(2022-01-02). Pentagon Projected to Hand $407 Billion to Private Military Contractors. zcomm.org "There are over 700 lobbyists representing for-profit military contractors in D.C., and this redistribution of wealth is why they're there."
(2022-01-02). Is the Walmart Family Capturing the Colorado River? zcomm.org The Walton Family Foundation has been pouring millions into nonprofit groups concerned with the Colorado River — including media outlets that cover the issue…
(2022-01-02). COVID-19: What Cuba has accomplished. liberationnews.org 
Cuba, a small, poor country held back by the 60-year U.S. economic blockade has made remarkable achievements in combating COVID-19.
(2022-01-02). 2021: A Grim Year For Planet Earth. popularresistance.org Between the COVID-19 pandemic and the deadly manifestations of the climate crisis, there were few places to hide for most of us in 2021. Ageing billionaires riding booming stock markets could take their first flights into space in their own rockets, but for the rest of Planet Earth's 8 billion people with their feet on the ground it was a year of placing hope in the hands of scientists and our political leaders to turn the tide.
(2022-01-02). Ecosocialist strategy: industrial restructuring as a joint project of the climate movement. indybay.org The findings of international climate research and the IPCC are clear. World society is heading for tipping points that will abruptly change the earth and climate system. As a result, several billion people will lose their previous livelihoods in a few decades.
(2022-01-02). Why Germany is Going Nuclear-Free and how it Caused Green Energy to Skyrocket. juancole.com 
Excerpted from an article by Kerstine Appunn | — ( Clean Energy Wire ) — Germany's energy transition is not only its main means for decarbonising the economy and creating an industrialised nation fed by renewable electricity to reach a 2045 climate neutrality target. The country's famous Energiewende has also always been marked as an …
(2022-01-02). Tuesday 1/18: Open Climate: Moving Toward an Indigenous Climate Economy. indybay.org Online event (English & Spanish translation)…
(2022-01-02). China's Year in Climate Action: Challenges for World's Leader in Renewable Energy. juancole.com 
By Ma Tianjie | — ( China Dialogue) — It's been a dizzying period for watchers of China's climate and environmental scene. President Xi Jinping's carbon neutrality pledge at the United Nations in September 2020 set in motion a massive build-up of national policy, legislation and regulation on decarbonisation, with unprecedented speed. Barely two months …
(2022-01-02). Traditional Nazi Torchlight March Took Place In Kiev (Video). southfront.org 
"Democratic" torch march in Kiev | While the whole world celebrates the start of the new year, Ukraine glorifies nationalist and Nazi collaborator Stepan Bandera. On January 1, hundreds of Ukrainians traditionally marched with torches through the main streets of the capital and other cities in different regions in honor of the anniversary of Bandera's birth. | According to the Ukrainian police, about 3.5 thousand citizens took part in the events on the occasion of honoring Bandera all around the country. It was noted that the p…
(2022-01-02). Venezuela: from resistance to recovery in production and social welfare. liberationnews.org 
By Jesús Faría, president of the Permanent Commission of Economy, Finances and Economic Development of the National Assembly and member of the national leadership of the…
(2022-01-02). A New Economy for a Better World. zcomm.org Overall, No Bosses does an excellent job of answering the questions: "If you don't like capitalism, what would you replace it with?>
(2022-01-02). Cargo throughput of central China airport tops 700,000 tonnes. ecns.cn Xinzheng International Airport in Zhengzhou, central China's Henan Province, saw its annual cargo throughput exceed 700,000 tonnes for the first time at the turn of the year.
(2022-01-02). New land-sea cargo route connects China, Germany. ecns.cn New land-sea cargo delivery services were launched on Saturday between Xi'an, the capital of northwest China's Shaanxi Province, and Mannheim in Germany.
(2022-01-02). China's Hainan sees soaring duty-free sales in 2021. ecns.cn Offshore duty-free sales in south China's island province of Hainan reached 60.2 billion yuan (about 9.4 billion U.S. dollars) in 2021, an increase of 84 percent year on year, said the provincial department of commerce.
(2022-01-02). "Localization" Can Help Free the Planet From Neoliberal Globalization. truthout.org 
Is there a viable alternative to the economic, social, political and environmental problems stemming from globalization? How about "localization"? This is the antidote to globalization propounded by Helena Norberg-Hodge, founder and director of Local Futures, an organization focused on building a movement dedicated to environmental sustainability and social well-being by rejuvenating local economies. Norberg-Hodge is a pioneer of the new economy movement, which now has spread to all continents, and th…
(2022-01-02). 15 Things Biodiversity Protectors Are Watching Out For In 2022. popularresistance.org It's no secret that the diversity of life around us is plummeting fast. In 2020 alone, scientists declared more than 100 species to be extinct. And that's bad news not only for the creatures themselves, but for those of us (that would be all of us) who rely on them for food, to produce oxygen, to hold soil in place, to cleanse water, to beautify our world and so much more. According to the World Economic Forum, nature plays a key role in generating more than half of global GDP.
(2022-01-02). Cuba Grows And Advances Despite The Difficulties Of 2021. popularresistance.org This 2021 has been the most difficult year for the Cuban people. In addition to the ravages of the blockade, thousands of people died due to the Covid-19. The list was immense, and as the days went by, names became familiar and beloved faces. Moreover, it was also a year of economic readjustments and changes needed to move the island towards a possible and sustainable development over time.
(2022-01-02). DPRK concludes party plenary session, vowing to focus on economic development. ecns.cn The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) ended its key party plenary session on Friday, with focus on rural development and economic issues, the official Korean Central News Agency reported on Saturday.
(2022-01-02). Iran health ministry ready to send drugs, vaccine to Turkey. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Jan. 02 (MNA) — The Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister for Economic Diplomacy Mehdi Safari announced the readiness of the health ministry to export medicine and vaccines to Turkey.
(2022-01-02). Disney & Boeing among worst stocks of 2021. rt.com 
Cartoon giant, wireless network operator, and plane-maker stocks showed worst performances on US markets | Walt Disney, Verizon, and Boeing, as well as California-based biopharmaceutical firm Amgen and tech conglomerate Honeywell, were the worst stocks of 2021, according to stock market index Dow Jones. | Disney and Verizon stocks saw double-digit percentage losses, while the other three firms booked losses in the single digits. | Entertainment giant Disney's stock plunged 14.5% in 2021 amid a slowdown in Disney+ channel subscriber growth, which helped the company offset Covid-19 pandemic-induced losses when p…
(2022-01-02). Bakery workers fight labor abuse in Santa Fe Springs, Calif. liberationnews.org 
BCTGM Local 37 workers do not intend on returning to work until their demands are met. They expect the increase for their health coverage to be scrapped, they expect to receive a raise, an improved pension, and retirement benefits.
(2022-01-02). Staten Island Amazon Workers Pause Unionization Battle, But the Fight Isn't Over. truthout.org 
Derrick Palmer was at Amazon's JFK8 warehouse on Staten Island when he heard that the petition to form a union he had spent the last six months acquiring signatures for had failed. As a warehouse associate in the packing department, Palmer was working a shift packaging and loading orders onto conveyor belts when the president of the Amazon Labor Union (ALU), Chris Smalls, broke the news. | "I was devastated and I felt like it wasn't fair," said Palmer, the union's vice president. "But at th…
(2022-01-02). 2021: Milestones in space tech & exploration. rt.com 
Russia added new modules to the ISS, NASA and China competed to explore Mars, and powerful anti-satellite weaponry was tested in orbit | By any measure, 2021 was a busy year in space exploration and technologies, with global superpowers and the mega-rich duking it out for mastery of the cosmos. Here are some of the highlights from the year. | ISS gets new modules and hosts space movie: | Nauka, aka the Russian Multipurpose Laboratory Module, docked with the International Space Station (ISS) in July, after 14 years of delays and setbacks. The long-awaited launch was followed by some drama, after an acci…
(2022-01-02). Thousands march to honor WWII Nazi collaborator (VIDEO). rt.com 
Ukrainian nationalists paraded in torchlight procession in Kiev with portraits of Hitler ally | Ukrainian far-right ultra nationalists held a torchlight procession in Kiev on Saturday night, celebrating a controversial WWII-Nazi collaborator. Israeli diplomats said the march "insulted" the memory of the Holocaust. | The activists chanted "Glory" and "Our land" as they marked the birthday of Stepan Bandera, a former leader of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN), which was aligned with Adolf Hitler's Germany. | Some carried portraits and banners with images of the controversial figure and shouted "B…
(2022-01-02). Tuesday 1/11: Inside Trump's Election Steal and the People Who Stopped It. indybay.org Online event…
(2022-01-02). China's west-east gas transmission project contributes to low-carbon development. ecns.cn China's west-to-east gas transmission project has boosted natural gas supply across the country and facilitated the low-carbon transformation of the country's energy consumption structure, data has shown.
(2022-01-02). COVID-Omicron is Killing Christmas. The Roadmap Towards a Worldwide Financial Crash, Inflation, Digitization. globalresearch.ca First Delta, then Omicron. Neither one of the two has ever been isolated. The vast majority of people of the 193 UN member countries — swallow the lie with fear and respect, as if it were the truth…
(2022-01-02). 'Green' label for nuclear & gas 'absolutely wrong,' German minister says. rt.com 
The plans were slammed as 'dubious' and a form of 'greenwashing' | Proposals by the European Commission to label some natural gas and nuclear energy projects as 'green' have been heavily criticized in Germany. The country's environment minister called them "absolutely wrong." | The draft regulation, which may be officially proposed later this month, suggests labeling natural gas as 'transitional energy' if it produces emissions below a certain level, while nuclear energy investments could be recognized as sustainable if toxic waste can be properly disposed of. | "I think it is absolutely wrong that the Europea…
(2022-01-02). Texas Team Applauded For Giving What Big Pharma Refuses: A Patent-Free Vaccine To The World. popularresistance.org A small team of Texas researchers is being hailed for developing an unpatented Covid-19 vaccine to share with the world without personal profit, with some advocates asking, if they can do it, why can't Big Pharma? Dubbed "the World's Covid vaccine," the inoculation—formally called Cobervax—is an open-source alternative to Big Pharma's patent-protected vaccines. Instead of being produced for profit, this shot could ultimately be manufactured around the world and made cheaply available to all without governmental or private legal retribution.
(2022-01-02). Biden's 4 Biggest Mideast Challenges in 2022. juancole.com 
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) — President Biden faces severe challenges in the coming year, but in my view the for-profit news often either focuses on the wrong ones or misinterprets the nature of the obstacles. Here are some of the major challenges: 1. Iran While many foreign policy hawks and inside-the-beltway pundits see the Iranian …
(2022-01-02). Industrialized Farming Has Unleashed an Insect Apocalypse. truthout.org 
Most of us are familiar with the story of the passenger pigeon, so numerous in the late 1700s that flocks of billions of birds darkened the sky for hours as they passed. Humans exterminated them in a little over 100 years, the last wild passenger pigeon being shot in 1901. In contrast, few have ever heard of the Rocky Mountain locust, but its story is similar. Once very common, swarms would occasionally erupt from their core range in the eastern Rocky Mountains, spreading eastward across the Great Plains. In 18…
(2022-01-02). Crypto 'cloud wars' have a winner, and it's not Bitcoin. rt.com 
Last year brought many surprises to the cryptocurrency market, including a new leader | The 2021 performance of all three major cryptocurrency media darlings — Bitcoin, Dogecoin, and Shiba Inu — was overshadowed by Ether, which surged over 400% this year. | While the others were grabbing headlines, Ether was securing market attention, it seems. As of Friday, December 31, it was up 410%, according to Coinbase data, trading around $3,730 per coin. While it is much less than Bitcoin, it is still far ahead of any other cryptocurrency on the market, including Twitter favorites Shiba Inu and Dogecoin.
(2022-01-02). Venezuela: De la resistencia a la recuperación productiva y el bienestar social. liberationnews.org 
Por Jesús Faría, presidente de la Comisión Permanente de Economía, Finanzas y Desarrollo Económico de la Asamblea Nacional (AN), y miembro del liderazgo nacional del Partido Socialista Unido de Venezuela (PSUV).
(2022-01-02). Venezuela: De la resistencia a la recuperación productiva y el bienestar social. liberationnews.org Por Jesús Faría, presidente de la Comisión Permanente de Economía, Finanzas y Desarrollo Económico de la Asamblea Nacional (AN), y miembro del liderazgo nacional del Partido Socialista Unido de Venezuela (PSUV).
(2022-01-01). Ukraine boosts arms exports to U.S., Poland, Turkey, Pakistan, UAE. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com Ukraine's state arms exporter signs $332M worth of contracts in 2021 Ukraine's state-owned arms exporter, Ukrspecexport, received 144 foreign delegations and signed contracts worth $332 million in 2021, the company's press service has said. [Last year] led to a significant increase in the total amount of newly concluded foreign economic contracts. *** In 2021, Ukrspecexport …
(2022-01-01). Elias Amare: 'TPLF's Regime Was Throughout Supported by US, EU Financially, Militarily, and Politically'. orinocotribune.com Why have the western powers supported TPLF all this time? What has been the history of TPLF's rise and fall from power in the country? Elias Amare, editor of Horn of Africa TV, explains. | Throughout its regime, and even now during the current civil war in Ethiopia, the TPLF has enjoyed support from the United States and the European Union. Why have the western powers su…
(2022-01-01). Raises From Coast To Coast In 2022. popularresistance.org In 2022, a record number of states and localities will increase their minimum wages—10 years after fast-food workers first went on strike to demand $15 and a union. These record increases are the result of underpaid workers organizing, demanding, and winning higher wages. This movement has not only led to the adoption of higher state and local minimum wages but has helped seed new worker activism and mobilization across our economy. | On January 1, 2022 (December 31, 2021 for workers in New York), the minimum wage will increase in 21 states and 35 cities and counties. In 33 of those jurisdictions, the wage…
(2022-01-01). Argentina: Labor, Environmentalists, and Indigenous Unite to Defeat Mining (Canada Mining Corporations Again). orinocotribune.com By Marisela Trevin — Dec 28, 2021 | A zoning law would have opened up the southern Argentinian province of Chubut to large-scale mining by multinational corporations. | But the law was defeated in just five days by an alliance of environmentalists, workers, youth, and indigenous people. Their fight points the way forward for other movements around the world. | The people of the southern Argentinian province of Chubut are celebrating more than just the holidays this December. After a fierce struggle against a recently enacted zoning law that would have opened the province up to large-scale silver, copper, and…
(2022-01-01). 2022 Could Be the Year of Labor and Racial Justice Coalition-Building. truthout.org 
In 1967, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. published Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?, in which he assessed the state of the civil rights movement after the passage of the Voting Rights Act. In it, he argued that the movement had reached a crossroads. After winning civil rights legislation, Dr. King
(2022-01-01). Inflation in the US: Causes and consequences. peoplesdispatch.org High inflation rates have caused great difficulty for the working people of the US for months now. In November, as inflation soared yet again, Eugene Puryear analyzed the reasons for the crisis in the country…
(2022-01-01). Pentagon Spending on Military Contractors May Reach $407 Billion in 2022. truthout.org 
President Joe Biden signed a record-shattering military budget earlier this week, and a new Stephen Semler, co-found…
(2022-01-01). A reminder from George Gissing. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com From his 1899 novel The Crown of Life. See: George Gissing: Selections on war "…When the next great war comes, newspapers will be the chief cause of it. And for mere profit, that's the worst. There are newspaper proprietors in every country, who would slaughter half mankind for the pennies of the half who were …
(2022-01-01). Left "Anti-Authoritarianism" Has Been Counterrevolution's Greatest Weapon. libya360.wordpress.com Rainer Shea Since workers states began to form in the early twentieth century, and bourgeois propaganda therefore first had highly tangible enemies to latch onto, capitalism's defenders have claimed that revolution will lead to dictatorship. The image of a grim, despotic dystopia that was projected onto the Soviet Union—and then onto the next socialist states…
(2022-01-01). Balhaf: The Oil Port Where UAE Loots Yemen and Imprisons and Tortures Yemenis. orinocotribune.com 
By Ahmed Abdulkareem — Dec 21, 2021 | The UAE has not only prevented Yemenis from exporting their own natural gas from Balhaf and forcefully laid off hundreds of employees, it has converted the sprawling industrial complex into a private military camp and secret prison. | BALHAF, SHABWA, YEMEN — Al-Shabwani, a resident from Ateq city in Shabwa province who requested that only his nickname be used, told MintPress News that he was detained for months and tortured in a secret prison inside Balhaf. Since 2016, when the UAE first entered Yemen's most productive oil and gas areas in Shabwa, Abu Dhabi has car…
(2022-01-01). Omicron: Governments must reverse course, restore public health measures. greenleft.org.au The Prime Minister, together with the NSW Premier and NSW Health Minister are driving the neoliberal push to lower public expectations about the public health system and governments keeping people safe and secure, writes Alex Bainbridge.