Thursday, April 04, 2019

Common Dreams:
"This Is Not Ok: Sears Condemned for Ending Retirees' Life Insurance After Handing Executives $25 Million in Bonuses....

The retail giant Sears came under fire Saturday following reports that the company is ending life insurance benefits for an undisclosed number of its 90,000 retirees—just months after handing executives over $25 million in bonuses. 'It's the last benefit that retirees had,' Ron Olbrysh, chair of the National Association of Retired Sears Employees (NARSE), told CBS News. ...

Progressives responded with outrage to reports of Sears' move, which fits a pattern of corporate giants rewarding top executives while average employees face benefit cuts and lay-offs."

-->Our newspaper of record doesn't have the stomach to print stories like this. Too many corporate elites on the NYT Board of Directors.

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Common Dreams:
"Denouncing the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee's new policy of cutting off firms that work with primary challengers as 'divisive' and 'harmful,' Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Saturday advised small-dollar donors to stop giving money to the DCCC and instead donate to progressive candidates directly.

'The DCCC's new rule to blacklist + boycott anyone who does business with primary challengers is extremely divisive and harmful to the party,' tweeted the congresswoman from New York. 'My recommendation, if you're a small-dollar donor: pause your donations to DCCC and give directly to swing candidates instead.'

-->Another story of corporate controlled Democrats trying to frustrate the rise of progressive candidates. Why didn't the NYT print it? Probably because the newspaper supports corporate controlled Democratic incumbents. 

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Aljazeera:
Armed with US-made bombs and British-made fighter jets, Saudi Arabia and its allies have been waging a ruinous war on Yemen for the last four years. Since they intervened in the country's civil war on March 26, 2015, more than 19,000 raids have been carried out in Yemen, the Arab world's poorest country. ...

Despite assurances by the coalition that all precautionary measures would be taken to avoid civilian casualties, a sizable number of coalition attacks have targeted civilian areas. According to data collected by the Yemen Data Project, nearly two-thirds of the coalition’s air raids have struck non-military and unknown targets.

Airports, ports, bridges and roads have all been repeatedly attacked. So, too, have farms, schools, oil and gas facilities, factories and private businesses. According to rights groups, the coalition has not accidentally attacked civilian infrastructure – it has been doing it deliberately."

-->Following Pentagon wishes, the NYT has not printed much about the killing fields in Yemen. Nothing about the U.S. made planes and bombs and the millions of starving children.