(2023-07-03). Ukraine Was Not Invited To NATO Summit In Vilnius But To A Sideline Meeting. southfront.org 
Written by Ahmed Adel, Cairo-based geopolitics and political economy researcher | Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmitry Kuleba stated that Ukraine was not invited to attend the Vilnius summit itself but was only invited to participate in the NATO-Ukraine Council, which will be held on the summit's sidelines. With this move, NATO disappointed Kiev by not providing realistic prospects of becoming a full alliance member, even though the Eastern European country receiv…
(2023-07-03). U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen to visit China from July 6-9. ecns.cn U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen will visit China from July 6 to 9, according to the Finance Ministry on Monday.
(2023-07-03). Ethiopia Applies to Join the BRICS Bloc of Emerging Economies. infobrics.org BRICS countries account for more than 40 percent of the world's population and about 26 percent of the global economy…
(2023-07-03). Bolivia: Catastrophic Standoff and Dual Power. orinocotribune.com By Katu Arkonada — Jun 30, 2023 | Luis Arce was faced with a difficult panorama, leaving behind the coup, without economic reserves, and in the middle of a pandemic, and it can be said that his government, now that he is halfway through his term, is a government of light and dark. Although he recovered the country economically, governing a country is not the same as directing a Ministry of Economy, and so far he has not been able to carry out the great strategic projects of the country, biodiesel, pharmaceuticals, basic chemicals, which were aimed at the industrialization of Bolivia. | Suspicions and accusat…
(2023-07-03). Chilean economic activity fell in May. plenglish.com Santiago de Chile, Jul 3 (Prensa Latina) The Central Bank of Chile informed that the country's economic activity in May registered a drop of two percentage points, the fourth consecutive drop this year and the largest since December 2022.
(2023-07-03). New PBOC Party chief 'well received'. ecns.cn The appointment of Pan Gongsheng, deputy governor of the People's Bank of China, as Party secretary of the nation's central bank may herald fresh measures to reinforce the country's economic recovery and renminbi stability.
(2023-07-03). Mayo Clinic names leaders for Discovery Oasis biotech innovation hub in Phoenix. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org In 2021, Mayo Clinic announced plans to develop a biotechnology innovation hub called Discovery Oasis adjacent to Mayo Clinic Hospital in North Phoenix. Two leaders have now been named to champion this organizational priority. Steven Lester, M.D., Mayo Clinic cardiologist and health care futurist, will serve as the medical director for Discovery Oasis. Aric Bopp, an experienced economic development leader, will serve as its executive director. "I am inspired by this opportunity because I believe Discovery…
(2023-07-03). Public Banking Efforts Are Gaining Momentum In California. popularresistance.org Prince Osemwengie has been looking into every tool in the toolbox to help stem the tide of local businesses being displaced due to rising rents and rising property values in South Los Angeles: Technical assistance and legal aid for small business owners, commercial rent subsidies, tax credits for small business oriented economic development, community ownership of commercial real estate, and all the above. | But with the financial system so tilted against local businesses, especially Black- and Brown-owned businesses, he believes the time has come for a more drastic solution: L.A.'s first city-owned bank. And wit…
(2023-07-03). Fall Cabal: The World Economic Forum and the end of homo sapiens. expose-news.com There is only one mechanism the cabal can deploy to control the masses, says Janet Ossebaard. That mechanism is fear. People who are scared can't think clearly. Having brought their covid series …
(2023-07-03). 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.
(2023-07-03). UN forcefully hits at U.S. blockade of Cuba. peoplesworld.org 
Nothing on the horizon now threatens the end of the U.S. economic blockade of Cuba. Critical voices inside the United States and beyond fall flat; nothing is in the works, it seems. Recently, however, the United Nations put forth a denunciation that carries unusual force, mainly because of the UN's legal authority and its practical …
(2023-07-03). New Zealand PM visits China amid growing war tensions. wsws.org While the ruling class is anxious to maintain trade with China in order to prevent an economic collapse, New Zealand is increasingly integrated in US-led war plans on a global scale, including against China.
(2023-07-03). Suppliers revving up global presence. ecns.cn Chinese automotive suppliers are being encouraged to scale up research and development efforts and seize opportunities in overseas markets to grow their clout globally.
(2023-07-03). Pope Francis sent message to the 43rd FAO Conference. plenglish.com Vatican City, Jul 3 (Prensa Latina) Pope Francis on Monday sent a message to the participants in the 43rd Conference of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), where he regrets the poverty and malnutrition existing in the world.
(2023-07-03). Protests Erupt in Florida After Anti-Immigrant Law Goes Into Effect. truthout.org Protests against Florida bill SB 1718 have erupted across the state after the bill went into effect on Saturday. Under the law, Florida no longer recognizes driver's licenses issued to undocumented immigrants from other states, and criminalizes the transportation of undocumented workers. Since Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) signed the bill into law in May, Latinx activists have organized labor strikes… |
(2023-07-03). PETA Demands U.S. Army Ban 'Classified' Weapon-Wounding Tests on Dogs, Others. transcend.org The U.S. Army is now explicitly permitting formerly banned laboratory experiments involving the wounding of dogs, cats, marine animals, and primates using weapons.
(2023-07-03). Pragmatic stance sought on China ties. ecns.cn European Union leaders have reiterated their support for a multifaceted policy approach toward China and emphasized the importance of expanding collaboration and not decoupling from the country.
(2023-07-03). Heart Failure, Neuropathy, and Spinal Stenosis. jamanetwork.com A 60-year-old patient with a history of lumbar spinal stenosis had 2 months of chest pain and shortness of breath with exertion and 3 months of toe numbness. Laboratory testing showed elevated levels of high-sensitivity troponin, brain-type natriuretic peptide, aspartate aminotransferase, and alanine aminotransferase; bone scintigraphy showed increased cardiac uptake. What is the diagnosis and what would you do next?
(2023-07-03). Bolivian president underlines collaboration with Cuba. plenglish.com La Paz, Jun 30 (Prensa Latina) Bolivian President Luis Arce on Monday thanked Cuban authorities and people for their hospitality people, and highlighted the achievements in strengthening integration in various fields of collaboration.
(2023-07-03). Stop Robo Madness Now! SF Taxi & Uber Drivers Protest Dangers Of AI Cars & The Tech Barons. indybay.org
(2023-07-03). PDX Maintenance Workers 'Sit Down! Fight Back!'. popularresistance.org Portland Airport (PDX) wheelchair attendants, baggage and service workers, cabin cleaners and janitors held a militant picket and sit-down protest June 28 on the United Airlines departures roadway. PDX maintenance workers are fighting for the right to sit down between tasks on the job. They are demanding respect, the right to a union at United, health insurance and more. | A Passenger Service Agent told demonstrators: "Our jobs involve hard physical repetitive labor that puts us at risk of workplace injuries. We are also at risk of contagious diseases. Our public health care is insufficient, and workers comp is s…
(2023-07-03). 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…
(2023-07-03). 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…
(2023-07-03). Miles de personas a favor de la reforma indígena en Australia. telesurtv.net El Gobierno laborista de centroizquierda del primer ministro Anthony Albanese respalda el cambio, mientras que los conservadores liberales-nacionales de la oposición instan a votar No.
(2023-07-03). Australian government's NDIS review paves way for deeper cuts to disability services. wsws.org As the corporate elite and media are demanding, the Labor government is preparing moves to impose new caps and eligibility restrictions on badly-needed NDIS programs.
(2023-07-03). Report Shows How Military Industrial Complex Sets Media Narrative on Ukraine. scheerpost.com 
By Bryce Greene / Fairness and Accuracy In Reporting (FAIR) Wealthy donors have long funded think tanks with official-sounding names that produce research that reflects the interests of those funders (Extra!, 7/13). The weapons industry is a major contributor to these idea factories; a recent report from the Quincy Institute (6/1/23) demonstrates just how much influence …
(2023-07-03). Supreme Court Preserves College Preferences for Wealthy Whites. independentmediainstitute.org The United States Supreme Court's recent ruling striking down race as a factor in college and university admissions was in response to a case brought by a conservative organization claiming that Asian Americans are harmed by preferences for people of other nonwhite races. The case, which focused on Harvard University and the University of North …
(2023-07-03). How Military Industrial Complex Sets Media Narrative On Ukraine. popularresistance.org Wealthy donors have long funded think tanks with official-sounding names that produce research that reflects the interests of those funders (Extra!, 7/13). The weapons industry is a major contributor to these idea factories; a recent report from the Quincy Institute (6/1/23) demonstrates just how much influence war profiteers have on the national discourse. | The Quincy Institute—whose own start-up funding came mainly from George Soros and Charles Koch—looked at 11 months of Ukraine War coverage in the New York Times, Washington Post and Wall Street Journal, from March 1, 2022, through January 31, 202…
(2023-07-03). Let's get out from under the carbon military boot print. mronline.org 
The USA and its allies pose themselves as "Global Leaders". They could and should be, as they are the countries with the greatest concentrations of wealth, power and technical know how, communications and education, but they are falling horribly short; because they see leadership as the same thing as dominance—and subordinate everything else to that.
(2023-07-03). US Chamber Of Commerce Comes To Rescue Big Pharma In Pricing Lawsuit. trofire.com We recently talked about drug company Merck suing the federal government because they don't want to lower the cost of their drugs. That lawsuit has now expanded, with groups like the US Chamber of Commerce and Big Pharma front groups joining in to keep prices high for American consumers. Mike Papantonio & Farron Cousins discuss more. Transcript: *This transcript …
(2023-07-03). The US Supreme Court's rampage against democratic rights. wsws.org The unelected justices, with lifetime appointments, are a critical part of a thoroughly anti-democratic political system controlled by the financial aristocracy.
(2023-07-03). Stop the cuts to public education in Detroit! Prepare strike action to defend jobs and win inflation-busting wage gains! Billions for schools, not war! wsws.org We call for strike action in the fall unless our demands are met in full, coordinated with teachers and workers internationally, including the Detroit Three autoworkers.
(2023-07-03). The African Angle on WikiLeaks on Julian Assange's 52nd Birthday. towardfreedom.org Julian Assange turns 52 today. The WikiLeaks founder is spending a fourth year at Britain's Belmarsh prison and faces charges in the United States for violating the Espionage Act. But for many, he's an example of a journalist punished for exposing shocking truths about governments and the rich and powerful. African Stream looks at his revelations on Africa.
(2023-07-03). Cuban province strengthens hydraulic infrastructure. plenglish.com For the city of Camaguey, such investment is key, confirmed during a recent visit by Ines Maria Chapman Waugh, Cuba's deputy prime minister. | Her tour of the installation allowed her to corroborate the "availability of chlorine and hypochlorite, in addition to the chemical products necessary to maintain the operation of this installation, with a capacity to process 1,800 liters of water per second, through the activation of its three motors," reports the weekly Adelante in its site. | Camaguey, which was seriously affected by the floods of last June 9 with a significant amount of rainfall, does not lose sight o…
(2023-07-03). New York Times Demands Caricatures in Talking About AI. cepr.net The New York Times, likes other major media outlets, continues to push its ideology, about how we have a choice of the market or the government. The latest is a piece by Evgeny Morozov, warning about the profit driven pursuit of AI and the threats it poses to humanity. In keeping with the official ideology, …
(2023-07-03). Vernon, CA UPS Teamsters stand up for a decent contract. fightbacknews.org Vernon, CA – At a UPS hub in Vernon, California, members of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters (IBT) union held their weekly Teamster Thursdays on June 29. The workers were loud and militant and demanded better pay and a fair contract. | "I was a new hire here during the pandemic and I saw my coworkers drop left and right. They were calling us heroes; they even have a banner in there that says, 'Heroes work here'. Our hard work made UPS billions in profit. The least they could do is pay us a living wage," said Alejandro Orellana, a Teamster and an unloader at UPS Grande Vista. | The scene turned tense whe…
(2023-07-03). Greed in US Health Care—Reply. jamanetwork.com In Reply I thank Dr Back for his Letter, and I agree with him. My Viewpoint was indeed directed mainly to JAMA's core readership—physicians, but the problems created by a profit-driven health care system go far beyond physicians in both cause and effect. Back's critique triggers the provocative question as to whether health care ought to be market driven in the first place, and, if not, what it will take to change the status quo. In their recent book, The Big Myth: How American Business Taught Us to Loathe Government and Love the Free Market, historians Naomi Oreskes and Erik Conway find the foundation to b…
(2023-07-03). NSW hospital workers strike over wages. greenleft.org.au 
(2023-07-03). Southern California Hotel Workers Strike for Higher Pay. telesurenglish.net On Sunday morning, thousands of unionized hotel workers in Southern California walked off their job for higher wages and better welfare, just as tourists descended on the region for the Fourth of July holiday. | Related: | According to several reports, the strike is expected to last four days until the holiday concludes. | According to official data, up to 15,000 employees from the group participated in the strike…
(2023-07-03). More hot air at UPS as Teamsters falsely claim "victory" on second-tier wages. wsws.org This is the latest in a series of maneuvers by the union designed to head off strike action by 340,000 workers and impose a sellout contract at the largest unionized private employer in the United States.
(2023-07-03). Ask Who Benefits: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix. thealtworld.com 
Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley): | It is the Republican Party's job to expand the US military, rob and oppress the working class, serve US plutocrats, facilitate ecocidal capitalism, and foment division among the electorate. It is the Democratic Party's job to do these same things while blaming it on Republicans. | ‚ùñ | One of the weirdest things to happen last year was the entire western political/media class deciding to start pretending Ukrainian Nazis aren't Nazis based on literally nothing whatsoever, just because it's convenient, and a substantial portion of…
(2023-07-03). Human Suffering Worsens in DRC, the Heart of Africa. transcend.org 28 Jun 2023 – A million more Congolese people have been displaced to satisfy the resource hunger of the industrialized world.
(2023-07-03). MintPress News Is Being Targeted: Join Us in Standing up to the War Machine. mintpressnews.com 
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(2023-07-03). Communication Workers Union stalls "rule 13" industrial action in Shropshire against revisions. wsws.org "We had heard about the walkout in Glasgow and the vote for rule 13 action at Craigavon, Northern Ireland, but not through the CWU. It was via the internet, social media and the World Socialist Web Site."
(2023-07-03). Against Trotskyism: The Shachtmanites and "Third Camp" Trotskyism. fightbacknews.org Max Shachtman was one of the original founders of the Trotskyite movement in the United States. He was a pragmatist, an opportunist even among opportunists, who led the first major split from the Socialist Workers Party (SWP) in 1940. At that time, he broke with the orthodox Trotskyite position that the USSR should be understood as a "degenerated workers state" and that it instead had come to be ruled by a new "bureaucratic collectivist" class. | Under the cloak of the theory of the "degenerated workers state" the Trotskyites kept up the pretense of support for the Soviet Union while making every effort to subve…
(2023-07-03). Sunday 7/9: Defend the Tampa 5! Drop the Charges Now! indybay.org San Jose City Hall | 200 E. Santa Clara St. San Jose, Ca 95113…
(2023-07-03). China's BRI: Toward a Hybrid International Order with Socialist Characteristics? dissidentvoice.org This year marks the 10th anniversary of President Xi Jinping's launch of China's flagship, One Belt One Road (OBOR), later referred to as the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). Echoing the historic Silk Road, the ancient trade network of Eurasia that connected the East and West, BRI is the most ambitious and expensive infrastructure plan …
(2023-07-03). Socialist Sarah Hathway elected to the City of Greater Geelong Council. greenleft.org.au 
(2023-07-03). Pseudo-left club at Australia's Macquarie University slanders IYSSE amid affiliation struggle. wsws.org Macquarie Socialists' statement reveals just how wide the gap is between this pseudo-left outfit and the principled, left-wing and socialist politics of the IYSSE.
(2023-07-02). Ghana's constitution must set the stage to build Pan-African Unity. peoplesdispatch.org In light of recent discussions on a review of Ghana's constitution, we talk to Kwesi Pratt Jnr, General Secretary of the Socialist Movement of Ghana. He explains the history of constitutional review and the steps that can be taken to ensure the voice of the people is heard…
(2023-07-03). Why does Russia now believe that Covid-19 was a US-created bioweapon? thecommunists.org Western mainstream media reporting of chemical, biological and genetic experimentation, 'biosecurity' and bioweapons has become so integral to the information war that it has become hard to disentangle fact from fiction, and truth from psychological operation, even for those with sound political instincts and a healthy scepticism. Yet the war in Ukraine is shedding some …