Trump’s escalation against Venezuela is about more than oil, it is about regaining control over the ‘natural’ zone of influence of the United States at a moment where its hegemony is slipping, argues VIJAY PRASHAD
The workers suffering – and dying – in extreme heat
Evidence suggests Lammy’s proposals would come at a high cost: reduced fairness, diminished trust and greater racial inequality in the criminal justice system, argue TARA LAI QUINLAN and KATHARINA KARCHER
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As we approach the half-anniversary of the Grenfell tragedy, the community gathers to remember loved ones while grappling with mixed emotions surrounding the ongoing deconstruction of the tower and the hopeful plans for a memorial, writes EMMA DENT COAD
For Peggy Frank, a Los Angeles letter carrier, any federal or California safety rule ordering her employer and all other firms to protect workers from the hazards of excess heat didn’t work.
Frank, aged 63, collapsed and died from California’s monstrously high heat while delivering the mail in Woodland Hills, a section of Los Angeles, in mid-July. The temperature in that particular neighbourhood the day she died was 41.6°C (107°F).
Frank isn’t the only worker, old, young, or in between, to succumb to the dangers of the heat that has prostrated much of the country this year or in years past. She’s just the latest one.
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