Daily Archives: March 11, 2023

2023-03-11: News Headlines

americanthinker (2023-03-11). How long can a credit card sustain you in Biden's economy? americanthinker.com More and more Americans are leaning on credit cards to cover necessities like food and rent.

Clean Energy Wire (2023-03-11). Climate Change Impacts could Cost Germany up to Nearly $1 Trillion by 2050. juancole.com By Carolina Kyllmann | — ( Clean Energy Wire ) — The consequences of climate change could cost Germany up to 900 billion euros by 2050, found a report by the Institute for Ecological Economy Research (IàñW), the Institute of Economic Structures Research (GWS) and consultancy Prognos AG. More frequent extreme weather events such as …

Fight Back (2023-03-11). Job market renews slowdown in February. fightbacknews.org San José, CA – Cracks in economy began to show up as Silicon Valley Bank, based in Santa Clara, California, just north of San José, was shut down on Friday, March 10. The bank was the 18th largest bank in the United States, and mainly served high-tech startups, venture capitalists and wealthy individuals. | The recent slowdown in Silicon Valley and interest rate hikes by the U.S. central bank, the Federal Reserve, undid the bank. A run on the bank developed, as depositors pulled their money out of the bank. The bank was forced to sell U.S. government bonds at a loss because of higher interest rates and tried to r…

WSWS (2023-03-11). Pakistan economy unravels as IMF imposes ever harsher conditions for access to bailout funds. wsws.org Even as Pakistan's government implements a brutal regime of IMF-dictated austerity measures, the US-dominated international lender is pushing for even more sweeping "reforms" from Islamabad before allowing it access to a previously agreed tranche of $1.1billion from its 2019 loan.

WSWS (2023-03-11). Pakistan economy unravels as IMF imposes ever harsher conditions. wsws.org Even as Pakistan's government implements a brutal regime of IMF-dictated austerity measures, the US-dominated international lender is pushing for even more sweeping "reforms" from Islamabad before allowing it access to a previously agreed tranche of $1.1billion from its 2019 loan.

Ben Norton, Geopolitical Economy. (2023-03-10). AMLO Says Mexico Is More Democratic Than Oligarch-Run USA. popularresistance.org Mexico's leftist President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) gave a fiery speech condemning the US State Department's "bad habit" of "meddling" in other country's "internal affairs". | "There is more democracy today in Mexico than in the United States", López Obrador said, "because here the people govern, and there the oligarchy govern". | AMLO lamented that politicians in Washington "still will not abandon the two-century-old policy, the Monroe Doctrine, of thinking of themselves as the world's government", calling it a "centuries-old habit of the US government and US elites".

americanthinker (2023-03-11). How long can a credit card sustain you in Biden's economy? americanthinker.com More and more Americans are leaning on credit cards to cover necessities like food and rent.

Clean Energy Wire (2023-03-11). Climate Change Impacts could Cost Germany up to Nearly $1 Trillion by 2050. juancole.com By Carolina Kyllmann | — ( Clean Energy Wire ) — The consequences of climate change could cost Germany up to 900 billion euros by 2050, found a report by the Institute for Ecological Economy Research (IàñW), the Institute of Economic Structures Research (GWS) and consultancy Prognos AG. More frequent extreme weather events such as …

Fight Back (2023-03-11). Job market renews slowdown in February. fightbacknews.org San José, CA – Cracks in economy began to show up as Silicon Valley Bank, based in Santa Clara, California, just north of San José, was shut down on Friday, March 10. The bank was the 18th largest bank in the United States, and mainly served high-tech startups, venture capitalists and wealthy individuals. | The recent slowdown in Silicon Valley and interest rate hikes by the U.S. central bank, the Federal Reserve, undid the bank. A run on the bank developed, as depositors pulled their money out of the bank. The bank was forced to sell U.S. government bonds at a loss because of higher interest rates and tried to r…

WSWS (2023-03-11). Pakistan economy unravels as IMF imposes ever harsher conditions for access to bailout funds. wsws.org Even as Pakistan's government implements a brutal regime of IMF-dictated austerity measures, the US-dominated international lender is pushing for even more sweeping "reforms" from Islamabad before allowing it access to a previously agreed tranche of $1.1billion from its 2019 loan.

WSWS (2023-03-11). Pakistan economy unravels as IMF imposes ever harsher conditions. wsws.org Even as Pakistan's government implements a brutal regime of IMF-dictated austerity measures, the US-dominated international lender is pushing for even more sweeping "reforms" from Islamabad before allowing it access to a previously agreed tranche of $1.1billion from its 2019 loan.

Ben Norton, Geopolitical Economy. (2023-03-10). AMLO Says Mexico Is More Democratic Than Oligarch-Run USA. popularresistance.org Mexico's leftist President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) gave a fiery speech condemning the US State Department's "bad habit" of "meddling" in other country's "internal affairs". | "There is more democracy today in Mexico than in the United States", López Obrador said, "because here the people govern, and there the oligarchy govern". | AMLO lamented that politicians in Washington "still will not abandon the two-century-old policy, the Monroe Doctrine, of thinking of themselves as the world's government", calling it a "centuries-old habit of the US government and US elites".

ecns.cn (2023-03-10). China's SMEs report improving business activity in February. ecns.cn China's small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) experienced a further increase in their activities in February amid a steadily warming economy, industrial data showed Friday.

ecns.cn (2023-03-10). Insights | China's robust growth will help alleviate global inflation. ecns.cn China's buying powers and consumption activities are increasing, which can help recover global economy. As a "factory of the world," if China is providing robust supply chain and producing good quality products, that can help alleviate global inflation and assist more developing countries.

Laila Tajeldine (2023-03-10). 8 Years Since Obama Decree Against Venezuela & 1000 Days Since Alex Saab's Kidnapping. orinocotribune.com By Laila Tajeldine — Mar 9, 2023 | Today, March 9, two events with great impact on Venezuela coincide. One of them is that eight years have passed since Obama signed the executive order declaring Venezuela an "unusual and extraordinary threat" to the security of the United States. The decree provided the legal basis for the coercive measures taken by Washington against Venezuela, aimed at suffocating its economy and overthrowing the Bolivarian Revolution. Another event, which is a consequence of this "decree," is that 1000 days that have passed since the kidnapping of Venezuelan diplomat Alex Saab. | Without…

WSWS (2023-03-10). European Union ramps up ammunition production and organizes war economy. wsws.org The meeting of EU defence ministers in Stockholm on Wednesday was all about NATO's escalation of the war against Russia. The aim was to quickly provide the Ukrainian army with massive amounts of ammunition in order to repel the Russian army on the front in eastern Ukraine and to move on to the counter-offensive.

Jacob Nordangard (2023-03-11). World Economic Forum's "Young Global Leaders" Revealed. globalresearch.ca For several decades, this program has nurtured compliant leaders acting as WEF agents in governments around the world. The consequences are far-reaching and may turn out to be devastating for humanity.

Richard Horton (2023-03-11). [Comment] Offline: The case for diversifying diversity. thelancet.com It is time to rethink our ideas about diversity. Gender equity? Anti-racism? Yes, of course, but our approach to diversity—what it means and what we do about it—is simply too narrow. The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) recently hosted a discussion about diversity of thought in (social) science. It was led by Frédéric Basso. He argued that the concept of diversity implied the existence of a reference point, a standard, against which everything else is compared. Whatever is standard defines what we call diverse.

Robert J. Burrowes (2023-03-11). We Are Being Smashed Politically, Economically, Medically and Technologically by the Elite's 'Great Reset': Why? How Do We Fight Back Effectively? globalresearch.ca

americanthinker (2023-03-10). An America shot through with Marxism. americanthinker.com An economics professor lays out how America got to the sad state we're in.

Brittani Banks (2023-03-10). Global News Dispatches: 4 Stories. independentmediainstitute.org Headlines in This News Package: West Africa Peoples Organization Calls for Greater Unity as France Announces Military Reorganization About 700,000 Afghans Have Lost Their Jobs Since Taliban Takeover, Says UN Report U.S. Announces Fresh Sanctions Against Firms Involved in Iranian Oil and Petrochemical Exports Tunisians Mobilize Against Political Persecution and Government Failure to Address Economic …

infobrics (2023-03-10). BRICS CCI WE Outlines Digital Inclusivity as a Key Gamechanger for Women in their Pursuit for Economic Equality. infobrics.org With the G20's focus on gender-based digital inclusivity alongwith the Hon'ble PM's vision of this decade being a Techade, BRICS CCI WE, the women's vertical of the BRICS Chamber of Commerce and Industry hosted its 3rd Annual Summit and Felicitations 2023 on the theme — Women Shaping the Techade…

infobrics (2023-03-10). CNN admits America trying to use Ukraine conflict to 'isolate' China. infobrics.org While Donald Trump's approach was more isolationist and focused on economic warfare, the Biden administration is showing much more belligerence, as well as a tendency to relegate portions of its power projection to allies and vassals such as the UK, Australia, Japan, etc.

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-03-10). The Foreseeable End of Ukraine. libya360.wordpress.com Karl Richter Karl Richter asserts that Ukraine is facing an imminent end due to Russia's dominance in the ongoing conflict, weak Western military and economic support, and Ukraine's own nationalism, citing predictions by several Western military experts and predicting Western governments will soon have to justify the utter failure of their Ukraine policy. The faces…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-03-10). Women of the Earth: Landless Women. libya360.wordpress.com MST Photo: MST in Minas Gerais Coluna Aromas de Maràßo extols the importance of women in Popular Agrarian Reform in the struggle for a more egalitarian country All over the world we are experiencing a crisis of the capitalist production model, which expresses its contradictions in different aspects, among them: political, economic, social, and environmental….

Lisa Burnam (2023-03-10). Statement on President Biden's Budget for Fiscal Year 2024. cepr.net Statement on President Biden's Budget for Fiscal Year 2024 from Eileen Appelbaum, Co-Director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research: The Center for Economic and Policy Research, an organization dedicated to rigorous research and policies that enhance the welfare and economic security of workers and their families, welcomes the commitment President Biden's budget …

Rick Rozoff (2023-03-10). Kelly Degnan, Samantha Power: Georgia vital link in connecting Central Asia to Europe. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com Samantha Power, of course, is the head of the United States Agency for International Development. ==== Rustavi2March 10, 2023 Organized by the EU-Georgia Business Council and supported by the USAID Economic Governance Program, the first meeting of the Honorary Council of the "Black Sea Platform" was held Video Organized by the EU-Georgia Business Council and …

Staff (2023-03-10). Candidatos a diputados retoman recorridos por sitios de interés económico y social de Santa Clara. cubadebate.cu Los candidatos a diputados a la Asamblea Nacional del Poder Popular de Cuba (Parlamento) por el municipio de Santa Clara, entre ellos el Presidente Miguel Díaz-Canel, retomaron hoy los recorridos por sitios de interés económico y social de ese territorio, en la central provincia de Villa Clara. Las elecciones nacionales están previstas para el domingo 26 de marzo.

Staff (2023-03-10). 11 March, Online Hearing: Lebanon at the International People's Tribunal on U.S. Imperialism. samidoun.net 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 Lebanon. We will hear testimony and reports from expert and direct witnesses, with questions and discussion from our jurors. The hearing will take place on Saturday, …

unitedEditor (2023-03-10). The background of the demonstration against NATO in Germany. uwidata.com By Can àáakƒ±r Last week, demonstrations against NATO were organized in various countries in Europe. The demonstrations held NATO responsible for the war in Ukraine and criticized the anti-Russian campaign. Different political currents denounced their governments for tailing the US-led war and putting the economic burden of the war on the people. One of these …

ecns.cn (2023-03-10). Insights | China's modernization is a good model for developing countries. ecns.cn China's modernization is a very good model for developing countries, and it has lifted nearly 100 million people out of poverty, taken active measures to promote employment. China emphasizes low-carbon and green development, which has brought a win-win situation for the region and the world.

Sharon Zhang (2023-03-10). Biden's 2024 Budget Calls for Revival of Expanded Child Tax Credit. truthout.org In his 2024 budget request released this week, President Joe Biden has called for the revival of the expanded child tax credit policy that lifted millions of children and adults out of poverty when it was implemented in 2021. According to a fact sheet on the budget request, the president has called for families to receive $3,000 per child six years and above, and $3,600 for each child under the… |

americanthinker (2023-03-10). Good news, bad news on (un)employment. americanthinker.com Good–more people are working but, well, bad–more are also unemployed. Whaaaat?>

CounterSpin (2023-03-10). Kim Knackstedt on Disability Policy, Algernon Austin on Unemployment & Race. fair.org CounterSpin230310.mp3 Judy Heumann | This week on CounterSpin: "I wanna see feisty disabled people change the world." So declared disability rights activist

WSWS (2023-03-11). Build action committees in every workplace! Fight for a united struggle against Sri Lankan government's austerity measures. wsws.org The Sri Lankan unions' actions are restricted to opposing the government's income tax hikes and fail to raise the host of other savage social attacks being unleashed by the government on the IMF's orders.

Fight Back (2023-03-11). Seattle rallies to celebrate International Women's Day. fightbacknews.org Seattle, WA – On Wednesday, March 8, 40 people rallied in front of the Henry M. Jackson Federal Building in downtown Seattle to celebrate International Women's Day and to defend women's and reproductive rights. The event was called by Freedom Road Socialist Organization (FRSO) Seattle. | Despite near freezing temperatures, people came to hear speeches from women leaders in the labor movement, anti-imperialist organizers with the International Women's Alliance, and reproductive rights organizers. Attendees united under the rallying call to "Defend women's and reproductive rights!" | Opening and emceeing the event,…

Jenny Brown, Labor Notes. (2023-03-11). New York City Retirees Fight Their Own Unions To Stop Health Care Cuts. popularresistance.org New York City, New York – Defying two years of protests and lawsuits by union retirees, New York City's Municipal Labor Committee voted Thursday to scrap some of the best retiree health care coverage in the country. The change aims to put 250,000 city retirees into a for-profit Medicare Advantage plan run by Aetna. | Twenty-six unions in the MLC voted no, while others abstained. But their votes were swamped by the votes of the largest unions on the committee, AFSCME District Council 37 and the New York United Federation of Teachers. | Retirees and active members protested during the MLC vote and marched to City H…

Labor Action Committtee For Mumia (2023-03-11). Saturday 3/11: ILWU 10 Meeting On Mumia & Report From Trip To South Africa. indybay.org ILWU Local 10 Henry Schmidt Room | 400 North Point St. | San Francisco…

Labor Video Project (2023-03-11). The Fukushima Catastrophe Continues 12 Years After The Meltdowns. indybay.org March 11 is the 12th anniversary of the Fukushima earthquake and meltdown of three reactors. The disaster continues and the melted nuclear rods still remain in the broken reactors and have to be cooled by water which then becomes radiated. Two activists talk about the present situation after 12 years.

Labor Video Project (2023-03-11). STOP Sale Of KPFK Bld & Flagrant Violations Of Pacifica Bylaws 6 Year Term Limit-Speak Out. indybay.org

Staff (2023-03-11). Las 3 del día: øQué fue noticia esta semana? (+ Podcast). cubadebate.cu Saludos a todos los seguidores de "Las 3 del día". Este viernes 10 de marzo de 2023 hacemos un resumen de lo más importante ocurrido en la semana en nuestro país y en el contexto internacional. "Las 3 del día" es el podcast de Cubadebate que tiene de todo un poco en materia informativa. En la voz de nuestros editores, periodistas y colaboradores escucha un podcast resumen con las principales noticias de la jornada. °Conéctese ya!

teleSUR, DRL (2023-03-11). Ratifican intención de juicio político contra Guillermo Lasso. telesurtv.net El informe elaborado por la Comisión que investigó el caso Gran Padrino, responsabiliza al presidente de delitos contra la seguridad del Estado y la administración pública.

United Front Committee For A Labor Party (2023-03-11). Monday 3/13: From Hunters Point To E. Palestine Prosecute & Jail Tetra Tech & Norfolk Southern CEOs. indybay.org San Francisco Federal Building | 450 Golden Gate | San Francisco, CA…

WSWS (2023-03-11). Excess deaths in Australia highest since World War II. wsws.org Labor, the Coalition and the Greens are all responsible for the murderous "let it rip" COVID-19 policy that has led to more than 20,000 excess deaths.

Andrew Perez (2023-03-10). Workers Are Funding Private Equity's Child Labor Exploitation. levernews.com

ecns.cn (2023-03-10). 60 pct of S. Koreans oppose donations-based solution on Japan's wartime forced labor. ecns.cn Almost 60 percent of South Koreans opposed the government's push to resolve Japan's wartime forced labor issue through a foundation donated by the South Korean private sector, a poll showed Friday.

Labor Video Project (2023-03-10). CA AG Bonta Prosecute SF Police Killer Say Speakers At SF State Building. indybay.org

Pepe Escobar (2023-03-10). Lula Flirts With Moctezuma. orinocotribune.com By Pepe Escobar — Mar 1, 2023 | Lula's moves toward the US seem collaborationist. His condemnation of Russia's SMO strikes a note of discord in the multipolarist alliance. | Moctezuma was the last de facto emperor of the Aztecs. It is known that during his reign the Aztec Empire reached its peak in terms of expansionist activity, political reforms and infrastructure construction. On the other hand, according to the more popular version, Moctezuma promptly surrendered to the Spanish newcomers without any resistance, betraying his people and then helped the European colonizers to rule until his death. | Moctez…

Shawn Fremstad (2023-03-10). Beyond the Headline Numbers in the Jobs Report: Disability and Employment. cepr.net Disabled people are much less likely to have jobs than non-disabled people, and those who have jobs are paid less and receive fewer employment benefits. In its monthly job reports, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) disaggregates several important employment and labor force indicators by disability status. BLS categorizes a person age 15 or older …

Staff (2023-03-10). Las 3 del día: Morada, la derrota de Cuba ante Italia y las noticias del 9 de marzo (+ Podcast). cubadebate.cu Saludos a todos los seguidores del podcast Las 3 del día. Este jueves 9 de marzo de 2023 la periodista Thalía Fuentes Puebla nos da un repaso a lo que acontece en Cuba y el resto del mundo. Las 3 del día es el podcast de Cubadebate que tiene de todo un poco en materia informativa. En la voz de nuestros editores, periodistas y colaboradores escucha un podcast resumen. °Conéctese ya!

Staff (2023-03-10). Valdés Mesa recorrió varios centros laborales de Gàºines (+Video). cubadebate.cu Por segunda vez en esta semana, el vicepresidente cubano Salvador Valdés Mesa, candidato a diputado a la Asamblea Nacional del Poder Popular por el municipio de Gàºines, en la provincia de Mayabeque, visitó centros laborales e intercambió con los pobladores Se interesó por la fábrica local de Ron Nucay, perteneciente a la Empresa de Bebidas y Refrescos.

Steve Mellon (2023-03-10). Deluzio introduces bill to protect health care of striking workers. therealnews.com This story originally appeared in Democrats U.S. Rep. Chris Deluzio and Ohio Sen. Sherrod Brown are on Wednesday introducing legislation that would penalize employers who target the health care insurance of striking and locked-out workers. | The legislation, called the Striking and Locked Out Workers Healthcare Protection Act, would create a separate unfair labor practices category…

Sudip Bhattacharya (2023-03-10). Public Universities Run on Underpaid Labor. Now Grad Workers Are Fighting Back. truthout.org The public university is at a tipping point, says Manasa Gopakumar, a fifth-year graduate worker in the Philosophy Department at Temple University in Philadelphia. Since last January, Gopakumar and other graduate workers in the Temple University Graduate Students' Association (TUGSA) have organized around significant issues affecting them, including pay, health care, paid parental leave… |

WSWS (2023-03-10). Racist witness complicates Democrats' efforts to promote "lab leak" conspiracy theory. wsws.org On Wednesday, the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic held its first hearing, with all participants, Democratic and Republican, seeking to promote the conspiracy theory that COVID-19 escaped from a laboratory in China as a possible explanation for the origins of the pandemic.

WSWS (2023-03-10). Australian Labor's universities Accord seeks to tie universities to big business and war preparations. wsws.org By "national needs," the Australian Universities Accord discussion paper means the private profit, geo-strategic and war requirements of the capitalist class.

Caoimhghin àì Croidheáin (2023-03-10). Dubai Superlatives: The Power of Excessive Wealth. dissidentvoice.org Questions From a Worker Who Reads (Bertolt Brecht 1935) Who built Thebes of the 7 gates? In the books you will read the names of kings. Did the kings haul up the lumps of rock? And Babylon, many times demolished, Who raised it up so many times? In what houses of gold glittering Lima did …

Linda Benesch (2023-03-10). Inequality costs Social Security trillions. Here's how we fix it. nationofchange.org If the wealthy simply paid the same tax the rest of us do, we could even expand benefits.

Ted Snider, Antiwar. (2023-03-11). Why Is The US So Unhappy That China Offered A Peace Proposal? popularresistance.org On February 24, China published its "Position on the Political Settlement of the Ukraine Crisis." The US reacted very negatively very quickly. They reacted more negatively even than Ukraine. | What is it about the Chinese proposal that so unnerves the US? It is not even a fully developed settlement proposal ripe for negotiation. There was no hurry to take it off the table. It is merely a declaration of China's position and a pledge that China is willing to assume "a constructive role in this regard." | In a first response so comical it could only be intended for public consumption, the US discredited China as a b…

ecns.cn (2023-03-10). Insights | Oxford professor eyes China's green efforts, consumption-boosting plan. ecns.cn Rana Mitter, Professor of the history and politics of modern China at the University of Oxford, noted that it will be key where China puts government investment and preparations into making sure that China's a key player in the green energy revolution and develops it outside China.

Prof Michel Chossudovsky (2023-03-11). "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 (2023-03-11). Three years and 21 million dead from the COVID-19 pandemic. wsws.org Ever since the beginning of the pandemic, the focus of the American ruling elite has been to use the pandemic to transfer massive amounts of money to the financial oligarchy.

Dana Sanchez (2023-03-10). Silicon Valley Bank Fails Like Lehman Brothers: We Warned About This Bubble Bank In 2017. moguldom.com Silicon Valley Bank collapsed Friday into receivership of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp (FDIC) after it failed to raise more than $2 billion in capital to cover losses on a massive bond sale, spooking depositors and investors who made a run on the bank, and talks failed to sell itself. SVB stocks went over a …

Anand Naidoo (2023-03-11). The Heat: U.S.-Europe Relations. america.cgtn.com EU Chief Ursula von der Leyen meets with U.S. President Joe Biden at the White House to discuss coordinating efforts on Ukraine and trade issues. After months of expressing concerns about the U.S. Inflation Act, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said the European …

Peter Koenig (2023-03-11). The Big Lie: Worldwide Energy Shortage Plus Multiple Crises — All Manufactured — Meant for Destruction of Western Civilization. globalresearch.ca Energy Crisis. Food crisis. Industrial collapse. Supply chains disruptions. Fractured Communications. Cyber-attacks. Black-outs? Hyper-inflation. Climate change. Wars, civil conflicts, and more plandemics, culminating in human misery… Yes. It's all manufactured.

Staff (2023-03-10). Strong Job Growth in February, but Hours Drop, and Wage Growth Slows. cepr.net The annual rate of wage growth over the last three months was just 3.6 percent, a pace often seen prior to the pandemic when inflation was below the Fed's target.

Colonel Ann Wright, Popular Resistance. (2023-03-11). DOD Continues To Stonewall Information On Defueling Of Red Hill. popularresistance.org According to the March 5, 2023 Honolulu Star Advertiser article, titled "Military spending act stirs defueling concerns," the DNAA REQUIRES, before defueling of the Red Hill jet fuel tanks, a certification from DOD that closing Red Hill will not affect Indo-Pacific military operations. | At this point, 4 months after the passage of the NDAA and until the March 5 Star Advertiser article, despite intense public interest in the defueling and closing of the Red Hill facilities, neither Senator Hirono, Senator Brian Schatz nor Representative Case mentioned the certification requirement in their press releases about th…

Jake Johnson (2023-03-10). Progressives Slam Biden's Request for $30 Billion Increase to Military Budget. truthout.org Progressive lawmakers on Thursday voiced dismay that President Joe Biden is requesting a nearly $30 billion increase in U.S. military spending just months after the Pentagon failed its fifth consecutive audit, admitting it could not properly account for more than half of its trillions of dollars in assets. Biden's budget framework for fiscal year 2024 calls for $886 billion in overall military… |

Staff (2023-03-10). Rep. Barbara Lee on Cutting the Military Budget, Abortion Rights & Why She's Running for Senate. democracynow.org As President Biden proposes his new budget, which expands military spending, as well as social services, we speak with Democratic Congressmember Barbara Lee, co-chair of the Defense Spending Reduction Caucus. She recently reintroduced the People Over Pentagon Act to cut $100 billion from the Pentagon budget and reallocate funds to overlooked priorities like healthcare and education. Lee is one of three House Democrats who have announced their candidacy for outgoing California Senator Dianne Feinstein's seat. Lee is the highest-ranking Black woman appointed to House leadership and would be just the third Bla…

Staff (2023-03-10). Headlines for March 10, 2023. democracynow.org Biden's FY2024 Budget Proposes Tax Hikes to Fund Social Programs and Record Military Spending, Pentagon Chief Lloyd Austin Meets Israeli PM Amid Escalating West Bank Violence, U.N. Condemns Israeli Strike on Aleppo Airport; U.S. Votes Against Ending Involvement in Syrian War, Xi Embarks on Unprecedented Third Term as Chinese President, At Least 36 Killed in DRC Near Border with Uganda, Gunman Kills 8 People, Including Self, in Mass Shooting at Jehovah's Witnesses Center in Germany, Another Norfolk Southern Train Derails as CEO Alan Shaw Appears Before Senate, New York Could Soon Charge Trump with Fina…

Staff (2023-03-10). How U.S. Military Spending Works. davidswanson.org

Dana Sanchez (2023-03-10). It Was Him, Not Us: JP Morgan Blames Former Executive For Ties To Jeffrey Epstein, Sues Jes Staley. moguldom.com Facing lawsuits over its ties to the disgraced late pedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein, JPMorgan Chase has turned on a former employee, switching from defending him to demanding he returns $80 million in compensation he was paid to work there for eight years. The largest investment bank in the world by revenue, JP Morgan was sued …

Ryan Cristián (2023-03-11). Brian Festa Interview — The Lawsuit Against The EPA For Criminal Malfeasance In East Palestine. thelastamericanvagabond.com Joining me today is Brian Festa, founder of We The Patriots USA, a non profit currently suing both the local and federal EPA, as well as numerous Ohio officials such as Governor DeWine, regarding the mishandling and apparent coverup of the chemical disaster in East Palestine, Ohio. The organization is also involved in numerous other

WSWS (2023-03-10). Despite 86 percent vote in favour, Verdi seeks to prevent a strike at Deutsche Post. wsws.org The German trade union Verdi will do anything to prevent a strike by postal workers, and so is opposing 90,000 of its own members and siding with management who have just celebrated making record profits.

Peter Boyle (2023-03-10). Kohei Saito to speak at Ecosocialism 2023. greenleft.org.au Japanese Marxist academic Kohei Saito, author of Capital in the Anthropocene, will be a keynote speaker at Ecosocialism 2023, organised by Green Left. Peter Boyle reports.

Chris Hedges (2023-03-10). Kshama Sawant's new 'Workers Strike Back' coalition will fight for $25 minimum wage and more. therealnews.com After a decade on Seattle City Council, socialist Kshama Sawant is declining to seek reelection and will instead launch a new national coalition called

WSWS (2023-03-11). Husband and wife report Dana fired them within same month at Dry Ridge, Kentucky plant after filing grievance over lost wages. wsws.org According to a reports from workers in Dry Ridge, Kentucky, workers are being fired at the Dana plant "left and right," just like in Toledo, Ohio.

WSWS (2023-03-11). Husband and wife report Dana fired them within same week at Dry Ridge, Kentucky plant after filing grievance over lost wages. wsws.org According to a reports from workers in Dry Ridge, Kentucky, workers are being fired at the Dana plant "left and right," just like in Toledo, Ohio.

Peoples Dispatch (2023-03-10). Thousands of women march for a better future across Pakistan. peoplesdispatch.org On the occasion of International Women's Day, thousands of women carried out massive rallies across major cities demanding better wages, security, and the repeal of the sedition and criminal defamation laws that are being used to silence dissent and target marginalized communities…

Rick Rozoff (2023-03-11). NATO chief orders EU cohorts to boost arms purchases, stockpiles for Ukraine war. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com NATOMarch 8, 2023 NATO Secretary General at EU Defence Ministerial: we must boost ammunition stockpiles, ramp up production Video Arriving at a meeting of EU Defence Ministers on Wednesday (8 March 2023), NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg underlined the importance of strengthened ammunition stockpiles and more joint procurement in order to continue supporting Ukraine. He …

Miguel àÅngel Ferrer (2023-03-11). En 2024, liberales contra conservadores. globalizacion.ca Es notoria y notable la diferencia entre un Presidente de la República con ideología conservadora o neoliberal o neoporfirista, y otro de pensamiento liberal, revolucionario o patriótico. El catálogo de presidentes conservadores incluye a cuatro priistas (De la Madrid, Salinas,…

teleSUR, DRL (2023-03-10). Rafael Correa resalta fracaso del neoliberalismo en la región. telesurtv.net Así se expresó el exmandatario en ocasión de intervenir en la conmemoración del Día del Antimperialismo Bolivariano, el cual tiene lugar en Caracas, Venezuela.

Daniel Campione (2023-03-11). Revolución rusa y socialismo, pasado y presente. globalizacion.ca Este es el segundo volumen de la serie del autor en torno a Actualidad de la revolución y socialismo. En una primera entrega titulada Rusia 1917: Vertientes y afluentes, Casas indagó en los antecedentes revolucionarios y en el "asalto al…

Fight Back (2023-03-11). FRSO Orlando hosts International Women's Day speakout. fightbacknews.org Orlando, FL – On March 4, members of the Freedom Road Socialist Organization (FRSO) and the Orlando Liberation Initiative (OLI) held a speak out to commemorate International Women's Day, a holiday honoring the contributions of women to the people's struggle. With attacks on reproductive rights intensifying, the activists gathered to speak on the history of International Women's Day, the current state of the women's movement internationally, and how to fight back against gender-based oppression, especially in Florida, which is leading the crusade against reproductive rights. | In Florida, these attacks on basic r…

Fight Back (2023-03-11). Tallahassee FRSO holds International Women's Day rally. fightbacknews.org Tallahassee, FL — On Wednesday, March 8, more than 40 people rallied outside the Leon County Courthouse to defend women's and reproductive rights and to commemorate the 115th anniversary of International Women's Day. The rally was organized by the Tallahassee Freedom Road Socialist Organization (FRSO). | Chants like "We won't go back; we will fight back!" and "Pro-life? That's a lie! You don't care if people die!" echoed down the Monroe Street corridor. | For more than 100 years, workers, progressives and revolutionaries all over the world have celebrated International Women's Day with protests, rallies and…

Fight Back (2023-03-10). Pro-accountability police district councilors celebrate election victories on International Women's Day. fightbacknews.org Chicago, IL – Freedom Road Socialist Organization (FRSO) held its annual International Working Women's Day celebration on Sunday, March 5. The program honored the women's liberation movement, as well as the women leading working-class struggles and fights for national liberation in the U.S., Palestine and the Philippines, among other places. | The event also celebrated the over 30 newly elected police district councilors, the majority of whom are women, and who ran on a platform of holding the police accountable. | The wide scope of topics covered in the program demonstrated the words of the FRSO Women&…

WSWS (2023-03-10). "This is a fight for working class people globally": Caterpillar workers rank-and-file committee holds powerful meeting against sellout agreement. wsws.org On Wednesday, the Caterpillar Workers Rank-and-File Committee and the World Socialist Web Site co-hosted a well-attended and powerful meeting calling on Caterpillar workers to vote "no" on the UAW-Caterpillar sellout agreement and to prepare for a strike.

americanthinker (2023-03-10). Bernie Sanders breathes new life into the Communist Manifesto. americanthinker.com A review of Bernie Sanders's new book, so you don't have to torture yourself reading it.

Pavan Kulkarni (2023-03-10). Shot and tortured by police, Communist Party of Swaziland's Mvuselelo Mkhabela escapes, calls for continued anti-monarchist resistance. peoplesdispatch.org Speaking to Peoples Dispatch from his hideout, the 21-year-old narrated how he escaped from the police and made it to safety with the help of his comrades, following hours of torture, after being shot by the King's police while leading a pro-democracy protest…

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