(2022-02-11). How Nicaragua Fights Poverty & Empowers Women Through the Ministry of Family Economy (Interview). orinocotribune.com In Managua, Nicaragua, we interviewed Minister Justa Pérez of the Ministry of Family, Community, Cooperative and Associative Economy, known as MEFCCA. | Could you start us off with a summary of what MEFCCA does to stimulate, develop and promote the popular economy? | With pleasure, greetings. I would like to tell you that the Ministry of Family Economy arose as part of the strategy of the Sandinista government in the fight against poverty. When Comandante Daniel took office in 2007, he decided to launch a National Plan for Human Development in which a number of public policies and a number of programs and projec…
(2022-02-11). "Politics as Usual" Will Never Be a Solution to the Current Climate Threat. truthout.org 
There is an ever-growing consensus that the climate crisis represents humanity's greatest problem. Indeed, global warming is more than an environmental crisis — there are social, political, ethical and economic dimensions to it. Even the role of science should be exposed to critical inquiry when discussing the dimensions of the climate crisis, considering that technology bears such responsibility for bringing us to the brink of global disaster. This is the theme of my interview with renowne…
(2022-02-11). Jeremy Corbyn covers for Labour's filthy role in Ireland. wsws.org Corbyn expounded on a number of themes while never once mentioning the role of the Labour Party, in which he has spent almost his entire political career and which he led for nearly five years.
(2022-02-11). Union election rematch: Bessemer workers continue to fight Amazon's anti-labor campaign. liberationnews.org 
Voting is now underway at Amazon's fulfillment center in Bessemer, Alabama after the NLRB ordered a second union election on the grounds that the company grossly violated workers' rights in the first vote…
(2022-02-11). Anti-doping officials explain mystery Valieva test delay. rt.com 
Officials at RUSADA have issued a statement after figure skater Kamila Valieva tested positive for a banned substance | Information about the positive doping test result for Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva was delayed because of issues caused by Covid-19 at a Stockholm laboratory, according to an explanation provided to the Russian Anti-Doping Agency (RUSADA). | It was announced on Friday that Valieva had tested positive for a banned heart medicine which was detected in a sample taken on December 25 at the Russian national championships in St. Petersburg. | The statement from the International Testing Age…
(2022-02-11). Australia: COVID-19 swamps Northern Territory schools and Aboriginal communities. wsws.org Aboriginal medical organisations have condemned the Territory's Labor government for allowing the coronavirus to spread out of control.
(2022-02-11). Tehran, Moscow developing mechanism against sanctions. en.mehrnews.com The Russian Foreign Ministry has said that Tehran and Moscow are creating a mechanism to protect the two countries trade and financial exchanges from the threat of sanctions.
(2022-02-11). Donald Trump: America Is 'Going To Hell' Fast With Inflation And Covid. moguldom.com Former President Donald Trump, who is already preparing for a potential presidential run in 2024, claims the U.S. is going to "hell" due to inflation and the covid-19 pandemic. Trump held his first major campaign rally of 2022 in Florence, Arizona, where he promised to "Make America Great Again, Again." The Jan. 15 Save America rally was …
(2022-02-11). As inflation surges, unions impose cuts in real wages. wsws.org US inflation rose at a 7.5 percent annual rate in January as unions worked in tandem with employers and the Biden administration to reduce the real wages of workers.
(2022-02-11). Widespread opposition from workers to USW sellout at Newport News naval shipyard. wsws.org Shipyard workers are demanding strike action and denouncing the United Steelworkers union for accepting a contract with raises way below the rate of inflation and sharp increases in out-of-pocket medical expenses.
(2022-02-11). Finland makes massive military investment with US. rt.com 
Helsinki signs a deal for 64 US-built F-35 stealth jets, at a reported cost of $9.4 billion | Finland has penned a multibillion-dollar deal with the US to purchase 64 American-built F-35 fighter jets, the Finnish Defense Forces announced on Friday. The radar-evading warplanes will reportedly cost the European country, which is traditionally militarily non-aligned, some $9.4 billion. | The aircraft will not enter service for some years, with Finnish officials previously saying deployment of the planes would begin in 2027. The new jets are being brought in to replace Finland's current Hornet fleet. | In addition…
(2022-02-11). "The working class has the most power it's ever had": US oil refinery workers speak out on contract battle. wsws.org In letters to the WSWS, oil refinery and petrochemical workers expressed their determination to fight the highly profitable energy companies and denounced the United Steelworkers for keeping them on the job and imposing an information blackout.
(2022-02-11). US oil refinery workers speak out on contract battle. wsws.org In letters to the WSWS, oil refinery and petrochemical workers expressed their determination to fight the highly profitable energy companies and denounced the United Steelworkers for keeping them on the job and imposing an information blackout.
(2022-02-11). States Will Consider More Than 210 Bills on Toxic "Forever Chemicals" in 2022. truthout.org 
Protecting people from exposure to toxic "forever chemicals" will be a top priority for new state regulations throughout the U.S. in 2022, according to a new analysis. | The analysis, published by the
(2022-02-11). Enhanced NATO partner Finland to sign deal for 64 U.S. F-35s. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com Finland has a population of only 5.5 million. The purchase represents over $1,700 for every person in the country. That's the cost of NATO interoperability. ==== Finland set to sign deal with U.S. for 64 F-35 jets — sources Finland's formal purchase agreement for F-35 fighter jets could be signed as soon as Friday, U.S.-based …
(2022-02-11). Australia to treat COVID like the flu amid mass school infections, record deaths. wsws.org The World Socialist Web Site has learned that this week, at least 6,888 students and 600 staff in Victorian schools have tested positive for COVID-19. Last week, 4,514 students and 800 staff tested positive.
(2022-02-11). Shen Yun: The Falun Gong cult's anti-communist propaganda roadshow. peoplesworld.org 
From February 15-20, 2022, Washington's John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts will host a sensational retelling of China's history spanning thousands of years. Shen Yun—the stunning production that has graced stages in a perpetual roadshow across North America since 2006—is returning to the U.S. capital. The advertising for this affair across 96 cities …
(2022-02-10). LandBack: Indigenous peoples regain redwoods forest lands. iacenter.org By Minnie Bruce Pratt February 9, 2022 on unceded land of the Onondaga Nation, Haudenosaunee Confederacy The growing LandBack movement by Indigenous nations won another significant victory Feb. 1, when more than 500 acres of the "Lost Coast" in California was transferred to the InterTribal Sinkyone Wilderness Council. (sinkyone.org) Tc'ih-Léh-Dûñ (Fish Run Place) on the 'Lost Coast' of northern California. The council is a "nonprofit consortium of 10 federally recognized Northern California Tribal Nations with cultural connections to the lands and waters of traditional Sinkyone, Cahto and neighboring Tribal terri…
(2022-02-10). Continuing US-led economic blockade provokes North Korean missile tests. wsws.org North Korea's economy has suffered from years of sanctions, now compounded by the global pandemic.
(2022-02-10). China & Russia Declare New Era of Multipolarity. strategic-culture.org 
Benjamin Norton reports on the meeting in Beijing between China's Xi and Russia's Putin designed to deepen the integration of the two Eurasian superpowers. | By Ben NORTON | Feb. 4, 2022 may very well be remembered in history textbooks as an important date in the shift of global politics. | That day was not only the inauguration of the XXIV Olympic Winter Games in Beijing; it also saw a historic meeting between the presidents of China and Russia. | Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin signed a series of important economic and political agreements, deepening the integration of the two Eurasian superpowers. | Among the…
(2022-02-10). The Left Has Culture, but the World Still Belongs to the Banks. dissidentvoice.org 
Greta Acosta Reyes (Cuba), Women Who Fight, 2020. '[T]here is great intellectual poverty on the part of the right wing', Héctor Béjar says in our latest dossier, A Map of Latin America's Present: An Interview with Héctor Béjar (February 2022). 'There is a lack of right-wing intellectuals everywhere'. Béjar speaks with a great deal of authority on …
(2022-02-10). National Day Of Action: Love To Afghanistan. popularresistance.org After 20 years of war in Afghanistan, Peace Action welcomed the withdrawal of troops from the country and an end to the war. | Yet when the United States military pulled out of Afghanistan, the Biden administration also responded by choking off assets to Afghan banks and the economy by freezing the reserves of the Afghan Central Bank held in the U.S. They also imposed sanctions on those doing business with Afghanistan and cut aid. Jobs and income disappeared, people cannot afford to buy food and mass starvation is now occurring. | The Afghan people are suffering now more than ever. Hunger could kill more now than…
(2022-02-10). What's important for workers in BLS January jobs report. workers.org 
The corporate media shouted loud hosannas to greet the Bureau of Labor Statistics Feb. 4 announcement that the U.S. economy had added 467,000 jobs in January. Upward revisions to previously announced job totals for December and November 2021 increased the media's delight. Overall they concluded that the U.S. economy had . . . |
(2022-02-10). US Senate at 'Impasse' Over Nord Stream 2 Sanctions in Anti-Russia Bill, Menendez Says. sputniknews.com The US Congress has prepared what Senator Bob Menendez (D-NJ) called "the mother of all sanctions" bills against Russia, which would aim to cripple the Russian economy by punishing nations who would continue trading with Moscow if Russian troops invaded Ukraine.
(2022-02-10). Wife of locomotive engineer describes BNSF's toll on family life. wsws.org "If there was a strike, it would have such a heavy impact on the economy," she said. "People don't want to disrupt the supply chain, but it's not worth their health, sanity and job safety. Every worker I've talked to is willing to strike because of that."
(2022-02-10). Puerto Rico Hasn't Had The Opportunity To Develop Its Own Economic Future. popularresistance.org "Puerto Rico received approval from a federal judge on Tuesday to leave bankruptcy under the largest public sector debt-restructuring deal in the history of the United States." The executive director of the unelected Fiscal Oversight and Management Board declared it "truly a momentous day," and a "new day for Puerto Rico." How new, exactly, is the question of many who don't see this debt deal as fundamentally changing the story for most Puerto Ricans, because that story has everything to do with the more than 100-year colonial relationship to the United States, and their enforced inability to determine their own…
(2022-02-10). Ellen Brown: Rather Than Sink Main Street by Raising Interest Rates, the Fed Could Save It. Here's How. scheerpost.com 
[ By Ellen Brown / Original to ScheerPost | Inflation is plaguing consumer markets, putting pressure on the Federal Reserve to raise interest rates to tighten the money supply. But as Rex Nutting writes in a MarketWatch column titled "
(2022-02-10). Workers in Australia face soaring prices and debt. wsws.org For working-class households, the cost of living is rising far faster than incomes, deepening the decline in average real pay levels over the past decade.
(2022-02-10). Guardian: British Labour leader damns Stop the War coalition for being enemies of NATO, Kremlin agents. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com Thirty years ago this well-financed newspaper should have changed its named to The Wardian. Or La Guerrienne. The transition in the United Kingdom to New Labour, in the U.S. to New Democrats, in Germany to Die Neue Mitte (the New Middle) and moves in a similar direction in much of the rest of Europe and …
(2022-02-10). Starbucks Fired Union Leaders In Memphis. popularresistance.org Starbucks fired seven union supporters at a store in Memphis, Tennessee, on Tuesday in what the union has portrayed as a retaliatory purge of the organizing committee. The terminations mark the most significant escalation in the battle between the world's largest coffee chain and the fast-growing Starbucks Workers United campaign. | The firings made national news, but the reality is that employers fire union activists all the time — whether it's justified or not. Labor law in the United States gives companies little to lose by ousting organizers. But due to the high profile of the Starbucks campaign, as wel…
(2022-02-10). Second Amazon warehouse on Staten Island files for union election. peoplesworld.org 
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — The Amazon Labor Union (ALU) has just filed for a union election at a second Amazon warehouse on Staten Island. News came on Feb. 2 after the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) announced the filing at the warehouse, known as LDJ5. This filing comes just one week after another Amazon warehouse …
(2022-02-10). Mobilise the working class to support Sri Lankan national health strike. wsws.org Over 65,000 Sri Lankan health workers, including nurses, paramedic services, public health inspectors, medical laboratory technologists and pharmacists, began an indefinite strike over wages, allowances and working conditions on Monday.
(2022-02-10). Strike At CA College Of The Arts SF Campus: We Want A Contract & Living Wages NOW! indybay.org Staff and adjuncts went on a unfair labor practice at the California College of the Arts. A rally was held on February 8, 2022 on the first day of the strike.
(2022-02-10). Worse to come from worst US inflation in 40 years. asiatimes.com 
US stocks took a nasty turn downward after the Bureau of Labor Statistics announced a higher-than-expected 7.5% jump in consumer prices over the last 12 months, the worst inflation in forty years. The month's gain of 0.6% for the Consumer Price Index also translates into an annual rate of 7.5%. Most worrying about the inflation …
(2022-02-10). "Dignity in the Digital Age": Rep. Khanna Calls for Wealth Tax & Decentralizing, Diversifying Big Tech. democracynow.org 
We speak with Congressmember Ro Khanna, whose district is in the heart of Silicon Valley, about his new book "Dignity in the Digital Age: Making Tech Work for All of Us." He argues more federal regulation in the tech industry can secure an equitable society while encouraging innovation. "We need to understand that if you care about social justice and racial justice, that you have to look at the wealth generation gap," says Khanna.
(2022-02-10). Supply Chain Problems Still Pushing Prices Higher in January, but Some Evidence of Turning. cepr.net There is definitely cause for concern here about inflation being more enduring, but these price turns, coupled with the sharp growth in inventories, provide some grounds for optimism.
(2022-02-10). Millions of Dollars in Arms Sales to ISIS Originated in Turkey: Report. orinocotribune.com Several Syrian-born Turkish citizens and members of the Uighur extremist Turkistan Islamic Party have been linked to the scheme | A report by Turkey's Financial Crimes Investigation Board (MASAK) on the freezing of assets belonging to people linked to ISIS has revealed that for several years the most important supply chain of ISIS's military arsenal was based in Turkey. | According to the report, millions of dollars in unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) equipment and tons of improvised explosive devices (IED) were sent to ISIS through three construction companies in Mersin, a port city in southern Turkey. | Based on i…
(2022-02-10). Bubblehead Investors Caught Off Guard: Key CPI Inflation Reading Hotter Than Expected, Highest Since 1982. moguldom.com 
The consumer price index, which measures the cost of everyday consumer goods, rose a higher-than-expected 7.5 percent in January compared with a year ago, surprising some investors and sending stocks lower Thursday Feb. 10 after a rally a day earlier. That's the highest CPI reading since 1982, exceeding the Dow Jones inflation gauge estimate of …
(2022-02-10). Bankers bare their teeth on wages. wsws.org Even though US wage increases are well below inflation, now at around 7 percent, a call by the Bank of America for seven interest rate increases this year reflects growing demands for what amounts to a pre-emptive strike.
(2022-02-10). Great Barrier Reef fantasies: Morrison's electoral ploy. greenleft.org.au With the government in a spot of bother, expect some rather extravagant public spending promises. The Great Barrier Reef, one of the single most remarkable natural structures on Earth, is not one that has been spared. Binoy Kampmark reports.
(2022-02-10). Dave Chappelle Under Fire For Opposing Housing Development That Included Affordable Housing Component. moguldom.com The village council in Yellow Springs, near Dayton, Ohio, has voted to nix an affordable housing component planned for an upcoming development after residents spoke out against the project and world-famous comedian Dave Chappelle threatened to pull his investments from the area. The "Sticks & Stones" comic joined other residents in his hometown who complained …
(2022-02-10). Teachers In Puerto Rico Strike For Wages, Benefits. popularresistance.org On Wednesday, February 9, teachers across Puerto Rico called for a national strike to protest the government and the Fiscal Control Board's (FCB) cutting of wages and pensions. Other public sector workers, namely firefighters and police, have also joined them. Teachers are demanding a decent salary, an end to pension cuts, and the resignation of Puerto Rican governor Pedro Pierluisi. Teachers have been protesting since February 4. That same day, the FCB imposed by the US Congress that has been in charge of Puerto Rico since 2016, was boasting because it supposedly already put the end of the bankruptcy process on…
(2022-02-10). Police repress workers' protest for living wages in Port au Prince and other stories. peoplesdispatch.org Today we look at protests by textile workers in Port au Prince, Wet'suwet'en activists' report to the UN on rights violations by Canada, and more…
(2022-02-10). Big union win for Mexico's GM workers. iacenter.org By Martha Grevatt February 9, 2022 General Motors workers in Silao, Mexico, have made history. Brazilian unionists outside GM plant in Silao, Mexico, where workers were voting for the first independent union, Feb. 3. They have voted in the first independent union in any Mexican GM plant, defeating the bogus company union by a wide margin. For decades, company unions allied with the former ruling party, the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), have colluded with auto companies to keep wages low and maximize exploitation. The highest-paid Mexican GM workers make in a 12-hour day little more than a U.S. autowork…
(2022-02-10). Snoop Dogg Acquires Death Row Records Brand, Pushes Into NFTs. moguldom.com Snoop Dogg is the embodiment of a full-circle moment. The West Coast rap icon recently became the official HDIC (Head Dogg in Charge) when he purchased Death Row Records — the label that launched his career with his debut album "Doggystyle." Snoop announced Wednesday, Feb. 9, he'd acquired the label that was co-founded by Dr. …
(2022-02-10). Anticipating events: Germany, Estonia provide military field hospital to Ukraine. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com ERR NewsFebruary 9, 2022 Estonia, Germany hand Ukraine 'keys' to new military field hospital Symbolic keys to a new ‚Ǩ5.3 million field hospital were handed to Ukraine by Estonia and Germany on Monday. The medical facility was funded and donated by the two NATO allies. Germany funded the purchase of the field hospital, while the …
(2022-02-10). Revolution vs. Counter Revolution after World War Two — Lessons of Soviet History, Part 4. liberationnews.org 
No longer allies in the war against the Axis states, the "democratic" capitalist countries turned on the USSR and formed a global bloc of all the imperialist powers to confront the rising tide of socialist revolution…
(2022-02-10). San José protests against U.S. war on Russia. fightbacknews.org San José, CA – On Saturday, February 5, anti-war protesters gathered in front of San José's City Hall to demand an end to imperial saber rattling in eastern Europe. Speakers from CODEPINK, Freedom Road Socialism (FRSO), National Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression, Party for Socialism and Liberation, and the El Barrio Defense Committee gathered a crowd of 30 onlookers while calling for end to the war drive against Russia. | Mike Paradela of FRSO said "We called the protest because what the U.S. government is doing is not good for working people. NATO does not benefit working people, it began as an al…
(2022-02-10). Portuguese elections — 'Socialist' party wins but defeat for Left. mronline.org 
Dave Kellaway looks at the Portuguese general election result.
(2022-02-10). French administrative court refuses to order expulsion of Georges Abdallah: Continue the struggle for freedom! samidoun.net 
We republish the following statement of the Collectif Palestine Vaincra in response to the ruling of a French administrative court, which rejected a legal request to order the expulsion of Georges Abdallah from France to Lebanon. Abdallah, a Lebanese Arab Communist struggler for Palestine, has been imprisoned in France for over 37 years. The struggle …