Tax cuts are not a substitute for much-needed wage boosts and Australia’s lowest-paid workers cannot have their pay go backwards during a cost-of-living crisis, the government says. The Commonwealth will make its submission to the Fair Work Commission on Thursday, before it decides changes to minimum wages and awards during its 2023-24 Annual Wage Review. […]
Colombia's President Gustavo Petro threatened to cut ties with Israel if it does not comply with a U.N. Security Council ceasefire demand.
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Officials representing the Islamic Republic of Iran requested the Biden administration broker a ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas conflict in indirect negotiations at the same time the United States was urged the regime to curb the actions of its regional proxies, according to new reports. According to the Financial Times, officials from both governments met privately
"They're trying to get what they want. They're trying to replace the West and, moreover, the United States in our access and influence across this crucial continent," US Africa Command chief Gen. Michael Langley told lawmakers.
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Last week, Secretary of the Army Christine Wormuth announced a plan to cut 5% of the U.S. Army’s total strength, or roughly 24,000 soldiers. This is a remarkably large reduction given the state of global affairs, which includes increasing aggression from all of America’s adversaries and two full-scale wars involving allies. This number, when accounting […]
WASHINGTON — The federal government entered a partial shutdown early Saturday after Congress failed to pass legislation in time to keep a swath of departments and agencies open. The shutdown is expected to be brief and have little impact, however, as Senate leaders announced they have a deal to vote on a funding package in the early hours of Saturday morning. The House voted Friday morning to pass a $1.2 trillion spending bill funding the departments of State, Defense, Labor, Health and Human...
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NBC News' Janis Mackey Frayer reports from Beijing, where a number of U.S. business leaders, including the CEOs of Blackstone, Qualcomm, Bloomberg, Chubb and FedEx, met with the Chinese president
Eric Zuesse (blogs at https://theduran.com/author/eric-zuesse/) This is a succinct factual summary of the situation, as-of 21 March 2024: https://theduran.com/nord-stream-investigation-sabotaged-dmitry-polyanskiy (without ads) https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/XwxLdwo75hY (without ads) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XwxLdwo75hY (with ads) [I have cleaned up the auto-generated transcript because of its many successively repeated phrases and its many fillers such as “uh”, which hindered...
Ontario Premier Doug Ford sent a letter to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau earlier this week asking for billions of dollars worth of investments as both governments work towards their 2024 budgets. In the letter addressed to Trudeau, sent on March 14 and shared by the Premier’s Office, Ford outlines additional priorities where he is hopeful for either a financial commitment or a legislative change. Here’s what the premier is asking for: Money for infrastructure: The big ask in the...