While some Gazans say the police have tried to force war profiteers from selling goods at inflationary prices, others have accused Hamas of benefiting from looted aid
Just in : aid his family occasionally received came from the Hamas-run Ministry of Social Development, which oversees welfare programs.
Milwaukee zoning committee votes against for-profit nursing college
15.03 2024: If you don't, you will be enabling these educational profiteers in their quest to exploit, defraud and impoverish Milwaukee's most vulnerable taxpayers who are struggling desperately for their ticket to the middle class,…
Displaying ancient artifacts and remains of the departed - when is it OK? Editorial Board Roundtable
03.02 2024: The profiteers behind the mummy exhibition have asked us to believe that their display of human remains is in the name of science and education. But I find that as plausible as Hollywood depictions of P.…
Dozens arrested following pro-Palestinian student protests, walkouts
29.10 2023: Students staged a sit-in outside of the Chancellor’s office at University of Massachusetts Amherst and demanded that the Chancellor end what they called, “UMass Amherst’s ties with war profiteers and call for a ceasefire and end of the…
America’s enemies are a badge of honor
08.09 2023: the world is wondering what happened to the American spirit that was ready to bear the mantle of leadership. They see a paper tiger torn apart by chaos profiteers in the media, coddled and weakened by academics,…
Biden's student debt forgiveness for defrauded borrowers blocked by conservative court
07.08 2023: Until these protections are restored, countless students are at risk of being taken advantage of by higher ed profiteers who are exploiting students with little accountability.” For-profit and career college advocates lauded…
Why is Ohio dead last in the nation in helping parents with childcare? Today in Ohio
25.07 2023: You’re listening to today in Ohio, the profiteers. Were in the news a while back jacking up the price of insulin. Layla, does Cleveland Mayor Justin Bibb have a legitimate case to make against them in court?…
Editorial | The Competition Bureau’s investigation into the grocery industry revealed a different problem
04.07 2023: Where does this leave us? The bottom line: consumers hoping for clarity as to whether grocery operators are profiteers too, have been left none the wiser. Little wonder the bureau has turned its attention to policy actions for…
Opinion | The attack by Pierre Poilievre and others on safe supply will cost us lives
07.06 2023: Poilievre dismisses them as profiteers off the existing system, or as too self-interested. The group Moms Stop The Harm have offered to meet with Poilievre; he has declined. Perhaps he thinks the Moms Stop The Harm are too self-interested,…
Chicago chooses between progressive, moderate for mayor
04.04 2023: …bearer, he described his opponent as part of the extremist right and other “greedy profiteers.” “When you take dollars from Trump supporters and try to cast yourself as part of the progressive movement — man,…
Chicago chooses between progressive, moderate for mayor
04.04 2023: a Vermont independent and progressive standard-bearer, he described his opponent as part of the extremist right and other “greedy profiteers.” “When you take dollars from Trump supporters and try to cast yourself as part of the…
'Tiger King' revisited: How Netflix's hit series unexpectedly led to better animal welfare
27.03 2023: gift baskets or well wishes for Joe Exotic Jeff Lowe or any of the other animal profiteers who populated Tiger King. Even so, three years after the release of Netflix’s hit show that captivated Americans at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic,…
Banks must address needs of seniors
11.03 2023: I must ask why Canadian banks are allowed to treat this population in a manner that ranges from casual indifference to outright contempt? Banks have become voracious profiteers and as such have successfully insulated themselves from…
Is this the end of America? If so, it’s a pathetic end
10.03 2023: These are real lords of the cartel, the real profiteers of hatred and division. We know this is the game because these Twitterstorms leave us with nothing new, only the same anger, the same priors.…
Abortion profiteers will lie, break law when it’s in their best interest
08.03 2023: Abortion profiteers will lie when it’s in their best interest and break the law rather than lose a sale. They don’t care that a 15-year-old wants to keep her baby or that cities might not roll out a welcome mat when they show up with their…
Britain’s biggest gas supplier accused of ‘profiteering’ from energy crisis
08.02 2023: “Grant Shapps needs to use his first day in office to push for the scrapping of this huge loophole in the windfall tax, which will see a total of £11bn in public subsidies handed to profiteers like Equinor.…
‘Dangerous’ to think B.C.’s decriminalization plan will reduce OD deaths: researcher
31.01 2023: he said it needs to be accompanied with a bold plan to provide more people with a broad range of safer alternatives to toxic street drugs, which profiteers often cut or contaminate with the powerful opioid fentanyl.…
Santos, sociopaths and American resignation: Where celebrity and public service converge
27.01 2023: podcasters, authors and social media mavens — and profiteers. As our officials become ever more overexposed, they feel they need to compete for more clicks and views. That leads to a comfort level in making claims and statements that are increasingly hypocritical,…
Opinion | Is Doug Ford recklessly poisoning Ontario’s health-care system — or might he help fix it?
17.01 2023: The premier is allowing private profiteers to reap the benefits at the expense of ordinary patients, who will now have to cough up their credit cards for basic care. The CEOs of Ontario’s biggest hospitals fear Ford’s Tories will…
Should we spend billions on fighters, while we face these problems?
14.01 2023: …pledge to capping carbon emissions, saving Nature, and meeting our UN development goals. We either struggle together to meet these goals, or we struggle against each other, to benefit no one, short of war profiteers and billionaires.…
The cost of living crisis is in fact an example of costs being transferred from the powerful to the powerless - from ambitious speculators, market fundamentalists, naked profiteers and, in the past horrendous 10 months of war in Ukraine, foreign dictators, to a population pushed with increasing aggressiveness into debt, housing, food and energy poverty, and insecure working conditions
31.12 2022: once again forgotten the “covenantal” character of community.
It was repeated often enough during the pandemic that no one is safe unless everyone is safe
Seven reasons to be cheerful about the Amazon in 2023 – and three to be terrified
20.12 2022: Mauro Pimentel/AFP/Getty Images 5. Deforestation profiteers face penalties and prison. The new administration will have to send a strong early signal that the years of impunity are over for land grabbers.…
She Testified to Congress About Being Sexually Assaulted. Now She’s Being Sued.
16.12 2022: Supreme Court justices on the defensive, exposed war profiteers and revealed deep-seated corruption in the federal bureaucracy for more than a century. But an odd defamation lawsuit filed last month in D.…
Just Stop Oil activists occupy beds in Harrods in protest against fuel poverty
03.12 2022: “Ordinary people cannot keep footing the bill for crises created by the wealthy; it’s time for the big polluters and profiteers to pay their share. Through this we could also incentivise much-needed climate action on home insulation and…
Senate confirms Pentagon inspector general as funding for Ukraine increases
01.12 2022: Years after about 1,900 National Guard and Reserve soldiers were swept up in a recruting bonus scandal, U.S. Army investigators have launched a review... more The Project on Government Oversight advocacy group called the confirmation…
Climate cult meets reparations lunacy
25.11 2022: Climate profiteers and their naive zealots in the activist community have driven Europe into an energy crisis that is making them vulnerable to aggressors like China and Russia and sinking their economies.…
Coffins left hanging in air after second Naples cemetery collapse this year
18.10 2022: …cemeteries in Naples have been badly managed and left to fend for themselves, falling prey to swindlers and profiteers.” In February last year, 200 coffins fell into the sea off the Ligurian coastal town of Camogli in northern Italy after…
Kate Bell, chief economist at the TUC says, “Since they cut it from 26% to 19% in 2015, growth and inward investment have flatlined
09.09 2022: “Nonsense.” Labour seizes on that dividing line as: whose side are you on? Tories are for the profiteers, Labour for households and public services in desperate need. As if on cue, the latest NHS figures emerged on Thursday showing yet…
A generation of Britons face long-term illness from being cold and poor this winter | Michael Marmot
02.09 2022: Why would cutting corporation tax lead to “growth” when company investment was absent even in better times? When six companies alone made £16bn excess profit during the pandemic, what’s needed is walloping windfalls on profiteers,…
‘They robbed me of my children’: Yemen’s war victims tell their stories
25.08 2022: This is the world of the new war-rich, the war profiteers, the hidden market tycoons, the relatives of the Houthi militias and of former president Ali Abdullah Saleh. Elites enrich themselves at the expense of the millions starving in…
If, like me, you’re in your late 40s and came of age declaiming that Things Can Only Get Better, look around you now
15.08 2022: Your children are less protected in every sense from the predations of landlords, profiteers and exploitative bosses. If they go to university, they will probably be in tens of thousands of pounds of debt for a higher education you didn’t…