(2022-09-15). First shipping route launched between China's SCODA, Vladivostok. ecns.cn A shipping route between the China-SCO Local Economic and Trade Cooperation Demonstration Area (SCODA) in east China's Shandong Province and Russia's port city of Vladivostok was officially launched Wednesday.
(2022-09-15). RCEP exhibits showcased at 19th China-ASEAN Expo. ecns.cn Exhibits from Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) countries have been gathered at the 19th China-ASEAN Expo to be held on Friday in Nanning, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region.
(2022-09-15). East China demonstration area handles more China-Europe freight trains. ecns.cn A demonstration area in east China for local economic and trade cooperation between China and the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) handled more China-Europe freight trains in the first eight months of 2022, local customs said.
(2022-09-15). Warnings of financial turbulence amid rising workers' struggles. wsws.org The key issue for ruling circles in the US and elsewhere is how far and how fast interest rates must be raised to suppress the growing movement of the working class for wage increases.
(2022-09-15). BRICS Industrial Innovation Contest Final Kicks Off in Xiamen. infobrics.org Contestants compete in the industrial internet, intelligent manufacturing, and green development during the contest themed "industrial innovation for stronger, greener, and healthier global development"
(2022-09-15). The Failed Serotonin Theory of Depression: A Marxist Analysis. orinocotribune.com By Carlos L. Garrido  ; Sep 9, 2022 | A recent study published in the journal Molecular Psychiatry sent shockwaves across the scientific community and popular outlets as it disproved the predominant "serotonin hypothesis" of depression. In just two weeks since its publication it has been accessed by nearly half a million people and the subject of dozens of subsequent articles. The researchers analyzed a total of seventeen systematic reviews, meta-analyses, and other large studies focused on the following six tenets pertinent to the "serotonin hypothesis" of depression: | "(1) Serotonin and the serotonin metabo…
(2022-09-15). Greece: All-Workers Militant Front (PAME) Solidarity with the Nurses' Strike in Minnesota and Wisconsin. fightbacknews.org Fight Back News Service is circulating the following statement from the influential Greek labor organization, the All-Workers Militant Front (PAME). | PAME that represents the class unions of Greece, expresses its solidarity with the strike of thousands of nurses in Minnesota and Wisconsin in the USA who are demanding 27% wage increases. | Health workers both before and during the pandemic have been on the front line of protecting the lives and health of the people. But governments and business groups that treat health as a commodity on the one hand treat the sick as customers who must pay to get well and on the…
(2022-09-15). It's Time to Call it What It Is: A Capitalism-Induced Ecological Crisis. dissidentvoice.org One-third of Pakistan is under water. Record heat waves blanket the globe driving up temperatures beyond what humans can survive. Polar glaciers are melting much faster than scientists predicted. Droughts, fires and floods are ravaging the planet, forcing the displacement of tens of millions of people. And this is just the beginning. It's time to …
(2022-09-15). Sunday 9/25: Turning ideas into action: Taking to the streets with the FSP. indybay.org via zoom: tinyurl.com/FSP-Sept-25-mtg…
(2022-09-15). Chinese premier chairs State Council executive meeting. ecns.cn Chinese Premier Li Keqiang on Tuesday presided over a State Council executive meeting, which made decisions on multiple economic issues.
(2022-09-15). Terrorism, Racism & Union Busting Against SEIU1021 SF General Hospital Workers By HR DPH. indybay.org Workers and SEIU 1021 SF General Hospital union leaders reported on the epidemic of bullying, racist discrimination and union busting by DPH and CCSF HR. The City has spent over $100 million on paying for illegal discrimination, defendant lawyers and City lawyers to defend illegal racist attacks and systemic racism.
(2022-09-15). Chile's 9/11 & The Rise Of US Fascism. indybay.org Labor Historian & Professor Ruth Needleman talks about the lessons of Chile's coup in relation to the growing fascist movement in the US.
(2022-09-15). Australia: Rail union announces token industrial action to conceal plans for sellout. wsws.org New South Wales rail workers will turn off Opal readers in an "action" designed by the Rail, Tram and Bus Union to blind workers to its efforts to bury their dispute in the industrial courts.
(2022-09-15). WW CNA Kaiser Nurses/Patients In Danger. PG&E Newsom Leg Corruption & UPS Oven In Trucks. indybay.org WorkWeek covers CNA Kaiser Nurses & Patients In Danger & PG&E Newsom Legislature Corruption & UPS "Oven In The Trucks" IBT Workers Heat & Labor Poet Tongo Issac-Martin…
(2022-09-15). Fall 2022 National Immigrant Solidarity Network Immigrant Justice News Alert! indybay.org U.S. Political Prisoners Special Report: We Have Hundreds of Political Prisoners, Thousands of Asian-American Hate Victims, Half Million Child Farm Labors!
(2022-09-15). Bajo los brillos de Hanoi. cubadebate.cu Pasados 40 años de la renovación del modelo socialista, Vietnam es hoy una nación pujante dentro de su propio entorno geográfico y en el mundo, que se proyecta vertiginosamente al futuro sin renegar de su pasado, mejor aun dignificándolo con el aliento de cambios que transpira su sociedad. "Cambio o muerte" es una de las ocurrentes y lapidarias sentencias con la que nos sorprenden.
(2022-09-15). Villa Clara: Condecorados 25 combatientes del Cuerpo de Bomberos por su labor durante el incendio en zona industrial de Matanzas. cubadebate.cu En la actividad, que estuvo encabezada por Osnay Miguel Colina y Alberto López Díaz, máximas figuras política y gubernamental del territorio, respectivamente, el coronel Gustavo Díaz Villalobos, jefe del Minint en Villa Clara, dio lectura a una carta de felicitación del ministro del Interior a los condecorados, quienes colocaron flores ante la llama eterna ubicada en el Mausoleo.
(2022-09-14). Contractors Cash In As Congress Adds Billions To Pentagon Budget. popularresistance.org Congress has spoken when it comes to next year's Pentagon budget and the results, if they weren't so in line with past practices, should astonish us all. The House of Representatives voted to add $37 billion and the Senate $45 billion to the administration's already humongous request for "national defense," a staggering figure that includes both the Pentagon budget and work on nuclear weapons at the Department of Energy. If enacted, the Senate's sum would push spending on the military to at least $850 billion annually, far more — adjusted for inflation — than at the height of the Korean or Vietnam war…
(2022-09-14). War propaganda threatens nuclear meltdown. workers.org 
Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Station The United States and its imperialist allies in the European Union have a big political problem. The embargo/boycott that they so swiftly and gleefully placed on Russia's energy exports, mainly oil and gas, had the unintended consequence of guaranteeing much higher profits to Russia in selling . . . |
(2022-09-14). Military Situation In Eastern Ukraine On September 14, 2022 (Map Update). southfront.org 
The AFU attacked Russian positions in the Lyman area; | Russian forces claimed control of Mykolaivka-2 village; | Clashes between the AFU and Russian Army continue in the Belogorovka area; | Clashes between the AFU and Russian Army continue in the Soledar town; | Russian forces entered the industrial zone of Bakhmut; | Clashes continue in the Svyatogorsk area; | Russian-led forces are storming Ukrainian positions near Pervomaiske; | Clashes continue in Maryinka…
(2022-09-14). Economist Richard Wolff: Sanctions Against Russia, Inflation. popularresistance.org European countries, as well as the United States, continue to be imperiled by an economic crisis following the imposition of sanctions on Russia. The policy has backfired spectacularly and has had worse economic ramifications on those levying the sanctions, than those being sanctioned. In this week's episode, Lowkey speaks to respected U.S. economist Dr. Richard Wolff, discussing the links between the war in Ukraine, inflation, and the class war at home. | Before exploring the people's definition of inflation, Dr. Wolff contextualizes the economic crisis currently unfolding across the West. | In the conversation,…
(2022-09-14). Ukraine: the invasion of capital to take over agriculture. workers.org 
By Michael Roberts Marxist economist Michael Roberts worked in the City of London (the British Wall Street) as an economist for over 40 years. He published this article on his blog, thenextrecession.wordpress.com, Aug. 13. It details plans of Western imperialism to privatize and take over Ukrainian agriculture, taking advantage of . . . |
(2022-09-14). EU gives up on Russian natural gas price cap amid fears of Moscow's retaliation. infobrics.org EU's decision is a positive signal that Brussels learned at least something from its failed economic siege of Russia.
(2022-09-14). Most of Asia is On the Side of China and Not the U.S. in Growing Conflict. covertactionmagazine.com Background observations by a European author living in Asia on the current escalation with China After the megaphones of the West have already called for all-out economic war against Russia, the battle cry against China is now being heard, regardless of the consequences for the "common people." The reaction of the Asian countries, however, is …
(2022-09-14). Express shipping speeds goods to Russia, Europe. ecns.cn The maiden voyage on the China-Russia express route between the China-Shanghai Cooperation Organization Local Economic and Trade Cooperation Demonstration Area and Vladivostok, Russia, was launched on Wednesday at Qingdao Port in Shandong province.
(2022-09-14). China-Kazakhstan economic links expected to see rapid development. ecns.cn China-Kazakhstan business cooperation is expected to experience rapid growth in the coming years, as both countries actively promote regional connectivity, the growth of foreign trade and energy-related projects to further boost their business ties.
(2022-09-14). Fear And Misinformation Dominate Discourses Of Brazilian Right. popularresistance.org Brazil is less than a month away from historic elections. Over 156 million Brazilians will go to the polls on October 2 to cast their vote for the president of the republic, State governors, 27 senators, 513 federal deputies, and State and district deputies. The elections take place amid an acute political, economic, and social crisis in the country. The past several years have seen a dramatic increase in hunger, homelessness, unemployment, and the prices of basic commodities. The currency, the Real, has tumbled. Above all, the colossal number of deaths due to COVID-19 continues to cast a shadow on the lives of m…
(2022-09-14). Big Oil PR Firms a No-Show at House Hearing on Climate Disinformation. commondreams.org "This week Congress is set to take on Big Oil's lies and profiteering. The fossil fuel industry has made billions fueling the climate crisis and exploiting working people. We need to make them pay."
(2022-09-14). Wall Street slumps as inflation data signify continued Fed interest rate hikes. wsws.org All 30 stocks in the Dow fell as the index dropped by nearly 1300 points, the S&P 0 slid 4.3 percent and the tech-heavy and interest-rate sensitive NASDAQ was down 5.2 percent, with the three indexes recording their biggest one-day fall since June 2020.
(2022-09-14). Unite postpones London bus strikes out of respect for the Queen, puts below-inflation pay offer to members. wsws.org This regime of "national mourning", enforced through censorship and repression, is aimed against the working class…
(2022-09-14). Latest on inflation in the U.S. america.cgtn.com The Consumer Price Index for last month shows inflation cooling in the U.S., but not as much as many analysts had expected. The good news for consumers: gas prices are way down. The bad news: just about everything is costing more. CGTN's Jim Spellman …
(2022-09-14). Remembering Barbara Ehrenreich, Who Exposed the 'Cult of Positive Thinking'. otherwords.org The late Barbara Ehrenreich was best known for her 2001 bestseller Nickel and Dimed, which showed that hard-working people simply weren't making it in America. | But Ehrenreich, who passed away this September at 81, made an equally great contribution to economic justice with her subsequent book, Bright-Sided was published in 2009, between the Great Recession and the Occupy Wall Street movement, which called a…
(2022-09-14). World's Biggest Hedge Fund Bridgewater: A Large Recession Is Coming To America, Will Be Difficult. moguldom.com Economists, analysts, and market participants are divided on whether the U.S. is headed for a recession but the world's biggest hedge fund is betting that the U.S. is the epicenter of a global financial bubble, making it the country most at risk for a crushing recession when the bubble bursts. Greg Jensen, co-chief investor of …
(2022-09-14). War and poverty in Elizabeth Strout's novel, Oh William! wsws.org History, poverty and the difficulty of human relationships are baked into the lives of the characters.
(2022-09-14). Corrupt French Dentist Arrested, Preyed On Low-Income Patients With Mutilation And Unnecessary Work. moguldom.com Lionel Guedj, 41, was a multi-millionaire dentist in France who has been sentenced to eight years in jail for deliberately mutilating patients from low-income neighborhoods of Marseille. In the horrifying money-making scheme, Lionel Guedj performed thousands of unnecessary procedures carrying out work on healthy teeth of low-income patients. His father, Carnot Guedj, 70, who worked part-time for …
(2022-09-14). Hundreds Protest As Starbucks Holds Investor Day Without Retail Workers. popularresistance.org Seattle, Washington – Hundreds of workers took to the streets in front of Starbucks's Seattle headquarters on Tuesday as the company hosted investors for its biennial investor day, in which executives and investors discuss the company's outlook — an event that has never once included representation from a Starbucks retail worker, the workers' union says. | Joined by other union members, workers with Starbucks Workers United are demanding that the company give them a say in its strategy and financial decisions and a place at the bargaining table for contract negotiations, which the company has been delaying.
(2022-09-14). When Market Fundamentalism Overcomes Common Sense: Myth of Electricity Markets. orinocotribune.com By Prabir Purkayastha — Sep 11, 2022 | The so-called electricity markets were created to help private capital, not people. It is time we wound up these bogus markets and returned public services to people, to be run cooperatively for their benefit. | The price of electricity has
(2022-09-14). South Africa: Civil Society, Human Rights Organizations Call for Urgent Intervention to Protect Abahlali baseMjondolo. libya360.wordpress.com PRESS STATEMENT 14 SEPTEMBER 2022 CIVIL SOCIETY CALLS FOR URGENT NATIONAL INTERVENTION TO PROTECT ABAHLALI BASEMJONDOLO On Friday, 9 September 2022, the Socio-Economic Rights Institute of South Africa (SERI) sent a letter concerning the ongoing attacks on Abahlali baseMjondolo to various members of the South African executive and legislature, as well as commissioners of regional…
(2022-09-14). Commerce Ministry encourages foreign investment. ecns.cn The Chinese Ministry of Commerce released three reports to encourage foreign investment and a Catalogue of Industries for Encouraging Foreign Investment is expected soon.
(2022-09-14). As Strike Looms, Sanders Blocks GOP Bill to Force Rail Workers Into Deal With No Sick Days. commondreams.org "Republicans are viciously against collective bargaining, but carriers are going to have to respect people's lives and there's going to have to be respect for these workers," said one labor leader.
(2022-09-14). Diplomat lauds Sino-Kazakh relationship. ecns.cn The firm political mutual support, deep economic cooperation, broad cultural and person-to-person exchanges and real benefits to both peoples have made Sino-Kazakh relations an example of relations between neighboring countries, said a Chinese senior diplomat.
(2022-09-14). The Politics of Overconsumption and Getting the Scale Right. commondreams.org No matter how difficult the transition may be, in the not too distant future we will have to live in far smaller and more flexible social organizations than today's nation-states and cities.
(2022-09-14). Possible freight rail strike could be costly to the U.S. economy. america.cgtn.com A potential logistical and economic crisis is looming in the United States if the nation's freight railroad workers go on strike in the next couple of days. Freight rail carries about 30% of U.S. goods into the market. A work stoppage would disrupt already strained supply chains. …
(2022-09-14). Even These Capitalists Controlling $39 Trillion in Assets Know Fossil Fuel Era Must End. commondreams.org Governments must "enact policies the world needs to avert the worst of the climate crisis and… investors need to usher in a new era of economic prosperity built around a just, sustainable, clean energy economy," said a coalition of investor groups.
(2022-09-14). Iran, Brazil take giant stride in developing mining coop. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Sep. 14 (MNA) — The Iranian ambassador to Brazil said that giant steps were taken for developing mining and economic cooperation between the two countries of Iran and Barzil.
(2022-09-14). Iran, Pakistan call for expanding shared markets. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Sep. 14 (MNA) — Iran and Pakistan stressed boosting joint border markets during Third Inter-Parliamentary Union Regional Seminar on Achieving Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in Islamabad, Pakistan.
(2022-09-14). Modern slavery: Number of enslaved increases by 10 million over five years. america.cgtn.com The number of people under modern slavery increased by 10 million people globally over the last five years, according to researchers from Geneva. Data gathered by the UN's International Organization for Migration, the International Labor Organization and the Walk Free Foundation human rights group show …
(2022-09-14). México cuenta con 277 médicos cubanos por colaboración. telesurtv.net Las entidades sanitarias de México anunciaron que durante el mes de septiembre, llegarían al país 333 nuevos médicos cubanos.
(2022-09-14). Ofensiva y contraofensiva en Ucrania. telesurtv.net En la zona de Járkov se ha establecido ya el terror contra los "colaboradores" de los rusos: profesores, administradores, empresarios que participaban de la normalización de la vida. Los informes de redes sociales hablan de oleadas de mercenarios sin control en las calles.
(2022-09-13). "Russian Oil Price Cap": the Middle East's Perspective. journal-neo.org 
Attempts by G7 countries to set a price limit on the sale of Russian oil on world markets are provoking reactions in the Middle East region, especially in oil-producing countries. In local analyst circles, the message promoted by the proponents of this idea that the demand for hydrocarbons has decreased, is not popular. The Americans …
(2022-09-13). How royalty reinforces imperialism. workers.org 
As Britain's Queen Elizabeth was near death, a professor of Nigerian heritage at Carnegie Mellon University, Uju Anya, tweeted her view: "I heard the chief monarch of a thieving, raping genocidal empire is finally dying. May her pain be excruciating." This tweet brought down a torrent of condemnation. The countries . . . |
(2022-09-13). Price Increases Persist Despite Supply Chain Progress. cepr.net The overall Consumer Price Index rose 0.1 percent in August, core was up 0.6 percent; up 8.3 percent and 6.3 percent year-over-year, respectively. Overall, the picture shows inflation persisting in a wide variety of areas where it seems that supply chain issues are being overcome. This is not a good story. Food at home prices …
(2022-09-13). Who is Political Scientist Adolph Reed? 7 Things Black America Should Know About This Brilliant Thinker. moguldom.com The short bio on Adolph Reed is that he is an American professor emeritus of political science at the University of Pennsylvania. He focuses on the issues of racism and U.S. politics. He is also an author having written extensively on racial and economic inequality. Here are seven things Black America should know about this …
(2022-09-13). The Deepening Assault on Core Democratic Rights in the USA. liberationnews.org The United States is in the midst of a political upheaval right now, after the 2020 uprising, the Jan. 6 storming of the Capitol, and the Dobbs decision that overturned one of the Supreme Court's biggest decisions — access to abortion under Roe v. Wade.
(2022-09-13). Democratic power of the people at the heart of Cuban socialism. liberationnews.org 
Cuba takes the democracy and power of the people more seriously than anything I have ever seen in the United States.
(2022-09-13). Labor history tour guide remembers his mail deliverer days. peoplesworld.org 
I hoist the mail bag over my shoulder. Damn, this thing is heavy. I begin to walk down the sidewalk, satchel bursting with papers. Drip, drip, drip. The sweat begins to roll down from my forehead and back of neck. My shirt becomes stained with perspiration as I struggle with the overbearing load. I haven't …
(2022-09-13). Reconocen labor de Venezuela en campaña de vacunación. telesurtv.net Durante los próximos meses la campaña de vacunación asegurará una cobertura del 95 por ciento en niños de Venezuela.