(2023-01-28). Consumers give economy festive boost. ecns.cn Chinese consumers splurged during the Spring Festival holiday, not only on things like duty-free commodities, jewelry and health-related products, but also on experiences such as travel and entertainment, fueled by the optimization of COVID-19 prevention and control measures, industry experts said.
(2023-01-28). U.S. benefits from continuation of war in Ukraine. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com Tehran TimesJanuary 27, 2023 U.S. benefits from continuation of war in Ukraine FULL ARTICLE Weakening Russia is only one of its motivations to prolong the war in Ukraine to maintain its control over the politics, economy, and security of Europe. This is why the U.S. wants a war in Ukraine to the detriment of this …
(2023-01-28). The Paris policy is becoming increasingly unpopular in Africa. journal-neo.org 
Following Britain's exit from the European Union, France appeared to have certain opportunities to strengthen its position on the international stage, such as shifting the balance of power in Europe and bolstering Paris's position in the Franco-German tandem. First, while Germany remained the EU's economic leader, the Fifth Republic had more options in the political …
(2023-01-28). Local govt's stepping up growth incentives. ecns.cn A number of regional economic powerhouses across China are rolling out substantial new policies to revive growth during the ongoing holiday period, aiming to provide a significant boost to recovery.
(2023-01-28). Millions on journeys as break nears end. ecns.cn Halfway through the Spring Festival travel rush, the anticipated passenger flow surge has demonstrated Chinese people's strong desire to travel, the nation's robust consumption potential and its economic vitality, thanks to the optimized COVID-19 response management.
(2023-01-28). Nepali envoy hopes Chinese return en masse. ecns.cn Bishnu Pukar Shrestha, the ambassador of Nepal to China, said the Chinese government's adjustment of its COVID-19 response measures is a very important step that helps to promote economic development both for China and the world, enhance people-to-people exchanges and boost tourism.
(2023-01-28). China-Latin America and Caribbean Ties To Enter New Era of Equality, Openness, Mutual Benefit. orinocotribune.com Taking the joint building of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) as the lead, China and Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) countries have worked together to promote the high-quality development of economic and trade cooperation over the years, writing a new chapter for building a China-LAC community with a shared future. | When delivering a video address at the seventh Summit of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) on Tuesday, Chinese President Xi Jinping said LAC countries are important members of the developing world and take an active part in global governance and make important contr…
(2023-01-28). Layoffs expand in US manufacturing and retail amid deepening economic slowdown. wsws.org More layoffs in the manufacturing and retail industries were announced on Thursday amid the drive to impose the inflation crisis onto the working class through interest rate increases.
(2023-01-28). [Correspondence] Improving childhood cancer care in China — Authors' reply. thelancet.com We thank Yaping Wang and Jue Liu for their Correspondence in response to our Article1 about socioeconomic inequalities in cancer incidence and access to health services faced by Chinese children and adolescents.
(2023-01-28). [Correspondence] Improving childhood cancer care in China. thelancet.com We read with interest Xin Ni and colleagues'1 study on cancer incidence, and the association between incidence and inaccessibility of health services among children and adolescents in China. The authors found that an estimated 121‚Äà145 cancer cases were diagnosed among children and adolescents in China between 2018 and 2020, and found a positive association between cancer incidence and regional socioeconomic status (p<0 ∑0001).
(2023-01-28). China's tourism and film industries recover during spring festival: report. ecns.cn During the Spring Festival of the Year of the Rabbit, China's domestic demands for tourism and film consumption have recovered, bringing confidence to markets, according to a latest spring festival report published by Alibaba on Thursday.
(2023-01-28). Income of Chinese people exiting poverty increases by 14.3% in 2022. ecns.cn In 2022, the per capita net income of people who have been lifted out of poverty reached 14,342 yuan (about $2,114.56), an increase of 14.3 percent year on year, which was higher than the 6.3 percent growth rate disposable income of rural residents across the country, according to National Rural Revitalization Administration"ÄÇ…
(2023-01-28). Gigawatts of Offshore Wind Power in Big Apple Pipeline: Dirty Fossil Power Plants in Queens, NY, to become Green Energy Hubs. juancole.com Ann Arbor (Informed Comment)  ; Rise Light & Power LLC announced on Tuesday that it will invest in an offshore wind facility so as to turn its Ravenswood Generating Station in Queens, New York City's largest fossil fuel power plant, into a clean energy hub. The area around Ravenswood, mostly home to low-income minorities, is …
(2023-01-28). [Comment] Developing a vaccine against Marburg virus disease. thelancet.com Marburg virus disease is a severe infection in people and non-human primates (NHPs), with a case-fatality rate of 23—90%.1 The disease is caused by the Marburg virus, a member of the Filoviridae family, which includes the viruses responsible for Ebola virus disease.1 Marburg virus disease is extremely rare. Since its discovery in 1967, when two outbreaks occurred simultaneously in laboratories in Marburg and Frankfurt in Germany, and in Belgrade, Yugoslavia (now Serbia), causing 31 cases and seven deaths, there have been 16 known outbreaks with a cumulative total of fewer than 500 reported cases.
(2023-01-28). South Africa Power Outages, The ANC & Capitalism With Weizemann Hamilton. indybay.org The power outages in South Africa threaten the lives, jobs and future of South Africa. Weizmann Hamilton was one of the founders of the ANC and is now a leader of the Marxist Workers Party talks about the causes of this energy crisis, the role of the ANC, Imperialism and capitalism. T…
(2023-01-28). Drug Price Showdown Time for Chairman Bernie Sanders. dissidentvoice.org It is showdown time. Senator Bernie Sanders, new chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee versus Big Pharma. The self-described "democratic socialist" from a safe seat in Vermont has long been a Big Pharma nemesis. He has issued detailed critiques of what others have called a "Pay or Die" industry coddled by …
(2023-01-28). Petro presentará a Congreso colombiano reformas en temas sociales. telesurtv.net Abarcarán las pensiones, la salud, lo laboral y los servicios públicos. Presidente colombiano apuntó que los cambios garantizarán derechos establecidos en la Carta Magna.
(2023-01-28). Wednesday 3/1: Forced Labor and Immigrant Dreams in America – author Saket Soni with Rebecca Solnit. indybay.org 3rd Floor Edward McRoskey Loft | 1687 Market Street | San Francisco, CA 94103…
(2023-01-28). Surging inflation intensifies cost-of-living crisis in Australia. wsws.org Working-class households are experiencing enormous hardship, and the greatest cut to living standards since World War II, as the central bank and the Labor government, assisted by the trade union bureaucrats, insist that real wages must continue to fall.
(2023-01-28). 2022 Was A Big Year For Climate Action In The Courts. popularresistance.org A pair of climate cases from opposite sides of the country appear to be the closest yet to holding fossil fuel companies accountable in court. Lawsuits filed by Honolulu, Hawaii, and by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts have both overcome initial procedural hurdles and are advancing in state courts, despite dogged attempts by lawyers for the fossil fuel firms to punt the cases into federal courts where they hoped to find an easier path to dismissal. And the two cases have each taken a big leap forward in state courts with judges denying fossil fuel defendants' requests to dismiss the litigation. | Earlier this ye…
(2023-01-28). [Comment] Offline: America—a codicil. thelancet.com Yes, the US will remain a dominant force in global health for the foreseeable future. But Shannon K O'Neil, in her provocative book The Globalization Myth, casts doubt on the sustainability of America's influence. First, the positive. The US is wealthy and has vastly skilled human resources to draw on. The country is a global leader in creating and defending a rules-based international order. Industries that depend on technology and discovery science thrive. Logistics are a strength. And the quality of American universities is second to none.
(2023-01-28). Protests erupt across Sri Lanka against IMF-dictated tax hikes. wsws.org The unions have been forced to organise these limited protests in an attempt to contain the rising anger of their members who are facing skyrocketing inflation.
(2023-01-28). [Perspectives] Lynette Denny: women's cancer researcher with global impact. thelancet.com As a young child in apartheid era South Africa, Lynette Denny saw police regularly raid the quarters of her family's domestic staff to find Black people who did not have the documents they were legally required to carry to prove their identity and employment. It left Denny with "a permanent feeling of fear, anxiety, and rage at what people could and did do to others", she recalls. Witnessing the injustice, however, was seminal in defining her path. "Because I was on the White privilege side, I think my whole life I've wanted to undo that, so I stayed in public service, I have worked almost exclusively with Black…
(2023-01-28). It Was The Workers Who Brought Us Democracy. popularresistance.org Democracy has a dream-like character. It sweeps into the world, carried forward by an immense desire by humans to overcome the barriers of indignity and social suffering. When confronted by hunger or the death of their children, earlier communities might have reflexively blamed nature or divinity, and indeed those explanations remain with us today. But the ability of human beings to generate massive surpluses through social production, alongside the cruelty of the capitalist class to deny the vast majority of humankind access to that surplus, generates new kinds of ideas and new frustrations. This frustration, sp…
(2023-01-28). Burgerville Workers' Lessons For Independent Unions. popularresistance.org Self-organizing a union on a shoestring? Winning the supposedly unwinnable? Workers at a local burger chain out of Portland, Oregon, were doing it before it was cool. | The Burgerville Workers Union, which went public in 2016 and won its first contract in 2021, has recently been influencing and supporting independent union efforts in the region—and it has a few lessons to offer independent unions around the country. | While the union is affiliated with the Portland branch of the Industrial Workers of the World, it operates largely autonomously. | "What workers want is to form a union, not necessarily join a…
(2023-01-28). Saturday 2/4: Haiti: Past, Present, and Future. indybay.org Starry Plough Pub | 3101 Shattuck Avenue, Berkeley, CA 94705…
(2023-01-28). What is behind Socialist Alternative and Kshama Sawant's latest non-socialist initiative? wsws.org Kshama Sawant and Socialist Alternative have systematically violated every principle upon which they claim their "new movement" will be built.
(2023-01-27). Is America at its worst economic point since the Great Depression? americanthinker.com That's the take of a Heritage Foundation analyst who says that, behind Biden's boasting, the economy is in serious trouble.
(2023-01-27). China's natural gas output up 6.5% in December 2022. ecns.cn China's natural gas output logged steady growth in December 2022, data from the National Bureau of Statistics showed.
(2023-01-27). RMB remains fifth most active currency by value in December: report. ecns.cn The Chinese currency renminbi (RMB), or the yuan, remained the fifth most active currency for global payments by value in December 2022, a report has showed.
(2023-01-27). China remains Germany's main supplier of rare earths. ecns.cn Germany's imports of rare-earth metals from China amounted to 49.3 million euros (53.7 million U.S. dollars) in the first eleven months of 2022, accounting for two-thirds of the total imports, the country's Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) said on Tuesday.
(2023-01-27). Laos looks to tourism to drive economic recovery. ecns.cn The Lao government considers tourism as its top priority in revitalizing the economy and the country is preparing to welcome an influx of foreign visitors in 2023, a senior official has said.
(2023-01-27). China key contributor to Cambodia's development: Cambodian senior official. ecns.cn China is a key contributor to Cambodia's socioeconomic development and poverty reduction, Cambodian Economy and Finance Ministry's Standing Secretary of State Vongsey Vissoth said here on Wednesday.
(2023-01-27). GOP's Farcical Debt Ceiling Ploy Deserves Farcical Response: Mint a Really, Really Big Coin. commondreams.org 
Key House Republicans want to slash Medicare and Social Security so badly that they're willing to risk a global financial crisis over it. Their weapon? The debt ceiling, an arbitrary, purely political limit on federal borrowing that bears no meaningful relationship to the health of the economy. It's a farcical problem — and demands an …
(2023-01-27). What will the Year of the Rabbit bring for China's economy? america.cgtn.com China's economic prospects in 2023 look promising according to Anthony Chan, former Chief Economist at JPMorgan Chase & Co., as the country reopens to the world. "Assuming the number of COVID infections during the new year is manageable," 4.4% growth as the IMF projects …
(2023-01-27). Electric Vehicles Are an Ideologically Driven Economic Misadventure. americanthinker.com The world's energy infrastructures cannot keep pace with the leftists' relentless push for electric vehicles.
(2023-01-27). The housing crisis needs housing action. greenleft.org.au MPs from both major parties have absorbed an investor—style thinking, even towards public housing. Andrew Chuter argues that naàØve economic theories of supply and demand will not fix the homelessness problem.
(2023-01-27). Capitalist system cause of wealth inequality. workers.org 
In a study titled "Survival of the Richest," published Jan. 16 to coincide with the start of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Oxfam International reported that in 2020 and 2021, the wealthiest 1% of the world's population accumulated nearly two-thirds of all new wealth. In the previous decade, . . . |
(2023-01-27). China's power use up 3.6 pct in 2022. ecns.cn China's electricity consumption, a key barometer of economic activity, maintained stable growth in 2022, official data shows.
(2023-01-27). 'Our Future Is Public': Santiago Declaration Envisions End of Neoliberalism Death Spiral. commondreams.org 
An international coalition made up of more than 200 trade unions and progressive advocacy groups on Thursday published the Santiago Declaration, a manifesto for "a complete overhaul of our global economic system." The undeniably anti-neoliberal document proclaiming that "our future is public" is the product of a meeting held in Chile—the "laboratory of neoliberalism" where …
(2023-01-27). U.S. to test nuclear engine for future Mars missions. ecns.cn NASA and the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) announced Tuesday a collaboration to demonstrate a nuclear thermal rocket engine in space, the key steps for sending the first crewed missions to Mars.
(2023-01-27). Imperial's I-X to work with RAF for enhanced defence and security in UK. imperial.ac.uk Imperial and the Royal Air Force Rapid Capabilities Office are to collaborate to tackle national defence and security challenges.
(2023-01-27). US Labor Department levies paltry $60,000 fine against Amazon for "failing to keep workers safe" wsws.org In a recently published global survey and in interviews with the World Socialist Web Site, Amazon workers described their dangerous and inhuman working conditions.
(2023-01-27). California proposes another wealth tax…on non-Californians! americanthinker.com You can run, but you can't hide.
(2023-01-27). Pesticide, Seed, and Digital Agriculture Industry Concentrates Wealth and Power, Threatens Health. globalresearch.ca
(2023-01-27). Debt ceiling "clash" will lead to major cuts in social spending. wsws.org Both capitalist parties, Democrats as well as Republicans, seek to impose the cost of their wars, Wall Street bailouts and tax cuts for the wealthy on working people.
(2023-01-27). Peru faces food and fuel shortages. america.cgtn.com Peruvians face mounting prices for food and fuel amid nationwide blockades and protests. Find out more.
(2023-01-27). Chevron More Than Doubled Its Profits Last Year as Gas Prices Squeezed Wallets. truthout.org As Americans were struggling to afford to survive due to skyrocketing gas prices and facing horrific environmental disasters worsened by the climate crisis, fossil fuel giant Chevron was having its most profitable year in history, the company's latest revenue report reveals. In its quarterly report published on Friday, Chevron announced that it collected a profit of $36.5 billion in 2022. |
(2023-01-27). How the Arizona Attorney General Created a Secretive, Illegal Surveillance Program to Sweep Up Millions of Our Financial Records. scheerpost.com 
New records obtained by the ACLU shed light on the scope of a mass surveillance program keeping tabs on Americans' financial data.
(2023-01-27). NYU student punished for writing "fuck" on Israeli mail bag. electronicintifada.net Arab student charged with "potential anti-Semitism" by writing on sack in trash bin.
(2023-01-27). Wokester inferno: Investors flee leftist ESG investment funds. americanthinker.com The politically correct funds rejected energy investments and someone else made the profit.
(2023-01-27). Pfizer executive goes thug on James O'Keefe after realizing he had been recorded boasting about 'mutating' Covid virus for profit. americanthinker.com Corporate media blackout of the story but the weirdness is compelling.
(2023-01-27). After Windfall Profits, Chevron Set to Buy Back $75 Billion in Shares. commondreams.org 
(2023-01-27). Headlines for January 27, 2023. democracynow.org Five Fired Memphis Police Officers Arrested for Murder of Tyre Nichols, Georgia Gov. Declares State of Emergency, Calls Up National Guard Amid "Cop City" Protests, Haitian Police Blockade Port-au-Prince Streets After Gangs Kill 14 Officers, Israel Bombs Gaza Strip One Day After Israeli Forces Kill 9 in West Bank Raid, Democratic Lawmakers Slam Biden for Mass Expulsion of Migrants at U.S. Border, NYT: Bill Barr Pushed Trump-Russia Investigator to Use False Russian Intelligence Claims, Chevron to Buy Back $75 Billion in Own Stock After Posting Record Profits in 2022, Dutch Police Arrest Climate Activist…
(2023-01-27). Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and New Zealand. wsws.org India: Part-time public-school teachers in Kerala protest low wages; Bangladeshi research institute workers strike over unpaid wages; Australia: Queensland power maintenance workers strike for higher pay; New Zealand teachers impose work-to-rule over stalled pay talks.
(2023-01-27). Crypto Convulsions Reflect Capitalism's Tendency to Breed Instability, w/ Ramaa Vasudevan. youtube.com 
Bitcoin, Stablecoin, Tether, Blockchain, Coinbase, Binance, Etherium, Luna, Celsius, Circle, FTX, NFTs: What's all this crypto jargon really about? What stage of capitalism does it mean we're in? How has digital currency been impacted by the pandemic and the war in Ukraine? What are the geopolitical implications for the US cold war with China? And …
(2023-01-27). How Is the Process of Trading Oil With Bitcoin? southfront.org SPONSORED: | Illustrative Image | There are many intermediaries between the oil producer and the consumer. To move the product, the oil must first be extracted from one or more upstream production fields — a process that focuses on collecting resources from the earth. Upstream producers then sell their product to a midstream company that transports crude oil by ship or pipeline. | The cast products are then sold to refineries for further processing before being put to final use. Starting with the simplest…
(2023-01-27). The Basics Of Bitcoin Trading. southfront.org 
SPONSORED: | Illustrative Image | Platforms like This decentralization makes cryptocurrencies ver…
(2023-01-27). The Rise Of Privacy With Bitcoin And Blockchain. southfront.org SPONSORED: | Illustrative Image | Bitcoin and Blockchain technology has emerged as a new way to control, document, and communicate business-to-business relationships. Platforms like
(2023-01-27). Low Enrollment Plagues Many Charter Schools. dissidentvoice.org The mainstream media has long made it seem like parents from coast to coast are frantically clamoring to get their kids into a "limited" number of charter schools. And because there is supposedly not enough space in these charter schools, students are put on a waiting list to get into the school. This neoliberal disinformation …