(2023-06-30). Geopolitics, war, climate and economy: The need for a global alternative economic and social paradigm. uwidata.com The present still dominant global economic system is a generalized, expanded and globalized form of the one prevailing in western capitalism during the 19th century, based on the same neoclassic economic doctrines. The previous form of "neo-classic" capitalism has provoked the two big economic crises (1873 and 1929), two world wars, the Russian Revolution and …
(2023-06-30). Nation to advance pilot FTZs' opening-up. ecns.cn China will adopt a slew of policy measures to advance institutional opening-up of pilot free trade zones and free trade ports in accordance with high-level international standards.
(2023-06-30). WeChat apologizes, commits to zero fees for non-profit campus payments. ecns.cn After several Chinese universities announced their decision to discontinue the use of WeChat payment due to the implementation of a 0.6 percent handling fee, the Tencent WeChat team issued an apology on Thursday for the misunderstandings that arose during communication.
(2023-06-30). Beijing, Hong Kong bourses to promote dual-listing arrangement. ecns.cn The Beijing Stock Exchange (BSE) and the Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited (HKEX) on Thursday signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to support qualified listed companies in each other's market to file applications for listings.
(2023-06-30). BRICS: A Positive Alternative for a New World Order. libya360.wordpress.com BRICS and the Political Economy of the New World Order Nivedita Das Kundu The BRICS countries are asserting themselves in global politics, aiming for greater representation and influence. They have the potential to drive global economic growth and innovation, particularly through investments in education and emerging technologies. The development of a consolidated and constructive global…
(2023-06-30). Indian press highlights Russian statements on ties with India. plenglish.com New Delhi, Jun 30 (Prensa Latina) The Indian press highlighted the words of Russian President Vladimir Putin, and of other officials, in relations between the two countries and the growth of the Indian economy.
(2023-06-30). Canadian Foreign Policy Critics Don't Do It for Dough. orinocotribune.com By Yves Engler — Jun 27, 2023 | Investigating the political economy of ideas is imperative to understanding foreign policy. But those seeking to discredit already marginalized critical perspectives shouldn't ignore Canada's large, well-financed, ideological apparatus promoting pro-corporate and US empire policies. | Recently a journalist from leftist Québec publication Pivot asked me "Do you receive some money when you're interviewed by Chinese media like CCTV or CGTN?" The question followed a query about whether "you might sometimes share Chinese propaganda in the articles you write." I responded, "just lik…
(2023-06-30). Trade Between Colombia and Venezuela Soars by 76%: Venezuelan Exports More than Double. orinocotribune.com According to the Venezuelan-Colombian Chamber of Economic Integration (CAVECOL), trade between Colombia and Venezuela saw a significant boost, with a 76% increase compared to last year. Moreover, Venezuelan exports to Colombia more than doubled during the same period. | CAVECOL president Luis Alberto Russián stated in a recent interview that trade between Colombia and Venezuela increased from $106 million to $187 million in 2023, which represents an increase of 76% with respect to 2022. | "Trade grew by 76%, and in the same period, exports grew 150%, but we have to keep working," Russián stated. He added that the…
(2023-06-30). Venezuela: Opposition Politician María Corina Machado to Unveil Economic Plan in New York Amidst Presidential Aspirations and Legal Uncertainties. orinocotribune.com
(2023-06-30). Forum themed on 'Modern SOEs' held in Beijing. ecns.cn A forum themed on "Modern State-owned Enterprises" (SOEs) was held during the 2023 Mid-Year Conference on Finance and Economics hosted by China News Service in Beijing on Wednesday.
(2023-06-30). Digital China a crucial engine to advance Chinese modernization: Experts. ecns.cn Digitalizing China is a crucial engine to advance the Chinese modernization, experts said at a forum held during the CNS Frontiers in Finance and Economics Conference Mid-2023 hosted by China News Service and organized by China News Network in Beijing on Thursday.
(2023-06-30). 3rd China-Africa Expo kicks off in Hunan. ecns.cn The third China-Africa Economic and Trade Expo with the theme of "Common Development for a Shared Future", kicked off in Changsha on Thursday.
(2023-06-30). BRICS Nations Shifting Global Economics and Political Order. infobrics.org BRICS comprises Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa which represent five major world economies in the Global South. Right from valuing local currencies more to working towards dethroning the U.S. dollar, these nations are together trying to shift the power from the Global North to the Global South…
(2023-06-30). Mainstream Media Colludes with U.S. Government To Conceal Source of Syria's Heartbreaking Humanitarian Crisis. covertactionmagazine.com Illegal U.S. bombing raids, brutal economic sanctions, and incredibly brazen theft by U.S. forces of 66,000 barrels of Syrian oil per day (80% of its total output) have visited a biblical-scale tragedy upon the Syrian people that has battered them virtually back to the stone age. Following a devastating earthquake in February that displaced thousands of people …
(2023-06-30). Petro Decrees Economic and Social Emergency in La Guajira. telesurenglish.net On Thursday, the Colombian President Gustavo Petro decreed a state of economic and social emergency in La Guajira, a department located in the northern part of the country that has been devastated by drought. | RELATED: | "It is absolutely necessary to declare the economic and social emergency because a public calamity is looming. All climate models are warning us about an impending drought that has never been seen b…
(2023-06-30). US Delivery Truck Drivers' Nationwide Strike Imminent: The Hill. telesurenglish.net The Teamsters working for shipping giant UPS said a strike is "imminent" after walking away from the bargaining table, reported The Hill. | RELATED: | The UPS Teamsters said that it gave UPS a one-week notice on Tuesday to "act responsibly and exchange a stronger economic proposal" to more than 340,000 employees of the shipping company. The Teamsters demanded that UPS deliver its "last, best and final offer" to the…
(2023-06-30). The End of the "Golden Age" of Capitalism and the Rise of Neoliberalism. indybay.org The rise of the neoliberal world economic system marked by the dominance of financial markets — whose financial superstructure collapses over us — resulted from the radical economic crises of the early 1970s that seized nearly all western industrial countries. This crisis ended a period of economic prosperity in Western Europe and the US that continued since the early 1950s.
(2023-06-29). Teamsters Warn a Nationwide UPS Strike Is "Imminent" truthout.org "The largest single-employer strike in American history now appears inevitable." So said Teamsters general president Sean O'Brien late Wednesday after leaders of the union representing shipping giant UPS quit negotiating with company representatives after giving them a Friday deadline to "act responsibly and exchange a stronger economic proposal for more than 340,000 full- and part-time workers."… |
(2023-06-30). New Zealand: Plastic Produce Bags Banned From July 1. telesurenglish.net Official statements show that New Zealand's major supermarkets have been preparing for the second phase of the national plastics ban starting from Saturday (July 1), which will see the phase-out of more single-use plastics. | Related: | According to the Ministry for Environment, this round of the national ban targets single-use and hard-to-recycle items, is expected to stop 150 million produce bags from ending up…
(2023-06-29). Historians Condemn Philly Museum for Hosting Right-Wing Moms for Liberty Event. truthout.org Scholarly groups and historians' associations are speaking out against the Museum of the American Revolution (MAR), based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, for agreeing to rent space this weekend to the far right organization Moms for Liberty. Moms for Liberty — which is recognized by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) as a hate group — pushes book bans in schools and libraries on titles that… |
(2023-06-30). Chile reports seventh consecutive increase in unemployment rate. plenglish.com Santiago, Chile, Jun 30 (Prensa Latina) Chile's National Statistics Institute (INE) reported that the unemployment rate in the March-May mobile quarter had an increase of 0.7 points and stood at 8.7 percent.
(2023-07-01). Correspondence] How funders can support improved clinical trial practice for outbreaks. thelancet.com The World Health Assembly's resolution 75 ∑8 on strengthening clinical trials is a call to action to improve the quality and coordination of trials globally.1 Large-scale, sufficiently powered trials are important in the context of outbreak response, when opportunities to gather evidence for clinical management are scarce. During the COVID-19 pandemic, the health system witnessed success in the rapid initiation of adaptive trials that generated life-saving results, but also a proliferation of competing, underpowered trials that were concentrated in high-income settings.
(2023-07-01). Time to stop routine prescription of low-molecular-weight heparin to women with recurrent pregnancy loss and inherited thrombophilia. thelancet.com There has been a knowledge gap concerning the effect of anticoagulant treatment for recurrent pregnancy loss in women with hereditary thrombophilia. In the updated guideline from the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology on recurrent pregnancy loss from 2022,1 there is a conditional recommendation not to use low-molecular-weight heparin (LMWH), based on low certainty of evidence. This called for another trial, particularly as LMWH was still being prescribed by many clinicians. In The Lancet, Siobhan Quenby and colleagues presented the results of the ALIFE2 trial, an international collaborative eff…
(2023-06-30). Sri Lanka power unions conference demands "real restructuring" of Ceylon Electricity Board. wsws.org The power unions called the conference, not to fight privatisation but to urge workers to collaborate with management in a nationwide restructuring assault on their jobs and conditions.
(2023-06-30). Virgin Australia seeks "intractable bargaining" declaration in first test of Labor's new anti-strike laws. wsws.org If the dispute is declared "intractable," the 60 maintenance engineers at Virgin Australia Regional Airlines will be stripped of the right to strike against real wage cuts proposed by the company.
(2023-06-30). Biden administration's Department of Labor denies Will Lehman's complaint protesting UAW election disenfranchisement. wsws.org The DOL denied Lehman's complaint without explanation or addressing any of the evidence of voter suppression he had presented.
(2023-06-30). SF Castro Starbucks Workers Strike On PRIDE Day "No Contract No Coffee" Fight For Justice. indybay.org Over 150 Starbucks stores were struck on PRIDE day around the country. In San Francisco Starbucks workers at the Castro store talked about their issues.
(2023-06-30). STOP Robo Madness NOW! SF Taxi & UBER Drivers Protest Dangers Of AI Cars & The Tech Barons. indybay.org
(2023-06-30). Mayo Clinic and University of Minnesota announce new pathway program for training nurse-midwives. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org ROCHESTER, Minn. — Mayo Clinic School of Health Sciences and the University of Minnesota School of Nursing are collaborating to create a new academic pathway for nurse-midwives that will expand the nurse-midwifery workforce in the Upper Midwest. The collaboration creates a pathway for students admitted to the University of Minnesota School of Nursing's Doctor of Nursing Practice program to complete the approximately 1,000 hours of required clinical training at Mayo Clinic hospitals in Minnesota and…
(2023-06-30). Mayo Clinic researchers pioneer AI method to predict how cells are organized in disease microenvironments. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org Cells in the human body, the building blocks of life, are arranged in a precise way. That's necessary because pathways and spaces provide a means for cells to communicate, collaborate and function within the specific tissue or organ. Changes in cell arrangement can lead to uncontrolled cell growth, cell death and diseases, including cancer. Scientists at the Mayo Clinic Center for Individualized Medicine and Mayo Clinic Comprehensive Cancer Center have developed an artificial intelligence method, called Spatially Informed Artificial…
(2023-06-30). OceanGate And How The Wealthy Kill. popularresistance.org The saga of the OceanGate Titan submersible was the sort of story that rivets millions of people. Not only was it revealed that passengers paid $250,000 to see the wreck of the Titanic, but the vessel was poorly built, and its creator ignored warnings about its defects and continued to use it. | When the incompetence and arrogance of its creator was revealed, the jokes began in earnest, as the internet is the perfect place to make light of serious issues. The readiness to make fun of the feckless and arrogant is understandable. In fact, there is a positive side in the willingness to engage in schadenfreude over t…
(2023-06-30). The Rise Of Global Class Struggle. popularresistance.org After years of passivity in the face of upper class greed workers have begun to fight back. Recent walkouts in Canada and around the world reflect a pattern of rising participation of workers in strike activity, evident since 2020 as a belated response to years of wage suppression and recent spectacular increases in consumer prices. | A wave of strikes in construction in Ontario in the opening months of 2022 reflected increased worker militancy over wages particularly among carpenters, drywallers and engineers. Tentative agreements reached by union officials were sometimes rejected by members, prolonging the stri…
(2023-06-30). Millions of people in the US ration medicine as Big Pharma fights to keep prices high By: Natalia Marques. midwesternmarx.com 
(2023-06-30). "What Arrogance Looks Like": Supreme Court Justice Alito's Ruling vs. EPA Allegedly Violates Ethics. democracynow.org 
On the final day of the Supreme Court's term, we speak with David Dayen, executive editor of The American Prospect, about recent revelations detailing many of the Supreme Court conservative justices' close relationships to Republican megadonors, and how allegations of financial impropriety further delegitimize the court's standing as an objective legal authority. "These are lifetime appointments," says Dayen. "This is what arrogance looks like."…
(2023-06-30). Central bankers insist rate hikes to continue as wages are targeted. wsws.org The central theme to emerge from a meeting of central bankers this week was that they are determined to increase interest rates further in the so-called "fight against inflation" because, while real wages are being cut, they have not gone down far enough.
(2023-06-30). All Aboard the Gravy Train: An Independent Audit of US Funding for Ukraine. orinocotribune.com 
By Heather Kaiser, Anya Parampil and Max Blumenthal — Jun 27, 2023 | In the absence of official scrutiny of Washington's spending spree on Ukraine, The Grayzone conducted an independent audit of US funding for the country. We discovered a series of wasteful, highly unusual expenditures the Biden administration has yet to explain. | During a recent discussion with New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof, Administrator of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), Samantha Power, touted her organization's push to guarantee transparency for US taxpayer funds sent to Ukraine. | "We are inv…
(2023-06-30). Public Pension Funds Have Lost Billions on Their Fossil Fuel Investments: New Analysis. desmog.com
(2023-06-30). Private health companies prosper while healthcare access stagnates. peoplesdispatch.org A new report by Oxfam shows how investments made by development finance institutions from the Global North benefit private health companies rather than people in need of health care…
(2023-06-30). Bolivia To Process Lithium With Russian and Chinese Companies. telesurenglish.net On Thursday, Bolivian President Luis Arce signed agreements with China's Citic Guoan and Russia's Uranium One Group for the application of their Direct Lithium Extraction (DLE) technologies in two salt flats, with a total investment of US$1.4 billion. | RELATED: | These agreements add to the one signed in January with the Chinese consortium CATL BRUNP & CMOC (CBC). President Arce pointed out that Bolivia has signed deals…
(2023-06-30). Regulations address use of civilian drones. ecns.cn China has issued a set of rules to govern the use of civilian drones.
(2023-06-30). BOOK REVIEW: WORKING CLASS GIANT, THE LIFE OF WILLIAM Z. FOSTER By: Bob Bonner. midwesternmarx.com 
Imagine if you will, that we lived in a country in which TV and movie scripts were produced for merit and not edited and censored to ensure compliance with capitalist ideology.Imagine that in this fictitious USA, it were possible to make movies celebrating heroic leaders of the struggles for working people, Black people, and immigrants.Imagine that those films could be financed, promoted, and viewed as widely as the mindless tripe we are currently subjected to that encompasses all …
(2023-06-30). RECALLING THE 1933 COMMUNIST PARTY EXTRAORDINARY CONFERENCE By: Chris Townsend. midwesternmarx.com 
As the Communist Party of the United States entered the fourth full year of the Great Depression in 1933, its leadership recognized that a major consolidation and refocus of Party effort was necessary to reach the vast potential of the moment. The communist movement had been established in the U.S. for 15 years by that point, and some advances had been made in rooting the Party in certain key sectors — but not in others.The left and socialist organizations were all growing amidst th …
(2023-06-30). Ukraine Violated Peace Agreement Approved in Turkey, Putin Reveals By: Al Mayadeen Español. midwesternmarx.com Russian President Vladimir Putin revealed during an African leaders meeting in St. Petersburg that Russian forces had withdrawn from Kiev and other regions of Ukraine last year in compliance with a peace agreement reached in Turkey, as part of an African mediation mission to Russia.However, during the meeting with the members of the African delegation, who were entrusted with presenting an initiative to resolve the Ukrainian conflict, Putin informed them that Kiev had declined to sign the …
(2023-06-30). NSW hospital workers strike over wages. greenleft.org.au 
(2023-06-30). Meet the World's Most Murderous Killing Machine: the United States of America. strategic-culture.org 
If the political culture in the U.S. changes, someone might open a museum dedicated to the victims of capitalism or the U.S. empire, whose death toll would be much greater than the 100 million blamed on Communism, writes CovertAction Magazine's Jeremy Kuzmarov. | (Click on the image to enlarge)…
(2023-06-30). Telcos jump on 6G bandwagon. ecns.cn Chinese telecom operators are showcasing their early technological muscle in 6G, the next-generation wireless technology that has become a key battleground for a new round of innovation and industrial transformation.
(2023-06-30). Bolivia firma contratos con Rusia y China para industrializar litio. telesurtv.net Bolivia posee reservas calculadas en 21 millones de toneladas de litio.
(2023-06-30). Gobierno de Bolivia firma dos contratos con empresas de Rusia y China para industrializar litio. telesurtv.net Bolivia posee reservas calculadas en 21 millones de toneladas de litio.
(2023-06-30). Jacobin, Democratic Socialists of America cover up for Syriza and prepare new betrayals. wsws.org In the aftermath of Syriza's debacle in the Greek elections on Sunday, pseudo-left groups internationally are engaged in a collective effort to cover over their own criminal role in Syriza's betrayals, the better to prepare for new betrayals in the future.
(2023-06-30). Xi stresses improving quality of CPC's organizational work. ecns.cn Xi Jinping has underlined the critical role of the Party and people in building a modern socialist country and advancing national rejuvenation, calling for persistent efforts to improve the quality of the Party's organizational work.
(2023-06-30). FRSO leader condemns the Supreme Court ruling against affirmative action. fightbacknews.org Carlos Montes, a member of the Central Committee of Freedom Road Socialist Organization, condemned the Supreme Court for their June 29 ruling that bans affirmative action at colleges and universities. | "The successful struggle for affirmative action in the late sixties opened the doors to higher education for thousands of African Americans, Chicanos and other underrepresented oppressed nationalities," said Montes. | He continued, "This opened the doors to thousands of African Americans and Chicanos to become educators, lawyers, doctors and other professionals. This led to improvements in the quality of life for…
(2023-06-30). Socialist Sarah Hathway elected to the City of Greater Geelong Council. greenleft.org.au 
(2023-06-30). Falleció Hugo Blanco, histórico luchador social y ecosocialista peruano. indybay.org
(2023-06-30). CPC sees membership rise 1.4% to 98.04 million. ecns.cn The number of the Communist Party of China members reached 98.04 million at the end of 2022, and the total membership was 1.4 percent up from the 2021 figure, the Organization Department of the CPC Central Committee said Friday.