Daily Archives: February 1, 2023

2023-02-01: News Headlines

ecns.cn (2023-02-01). Chinese premier stresses enhancing role of finance in stabilizing macroeconomy. ecns.cn Chinese Premier Li Keqiang has stressed enhancing the role of finance in stabilizing the macroeconomy and improving financial services to keep the economy performing within a reasonable range.

ecns.cn (2023-02-01). Banks improve as economy recovers. ecns.cn The financial results of listed banks in China will improve steadily this year as the overall economy improves and banks make greater efforts to grant credit, experts said.

ecns.cn (2023-02-01). China's tax and fee cuts, refunds, deferrals surpass 4t yuan in 2022. ecns.cn China's tax refunds, as well as tax and fee cuts and deferrals, exceeded 4.2 trillion yuan ($621 billion) in 2022 as the country sought to stabilize its macroeconomy, according to China's top tax authority on Tuesday.

ecns.cn (2023-02-01). China rolls out new measures to promote time-honored brands. ecns.cn China has released new rules to promote the innovative development of the country's time-honored brands and boost the country's consumption, according to the Ministry of Commerce and four other government departments.

ecns.cn (2023-02-01). Chinese premier stresses enhancing role of finance in stabilizing macroeconomy. ecns.cn Chinese Premier Li Keqiang has stressed enhancing the role of finance in stabilizing the macroeconomy and improving financial services to keep the economy performing within a reasonable range.

ecns.cn (2023-02-01). Banks improve as economy recovers. ecns.cn The financial results of listed banks in China will improve steadily this year as the overall economy improves and banks make greater efforts to grant credit, experts said.

ecns.cn (2023-02-01). China's tax and fee cuts, refunds, deferrals surpass 4t yuan in 2022. ecns.cn China's tax refunds, as well as tax and fee cuts and deferrals, exceeded 4.2 trillion yuan ($621 billion) in 2022 as the country sought to stabilize its macroeconomy, according to China's top tax authority on Tuesday.

ecns.cn (2023-02-01). China rolls out new measures to promote time-honored brands. ecns.cn China has released new rules to promote the innovative development of the country's time-honored brands and boost the country's consumption, according to the Ministry of Commerce and four other government departments.

ecns.cn (2023-02-01). China starts 2023 with high quality development. ecns.cn China made progress in high-quality economic development at the start of 2023 with prosperity in various industries all over the country.

Greg Godels (2023-02-01). France and the Dilemma of Electoral Politics in the 21st Century. dissidentvoice.org French workers currently live nearly two years longer than their counterparts in member states in the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), composed of roughly the world's most advanced capitalist countries. Further, they retire with full benefits, on average, nearly three years earlier than their counterparts in the OECD. Thanks to a rich history …

infobrics (2023-02-01). The Importance of Sisi's Visit to India to Build Economic Blocs for Egypt with the BRICS Group. infobrics.org Recently, the Egyptian desire to be part of the BRICS group, which is an economic alliance that includes Brazil, Russia, India and China, and was established in 2006, and South Africa joined it later in 2010…

ecns.cn (2023-02-01). Employment, prices key to stable growth. ecns.cn China has pledged more efforts to rein in unemployment among young people this year and ease inflation, in a broader move by central authorities to strengthen social safety nets for the vulnerable.

Golden State Opportunity (2023-02-01). Wednesday 2/1: Learn about Free Tax Prep Help, Flood & Disaster Tax Rules, Low-Income Credits & more. indybay.org Online via Zoom (FREE) | Workshop is for both individuals and businesses…

Jeremy Kuzmarov (2023-02-01). China Appears Poised to Achieve through Cooperation in the 21st Century what Japan Sought to Achieve through Coercion in the 20th. covertactionmagazine.com U.S. elites have predictably reacted with hysteria to China's rise and could go so far as to provoke a world war to try to salvage their Southeast Asia empire—as the Roosevelt administration did with Japan on the eve of Pearl Harbor. From 1991 to 2021 China achieved ten-fold growth in incomes and labor productivity, and …

ecns.cn (2023-02-01). Harbin Engineering University's harboring of ultra-electromagnetic guns proven false. ecns.cn A proven falsified screenshot published the untrue news that the physics laboratory of Harbin Engineering University has been suspended due to the survey of some ultra-electromagnetic guns, according to a statement released on its official account on Sina Weibo on Tuesday night.

WSWS (2023-02-01). As lockout at WestRock paper mill in Alabama enters fifth month, company holds job fair to keep mill running with scab labor. wsws.org The workers once again rejected the company's "last, best, and final offer" on January 4. In response, the company ramped up its efforts to break the workers' resistance by holding a job fair in Phenix City, Alabama, 26 miles north of Cottonton.

WSWS (2023-02-01). No record of Australian Labor government's diplomacy to US about Assange. wsws.org The latest revelation demonstrates that while occasionally making vague statements about Assange's plight, Labor is continuing the more than ten-year record of Australian governments collaborating in his persecution.

ecns.cn (2023-02-01). Airfare prices from China to SE Asia slashed after Spring Festival. ecns.cn Airfare prices from China to Southeast Asia have decreased about 30 percent after the Spring Festival, according to data released Tuesday by Chinese online travel platform Qunar.

imperial.ac.uk (2023-02-01). Ultra-processed foods may be linked to increased risk of cancer. imperial.ac.uk Higher consumption of ultra-processed foods may be linked to an increased risk of developing and dying from cancer, an Imperial-led study suggests.

WSWS (2023-02-01). Facing bankruptcy, Pakistan government unleashes brutal IMF austerity on flood-devastated population. wsws.org Pakistan, the world's fifth most populous country, with more than 230 million inhabitants, is teetering on the brink of financial default.

ecns.cn (2023-02-01). Hong Kong SAR GDP down 3.5% in 2022. ecns.cn The gross domestic product (GDP) of China's Hong Kong Special Administrative Region fell 3.5 percent year on year in 2022, official data showed on Wednesday.

infobrics (2023-02-01). India, Russia May Explore to Create Energy Alliance: Former Envoy. infobrics.org India and Russia can explore energy alliance in the back drop of their burgeoning energy ties that includes trade and investments, suggested DB Venkatesh Varma, India's former envoy to Moscow…

Staff (2023-02-01). Peru's De Facto Foreign Minister Travels to US Amid Protests & Repression (+Congress Complaints). orinocotribune.com In the midst of anti-government protests in Peru and heavy police repression, Peru's de facto foreign minister, Ana Cecilia Gervasi, traveled to the US to obtain foreign support. | The Peruvian Foreign Ministry reported that Gervasi would arrive on Monday in Washington, DC, allegedly to strengthen bilateral relations and increase investments. | The visit takes place at the same time that the Permanent Council of the Organization of American States (OAS), headquartered in DC, will hold an extraordinary session to discuss recent events in Peru. The OAS meeting takes place a week after the president of Peru's coup r…

ecns.cn (2023-02-01). Boeing delivers its last 747 jet. ecns.cn Boeing on Tuesday delivered its last built "Queen of the Skies" — the 747 jumbo jet that helped change air travel forever more than a half-century ago.It contributed to what happened in the late 1970s with the deregulation of air travel," he said.

WSWS (2023-02-01). Australian Gold Coast and Tweed Coast bus workers strike again over pay and conditions. wsws.org After years of very low wages, ever-tightening schedules that leave no time for turnaround breaks, and a lack of safety, lunch and toilet facilities, Kinetic workers struck yesterday for the second time in a month.

Bob Price (2023-02-01). Sunday 2/5: Confronting capitalism's crises with bold, revolutionary leadership. indybay.org New Valencia hall, 747 Polk St., San Francisco (@ Ellis Street)…

Fight Back (2023-02-01). Minneapolis climate justice rally engages community to fight environmental racism. fightbacknews.org Minneapolis, MN — On January 29, 70 activists, community members and supporters held a rally and healing circle in response to the Minneapolis city council's recent vote in favor of continuing their legacy of environmental racism in the city of Minneapolis. The East Phillips Neighborhood Institute and the Climate Justice Committee organized the rally. | The city council voted on Thursday, January 26 to demolish a former industrial site, the Roof Depot building, against the demands of the community. The building is currently trapping arsenic below the soil and keeping it out of the lungs of East Phillips, a…

William J. Astore (2023-02-01). Can the Military-Industrial Complex Be Tamed? Cutting the Pentagon Budget in Half Would Finally Force the Generals to Think. juancole.com By William J. Astore | &#1 ; ( Tomdispatch.com ) &#1 ; My name is Bill Astore and I'm a card-carrying member of the military-industrial complex (MIC). Sure, I hung up my military uniform for the last time in 2005. Since 2007, I've been writing articles for TomDispatch focused largely on critiquing that same MIC and America's …

Fight Back (2023-02-01). Milwaukee shows solidarity with Tyre Nichols. fightbacknews.org Milwaukee, WI – Despite the Milwaukee snowstorm, 150 people showed up to march in solidarity with Tyre Nichols and all victims of police crimes. The Milwaukee Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression (MAARPR) put the call to action for Sunday, January 29, and was quickly joined by the Justice for Brieon Green Coalition, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Students for Democratic Society, Reproductive Justice Action – Milwaukee (RJA-M), the Milwaukee Anti-war Committee, and Freedom Road Socialist Organization (FRSO). | The crowd gathered at Dontre Hamilton (Red Arrow) Park, which over the years has become an…

reenvia Red Latina sin fronteras (2023-02-01). Rosa Luxemburgo y el ecosocialismo… indybay.org Rosa Luxemburgo y el ecosocialismo: | un amor correspondido…

ecns.cn (2023-02-01). Xi stresses efforts to accelerate establishment of new pattern of development. ecns.cn Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, has stressed the efforts to accelerate the establishment of a new pattern of development and enhance the security and initiative of development.

Fight Back (2023-02-01). Release National Democratic Front of the Philippines retirees Saluta et al! fightbacknews.org Fight Back News Service is circulating the following statement from the Communist Party of the Philippines. | We condemn the Philippine National Police (PNP) for the unlawful and baseless arrest of retired National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) consultant, Ruben Abenir Saluta, 75 years old, literary writer and newspaperman, together with wife Presentacion Saluta and a female companion identified as Yvonne Losaria, last night in Doña Soledad, Barangay Labangal, General Santos City. | Saluta, who is frail and suffering from hypertension, as well as from chronic pulmonary disease, has long retired from…

_____ (2023-01-31). The United States expects to exit the crisis by destroying its competitors. journal-neo.org After the end of World War II, the United States not only managed to preserve its army and economy, but it also significantly enriched itself in the war. This is not surprising given that the war occurred far from the United States' borders and could not have had the same impact on the United States …

ecns.cn (2023-01-31). IMF projects China's economic growth to reach 5.2 pct in 2023. ecns.cn The International Monetary Fund (IMF) on Monday projected China's economy will grow by 5.2 percent in 2023, 0.8 percentage points higher than October 2022 forecast, according to a newly released update to its World Economic Outlook report.

ecns.cn (2023-01-31). IMF upgrades 2023 global growth forecast to 2.9%. ecns.cn The International Monetary Fund (IMF) on Monday projected the global economy to grow by 2.9 percent in 2023, up 0.2 percentage points from the previous forecast in October, according to the latest World Economic Outlook (WEO) report.

Editor (2023-01-31). Havana Declaration Outlines Vision for Building Just World Economy. scheerpost.com

manager (2023-01-31). Preview: What to Expect in the January Jobs Report. cepr.net The Bureau of Labor Statistics will release its Employment Situation report for January 2023 on Friday, February 3 at 8: 30 a.m. (ET). Most of the data going into the new year suggest that the economy and the labor market are still looking very healthy. The big question in the January report will be whether the labor …

Staff (2023-01-31). Marxist Economist Richard Wolff on How the Debt Ceiling Benefits the Rich & Powerful. democracynow.org As House Speaker Kevin McCarthy and President Biden prepare for their first face-to-face meeting this week to discuss raising the debt ceiling, we speak with Marxist economist Richard Wolff about why the limit on the federal government's borrowing lets politicians avoid making hard choices about taxing the wealthy. House Republicans are pushing for major spending cuts as part of any deal to raise the federal government's $31.4 trillion borrowing limit. "It's 99% theatrics," says Wolff, professor emeritus at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and a visiting professor in the Gradu…

Stephen Gibbs (2023-01-31). Check out Venezuela's flying restaurant. america.cgtn.com After years of recession, some parts of the Venezuelan economy are witnessing a mini-boom with entrepreneurs seeing new opportunities. For example, in the capital Caracas, new restaurants are using some unusual marketing tactics. CGTN's Stephen Gibbs reports.

_____ (2023-01-31). BRICS in global integration processes. journal-neo.org Since it's establishment in 2008, the BRICS forum, in the absence of economic, political or geographical dominance by any of the participating countries, has created comfortable and parity conditions for cooperation between states, steadily deepening it between countries located in different parts of the world on different contingents, in different hemispheres. Potential rivalry among the …

americanthinker (2023-01-31). Ukraine and the Unlearned Lesson of History. americanthinker.com Defeating Russia, no matter how much it costs, is the only way to prevent a hot WW3, and without military and economic aid from the West and especially from the United States, this is impossible…

infobrics (2023-01-31). Moscow Seeks Cooperation in Metro Projects, Waste Management, Smart Cities Development with India. infobrics.org Alexey Bondaruk, deputy head of Department of external economic and international relations, Government of Moscow, said that firms in the Russian capital city can provide consultancy in these areas…

Ramzy Baroud (2023-01-31). Arab Masses Emphatically Put Palestinian Cause first, Dividing from some of their Ruling Elites. juancole.com ( Middle East Monitor ) &#1 ; The latest Arab Opinion Index 2022 is yet more proof that Arab societies are diverse in every possible way, from their assessment of their economic situation and living conditions to their take on immigration, state institutions and democracy. With one single exception: Palestine. 76 per cent of all respondents …

Staff (2023-01-31). El Ministerio de Economía y Planificación aprobó hoy 111 nuevos actores económicos (+ PDF). cubadebate.cu El Ministerio de Economía y Planificación aprobó hoy 111 nuevos actores económicos, integrados por 110 mipymes privadas y una mipyme estatal. Se espera que estos actores generen nuevos puestos de trabajo en la economía nacional.

Staff (2023-01-31). 4 February, Online: Zimbabwe country hearing, International People's Tribunal on US Imperialism. samidoun.net Saturday, 4 February 10: 30 AM EST (7: 30 AM PST, 4: 30 PM central Europe, 5: 30 PM Palestine Register: bit.ly/zimbabwehearing Join the International People's Tribunal on US Imperialism: Sanctions, Blockades, Coercive Economic Measures for a hearing on the effects and impacts of these policies and practices on the people of Zimbabwe. We will hear testimony and reports …

Staff (2023-01-31). Video: International People's Tribunal on U.S. Imperialism: Sanctions, Blockades, Coercive Economic Measures launches in New York. samidoun.net On Saturday, 28 January, the International People's Tribunal on U.S. Imperialism: Sanctions, Blockades and Coercive Economic Measures launched with a half-day event in New York City. The event featured a wide array of speakers addressing the upcoming tribunal, including: Nina Farnia, Co-chair of the Tribunal Steering Committee & Professor of Law, Albany Law School Niloufer …

ecns.cn (2023-01-31). China's tax, fee income stands at 31.7 trillion yuan. ecns.cn China's tax, fee income in 2022 stood at 31.7 trillion yuan(about $4.69 trillion), among which the tax income registered 16.1 trillion yuan (without the deduction of export tax rebates) and social insurance premium 7.4 trillion, according to the State Tax Administration on Tuesday.

WSWS (2023-01-31). Sri Lanka: SEP's local government election campaign wins support in Colombo outer-suburb. wsws.org Last week residents of Meethotamulla, a low-income working-class area, vehemently denounced successive governments, angrily explaining how they were attempting to deal with the social disaster they now confronted.

_____ (2023-01-31). Stop US Interference: Interview With The Labour Party Of Taiwan. popularresistance.org The Labour Party of Taiwan was founded in March 1989 by three groups of people. First, the veteran political prisoners of the martial law period in Taiwan who persisted in their struggle while they were imprisoned for a long time. Second, a collection of progressive intellectuals who were united by the well-known magazine "China Tide" (§èÊΩÆ) in the 1970s and the equally prominent publication "The Human World" (‰∫∫Èñì) in the 1980s, including Chen Ying-zhen (Èô≥Êò Áúü), Su Qing-li (Ë&ograv…

WSWS (2023-01-31). UK: A socialist strategy to defeat the anti-strike laws. wsws.org The trade unions have not organised a single day of strike action against the greatest threat to workers' democratic rights ever mounted, urging workers to rely instead on a future Starmer-led Labour government.

_____ (2023-01-31). Temple's Undergrads Are Taking On The University Bosses. popularresistance.org Coast to coast, the biggest labor struggles happening today are happening at universities. We've seen it with grad workers at the University of California and adjuncts at The New School in New York. | That movement has spread to Temple University in Philadelphia, too, where I teach. Just a few weeks ago, graduate workers voted overwhelmingly to authorize a strike. But it's not just grad workers who are organizing. | Last semester, Temple undergrads formed the Temple University Undergraduate Workers Organizing Committee, or TUUWOC. And TUUWOC is moving aggressively to unionize the thousands of undergrad workers. T…

Editor (2023-01-31). Ralph Nader: Drug Price Showdown Time for Chairman Bernie Sanders. scheerpost.com By Ralph Nader 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" …

Mark Gruenberg (2023-01-31). Workers, unions, leaders win drive for Mother Jones statue in Chicago. peoplesworld.org CHICAGO—Famed labor organizer and hell-raiser Mary Harris "Mother" Jones is coming back—as a memorial statue of her—to a prominent place in a city where she raised a lot of hell: Chicago. And when her statue is erected, after appropriate artistic approvals later this year, it'll be at an iconic site in the Windy City not …

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2023-01-31). Science Saturday: Engineering tissue to strengthen underdeveloped hearts. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org Could cells taken from a small patch of skin become heart muscle and repair a rare congenital heart defect? It's a scientific question that Timothy Nelson, M.D., Ph.D., and collaborators hope to answer for those born with an underdeveloped left heart chamber — a rare, complex condition known as hypoplastic left heart syndrome (HLHS). Discovering the first cell-based therapy to rebuild heart tissue for HLHS has been a decade-long research passion for Dr. Nelson, who is the director…

Staff (2023-01-31). Minsap informa sobre colaborador cubano secuestrado en Haití. cubadebate.cu El 23 de enero de 2023, fue secuestrado en Puerto Príncipe, Haití, por parte de una de las bandas que operan al margen de la ley en ese país, el colaborador de la Brigada Médica Cubana Alejandro Aguilera Milanés. De manera inmediata y con la debida discreción, indispensable en situaciones de esta índole, se iniciaron las gestiones con las autoridades haitianas .

WSWS (2023-01-31). Australian Labor government responds to social crisis in Alice Springs with law-and-order measures. wsws.org Albanese responded to a viscous right-wing campaign against Aboriginal youth by pledging a major increase in police funding, while doing nothing to address a massive social crisis.

WSWS (2023-01-31). Abbott Labs under federal criminal investigation at Sturgis, Michigan baby formula factory. wsws.org Anonymous sources have told corporate news media that the US Department of Justice is investigating Abbott Laboratories in connection with its baby formula manufacturing facility in Sturgis, Michigan, which was shut down in February 2022 for bacterial contamination.

Amy Goodman (2023-01-31). The Debt Ceiling Benefits the Rich and Powerful, Says Economist Richard Wolff. truthout.org As House Speaker Kevin McCarthy and President Biden prepare for their first face-to-face meeting this week to discuss raising the debt ceiling, we speak with Marxist economist Richard Wolff about why the limit on the federal government's borrowing lets politicians avoid making hard choices about taxing the wealthy. House Republicans are pushing for major spending cuts as part of any deal to raise… |

SouthFront5 (2023-01-31). Heroic Mortal Fight of Russians Against US Soldiers Near Kharkiv, Ukraine, Sept 2022 (Videos 18+). southfront.org During the September offensive by the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) in the Kharkiv direction, a Russian IFV (BMP-2, Infantry Fighting Vehicle ) was filmed being driven away. It was blocked by an advance group of the Ukrainian Armed Forces filled with US (British Commonwealth) fighters. | Here we can see how the Russian IFV ( BMP-2) crew fought their last heroic battle, being surrounded by the enemy. |

Sharon Zhang (2023-01-31). Sky-High Gas Prices Handed Exxon a Record $6 Million in Profit Per Hour in 2022. truthout.org Riding on the wave of sky-high gas prices and industry-wide price hikes, oil giant Exxon was handed the highest profits ever reported by a western oil company in 2022, its latest financial report reveals. The company reported on Tuesday that it made a net profit of $55.7 billion in 2022, roughly 2.5 times its 2021 profits of $23.6 billion. This represents $6.3 million in profits per hour on… |

Kiara Chang, Marc J. Gunter, Fernanda Rauber, Renata B. Levy, Inge Huybrechts, Nathalie Kliemann, Christopher Millett, Eszter P. Vamos (2023-01-31). [Articles] Ultra-processed food consumption, cancer risk and cancer mortality: a large-scale prospective analysis within the UK Biobank. thelancet.com Our UK-based cohort study suggests that higher UPF consumption may be linked to an increased burden and mortality for overall and certain site-specific cancers especially ovarian cancer in women.

F. William Engdahl (2023-01-31). Colossal Financial Pyramid: BlackRock and The WEF "Great Reset" globalresearch.ca

Global Research News (2023-01-31). Selected Articles: Colossal Financial Pyramid: BlackRock and the WEF "Great Reset" globalresearch.ca By A virtually unregulated investment firm today exercises more political and financial influence than the Federal Reserve and most governments on this planet. The …

Prof Michel Chossudovsky (2023-01-31). "Preemptive Nuclear War": The Historic Battle for Peace and Democracy. A Third World War Threatens the Future of Humanity. globalresearch.ca US nuclear doctrine consists in portraying nuclear weapons as a means of "self defense" rather than a "weapon of mass destruction". There are powerful financial interests behind Joe Biden's $1.3 trillion nuclear weapons program initiated under Obama.

WSWS (2023-01-31). UK's University and College Union bureaucracy puts below inflation pay deal to a ballot. wsws.org The UCU union bureaucracy is seeking to wear workers' resistance down in order to impose a below-inflation deal.

Carol Burris (2023-01-31). Running a Charter School for Profit Should Be Illegal. progressive.org The charter industry downplays the prevalence of charter schools being run for profit because the mission of for-profit companies is to maximize profits, not education.

Editor (2023-01-31). "The Conformist Rebellion: Marxist Critiques of the Contemporary Left" mronline.org Already a century ago, political thinkers and philosophers were confronted with an apparent paradox: the failure of revolution.

Staff (2023-01-31). José Martí y Fidel Castro ante el desafío de la Roma Americana. cubadebate.cu Sin duda, Fidel Castro ha sido el más aventajado discípulo de las ideas y la praxis revolucionaria de José Martí. No fue pura coincidencia histórica, sino que el líder de la Revolución Cubana asumió el ideario martiano de manera consciente y entregada. Así lo ratificó en 1985 en sus conversaciones con Frei Betto: "Yo, antes de ser comunista utópico o marxista, soy martiano".

thecommunists (2023-01-31). Medieval inquisition returns to Europe as historical truth-tellers are put on trial. thecommunists.org The following article is reproduced from Italian Marxist website Marx21.it with thanks. ***** On 31 October 2022, Tomá≈° Hàºbner, single judge of the Prague 7 district court, sentenced Josef Skála, a well-known Marxist intellectual and former vice-president of the Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia (KSCM), together with Vladimír Kapal, and Juraj Václavík, to eight …

Staff (2023-01-31). Free Alex Saab, political prisoner of capitalism and imperialism. samidoun.net In a statement released on Monday, January 30, over 30 organizations that make up the Movement of Solidarity with the Bolivarian Revolution in Madrid raised their voices to demand the release of Venezuelan diplomat Alex Saab and all the political prisoners of imperialism. Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network is a signatory of this statement. This …

William I. Robinson (2023-01-31). La elite de Davos a la deriva frente a la ´policrisis ª del capitalismo global. globalizacion.ca La élite política y corporativa transnacional estuvo de regreso en Davos del 16 al 20 de enero para su cónclave anual en medio de la crisis más severa del capitalismo global desde la fundación del Foro Económico Mundial (FEM) hace…

noreply (2023-01-31). I Warned About It Since 2014. smoothiex12.blogspot.com Colonel Macgregor, with the exception of his statement on Solzhenitsyn, basically confirms what I was preaching for many years. No, not that Washington is incompetent–this has been a fait accompli for decades now–but that the US is incapable to take on Russia militarily. But even the title by Judge Napolitano is somewhat misleading: U.S. Not Prepared to take on Russia. The US is not just "not prepared", it cannot physically fight Russia without sustaining catastrophic defeat even if it spends next 30 years preparing for that fight. For starters, the US de-industrialization and societal ills permanently remove…

Sandipan Talukdar (2023-01-31). Carbon Dioxide removal behind Paris Agreement target. peoplesdispatch.org Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR), also known as negative carbon dioxide emission, removes the gas from the atmosphere. CDR According to a report, more than 2 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide is removed from the atmosphere annually. However, this is not enough to meet the aims of the Paris Agreement of limiting global warming below 2 degrees Celsius than pre-industrial levels. This is even…

Editor (2023-01-31). France Strikes Against Macron's Neoliberal Pension Reform Plans. scheerpost.com

Sam Pizzigati (2023-01-31). Must larceny always overpower honesty?Ôøº. nationofchange.org In deeply unequal societies, the thieving always thrive.

Orinoco Tribune 2 (2023-01-31). Raided by the FBI for Being Socialist, With Omali Yeshitela. orinocotribune.com Today, "Behind The Headlines" host Lee Camp speaks to Omali Yeshitela, a man raided by the FBI for the crime of being a black socialist. Together, the two discuss the revolutionary black liberation movement, U.S. imperialism, racism, and the corruption of the two-party system. | In August of last year, the FBI raided the offices of the African People's Socialist Party ( | Yeshitela helped found the APSP in 1972, at a time when the Black…

Staff (2023-01-31). Cuba será sede del Primer Encuentro Internacional de Publicaciones de Izquierda. cubadebate.cu El Partido Comunista de Cuba (PCC) dio a conocer hoy que del 10 al 12 de febrero próximos tendrá lugar en La Habana el primer Encuentro Internacional de Publicaciones Teóricas de Partidos y Movimientos de Izquierda. El evento abordará temas como el imperialismo, el socialismo, la juventud, la solidaridad, la unidad de izquierda y el legado de Fidel Castro.

WSWS (2023-01-31). Democratic Socialists of America falsely tout New York State 2022 electoral victories as boon for socialist politics. wsws.org The Democratic Socialists of America are exploiting the results of the New York State 2022 elections to build their brand of pro-imperialist and corporate-friendly "socialism."

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