I KNEW THEY WERE BAD , BUT THIS ?

 Does money really mean this much to them ? This shows there are no limits to the depravity of " people " who are this obsessed for profits .

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Amazon Ordered Work to Continue Around Body of Worker Dead on Warehouse Floor

A worker collapsed and died on the floor of an Amazon warehouse in Troutdale, Oregon, on April 6, as managers ordered employees to keep working around his body for more than an hour after emergency services were called.

Workers say management told them to “just turn around and not look” at their dead coworker and to “get back to work,” according to accounts reported by The Western Edge.

The 46-year-old man collapsed and struck his head on the concrete floor, according to workers and 911 call recordings. One caller reported heavy bleeding from the man’s head. A worker began performing CPR and called for help, while a manager prevented another CPR-trained worker from assisting.

Amazon blamed the worker’s death on a “pre-existing medical condition”. The monopoly stated they continued operations that day to protect the privacy of the deceased worker and avoid distracting first responders. Amazon’s statement did not explain how workers continuing to sort and move packages near their dead coworker’s body achieved that.

Workers told The Western Edge the man worked as a “tote runner,” a physically taxing job involving hauling stacked bins across long warehouse aisles and supplying materials to other stations. Workers at the facility, called PDX9, report staffing reductions in that role have increased workloads and physical strain.

The monopoly told workers they would be paid for the remainder of the day and offered unpaid leave, but has yet to pay those wages, according to a worker who spoke with The Western Edge. 

Amazon said OSHA classified the death as non-work-related. OSHA has previously issued the same determination after three workers’ deaths at Amazon facilities New Jersey in 2022 during a heat wave which coincided with the monopoly’s “Prime Day,” itself infamous for ratcheting up work tempos for warehouse workers and delivery drivers.

Recently installed sound-dampening curtains at PDX9 have reduced ventilation and increased temperatures in the facility, according to workers. A 2019 investigation by Reveal found PDX9 had the highest injury rate among 23 Amazon warehouses reviewed using OSHA data, with more than a quarter of workers reporting injuries in a single year.

Amazon has a serious injury rate reported to be roughly twice the warehouse industry average in 2024 and has a history of rabid union-busting. In December 2023, workers at a Colorado warehouse said management concealed a deceased coworker behind boxes so operations could continue.

Alongside other logistics monopolies, Amazon has expanded automation across its network in recent years, leading to layoffs and higher work tempos.

Amazon reported $716.9 billion in net sales in 2025.

Image: Amazon Fulfillment Center in Troutdale, Oregon. Credit: Tedder on Wikimedia

AUS ROTTEN

 I listened to The System Works For Them , a highly political LP by punk band Aus Rotten who were from Pittsburgh . I hadn't listened to it in ages , and it's well worth the time . Do it .

NO SURPRISE

 It's not surprising to hear that suicides among soldiers from the fascist state of israel are surging .

No matter how thorough the fascist indoctrination is , the screams and images of dead children will haunt you . Asshole leader netanyahu doesn't have to worry about that though , as he is comfortable far away from any killing .

Suicides Surge: 11 Israeli Soldiers, Police Dead in April – Report

April 26, 2026 News

Israeli soldiers in Gaza amid widespread destruction across the Strip during the ongoing genocide. (Photo: via QNN)

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By Palestine Chronicle Staff  

11 suicides among Israeli soldiers and police in April as mental health crisis deepens due to Gaza genocide, wars.

Key Developments

• 11 Israeli soldiers and police died by suicide in April, according to Haaretz data.
• Six were active-duty soldiers; three were reservists; two were police officers.
• Haaretz reported 22 soldier suicides in all of 2025, underscoring the scale of the increase.

At least 11 Israeli soldiers and police personnel have died by suicide since the beginning of April, according to a report published on Sunday by Haaretz.

According to the report, six of those who died were active-duty soldiers, while three were reservists who had taken part in the genocide in Gaza but were not in active service at the time of their deaths.

Two additional cases involved Israeli police officers, including a Border Police conscript.

The report also notes that at least 10 active-duty soldiers have died by suicide since the beginning of 2026, a separate figure that refers only to serving soldiers and excludes reservists and police.

Trend Since Genocide

The latest figures add to a broader trend identified in previous reporting by Haaretz, which has documented a rise in suicides among Israeli soldiers since the start of the Gaza genocide.

In a February 2026 feature, the newspaper reported that soldiers who served in Gaza later died by suicide, including cases not formally recognized as military deaths.

The report pointed to psychological distress following deployment, including cases occurring after soldiers had completed their service.

Haaretz had reported that 22 Israeli soldiers died by suicide in 2025, the highest number in 15 years.

The April 2026 figure alone—11 cases across soldiers and police—amounts to roughly half of the total recorded for the entire previous year.

According to the Haaretz investigation, the rise in suicides is linked to sustained psychological pressure on personnel, particularly during prolonged military operations over the past three years.

Previous reporting has also referred to “moral injury” and trauma among soldiers who served in Gaza.

Gaza Genocide

The developments come amid Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza, marked by the mass killing of Palestinian civilians and the widespread destruction of the enclave.

According to Gaza’s Health Ministry, at least 72,000 Palestinians have been killed since October 7, 2023, including over 21,000 children.

UN data further indicates that more than 38,000 women and girls have been killed, reflecting the disproportionate impact on civilians.

Entire neighborhoods have been leveled, and thousands of victims remain trapped under rubble, with the overall death toll widely considered an undercount.

Independent studies suggest that the true number of deaths may be significantly higher when accounting for those missing or killed indirectly due to the collapse of healthcare, hunger, and disease.

GUNS VS. BREAD

 Millions of lives have been lost or destroyed , but the ruling class doesn't care . Their profits mean more to them than anything else on earth . Billions of dollars are being spent to kill innocent civilians , while any meager help for the people , even in the belly of the beast , is disappearing . Taking this shit down is long overdue .

Guns versus bread

By Phebe Eckfeldt posted on April 21, 2026

Poor and working people need their money spent on human services, not war. New York City, Jan. 20, 2025.

Working and poor people in the U.S. are wondering every day about whether they can make ends meet and the added effect of the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran. Gas prices, which are now astronomical, were one of the first things that popped in their faces. Workers are facing looming budget cuts. How has U.S. government spending — or lack of spending — affected people? How has this developed historically across the world? 

The U.S. spent heavily on arming Western Europe against the Soviet Union during the period of the Cold War. Troops and weapons were spread across the continent, purportedly to deter the Soviet Union. U.S. imperialism now wants European countries to spend more on their militaries and turn the region into one big military base. Germany has spent much less on its military compared to the U.S., prioritizing cradle to grave health care and pensions for its people. 

However, in Europe the population is aging faster; more time is spent collecting pensions due to longer life expectancies, making pensions cost more. As a result, countries raise taxes, cut benefits and borrow money — actions not popular with poor and working people. France will spend 3.5% of its budget to improve its military. That would require a 10% increase in taxes, including the wealth tax. France will likely cut spending for social services. Welfare spending is one-third of the French government’s budget, making things like “overhauling pensions” highly unpopular. 

Europeans are now urgently demanding relief at the gas pump. 

Here in the U.S., workers are also facing a crisis. Mary Kaessinger and Edward Yudelovich wrote in Workers World in 2017: “The looming budget cuts proposed in the U.S. Congress would decimate Medicaid, often a lifeline for elderly and disabled people. Loss of funding for needed services would mean a death sentence for untold numbers.” (workers.org/2017/07/32338/). The situation is far more dire in 2026. For example, right-wing capitalist politicians want to cut personal attendant services by $68 million. These funds enable people with disabilities to stay out of institutions and live in their own homes. Service Employees Union Local 1199 is among those mobilizing against this cut. 

In the U.S., 6 million households receive assistance with heating and cooling bills, often from the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP), a federal aid program that President Donald Trump seeks to terminate. Instead, Trump wants to fund a larger and more expensive military: “military protection above all else” is his mantra. Overall, Trump wants to slash $73 billion next year in education, health care, childcare, food subsidies, etc., and increase the military by $400 billion. (costsofwar.watson.brown.edu/).

Eric Morrissette, former Acting Under Secretary of Commerce under the Biden-Harris Administration, explained: “In total, from October 2023 through September 2025, the U.S. spent between $9.65 billion and $12.07 billion on military activities across the wider Middle East.” This was before the current war on Iran. Morissette added, “Economists estimate that every $10 rise in crude translates to roughly 25 cents at the pump.”

This is on top of “an estimated average cost of $600 to $800 per household in 2026, with that figure rising toward $1,000 should remaining tariffs be made permanent, according to Yale Budget Lab’s analysis following the Supreme Court’s February 20th ruling on emergency tariffs.”

Morissette concluded that the cost of war “falls hardest on those who fill their tanks, buy their groceries and pay their bills: the poor, the underemployed and those least equipped to absorb rising prices and stagnant wages.” (Bay State Banner, March 26)

The seeds of an uprising are present. Let us continue to “Organize, organize, organize!” 

SAME OLD AMERIKKKA

 Traditional amerikkkan racism is not over by a long shot . You think it's okay to see mixed race couples in the u.s.a. ? There will still be double-takes and whispered comments , and in the worst case scenarios , trouble with the law . There are still many black men on death row who are innocent .

Please read this :

Rodney Reed denied justice in death penalty case

By Gloria Rubac posted on April 22, 2026

Rodney Reed in Bastrop County court for a 2015 hearing.

Houston — For well over a decade, Texas death row prisoner Rodney Reed has tried to get a court to grant him the right to have DNA testing done on the murder weapon in his capital murder case.

On March 23, the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) denied Reed’s petition for a grant of certiorari. Texas courts and lower federal courts have so far backed prosecutors’ refusal to allow for the testing, which Reed’s defense team would pay for.

Reed, 56, has been on death row for almost 30 years following a conviction by an all-white jury for the 1996 murder of Stacey Stites. An African American man, he was unjustly convicted of murdering a white woman who he was in a consensual relationship with in Bastrop, Texas — a small town near Austin known for its racist history.

Reed’s family and the thousands of activists who support him, continuously ask: “What is the District Attorney, the courts and the local police hiding? Why not test the murder weapon for DNA?”

The only logical answers 

His real crime was having an affair with a white woman, and a DNA test would likely show that the real killer of Stites was her fianceé, Jimmy Fennell, a white ex-police officer, and not Rodney Reed.

Fennell was a local police offi­cer in 1996. He and Stites were planning to marry. But she was involved with Reed at the same time. Reed’s mother, Sandra Reed, told this reporter that she knew Stites, because she had been at her house with Reed several times.

In 2008, Fennell pled guilty and served a decade in prison for kid­nap­ping and rap­ing a woman he had arrest­ed at a traffic stop.

The Innocence Project in New York has been representing Reed. They say a confession by Fennell has been discovered. On Oct. 29, 2019, Arthur Snow, a former member of the Aryan Brotherhood and Fennell’s prison mate, disclosed that Fennell had confessed to murdering Stacey, stating, “I had to kill my n******-loving fiancée,” in a jail conversation. (innocenceproject.org)

The murder weapon that prosecutors have refused to allow to be DNA tested is a webbed belt that was used to strangle Stites as she made her way to work at a supermarket in Bastrop.

According to the March 23 The Texas Tribune: “The killer held that belt tight against her throat for minutes and must have left his sweat and skin cells — and thus his DNA — where he gripped the belt, both on the surface and deep within the webbing.” Texas claims that the chain of custody has been broken, and many people have touched the belt. However, the state routinely uses contaminated evidence in prosecutions. Plus modern DNA testing is now capa­ble of gen­er­at­ing accu­rate results even when the evi­dence has been contaminated.

The March 23 New York Times quoted Reed’s attorneys: “Given everything we now know, it is inexplicable why Texas would not want to test the murder weapon and confirm the truth.” Reed’s legal team said it will “continue to pursue avenues to obtain relief.”

Texas leg­is­la­tors have tried to strengthen the legal path­ for pris­on­ers to pur­sue inno­cence claims using foren­sic and tech­no­log­i­cal advance­ments. However, state pros­e­cu­tors have suc­ceed­ed in block­ing that path in vir­tu­al­ly every cap­i­tal case, according to The Death Penalty Information Center.

Denial of DNA testing ‘inexplicable’

After SCOTUS denied certiorari, Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Ketanji Brown Jackson and Elena Kagan issued this dissent: “It is inex­plic­a­ble why the Bastrop County District Attorney’s Office refus­es to allow DNA test­ing of the belt that was used to kill Stites, despite the very sub­stan­tial pos­si­bil­i­ty that such test­ing could excul­pate Reed and iden­ti­fy the real killer.” 

The jus­tices con­clud­ed with, ​“The State will like­ly exe­cute Reed with­out the world ever know­ing whether Reed’s or Fennell’s DNA is on the mur­der weapon, even though a sim­ple DNA test could reveal that information.” (Death Penalty Information Center)

Reed’s case has generated support from many public personalities, such as Beyoncé, Kim Kardashian, Dr. Phil McGraw, Rihanna and Oprah Winfrey.

Texas has carried out two executions this year, and four more are scheduled. Reed does not currently have an execution date, but this latest ruling means Texas could set a date any day.

TIMELY AND TRUE

 Here's a quote from Chairman Gonzalo , leader of the Partido Comunista del Peru , until his passing in 2021 :

The bourgeoisie was once a revolutionary class, but it has already become historically obsolete and it is wildly clawing and hissing as wounded beasts do . This rabid behavior is the price of it's destruction . It feels itself sinking it knows itself to be unburied carrion , but although it's grave is already open and waiting , it resists it's burial at the hands of the proletariat . This last monster engendered by the bourgeoisie , imperialism , the oppressor of the world's people , must be swept off the face of the earth together with revisionism and world reaction . Our role , the role of the proletariat and the people , is to bury it . It is the necessary task in our historical perspective . We must always have this absolute conviction--we shall smash the bourgeoisie and bury imperialism ! Imperialism and all it's partners and running dogs .

Hell yeah .

OLIVER MTUKUDZI

 I bought an Oliver Mtukudzi disc at Ditch last week . His music always touches my heart .