(2021-12-13). The US is Getting the Public Accustomed to the "Idea" of War with China. newatlas.report December 13, 2021 (The New Atlas) — It is becoming increasingly obvious that US propaganda aimed at demonizing China and poisoning the world against serves to set up a long-discussed limited, conventional conflict waged along China's shores to cripple its economy and prevent it from surpassing the West irreversibly. Western propaganda is even openly discussing this …
(2021-12-13). Headlines for December 13, 2021. democracynow.org Biden Declares Major Federal Disaster in KY; 100+ Feared Dead After Tornadoes Rip Through 8 States, U.S. Health Officials Say Boosters Could Curb Winter COVID Surge as NY Tightens Mask Rules, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa Tests Positive for COVID-19, Over Half a Billion People Faced Extreme Poverty Due to Healthcare Costs During Pandemic, SCOTUS Says Providers Can Sue over Texas Abortion Law But Limits Scope and Keeps Ban in Place, Gov. Gavin Newsom Says He Will Use Texas Abortion Ban as Model for CA Gun Control Laws, NYT: Secret Unit Launched 10,000s of Strikes Against ISIS, Killing Syrian Civilians in…
(2021-12-13). Australian government, Labor opposition greenlight US rendition of Julian Assange. wsws.org There is outraged opposition to Assange's persecution in Australia, but it will find no way forward within the parliamentary set-up.
(2021-12-13). Amazon preparing its next offensive, but it can't bust unions forever. peoplesworld.org 
The National Labor Relations Board, or NLRB, just ruled that a historic union vote among Amazon warehouse workers in Bessemer, Ala., was not valid. The highly publicized vote resulted in a resounding defeat for the union in March 2021, with more than 70% of those voting choosing against union membership. The union accused Amazon of engaging in "efforts to gaslight its …
(2021-12-13). Germany's new chancellor and foreign minister visit Paris and Warsaw: Promoting European Great Power policy. wsws.org The new German government regards a strong European Union as a precondition for an aggressive military foreign policy. This calls for close collaboration with its largest neighbours, France and Poland.
(2021-12-13). COVID-19-related health care expenditure pushed over half billion people into poverty in 2020, say WHO, World Bank. peoplesdispatch.org The numbers are still rising as governments across the world have failed to create vibrant public health care systems and have left the poor and vulnerable to fend for themselves…
(2021-12-13). Venezuelan Central Bank Latest Figures: Hyperinflation Might be Officially Gone Next Month. orinocotribune.com 
Caracas, December 12, 2021 ( According to the most accepted definition of hyperinflation, a country gets out of this phenomenon aft…
(2021-12-13). Germany's new health minister continues "profits before lives" policies. wsws.org Chancellor Olaf Scholz has chosen the SPD deputy and health expert Karl Lauterbach as the future government's new health minister.
(2021-12-13). Kellogg's strikers denounce mass firing threat, two-tier wages from the picket lines in Battle Creek, Michigan. wsws.org Striking Kellogg's workers remain defiant and opposed to any concessions following their rejection of a concessions contract brokered by the BCTGM union.
(2021-12-13). Australia joins the few countries backing the US-led Olympic boycott. wsws.org The decision to join the US-led boycott, as well as purchase military helicopters from the US, highlights the preparations underway for a catastrophic US-led war against China.
(2021-12-13). Canadian Communist movement celebrated in new feature-length documentary. peoplesworld.org 
The life of a Communist Party, in its everyday intensity and historical specificity, too often eludes commemoration. There are meetings, demonstrations, pickets; glowing victories, and momentary defeats. So much remains unwritten in the momentum of revolutionary enthusiasm that it can be astonishing to notice just how far we've come. To celebrate the centenary of the …
(2021-12-12). Incarcerated Journalists Fought Isolation And Illness To Expose Abusive Conditions. popularresistance.org In the summer of 2020 we launched a collaborative writing program to connect incarcerated writers with outside journalists and editors. Our goal was to help them publish their writing in mainstream media publications. | We began only a few weeks after COVID-19 came into San Quentin State Prison, where Rahsaan lives. We knew that COVID-19 would be an incredible threat to people incarcerated, but were unprepared for the devastation and loss ahead. At San Quentin — which became home to the largest outbreak in the country — Rahsaan became infected with the virus and experienced the mental health toll of b…
(2021-12-12). Justice For Cab Drivers! Taxi Drivers Demand Their Money Back From San Francico Officials. indybay.org Taxi cab drivers who have or had medallions protested the MTA and city officials who allowed them be become devalued.
(2021-12-12). China confident economy will meet annual growth target. ecns.cn China is confident that it will meet its 2021 economic growth target of over 6 percent, the country's top economic regulator said on Saturday.
(2021-12-12). 17 mln U.S. workers hit by economic setback in pandemic: report. ecns.cn Nearly 17 million U.S. workers lost their jobs or saw their wages decline in the course of the pandemic, a U.S. report said on Thursday.
(2021-12-12). "Ten crises: The political economy of China's development," by Wen Tiejun. mronline.org 
Wen's vision is of a China which would be increasingly self-reliant, delinking from the American dominated global capitalism and developing its own key technologies and productive capacities, while at the same time continuing to engage with other emerging economies which share a desire to be free of Western neo-imperial control.
(2021-12-12). Budget bill for next year aims at ensuring economic stability. en.mehrnews.com Iranian President Ebrahim Raeisi said on Sunday that the budget bill presented to the Parliament for the next Iranian year of 1401 (starting on March 21, 2022) is aimed at ensuring economic stability.
(2021-12-12). Trends 2022: Our New World Now Demands New Thinking. moderndiplomacy.eu Like a firmly gripped tube of toothpaste, pandemic already squeezed out old economic development models in the drain. The new math now fogs the smoke and mirror economies already in bubble baths dancing on wet-floors. New configurations of efficiencies frighten the daylights out of the bureaucracies, and new logic awakens the populace where new courage …
(2021-12-12). Friday 12/10: Human Rights Day: Take Our Poverty, Not Our Children Houseless Truth Commission w/ NWRU. indybay.org Online teach-in…
(2021-12-12). Colossal Financial Pyramid: BlackRock and The WEF "Great Reset" globalresearch.ca First published by …
(2021-12-12). Chinese AI company objects to blacklisting in U.S. ecns.cn Chinese artificial intelligence company SenseTime Group said on Saturday that it strongly opposed the U.S. government's decision to add it to an investment blacklist over allegations, which the company said are unfounded and reflect a fundamental misunderstanding of its business.
(2021-12-12). 112 WTO members sign statement on investment facilitation negotiations. ecns.cn China and 111 other members of the World Trade Organization (WTO) on Friday signed a joint statement on investment facilitation, the Ministry of Commerce said on Saturday.
(2021-12-12). Ghana's President Addresses National Black Caucus of State Legislators. indybay.org Soon our amazing California Golden Legacy, past, present and future will utilize Ghana as an essential destination for joint mutual benefit. Ghana, represents well the African Continental Free Trade Area, Our California team on the ground helping restore Agriculture as the foundation of our culture. Stay tuned MLK Weekend 2022 in Atlanta our10th Annual Pan African Global Trade and Investment Conference will keep the ball rolling in a good way. Matunda Ya Kwanza…
(2021-12-12). How the fight for abortion rights began. zcomm.org Let's make this current fight for abortion and a woman's right to bodily autonomy be the opening shot in the war to root out every last vestige of capitalism…
(2021-12-12). Native People in California Are Fighting Water Policies That Imperil Salmon. truthout.org 
In early spring 2021, it became obvious that California's rivers and the people who depend on their salmon were facing disaster. Forecasts for the Klamath River predicted some of the lowest salmon returns on record and low allocations for tribal fishers. The once snow-peaked mountains stood bare and parched. Reservoirs were still low from previous year's water deliveries that favored industrial agriculture over salmon and tribal people. There was not going to be enough water for both fish and…
(2021-12-12). Ciencia, tecnología y propiedad de las empresas: øCuál es el vínculo? cubadebate.cu Construir el socialismo implica construir una base económica que sea propiedad de la sociedad en su conjunto. Con diversas modalidades y actores, y diversas formas de propiedad (como establece nuestra Constitución), pero siempre en función de los intereses de toda la sociedad.
(2021-12-12). Socialist Seattle Council Member Sawant Declares 'Apparent Victory'. zcomm.org "Terrible news all around for the capitalist bums."