Medea Benjamin: *Will Americans Who Were Right on Afghanistan Still Be Ignored?*

Nabisco/Mondelez bakery workers are on strike. *Workers have been forced to work 12 to 16 hour shifts, six to seven days a week, during the pandemic, while the company seeks to eliminate overtime pay by altering employee schedules so that weekend shifts become part of the 40-hour work week.*

The strike is spreading to other plants.

(satire) *Afghanistan Falls To Taliban Couple Hours Earlier Than Expected.*

Biden has greatly increased the level of food stamp benefits ("SNAP") for poor families.

Higher degrees of education — outside the fields important for technology — are like a pyramid scheme. You pay a lot and get in debt, then probably don't get a job in the field except as a low-paid "adjunct professor." But degree inflation pushes more and more people into doing this.