(2021-10-24). Why is Social Spending Controversial but Congress lavishes $7 trillion a Decade on Pentagon? juancole.com By Sister Karen M. Donahue | ( Otherwords.org) — Right now, the United States is locked in a contentious debate over the Build Back Better plan, which will make a significant difference in the lives of millions of individuals and families. Even though the provisions included in the plan — including universal child care, home …
(2021-10-24). Environmental And Labor Groups Urge Canada To Support Just Transition. popularresistance.org Canada has not provided a transition pathway for its fossil fuel workers to move into other industries, and as global demand for oil and gas wanes, tens of thousands of workers could lose their jobs, say the authors of a new report. | Roughly 167,000 people are directly employed in Canada's oil and gas industry, but increased automation combined with the energy transition and climate policy mean that half of those jobs are slated to disappear by the end of the decade, according to a report published on October 13 by the Climate Action Network Canada and Blue Green Canada, which is a coalition of labor and environ…
(2021-10-24). In collaboration with Missile Defense Agency, U.S. Army and Navy test hypersonic missiles. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com ==== From 2010: Prompt Global Strike: World Military Superiority Without Nuclear Weapons Commentary on the article by Fidel Castro: The origin of wars ==== Navy and Army Demonstrate Advanced Hypersonic Technologies The Navy Strategic Systems Programs (SSP) and the Army Hypersonic Program Office (AHPO) successfully conducted a High Operational Tempo for Hypersonics flight campaign on …
(2021-10-24). Mississippi Believes It Can Be Organized. Does Anyone Else? zcomm.org Under-resourced and overlooked, the South is tired of waiting for organized labor…
(2021-10-24). Syrian Pilot Killed In Attack Helicopter Crash In Damascus Countryside. southfront.org 
Illustrative image. | On October 23, a Mi-25 attack helicopter of the Syrian Arab Air Force (SyAAF) made a hard landing in the countryside of Damascus while returning from a mission around the ancient city of Palmyra in eastern Homs. | Syrian pro-government sources said that the Soviet-made helicopter experienced "mechanical program", without elaborating. | The helicopter pilot, Major Muhammad Taher Nadim Abdullah, was killed in the incident. Several service members were also wounded. | As a result of a mechanical failure,…
(2021-10-24). Amazon Labor Union to file for election in Brooklyn, N.Y., Oct. 25. workers.org 
Workers Assembly Against Racism news advisory After organzing to form an independent worker-led Amazon Labor Union (ALU) for the last six months, workers at Amazon's Staten Island JFK8 warehouse and the surrounding facilities (LDJ5, DYY6, DYX2) announced they would file for election Oct. 25 at 2 p.m., in downtown Brooklyn, . . . |
(2021-10-24). China's Winding Road Toward Capitalism. counterpunch.org 
Image by There is perhaps no bigger controversy among partisans of the Left than the nature of China and its economy. Is it socialist? Capitalist? State capitalist? A hybrid? That so much debate swirls around this issue is its own proof that the question doesn't have a definitive answer, at least not yet. | What can be agreed upon is that China has experienced decades of extraordinary economic growth. But the nature of that growth, and the base upon which it has been created, are also subject to intense debate, arguments that necessarily rest on how a…
(2021-10-24). The Path to a Livable Future. tomdispatch.com This month will mark a critical juncture in the struggle to avoid climate catastrophe. At the COP26 global climate summit kicking off next week in Glasgow, Scotland, negotiators will be faced with the urgent need to get the world economy off the business-as-usual track that will take the Earth up to and beyond 3 degrees Celsius of excess heating before this century's end, according to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Yet so far, the pledges of rich nations to cut greenhouse-gas emissions have been far too weak to rein in the temperature rise. Meanwhile, the Biden administration's climate plan…
(2021-10-24). Biden Administration Is Undermining The Venezuela Dialogue. popularresistance.org The talks between the Venezuelan government and the extreme-right wing opposition had been going well. There are still outstanding issues to be resolved, like ending the economic war, but the discussions held in Mexico led to concrete electoral developments. The European Union agreed to send an electoral observation mission. The United Nations decided to send a panel of electoral experts. (Both institutions refused to observe the 2018 presidential and 2020 legislative elections, despite invitations from the government.) Thousands of opposition candidates registered to run in the mega-elections, which include voti…
(2021-10-24). The Great Recoil Of Neoliberal Globalization. popularresistance.org The current political era is best understood as a "great recoil" of economic globalization. It is a moment when the coordinates of historical development seem to be inverting, upsetting many of the assumptions that dominated politics and economics over the last decades. This moment corresponds to the "second movement" socialist economic historian Karl Polanyi described in his book The Great Transformation, when phases of capitalist expansion recede and are met by "societal responses." | According to Polanyi, in phases of profound crisis like that opened by the 1929 Wall Street Crash, society tends to act defensiv…
(2021-10-24). New Deal Recycling: Can a Federal Writers Project Rise Again? zcomm.org U.S. Rep. Ted Lieu's proposed $60 million federal investment in "cultural infrastructure" would lead to the re-hiring of writers, editors, fact-checkers, publishing assistants, librarians, and historians who lost work and income due to the pandemic…
(2021-10-24). The 1.5 target calls for an eco-socialist revolution. indybay.org The only responsible way forward is the IPCC's P1 scenario, which envisages rapid and radical interventions in existing production, transport and consumption structures, i.e. a massive industrial transformation and deconstruction in the main capitalist countries (15ff.). In the social struggle, the politically and culturally highly fragmented class of wage earners comes to class consciousness.
(2021-10-24). Twitter's Dorsey warns of surging inflation after his platform 'mistakenly' censors GOP lawmaker's video about… inflation. rt.com 
Jack Dorsey may have to censor himself after the Twitter CEO tweeted that hyperinflation will soon grip the US and global economies. The observation, which does not align with the mainstream media narrative, drew pushback online. | Hyperinflation is going to change everything. It's happening.— jack‚ö°Ô∏è (@jack) "Hyperinflation is going to change everything," Dorsey said on Friday night. "It's happening." When Nigerian businessman Tayo Oviosu — who, like Dorsey, i…
(2021-10-24). Buffalo Health Care Workers Are on Strike for Better Wages and Patient Safety. truthout.org 
More than 2,000 health care workers — including nurses, technicians, clerical workers, and custodians — at Mercy Hospital in Buffalo, New York have been on strike since October 1. Similar to other
(2021-10-24). On the Fascist Stench That Hangs Over this Still-Trumped Land. counterpunch.org 
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(2021-10-23). Pandora Papers: Who Needs Exotic Tax Havens When the U.S. is Already a Big One? strategic-culture.org 
Sam Pizzigati co-edits inequality.org which researches and highlights the growing wealth gap in the United States. The organization is widely respected as non-partisan, and has produced numerous papers and books on the subject which are used as critical resources by civic society and policymakers in the fight against economic inequality. | The answer is simple, says author and researcher Sam Pizzigati who coedits
(2021-10-23). Cinematographer's Death by Prop Gun Is Not Just a Tragedy. It's a Labor Issue. truthout.org 
Halyna Hutchins was killed at her workplace Thursday. She was 42 years old and was shot to death on a film set after an actor fired what should have been a prop gun. Official reports state that the gun was supposed to be filled with blanks, but the circumstances surrounding Hutchins's death and the injury of the film's director, Joel Souza, are still hazy. What is clear, however, is that the crew of the film had voiced concerns over safety on set for weeks. The entire camera crew, except Hut…
(2021-10-23). The Heat: U.S. worker shortages and voting rights. america.cgtn.com 
Worker shortages, strikes and supply chain disruptions. How is this affecting the U.S. economy and can the infrastructure bill save the day?
(2021-10-23). 'Build Back… You Know, The Thing': Americans Have No Idea What's In Biden's Economic Plan. southfront.org 
Illustrative Image | Originally published on While Congressional Democrats spar over the ultimate size of President Biden's "Build Back Better" economic plan,
(2021-10-23). SEP electoral members in Australia denounce premature ending of COVID-19 lockdowns. wsws.org "The reason they're telling us to live with the virus is because the economy is going downhill, and capitalism has to continue generating profits for companies and businesses. But the consequence is more infections, illness and deaths."
(2021-10-23). Bastille 2.0: "Real Regime Change": Building Protest and Resistance Against the COVID-19 Agenda. southfront.org 
Illustrative Image | Written by Prof Michel Chossudovsky. Originally published on Introduction: | The COVID crisis engineered by the financial establishment is part of a hegemonic project, pertaining to control over strategic sectors of the global economy. | The unspoken truth is that the novel coronavirus provides a pretext and a justification to powe…
(2021-10-23). Systemic Crisis Further Exposes Inequalities: Poor Women's Global Struggle Against Hunger and Pandemic. orinocotribune.com By Misión Verdad — Oct 22, 2021 | Without a doubt, the global pandemic of covid-19 has had a devastating impact on the economy and, consequently, on the population. Its appearance has accelerated a systemic crisis that was already underway, and has brought to light the need for an urgent change in the dynamics of relations imposed by the capitalist system. | Although at the beginning of the pandemic many hopeful people believed that it would be an opportunity for a paradigm shift to occur, what we have seen until then has been a deepening of barbarism in which the common denominator has been the domination o…
(2021-10-23). International Tribunal Seeks To Charge US Government With Crimes Against Humanity. popularresistance.org In this era of police violence, pandemic worries, and economic crisis, it is no surprise that U.S. (and local) government agencies have a poor track record of sharing information honestly and directly—especially information about their own complicity in actions and policies that are undemocratic, militaristic, racist, sexist or otherwise oppressive. | Basic truths about the society we live in are actively suppressed and denied—including truths about the imprisonment of those whose political views and actions challenge the powers that be. | Though the growth of the prison industry has been well documen…
(2021-10-23). Do wage increases impact the unemployed? workers.org 
Why has David Card been co-awarded the 2021 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences? Card, who teaches at UC Berkeley, did his research in the 1990s. The Committee obviously feels his research had major policy implications. (The research of the two other winners is more technical.) Hundreds of newspapers, web sites . . . |
(2021-10-23). Snowden tells The Belmarsh Tribunal: If you love truth, you're as much of a criminal as Assange and risk sharing his fate. rt.com 
WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange is a political prisoner and the process against him is a crime against journalism, said a group of academics, politicians, journalists and advocates convened ahead of his extradition hearing. | "What we're witnessing is a murder," NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden told the 'Belmarsh Tribunal' in London on Friday, appearing via video link. | "Everywhere we look, from Afghanistan to economics, from pandemic to pervasive surveillance, the obvious has been made unspeakable," he added, because speaking up would put one in the same category as Assange, a "political criminal" charged…
(2021-10-23). The "Green Conscience" of the Rich. orinocotribune.com By Geraldina Colotti — Oct 15, 2021 | During the Third China-CELAC Forum on Science, Technology, and Innovation, the Venezuelan Deputy Minister for Research and Application of Knowledge, Francisco Durán, said that it is necessary to make a critical reflection on the aspiration of perpetual economic growth since it is not feasible and has caused an extraordinary planetary environmental crisis. In addition, he reiterated that it is still possible to rectify courses and establish which are the real necessities for life and which are fictitious factors that do not justify the environmental impact. | It is a visi…
(2021-10-23). As Harvard Study Reveals Limits of Mandatory Vaccine Regime, Joe Biden Should Let Americans Decide Their Own Fate. strategic-culture.org 
It would be wise to heed the words from the Harvard team at a time when society is being increasingly divided between two warring camps. | As millions of U.S. workers are about to be made redundant in the wake of the Biden administration's harsh vaccine mandate, a recent study by Harvard University, which appears to show no discernable link between people fully vaccinated and new COVID-19 cases, deserves a second look. | By all indications, there is a Cateogy-5 socio-economic hurricane barreling down on the United States, yet few people — least of all in the legacy media — are willing to talk about. Pos…
(2021-10-23). Sunday 10/24: Rally Against Senator Manchin for Hurting Voting Rights & Economic Assisstance. indybay.org Online rally livestream…
(2021-10-23). The 2020-21 Worldwide Corona Crisis: Destroying Civil Society, Engineered Economic Depression, Global Coup d'État and the "Great Reset" globalresearch.ca We are at the crossroads of one of the most serious crises in modern history. We are living history, yet our understanding of the flow of events since January 2020 has been blurred. Worldwide, people have been misled both by their governments and the media.
(2021-10-23). Maid on Netflix: A single mother struggles to extricate herself from poverty and abuse. wsws.org Maid is a 10-episode drama series created by Molly Smith Metzler. It premiered on Netflix October 1 and has been one of the streaming platform's top-rated shows for the past several weeks.
(2021-10-23). New Study Reveals Poor, Low-Income Voters Were Crucial in Toppling Trump in 2020. zcomm.org The findings challenge "the media-driven narrative… that white low-income voters are the de facto base of the Republican Party."
(2021-10-23). Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and New Zealand. wsws.org Half a million South Korean workers strike over labour laws; India: Punjab public servants walk out for job permanency; Australia: Queensland government building apprentices strike…
(2021-10-23). US billionaires are now $2.1 trillion richer than before the pandemic. nationofchange.org Not only did the wealth of U.S. billionaires grow, but so did their numbers: in March of last year, there were 614 Americans with 10-figure bank accounts. Today there are 745.
(2021-10-23). Public Health or Private Wealth? How Digital Vaccine Passports Pave Way for Unprecedented Surveillance Capitalism. strategic-culture.org 
Public health or private wealth? How digital vaccine passports pave way for unprecedented surveillance capitalism | By Jeremy LOFFREDO, Max BLUMENTHAL | The titans of global capitalism are exploiting the Covid-19 crisis to institute social credit-style digital ID systems across the West. | The death by starvation of Etwariya Devi, a 67-year-old widow from the rural Indian state of Jharkhand, might have passed without notice had it not been part of a more widespread trend. | Like 1.3 billion of her fellow Indians, Devi had been pushed to enroll in a biometric digital ID system called Aadhaar in order to access pub…
(2021-10-23). Amazon and Google: Partners in Israeli Apartheid. dissidentvoice.org The best-selling Irish novelist Sally Rooney is openly shunning Israel after recent reports from human rights groups warned that Israel practices apartheid, systematically oppressing Palestinians under its rule. But while Israel risks becoming a pariah among some cultural producers, it is being aggressively embraced by globe-spanning corporations like Amazon and Google — among the wealthiest …
(2021-10-23). The Virtues of a 28-hour Week: Work less, pollute less. indybay.org The number of workers is growing faster than the amount of work available. We live in a society where work is poorly distributed. Three days off for every four days worked could be liberating. The goal would be increased well-being, gaining time and losing a kind of consumption not really synonymous with pleasure & happiness.
(2021-10-23). Biden Demands Ethiopia's Unconditional Surrender. popularresistance.org Under his leadership, the US has been at war with Ethiopia since last November, when its former puppet, the Tigray People's Liberation Front, attacked a federal Ethiopian army base in Mekelle, the capital of the country's Tigray Region. Tigrayans are only 6% of Ethiopia's population, but the TPLF ruled the whole nation with an iron fist from 1991 to 2018, when popular uprisings forced them from power. | This is hybrid warfare, which may include official censure, mass media disinformation campaigns, sanctions, financial strangulation by the IMF and World Bank, proxy war, special military operations, covert operati…
(2021-10-23). 'What am I Doing Here?' :Joe Biden's Baltimore CNN Town Hall Appearance Stirs Social Media Reactions. sputniknews.com US President Joe Biden spent most of the 90-minute town hall meeting hosted by CNN on Thursday addressing domestic issues – from tax policy to talks about infrastructure and spending legislation.
(2021-10-23). Cuba now part of China's 'Belt and Road Energy' alliance. mronline.org 
Cuba joined the Alliance for Energy of the Chinese Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), a project to build an international mega-platform for cooperation and exchange under the principle of shared profit.
(2021-10-23). Gravy train: Corporate profiteering on national defense. zcomm.org War in the Middle East since 1990 has cost the US roughly $7 trillion. Yet the United States evidently can't afford a $3.5 trillion bill for the well-being of all its citizens—a real national security bill…
(2021-10-23). [World Report] African Medicines Agency to be established. thelancet.com Experts are hopeful that a new continent-wide agency will strengthen regulation, improve access to medicines, and boost manufacturing. Munyaradzi Makoni reports.
(2021-10-23). Is learning about Marxism that important? And other questions about wtf were "supposed to be" doing. anchor.fm I start off this episode by discussing why and how I came to Marxism/communism, and I also discussed the importance of studying. Concrete analysis of concrete conditions is the only practical way to actually establishing a correct line and coming up with correct strategies and tactics. We have plenty of history to learn from, why do we refuse to learn it? Then I go into a discussion about how we should use this knowledge, while learning is important to doing. Praxis, or theory in action, is the most important part to a true Proletarian movement and revolution. Our actions cannot be misguided, our ideology should…
(2021-10-23). Multimillionaire counterrevolutionary: Mark R. Levin's new book 'American Marxism'. mronline.org 
Every thuggish movement needs its cover of respectability and even scholarly, theoretical pillars.
(2021-10-23). Russia's Massive Belgorod Nuclear-Powered Submarine To Finalize Sea Trials. southfront.org 
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(2021-10-23). Far-right strike in Bolivia once again a flop. peoplesdispatch.org Days before the strike, trade unions across the country announced that they wouldn't abide by the call, citing that the strike was politically motivated and sought destabilization of the ruling socialist government of President Luis Arce…
(2021-10-23). 'March Of Millions' In Sudan Revives Spirit Of December Revolution. popularresistance.org Demanding a full transfer of state power from military to civilian authority, millions of pro-democracy protesters took to the streets in a show of force in cities and towns across Sudan on Thursday, October 21. | "The rallies and marches went on for kilometers long," said Osman Saeed Abu Kumbal, a member of the Sudanese Communist Party (SCP) who took part in the protest in Omdurman, the twin city of capital Khartoum. | Some protesters in Omdurman were injured when the riot police intermittently fired rubber bullets and even live ammunition as the rally marched towards the parliament building, which has remained…