(2022-09-16). China's property investment down in January-August period. ecns.cn China's investment in property development went down 7.4 percent year on year in the first eight months of 2022, data from the National Bureau of Statistics showed Friday.
(2022-09-16). Xinjiang local rebuffs claims of 'forced labor' during UN session. ecns.cn The allegation of "forced labor" in China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region is an absolute lie, a representative from Xinjiang stood out at the 51st regular session of the UN Human Rights Council.
(2022-09-16). China's fixed-asset investment up 5.8 pct in first 8 months. ecns.cn China's fixed-asset investment went up 5.8 percent year on year in the first eight months of this year, data from the National Bureau of Statistics showed Friday.
(2022-09-16). China's home prices ease in August. ecns.cn China's home prices in 70 large and medium-sized cities eased in August, with more cities seeing a decline in home prices, according to data released by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) on Friday.
(2022-09-16). China's industrial output up 3.6 pct in first eight months. ecns.cn China's value-added industrial output, an important economic indicator, went up 3.6 percent year on year in the first eight months of this year, data from the National Bureau of Statistics showed Friday.
(2022-09-16). China's surveyed urban unemployment rate down to 5.3 pct in August. ecns.cn China's surveyed urban unemployment rate stood at 5.3 percent in August, down from 5.4 percent in July, data from the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) showed Friday.
(2022-09-16). India's Media at 75: Shackled by Profit, Politically Imprisoned. orinocotribune.com Editorial note: As a rule Orinoco Tribune does not re-publish opinion pieces more than 10 days after their original publication, but in this case we are making an exception, because this is a on a very sensitive issue that demands attention. | By P. Sainath  ; Aug 17, 2022 | Prime Minister Narendra Modi's lockdown speech of March 24, 2020 gave a nation of 1.4 billion people four hours to shut itself down. It would devastate hundreds of millions of livelihoods within days. Minutes after Modi's speech, his government listed the essential services that would remain operational through the lockdown. | Refreshingly…
(2022-09-16). Essity ends lockout in New Zealand after unions impose sellout deal. wsws.org After 145 workers at the Kawerau paper mill were locked out for nearly six weeks and starved into accepting a below-inflation pay offer, the union bureaucracy is celebrating this sellout.
(2022-09-16). BRICS New Development Bank: A Second Bretton Woods or a New Trend with its Own Future. infobrics.org The main institutions of the Bretton Woods system, which have existed since the Second World War, are rapidly losing their economic weight. At this time, key actors in the developing world are coming to the fore, calling into question the out-dated rules of the game, including the hegemony of the West. Instead of destroying the legacy of the last century, they offer an alternative economic system where each player is able to influence important decisions at the international level…
(2022-09-16). Royal Money: Charles III and the Wealth Dimension. dissidentvoice.org Once the fixated adoration with the late Queen Elizabeth II starts cooling, the accountants of public welfare and decency will be stunned to realise the costs and wealth associated with the royal institution. Her successor, Charles III, is continuing in that vein, a jarring note of wealth and pomp even as prices rise and the …
(2022-09-16). Falling FX Reserves Herald Asia Financial Crisis 2.0. asia-pacificresearch.com
(2022-09-16). Chinese premier stresses continuous efforts to promote mass entrepreneurship, innovation. ecns.cn Chinese Premier Li Keqiang on Thursday stressed continuous efforts to promote mass entrepreneurship and innovation, and pool wisdom and strengths to nurture market entities and foster new economic drivers.
(2022-09-16). Britain: New King won't solve deep crisis. greenleft.org.au The new King, however powerful, will not be able to solve the new Prime Minister's dilemmas regarding Britain's deep economic and social crisis, writes Martin Clarke.
(2022-09-16). Fall 2022 National Immigrant Solidarity Network Immigrant Justice News Alert! indybay.org U.S. Political Prisoners Special Report: We Have Hundreds of Political Prisoners, Thousands of Asian-American Hate Victims, Half Million Child Farm Labors!
(2022-09-16). Chile's 9/11 & The Rise Of US Fascism. indybay.org Labor Historian & Professor Ruth Needleman talks about the lessons of Chile's coup in relation to the growing fascist movement in the US.
(2022-09-16). Sunday 9/25: Turning ideas into action: Taking to the streets with the FSP. indybay.org via zoom: tinyurl.com/FSP-Sept-25-mtg…
(2022-09-16). US Rail Workers Fed Up & On Verge Of National Strike Over Working Conditions, Health/Safety. indybay.org Gabe Christenson a conductor and Co-chair of Railroad Workers United RWU is interviewed about the conditions and health and safety for railroad workers.
(2022-09-16). Terrorism, Racism & Union Busting Against SEIU1021 SF General Hospital Workers By HR DPH. indybay.org Workers and SEIU 1021 SF General Hospital union leaders reported on the epidemic of bullying, racist discrimination and union busting by DPH and CCSF HR. The City has spent over $100 million on paying for illegal discrimination, defendant lawyers and City lawyers to defend illegal racist attacks and systemic racism.
(2022-09-16). No to another school year of mass infections, and deaths! For a unified struggle of educators! wsws.org This school year, educators must combine the developing struggle for wages and benefits with the fight for the necessary public health measures to stop the pandemic and save lives.
(2022-09-16). German corporations use economic crisis to impose mass layoffs. wsws.org While the largest energy and auto corporations are making record profits, small and medium sized companies are being driven to insolvency en masse and tens of thousands of workers sacked.
(2022-09-16). Gremios docentes rechazan nuevo ciclo lectivo en Buenos Aires. telesurtv.net El jefe del Gobierno porteño, Horacio Rodríguez Larreta, anunció que tres sábados serán laborales el ciclo lectivo 2023.
(2022-09-15). Latin Americans Reject Resource Plundering By Same NATO Countries Fueling Military Conflict In Ukraine. popularresistance.org On August 6 we celebrated 197 years of independence here in Bolivia. We listened intently to the speech by President Luis Arce delivered in Sucre, the capital city in Bolivia's Chiquisaca department. Among other issues, he spoke about the current military conflict in Ukraine and the need for peace in today's world. | President Arce said there cannot be peace in the world so long as there is continued foreign military intervention and economic blockades and sanctions, so very painful to humanity. He went on to say that Bolivians are placing much attention on the conflict taking place in Ukraine. He cautioned again…
(2022-09-15). First shipping route launched between China's SCODA, Vladivostok. ecns.cn A shipping route between the China-SCO Local Economic and Trade Cooperation Demonstration Area (SCODA) in east China's Shandong Province and Russia's port city of Vladivostok was officially launched Wednesday.
(2022-09-15). Japan trade with Russia up by 31% due to growing fuel prices. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Sep. 15 (MNA) — Japan's trade with Russia increased by 31% in August as compared with the same period last year largely due to the growth of global prices on fuels, figures released by the Japanese finance ministry said Thursday.
(2022-09-15). China is the World's Largest Economy: Get Over It. cepr.net 
Some folks seem to find it hard to accept that the US does not have the world's largest economy, but such is life. Donald Trump lost the election and the US is number 2.
(2022-09-15). Biden Signs Executive Order to Limit Foreign Investments in US Technology in Move Aimed at China. news.antiwar.com President Biden on Thursday signed an executive order aimed at limiting foreign investment in US technology in a move that clearly targets China. The executive order directs the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) to increase scrutiny on certain foreign investments in the US in several areas. CFIUS was formed in 1975 …
(2022-09-15). RCEP exhibits showcased at 19th China-ASEAN Expo. ecns.cn Exhibits from Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) countries have been gathered at the 19th China-ASEAN Expo to be held on Friday in Nanning, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region.
(2022-09-15). East China demonstration area handles more China-Europe freight trains. ecns.cn A demonstration area in east China for local economic and trade cooperation between China and the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) handled more China-Europe freight trains in the first eight months of 2022, local customs said.
(2022-09-15). Vijay Prashad and Noam Chomsky on Afghanistan War & the Fragility of US Empire. liberationnews.org The U.S. government has destroyed cities, countries, and towns around the world, through bombs and air raids, military ground invasions, naval attacks, economic sanctions and strangulation, coups, and more. Some say U.S. force is never ending, others say it's on a fast decline, almost gone forever. Vijay Prashad and Noam Chomsky argue in their new book, "The Withdrawal: Iraq, Libya, Afghanistan, and the Fragility of U.S. Power," that U.S. military might is somewhere in the middle: it's fragile.
(2022-09-15). Is The Ethereum Merger And Upgrade A Sell-The-News Event? moguldom.com A long-awaited Ethereum software upgrade known as "The Merge" has finally happened with promises that it will reduce energy consumption by 99.95 percent for transactions of the world's second-largest cryptocurrency. Many are calling the Merge the most important moment in crypto history. It is expected to set the stage for more technical upgrades that will …
(2022-09-15). UMWA commemorates the Mine Wars on Labor Day weekend. workers.org 
Marmet, West Virginia During Labor Day weekend, the West Virginia Mine Wars Museum hosted two ceremonies entitled "Courage in the Hollers" to present permanent monuments in honor of the coal miners who fought in the Battle of Blair Mountain. That conflict is considered the largest labor uprising in U.S. history . . . |
(2022-09-15). Warnings of financial turbulence amid rising workers' struggles. wsws.org The key issue for ruling circles in the US and elsewhere is how far and how fast interest rates must be raised to suppress the growing movement of the working class for wage increases.
(2022-09-15). Biggest Lie in World History: There Never Was A Pandemic. The Data Base is Flawed. The Covid Mandates including the Vaccine are Invalid. globalresearch.ca Fake science was supportive of this devastating agenda. The lies were sustained by a massive media disinformation campaign. The historic March 11, 2020 lockdown triggered economic and social chaos Worldwide. It was an act of "economic warfare": a war against humanity.
(2022-09-15). UN Special Rapporteur Calls For End Of All Unilateral Sanctions Against Iran. popularresistance.org Claiming that unilateral coercive measures taken by the US and some of its allies against Iran had harmed ordinary Iranians' rights to employment, health, and food, the UN Special Rapporteur Alena Douhan demanded the withdrawal of all such sanctions immediately and proposed mechanisms to prevent such measures being taken in the future. | Douhan's report on Iran was released on Monday, September 12. | Douhan, a professor of international law, told Iranian news website Tehran Times in an interview on Monday that, contrary to claims by countries who pursue such policies, "ordinary people are directly affected by the…
(2022-09-15). Afghan People Face a Deadly Humanitarian Crisis. libya360.wordpress.com Amitabha Roychowdhury As winter approaches, the UN Security Council should set aside differences and urgently focus on how to send assistance to Afghanistan's impoverished people The massive humanitarian crisis and the perilous condition of the economy in Afghanistan are likely to worsen with the impending onset of the harsh winter season for the second time…
(2022-09-15). BRICS Industrial Innovation Contest Final Kicks Off in Xiamen. infobrics.org Contestants compete in the industrial internet, intelligent manufacturing, and green development during the contest themed "industrial innovation for stronger, greener, and healthier global development"
(2022-09-15). Workers Building New US Embassy In Honduras Are On Strike. popularresistance.org The Biden administration has pledged that "the United States will work with governments to strengthen … the enforcement of labor laws, promote decent work, and support workers in exercising their freedom of association and collective bargaining rights," as one of four pillars of its strategy to address the root causes of migration from Central America. | In Honduras today the U.S. has an opportunity to practice this with the 1,100 workers it has hired to build a new embassy. But it's blowing it. | Instead, police have been called in to bust a strike that's been going on at the construction site in Tegucigalpa s…
(2022-09-15). The Failed Serotonin Theory of Depression: A Marxist Analysis. orinocotribune.com By Carlos L. Garrido  ; Sep 9, 2022 | A recent study published in the journal Molecular Psychiatry sent shockwaves across the scientific community and popular outlets as it disproved the predominant "serotonin hypothesis" of depression. In just two weeks since its publication it has been accessed by nearly half a million people and the subject of dozens of subsequent articles. The researchers analyzed a total of seventeen systematic reviews, meta-analyses, and other large studies focused on the following six tenets pertinent to the "serotonin hypothesis" of depression: | "(1) Serotonin and the serotonin metabo…
(2022-09-15). Greece: All-Workers Militant Front (PAME) Solidarity with the Nurses' Strike in Minnesota and Wisconsin. fightbacknews.org Fight Back News Service is circulating the following statement from the influential Greek labor organization, the All-Workers Militant Front (PAME). | PAME that represents the class unions of Greece, expresses its solidarity with the strike of thousands of nurses in Minnesota and Wisconsin in the USA who are demanding 27% wage increases. | Health workers both before and during the pandemic have been on the front line of protecting the lives and health of the people. But governments and business groups that treat health as a commodity on the one hand treat the sick as customers who must pay to get well and on the…
(2022-09-15). Freight Workers Explain Why National Railroad Strike is Looming. scheerpost.com 
A national rail shutdown, which has not occurred since the early 1990s, would have a major economic impact. Photo: Jim Hamilton, CC BY 2.0. | By Maximillian Alvarez / On Friday, September 16, the United States could see its first major rail strike and/or rail lockout since the early '90s. Railroad workers have reached the end of their rope after years of enduring dramatic staff cuts that have piled more work onto fewer workers, along with exhausting schedules and draconian attendance…
(2022-09-15). Analysis Shows 'Quiet Fleecing' Of US Workers Is The Real Problem. popularresistance.org "Quiet quitting"—an allegedly new trend characterized by workers performing only their required job duties and no more—has been getting a lot of attention in recent weeks, but the defining trend of the past 40 years of U.S. economic history is "quiet fleecing," and we should be talking much more about it. | That's the argument put forth Friday by the Economic Policy Institute (EPI), a progressive think tank with a long track record of popularizing research on wage suppression and runaway inequality. | "Everyone's obsessed with a post-pandemic phenomenon called 'quiet quitting,'" EPI wrote in an email.
(2022-09-15). Biotechnology Over Human Rights: US President Joe Biden Issues Executive Order Promoting "Biotechnology" and "Biomanufacturing" in "American Bioeconomy" globalresearch.ca
(2022-09-15). A Minnesota Nurse Speaks Out About Exploitative Working Conditions. popularresistance.org Hello, my name is Danielle and I'm a nurse at Methodist Hospital. I want to speak a little about the situation we are seeing currently which has led to this strike. | HealthPartners permanently closed seven clinics putting 200 people jobless during the pandemic as the company seeks to put profit first—and accessibility for healthcare last. HealthPartners closed thirty pharmacies and left 300 people jobless while also selling their patients to Walgreens pharmacies before the pandemic. HealthPartners bought Park Nicollet Hospital in order to consolidate and control the market. They created an insurance compan…
(2022-09-15). The US Response to the World's Worst Humanitarian Crisis: Seize and Privatize. cepr.net 
What is the role of central bank reserves in a contemporary functioning economy? To whom do these reserves ultimately belong? How rational is it to constitute a parallel private foundation assigned to perform the duties of a central bank?
(2022-09-15). Veteran UK rail worker speaks on British and US rail struggles. wsws.org The World Socialist Web Site interviewed a rail worker of more than three decades on the ongoing national strikes in Britain and the struggle of railroad workers in the United States.
(2022-09-15). Pittsburgh case reflects depth of illegal moves by Starbucks. peoplesworld.org 
PITTSBURGH—A comprehensive case out of Pittsburgh shows the depths to which Starbucks will stoop in labor law-breaking to stop its workers from unionizing. The offenses the National Labor Relations Board's regional office cataloged were so many and so varied that Starbucks Workers United, the Service Employees sector that aids the grass-roots organizing drives from coast …
(2022-09-15). Justice for Teachers: The Strike That Started the Red Wave. commondreams.org Ten years ago, Chicago teachers modeled what a militant fight for public education looks like by walking off the job. A decade later, the legacy of social justice unionism continues to animate the U.S. labor movement.
(2022-09-15). Iran interacts with entire world, particularly neighbors. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Sep. 15 (MNA) — Seyyed Ebrahim Raeisi held a meeting with Iranian businessmen residing in Uzbekistan on Thursday, stressing neighbors are an economic and commercial priority for Iran.
(2022-09-15). Chinese premier chairs State Council executive meeting. ecns.cn Chinese Premier Li Keqiang on Tuesday presided over a State Council executive meeting, which made decisions on multiple economic issues.
(2022-09-15). Australia: Rail union announces token industrial action to conceal plans for sellout. wsws.org New South Wales rail workers will turn off Opal readers in an "action" designed by the Rail, Tram and Bus Union to blind workers to its efforts to bury their dispute in the industrial courts.
(2022-09-15). The United States of America as a Sacrifice Zone. commondreams.org Despite the encouraging policy-making that hit the headlines this summer, America remains a significant sacrifice zone with economic policies that justify their painful impact on the poor and marginalized as necessary for the greater good.
(2022-09-15). US Announces Fund to Benefit Afghan Economy—Using Stolen Afghan Bank Reserves. commondreams.org "The Afghan Fund is funded by Afghanistan, and the U.S. is only delivering unprecedented suffering," said one economic policy group.
(2022-09-15). Fiji government prepares for another anti-democratic election. wsws.org With an escalating economic and social disaster following the COVID pandemic, Fiji's Prime Minister Frank Bainimarama is for the first time since his 2006 coup facing possible defeat in the forthcoming election.
(2022-09-15). Honoring Barbara Ehrenreich, Who Exposed How Toxic Positivity Is Used to Dismiss Economic Inequality. commondreams.org The late Nickel and Dimed author also laid bare the "positive thinking" industry that put a smiley face on inequality.
(2022-09-15). Smart guns could be the future of firearm control. america.cgtn.com Gun ownership in the United States spiked during the COVID-19 pandemic — almost 20 million guns were purchased last year. And with that came more accidents. Firearms are the number one cause of death for young people in the country. Soon, there could be a …
(2022-09-15). US Rail Workers Fed Up & On Verge Of National Strike Over Working Conditions,Health/Safety. indybay.org Gabe Christenson a conductor and Co-chair of Railroad Workers United RWU is interviewed about the conditions and health and safety for railroad workers.
(2022-09-15). Bajo los brillos de Hanoi. cubadebate.cu Pasados 40 años de la renovación del modelo socialista, Vietnam es hoy una nación pujante dentro de su propio entorno geográfico y en el mundo, que se proyecta vertiginosamente al futuro sin renegar de su pasado, mejor aun dignificándolo con el aliento de cambios que transpira su sociedad. "Cambio o muerte" es una de las ocurrentes y lapidarias sentencias con la que nos sorprenden.
(2022-09-15). La labor de las agencias transitarias avanza de manera estable. cubadebate.cu El miembro del Buró Político y primer ministro, Manuel Marrero Cruz, chequeó la situación de las agencias transitarias y la entrega de paquetería internacional, tema que ha sido una constante en la atención del Gobierno durante los últimos meses.
(2022-09-15). Conduce Díaz-Canel última jornada de visita partidista a Isla de la Juventud. cubadebate.cu El primer secretario del Comité Central del PCC y presidente cubano, Miguel Díaz-Canel, conduce este jueves la última jornada de la visita del Secretariado y la estructura auxiliar del Comité Central al municipio especial Isla de la Juventud. Esta visita comenzó el lunes 12 de septiembre. La comitiva acudirá a centros laborales, empresas estatales, mipymes, cooperativas, instituciones culturales y proyectos sociales y comunitarios.
(2022-09-15). Villa Clara: Condecorados 25 combatientes del Cuerpo de Bomberos por su labor durante el incendio en zona industrial de Matanzas. cubadebate.cu En la actividad, que estuvo encabezada por Osnay Miguel Colina y Alberto López Díaz, máximas figuras política y gubernamental del territorio, respectivamente, el coronel Gustavo Díaz Villalobos, jefe del Minint en Villa Clara, dio lectura a una carta de felicitación del ministro del Interior a los condecorados, quienes colocaron flores ante la llama eterna ubicada en el Mausoleo.
(2022-09-14). Economist Richard Wolff: Sanctions Against Russia, Inflation. popularresistance.org European countries, as well as the United States, continue to be imperiled by an economic crisis following the imposition of sanctions on Russia. The policy has backfired spectacularly and has had worse economic ramifications on those levying the sanctions, than those being sanctioned. In this week's episode, Lowkey speaks to respected U.S. economist Dr. Richard Wolff, discussing the links between the war in Ukraine, inflation, and the class war at home. | Before exploring the people's definition of inflation, Dr. Wolff contextualizes the economic crisis currently unfolding across the West. | In the conversation,…
(2022-09-14). Latest on inflation in the U.S. america.cgtn.com The Consumer Price Index for last month shows inflation cooling in the U.S., but not as much as many analysts had expected. The good news for consumers: gas prices are way down. The bad news: just about everything is costing more. CGTN's Jim Spellman …
(2022-09-14). World's Biggest Hedge Fund Bridgewater: A Large Recession Is Coming To America, Will Be Difficult. moguldom.com Economists, analysts, and market participants are divided on whether the U.S. is headed for a recession but the world's biggest hedge fund is betting that the U.S. is the epicenter of a global financial bubble, making it the country most at risk for a crushing recession when the bubble bursts. Greg Jensen, co-chief investor of …
(2022-09-14). Corrupt French Dentist Arrested, Preyed On Low-Income Patients With Mutilation And Unnecessary Work. moguldom.com Lionel Guedj, 41, was a multi-millionaire dentist in France who has been sentenced to eight years in jail for deliberately mutilating patients from low-income neighborhoods of Marseille. In the horrifying money-making scheme, Lionel Guedj performed thousands of unnecessary procedures carrying out work on healthy teeth of low-income patients. His father, Carnot Guedj, 70, who worked part-time for …
(2022-09-14). Hundreds Protest As Starbucks Holds Investor Day Without Retail Workers. popularresistance.org Seattle, Washington – Hundreds of workers took to the streets in front of Starbucks's Seattle headquarters on Tuesday as the company hosted investors for its biennial investor day, in which executives and investors discuss the company's outlook — an event that has never once included representation from a Starbucks retail worker, the workers' union says. | Joined by other union members, workers with Starbucks Workers United are demanding that the company give them a say in its strategy and financial decisions and a place at the bargaining table for contract negotiations, which the company has been delaying.
(2022-09-14). South Africa: Civil Society, Human Rights Organizations Call for Urgent Intervention to Protect Abahlali baseMjondolo. libya360.wordpress.com PRESS STATEMENT 14 SEPTEMBER 2022 CIVIL SOCIETY CALLS FOR URGENT NATIONAL INTERVENTION TO PROTECT ABAHLALI BASEMJONDOLO On Friday, 9 September 2022, the Socio-Economic Rights Institute of South Africa (SERI) sent a letter concerning the ongoing attacks on Abahlali baseMjondolo to various members of the South African executive and legislature, as well as commissioners of regional…
(2022-09-14). Modern slavery: Number of enslaved increases by 10 million over five years. america.cgtn.com The number of people under modern slavery increased by 10 million people globally over the last five years, according to researchers from Geneva. Data gathered by the UN's International Organization for Migration, the International Labor Organization and the Walk Free Foundation human rights group show …