Peoples Dispatch (2021-11-30). Historic win of Xiomara Castro ends 12 years of far-right rule in Honduras. peoplesdispatch.org Castro's victory, with an historic turnout of over 68%, would end a dozen years of conservative and neoliberal rule. She has called for a government of reconciliation, peace and justice…

teleSUR (2021-11-30). Omicron COVID-19 Variant Poses Downside Risks To US Economy. telesurenglish.net On Monday afternoon, Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell said that the recent rise in COVID-19 cases and the emergence of the Omicron variant pose downside risks to U.S. employment and economic activity and increased uncertainty for inflation. | RELATED: | "Greater concerns about the virus could reduce people's willingness to work in person, which would slow progress in the labor market and intensify supply-chain disrup…

WSWS (2021-11-30). Markets bounce back after Omicron shock as governments decide to let it rip. wsws.org Notwithstanding the rebound, Friday's sharp fall again underscored the fragility of the entire financial system and its dependence on the flow of cheap money from the world's central banks.

TJ Coles (2021-11-30). Backed by AFRICOM, corporations plunder DR Congo for "climate-friendly" materials and blame China. thegrayzone.com Cobalt, a key metallic element used in lithium batteries and other "green" technology, is sourced from slave labor in the Democratic Republic of Congo. As the West points the finger at China, the US Africa Command is indirectly policing mining operations that profit US corporations. Ever since Belgium's King Leopold II (1835-1909) established the Congo Free State in 1885, international powers have exploited the region's vast resources. Leading a regime that went on to kill an estimated eight million people …

WSWS (2021-11-30). What is the Kaiser Permanente Labor Management Partnership? wsws.org To understand the battle Kaiser workers face against both the company and the unions, it is necessary to review briefly the evolution of this incestous relationship.

Tom Engelhardt (2021-11-30). Tomgram: Rebecca Gordon, Why Do We Need a 24/7 Economy? warisacrime.org This article originally appeared at TomDispatch.com. To receive TomDispatch in your inbox three times a week, click here. When it came to work and the pandemic, you could say that I led the way. By the time it struck, I had left my job as an editor in publishing and had been working at home for …

Editor2 (2021-11-30). North Korea: Beyond US Propaganda. orinocotribune.com By Charles McKelvey — Nov 26, 2021 | The DPRK's struggle for independence and unification | The International Manifesto Group sponsored on November 21 a Webinar on the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, seeking to look beyond the Western stereotypes of the East Asian nation as totalitarian, economically bankrupt, and a threat to world peace. | The International Manifesto Group, panelist Derek Ford observed, is indicative of a trend in the academic left, which he characterized as the emergence of "anti-Marxist Marxists." He noted that when neoliberalism emerged, Marxists and other leftists looked at neoli…

WSWS (2021-11-30). Biden's message to Wall Street: Mass death will not interfere with corporate profits. wsws.org In his statement Monday, the US president delivered a message to the financial markets that nothing will stand in the way of boosting the profits and wealth of the super-rich.

WSWS (2021-11-30). Tennessee governor enacts reactionary legislation aimed at forcing the population to "live with the virus" wsws.org Republican Governor Bill Lee signed a bill earlier this month which bans mask mandates and provides unemployment benefits to those refusing employer-mandated vaccination against COVID-19.

Matt Sedlar (2021-11-30). The IMF and Special Drawing Rights: Saving Lives, Backlash and Attempted Coup, and Structural Reform. cepr.net This was a speech delivered at the Arise Festival of Labour's Left Ideas on Saturday, November 17.

Jim McIlroy (2021-11-30). Vale Stuart Macintyre, historian of Australian communism. greenleft.org.au Stuart Macintyre was a major contributor to the history of Australian communism and played an important role in documenting the history of the left and labour movement, writes Jim McIlroy.

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2021-11-30). Libya: Where Fortune Favors the Corrupt Who Control Wealth and Arms. libya360.wordpress.com Protesters Gather in Sebha in Support of Saif Qaddafi, Demanding Free and Fair Elections and an Impartial Judiciary The electoral scene in Libya leaves no room for optimism for a better future in the foreseeable future. The main actors in the course of events are armed force on the ground, political money, and abuse of…

WSWS (2021-11-30). GMB union promotes below inflation pay deal ending Sheffield UK refuse workers dispute. wsws.org The sellout in Sheffield is in line with the GMB's role in curbing rising opposition across the UK among refuse workers.

WSWS (2021-11-30). Quebec government left seniors' homes unprotected at start of COVID-19 pandemic. wsws.org "It's not just science that decides," said Quebec's director of public health, Horacio Arruda, in defense of the government's policy of putting profits before human lives.

WSWS (2021-11-30). COVID-19 infects Sri Lankan schools: Stop sacrificing the lives of students and teachers! wsws.org The Rajapakse government rushed to reopen schools not out of concern for the education of children but to defend capitalist profits.

John Bellamy Foster (2021-11-30). 'Marxism, Ecology and the Climate Crisis' — John Bellamy Foster. mronline.org In the week before the COP26 international summit, John Bellamy Foster analyzed the climate emergency and how we can achieve climate justice.

WSWS (2021-11-30). Australia: NSW teachers to hold one-day strike on December 7. wsws.org The stoppage reflects widespread anger over soaring workloads, stagnant wages and the dangerous reopening of the schools, all of which have been enforced by the unions.

Greg Godels (2021-11-30). When Have We Seen This Before? dissidentvoice.org Fifty years ago, global capitalism came to a crossroads. The enormous costs of the US's long, costly Asian war produced great debt and pressure on the gold-backed US dollar. The imperialist alliance with Israel brought a disruptive, unprecedented boycott on the part of the oil-producing nations resisting Israel's occupation of Arab territories. Intense competition between …

Javier Tolcachier (2021-11-30). América Latina y el Caribe: Una lectura optimista entre olas y vendavales. globalizacion.ca La pandemia mundial profundizó las condiciones de precariedad de las mayorías, generadas por la financiarización capitalista y mostró cruelmente las carencias y desigualdades producidas por el orden neoliberal, atenuadas apenas en algunos lugares por sistemas sociales de contención de carácter…

Ashique Ali T (2021-11-30). The Indian Farmers' Movement Has Shattered Narendra Modi's Strongman Image. zcomm.org After a yearlong battle, Indian farmers have forced Narendra Modi to repeal his neoliberal farm laws. The movement that took on Modi and won is a powerful blow against India's ruling Hindu nationalists…

Peoples Dispatch (2021-11-30). Protests demanding affordable housing surge in the Netherlands. peoplesdispatch.org On Sunday, November 28, housing rights groups and other progressive sections in the Dutch city of Groningen marched under the banner #Woonstrijd to protest the acute housing crisis in the city. Various groups including Shelter Our Students (SOS), International Socialists Groningen, New Communist Party of the Netherlands (NCPN), Communist Youth Movement (CJB), RED Groningen, Young Socialists Groningen, Democratic Academy Groningen, Groningen Feminist Network, and others, participated in the march while adhering to COVID-19 safety protocols. The protesters demanded a radical housing policy from the authorities whic…

Marco Teruggi (2021-11-30). Chavismo Consolidates its Power in the Face of a Divided Opposition. orinocotribune.com By Marco Teruggi — Nov 23, 2021 | Chavismo won in last week's regional elections. This is demonstrated by the national political map which, in terms of governorships, now shows 20 states in the hands of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) and three in the hands of different opposition forces, an irreversible landscape with the exception of the state of Barinas, which, in the afternoon hours of Monday was still under final count. 20 state capitals also remained in the hands of Chavismo and, out of the total of 335 mayoralties at stake, the PSUV won in 205 of them, a figure still in the process of b…

Editor2 (2021-11-29). Xiomara Castro Leading by Wide Margin in Honduras Elections. orinocotribune.com After a historic voter turnout of 62%, and despite attempts by the right-wing National Party (PAN) to claim an early victory, democratic socialist candidate Xiomara Castro de Zelaya is leading by a nearly 20% margin in the country's presidential elections. | Leading ovr Nasry Asfura, current mayor of the capital city Tegucigulpa and PAN candidate, as well as Yani Rosenthal, candidate for the Liberal Party, Castro is on track to become the first woman president of the Central American nation, and the first leftist leader of the country since her husband Manuel 'Mel' Zelaya was ousted in a U.S.-backed coup in 2009.

WSWS (2021-11-29). Omicron detected in Australia as governments reject safety measures. wsws.org Australian governments, like their counterparts internationally, are insisting that the new variant must not disrupt the profit-driven drive to lift all safety restrictions.

teleSUR (2021-11-29). Travel Bans Due To Omicron To Affect South African Economy. telesurenglish.net On Sunday, Premier of Western Cape Alain Winde said that travel bans on South Africa due to the new Omicron coronavirus variant will be "devastating" for the provincial economy as the local government is seeking for a recovery on its key tourism sector from COVID-19 impact. | RELATED: | The economy of Western Cape, South Africa's popular tourism destination that hosts the legislative capital Cape Town, relies on in…

William Rivers Pitt (2021-11-29). Capitalism Must Not Dictate Our Response to Omicron Variant. truthout.org If you did yourself a weary solid and set the news aside for the long holiday weekend, like as not you've spent a portion of today doomscrolling through reports on the newest COVID-19 variant to rear its ugly head. | Omicron. The World Health Organization (WHO) just had to pick the scariest sounding name, didn't they. It seems like they tried to name this thing after one of the

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2021-11-29). On Omicron and Cuban Vaccines: What Big Pharma Doesn't Want You to Know. libya360.wordpress.com Mision Verdad All for profit, there is news that Big Pharma probably doesn't want you to know (Photo: Andrea Velázquez / El Ceo) Omicron (the Greek letter O) is the latest buzzword, and one that sounds both like an obituary and an apocalypse, which means more global panic in the midst of a pandemic that…

Chris Walker (2021-11-29). Medical Experts Decry Omicron Travel Bans That Unfairly Target African Countries. truthout.org As wealthy nations around the globe impose travel restrictions on southern African countries due to the emergence of the Omicron coronavirus variant, several health officials and government leaders have warned that such moves will do more harm than good. |

Isabella Arria (2021-11-29). Omicron, la variante de la COVID-19 que pone a temblar al mundo… y a los mercados. globalizacion.ca La confirmación de una nueva variante del coronavirus, bautizada como Omicron y detectada en Sudáfrica prendió todas las luces de alarma en el mundo, estremeció los mercados bursátiles y derrumbó los precios de las materias primas industriales, entre ellas el…

Staff (2021-11-29). Health Justice Advocates Say Vaccine Equity, Not "Racist" Travel Bans, Will Stop the Omicron Variant. democracynow.org We go to Cape Town, South Africa, to speak with a leading health justice advocate about how scientists in the country have identified a new Omicron coronavirus variant, and the World Health Organization warns it could be more transmissible than previous variants. Against the advice of the WHO, several countries have closed their borders to foreign travelers. South African President Cyril Ramaphosa criticized the travel bans and called on wealthy nations to help poorer nations gain greater access to COVID vaccines. The bans are "actually quite racist," says Fatima Hassan, founder and director of Health Justice Ini…

W. T. Whitney Jr. (2021-11-29). Communist playing a leading role in Spain's governing coalition. peoplesworld.org Spanish Communist Yolanda Díaz presently serves as minister of labor and social economy in the coalition government headed by Pablo Sanchez's Socialist Party (PSOE). It includes the United Podemos (UP) formation, with which Díaz's own Communist Party of Spain (PCE) is associated. (Podemos is "Yes, we can!) UP leader Pablo Iglesias in early 2021 resigned …

_____ (2021-11-29). As U.S. Retailers Struggle Against Smash-and-Grab Flash Mobs, Liberals Blame 'White Supremacy'. strategic-culture.org How looting and stealing could help a person "imagine a world that could be" it is difficult to imagine, but the left must do better than merely coddling and apologizing for the criminals in their midst. | Americans are facing a new type of crime wave that got its start in the mad liberal laboratory, where the utopian notion that going soft on criminals is going terribly awry. While threatening the traditional brick and mortar shopping experience with extinction, and making communities a living hell, the left needs to stop trying to reinvent the wheel. | Apparently unwilling to wait for Black Friday discounts, ro…

Kenny Stancil (2021-11-29). Global Black Friday Strikes and Protests Seek to #MakeAmazonPay. zcomm.org "We are workers and activists divided by geography and our role in the global economy but united in our commitment to Make Amazon Pay fair wages, its taxes, and for its impact on the planet."

_____ (2021-11-29). A Plan To Save The Planet. popularresistance.org Four and a half million people died infected by COVID-19. This global tragedy is the prism through which we must analyse how and in whose interest the ruling system on the planet works. | In the span of a few months, the pandemic compacted political, economic, and social phenomena, the consequences of which would take years to manifest in other circumstances. | Some of the issues that were clearly magnified through the lens of the pandemic are job insecurity, deficits in health systems, inequality, North-South relations, the United Nations' failure to coordinate a collective effort, the use of unilateral coercive…

_____ (2021-11-29). Nicaragua: We're Resisting A 'Pandemic Of Neo-Colonialism'. popularresistance.org This is Ben Norton with The Grayzone. I am in Nicaragua's Foreign Ministry, and I just sat down for an interview with Foreign Minister Denis Moncada. | We talked about Nicaragua's historic decision to leave the Organization of American States, and other regional issues here in Latin America. | And we discussed how Nicaragua is part of a movement of countries around the world that are trying to create a new political and economic architecture, resisting US unilateralism and sanctions. | Good morning, Foreign Minister Denis Moncada, thank you for the interview. | On November 19, you announced that Nicaragua is leav…

Morteza Ahmadi Al Hashem (2021-11-29). Iran lashes out at US economic terrorism on developing states. en.mehrnews.com Criticizing US economic terrorism on developing states, Deputy Speaker of Iran Parliament said that continued use of unilateral coercive actions, such as economic terrorism on developing countries, is a serious concern.

_____ (2021-11-29). Ukraine Is Not Russia. That Is for Sure, but How Do the Two Countries Compare? strategic-culture.org In 2003, the then Ukrainian president, Leonid Kuchma, authored a book titled "Ukraine Is Not Russia," formulating the basic principle of Ukrainian identity — being different from Russia. In the subsequent years, Ukrainian politicians continued to implement this principle, which culminated in the installment of a radically pro-Western and anti-Russian government on the back of a Western-supported coup in 2014 The new government promised to bring Ukraine closer to Europe, however, eight years later the nation ranks as the second poorest European country amid deindustrialization and depopulation. In economic t…

_____ (2021-11-29). Factory Workers Strike Against Poverty Pay And Abuse By Management. popularresistance.org Santa Fe Springs, California – In Santa Fe Springs, California, located in the Los Angeles area, a group of largely immigrant Latina factory workers is waging a high-stakes strike against the multibillion-dollar food manufacturing company Rich Products. Since November 3, the group of well over 100 strikers has been on the picket line at the Rich Products-owned Jon Donaire Desserts plant, demanding better wages, improved retirement benefits, and changes to the company's abusive, punitive point system, which provides workers with only three days of sick leave per year. | The striking workers are members of Local 37…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2021-11-29). Burkina Faso: Speculations on Terror. libya360.wordpress.com Guadi Calvo Today Burkina Faso, among the five poorest countries in the world, with almost eleven million of its twenty million inhabitants living below the poverty line, finds itself in the midst of a tide of popular demonstrations, given the failure of the security policies pursued by President Roch Kaboré, re-elected last year for another…

WSWS (2021-11-29). New Zealand Labour-led government continues attacks on immigrants. wsws.org The NZ Labour-Green Party government's record demonstrates that it has no concern for the rights of migrant workers, but the same is true for all the establishment parties.

Igor Derysh (2021-11-29). GOP That Backed Trump Tax Cuts Now Accuse Democrats of Slashing Taxes for Rich. truthout.org Congressional Republicans who backed the 2017 Trump tax cuts for the rich are already attacking Democrats over one provision in a bill that, in most respects, will raise taxes on the wealthy. | A group of Democrats from high-tax states, led by

Yves Engler (2021-11-29). South Africa Puts Canada to Shame Regarding Palestine. dissidentvoice.org Like Canada, South Africa is a former British colony and settler state. But the divide between these two countries regarding the world's most aggressive ongoing European colonialism is stark. While Pretoria assists Palestinians by advocating the boycott of a cultural event, Canadians subsidize huge private donations to a wealthy apartheid state. On November 13 the …

Igor Derysh (2021-11-29). Republicans Who Backed Trump Tax Cuts Now Accuse Dems of Slashing Taxes for Rich. truthout.org Congressional Republicans who backed the 2017 Trump tax cuts for the rich are already attacking Democrats over one provision in a bill that, in most respects, will raise taxes on the wealthy. | A group of Democrats from high-tax states, led by

Kevin Mwanza (2021-11-29). What's Wrong With Cardano? eToro To Delist ADA, TRX For US Users Over Regulatory Concerns. moguldom.com Crypto market watchers' jaws dropped after Israel-based online trading platform eToro announced on Nov. 23 it intends to delist cryptocurrencies Cardano (ADA) and Tron (TRX) for U.S. users following a regulatory clampdown by market authorities. The announcement sent ADA and TRX prices lower. Stateside users will not be able to open new ADA or TRX …

Moderator (2021-11-29). Don't Believe Everything You're Hearing About Inflation. scheerpost.com [ By Many Americans are noticing the rising price of goods from sour cream to carburetors as politicians sound the alarm on an inflation crisis. | You may be wondering what single force would cause the cost of a dairy product to go up at the same time as the cost of a car part. The truth is that not all inflation is the sam…

_____ (2021-11-29). Community Owned Real Estate. popularresistance.org In this episode, I speak with executive director Noni Session about how EB PREC is garnering support to shift real estate ownership from extractive developers into the hands of the BIPOC community in Oakland and the East Bay. She shares the difference between a permanent real estate co-op and land trust, ancestral remembrance of cooperative ownership, how they got the first group of people to invest, their governance structure and multi-stakeholder model, prioritizing inclusivity and accessibility to individual investors, transparency of investment risks and how they mitigate it, and their exciting new venture -…

_____ (2021-11-29). Washington Mental Health Workers Win Safety Strike. popularresistance.org When a patient attacked staff at for-profit Cascade Behavioral Health Center on August 1, injuring 11, it was the last straw for many. Staffers started calling out of work en masse, demanding that Cascade hire four security guards 24/7. | Cascade quickly responded by charging the workers and their union, Service Employees (SEIU) Healthcare 1199NW, with an illegal wildcat strike, since the union hadn't given the required 10-day notice. It sent termination letters to a couple dozen strikers. | The union's legal team responded that the nurses and techs were on a safety strike—a job action reserved for workers…

Kevin Mwanza (2021-11-29). Large Shiba Meme Wallets Dump On Retail Investors, Take Profits. moguldom.com Shiba Inu, the popular meme coin named after a dog that was launched slightly more than a year ago, dropped more than half of its value on Nov. 24 after hitting an all-time-high on Oct. 27, then surged higher today, Nov. 29, on speculation that it may be playing a role in the metaverse. Analysts …

Bernadette Smith (2021-11-29). The hidden cost of council amalgamation: a diversity perspective. greenleft.org.au Without sufficient regulations, independent oversight or practical compliance measures to protect people's rights and safety, the elderly and disabled are in danger of being injured or forced out of overcrowded, outsourced council-owned facilities. Bernadette Smith reports.

Editor (2021-11-29). The base-superstructure: a model for analysis and action. mronline.org Although Marx himself only mentioned the "base" and "superstructure" in (by my count) two of his works, the base-superstructure "problem" remains a source of serious contention for Marxists, our sympathizers, and our critics.

Editor2 (2021-11-29). Xiomara Castro Leading by Wide Margin in Honduras Elections. orinocotribune.com After a historic voter turnout of 62%, and despite attempts by the right-wing National Party (PAN) to claim an early victory, democratic socialist candidate Xiomara Castro de Zelaya is leading by a nearly 20% margin in the country's presidential elections. | Leading ovr Nasry Asfura, current mayor of the capital city Tegucigulpa and PAN candidate, as well as Yani Rosenthal, candidate for the Liberal Party, Castro is on track to become the first woman president of the Central American nation, and the first leftist leader of the country since her husband Manuel 'Mel' Zelaya was ousted in a U.S.-backed coup in 2009.

WSWS (2021-11-29). Omicron detected in Australia as governments reject safety measures. wsws.org Australian governments, like their counterparts internationally, are insisting that the new variant must not disrupt the profit-driven drive to lift all safety restrictions.

Staff (2021-11-29). Health Justice Advocates Say Vaccine Equity, Not "Racist" Travel Bans, Will Stop the Omicron Variant. democracynow.org We go to Cape Town, South Africa, to speak with a leading health justice advocate about how scientists in the country have identified a new Omicron coronavirus variant, and the World Health Organization warns it could be more transmissible than previous variants. Against the advice of the WHO, several countries have closed their borders to foreign travelers. South African President Cyril Ramaphosa criticized the travel bans and called on wealthy nations to help poorer nations gain greater access to COVID vaccines. The bans are "actually quite racist," says Fatima Hassan, founder and director of Health Justice Ini…

teleSUR (2021-11-29). Travel Bans Due To Omicron To Affect South African Economy. telesurenglish.net On Sunday, Premier of Western Cape Alain Winde said that travel bans on South Africa due to the new Omicron coronavirus variant will be "devastating" for the provincial economy as the local government is seeking for a recovery on its key tourism sector from COVID-19 impact. | RELATED: | The economy of Western Cape, South Africa's popular tourism destination that hosts the legislative capital Cape Town, relies on in…

W. T. Whitney Jr. (2021-11-29). Communist playing a leading role in Spain's governing coalition. peoplesworld.org Spanish Communist Yolanda Díaz presently serves as minister of labor and social economy in the coalition government headed by Pablo Sanchez's Socialist Party (PSOE). It includes the United Podemos (UP) formation, with which Díaz's own Communist Party of Spain (PCE) is associated. (Podemos is "Yes, we can!) UP leader Pablo Iglesias in early 2021 resigned …

_____ (2021-11-29). As U.S. Retailers Struggle Against Smash-and-Grab Flash Mobs, Liberals Blame 'White Supremacy'. strategic-culture.org How looting and stealing could help a person "imagine a world that could be" it is difficult to imagine, but the left must do better than merely coddling and apologizing for the criminals in their midst. | Americans are facing a new type of crime wave that got its start in the mad liberal laboratory, where the utopian notion that going soft on criminals is going terribly awry. While threatening the traditional brick and mortar shopping experience with extinction, and making communities a living hell, the left needs to stop trying to reinvent the wheel. | Apparently unwilling to wait for Black Friday discounts, ro…

Kenny Stancil (2021-11-29). Global Black Friday Strikes and Protests Seek to #MakeAmazonPay. zcomm.org "We are workers and activists divided by geography and our role in the global economy but united in our commitment to Make Amazon Pay fair wages, its taxes, and for its impact on the planet."

Elliott Wallace (2021-11-29). Multiple factors cause strain to Mexico's auto industry. america.cgtn.com Mexico is struggling to close the year with signs of economic recovery.

_____ (2021-11-29). Ukraine Is Not Russia. That Is for Sure, but How Do the Two Countries Compare? strategic-culture.org In 2003, the then Ukrainian president, Leonid Kuchma, authored a book titled "Ukraine Is Not Russia," formulating the basic principle of Ukrainian identity — being different from Russia. In the subsequent years, Ukrainian politicians continued to implement this principle, which culminated in the installment of a radically pro-Western and anti-Russian government on the back of a Western-supported coup in 2014 The new government promised to bring Ukraine closer to Europe, however, eight years later the nation ranks as the second poorest European country amid deindustrialization and depopulation. In economic t…

Morteza Ahmadi Al Hashem (2021-11-29). Iran lashes out at US economic terrorism on developing states. en.mehrnews.com Criticizing US economic terrorism on developing states, Deputy Speaker of Iran Parliament said that continued use of unilateral coercive actions, such as economic terrorism on developing countries, is a serious concern.

ecns.cn (2021-11-29). Xi says China will work with African countries on poverty alleviation, agriculture. ecns.cn Chinese President Xi Jinping on Monday pledged to carry out 10 projects on poverty alleviation and agriculture, and send 500 agricultural experts to aid Africa."ÄÄ"ÄÄ…

WSWS (2021-11-29). New Zealand Labour-led government continues attacks on immigrants. wsws.org The NZ Labour-Green Party government's record demonstrates that it has no concern for the rights of migrant workers, but the same is true for all the establishment parties.

Yves Engler (2021-11-29). South Africa puts Canada to shame regarding Palestine. dissidentvoice.org Like Canada, South Africa is a former British colony and settler state. But the divide between these two countries regarding the world's most aggressive ongoing European colonialism is stark. While Pretoria assists Palestinians by advocating the boycott of a cultural event, Canadians subsidize huge private donations to a wealthy apartheid state. On November 13 the …

Moderator (2021-11-29). Don't Believe Everything You're Hearing About Inflation. scheerpost.com [ By Many Americans are noticing the rising price of goods from sour cream to carburetors as politicians sound the alarm on an inflation crisis. | You may be wondering what single force would cause the cost of a dairy product to go up at the same time as the cost of a car part. The truth is that not all inflation is the sam…

Bernadette Smith (2021-11-29). The hidden cost of council amalgamation: a diversity perspective. greenleft.org.au Without sufficient regulations, independent oversight or practical compliance measures to protect people's rights and safety, the elderly and disabled are in danger of being injured or forced out of overcrowded, outsourced council-owned facilities. Bernadette Smith reports.

Editor (2021-11-29). The base-superstructure: a model for analysis and action. mronline.org Although Marx himself only mentioned the "base" and "superstructure" in (by my count) two of his works, the base-superstructure "problem" remains a source of serious contention for Marxists, our sympathizers, and our critics.

Barry Healy (2021-11-29). Video: Jeff Sparrow discusses 'Crimes Against Nature: Capitalism and Global Heating'. greenleft.org.au Jeff Sparrow sits down with Green Left to speak about his new book Crimes Against Nature: Capitalism and Global Heating.

Lisa Song (2021-11-29). They knew industrial pollution was ruining the neighborhood's air. If only regulators had listened. nationofchange.org Barbara Weckesser and her neighbors told regulators that air pollution was making them sick. The law let them ignore her.

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2021-11-29). Latin America: Why the Elections in Chile, Brazil and Colombia are Crucial. libya360.wordpress.com Emir Sader Latin America has become the epicenter of the greatest political struggles of the 21st century because it was the epicenter of neoliberalism in the world. It was the region with the most neoliberal and radical governments. Therefore, it became the region where the anti-neoliberal governments developed, thus becoming the fundamental scenario of the…

Ana Perdigón (2021-11-29). Diosdado Cabello: 21N Elections Showed that Chavismo Remains Solid & United. orinocotribune.com On Sunday, November 28, the First Vice President of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV), Diosdado Cabello, stated that the November 21 elections demonstrated that Chavismo remains solid and united, while the opposition remains divided in the short and long term. | Cabello made the comments during an interview on the program Aqui Con Ernesto Villegas. "The victory of the 21N elections was whole, absolute, unquestionable, and indisputable, based on a strategy defined by the high command of the Revolution and President Nicolás Maduro," said Cabello. | The parliamentarian noted that without the excellent s…

Sivarajan Arumugam (2021-11-29). Video: How would socialists in government have handled the pandemic. greenleft.org.au Malaysian Socialist Party secretary general Sivarajan Arumugam addresses the question of how socialists in government would have handled the pandemic at the #Socialism2021 conference.

Ian Goodrum (2021-11-29). How U.S. media got China's history resolution — and everything else — wrong. peoplesworld.org Even before the sixth plenary session of the Communist Party of China's 19th Central Committee had begun, media outlets in the U.S. had their takes at the ready. Headlines blared with pronouncements about the historical resolution that would be discussed at the session. This, they declared, would be the moment in which President Xi Jinping …

Manlio Dinucci (2021-11-28). America's New Nuclear Bomb Is Ready: The B61-12 has a Nuclear Warhead with 4 "Selectable Power Options" globalresearch.ca First published on December 3, 2020 A video was released on November 23 2020 by Sandia National Laboratories that shows a US F-35A fighter flying at supersonic speed 3000 meters above sea level, launching a B61-12 nuclear bomb (non-nuclear …

Sara Luterman (2021-11-28). Disability Advocates Give Tepid Welcome to Build Back Better's Home Care Funding. truthout.org Originally published by Disability and labor advocates cheered when President Joe Biden's Build Back Better agenda passed in the House of Representatives last week. The American Association of People with Disabilities praised the $150 billion investment in home care as "historic," noting it is "the single biggest investment in the program's history." But privately, advocates are worried that the investment…

_____ (2021-11-28). Tech Workers, Bigger Than Big Tech. popularresistance.org Tech companies are the new empires of today: Alphabet annual revenue surpassed Hungary's GDP, Facebook employs over 15000 content moderators around the world, and Microsoft has built datavcenters in nearly every corner of our planet. Yet we continue to be sold the myth that the workers of the tech industry, which spans every corner of the globe, have nothing to do with each other. | To hold these tech companies accountable, tech workers in the United States have begun to organize. "Help us be Alphabet's conscience", proclaimed the recently-formed Alphabet Workers Union, a minority union composed of full-time empl…

_____ (2021-11-28). Black Radical Internationalist Traditions. popularresistance.org In the 1950's and 1960's, it became a juxtaposition of highly educated workers for the most advanced productive forces on the planet, but developed within the unresolved, deeply violent, four hundred year-long colonial and racist architecture of the US. It was externally influenced by the period of the explosion of national liberation socialism that began with the Chinese revolution and was punctuated by the defeat of the US empire by the Korean and Chinese revolutions and at great costs to their peoples. The 1950s were capped off by the historic 1959 victory in Cuba, whose significance reverberates to this day i…

Prof Denis Rancourt (2021-11-28). Nature of the COVID Era Public Health Disaster in the USA: From All-cause Mortality and Socio-geo-economic and Climatic Data. globalresearch.ca

Staff (2021-11-28). Taliban leader pleads for help in first address. rt.com The leader of the Taliban has delivered his first televised address since the group took power in Afghanistan in mid-August. He vowed not to interfere in other countries, and asked for international aid. | "We assure all the countries that we will not interfere in their internal affairs and we want to have good economic relations with them," Mullah Mohammad Hassan Akhund, the co-founder of the Taliban and now the prime minister of its government, promised on Saturday. | Read more | | During his 30-mi…

Colin Todhunter (2021-11-28). Dystopian "Great Reset": "Own Nothing and Be Happy", Being Human in 2030. globalresearch.ca With foresight, this incisive article by Colin Todhunter was published by Global Research on November 9, 2020 The World Economic Forum's (WEF) annual meeting at the end of January in Davos, Switzerland, brings together international business and political leaders, …

Diana Johnstone (2021-11-28). The "Great Reset" or the "Great Pretext" … for Dystopia. globalresearch.ca First published by Consortium News, posted on Global Research on December 9, 2020 In their World Economic Forum treatise Covid-19: The Great Reset, economists Klaus Schwab and Thierry Malleret bring us the voice of would-be Global Governance. | By titling …

Elaine Meyer (2021-11-28). Generation Z Is Forging Healthy Social Media Practices for the Benefit of All. truthout.org As a seventh grader, Emma Lembke was one of the last in her friend group in Birmingham, Alabama, to get on social media. When she did, she says she soon found herself addicted, spending five hours a day on the apps, mostly Instagram. | "At an important developmental period in my life as a young female, as a young kid, in middle school, [I got] wound up in this world of likes, comments, very deeply quantifiable measures of my value, addictive algorithms, and the endless scroll," she says. | W…

teleSUR, jl, SH (2021-11-28). Legado y vigencia del pensamiento del alemán Friedrich Engels. telesurtv.net La amistad entre Karl Marx y Engels se vio plasmada en la realización y publicación de uno de los escrito más emblemático de la humanidad El Capital.

Stephanie Pavlick (2021-11-28). Pittsburgh medical workers fight for dignity and respect. zcomm.org The workers, who are facing poor conditions and low wages, are fighting again to unionize their workplace, after a defeated attempt a few years ago…

The Socialist Program (2021-11-28). U.S. Capitalism Born in Blood: From the First Thanksgiving to Today w/ Dr. Gerald Horne. liberationnews.org The genocidal expansion of colonialism across the continent led to unspeakable suffering and death for Indigenous peoples.

Editor2 (2021-11-28). The Libre Party Wants to Return Dignity to the People of San Pedro Sula. orinocotribune.com By Zoe Alexandra — Nov 27, 2021 | Omar Menjivar, the candidate for vice-mayor in the city of San Pedro Sula, discussed the proposal to transform the city and to prioritize the needs of those people who have been abandoned for years | San Pedro Sula is considered one of the most dangerous cities in the world. The industrial city of 719,000 on Honduras' northern coast has one of the highest homicide rates globally and large sections of the city are controlled by criminal groups such as Mara Salvatrucha-13 (MS-13), Mara 18, Los Olanchanos, and others. In addition to the rampant violence which often erupts over…

_____ (2021-11-28). Elections In Honduras: Ending Twelve Years Of Neoliberalism. popularresistance.org On November 28, more than 5 million Hondurans will be asked to elect the President of the Republic, 128 deputies to the National Congress, 20 to the Central American Parliament, 298 mayors and more than 2 thousand municipal councillors. | As the election date approaches, the political atmosphere has become polarized, conflict has intensified and social tension grown. | No one has forgotten the violent repression of 2017 against those who protested against the gross electoral fraud that prolonged the agony of the current government regime. At that time, more than thirty people lost their lives violently and these…

Joel Bleifuss (2021-11-28). Lost Jobs, Lost Democrats. zcomm.org Neoliberal Democrats are struggling to connect with working-class voters whose communities have lost manufacturing jobs…

_____ (2021-11-28). Venezuela's Socialists Win Elections In Landslide. popularresistance.org After years of boycotting previous votes, Venezuela's right-wing opposition parties agreed to participate in these elections, through a series of negotiations that were held in Mexico and sponsored by Norway and the Netherlands. | A delegation of US National Lawyers Guild members traveled to Venezuela to monitor the elections, visiting 12 voting sites in Caracas and other states. They reported, "We observed a balanced and transparent voting process which voters expressed confidence in." | "From a technical point of view, we observed an electoral system that was fundamentally transparent and facilitated by a workf…

Fight Back (2021-11-28). Read some Engels on Engels's 201 birthday. fightbacknews.org To mark the Nov. 28, 1820 birthday of the revolutionary Frederick Engels, Fight Back News Service is circulating one of his writings — On Authority. | On Authority | A number of Socialists have latterly launched a regular crusade against what they call the principle of authority. It suffices to tell them that this or that act is authoritarian for it to be condemned. This summary mode of procedure is being abused to such an extent that it has become necessary to look into the matter somewhat more closely. | Authority, in the sense in which the word is used here, means: the imposition of the will of another u…

teleSUR, jl, SH (2021-11-28). Legado y vigencia del pensamiento del alemán Friedrich Engels. telesurtv.net La amistad entre Karl Marx y Engels se vio plasmada en la realización y publicación de uno de los escrito más emblemático de la humanidad El Capital.

Fight Back (2021-11-28). Read some Engels on Engels's 201 birthday. fightbacknews.org To mark the Nov. 28, 1820 birthday of the revolutionary Frederick Engels, Fight Back News Service is circulating one of his writings — On Authority. | On Authority | A number of Socialists have latterly launched a regular crusade against what they call the principle of authority. It suffices to tell them that this or that act is authoritarian for it to be condemned. This summary mode of procedure is being abused to such an extent that it has become necessary to look into the matter somewhat more closely. | Authority, in the sense in which the word is used here, means: the imposition of the will of another u…

Richard Lane (2021-11-27). [Perspectives] Pascale Ondoa: strengthening laboratory medicine in Africa. thelancet.com "Our core aim is to build laboratory systems to address the health agenda as defined by Africa", says Pascale Ondoa, who for the past 5 years has been Director of Science and New Initiatives at the African Society for Laboratory Medicine (ASLM). Part of this role is to direct technical advice and provide leadership to help shape health strategy and laboratory medicine improvement at the country level. "A lot of our work involves the coordination of partners and experts, so that investments from agencies like PEPFAR, the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, the Fleming Fund, and others generate sub…

Fight Back (2021-11-27). People's Thanksgiving celebrates advances for labor, Black liberation movements. fightbacknews.org Chicago, IL – The 30th Annual People's Thanksgiving was held in Chicago on November 21, a fundraiser for Fight Back! and Freedom Road Socialist Organization in Chicago. More than 100 people attended, and the event raised over $4000. | The room in Teamsters City featured some of the most prominent leaders in the movements for Black liberation, Palestinian liberation, and the labor movement. | An historic event was marked when Juan Campos, a newly elected vice president of the Teamsters United slate, was given the Pete Camarata Award for class struggle unionism. Campos joins General President Sean O'Brien and Gener…

Rick Rozoff (2021-11-27). NATO builds Georgia's cyber warfare capacity. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com Estonia hosts the NATO Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence. Cyber security training for IT specialists was conducted at the Defense Institution Building School At the School of Defense Institution Building (DIBS), cyber security training was conducted in collaboration with the Cyber Security Bureau and the Estonian side…..The training was led by Estonian cyber experts …

WSWS (2021-11-27). Political turmoil in Australia underscores necessity for fight against anti-democratic new electoral laws. wsws.org The Morrison government is increasingly paralysed by internal revolts, but Labor's support remains at near-historic lows.

WSWS (2021-11-27). Sri Lanka: Katukelle Estate workers fight management attacks on wages and conditions. wsws.org Trade union collaboration with employers to impose harsh working conditions and attacks on workers' democratic rights has emboldened tea estate managers.

Dongsheng News (2021-11-27). News on China | No. 77. dissidentvoice.org In this week's News on China in 2 minutes: economic changes in China; increased share of the wealth pie garnered by the richest 10%; curbing groundwater exploitation; Chinese entertainment achieving international popularity.

Robert J. Burrowes (2021-11-27). Are We Human? Are We Free? Defeating the World Economic Forum's 'Great Reset' before It Destroys Us. globalresearch.ca Governments are not driving 'The Great Reset'; it is an initiative of the global elite and governments are simply elite puppets. | Resistance requires solidarity as well as strategically-focused grassroots actions directed against the financial elite's 'Great Reset' agenda.

Prof Michel Chossudovsky (2021-11-27). 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.

Philip Landrigan, Philippe Grandjean (2021-11-27). [Correspondence] Pollution and the developing brain. thelancet.com The Editorial about the social determinants of brain health1 does a superb job of pointing out the powerful association between social disadvantage—poverty, childhood adversity, and violence—and mental disorders. It argues cogently that there is need for psychopharmacologically oriented psychiatric practitioners to join forces with epidemiologists and sociologists to seek holistic approaches to the prevention and treatment of mental illness. Well said!

WSWS (2021-11-27). Australian businesses call for return of overseas workers and students to overcome hospitality "labour shortages" wsws.org What businesses really mean by "labour shortage" is a lack of workers prepared to work for poverty-level wages.

Alexander Milev (2021-11-27). Anti capitalistic currency. indybay.org A time based regional currency, that is issued by people themselves with the help of a software (in development). It is regional, imposes a limit on income and is still to be used worldwide.

Branko Marcetic (2021-11-27). Cuba's Vaccine Could End Up Saving Millions of Lives. zcomm.org Thanks to its public biotech sector and its government's deep commitment to public health, Cuba is now the only low-income country to have made its own COVID vaccine, and it's poised to help millions around the world…

M. Ables (2021-11-27). The Rise of Homelessness and the Decline of a Workforce. indybay.org Almost every business is hiring and workers are needed but the lack of affordable housing is decreasing. The wealth inequality gap is growing and homelessness is on the rise. There is a connection, so why isn't Sonoma County taking immediate action to do more for 2,600+ homeless individuals in need?>

Jallicia Jolly (2021-11-27). [Perspectives] A reproductive justice response to HIV/AIDS and COVID-19. thelancet.com Lana is a young Black woman living with HIV in Kingston, Jamaica. A mother of young children, she was concerned about what COVID-19 would mean for her pre-existing diagnosis. During the COVID-19 pandemic she has struggled to find psychosocial support groups, consistent access to antiretrovirals, and employment opportunities to maintain her health and support herself and her family. Pam, a middle-aged HIV-positive woman in Detroit, MI, USA, is a caregiver and local HIV organiser who provides emotional and social support to other newly diagnosed people.

_____ (2021-11-27). CAR is Fighting against Both the Domestic and Foreign Enemies. journal-neo.org For four centuries African nations suffered from the evils of the slave trade, until, in the mid-19th Century Europeans discontinued this commerce, no longer seeing it as profitable. But the decline of the slave trade saw the dawn of another terrible time for Africa — the colonial period. African warriors were unable to resist attacks …

Dave Holmes (2021-11-27). COVID-19 pandemic shines harsh light on privatisation & outsourcing. greenleft.org.au Australia's response to the COVID-19 pandemic has been shaped by the basic realities of contemporary capitalism and neoliberalism, argues Dave Holmes.

Party for Socialism & Liberation (2021-11-27). Wednesday 12/1: SF: Defend Roe v. Wade! National day of action. indybay.org Powell & Market St.

Party for Socialism & Liberation (2021-11-27). Wednesday 12/1: San Jose: Defend Roe v. Wade! National day of action. indybay.org San Jose City Hall…

Sonny Melencio (2021-11-27). Building a socialist-green-progressive electoral slate in the Phillipines. zcomm.org 'Fielding candidates for top posts is a bold and daring move for Left groups. It has never been done before.'

Sonny Melencio (2021-11-27). Philippines: Building a socialist-green-progressive electoral slate. greenleft.org.au The decision to field presidential and vice presidential candidates represents a bold — and unprecedented — move for the Philippines left. Sonny Melencio explains why the Partido Lakas ng Masa has taken this step.

Rick Rozoff (2021-11-27). NATO builds Georgia's cyber warfare capacity. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com Estonia hosts the NATO Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence. Cyber security training for IT specialists was conducted at the Defense Institution Building School At the School of Defense Institution Building (DIBS), cyber security training was conducted in collaboration with the Cyber Security Bureau and the Estonian side…..The training was led by Estonian cyber experts …

Richard Lane (2021-11-27). [Perspectives] Pascale Ondoa: strengthening laboratory medicine in Africa. thelancet.com "Our core aim is to build laboratory systems to address the health agenda as defined by Africa", says Pascale Ondoa, who for the past 5 years has been Director of Science and New Initiatives at the African Society for Laboratory Medicine (ASLM). Part of this role is to direct technical advice and provide leadership to help shape health strategy and laboratory medicine improvement at the country level. "A lot of our work involves the coordination of partners and experts, so that investments from agencies like PEPFAR, the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, the Fleming Fund, and others generate sub…

Fight Back (2021-11-27). People's Thanksgiving celebrates advances for labor, Black liberation movements. fightbacknews.org Chicago, IL – The 30th Annual People's Thanksgiving was held in Chicago on November 21, a fundraiser for Fight Back! and Freedom Road Socialist Organization in Chicago. More than 100 people attended, and the event raised over $4000. | The room in Teamsters City featured some of the most prominent leaders in the movements for Black liberation, Palestinian liberation, and the labor movement. | An historic event was marked when Juan Campos, a newly elected vice president of the Teamsters United slate, was given the Pete Camarata Award for class struggle unionism. Campos joins General President Sean O'Brien and Gener…

WSWS (2021-11-27). Political turmoil in Australia underscores necessity for fight against anti-democratic new electoral laws. wsws.org The Morrison government is increasingly paralysed by internal revolts, but Labor's support remains at near-historic lows.

WSWS (2021-11-27). Sri Lanka: Katukelle Estate workers fight management attacks on wages and conditions. wsws.org Trade union collaboration with employers to impose harsh working conditions and attacks on workers' democratic rights has emboldened tea estate managers.

Dongsheng News (2021-11-27). News on China | No. 77. dissidentvoice.org In this week's News on China in 2 minutes: economic changes in China; increased share of the wealth pie garnered by the richest 10%; curbing groundwater exploitation; Chinese entertainment achieving international popularity.

Robert J. Burrowes (2021-11-27). Are We Human? Are We Free? Defeating the World Economic Forum's 'Great Reset' before It Destroys Us. globalresearch.ca Governments are not driving 'The Great Reset'; it is an initiative of the global elite and governments are simply elite puppets. | Resistance requires solidarity as well as strategically-focused grassroots actions directed against the financial elite's 'Great Reset' agenda.

Prof Michel Chossudovsky (2021-11-27). 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.

WSWS (2021-11-27). Australian businesses call for return of overseas workers and students to overcome hospitality "labour shortages" wsws.org What businesses really mean by "labour shortage" is a lack of workers prepared to work for poverty-level wages.

Philip Landrigan, Philippe Grandjean (2021-11-27). [Correspondence] Pollution and the developing brain. thelancet.com The Editorial about the social determinants of brain health1 does a superb job of pointing out the powerful association between social disadvantage—poverty, childhood adversity, and violence—and mental disorders. It argues cogently that there is need for psychopharmacologically oriented psychiatric practitioners to join forces with epidemiologists and sociologists to seek holistic approaches to the prevention and treatment of mental illness. Well said!

Branko Marcetic (2021-11-27). Cuba's Vaccine Could End Up Saving Millions of Lives. zcomm.org Thanks to its public biotech sector and its government's deep commitment to public health, Cuba is now the only low-income country to have made its own COVID vaccine, and it's poised to help millions around the world…

Alexander Milev (2021-11-27). Anti capitalistic currency. indybay.org A time based regional currency, that is issued by people themselves with the help of a software (in development). It is regional, imposes a limit on income and is still to be used worldwide.

M. Ables (2021-11-27). The Rise of Homelessness and the Decline of a Workforce. indybay.org Almost every business is hiring and workers are needed but the lack of affordable housing is decreasing. The wealth inequality gap is growing and homelessness is on the rise. There is a connection, so why isn't Sonoma County taking immediate action to do more for 2,600+ homeless individuals in need?>

Jallicia Jolly (2021-11-27). [Perspectives] A reproductive justice response to HIV/AIDS and COVID-19. thelancet.com Lana is a young Black woman living with HIV in Kingston, Jamaica. A mother of young children, she was concerned about what COVID-19 would mean for her pre-existing diagnosis. During the COVID-19 pandemic she has struggled to find psychosocial support groups, consistent access to antiretrovirals, and employment opportunities to maintain her health and support herself and her family. Pam, a middle-aged HIV-positive woman in Detroit, MI, USA, is a caregiver and local HIV organiser who provides emotional and social support to other newly diagnosed people.

_____ (2021-11-27). CAR is Fighting against Both the Domestic and Foreign Enemies. journal-neo.org For four centuries African nations suffered from the evils of the slave trade, until, in the mid-19th Century Europeans discontinued this commerce, no longer seeing it as profitable. But the decline of the slave trade saw the dawn of another terrible time for Africa — the colonial period. African warriors were unable to resist attacks …

Dave Holmes (2021-11-27). COVID-19 pandemic shines harsh light on privatisation & outsourcing. greenleft.org.au Australia's response to the COVID-19 pandemic has been shaped by the basic realities of contemporary capitalism and neoliberalism, argues Dave Holmes.

Party for Socialism & Liberation (2021-11-27). Wednesday 12/1: San Jose: Defend Roe v. Wade! National day of action. indybay.org San Jose City Hall…

Sonny Melencio (2021-11-27). Building a socialist-green-progressive electoral slate in the Phillipines. zcomm.org 'Fielding candidates for top posts is a bold and daring move for Left groups. It has never been done before.'

Party for Socialism & Liberation (2021-11-27). Wednesday 12/1: SF: Defend Roe v. Wade! National day of action. indybay.org Powell & Market St.

Danny Shaw (2021-11-26). "Vladimir the Terrible" Fits the Needs of the U.S. Military-Industrial Complex for an "Evil Foreign Enemy"—But the Real Putin Is Well-Regarded by Many Russians for Standing Up to U.S. Imperialism and Reviving the Russian Economy. covertactionmagazine.com Putin is considered a threat because he restored Russian sovereignty, erased the humiliation of the Boris Yeltsin era, and championed …

Danny Shaw (2021-11-26). "Vladimir the Terrible" Fit the Needs of the U.S. Military-Industrial Complex for an "Evil Foreign Enemy"—But the Real Putin Is Well-Regarded by Many Russians for Standing Up to U.S. Imperialism and Reviving the Russian Economy. covertactionmagazine.com Putin is considered a threat because he restored Russian sovereignty, erased the humiliation of the Boris Yeltsin era, and championed …

teleSUR (2021-11-26). Giant March Supporting Arce Advances Through Bolivian Highlands. telesurenglish.net After leaving Patacamaya three days ago, the "March for the Homeland" has traveled 95 out of 200 kilometers needed to reach La Paz City, where it will express its support for President Luis Arce. | RELATED: | The Bolivian Labor Union (COB) and dozens of social organizations decided to mobilize their militants in defense of a democratically elected government, which is being threatened by the Santa Cruz Civic Committ…

teleSUR (2021-11-26). Bolivian Government Projects 5.1% Economic Growth for 2022. telesurenglish.net The government of Bolivian President Luis Arce presented on Thursday its general budget for 2022, whose goals contemplate a Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth of 5.1 percent. | At a press conference, the Minister of Economy and Public Finance, Marcelo Montenegro, indicated that the General State Budget (PGE) 2022, also provides for an increase in public investment by 25 percent for next year. | RELATED: | The Bolivian official indicat…

Juan Cole (2021-11-26). Germany to Get Green Party Ministry of Economy, Energy and Climate. zcomm.org These developments are excellent news for the Biden administration and its climate agenda…

_____ (2021-11-26). Jorge Arreaza On Venezuela Recovering From Sanctions In New Post-Petro Economic Plan. popularresistance.org UN Special Rapporteurs estimate that 100,000 people have died in Venezuela in the last decade because of the lack of medicine brought on by U.S. sanctions. Nearly 60% of those deaths took place under the Trump administration after Washington escalated its economic warfare on the Bolivarian state. During the Trump era, Jorge Arreaza served as Venezuela's foreign minister and spent years building diplomatic ties with other nations amid Washington's aggressive hybrid war.

_____ (2021-11-26). Jorge Arreaza On Venezuela Recovering From Sanctions. popularresistance.org UN Special Rapporteurs estimate that 100,000 people have died in Venezuela in the last decade because of the lack of medicine brought on by U.S. sanctions. Nearly 60% of those deaths took place under the Trump administration after Washington escalated its economic warfare on the Bolivarian state. During the Trump era, Jorge Arreaza served as Venezuela's foreign minister and spent years building diplomatic ties with other nations amid Washington's aggressive hybrid war. | "After 22 years of revolution, we have had to deal with President Clinton, President Bush, President Obama, President Trump, and President Biden…

Staff (2021-11-26). Washington Authorizes Chevron to Stay in Venezuela but Forces Competition Out. orinocotribune.com The United States Department of the Treasury extended the authorization period for Chevron to remain in Venezuela until June 1, 2022. The North American country authorized its own oil company Chevron, and the oil services companies Halliburton, Schlumberger Limited, Baker Hughes Holdings LLC, and Weatherford International Public Limited Company, to maintain their presence in Venezuela. However, when the illegal economic coercive measures were first issued, it forced European and Asian oil companies out of Venezuela. | "All transactions and activities prohibited by Executive Order 13850… that are normally necess…

teleSUR (2021-11-26). Cuba to Update Foreign Investment Policy. telesurenglish.net "On Saturday, the Council of Ministers will hold an extraordinary session to approve updating the policy," he said at the opening of the Cuba-Italy Business Forum in Havana. | RELATED: | Marrero reiterated that foreign investment "continues to be a fundamental component in the country's development, endorsed in the documents for updating Cuba's economic model." | "Cuba remains open to the world and to entrepreneurs willing to invest and do bu…

_____ (2021-11-26). Hold Fast Earthlings! The Elites Have Reissued the "Great Narrative" journal-neo.org The "Great Narrative" is at hand! The author of the "Great Reset", Klaus Schwab just launched another initiative at his World Economic Forum (WEF) in the UAE. And the world should be dully impressed, I am sure, but most people of earth will not be. WEF and most other institutions are walking a credibility tightrope …

teleSUR (2021-11-26). Venezuelan Indigenous Citizens To Elect 69 Councilors On Friday. telesurenglish.net On Friday, as part of the subnational electoral process, 4,334 Indigenous representatives will go to the polls to elect 69 councilors and 8 legislators for the states of Amazonas, Anzoategui, Apure, Bolivar, Delta Amacuro, Monagas, Sucre and Zulia. | RELATED: | "These elections reaffirm the active participation of Indigenous citizens in our country's political, economic, and social processes. The Venezuelan people ru…

_____ (2021-11-26). This Victory Gives Confidence for Future Struggles. popularresistance.org On 19 November 2021, a week before the first anniversary of the farmers' revolt, India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi surrendered. He accepted that the three laws on agricultural markets that had been pushed through the parliament in 2020 would be repealed. The farmers of India had won. The All India Kisan Sabha (AIKS), one of the organisers of the protest movement, celebrated the triumph and declared that 'this victory gives more confidence for future struggles'. Many pressing struggles remain, including the fight for a law to guarantee a minimum support price that is one and a half times the cost of production…

Dana Sanchez (2021-11-26). New Covid Variant Spooks Global Stock And Crypto Markets, Flights Banned Out Of South Africa. moguldom.com The discovery of a new, fast-spreading coronavirus variant from Botswana caused flights to be banned with just hours of warning to the U.K., Israel, and a growing number of European countries from South Africa and five other Southern African countries. Stock and crypto markets were hit hard on news of the travel restrictions, with Bitcoin's …

Prof. Anthony J. Hall (2021-11-26). "Herd Stupidity": The Manufactured Covid Crisis, the Gene-based mRNA "Vaccine" and "The Pinnacles of Wealth and Power" globalresearch.ca

Ann Brown (2021-11-26). Inflation Is Here: Dollar Tree Switches Up, Products Will Now Cost $1.25. moguldom.com Shoppers at Dollar Tree are in for sticker shock. Prices are no longer a dollar at the discount variety store and Fortune 500 company. The company, which operates 15,115 stores in the U.S. and Canada, has raised its prices 25 percent to $1.25 for most of its products. Inflation is here. The annual inflation rate …

teleSUR (2021-11-26). AMLO Ends Mining Concessions in Mexico: 'They Just Speculated'. telesurenglish.net "There will be no new mining concessions, many have already been granted," said the Mexican President, who asserted that the mining companies simply speculated in the financial market. | RELATED: | López Obrador asserted that the existing concessions will be respected; however, his government will not give any more, since many companies "cheated" and have not carried out their intended tasks. | "They did juicy b…

Domenica Ghanem (2021-11-26). Raising the Standard of Living for Everyone Could Offset the Pains of Inflation. truthout.org Many Americans are noticing the rising price of goods from sour cream to carburetors as politicians sound the alarm on an inflation crisis. | You may be wondering what single force would cause the cost of a dairy product to go up at the same time as the cost of a car part. The truth is that not all inflation is the same. Each sector has its own issues. | And none of it is solved by less government funding for our safety net, as some politicians have proposed. | Some of it is what we can ca…

WSWS (2021-11-26). Significant move by New Zealand central bank to lift interest rate. wsws.org With headline inflation in the US now running at more than 6 percent, and showing no signs of abating, the key question is when and by how much the Fed may start to move.

_____ (2021-11-26). Amazon Deals Take A Hit After Depots Disrupted On Black Friday. popularresistance.org The emissions created by Black Friday sales are "phenomenally' high". Research from money.co.uk has found that shoppers could emit over 386,243 tonnes of carbon emissions in 2021. | That is the equivalent of 215,778 return flights between London and Sydney, and the same weight as 3,679 blue whales. | In the UK, activists from across the country are taking part, with 13 blockades in Doncaster, Darlington, Newcastle, Manchester, Peterborough, Derby, Coventry, Rugeley, Dartford, Bristol, Tilbury, Milton Keynes and Dunfermline. | These sites account for just over 50 per cent of Amazon deliveries in the UK. | The aim…

_____ (2021-11-26). Amazon Deals To Take A Hit After Extinction Rebellion Disrupts Depots On Black Friday. popularresistance.org A total of 15 Amazon fulfilment centres in the UK, Germany and the Netherlands have been blocked by Extinction Rebellion ahead of major global discount day, Black Friday. In the UK, activists from across the country are taking part, with 13 blockades in Doncaster, Darlington, Newcastle, Manchester, Peterborough, Derby, Coventry, Rugeley, Dartford, Bristol, Tilbury, Milton Keynes and Dunfermline. These sites account for just over 50 per cent of Amazon deliveries in the UK.

Staff (2021-11-26). Give Covid-recovered same rights as vaccinated — Sputnik V distributor. rt.com People who have high levels of antibodies after recovering from Covid should have the same rights as those fully vaccinated, and the same indicator should apply to vaccines, the head of the fund backing Russia's Sputnik V told RT. | "The world needs to come to an understanding that it's not about vaccine brands — it's about the level of antibodies" a person has, Kirill Dmitriev, the head of the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF), which bankrolled the development of Sputnik V vaccine and now oversees its distribution, told RT on Friday. | The international restrictions, based on the approval of specific…

WSWS (2021-11-26). Ambulances called nearly 1,000 times to Amazon's UK warehouses. wsws.org Amazon's Black Friday profits will not be jeopardised by the #MakeAmazonPay coalition, whose top-down protests are aimed at suppressing a worldwide rebellion by workers against social inequality and capitalist exploitation.

WSWS (2021-11-26). UK: B&Q warehouse workers in east Midlands to take strike action against low pay. wsws.org Warehouse workers at the B&Q distribution centre in Worksop in the east Midlands are due to begin industrial action for a pay increase from November 28. The workers are employed directly by logistics firm Wincanton Ltd.

Staff (2021-11-26). Sanctions on Venezuela to Blame for US Purchasing More Fuel from Russia. orinocotribune.com While Washington urges its European allies to reduce their dependence on Russian energy resources and imposes sanctions on the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline, the US itself urges Russia to supply it with more fuel, and even made its largest diesel purchase in three years. Experts on the subject explain why this trend is happening. | Four Russian tankers with a total of two million barrels of diesel fuel made from natural gas left for the United States to help mitigate the energy crisis in the North American country. This represents the highest purchase of this type since 2018, reported the Bloomberg agency, citing re…

José Manuel Blanco Diaz (2021-11-26). Diosdado Cabello Issues Warning to EU and Elected Opposition Mayors. orinocotribune.com When evaluating the report on Venezuela's mega-elections presented by the Election Observation Commission of the European Union, Venezuelan deputy Diosdado Cabello noted that the opinion of Isabel Santos contrasts with that of all the other international organizations that served as observers in Venezuela's latest elections. | Cabello, the first vice president of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV), made the comments during his television program Con El Mazo Dando, where he also warned opposition leaders who were elected as governors and mayors, that they must abide by the law. | "Guess which was the o…

Staff (2021-11-26). 21N Regional Elections: Causes Behind Delay in Barinas State Results — CNE Headquarter to Take Charge. orinocotribune.com Five days after the celebration of the regional and local mega-elections of November 21 in Venezuela, tension remains amongst sectors of the right in Barinas state that insist on questioning the results and proclaiming the candidate Freddy Superlano as the winner and refusing to recognize the candidate of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV), and current governor, Argenis Chávez. | In this sense, spokespersons for both the electoral body, and the political groups involved, have stated that the Democratic Unit Roundtable requested a 100% recount of the ballots and election records, which in turn has dela…

Staff (2021-11-26). Diosdado Regrets Machista Comments Made by Re-elected PSUV Mayor of Sucre. orinocotribune.com The first vice president of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV), Diosdado Cabello, referred this Wednesday, November 24, to a video that recently circulated on social media platforms, in which the PSUV's recently re-elected mayor of the Sucre municipality in Miranda state, José Vicente Rangel àÅvalos, made machista comments towards women. Rangel àÅvalos subsequently assumed responsibility for his comments, and "clarified" in an apology letter that the statements were made in a "jocular" space among his work team, and were taken out of context. | To be more precise, Mayor Rangel àÅvalo…

Hadas Thier (2021-11-26). No, DSA Shouldn't Expel Rep. Jamaal Bowman. zcomm.org New York congressperson Jamaal Bowman has made a number of wrong decisions on Israel-Palestine. But socialists should criticize those errors without driving him away from the Palestine liberation movement and the Left…

Danny Shaw (2021-11-26). "Vladimir the Terrible" Fit the Needs of the U.S. Military-Industrial Complex for an "Evil Foreign Enemy"—But the Real Putin Is Well-Regarded by Many Russians for Standing Up to U.S. Imperialism and Reviving the Russian Economy. covertactionmagazine.com Putin is considered a threat because he restored Russian sovereignty, erased the humiliation of the Boris Yeltsin era, and championed …

Juan Cole (2021-11-26). Germany to Get Green Party Ministry of Economy, Energy and Climate. zcomm.org These developments are excellent news for the Biden administration and its climate agenda…

WSWS (2021-11-26). Significant move by New Zealand central bank to lift interest rate. wsws.org With headline inflation in the US now running at more than 6 percent, and showing no signs of abating, the key question is when and by how much the Fed may start to move.

WSWS (2021-11-26). Ambulances called nearly 1,000 times to Amazon's UK warehouses. wsws.org Amazon's Black Friday profits will not be jeopardised by the #MakeAmazonPay coalition, whose top-down protests are aimed at suppressing a worldwide rebellion by workers against social inequality and capitalist exploitation.

WSWS (2021-11-26). UK: B&Q warehouse workers in east Midlands to take strike action against low pay. wsws.org Warehouse workers at the B&Q distribution centre in Worksop in the east Midlands are due to begin industrial action for a pay increase from November 28. The workers are employed directly by logistics firm Wincanton Ltd.

Staff (2021-11-26). Sanctions on Venezuela to Blame for US Purchasing More Fuel from Russia. orinocotribune.com While Washington urges its European allies to reduce their dependence on Russian energy resources and imposes sanctions on the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline, the US itself urges Russia to supply it with more fuel, and even made its largest diesel purchase in three years. Experts on the subject explain why this trend is happening. | Four Russian tankers with a total of two million barrels of diesel fuel made from natural gas left for the United States to help mitigate the energy crisis in the North American country. This represents the highest purchase of this type since 2018, reported the Bloomberg agency, citing re…

Hadas Thier (2021-11-26). No, DSA Shouldn't Expel Rep. Jamaal Bowman. zcomm.org New York congressperson Jamaal Bowman has made a number of wrong decisions on Israel-Palestine. But socialists should criticize those errors without driving him away from the Palestine liberation movement and the Left…

Leonardo Flores (2021-11-25). Five Reasons the Left Won in Venezuela. zcomm.org These include good governance in health, housing and food, an improving economic situation, a (mostly) united left, a divided opposition, and an opposition that is extremely unpopular…

In Defense of Liberation! (2021-11-25). Revolutionary Resistance Across the World. anchor.fm In this episode I go over a few different things; starting out with the true history of Amerikkka and "Thanksgiving". Settler-Colonialism, Capitalism and Imperialism are rampant everywhere, the world is dying and the only ones truly organized and fighting for an end to that system is Indigenous people. But people are standing up all over the world. The masses are never stopping their fight for liberation, it's time you and I join with them.

Dean Baker (2021-11-25). Being Thankful This Thanksgiving. cepr.net Okay, I'm an economist nerd, so don't expect a run down of all the good things and bad things we have seen in the last year. I will focus on the economy, but I have to say a few words about the pandemic. No one can be happy about the resurgence of case numbers this …

Editor2 (2021-11-25). Elections in Honduras: The Challenge of Ending Twelve Years of Neoliberalism. orinocotribune.com By Giorgio Trucchi — Nov 23, 2021 | Honduras is at the most important crossroads of its recent history | On November 28, more than 5 million Hondurans will be asked to elect the President of the Republic, 128 deputies to the National Congress, 20 to the Central American Parliament, 298 mayors and more than 2 thousand municipal councillors. | As the election date approaches, the political atmosphere has become polarized, conflict has intensified and social tension grown. | No one has forgetten the violent repression of 2017 against those who protested against the gross electoral fraud that prolonged the agony…

Anand Naidoo (2021-11-25). The Heat: Ethiopia civil war and Lebanon economic crisis. america.cgtn.com Ethiopia's Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed says he's heading to the battlefront to lead government troops in a year-long war against rebel forces. And, Lebanon's economic crisis leaves many families struggling for food and medical care.

_____ (2021-11-25). Death Squads Threaten Colombian Human Rights Defender Darnelly Rodriguez Twice In Two Weeks. popularresistance.org Darnelly Rodriguez is the Centro Pazífico coordinator and the coordinator for the Francisco Isaías Cifuentes Human Rights Network (REDDHFIC)'s Valle Del Cauca chapter. On November 19 2021, she received the second of two death threats in two weeks. This threat came from the AGC paramilitary group. She was listed along with several other social movement and union leaders in a pamphlet that was left under the door of Cali's largest labor federation.

_____ (2021-11-25). Death Squads Threaten Human Rights Defender Darnelly Rodriguez. popularresistance.org Darnelly Rodriguez is the Centro Pazífico coordinator and the coordinator for the Francisco Isaías Cifuentes Human Rights Network (REDDHFIC)'s Valle Del Cauca chapter. On November 19 2021, she received the second of two death threats in two weeks. This threat came from the AGC paramilitary group. She was listed along with several other social movement and union leaders in a pamphlet that was left under the door of Cali's largest labor federation.

WSWS (2021-11-25). The public hospitals crisis and Australia's anti-democratic electoral laws. wsws.org Nurses and other health workers are fed up with operating at breaking point as governments, both Labor and Liberal-National Coalition, rush to lift international and state borders for the sake of corporate profit.

Indigo Olivier (2021-11-25). With Reformers Victorious, It's a New Day for the Teamsters. zcomm.org The rank-and-file reform slate Teamsters United has secured victory in the union's internal election. Its agenda is modest: bargain hard against UPS, organize Amazon, push the PRO Act, and revitalize the labor movement…

Rick Rozoff (2021-11-25). NATO members, partners ready to "hurt" Russia: Ukrainian FM. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com World capitals working on measures that can "hurt" Russian economy — Kuleba The foreign minister noted that the tone of the signals the international community is sending the Kremlin has recently become much harsher. The European Union, NATO, the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Sweden, the Baltic countries, Poland, and a number …

Prof Michel Chossudovsky (2021-11-25). 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.

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2021-11-25). Jorge Arreaza on Venezuela Recovering from Sanctions In New Post-Petro Economic Plan. libya360.wordpress.com Mnar Adley UN Special Rapporteurs estimate that 100,000 people have died in Venezuela in the last decade because of the lack of medicine brought on by U.S. sanctions. Nearly 60% of those deaths took place under the Trump administration after Washington escalated its economic warfare on the Bolivarian state. During the Trump era, Jorge Arreaza…

ecns.cn (2021-11-25). Youth in U.S. poverty-stricken areas more likely to die from firearms: U.S. News &World Report. ecns.cn A latest study has found that U.S. youth living in high-poverty areas are more likely to die from gun violence than peers living in more affluent areas, said an article published on the U.S. News and World Report website.

_____ (2021-11-25). This International Day Of Solidarity With The Palestinian People. popularresistance.org Over the past 18 months, calls for a UN-led investigation into Israeli apartheid have intensified globally, most notably from South Africa and Namibia, as well as from hundreds of political and civil society leaders in the Global South. The UK Labour Party's conference in October also overwhelmingly voted for condemning Israeli apartheid and upholding Palestinian human rights. In June, former UN chief Ban Ki-moon suggested that Israel is imposing apartheid on Palestinians. Now is the time for the UN to act against apartheid Israel #UNinvestigateApartheid! Take Action Now With Effective Solidarity Actions With Pal…

WSWS (2021-11-25). New Zealand: Auckland lockdown to end on December 3 even though Delta surge continues. wsws.org The Labour Party-led government's reopening of Auckland and abandonment of an elimination strategy, will lead to endemic COVID-19 and growing numbers of hospitalisations and deaths.

_____ (2021-11-25). International Day Of Solidarity With The Palestinian People. popularresistance.org Over the past 18 months, calls for a UN-led investigation into Israeli apartheid have intensified globally, most notably from South Africa and Namibia, as well as from hundreds of political and civil society leaders in the Global South. The UK Labour Party's conference in October also overwhelmingly voted for condemning Israeli apartheid and upholding Palestinian human rights. In June, former UN chief Ban Ki-moon suggested that Israel is imposing apartheid on Palestinians. Now is the time for the UN to act against apartheid Israel #UNinvestigateApartheid! Take Action Now With Effective Solidarity Actions With Pal…

Caleb Nichols (2021-11-25). Public-Private Partnerships Are Quietly Hollowing Out Our Public Libraries. zcomm.org he for-profit, private company Library Systems and Services is a major threat to one of our most beloved, democratic and socialistic institutions…

Daniel Campione (2021-11-25). Karl Marx — Historia de un comunista. globalizacion.ca Toni Negri es un filósofo y militante político italiano con una trayectoria de décadas. Profesor universitario desde joven, y autor en sus primeros tiempos de atractivos trabajos sobre temas de teoría del estado y de crítica marxista. Se volcó asimismo…

Jon Queally (2021-11-25). Biden Raises Minimum Wage for All Federal Contract Workers to $15. zcomm.org Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal says "30 million workers deserve a much-needed and well-deserved raise."

Dick Nichols (2021-11-25). Is worker struggle reviving in Spain? greenleft.org.au Spain is experiencing a wave of industrial unrest, as workers fight for secure jobs and to regain lost wages and conditions, reports Dick Nichols.

Fidel Castro Ruz (2021-11-25). Fidel Castro Ruz. His Legacy Will Live Forever. Truth as A Revolutionary Instrument. globalresearch.ca Fidel Castro Ruz, leader of the Cuban Revolution has passed. The Cuban Revolution constitutes a fundamental landmark in the history of humanity, which challenges the legitimacy of global capitalism.

Eduardo Camín (2021-11-25). La OMC y la identidad oculta de los cuellos de botella: El capitalismo. globalizacion.ca El 10 de noviembre delegados de la Organización Mundial de Comercio (OMC) y representantes del mundo académico y el sector privado mantuvieron un intenso debate sobre las dificultades con que se enfrentan las economías debido al fuerte aumento registrado recientemente…

Luis Chirino (2021-11-25). Cuba marks five years since the passing of Fidel Castro. america.cgtn.com November 25 marks the fifth anniversary of the death of Fidel Castro, the world's third longest-serving head of state, who ruled Cuba from 1959 to 2008 under his socialist revolution.

Paul Dobson (2021-11-25). Venezuela: Socialists sweep 'mega-elections'. greenleft.org.au The United Socialist Party has landed a comprehensive victory in Venezuela's regional and local elections, winning 83% of the governorships, reports Paul Dobson.

Editor2 (2021-11-25). Venezuela: Chavismo Triumphs Electorally Despite Difficulties. orinocotribune.com By Yoselina Guevara — Nov 22, 2021 | On Sunday, November 21, the candidates of the Gran Polo Patriotico coalition and the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV), representing the political force of the current Venezuelan government, managed to defeat the opposition parties, which, although divided, participated again in the voting after they had successively withdrawn since 2017 in an effort to boycott the presidential and legislative elections. According to the first bulletin issued by the Venezuelan National Electoral Council the participation of voters was 41.8%, with an approximate of 8.1 million vot…

Leonardo Flores (2021-11-25). Five Reasons the Left Won in Venezuela. zcomm.org These include good governance in health, housing and food, an improving economic situation, a (mostly) united left, a divided opposition, and an opposition that is extremely unpopular…

In Defense of Liberation! (2021-11-25). Revolutionary Resistance Across the World. anchor.fm In this episode I go over a few different things; starting out with the true history of Amerikkka and "Thanksgiving". Settler-Colonialism, Capitalism and Imperialism are rampant everywhere, the world is dying and the only ones truly organized and fighting for an end to that system is Indigenous people. But people are standing up all over the world. The masses are never stopping their fight for liberation, it's time you and I join with them.

Dean Baker (2021-11-25). Being Thankful This Thanksgiving. cepr.net Okay, I'm an economist nerd, so don't expect a run down of all the good things and bad things we have seen in the last year. I will focus on the economy, but I have to say a few words about the pandemic. No one can be happy about the resurgence of case numbers this …

Editor (2021-11-25). Elections in Honduras: the challenge of ending twelve years of neoliberalism. mronline.org Honduras is at the most important crossroads of its recent history.

WSWS (2021-11-25). The public hospitals crisis and Australia's anti-democratic electoral laws. wsws.org Nurses and other health workers are fed up with operating at breaking point as governments, both Labor and Liberal-National Coalition, rush to lift international and state borders for the sake of corporate profit.

Indigo Olivier (2021-11-25). With Reformers Victorious, It's a New Day for the Teamsters. zcomm.org The rank-and-file reform slate Teamsters United has secured victory in the union's internal election. Its agenda is modest: bargain hard against UPS, organize Amazon, push the PRO Act, and revitalize the labor movement…

Rick Rozoff (2021-11-25). NATO members, partners ready to "hurt" Russia: Ukrainian FM. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com World capitals working on measures that can "hurt" Russian economy — Kuleba The foreign minister noted that the tone of the signals the international community is sending the Kremlin has recently become much harsher. The European Union, NATO, the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Sweden, the Baltic countries, Poland, and a number …

ecns.cn (2021-11-25). Youth in U.S. poverty-stricken areas more likely to die from firearms: U.S. News &World Report. ecns.cn A latest study has found that U.S. youth living in high-poverty areas are more likely to die from gun violence than peers living in more affluent areas, said an article published on the U.S. News and World Report website.

WSWS (2021-11-25). New Zealand: Auckland lockdown to end on December 3 even though Delta surge continues. wsws.org The Labour Party-led government's reopening of Auckland and abandonment of an elimination strategy, will lead to endemic COVID-19 and growing numbers of hospitalisations and deaths.

Caleb Nichols (2021-11-25). Public-Private Partnerships Are Quietly Hollowing Out Our Public Libraries. zcomm.org he for-profit, private company Library Systems and Services is a major threat to one of our most beloved, democratic and socialistic institutions…

Daniel Campione (2021-11-25). Karl Marx — Historia de un comunista. globalizacion.ca Toni Negri es un filósofo y militante político italiano con una trayectoria de décadas. Profesor universitario desde joven, y autor en sus primeros tiempos de atractivos trabajos sobre temas de teoría del estado y de crítica marxista. Se volcó asimismo…

Jon Queally (2021-11-25). Biden Raises Minimum Wage for All Federal Contract Workers to $15. zcomm.org Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal says "30 million workers deserve a much-needed and well-deserved raise."

Dick Nichols (2021-11-25). Is worker struggle reviving in Spain? greenleft.org.au Spain is experiencing a wave of industrial unrest, as workers fight for secure jobs and to regain lost wages and conditions, reports Dick Nichols.

Fidel Castro Ruz (2021-11-25). Fidel Castro Ruz. His Legacy Will Live Forever. Truth as A Revolutionary Instrument. globalresearch.ca Fidel Castro Ruz, leader of the Cuban Revolution has passed. The Cuban Revolution constitutes a fundamental landmark in the history of humanity, which challenges the legitimacy of global capitalism.

Eduardo Camín (2021-11-25). La OMC y la identidad oculta de los cuellos de botella: El capitalismo. globalizacion.ca El 10 de noviembre delegados de la Organización Mundial de Comercio (OMC) y representantes del mundo académico y el sector privado mantuvieron un intenso debate sobre las dificultades con que se enfrentan las economías debido al fuerte aumento registrado recientemente…

Paul Dobson (2021-11-25). Venezuela: Socialists sweep 'mega-elections'. greenleft.org.au The United Socialist Party has landed a comprehensive victory in Venezuela's regional and local elections, winning 83% of the governorships, reports Paul Dobson.

Editor2 (2021-11-25). Venezuela: Chavismo Triumphs Electorally Despite Difficulties. orinocotribune.com By Yoselina Guevara — Nov 22, 2021 | On Sunday, November 21, the candidates of the Gran Polo Patriotico coalition and the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV), representing the political force of the current Venezuelan government, managed to defeat the opposition parties, which, although divided, participated again in the voting after they had successively withdrawn since 2017 in an effort to boycott the presidential and legislative elections. According to the first bulletin issued by the Venezuelan National Electoral Council the participation of voters was 41.8%, with an approximate of 8.1 million vot…

Fight Back (2021-11-24). Tallahassee protest Rittenhouse verdict. fightbacknews.org Tallahassee, FL – Tallahassee Community Action Committee, Freedom Road Socialist Organization, and Students for A Democratic Society held a protest, November 20, against the acquittal of Kyle Rittenhouse, who killed two protesters in Kenosha. TCAC called an emergency protest the night before, urging community members to come out and fight against the white supremacist vigilantism. | Regina Joseph, a member of the Freedom Road Socialist Organization denounced the acquittal, stating, "I am not surprised that this happened. That does not make my anger any less valid. Kyle Rittenhouse showed up to a protest, was met…

Brittani Banks (2021-11-24). Why Don't We See Headlines Touting the Pentagon's Hefty Price Tag? independentmediainstitute.org Intense debate over the Build Back Better (BBB) legislation has triggered stern lectures by fiscal conservatives about government spending. The legislation, which hangs in the political balance between progressive lawmakers and conservative Democrats like Senators Kyrsten Sinema and Joe Manchin, costs $1.75 trillion over 10 years in its present form, which is equivalent to $175 …

Staff (2021-11-24). "The War Party": Jeremy Scahill on How U.S. Militarism Unifies Democrats & Republicans. democracynow.org As Democrats in Congress struggle to pass the $1.75 trillion Build Back Better Act, there is large bipartisan consensus in the U.S. Congress to spend over $7 trillion over the next 10 years in military spending. The United States spends more each year on defense than China, Russia, India, the U.K., Germany, France, Japan, South Korea, and Australia combined. "Democrats have to engage in theater about human rights and international law and due process, but they ultimately, at the end of the day, are just as aggressive as Republicans," says investigative journalist Jeremy Scahill of the Intercept. His most recent p…

Amy Goodman (2021-11-24). Dems and GOP Fight About Domestic Spending — But Not About Huge Military Budgets. truthout.org As Democrats in Congress struggle to pass the $1.75 trillion Build Back Better Act, there is large bipartisan consensus in the U.S. Congress to spend over $7 trillion over the next 10 years in military spending. The United States spends more each year on defense than China, Russia, India, the U.K., Germany, France, Japan, South Korea, and Australia combined. "Democrats have to engage in theater about human rights and international law and due process, but they ultimately, at the end of the…

_____ (2021-11-24). Let's Find Alternatives To Striking. popularresistance.org While the LO, TCO and Saco top officials suffer from consensus fundamentalism, opposition among the grassroots often suffers from a fixation on strikes. Among the grassroots labor movement in Sweden, a call for big strikes or even a general strike is often heard. Strikes were called in response to the current attack on the Swedish Employment Protection Act, low wages, and attacks on the right to strike. In 2019, an attempt was made to stage a symbolic strike to highlight the climate crisis. As far as we are aware, no workplace was shut down. It should be acknowledged that sometimes we SAC members also have gotten…

Staff (2021-11-24). Pfizer employee 'stole vaccine secrets'. rt.com Pfizer has accused a departing employee of making off with a massive trove of confidential documents, including trade secrets related to its Covid-19 vaccine and other drugs, and then attempting an elaborate cover-up. | The Big Pharma firm

WSWS (2021-11-24). Labor Notes, DSA cover up UAW betrayal of Deere strike. wsws.org The conflict between rank-and-file workers and the UAW is being swept under the rug and deliberately concealed by organizations which have long functioned as apologists for the pro-corporate union bureaucracies.

WSWS (2021-11-24). Colonia Dignidad: Nazi criminality exported to Chile. wsws.org The Netflix documentary addresses the evangelical cult, run by the German psychopath and pro-fascist Paul Schà§fer, that participated in the torture of political prisoners and used slave labor to produce weapons for Chile's Pinochet dictatorship in the 1970s .

Teddy Grant (2021-11-24). Transgender Netflix Employee Quits After Dave Chappelle Comedy Special. bnc.tv One of the Netflix employees, who filed a labor claim against the company after it aired its Dave Chappelle comedy special, has resigned, the Associated Press reported. Terra Field, who was a senior software engineer at the company and who identifies as trans, announced the news on her website on Sunday. "This isn't how I thought things would end, but I am …

Dean Baker (2021-11-24). The Media's War Against Biden Over Inflation. cepr.net INFLATION IN THE U.S. ECONOMY IS CLEARLY A PROBLEM. There, I said it in all caps so that everyone can see I recognize it as a problem. The question is how big a problem. After all, we have lots of problems, millions of children in poverty, a huge homeless population, parents without access to affordable …

Dana Sanchez (2021-11-24). Hillary Clinton: Crypto Can Destabilize Nations, Undermine US Dollar. moguldom.com Former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton warned nations around the world to pay more attention to cryptocurrencies and their growing popularity because she said crypto has the potential to weaken the power of governments and erode the role of the U.S. dollar in the global economy. "What looks like a very interesting and somewhat …

imperial.ac.uk (2021-11-24). Future tech investment 'must support transition to green economy' – Alice Gast. imperial.ac.uk Imperial's President Alice Gast says investment in future technologies must not be overlooked as countries strive to meet climate goals.

Editor (2021-11-24). Can Joan Robinson's ideas cast some light on today's profound economic challenges? mronline.org 2023 marks the fortieth year since the passing of Joan Robinson and her one-hundred-and-twentieth anniversary.

teleSUR (2021-11-24). South America & Asia To Be Connected Via New Zealand Travel Hub. telesurenglish.net On Wednesday, the New Zealand China Council (NZCC) announced that the rapid growth in trade between Asia and South America is opening the door for New Zealand to potentially reap billions in economic benefits as an aviation hub for travel and e-commerce trade. | RELATED: | The Southern Link was proposed by the NZCC in 2019 as a way for New Zealand to capitalize on the growing airborne trade links by making New Zealand a major…

Editor2 (2021-11-24). Cuba's Vaccine Could End up Saving Millions of Lives. orinocotribune.com By Branko Marcetic — Nov 22, 2021 | Thanks to its public biotech sector and its government's deep commitment to public health, Cuba is now the only low-income country to have made its own COVID vaccine. It's already helped millions of Cubans, and it's poised to help millions more around the world. | Much of the press coverage of Cuba last week focused on the anti-government protests that After a di…

Staff (2021-11-24). "Furious and Disgusted": Teen Survivor Speaks Out After Wealthy White Serial Rapist Gets Probation. democracynow.org The survivor of a serial rapist who received probation joins us to speak out after a New York judge sparked international outrage when he ruled it is inappropriate to jail the man who attacked her. Christopher Belter pleaded guilty to raping and sexually assaulting her along with three other teenage girls age 15 and 16, but he will avoid serving time in prison, and instead receive 8 years of probation. Belter is white, and from a prominent family who lives in a wealthy neighborhood near Niagara Falls. "This sentencing is telling rapists it's OK to rape and telling victims that there's no point in coming forward,"

Amanda Winstead (2021-11-24). Punishing the exploited: An exploration of the growing wealth gap. nationofchange.org We must find momentum through our discontent, and be "outraged enough to become even more politically active."

_____ (2021-11-24). NAJA Calls For Refocus Of News Coverage Of Wet'suwet'en And Arrests. popularresistance.org The Native American Journalists Association condemns the Royal Canadian Mounted Police for standing in the way of news gathering and storytelling by arresting journalists on Wet'suwet'en Yintah. We are also deeply concerned that the news attention on Indigenous people occupying and using their traditional unceded territory only sees heightened media attention when there are police raids and arrests. NAJA recognizes the right of sovereign Indigenous nations to invite journalists to their unceded territories and to embed for fair, accurate, truthful storytelling and news gathering for public consumption.

Staff (2021-11-24). Skip turkey, test guests for Covid: US media's Thanksgiving recipe. rt.com The twin threats of Covid-19 and inflation could put a downer on Thanksgiving this year, especially if Americans skip the turkey and follow the mainstream media's advice by sending their guests into the garage for Covid tests. | Rampant inflation has made preparing a Thanksgiving feast historically expensive for many Americans this year. According to the

Jake Johnson (2021-11-24). CEOs Are Blaming Inflation for Price Hikes While Earning Record Compensation. truthout.org Dollar Tree CEO Michael Witynski — who raked in around But observers weren't buying Wi…

Nils Castro (2021-11-24). Unas notas sobre la reposición de la fuerza de trabajo. globalizacion.ca Un concepto básico del pensamiento marxista es el relativo al trabajo como cualidad humana, a la fuerza de trabajo, su producto y valor, y a su necesaria reposición. Carlos Marx dedicó a ese tema las páginas iniciales del primer tomo…

Stephanie Pavlick (2021-11-24). Pittsburgh medical workers fight for dignity and respect. liberationnews.org The workers, who are facing poor conditions and low wages, are fighting again to unionize their workplace, after a defeated attempt a few years ago.

WSWS (2021-11-24). Sparrow Health workers in Lansing, Michigan, vote overwhelmingly to authorize strike. wsws.org The demands of Sparrow workers include safe staffing levels, cost-of-living adjustments to wages, curtailing of ballooning health care costs, and sick time without fear of punishment.

WSWS (2021-11-24). Australian electoral members explain why they support the SEP. wsws.org "Oppression is an inexorable process under capitalism—there is no escape from it unless socialist governments of the people, by the people and for the people take over."

Paul Haeder (2021-11-24). Everything goes Better with Coca Cola: Hitching Capitalism to Sweet Slow Death. dissidentvoice.org "When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the Universe." — John Muir "All things are connected like the blood that unites us. We do not weave the web of life, we are merely a strand in it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to …

Medea Benjamin (2021-11-24). The High Stakes of the U.S.-Russia Confrontation Over Ukraine. zcomm.org Risking a nuclear holocaust to appease the military-industrial complex is as insane as destroying the climate and the natural world to appease the fossil fuel industry…

Chris Walker (2021-11-24). Rally Organizers Used Burner Phones to Talk With Trump Officials on January 6. truthout.org Trump loyalists who planned the January 6 rally that preceded the attack on the U.S. Capitol building used "burner phones" to communicate with campaign and administration officials in the lead-up to the attack, according to sources speaking with Rolling Stone. | Kylie Kremer, a top official in the March for Trump group that helped plan the rally, told her aides to purchase the burner phones using cash rather than debit or credit cards — suggesting that the rally's organizers wanted to…

WSWS (2021-11-24). UK Educators Rank-and-File Safety Committee denounces court ruling upholding designation of Germany's Socialist Equality Party as "left wing extremists" wsws.org The Educators Rank-and-File Safety Committee (UK) passed a resolution Monday condemning the ruling of the Berlin Administrative Court, which on November 18, 2021, upheld the designation of the German security service of the German section of the ICFI as "left wing extremists".

A Guest Author (2021-11-24). The Cuban people have the right to defend themselves. workers.org Signs of pro-socialist sentiment in Havana, in the neighborhood where a U.S. sympathizer lived before opting for exile in Madrid after Nov. 15 actions flopped. By Yisell Rodríguez Milán This article was published in Granma Nov. 18 and republished in CubaNews after translation. The protest actions that U.S.-backed counterrevolutionaries attempted . . . |

Fight Back (2021-11-24). Tallahassee activists honor trans people on Trans Day of Remembrance. fightbacknews.org On November 22, Tallahassee activists gathered on Transgender Day of Remembrance. Tallahassee Community Action Committee. Florida Coalition for Transgender Liberation, Planned Parenthood, Students for A Democratic Society, Freedom Road Socialist Organization, and the Pride Student Union held a march and vigil for Transgender Day of Remembrance, an international day of solidarity and remembrance of the transgender lives lost every year. | "We have to fight every day and mourn every day. I don't get a day when I can just mourn and not fight," said Lakey Love, co-founder of the Florida Coalition for Trans Liberatio…

Staff (2021-11-24). US bank chief regrets Communist party jibe. rt.com The boss of US banking group JPMorgan Chase has said he regrets his comments about Beijing after he joked that his corporation would last longer than China's Communist Party. | "I regret and should not have made that comment. I was trying to emphasize the strength and longevity of our company," JPMorgan Chase Chief Executive Jamie Dimon said in a statement issued by the bank on Wednesday. | Read more | | A spokesperson for the bank said Dimon acknowledged that he should "never speak lig…

teleSUR (2021-11-24). Chilean Dictatorship Agent Rivas To Be Extradited From Australia. telesurenglish.net On Tuesday, the Australian Federal Court approved the Chilean government's extradition request of former Intelligence Directorate (DINA) agent Adriana Rivas, who disappeared seven Communist Party's members during the Augusto Pinochet's dictatorship (1974-1990). | RELATED: | "Justice is finally imposed," the victims' lawyer Adriana Navarro stated, recalling that defendant lawyer Frank Santisi delayed the extradition of Rivas to Chile for over two…

Amanda Winstead (2021-11-24). Punishing the exploited: An exploration of the growing wealth gap. nationofchange.org We must find momentum through our discontent, and be "outraged enough to become even more politically active."

Leonardo Flores (2021-11-24). Five Reasons the Left Won in Venezuela. orinocotribune.com By Leonardo Flores — Nov 22, 2021 | These elections should put the Biden administration on notice that continuing to support the MUD, and in particular, the fiction of Guaidó as "interim president," is a failed policy. | For the first time in four years, every major opposition party in Venezuela participated in elections. For the fifth time in four years, the left won in a landslide. Voters elected 23 governors, 335 mayors, 253 state legislators and 2,471 municipal councilors. The governing United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) won at least 19 of 23 governorships (one race remains too close to call)…

Fight Back (2021-11-24). Tallahassee protest Rittenhouse verdict. fightbacknews.org Tallahassee, FL – Tallahassee Community Action Committee, Freedom Road Socialist Organization, and Students for A Democratic Society held a protest, November 20, against the acquittal of Kyle Rittenhouse, who killed two protesters in Kenosha. TCAC called an emergency protest the night before, urging community members to come out and fight against the white supremacist vigilantism. | Regina Joseph, a member of the Freedom Road Socialist Organization denounced the acquittal, stating, "I am not surprised that this happened. That does not make my anger any less valid. Kyle Rittenhouse showed up to a protest, was met…

Staff (2021-11-24). "The War Party": Jeremy Scahill on How U.S. Militarism Unifies Democrats & Republicans. democracynow.org As Democrats in Congress struggle to pass the $1.75 trillion Build Back Better Act, there is large bipartisan consensus in the U.S. Congress to spend over $7 trillion over the next 10 years in military spending. The United States spends more each year on defense than China, Russia, India, the U.K., Germany, France, Japan, South Korea, and Australia combined. "Democrats have to engage in theater about human rights and international law and due process, but they ultimately, at the end of the day, are just as aggressive as Republicans," says investigative journalist Jeremy Scahill of the Intercept. His most recent p…

WSWS (2021-11-24). Labor Notes, DSA cover up UAW betrayal of Deere strike. wsws.org The conflict between rank-and-file workers and the UAW is being swept under the rug and deliberately concealed by organizations which have long functioned as apologists for the pro-corporate union bureaucracies.

WSWS (2021-11-24). Colonia Dignidad: Nazi criminality exported to Chile. wsws.org The Netflix documentary addresses the evangelical cult, run by the German psychopath and pro-fascist Paul Schà§fer, that participated in the torture of political prisoners and used slave labor to produce weapons for Chile's Pinochet dictatorship in the 1970s .

imperial.ac.uk (2021-11-24). Future tech investment 'must support transition to green economy' – Alice Gast. imperial.ac.uk Imperial's President Alice Gast says investment in future technologies must not be overlooked as countries strive to meet climate goals.

Editor2 (2021-11-24). Cuba's Vaccine Could End up Saving Millions of Lives. orinocotribune.com By Branko Marcetic — Nov 22, 2021 | Thanks to its public biotech sector and its government's deep commitment to public health, Cuba is now the only low-income country to have made its own COVID vaccine. It's already helped millions of Cubans, and it's poised to help millions more around the world. | Much of the press coverage of Cuba last week focused on the anti-government protests that After a di…

Staff (2021-11-24). "Furious and Disgusted": Teen Survivor Speaks Out After Wealthy White Serial Rapist Gets Probation. democracynow.org The survivor of a serial rapist who received probation joins us to speak out after a New York judge sparked international outrage when he ruled it is inappropriate to jail the man who attacked her. Christopher Belter pleaded guilty to raping and sexually assaulting her along with three other teenage girls age 15 and 16, but he will avoid serving time in prison, and instead receive 8 years of probation. Belter is white, and from a prominent family who lives in a wealthy neighborhood near Niagara Falls. "This sentencing is telling rapists it's OK to rape and telling victims that there's no point in coming forward,"

WSWS (2021-11-24). Sparrow Health workers in Lansing, Michigan, vote overwhelmingly to authorize strike. wsws.org The demands of Sparrow workers include safe staffing levels, cost-of-living adjustments to wages, curtailing of ballooning health care costs, and sick time without fear of punishment.

Paul Haeder (2021-11-24). Everything goes Better with Coca Cola: Hitching Capitalism to Sweet Slow Death. dissidentvoice.org "When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the Universe." — John Muir "All things are connected like the blood that unites us. We do not weave the web of life, we are merely a strand in it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to …

WSWS (2021-11-24). Australian electoral members explain why they support the SEP. wsws.org "Oppression is an inexorable process under capitalism—there is no escape from it unless socialist governments of the people, by the people and for the people take over."

Medea Benjamin (2021-11-24). The High Stakes of the U.S.-Russia Confrontation Over Ukraine. zcomm.org Risking a nuclear holocaust to appease the military-industrial complex is as insane as destroying the climate and the natural world to appease the fossil fuel industry…

Fight Back (2021-11-24). Tallahassee activists honor trans people on Trans Day of Remembrance. fightbacknews.org On November 22, Tallahassee activists gathered on Transgender Day of Remembrance. Tallahassee Community Action Committee. Florida Coalition for Transgender Liberation, Planned Parenthood, Students for A Democratic Society, Freedom Road Socialist Organization, and the Pride Student Union held a march and vigil for Transgender Day of Remembrance, an international day of solidarity and remembrance of the transgender lives lost every year. | "We have to fight every day and mourn every day. I don't get a day when I can just mourn and not fight," said Lakey Love, co-founder of the Florida Coalition for Trans Liberatio…

Fight Back (2021-11-23). Milwaukee protest says: "Indict, convict, send Kyle Rittenhouse to jail!" fightbacknews.org Milwaukee, WI – Just after noon on November 20, over 120 people gathered at Red Arrow Park downtown to condemn the "innocent on all charges" verdict in the trial of vigilante murderer Kyle Rittenhouse. The protest was called for and organized by the Milwaukee Alliance Against Racist & Political Repression, UW-Milwaukee Students for a Democratic Society, and the Wisconsin district of the Freedom Road Socialist Organization. All three groups had a presence on the ground in Kenosha last summer in the midst of the uprising. | The rally began at Red Arrow Park, but organizers quickly took the streets with the gathered…

The Socialist Program (2021-11-23). "Justice" in America: Rittenhouse Acquitted, Racist Vigilantes Can Kill with Impunity. liberationnews.org Esther Iverem, Nicole Roussell and Walter Smolarek discuss how the menace of racist vigilante violence received a dramatic boost by the U.S. court system with the acquittal of Kyle Rittenhouse on all charges. They also discuss how protesters took to the streets in outraged response to the verdict, the victory of pro-Revolution candidates in the Venezuelan election, the latest Jan. 6 attack court developments, demonstrations worldwide against U.S. intervention in Ethiopia, resistance to the coup in Sudan, and more.

Editor (2021-11-23). Anti-communism, anti-Blackness, and imperialism. mronline.org In this talk prepared for the Albuquerque Anti-War Coalition's Anti-Communism & Imperialism panel discussion, Dr. Charisse Burden Stelly discusses how anti-communism and anti-Blackness are intrinsically intertwined structures of white supremacist and capitalist control.

Mark Gruenberg (2021-11-23). Unions weigh in for reproductive rights in key Mississippi case. peoplesworld.org WASHINGTON—When it comes to defending women's reproductive rights, there's no question where the nation's union women stand: 100% for their sisters and against the mostly male repressive forces who would strip those rights away. Which is why the Coalition of Labor Union Women and individual unions, including the four largest, joined friend-of-the-court briefs on the …

Rick Rozoff (2021-11-23). NATO launches war games in Latvia. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com Latvia Kickstarts The NATO Baltic Winter Shield 2021 Military Exercises The annual international military exercises of NATO Baltic Winter Shield 2021, kicked off in Latvia on Monday and will witness the Baltic state's military along with allied forces bolster their combat capabilities. The collaborative exercise will include military personnel from Land Force Mechanised Infantry Brigade, …

Staff (2021-11-23). Cuba rechaza inclusión del país en el informe del Departamento de Estado sobre trata de personas. cubadebate.cu El ministro de Justicia de Cuba, Oscar Silvera Martínez, rechazó la inclusión injustificada y discriminatoria de la Isla en el Informe de Trata de Personas, elaborado por el Departamento de Estado de Estados Unidos. "Es inaceptable que EE. UU. acuse a Cuba de fomentar la trata de personas o la práctica de la esclavitud", puntualizó.

Staff (2021-11-23). Americans got richer thanks to vaccines & Covid policies, Biden claims. rt.com US citizens are wealthier 20 months after the Covid-19 pandemic than they were before, President Joe Biden has insisted, as many in the country check their pockets and find them still empty. | The president praised his economic leadership during a press conference on Tuesday, declaring the US was the only country whose residents could count themselves richer than they had been before the pandemic. However, while the Federal Reserve may have printed up a (digital) storm of new money to keep the economy afloat, ordinary Americans haven't seen much of it. | Biden says people have more money than before the pandem…

_____ (2021-11-23). The Politics Of Protection. popularresistance.org The 2008 financial meltdown and the global economic crisis that followed put thousands of cracks into what Mark Fisher called "capitalist realism"—the idea that it's easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism. The neoliberal era appeared to be at its end. But it staggered on; the next decade saw most Western states respond with the typical neoliberal playbook. | Now, the coronavirus pandemic has made it even easier to imagine the end of the world, and the response of those same states has been quite different. Is neoliberalism actually ending? And what comes next? Political theorist P…

_____ (2021-11-23). Details of the Economic Relations Between PRC and South Korea in 2021. journal-neo.org The economic interaction between the ROK and the PRC during the reviewed period represented several overlapping trends. On the one hand, Beijing continues to act against companies involved in deploying US missile defense in South Korea. It restrains the penetration of South Korean cultural content into the country (mainly as part of the overall strategy …

WSWS (2021-11-23). Amid "enormous economic uncertainty," Biden reappoints Powell as Fed chair. wsws.org Having boosted the stock market to record highs by pouring trillions of dollars into the financial system, Powell received strong support from Wall Street with gushing praise for his management of the pandemic crisis.

_____ (2021-11-23). Biden-Xi Summit Only Confirms Unending Competition. journal-neo.org While the apparent purpose of the long awaited Biden-Xi virtual summit was to normalise increasing tensions between China and the US, the summit has only confirmed that there is no effective, institutional scaling down from the growing competition either in the economic/technological field or in the geo-political arena. Perhaps, no other issue better illustrates the …

WSWS (2021-11-23). Video: The pandemic is a bonanza for Australia's billionaires. wsws.org "The 200 richest people in Australia increased their wealth by 40 percent, from $341.8 billion in May 2019 to $479.6 billion in May this year."

Staff (2021-11-23). 'Take some time off oil and gas,' White House says. rt.com US Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm has once again angered critics over her handling of the gas price crisis, chalking soaring prices up to an "energy transition." | Speaking during a White House event on the administration's readiness for the winter months, Granholm addressed skyrocketing gas prices around the country by saying they are part of a "transition" and people need "to take some time off of oil and gas." | "We recognize this," Granholm said. "This is a transition." | Biden Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm: "We're working through an energy transition. And we've got to start by adding energy, a…

Chris Walker (2021-11-23). Hoping to Lower Pain at the Pump, White House Says It's Opening Oil Reserves. truthout.org The Biden administration announced on Tuesday that it will release oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve in an effort to lower gas prices for Americans ahead of the holiday travel season. | President Joe Biden

Climate Nexus (2021-11-23). Boston mayor Michelle Wu divests city funds from fossil fuels. peoplesworld.org In her first major policy action, Boston Mayor Michelle Wu signed an ordinance on Monday to divest public funds from fossil fuels. The measure prohibits public investment in any financial instrument deriving more than 15% of its revenue from fossil fuels, as well as from tobacco products or jail or prison facilities. "Boston, as a finance hub, is …

Staff (2021-11-23). DOJ to pay millions over FBI failure. rt.com The US Justice Department (DOJ) has agreed a settlement that will see the government pay a reported $127.5 million to victims and survivors of the Parkland school shooting, over its failure to investigate tips about the attacker. | In a joint court filing on Monday, lawyers representing families of those killed and injured during the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida in 2018 confirmed that a financial settlement had been reached with the US government. Although they did not specify the figures involved, according to the Associated Press, the DOJ has agreed to pay out so…

_____ (2021-11-23). Wall Street's Diabolical Plan to Financialize All Nature. journal-neo.org It's called a Natural Asset Company. With it the New York Stock Exchange has unveiled the most radical and potentially most destructive plan yet to make literally trillions of dollars on something that is the natural right and heritage of the entire human race—nature itself, all nature, from air, fresh water to rainforests to even …

Monica Cruz (2021-11-23). Puerto Rico faces another disastrous bankruptcy deal. peoplesdispatch.org A New York federal judge is set to rule on a plan to restructure almost half of Puerto's Rico's debt in the coming weeks. The Financial Oversight and Management Board, an undemocratically elected The plan includes a list of cuts to public spending and a continuation of the harsh austerity measures which have decimated Puerto Rico's social safe…

Ajamu Baraka (2021-11-23). COP26: Greenwashing and Plutocratic Misadventures. orinocotribune.com By Ajamu Baraka -Nov 17, 2021 | For all the policy failures of COP26 it may actually be an inflection point in history — a point where social and political conditions force a transformation of consciousness and politics that can usher in epochal change. | COP 26 reaffirmed what has been obvious from the beginning: the Northern colonial and capitalist states most responsible for creating the climate crisis are unwilling to place people before profits in order to address the planet's looming ecological collapse and humanitarian catastrophe. | We need justice. But that word — Justice! — despite all…

Editor (2021-11-23). The U.S. Was Not Prepared for a Pandemic — Free Market Capitalism and Government Deregulation May Be to Blame. scheerpost.com Elanah Uretsky / By Viacheslav Lopatin on It's unclear when the pandemic will come to an end. What may be an even more important question is whether the U.S. will be prepared for the next one. The past year and a half suggests that the answer may be no. | As a

Helena Sheehan (2021-11-23). Helena Sheehan — 'Science and Technology Studies: A Marxist Narrative'. mronline.org The author of several books, including the definitive study 'Marxism and the Philosophy of Science: A Critical History', Professor Sheehan traces the historical entanglements of Science and Technology Studies with Marxist thought, as well as her own biography as a scholar and activist.

WSWS (2021-11-23). UPMC hospital workers in Pittsburgh demand better wages and staffing. wsws.org Several hundred staff at UPMC hospitals in Pittsburgh staged a one-day strike Thursday called by the Service employees International Union, which is seeking union recognition at the giant hospital chain.

Yuri Martins Fontes (2021-11-23). Caio Prado e o fascismo como estratégia do capitalismo em crise (Parte IV). globalresearch.ca Convencido que o Brasil estava na "iminência de um retorno ao passado", conforme afirma ao final de seu

Stuart Rees (2021-11-23). 'Can do capitalism' is outdated and selfish. greenleft.org.au Prime Minister Scott Morrison has been promoting "can do capitalism" when Australia needs policies that treat all equally, argues Stuart Rees.

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2021-11-23). NAM: How the Military-Industrial Complex Sidelined Peace and Disarmament. libya360.wordpress.com ND Jayaprakash The untiring efforts of Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, Indonesian President Sukarno, Yugoslav President Josip Broz Tito, Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser, and Ghanaian President Kwame Nkrumah, salvaged the objects and purpose of the Bandung Conference in 1961. That year, 25 countries—eleven each from Asia and Africa and Yugoslavia, Cuba, and Cyprus—formed the Non-Aligned Movement…

Editor (2021-11-23). What role does the military play in climate change? mronline.org A gaping hole in the COP26 official agenda was the oversized role of the military industrial complex in environmental devastation. The US is a global leader on this front with the Pentagon being a bigger polluter than 140 countries combined.

Kevin Mwanza (2021-11-23). Feds Target BlockFi DeFi Lending Product. moguldom.com Crypto exchange BlockFi Inc. is being scrutinized by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) over its popular decentralized finance (DeFi) lending product that lets users deposit Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies and earn interest on their holdings. Regulatory actions have been taken against BlockFi in five states — New Jersey, Alabama, Kentucky, Vermont and Texas …

Anonymous Contributor (2021-11-23). Oaxaca: Launch of the Campaign: "It's Not Development — It's Dispossession!" itsgoingdown.org The following is a statement from the Oaxacan Assembly in Defense of Land and Territory, translated by Scott Campbell, regarding the launch of a new permanent campaign against extractivist, neoliberal megaprojects. Launch of the Campaign: "It's Not Development — It's Dispossession!" We, the communities and organizations that have joined together since 2019 as the Oaxacan…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2021-11-23). Social Policy in Africa: The Root Causes of Social Problems. libya360.wordpress.com Anna Wolkenhauer Anna Wolkenhauer commends a new book, Social Policy in the African Context, edited by ROAPE's Jimi Adesina, which rescues social policy from the assault of neoliberalism by carving out the necessary space for sovereign and transformative policymaking that can tackle the "root causes" of social problems. With its timely and important intervention into the…

VINS (2021-11-23). School Sued for Denying Equal Education to Students with Disabilities. projectcensored.org Pittsburg Unified School District, in the Bay Area of California, is accused of unequal opportunities for disabled students and will be taken to court by ACLU. On Monday, September 13,…

_____ (2021-11-23). Five Reasons Why The Left Won In Venezuela. popularresistance.org For the first time in four years, every major opposition party in Venezuela participated in elections. For the fifth time in four years, the left won in a landslide. Voters elected 23 governors, 335 mayors, 253 state legislators and 2,471 municipal councilors. The governing United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) won at least 19 of 23 governorships (one race remains too close to call) and the Caracas mayoralty in the November 21 "mega-elections." Of the 335 mayoral races, the vote count has been completed in 322 of them, with PSUV and its coalition taking 205, opposition coalitions 96 and other parties 21. Ove…

_____ (2021-11-23). Venezuela: Chavismo Wins Governorships In 20 Of 23 States. popularresistance.org Venezuela's National Electoral Council (CNE) President Pedro Calzadilla reported a 41.80 percent turnout in Sunday's Subnational elections. | Having counted 90.21 percent of the ballots cast in the elections, Calzadilla reaffirmed that the elections took place in a peaceful environment. | The United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) candidates hold leads in 20 out of 23 states for the governor's race. | Meanwhile, the opposition coalition United Democratic Table (MUD) candidates secured a lead in the Cojedes and Zulia states. Neighbors Force (FV) party secured the other governor post for opposition sectors in t…

José Manuel Blanco Diaz (2021-11-23). Venezuela's CNE Issues 2nd Report: PSUV Sweeps Vast Majority of Mayoralties. orinocotribune.com This Monday, November 22, the president of Venezuela's National Electoral Council (CNE), Pedro Calzadilla, issued results from the municipal elections that were held, alongside regional elections, across the country on November 21. | "For the positions of mayors, we have 322 of the 335 positions in dispute, 322 of these can be judged. Of these, 205 are for the PSUV, 59 to MUD, 37 to the Democratic Alliance, and 21 to other parties and alliances," Calzadilla said. | On the regional level, the leadership of 18 state governments were won by President Maduro's United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV), while candida…

Ben Norton (2021-11-23). Venezuela's socialists win elections in landslide — so US tries to discredit them. thegrayzone.com The United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) won the November 21 mega-elections in a landslide, getting more votes in 20 of 23 states and the capital Caracas. So the US government responded by trying to discredit the vote. Venezuelan journalist Diego Sequera speaks about the elections, the historic victory of the ruling party of President Nicolás Maduro, and Washington's attempt to de-legitimize the process. The US State Department published a statement attacking Venezuela's elections, claiming they were "flawed" and that …

Peoples Dispatch (2021-11-23). Chavismo's victory in Venezuela's subnational elections hailed across region. peoplesdispatch.org Leftist and progressive leaders across the region hailed the victory of the Great Patriotic Pole (GPP), a coalition of the ruling United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) and other Chavista forces. The GPP won overwhelmingly in the elections held on Sunday…

José Luis Granados Ceja (2021-11-23). Socialists Secure Massive Victory in Venezuelan Elections. truthout.org The United Socialist Party of Venezuela Preliminary results from the country's electoral authority showed Chavistas winning up to 20 of the 23 governorships that were up for grabs. The res…

Staff (2021-11-23). Headlines for November 23, 2021. democracynow.org Jury to Decide Fate of Three White Men Charged With Murdering Black Jogger Ahmaud Arbery, Yemeni Protesters Condemn U.S. Support for Saudi-Led War and Blockade, Senators Move to Block Biden's Planned $650M Weapons Sale to Saudi Arabia, U.S. COVID-19 Cases Surge Ahead of Thanksgiving Holiday, Israel Arrests Relatives of Palestinian Man Behind Jerusalem Attack, El Salvador President Plans "Bitcoin City" as Government Cracks Down on NGOs, Driver of SUV That Plowed into Wisconsin Parade Has Record of Domestic Violence, Trump Allies Roger Stone and Alex Jones Subpoenaed by January 6th Panel, U.S. Added to List of "Bac…

Fight Back (2021-11-23). Milwaukee protest says: "Indict, convict, send Kyle Rittenhouse to jail!" fightbacknews.org Milwaukee, WI – Just after noon on November 20, over 120 people gathered at Red Arrow Park downtown to condemn the "innocent on all charges" verdict in the trial of vigilante murderer Kyle Rittenhouse. The protest was called for and organized by the Milwaukee Alliance Against Racist & Political Repression, UW-Milwaukee Students for a Democratic Society, and the Wisconsin district of the Freedom Road Socialist Organization. All three groups had a presence on the ground in Kenosha last summer in the midst of the uprising. | The rally began at Red Arrow Park, but organizers quickly took the streets with the gathered…

Editor (2021-11-23). Anti-communism, anti-Blackness, and imperialism. mronline.org In this talk prepared for the Albuquerque Anti-War Coalition's Anti-Communism & Imperialism panel discussion, Dr. Charisse Burden Stelly discusses how anti-communism and anti-Blackness are intrinsically intertwined structures of white supremacist and capitalist control.

Staff (2021-11-23). Cuba rechaza inclusión del país en el informe del Departamento de Estado sobre trata de personas. cubadebate.cu El ministro de Justicia de Cuba, Oscar Silvera Martínez, rechazó la inclusión injustificada y discriminatoria de la Isla en el Informe de Trata de Personas, elaborado por el Departamento de Estado de Estados Unidos. "Es inaceptable que EE. UU. acuse a Cuba de fomentar la trata de personas o la práctica de la esclavitud", puntualizó.

Rick Rozoff (2021-11-23). NATO launches war games in Latvia. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com Latvia Kickstarts The NATO Baltic Winter Shield 2021 Military Exercises The annual international military exercises of NATO Baltic Winter Shield 2021, kicked off in Latvia on Monday and will witness the Baltic state's military along with allied forces bolster their combat capabilities. The collaborative exercise will include military personnel from Land Force Mechanised Infantry Brigade, …

WSWS (2021-11-23). Amid "enormous economic uncertainty," Biden reappoints Powell as Fed chair. wsws.org Having boosted the stock market to record highs by pouring trillions of dollars into the financial system, Powell received strong support from Wall Street with gushing praise for his management of the pandemic crisis.

WSWS (2021-11-23). Video: The pandemic is a bonanza for Australia's billionaires. wsws.org "The 200 richest people in Australia increased their wealth by 40 percent, from $341.8 billion in May 2019 to $479.6 billion in May this year."

Staff (2021-11-23). 'Take some time off oil and gas,' White House says. rt.com US Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm has once again angered critics over her handling of the gas price crisis, chalking soaring prices up to an "energy transition." | Speaking during a White House event on the administration's readiness for the winter months, Granholm addressed skyrocketing gas prices around the country by saying they are part of a "transition" and people need "to take some time off of oil and gas." | "We recognize this," Granholm said. "This is a transition." | pic.twitter.com/NaUGzkJfof— Breaking911 (@Breaking911) Staff (2021-11-23). DOJ to pay millions over FBI failure. rt.com The US Justice Department (DOJ) has agreed a settlement that will see the government pay a reported $127.5 million to victims and survivors of the Parkland school shooting, over its failure to investigate tips about the attacker. | In a joint court filing on Monday, lawyers representing families of those killed and injured during the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida in 2018 confirmed that a financial settlement had been reached with the US government. Although they did not specify the figures involved, according to the Associated Press, the DOJ has agreed to pay out so…

Anonymous Contributor (2021-11-23). Detention is a Crisis: Take Down Prison Profiteers! itsgoingdown.org In the wake of more jaw-dropping revelations about the Heartland Alliance in Chicago, local abolitionists call for continued actions. On Saturday, November 20, around 3: 30 PM, a teenager risked his life when he went out a fourth-floor window in an attempt to escape a Heartland Alliance detention facility at 3500 S Giles Ave. He was…

Ajamu Baraka (2021-11-23). COP26: Greenwashing and Plutocratic Misadventures. orinocotribune.com By Ajamu Baraka -Nov 17, 2021 | For all the policy failures of COP26 it may actually be an inflection point in history — a point where social and political conditions force a transformation of consciousness and politics that can usher in epochal change. | COP 26 reaffirmed what has been obvious from the beginning: the Northern colonial and capitalist states most responsible for creating the climate crisis are unwilling to place people before profits in order to address the planet's looming ecological collapse and humanitarian catastrophe. | We need justice. But that word — Justice! — despite all…

Editor (2021-11-23). The U.S. Was Not Prepared for a Pandemic — Free Market Capitalism and Government Deregulation May Be to Blame. scheerpost.com Elanah Uretsky / By Viacheslav Lopatin on It's unclear when the pandemic will come to an end. What may be an even more important question is whether the U.S. will be prepared for the next one. The past year and a half suggests that the answer may be no. | As a

WSWS (2021-11-23). UK school ceiling collapses after a decade of austerity cuts and lifting of safety regulations. wsws.org Since 2010, the Health and Safety Executive saw its budget cut by 50 percent and lost 500 frontline inspectors.

Helena Sheehan (2021-11-23). Helena Sheehan — 'Science and Technology Studies: A Marxist Narrative'. mronline.org The author of several books, including the definitive study 'Marxism and the Philosophy of Science: A Critical History', Professor Sheehan traces the historical entanglements of Science and Technology Studies with Marxist thought, as well as her own biography as a scholar and activist.

WSWS (2021-11-23). UPMC hospital workers in Pittsburgh demand better wages and staffing. wsws.org Several hundred staff at UPMC hospitals in Pittsburgh staged a one-day strike Thursday called by the Service employees International Union, which is seeking union recognition at the giant hospital chain.

Yuri Martins Fontes (2021-11-23). Caio Prado e o fascismo como estratégia do capitalismo em crise (Parte IV). globalresearch.ca Convencido que o Brasil estava na "iminência de um retorno ao passado", conforme afirma ao final de seu

Stuart Rees (2021-11-23). 'Can do capitalism' is outdated and selfish. greenleft.org.au Prime Minister Scott Morrison has been promoting "can do capitalism" when Australia needs policies that treat all equally, argues Stuart Rees.

Editor (2021-11-23). What role does the military play in climate change? mronline.org A gaping hole in the COP26 official agenda was the oversized role of the military industrial complex in environmental devastation. The US is a global leader on this front with the Pentagon being a bigger polluter than 140 countries combined.

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2021-11-23). NAM: How the Military-Industrial Complex Sidelined Peace and Disarmament. libya360.wordpress.com ND Jayaprakash The untiring efforts of Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, Indonesian President Sukarno, Yugoslav President Josip Broz Tito, Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser, and Ghanaian President Kwame Nkrumah, salvaged the objects and purpose of the Bandung Conference in 1961. That year, 25 countries—eleven each from Asia and Africa and Yugoslavia, Cuba, and Cyprus—formed the Non-Aligned Movement…

José Manuel Blanco Diaz (2021-11-23). Venezuela's CNE Issues 2nd Report: PSUV Sweeps Vast Majority of Mayoralties. orinocotribune.com This Monday, November 22, the president of Venezuela's National Electoral Council (CNE), Pedro Calzadilla, issued results from the municipal elections that were held, alongside regional elections, across the country on November 21. | "For the positions of mayors, we have 322 of the 335 positions in dispute, 322 of these can be judged. Of these, 205 are for the PSUV, 59 to MUD, 37 to the Democratic Alliance, and 21 to other parties and alliances," Calzadilla said. | On the regional level, the leadership of 18 state governments were won by President Maduro's United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV), while candida…

Peoples Dispatch (2021-11-23). Chavismo's victory in Venezuela's subnational elections hailed across region. peoplesdispatch.org Leftist and progressive leaders across the region hailed the victory of the Great Patriotic Pole (GPP), a coalition of the ruling United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) and other Chavista forces. The GPP won overwhelmingly in the elections held on Sunday…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2021-11-23). Raids, Arrests and Death Threats: Israel's Strategy of Silencing Human Rights Defenders. libya360.wordpress.com Ramzy Baroud and Romana Rubeo On October 21, Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz announced the issuance of a military order designating six prominent Palestinian human rights groups as 'terrorist organizations'. Gantz claimed that they are secretly linked to the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), a socialist political group that Israel considers, along…

_____ (2021-11-22). The US is Preparing a Biological Time Bomb in Kazakhstan. journal-neo.org The Open Regulations website and the website of the Ministry of Industry and Infrastructural Development of the Republic of Kazakhstan recently published information on the Kazakh government's intention to build a "BSL-4 laboratory and underground storage facility for a collection of dangerous and highly dangerous strains" in the south of the country in the Korday …

John Feffer (2021-11-22). Far Right Institutional Power Isn't Inevitable. Here's How Leftists Can Win. zcomm.org There is this great opportunity for the left to assert a bold and visionary policy about not just mitigating the effects of climate change but effectively using climate change as a lever for economic transformation…

_____ (2021-11-22). What Would Have Worked Better Than Building Back Anything. popularresistance.org The BBB bill, as originally conceived, was a minimal sort of social needs proposal, pathetically far behind the norm on the planet, originally costing about a third of U.S. military spending (across all departments and agencies of military spending, and treating both BBB and military spending in terms of annual cost, rather than multiplying only the former by 10 as is the custom). BBB has now been cut to (depending on how you count it) a sixth of military spending and with — wait for it — no, it's really worth the wait — wait for it — tax cuts for the mega-wealthy thrown in during the proc…

_____ (2021-11-22). The Amazon Army And The 1919-1922 Kansas Coal Strikes. popularresistance.org The struggle of the miners and the Amazon Army appears in no major labor history book. I decided to leave it out in my first book When Workers Shot Back (Ovetz, 2019) due to the lack of documentary evidence to write an entire chapter on it. This oversight is a mistake. The Amazon Army has much to teach us today about the interconnected struggle between waged and unwaged workers, immigrant and native labor, productive and reproductive labor, industrial unionism and organizing for power on the shopfloor, and the use of labor law and unions as a strategy for managing and suppressing class struggle.

WSWS (2021-11-22). Australia: Overloaded Victorian hospital system narrowly avoids Code Red. wsws.org The state Labor government has only been able to carry out its dangerous policy to prematurely open up the economy because of the health unions' opposition to any mobilisation of their members against it.

Joris Leverink (2021-11-22). Economic Update: Chris Hedges & US Prisons. roarmag.org On this week's show, Prof. Wolff presents updates on how South Dakota is leading the US to become world's number-two tax haven; how the pandemic's economic shock was cut by very "uncapitalistic" means; why employers want the government to pay workers to go back to work; and how libertarians mistake puppets for puppeteers. | The second half of the show features an interview with Chris Hedges on lessons for us from US prisons and prisoners. | You can support this show on

_____ (2021-11-22). 'Ideological Fanatacism': The Folly of Seeing Human Systems as Hardware. strategic-culture.org The 'meme-politics of lockdown and vaccine mandates' may be fading, but the inflation meme and the economic aftermath meme has only just begun. | Fifteen years ago, a man who was head of the GW Bush White House bio-terrorism study group, and a special adviser to the President, unexpectedly found himself propelled into becoming the 'father' of pandemic planning, after Bush had come to his bioterrorism people to demand some huge plan to deal with some imagined calamity. "We need a whole-of-society plan. What are you going to do about foreign borders? And travel? And commerce?". From his perch of influence — s…

William Rivers Pitt (2021-11-22). GOP May Be Feeling Smug About 2022, But Trump Remains an Unpredictable Wild Card. truthout.org One year ago today, Donald Trump was three weeks into his ongoing I'm Not Crying You're Crying post-defeat revenge tour, and the Republican herd was nervous. They knew this predator all too well. Trump feasted on the flesh of friend and foe with equal delight, he hardly seemed to sleep, and with dreaded irrelevance staring him dead in the face (along with the possibility of poverty and prison), he was more motivated than ever before. | "Trump's attacks on Govs. Brian Kemp of Georgia and Mike DeWine Ohio —…

WSWS (2021-11-22). New Zealand police announce they have photographed bodies in Pike River mine. wsws.org The discovery sparked anger among some families of the 2010 Pike River mine disaster victims, and supporters, who questioned why the Labour Party-led government had sealed the mine, preventing the recovery of the 29 men who died.

Joris Leverink (2021-11-22). Anti-Capitalist Chronicles: The Coercive Laws of Competition. roarmag.org Season 3, Episode 25 — The Coercive Laws of Competition: | In this episode of ACC, Prof. Harvey examines two schools of thought within the Marxist tradition, one that focuses on the falling rate of profit, and the other that explores the rising mass. Harvey argues that both schools miss an important contradiction that separates each of them from the other: the role of competition. The coercive laws of competition are crucial for both falling rate of profit and rising mass. He explains why. | You can support this podcast on

_____ (2021-11-22). A Stain On The George Washington University Name. popularresistance.org Our newest report, "The Regulatory Studies Center: A Stain on the George Washington University Name," delves into the Koch and ExxonMobil funded RSC, which has repeatedly acted as a front for fossil fuel interests with a history of using GW's name to provide credibility to climate deniers, fossil fuel cronies, and other discredited backers of pseudoscience. The report, written by UnKoch My Campus Student Organizer and GW student Jake Lowe, highlights a number of instances of climate disinformation and details how the RSC has played a role in promoting a deregulation agenda that benefits its donors.

_____ (2021-11-22). The Regulatory Studies Center: A Stain On The George Washington University Name. popularresistance.org Our newest report, "The Regulatory Studies Center: A Stain on the George Washington University Name," delves into the Koch and ExxonMobil funded RSC, which has repeatedly acted as a front for fossil fuel interests with a history of using GW's name to provide credibility to climate deniers, fossil fuel cronies, and other discredited backers of pseudoscience. The report, written by UnKoch My Campus Student Organizer and GW student Jake Lowe, highlights a number of instances of climate disinformation and details how the RSC has played a role in promoting a deregulation agenda that benefits its donors.

WSWS (2021-11-22). United Workers Union rams through sell-out at Australian clothing warehouse. wsws.org Country Road workers have returned to work under a union-management agreement that does nothing to address bottom-of-industry wages.

WSWS (2021-11-22). Left Bloc pleads for alliance with Socialist Party in Portuguese elections. wsws.org After voting against its budget, The Left Bloc is campaigning for an ever closer relationship with the Socialist Party and its pro-austerity politics.

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2021-11-22). Venezuela: Chavismo Triumphs Electorally Despite Difficulties. libya360.wordpress.com Yoselina Guevara On Sunday, November 21, the candidates of the Gran Polo Patriotico coalition and the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV), representing the political force of the current Venezuelan government, managed to defeat the opposition parties, which, although divided, participated again in the voting after they had successively withdrawn since 2017 in an effort…

WSWS (2021-11-22). Unite's "new and improved offer" at Arriva North Wales: another de facto pay cut. wsws.org The World Socialist Web Site urges Arriva drivers in North Wales to vote down Unite's wretched pay deal concocted with the company.

_____ (2021-11-22). The US is Preparing a Biological Time Bomb in Kazakhstan. journal-neo.org The Open Regulations website and the website of the Ministry of Industry and Infrastructural Development of the Republic of Kazakhstan recently published information on the Kazakh government's intention to build a "BSL-4 laboratory and underground storage facility for a collection of dangerous and highly dangerous strains" in the south of the country in the Korday …

John Feffer (2021-11-22). Far Right Institutional Power Isn't Inevitable. Here's How Leftists Can Win. zcomm.org There is this great opportunity for the left to assert a bold and visionary policy about not just mitigating the effects of climate change but effectively using climate change as a lever for economic transformation…

WSWS (2021-11-22). Australia: Overloaded Victorian hospital system narrowly avoids Code Red. wsws.org The state Labor government has only been able to carry out its dangerous policy to prematurely open up the economy because of the health unions' opposition to any mobilisation of their members against it.

WSWS (2021-11-22). New Zealand police announce they have photographed bodies in Pike River mine. wsws.org The discovery sparked anger among some families of the 2010 Pike River mine disaster victims, and supporters, who questioned why the Labour Party-led government had sealed the mine, preventing the recovery of the 29 men who died.

WSWS (2021-11-22). United Workers Union rams through sell-out at Australian clothing warehouse. wsws.org Country Road workers have returned to work under a union-management agreement that does nothing to address bottom-of-industry wages.

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2021-11-22). Venezuela: Chavismo Triumphs Electorally Despite Difficulties. libya360.wordpress.com Yoselina Guevara On Sunday, November 21, the candidates of the Gran Polo Patriotico coalition and the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV), representing the political force of the current Venezuelan government, managed to defeat the opposition parties, which, although divided, participated again in the voting after they had successively withdrawn since 2017 in an effort…

Ramzy Baroud, Romana Rubeo (2021-11-22). Raids, Arrests and Death Threats: Israel's Strategy of Silencing Human Rights Defenders. dissidentvoice.org On October 21, Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz announced the issuance of a military order designating six prominent Palestinian human rights groups as 'terrorist organizations'. Gantz claimed that they are secretly linked to the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), a socialist political group that Israel considers, along with most Palestinian political parties, …

WSWS (2021-11-22). Unite's "new and improved offer" at Arriva North Wales: another de facto pay cut. wsws.org The World Socialist Web Site urges Arriva drivers in North Wales to vote down Unite's wretched pay deal concocted with the company.

WSWS (2021-11-22). Left Bloc pleads for alliance with Socialist Party in Portuguese elections. wsws.org After voting against its budget, The Left Bloc is campaigning for an ever closer relationship with the Socialist Party and its pro-austerity politics.

_____ (2021-11-21). The Choking Of The Global Minotaur. popularresistance.org The supply disruptions plaguing the US economy are not the result of "excessive demand," "central planning," or a lack of efficiency. Rather, it is that a logistics ecosystem that was developed to feed the beast of American consumption was not designed for a pandemic.

Nitza Soledad Perez (2021-11-21). U.S. shoppers face "meatflation" following economy reopening. america.cgtn.com The supply chain issues and high prices on goods ranging from electronics to produce have become all-too common for U.S. families as the economy emerges from pandemic shutdowns. Meat is part of this trend — with meat prices rising at their fastest rate in …

Prof Michel Chossudovsky (2021-11-21). Video: The 2020-2021 Economic Crisis. Global Poverty, Unemployment and Despair. globalresearch.ca

Florence CGTN (2021-11-21). Revamping Chinatown neighborhoods in NYC. america.cgtn.com Earlier this month, Chinatown in Manhattan was awarded a $20 million state grant to help redevelop New York's oldest Asian American neighborhood. It's hoped the work will help attract more visitors to the area, which has been hit by both the economic impact of …

_____ (2021-11-21). On Contact: Struggle Against Industrial Agriculture. popularresistance.org On the show, Chris Hedges discusses the struggle against industrial agriculture with author Daniel J. O'Connell. The San Joaquin Valley in California is the most agriculturally productive farmland in the United States, but it is also plagued by high levels of poverty and water pollution, as well as the serious health risks that come with …

Editor2 (2021-11-21). Climate Change and Nicaragua: Who Will Pay for the Damage? orinocotribune.com By Rick Kohn — Nov 18, 2021 | To people in developing countries, it seems clear, the wealthy countries that caused most of the problem of climate change should pay the most to adapt to it and to solve the problem. But instead, countries like the United States lecture low low-emitting countries to do more while they extract their resources and destroy their forests. | For example, Nicaragua was an outspoken critic of the 2015 Paris climate talks because they did not go far enough. It is one of the countries most impacted by climate change, yet its own greenhouse gas footprint is one of the smallest. Nicaragua…

Staff (2021-11-21). Biden wants an 'autonomous' Europe that spends more on defense. rt.com NATO members in Europe should "absolutely" become more autonomous from the US, meaning they should spend more on military and buy American weapons systems, a senior State Department official has said. | The continued failure by the Europeans to allocate a bigger share of their GDP on defense means that the gap between their combined military capability and that of the US only grows, State Department Counselor Derek Chollet

Andy Kroll (2021-11-21). The Costs of War (to You). tomdispatch.com As a Navy spouse of 10 years and counting, my life offers an up-close view of our country's priorities when it comes to infrastructure and government spending. Recently, my husband, a naval officer currently serving with the Department of Energy, spent a week with colleagues touring a former nuclear testing site about 65 miles north of Las Vegas. Between 1951 and 1957, the U.S. conducted more than 1,000 nuclear tests in those 680 square miles of desert and only stopped when scientists began urging that the tests be halted because of soaring cancer rates among the downwind residents of Arizona, Nevada, and Utah. M…

Staff (2021-11-21). General explains why US lags behind China & Russia in hypersonic missiles. rt.com The US is behind China and Russia when it comes to hypersonic weapons, a top Space Force general has said, citing bureaucracy and concerns over spending as some of the reasons for the lag. | "We're not as advanced as the Chinese or the Russians in terms of hypersonic programs," General David Thompson, the vice chief of space operations, told an audience at the Halifax International Security Forum on Saturday. "We have catching up to do very quickly." | Read more | | Thompson mentioned bureaucrac…

Peoples Dispatch (2021-11-21). Bolivian government repeals law being used as a pretext for destabilization by right-wing. peoplesdispatch.org The Bolivian government abrogated Law 1386 of the National Strategy to Combat the Legitimization of Illicit Profits and the Financing of Terrorism, which the members of far-right civic committees and the opposition had used as a pretext to strike, mobilize and block roads…

Tanya Wadhwa (2021-11-21). Sunday's landmark election will decide the future of Chile. peoplesdispatch.org Sunday's general elections offer Chileans another opportunity to consolidate the process of change, initiated during the October 2019 social uprising against decades of neoliberal policies and glaring social inequalities…

teleSUR (2021-11-21). Venezuela Election Update: Socialist Party Notes People's Vote. telesurenglish.net On Sunday, 21.1 million Venezuelans are entitled to elect 23 governors, 335 mayors, 253 state legislators, and 2,471 councilors. For the first time since 2007, opposition parties participate in the democratic process and call on the population to go to the polling stations. The main events of this electoral event are presented below according to their occurrence at local time. | RELATED: | 16.30. United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV)…

teleSUR (2021-11-21). Live Updates: Chile Votes 2021. telesurenglish.net On Sunday, 15 million Chileans are called upon to elect their new president, 155 lawmakers, 27 senators, and 302 regional councilors for the 2022-2026 term. The presidential candidates who are more likely to win are not part of either the Independent Democratic Union or the Socialist Party, which have formed the coalitions that have taken turns in the exercise of power since 1990. The main events of this electoral event are presented below according to their occurrence at local time. | Citizens work today as poll workers at the Colegio Seminario Pontificio Menor electoral college in the Las Condes commune, in Santi…

Kathy Fairfax (2021-11-21). Socialist draws biggest applause at mayoral candidate meeting. greenleft.org.au The Supercar race, council transparency and Stockton's sand erosion problems were key discussion topics at a lord mayoral candidates' forum organised by Hunter Community Forum. Kathy Fairfax reports.

Kathy Fairfax (2021-11-21). Socialist draws biggest applause at mayoral candidate meeting. greenleft.org.au The Supercar race, council transparency and Stockton's sand erosion problems were key discussion topics at a lord mayoral candidates' forum organised by Hunter Community Forum. Kathy Fairfax reports.

James K. Galbraith (2021-11-21). The Choking of the Global Minotaur. zcomm.org The supply disruptions plaguing the US economy are the result of a logistics ecosystem that was developed to feed the beast of American consumption was not designed for a pandemic…

Editor2 (2021-11-21). Climate Change and Nicaragua: Who Will Pay for the Damage? orinocotribune.com By Rick Kohn — Nov 18, 2021 | To people in developing countries, it seems clear, the wealthy countries that caused most of the problem of climate change should pay the most to adapt to it and to solve the problem. But instead, countries like the United States lecture low low-emitting countries to do more while they extract their resources and destroy their forests. | For example, Nicaragua was an outspoken critic of the 2015 Paris climate talks because they did not go far enough. It is one of the countries most impacted by climate change, yet its own greenhouse gas footprint is one of the smallest. Nicaragua…

Staff (2021-11-21). Biden wants an 'autonomous' Europe that spends more on defense. rt.com NATO members in Europe should "absolutely" become more autonomous from the US, meaning they should spend more on military and buy American weapons systems, a senior State Department official has said. | The continued failure by the Europeans to allocate a bigger share of their GDP on defense means that the gap between their combined military capability and that of the US only grows, State Department Counselor Derek Chollet

Staff (2021-11-21). General explains why US lags behind China & Russia in hypersonic missiles. rt.com The US is behind China and Russia when it comes to hypersonic weapons, a top Space Force general has said, citing bureaucracy and concerns over spending as some of the reasons for the lag. | "We're not as advanced as the Chinese or the Russians in terms of hypersonic programs," General David Thompson, the vice chief of space operations, told an audience at the Halifax International Security Forum on Saturday. "We have catching up to do very quickly." | Read more | | Thompson mentioned bureaucrac…

Terry Evans (2021-11-20). John Deere strikers vote on third contract offer. themilitant.com Over 10,000 striking members of the United Auto Workers union at John Deere are voting Nov. 17 on a third company contract offer recommended by union officials. Workers struck the company's 12 plants Oct. 14, rejecting a contract that expanded to three the different tiers of pay and benefits. The divisive two-tier setup was first forced on workers at the company in 1997. | Union officials said this third contract offer contains only "modest modifications" to the one striking workers rejected by 55% Nov. 2. It had included higher wages and other concessions by the bosses, but nothing new on the key issue of tiers…

WSWS (2021-11-20). Democratic Socialists of America congressman Jamaal Bowman votes for Israel's Iron Dome, visits with right-wing Prime Minister Naftali Bennett. wsws.org The DSA's congressional support for Israel's Iron Dome armament program is further confirmation that the organization is a faction of the Democratic Party, a supporter of imperialism and a facilitator of war crimes against the population of Palestine.

Fight Back (2021-11-20). Freedom Road Socialist Organization condemns the acquittal of Kyle Rittenhouse. fightbacknews.org FRSO strongly condemns the acquittal of Kyle Rittenhouse on all charges. This verdict is another example of how the police and courts work hand in hand with racist vigilantes to kill and injure African Americans, other oppressed nationalities, and all who try to fight to end police crimes. | In August of 2020, Jacob Blake, a young African American man, was shot in the back four times and three times in the side in by a white police officer Kenosha, Wisconsin. Coming less than two months after the killing of George Floyd, another uprising took place, with the African American community and supporters battling poli…

_____ (2021-11-20). New Union-Busting Tracker Debuts Online. popularresistance.org Helena, MT. – On Nov. 6, a group of volunteers launched a Web page called the Union-Busting Tracker to post examples of union-busting. Eleven days later, they'd listed 180 separate cases, naming the employers and the union-busting outfits they'd hired. | The project is intended to "embolden" workers, says Bob Funk, who founded the LaborLab.us Website, which opened on May 1. | "A shocking amount of young workers think unions are illegal and don't know their rights," says Funk, who by day is communications director for a Montana union. "The union-busting industry takes advantage of people's lack of knowledge." | Th…

Martina E McMenamin, Benjamin J Cowling (2021-11-20). [Correspondence] CoronaVac efficacy data from Turkey. thelancet.com Mine Tanriover and colleagues1 report that the efficacy of CoronaVac against laboratory-confirmed symptomatic COVID-19 in a trial in Turkey is 83 ∑5% (95% CI 65 ∑4—92 ∑1). By contrast, the efficacy of CoronaVac against symptomatic COVID-19 has been estimated at 50 ∑7% (36 ∑0—62 ∑0) in a Brazilian trial and at 65 ∑3% (20 ∑0—85 ∑1) in an Indonesian trial.2,3 Noting that post-vaccination neutralising antibody titres are quite strongly associated with vaccine efficacy against symptomatic infection,4,5 the efficacy estimated from the Turkish dataset is much higher…

Susan Lamont (2021-11-20). Alabama miners fight court injunction by Warrior Met. themilitant.com ATLANTA — "This is a serious attack on the union," Bryan Butler, a United Mine Workers of America member on strike at Warrior Met Coal in Brookwood, Alabama, told the Militant by phone Nov. 16. He was referring to the restraining order, now extended twice, by Tuscaloosa County Circuit Court Judge James Roberts. | The order, first enacted Oct. 27 at the mine operator's request, and now extended until Dec. 5, bans union activity of any kind, including picketing, within 300 yards of the mines. | It is an assault on the constitutional rights of free assembly and free speech and on the entire labor movement. | T…

WSWS (2021-11-20). Australian state Labor government accelerates "reopening" amid fascistic anti-lockdown protests. wsws.org Trumpian protesters in Victoria, backed by key sections of the corporate elite, are setting an agenda that is in large part being implemented by the state Labor government.

New Atlas (2021-11-20). Thailand's Sufficiency Economy: Eliminating Poverty by Building Sustainable Wealth. newatlas.report Forward: This is an in-depth English language explanation of Thailand's New Theory and Sufficiency Economy principles, developed and promoted by King Bhumibol Adulyadej (King Rama 9) across the nation to eliminate poverty and create local, sustainable wealth. These principles live on under his son, King Vajiralongkorn (King Rama 10), who continues to promote these principles …

Prof Michel Chossudovsky (2021-11-20). Video: #Yes, It's a "Killer Vaccine": Michel Chossudovsky. globalresearch.ca The unspoken truth is that the novel coronavirus provides a pretext to powerful financial interests and corrupt politicians to precipitate the entire World into a spiral of mass unemployment, bankruptcy, extreme poverty and despair.

Jake Johnson (2021-11-20). COVID-19: Big Pharma's 'Obscene' Profits. orinocotribune.com By Jake Johnson — Nov 18, 2021 | Moderna, Pfizer and BioNTech rake in millions an hour while refusing to share manufacturing recipes with low-income countries. | Moderna, Pfizer and BioNTech — the makers of the two most successful coronavirus vaccines — are raking in a combined $65,000 in profits every minute as they refuse to share their manufacturing recipes with According to a new People's Vaccine All…

The Lancet (2021-11-20). [Editorial] Afghanistan: the international community must act. thelancet.com "It is going to be hell on Earth." Afghanistan is set to become the world's worst humanitarian crisis according to David Beasley, head of the World Food Programme. Nearly half of Afghans need humanitarian aid. 22 ∑8 million people could face acute hunger this winter, with 8 ∑7 million at emergency levels of food insecurity. A resulting refugee crisis is likely to affect Afghanistan, the region, and the rest of the world. In desperation, people are selling their assets, and some are resorting to child labour and child marriage.

WSWS (2021-11-20). New Zealand's Daily Blog seeks to legitimise anti-lockdown, anti-vaccination protests. wsws.org The Daily Blog, which supports the Labour Party-led government, published an article praising a recent rally organised by the far-right Destiny Church for raising "genuine, valid concerns" about COVID-19 vaccines.

Fight Back (2021-11-20). Climate Justice Committee-MN: Statement on the COP 26 Summit. fightbacknews.org Fight Back News Service is circulating the following statement from the Climate Justice Committee-MN. | The climate summit in Glasgow, Scotland ended with an agreement that leaves the earth on a disastrous track toward catastrophic warming and crisis. Once again, the interests of the fossil fuel companies, and wealthy countries were protected at the expense of most of the countries of the world. All the world, but particularly the Global South and island nations are already experiencing the most horrendous effects of climate change including floods, hurricanes, life threatening heat waves, food shortages and fire…

WSWS (2021-11-20). House Democrats pass stripped-down social welfare bill with massive tax cut for the rich. wsws.org The Congressional Budget Office estimates that the tax windfall for the wealthy will cost the federal government $285 billion over the 10-year span covered by the bill, making it the second most costly item in the legislation.

Seth Galinsky (2021-11-20). SWP pushes to go over 100% in books, fund 'Militant' drive. themilitant.com Less than a week is left in the drive to expand the readership of the Militant and With no end in sight to the dire impact of rising prices and with a number of strikes continuing against bosses' assaults on our wages and conditions, more wor…

Sam Pizzigati (2021-11-20). Our new art 'appreciation,' billionaire-style. nationofchange.org Fine art has never been more financially lucrative — or less central to our culture.

Dean Baker (2021-11-20). "Skimpflation," the Latest Effort to Hype Inflation Fears. cepr.net Yesterday I head a piece on NPR in which they highlighted "skimpflation." This is where there is a deterioration in service quality, like long waits for service at a restaurant, which are not picked up in our standard measures of inflation. The implication is that the Consumer Price Index (CPI) is understating the true rate …

Ajamu Baraka (2021-11-20). COP26: greenwashing and Plutocratic misadventures. mronline.org COP26 reaffirmed what has been obvious from the beginning: the Northern colonial and capitalist states most responsible for creating the climate crisis are unwilling to place people before profits in order to address the planet's looming ecological collapse and humanitarian catastrophe.

Brian Williams (2021-11-20). Moderna fights US gov't over patent and profits. themilitant.com Profit-driven bosses at Moderna have iced out of the main patent for its COVID-19 vaccine the scientists from the federal government's National Institutes of Health, which helped pay for and develop it. The fight over this patent exposes the dog-eat-dog morality of capitalism, where all so-called health care is a business organized primarily to maximize profits, not save lives. | Moderna filed for the patent in July, claiming the company invented the mRNA technology used in its vaccine. It entirely excluded the scientists from the federal agency's Vaccine Research Center who helped develop the genetic sequence th…

Chris Nineham (2021-11-20). Philosophers with no clothes: A Review of 'The War Against Marxism'. mronline.org Tony McKenna's new book is an important defence of Marxism, against thinkers who have confused and obscured its revolutionary core, argues Chris Nineham…

_____ (2021-11-20). Industrial Nations Value Capitalism Over People At Climate Conference. popularresistance.org The cataclysms of the interlinked crises of COVID and climate change were elucidated this past year in ways that cannot be repudiated. Following the release of the International Panel on Climate Change's (IPPC) most recent report on the state of global warming, UN Secretary General, Antonio Guterres characterized it as, "a code red for humanity ." In short, the report found that absent immediate and decisive measures to address planetary warming, the worst-case scenarios of climate change will be soon realized for both the physical environment and the social systems that depend on it. These admonishments should h…

_____ (2021-11-20). Industrial Nations Value Capitalism Over People at Global Climate Conference. popularresistance.org When considering the need to end government subsidies for fossil fuels, especially coal, the language of the agreement was switched from "phase out," to "phase down." And while this language change was publicly attributed to India, the United States, which provides an estimated $22 billion annually in fossil fuel subsidies is culpable and certainly not beyond reproach. The tentacles of U.S. influence and coercion was present in every decision made at the COP.

Lixue Huang, Xiaoying Gu, Bin Cao (2021-11-20). [Correspondence] Long-term effects on survivors with COVID-19 — Authors' reply. thelancet.com Yan-Jie Zhao and colleagues and Chengliang Yang and colleagues all recommend specific questionnaires to evaluate depression and anxiety symptoms in hospital survivors with COVID-19 1 year after onset.1 We agree that the professional questionnaires could provide the actual prevalence of psychiatric symptoms. However, these questionnaires are somewhat complex and time-consuming. It is challenging to integrate all these assessments into our follow-up study.1 The EuroQol five-dimension five-level (EQ-5D-5L) questionnaire is commonly used to assess the quality of life from five domains in clinical studies.

_____ (2021-11-20). Why Seed Companies Fear México. popularresistance.org Orange, California – Last month México's Supreme Court provided hope for biodiversity, especially in the Global South, while flaming fear for seed companies. In a historic step, it ruled for corn advocates and against genetically modified (GMO) corn. The decision was a momentous act in country where maíz (corn) carries daily and sacred significance. | This promises a way out of stale GMO debates that plague us. One side argues that genetic changes to seeds increase harvests. Seed companies and industrial agriculture make up this side. Another side says GMOs damage plant DNA. | Small-scale farmers and environmenta…

Zoe Alexandra (2021-11-20). What role does the military play in climate change? peoplesdispatch.org A gaping hole in the COP26 official agenda was the oversized role of the military industrial complex in environmental devastation. The US is a global leader on this front with the Pentagon being a bigger polluter than 140 countries combined…

Seth Galinsky (2021-11-20). US-organized provocation against Cuba 'fizzles out'. themilitant.com U.S.-government-organized provocations planned in Cuba for Nov. 15 were a failure, as were "sympathy" actions denouncing Cuba's socialist revolution around the world. Opponents of the revolution had hoped to create incidents on the island that would disrupt the reopening of schools and businesses and expanded tourism scheduled that day. | Striking a blow to the U.S. rulers' plans, Cubans celebrated the tremendous progress the country has made in confronting the COVID-19 pandemic despite Washington's stepped-up sanctions, which make it difficult to purchase raw materials and even syringes. Tens of thousands of ele…

A Guest Author (2021-11-20). No Trans Liberation without Socialism and No Socialism without Trans Liberation! workers.org Statement by the LGBTQ+ Caucus of Workers World Party Second Annual Boston Trans Resistance March, June 12. The LGBTQ+ (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans, Queer+) Caucus of Workers World Party condemns the ongoing murders of transgender, Two-Spirit and gender-variant people. We reaffirm our solidarity with transgender, Two-Spirit and gender-variant people, as . . . |

Author Blank (2021-11-20). 'Cuban socialist revolution's example is due to its working people's strength'. themilitant.com The remarks below by Mary-Alice Waters, on behalf of the Socialist Workers Party, were made at a Nov. 10 meeting of opponents of the U.S. government embargo of Cuba held at the Cuban Mission to the United Nations in New York City. Pedro Pedroso, Cuba's ambassador to the U.N., addressed the event, followed by Waters and several other participants. | First of all, I'd like to thank Ambassador Pedroso, Ambassador [Yuri] Gala, and all the compañeros here at the Cuban Mission to the United Nations. | To thank you for this opportunity to share our determination to stand together in face of this phase of Washington's mo…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2021-11-20). NAM and Nehru's Principled Stand. libya360.wordpress.com ND Jayaprakash One development that had a significant bearing on shaping a non-aligned policy was Nehru's visit to the United States in October 1949. The US administration timed the visit to coincide with the ascendancy of the Communist Party to power in China. According to Prof HW Brands of the University of Texas at Austin,…