(2022-09-11). Joe Biden, the US Military-Industrial Complex, and Arms Supplies to Ukraine and Taiwan. journal-neo.org 
It is an open secret that money plays a decisive role in US presidential election campaigns  ; all those advertisements and consultancy and PR services have to be paid for. Moreover, as the Democrats' strategy has made clear, organizing street protests and media and other Information campaigns is an expensive business  ; and a lot …
(2022-09-11). Google & Tech Workers With Community Demand No Tech For Apartheid! Cancel Project Nimbus. indybay.org Google workers who were members of CWA Alphabet Workers Union joined with other tech workers and community members rallied at San Francisco Google and Amazonn to protest the retaliation against Google worker Ariel Koren for speaking out against the Project Nimbus which uses Google technology to spy on Palestinian people for the apartheid regime.
(2022-09-11). We are witnessing the collapse of diplomacy. indybay.org We, who keep this society running, are footing the bill, while the super-rich and big corporations are lining their pockets, making profits from the crises.
(2022-09-11). Students' enrollment rate on par with developed world. ecns.cn The gross enrollment rates of all levels of education in China have reached or exceeded those of middle- to high-income countries, Minister of Education Huai Jinpeng said on Friday.
(2022-09-11). China automobile sector maintains rapid growth momentum. ecns.cn China's automobile industry continued to see robust growth in production and sales in August despite COVID-19 outbreaks, industrial data showed Friday.
(2022-09-11). Documents to be discussed at upcoming CPC Central Committee plenary session deliberated. ecns.cn The Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee on Friday held a meeting to deliberate documents to be submitted for discussion at the seventh plenary session of the 19th CPC Central Committee.
(2022-09-11). "Working In An Oven" IBT UPS Teamsters Speak Out On Deadly Heatwave, Life and Death. indybay.org IBT UPS drivers and warehouse workers speak out about the dangerous temperature conditions that workers must operate in. Additionally many UPS trucks do not even have a fan.
(2022-09-11). The "Scariest Paper Of 2022" Reveals The Terrifying Fate Of Biden's Economy: Millions Are About To Lose Their Job. southfront.org 
Originally published by ZeroHedge For much of the past year (and certainly at the time, more than a year ago,…
(2022-09-11). Saturday 9/10: Housing: Commodity or Human Right? indybay.org
(2022-09-11). King Charles III pledges 'lifelong service' as Britain's new monarch. ecns.cn Britain's King Charles III on Friday pledged "lifelong service" in his first address to the nation and the Commonwealth after assuming the throne following the death of his mother, Queen Elizabeth II, on Thursday.
(2022-09-11). How the West betrayed Mikhail Gorbatchev. indybay.org Gorbachev wanted to transform the Soviet Union from a closed, repressive system into an open, communicative socialist system that would be part of the European family. This effort was called glasnost (openness) and was advanced through the reform movement called perestroika.
(2022-09-11). Chile's 9/11 & The Rise Of US Fascism. indybay.org Chile and the world will commemorate the 49th anniversary of the 1973 coup. The coup we organized and funded by the US government with the active support of the AFL-CIO American Institute For Free Labor Development. Labor professor Ruth Needleman from Indiana University was in Chile prior to the coup and interviewed many of the Chilean supporters and the AIFLD and US operatives. She talks about that coup and the rise of fascism in the United States.
(2022-09-11). Solidaridad europea impulsa plataforma para la colaboración con Cuba. cubadebate.cu Representantes de España, Francia e Italia, y a nivel europeo, apoyaron la declaración final del foro convocado por la asociación Cuba Coopération France (CubaCoop), texto que llama a elevar el acompañamiento a la isla hacia una etapa superior, en forma de alianza estratégica frente al bloqueo económico, comercial y financiero.
(2022-09-11). Continúan labores de rescate a mineros atrapados en Ecuador. telesurtv.net "Por causas desconocidas se suscitó el colapso de un puntal que sostenía una viga con materia de relleno en la Mina Señor de Roma", señala el informe como causa principal del desplome.
(2022-09-11). Adivinando a las proteínas (II): Inteligencia natural y artificial. cubadebate.cu Desde hace más de medio siglo el Laboratorio Nacional de Brookhaven, en los EE.UU., y la Universidad de Cambridge, en el Reino Unido, se asociaron para crear un almacén de información acerca de la constitución de proteínas que se iban obteniendo a partir de mediciones experimentales. Inicialmente eran una pocas, pues una sola determinación era muy costosa en tiempo y recursos. Se trata del famoso "Protein Data Bank" o simplemente PDB. Hoy tienen diversos datos estructurales de cerca de 200 000 proteínas.
(2022-09-11). Carlos III es proclamado de manera oficial nuevo rey del Reino Unido. telesurtv.net El nuevo monarca británico se comprometió a consolidar "la armonía y la prosperidad de los pueblos de estas islas y de los reinos y territorios de la Commonwealth en todo el mundo".
(2022-09-10). Prague: Mass protest against war and inflation reveals crisis of political perspective. wsws.org 70,000 people demonstrated in the Czech capital of Prague on 3 September against rising energy prices and the NATO war in Ukraine, demanding the government resign.
(2022-09-10). Poland Destroys Economy to Strengthen NATO's Eastern Border with Russia. globalresearch.ca
(2022-09-10). Key Chinese Components In F-35s Show Vulnerabilities Of US Military Industrial Complex. southfront.org 
F-35A Lightning II in the Heart of Texas Airshow April 7, 2019. (Senior Airman Alexander Cook/U.S. Air Force)The F-35 is a premier ISR platform that allows the US unprecedented access to other countries' intelligence, which is aimed against Russia and China. | Written by Drago Bosnic, independent geopolitical and military analyst | It is no secret that in the last couple of decades the global economy has become so intertwined that any sort of trouble in one seemingly unimportant market can cause a ripple effect on a sc…
(2022-09-10). Global Planned Financial Tsunami Has Just Begun. globalresearch.ca Green Energy mandates are driving this inflation crisis: global shortages of fertilizers, soaring prices of natural gas, grain supply losses, coupled with the global snowballing of defaults, bankruptcies, amid a soaring inflation.
(2022-09-10). Republicans: Another Reason a Recession Would be Really Bad News. cepr.net If there is one lesson we have learned well following the Great Recession, it is much easier for the Fed to use monetary policy to slow the economy than to boost it out of a recession.
(2022-09-10). Possible Prisoner Exchange in US Hybrid War Against Venezuela. orinocotribune.com By Roger D. Harris  ; Sep 7, 2022 | US special presidential envoy for hostage affairs Roger Carstens is on a case which could lead to freeing Venezuelan diplomat Alex Saab. Pressure is building on the Biden administration to swap Saab for some American citizens currently incarcerated in Venezuela. | Alex Saab targeted in the US economic war against Venezuela | Alex Saab, who has been confined for over two years, is a victim of the US economic war calculated to achieve regime-change in Venezuela. He has been targeted because of his role in helping circumvent the sanctions imposed on Venezuela by the US. These m…
(2022-09-10). States Propose Expanding Highways With Federal Infrastructure Funds. popularresistance.org In November 2021, President Joe Biden signed the Bipartisan Infrastructure Package into law, which allocates $1.2 trillion toward infrastructure and was meant to reduce transportation emissions. While the federal government is guiding states to use the funding toward public transit and other improvements, like increased bike lanes, a new report finds that state and local governments may lean toward using the money toward highway expansions instead. | The report from U.S. Public Interest Research Group, a nonprofit organization, maps out highway projects across the country that could use up infrastructure funding…
(2022-09-10). States Propose Expanding Highways With Federal Infrastructure Funds Intended to Reduce Emissions. popularresistance.org In November 2021, President Joe Biden signed the Bipartisan Infrastructure Package into law, which allocates $1.2 trillion toward infrastructure and was meant to reduce transportation emissions. While the federal government is guiding states to use the funding toward public transit and other improvements, like increased bike lanes, a new report finds that state and local governments may lean toward using the money toward highway expansions instead. | The report from U.S. Public Interest Research Group, a nonprofit organization, maps out highway projects across the country that could use up infrastructure funding…
(2022-09-10). Economic War Against Venezuela Began in 2002, President Maduro Says. orinocotribune.com 
The president of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro said this Friday, September 9, that the economic war against Venezuela, carried out by the US and the collective "West," began in December 2002 with the oil strike of the Venezuelan political right wing. | "Imperialism aimed for an economic collapse [of Venezuela]," the president commented during an official program at the Petrocedeño Industrial Complex. "The economic war began long before the sanctions. It began on December 6, 2002. That was when the intense economic war began. Targeting the principal wealth of the country in order to defeat Comandante Hugo Chávez. That…
(2022-09-10). Enemies seek to starve Yemenis in new form of war. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Sep. 10 (MNA) — The speaker of the Iranian Parliament Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf said Saturday that the enemies seek to turn the war on Yemen into an economic war after failing in the military battlefied.
(2022-09-10). [Correspondence] Misclassification bias in estimating clinical severity of SARS-CoV-2 variants. thelancet.com Tommy Nyberg and colleagues1 use an unvaccinated cohort to show differences between the intrinsic severity of the omicron (B.1.1.529) and delta (B.1.617.2) variants of SARS-CoV-2 without confounding by pre-existing immunity. They report an 80% reduction in the severity of the omicron compared with the delta variant, suggesting the possibility of living through the COVID-19 pandemic without social and economic disruptions. However, reliance on SARS-CoV-2 test positivity to identify cases of COVID-19 and on all-cause hospitalisations and deaths as outcomes could have introduced misclassification bias and residual c…
(2022-09-10). University of Washington Moves to Divest from Fossil Fuels. popularresistance.org After more than two years of pressure from student climate activists at the University of Washington, the University's Board of Regents passed a resolution to divest the school's endowment, worth more than $6B, from the fossil fuel industry. | The resolution, released last Friday, would move investments of around $124 million currently funding fossil fuel projects into "climate solutions." This move would add UW to a long list of public and private universities which have committed to removing investments in fossil fuel projects. "Moves like this are necessary to restore our faith in institutions during a crisis…
(2022-09-10). This is How We Heal by Susan Anglada Bartley and Lexy Kahn. popularresistance.org It was that tiny shred of hope that drove us out of our homes, but for many a mass reckoning around white privilege was also a motivating factor. The geographic, social, and economic demographics of Portland, a city deemed 'The Whitest City in America,' a city located in a state that was originally founded as a white supremacist utopia, a city also known for both anarchist underpinnings and quirky white liberal Portlandia funkiness, was the only place where this could have happened exactly as it did. Portland was already known for massive protests. The history of protest in Portland in the past twenty years must…
(2022-09-10). Biden's MAGA Obsession Won't Help Democrats. popularresistance.org "MAGA proposals are a threat to the very soul of this country." Joe Biden"The MAGA agenda represents an extremism that threatens the very foundations of our Republic." Joe Biden"The MAGA ideology looks at America and sees carnage and darkness and despair." Joe Biden"MAGA Republicans in Congress look at the mob that stormed the United States Capitol on January 6th not as insurrectionists but as patriots." Joe Biden | Anyone paying attention knows that Joe Biden's accomplishments as president are pretty sparse. The oligarchy allowed his American Rescue Plan stimulus program to go through but then put a stop on Buil…
(2022-09-10). UAE Wants To Buy 120 Bayraktar Combat Drones From Turkey — Report. southfront.org 
Bayrakdar TB2 UCAV, source: ssb.gov.tr | The United Arab Emirates (UAE) is negotiating the purchase of 120 Bayraktar TB2 combat drones from Turkey's Baykar, Two people familiar with the negotiations told London-based news outlet that Baykar and the Emirati arms procurement agency Tawazun have been negotiating the deal since March."[Bayraktar TB2 drones] will…
(2022-09-10). With one week left before potential national rail strike, showdown building between US railroaders and Biden administration. wsws.org All of the institutions, which the ruling class has relied upon for so long to suppress the class struggle, are now mired in crisis, while the working class is being thrust into struggle by the deepest crisis of American and world capitalism in a century.
(2022-09-10). Homelessness worsens dramatically in New Zealand under Labour. wsws.org The Labour Party-led government of Jacinda Ardern, which promised to fix the housing crisis in its 2017 election campaign, is now seeing its support plummet as the social crisis becomes even more severe.
(2022-09-10). The US Must Ends Its Complicity in Illicit Financial Flows Out of Africa. commondreams.org Currently, there are no consequences for the U.S.-based companies involved in the illicit looting of African nations' wealth.
(2022-09-10). Barbara Ehrenreich Showed Us the Need for Socialist Policies. commondreams.org "If we are serious about collective survival in the face of our multiple crises, we have to build organizations, including explicitly socialist ones, that can mobilize this talent, develop leadership, and advance local struggles," she wrote.
(2022-09-10). A Farmworker Speaks Truth to Power in Washington. commondreams.org Labor Secretary Marty Walsh got an earful from essential workers before inducting them into the agency's Hall of Honor.
(2022-09-10). Alicia Bárcena es ratificada como embajadora de México ante Chile. cubadebate.cu En comisiones, el Senado ratificó por unanimidad el nombramiento presidencial de Alicia Bárcena Ibarra como embajadora de México ante Chile, luego de una comparecencia en la que la ex titular de la Comisión Económica para América Latina y Caribe expresó que buscaría ampliar los vínculos de colaboración con el país andino.
(2022-09-10). Mineros del cobre van a huelga por inseguridad laboral en Chile. telesurtv.net Fue convocada por el sindicato de los trabajadores chilenos de la minera de cobre más productiva del mundo.
(2022-09-09). Economist Michael Hudson on debt relief, inflation, Ukraine disaster capitalism, petrodollar crisis. multipolarista.com 
Economist Michael Hudson discusses partial student debt relief in the US, inflation and the Fed, disaster capitalism in Ukraine, and China's challenge to the petrodollar.
(2022-09-08). China to scale up support for employment, entrepreneurship to expand space of employment. ecns.cn China will step up policy support for employment and business start-ups to broaden the space of employment, help market entities emerge and grow, and foster new drivers of growth, according to a State Council executive meeting chaired by Premier Li Keqiang on Wednesday.
(2022-09-09). Guest commentary/My 70 years and the departed GDR. workers.org 
Karl-Marx-Allee, Berlin August 2022 — It's a momentous day! Not for the world — for which it's nothing special. But for me! Just 70 years ago, in nervous panic, I took off my U.S. Army jacket, shoes and sleeve insignia, and stepped into the swift Danube River which, at Linz . . . |