Posted on 22 May 2019. Tags: AFA, Flight Attendants, Iran, John Bolton, Phyllis Bennis, Sara Nelson, War
Here we go again: a slow but steady laying of a groundwork for a war, this time against Iran, assisted by the media’s promotion of lies surrounding Iran, reprising the role it played almost two decades ago hyping up the threats posed by Iraq. I talk in-depth with Phyllis Bennis, director of the New Internationalism […]
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Posted on 18 April 2018. Tags: Federal Reserve Board, Flight Attendants, Guatemala, Honduras, Jet Blue, Taxes, TWU
You may remember that last month I did a curtain-raiser on the Jet Blue flight attendants’ union organizing campaign vote (Episode 74). Yesterday, the vote came in—and the workers crushed it, winning by a 2-1 margin. You get to hear first-hand from three front-line flight attendant activists how it all came down. I also talk […]
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