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Mar 4, 2026 - World

Lawsuits and slander claims fly in IG Metall’s battle with Elon Musk over employment rights and conditionsBusiness live – latest updatesEurope’s largest trade union is trying to gain control of the works council at Elon Musk’s Tesla gigafactory near Berlin, in an industrial relations showdown marked by lawsuits and mutual accusations of slander.The works council, an elected body of employees that negotiates everything from working hours to pay deals with a company’s management, is considered an entrenched aspect of the German corporate world, particularly in the car industry. Continue reading...

Mar 4, 2026 - World

Former MAGA lawmaker Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) had a harsh message Wednesday for President Donald Trump as results from the Texas primary showed a serious problem for the Republican Party ahead of the midterms. Greene, the former Trump ally who has now become a vocal critic of the administration, described why the voter turnout in Texas could signal challenges for Republican candidates not just in the Lone Star state — but across the United States — as the Trump administration ramps up its military attacks against Iran. "Now that Trump and his admin betrayed their campaign promises of No More Foreign Wars/No More Regime Change and Republicans in the majority in the House and Senate are flat out refusing to pass key legislation, voter outrage was shown in yesterday’s Texas primary," Greene posted on X early Wednesday.Greene pointed out that "more Democrats showed up to vote than Republicans in yesterday’s Texas primary" and that if that happens in November, Texas could flip its Senate seat blue. The last time a Democrat won a statewide election was in 1994, she added. Greene left office in January and has suggested that the MAGA coalition has fractured over its "America First" ideology."Whatever Trump’s new twisted perversion of MAGA is, is going to LOSE in the midterms," Greene wrote. "Clearly Levin, Lindsey Graham, Loomer, and Netanyahu highjacking MAGA and flipping it to MIGA is not working out so well. People do not want to vote for this s--- show and didn’t turn out in Texas. Maybe they will wake up now and realize Armageddon is not what we voted for. We voted for America FIRST and that means AMERICANS FIRST AND AMERICANS ONLY."Now that Trump and his admin betrayed their campaign promises of No More Foreign Wars/No More Regime Change and Republicans in the majority in the House and Senate are flat out refusing to pass key legislation, voter outrage was shown in yesterday’s Texas primary.More Democrats…— Marjorie Taylor Greene ???????? (@mtgreenee) March 4, 2026

Mar 4, 2026 - World

WASHINGTON — A debate’s raging within the Republican Party over whether or not America’s at war with Iran."We're in a bombing," Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL) told Raw Story. "We're bombing the hell out of them."Despite the 2,000 targets reportedly hit, 17 naval ships allegedly destroyed and ongoing “24/7 strikes into Iran” — according to Adm. Brad Cooper, commander of U.S. Central Command — some of the more MAGA members of the Senate GOP refuse to use the “w” word. “No. This regime was the one that was at war with us,” Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-OK) told Raw Story. The Constitution and the War Powers Act of 1973 say Congress, not the president, has the power to declare war. On Wednesday, Senate Democrats were due to force a vote on a war powers resolution. Many Republicans say that’s unnecessary. “This is not a war, this is a conflict now,” Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) told Raw Story. “War is when you put people on the ground going in there and fight for months and months. This is not going to last that long.”“You think it'll be easy?” Raw Story asked.“It's not gonna be easy,” Tuberville said. “It's just gonna be.”“Some people in MAGA are saying, ‘This ain't what we signed up for,’” Raw Story pushed. “That's a different type of MAGA than I deal with,” Tuberville said. “That's exactly what I signed up for, making our country first again, protecting our citizens, doing everything they possibly can to make us the number one country in the world again, militarily and financially.” ‘Undeclared state of war’Debate over the “w” word would be news to President Donald Trump and Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who have both referred to the ongoing campaign as a “war.” The same could be said of the neocon wing of the GOP, which has been calling for war with Iran for decades. “We’re in an undeclared state of war,” one such Republican, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), told Raw Story. “Six dead soldiers, you're at war. So we're in an undeclared state of war that's been going on since 1979.”Others in the GOP shrug off the semantic debate. “Who cares what you call it?” Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) told Raw Story. “Bombs are dropping, bad people are dying. Unfortunately, some good people are dying too.”To Democrats, there’s no debate, which is why in the Senate the party is forcing its eighth vote on war powers resolutions on Wednesday afternoon. “I take the president at his own words. He calls it a war," Senate Intelligence Committee Vice-chair Mark Warner (D-VA) told Raw Story. “They're all over the map. Don't take my word for it, look at the four different answers that have come from the President and the senior leadership.” ‘No exit plan’While the administration says it’s at war, Democrats aren’t convinced it’s prepared. “There was no planning. The best you can say is haphazard,” Sen. John Hickenlooper (D-CO) told Raw Story. “There's no exit plan. There's no strategy. The risks are so enormous.” “A lot of your [Republican] colleagues are telling me, ‘No, there's no fear of mission creep,’” Raw Story said. “I'm like, ‘Have you guys read any history?’” “I mean, it's, I don't know. I regret, I mean …” Hickenlooper said, then stopped himself. “I'm not often very speechless,” he said. After a moment to gather his thoughts, the former Colorado governor found words. “I guess I'd say that it's something you're going to have to be very, very careful as we disengage,” Hickenlooper told Raw Story. “I don't think anybody wants a real war at scale, but they didn't want that in World War I either.”

Mar 4, 2026 - World

Former Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-MO) shredded President Donald Trump and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth on MS NOW's "Morning Joe" Wednesday, for rushing headlong into a war in Iran without any idea why they are doing it or what they are going to do now that it's happening."You said on Armed Services, these are issues you've thought a lot about," said anchor Jonathan Lemire. "Give us your take now about these mixed messages from the administration as to why this war even began. But more than that, it seems so very clear there's not a plan for the day after, including President Trump yesterday, in a moment, perhaps, of unexpected candor, said it sort of dawned on him like, oh, he was asked who could follow the Ayatollah as Supreme Leader? And he's like, oh, well, I guess the worst case would be someone who's just as bad. It's very clear there's no plan for the next day.""Yeah, I mean, we have a very muddled why and when, and I don't care what the administration does now," said McCaskill. "They have been incompetent in one of the most important things a government must do when going to war, and that is having clear rationale for an attack, clear rationale for lives lost, clear rationale for why it happened when it happened. And they can't fix this now. This is muddled beyond recognition.""But more importantly, there's the 'what now' question," McCaskill continued. "And in the 12 years I sat on the Armed Services Committee, I spent a lot of time on contracting in Iraq and Afghanistan. And I can tell you that the 'what now' is the biggest problem of all. We have no idea whether someone even more extreme is going to take over Iran. And if they do, what now? We have no idea whether the government will have any even wisp of democracy involved. And if it doesn't, then what now? We have no idea if the plans will be to immediately reconstitute whatever they need to do to get nuclear power. And then what now? So the lack of planning here, in terms of the day after is stunning."McCaskill concluded by taking a swipe at what she sees as Hegseth's infantile view of military force."I never thought I would hear the Secretary of Defense talk like my 12-year-old grandson saying that our enemy is quote-unquote, 'toast,'" said McCaskill. "The way he discussed this was not serious. It was not somber. It was almost gleeful. And frankly, I think that is startling to most Americans. I found it startling, the tone that he took in this press conference. I get it that he thinks this is all about killing people and showing lethality and supporting the warriors. And certainly we must support our warriors. But the tone of it was, in my mind, inappropriate for this moment in history." - YouTube www.youtube.com

Mar 4, 2026 - World

The Iran war's disruption of Middle East oil and gas supplies and soaring prices are strengthening Russia's ability to profit from its energy exports, a pillar of the Kremlin's budget and a key to paying for its own war in Ukraine.