(2024-04-11). Illegal Real Estate Sales Of Palestinian Land Happening In The United States. popularresistance.org Six months into the US-Israeli genocide in Gaza, there is little use denying that what is taking place before our eyes is an intended land grab. Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir and Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich have called for Gaza to be "resettled" and for the Palestinian population to be expelled. And in the US, the likes of Ben Gvir and Smotrich have their allies and accomplices who hope to profit from the theft of Palestinian land. Across the US, real estate events advertising the sale of land parcels in Gaza, the West Bank, and Jerusalem have begun to appear.
(2024-04-11). UN Rapporteur: Australian government is "aiding and abetting" genocide in Gaza. wsws.org Labor's attempts to dupe the population by denying its active complicity in the Gaza genocide are running up against reality.
(2024-04-11). Monday 4/15: No Taxes for War and Genocide! Nationwide Economic Blockade. indybay.org Gather at UN Plaza, Market St. and Hyde St.; Parade to the IRS, 450 Golden Gate Ave.
(2024-04-11). Six months of protest: Australian workers and young people denounce Israel's genocide and Labor government. wsws.org "It's setting a terrifying precedent for what the future could look like if we don't resist, so that's why I am here."
(2024-04-11). April 15: Coordinated Economic Blockade To Free Palestine. popularresistance.org The proposal states that in each city, we will identify and blockade major choke points in the economy, focusing on points of production and circulation with the aim of causing the most economic impact, as did the port shutdowns in recent months in Oakland, California and Melbourne, Australia, as just a few examples. | There is a sense in the streets in this recent and unprecedented movement for Palestine that escalation has become necessary: there is a need to shift from symbolic actions to those that cause pain to the economy.
(2024-04-11). EcuadorPalestine solidarity; neoliberal president assaults Mexican Embassy. workers.org 
Quito, Ecuador April 8, 2024 — Most of the world commemorated Al Quds Day on Friday, April 5. On Saturday I traveled to Quito to join the annual commemoration. This year it was a march of solidarity with Palestine that started in Arbolito Park and ended with a protest at . . . |
(2024-04-11). March Inflation: Cause for Worry? counterpunch.org 
The inflation hawks took March's CPI as cause for celebration, inflation may not be dead yet. There is no doubt that it was a disappointing report for those hoping we could put the pandemic inflation behind us, but there still is not much basis for thinking the Fed needs to get out the nukes and start shooting big-time.
(2024-04-11). Roundtable on Current U.S. Foreign Policy: Militarism Unhinged. counterpunch.org 
U.S. policymakers are still mired in imperial delusions, fueling fights to maintain and extend their hegemony in Ukraine, Palestine and even in the South China Sea, and refusing to recognize the emerging reality of a multipolar world which is expressed in so many ways economically in the rise of the BRICS countries but also simply in the refusal of other nations to go along with what the imperial hegemon expects them to do.
(2024-04-11). Nonprofits in LIHTC program are restricted in raising rents above 10% on the poor. indybay.org Some of the homelessness and the unhoused in Oakland is a direct result of the affordable housing developers demanding "minimum-income-requirements," of the poor to move into their projects.
(2024-04-11). Wood Street Community Launches Month of Actions Year After Evictions. indybay.org Members of the Wood Street community are hosting a press conference on Wednesday, April 10, marking one year since residents were displaced from their homes by the City of Oakland. Residents will share reflections from the past year and invite folks to join in on the next five weeks of action in solidarity to speak out against criminalizing homelessness and poverty and declaring once again that Housing is Human Right.
(2024-04-11). German government slashes support for children to fund its war drive. wsws.org More than one in five children in Germany are poor. Despite this, the government is sacrificing measures planned to tackle child poverty to fund its growing arms budget.
(2024-04-11). Australian state Labor government slashes school budgets. wsws.org This New South Wales announcement highlights the role of federal, state and territory Labor governments in deepening the decades-long cuts to public schools.
(2024-04-11). Xi Jinping meets Ma Ying-jeou in Beijing. ecns.cn Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, meets with Ma Ying-jeou in Beijing, capital of China, April 10, 2024.
(2024-04-11). China's CPI up 0.1% in March. ecns.cn China's consumer price index, a main gauge of inflation, rose 0.1 percent year-on-year in March, data from the National Bureau of Statistics showed on Thursday.
(2024-04-11). U.S. inflation rises, casting doubts on rate cuts by Fed. ecns.cn The U.S. consumer price index (CPI), a measure of goods and services prices across the economy, rose 3.5 percent in March from a year earlier, the Labor Department said Wednesday.
(2024-04-11). Massification of skills development and job creation programmes to combat unemployment. sanews.gov.za Massification of skills development and job creation programmes to combat unemployment | By Minister Thulas Nxesi | I believe that we can all agree that, at the end of the day, a decisive reduction in the unacceptably high level of unemployment is dependent on higher economic growth resulting in more jobs. This process is led by business investing in the private sector with resultant economic development and rising employment. | Nonetheless, as the President has argued, government as the largest employer in the country and a large-scale procurer of goods and services, has a major role to play both to create an en…
(2024-04-11). Mashatile, CoGTA and businesses to convene dialogue to strengthen local government. sanews.gov.za Mashatile, CoGTA and businesses to convene dialogue to strengthen local government | Deputy President Paul Mashatile, in partnership with the National Business Initiative (NBI), will hold a dialogue to enhance service delivery through strengthening local government in cooperation with the Ministry of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs (CoGTA). | The discussion will revolve around co-creating a functional and efficient society, and how the public and private sectors can collaborate to strengthen local government. | Deputy President Mashatile, CoGTA Minister Thembi Nkadimeng, and Deputy Minister Parks T…
(2024-04-11). Water quality of Seine River draws concern before Paris Olympics. ecns.cn A nonprofit focused on waterway conservation has voiced concern about contamination in Paris's Seine River ahead of open-water swimming events to be held at the Olympic and Paralympic Games starting in July.
(2024-04-11). Xinjiang holds exchange event with foreign diplomats. ecns.cn Authorities from Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region held an event in Beijing on Wednesday to introduce the economic and social development and human rights protection in the region, with more than 70 foreign diplomats.
(2024-04-11). Dodgy COVID-19 border fence companies lose appeal application. sanews.gov.za Dodgy COVID-19 border fence companies lose appeal application | The Special Investigating Unit (SIU) has welcomed the dismissal of an application for special leave to appeal related to the construction of the border fence between South Africa and Zimbabwe at a cost of R40 million. | The application, brought by Caledon River Properties and Profteam CC, was aimed at overturning a High Court decision to strip them of profits earned from the construction of the fence. | The judgement was handed down by the Supreme Court of Appeal. | "The SIU welcomes the Supreme Court of Appeal's order, which enforces the implementat…
(2024-04-11). China urges U.S. to correct wrongful actions against Chinese companies. ecns.cn China has urged the United States to immediately correct its wrongful actions and stop the unreasonable suppression of its companies after the U.S. recently added six Chinese companies to its export control "entity list".
(2024-04-11). SIROTA'S SIGNALS: Ted Cruz Is A Corruption Cartoon. levernews.com Whose anti-inflation policy appears to actually be fueling inflation? What did JPMorgan just admit about health care? How could Ted Cruz possibly become even more corrupt than he already was? Why is Larry Hogan feeling so much heat? Where will you find the most regressive tax system in the country? Which corporate group is winning even more cases at the Supreme Court? The answers to these questions and much more can be found below in today's edition of Sirota's Signals, a weekly dose of must-read stories, missed nuggets, and fun-but-worthwhile distractions from Lever founder David Sirota, exclusively for paid su…
(2024-04-11). Economy and history. cadtm.org
(2024-04-11). Theoretical lies of the World Bank. cadtm.org In July 2024, the World Bank and the IMF will be 80 years old. 80 years of financial neo-colonialism and the imposition of austerity policies in the name of debt repayment. 80 years is enough! The Bretton Woods institutions must be abolished and replaced by democratic institutions serving an ecological, feminist and anti-racist bifurcation. To mark these 80 years, we are republishing a series of articles every Wednesday until July, looking in detail at the history and damage caused by these (…) | – | / |
(2024-04-11). Profits: margins and rates. cadtm.org US corporate profit margins are at record highs, despite slowing price inflation and rising wage increases. Looking at the whole US economy, non-financial sector profit margins are at their highest level in the 21st century (over 16%) and not far short of the record levels of the 'golden age' of capitalist growth in the mid-1960s.
| And just looking at the net profit margins (that's after deducting all unit costs of production) for the top 500 companies in the US, it's the same story.
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(2024-04-11). Iran tells Turkey Muslim countries should cut economic ties with Israel. presstv.ir Iran's Raeisi tells Turkey's Erdogan that Muslim countries need to cut their economic ties with Israel.
(2024-04-11). More on Terrorist Financing and CIA Ties. sonar21.com 
Colombian "Bricks" of US Dollars used for Gold Purchase in Panama | You will hear a common theme from U.S. Government officials involved in counter terrorism about "following the money." The sad truth, however, is most have no clue about how to do that. When I, along with five other partners, formed BERG Associates LLC in 1998, we carved out a niche as a unique group of specialists in money laundering investigations. The star of our team, John Moynihan, is a forensic accountant who did four years with DEA running its undercover money laundering operations in New York City. I learned a lot from John. He is a ce…