(2022-04-02). How American financial capital profits from chaos and wars. ecns.cn There's been a particularly interesting fact emerging, or re-emerging in a new and more undeniable way, through the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic that "the economy" and the financial market have almost nothing to do with one another.
(2022-04-02). Europe has no robust alternative to paying for Russian gas in rubles – expert. tass.com Leonardo Paz Neves of the Fundacao Getulio Vargas foundation believes, the new payment rules for Russian gas will cause no turmoil on the global energy market…
(2022-04-02). US blacklists 120 organizations from Russia, Belarus. tass.com A document uploaded to the US Federal Register says those organizations were determined to be "acting contrary to the national security interests or foreign policy of the United States"
(2022-04-02). Arriva London South bus drivers' strike becomes focus of broader opposition. wsws.org If it were not for the trade unions, the cost-of-living crisis fuelled by thirty-year high inflation of 8.2 percent would already have resulted in a strike wave across all sectors of the economy.
(2022-04-02). The "exceptional" economics of the Australian budget. wsws.org The opening sentence of the Treasury's budget analysis sets the tone for the rest of the document, by promoting the fiction that Australian capitalism is going to plough through the storms of global turbulence virtually unscathed.
(2022-04-02). Illegally Imprisoned Venezuelan Diplomat Faces US Court Amid a Shifting Global Context. orinocotribune.com By Roger D. Harris — Mar 31, 2022 | Alex Saab's April 6 hearing takes place in the setting of a mercurial world situation, where events in Ukraine may have indirect bearing on his case and on the larger US economic war against Venezuela. | In a world where the US believes it makes the rules and the rest of humanity must follow its orders — what President Biden euphemistically calls the "
(2022-04-02). Denver's Program To Dispatch Mental Health Teams Instead Of Police Is So Successful It Is Expanding 5-Fold. popularresistance.org After dispatching mental health teams, instead of police officers, to certain 911 emergency calls, the city of Denver is proclaiming their pilot program a huge success—and expanding it significantly. Since June 2020, the Support Team Assisted Response (STAR) has deployed medical and behavioral health clinicians to respond to over 2,200 low risk calls reporting trespassing, intoxication, or mental health crises involving poverty, homelessness or addiction. In all that time, STAR teams have never called for police back-up due to a safety issue, according to their January report.
(2022-04-02). [Comment] DNA vaccines join the fight against COVID-19. thelancet.com As of March, 2022, just over 1 year has passed since the authorisation of first-generation vaccines against COVID-19. Since then, almost 10 billion doses of COVID-19 vaccines have been administered globally.1 Although the delivery of this number of vaccines is a remarkable achievement, there is still a disparity in vaccine equity, access, and affordability between high-income and low-income countries. According to the Global Dashboard for Vaccine Equity (established by the UN Development Programme, WHO, and the University of Oxford), as of Jan 18, 2022, approximately 67 ∑6% of people in high-income countries…
(2022-04-02). Science Saturday: Improving diagnosis of rare congenital disorders. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org When a child falls ill, two questions quickly come front and center for parents: What's the problem, and what can be done to fix it? For families whose children have certain congenital disorders, the answers to those questions can be maddeningly elusive. Laboratory tests to diagnose congenital disorders of methylation, such as Beckwith-Wiedemann, Silver-Russell, Prader-Willi, and Angelman syndromes, often come back without a definitive result. "We can have up to 25% of our results be equivocal for these conditions, and that's…
(2022-04-02). Amazon Labor Union wins election at Amazon warehouse in New York City. wsws.org While the ALU claims to be independent, its orientation is to the trade union apparatus, a section of which sees such initiatives as a means to somehow revive support for thoroughly discredited organizations.
(2022-04-02). Dutch DockersTake Solidarity Action For UK P&O RMT Seafarers With Niek Stam of FNV-NL. indybay.org Dutch dockworkers took solidarity action against the ferry line P&O to support the 800 fired seafarers. Niek Stam of FNV-NL, who is the president of the Dockworkers union reported on their action.
(2022-04-02). Mayo Clinic Q&A podcast: Diagnostic testing, precision medicine and what it means for patients. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org Precision medicine aims to customize health care by tailoring medications and treatments to each patient. An important step in being able to personalize treatments is diagnostic testing. Mayo Clinic BioPharma Diagnostics collaborates with biopharmaceutical, diagnostic, and other biotech companies to enable precision medicine through advanced diagnostics. Diagnostic testing can help find the right answers for each individual patient. "A laboratory test can either help in making a diagnosis for a disease, or it can help…
(2022-04-02). On The Line In The Fight For Justice: USW 5 Chevron Richmond Refinery Workers Strike. indybay.org Striking USW 5 Chevron refinery oil workers picketed at the plant and were joined by community and labor supporters. They talked about the health and safety conditions including dangerous hours and attacks on their healthcare benefits.
(2022-04-02). Arizona couple donates Collaborative Research Building to Mayo Clinic. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org Scottsdale, Ariz. — Thomas R. and Ruth Ann Hornaday of Paradise Valley, Arizona, have donated the Collaborative Research Building to Mayo Clinic. The 110,000-square-foot biomedical research facility, which opened on Mayo Clinic's Scottsdale campus in 2005, is valued at $64.4 million. The Collaborative Research Building houses laboratory-based research activity at Mayo Clinic in Arizona. Mayo Clinic researchers, physicians and other investigators are leading the scientific discovery of the mechanisms of human disease, as well as…
(2022-04-02). [Perspectives] A fortunate man? thelancet.com In 1966, the writer John Berger and his regular collaborator the photographer Jean Mohr spent about 6 weeks living with and observing the daily work of a general practitioner called John Eskell, who practised in the village of St Briavels in Gloucestershire's Forest of Dean in the UK. Berger was already well known as a novelist and art critic, and he went on to win the Booker Prize in 1972. Mohr was a Swiss photojournalist noted for his work highlighting humanitarian issues, such as the plight of refugees.
(2022-04-02). Strikes sweep Brazil as prices soar. wsws.org A wave of strikes is spreading among different sections of the working class in response to the explosive inflation rates accumulated in the two years of COVID-19 pandemic.
(2022-04-02). US corporate profits, CEO pay surged in 2021 while inflation slashed real wages. wsws.org US corporate profits rose 25 percent in 2021 and CEO pay shot up 9 percent, while workers' wage gains were eclipsed by rising prices.
(2022-04-02). [Editorial] Planetary health for the ages. thelancet.com This year's World Health Day, on April 7, has the theme "our planet, our health". It draws attention to the inextricable link between human health and environmental change, and to the limits of an ecology that cannot sustain unfettered consumption and blatant disregard for natural resources. WHO estimates that more than 13 million deaths annually are now due to avoidable environmental causes, including those related to climate change, which they call the greatest health threat to humanity.
(2022-04-02). [Editorial] Planetary health for the ages. thelancet.com This year's World Health Day, on April 7, has the theme "our planet, our health". It draws attention to the inextricable link between human health and environmental change, and to the limits of an ecology that cannot sustain unfettered consumption and blatant disregard for natural resources. WHO estimates that more than 13 million deaths annually are now due to avoidable environmental causes, including those related to climate change, which they call the greatest health threat to humanity.
(2022-04-02). German unions agree to below inflation "wage rise" for airport security workers. wsws.org The imposition of a two-year no-strike clause in the deal is aimed at suppressing the growing opposition among airport workers.
(2022-04-02). Stellantis announces hundreds more job cuts at Belvidere, Illinois plant, as layoffs continue to roil global auto industry. wsws.org Stellantis is seeking to reduce employment at its Belvidere plant down to 603 non-skilled and 199 skilled trades employees, according to the UAW.
(2022-04-02). Stellantis announces hundreds more job cuts at Belvidere, Illinois plant, as layoffs continue to roil auto global industry. wsws.org Stellantis is seeking to reduce employment at its Belvidere plant down to 603 non-skilled and 199 skilled trades employees, according to the UAW.
(2022-04-02). Growing outrage over victimization of Nashville nurse RaDonda Vaught. wsws.org The WSWS is organizing the working class to defend RaDonda Vaught and all health care workers against victimization for the crisis of the for-profit health system.
(2022-04-02). Sri Lankan president declares state of emergency to suppress mass protests over austerity. wsws.org Workers must recognise that they are facing a political fight not only against the government but the entire political establishment that defends capitalism and supports austerity measures.
(2022-04-02). Turkish forces shell northern Syrian city of Ayn Issa, injuires reported – TV. tass.com Artillery and mortar fire was coming from the border security zone, created by the Turkish troops in 2019, Syria's Alikhbaria TV reported…
(2022-04-02). US to Work With Allies to Send Soviet-Made Tanks to Ukraine. news.antiwar.com A US official told The New York Times on Friday that the Biden administration will work with allies in Europe The move marks an escalation in Western military aid to Ukraine. Until now, the US and its NATO allies have provided Ukraine with thousands of shoulder-fired anti-tank and anti-aircraft missiles but have held off on sending more advanced weapons over concerns of provoking Russia. | The US official wouldn't specify how many tanks will be sent or what countries the…
(2022-04-01). The war in Ukraine and its effects on Latin America and the Caribbean. iacenter.org March 31, 2022 by Carlos Mauricio Ferolla and Marcelo Depieri March 23, 2022. On Feb. 24, war broke out in Ukraine after the invasion of the Russian army. The war has a global impact on a multipolar international system, hyperconnected and in a critical state, undergoing a process of hegemonic transition from the West to the East. The military conflict adopts new configurations, what Ignacio Ramonet calls a new type of war, taking the form of an economic, media, cultural, political, etc. war. In addition to the economic effects of the military conflict, there is the global impact of the sanctions imposed by the U…
(2022-04-01). National Endowment For The Arts Report On The Devastation Of The Arts. popularresistance.org On March 15, the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), the US government agency that funds arts projects, released a report revealing a portion of the financial and job losses sustained by artists and arts organizations during the COVID-19 pandemic so far. | The NEA study points out that between 2019 and 2020 the US "arts economy" contracted at almost twice the rate of the economy as a whole. "Arts and cultural production fell by 6.4 percent when adjusted for inflation, compared with a 3.4 [percent] decline in the overall economy." While the arts and culture sector remained "a major contributor to the economy,"
(2022-04-01). Weimar Futurities with Engelbert Stockhammer. mronline.org 
Engelbert Stockhammer joins Money on the Left to discuss the political and economic debates that shaped and ultimately devastated Weimar-era Germany. Professor Stockhammer is professor of political economy in the department of European and International Studies at King's College London and has published widely on financial instability and Post-Keynesian economics.
(2022-04-01). National Endowment for the Arts report lifts the lid on the devastation of the US arts economy. wsws.org Between 2019 and 2020, the arts economy, according to the NEA study, "shed more than half a million jobs (604,000 workers)—not counting self-employed artists and other cultural workers."
(2022-04-01). March Employment Growth Closes in on Pre-Pandemic Levels. truthout.org 
The economy added 431,000 jobs in March, in line with expectations. Revisions to the prior two months data added 95,000 jobs to January and February growth, bringing the three month average to 562,000. Total employment is now down by 1.6 million from the pre-pandemic level. The strong job growth brought unemployment down to 3.6 percent, just 0.1 percentage point below its pre-recession low. | Employment Closes in on Pre-Pandemic Levels: | The rise in employment in March left total employment at 1.6 million jobs below its pre-pandemic level, less than three months of growth at its recent pace. Private sect…
(2022-04-01). Iran FM stresses realizing Tehran-Beijing economic potentials. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Apr. 01 (MNA) — Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian stressed the need for realizing the huge potentials of the two countries of Iran and China, especially in economic spheres.
(2022-04-01). Gobierno de Bolivia lanza política de reconstrucción económica. telesurtv.net La entrega de bonos a sectores menos favorecidos está entre las acciones del Gobierno del presidente Arce para impulsar la economía.
(2022-04-01). La coordenada rusa y el tablero geopolítico global, la dimensión geoeconómica. globalizacion.ca La reconfiguración de las relaciones económicas y políticas internacionales no siempre se dirime por los senderos de la paz, sino que precisa del conflicto y de las pugnas, incluso bélicas en mayor o menor medida, y más cuando el sistema…
(2022-04-01). Inflation slashes living standards and pushes millions of workers in the US to the brink. wsws.org A new economic estimate finds that the average US household will have to spend $5,200 more this year, $433 a month, just to buy the same goods and services as in 2021.
(2022-04-01). History Rounds Off Skeletons To Zero. popularresistance.org On 16 March 2022, as Russia's war on Ukraine entered its second month, Kazakhstan's President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev warned his people that 'uncertainty and turbulence in the world markets are growing, and production and trade chains are collapsing'. A week later, the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) released a brief study on the immense shock that will be felt around the world due to this war. 'Soaring food and fuel prices will have an immediate effect on the most vulnerable in developing countries, resulting in hunger and hardship for households who spend the highest share of their inc…
(2022-04-01). UK: Sacked P&O workers lose jobs in rout organised by trade unions and Labour Party. wsws.org This is not the failure of a campaign to defend jobs; it is proof that no such campaign was ever mounted.
(2022-04-01). COVID deaths surge in New Zealand. wsws.org 101 deaths have been added to New Zealand's COVID-19 toll in the last six days, as the Labour Party-led government allows the virus to rip across the country.
(2022-04-01). Millions Strike In India Against Modi Government's Policies. popularresistance.org The last two years have seen a further deterioration of the living standards of working people in India due to the pandemic and the lack of enough policy interventions by the Modi government. | Around 200 million industrial workers, employees, farmers and agricultural laborers observed a two-day general strike in India on March 28 and 29. The strike is a challenge by working people to the far-right Narendra Modi government as well as a fight to save the people's future and save the country.
(2022-04-01). Staten Island Amazon Workers Pull Into The Lead. popularresistance.org In initial vote tallies today, Amazon warehouse workers in New York are ahead by hundreds of votes in favor of forming a union, while in Alabama the election is too close to call, pending a court hearing. | The vote at Amazon's mammoth warehouse in Bessemer, Alabama, was a rerun of the election last April that the union lost by more than 2 to 1. The results of that election were thrown out after the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) ruled that Amazon had illegally interfered with the vote. | This time, out of 2,375 valid ballots, 993 workers at the fulfillment center voted against joining the Retail, Wholesal…
(2022-04-01). Strong Job Growth in March, Some Evidence of Slowing Wage Growth. cepr.net The March report showed the labor market continues to improve, with modest evidence that the labor shortages in some areas are being alleviated.
(2022-04-01). Our Organizing Must Match The Structure Of Our Target. popularresistance.org In September 2017, Amazon announced its intention to build a second headquarters, dubbed HQ2. Over 200 municipalities in the US, Canada, and Mexico submitted proposals to host the site, with offers for everything from tax breaks to infrastructure improvements to promises of partnerships with high schools and universities in order to train a whole workforce for Amazon. Some even offered to rename their town Amazon. In the end, Amazon selected three locations: New York City, Arlington, and Nashville. | Labor and community organizations in each location quickly coalesced to oppose the developments and the use of pub…
(2022-04-01). Yanaisi Capó Nápoles: Nueva secretaria del Partido en Granma. cubadebate.cu "Debemos hacer coincidir empeños con resultados", dijo Yanaisi Capó Nápoles, tras ser elegida como primera secretaria del Comité Provincial del Partido en Granma. Ubiquemos al lector: es una mujer laboriosa, familiar, elocuente y con gran capacidad organizativa. Guantanamera de nacimiento, toda su vida laboral ha transcurrido en Granma.
(2022-04-01). Australian Labor leader Albanese's budget reply: Militarism, business handouts, nothing for workers. wsws.org Like the government, Labor has pledged massive increases to military spending, further pro-business restructuring and nothing to address a cost of living crisis or stagnant wages.
(2022-04-01). Depósito de petróleo ruso sufre incendio tras ataque de Ucrania. telesurtv.net Bomberos y equipos de emergencia se encontraban laborando este viernes para extinguir el fuego.
(2022-04-01). Labor and workers' rights are at the heart of Chile's new Constitutional Convention. peoplesdispatch.org On March 13, 2022, two days after Gabriel Boric was
(2022-04-01). Union wins at Staten Island Amazon, too close to call in Alabama. peoplesworld.org 
BROOKLYN, N.Y.—Workers at the Staten Island Amazon warehouse scored a historic victory today by winning their vote to unionize with the independent Amazon Labor Union. Meanwhile, the vote at the Bessemer, Alabama, warehouse is too close to call because of the large number of challenged ballots. The NLRB Brooklyn office covers elections at Amazon's JFK8 …
(2022-04-01). Bajo el disfraz de la colaboración biológica entre Ucrania y EE. UU. globalizacion.ca La noticia puede resultar tan impactante como la de la guerra misma: el Ministerio de Defensa ruso comprobó, documentación incluida, que se experimentó, en laboratorios biológicos establecidos y financiados por EE. UU. en Ucrania, con muestras de coronavirus en murciélagos….
(2022-04-01). Sanctions On Russia Boomerang — Biden Promises Food Shortages. popularresistance.org "Food shortages — it's going to be real," President Joe Biden said in Brussels March 25. "The price of the sanctions is not just imposed upon Russia. It's imposed upon an awful lot of countries as well, including European countries and our country as well." This ominous warning, reported around the world, was delivered at a NATO press conference. | As Biden spoke, workers' actions in Spain, Greece, Italy, France and Germany confronted soaring prices for fuel and food. From truckers to farmers on tractors, roads were blocked. Fishing people organized on boats. The price of fuel has already become unbearable.
(2022-04-01). Housing Is a Human Right—Here's How to Make It a Reality. independentmediainstitute.org Is housing a human right? Or is it a privilege affordable only to those who have made it under our unfair system of market capitalism? If you read CNBC's recent financial advice column, you may come away believing the latter to be true. Economist and CNBC contributor Laurence J. Kotlikoff said Americans "are wasting too …