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2023-05-10: News Headlines

Ben Norton, Michael Hudson (2023-05-10). NY Times is wrong on dedollarization: Economist Michael Hudson debunks Paul Krugman's dollar defense. geopoliticaleconomy.com Economist Michael Hudson responds to the misleading arguments against de-dollarization that New York Times columnist Paul Krugman made in his attempt to defend US hegemony and the dollar system.

Prabhat Patnaik (2023-05-10). India: The grim unemployment scenario. mronline.org THE data on unemployment brough out by the Centre for Monitoring the Indian Economy (CMIE) present a grim picture. Not only has the unemployment rate increased sharply for some years now, starting from even before the pandemic, but the figure which had shot up during the pandemic has not come down much despite the recovery that has occurred in the level of GDP from its trough.

Misión Verdad (2023-05-10). Where is Latin America on the De-Dollarization Map? orinocotribune.com By Mision Verdad — May 8, 2023 | In recent weeks, the information trend in economic matters has been led by multiple geopolitical endeavors that point towards de-dollarization or the diversification of finance and the world economy. It is becoming evident that a transformation of the financial system is being forged with the intention to decentralize the dollar rather than eliminate it from the overall equation, a move led by large emerging powers. | In the case of Latin America, two events showed important signs of such a financial transformation since they came from the countries that represent the largest…

Staff (2023-05-10). Mexico's AMLO sent Biden letter blasting US 'interventionism' and funding of opposition groups. geopoliticaleconomy.substack.com Subscribe now Mexico's President Andrés Manuel López Obrador sent US leader Joe Biden a letter criticizing Washington for meddling in his country's internal affairs. The document condemned funding that the US Agency for International Development (USAID) has given to right-wing opposition groups that have organized protests against Mexico's elected government, seeking to destabilize it. USAID …

ecns.cn (2023-05-10). VP calls for economic partnership on Portugal visit. ecns.cn Vice-President Han Zheng has reaffirmed China's commitment to deepen cooperation with Portugal and the European Union to promote the growth of the economy and aid global economic recovery during a visit to Portugal from Sunday to Tuesday.

teleSUR (2023-05-10). Republicans, Democrats in Fight as Debt Default Deadline Looms. telesurenglish.net Republicans and Democrats are nowhere near a deal after a high-profile debt ceiling meeting failed to yield a breakthrough on Tuesday, risking a debt default that economists warn could cripple the U.S. economy and spawn a financial crisis. | RELATED: | Republicans are proposing spending cuts in exchange for raising the borrowing limit. U.S. President Joe Biden and Democrats, meanwhile, are urging Congress to pass a "clean" debt ceiling increase without conditions.

Sharon Zhang (2023-05-09). Senator Whitehouse: 275 of 315 Pages of GOP Debt Limit Bill Are Big Oil Favors. truthout.org As congressional Republicans unite around their plan to hold the economy hostage in order to advance their extremist debt limit package, some Democrats are pointing out that the vast majority of the bill is dedicated to favors for the fossil fuel industry. Last week, the Senate Budget Committee held a hearing on the Limit, Save, Grow Act, dubbed the "Default on America" bill by Democrats. |

Amitabha Roychowdhury (2023-05-10). Multilateral banks debunk Indian government's claims on growth rate. peoplesdispatch.org The so-called theory of trickle-down effect projected by the government (high prosperity of the rich flows down to enhance the economic welfare of the poor) has been debunked by the data on the growing gap between the rich and the poor in the country, rising poverty, unemployment, and the perpetually rising prices…

WSWS (2023-05-10). German Chancellor Scholz visits East Africa and sends the Bundeswehr to Niger. wsws.org Africa, too, is increasingly coming into the focus of German imperialism. The coalition government is aggressively pursuing the goal of increasing Berlin's political, economic, and military influence on the resource-rich continent.

Staff (2023-05-10). Ministerio de Economía y Planificación aprueba 67 nuevos actores económicos (+ PDF). cubadebate.cu El Ministerio de Economía y Planificación anunció hoy la aprobación de 67 nuevos actores económicos, como parte de las medidas para impulsar el desarrollo económico y social. De estos, 63 son mipymes privadas y 4 son mipymes estatales.

teleSUR (2023-05-10). 42nd ASEAN Summit Kicks Off, ASEAN Centrality, Economic Growth. telesurenglish.net On Wednesday, the 42nd summit of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) officially kicked off in the town of Labuan Bajo situated in the eastern region of Indonesia. | Related: | Indonesian President, Joko Widodo, delivered a discourse advocating the significance of ASEAN unification and economic integration as key factors in fostering regional peace and development. | "With unity, ASEAN will be able to b…

Dana Sanchez (2023-05-09). Recession Watch: Professional Networking Leader LinkedIn Lays Off 716 Workers. moguldom.com Microsoft's business social network platform LinkedIn is discontinuing its China-specific jobs app, InCareer, and laying off 716 workers worldwide, citing unfavorable economic conditions, despite recently reporting 8 percent revenue growth year over year. The Silicon Valley-based company will continue to "manage expenses," CEO Ryan Roslansky said in a memo to employees, suggesting that more layoffs …

Farooque Chowdhury (2023-05-09). Defiant Cuba Celebrates May Day. mronline.org Mainstream reports on this past May Day celebration in Cuba leave out a key element: the imperialist economic and financial blockade.

teleSUR (2023-05-09). Rio De Janeiro To Host G20 Summit In 2024. telesurenglish.net The Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro will host the Group of Twenty (G20) heads of state summit in 2024, Rio state governor Claudio Castro announced. | RELATED: | On his official Twitter account, the governor said that "it's official! Rio will host the G20 heads of state summit next year. The twenty largest world economic powers will gather, plus ten other nations that will be invited, for a total of thirty." | The G20 summit is scheduled for November 2024, w…

Sue Bull (2023-05-10). Labor's budget ignores the needs of millions. greenleft.org.au Labor's budget betrays renters, job seekers and people doing it tough. It leaves millions stuck in poverty while billionaires get tax cuts, argues Sue Bull.

Joel Richards (2023-05-09). Argentina's rising poverty. america.cgtn.com Poverty in Argentina is increasing, with an inflation rate over 100% hitting low-income sectors the hardest.

Adam Theron-Lee Rensch (2023-05-09). No Politics But Class Politics: Class, Identity, Inequality. socialistproject.ca In his recent book, Poverty, by America, Matthew Desmond writes, "Poverty might consume your life, but it's rarely embraced as an identity. It's more socially acceptable today to disclose a mental illness than to tell someone you're broke."

Anonymous (2023-05-10). Breaking: LA Valley College Building Delayed Till 2025. indybay.org $100 million dollar building sold to taxpayers as needed for low-income students will open a almost decade late. In the meantime low income San Fernando Valley students have struggled with mold, asbestos, and flooding.

Joel Richards (2023-05-09). Argentina's rising poverty. america.cgtn.com Poverty in Argentina is increasing, with an inflation rate over 100% hitting low-income sectors the hardest.

WSWS (2023-05-11). New Zealand teacher strikes continue. wsws.org The unions are seeking to keep teachers and other workers divided so they can impose a sellout agreement in line with the Labour government's austerity agenda.

WSWS (2023-05-10). Widespread anger in New Zealand over anti-immigrant "dawn raids" wsws.org The early morning raid and detention of a so-called "overstayer" has again exposed the fraud of the Labour government's "apology" to Pacific Islanders for the anti-immigrant campaigns of the 1970s.

WSWS (2023-05-10). Australian Labor government's budget hits workers behind sham "relief" wsws.org Workers and their families will even more bear the burden of the real wage cuts, plus soaring mortgage payments, rents and prices for food, petrol and energy, while the wealthy enjoy super-profits and billions of dollars are set aside for war preparations.

WSWS (2023-05-10). Contract bargaining for German public sector workers: A response to the union's lies. wsws.org In line with its close collaboration with the German government, the Verdi leadership is using its apparatus of thousands of full-time officials to suppress the class struggle.

cameron orr (2023-05-10). A people's victory in Chicago. cpusa.org "Happy May Day 2023, Chicago! May we always stand in solidarity with workers everywhere to ensure fair wages, safe working conditions, and the right to organize. "Never forget: the power of the people is what built this city and makes Chicago strong." So tweeted Chicago mayor-elect Brandon Johnson, a labor leader, Chicago Teachers Union …

Isaac Nellist (2023-05-10). Labor's budget does nothing for young people. greenleft.org.au Labor's budget is a huge disappointment for many, but especially young people struggling with the cost-of-living crisis, surging rents and expensive education. | Despite

Dana Sanchez (2023-05-10). College Graduates Are Expecting To Make $84,000, Report Says Reality Is $55,000. moguldom.com Despite a hot labor market and record-high job openings, college graduates could experience a rude awakening after stepping off the stage of their commencement ceremonies when it comes to salary expectations versus reality. The average starting salary for recent graduates is $55,911 but today's undergraduates expect to make $84,855 one year after graduation — a …

Kap Seol, Labor Notes. (2023-05-10). South Korea: Labor Union Leader Sets Himself Afire. popularresistance.org A South Korean union leader has ended his life, enraged in anger and humiliation as the government attempted to bring racketeering charges against him over union activity. | On the morning of May Day, Yang Hoe-dong, a chapter leader of a national construction workers union, set himself on fire at a courthouse where he was summoned to a hearing for the review of an arrest warrant for him. He was pronounced dead at the hospital the following day. | The death was in protest of attacks by the government of President Yoon Suk-yeol on the 160,000-strong Korean Construction Workers Union and its rival union since Februa…

Dan Bacher (2023-05-10). Big Oil pumps $9.4 million into lobbying California officials in 2023's first quarter. indybay.org WSPA and Big Oil wield their power in 8 major ways: through (1) lobbying; (2) campaign spending; (3) serving on and putting shills on regulatory panels; (4) creating Astroturf groups; (5) working in collaboration with media; (6) sponsoring awards ceremonies, including those for legislators and journalists; (7) contributing to non profit organizations; and (8) creating alliances with labor unions.

Martha Grevatt (2023-05-10). May Day marches and rallies celebrate workers' struggles. workers.org May Day — International Workers Day — commemorates the 1886 struggle in Chicago for the eight-hour day. Despite its radical origins in U.S. labor history, May Day has to a large extent been supplanted by moderate events on Labor Day in September, a holiday designed to dampen class struggle and . . . |

Judy Greenspan (2023-05-10). Oakland teachers launch Unfair Labor Practices strike. workers.org Frustrated by the Oakland Unified School District's refusal to bargain a new contract, more than 3,000 teachers and other educators, all members of the Oakland Education Association, went on strike on May 4. OEA teachers and supporters kick off a march on the second day of the strike. (Credit: Craig . . . |

Pip Hinman (2023-05-09). NT Labor gives fracking the go-ahead, despite First Nations' objections. greenleft.org.au First Nations people, farmers and communities across the Northern Territory have condemned NT Labor's decision to approve exploration permits for shale gas fracking in the Beetaloo Basin. Pip Hinman reports.

Derek Seidman (2023-05-09). Labor Organizers Launch a New Model for the Fight Against Private Equity. truthout.org On May Day, a small group of labor advocates and workers weaved through midtown Manhattan, stopping at the shiny corporate headquarters of several firms with names like KKR, Sycamore Partners, Apollo Global Management, BC Partners and Roark Capital Group. Most people don't recognize these names, or if they do, know very little about them. But these are some of the wealthiest and most influential… |

Rhoda Wilson (2023-05-09). Charles "The Great Reset" King and Global Britain using the Commonwealth, Five Eyes and City of London to exert influence. expose-news.com This week, Charles was crowned King of the United Kingdom and the other 14 Commonwealth realms. But that is not all. He has also become head of the British Commonwealth, head of …

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-05-09). Charles III Coronation Ignored Imperialism, Colonialism, Genocide, Trauma, Deadly Colonial Legacy & Palestine. libya360.wordpress.com Dr Gideon Polya Perhaps billions around the world saw at least part of the coronation of King Charles III and marvelled at the pomp, the pageantry and the glorious choral music. The colourful military uniforms and the final parade of thousands of British and Commonwealth military forces testified to past imperial glory. However the lavish…

Carolin Kilian, Julia M. Lemp, Laura Llamosas-Falcón, Tessa Carr, Yu Ye, William C. Kerr, Nina Mulia, Klajdi Puka, Aurélie M. Lasserre, Sophie Bright, Jàºrgen Rehm, Charlotte Probst (2023-05-10). Review] Reducing alcohol use through alcohol control policies in the general population and population subgroups: a systematic review and meta-analysis. thelancet.com We estimate the effects of alcohol taxation, minimum unit pricing (MUP), and restricted temporal availability on overall alcohol consumption and review their differential impact across sociodemographic groups. Web of Science, Medline, PsycInfo, Embase, and EconLit were searched on 08/12/2022 and 09/26/2022 for studies on newly introduced or changed alcohol policies published between 2000 and 2022 (Prospero registration: CRD42022339791). We combined data using random-effects meta-analyses. Risk of bias was assessed using the Newcastle—Ottawa Scale.

WSWS (2023-05-10). Notes on the financial oligarchy: Jeffrey Epstein and the criminality of the ruling class. wsws.org A lawsuit against JPMorgan Chase gives a window into the narrow, incestuous world of financial-state power.

WSWS (2023-05-10). Financial storms building up on several major fronts. wsws.org In its latest Financial Stability report, issued earlier this week, the Federal Reserve said the runs on SVB and Signature "were of unprecedented speed" compared with previous runs.

ecns.cn (2023-05-10). China appoints Li Yunze Party secretary of new national financial regulatory administration. ecns.cn China appointed Li Yunze as Party secretary of the new national financial regulatory administration on Wednesday.

Mark Gruenberg (2023-05-10). Philly could be next in line for a progressive mayor. peoplesworld.org PHILADEPHIA—Community activist, organizer, and former teacher Helen Gym is putting together a progressive multi-racial coalition in her bid to become the 100th mayor of Philadelphia. Does this sound familiar? It's how financially outgunned Rep. Karen Bass (D) succeeded in her bid to become Mayor of Los Angeles and what Teachers (AFT) member and Cook County …

Rick Rozoff (2023-05-10). U.S. transfers F-22s from Poland to Estonia to "defend NATO's eastern flank" antibellum679354512.wordpress.com NATOAllied Air CommandMay 9, 2023 US F-22s deploy to Estonia from Poland The U.S. Air Force F-22s supporting NATO Allied Air Command's Air Shielding mission along the eastern flank have executed an Agile Combat Employment deployment to Amari Air Base, Estonia on May 8…. The US fighters joined their Royal Air Force colleagues who are …

krish-rad_ind (2023-05-10). U.S. OMB says U.S. military spending this year is $1.448T, next year's request is $1.510T. theduran.com

WSWS (2023-05-10). Australian prime minister hails opening of highly automated grocery warehouse. wsws.org Opening the new Queensland distribution centre, Albanese claimed it would create 320 jobs. The reality is that the facility is part of a $1 billion investment in job-cutting technology by major supermarket chain Coles.

Brittani Banks (2023-05-10). Why There Is a Growing Student Absentee Rate—and How Community Schools Can Fix It. independentmediainstitute.org School absentee rates that increased dramatically during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic have not declined. In fact, they're getting worse, according to a September 2022 research analysis posted on the blog site of Attendance Works, a national nonprofit that advocates for reducing "chronic absenteeism" in schools. Chronic absenteeism is defined as missing at least …

WSWS (2023-05-10). The corporatist record of the Communication Workers Union: 2007 to 2023. wsws.org Corporatism asserts a common interest between workers and employers and means the total subordination of the working class to the profit dictates of the company. The bitter experience of the past 15 years shows that there is no such "common interest."

scorinoco (2023-05-10). Privatization of US Healthcare by UnitedHealth Group. orinocotribune.com By John P Geyman — May 7, 2023 | Profiteering against the public interest | Privatization of public programs such as Medicare and Medicaid has been proceeding rapidly in recent years with little coverage by the media of its harms to patients, the public and taxpayers. This article has four goals: (1) to bring brief historical perspective to this trend in the US; (2) to shed light on the experience over the last 12 years of profiteering by UnitedHealth Group, now the largest US private health insurer; (3) to describe negative impacts on our health care system; and (4) to briefly consider lessons that can be l…

repost (2023-05-10). SF City Politicians Outsource Police Oversight To Non-profit HealthRight 360. indybay.org The murders by police and recently by the Walgreen's security guard Banko Brown have exposed the role of Mayor London Breed and the rest of the Democratic Party politicians to allow the police and company police to have free hand. | Diana Aroche started with Coleman Advocates, then worked for Maria Su at the Mayor's Office of Children, Youth, and Families, then for Mayor Edwin Mah Lee – who outsourced Violence Intervention and Prevention to HealthRight 360 – and now works at the SF Police Department as its Director of Policy and Public Affairs.

Editor (2023-05-09). War for Profit: A Very Short History. scheerpost.com

Olivia Rosane (2023-05-09). 'This land is our life': Indigenous Shipibo-Konibo-Xetebo people defend forest from illegal destruction in Peru. therealnews.com This story originally appeared in The Shipibo-Konibo-Xetebo people of the Peruvian Amazon are organizing themselves to protect their ancestral forests and waters from illegal fishing, logging, and coca growing amidst conservation and development efforts from both the government and international nonprofits that they say are ineffective at best and actively harmful to Indigenous ways of life at worst.

Staff (2023-05-10). Venezuela's Opposition Defines Rules for October Primary Elections. orinocotribune.com Venezuela's opposition primaries will take place on October 22 of this year. In recent months, the parameters of the elections that will determine who will be the candidate to face Chavismo in the 2024 presidential elections have been defined. | According to the latest update from the National Primary Commission (CNP) on Sunday, May 7, the regulations establishing the rules for nominations, advertising, participation of witnesses, voting abroad and the voting process have been finalized. | As established by the CNP, the registration of candidacies will begin on May 24 and end on June 23. After this, "admitted…

Friedrich Engels (2023-05-10). "Karl Marx:" A biography by Engels. mronline.org Karl Marx was born on May 5, 1818 in Trier, where he received a classical education. He studied jurisprudence at Bonn and later in Berlin, where, however, his preoccupation with philosophy soon turned him away from law.

midwesternmarx (2023-05-09). Free Cuba to Free Ourselves. By: Calvin Wu. midwesternmarx.com We left Havana on May 3. Tired after days of seminars, meetings with locals, and cultural activities, I was able to begin unpacking and relax, unlike many others returning home to the United States who ended up being detained at the airports of Miami, Ft. Lauderdale, and Newark. They were granted special permission to visit Cuba under the US blockade that has been in place for more than sixty years (except for a short reprieve from 2014—2017). Yet, despite legal documents and …

Ryan Black (2023-05-09). Bernie Sanders Unveils Push For $17-An-Hour Federal Minimum Wage, Citing State Increases. progressivehub.net ARIANA FIGUEROA | FLORIDA PHOENIX…

Maximillian Alvarez (2023-05-10). Robin D.G. Kelley: Understanding police violence through racial capitalism. therealnews.com In 2001, Cincinnati police killed a 19-year-old Black man named Timothy Thomas, sparking an uprising that shook the city for four days. 19 years later, in the city of Minneapolis, local police officers killed George Floyd over an alleged counterfeit bill, catalyzing a nationwide rebellion. Much of the discourse surrounding racist police killings have focused on perceived flaws within the institution of policing itself, but explanations for the consistency and pervasiveness of police violence cannot be found within police departments alone. Police operate within a system of race and class-based segregation,…

Frank Cappello (2023-05-09). üéß MOVIES VS. CAPITALISM: V for Vendetta (w/ Evan from LOTP). levernews.com

jamanetwork (2023-05-09). Study: No More Than 6 Teaspoons of Added Sugar per Day. jamanetwork.com Moderate-quality evidence has tied high intake of sugars, particularly those containing fructose, with a range of poor outcomes, such as obesity in children, coronary heart disease, and depression, according to an umbrella review of 73 meta-analyses that included 8601 studies, a majority of which were observational.

Lynda Carson (2023-05-10). Bankruptcy filing for Diocese of Oakland over clergy child sexual abuse lawsuits. indybay.org Diocese of Oakland – Chapter 11 Bankruptcy Documents Filed On May 8, 2023:…

Rick Rozoff (2023-05-10). Germany to boost Puma fighting vehicles to 580 to meet NATO demands, confront Russia. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com Defense NewsMay 10, 2023 German lawmakers grant $1.6 billion for 50 Puma fighting vehicles German lawmakers have approved a Defence Ministry request to order 50 Puma infantry fighting vehicles for more than $1 billion, buying into the government's proposition that the purchase bears risks but is necessary to fulfill NATO obligations by 2027. Parliamentarian appropriators …

Staff (2023-05-09). Headlines for May 9, 2023. democracynow.org Israel Bombs Gaza Strip, Killing 13 People, Including Children, Putin Delivers Defiant "Victory Day" Speech as Russia Fires Missiles Across Ukraine, Sudan's Warring Parties Hold Peace Talks in Saudi Arabia But Won't Agree to Ceasefire, Former Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan Arrested in Islamabad, Tens of Thousands March Against Gun Violence in Serbia After Two Mass Shootings, Texas Gunman Was Rejected from Army, Had Nazi Tattoos But Purchased AR-15 Legally, Texas Man Who Rammed SUV Into Migrants Charged with Eight Counts of Manslaughter, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott Deploys "Tactical Bo…

Mónica Peralta Ramos (2023-05-10). Del neoliberalismo al mercantilismo: el nuevo consenso de Washington. globalizacion.ca Una creciente crisis de legitimidad y la escalada bélica en Ucrania contextualizan la convocatoria a un "nuevo Consenso ª con el Estado en un rol central. Altos funcionarios del gobierno norteamericano admiten por estos días que el orden económico global, surgido…

Sharon Zhang (2023-05-10). AOC: "Public Policy" Failures and "Demonizing of the Poor" Killed Jordan Neely. truthout.org In a new interview, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-New York) has spoken out about the myriad societal causes behind the tragic death of Jordan Neely on a New York City subway last week, saying that his death was the direct result of policy decisions that left him vulnerable to people with a violent hatred of poor people. Speaking with The Cut this week, Ocasio-Cortez said that the neoliberal… |

Ben Norton (2023-05-10). US corporations in the wings for post-war Ukraine. indybay.org The IMF granted large loans to the invaded country and enforces the so-called neoliberal "Washington Consensus"[1]. In a major privatization campaign, the Ukrainian government is selling off state assets. U.S. corporations such as ExxonMobil, Chevron and Halliburton participate in negotiations to take over the oil and gas industry of the Eastern European country.

Dr. Joseph Mercola (2023-05-10). Ukraine War: Biden Displays Frighteningly Poor Leadership. Lies and More Lies. globalresearch.ca

Ryan Black (2023-05-09). Why Do We Keep Feeding The Merchants Of Death? progressivehub.net DR. JOSEPH MERCOLA | MERCOLA.COM…

Ajamu Baraka (2023-05-09). Africans in the U.S. are a colonized people: A comment on the indictment of the African People's Socialist Party. mronline.org Red Scares, McCarthyism, COINTELPRO, "Black Identity Extremists" are all indicative of how the colonized are treated by the state.

Peoples Dispatch (2023-05-10). Communists across Europe mark 78th anniversary of Soviet victory over Nazi Germany. peoplesdispatch.org Soviet red flags were raised in Victory Day celebrations across Europe, despite a ban on the display of Soviet and Russian flags in several countries including Germany…

Orinoco Tribune 2 (2023-05-09). Grenada's PM: We Support China's Efforts Towards Peace and Global Development. orinocotribune.com We are pleased to republish the speech given by Hon. Dickon Mitchell, Leader of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) and Prime Minister of Grenada, at the CPC in Dialogue with World Political Parties High-level Meeting, which was organized by the Communist Party of China on 15 March. It was originally carried on the website of the Not…

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2023-05-09: News Headlines

WSWS (2023-05-09). Parents speak out against reopening of Detroit elementary school amid a cluster of "mystery" illnesses. wsws.org "They want the kids in school, so parents are on the job to keep the so-called ceconomy running. They will sacrifice as many people as needed. How can a child die, and we get no communications?"

ecns.cn (2023-05-09). China's trade grows 8.9% in April, faster than expectations. ecns.cn China's trade sector grew 8.9 percent in April in yuan's terms, data released by the Chinese customs showed on Tuesday.

teleSUR (2023-05-09). Tunisian Minister for Strengthening Economic Ties With Spain. telesurenglish.net On Monday, the Tunisian Minister of Economy and Planning, Samir Saied, issued a call for the consolidation of economic ties between Tunisia and Spain, as well as the implementation of mutually beneficial cooperation programs. | Related: | According to Saied, during an official meeting, Xiana Mendez Bertolo, Spanish Deputy Minister for Commerce, and himself, discussed the progress made under the existing cooperation programs. | Saied also stated that they…

ecns.cn (2023-05-09). Launch of northbound trading of Swap Connect to further boost China's financial opening-up. ecns.cn The northbound trading link of the Swap Connect between the Chinese mainland and the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region will commence on May 15.

Elsy Fors Garzon (2023-05-09). Government of Bolivia confirms stability with results. plenglish.com La Paz, May 9 (Prensa Latina) The president of Bolivia, Luis Arce, highlighted today the recovery of health, education, the reconstruction of the economy and progress towards industrialization two and a half years into his government.

unitedEditor (2023-05-08). US National Security Advisor: Enough of the neoliberal system. uwidata.com By àñzgàºr Altƒ±nba≈ü U.S. National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan made a statement full of confessions about the US economy. Stating that the economy can no longer be saved with the existing system, Sullivan called for increasing public investments. The US official also underlined that the American middle class is losing ground. The leaders of the …

Rania Khalek (2023-05-08). Life or Debt? How the IMF Keeps Africa Down. thealtworld.com Instead of helping promote development, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) traps countries in cycles of debt and instability. | Grieve Chelwa, Director of Research, Institute on Race, Power & Political Economy at The New School, explains how countries of the Global South are forced to go to the IMF for aid over and over again.

Anonymous103 (2023-05-08). US Banking Crisis In A New Stage Of Contagion. southfront.org Illustrative Image | Written by Dan Steinbock | In view of the Fed, American banking crisis is over. Yet, US and European banks face the most acute stress since 2008 and 2011, respectively. Global economy is exposed to new headwinds. | Last week, as the Federal Reserve pushed ahead with its 10th rate hike since last March, its chairman Jerome Powell declared that the period of U.S. bank failures had come to an end.That's why Powell assured Americans, "There were three large banks, really from the very beginning, that wer…

WSWS (2023-05-09). US economic policy integrated with war drive. wsws.org A speech by National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan last month has made clear that concerns over the US decline are very much front and centre in the development of both economic and "national security" policy.

teleSUR (2023-05-08). Protecting Migratory Birds is Crucial for Ecosystems Balance. telesurenglish.net On Monday, Peter Njoroge, the head of the Ornithology Section and senior research scientist at the National Museums of Kenya, stressed that protecting natural habitats for migratory birds will unleash a range of ecological, health and economic benefits. | RELATED: | Kenya is a major corridor for migratory bird species escaping from winter in Europe and Asia and heading to the warmer tropical regions where they forage for food in important biodiversity ar…

Alastair Crooke (2023-05-08). Decent Into Débâcle: Pyrrhic Victories, Lies and Strategic Miscalculations. thealtworld.com China and Russia are joining hands militarily. This will portend a strategic paradigm change that may force a U.S. re-consideration of the way ahead. | The sense that things are bad, and getting worse, is palpable. There is an undeniable eschatological tint to today's zeitgeist. Spiralling geo-political factors all suggest extreme turbulence ahead. | Biden and the Democrats discover — to their surprise — that they are in a 'bind': Having thought to run in 2024 on 'the Biden economic record', Biden's Team finds prospects dissolving in the face of accelerating events. | And Ukraine — which was to…

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2023-05-09). Breaking barriers: Helping Native Americans in need get the gift of life. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org Robert Monroe and Jackie Johnson stand near their home on the Navajo Indian Reservation in Arizona For many American Indians and Alaska Natives, living on an Indian reservation provides a sense of pride, independence, and the ability to maintain cultural and social traditions important to their heritage. Life on the Indian reservation can also mean high rates of poverty, lack of access to food, transportation, communication and health care. Complex medical procedures like an organ…

Joel Richards (2023-05-09). Argentina's rising poverty. america.cgtn.com Poverty in Argentina is increasing, with an inflation rate over 100% hitting low-income sectors the hardest.

Ann Brown (2023-05-08). Black Unemployment Falls To Record Low But Numbers Show Concerning Lower Participation For Black Men. moguldom.com The latest jobs report shows both promising and troubled results regarding Black unemployment, especially for Black men. Black unemployment dropped to a record low in April. This wasn't due to more Black people landing jobs, but the decline was driven by trends indicating that Black workers are faced with more challenges in what has been …

Anonymous (2023-05-09). Breaking: LA Valley College Building Delayed Till 2025. indybay.org $100 million dollar building sold to taxpayers as needed for low-income students will open a almost decade late. In the meantime low income San Fernando Valley students have struggled with mold, asbestos, and flooding.

Joel Richards (2023-05-09). Argentina's rising poverty. america.cgtn.com Poverty in Argentina is increasing, with an inflation rate over 100% hitting low-income sectors the hardest.

WSWS (2023-05-09). England's local elections confirm Labour's disconnect from working class. wsws.org Labour's election strategy is to disenfranchise as many people as possible, then beat the Tories among a narrow middle-class constituency on right-wing policy issues carefully curated by both parties.

Editor (2023-05-09). Labour 'betrays millions of young people' after dropping pledge to abolish university tuition fees. mronline.org Students and education unions slammed Labour's "betrayal of millions of young people in desperate need of hope" today after the party's increasingly right-wing leadership dropped a pledge to abolish cripplingly high university tuition fees.

WSWS (2023-05-09). Japanese, South Korean leaders meet ahead of G7 summit in Hiroshima. wsws.org While the two leaders denounced the supposed threat posed by North Korea, their real purpose is closer collaboration in unison with the US in preparation for war with China.

John Bachtell (2023-05-09). Progressives move into Chicago mayor's office and city council next week. peoplesworld.org CHICAGO — "Happy May Day 2023, Chicago! May we always stand in solidarity with workers everywhere to ensure fair wages, safe working conditions, and the right to organize. "Never forget: the power of the people is what built this city and makes Chicago strong." So tweeted Chicago mayor-elect Brandon Johnson, a labor leader, Chicago Teachers …

Kathy McCormack (2023-05-09). New Hampshire Republicans want to erase Communist leader Elizabeth Gurley Flynn from history. peoplesworld.org CONCORD, N.H. (AP)—A historical marker dedicated to a New Hampshire labor activist who championed women's rights and was a founder of the American Civil Liberties Union—but who also joined the Communist Party and was sent to prison—has drawn objections from Republican officials and scrutiny from the governor. Known as "The Rebel Girl" for her fiery …

teleSUR (2023-05-09). Turkish President Hikes Public Worker Salaries by 45 Pct. telesurenglish.net At a signing ceremony for the Public Collective Labor Agreement on Tuesday, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced a 45 percent wage hike for 700,000 public workers ahead of May 14 elections. | RELATED: | "We are increasing the wages by 45 percent, including the welfare share. With this protocol, we determine the framework of the wages that approximately 700,000 of our brothers will receive in the 2023-2024 period," he said. | The minim…

Sonali Kolhatkar (2023-05-09). A new Republican assault on children: overturning labor laws. nationofchange.org It seems unimaginable that we are backsliding into the era of exploiting child labor. But that's precisely what the GOP appears to be doing.

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2023-05-09). Save lives this Take Back Day; safely dispose of unused medications. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org ROCHESTER, Minn. — Dispose of unneeded medications safely during National Prescription Drug Take Back Day on Saturday, April 22. Mayo Clinic, in collaboration with the Olmsted County Sheriff's Office, Olmsted Medical Center, Zumbro Valley Medical Society and the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), will host a community drop-off event to collect unused or expired medications. "The Olmsted County Sheriff's Office and Violent Crimes Enforcement Team (VCET) are proud to team up with Mayo Clinic and other…

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2023-05-09). Science Saturday: COVID-19 — the pandemic that's forever changed laboratory testing. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org Like many people throughout the world, Matthew Binnicker, Ph.D., remembers exactly where he was and what he was doing when COVID-19 was classified as a pandemic. "Those first few months of the pandemic will be forever ingrained in my memory," he says. For Dr. Binnicker, director of Mayo Clinic's Clinical Virology Laboratory, two important dates stand out above the rest. "One was Feb. 17, 2020, when Dr. (William) Morice and I were talking about whether the department should…

Dan Bacher (2023-05-09). Big Oil pumps $9.4 million into lobbying California officials in 2023's first quarter. indybay.org WSPA and Big Oil wield their power in 8 major ways: through (1) lobbying; (2) campaign spending; (3) serving on and putting shills on regulatory panels; (4) creating Astroturf groups; (5) working in collaboration with media; (6) sponsoring awards ceremonies, including those for legislators and journalists; (7) contributing to non profit organizations; and (8) creating alliances with labor unions.

Jenny Brown, Labor Notes. (2023-05-09). Workers To Starbucks: Time To Negotiate. popularresistance.org At Starbucks regional headquarters in Manhattan on May 1, staff were setting up an office pizza party when they heard a chant coming from the hallway of their fifteenth floor glass-enclosed office. | "Who are we? We are partners! Who are we? We are workers!" chanted a dozen Starbucks workers as they filled the reception area, many wearing shirts saying "Partners? Prove It. WE are Starbucks." | Headquarters staff fled into back offices as the café workers traded off reading sections of a written statement with their demands—the chief one being that the company negotiate with the union and stop retaliating ag…

Staff (2023-05-09). Comisión de Seguridad Vial de La Habana informa sobre labores de mantenimiento en Túnel de la Bahía. cubadebate.cu La Comisión Provincial de Seguridad Vial de La Habana informa a los usuarios que los días 9 y 10, a partir de las 9: 00am en el Túnel de la Bahía se realizarán labores de mantenimiento a los viales, motivo por el cual existirá limitación en la circulación, aplicándose medidas de regulación del tránsito.

teleSUR, hvh, JCM (2023-05-09). Recuperan cuerpos de los mineros fallecidos en Yanaquihua, Perú. telesurtv.net Según la Fiscalía local, concluyó a las 22: 50 (hora local) la labor de rescate ejecutada por los equipos de la policía.

Sharon Zhang (2023-05-08). Iowa Republicans Pass Bill to Allow 14-Year-Olds to Work in Meat Coolers. truthout.org The Iowa state legislature has passed a Republican proposal to allow children as young as 14 to work in meat coolers and roll back a number of other child labor protections as conservatives across the country work to enroll more children into the workforce. The bill, S.F. 542, was passed by the state Senate on Wednesday, largely along party lines. It is now in the hands of Republican Gov. |

Julia Conley (2023-05-08). Iowa becomes second GOP-controlled state this year to pass repeal of child labor protections. therealnews.com This story originally appeared in Along with passing

Nick MacWilliam (2023-05-08). On May Day, Colombians mobilize to defend the Petro government. therealnews.com The popular forces of Colombia have been at odds with the forces of their state for decades. Yet this year on May Day, crowds of people mobilized not in opposition to their government but in support of its labor reforms and efforts to produce a lasting peace. Swept into power last year in the aftermath of a popular uprising, President Gustavo Petro and Vice President Francia Márquez have prioritized an agenda to reform the country and build power for working people and oppressed groups such as Afro-Colombians and Indigenous peoples. While conservative elements continue to obstruct this agenda from within th…

WSWS (2023-05-08). Australia: New South Wales health workers protest Labor's inaction on wage cap. wsws.org These stoppages were limited affairs, tightly stage-managed by the HSU bureaucracy. A press release announcing the walkouts was published less than 24 hours before the first action at Tweed, where workers received no advance notice at all.

Ryan Black (2023-05-08). Congress Officially Acknowledges Apple's Unfair Labor Practices And Union-Busting Tactics. progressivehub.net AMBER NEELY | APPLE INSIDER…

Peoples Dispatch (2023-05-08). Anti-monarchists and Republicans in the UK protest coronation of Charles III. peoplesdispatch.org As the UK struggles with a severe cost of living crisis and workers struggle for pay hikes, the decision to hold an elaborate and expensive coronation ceremony has been widely criticized. 51% of the respondents in a poll conducted in April by YouGov said that the coronation ceremony should not be a state-funded event…

Kevin Gosztola (2023-05-08). Die Jim Crow Records Releases New Music From Hip-Hop Artist Wrongfully Convicted And Imprisoned For 25 Years. shadowproof.com Die Jim Crow Records, the first record company to work exclusively with musicians impacted by the United States prison system, has collaborated with another formerly incarcerated artist named EL BENTLY 448.

José A. Amesty R. (2023-05-08). °Ya basta de monarquías! globalizacion.ca Quedamos estupefactos, indignados, alarmados y sin creer, cuando por televisión, era transmitida a nivel mundial, la coronación del rey Carlos III en Londres. Recordemos que, este increíble acto oficial británico obedece a la llamada Commonwealth, que es la organización, fundada…

teleSUR (2023-05-09). Expert Warns Drought Could Keep Food Prices High in Spain. telesurenglish.net The ongoing and intense drought conditions may lead to a persistent increase in food prices in Spain, said Jaume Bernis, a member of the Coordinator of Farmers and Ranchers Organizations (COAG). | Related: | "If there's a lack of homegrown products due to drought, then they (food) will have to be brought in from abroad, and at prices that are higher than those produced here. This means the prices the consumer pays f…

ecns.cn (2023-05-09). A-share PV firms' Q1 solid on back of strong green demand, lower costs. ecns.cn A majority of Chinese photovoltaic companies reported robust first-quarter performances boosted by strong market demand and declining material prices, experts said.

Editor (2023-05-08). Monopolies Cause Inflation, While Fed Chairman Powell Blames Workers. scheerpost.com By Eve Ottenberg / CounterPunch As American monopolies fix prices higher and higher, the Federal Reserve bizarrely has concluded that employment is to blame for inflation. For months, Fed chairman Jerome Powell has increased interest rates in the hopes of throwing workers out in the street and thus supposedly reducing prices. While I'm sure that …

Staff (2023-05-09). CEO Pay On The Rise As Inflation Increases & Eating Skittles Is Unsafe For Humans. trofire.com CEO pay is now 324 times higher than average worker pay — one of the largest gaps in history. And, a lawsuit claims that Skittles are unsafe for human consumption — and they may be right. Mike Papantonio & Farron Cousins discuss more. Transcript: *This transcript was generated by a third-party transcription software company, so please excuse any typos. …

ecns.cn (2023-05-09). Global carmakers accelerate R&D in China. ecns.cn Increasing the weighting of China's research and development has become the common choice for multinational carmakers such as Volkswagen, Mercedes-Benz, Toyota and Honda, Chinese financial media outlet Yicai reported.

ecns.cn (2023-05-09). Northbound Swap Connect to further promote China's financial opening-up. ecns.cn Transactions under the Northbound Swap Connect, which allows overseas investors from Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) and other countries and regions to participate in the Chinese mainland interbank financial derivatives market, will officially begin on May 15, says the People's Bank of China (PBoC), the central bank of China.

ecns.cn (2023-05-09). China firmly opposes illegal sanctions, long-arm jurisdiction over China on grounds of China-Russia cooperation: FM. ecns.cn Wang made the remarks in response to some foreign media outlets, including the Financial Times, which reported that the EU has proposed sanctions on Chinese companies accused of selling equipment that could be used in weapons to support Russia.

ecns.cn (2023-05-09). Chinese students honored for innovation in financial, societal challenges. ecns.cn Prudential Financial has awarded 30 young change-makers, including two Chinese students, at the Emerging Visionaries Summit held at their headquarters in Newark, New Jersey.

Staff (2023-05-08). Can Anyone Hold Justice Clarence Thomas to Account for Secret Dealings with Billionaire GOP Megadonor? democracynow.org We speak with longtime Supreme Court reporter Dahlia Lithwick about the mounting evidence of apparent financial impropriety by the court's conservatives. ProPublica recently reported that Republican billionaire Harlan Crow paid two years of private school tuition for Clarence Thomas's grandnephew — payments that Thomas did not include on his annual financial disclosures. This comes after previous reporting revealed Crow also paid money to Thomas and his relatives in an undisclosed real estate deal, and that Thomas accepted luxury travel from Crow virtually every year for decades, while failing t…

WSWS (2023-05-09). Mounting anger among Canadian federal workers over PSAC's sellout agreements. wsws.org Anger at the union's abandonment of the workers' demands for wage increases that keep pace with inflation, job protection measures, and the right to work remotely is so strong among rank-and-file workers that a major PSAC component union has felt compelled to issue a call for a "No" vote.

SAM (2023-05-08). Media Inflation Hysteria Massively Damaged The Working Class. progressivehub.net ANDREW PEREZ, MATTHEW CUNNINGHAM-COOK, AND DAVID SIROTA | THE LEVER…

WSWS (2023-05-08). Australian Defence Strategic Review warns of military recruitment crisis. wsws.org As well as possible employment and education prospects, the fall in recruits and retention reflects broad anti-war sentiment, particularly among youth, who do not want to be sacrificed in imperialist wars abroad.

Dana Sanchez (2023-05-08). Vice Media Considering Bankruptcy Filing: Digital Media Bear Market Has Turned Into Crash. moguldom.com Vice Media, which targets millennials and promotes coverage of "under-reported stories," is in talks to be bought out of bankruptcy in a deal with Hungarian-American businessman-philanthropist George Soros and lender Fortress Investment. The proposed reorganization to Fortress and Soros Fund Management, founded by 92-year-old Soros, would wipe out other investors, according to people familiar with …

Ann Brown (2023-05-08). New Investment Group That Includes Shaq, 50 Cent, and Kenya Burris Make Move to Buy BET. moguldom.com Ever since Paramount Global (formerly known as Viacom) announced it was considering selling a majority stake in the Black Entertainment Television Network, an array of possible investors have expressed interest, including media mogul Byron Allen and filmmaker Tyler Perry. Now a group that includes former basketball superstar Shaquille "Shaq" O'Neal, hip-hop mogul 50 Cent, and TV producer …

repost (2023-05-09). SF City Politicians Outsource Police Oversight To Non-profit HealthRight 360. indybay.org The murders by police and recently by the Walgreen's security guard Banko Brown have exposed the role of Mayor London Breed and the rest of the Democratic Party politicians to allow the police and company police to have free hand. | Diana Aroche started with Coleman Advocates, then worked for Maria Su at the Mayor's Office of Children, Youth, and Families, then for Mayor Edwin Mah Lee – who outsourced Violence Intervention and Prevention to HealthRight 360 – and now works at the SF Police Department as its Director of Policy and Public Affairs.

Editor (2023-05-09). War for Profit: A Very Short History. scheerpost.com

Mark Gruenberg (2023-05-09). East Palestine rail wreck prompts congressional re-regulation plan. peoplesworld.org WASHINGTON—Sometimes it takes a disaster to get a bipartisan congressional majority to get off its ass and do something for the country. In this case, the disaster was the Feb. 3 East Palestine, Ohio, freight train wreck and its noxious aftereffects. On May 10, the Senate Commerce Committee will thrash out legislation to start re-regulating …

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2023-05-09). People with severe obesity and a genetic pathway variant have increased risk of hypertension, Mayo Clinic research finds. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org ROCHESTER, Minn. — Obesity and its associated cardiometabolic issues are a major health concern in the U.S. and internationally. According to a study published in 2017, 12% of the world's adult population was affected by obesity in 2016, double the percentage from 30 years earlier. With obesity comes an increasing risk of cardiovascular disease, including stroke, congestive heart failure and myocardial infarction. Fortunately, obesity is a multifactorial disease that results from an energy balance dysregulation…

Ryan Black (2023-05-09). Bernie Sanders Unveils Push For $17-An-Hour Federal Minimum Wage, Citing State Increases. progressivehub.net ARIANA FIGUEROA | FLORIDA PHOENIX…

Ken Cosentino, Last Real Indians. (2023-05-09). Lithium Mining Wreaks Havoc On Our Planet. popularresistance.org Up until now, modern society has largely depended on oil and coal for our energy supply. Virtually all reputable scientists now agree that climate change is real and the science behind it is sound. It is a naturally occurring phenomena which mankind has accelerated due to capitalism and consumerism. | Almost every civilized country on the planet has entered into the Paris Agreement with the combined goal of lowering carbon emissions 45% by the year 2030. | On paper, this all sounds wonderful. The burning fossil fuels for energy and the production of plastic, and production of automobiles which rely on gasoline fo…

Frank Cappello (2023-05-09). üéß MOVIES VS. CAPITALISM: V for Vendetta (w/ Evan from LOTP). levernews.com

Ben Freeman, William Hartung (2023-05-08). Not Your Grandfather's Military-Industrial Complex. fpif.org The military-industrial complex (MIC) that President Dwight D. Eisenhower The statistics are stunning. This year's proposed budget for the Pentagon and nuclear weapons work at the Department of…

Lynda Carson (2023-05-09). Bankruptcy filing for Diocese of Oakland over clergy child sexual abuse lawsuits. indybay.org Diocese of Oakland – Chapter 11 Bankruptcy Documents Filed On May 8, 2023:…

Dave DeCamp (2023-05-08). US, Taiwan in Talks on US Providing $500 Million in 'Free' Weapons. news.antiwar.com Taiwanese Defense Minister Chiu Kuo-cheng said Monday that Taiwan is in talks with the Pentagon on the US providing a $500 million weapons package that would come at no cost to Taipei. "These extra weapons will be given to us for free and will not be deducted from the purchase list, which has been delayed …

Ryan Black (2023-05-09). Why Do We Keep Feeding The Merchants Of Death? progressivehub.net DR. JOSEPH MERCOLA | MERCOLA.COM…

ecns.cn (2023-05-09). Nation's modernization drive attracts global attention. ecns.cn As China strives to advance its modernization, international attention is focusing on how the nation will fulfill its ambition to become a modern socialist country by the middle of this century and how that process will affect the rest of the world.

Socialist Alternative (2023-05-09). Saturday 5/6: Socialist City Councilor Kshama Sawant Comes to Oakland. indybay.org Oakland Public Library: Rockridge Branch | 5366 College Avenue Oakland, CA 94618…

JANET (2023-05-08). Thurs. May 11 webinar — U.S. Women need what Cuban Women have: Socialism. iacenter.org U.S. Women Need What Cuban Women Have: Socialism Thursday, May 11 7: 30pm ET/ 4: 30pm PT Register Now Share on all social media platforms…

ecns.cn (2023-05-09). Xi meets representatives to 10th Conference for Friendship of Overseas Chinese Associations. ecns.cn President Xi Jinping, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, on Monday met with representatives to the 10th Conference for Friendship of Overseas Chinese Associations at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing. On behalf of the CPC Central Committee and the State Council, Xi expressed warm welcome to the representatives and extended sincere greetings to overseas Chinese around the world.

cameron orr (2023-05-08). In the most undemocratic US city, the CP fights for democracy. cpusa.org The people of Washington, D.C. need a functioning and lively Communist Party; there is no question about that. The recent attacks on democracy, in particular D.C.'s home rule, show the necessity of a working-class-led people's movement to not only defend democracy but to create the conditions in order to be on the offensive and …

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2023-05-08: News Headlines

Robert Reich (2023-05-08). How to stop Republicans from tanking the economy over the debt ceilingÔøº. nationofchange.org If Republicans are going to play this game, Mr. President, you need to play hard ball.

ecns.cn (2023-05-08). Central meetings focus on shoring up real economy, prioritize modern industrial system. ecns.cn China's central government has convened three important meetings within two weeks to discuss and lay out major tasks related to economic and social development, at a time when the nation's economy has rode on the fast track of recovery, experts said.

ecns.cn (2023-05-08). Construction starts on Guangxi's largest central grain reserve base, aiming to ensure food security. ecns.cn Construction has started on the first phase of what will be the largest central grain reserve base in South China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, aiming to help ensure the nation's grain security by adding storage capacity.

ecns.cn (2023-05-08). Buffett, Munger urge U.S. to mend ties with China for common benefits. ecns.cn Legendary U.S. investors Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger on Saturday urged the U.S. to get along with China and avoid an escalation of tensions amid the U.S.' reckless push for "decoupling" from China.

ecns.cn (2023-05-08). Beijing 2022 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games has a gain of $52 million: organizing committee. ecns.cn The income of Beijing Organizing Committee for the 2022 Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games stood at 15.39 billion yuan ($2.29 billion), with its expenditure reaching 15.04 billion yuan ($2.24 billion).

_____ (2023-05-08). Decent Into Débâcle: Pyrrhic Victories, Lies and Strategic Miscalculations. strategic-culture.org China and Russia are joining hands militarily. This will portend a strategic paradigm change that may force a U.S. re-consideration of the way ahead. | The sense that things are bad, and getting worse, is palpable. There is an undeniable eschatological tint to today's zeitgeist. Spiralling geo-political factors all suggest extreme turbulence ahead. | Biden and the Democrats discover — to their surprise — that they are in a 'bind': Having thought to run in 2024 on 'the Biden economic record', Biden's Team finds prospects dissolving in the face of accelerating events. | And Ukraine — which was to…

Antonio C.S. Rosa (2023-05-08). China, the Peacemaker? PODCAST. transcend.org 3 May 2023 – Historian Alfred W. McCoy discusses China's rapid economic and political rise and how Beijing is well positioned to broker an end to the war in Ukraine. PODCAST…

Antonio C.S. Rosa (2023-05-08). Updates on the Economic War and the Political Crisis. transcend.org 1 May 2023 – The trip to China this month by Brazilian President Lula was marked by the installation of former Pres. of Brazil, Dilma Rousseff, to preside over the New Development Bank of the BRICS group (Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa).

ecns.cn (2023-05-08). Yuan-backed funds revved up with PE firms. ecns.cn Private equity industry leaders have revved up on yuan-denominated funds to seize opportunities from China's economic recovery and offset headwinds in fundraising for U.S. dollar-denominated funds, said experts.

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Staff (2023-05-08). Iran's Raeisi: Syria Visit a 'Turning Point' in Bilateral Ties. orinocotribune.com President Raeisi has described his two-day visit to Syria as a turning point in promoting economic, political and security relations, saying the aim of the trip was to honor the spirited resistance of the Syrian government and nation. | "Given the Islamic Republic of Iran's 12-year-long support for Syria-based resistance groups as well as the steadfastness of the Syrian nation and government against conspiracies and seditious plots of the enemies, the two-day trip to the Arab country is of…

ecns.cn (2023-05-08). Parcel delivery network hits 40-billion milestone. ecns.cn China's parcel delivery sector has handled more than 40 billion parcels as of Thursday, demonstrating economic recovery and reflecting growth in consumer confidence, according to the State Post Bureau of China.

ecns.cn (2023-05-08). Policy support set to boost consumption. ecns.cn China will step up its policy support to increase consumer spending and unleash the country's purchasing potential, a key force that propels the nation's economic recovery and underpins its endeavors toward modernization and prosperity.

Ileana Ferrer Fonte (2023-05-08). Diaz-Canel mourns death of pro-Cuba activist's daughter. plenglish.com Havana, May 8 (Prensa Latina) President Miguel Díaz-Canel on Monday mourned the death of the daughter of activist Carlos Lazo, who promotes the project "Bridges of Love" as a way to fight the US economic blockade against Cuba.

People's Dispatch. (2023-05-07). Iran And Syria Call For End Of Western Economic Domination. popularresistance.org The Syrian and Iranian presidents met in Damascus and announced their resolve to work for greater regional stability. They stressed that the withdrawal of all foreign troops from the region was necessary for this purpose. They emphasized that their mutual cooperation in the economic field is intended to be a strategic move to counter the impact of illegal unilateral sanctions imposed by the US and some of its allies. | The countries signed a long-term comprehensive strategic cooperation agreement during the state visit of Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi to Damascus on Wednesday, May 3.

scorinoco (2023-05-07). The Human Consequences of Economic Sanctions. orinocotribune.com By Francisco R. Rodríguez — May 4, 2023 | This paper provides a comprehensive survey and assessment of the literature on the effects of economic sanctions on living standards in target countries. We identify 32 studies that apply quantitative econometric and calibration methods to cross-country and national data in order to assess the impact of economic sanctions on indicators of human and economic development and human rights. Of these, 30 studies find that sanctions have negative effects on outcomes ranging from per capita income to poverty, inequality, mortality, and human rights. We also provide in-depth…

ecns.cn (2023-05-08). Chinese new energy vehicle makers rev up global reach. ecns.cn As China-made electric vehicles are increasing in popularity overseas, Chinese carmakers are investing in the construction of overseas manufacturing facilities to explore the vast opportunities in markets ranging from Southeast Asia to South America.

_____ (2023-05-07). Russian Oil Floods Global Markets via Major Asian Intermediaries. strategic-culture.org Despite western sanctions, there is more Russian fuel being exported around the world than before the Ukraine crisis. It's just coming via Saudi Arabia, India, China, and other trading states — with steep commissions. | By F.M. SHAKIL | Despite western sanctions imposed on Russia over the Ukraine conflict, some Asian and specifically West Asian economies are importing significant amounts of Russian gasoline at discounted prices, and reselling it with windfall profits to the EU under their brand names. | Western sanctions have forced Moscow to actively diversify its energy exports — oil and gas exports…

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2023-05-08). Breaking barriers: Helping Native Americans in need get the gift of life. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org Robert Monroe and Jackie Johnson stand near their home on the Navajo Indian Reservation in Arizona For many American Indians and Alaska Natives, living on an Indian reservation provides a sense of pride, independence, and the ability to maintain cultural and social traditions important to their heritage. Life on the Indian reservation can also mean high rates of poverty, lack of access to food, transportation, communication and health care. Complex medical procedures like an organ…

Misión Verdad (2023-05-07). Venezuela's Minimum Comprehensive Income Announcements: A Thorough Reading. orinocotribune.com By Misión Verdad — May 4, 2023 | The president of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, announced and signed the decree to increase the comprehensive minimum income for active and retired workers in the public administration, and for pensioners. | He referred to the adjustment of the warfare bonus in an amount in bolívars equivalent to $30 per month, at the exchange rate of the Central Bank of Venezuela (BCV), and the food bonus equivalent to $40, thus totaling $70 per month. | According to the president, these amounts would be indexed to the fluctuation of the BCV exchange rate. | However, the president did not specif…

Trade Unions for Energy Democracy (2023-05-07). Chile: Labour Movement Calls for Nationalizing Lithium Company. socialistproject.ca On April 20, Chilean President Gabriel Boric announced the launch of a National Lithium Strategy and the creation of a National Lithium Company. Under the new Strategy, the Chilean State's role would undergo significant transformation — from a State which grants lavish, profitable contracts to oligopolistic private mining companies to a State which controls the entire production cycle, including exploration, exploitation, and value addition. The National Lithium Company will be a 100% state-owned company. It will develop lithium with private companies under public-private partnerships (PPPs), with the St…

Jim McIlroy (2023-05-07). Unions, communities tell Labor: 'Port Kembla is no place for a nuclear base'. greenleft.org.au The South Coast Labour Council organised the first big union protest against Labor's AUKUS nuclear submarines in Port Kembla. Jim McIlroy reports.

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2023-05-08). Science Saturday: COVID-19 — the pandemic that's forever changed laboratory testing. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org Like many people throughout the world, Matthew Binnicker, Ph.D., remembers exactly where he was and what he was doing when COVID-19 was classified as a pandemic. "Those first few months of the pandemic will be forever ingrained in my memory," he says. For Dr. Binnicker, director of Mayo Clinic's Clinical Virology Laboratory, two important dates stand out above the rest. "One was Feb. 17, 2020, when Dr. (William) Morice and I were talking about whether the department should…

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2023-05-08). Save lives this Take Back Day; safely dispose of unused medications. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org ROCHESTER, Minn. — Dispose of unneeded medications safely during National Prescription Drug Take Back Day on Saturday, April 22. Mayo Clinic, in collaboration with the Olmsted County Sheriff's Office, Olmsted Medical Center, Zumbro Valley Medical Society and the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), will host a community drop-off event to collect unused or expired medications. "The Olmsted County Sheriff's Office and Violent Crimes Enforcement Team (VCET) are proud to team up with Mayo Clinic and other…

teleSUR, hvh, JCM (2023-05-08). Recuperan cuerpos de los mineros fallecidos en Yanaquihua, Perú. telesurtv.net Según la Fiscalía local, concluyó a las 22: 50 (hora local) la labor de rescate ejecutada por los equipos de la policía.

Julia Conley (2023-05-08). Iowa becomes second GOP-controlled state this year to pass repeal of child labor protections. therealnews.com This story originally appeared in Along with passing

rebekah (2023-05-08). The Ultra-Wealthy Have a Private Jet Problem. inequality.org The past two years have been a bonanza for private aviation. The drastic increase in demand has led to flight delays, increased costs, and pilot shortages. But the slow deterioration of working conditions for aerospace labor has not stopped the jet-owning oligarchy from flying more than ever. Their increased share of air traffic has a …

Ryan Black (2023-05-08). Congress Officially Acknowledges Apple's Unfair Labor Practices And Union-Busting Tactics. progressivehub.net AMBER NEELY | APPLE INSIDER…

Ericka Wills, Labor Notes. (2023-05-07). Knights On Strike In California. popularresistance.org Shocking video of Medieval Times strikers in Buena Park, California, run down by a car and then physically assaulted while picketing in a crosswalk had hundreds of thousands of views on social media in April. | "We began to get run over by cars," said Jake Bowman, a Medieval Times knight-turned-union organizer. "People would get out of their cars and throw picketers to the ground. Some people cared more about getting into their two-hour, completely optional entertainment venue than workers' lives. Sometimes you may have to yell louder to convince people to care." | The assaults brought into public view the challe…

Editors, In These Times. (2023-05-07). This Season's Hottest Trend: Anti-Consumption. popularresistance.org How did "deinfluencing" get started? | Apparently in January on "beauty TikTok," that corner of the popular video app where users promote tips, tricks and products in the world of skin care and cosmetics, and the trend has spread into everything from fashion to electronics to kitchen gadgets. "No," deinfluencers are saying, "maybe you don't need Dior lipstick or $500 AirPods." And people are listening: #deinfluencing TikToks have more than 400 million views. It's in response to the $16 billion-and-growing "inf…

teleSUR (2023-05-08). Lula Calls for Funding Environmental Preservation. telesurenglish.net During a conference on Saturday, Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva advocated for industrialized nations to provide compensation to less industrialized countries for their endeavors to protect and conserve the environment. | Related: | "Rich nations need to understand that they have a debt to pay for emitting carbon dioxide, that's why they should pay this debt by advancing (financial) resources, so we ca…

ecns.cn (2023-05-08). New Development Bank chief lauds HK's pivotal role. ecns.cn Hong Kong is a strategic financial hub of fundraising for the New Development Bank, with the bank's strategy being to tap local currencies in bond issuance and to expand the base of member countries in order to improve the sustainability and stability of development projects.

_____ (2023-05-07). Assassination Bid on Putin to Provoke Furious Escalation… for Whom? strategic-culture.org The longer the Kiev regime survives, the worse the danger persists for Russia from uncontrolled instability on its border. | Just as the Western public is growing increasingly skeptical of the U.S.-led proxy war against Russia and the insane military and financial aid being pumped to prop up the corrupt Kiev regime, we then see a daring assassination drone attack on the Kremlin. | Russia called it an act of terrorism to kill President Vladimir Putin. The Kremlin has also

SAM (2023-05-08). Media Inflation Hysteria Massively Damaged The Working Class. progressivehub.net ANDREW PEREZ, MATTHEW CUNNINGHAM-COOK, AND DAVID SIROTA | THE LEVER…

Antonio C.S. Rosa (2023-05-08). Artificial Emotional Intelligence and Its Human Implications. transcend.org There is currently no lack of references to the major future impacts of artificial intelligence on global civilization at every level. Some of these are anticipated with concern, especially with warnings of how AI is likely to be misused to undermine valued social processes and employment, whether deliberately or inadvertently.

Antonio C.S. Rosa (2023-05-08). Quick Quiz: Mapping Militarism 2023. transcend.org 2 May 2023 – A picture can be worth a couple of trillion dollars–when it's of military spending. A new 'Mapping Militarism 2023' is available. You can pick a map and zoom in and out, click on a country to get details, move the slider back to see earlier years, switch to list-view and get the information in text form, or click "source" to see the origins of the data and exactly what it means.

ecns.cn (2023-05-08). Macao, Hengqin cooperate to seek more business opportunities. ecns.cn The global investment promotion conference 2023 of Guangdong-Macao In-Depth Cooperation Zone in Hengqin will be held on Tuesday, followed by the preparations for Hengqin and Macao to reach more countries and regions for investment promotion activities, the Macao Trade and Investment Promotion Institute announced Sunday.

Olivia Rosane (2023-05-07). Indigenous Shipibo-Konibo-Xetebo Group Defends Peruvian Amazon From Destruction. truthout.org The Shipibo-Konibo-Xetebo people of the Peruvian Amazon are organizing themselves to protect their ancestral forests and waters from illegal fishing, logging, and coca growing amidst conservation and development efforts from both the government and international nonprofits that they say are ineffective at best and actively harmful to Indigenous ways of life at worst. More than 300 members of the… |

Malik Miah (2023-05-07). United States: Screenwriters strike for a living wage and job security. greenleft.org.au Film and TV writers began their strike on May 1 in Hollywood and New York, to demand a living wage and job security, amid an explosion in profits in the streaming era, reports Malik Miah.

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2023-05-08). People with severe obesity and a genetic pathway variant have increased risk of hypertension, Mayo Clinic research finds. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org ROCHESTER, Minn. — Obesity and its associated cardiometabolic issues are a major health concern in the U.S. and internationally. According to a study published in 2017, 12% of the world's adult population was affected by obesity in 2016, double the percentage from 30 years earlier. With obesity comes an increasing risk of cardiovascular disease, including stroke, congestive heart failure and myocardial infarction. Fortunately, obesity is a multifactorial disease that results from an energy balance dysregulation…

Vladimir Ilyich Lenin (2023-05-08). Karl Marx: A Biographical Sketch with an Exposition of Marxism. mronline.org This article on Karl Marx, which now appears in a separate printing, was written in 1913 (as far as I can remember) for the Granat Encyclopaedia. A fairly detailed bibliography of literature on Marx, mostly foreign, was appended to the article.

krish-rad_ind (2023-05-08). Resisting Cannibal Capitalism. popularresistance.org

Dave DeCamp (2023-05-07). Turkey Rejects US Request to Send S-400 Air Defense System to Ukraine. news.antiwar.com Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said that Turkey has rejected a US request for Ankara to provide Kyiv with Russian-made S-400 missile defense systems it purchased from Moscow in 2017. Cavusoglu said the US proposal violated Turkey's sovereignty and suggested Washington also asked Ankara to hand over the Russian-made system to the US. "They made …

Javier Arana Villasusa (2023-05-08). Cuban President remembers revolutionary leader Antonio Guiteras. plenglish.com The president requested on his Twitter account not to forget the date on which Guiteras was killed in Morrillo, a town in the western city of Matanzas, and reminded of the qualities of the man who was a "radical anti-imperialist". | He referred to him as the most vigorous arm and the purest spirit of the national revolutionary movement, a definition given by another outstanding figure of Cuban history: Raul Roa. | On May 8, 1935, a betrayal led the repressive forces to the Morrillo, where Antonio Guiteras and the Venezuelan Carlos Aponte were hiding. They fought the soldiers in unequal combat. | Considered as one…

WSWS (2023-05-08). The struggle against war and the perspective for the working class in the Turkish elections. wsws.org This is the report delivered by Ula≈ü Ate≈üàßi, a leading member of the Sosyalist E≈üitlik Grubu (Socialist Equality Group) in Turkey, to the 2023 International May Day Online Rally.

WSWS (2023-05-08). The fight against British imperialism and world war must be based on the working class. wsws.org This speech was delivered by Tom Scripps, the assistant national secretary of the Socialist Equality Party (UK), at the 2023 International May Day Online Rally.

Socialist Alternative (2023-05-08). Saturday 5/6: Socialist City Councilor Kshama Sawant Comes to Oakland. indybay.org Oakland Public Library: Rockridge Branch | 5366 College Avenue Oakland, CA 94618…

ecns.cn (2023-05-08). Rule of law important in achieving national modernization goal. ecns.cn The goal of turning China into a modern socialist country in all respects based on the rule of law, which was put forward during the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, represents a major innovation in the country's philosophy of law-based governance.

Stansfield Smith (2023-05-07). US Police State Attack on the African People's Socialist Party (Uhuru Movement). orinocotribune.com

Tanupriya Singh (2023-05-08). The enduring significance of Ruth First's life and words. peoplesdispatch.org The International Union of Left Publishers has released a collection of five essays written by Ruth First, a leading communist, anti-apartheid activist, and journalist, who was assassinated by the white supremacist South African regime in 1982…

thecommunists (2023-05-08). Is Zelensky getting cold feet about the prospects for his 'spring offensive'? thecommunists.org Mesmerised by the mirage of a 'spring offensive' that will somehow miraculously turn the tide of war in its favour, Kiev is meanwhile wasting an irreplaceable generation of young men in a series of pointless last-ditch stands like those unfolding around the cauldrons of Bakhmut (Artyomovsk) and Avdeyevka. It is unclear just who will be …

thecommunists (2023-05-07). US imperialism's militarisation of Taiwan. thecommunists.org Washington is continuing to escalate tensions with China as part of its new cold war, with last month the deployment of 200 additional troops to Taiwan. According to unnamed US officials, the soldiers will be tasked with training Taiwan's armed forces against "a rising threat from China". The Pentagon would not be drawn on the …

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2023-05-07: News Headlines

ecns.cn (2023-05-07). IMF praises Hong Kong's role in boosting economy, safeguarding financial stability. ecns.cn The International Monetary Fund (IMF) praised the role of Hong Kong's Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) in boosting its economy and safeguarding the stability of its financial system in a statement released Thursday after completing the 2023 Article IV Consultation Discussions with Hong Kong.

ecns.cn (2023-05-07). WHO announcement on COVID-19 to benefit China's economy: expert. ecns.cn The World Health Organization (WHO) said on Friday that COVID-19 is no longer a global health emergency, which will benefit China's social and economic development and international exchanges, said Liang Wannian, head of the COVID-19 response expert panel under the National Health Commission (NHC), on Thursday.

Colin Todhunter (2023-05-06). What Was Covid Really About? Triggering A Multi-Trillion Dollar Global Debt Crisis. "Ramping up an Imperialist Strategy"? globalresearch.ca If it was indeed about public health, why close down the bulk of health services and the global economy knowing full well what the implications would be? And why mount a military-style propaganda campaign to censor world-renowned scientists and terrorise entire populations…

SouthFront5 (2023-05-06). Zelensky Must Choose Between Talks Or Losing More Territory -Former US Army Chief. southfront.org Written by Ahmed Adel, Cairo-based geopolitics and political economy researcher | Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky will have to choose between peace talks with Moscow or the continuation of the conflict and the loss of more territory, former US Army Lieutenant Colonel Daniel Davis wrote in an article. | "Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is loath to agree to any deal that leaves Ukrainian territory in Russian hands. The reality, however, is that he does not have what it takes to fully force Moscow off his…

Ben Norton, Michael Hudson, Geopolitical Economy. (2023-05-06). Four US Banks Crash In Two Months. popularresistance.org I'm Ben Norton, and this is Geopolitical Economy Report. Today, I have the pleasure of being joined by Michael Hudson, the brilliant economist and author of many books. | Michael is also the co-host of a program here, Geopolitical Economy Hour, which he does every two weeks with friend of the show Radhika Desai. | I had Michael on in March to discuss the collapse of three U.S. banks in just one week — that was Silicon Valley Bank, Signature Bank, and Silvergate Bank. | Yet the crisis has continued since then, and I knew I needed to bring back Michael to talk about the latest developments. | In just two mont…

Editor (2023-05-06). Catastrophe: The Global Cost of the Ukraine War. scheerpost.com The war has been a disaster for Ukraine, but also a calamity for the world. This brief article provides a concise overview of the war's profound global effects, beginning with the combatants' cost in lives and treasure. Beyond this it assesses the war's impact on global trade and economy; energy and food price inflation and their effects on poverty, hunger, and mortality; the redirection of humanitarian and official development assistance; the total sum of aid to the Ukrainian war effort, and the estimated cost of postwar reconstruction and recovery. Also examined is the war's effect on global defense spending. T…

ecns.cn (2023-05-06). China-CEEC cooperation gears up, serving as cornerstone. ecns.cn The economic cooperation between China and Central and Eastern European Countries (CEEC) has been gearing up in a wide range of fronts.

ecns.cn (2023-05-06). Xi: Accelerate upgrading of industries. ecns.cn President Xi Jinping on Friday stressed efforts to accelerate modernizing the industrial system with the real economy as the pillar and to support Chinese modernization with high-quality population growth.

ecns.cn (2023-05-07). China's Jiangsu to build aerospace industry cluster. ecns.cn East China's economic powerhouse Jiangsu province has issued an action plan to develop a competitive aerospace industry cluster in three years.

ecns.cn (2023-05-07). Xi stresses building of modern industrial system and high-quality population development. ecns.cn President Xi Jinping, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, chairman of the Central Military Commission and director of the Central Commission for Financial and Economic Affairs (CCFEA), presided over the first meeting of the commission under the 20th CPC Central Committee on Friday afternoon.

ecns.cn (2023-05-07). Two-way investment between China, CEEC reaches nearly $20 billion. ecns.cn Since the establishment of the China – Central and Eastern European countries (CEEC) cooperation mechanism in 2012, economic and trade cooperation between the two sides has made significant progress, said Li Fei, vice-minister of commerce at a press conference on Friday.

ecns.cn (2023-05-07). First Hunan (Huaihua) RCEP Economic and Trade Expo opens in Hunan. ecns.cn A total of 112 companies from the RCEP member countries, such as Australia, New Zealand, Thailand and Laos participated in the expo in Huaihua.

ecns.cn (2023-05-07). First Hunan (Huaihua) RCEP Economic and Trade Expo kicks off. ecns.cn The First Hunan(Huaihua) RCEP Economic and Trade Expo kicked off on Friday in Huaihua, central China's Hunan province, establishing a new platform for economic and trade exchanges and cooperation between Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) members and the provinces, regions and cities along the new land-sea corridor in China's western region.

Nancy Fraser, Red Pepper. (2023-05-07). Resisting Cannibal Capitalism. popularresistance.org It is increasingly common to hear of crises — economic, environmental and/or racial — in which the vast majority of the global population are confined to substandard living conditions while a global elite accrues wealth at a horrifying pace. There is a widespread sense that something has to give, that the world cannot continue on its current path. Of course, this is often the cry emanating from movements on the streets and detailed in the pages of Intergovernmental Panels on Climate Change (IPCC) reports but these often fall on the deaf ears of those in power. So what exactly has to change and how do…

F. William Engdahl (2023-05-06). The "Great Zero Carbon" Conspiracy and the WEF's "Great Reset" globalresearch.ca The globalist Davos World Economic Forum is proclaiming the necessity of reaching a worldwide goal of "net zero carbon" by 2050. Yet transformations underway from Germany to the USA, are setting the stage for creation of what is called the New Word Order. In reality it is a blueprint for a global technocratic totalitarian corporativism, that promises huge unemployment, deindustrialization and economic collapse.

Emily Mangiaracina (2023-05-06). World Economic Forum Adviser Claims the Planet No Longer Needs the 'Vast Majority' of the Population. globalresearch.ca

Jacob Nordangard (2023-05-06). 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.

Prof Michel Chossudovsky (2023-05-06). 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.

Anonymous349 (2023-05-06). Growing German-Polish Rivalry Yet Another Fissure Within The Western Alliance. southfront.org ILLUSTRATIVE IMAGE | Warsaw's alliance with Kiev and its quest to become a European power is welcomed by Washington as a means to counter Berlin and any European strategic autonomy amid a complicated geopolitical and geoeconomic dispute. | Uriel Araujo, researcher with a focus on international and ethnic conflicts | There is a German-Polish feud going on at the very heart of Europe, even while Poland hosts the most significant German military presence since World War II as part of NATO's operations in its easte…

Ileana Ferrer Fonte (2023-05-06). Cuba and Portugal celebrate 104 years of diplomatic relations. plenglish.com On Twitter, the Cuban Foreign Ministry reiterated its willingness to continue expanding the existing relations of friendship and cooperation between the two peoples and nations. | Havana and Lisbon have historically maintained close ties that extend to several sectors, such as health care, where they recently signed a memorandum of understanding to promote medical and biopharmaceutical cooperation. | Portugal has supported Cuba at the United Nations and other forums every year condemning the economic, commercial, and financial blockade imposed by the United States.

Juan M. Garcia (2023-05-06). Tourism as a driver of economic development. plenglish.com Havana, May 5 (Prensa Latina) Tourism can contribute considerably to the economic development of the peoples of the south, Cuban Tourism Minister Juan Carlos Garcia said on Saturday in the framework of the meeting of the Group of 77+China.

_____ (2023-05-06). This Debt Ceiling Fight Is Truly Different This Time. strategic-culture.org By Tom LUONGO | Now that we're post-FOMC and ECB we have a clear playing field for another 6 weeks. The US debt ceiling theater is now center-stage along with completing the transition away from LIBOR, which will become an anachronism at the end of Q2. | SOFR will be the law of the land in the US come July. The change over from LIBOR is effectively complete with LIBOR-based Eurodollar Futures Markets will have to do without central bank drama for a month… whatever wi…

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2023-05-07). Breaking barriers: Helping Native Americans in need get the gift of life. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org Robert Monroe and Jackie Johnson stand near their home on the Navajo Indian Reservation in Arizona For many American Indians and Alaska Natives, living on an Indian reservation provides a sense of pride, independence, and the ability to maintain cultural and social traditions important to their heritage. Life on the Indian reservation can also mean high rates of poverty, lack of access to food, transportation, communication and health care. Complex medical procedures like an organ…

WSWS (2023-05-06). Homeless man strangled to death on New York subway. wsws.org Jordan Neely is the latest victim of the rise in poverty and mental illness that has grown to critical levels as part of the capitalist crisis.

Richard Horton (2023-05-06). Comment] Offline: We must engage in a war of position. thelancet.com Occasionally, someone says something so appalling, so shocking, and so disheartening that you just stop in disbelief. On April 26, 2023, UK Home Secretary Suella Braverman said this: "I think that the people coming here illegally do possess values which are at odds with our country. We are seeing heightened levels of criminality when related to the people who have come on boats related to drug dealing, exploitation, prostitution." Persistent attacks on migrants escaping war, poverty, and insecurity are now normalised in British politics.

WSWS (2023-05-06). Stronger than expected US jobs report increases pressure for further interest rate hikes. wsws.org Despite the 3.4 percent official unemployment rate, social distress is growing and impelling a continuing upsurge of class struggle.

Vijay Prashad (2023-05-06). In the factories there is wealth, but there is no life: The Eighteenth Newsletter (2023). mronline.org In late 2022, the International Labour Organisation (ILO) released a fascinating report entitled Working Time and Work-Life Balance Around the World, in large part encouraged by a slew of initiatives across India to extend the workday.

Labor Video Project (2023-05-07). "Let's Go Teachers Let's Go!" OEA Teachers Strike, March & Rally for Public Education. indybay.org Thousands of Oakland teachers went on strike on May 4, 2023. They marched and rallied at Oscar Grant Plaza next to Oakland City Hall and spoke out.

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2023-05-07). Save lives this Take Back Day; safely dispose of unused medications. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org ROCHESTER, Minn. — Dispose of unneeded medications safely during National Prescription Drug Take Back Day on Saturday, April 22. Mayo Clinic, in collaboration with the Olmsted County Sheriff's Office, Olmsted Medical Center, Zumbro Valley Medical Society and the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), will host a community drop-off event to collect unused or expired medications. "The Olmsted County Sheriff's Office and Violent Crimes Enforcement Team (VCET) are proud to team up with Mayo Clinic and other…

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2023-05-07). Science Saturday: COVID-19 — the pandemic that's forever changed laboratory testing. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org Like many people throughout the world, Matthew Binnicker, Ph.D., remembers exactly where he was and what he was doing when COVID-19 was classified as a pandemic. "Those first few months of the pandemic will be forever ingrained in my memory," he says. For Dr. Binnicker, director of Mayo Clinic's Clinical Virology Laboratory, two important dates stand out above the rest. "One was Feb. 17, 2020, when Dr. (William) Morice and I were talking about whether the department should…

Labor Video Project (2023-05-07). KQED Security Used To Coerce Speak-out on World Press Freedom Day For Assange & Mumia. indybay.org On World Press Freedom Day a rally speak-out was held in front of KQED TV and radio. The station bosses mobilized security to try to coerce and threaten the action.

WSWS (2023-05-06). Australian prime minister feigns concern for Assange but defends "national security" secrecy. wsws.org The entire thrust of Albanese's remarks was that Assange's fate was out of the Labor government's hands, thus leaving him to the mercy of the British and US administrations.

WSWS (2023-05-06). Norfolk Southern conducted toxic chemical burn in East Palestine, Ohio without consulting federal authorities. wsws.org Also this past week, test results from two independent laboratories confirmed the presence of carcinogens in the surrounding soil, water and air.

Ileana Ferrer Fonte (2023-05-06). Cuba reports 31 new Covid-19 cases, 106 are active patients. plenglish.com According to the MINSAP report, 491 PCR tests were made nationwide at molecular biology laboratories to determine the presence of SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus. | To date, 14,350,675 samples have been tested for the disease, 1,113,431 of which have been positive cases since the pandemic broke out in Cuba in March 2020. | The MINSAP report stated that 205 patients are in hospitals, including 99 suspected and 106 confirmed active cases; 105 citizens are clinically stable, and one is seriously ill and is being treated at an intensive care unit. | The number of recovered patients rose to 1,104,736, while the death toll rem…

Joe Lauria, Consortium News. (2023-05-06). Albanese 'Frustrated' With US Over Assange. popularresistance.org Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said he has unequivocally stated his position to the United States that a diplomatic resolution of the case of Julian Assange must be made. | In his clearest statement yet about the fate of the imprisoned WikiLeaks publisher, Albanese told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation in an interview in London that he has told the U.S. Justice Department that Assange's case must come to an end. | "I continue to say in private what I said publicly as Labor leader and what I've said as Prime Minister, that enough is enough," Albanese told the ABC. "This needs to be brought to a…

ecns.cn (2023-05-07). People gather in London for King Charles' coronation. ecns.cn The Coronation of Charles III and his wife, Camilla, as King and Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, and the other Commonwealth realms takes place at Westminster Abbey today.

ecns.cn (2023-05-07). Tesla Gigafactory in Shanghai delivers 75,000 cars in April. ecns.cn Data from China Passenger Car Association (CPCA) shows that Tesla Gigafactory in Shanghai delivered 75,000 cars in April. Meanwhile, The official website of Tesla China shows that prices of its Model S and Model Y cars were raised by 19,000 yuan (about $2749.4) on Friday.

ecns.cn (2023-05-07). Q1 gold jewelry glitters on recovery. ecns.cn China's gold jewelry consumption reached 198 metric tons in the first quarter, up 11 percent year-on-year (56 percent quarter-on-quarter), marking the highest level for the quarter since 2015, the World Gold Council said on Friday.

Misión Verdad (2023-05-06). Almost 190 US Banks at Risk of Collapse: Study. orinocotribune.com PacWest Bancorp, a private bank based in San Francisco, California, is considering a sale of its assets after suffering significant losses. Last week, First Republic Bank became the third US bank to collapse since March, the second-largest bank failure in US history after Washington Mutual, which collapsed in 2008 amid the financial crisis. | Following the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank in March, a

F. William Engdahl (2023-05-06). Colossal Financial Pyramid: BlackRock and The WEF "Great Reset" globalresearch.ca

Natalie Kerr, Next City. (2023-05-07). Violence Intervention Program Focuses On Stability And Support. popularresistance.org A new community violence intervention program beginning in Philadelphia this spring connects providing basic needs services to gun violence reduction. Led by the Office of Policy and Strategic Initiatives for Criminal Justice & Public Safety, the initiative will provide returning citizens with wraparound services like therapy, employment and, crucially, housing assistance with the aim of reducing violence and recidivism. | Participants attend group and individual meetings for 12—18 months that assist with professional development, trauma, safe housing opportunities and other support services they may n…

ecns.cn (2023-05-06). Measures to boost demand in rural areas. ecns.cn China will implement a raft of policy measures to develop advanced manufacturing clusters and stimulate spending on new energy vehicles in rural areas, according to decisions made on Friday at the State Council Executive Meeting…

Ileana Ferrer Fonte (2023-05-06). Cuba's Chamber of Commerce promotes investment and business in Italy. plenglish.com Rome, May 6 (Prensa Latina) The president of the Chamber of Commerce of Cuba, Antonio Carricarte, stated Saturday that his visit to Italy aims to promote and negociate investments and business with local companies.

John P. Geyman, Counterpunch. (2023-05-07). Privatization Of Health Care By Unitedhealth Group. popularresistance.org Privatization of public programs such as Medicare and Medicaid has been proceeding rapidly in recent years with little coverage by the media of its harms to patients, the public and taxpayers. This article has four goals: (1) to bring brief historical perspective to this trend in the U. S.; (2) to shed light on the experience over the last 12 years of profiteering by UnitedHealth Group, now the largest U. S. private health insurer; (3) to describe negative impacts on our health care system; and (4) to briefly consider lessons that can be learned from this concerted and stealthy exploitation of the public interest…

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2023-05-07). People with severe obesity and a genetic pathway variant have increased risk of hypertension, Mayo Clinic research finds. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org ROCHESTER, Minn. — Obesity and its associated cardiometabolic issues are a major health concern in the U.S. and internationally. According to a study published in 2017, 12% of the world's adult population was affected by obesity in 2016, double the percentage from 30 years earlier. With obesity comes an increasing risk of cardiovascular disease, including stroke, congestive heart failure and myocardial infarction. Fortunately, obesity is a multifactorial disease that results from an energy balance dysregulation…

Peter Koenig (2023-05-06). WHO's Worldwide Power Grab: Beware of the New International Health Regulation and Pandemic Treaty, a Health Tyranny Never Heard of Before in Human History. globalresearch.ca

WSWS (2023-05-06). Michigan hospital workers picket for improved wages and benefits at Trinity Health Grand Haven. wsws.org Employees at Trinity Health Grand Haven picketed on April 28 to demand that the $20 billion health care corporation that has acquired the hospital negotiate a new contract with improved wages and benefits.

Guillermo Castillo Ramírez (2023-05-06). La centralidad de los migrantes en el estudio de los procesos de movilidad humana transfronteriza. globalizacion.ca En el contexto del desarrollo del neoliberalismo y como parte de los procesos de expansión espacial de la globalización, las migraciones internacionales han sido una de las expresiones de los procesos de desigualdad y exclusión social del capitalismo contemporáneo. | Las…

WSWS (2023-05-06). Teamsters seek to isolate Philadelphia Coca Cola workers as strike approaches one month. wsws.org The strike by 400 Coca-Cola workers faces a concerted effort to isolate the struggle by corporate management, the Democratic Party and Teamsters bureaucrats.

Socialist Alternative (2023-05-07). Saturday 5/6: Socialist City Councilor Kshama Sawant Comes to Oakland. indybay.org Oakland Public Library: Rockridge Branch | 5366 College Avenue Oakland, CA 94618…

Stansfield Smith (2023-05-07). US Police State Attack on the African People's Socialist Party (Uhuru Movement). orinocotribune.com

Staff (2023-05-06). Secretario nacional del Partido Comunista Francés recibe a Morales Ojeda y a la delegación cubana. cubadebate.cu El miembro del Buró Político y secretario de Organización del Comité Central del Partido Comunista de Cuba, Roberto Morales Ojeda y la delegación que lo acompañó en su visita de varios días a países socialistas asiáticos, fueron recibidos por el secretario nacional del Partido Comunista Francés, Fabien Roussel, durante un breve tránsito por París.

Juan M. Garcia (2023-05-06). Cuba acknowledges solidarity from French communists. plenglish.com Paris, May 6 (Prensa Latina) Cuban party leader Roberto Morales thanked of the Communist Party of France (CPF) on Saturday for its solidarity and condemnation of the United States blockade, during a meeting in this capital with his national secretary, Fabien Roussel.

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2023-05-06: News Headlines

ecns.cn (2023-05-06). IMF praises Hong Kong's role in boosting economy, safeguarding financial stability. ecns.cn The International Monetary Fund (IMF) praised the role of Hong Kong's Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) in boosting its economy and safeguarding the stability of its financial system in a statement released Thursday after completing the 2023 Article IV Consultation Discussions with Hong Kong.

ecns.cn (2023-05-06). WHO announcement on COVID-19 to benefit China's economy: expert. ecns.cn The World Health Organization (WHO) said on Friday that COVID-19 is no longer a global health emergency, which will benefit China's social and economic development and international exchanges, said Liang Wannian, head of the COVID-19 response expert panel under the National Health Commission (NHC), on Thursday.

teleSUR (2023-05-05). Bolivia Approves the Law to Enhance its Gold Monetary Reserves. telesurenglish.net After a 10-hour debate, the Bolivian Senate on Friday approved the "Law for the purchase of gold to strengthen the International Reserves". | RELATED: | Before the vote, Economy Minister Marcelo Montenegro and interim Bolivian Central Bank (BCB) president Edwin Rojas explained the details of the law to legislators. | The purpose of the bill is to strengthen the Net International Reserves (NIR) and open the possibility for the BCB to properly…

teleSUR (2023-05-05). China to Strengthening Green Development With Zambia. telesurenglish.net On Thursday, the Chinese Ambassador to Zambia, Du Xiaohui, stated that there exist multifarious aspects of collaboration in the context of green development that necessitate thorough exploration between China and Zambia. | Related: | During his visit to the Zambian Minister of Green Economy and Environment, Collins Nzovu, the Chinese ambassador expressed that both nations have the opportunity to leverage the green development…

Editor (2023-05-05). First Republic Bank: The Second Largest Crash in History, Another Example of Bailout. scheerpost.com First Republic Bank, holding USD 233 billion in assets, collapsed and was sold to banking giant JP Morgan Chase. First Republic is the third bank to fail in the US since March, surpassing the spectacular failure of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) on March 10.

Ben Norton, Michael Hudson (2023-05-05). 4 US banks crash in 2 months: Banking crisis explained by economist Michael Hudson. geopoliticaleconomy.com Economist Michael Hudson discusses the collapse of four US banks in two months, giant JP Morgan Chase taking over First Republic Bank, and how government regulators are in bed with the bankers.

Dean Baker (2023-05-05). Unemployment Is at a Half-Century Low as Economy Adds 253,000 Jobs in April. truthout.org This was a generally solid jobs report, with the economy adding 253,000 jobs in April. However, there were sharp downward revisions to both the February and March jobs numbers, of 78,000 and 71,000, respectively. Taken together, the April figure is just 104,000 higher than the number previously reported for March. The household survey also showed a very positive picture… |

ecns.cn (2023-05-06). Xi stresses building of modern industrial system and high-quality population development. ecns.cn President Xi Jinping, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, chairman of the Central Military Commission and director of the Central Commission for Financial and Economic Affairs (CCFEA), presided over the first meeting of the commission under the 20th CPC Central Committee on Friday afternoon.

ecns.cn (2023-05-06). Two-way investment between China, CEEC reaches nearly $20 billion. ecns.cn Since the establishment of the China – Central and Eastern European countries (CEEC) cooperation mechanism in 2012, economic and trade cooperation between the two sides has made significant progress, said Li Fei, vice-minister of commerce at a press conference on Friday.

ecns.cn (2023-05-06). First Hunan (Huaihua) RCEP Economic and Trade Expo opens in Hunan. ecns.cn A total of 112 companies from the RCEP member countries, such as Australia, New Zealand, Thailand and Laos participated in the expo in Huaihua.

ecns.cn (2023-05-06). First Hunan (Huaihua) RCEP Economic and Trade Expo kicks off. ecns.cn The First Hunan(Huaihua) RCEP Economic and Trade Expo kicked off on Friday in Huaihua, central China's Hunan province, establishing a new platform for economic and trade exchanges and cooperation between Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) members and the provinces, regions and cities along the new land-sea corridor in China's western region.

Emily Mangiaracina (2023-05-06). World Economic Forum Adviser Claims the Planet No Longer Needs the 'Vast Majority' of the Population. globalresearch.ca

Daniel Thorpe (2023-05-05). May Day protests in Türkiye face repression as elections loom. therealnews.com For years, the working class of Türkiye has been caught in the vice-grip of a global economic downturn and a government hostile to their interests. Now, with presidential elections coming up on May 14, speculation is rising that President Recep Tayyip Erdoƒüan could be unseated. On May Day, thousands of workers mobilized in Istanbul, limiting themselves to the outskirts of the city after more central locations were shut down in anticipation of protests. TRNN reports from Istanbul, speaking directly to union organizers, members of Parliament, and more on the condition of the Turkish working cl…

Editor (2023-05-05). Seymour Hersh: My Meeting With Pakistan's Pervez Musharraf. scheerpost.com

infobrics (2023-05-05). India's Deepening Economic Engagements with Russia Has a Message for the World. infobrics.org India, as it presses the pedal on a free trade agreement with Russia to boost economic and trade activities, has a message to the world — that New Delhi will be guided by strategic autonomy and dynamics that suit the country's macro-economic fundamentals…

infobrics (2023-05-05). Growing German-Polish rivalry yet another fissure within Western alliance. infobrics.org Warsaw's alliance with Kiev and its quest to become a European power is welcomed by Washington as a means to counter Berlin and any European strategic autonomy amid a complicated geopolitical and geoeconomic dispute.

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-05-05). Will SCO Become New United Nations for Non-Western World? libya360.wordpress.com Ekaterina Blinova The Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), a Eurasian political, economic, and security bloc founded in 2001, has great potential to become a United Nations for the non-Western world, according to Robinder Sachdev, geopolitical and economic diplomacy analyst and founder president of the Imagindia Institute. The two-day summit of the SCO foreign ministers kicked off…

Roger D. Harris (2023-05-05). Mr. Guaidó Goes to Washington. dissidentvoice.org Juan Guaidó continues to advocate punishing the Venezuelan people with US coercive economic measures. Recently shipped to Washington DC, the former "interim president" of Venezuela pleaded, "You can't use a kind or soft approach," such as easing the suffering, because it would "normalize dictatorship." Guaidó was livestreamed May 3 from the quasi-governmental Wilson Center. Located …

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-05-05). Russian Oil Floods Global Markets via Major Asian Intermediaries. libya360.wordpress.com F.M. Shakil Despite western sanctions, there is more Russian fuel being exported around the world than before the Ukraine crisis. It's just coming via Saudi Arabia, India, China, and other trading states — with steep commissions. Despite western sanctions imposed on Russia over the Ukraine conflict, some Asian and specifically West Asian economies are importing significant…

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2023-05-06). Breaking barriers: Helping Native Americans in need get the gift of life. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org Robert Monroe and Jackie Johnson stand near their home on the Navajo Indian Reservation in Arizona For many American Indians and Alaska Natives, living on an Indian reservation provides a sense of pride, independence, and the ability to maintain cultural and social traditions important to their heritage. Life on the Indian reservation can also mean high rates of poverty, lack of access to food, transportation, communication and health care. Complex medical procedures like an organ…

splcenter (2023-05-05). Supreme Court's abortion ruling disproportionately affects Black people with low incomes in the Deep South. splcenter.org

Vijay Prashad (2023-05-05). In the Factories There Is Wealth, but There Is No Life. dissidentvoice.org Detail of: Birender Kumar Yadav (India), Debris of Fate, 2015. In late 2022, the International Labour Organisation (ILO) released a fascinating report entitled Working Time and Work-Life Balance Around the World, in large part encouraged by a slew of initiatives across India to extend the workday. The report accumulated global data on the time spent …

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2023-05-06). Save lives this Take Back Day; safely dispose of unused medications. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org ROCHESTER, Minn. — Dispose of unneeded medications safely during National Prescription Drug Take Back Day on Saturday, April 22. Mayo Clinic, in collaboration with the Olmsted County Sheriff's Office, Olmsted Medical Center, Zumbro Valley Medical Society and the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), will host a community drop-off event to collect unused or expired medications. "The Olmsted County Sheriff's Office and Violent Crimes Enforcement Team (VCET) are proud to team up with Mayo Clinic and other…

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2023-05-06). Science Saturday: COVID-19 — the pandemic that's forever changed laboratory testing. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org Like many people throughout the world, Matthew Binnicker, Ph.D., remembers exactly where he was and what he was doing when COVID-19 was classified as a pandemic. "Those first few months of the pandemic will be forever ingrained in my memory," he says. For Dr. Binnicker, director of Mayo Clinic's Clinical Virology Laboratory, two important dates stand out above the rest. "One was Feb. 17, 2020, when Dr. (William) Morice and I were talking about whether the department should…

Labor Video Project (2023-05-06). "Let's Go Teachers Let's Go!" OEA Teachers Strike, March & Rally for Public Education. indybay.org Thousands of Oakland teachers went on strike on May 4, 2023. They marched and rallied at Oscar Grant Plaza next to Oakland City Hall and spoke out.

Labor Video Project (2023-05-06). KQED Security Used To Coerce Speak-out on World Press Freedom Day For Assange & Mumia. indybay.org On World Press Freedom Day a rally speak-out was held in front of KQED TV and radio. The station bosses mobilized security to try to coerce and threaten the action.

midwesternmarx (2023-05-05). UPS workers prepare for historic showdown with corporate giant. By: Mike Kramer. midwesternmarx.com In just a few months, the United States may experience a labor struggle the scale of which has not been seen in over 25 years. The contract between the International Brotherhood of Teamsters and United Parcel Service will expire this year, and a strike is possible.Much has been written about the labor upsurge of recent years. From Starbucks organizing across the country, to the wave of unionization among academic workers, to the significant public sector strikes in K-12 and higher …

Editor (2023-05-05). Jen Psaki Admits That Press Were "Incredible Partners" to Biden White House. scheerpost.com Jen Psaki admits that the media were "partners" to the Biden White House, and describes their relationship as "collaborative." Also, Wall Street Journal White House reporter Sabrina Siddiqui says the press is not meant to be confrontational to nor have an adversarial relationship with the government.

Press Associates (2023-05-05). Barnes & Noble workers at NYC store await union vote date. peoplesworld.org NEW YORK —Some 105 workers at Barnes & Noble's flagship store at New York's Union Square—a grand late 1800s Manhattan edifice filled floor-to-high-ceilings with books—await a decision by the National Labor Relations Board's regional office on when they can vote to join the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union. Union Square workers turned in so …

Mark Gruenberg (2023-05-05). 'Maybe, just maybe, working people deserve to afford a damn hamburger!'. peoplesworld.org WASHINGTON—With strong union support—and a phalanx of low-wage workers of color backing him—Senate Labor Committee Chairman Bernie Sanders, Ind-Vt., formally introduced his legislation raising the federal minimum wage to $17 an hour over five years. Though Sanders promised the panel will advance the legislation on May 14, getting it beyond that may be tough—which is …

Brittani Banks (2023-05-05). A New Republican Assault on Children: Overturning Labor Laws. independentmediainstitute.org Two recent exposés about child labor in the United States highlight how prevalent the once-outlawed practice has become. In February, the New York Times published an extensive investigative report by Hannah Dreier about scores of undocumented Central American children who were found to be working in food processing plants, construction projects, big farms, garment factories, …

Julie Varughese (2023-05-05). 'Anti-Black' Claim Raised About Cuba As Solidarity Activists Stopped at U.S. Border & Black Socialists Arraigned in United States for Collaborating with Russia. towardfreedom.org A 2-year-old argument about "anti-Blackness" in Cuba, which Black solidarity activists in the United States say has no basis in reality, has reared its head. TF editor Julie Varughese reports.

Fight Back (2023-05-05). Detroit: Union workers, students and oppressed unite on May Day. fightbacknews.org Detroit, MI — Hundreds gathered despite near freezing rain on May 1 at Clark Park in Southwest Detroit. This park in the primarily Chicano and immigrant section of Detroit has been the host of several May Day events over the years in coordination with that community and in recognition of the 2006 U.S. boycott and "day without an immigrant" strike. | This May Day event was the result of a cooperation between progressive, labor, and oppressed nationality groups not seen in several years, culminating in the creation of an ongoing "May Day Coalition." In addition to many cultural performances, members from a v…

Fight Back (2023-05-05). Hundreds march in Seattle for International Workers Day. fightbacknews.org Seattle, WA – On May 1, around 500 workers and activists gathered to celebrate May Day, at the annual march and rally held by El Comité and the May 1st Action Coalition. | The rally began at the Henry M. Jackson Federal Building, where attendees heard from immigrants, labor leaders, indigenous groups and community members on the 137th anniversary of International Workers Day. | Felicitas (Feli) Hernandez, a prep lead at Homegrown sandwiches and a member of Unite HERE Local 8, took the stage soon after the event kicked off. Workers at Homegrown have been fighting for a strong contract with the company for the la…

Zane McNeill (2023-05-05). "It Was Dehumanizing," Says Woman Who Was Illegally Denied Emergency Abortion. truthout.org The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services are currently investigating two hospitals in Missouri and Kansas that violated federal law by refusing to provide an emergency abortion to a woman who was experiencing premature labor, according to The Associated Press. The woman, Mylissa Farmer, was forced to travel to Illinois to terminate her pregnancy, despite the risk of serious infection or… |

ecns.cn (2023-05-06). People gather in London for King Charles' coronation. ecns.cn The Coronation of Charles III and his wife, Camilla, as King and Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, and the other Commonwealth realms takes place at Westminster Abbey today.

ecns.cn (2023-05-06). Tesla Gigafactory in Shanghai delivers 75,000 cars in April. ecns.cn Data from China Passenger Car Association (CPCA) shows that Tesla Gigafactory in Shanghai delivered 75,000 cars in April. Meanwhile, The official website of Tesla China shows that prices of its Model S and Model Y cars were raised by 19,000 yuan (about $2749.4) on Friday.

Ann Brown (2023-05-05). Big Pharma Eli Lilly Cuts Insulin Prices By 70%, Helping Access For Diabetes Sufferers. moguldom.com Buying insulin has become a lot cheaper. Drugmaker Eli Lilly cut list prices by 70 percent for its most commonly prescribed forms of insulin, Humalog and Humulin. The Big Pharma company seems to have caved into the criticism of healthcare companies by lawmakers over the rising costs of insulin. The drugmaker will also lower the …

Sharon Zhang (2023-05-05). Sanders Reintroduces Proposal to Slash Medicare Drug Prices in Half. truthout.org On Thursday, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont) introduced a bill aimed at cutting the price of prescription drugs under Medicare in half in one of a series of actions that the senator is taking on drug prices. The bill, introduced alongside Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minnesota), would require that Medicare access the same prescription drug prices as the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA)… |

ecns.cn (2023-05-06). Q1 gold jewelry glitters on recovery. ecns.cn China's gold jewelry consumption reached 198 metric tons in the first quarter, up 11 percent year-on-year (56 percent quarter-on-quarter), marking the highest level for the quarter since 2015, the World Gold Council said on Friday.

midwesternmarx (2023-05-05). Degrowth: An environmental ideology with good intentions, bad politics. By: Collin Chambers and Liberation School. midwesternmarx.com IntroductionThe planet is experiencing multiple environmental crises: biodiversity loss, deforestation, increased rates of pandemics, chemical pollution, soil depletion, water contamination and shortages, runaway non-renewable energy consumption, and climate change. "Degrowth" is an environmental ideology that arose as a political response to these compounding crises. Degrowth was originally termed by André Gorz in 1972. Gorz argued that global environmental balance, wh …

F. William Engdahl (2023-05-06). Colossal Financial Pyramid: BlackRock and The WEF "Great Reset" globalresearch.ca

Josh Walkos (2023-05-05). The Long Shadow of BlackRock. thelastamericanvagabond.com During the last two major crises, in 2008 and 2020, the average person was worried about their retirement or the small business they had taken their life to build up into a viable enterprise. While they were in the fog of war at this time, largely unaware of the high-level moves being made, the financial

WSWS (2023-05-05). US financial crisis deepens as shares in regional banks continue to fall. wsws.org Within hours of Fed chair Jerome Powell having declared that the takeover of First Republic Bank had drawn a line under the "stress" that began in March, the stocks of other regional banks came under heavy selling pressure.

Global Research News (2023-05-05). Last Month's Most Popular Articles. globalresearch.ca

teleSUR (2023-05-05). ECB Slows Pace of Rate Hikes Amid Lowering Yet Sticky Inflation. telesurenglish.net On Thursday, the European Central Bank (ECB) decided to lift main interest rates by another 25 basis points in a bid to bring down high inflation. | RELATED: | The central bank, tasked with maintaining price stability in the 20-member euro zone by keeping inflation below but close to 2 percent in the medium term, has implemented its seventh consecutive rate hike. | The decision to opt for a smaller increment after six…

Andrew Perez (2023-05-05). How Pundits' Inflation Myth Crushed The Working Class. levernews.com

Jake Johnson (2023-05-05). Study shows large minimum wage hikes boost both earnings and employment. nationofchange.org In the absence of federal action, a record number of U.S. jurisdictions are set to raise their minimum wages in 2023—in many cases above $15 an hour.

Nora Barrows-Friedman (2023-05-05). Podcast Ep 76: The impossibility of the "two-state solution" electronicintifada.net EI editor Omar Karmi analyzes what comes next for Palestinians.

Keely Larson (2023-05-05). Montana Passes Mixed Bag of Significant Policy Changes in Controversial Session. truthout.org Republican leaders' banishment of a transgender lawmaker from floor debates in the recently ended Montana legislative session seized the nation's attention. It also overshadowed significant health policy changes and historic levels of health care spending. The session likely will be remembered for GOP leaders removing Democratic Rep. Zooey Zephyr, one of two transgender representatives in the… |

Sarah Lazare, Workday Magazine. (2023-05-05). How Secret 'Bondage Fees' Trap Contracted Workers In Low-Wage Jobs. popularresistance.org For almost six years, Raymond Pearson has been working as a front-desk concierge at one of the Galaxy Towers condominiums in Guttenberg, New Jersey, answering phones, getting packages to residents, dealing with food delivery, and developing bonds with the people who live there. | "The residents become your family," says Pearson, who is 34 years old and lives in nearby North Bergen. "You're spending a lot of time with them. I've seen some of the residents' kids graduate. I've seen some leave for prom. The same ones who left for prom, I've seen them leave for college." | But it wasn't until this year, he says, that…

Editor (2023-05-05). Profiteering Against the Public Interest: Privatization of Health Care by Unitedhealth Group. scheerpost.com By John P. Geyman / CounterPunch Privatization of public programs such as Medicare and Medicaid has been proceeding rapidly in recent years with little coverage by the media of its harms to patients, the public and taxpayers. This article has four goals: (1) to bring brief historical perspective to this trend in the U. S.; …

Jon Queally (2023-05-05). Leonard Leo Arranged Secret Payments to Ginni Thomas Ahead of Voting Rights Case. truthout.org Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and his wife Ginni Thomas are under fresh scrutiny as yet another revelation, this one reported by the Washington Post on Thursday evening shows Ginni received tens of thousands of dollars in off-the-book compensation from a powerful right-wing nonprofit shortly before the group "soon would have an interest before the court" — a pivotal voting rights case. |

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2023-05-06). People with severe obesity and a genetic pathway variant have increased risk of hypertension, Mayo Clinic research finds. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org ROCHESTER, Minn. — Obesity and its associated cardiometabolic issues are a major health concern in the U.S. and internationally. According to a study published in 2017, 12% of the world's adult population was affected by obesity in 2016, double the percentage from 30 years earlier. With obesity comes an increasing risk of cardiovascular disease, including stroke, congestive heart failure and myocardial infarction. Fortunately, obesity is a multifactorial disease that results from an energy balance dysregulation…

teleSUR (2023-05-05). Sweden to Double Wage Requirement for Migrant Workers. telesurenglish.net The Swedish government has recently proposed a set of regulations that require jobseekers from non-European Union (EU) nations to acquire a higher minimum wage than the previous standard, in order to be eligible for a work permit within the country. | Related: | The government, together with the support party, the Sweden Democrats, has a majority in parliament. If passed, the proposal will more than double the required sum from 13,000…

midwesternmarx (2023-05-05). Karl Marx: A Biographical Sketch with an Exposition of Marxism. By: V. I. Lenin. midwesternmarx.com PrefaceThis article on Karl Marx, which now appears in a separate printing, was written in 1913 (as far as I can remember) for the Granat Encyclopaedia. A fairly detailed bibliography of literature on Marx, mostly foreign, was appended to the article. This has been omitted in the present edition. The editor of the Encyclopaedia, for their part, have, for censorship reasons, deleted the end of the article on Marx, namely, the section dealing with his revolutionary tactics. Unfortunate …

midwesternmarx (2023-05-05). A Worldwide Anti-Imperialist Left: Why it is Needed, and What it Must Do (Paper). By: Alan Freeman and Radhika Desai>. midwesternmarx.com Capital organises globally yet workers do not. As the US-led NATO powers escalate the Ukraine conflict into a new world war, this imbalance is becoming intolerable.This paper presents the case for a worldwide anti-imperialist Left, representing ordinary people committed to a just and peaceful multipolar world order. This will serve both the national interest of every country, and the general interest of humanity.We base our case on an historical assessment of the last such organization, t …

midwesternmarx (2023-05-05). Odessa after the massacre: nine years later the wounds are still fresh. By: Steve Sweeney. midwesternmarx.com The west continues to ignore, downplay and misrepresent the trade unionists who were burned alive in Odessa's trade union building by Nato's fascist stormtroopers The burning alive of antifascist protestors in Odessa's trade union building on 2 May 2014 sent shock waves round the world. But the perpetrators of this heinous crime, far from being brought to book, have been rewarded with promotions and immunity. These are the 'democrats' our rulers are funding …

midwesternmarx (2023-05-05). Nationwide outrage after Black homeless man murdered by white vigilante in NYC subway. By: Natalia Marques. midwesternmarx.com Jordan Neely, the famous Michael Jackson "impersonator" who went around the NYC subway system dancing and entertaining passengers, was murdered by a white transit rider Monday On May 1 in New York City, a white subway rider murdered Jordan Neely, a Black homeless man who was expressing his misery at going without food or water. In a train entering the Broadway-Lafayette station in lower Manhattan, Neely cried out to passengers, "I don't have food, I don't ha …

Isaac Nellist (2023-05-05). Rent report says less than 1% are affordable for minimum-wage workers. greenleft.org.au A new report by Anglicare Australia has revealed that less than 1% of private rentals are affordable for a person working full-time on the minimum wage and just four rentals across Australia are affordable for people on JobSeeker. Isaac Nellist reports.

manager (2023-05-05). The teacher pay penalty hit a new high in 2021. cepr.net See 2022 report authored by Sylvia Allegretto on original site. Over the last 18 years, EPI has closely tracked trends in teacher pay. Over these nearly two decades, a picture of increasingly alarming trends has emerged.1 Simply put, teachers are paid less (in weekly wages and total compensation) than their nonteacher college-educated counterparts, and the …

Jorge Alemán (2023-05-05). Después del Capitalismo, øqué? globalizacion.ca Lo que le otorga al capitalismo actual su apariencia indestructible es la manera en que pudo conjugar para su propio beneficio distintos factores heterogéneos. Se podría decir que fue en el capitalismo posfordista donde se hizo efectiva definitivamente esta realidad….

Natylie Baldwin (2023-05-05). Taking the Capitalist Road Was the Wrong Choice For Ukraine, Says Ukraine Expert. covertactionmagazine.com Renfrey Clarke is an Australian journalist. Throughout the 1990s he reported from Moscow for Green Left Weekly of Sydney. This past year, he published The Catastrophe of Ukrainian Capitalism: How Privatisation Dispossessed & Impoverished the Ukrainian People with Resistance Books. In April, I had an email exchange with Clarke. Below is the transcript. Natylie Baldwin: You …

Staff (2023-05-05). Freedom to Learn: Nat'l Day of Action Targets Ron DeSantis, "Anti-Woke Cabal" over Book Bans & More. democracynow.org This week, protests were held across the United States against right-wing efforts to ban books and antiracism education in schools. Fourteen protesters with Florida's Dream Defenders were arrested Wednesday for staging a peaceful sit-in inside the office of Florida's Republican Governor Ron DeSantis at the end of the state's legislative session, in which he backed efforts to ban abortion after six weeks, deny gender-affirming care for youth, roll back rent control, censor discussions of LGBTQ issues and Black history in schools, and crack down on immigrants and unions in his political crusade ag…

Socialist Alternative (2023-05-06). Saturday 5/6: Socialist City Councilor Kshama Sawant Comes to Oakland. indybay.org Oakland Public Library: Rockridge Branch | 5366 College Avenue Oakland, CA 94618…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-05-05). Conditions Are Maturing for the Final Defeat of Neo-Colonialism. libya360.wordpress.com Friends of Socialist China co-editor Keith Bennett spoke at the Global Conference on Multipolarity, held online on Saturday April 29. The conference, which was jointly convened by organizations from China, Türkiye, Russia, Brazil and elsewhere, and coordinated from Moscow, was addressed by more than 120 speakers from over 60 countries. Addressing the theme of neo-colonialism, Keith…

Fight Back (2023-05-05). Freedom Road Socialist Organization Twin Cities celebrates International Workers Day 2023. fightbacknews.org Minneapolis, MN – On Saturday, April 29, over 100 activists from mass movements around the Twin Cities area came together at the office of the Minneapolis Federation of Teachers and Education Support Professionals Local 59 to celebrate International Workers Day, and another year in struggle across the movements in the streets, and the movement for socialism. The location was fitting for such an event because the Teachers and Educators in Minneapolis Public Schools spent more than three weeks on strike only one year ago. The room was packed and boisterous. The speeches were lively. The night closed with a performa…

Fight Back (2023-05-05). Tallahassee FRSO holds May Day rally. fightbacknews.org Tallahassee, FL — On Saturday, April 29, around 25 community members gathered for an International Workers Day rally at the Smokey Hollow Memorial, organized by the Tallahassee Freedom Road Socialist Organization (FRSO). International Workers Day, otherwise known as May Day, was born out of the struggle for the eight-hour workday here in the U.S. and is celebrated by working class people all over the world. | Regina Joseph, member of the Tallahassee Community Action Committee (TCAC), spoke on the current situation facing working-class people in Florida, saying, "Everywhere we look Ron DeSantis is doing some…

Orinoco Tribune 2 (2023-05-05). Cuba: President Meets With Over 300 Enthusiastic US Activists Pledging to End Blockade. orinocotribune.com By Bill Hackwell — May 1, 2023 | This morning at the Palace of the Revolution, Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel received over 300 friends of Cuba who had traveled from the United States to demand an end to the blockade. Brigades, groups, and other delegations are in Cuba to take part in the May 1 activities celebrating the International Day of Workers and to show their solidarity with the Cuban people who have withstood the longest continuous blockade in modern history. | Students, trade unionists, lawyers, and political activists are here, many making their first visit to the socialist island. Recognizing…

thecommunists (2023-05-05). Hunter Biden's laptop and democracy, US style. thecommunists.org The video above features Alex Christoforou and Alexander Mercouris of the Duran discussing the issue of the Hunter Biden laptop cover-up and its impact on the US presidential election of 2020. ***** Whilst Nato justifies its every brutal act of aggression around the world by claiming that it is all in the service of democracy, …

Liberation Staff (2023-05-05). Sudanese Communist Party denounces war between military factions. liberationnews.org "No to war, yes to peace: A civil democratic state is the choice of the people!"

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-05-05). Grenadian PM: We Support China's Efforts Towards Peace and Global Development. libya360.wordpress.com We are pleased to republish the speech given by Hon. Dickon Mitchell, Leader of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) and Prime Minister of Grenada, at the CPC in Dialogue with World Political Parties High-level Meeting, which was organized by the Communist Party of China on 15 March. It was originally carried on the website of…

Maddi Johnson (2023-05-05). Portland/Celebration of 50 years of people's struggle in the Philippines. workers.org Portland, Oregon April 24 marked the 50th anniversary of the National Democratic Front of the Philippines. Branded a terrorist organization by the U.S.-backed Marcos regime, the NDFP consists of 18 mass-based organizations ranging from communist guerrillas, to Indigenous rights groups, to scientists and artists. The meeting included a comedic performance . . . |

Alan Freeman, Radhika Desai, Orinoco Tribune. (2023-05-05). A Worldwide Anti-Imperialist Left Is Needed. popularresistance.org Capital organises globally yet workers do not. As the US-led NATO powers escalate the Ukraine conflict into a new world war, this imbalance is becoming intolerable. | This paper presents the case for a worldwide anti-imperialist Left, representing ordinary people committed to a just and peaceful multipolar world order. This will serve both the national interest of every country, and the general interest of humanity. We base our case on an historical assessment of the last such organization, the Communist International or Comintern for short, founded in 1919 and dissolved in 1943.

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ecns.cn (2023-05-05). New measures to govern audit service for SOEs, listed companies. ecns.cn Chinese financial authorities on Thursday issued new rules on the service of accounting firms for state-owned enterprises (SOEs) and listed companies, including an eight-year maximum service time for accountants employed by SOEs.

ecns.cn (2023-05-05). Global chip giants' losses expand in first quarter. ecns.cn Major international chipmakers have reported rising losses in the first quarter of 2023 amid weak demand and sweeping U.S. chip export curbs on China, the world's largest semiconductor market.

ecns.cn (2023-05-05). Vibrant Chinese economy to inject more vitality into world economic recovery: FM. ecns.cn

Anonymous103 (2023-05-04). Sandu And EU Conspiring To Sanction Moldova's Opposition. southfront.org Illustrative ImageThe EU supports Moldova's dictatorial policies against the opposition and citizens alike. | Written by Ahmed Adel, Cairo-based geopolitics and political economy researcher | The European Union, at the request of Moldovan authorities, have developed a mechanism for introducing sanctions against people who allegedly destabilise the situation in Moldova and threaten its sovereignty. This initiative is obviously directed against the political opponents of Moldovan President Maia Sandu, who wants to keep her…

Joel Richards (2023-05-04). Argentina pays for Chinese imports in Yuan. america.cgtn.com In a move that extends the global use of China's national currency, Argentina's government has announced it will pay for Chinese imports in yuan instead of U.S. dollars. The move comes as Latin America's third-largest economy experiences another turbulent week — the country is battling …

Staff (2023-05-04). U.N. Warns Afghan Humanitarian Crisis Still Urgent as Taliban Expands Crackdown on Women's Rights. democracynow.org United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres warned this week that Afghanistan continues to face the largest humanitarian crisis in the world today, with a two-day summit in Doha ending without formal recognition of the Taliban government that has ruled the country since August 2021. Since their return to power, the Taliban have cracked down on women's rights, including restricting access to education and banning women from working with international aid groups. Poverty has skyrocketed in Afghanistan as years of conflict, corruption and international sanctions have battered the economy. We speak with F…

ecns.cn (2023-05-05). Norwegian seafood sells swimmingly in China. ecns.cn China's consolidated economic rebound, the expansion of middle-income groups and consumers' greater importance paid to health and nutrition all point to huge growth potential for Norwegian seafood exporters, said Christian Chramer.

WSWS (2023-05-05). Migrants caught between troop deployments along Chile-Peru border. wsws.org The migrants are scapegoats in a show of military force that is driven by the irresolvable political and economic crises gripping both governments.

Javier Arana Villasusa (2023-05-05). Economic challenge focused by the Cuban Communist Party. plenglish.com Hanoi, May 4 (Prensa Latina) The attention of the Communist Party of Cuba (PCC) is focused on the economic challenge, aimed at solving the main problems that generate dissatisfaction and discomfort among the population, Roberto Morales said here today.

Peoples Dispatch (2023-05-04). Iran and Syria call for end of Western economic domination, withdrawal of all foreign troops from the region. peoplesdispatch.org Both the countries signed numerous agreements to boost their economic cooperation and called it a joint effort to face the impact of unilateral sanctions imposed by the US and its allies on their economies…

Peter Boyle (2023-05-04). Report: Real minimum wages have fallen to 2017 levels. greenleft.org.au Blaming wages for inflation is cover for the capitalists' attempts to make working people shoulder the cost of their system's chronic periodic economic crises, argues Peter Boyle.

Staff (2023-05-04). 6-7 May, Online: Eritrea Hearing, 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 Saturday and Sunday, May 6 and 7, on the effects and impacts of these policies and practices on the people of Eritrea. We will hear testimony and reports from expert and direct witnesses, with questions and discussion from …

infobrics (2023-05-04). Interest in the BRICS New Economic Order. infobrics.org The forum of emerging economies, Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa (BRICS), is very much in the news. There is much global interest in the economic developments in this group, especially as it relates to creating an alternative economic order which includes a new reserve currency to replace the US dollar…

infobrics (2023-05-04). Fostering Partnerships with BRICS Energy Investors. infobrics.org South Africa took over as the chair of BRICS on Jan. 1, 2023, during a challenging economic period, both domestically and globally. The ongoing conflict in Ukraine and the West's sanctions have worsened the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on economies globally, leading to soaring energy and food prices, which have had a disproportionate effect on the global South…

Pavel López Lazo (2023-05-04). Cuba and Russia to boost investment relations. plenglish.com Havana, May 4 (Prensa Latina) Maksim S. Oreshkin, presidential advisor of the Russian Federation for economic affairs, on Thursday concluded his official visit to Cuba after the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding for bilateral investment initiative.

channelnewsasia (2023-05-05). Apple stakes future growth on emerging markets, starting with India. channelnewsasia.com

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2023-05-05). Breaking barriers: Helping Native Americans in need get the gift of life. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org Robert Monroe and Jackie Johnson stand near their home on the Navajo Indian Reservation in Arizona For many American Indians and Alaska Natives, living on an Indian reservation provides a sense of pride, independence, and the ability to maintain cultural and social traditions important to their heritage. Life on the Indian reservation can also mean high rates of poverty, lack of access to food, transportation, communication and health care. Complex medical procedures like an organ…

WSWS (2023-05-04). Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa. wsws.org In Greece workers including bus, rail and ferry workers walk out to commemorate May Day, raising demands over pay and conditions; continuing protests and strikes in Iran including by petrochemical workers and pensioners against poverty pay and cost of living crisis; Nigerian communication workers in three-day warning strike against Huawei over unpaid wages for March…

ecns.cn (2023-05-05). (W.E. Talk) Why do we still commemorate Karl Marx in 21st century?>. ecns.cn Why do we still commemorate Marx in 21st century? How do we understand the "Chinese characteristics" in Chinese Marxist thoughts? Why do some people say that China has a brighter prospect than the West in dealing with climate change, income inequality, and other problems that face the world as a whole?

People's World Editorial Board (2023-05-04). You—our readers—made the People's World fund drive a smashing success. peoplesworld.org Dear readers, Thanks to your generous support, we have surpassed our Spring Fund Drive goal of $125,000! As of today, you've donated $140,000, with more on the way! What an outstanding achievement! Our wonderful readers, many on limited and low incomes, dug deep and gave what they could. At the same time, others called readers …

Saqib Bhatti, In These Times. (2023-05-04). As Mayor, Brandon Johnson Should Establish A Public Bank In Chicago. popularresistance.org When the cryptocurrency exchange FTX opened its US headquarters in Chicago last May, Mayor Lori Lightfoot heralded it as a win for communities that historically had been denied access to quality banking and financial services. She announced that FTX would donate $1 million to help expand a program to provide formerly incarcerated Chicagoans with a universal basic income. She calledthe initiative "a mechanism and a tool to bring historically underrepresented and ignored populations into the world of crypto so they can take ownership and control over their own financial destiny."

Pavel López Lazo (2023-05-04). Inflation chews up US worker pay, top CEOs got 7.7 percent surge. plenglish.com Washington, May 4 (Prensa Latina) As domestic inflation chews up American workers' wages, top CEOs posted a 7.7% raise in income last year, research revealed Thursday.

WSWS (2023-05-05). New Zealand boosts support for US-NATO war against Russia in Ukraine. wsws.org The Labour Party-led government will extend the deployment of New Zealand troops to train Ukrainian soldiers in Britain, while strengthening ties with the US and Australia to prepare for war with China.

Anjoulie Woodhead (2023-05-05). New York Assembly and Senate Champions Vow to Pass Global Debt Relief Bill. indybay.org Largest New York Labor and Religious Groups Support the New York Taxpayer and International Debt Crises Protection Act…

Labor Video Project (2023-05-05). May 1 "Injury to One Is an Injury to All" IBU Alcatraz Ferry Workers Protest Union Busting. indybay.org IBU-ILWU San Francisco Alcatraz Cruise ferry boat workers marched and rallied at Alcatraz Cruises at Pier 33 which is owned by Hornblower. The workers who voted for a union last fall face a blatant union busting drive by the company which has a long record of retaliating against pro-union workers and successful union busting.

Labor Video Project (2023-05-05). KQED Security Used To Coerce Speak-out on World Press Freedom Day For Assange & Mumia. indybay.org On World Press Freedom Day a rally speak-out was held in front of KQED TV and radio. The station bosses mobilized security to try to coerce and threaten the action.

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2023-05-05). Science Saturday: COVID-19 — the pandemic that's forever changed laboratory testing. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org Like many people throughout the world, Matthew Binnicker, Ph.D., remembers exactly where he was and what he was doing when COVID-19 was classified as a pandemic. "Those first few months of the pandemic will be forever ingrained in my memory," he says. For Dr. Binnicker, director of Mayo Clinic's Clinical Virology Laboratory, two important dates stand out above the rest. "One was Feb. 17, 2020, when Dr. (William) Morice and I were talking about whether the department should…

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2023-05-05). Save lives this Take Back Day; safely dispose of unused medications. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org ROCHESTER, Minn. — Dispose of unneeded medications safely during National Prescription Drug Take Back Day on Saturday, April 22. Mayo Clinic, in collaboration with the Olmsted County Sheriff's Office, Olmsted Medical Center, Zumbro Valley Medical Society and the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), will host a community drop-off event to collect unused or expired medications. "The Olmsted County Sheriff's Office and Violent Crimes Enforcement Team (VCET) are proud to team up with Mayo Clinic and other…

Staff (2023-05-05). Con Filo: °Qué terroristas somos! (+ Video). cubadebate.cu Seguramente ya lo saben, pero Cuba está incluida en una lista de "países patrocinadores del terrorismo" que elabora unilateralmente Estados Unidos y dicha lista legitima, al menos para el establishment imperialista, un vasto conjunto de sanciones contra nuestro país. Sobre el tema hablamos este jueves.

Joe Bernick (2023-05-04). Labor participation grows at Tucson May Day march; organizers spotlight Amazon class struggle. peoplesworld.org TUCSON, Ariz.—Until recently, May Day events in Tucson attracted mostly members of left political groups—socialists, communists, and anarchists. The observance would include a march and rally that celebrated the internationalism of this workers' holiday with little relation to the class struggle taking place in our community. A few labor union members participated, but the unions mostly stayed …

Sharon Zhang (2023-05-04). McDonald's in Kentucky Employed 10-Year-Olds Without Pay, Labor Officials Find. truthout.org Labor officials have uncovered hundreds of child labor violations across several dozen McDonald's locations, including at a McDonald's in Louisville, Kentucky, which employed two 10-year-old children and forced them to work without pay. Department of Labor investigators have found that McDonald's franchise operator Bauer Foods, LLC, which owns 10 McDonald's locations, sometimes made the 10-year… |

Staff (2023-05-04). Pensioners Will Receive $49 Monthly After Maduro Labor Benefits Announcements. orinocotribune.com

Ana Luisa Brown (2023-05-05). Cuba to take part in CIS games with 12 other countries in Belarus. plenglish.com Minsk, May 5 (Prensa Latina) Nine countries of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), Cuba, China, Egypt and Mongolia will participate in the 2nd Sports Games to be hosted by Belarus in August, Deputy Prime Minister Igor Petrishenko announced.

Matthew Ehret (2023-05-04). Towards a Church of the British Empire: World Government as British Empire Revivalism. thelastamericanvagabond.com On May 6, 2023 Charles will be coronated as the new King of Britain and the broader British Commonwealth under the title King Charles III. At the ceremony, the Archbishop of Canterbury will expand Charles' role from 'defender of the faith' — a title established by Henry VIII nearly five centuries ago, to the new

teleSUR (2023-05-04). Indigenous People Ask Charles III To Apologize For Colonization. telesurenglish.net Indigenous organizations and leaders from 12 Commonwealth countries raised a number of demands to King Charles III through a letter in which they demand an apology for the impact of British colonization on native peoples. | RELATED: | The letter, entitled "Apologies, Reparations and Repatriation of Artifacts and Remains," is an initiative of Nova Peris, former senator and co-chair of the Australian Republican Movement. | "We call on…

Claire Kelloway, Food & Power. (2023-05-04). As Food Prices Rise, Study Finds Market Power Drove Pandemic Inflation. popularresistance.org On earnings calls last week, major food brands bragged about their ability to keep raising prices. Soda and snack giant PepsiCo told investors that it raised prices 16% last quarter, bringing in 18% more profit. Nestle announced a 10% price hike and Unilever said its food brands cost 13% more. In all these cases, higher prices helped food giants increase profits even as their sales decreased. | Food giants keep raising prices even though well-publicized cost pressures, like fuel costs, rising wages, and supply chain disruptions, have largely subsided. On Tuesday, the Wall Street Journal landed on an explanation f…

Julia Conley (2023-05-04). Median pay of top US CEOs jumped to record $22.3 million last year. nationofchange.org Analysis has shown companies have used inflation as an excuse to unnecessarily raise prices and have pocketed the increased profits.

Global Research News (2023-05-05). Last Month's Most Popular Articles. globalresearch.ca

ecns.cn (2023-05-05). Chinese firms in U.S. facing tough conditions. ecns.cn The financial performance of Chinese companies operating in the United States is slightly down, with a dour outlook in years ahead, according to an annual survey by a nonprofit organization, but they are still eager to do business in the country.

WSWS (2023-05-05). US financial crisis deepens as shares in regional banks continue to fall. wsws.org Within hours of Fed chair Jerome Powell having declared that the takeover of First Republican Bank had drawn a line under the "stress" that began in March, the stocks of other regional banks came under heavy selling pressure.

_____ (2023-05-04). Something Is Rotten in Schmutzig Switzerland. strategic-culture.org Some well-informed analysts tend to say that Switzerland is a In a 'business deal of the century' brokered by the Swiss government, Switzerland's largest bank and its financial pride and joy was acquired by its smaller rival USB for a meagre $3.2 billion. | The current affairs sections of the leading news agencies have recently been populated by the breaking news that Credit Suisse had to be sold but to the lowest bidder this time or so it seems. Though this takeover de…

Ann Brown (2023-05-04). Was LinkedIn Founder Reid Hoffman Ridin' Dirty With Jeffrey Epstein? Records Show Visit To Private Island. moguldom.com Since convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein committed suicide on Aug. 10, 2019, while in police custody, more and more information has come out about the financial bigwigs who hung out with Epstein. One is billionaire LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman. Turns out Hoffman visited Epstein's infamous private island and had plans to stay at Epstein's Manhattan …

Editor (2023-05-04). You Are Reading This Thanks to Semiconductors. scheerpost.com By Vijay Prashad / Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research On 7 October 2022, the United States government implemented export controls in an effort to hinder the development of China's semiconductor industry. An expert on the subject told the Financial Times, 'The whole point of the policy is to kneecap China's AI [Artificial Intelligence] and HPC [High Performance Computing] efforts'. The …

teleSUR (2023-05-04). Developed Nations Should Deliver Climate Justice: Guterres. telesurenglish.net Developed countries, which are major contributors to the emission of planet-warming gases like methane and carbon dioxide, should honor their financial commitment to helping Africa adapt to the unfolding climate crisis, United Nations Secretary Antonio Guterres said on Wednesday. | RELATED: | Guterres, who is on an official visit to Kenya, said at a media briefing in the Kenyan capital of Nairobi that the industrial north has a moral obligation…

WSWS (2023-05-05). Sri Lanka's public health services face breakdown. wsws.org Drastic falls in the numbers of doctors and health workers have led to huge workloads for the remaining workforce, who are already severely burdened with higher taxes, inflation and cuts in allowances and overtime.

Andy Kroll (2023-05-04). Unwarranted Influence, Twenty-First-Century-Style. tomdispatch.com The military-industrial complex (MIC) that President Dwight D. Eisenhower warned Americans about more than 60 years ago is still alive and well. In fact, it's consuming many more tax dollars and feeding far larger weapons producers than when Ike raised the alarm about the "unwarranted influence" it wielded in his 1961 farewell address to the nation. The statistics are stunning. This year's proposed budget for the Pentagon and nuclear weapons work at the Department of Energy is $886 billion — more than twice as much, adjusted for inflation, as at the time of Eisenhower's speech. The Pentagon now consumes mor…

Dana Sanchez (2023-05-04). Federal Reserve Hikes Interest Rates Again And Claims No Recession Is A More Likely Scenario. moguldom.com The Federal Reserve raised its key interest rate by a quarter-point Wednesday to the highest level in 16 years in an effort to slow inflation. It signaled that it might pause after ordering 10 consecutive rate hikes, which have made borrowing increasingly expensive for families and businesses. After its latest policy meeting, the Fed removed …

Jake Johnson (2023-05-04). New Research Upends the Notion That Significant Wage Hikes Are Job Killers. truthout.org A working paper unveiled this week by researchers at the University of California, Berkeley shows that large minimum wage increases can have positive effects on both earnings and employment, countering the notion pushed by corporate lobbying groups that significant wage hikes are job killers. Examining nearly 50 large U.S. counties in California and New York whose wage floors reached $15 or higher… |

Editor (2023-05-04). U.S. makes up c 40% of global military spending, 10x Russia, 3x China. mronline.org The United States spent $877 billion on its military in 2022, nearly 40% of the global total, 10 times more than Russia ($86.4 billion), and three times more than China ($292 billion). The U.S. military budget is larger than the next 10 biggest spenders combined.

Editor (2023-05-04). Quick Quiz: Mapping Militarism 2023. scheerpost.com By David Swanson / World BEYOND War Can you test yourself with this quick quiz? A picture can be worth a trillion words — or a couple of trillion dollars when it's a picture of military spending. We've just published a new collection of maps for Mapping Militarism 2023. As always, they are at worldbeyondwar.org/militarism-mapped and available for …

Peter Boyle (2023-05-04). Ecosocialism 2023 to discuss costs of new arms race. greenleft.org.au The ecological and social impacts of a new surge in global military spending will one of the discussions at the Ecosocialism 2023 conference in Naarm on July 1—2. Peter Boyle reports.

SIPRI (2023-05-04). World military expenditure reaches new record high. sipri.org Total global military expenditure increased in 2022, to reach a new high of $2240-billion.

Alina Ramos Martin (2023-05-05). Cuba and Japan to strengthen cooperation. plenglish.com This was revealed during a meeting between Cuba's Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Trade and Foreign Investment, Ricardo Cabrisas, and the Secretary General of the Liberal Democratic Party of Japan (LDP), Toshimitsu Motegi. | During the talks, the Cuban representative stressed that Motegi's visit could be considered a milestone, both for its brevity and for taking place at a complex time, according to a national television report. | Likewise, Motegi, who is also former Japanese Foreign Minister expressed his satisfaction for being on the island for the first time; and thanked for the organization of…

Alina Ramos Martin (2023-05-05). The most important document of FITCuba 2023. plenglish.com Havana, May 5 (Prensa Latina) Amid an avalanche of news and meetings, the 41st International Tourism Fair of Cuba (FITCuba 2023) presented its most significant document, the Portfolio of Business Opportunities for foreign investment.

ecns.cn (2023-05-05). U.S. aims to profit from Taiwan arms sales. ecns.cn The United States is attempting to profit from arms sales and turn Taiwan into a weapons depot after a group of U.S. defense contractors visited the island for "defense" cooperation with the Democratic Progressive Party authorities.

Editor (2023-05-04). The Twenty-First Century of (Profitable) War. scheerpost.com

Peter Certo (2023-05-04). In OtherWords: May 4, 2023. otherwords.org This week in OtherWords, Farrah had a privileged view of that life for a short time. "He was my first boss after college," Farrah writes. "I was just beginning my career, knowing only that I was drawn to social justice and the arts. There was no better person to learn about either than from Mr. B." Her tribute is well worth reading. | Also this week, nonprofit immigration attorney Daniella Prieshoff unpacks the dehumanizi…

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2023-05-05). People with severe obesity and a genetic pathway variant have increased risk of hypertension, Mayo Clinic research finds. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org ROCHESTER, Minn. — Obesity and its associated cardiometabolic issues are a major health concern in the U.S. and internationally. According to a study published in 2017, 12% of the world's adult population was affected by obesity in 2016, double the percentage from 30 years earlier. With obesity comes an increasing risk of cardiovascular disease, including stroke, congestive heart failure and myocardial infarction. Fortunately, obesity is a multifactorial disease that results from an energy balance dysregulation…

cameron orr (2023-05-04). CP clubs join May Day actions nationwide. cpusa.org Marx and Engels wrote in the Communist Manifesto that "of all the classes that stand face to face with the bourgeoisie today, the proletariat [working class] alone is a really revolutionary class," leading them to famously end: "the proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win. [Workers] of …

Sam Ben-Meir (2023-05-04). Why Isn't the Democratic World a World? dissidentvoice.org Alain Badiou is undoubtedly among the greatest of living philosophers; one that may fairly be credited with rescuing philosophy from academic irrelevance, and the twin enemies of scientism and historicism. For Badiou, philosophy does not merely interpret the world (as Marx famously asserted in his "Theses on Feuerbach"). For an interpretation of the world, we …

David Giesen (2023-05-05). Saturday 5/6: May Day higher wages stymied by artificial scarcity: the walking tour. indybay.org meet in the lobby of | the American Youth Hostel | 312 Mason Street. San Francisco…

John Pilger (2023-05-04). The next war is coming—where are the voices condemning it? peoplesworld.org In 1935, the American Writers' Congress was held in New York City, followed by another two years later. Delegates to the meetings called on "the hundreds of poets, novelists, dramatists, critics, short story writers, and journalists" to discuss the "rapid crumbling of capitalism" and the beckoning of another war. They were electric events which, according …

WSWS (2023-05-05). Ideological opponents of the Ukrainian government are waiting for prison or death. wsws.org This article, which paints a chilling picture of state-led repression of any form of opposition to the Ukrainian government and the war against Russia, was submitted to the WSWS by Maxim Goldarb, the head of the banned Union of Left Forces (For a New Socialism) party.

Fight Back (2023-05-04). Los Angeles: Boyle Heights rallies for International Workers Day. fightbacknews.org Los Angeles, CA — For the eighth year in a row, Centro Community Service Organization (CSO) held their May Day march and rally in Boyle Heights. Over 50 people gathered to commemorate International Workers Day and to uplift the demands of legalization for all the undocumented, protecting public education, and community control of the Los Angeles Sheriff's Department. The event was emceed by David Pulido of Orange County CSO and Juliana Castellón of Centro CSO. | Sol Marquez, member of Centro CSO and Freedom Road Socialist Organization (FRSO), kicked off the rally with the demand for socialism and self-deter…

Pavan Kulkarni (2023-05-04). Sudan's Army and Paramilitary RSF Turn on Each Other. socialistproject.ca

thecommunists (2023-05-04). Twenty years later: the predatory imperialist war against Iraq. thecommunists.org The 20th of March this year marked the 20th anniversary of the start of Anglo-American imperialism's war against Iraq. Although there was mass opposition to this war, most of the print and electronic media, including the BBC, whipped up jingoistic hysteria against Iraq and in favour of the war. Twenty years on there is hardly …

unitedEditor (2023-05-04). Russian military experts and the communist leader evaluated the attack on Kremlin. uwidata.com Only Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky could have ordered the Ukrainian drone attack on the Kremlin, said military analyst Igor Korotchenko, editor-in-chief of "Natsionalnaya Oborona" (National Defense) magazine. Earlier on Wednesday, the Kremlin reported that the Kiev regime tried to strike two drones on the Kremlin residence of the Russian president in the night. As a …

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Ben Norton, Geopolitical Economy. (2023-05-04). US Makes Up 40% Of Global Military Spending, 10x Russia, 3x China. popularresistance.org The US military spent $877 billion, 10 times more than Russia ($86.4 billion), and three times more than China ($292 billion). | US military expenditure in 2022 was bigger than the next 10 largest spenders combined. | This means the Pentagon spent more than China, Russia, India, Saudi Arabia, Britain, Germany, France, South Korea, Japan, and Ukraine combined. This is according to data published this April by the Sweden-based Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI). | SIPRI calculated that the planet's total military expenditure was $2.24 trillion in 2022. | The United States, at $877 billion, thu…

James Phillips (2023-05-03). While Projecting a Friendly Face and an Extended Hand, the Biden Administration Has Continually Challenged the Initiatives of Honduras' New Progressive Government and Ignored the Voice of the Honduran People. covertactionmagazine.com The dangers of a coup remain, given past policies In November 2021, Hondurans resoundingly elected a new government, headed by President Xiomara Castro, that pledged to end official corruption, reduce violence, and move away from reliance upon a destructive, extractive economy controlled by foreign corporations. Castro's government committed to moving the country toward an economy …

Roselena Ramirez (2023-05-03). Brazil Targeting the Inequality Gap with Science. america.cgtn.com Brazil has the largest economy in Latin America, but at the same time, its poverty rate remains high. According to the official statistics agency, in 2021, Brazil had over 62 million people experiencing poverty and almost 20 million enduring extreme poverty. Can science, innovation, and …

Reihana Mohideen (2023-05-04). Ten strategies to stop a war in the Asia-Pacific. greenleft.org.au The Barack Obama administration's "Pivot to Asia" — the military, economic and political strategy to deploy more than half the US Navy to the Pacific — is continuing apace. Reihana Mohideen argues it needs to be resisted.

WSWS (2023-05-04). Oakland, California teachers to strike Thursday. wsws.org Oakland teachers confront efforts by the district and union to prevent them from fighting for their economic demands.

ecns.cn (2023-05-04). Policy support to encourage consumption. ecns.cn China will step up its policy support to increase consumer spending and unleash the country's purchasing potential, a key force that propels the nation's economic recovery and underpins its endeavors toward modernization and prosperity.

ecns.cn (2023-05-04). Majors introduced to match development. ecns.cn China has approved and added 21 new categories of majors for undergraduate programs, as the country moves to restructure undergraduate majors to enable universities and colleges to better serve national strategies and regional economic, social and industrial development.

Staff (2023-05-03). Venezuela Increases Workers' Benefits to $70/Month. orinocotribune.com The president of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, announced through a video that Venezuela would increase citizens' "warfare" benefits to the equivalent of 30 US dollars (USD) a month and their food credits (Cestaticket) to the equivalent of USD 40/month. This will result in workers' total monthly benefits reaching the equivalent of USD 70/month in addition to their regular wages, which have been heavily impacted by the US and European economic warfare on socialist Venezuela and the consequent economic crisis. | The adjustment was announced on Tuesday, May 2, by President Maduro. A day earlier, on International Workers…

infobrics (2023-05-03). On Russia-South Africa/Africa. infobrics.org South Africa-Russia relations are not new. They date back decades before South Africa arrived at a democratic dispensation in 1994; a journey in which Russia provided a lot of support. During the recent visit to South Africa of Russian Foreign Affairs Minister Sergey Lavrov, it was agreed that the two countries need to further deepen relations and cooperation in most spheres, including political, economic, security and social ones, as well as in multilateral and international forums…

Ann Brown (2023-05-03). Remembering The Civil Rights Movement As A Labor And Economic Movement. moguldom.com The civil rights movement was, of course, a push for equal human rights, but the scope was much more extensive. The push encompassed economic equality as well. It was, in true essence,a labor and economic movement. Just examine the context of the speeches by civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr., and there is evidence …

Anonymous103 (2023-05-03). Military Situation In Syria On May 3, 2023 (Map Update). southfront.org Click to see full-size image | On May 3, the Russian Ministry of Defense recorded no cases of hostilities and ceasefire violations in the Idlib region in the past 24 hours; | On May 3, US drones targeted a senior al-Qaeda leader in northwest Syria, according to the CENTCOM; | On May 3, Iran's President Ebrahim Raisi accompanied by a ministerial political and economic delegation traveled to Damascus in a two-day official visit to meet with Syrian officials; | On May 2, a man from the village of al-Awshari…

Anonymous669 (2023-05-03). Iranian President Arrives In Syria For First Visit Since War Began. southfront.org Syrian President Bashar al-Assad with his Iranian counterpart Ebrahim Raisi. Source: the Syrian Presidency Office. | On April 3, Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi arrived in the Syrian capital, Damascus, on an official visit and met with President Bashar al-Assad. | The visit is the first by an Iranian head of state since war broke out in Syria more than a decade ago. The last Iranian president to visit Syria was President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in 2010. | Thanks to the political, economic and militar…

Eugene Puryear (2023-05-03). First Republic: The collapse and the crisis. liberationnews.org In other words, the collapse of First Republic Bank is a sign of the rot at the center of capitalist economics and politics; the response to its collapse speaks directly to the class war being waged right out in the open by the capitalist class.

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2023-05-04). Breaking barriers: Helping Native Americans in need get the gift of life. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org Robert Monroe and Jackie Johnson stand near their home on the Navajo Indian Reservation in Arizona For many American Indians and Alaska Natives, living on an Indian reservation provides a sense of pride, independence, and the ability to maintain cultural and social traditions important to their heritage. Life on the Indian reservation can also mean high rates of poverty, lack of access to food, transportation, communication and health care. Complex medical procedures like an organ…

Sharon Johnson (2023-05-03). Lifting Workers Out of Poverty. progressive.org Ten years in, the movement to raise the minimum wage is gaining momentum across the country.

Roselena Ramirez (2023-05-03). A Look Into a Favela of Peace. america.cgtn.com We're in the capital of Brazil, the largest county in Latin America, and we've been talking about science and technology. How they can help fight poverty, but our next story is about improving the quality of life with a strong sense of community. Miuda Valls …

Staff (2023-05-03). Jorge Rodríguez: Workers' Income Will No Longer Deteriorate. orinocotribune.com The president of Venezuela's National Assembly, Jorge Rodríguez, said that "the National Government responsibly established the indexation of workers' income so that now the income does not deteriorate." He made this statement during the parliamentary session on Wednesday, referring to the presidential announcement made on Monday regarding the adjustment of the warfare and food bonuses distributed to Venezuelan workers and increased to the equivalent of $70. | Rodríguez explained that the main factor causing the deterioration of workers' income is inflation, "let's wait for next month when you receive your indexe…

WSWS (2023-05-03). UK: Starmer's pro-big business, pro-war Labour Party prepares for office. wsws.org Previous "pledges" by Starmer, made to secure the Labour leadership when many of Corbyn's supporters were still in the party, to nationalise public utilities, increase income tax for the top 5 percent and abolish punitive Universal Credithave all gone.

channelnewsasia (2023-05-04). Flexible work arrangements a key focus of Singapore's new workers compact: Labour chief Ng Chee Meng. channelnewsasia.com The labour movement has engaged close to 40,000 workers in the past year to find out their concerns and challenges, National Trades Union Congress (NTUC) Secretary-General Ng Chee Meng told CNA in an exclusive interview.

Staff (2023-05-04). Pensioners Will Receive $49 Monthly After Maduro Labor Benefits Announcements. orinocotribune.com

WSWS (2023-05-04). 10 year olds found working at McDonald's in Louisville, Kentucky. wsws.org The US Department of Labor cites 62 McDonald's locations including one employing 10 year olds.

Anjoulie Woodhead (2023-05-04). New York Assembly and Senate Champions Vow to Pass Global Debt Relief Bill. indybay.org Largest New York Labor and Religious Groups Support the New York Taxpayer and International Debt Crises Protection Act…

Labor Video Project (2023-05-04). May 1 "Injury to One Is an Injury to All" IBU Alcatraz Ferry Workers Protest Union Busting. indybay.org IBU-ILWU San Francisco Alcatraz Cruise ferry boat workers marched and rallied at Alcatraz Cruises at Pier 33 which is owned by Hornblower. The workers who voted for a union last fall face a blatant union busting drive by the company which has a long record of retaliating against pro-union workers and successful union busting.

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2023-05-04). Science Saturday: COVID-19 — the pandemic that's forever changed laboratory testing. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org Like many people throughout the world, Matthew Binnicker, Ph.D., remembers exactly where he was and what he was doing when COVID-19 was classified as a pandemic. "Those first few months of the pandemic will be forever ingrained in my memory," he says. For Dr. Binnicker, director of Mayo Clinic's Clinical Virology Laboratory, two important dates stand out above the rest. "One was Feb. 17, 2020, when Dr. (William) Morice and I were talking about whether the department should…

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2023-05-04). Save lives this Take Back Day; safely dispose of unused medications. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org ROCHESTER, Minn. — Dispose of unneeded medications safely during National Prescription Drug Take Back Day on Saturday, April 22. Mayo Clinic, in collaboration with the Olmsted County Sheriff's Office, Olmsted Medical Center, Zumbro Valley Medical Society and the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), will host a community drop-off event to collect unused or expired medications. "The Olmsted County Sheriff's Office and Violent Crimes Enforcement Team (VCET) are proud to team up with Mayo Clinic and other…

Chloe DS (2023-05-03). '501s' demand Labor keep its promise to end indefinite detention. greenleft.org.au People in indefinite detention across the country held peaceful protests demanding their release. Chloe DS reports.

Rachel Hu, Chris Garaffa (2023-05-03). CovertAction Bulletin: The CIA and the 1990 Cuautitlán attack on Ford workers. covertactionmagazine.com In this episode, we highlight the struggle of the workers at the Ford Cuautitlán Assembly Plant, just outside Mexico City. On January 8, 1990, workers at the plant were attacked by police and private hired thugs wearing Ford jackets. This happened during a prolonged period of labor action by the workers, and kicked off an occupation of the plant. This attack didn't happen in a vacuum and the CIA played a role in squashing labor at the plant.

Mark Gruenberg (2023-05-03). Starbucks in the soup with the NLRB again. peoplesworld.org AUGUSTA, Ga.—Remember Jaysin Saxton? The National Labor Relations Board's Atlanta regional office is going to bat against Starbucks and for him, big time. Saxton was one of two Starbucks workers who followed company founder and former CEO Howard Schultz to the Senate Labor Committee witness chair in early April hearings on the coffee chain's rampant …

Saheli Chowdhury (2023-05-03). Proletariat of the proletariat: Women's unpaid labor. mronline.org The pandemic brought the spotlight on many of the wrongs of capitalism, among them the issue of unpaid labor.

Stu Becker (2023-05-03). Dallas activists revive 1934 Teamsters tactic with 'flying pickets' at Starbucks store. peoplesworld.org May Day Worker's Correspondence from Dallas, Texas: On May Day 2023, activists in Dallas celebrated by helping to organize "flying pickets" at different Starbucks stores across the metro area. The group included members of the Texas Alliance for Retired Americans, and the Young Active Labor Leaders, and the Communist Party USA's Dallas-Fort Worth Club. We …

Vince Quiles, The Real News Network. (2023-05-03). Temple University Strike Offers Lessons For Academic Labor Organizers. popularresistance.org On Jan. 31 of this year, the Temple University Graduate Students' Association (TUGSA) launched the first strike in their 25-year history. The decision to strike came as a result of years of organizing that largely began in 2020, after Temple's decision to force in-person classes in the fall of 2020 led to a completely preventable COVID-19 outbreak. Striking for 42 days, graduate student-workers faced cuts to their health insurance, threats to lose tuition remissions, and more. Nevertheless, TUGSA persevered, winning a new contract that raised wages and eliminated Temple's wage-tier system for graduate student-wor…

Stu Becker (2023-05-03). Dallas activists revive 1934 Teamsters tactic with 'flying pickets' at Starbucks stores. peoplesworld.org May Day Worker's Correspondence from Dallas, Texas: On May Day 2023, activists in Dallas celebrated by helping to organize "flying pickets" at different Starbucks stores across the metro area. The group included members of the Texas Alliance for Retired Americans, and the Young Active Labor Leaders, and the Communist Party USA's Dallas-Fort Worth Club. We …

Sasha Abramsky (2023-05-03). The Debt Ceiling Debate Is a Manufactured Crisis. Tax the Wealthy What They Owe. truthout.org We are now somewhere between one and three months away from the U.S. hitting its debt ceiling limit, running out of accounting gimmicks and being unable to pay its bills. The exact day when the U.S. will run out of cash isn't known, since ongoing revenue streams are always something of a matter of informed guesswork, but the Treasury estimates it's very soon. Earlier this year… |

channelnewsasia (2023-05-04). COE prices set to persist around S$100,000, say analysts amid low supply and pent-up demand. channelnewsasia.com While the latest premiums for cars may have declined slightly, they are unlikely to fall much further and may even increase soon, industry analysts say.

ecns.cn (2023-05-04). May Day holidays set to be 'most prosperous'. ecns.cn China's consumption has been firing on all cylinders during the just-ended May Day holidays, ranging from tourism, box office, transportation, entertainment to catering sectors.

ecns.cn (2023-05-04). In Shenzhen, Lanzhou, street vendors encouraged. ecns.cn To meet people's various consumption demands, Lanzhou, Gansu province, and Shenzhen, Guangdong province, have released new approaches to help street vendors prosper.

WSWS (2023-05-04). Fed lifts interest rates but signals possible pause amid financial turbulence. wsws.org Yesterday's meeting was held in the immediate aftermath of the takeover of the First Republic bank by JPMorgan Chase, following what was the second largest banking failure in US history, but Fed Chair Jerome Powell began his remarks to a press conference asserting that the banking system was "sound and resilient."

channelnewsasia (2023-05-04). China's top financial data provider restricts offshore access due to new rules-sources. channelnewsasia.com

Staff (2023-05-03). Supreme Court: Are New Ethics Rules Needed as Gorsuch, Roberts & Thomas Face Questions over Finances? democracynow.org Three conservative Supreme Court justices are now embroiled in a growing ethics scandal about their personal and financial connections. Recent reporting has revealed that Justice Neil Gorsuch sold property he co-owned to the head of a major law firm that has since had many cases before the court, Justice Clarence Thomas failed to disclose lavish gifts and payments from billionaire and conservative activist Harlan Crow, and the wife of Chief Justice John Roberts was paid over $10 million in commissions as a job recruiter placing lawyers at elite law firms. Legal experts and lawmakers are increasingly pushing for e…

Amy Goodman (2023-05-03). The Push for Ethics Reform Heats Up With 3 Justices Embroiled in Growing Scandal. truthout.org Three conservative Supreme Court justices are now embroiled in a growing ethics scandal about their personal and financial connections. Recent reporting has revealed that Justice Neil Gorsuch sold property he co-owned to the head of a major law firm that has since had many cases before the court, Justice Clarence Thomas failed to disclose lavish gifts and payments from billionaire and conservative… |

Dennis Broe (2023-05-03). After the peak: As financial crisis expands, so does the streaming TV wasteland. peoplesworld.org What is the state of streaming television and serial series in the wake of last year's Netflix devaluation and this year's recent bank crisis? That was a question that was not addressed specifically at the Series Mania festival in Northern France this year—perhaps the world's largest television festival—but how to survive in an industry in …

Orinoco Tribune 2 (2023-05-03). Workers' Struggle in Canada: National Populism or Plurinational Socialism? orinocotribune.com By B R Pal — May 1, 2023 | The working-class movement in Canada is very weak in its current state, following decades of neoliberalism and the Red Scare of the previous Cold War. For those looking for a dissident alternative to the hegemony of global finance on Bay Street, right-wing populism is increasingly filling this space. | The Establishment left is essentially that, established and tied at the hip with Liberalism, too domesticated to fight for any substantive gains in material conditions for working class or colonized people. As a result, in the decade and a half since the 2008 financial crisis, right-…

channelnewsasia (2023-05-04). Too early for South Korea to shift policy focus from inflation – finance minister. channelnewsasia.com

channelnewsasia (2023-05-04). As office and shop rentals rise, storage space providers see brisk business. But for how long? channelnewsasia.com Storage providers are not immune from the very same rental pressures, since not all own the properties they are in.

Sean Callebs (2023-05-03). China General Chamber of Commerce on Chinese companies in the U.S. america.cgtn.com Legions of American companies are operating and doing business in China and vice-versa. Inflation, mass tech layoffs, the conflict in Ukraine, and the strained relationship between Beijing and Washington are having an impact. The China General Chamber of Commerce, an entity that assists Chinese …

Binoy Kampmark (2023-05-04). Scandal in Tasmania: The Edifice Sports Complex Runs Amok. dissidentvoice.org Profligate, a betrayal of public service, a misspending of state goods, a fiscal barbarism. By any estimation, recent efforts regarding sport in the small Australian state of Tasmania, unmoored from the mainland, distant, and, in many ways, depressed, has become the unexpected centre of a debate: Why on earth should the public purse at both …

Staff (2023-05-03). Debt Ceiling: Economist James K. Galbraith Warns GOP Proposal Would Gut Social Safety Net. democracynow.org U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen has warned Congress that the United States could run out of money to pay its bills by June 1 unless lawmakers raise the debt ceiling. House Republicans last week narrowly passed a bill to raise the debt ceiling, but only in exchange for sweeping spending cuts to numerous programs, including student debt relief, food assistance, Medicaid and renewable energy. Democrats, meanwhile, are pushing for a vote to raise the debt ceiling without imposing cuts, even as the constitutionality of the debt ceiling has been questioned by some legal scholars. For more on the debt ceiling, rece…

ecns.cn (2023-05-04). Investment in Australia hits new low. ecns.cn Chinese investment in Australia remains at record lows despite the wish for expansion from business circles amid a thawing diplomatic relationship.

manager (2023-05-03). Realism About Investment Treaties. cepr.net Project Syndicate See article on original site As EU member states withdraw from the Energy Charter Treaty en masse, developing economies should call for an overhaul of many more investment treaties. Unfortunately, Europe continues to pressure poor countries to sign and abide by such agreements — a double standard with grave consequences for the environment …

WSWS (2023-05-03). Rank-and-File delivery worker sets out case for No vote on CWU-Royal Mail agreement. wsws.org As the largest group of workers in this referendum, delivery workers will carry the heaviest burden in the plan to create huge profits.

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2023-05-04). People with severe obesity and a genetic pathway variant have increased risk of hypertension, Mayo Clinic research finds. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org ROCHESTER, Minn. — Obesity and its associated cardiometabolic issues are a major health concern in the U.S. and internationally. According to a study published in 2017, 12% of the world's adult population was affected by obesity in 2016, double the percentage from 30 years earlier. With obesity comes an increasing risk of cardiovascular disease, including stroke, congestive heart failure and myocardial infarction. Fortunately, obesity is a multifactorial disease that results from an energy balance dysregulation…

Mike Ludwig (2023-05-03). Bernie Sanders Is Once Again Trying to Raise the Minimum Wage. truthout.org Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont) is embarking on his latest campaign to raise the federal minimum wage, setting up a potential legislative battle that could force conservative members of the Democratic caucus who voted against raising the minimum wage to shift or defend their position as they seek reelection. In 2021, the House passed legislation to raise the minimum from $7.25 to $15 an hour… |

WSWS (2023-05-04). May Day in Germany: Union officials and government politicians united against the working-class. wsws.org The German unions used the traditional May Day rallies to demonstrate their unqualified solidarity with the federal and state governments, their pro-war policies and the attacks on wages and jobs.

David Giesen (2023-05-04). Saturday 5/6: May Day higher wages stymied by artificial scarcity: the walking tour. indybay.org meet in the lobby of | the American Youth Hostel | 312 Mason Street. San Francisco…

manager (2023-05-03). April Jobs Preview: What to Expect in the April Jobs Report. cepr.net Wages As in past months, attention will focus on whether the slowdown in wage growth seems to be continuing. The monthly wage data are erratic, and as happened several times in the last year, can be substantially revised so that they tell a different story a month or two after they were initially reported. But …

_____ (2023-05-03). The Coming War — Time to Speak Up. strategic-culture.org Silences filled with a consensus of propaganda contaminate almost everything we read, see and hear. War by media is now a key task of so-called mainstream journalism. | By John PILGER | In 1935, the Congress of American Writers was held in New York City, followed by another two years later. They called on "the hundreds of poets, novelists, dramatists, critics, short story writers and journalists" to discuss the "rapid crumbling of capitalism" and the beckoning of another war. They were electric events which, according to one account, were attended by 3,500 members of the public with more than a thousand turned aw…

John Pilger (2023-05-03). From yellow journalism to China bashing, the media's enduring role in promoting war. mronline.org In 1935, the Congress of American Writers was held in New York City, followed by another two years later. They called on 'the hundreds of poets, novelists, dramatists, critics, short story writers and journalists' to discuss the 'rapid crumbling of capitalism' and the beckoning of another war.

Peoples Health Dispatch (2023-05-03). NHS workers undeterred by government attempts to stop strikes. peoplesdispatch.org Nurses, ambulance workers, and other health workers in England continue to plan for industrial action escalation as government looks for way to stop strikes without improving working conditions…

Anonymous669 (2023-05-03). Russia Upgraded FAB-250 Bombs With Wing Kits, Guidance Systems — Report. southfront.org File image. | FAB-250 bombs in service with the Russian Aerospace Forces (VKS) have been upgraded to precision-guided munitions, TASS reported on May 3, citing an unnamed source in the Russian military-industrial complex. | The FAB-250 is a Soviet-designed 250-kilogram general purpose air-dropped bomb with a high-explosive warhead. The Russian news agency said, citing its source, that the bomb was equipped with a wing kit and navigation system as a part of the upgrade."When it gets dropped from a warplane at a s…

Tanupriya Singh (2023-05-03). Indian workers remain alive to the class struggle despite decades of neoliberal onslaught. peoplesdispatch.org A new dossier by the Tricontinental Institute for Social Research examines the impact of years of neoliberal policies on the Indian working class and the long struggle by workers across sectors to protect their basic rights…

Ajamu Baraka, Black Agenda Report. (2023-05-04). Africans In The United States Are A Colonized People. popularresistance.org In the colonial context, the colonized have no rights that the colonizer ever really needed to recognize. Therefore, any social space that Africans in the U.S. experienced were won through resistance. The historic fight for African self-determination and liberation from the anti-human colonial/capitalist system has been an uninterrupted feature of what we claim as the "Black Radical Tradition." | An unapologetic opposition to the U.S. colonial/capitalist project and U.S. imperialism centers the Black radical tradition, along with internationalism and a commitment to socialist transformation. It is this tradition…

Pavan Kulkarni (2023-05-04). Sudan's Army and Paramilitary RSF Turn on Each Other. socialistproject.ca

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-05-03). Africans in the US are a Colonized People: A Comment on the Indictment of the African People's Socialist Party. libya360.wordpress.com

WSWS (2023-05-03). Join the International Workers Alliance of Rank-and-File Committees! wsws.org This is the report delivered by Will Lehman, a socialist rank-and-file worker at Mack Trucks in Macungie, Pennsylvania, to the 2023 International May Day Online Rally held on April 30.

Fight Back (2023-05-03). Reproductive Justice Action Milwaukee calls for protests on the 1-year anniversary of Roe v. Wade overturn. fightbacknews.org Milwaukee, WI – At a press conference on the evening of April 30, members of Reproductive Justice Action Milwaukee (RJAM) and Freedom Road Socialist Organization (FRSO) addressed local media with a call to action for people in Milwaukee and around the country to mobilize on June 24, the day that marks a year since the overturning of Roe. | Haley McNeil, the logistics and finance chair for RJAM, said that the Dobbs decision, "left the majority of the country without access to legal abortion care due to trigger laws. The people most impacted by this are working-class Black and brown people. Without access to legal…

ecns.cn (2023-05-04). State contractor builds bridge to connect old revolutionary base with prosperous future. ecns.cn Connecting the north and south banks of the Yudu River, the 960-meter Jijie bridge recently achieved full linkage, which "will transform local infrastructure and accelerate development in a region with a storied Communist past".

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2023-05-03: News Headlines

ecns.cn (2023-05-03). Factory activity contracts in April on weak demand. ecns.cn China's factory activity unexpectedly contracted for the first time in four months in April, indicating that the foundation of the country's post-pandemic recovery is not yet solid and underscoring the need for greater policy support to boost domestic demand, analysts said on Sunday.

ecns.cn (2023-05-03). Cruises set sail for biz surge in China. ecns.cn By 2035, the Chinese cruise market will reach a scale of 14 million passengers per year, according to the Several Opinions on Promoting the Development of China's Cruise Economy document that was issued by 10 ministries including the Ministry of Transport and the National Development and Reform Commission in 2018.

Alina Ramos Martin (2023-05-03). Dominican economy improved in March with 2,1% growth. plenglish.com Santo Domingo, May 3 (Prensa Latina) The Dominican economy showed a discreet improvement by growing 2,1% in March of this year, after expanding only 0,4% in January, the Central Bank informed.

Ben Norton (2023-05-02). US makes up c 40% of global military spending, 10x Russia, 3x China. geopoliticaleconomy.com The United States spent $877 billion on its military in 2022, nearly 40% of the global total, 10 times more than Russia ($86.4 billion), and three times more than China ($292 billion). The US military budget is larger than the next 10 biggest spenders combined.

ecns.cn (2023-05-03). Nation's growth to drive upturn in Asia-Pacific. ecns.cn China's full border reopening has boosted its economic growth prospects and provided a stronger momentum for near-term growth in the Asia-Pacific region, experts at the International Monetary Fund said.

Staff (2023-05-03). Cuba y Rusia ratifican disposición de llevar relaciones económicas, comerciales y financieras al alto nivel de los nexos políticos. cubadebate.cu Tenemos toda la intención —subrayó— de llevar las relaciones económicos, comerciales y financieras al mismo nivel de las relaciones políticas. Durante el ameno diálogo, el Presidente Díaz-Canel pidió transmitir un "afectuoso saludo" a su homólogo ruso y agradeció "el apoyo que nos ha dado la Federación de Rusia en la lucha contra el bloqueo".

Staff (2023-05-03). Aprobados más de 294 nuevos actores económicos, informa Ministerio de Economía y Planificación (+ PDF). cubadebate.cu El Ministerio de Economía y Planificación anunció hoy la aprobación de 294 nuevos actores económicos en el país, como parte de las medidas para impulsar el desarrollo económico y social. De estos, 282 son micro, pequeñas y medianas empresas (mipymes) privadas, 11 son mipymes estatales y una es una cooperativa no agropecuaria.

teleSUR (2023-05-03). Iranian President Arrives in Syria on Landmark Visit. telesurenglish.net On Wednesday, Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi arrived in Syria with top ministers, marking the first visit by an Iranian president since the beginning of the Syrian war in 2011. | RELATED: | During the two-day visit, the Iranian president will hold extensive political and economic talks with Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad, followed by the signing of a number of agreements. | The ministerial delegation accompanying Raisi includes Foreign Minister Hossein Am…

thecommunists (2023-05-03). Book: Capitalism and Immigration. thecommunists.org Download a digital copy of this pamphlet. Buy a copy from our shop. Watch our recent presentation on the latest imigration legislation here. ***** Some two hundred and fity million people, representing more than three percent of the global population, presently work outside their home countries. Spurred on by economic crisis and war, the latest …

Combined Sources (2023-05-02). Millions march on May Day around the world. peoplesworld.org People squeezed by inflation and demanding economic justice took to streets across Asia, Europe, and the Americas on Monday to mark May Day, in an outpouring of worker discontent not seen since before the worldwide COVID-19 lockdowns. A million marched in France on Monday as union-led May Day rallies warned President Emmanuel Macron to back …

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2023-05-03). Breaking barriers: Helping Native Americans in need get the gift of life. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org Robert Monroe and Jackie Johnson stand near their home on the Navajo Indian Reservation in Arizona For many American Indians and Alaska Natives, living on an Indian reservation provides a sense of pride, independence, and the ability to maintain cultural and social traditions important to their heritage. Life on the Indian reservation can also mean high rates of poverty, lack of access to food, transportation, communication and health care. Complex medical procedures like an organ…

Chris Wright (2023-05-02). What "Security Threat" Does China Pose? dissidentvoice.org Everyone who abhors war, detests imperialism, and favors cooperation between nations on global warming, poverty reduction, protection of biodiversity, international disarmament, implementation of international law, and other left-wing priorities ought to be appalled by the escalating tensions between the U.S. and China and actively organizing against them. The new Cold War between "East" (including Russia) …

WSWS (2023-05-03). Australian central bank hikes rates again to increase "pain" on workers. wsws.org The Reserve Bank of Australia, backed by the Labor government, is intent on suppressing household spending enough to increase unemployment, as a battering ram against workers' wages struggles.

Anjoulie Woodhead (2023-05-03). New York Assembly and Senate Champions Vow to Pass Global Debt Relief Bill. indybay.org Largest New York Labor and Religious Groups Support the New York Taxpayer and International Debt Crises Protection Act…

Jacob Andrewartha (2023-05-03). Sudanese call on Canberra to help. greenleft.org.au The Sudanese-Australian community mobilised outside the State Library on April 29, calling for an end to the armed conflict between the Sudanese Armed Forces and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces in Sudan. They want a return to civilian rule. | They also called on the Labor government to do more to help Sudanese caught up in the extreme violence.

Labor Video Project (2023-05-03). May 1 "Injury to One Is an Injury to All" IBU Alcatraz Ferry Workers Protest Union Busting. indybay.org IBU-ILWU San Francisco Alcatraz Cruise ferry boat workers marched and rallied at Alcatraz Cruises at Pier 33 which is owned by Hornblower. The workers who voted for a union last fall face a blatant union busting drive by the company which has a long record of retaliating against pro-union workers and successful union busting.

Luis Feliz Leon, Labor Notes. (2023-05-03). Fisheries Workers, Cut For Organizing, File Labor Board Charges. popularresistance.org A hundred immigrant seafood processing workers in New Bedford, Massachusetts, lost their jobs March 31 when their employer abruptly terminated its contract with the temp agency that placed them. Workers say it was retaliation for organizing. | Their fight will be a test case of new protections for immigrants who organize on the job. The company invited the fired workers to apply for their old jobs, but only a handful were actually rehired. | "When the workers got the news, they started crying, worried about how they are going to pay their rent and bills," said Ruth Castro, who has worked for five years at the pla…

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2023-05-03). Science Saturday: COVID-19 — the pandemic that's forever changed laboratory testing. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org Like many people throughout the world, Matthew Binnicker, Ph.D., remembers exactly where he was and what he was doing when COVID-19 was classified as a pandemic. "Those first few months of the pandemic will be forever ingrained in my memory," he says. For Dr. Binnicker, director of Mayo Clinic's Clinical Virology Laboratory, two important dates stand out above the rest. "One was Feb. 17, 2020, when Dr. (William) Morice and I were talking about whether the department should…

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2023-05-03). Save lives this Take Back Day; safely dispose of unused medications. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org ROCHESTER, Minn. — Dispose of unneeded medications safely during National Prescription Drug Take Back Day on Saturday, April 22. Mayo Clinic, in collaboration with the Olmsted County Sheriff's Office, Olmsted Medical Center, Zumbro Valley Medical Society and the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), will host a community drop-off event to collect unused or expired medications. "The Olmsted County Sheriff's Office and Violent Crimes Enforcement Team (VCET) are proud to team up with Mayo Clinic and other…

Labor Video Project (2023-05-03). May1 "Injury To One Is An Injury To All" IBU Alcatraz Ferry Workers Protest Union Busting. indybay.org IBU-ILWU San Francisco Alcatraz Cruise ferry boat workers marched and rallied at Alcatraz Cruises at Pier 33 which is owned by Hornblower. The workers who voted for a union last fall face a blatant union busting drive by the company which has a long record of retaliating against pro-union workers and successful union busting.

channelnewsasia (2023-05-03). Livent boosts forecast on bullish outlook for lithium prices, demand. channelnewsasia.com

Dana Sanchez (2023-05-02). The Tricknology Of Sneaky Car Rental Concession Fees: The Deception Of Lower Prices. moguldom.com When it comes to renting a car, it's easy to get hooked by a rate that sounds reasonable, but once you make the reservation or see the final bill, that attractive per-day price has morphed into something that leaves you feeling winded thanks to all the extra fees. Car rental companies can charge fees for …

Dana Sanchez (2023-05-02). PacWest Bank In Focus As The Next Bank Vulnerable To Failure. moguldom.com The third major bank failure this year sent regional bank stock prices falling sharply Tuesday after JPMorgan Chase & Co. said early Monday it had bought First Republic Bank from out of U.S. government receivership in hopes of stabilizing the U.S. banking system. Share prices of regional lender PacWest Bancorp were down 33 percent on Tuesday morning and stock …

ecns.cn (2023-05-03). May Day holidays set to be 'most prosperous'. ecns.cn China's consumption has been firing on all cylinders during the just-ended May Day holidays, ranging from tourism, box office, transportation, entertainment to catering sectors.

David Goessmann (2023-05-03). Ukraine war: Why is the Pentagon actually running out of ammunition? indybay.org The larger problem is financialization. Step by step, this conquered all areas of society. And finally it also reached the holy grail of the military-industrial complex. With financialization came the neoliberal market doctrines of capacity reduction, downsizing, "lean inventories," and cutting costs wherever possible. They are the real drivers of the supply bottlenecks that are rampant everywhere.

Geoff Dembicki, Desmog. (2023-05-03). Oil Company Gave $200k To Group Accusing Pipeline Opponents Of Taking Secret Money. popularresistance.org A First Nations advocacy group whose leader has accused pipeline protesters of being beholden to hidden financial interests has taken hundreds of thousands of dollars from one of Canada's top oil and gas producers, newly reviewed corporate documents reveal. | Stephen Buffalo, CEO of the Alberta-based Indian Resource Council, is one of the most outspoken Indigenous voices in favor of oil and gas expansion, testifying several times to Canada's federal government and appearing frequently in mainstream media outlets. | On multiple occasions he's used his platform to attack the credibility of First Nations people and…

teleSUR (2023-05-03). US Debt Ceiling Crisis Threatens Global Financial Stability. telesurenglish.net The entrenched U.S. debt problem has once again drawn global attention, as U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen recently warned that the U.S. government could default as soon as June 1 if the debt ceiling isn't addressed. | RELATED: | Without timely action by the Congress — currently at an impasse amid partisan fight, the U.S. government would be unable to pay its bills, which would potentially cripple the U.S.

channelnewsasia (2023-05-03). 'Glimmer of hope' for Sri Lanka amid 'encouraging factors', says foreign minister. channelnewsasia.com Tourism is "central" to Sri Lanka's recovery, said Mr Ali Sabry, calling it "one of the lowest hanging fruits".

ecns.cn (2023-05-03). Investment in Australia hits new low. ecns.cn Chinese investment in Australia remains at record lows despite the wish for expansion from business circles amid a thawing diplomatic relationship.

channelnewsasia (2023-05-03). Indonesia cuts tax breaks to discourage low quality nickel investment-minister. channelnewsasia.com

Ann Brown (2023-05-02). Urban One Cashes Out Equity Stake In MGM National Harbor For $145 Million. moguldom.com Media conglomerate Urban One has completed the sale of its minority stake in Maryland-based MGM National Harbor resort and casino. Urban One, the country's largest Black-owned broadcasting company, has cashed out of its investment in MGM National Harbor. The family-owned media company, led by Alfred Liggins, received about $136.8 million after issuing a "put notice" …

channelnewsasia (2023-05-03). Porsche sees 25% operating profit jump in Q1 on record deliveries. channelnewsasia.com

channelnewsasia (2023-05-03). Starbucks sales, profits top estimates on China recovery. channelnewsasia.com

channelnewsasia (2023-05-03). Thomson Reuters profit tops estimates as it plans AI push. channelnewsasia.com

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2023-05-03). People with severe obesity and a genetic pathway variant have increased risk of hypertension, Mayo Clinic research finds. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org ROCHESTER, Minn. — Obesity and its associated cardiometabolic issues are a major health concern in the U.S. and internationally. According to a study published in 2017, 12% of the world's adult population was affected by obesity in 2016, double the percentage from 30 years earlier. With obesity comes an increasing risk of cardiovascular disease, including stroke, congestive heart failure and myocardial infarction. Fortunately, obesity is a multifactorial disease that results from an energy balance dysregulation…

Staff (2023-05-03). Chapeando: El primero y el cinco (+ Podcast). cubadebate.cu Andan descolocados los enemigos de la Revolución cubana, que lo son también de las celebraciones por el Primero de Mayo. Cuando recién empezaban a celebrar la suspensión de actividades en la Isla, se hizo pública la nueva convocatoria, ahora para el viernes 5 de mayo, 205 aniversario del natalicio de Karl Marx. Pero, para ser objetivos, no hubo y sí hubo Primero de Mayo en Cuba.

Olivia Rosane, Common Dreams. (2023-05-03). Largest May Day Turnout Since Pandemic, Workers March Worldwide. popularresistance.org Workers from Japan to France took to the street on Monday for the largest May Day demonstrations since Covid-19 restrictions pushed people inside three years ago. | Marchers expressed frustration with both their nations' policies—such as French President Emmanuel Macron's raising of the retirement age in March—and global issues like the rising cost of living and the climate crisis. | "The price of everything has increased except for our wages. Increase our minimum wages!" one activist speaking in Seoul told the crowd, as The Associated Press reported. "Reduce our working hours!" | "The price of everyt…

David Giesen (2023-05-03). Saturday 5/6: May Day higher wages stymied by artificial scarcity: the walking tour. indybay.org meet in the lobby of | the American Youth Hostel | 312 Mason Street. San Francisco…

WSWS (2023-05-03). Macron's police state wages war on French workers. wsws.org There is no room for compromise and nothing to negotiate with this government, and the way forward for the working class is to bring it down through a general strike.

David Bollier. (2023-05-03). The Revelations Of 'Black Earth Wisdom'. popularresistance.org The book showcases the history of African-American farming, including struggles for land tenure in the face of land theft, and the distinctive wisdom of Black agricultural science, spiritual traditions, folk practices, art, and culture. The overarching point is that our spiritual lives and the fate of the earth are intertwined. Sections of the book deal with our "ecological crisis as a spiritual plight"; the relationship between Black people and open space; the importance of and tenure and agrarianism; the pain of environmental racism and capitalism's assault on our land and waters; and the role of artists, write…

teleSUR (2023-05-03). Guinea Contract Teachers in the Streets, Threaten More Strikes. telesurenglish.net The contract teachers in Guinea have resorted to public protests and are contemplating additional industrial actions due to their escalating grievances concerning payment arrears and lack of integration within the nation's public education system. | Related: | According to the French news outlet RFI, demonstrators engaged in protests between April 24th and 30th in various regions of the West African state. | Accordin…

Alexander Rubinstein (2023-05-02). Ukrainian banker offers cash for drone terror in Russia. thegrayzone.com Days before a failed drone assassination targeting Putin, Ukrainian banking baron Volodymyr Yatsenko offered a $500,000 bounty to any weapons maker able to land a drone in Red Square during Moscow's upcoming Victory Day parade. On April 23, a Ukrainian drone laden with 30 Canadian-made C4 explosive blocks crashed near Rudnevo Industrial Park in Moscow. Ukraine-based operators deployed the 37 LB arsenal in a failed bid to assassinate Russian President Vladimir Putin, who was scheduled to visit Rudnevo that day. …

Anonymous103 (2023-05-02). Moscow Attacks Ukrainian Military-Industrial Complex. southfront.org Illustrative ImageThe goal of the maneuvers was to neutralize the regime's production of weapons and ammunition. | Written by A new wave of massive attacks by Russia on the military facilities of the Kiev regime began on April 30th. The main targets were factories and depots linked to the Ukrainian military-industrial complex, thus aiming to neutralize the neo-Nazi forces'

Ann Brown (2023-05-02). 50 Cent Buys 1 Million Square-Foot Warehouse, Will Turn Into Production Studio. moguldom.com On the heels of his new exclusive deal with Fox television network following a troubling run with Starz cable network, hip-hop mogul 50 Cent went to social media to announce that he had purchased a 985,000-square-foot studio space for his film and television production company, G-Unit Film & Television. 50 Cent, who was born Curtis …

Bill Hackwell, Resumen English. (2023-05-03). Cuban President Meets With Over 300 Enthusiastic US Supporters. popularresistance.org This morning, Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel received at the Palace of the Revolution 300 friends of Cuba, coming from the United States to demand an end to the blockade. Brigades, groups and other delegations are in Cuba to take part in the May 1 activities celebrating the International Day of Workers and to show their solidarity with the Cuban people who have withstood the longest continuous blockade in modern history. | Students, trade unionists, lawyers and political activists are here many making their first visit to the socialist island. Recognizing this President Díaz-Canel said: "from the United States…

WSWS (2023-05-03). The developing struggle to bring down the Macron government in France. wsws.org This is the report delivered by Alex Lantier, national secretary of the Parti de l'égalité socialiste (PES), to the 2023 International May Day Online Rally held on April 30.

WSWS (2023-05-03). The struggle for a Democratic and Socialist Congress of Workers and Rural Masses in Sri Lanka. wsws.org This is the report delivered by Deepal Jayasekera, the General Secretary of the Socialist Equality Party in Sri Lanka, to the 2023 International May Day Online Rally held on April 30.

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ecns.cn (2023-05-02). Factory activity contracts in April on weak demand. ecns.cn China's factory activity unexpectedly contracted for the first time in four months in April, indicating that the foundation of the country's post-pandemic recovery is not yet solid and underscoring the need for greater policy support to boost domestic demand, analysts said on Sunday.

Marc Steiner (2023-05-02). The GOP is holding the US economy hostage in the debt ceiling fight. therealnews.com The debt ceiling debate is back. On May 1, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen warned that the US government could

Mark Gruenberg (2023-05-02). Hollywood rocked by massive writers' strike forced by studio bosses. peoplesworld.org HOLLYWOOD—TV, livestreaming, and motion picture studio bosses' intransigence in bargaining and creation of "a gig economy inside a unionized workforce," forced 11,000 members of the Writers Guild of America, who craft scripts for television, motion pictures, streaming videos and similar forms of entertainment, to strike at 12: 01 am on May 1. "The companies' behavior has …

jamanetwork (2023-05-02). Challenges to Forming Physician Unions—Reply. jamanetwork.com In Reply We have been startled by the number of physicians who have contacted us after the publication of our Editorial, and many have relayed sentiments similar to those expressed by Dr Westbrook. The appeal of physician unions is a product of deep professional dissatisfaction with hospital-led medicine and a widespread sense that consolidated health care systems are not designed to serve the best interest of patients. Although most unfulfilled workers in the US economy can find alternative employment, many physicians' options for outside work are restricted by rigid noncompete agreements with local hospital sys…

channelnewsasia (2023-05-02). BOJ chief upbeat on Asia's economy, points to bank resilience. channelnewsasia.com

channelnewsasia (2023-05-02). Hollywood writers strike over pay in streaming TV 'gig economy'. channelnewsasia.com

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Luis Linares Petrov (2023-05-02). Russian economic outlook analyzed in Russia. plenglish.com Moscow, May 2 (Prensa Latina) The Patricio Lubumba University of Friendship with the Peoples hosted the 25th International Scientific and Practical Conference "Current Problems of Global Economy", where the future of the Russian economy was analyzed.

Staff (2023-05-02). Hollywood Writers Strike: Abbott Elementary's Brittani Nichols Decries "Gig Economy" in Streaming Era. democracynow.org Thousands of screenwriters behind Hollywood movies and TV shows are on strike as of midnight on Tuesday. The Writers Guild of America says its members are struggling to make a living, as rates have fallen and writers have less job security — even as the streaming era has led to an explosion in TV and film production. The strike is set to bring most TV production to a halt immediately, with some films also likely to be delayed if the impasse continues. The WGA previously went on strike in 2007-'08, which lasted 100 days and had a significant impact on the entertainment industry. "We are demanding…

channelnewsasia (2023-05-02). South Korea finance minister: South Korea, Japan, China cooperation more important as world economy at inflection point. channelnewsasia.com

channelnewsasia (2023-05-02). Commentary: Deadly heatwaves threaten to reverse India's progress on poverty and inequality. channelnewsasia.com With many more people in India expected to be hit by even greater heat extremes in the future, finance, urban design and education are necessary to help people adapt, say these experts from University of Cambridge.

Antonio C.S. Rosa (2023-05-01). Winner Takes All: John Perkins on the Global Economy. transcend.org 21 Apr 2023 – "Senate Finance Chief: Nothing Unites GOP More Than 'Helping Rich People Cheat on Their Taxes" reads a headline on Common Dreams this morning. But actually that has been the strategy of both parties in US development programs for decades, according to John Perkins.

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ecns.cn (2023-05-02). Limiting exports to China in the name of reducing dependency is not constructive: FM spokeswoman. ecns.cn Economic and trade cooperation is mutually beneficial, and China is an important market for semi-conductors, said Mao Ning, a spokeswoman for the ministry, at the daily news briefing.

ecns.cn (2023-05-02). Tibet enjoys social stability, ethnic solidarity and religious harmony: FM spokeswoman. ecns.cn China's Tibet Autonomous Region enjoys social stability, economic development, ethnic solidarity and religious harmony. People there lead a happy life and historic progress has been made in the human rights cause, Foreign Ministry spokeswoman said on Friday.

ecns.cn (2023-05-02). Xi presides over meeting on economic work. ecns.cn Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, on Friday presided over a meeting of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee to analyze current economic situation and economic work.

teleSUR (2023-05-02). 41st International Tourism Fair of Cuba Starts in Havana. telesurenglish.net On Monday, the Morro-Cabana Historic Military Park in Havana hosted the inauguration of the 41st International Tourism Fair of Cuba. | Related: | From Monday until Friday, 573 tour operators from various parts of the globe are set to participate in the event. | During the event, Cuban Prime Minister Manuel Marrero declared that the tourism sector plays a pivotal role in fostering the island's economic revival. | "Participat…

teleSUR (2023-05-02). Venezuelan President Maduro Signs Decree to Increase Bonuses. telesurenglish.net On Tuesday, Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro signed a decree to increase the value of the "Food Bonus" (Cestaticket) received by workers and the "Economic War Bond" deliverted to public employees, retirees and pensioners. | RELATED: | "Good morning Venezuela! We woke up signing the decree to increase the Cestaticket to US$40 and the Economic War Bond to reach US$30 per month… This is a tremendous effort in def…

ecns.cn (2023-05-02). Xiamen plans to ban pedestrians from using their mobile phones while crossing the road. ecns.cn In mid-April, the draft regulation on zebra crossing safety management in Xiamen Special Economic Zone was submitted to the 12th meeting of the Standing Committee of the 16th Xiamen Municipal People's Congress in east China's Fujian Province.

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Urs P Gasche (2023-05-02). At universities, the reality of the financial casino is taboo. indybay.org When buying or selling, high-speed trading can bring profits a few milliseconds or microseconds ahead of other high-speed trading bidders. These speculative trades have nothing to do with the good functioning of the financial markets. On the contrary, prices can be manipulated. In any case, these betting transactions have no economic benefit whatsoever.

channelnewsasia (2023-05-02). Economic growth remains robust in ASEAN region: Indonesia finance minister. channelnewsasia.com

Elsy Fors Garzon (2023-05-02). Dominican Republic and China strengthen relations in five years. plenglish.com Santo Domingo, May 2 (Prensa Latina) The Dominican Republic and China celebrate today five years since the establishment of diplomatic relations, with a strengthening of their economic and commercial exchanges.

Rhoda Wilson (2023-05-02). Author of 'The Limits to Growth' promotes the genocide of 86% of the world's population. expose-news.com Dennis Meadows, one of the main authors of the Club of Rome's The Limits to Growth, is an honorary member of the Club of Rome and a member of the World Economic …

Rhoda Wilson (2023-05-02). JP Morgan CEO wants to confiscate private property to force urgent investment in "green energy" expose-news.com JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon, who has been bought by the World Economic Forum, believes the US government should seize private property to combat climate change. This is not an exaggeration. In his annual …

_____ (2023-05-01). 'Securing Ourselves Is in Our Hands; and Defeat of the Enemy Lies in His Own Hands'. strategic-culture.org Xi and Putin are riding multiple 'horses': One may need a touch of the spur; another reined back a tad. | 'Securing Ourselves Is in Our Hands; and Defeat of the Enemy Lies in His Own Hands' | (Sun Tzu, d. 496 BCE) | Whilst the structural shift to a multipolar world is now well understood in geo-political terms, its other dimensions are little noticed. The media focus is so much centred on the military situation in Ukraine that it is easily overlooked that President Putin has also been fighting a financial war — a war on liberal economic theory; and a diplomatic war for the support of the non-West and from k…

channelnewsasia (2023-05-02). Economic growth remains robust in ASEAN region: Indonesia finance minister. channelnewsasia.com

teleSUR (2023-05-01). War-Induced Inflation and PM Meloni Irritate Italian Workers. telesurenglish.net International Workers' Day on Monday was marked in Italy by the discontent of citizens against Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and the loss of purchasing power caused by the economic consequences of the Ukrainian war. | RELATED: | The Italian General Confederation of Labor (CGIL), Italian Confederation of Workers' Unions (CISL) and the Italian Union of Labor (UIL) held their unitary demonstration in Potenza. | From this city in the…

Ann Brown (2023-05-01). Report: Americans Who Make Over $100,000 A Year Are More Likely Preparing For Recession. moguldom.com While the economists debate over whether or not the U.S. is in recession, there are some Americans who are already preparing for the worse. Investopedia defines a recession as "a significant, widespread, and prolonged downturn in economic activity. A common rule of thumb is that two consecutive quarters of negative gross domestic product (GDP) growth …

channelnewsasia (2023-05-02). Chinese electric vehicle brands expand to global markets. channelnewsasia.com

channelnewsasia (2023-05-02). Fresh pork back in stock in Singapore, ending temporary disruption over African swine fever discovery. channelnewsasia.com Fresh pork is available at local supermarkets and it will be distributed to wet markets from Wednesday (May 3), says Senior Minister of State for Sustainability and the Environment Koh Poh Koon.

_____ (2023-05-01). Five Arab States Plus Iran Among 19 Nations Ready to join BRICS. strategic-culture.org Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Algeria, Egypt, Bahrain, and Iran have formally asked to join the BRICS group of nations as it prepares to hold its annual summit in South Africa. | In total, 19 nations have expressed interest in joining the emerging-markets bloc of Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa, according to Anil Sooklal, South Africa's ambassador to the group. | "What will be discussed is the expansion of BRICS and the modalities of how this will happen … Thirteen countries have formally asked to join, and another six have asked informally. We are getting applications to join every day," the South Afri…

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2023-05-02). Breaking barriers: Helping Native Americans in need get the gift of life. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org Robert Monroe and Jackie Johnson stand near their home on the Navajo Indian Reservation in Arizona For many American Indians and Alaska Natives, living on an Indian reservation provides a sense of pride, independence, and the ability to maintain cultural and social traditions important to their heritage. Life on the Indian reservation can also mean high rates of poverty, lack of access to food, transportation, communication and health care. Complex medical procedures like an organ…

WSWS (2023-05-02). More than 330,000 Australian workers face "significant rental stress" wsws.org A government report released in April details a sharp decline in housing affordability and availability across the country, with low-income earners bearing the brunt of the crisis.

jamanetwork (2023-05-02). Infertility Affects 1 in 6 People Globally. jamanetwork.com About 17% of people experience infertility at some point during their lifetime, according to a World Health Organization (WHO) report that analyzed 133 studies. Prevalence estimates were consistent across countries regardless of income, with 17.8% and 16.5% of people in high- and low- or middle-income countries experiencing infertility, respectively.

Julia Conley (2023-05-01). Sanders Calls on Biden to Fight for Working People in Debt Ceiling Battle. truthout.org Sen. Bernie Sanders on Sunday said President Joe Biden and the Democratic Party must do everything in their power to defend middle- and low-income people in potential budget negotiations, after the Republicans said they will raise the country's debt limit only in exchange for cuts to green jobs, food assistance, healthcare, and other social services that millions of Americans depend on. |

Susan Price (2023-05-02). Labour Day celebrated on the Gold Coast. greenleft.org.au Hundreds of unionists and their families attended the Labour Day march on the Gold Coast on April 30, reports Susan Price.

WSWS (2023-05-02). Opposition grows to CWU agreement with Royal Mail: "It's all about profit on the backs of postal workers" wsws.org The World Socialist Web Site is publishing further correspondence from postal workers in Britain exposing the sweatshop conditions being enforced by Royal Mail, with the full collaboration of the Communication Workers Union.

WSWS (2023-05-02). Rail union bureaucrats in the US "demand" temporary pause to stock buybacks. wsws.org The rail union bureaucrats continue to refer to Biden and other Democratic Party politicians as "friends of labor," five months after the strike ban.

Anjoulie Woodhead (2023-05-02). New York Assembly and Senate Champions Vow to Pass Global Debt Relief Bill. indybay.org Largest New York Labor and Religious Groups Support the New York Taxpayer and International Debt Crises Protection Act…

Mansa Musa (2023-05-02). May Day's history shows why labor and prison struggles are intertwined. therealnews.com May Day, also known as International Workers' Day, is celebrated around the world by labor unions, socialist parties, and anarchists. May Day's origins go back to the 1886 Haymarket Affair, when hundreds of thousands of US workers walked off the job, and 40,000 went on strike in Chicago for an eight-hour workday. Despite its origins, May Day is largely unknown in the US today. TRNN Editor-in-Chief Maximillian Alvarez joins Rattling the Bars for a discussion on the history of May Day, and how the persecution of organizers in the wake of the Haymarket Massacre highlights the importance of extending solidarity…

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2023-05-02). Science Saturday: COVID-19 — the pandemic that's forever changed laboratory testing. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org Like many people throughout the world, Matthew Binnicker, Ph.D., remembers exactly where he was and what he was doing when COVID-19 was classified as a pandemic. "Those first few months of the pandemic will be forever ingrained in my memory," he says. For Dr. Binnicker, director of Mayo Clinic's Clinical Virology Laboratory, two important dates stand out above the rest. "One was Feb. 17, 2020, when Dr. (William) Morice and I were talking about whether the department should…

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2023-05-02). Save lives this Take Back Day; safely dispose of unused medications. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org ROCHESTER, Minn. — Dispose of unneeded medications safely during National Prescription Drug Take Back Day on Saturday, April 22. Mayo Clinic, in collaboration with the Olmsted County Sheriff's Office, Olmsted Medical Center, Zumbro Valley Medical Society and the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), will host a community drop-off event to collect unused or expired medications. "The Olmsted County Sheriff's Office and Violent Crimes Enforcement Team (VCET) are proud to team up with Mayo Clinic and other…

Press Associates (2023-05-02). Talk about retaliation: Ritzy Chicago club fires its housekeepers. peoplesworld.org CHICAGO —In what looks like a textbook case of retaliation, which breaks U.S. labor law, Chicago's ritzy Midtown Athletic Club, which now includes a fancy hotel, had planned to fire all its housekeepers on May Day, the international workers holiday. But when they staged a one-day "Save Our Jobs" walkout, press conference and leafleting on …

teleSUR (2023-05-02). Canada Reaches Deal With 120,000 Striking Federal Workers. telesurenglish.net Canada has successfully concluded an agreement with approximately 120,000 federal employees who had embarked on a strike, thereby effectively terminating one of the most considerable public-sector stoppages in the nation's chronicles. The labor-action had caused significant service disruptions, including but not limited to, passport renewals and immigration services. | Related: | The majority of strikers are poised to…

teleSUR (2023-05-02). U.S. Salmonella Outbreak Linked to Flour. telesurenglish.net On Monday, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said that as determined by investigators, the source of the recent Salmonella outbreak, which has affected at least 13 individuals across 12 states in the United States, is caused by flour. | Related: | According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), sick individuals who were interviewed, as well as laboratory data, revealed that Salmon…

Vince Quiles (2023-05-02). Temple University's successful grad student strike offers lessons for academic labor organizers. therealnews.com On Jan. 31 of this year, the Temple University Graduate Students' Association (TUGSA) launched the first strike in their 25-year history. The decision to strike came as a result of years of organizing that largely began in 2020, after Temple's decision to force in-person classes in the fall of 2020 led to a completely preventable

Isaac Nellist (2023-05-02). Labor must raise the JobSeeker rate for all. greenleft.org.au Under significant pressure Labor is signalling it will raise the rate of the JobSeeker payment in the federal budget — but only for those aged over 55. Isaac Nellist reports.

Peoples Dispatch (2023-05-02). Trade union leaders from Africa call for renewed struggles on May Day. peoplesdispatch.org Leaders of workers' organizations in Ghana, South Africa, and Guinea-Bissau, among others, talk about the significance of May Day and the way ahead for organized labor in the continent…

teleSUR, nama, JCM (2023-05-02). PMA reanuda labores en Sudán tras muerte de su personal. telesurtv.net El 16 de abril último el Programa Mundial de Alimentos informó que tres miembros de su personal en Sudán habían muerto.

TeleSur, odr, YSM (2023-05-02). Organizaciones piden reivindicar derechos laborales en El Salvador. telesurtv.net Han salido a las calles para alzar la voz en la solicitud de los derechos, ante la existencia de violación a los derechos laborales, despidos masivos injustificados.

teleSUR, odr, YSM (2023-05-02). Sindicatos demandan mejores condiciones laborales en Ecuador. telesurtv.net La dirigente sindical Marcela Arellano entregó la presidencia del Frente Unitario de Trabajadores (FUT) a José Villavicencio.

WSWS (2023-05-02). Rail union bureaucrats in the US "demand" temporary pause to stock buybacks, continue to hail "pro-labor" Democrats who banned strike. wsws.org Through this pathetic and toothless campaign, the union bureaucracy is trying to redirect the growing anger and militancy of railroaders into harmless moral appeals to railroad CEOs.

teleSUR, jcvm, JGN (2023-05-02). Cinco libros para conocer al maestro brasileño Paulo Freire. telesurtv.net El pedagogo brasileño fue uno de los principales exponentes de la pedagogía crítica y dio a su labor magisterial un profundo sentido social.

channelnewsasia (2023-05-02). Produksi daging di lab: Upaya Malaysia kurangi emisi gas rumah kaca dari peternakan. channelnewsasia.com Memperingati Hari Bumi, CNA mengulas fasilitas produksi daging budidaya pertama Malaysia di Penang dan apa dampaknya bagi perubahan iklim.

Derek Seidman (2023-05-01). Mother Jones Organized Against Child Labor 120 Years Ago: Let's Resume Her Fight. truthout.org To the shock of many, the issue of exploited child labor has been grabbing headlines in the United States In late February, The New York Times published a major exposé that documented how migrant children as young as 12 are working as roofers and food deliverers, in slaughterhouses and industrial factories, for major corporations and private equity firms, suffering injury and even death… |

Janine Jackson (2023-05-01). Rutgers Academic Workers Are Striking for the Future of Public Education. truthout.org Janine Jackson interviewed Rutgers' Donna Murch about the lessons of the Rutgers strike for the April 21, 2023, episode of CounterSpin. This is a lightly edited transcript. Janine Jackson: Thousands of teachers — full-time, tenured, part-time, adjunct — grad students, counselors and others at New Jersey's Rutgers University went on strike this month, an unprecedented labor action at the 257-year… |

Sam Pizzigati (2023-05-02). We must not dance, Harry Belafonte understood, to a billionaire beatÔøº. nationofchange.org This epochal artist helped us see that justice for all requires a just distribution of wealth.

LWVSFC (2023-05-02). Saturday 5/20: Drag for Democracy. indybay.org The Commonwealth Club of California | 110 The Embarcadero, San Francisco, CA 94105…

channelnewsasia (2023-05-03). Livent boosts forecast on bullish outlook for lithium prices, demand. channelnewsasia.com

teleSUR (2023-05-02). Haiti on 'Brink of Civil War', Humanitarian Group Warns. telesurenglish.net According to Mercy Corps, a humanitarian organization, Haiti is currently at the "brink of a civil war", with frequent clashes between criminal factions and ordinary citizens, presenting a menacing threat of escalation. | Related: | On Monday, Mercy Corps reported the emergence of a hunger crisis in the Caribbean nation, prompted by the exacerbating security situation and escalating prices. | According to the group, the surging viol…

channelnewsasia (2023-05-02). Japan's Mitsui FY 2022/23 net profit up 24% on higher energy prices. channelnewsasia.com

channelnewsasia (2023-05-02). Tesla raises prices in US, China, Japan and Canada. channelnewsasia.com

David Goessmann (2023-05-02). Ukraine war: Why is the Pentagon actually running out of ammunition? indybay.org The larger problem is financialization. Step by step, this conquered all areas of society. And finally it also reached the holy grail of the military-industrial complex. With financialization came the neoliberal market doctrines of capacity reduction, downsizing, "lean inventories," and cutting costs wherever possible. They are the real drivers of the supply bottlenecks that are rampant everywhere.

Zane McNeill (2023-05-02). Burnt by Charity Models, Club Q Shooting Victims Support Survivor-Led Mutual Aid. truthout.org Survivors of the Club Q tragedy say they are still waiting to receive money that was fundraised on their behalf, criticizing national LGBTQ organizations for using the shooting for their own financial gain. After a gunman attacked the gay club on November 19th, 2022 in Colorado Springs, Colorado, national LGBTQ organizations like GLAAD and the Human Rights Campaign released statements in mourning… |

channelnewsasia (2023-05-02). Commentary: A gruesome severed fingertip tells a painful story about corporate Japan. channelnewsasia.com A delivery driver in Japan pressed on with his rounds after severing his fingertip while on the job. Though the man's decision was shocking by any standards, it drew widespread recognition, says the Financial Times' Leo Lewis.

Jon Queally (2023-05-01). Warren Says First Republic Bank Collapse Exposes the Rigged US Financial System. truthout.org Sen. Elizabeth Warren said Monday that the latest government bailout of a failing Wall Street institution shows how much the financial system remains rigged in favor of powerful banks and that it is beyond time for Congress to step up with increased oversight and reforms. Federal regulators Monday announced they had seized the entirety of First Republic Bank and sold it to JPMorgan Chase for an… |

Ann Brown (2023-05-01). $1 Billion Question: Will T.D. Jakes Help Wells Fargo Deflect Racist History Like Jay-Z Helped The NFL? moguldom.com Megachurch pastor and best-selling author Bishop T.D. Jakes has partnered up with financial giant Wells Fargo. While on the surface, the 10-year partnership aimed at promoting inclusive communities would seem groundbreaking, some are wondering if the deal was made to deflect from the big bank's racist history. Is the move by Wells Fargo similar to …

teleSUR (2023-05-02). Eurozone Inflation Up to 7 Pct in April: Eurostat. telesurenglish.net On Tuesday by Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Union (EU), published a report showing that Eurozone annual inflation was 7 percent in April, up from 6.9 percent in March. | RELATED: | "The unexpected increase is the result of a bounce back in energy price inflation after the strong negative base effect in March, and slightly higher service price inflation," said Carsten Brzeski, global head of macro f…

channelnewsasia (2023-05-02). Cryptoverse: Digital coins lure inflation-weary Argentines and Turks. channelnewsasia.com

channelnewsasia (2023-05-02). Food pushes Pakistan inflation to record 36.4% in April. channelnewsasia.com

channelnewsasia (2023-05-02). Indonesia's April annual inflation eases to 4.33%, below forecast. channelnewsasia.com

channelnewsasia (2023-05-02). South Korea April inflation eases to 14-month low, matches expectations. channelnewsasia.com

Rick Rozoff (2023-05-02). U.S. military rehearses war with Russia in Europe. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com U.S. Army Europe and AfricaMay 2, 2023 Swift Response 23, first of three, major DEFENDER 23-linked exercises, to begin Swift Response 23, the first of three major exercises that make up the Dynamic Employment of Forces to Europe for NATO Deterrence and Enhanced Readiness 2023 or DEFENDER 23, begins May 7, across the Baltic Sea …

channelnewsasia (2023-05-02). Not easy to get English-speaking foreign workers for customer-facing roles, recruiters say. channelnewsasia.com Foreign workers who can speak English are sought after in many countries, where they can get a higher salary than what Singapore companies offer, employment agencies say.

teleSUR (2023-05-02). Palestinian Jader Adnan Dies After 88-Day Hunger Strike. telesurenglish.net On Tuesday, 44-year-old Palestinian prisoner Jader Adnan died after spending 86 days on a hunger strike in an Israeli jail. Shortly before being transferred to a hospital on the outskirts of Tel Aviv, he was found unconscious in his cell. | RELATED: | His hunger strike had begun on February 5, the same day he was arrested and charged with terrorism and incitement to violence as a member of the Palestinian Islamic…

Eric Zuesse (2023-05-02). Approximately 26% of U.S. Government Spending Goes to Weapon-Makers. dissidentvoice.org The vast majority of the U.S. Government's purchases are for the military, and most of that is paying for weapons and for enabling America's troops to use them. For example, in the 3 April 2018 "OMB and Congressional Budget Office estimates of discretionary new budget authority" that "The President signed … into law on March …

channelnewsasia (2023-05-03). Starbucks sales, profits top estimates on China recovery. channelnewsasia.com

channelnewsasia (2023-05-03). Thomson Reuters profit tops estimates as it plans AI push. channelnewsasia.com

teleSUR (2023-05-02). African Scientists Urge Preparedness to Contain Diseases. telesurenglish.net Sub-Saharan African nations should intensify surveillance, and invest in new vaccines, diagnostics, and therapeutics in order to curb the growing threat of infectious diseases, scientists said on Sunday at the 2023 Ibrahim Governance Weekend held in Nairobi. | RELATED: | Tom Kariuki, director of the Science for Africa Foundation, a Nairobi-based non-profit lobby that advances science and innovations, stressed that enhanced preparedness will be key…

channelnewsasia (2023-05-02). JAL expects 60% profit rise in further post-pandemic recovery. channelnewsasia.com

channelnewsasia (2023-05-02). Singapore bank DBS Q1 profit jumps 43% to new high, beats estimates. channelnewsasia.com

Antonio C.S. Rosa (2023-05-01). Taiwan—A Pawn for U.S. War on China. transcend.org 27 Apr 2023 – While the U.S.-NATO war against Russia in Ukraine continues unabated, the U.S. is preparing at breakneck speed for war with China, using Taiwan as the excuse. Taiwan, like Ukraine, is a pawn. Surrounding China with military bases, nuclear weapons and military vessels is a highly dangerous provocation. U.S. wars are for corporate profit.

Antonio C.S. Rosa (2023-05-01). What Can "the Invisibles" Do to Make Wars Stop? transcend.org It is said that in a war everyone loses, but that is not true at all. There are those who make huge profits from the death and suffering of other human beings, of men, women and children like us: the Elites…

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2023-05-02). People with severe obesity and a genetic pathway variant have increased risk of hypertension, Mayo Clinic research finds. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org ROCHESTER, Minn. — Obesity and its associated cardiometabolic issues are a major health concern in the U.S. and internationally. According to a study published in 2017, 12% of the world's adult population was affected by obesity in 2016, double the percentage from 30 years earlier. With obesity comes an increasing risk of cardiovascular disease, including stroke, congestive heart failure and myocardial infarction. Fortunately, obesity is a multifactorial disease that results from an energy balance dysregulation…

Ileana Ferrer Fonte (2023-05-02). Cuba attends regional insurance conference in Costa Rica. plenglish.com San Jose, May 2 (Prensa Latina) Cuba's Insurance Superintendent, Noemí Benítez, is participating in Costa Rica on Tuesday in the 21st Conference on Insurance Regulations and Supervisions in Latin America, targeted to analyze this matter in the nations of the region.

Orinoco Tribune 2 (2023-05-02). Ben Dupuy, Quintessential Haitian Revolutionary Leader, Dead at 91. orinocotribune.com By Kim Ives -Apr 26, 2023 | The First of Two Parts | Benjamin Dupuy, arguably Haiti's greatest communist leader and ideologue from the 1970s to the 2010s, passed away in a Miami Beach nursing home on Apr. 23 at the age of 91. He had been extremely ill and bedridden for many months, suffering from emphysema and suspected lung cancer. | A journalist, photographer, filmmaker, diplomat, organizer, and political party leader, Dupuy was a model Marxist theoretician and man-of-action, unwavering in his life-long pursuit of socialist revolution in Haiti. | Born in Cap HaàØtien on Sep. 30, 1931, the fourth of eight…

WSWS (2023-05-02). Workers Struggles: The Americas. wsws.org Workers occupied the Altos Hornos de México steel plant over unpaid wages while transit workers for the Imperial County Transportation Commission in El Centro, California walked off the job April 25.

David Giesen (2023-05-02). Saturday 5/6: May Day higher wages stymied by artificial scarcity: the walking tour. indybay.org meet in the lobby of | the American Youth Hostel | 312 Mason Street. San Francisco…

Julia Conley (2023-05-02). Sanders calls on Biden to fight for working people as GOP wages 'war' in debt limit proposal. nationofchange.org "We have already too much inequality in America," said Sanders. "Let's not make it worse."

WSWS (2023-05-02). Why the sell-out by Germany's public service union Verdi must be rejected. wsws.org The new contract for public sector workers means a further reduction in real wages, which had already been massively reduced during the pandemic.

Frank Cappello (2023-05-02). üéß MOVIES VS. CAPITALISM: Newsies (w/ Harvey Kaye). levernews.com

Orinoco Tribune 2 (2023-05-02). The Decline of US Imperialism. orinocotribune.com "U.S. imperialism is declining because the parasitic system of capitalism upon which U.S. imperialism is built on, is running out of recourses and nations to consume," Funez says. | He also says "the de-dollarization" is happening because nations see the effects of U.S. imperialism on their nation. | Here is the text of interview with Ramiro Funez: | Q: Why is U.S. imperialism declining? | U.S. imperialism is declining because the satanic system of neoliberalism, capitalism, usery, debt and the global religion of money is declining because it is a parasitic system that constantly needs a new host in order to cont…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-05-02). The Decline of U.S. Imperialism: Interview with Ramiro Funez. libya360.wordpress.com Ali Karbalaei Tehran Times conducts an interview with Ramiro Sebastian Funez, an anti-imperialist content creator in Los Angeles, to gain further insight on the diminishing U.S. imperialism and hegemony in the globe. "U.S. imperialism is declining because the parasitic system of capitalism upon which U.S. imperialism is built on, is running out of recourses and…

Pablo Navarrete (2023-05-01). Cine Liberación: El cine revolucionario que necesitamos. peoplesworld.org En su manifiesto de 1969, Hacia un Tercer Cine, los cineastas argentinos Fernando Solanas y Octavio Getino definieron el Tercer Cine como "un cine de liberación" que se oponía a los valores del primer y segundo cine. Describieron el primer cine como "el cine comercial dominante", al servicio del capitalismo y el imperialismo estadounidenses; El …

infobrics (2023-05-02). Moscow attacks Ukrainian military-industrial complex. infobrics.org The goal of the maneuvers was to neutralize the regime's production of weapons and ammunition.

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-05-02). Nicolas Maduro: Has He Become a Neoliberal? libya360.wordpress.com Thierry Deronne Caracas, April 20, 2023. Meeting with the president of Bolivia Luis Arce Lucho Arce, the president of Venezuela Nicolás Maduro proposes to make of the two nations a public industrial pole that will produce and guarantee the necessary fertilizers to the peasants of Latin America and the Caribbean. In various sectors of the…

Elsy Fors Garzon (2023-05-02). Bolivia discovers new hydrocarbon deposit, says president. plenglish.com La Paz, May 2 (Prensa Latina) Bolivian President Luis Arce confirmed Monday in a speech the discovery in the department of Santa Cruz of a new hydrocarbon well as part of the natural resources of its industrialization policy.

Staff (2023-05-02). Ukrainian banker offers cash for drone terror in Russia. thegrayzone.com Days before a failed drone assassination targeting Putin, Ukrainian banking baron Volodymyr Yatsenko offered a $500,000 bounty to any weapons maker able to land a drone in Red Square during Moscow's upcoming Victory Day parade. On April 23, a Ukrainian drone laden with 30 Canadian-made C4 explosive blocks crashed near Rudnevo Industrial Park in Moscow. …

Chris Hedges (2023-05-01). Chris Hedges: The Enemy From Within. mintpressnews.com The war industry, a state within a state, disembowels the nation, stumbles from one military fiasco to the next, strips us of civil liberties and pushes us toward suicidal wars with Russia and China.

Ann Brown (2023-05-02). 50 Cent Buys 1 Million Square-Foot Warehouse, Will Turn Into Production Studio. moguldom.com On the heels of his new exclusive deal with Fox following a troubling run with Star, hip-hop mogul 50 Cent went to social media to announce that he had purchased a 985,000-square-foot studio space for G-Unit Film & Television. He has yet to say where the studio is located, but he had been scouting a …

WSWS (2023-05-02). The war in Ukraine and how to stop it: Meeting at Berlin's Humboldt University explains causes of war and socialist perspective. wsws.org It was the first meeting in Germany of an international series on the causes of the NATO proxy war in Ukraine held by the youth and student movement of the International Committee of the Fourth International (ICFI).

William Paul (2023-05-02). The Better Schools and Student Outcome Act: Crushing What's Broken. socialistproject.ca Ontario Education Minister Stephen Lecce must really want to be a magician — making elephants or something outlandish disappear, then reappear behind you. Maybe that explains his tactic of making cuts to education, then announcing the addition of nearly 2,000 more educators all while introducing new legislation that will further centralize education and enable his Tories to make school properties available to their developer friends. | Actually, he's not a great magician, but Mr. Lecce certainly knows how to wrap everything up into a big ball of mess in order to distract people from seeing what's really…

thecommunists (2023-05-02). Odessa after the massacre: nine years later the wounds are still fresh. thecommunists.org This exclusive interview with an Odessa massacre survivor was carried out for Proletarian by Steve Sweeney in Russia. ***** Sasha gently rolls back the sleeve of her jumper to reveal scarred and damaged skin. "It still hurts me sometimes even now," she tells me as we sip coffee in a Moscow cafe. "Doctors said it …

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2023-05-01: News Headlines

channelnewsasia (2023-05-02). South Korea finance minister: South Korea, Japan, China cooperation more important as world economy at inflection point. channelnewsasia.com

teleSUR (2023-05-01). Latin America Celebrates International Workers' Day. telesurenglish.net On May 1, Latin American workers will mobilize to defend their rights and commemorate International Workers' Day. | RELATED: | In Argentina, social and trade union organizations will gather in Buenos Aires City to defend workers' rights and reject the interference of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in domestic economic policies. | Groups such as the Union of Workers of the Popular Economy, the Evita Movement, the Combative Class Cu…

Ben Norton (2023-05-01). Europe pays more for banned Russian oil, resold by India — as EU wages fall. geopoliticaleconomy.com The EU sanctioned Russia and boycotted its oil, yet is still buying it indirectly from India, at a higher price. This is fueling both de-dollarization and inflation in the Eurozone, where workers' real wages dropped 6.5% from 2020 to 2022.

ecns.cn (2023-05-01). Factory activity contracts in April on weak demand. ecns.cn China's factory activity unexpectedly contracted for the first time in four months in April, indicating that the foundation of the country's post-pandemic recovery is not yet solid and underscoring the need for greater policy support to boost domestic demand, analysts said on Sunday.

channelnewsasia (2023-05-02). South Korea finance minister: South Korea, Japan, China cooperation more important as world economy at inflection point. channelnewsasia.com

Research Unit For Political Economy (2023-05-01). The Economics and Politics of the World Social Forum. globalresearch.ca

Margaret Flowers (2023-05-01). 'May Day' Militancy Needed to Create the Economy We Need. globalresearch.ca

Ben Norton, Geopolitical Economy. (2023-05-01). Europe Pays More For Banned Russian Oil, Resold By India. popularresistance.org The European Union heavily sanctioned Russia and pledged to boycott its oil, yet continues to buy it, and at an even higher price, albeit indirectly. | India is importing record levels of discounted Russian crude, purchasing it in currencies other than the dollar. India then refines the Russian oil and exports fuel to Europe at a profit. | Meanwhile, increasing energy costs in Europe have stoked inflation, causing workers' wages to significantly decline. | The real wages of workers in the Eurozone fell by 6.5% between 2020 and 2022. | As of April, Bloomberg reported, European imports of refined fuel from India ar…

Peoples Dispatch (2023-05-01). On May Day, NUMSA calls for a national economic agenda for the working class. peoplesdispatch.org The National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa has called for ending neoliberal policies and is pushing for greater state intervention in the economy, the nationalization of key sectors, and an expansionary budget to alleviate the economic crisis in the country…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-05-01). War and the World Majority: Russians Speak. libya360.wordpress.com International Manifesto Group As the West's hybrid proxy war on Russia proceeds, Russia and Russians are faced with momentous choices, both about the structure and orientation of their society, economy and politics domestically and in their foreign policy orientation. As Radhika Desai and Alan Freeman discovered in their recent trip to Russia, the national conversation…

Franco Vielma (2023-04-30). Latest Updates on Venezuela's Economic Dynamics. orinocotribune.com By Franco Vielma — Apr 28, 2023 | Venezuela's economy has continued to grow during 2023, but at a much slower pace compared to the first quarter of 2022. | Economic activity continues to have crude oil production as a key indicator. During 2023, the production of barrels has grown by only 5%, and part of this increase is due to the joint work of Petróleos de Venezuela SA (PDVSA) with the US multinational Chevron under the joint venture scheme. | This means that the general oil activity and the various projects of PDVSA remain stagnant, largely due to the operational shortcomings caused by the blockade agains…

teleSUR (2023-04-30). The US Economy is Headed for a Recession, Experts Say. telesurenglish.net The U.S. economy appears to be slowing, and could hit a recession this year, according to experts, economic indicators and major corporations. | RELATED: | "It is very likely that the economy will be tipped into recession by mid-year," said Desmond Lachman, senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and a former official at the International Monetary Fund (IMF). | GDP, which measures all goods and services produced in the United States, rose at a paltry 1.1 percent ann…

Urs P Gasche (2023-05-01). At universities, the reality of the financial casino is taboo. indybay.org When buying or selling, high-speed trading can bring profits a few milliseconds or microseconds ahead of other high-speed trading bidders. These speculative trades have nothing to do with the good functioning of the financial markets. On the contrary, prices can be manipulated. In any case, these betting transactions have no economic benefit whatsoever.

ecns.cn (2023-05-01). Xi presides over meeting on economic work. ecns.cn Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, on Friday presided over a meeting of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee to analyze current economic situation and economic work.

ecns.cn (2023-05-01). Tibet enjoys social stability, ethnic solidarity and religious harmony: FM spokeswoman. ecns.cn China's Tibet Autonomous Region enjoys social stability, economic development, ethnic solidarity and religious harmony. People there lead a happy life and historic progress has been made in the human rights cause, Foreign Ministry spokeswoman said on Friday.

ecns.cn (2023-05-01). Limiting exports to China in the name of reducing dependency is not constructive: FM spokeswoman. ecns.cn Economic and trade cooperation is mutually beneficial, and China is an important market for semi-conductors, said Mao Ning, a spokeswoman for the ministry, at the daily news briefing.

ecns.cn (2023-05-01). Xiamen plans to ban pedestrians from using their mobile phones while crossing the road. ecns.cn In mid-April, the draft regulation on zebra crossing safety management in Xiamen Special Economic Zone was submitted to the 12th meeting of the Standing Committee of the 16th Xiamen Municipal People's Congress in east China's Fujian Province.

Brian Berletic (2023-05-01). The War Is Over | The End Of NATO | Brian Berletic Alex Reporterfy | The New Atlas. thealtworld.com In recent years, the ongoing conflict in Ukraine has been a major source of tension and violence in the region. However, China has recently emerged as a surprising new player in the conflict resolution process, offering diplomatic and economic support to help end the war in Ukraine. | China's involvement in Ukraine has largely been motivated by its desire to promote regional stability and protect its own economic interests. As a major global power and a key player in the region, China has the resources and influence to help mediate a peaceful resolution to the conflict. In recent years, Chinese officials have bee…

Thierry Deronne, Chicago ALBA Solidarity . (2023-05-01). Nicolas Maduro, Has He Become A Neoliberal? popularresistance.org In various sectors of the Venezuelan opposition, in the mainstream media or in the usual middle-class "political science trotskyist" circles, a new chant is circulating. The slow exit from the Western blockade is due to the fact that Nicolas Maduro has finally "embraced capitalism" or "taken a neoliberal turn". For Alberto Barrera Tyszka of the New York Times (1), neoliberalism is even the economic arm of Maduro's "dictatorship". | The "evidence" varies: from images of posh neighborhoods in Caracas with ostentatious stores, restaurants and luxury casinos, to job offers on digital platforms and the circulation of…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-05-01). In Conversation with Sergey Glazyev. libya360.wordpress.com Radhika Desai and Alan Freeman Sergey Glazyev Russian politician and economist. Photo credit: A. Savin (Wikimedia Commons). St. Petersburg, 1 April, 2023 We met Sergey Glazyev at the St Petersburg Economic Forum where, having long been a lone voice demanding a turn away from neoliberalism and toward the path to planning, industrial policy, redistribution and…

admin_ips (2023-05-01). Report: High Flyers 2023: How Ultra-Rich Private Jet Travel Costs the Rest of Us and Burns Up the Planet. ips-dc.org In this report, we assess the environmental, economic, and security risks of private jet travel — and lay out tax reforms to offset them.

krish-rad_ind (2023-05-01). Increased Wellness And Economic Return Of Universal Broadband. popularresistance.org

scorinoco (2023-04-30). Has Nicolás Maduro Become a Neoliberal? orinocotribune.com By Thierry Deronne — Apr 28, 2023 | In various sectors of the Venezuelan opposition, in the mainstream media or in the usual middle-class "political science trotskyist" circles, a new chant is circulating. The slow exit from the Western blockade is due to the fact that Nicolas Maduro has finally "embraced capitalism" or "taken a neoliberal turn." For Alberto Barrera Tyszka of the New York Times (1), neoliberalism is even the economic arm of Maduro's "dictatorship." | The "evidence" varies: from images of posh neighborhoods in Caracas with ostentatious stores, restaurants and luxury casinos, to job offers on…

Federico Fuentes (2023-04-30). Austria: What's behind the historic Communist surge in Salzburg? greenleft.org.au The Communist Party of Austria (KPàñ) stunned many with its historic vote in the state of Salzburg. Christian Zeller, an ecosocialist and professor in economic geography at the University of Salzburg, discusses the rise and significance of the KPàñ's vote.

Rhoda Wilson (2023-04-30). WEF wants to accelerate the commercialisation of nature or, if you prefer their alternative, depopulation. expose-news.com World leaders will be gathering together later this year to "accelerate the implementation of Agenda 2030," according to an announcement made by the unaccountable, unelected, corporate-led World Economic Forum ("WEF") earlier this …

Teresa Ghilarducci, Christopher D. Cook, Economic Policy Institute. (2023-04-30). More Older Workers Are Trapped In Crummy Jobs, Unable To Retire. popularresistance.org Over the past two decades, older workers have become an increasingly significant share of the labor force. In the economic recovery after the Great Recession of 2008—2009, four in 10 Americans ages 55 or older were in the labor force—the highest participation rate in half a century. As of 2020, these older workers made up 23.6% of the total U.S. workforce, the highest portion on record. | Why are so many older Americans unable to retire and so many working into old age to survive? For many, the answer isn't "because they want to." Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, more than 50% of low-income older ho…

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2023-05-01). Breaking barriers: Helping Native Americans in need get the gift of life. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org Robert Monroe and Jackie Johnson stand near their home on the Navajo Indian Reservation in Arizona For many American Indians and Alaska Natives, living on an Indian reservation provides a sense of pride, independence, and the ability to maintain cultural and social traditions important to their heritage. Life on the Indian reservation can also mean high rates of poverty, lack of access to food, transportation, communication and health care. Complex medical procedures like an organ…

Pavel López Lazo (2023-05-01). Handwashing can cut reduce respiratory disease burden — WHO. plenglish.com London, May 1 (Prensa Latina) A recent investigation found that handwashing with soap can reduce cases of acute respiratory infection (ARI) in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) by as much as 17%.

Saheli Chowdhury (2023-05-01). Proletariat of the Proletariat: Women's Unpaid Labour. orinocotribune.com By Saheli Chowdhury — May 1, 2023 | The pandemic brought the spotlight on many of the wrongs of capitalism, among them the issue of unpaid labour. The term unpaid labour is generally associated with care work — care for children, the elderly, the sick, and the family — mostly considered "women's work." For the majority of care work, capitalism does not pay any remuneration; instead, the "payment" is societal — praise for women's "motherly nature" while violating all their rights as members of the working class, thus making women what I call "the proletariat of the proletariat." | Although g…

Editor (2023-04-30). May Day: Workers' Struggles, International Solidarity, Political Aspirations. socialistproject.ca For more than 100 years, May Day has symbolized the common struggles of workers around the globe. Why is it largely ignored in North America? The answer lies in part in American labour's long repression of its own radical past, out of which international May Day was actually born a century ago.

Kerry Smith (2023-04-30). Palestinian trade unions call for worldwide action to end Israeli apartheid. greenleft.org.au Palestinian trade unions are urging the international labour movement to take action in support the Palestinian-led movement against Israeli occupation, colonisation and apartheid, reports Kerry Smith.

Fight Back (2023-05-01). Green Bay, WI: Students, workers and community members rally for May Day. fightbacknews.org Green Bay, WI – On Sunday, April 30, members of Freedom Road Socialist Organization, Appleton Students for a Democratic Society, United Action Oshkosh, and Food Not Bombs all rallied in Green Bay for the third annual May Day celebration in the broader Fox Valley. | The rally began with a reading of a FRSO statement by Aodhan Bowman. Bowman made clear that the enemy — the monopoly capitalists — stand no chance against a united front composed of workers, oppressed nationalities, and youth. As mentioned in the statement, the growing momentum seen in the labor movement and the various people's movements…

WSWS (2023-05-01). Svitzer Australia drops bid to tear up tugboat workers' enterprise agreement. wsws.org This is not a "victory" as unions claim, but a tactical shift. Svitzer is seeking to take advantage of new "intractable bargaining" laws introduced late last year by the federal Labor government.

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2023-05-01). Save lives this Take Back Day; safely dispose of unused medications. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org ROCHESTER, Minn. — Dispose of unneeded medications safely during National Prescription Drug Take Back Day on Saturday, April 22. Mayo Clinic, in collaboration with the Olmsted County Sheriff's Office, Olmsted Medical Center, Zumbro Valley Medical Society and the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), will host a community drop-off event to collect unused or expired medications. "The Olmsted County Sheriff's Office and Violent Crimes Enforcement Team (VCET) are proud to team up with Mayo Clinic and other…

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2023-05-01). Science Saturday: COVID-19 — the pandemic that's forever changed laboratory testing. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org Like many people throughout the world, Matthew Binnicker, Ph.D., remembers exactly where he was and what he was doing when COVID-19 was classified as a pandemic. "Those first few months of the pandemic will be forever ingrained in my memory," he says. For Dr. Binnicker, director of Mayo Clinic's Clinical Virology Laboratory, two important dates stand out above the rest. "One was Feb. 17, 2020, when Dr. (William) Morice and I were talking about whether the department should…

Eleanor J. Bader (2023-05-01). Labor Trafficking Is Inseparable from Capitalism. progressive.org A new book exposes the horrors of human trafficking woven into our everyday lives.

Peoples Dispatch (2023-05-01). Doctors Without Borders ask Israel to stop forceful displacement of Palestinians from Masafer Yatta. peoplesdispatch.org Israeli occupation forces often collaborate with illegal settlers to attack Palestinians and their properties in the occupied territories in order to force them to leave their homes and farms to be occupied later…

Peter Boyle (2023-05-01). Video: Sydney May Day march demands Labor govts support workers' rights, climate action and peace. greenleft.org.au The Sydney May Day march demanded that state and federal Labor governments support workers' rights, urgent action on the climate emergency and peace. Video by Peter Boyle and Pip Hinman.

teleSUR, nama, JCM (2023-05-01). PMA reanuda labores en Sudán tras muerte de su personal. telesurtv.net El 16 de abril último el Programa Mundial de Alimentos informó que tres miembros de su personal en Sudán habían muerto.

Pavel López Lazo (2023-05-01). Cuba reports 27 new Covid-19 cases, no deaths. plenglish.com According to MINSAP ¥s latest report, Cuba has so far carried out 14,348,702 tests at the molecular biology laboratories, of which 1,114,319 came back positive. | Out of the 27 new cases (11 males and 16 females), 20 of them were contacts of already confirmed cases, one infected from abroad and six with no source of infection yet specified. | The infections were reported in Havana, Cienfuegos, Villa Clara, Sancti Spíritus, Camagàºey, Las Tunas, Holguín and Santiago de Cuba. | 173 patients are currently hospitalized, 78 of them reported as suspected cases and 95 as confirmed active patients. All patients…

ecns.cn (2023-05-01). Workers honored with May 1 Labor Medals. ecns.cn China honored 1,035 workers with National May 1 Labor Medals on Thursday for their outstanding work performance and contributions to the nation's manufacturing and industrial development.

Derek Seidman (2023-04-30). Undercover Salting Isn't Just a Labor Strategy. It Has an Anti-War History Too. truthout.org The tactic of "salting" — getting a job with the specific intention of organizing your workplace — has recently been grabbing news headlines. In a recent Bloomberg story, labor journalist Josh Eidelson showed how the Starbucks union drive, which began in Western New York and continues across the country, was started by salts. Eidelson, as well as labor journalist Luis Feliz Leon and scholar Mie… |

David Lassen, Trains. (2023-04-30). Unions Say Share Buybacks Should Stop Until Safety Improves. popularresistance.org Washington — A coalition of railroad labor unions today called on the Class I systems to pause their stock buyback programs and abandon the low-cost Precision Scheduled Railroading operating model until safety improves. | The 14 unions, which combined represent more than 100,000 railroad workers, claim that since 2015 the six publicly-traded freight railroads spent more than $165 billion in stock buybacks, which is $46 billion more than they invested in safety. | "For years, rail workers have been sounding the alarm about safety issues. It's time to listen to rail workers, not rail CEOs," the union coalitio…

WSWS (2023-05-01). New Zealand PM rules out raising tax on super-rich after report shows massive concentration of wealth. wsws.org The country's richest 311 people hold $85 billion in assets and pay less than half the tax rate paid by ordinary working people.

LWVSFC (2023-05-01). Saturday 5/20: Drag for Democracy. indybay.org The Commonwealth Club of California | 110 The Embarcadero, San Francisco, CA 94105…

Editor (2023-04-30). Marjorie Taylor Green Challenged on Populist Bona Fides. scheerpost.com By Briahna Joy Gray and Robby Soave / The Hill Briahna Joy Gray Challenges Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Green (R-GA.) on right wing populism and her true establishment bona fides, pressing her on issues like taxing the rich, military spending, corporate contributions, and wealth inequality. Robby Soave Robby Soave is a senior editor at Reason and host of Rising on Hill …

jamanetwork (2023-05-01). JAMA Internal Medicine —The Year in Review, 2022. jamanetwork.com The US enters the fourth year of the COVID-19 pandemic with increasing health care challenges. Medicare is heading toward insolvency, launch prices of new drugs are reaching an all-time high, and Congress is increasingly dysfunctional. At JAMA Internal Medicine, our hard work of promoting high-value health care that is accessible to all is more important than ever. Meanwhile, we are continuing to watch closely the implementation phase of reducing low-value care. The journal's Less is More series of articles, which is entering its 13th year, is as important as ever. In 2023, we hope to see progress on complex issu…

channelnewsasia (2023-05-01). Commentary: How much extra would you pay to save the planet? channelnewsasia.com Companies are growing more confident about being able to charge high prices for low-emission products without worrying they'll be displaced by cheaper, dirtier alternatives, says Chris Bryant for Bloomberg Opinion.

WSWS (2023-05-01). Fate of First Republic Bank hangs in the balance as report on SVB collapse exposes "regulatory" framework. wsws.org The ongoing financial crisis raises the question of how many more mines are lodged within the system waiting to explode because the report on the collapse of SVB released last week by Fed vice chair Michael Barr makes clear its demise proceeded in plain sight.

teleSUR (2023-05-01). WB Approves Loan to China for Agricultural & Rural Development. telesurenglish.net The international financial institution, World Bank, has authorized a loan of 345 million U.S. dollars. The Bank of China's Beijing office announced on Saturday that this loan is meant to bolster the advancement of environmentally friendly agriculture and of rural areas in the central Chinese provinces of Hubei and Hunan. | Related: | The allocated funds, in partnership with government subsidies, are intended to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions t…

David Goessmann (2023-05-01). Ukraine war: Why is the Pentagon actually running out of ammunition? indybay.org The larger problem is financialization. Step by step, this conquered all areas of society. And finally it also reached the holy grail of the military-industrial complex. With financialization came the neoliberal market doctrines of capacity reduction, downsizing, "lean inventories," and cutting costs wherever possible. They are the real drivers of the supply bottlenecks that are rampant everywhere.

Paul Craig Roberts (2023-05-01). The US Dollar is Finished. thealtworld.com Are You Ready for High Inflation and Collapsing Living Standards? | Paul Craig Roberts | US power since World War II has been based on its financial dominance stemming from the dollar being the reserve currency held by central banks in place of gold. As the dollar was the currency used to settle international trade accounts, every country needed dollars. That ensured a large demand for dollars to absorb the supply of dollars from the growing US budget and trade deficits. In effect, the dollar as world reserve currency allowed the US to pay its bills by printing money. | In recent years Washington's abuse of US fi…

jamanetwork (2023-05-01). Association Between Industry Payments and Hyaluronic Acid Administration. jamanetwork.com This cross-sectional study assesses the physician and financial factors associated with the use of hyaluronic acid to treat knee osteoarthritis.

Rhoda Wilson (2023-04-30). IMF publishes multi-year plan to implement CBDCs; it may spell the end of our financial freedom and autonomy. expose-news.com On 10 April, the International Monetary Fund ("IMF") published the 'IMF Approach to Central Bank Digital Currency Capacity Development'. It outlines the IMF's multi-year strategy for aiding central bank digital currency ("CBDC") …

Dave DeCamp (2023-04-30). Iran's Tanker Seizure Came After the US Stole a Shipment of Iranian Oil. news.antiwar.com Iran's recent seizure of a US-bound oil tanker came after the Biden administration forced a tanker carrying Iranian oil to deliver the cargo to the US instead of China, Financial Times reported Friday. Using the pretext of sanctions enforcement, the US Justice Department seized the tanker Suez Rajan with a court order with the cooperation …

Ryan McCarty, Left Voice. (2023-04-30). Striking Workers At U. Michigan Are Building Powerful Solidarity. popularresistance.org The morning of April 28, I was stumbling around making coffee, checking the strike news on Twitter. It's been about a month now since my graduate student instructor colleagues voted overwhelmingly to strike, facing down the legal and financial powerhouses at the University of Michigan. I only had to scroll for a second, then I just sorta had to sit down. | There was a picture of about 20-30 people in a beer garden on a gray springy afternoon, fists raised and smiling. The message was from grad students, lecturers, and faculty from UC Santa-Cruz; they had held a fundraiser and were donating $600 to the University…

channelnewsasia (2023-05-02). South Korea April inflation eases to 14-month low, matches expectations. channelnewsasia.com

channelnewsasia (2023-05-01). Commentary: Spending time on your own can be good for you. channelnewsasia.com We need to recognise the benefits of solitude and see it as a positive choice, not something that happens to us, says this Durham University psychology professor.

_____ (2023-04-30). How Much NATO's Citizens Pay for NATO's Wars. strategic-culture.org The United States is indisputable leader in defense spending both in absolute figures and per capita. However, on the latter count the gap is not so dramatic with some Nordic countries demonstrating impressive propensity for making their citizens pay for war. | (Click on the image to enlarge)…

_____ (2023-04-30). The Last Offensive of the Kiev Regime. strategic-culture.org The Ukrainian military junta is under intense pressure from its sponsors to finally prove that the over 158 billion dollars that the collective West has so far invested in it were absolutely worth spending. | The long-announced major offensive by military forces under the control of the criminal Kiev regime is inevitable; no one should doubt that anymore, and it is really only a matter of days before this large and massive operation will begin. However, Kiev is not rushing into this disastrous adventure because it is fully prepared for an offensive, as American General Christopher Cavoli, the commander of the Uni…

channelnewsasia (2023-05-02). Singapore bank DBS Q1 profit jumps 43% to new high, beats estimates. channelnewsasia.com

Peoples Dispatch (2023-05-01). In Europe, working-class resilience on full display during May Day. peoplesdispatch.org Trade unions, as well as communist and leftist political parties, organized rallies across Europe on May Day, highlighting the issue of the cost of living crisis generated by imperialist war and profiteering by multinational companies. The resilience of the working class against repression and anti-worker policies was on display, especially in France and the UK, where governments have launched a full-fledged assault on the working class. | Workers across the UK, pushed to the edge by the COVID-19 crisis, were plunged further into despair over the past year. They experienced a fall in real wages and continuing inf…

Paul Craig Roberts (2023-04-30). Will there ever be accountability for Mass Murder by Covid "vaccine"? thealtworld.com ABC Refuses to Air RFK Jr. Comments About COVID-19 Vaccines | Here we have more conclusive proof of Tucker Carlson's reporting that ABC, NBC, CNN and the rest of the whore media are loyal to their profits and not to trut…

Christian Betancourt, Next City. (2023-04-30). Nonprofit Shows How To Create An 'Aboveground Railroad' For Migrants. popularresistance.org In the 1980s, when Sendy Soto and her family left Guatemala for the United States in search of a better life, they followed in a long American immigrant tradition by making Chicago's Logan Square their home. | There, among her Mexican, Central American, Polish and other immigrant neighbors, Soto was instilled with a sense of community and a desire to help and work with Chicago's growing migrant population. | A 2020 report from the Vera Institute of Justice showed that 1.7 million migrants reside in Chicago, about 18% of the population, and 842,000 are at risk of deportation.

Conor Gallagher, Naked Capitalism. (2023-04-30). Workers Who Have Occupied An Italian Factory Are Close To Owning It. popularresistance.org The longest-ever factory in Italian history is taking place in Florence where the 300 workers are now making progress at turning it into a worker-owned non-profit that would pay the employees and produce products that would benefit the community. Should the workers succeed, it could provide an inspiration for others. | For three years workers at the former automotive parts factory, GKN Florence, were in limbo. According to Investigative Reporting Project Italy, in 2018 GKN was purchased by the British hedge fund Melrose, which went about enacting its motto of "buy, improve, sell."

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2023-05-01). People with severe obesity and a genetic pathway variant have increased risk of hypertension, Mayo Clinic research finds. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org ROCHESTER, Minn. — Obesity and its associated cardiometabolic issues are a major health concern in the U.S. and internationally. According to a study published in 2017, 12% of the world's adult population was affected by obesity in 2016, double the percentage from 30 years earlier. With obesity comes an increasing risk of cardiovascular disease, including stroke, congestive heart failure and myocardial infarction. Fortunately, obesity is a multifactorial disease that results from an energy balance dysregulation…

marxists (2023-05-01). A May-Day Message from Germany (1920). marxists.org Democracy and militarism embraced each other and united for the common struggle against the Left.

WSWS (2023-05-01). San Francisco Bay Area nurses set to strike against understaffing, falling real wages. wsws.org Nearly 300 nurses will strike this week after being kept on the job without a contract by the California Nurses Association bureaucracy for nearly two years.

People's Dispatch. (2023-05-01). Agitation By Teachers Forces Latvian Government To Increase Wages. popularresistance.org An intense three-day strike by educators in Latvia, led by the Latvian Education and Science Workers' Trade Union (LIZDA), forced the coalition government headed by Krisjanis Karins to increase their wages. LIZDA organized a major protest march in the Latvian capital of Riga on April 24 and went on a three-day strike until April 27. | Subsequently, in a meeting with the union leadership on April 25, government authorities in principle agreed to increase teachers' pay, with additional funding of EUR 4.168 million (USD 4.59 million). On April 26, an emergency meeting of the cabinet approved the agreement for additi…

WSWS (2023-04-30). Workers' resistance grows in Germany amid layoffs, cuts in real wages and exploitation. wsws.org Discontent and a willingness to fight is spreading in the working class in Germany. However, success requires a perspective that can organise the struggles independently of the trade unions such as Verdi and IG Metall.

Editors l'Anticapitaliste (2023-05-01). For a massive and noisy May Day. internationalviewpoint.org "We must engage in the political battle to get rid of this illegitimate government and work for a revolutionary break with capitalism, for a democratic, eco-socialist society, free of exploitation and oppression." | – | / |

John Pilger, Consortium News. (2023-05-01). The Coming War — Time To Speak Up. popularresistance.org In 1935, the Congress of American Writers was held in New York City, followed by another two years later. They called on "the hundreds of poets, novelists, dramatists, critics, short story writers and journalists" to discuss the "rapid crumbling of capitalism" and the beckoning of another war. They were electric events which, according to one account, were attended by 3,500 members of the public with more than a thousand turned away. | Arthur Miller, Myra Page, Lillian Hellman, Dashiell Hammett warned that fascism was rising, often disguised, and the responsibility lay with writers and journalists to speak out. T…

Editor (2023-05-01). John Pilger: The Coming War. scheerpost.com By John Pilger In 1935, the Congress of American Writers was held in New York City, followed by another two years later. They called on 'the hundreds of poets, novelists, dramatists, critics, short story writers and journalists' to discuss the 'rapid crumbling of capitalism' and the beckoning of another war. They were electric events which, …

Michael A. Lebowitz, The Bullet. (2023-04-30). The State And The Future Of Socialism. popularresistance.org We are in the midst of a class war. That's not unusual. There is always class war in capitalism — although sometimes it is hidden and sometimes there is the interlude of an apparent Carthaginian Peace. But the class war has intensified now because of the crisis in capitalism — a crisis rooted in the over-accumulation of capital. And, in this crisis, capital has intensified the class war against the working class. Austerity, cutbacks, the need to sacrifice — these are the demands of capital as it calls upon workers to bear the burden of capital's own failures. This is a war conducted by capitalis…

Staff (2023-05-01). Reportan incendio en la zona industrial de Matanzas. cubadebate.cu El equipo de prensa del Telecentro Provincial de Matanzas informa sobre un posible incendio en áreas de la zona industrial yumurina. Hasta el momento, se desconoce la magnitud y las causas del humo que se ha visto en la zona. Sin embargo, en estos instantes ya no se divisa humo sobre la bahía, lo que indica que la situación podría estar bajo control.

Rania Khalek (2023-05-01). New Report On The US Military Industrial Complex's Revolving Door. thealtworld.com In this free clip from the "Unauthorized Disclosure" podcast, Rania Khalek and Kevin Gosztola discuss a report on the U.S. military industrial-complex, particularly the revolving door between the government and military contractors. | As of 2021, 672 former government officials, military officers, members of Congress, and senior legislative staff were working for major military contractors like Boeing, Raytheon, or Lockheed Martin.

Anonymous103 (2023-04-30). BREAKING: Russian Massive Strikes Hit Ukrainian Military In Dnepropetrovsk Region. southfront.org Click to see full-size image | Russian forces have launched another massive attack on Ukrainian military facilities far from the front line. So far, Russian strikes have been reported in the city of Pavlograd in the Ukrainian Dnipropetrovsk region. | Russian missiles and kamikaze UAVs were reportedly used for the attack. | According to preliminary reports, at least eight explosions have already thundered in the city. The targets were reportedly the warehouses and in the industrial zone. Damage to trains and railway…

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Peoples Dispatch (2023-05-01). Indian government derecognizes leading postal unions over aid to farmers' struggle, purchase of books. peoplesdispatch.org The All India Postal Employees Union and the National Federation of Postal Employees were reportedly derecognized based on complaints by a postal union with ties to the RSS, the parent organization of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party…

WSWS (2023-05-01). As Canadian government workers push to expand strike, union leaders stay silent on negotiating blitz. wsws.org Rather than alerting federal government workers and the working class more broadly to the government's strikebreaking plans, the PSAC bureaucrats have fallen silent.

Fight Back (2023-05-01). Dayton FRSO holds successful May Day events. fightbacknews.org Dayton, OH – On April 29, approximately 15 activists gathered in Dayton's courthouse square to celebrate International Workers Day. The event was organized by the Freedom Road Socialist organization under the banner of "celebrating the continued struggle for the liberation of the international working class." | Event speakers highlighted various areas of struggle in which FRSO is currently engaged. They spoke to the gains recently made in Chicago with the push for community control of the police, the growing solidarity movement around the Tampa 5, and a summation of the recent border delegation andthe need for l…

Fight Back (2023-05-01). Foreign Agents Registration Act is a tool to repress descent. fightbacknews.org Minneapolis, MN — On April 18, the Department of Justice announced new indictments and arrest warrants for the leadership of the African Peoples Socialist Party (APSP) and the Uhuru movement. The Department has alleged that Omali Yeshitela, Jesse Nevel and Penny Hess conspired to act as unregistered foreign agents, in violation of the 18 U.S.C. ß 951 – a statute related to the little known Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA). | FARA is a piece of federal law that dates back to 1938, and specifically to Special Committee on Un-American Activities, the precursor of the now-infamous House Un-American…

WSWS (2023-05-01). UK: Nurses speak from the picket lines during strike over pay. wsws.org World Socialist Web Site reporters spoke to nurses on the picket lines during their strike across England on May 1.

WSWS (2023-05-01). May Day 2023: For the international unity of the working class against national chauvinism and war! wsws.org The following is the text of the opening report delivered by David North, chairperson of the International Editorial Board of the World Socialist Web Site, to the International May Day Online Rally 2023, held Sunday, April 30.

Staff (2023-05-01). 'Operation Freedom:' Remembering Venezuelan Opposition's Failed Coup d'Etat 4 Years Ago. orinocotribune.com This Sunday, April 30, the revolutionary forces of Venezuela's civic, military, and police unions met at the Distribuidor Altamira bridge in Caracas to remember the failure of "Operation Freedom," an attempted coup carried out in 2019 by Juan Guaidó and opposition leader and fugitive from justice Leopoldo López in their desperate endeavors to overthrow the legitimate government of president Nicolás Maduro. | The vice president of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV), Diosdado Cabello, began his speech at around 6 a.m., accompanied by the tune of "Gloria al Bravo Pueblo," the Venezuelan national anthem,…

Pavel López Lazo (2023-05-01). Cuba ready to give its own blood for Vietnam, says Roberto Morales. plenglish.com Hanoi, May 1 (Prensa Latina) Cuba remains ready to give its own blood for Vietnam, the member of the Political Bureau and Secretary of Organization of the Communist Party (PCC) Roberto Morales said while paying an official visit to Vietnam.

thecommunists (2023-04-30). The quiet revolution: peace breaking out all over the middle east. thecommunists.org After half a century of failed 'peace initiatives', 'road maps', 'deals of the century' and 'shuttle diplomacy', peace appears to be breaking out all over the middle east — without any help at all from Uncle Sam. It seems that the biggest contribution to peace that can be made by the United States is via …

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