1. NATO close to crossing thresholds that could risk provoking Russia to retaliate with nuclear weapons

2. “It’s the young workers that we’re most concerned about." --Boeing workers strike after overwhelmingly rejecting their union's sellout contract

3. Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employes Division (BMWED) rail union agreement announcement is part of a broader effort by all rail union bureaucracies to force through pro-company deals across the industry

4. War crime: fascistic Israeli attack on UN-run school in Gaza kills children, humanitarian workers, and refugees

5.  "This war is the best thing that’s ever happened to the Nazis in Ukraine": the World Socialist Web Site interviews an independent researcher who has studied the western lionization of Stepan Bandera

6. With the complicity of the Democratic Party "a pogrom-like atmosphere against immigrants in the US (spearheaded by Republicans) is being whipped up in the lead-up to the November election"

7. Second migration state summit held in Germany adopts the far-right's quest to turn back refugees, seal off borders and undermine the basic right to asylum

8. What is the AFL-CIO Solidarity Center, and what is its mandate?

9. Capitalist governments are slow to respond in any meaningful way to spreading mpox disease

10. Scientists warn that the evolving H5N1 avian influenza is likely to arrive in Australia

11. "Warts and all": Australian union boss uncritically echoes corporate media and the big business Labor government's accusations of criminality in a construction workers' union

12. Although ignored by the authorities and the mainstream media, COVID-19 continues to wreak havoc in Canada

13. Triple-digit heat wave exacerbates devastating fires in Southern California

14. Pressure from banks and their lobbyists gut financial reform proposals by the US Federal Reserve

15.  A cloudy, enigmatic, and occasionally disturbing work: a review of a film its director describes as "an allegory for the experience of transgender individuals"

16. Multi-agency manhunt seeks Kentucky highway shooter suspect, a former US Army reservist

17. Vote for Joseph Kishore and Jerry White in 2024!