigation into what…

July 15, 2024