The AUKUS Pact Unsettles the World
The new defence pact “AUKUS” agreed between the USA, Australia and the United Kingdom can, in the words of the British journal ‘The Economist’ on 17 September, be described as an “agreement that prioritised geopolitics—namely, balancing against China’s rise—over non-proliferation sensitivities”. According to the author, the pact has only one previous comparison: “America’s civil nuclear […]
US: The Longest Nurses’ Strike in a Decade
In light of a record number of labor contracts expiring across industries this year, the 700 striking nurses at Saint Vincent Hospital are enormously powerful. Their contract expired over a year ago and they have now hit over 160 days on the picket lines. Pickets still run from 6am to 12am every day at five […]