The Guardian: The future of work ‘It’s slavery for modern times’: how children of 12 toil in Colorado’s fields Some Republican-led states are pushing to relax child labour laws but even in the farms of Colorado’s San Luis valley, where most are Hispanic/Latino, youngsters can work an unlimited number of hours • All photographs by … Continue reading Child labor Still Widespread in the U.S., and It’s Mainly “Spanish”
A tug of war between China and America in the Indian Ocean Saltwire: Atlantic Canada News Service — Sept. 6, 2023 Most of the international community regards the Chagos Islands as belonging to Mauritius, from which they were detached in 1965. Henry Srebrnik, a professor of political science at the University of Prince Edward Island, … Continue reading U. S. & China are new Competitors in an old, obscure, but important island dispute
Washington Post Scientists warn invasive pests are taking a staggering toll on society The authors of a major new U.N.-backed report say invasive species are costing the world more than $423 billion a year By Dino Grandoni — September 4, 2023 Invasive pests are wreaking havoc across the planet, destroying crops, disseminating pathogens, depleting fish … Continue reading The Invasion of the Invasives Is Here (Right In My Back Yard)
Thailand: The Last Rigged Election? Lèse-majesté is the ‘crime’ of offending the dignity of the king, and these days it has gone out of fashion. In Britain, you can say anything you like about King Charles the Turd (as an Irish friend calls him), and no one turns a hair. But if you insult King … Continue reading A Dyer Twofer: Thailand’s Struggles & Pope Francis’ s Mixed History
The Women of NOW review: superb history of feminist growth and groundswell Katherine Turk has produced a must-read on the group which did so much for American women in the 1960s and 70s Clara Bingham Sat 2 Sept 2023 Follow Clara Bingham What do a bestselling author, a segregationist congressman and a Black legal scholar … Continue reading A History of NOW and its Women who Made History