(2021-11-17). FBI & CDC investigate 'smallpox' vials at big pharma facility — media. rt.com 
The FBI and CDC have launched a probe after several "questionable vials" labeled as "smallpox" were discovered in a freezer at a lab near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, according to an alert obtained by Yahoo News. | The 15 mysterious vials were found on Tuesday night at a Merck laboratory,
(2021-11-17). Tigray Militia Is Able To Capture Ethiopia's Main Trade Route. southfront.org 
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(2021-11-17). Glasgow's "Conference Of The Polluters" Again Confirms That Global Arson Needs Local Fire Extinguishers. popularresistance.org The United Nations COP26 Glasgow Climate Pact signed on November 14 is another confirmation of what we learned in Durban in 2011, at the 17th UN climate summit. As expressed by Indigenous activist Ta'Kaiya Blaney (from the Tla A'min Nation in western Canada): 'COP26 is a performance. It is an illusion constructed to save the capitalist economy rooted in resource extraction and colonialism.'
(2021-11-17). The world stands with Cuba. peoplesdispatch.org 
The US-backed counter-revolutionary protests planned for November 15 in Cuba fell flat as the Caribbean country reopened its borders to tourists and its schools on the same day. The Cuban people blatantly rejected being a part of the US destabilization attempt and proved that they are more concerned about the reopening of the economy and the return to normalcy after a year and a half of restrictions due to the COVID-19 pandemic. | A small number of people in a few cities took to the streets as a part of the "Civic March for Change", called for by an NGO called Archipiélago in 10 cities across Cuba. Videos shared…
(2021-11-17). Canada admits aerosols are major source of COVID-19 transmission after nearly two years of denying it. wsws.org Canada's government has hitherto dismissed the role of aerosols in COVID-19's spread, because to do so underlines the reckless and homicidal character of its drive to "reopen" the economy in the midst of a deadly pandemic.
(2021-11-17). 7 Things To Know About How Wallace/Warith Dean Muhammad Removed Nation-Building From NOI. moguldom.com During his tenure as the leader of the Nation of Islam from 1934 until his death in 1975, Elijah Muhammad promoted the philosophy of self-help, building the NOI into an economic powerhouse worth millions of dollars. He did so by encouraging members to grow their own personal wealth as well as the wealth of the …
(2021-11-17). As farmers protest in Sri Lanka after fertilizer ban, experts warn of food crisis. peoplesdispatch.org Fresh protests by farmers took place on November 10 in the aftermath of the Rajapaksa government's ban on chemical fertilizers earlier this year which has added to the country's ongoing economic crisis…
(2021-11-17). Imperialist powers hold Libya "peace" conference, 10 years after NATO war. wsws.org The same powers professing their commitment to Libyan "self-determination" plunged what was previously among Africa's wealthiest countries into a bloody civil war.
(2021-11-17). 'Reckless' FDA and Big Pharma Greed Blamed for Medicare Premium Hike. scheerpost.com 
By Jake Johnson / Common Dreams Medicare Part B recipients will soon be hit with one of the biggest premium increases in the history of the government program, a hike driven in large part by the Food and Drug Administration's scandalous approval of a costly—and, according to many experts, dubious—Alzheimer's drug. "Medicare's inability to negotiate lower drug prices means that Big …
(2021-11-17). Colossal Financial Pyramid: BlackRock and The WEF "Great Reset" globalresearch.ca First published by …
(2021-11-17). NYT Gives Steven Rattner a Victory Lap on Inflation Prediction. cepr.net We're getting a lot of "I told you so's" on inflation in recent days. Yesterday, it was Larry Summers in the Washington Post, today we get Steven Rattner in a New York Times column. Their story is that the 6.4 percent year over year inflation shown in the October CPI proves that their warnings about …
(2021-11-17). Podcast Ep 47: Why we have to talk about Zionism. electronicintifada.net Professor David Miller was sacked by University of Bristol over criticism of Israeli policy.
(2021-11-17). New Report on 'Grocery Cartels' Details Exploitive Retailer Monopolies. zcomm.org The grocery and food processing industries have "created an illusion of choice and efficiency to disguise their profiteering off of the American consumer, who is unwillingly asked to trade abundance for resilience."
(2021-11-17). Profit instead of science: The German government's COVID-19 policy. wsws.org A letter signed by dozens of prominent scientists and sent to Germany's federal government sharply criticized the political establishment's failure to prevent mass infection and deaths.
(2021-11-17). 'We Need to Get Our Priorities Right'. zcomm.org "Isn't it strange how even as we end the longest war in our nation's history concerns about the deficit and national debt seem to melt away under the influence of the powerful military-industrial complex?"
(2021-11-17). SouthFront Is a Crowdfunded Endeavour. southfront.org 
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(2021-11-17). The eco-politics of the sublime: nature, environmentalism, and Covid-ecology. mronline.org 
A conception of the sublime, liberated from its racist, sexist and domineering classic form, should form a part of any ecosocialist imaginary.
(2021-11-16). Hidden U.S. War Crimes in Syria. liberationnews.org 
Brian Becker, Esther Iverem, Nicole Roussell and Walter Smolarek discuss a newly-revealed US war crime in Syria that took the lives of over 60 civilians, causing shock and outrage around the world.
(2021-11-16). As war wages, CSTO again forgets that Armenia is a member state. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com As it did last year and this July. Heaven help CSTO members Belarus and Tajikistan. === CSTO says the conflict should be solved through only political — diplomatic methods "The CSTO attentively follows the situation. The Secretariat has not received an official application from Armenia. We think the conflict should be solved only through political …
(2021-11-16). 'Build Back Better will worsen inflation': Another lie about the Biden agenda. peoplesworld.org 
The drama over the Build Back Better Act has revealed the power of narrative in our political landscape. It is not enough to put forward policy proposals that actually help people, pay for them with taxes on the wealthiest, and then try to pass those proposals into law. You also need to fight a destructive, …
(2021-11-16). After Bipartisan Bill, Progressives Demand Fast Passage of Build Back Better Act. truthout.org 
As President Joe Biden signed the bipartisan infrastructure framework into law Monday, progressives both inside and out of Congress called for the swift passage of his social investment and climate policy agenda, demanding that right-wing Democrats
(2021-11-16). Upend this damaging narrative about spending. nationofchange.org Polls say Americans should love the Build Back Better Act — but most are only hearing talking points about its price tag.
(2021-11-16). Extreme Temperatures from Climate Change Will Harm Workers. cepr.net Policies aimed at addressing the harms of climate change on labor must consider the economic impacts, such as decreased labor productivity and monetary economic losses, and the harms to workers' health.
(2021-11-16). The Labor Upsurge Of The 1930s And '40s In The U.S. popularresistance.org Union growth tends to take place in huge waves. As the most astute analysts have noted, during normal times very little seems to happen. Then, often unexpectedly, enormous gains are made. To be sure, there is plenty that organizers can do during the quieter times, not only to make important, if seemingly small gains, but also to prepare for the massive gains that will come with the next upsurge. It is our belief that most workers want and all workers need and benefit from unions. But what holds back union growth during normal times?
(2021-11-16). The Labor Upsurge Of The 1930s And '40s In The US. popularresistance.org Union growth tends to take place in huge waves. As the most astute analysts have noted, during normal times very little seems to happen. Then, often unexpectedly, enormous gains are made. To be sure, there is plenty that organizers can do during the quieter times, not only to make important, if seemingly small gains, but also to prepare for the massive gains that will come with the next upsurge. It is our belief that most workers want and all workers need and benefit from unions. But what holds back union growth during normal times? | Two interrelated factors hold back the growth of unions. First, the initial dev…
(2021-11-16). NPR deletes 'race obsessed' tweet over Asian mayor's victory. rt.com 
NPR has apologized for "causing harm" with a tweet implying that newly-inaugurated Boston Mayor Michelle Wu's victory was "a disappointment" as she is not black. | Wu was sworn in as Boston's mayor on Tuesday, becoming the first woman and first non-white person to lead the city after an unbroken century of white, male mayors. Kim Janey, a black woman, had been filling in as mayor since Marty Walsh was appointed labor secretary by President Joe Biden in March. | For NPR, however, Wu's victory was apparently overshadowed by the fact that she defeated three black candidates along the way. "While many are hailing…
(2021-11-16). Autumn strike wave pits workers against the corporatist trade unions. wsws.org The resurgence of the class struggle has clearly exposed the real character of the "unions," which are better described as labor syndicates—corporatist instruments of management and the state dedicated to the suppression of working-class opposition.
(2021-11-16). Glasgow's 'Conference of the Polluters' again confirms that global arson needs local fire extinguishers. zcomm.org 'COP26 is a performance. It is an illusion constructed to save the capitalist economy rooted in resource extraction and colonialism.'
(2021-11-16). "The Great Reset" Is Here: Follow the Money. "Insane Lockdown" of the Global Economy, "The Green Agenda" globalresearch.ca The top-down reorganization of the world economy by a technocratic cabal led by the group around the Davos World Economic Forum— the so-called Great Reset or UN Agenda 2030— is no future proposal. It is well into actualization as the world remains in insane lockdown for a virus…
(2021-11-16). Australian big business and anti-lockdown movement unite against state government's pandemic bill. wsws.org The hysterical campaign is directed against any, even minimal, public health measures, amid the profit-driven reopening of the economy.
(2021-11-16). BAP Condemns U.S. Sponsorship Of Reactionary Anti-Government Protests Against Cuba. popularresistance.org The US government continues to amplify its war on the Cuban people through political, economic, and media efforts. In their own words, the US State Department has announced its role in organizing reactionary protests in Cuba, scheduled for November 15 as a continuation of the #SOSCuba campaign that began in July. The US has also preemptively threatened to place even more sanctions on Cuba if it deems that the Cuban government has interfered with the protests. As we know, sanctions kill, and while these will be framed as supporting human rights, the 60+-year long blockade and recent Trump and Biden administration…
(2021-11-16). BAP Condemns US Sponsorship Of Anti-Government Protests Against Cuba. popularresistance.org The US government continues to amplify its war on the Cuban people through political, economic, and media efforts. In their own words, the US State Department has announced its role in organizing reactionary protests in Cuba, scheduled for November 15 as a continuation of the #SOSCuba campaign that began in July. The US has also preemptively threatened to place even more sanctions on Cuba if it deems that the Cuban government has interfered with the protests. As we know, sanctions kill, and while these will be framed as supporting human rights, the 60+-year long blockade and recent Trump and Biden administration…
(2021-11-16). China's Sponge Cities: A 'Revolutionary Rethink' To Prevent Flooding. popularresistance.org The survival and development of human society depends on water. In fact, global water demand increased nearly eightfold between 1900—2010 as a result of factors like population growth, economic development and a shift in diet. | But in China, one of the world's fastest growing economies, the vital resource is running out. The country's 1.4 billion population needs water to thrive but it has become limited and unevenly distributed. | After decades of urbanisation and pollution, the country is now faced with both water shortages and flooding – only made worse by the effects of climate change. | And pollution…
(2021-11-16). Militant Solidarity With Cuba On Display In 80+ Cities Worldwide. popularresistance.org Solidarity movements with Cuba, political parties, social groups, and Cuban emigrants in other countries celebrated on Monday the restart of the school year on the island, its economic-productive revival, and the Cuban people's determination to defend their Revolution against destabilizing attempts plotted from the United States. Cuban President, Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, said through Twitter that "solidarity actions in more than 80 cities support the will of the Cuban people to build their own future."
(2021-11-16). "I am Lenin" — Remembering the Bolshevik Revolution from India. orinocotribune.com By Suryashekhar Biswas — Nov 8, 2021 | In 1917, the worker-peasant alliance in economically-backward Russia began the formation of the first state in the world that truly belonged to the hardworking masses. The Bolsheviks led by Vladimir Lenin, displayed to the whole world that it was possible for ordinary people to achieve self-determination. With counter-revolutionaries, loyalists, monarchists and revivalists attempting to purge Russia from within and imperialists waging war from outside, the tale the first "Really Existing Socialism" began under circumstances of great challenge. Nonet…
(2021-11-16). 'I am Lenin' — Remembering the Bolshevik Revolution from India. orinocotribune.com By Suryashekhar Biswas — Nov 8, 2021 | In 1917, the worker-peasant alliance in economically-backward Russia began the formation of the first state in the world that truly belonged to the hardworking masses. The Bolsheviks led by Vladimir Lenin, displayed to the whole world that it was possible for ordinary people to achieve self-determination. With counter-revolutionaries, loyalists, monarchists and revivalists attempting to purge Russia from within and imperialists waging war from outside, the tale the first "Really Existing Socialism" began under circumstances of great challenge. Nonet…
(2021-11-16). The New Inflation Scare Is the Dumbest Thing Since Voodoo Economics. cepr.net Elites are sounding the alarm over threats of inflation in order to block Biden's social spending plan. We shouldn't fall for it.
(2021-11-16). Economic Update: Germany Shifts Left. roarmag.org On this week's show, Prof. Wolff presents updates on Biden's and the Democrats' fading tax reforms; the German and Austrian political shift to the left; Yale's sell-out to rich donors; how product shortages are often deliberate; wages for housework; and real US food inflation. | You can support this show on
(2021-11-16). Elites buy us off with trivial protections while they raid the common wealth. dissidentvoice.org In these posts I try to highlight how our social, cultural and political structures are rigged to reflect the interests of an economic elite and maintain their power. Because the forces that shape those structures are largely invisible — we mainly notice the people and buildings inside these structures — the way power operates can …
(2021-11-16). Argentina Expects To Start Servicing The IMF Debt From 2026. telesurenglish.net Argentina's President Alberto Fernandez announced the preparation of the "Multi-year Economic Program for Sustainable Development" (MEPSD) bill, a fiscal policy instrument that will include new payment conditions for the International Monetary Fund (IMF) loans contracted by President Mauricio Macri (2015 -2019). | Related | "The program contemplates the results of the negotiations between our government and the IMF, which…
(2021-11-16). Biden Administration Is Playing With Fire by Failing to Regulate Cryptocurrency. truthout.org 
The Biden administration declined to establish more stringent rules for part of the mushrooming cryptocurrency industry despite evidence that it could be at the heart of a massive scam which threatens broader economic well-being. | The President's Working Group on Financial Markets, a multiagency initiative tasked with attempting to ensure market orderliness, said in a report released on
(2021-11-16). Millions of Afghans Face Starvation as US and the West Freeze Government Funds. truthout.org 
Humanitarian and economic conditions are rapidly deteriorating in Afghanistan, where the U.N. estimates that more than half of the population suffers from acute hunger. The country has fallen into an economic crisis after the U.S. and other Western countries cut off direct financial assistance to the government following the Taliban takeover in August. Taliban leaders are also unable to access billions of dollars in Afghan national reserves that are held in banks overseas. "Forty million civil…
(2021-11-16). Mexico's President AMLO Slams US Sanctions Against Cuba. telesurenglish.net On Monday, Mexico's President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO) decried the U.S.-led economic blockade against Cuba. | RELATED: | "I think that Cuba should not be isolated, politically speaking. You shouldn't strangle Cubans for deciding to stay in Cuba," Lopez Obrador said, referring to the sanctions the United States has imposed on the island for over half a century. | "I am against the blockade, I think it…
(2021-11-16). "Hell on Earth": Millions of Afghans Face Starvation as U.S. & West Freeze Billions in Gov't Funds. democracynow.org 
Humanitarian and economic conditions are rapidly deteriorating in Afghanistan, where the U.N. estimates that more than half of the population suffers from acute hunger. The country has fallen into an economic crisis after the U.S. and other Western countries cut off direct financial assistance to the government following the Taliban takeover in August. Taliban leaders are also unable to access billions of dollars in Afghan national reserves that are held in banks overseas. "Forty million civilians were left behind when the NATO countries went for the door in August," says Jan Egeland, secretary general of the Nor…
(2021-11-16). Native Americans Need to Be Included in Annual Census Reports on Income and Poverty. cepr.net The Census Bureau should report income and poverty data for Native Americans in its annual reports on income and poverty starting in September 2022.
(2021-11-16). Investor Ross Gerber: It's Time For SEC To Investigate Binance, Customers Locked Out Of Accounts. moguldom.com Ross Gerber, CEO of Gerber Kawasaki Wealth and Investment Management, says Binance is being dishonest about why it blocks users from accessing their accounts and he wants the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to investigate and intervene to protect investors. Gerber's comments came after the platform recently halted withdrawals in a "temporary suspension" that …
(2021-11-16). Big Problems: 5 Signs That Tell Us The Biden Presidency Is At Risk Of Collapsing, Sustained Weak Approval Ratings Expected. moguldom.com Faced with rising consumer prices and stalled campaign promises, U.S. voters aren't too happy with President Joe Biden and it shows as his approval ratings continue to sink. Biden's White House appears to be in disarray. Here are five signs that might indicate that his presidency is at risk of collapsing. 1. Lack of substantive …
(2021-11-16). UPenn Finance Professor Siegel Explains Why Fed Will Toughen Up On Inflation And That's Bad For The Stock Market. moguldom.com The Federal Reserve is likely to change its stance and get tough on inflation, tightening the monetary policy to reign in rising consumer prices that continue to exceed expectations, according to University of Pennsylvania Wharton School finance professor Jeremy Siegel. If the Fed adopts a hawkish stance, it will hurt stock investors who have enjoyed …
(2021-11-16). Rents skyrocket as housing bubble locks people out. greenleft.org.au Home ownership is not an option for many, especially as median house prices are now close to $1 million. Isaac Nellist reports.
(2021-11-16). COP26 Negotiators Do Little To Cut Emissions, But Allow Oil And Gas Executives To Rest Easy. popularresistance.org Many climate advocates and vulnerable nations entered this year's conference hoping to address an enduring failure of the Paris Agreement, which said nothing about fossil fuels. But a draft agreement released on Saturday included only one reference, calling on parties to accelerate phasing out "unabated" coal consumption and "inefficient" subsidies for fossil fuels more broadly. Explicit references to oil and gas were absent.