(2023-06-07). Report: Over 1 mln U.S. jobs supported by China trade. ecns.cn China is the only country outside of the Americas whose purchases of goods and services from the United States support more than 1 million jobs in the world's largest economy, which is part of the reason policymakers should value the "stabilizing and beneficial" role of trade for both countries.
(2023-06-07). Southern Xinjiang works out new plan to set up an economic belt around Tarim. ecns.cn Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region has proposed the establishment of an economic development belt surrounding Tarim to boost the development of southern Xinjiang region, which would represent a major breakthrough for the region's development.
(2023-06-07). China's foreign trade posts stable growth of 4.7% in first five months. ecns.cn China's foreign trade grew 4.7 percent year-on-year in the first five months of the year, extending good momentum for steady and consolidated growth, official data showed on Wednesday.
(2023-06-07). World Bank revises up China's growth to 5.6%. ecns.cn The World Bank has predicted China's economy will grow at 5.6 percent this year, up by 1.3 percentage points from its January forecast, but has revised down projections for most economies, as it sees global growth on a precarious footing amid high interest rates.
(2023-06-07). BRICS Bloc; Adding Members, Planning New Currency To Challenge US Dollar. popularresistance.org The BRICS bloc of Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa is expanding, as its members grow in economic and political influence. | Together, the five BRICS members represent more than 40% of the global population, and their share of the world economy (when measured in purchasing power parity) is larger than that of the G7. | The foreign ministers of the BRICS states met in South Africa on June 1 and 2. There, they discussed a series of issues, including plans to create a new global reserve currency to challenge the dominance of the US dollar. | Also present at the meeting in South Africa was a group of top…
(2023-06-07). BRICS New Development Bank de-dollarizing, adding Argentina, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Zimbabwe as members. geopoliticaleconomy.com 
The BRICS bloc's New Development Bank, an alternative to the US-dominated World Bank, is de-dollarizing its loans, promoting local currencies, and adding new members: Argentina, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and Zimbabwe.
(2023-06-07). China leads the world in integrating 5G into economy: experts. ecns.cn 5G applications have emerged in nearly 60 percent of the nation's economic categories, with wide coverage of 5G networks and application of 5G solutions in major industries, media reports said.
(2023-06-07). World Bank lifts China's growth forecast to 5.6%. ecns.cn China's growth rate is projected to reach as high as 5.6 percent in 2023, an increase from the earlier forecast of 5.1 percent.
(2023-06-07). Australian Labor treasurer manoeuvres as RBA lifts interest rates again. wsws.org In line with policies of major central banks around the world, the RBA is lifting rates to slow the economy, or even induce a recession, to crush the growing wages struggles of the working class under the banner of the need to "fight inflation."
(2023-06-07). BRICS New Development Bank de-dollarizing, adding Argentina, Saudi Arabia, Zimbabwe as members. geopoliticaleconomy.com The BRICS bloc's New Development Bank, an alternative to the US-dominated World Bank, is de-dollarizing its loans, promoting local currencies, and adding new members: Argentina, Saudi Arabia, and Zimbabwe.
(2023-06-07). Failure of the US Monetary System and the Solution. scheerpost.com 
By Richard C. Cook / Original to ScheerPost The debt-ceiling crisis that recently played out in Washington between budget-cutting Republicans and the further explosion of debt under the Biden administration highlights again the failure of the US monetary system to provide effective liquidity for the world's largest economy. After a brief period of balanced federal …
(2023-06-06). The World Economy Is Changing—the People Know, but Their Leaders Don't. independentmediainstitute.org The year 2020 marked parity between the total GDP of the G7 (the U.S. plus allies) and the total GDP of the BRICS group (China plus allies). Since then, the BRICS economies grew faster than the G7 economies. Now a third of total world output comes from the BRICS countries while the G7 accounts for …
(2023-06-06). Recreational Vehicles and Magazines: What's Up Since the Pandemic. cepr.net If people feel they are doing poorly in today's economy, we can't tell them they are wrong to feel the way they do. We can say that, based on the consumption data, it doesn't look like they are doing poorly.
(2023-06-06). UK green tax on household goods is part of Agenda 2030 and the circular economy. expose-news.com The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development ("OECD") and its Extended Producer Responsibility ("EPR") strategy are part of Agenda 2030 and the circular economy agenda. Yesterday we published an article on the …
(2023-06-06). BRICS Nations — Appeals for The Adoption of Chinese Yuan Over the U.S. Dollar. infobrics.org Syria, in major support of the de-dollarization of the global economy, has encouraged the BRICS nations to lead the development, empowering the Chinese yuan to become the global currency…
(2023-06-06). India Set to Carry the Torch for Brics Bloc. infobrics.org Country's economy is growing faster than China's, and its short-term goal is to become a $5-trillion economy…
(2023-06-06). Why China's socialist economy is more efficient than capitalism. mronline.org 
The difficulty the U.S. faces in its current attempts to damage China's economy was analysed in detail in the article "The U.S. is trying to persuade China to commit suicide". Reduced to essentials, the U.S. problem is that it possesses no external economic levers powerful enough to derail China's economy.
(2023-06-07). Pre-pandemic Event 201 Coronavirus Simulation Was Devised at Infamous World Economic Forum Confab in Davos. globalresearch.ca
(2023-06-06). Recreational Vehicles and Magazines: What's Up Since the Pandemic. cepr.net If people feel they are doing poorly in today's economy, we can't tell them they are wrong to feel the way they do. We can say that, based on the consumption data, it doesn't look like they are doing poorly.
(2023-06-06). UK green tax on household goods is part of Agenda 2030 and the circular economy. expose-news.com The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development ("OECD") and its Extended Producer Responsibility ("EPR") strategy are part of Agenda 2030 and the circular economy agenda. Yesterday we published an article on the …
(2023-06-06). BRICS Nations — Appeals for The Adoption of Chinese Yuan Over the U.S. Dollar. infobrics.org Syria, in major support of the de-dollarization of the global economy, has encouraged the BRICS nations to lead the development, empowering the Chinese yuan to become the global currency…
(2023-06-06). India Set to Carry the Torch for Brics Bloc. infobrics.org Country's economy is growing faster than China's, and its short-term goal is to become a $5-trillion economy…
(2023-06-06). Why China's socialist economy is more efficient than capitalism. mronline.org The difficulty the U.S. faces in its current attempts to damage China's economy was analysed in detail in the article "The U.S. is trying to persuade China to commit suicide". Reduced to essentials, the U.S. problem is that it possesses no external economic levers powerful enough to derail China's economy.
(2023-06-07). Pre-pandemic Event 201 Coronavirus Simulation Was Devised at Infamous World Economic Forum Confab in Davos. globalresearch.ca
(2023-06-07). Ethiopia and China's Yingke Law Firm assess cooperation. plenglish.com During a visit to the headquarters of the Chinese law firm, Derbew highlighted the abundance of resources and workforce that allowed the implementation of internal economic reforms to improve the development of the African country, quoted by Fana Broadcasting Corporate. | He stated that those favorable conditions served Chinese companies to choose Ethiopia as their investment destination. He urged Yingke to cooperate with the Ethiopian Embassy to benefit both countries. | Xi Yu, who came accompanied by Yingke Africa Executive Director Cao Xinglong, stated that his firm ranked first in the 2022 Global 200, rankin…
(2023-06-07). Iranian President to Travel to Venezuela, Nicaragua and Cuba. telesurenglish.net Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi will travel next week to Venezuela, Nicaragua and Cuba to strengthen relations with these Latin American countries. | RELATED: | Accompanied by a high-ranking delegation, Raisi will leave Tehran on Sunday. His trip aims to promote economic, political and scientific cooperation. He is also expected to meet with local businessmen and activists. | This will be Raisí's first trip to Latin America since he took office in August 20…
(2023-06-07). China Voices Concern Over Destruction of the Kakhovka Dam. telesurenglish.net On Tuesday, Zhang Jun, China's permanent representative to the United Nations, voiced concern over the destruction of the Kakhovka hydroelectric power plant dam. | RELATED: | "We express our grave concern over the destruction of the dam at the Kakhovka hydroelectric power plant. We are deeply concerned about the resulting humanitarian, economic, and ecological consequences," he said. | "We call on all parties to the conflict t…
(2023-06-07). Is Algeria Ready to Join BRICS?>. infobrics.org Despite its economic shortcomings, Algeria's geographic position, fast-growing population, and warm relations with all BRICS countries, makes its bid a strong one…
(2023-06-06). Obsolete Cold War Attitudes Are Holding Europe Back By: Fiona Edwards. midwesternmarx.com 
Recently, the United States has been followed by a number of European countries in supporting a cold war policy toward Russia and China. This has created increasing problems in Europe—bringing a major war to the continent, creating serious economic difficulties, and intensifying a decline in living standards. In this context, the case for Europe establishing an independent foreign policy has gained support, as a way of ensuring security and prosperity. Starting with the most extrem …
(2023-06-06). Black America Praises Dr. Darity's Answer To Question On Black Crime: 'Depends On What Type Of Crime You're Talking About'. moguldom.com Reparations advocate Dr. William Darity recently spoke at the University of Massachusetts Amherst event, where he was asked a question on Black crime. Darity, the Samuel DuBois Cook Professor of Public Policy, African and African American Studies, and Economics at Duke University, wasted no time in cutting down the question that seems to suggest the …
(2023-06-06). Iran Can Be an Important Partner for Brics: FM. orinocotribune.com TEHRAN (Tasnim) — Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian said the country can be a major partner for the BRICS group of countries. | "Iran, with its unique geopolitical location and its remarkable economic capacities, can be an important partner for BRICS. We will not miss any opportunity to secure our national interests," Amirabdollahian said in a Persian-language post published on his Instagram page on Sunday. | He also said the era of unilateralism is coming to an end, and that the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) and the BRICS group of countries will play major roles in the future as a…
(2023-06-06). Tampa call center workers strike against layoffs. fightbacknews.org Tampa, FL – Early in the morning June 5, over 40 Maximus employees, Communications Workers of America (CWA) members, and other supporters rallied in front of Maximus, a federally contracted call center, in Riverview, Florida. The rally was part of a nationwide one-day strike put on by the CWA in response to hundreds of layoffs nationwide and to demand a living wage. | As commuters rolled by, honking horns and waving in solidarity, picketers chanted, "Hey hey, ho ho, poverty wages have got to go!" Laid-off workers spoke about the type of abuse they received from management at Maximus such as timed bathroom breaks.
(2023-06-06). Protecting Safety Net Programs Means Protecting People From Poverty. inequality.org You could say the blues have followed me wherever I've gone. My mom came from a family of 18, picking cotton and peanuts in Georgia. My dad, who played the blues, couldn't read. He learned numbers selling produce. I was born in Massachusetts, where my mom worked in the factories and raised me alone after …
(2023-06-06). Prayer helped me survive poverty, but I needed government help too. nationofchange.org Our social safety net is flawed but vital. Let's work together to protect it from political attacks.
(2023-06-06). Diluted Sovereignty: A Very Australian Example. dissidentvoice.org Australian concepts of sovereignty have always been qualified. First came the British settlers and invaders in 1788. They are pregnant with the sovereignty of the British Crown, bringing convicts, the sadistic screws, and forced labour to a garrison of penal experiments and brutality. The native populations are treated as nothing more than spares, opportunistic chances, …
(2023-06-07). NAACP, Latinx, labor and LGBTQ rights groups warn against visiting Florida. peoplesworld.org 
WASHINGTON—You've heard of State Department "travel advisories" for people planning to visit various foreign countries? "Don't go there. It's dangerous," is either implicit or explicit. Well, things are so bad for people of color and gay-lesbian-bisexual-transgender people that three top civil rights groups have issued travel advisories…for Florida. In so many words, what they're saying …
(2023-06-07). Exporting Occupation: Israeli Business is Booming in Morocco-Occupied Western Sahara. mintpressnews.com 
"Before the normalization happened, the Israelis would collaborate with the Moroccans, but also wouldn't feel comfortable going beyond this covert intelligence or military or ad hoc cooperation, but with normalization, this has now reached a whole new level that is unprecedented." — Riccardo Fabiani, International Crisis Group…
(2023-06-07). "We will not give in to blackmail": Colombians defend government and progressive reforms. peoplesdispatch.org Thousands took to the streets across Colombia in support of the labor, pension, and healthcare reforms proposed by the Gustavo Petro government. The mobilization called for by the country's major trade union confederations, including CUT and CTC, also comes in response to the destabilization campaign against the government being waged by right-wing politicians and mainstream media. | Juan Carlos Quintero, a member of the Peasant Association of Catatumbo and the National Coordination of Marcha Patriótica, told Peoples Dispatch that, "The demonstrations have been massive, in support of the current government of Gus…
(2023-06-07). Labor must join the fight to Stop Cop City. therealnews.com 
The 2020 protests that took place in the immediate wake of Minneapolis police murdering George Floyd were a historic call for America to reckon with its racist, oppressive system of state-sanctioned police violence. Three years later, rather than a reckoning, that same system, along with the political and business elites propping it up, are giving us "Cop City" (ie, the Atlanta Public Safety Training Center, the Atlanta Police Foundation's 85-acre, $90-million police militarization and training complex where law enforcement from around the US and beyond will, among other things, train for urban warfare scen…
(2023-06-07). Colombia Marches In Support Of President Petro's Reforms. telesurenglish.net Colombian President Gustavo Petro closed Wednesday in Bogotá a massive popular demonstration in support of his government's proposed social reforms. | RELATED: | The marches called by the labor centrals and the union of educators were replicated in the streets of major Colombian cities such as Medellín, Cali, and Barranquilla. | Petro together with Vice President Francia Márquez joined the mobilizations in Bogotá.
(2023-06-07). Colombians to March in Support of President Petro's Reforms. telesurenglish.net On Wednesday, social organizations will march in the main Colombian cities to express their support for President Gustavo Petro and his health, labor, and pension reforms. | RELATED: | The day before, the leftist leader invited citizens to march not only in support of his policies but also in rejection of impunity for war crimes. | The mobilization day was announced on May 31 by the Unitary Central of Workers of C…
(2023-06-07). ILWU Local 52 Gabriel Prawl On Firings In Seattle, Growing Anger & West Coast Work Action. indybay.org ILWU longshore workers are facing direct union busting by the PMA and shipping bosses. In Seattle a walkout took place after longshore workers worked to health and safety rules. Seattle Local 52 past president Gabriel Prawl talks about the conditions that are developing on the docks and why anger is growing among ILWU members.
(2023-06-07). At Apple Headquarters Workers Want Labor Power! WGAW Rallies With South Bay Labor. indybay.org Striking Writers Guild Of America West workers and other unionists rallied at the world headquarters of Apple to demand that Apple meet their demands.
(2023-06-07). From lift off to splash down: An update on Mayo Clinic stem cells in space. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org It's been six years since Mayo Clinic physician Abba Zubair, M.D., Ph.D., watched stem cells from his regenerative medicine laboratory blast into space as part of a research effort to see if zero gravity would help the cells multiply faster. Approximately 15 million people worldwide experience a stroke annually, according to the World Health Organization. Currently, stroke remains a top cause of death and disability in the world. Finding new therapies for stroke is important…
(2023-06-06). Queensland Labor delegates vote against AUKUS. greenleft.org.au A motion supporting AUKUS was rejected by Queensland Labor delegates at its conference in Mackay. Alex Bainbridge reports.
(2023-06-06). Australian Public Service workers reject federal Labor government wage cut. wsws.org More than 85 percent of workers who took part in the ballot voted against the deal, despite its tacit endorsement by the Community and Public Sector Union (CPSU).
(2023-06-06). Little Competition Between Insurers Tied to Lower Hospital Payments. jamanetwork.com The amount of competition between health insurers in a given US state was linked to the negotiated prices they paid hospitals, according to an analysis of cost data from 1446 acute care hospitals made available after the federal Hospital Price Transparency rule went into effect in 2021.
(2023-06-06). Merck Sues Government, Saying Plan to Lower Medicare Drug Prices Is "Extortion" truthout.org Merck announced on Tuesday that it is suing the government over a recently approved plan to allow Medicare to negotiate prescription drug prices, aiming to stop one of the nation's first efforts to take a small step toward lowering sky-high drug prices in the U.S. The lawsuit, filed in a federal court in Washington on Tuesday, claims that the plan is unconstitutional and calls it a "sham" and… |
(2023-06-07). Loss of reality and bellicism. indybay.org Ukraine is "worn out" here, which is supposed to fight a proxy war "until the last Ukrainian" and is equipped for this with weapons, ammunition, financial means, etc., in the desperate hope to finally force Russia to surrender or at least to gain a negotiating position in which the West can impose all possible maximum demands on the enemy. None of this is even remotely realistic.
(2023-06-07). Succession: A significant artistic and cultural development. wsws.org The show, presented in four seasons over the course of 2018 to 2023, depicts the power struggles and moral decay bound up with the fate of a corporate-financial dynasty that wields enormous influence over politics, culture and society.
(2023-06-06). Trump Earned $82 Million From Properties in Scotland and Ireland While President. truthout.org Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW), a nonprofit government watchdog group, reported this week that former President Donald Trump, while serving in office, made $82.5 million from his properties in Ireland and Scotland — personal business earnings that "came with extraordinary conflicts of interest," the organization wrote. Trump mixed "personal financial interests with the… |
(2023-06-07). Anti-Trans Politicians Are Following the Nazi Playbook. otherwords.org The 1920s were both good and bad times for the Jews of Germany. | They'd been granted the same legal rights as other Germans and were established in respected professions. They were mostly treated as worthy of dignity. But that changed as antisemites scapegoated Jews for all of Germany's woes — from the loss of World War I to the hyperinflation that had ruined so many lives. | Nazis not only stereotyped Jews as rich, cunning, and devious, but also likened them to revolting vermin — including lice, rats, snakes, and cockroaches. They were depicted as creepy, smelly, disease-ridden, sub-human. | Attacki…
(2023-06-06). Podcast Ep 78: How Israel tests weapons on Palestinians. electronicintifada.net Journalist Antony Loewenstein discusses how repressive states look to Israel's occupation industry and take note of its absolute impunity.
(2023-06-06). Debt ceiling hypocrisy: U.S. boosts military budget while restricting food stamps for poor. mronline.org 
U.S. politicians from both parties agree: the deficit doesn't matter. In their bipartisan deal to raise the debt ceiling, Biden and Republicans are boosting military spending to $886 billion while making it harder for poor people to receive food stamps and welfare.
(2023-06-06). Lawmakers Will Use Loopholes to Dodge Pentagon Funding Caps, Experts Say. truthout.org Following weeks of acrimonious debate in Congress, President Joe Biden signed into law on Friday a bill that suspends the debt ceiling until 2025. The compromise deal caps spending on a range of programs and risks throwing as many as 750,000 adults off of food stamps, according to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. One agency — the Department of Defense — managed to evade cuts completely. |
(2023-06-06). House Armed Services Chair Wants China Spending Bill. news.antiwar.com Rep. Mike Rogers (R-AL), chair of the House Armed Services Committee, said Tuesday that he wants Congress to pass a supplemental spending bill this year to address so-called threats from China, Defense News reported. Rogers' comments come after President Biden signed legislation into law on the debt ceiling deal reached between the White House and …
(2023-06-06). Pocan Urges McCarthy to Take Action as House Speaker Chides Pentagon Waste. truthout.org The Democratic co-chair of the Defense Spending Reduction Caucus challenged House Speaker Kevin McCarthy to act on his words after the Republican leader conceded Monday that there is wasteful spending at the Pentagon, which has never passed an independent audit. "We need to get the efficiencies in the Pentagon," McCarthy told CNN, criticizing GOP senators for seeking out ways to expand the… |
(2023-06-07). Deserving Each Other: The PGA Tour-LIV Golf Merger. dissidentvoice.org Described as acrimonious, divisive and disruptive to golf, the LIV Golf Tournament, launched with the aid of former world number one Greg Norman and an enormous well of capital fronted by Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund (PIF), will now unite with the enemy. The announcement that the PGA Tour and LIV Golf would be merging …
(2023-06-07). California: Wildfires are making us uninsurable. Quebec: Hold my beer. actionaidusa.org 
As luck would have it, I was in New York City today with many of my colleagues, and our allies from TIAA Divest!, Ek≈ç and others. We were protesting TIAA's continued harmful investments in fossil fuels and farmland outside the Bloomberg Invest conference where multiple TIAA executives were speechifying. We were lucky; it was relatively…
(2023-06-07). Arizona Town Chose Profit Over Support For Grieving Family. popularresistance.org
(2023-06-07). Atlanta City Council Approves USD 31 Million For Controversial 'Cop City'. popularresistance.org Atlanta's 15-member City Council approved USD 31 million in funding to help build "Cop City," the "urban warfare" training facility proposed to be built in the forest in the southern city. The 11-4 vote took place after 15 hours of public comments were heard regarding the project, with the vast majority expressing overwhelming concern over the project and and rejecting it. | Throughout the session, over 1,000 people gathered inside and outside Atlanta City Hall to protest the controversial project. | The Atlanta Police Foundation (APF), ostensibly a nonprofit but which provides support for the Atlanta Police Depa…
(2023-06-07). Rejecting popular opposition, Atlanta City Council approves millions in public funding for "Cop City" police training complex. wsws.org After some 16 hours of public comment, the Democratic Party-dominated Atlanta city council voted 11-4 in favor of allocating over $30 million in public funds to the private non-profit Atlanta Police Foundation.
(2023-06-06). Meet Norway, the War Profiteer. strategic-culture.org 
In 2022, Norway became Europe's largest supplier of natural gas in 2022 after the EU cut energy ties with Russia, earning a whooping $140 billion in revenues from energy exports. | (Click on the image to enlarge)…
(2023-06-06). Telecom union leader calls on Sri Lankan government to maximise profits at state-owned enterprises. wsws.org Union calls for increased involvement in the government's restructuring and privatisation policies are not new and saw the elimination of over 2,000 Telecom jobs between 2000 and 2006.
(2023-06-06). Texas 'Death Star' bill threatens to destroy hard-won protections across the state. liberationnews.org 
The bill would block cities and counties in Texas from passing any new regulations that are not already outlined within Texas state law.
(2023-06-06). Science and Imperialism: Scientists as Workers for Peace By: Archishman Raju. midwesternmarx.com 
Imperialism and militarism have always disguised and justified themselves as the defense of freedom. The American President recently called for the unity of the free world, outlining the fight for democracy against autocracy as the defining challenge of our times.1 There is little doubt his fight for "democracy" means the continued funding of the American military apparatus around the world, which will continue to "free" unwilling people who have not yet reali …
(2023-06-06). How "peaceful protests" in Nicaragua became an attempted coup By: John Perry, Daniel Kovalik. midwesternmarx.com 
Source: "Nicaragua: Guarimbas no 'carburan,'" Cuba, Isla Mía blog. The "groundwork for insurrection" in Nicaragua was laid down months and years before the coup attempt began, as our first article explained. But the coup could only succeed if it mobilized sufficient people into demanding that President Daniel Ortega should resign. How was this to be done, with polls showing his government had some 80% support in a country that had enjoyed se …
(2023-06-06). 2000 SEIU health workers continue 10-plus day strike. fightbacknews.org Hartford, CT – This past Saturday, June 3, striking long-term care workers and SEIU 1199 New England union members rallied at the at the State Capitol building in Hartford. The nearly 2000 striking workers are demanding a pathway to $25 per hour, affordable healthcare and a pension that allows workers to retire. | The striking workers marched along the sidewalk in front of the capitol building with SEIU 1199 yellow and purple flags and signs that read, "On strike, be fair to those who care," while the city traffic honked horns in support of the strikers. | The minimum wage for long-term care workers is currentl…
(2023-06-07). Train horror in India: Another crime of decaying capitalism. mronline.org 
The deadliest train crash in India in more than a quarter of a century has killed nearly 300 passengers and injured more than 1,000. It is a tragedy that has horrified the world and exposed the criminal neglect of basic infrastructure by the ultra-right regime of Hindu chauvinist Narendra Modi and the capitalist governments that preceded it.
(2023-06-07). Pacifica's CRD Longshore Workers Shut Down Ports;Protests over Florida Anti-immigrant Bill. indybay.org Pacifica's Capitalism, Race & Democracy On Longshore Workers Shut Down Ports; Protests over Florida Anti-immigrant Bill; South Africa Stands Up to the ICC…
(2023-06-07). Apple debuts game changer AR headset. ecns.cn Apple Inc's augmented reality headset will help accelerate the development of the AR industrial chain in China, and push the product not only for entertainment but also as a productive tool for work, experts said.
(2023-06-07). Australian university union seeks sellout deal in industrial tribunal after Newcastle strike. wsws.org NTEU officials told workers at the strike rally that the union would enter "intensive bargaining" in the Fair Work Commission and "you may not get everything that you want."
(2023-06-06). Kiev Regime's "Upcoming Counteroffensive", Assessing Russia's "Military Industrial Complex". globalresearch.ca
(2023-06-07). Cornel West on Running for President, Ending Ukraine War & Taking on "Corporate Duopoly" of Dems & GOP. democracynow.org 
Cornel West, the iconic academic and social critic, has declared his candidacy for president of the United States in the 2024 election. He is running with the People's Party, a progressive alternative to the two major parties that grew out of Bernie Sanders's 2016 campaign. With 2024 shaping up to be a rematch between "neofascist" Donald Trump and "milquetoast neoliberal" Joe Biden, West says voters need a real alternative focused on tackling inequality, racism, war and corporate greed. "There's an indifference to the plight of the vulnerable," West tells Demo…
(2023-06-07). Council in charge of Chile's new Constitution will assume functions. plenglish.com Santiago de Chile, Jun 7 (Prensa Latina) The Chilean Constitutional Council will assume its functions to draft a new Constitution to replace the one imposed by Pinochet's dictatorship in 1980, which established the foundations of the current neoliberal model.
(2023-06-06). What is "Pride" without Organization and Political Power?>. podcasters.spotify.com In this episode I interrogate the capture of "pride month" and the uselessness of the commodification or "representation" or LGBTQIA+ folks if they do NOT have FIRST political power. We talk about what organizing is and what it isn't, and how to get involved, plus some examples of how reactionism and fat right ideology seeps in even to the progressive, anarchists, socialist or communists formations, organizations and groups and how to root it out…
(2023-06-07). Model motion: No cooperation with the imperialist drive to war. thecommunists.org This model motion for use by trade unionists and others is included in our upcoming pamphlet Manifesto for the Crisis, which will be available to buy soon in the party bookshop. ***** This [conference]* notes Britain's continued involvement in the war in Ukraine and its drive towards war in China and Korea, and calls for …
(2023-06-06). Global News Dispatches: 4 Stories. independentmediainstitute.org Headlines in This News Package: Horrific Crash That Killed 275 People Exposes Structural Issues in Indian Railways LGBTQ+ Ugandans Face Deadly Threat as "Anti-Homosexuality Act" Signed Into Law Communist Party of Swaziland to Launch Campaign for Release of Its Member Mvuselelo Mkhabela and Other Political Prisoners Colombia Rejoins UNASUR [NEWS ITEM TEXT] Horrific Crash …
(2023-06-06). Revolution and Counterrevolution: Remembering Tiananmen 34 Years Later. orinocotribune.com 
By Amanda Yee — Jun 3, 2023 | The story we are typically told in the West is that young student activists had gathered in Tiananmen Square, uniting around the liberal demands of democracy and freedom, bravely defying the repressive Chinese government. After weeks of these ongoing protests, the Communist Party of China had had enough and cracked down on the peaceful protesters. As the story goes, in the early morning hours of June 4, 1989, People's Liberation Army tanks rolled into the square. They were said to be indiscriminately shooting and mowing down innocent, unarmed protesters, killing thousands. | To…