(2023-09-25). China-Arab States Expo ends with 170 billion yuan worth of cooperation projects inked. ecns.cn Companies from China and Arab states reached cooperation projects worth more than 170 billion yuan ($23.2 billion) during the four-day China-Arab States Expo, which ended on Sunday.
(2023-09-25). Multi-million investments confirm industrialization of Bolivia. plenglish.com La Paz, Sep 25 (Prensa Latina) An investment of over 25 billion bolivianos (roughly three billion dollars) into productive complexes reaffirm Bolivia's progress towards a broad-based economy, according to President Luis Arce.
(2023-09-25). BRICS Or NATO? G20 Or G77? popularresistance.org Pepe and Michael and I are going to discuss the apparently unending series of summits and read their tea leaves to see what they tell us about how the world is changing. | And that summitry has been pretty exhausting. There was the fateful NATO summit in July, where much to his chagrin, President Zelensky failed to get even a timetable to get into NATO after having prostrated his country before NATO and having long ago so faithfully let NATO into Ukraine. | And then there was the BRICS summit in Johannesburg in August, where the organization defied pessimistic predictions and admitted six new members.
(2023-09-25). Advancing new industrialization seen as key to high-quality growth. ecns.cn China's emphasis on advancing new industrialization is expected to provide a solid foundation for high-quality economic growth, improve the resilience and safety of its industrial and supply chains, and boost the country's core competitiveness globally.
(2023-09-25). US-China relations: Rivalry or 'antagonistic cooperation'? greenleft.org.au 
US-based Hong Kong socialist activist and scholar Promise Li discusses how economic interdependence across rivaling geopolitical blocs shapes inter-imperialist tensions today, with Green Left's Federico Fuentes.
(2023-09-25). Angola and China will sign investment protection agreement. plenglish.com Luanda, Sep 25 (Prensa Latina) The Governments of Angola and China are preparing an agreement for Reciprocal Protection of Investments, the signing of which should occur soon, according to the Minister of State for Economic Coordination, José de Lima Massano.
(2023-09-25). El Salvador faces complex problems. plenglish.com A recent study conducted by the Economic Commission for Latin America (ECLAC) showed that El Salvador needs to invest 5.3 percent of its Gross Domestic Product (GDP) each year to solve the losses caused by climate change, which is equivalent to 1.6 billion dollars. | According to the study, El Salvador's GDP could be reduced between nine and 12 percent in 2050 if there is no investment response to the current challenges. | The climate will harm agriculture above all, and if climatic phenomenon, such as El Niño, continue to impact the country without an adequate response, by 2050 the agricultural yield of beans w…
(2023-09-25). The Israeli 'Coup' And The Death Of False Democracy. popularresistance.org From its very onset, Israel has constructed a brand for itself, a powerful gimmick that was predicated on two main pillars: democracy and stability. | The main target audience for this brand has been powerful Western states that wielded disproportionate political, economic and military powers. | These Western governments, along with their influential mainstream corporate media, did their part, by polishing Israel's image — as most democratic and most stable — while tarnishing that of their Arab and Palestinian enemies — or anyone else who dared criticize Israel. | It mattered little whether Isra…
(2023-09-24). It's Cuba or Daniel Blake. orinocotribune.com By Ana Hurtado — Sep 20, 2023 | The world is in turmoil. As the Western powers and their economic policies continue to tear apart the world, the countries of the South have united to demand justice. | This is a long story, one that continues and has been there on a planet where human beings have gone straight into an invisible plane. Since the emergence of capitalism, we have witnessed the progressive destruction of people, their cultures, communities, their environment and their freedoms by oppressive forces that increasingly abuse all people. | Is this what we human beings are destined for? | In 2016, the…
(2023-09-24). Venezuela's Vice President Calls Out OAS Chief's Interventionist Comments on Essequibo Referendum. orinocotribune.com Venezuelan Vice President Delcy Rodríguez called out the secretary general of the Organization of American States (OAS), Luis Almagro, for his interventionist comments on the Essequibo region. The region is disputed between Venezuela and Guyana. | "Venezuela has always defeated you and will continue to do so," Vice President Rodríguez wrote in a post on X (formerly Twitter) on Saturday, September 23, referring to Almagro. "You are a shameful stain for our region. You have participated in coups d'état, economic wars, and corruption. You are the godfather of regional extremism and the perverse mind of lawfare. Vene…
(2023-09-24). Presidente de Cuba llama a cambiar orden económico mundial. telesurtv.net En declaraciones exclusivas a la multiestatal teleSUR, afirmó que cada día que pasa se acrecienta la crisis climática en detrimento del Sur global.
(2023-09-24). Rusia insta a EE.UU. y la UE a poner fin a medidas restrictivas. telesurtv.net Expresó ante la Asamblea General de las Naciones Unidas que EE.UU. y la UE asumen compromisos y no los cumplen.
(2023-09-24). Cuba ratifies its willingness to strengthen ties with Croatia. plenglish.com The statement was made by the Cuban Foreign Ministry on its account on the social network X, formerly Twitter, on the occasion of the 31st anniversary of diplomatic relations between the two countries. | In 2021, during the 2nd Round of Political Consultations between Foreign Ministries, Cuba and Croatia expressed their desire to promote the development of economic-commercial relations. | The Cuban Government thanks Croatia for its historic position against the economic, financial and commercial blockade imposed by the United States on Cuba.
(2023-09-24). BYD launches affordable EV in Mexico. america.cgtn.com 
Electric mobility is fast becoming the preferred mode of transportation around the world, with sales of electric vehicles growing yearly. | A leading market is China, where eight million EVs were sold in 2023, more than double that of any other global region. But Chinese EV technology is becoming available in other markets too. | CGTN's Alasdair Baverstock reports.
(2023-09-25). Amnesty International Pushes Regime Change in Eritrea with Dubious, Unverifiable Report. orinocotribune.com 
Amnesty's new report accusing Eritrea's government of gruesome war crimes relies heavily on anonymous testimony, grainy satellite images, and zero field investigation. It is the latest salvo in the West's campaign to topple the country's independent government. | Eritrea is a small country with a geostrategically significant coast on the Red Sea. Fiercely independent, it is one of only two African nations that refuse to collaborate with AFRICOM, the US Africa Command. Committed to an incremental, self-reliant development strategy, it has chosen not to saddle itself with IMF or World Bank debt. It was also the onl…
(2023-09-25). Housing activists say NSW Labor's budget fails the test. greenleft.org.au 
(2023-09-25). Prensa Latina and VNA agencies assess progress and renew cooperation. plenglish.com Hanoi, Sep 25 (Prensa Latina) The press agencies VNA, from Vietnam, and Prensa Latina, from Cuba, reviewed the progress in bilateral collaboration and renewed the existing agreement in the editorial area.
(2023-09-25). Continúa protestas en contra de reforma laboral en Grecia. telesurtv.net Por otro lado, la ley prohíbe a los huelguistas impedir a un colega que vaya a trabajar durante un paro.
(2023-09-25). Auto Bargaining In Canada—Stuck In The Past? popularresistance.org Bargaining with the Detroit 3 auto corporations is happening in Canada and the United States at the same time this year—the first time that bargaining has aligned since the disastrous bankruptcy negotiations and forced concessions of 2009. Unifor just reached a tentative agreement with Ford earlier this week, while the United Auto Workers' strike against selected Ford, Stellantis and General Motors plants is ongoing. | This is indicative of the major differences in the strategies of the two unions. The UAW, under new leadership, is doing things dramatically differently—raising bold demands, mobilizing…
(2023-09-25). Canadian parliament and prime minister give standing ovation to Ukrainian Nazi war criminal. wsws.org The Trudeau Liberal government and Canada's political establishment as a whole are in damage-control mode after Ottawa's longstanding ties to the Nazis' Ukrainian fascist collaborators and their political descendants were brought too far into the limelight.
(2023-09-24). Housing activists say NSW Labor's budget fails the test. greenleft.org.au
(2023-09-24). Protesters call on Labor to protest Fukushima nuclear waste dumping. greenleft.org.au 
(2023-09-24). Auto Workers Strike Spreads To 38 Parts Depots. popularresistance.org The clock has ticked and tocked for two of the Big 3 automakers. At noon 5,000 more members of the Auto Workers (UAW) at 38 parts distribution centers for Stellantis and General Motors walked off the job. The facilities are spread across 20 states. They join 13,000 workers at assembly plants in Ohio, Michigan, and Missouri who have been out for a week—for a total of 18,000 Big 3 auto workers on picket lines nationwide. (See a map of all struck facilities here.) The escalation adds a new type of facility to the mix. Parts distribution centers (PDCs) supply after-sales spare parts and accessories to dealershi…
(2023-09-24). Collaboration, Not Confrontation. popularresistance.org The United States has articulated a policy that it wishes to continue this war to severely 'weaken Russia' — as US defence secretary Lloyd Austin and other high officials have been explicitly stating — and, it is claimed, to place Ukraine in a stronger bargaining position for eventual negotiations (or in a weaker position, if the Russian offensive makes an impact, a strong likelihood that is quietly ignored). The policy of trying to 'weaken Russia' through the escalation of the war in Ukraine is the position of the United States and the United Kingdom, and with some variation, their European allies (F…
(2023-09-24). Kim Jong Un thanks China for supporting DPRK. plenglish.com Pyongyang, Sep 24 (Prensa Latina) The general secretary of the Labor Party and president of State Affairs of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), Kim Jong Un, acknowledged China's support for his country's struggles in defense of socialism.
(2023-09-24). Island Nations Back Fossil Fuel Treaty at Global Citizen Festival. truthout.org Two island nations on Saturday joined the growing bloc of countries endorsing a fossil fuel nonproliferation treaty amid a worsening climate emergency and continued inadequate action by the larger and wealthier polluters most responsible for causing the planetary crisis. Answering United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres' exhortation at this week's Climate Ambition Summit for countries to… |
(2023-09-25). Do People Really Expect Prices to Fall Back to Pre-Pandemic Levels? counterpunch.org Catherine Rampell had an interesting column dealing with the question of when prices will "come back down?" Rampell correctly answered "never," but I am not convinced this is the real question people are posing. Rampell deals with the question as being one about the overall Consumer Price Index (CPI). She is explicitly not talking about
(2023-09-24). Biden's Advisory Council Faces Scrutiny for Water Privatization Connections. truthout.org In the lead up to the 2024 presidential election, President Biden has been focused more on infrastructure than perhaps any other issue. The President has touted his bipartisan infrastructure bill that passed in 2021 and has been running ads in states like Pennsylvania, Nevada, Wisconsin, and Arizona talking about his Clean Energy Plan housed within the Inflation Reduction Act. |
(2023-09-24). Republicans in Congress clash over spending as government shutdown looms. america.cgtn.com 
U.S. Republican lawmakers are spending the weekend trying to introduce legislation aimed at avoiding a government shutdown in less than a week. | But a small faction of their hardline conservative colleagues opposes them, demanding that their leader trim spending to reduce debts. | Owen Fairclough reports.
(2023-09-25). 37 Years of Direct Action Against Fur Farms in America. indybay.org There have been at least 116 fur farm raids in America over the last 37 years; more than 160,000 fur bearing captive animals have been liberated, given a new chance at life after spending their entire lives in small metal cages. At least 43 of the raided farms are closed forever.
(2023-09-24). 37 Years of Direct Action Against Fur Farms in America. indybay.org There have been at least 116 fur farm raids in America over the last 37 years; more than 160,000 fur bearing captive animals have been liberated, given a new chance at life after spending their entire lives in small metal cages. At least 43 of the raided farms are closed forever.
(2023-09-24). 'Republicans for Ukraine' Ad Says Ukraine War Is Good Because It 'Weakens Russia'. news.antiwar.com A new group formed to rally GOP support for Ukraine released an ad this weekend that said US spending on the war in Ukraine is good for the US because it "weakens" Russia. The ad was made by Republicans for Ukraine, a campaign launched by Defending Democracy Together, an organization led by neoconservative Bill Kristol. …
(2023-09-24). Zelensky Says He Met BlackRock CEO and Other Finance Leaders in US Trip. news.antiwar.com Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Sunday that during his recent trip to the US, he met with BlackRock CEO Larry Fink and other US business and finance leaders to discuss investment in Ukraine's reconstruction. "The American entrepreneurs and financiers confirmed their readiness to make large-scale investments in our country immediately after the end of the …
(2023-09-25). Artificial intelligence: profit versus freedom. nationofchange.org As with previous technological breakthroughs, AI places on society's agenda both new issues and old contentious ones.
(2023-09-25). Sep 25, 2023. sitrepworld.info 
‚ô´ For What It's Worth — Buffalo Springfield Bill Kristol's Refreshingly Honest Ukraine War Ad, by Caitlin Johnstone West Crumbles While Eurasia Rises, by Matthew Ehret (Video) Lavrov's UNGA Speech — Amazing what can be said in 15 minutes, by Karl Sanchez 'Silent Coup': How capitalism defeated decolonization, by Chris Hedges (Video, Transcript) What is wrong with the Western political class? by Gaius Baltar Western powers are falling behind in technology, held back by systemic rot, by Alex Krainer Ukraine Counteroffensive: 'I'm Ready to Die … 90% of the Guys Here Will Die Too,' by A…
(2023-09-24). 'Silent Coup': How Capitalism Defeated Decolonization. popularresistance.org The 20th Century saw a great global uprising against European imperialism as the former colonial countries shook off their shackles and rose up for independence. More than a half century later, global inequality is sharper than ever before. To understand the current predicament of the vast majority of the world's people, we must understand the intervening decades. Matt Kennard and Claire Provost's book, Silent Coup: How Corporations Overthrew Democracy, looks inside the international architecture of global corporate governance that exists to flout and crush any attempts by the former colonial world to enact devel…
(2023-09-24). 37 Years of Direct Action Against Fur Farms in America. indybay.org There have been at least 116 fur farm raids in America over the last 37 years; more than 160,000 fur bearing captive animals have been liberated, given a new chance at life after spending their entire lives in small metal cages. At least 43 of the raided farms are closed forever.
(2023-09-24). 'Republicans for Ukraine' Ad Says Ukraine War Is Good Because It 'Weakens Russia'. news.antiwar.com A new group formed to rally GOP support for Ukraine released an ad this weekend that said US spending on the war in Ukraine is good for the US because it "weakens" Russia. The ad was made by Republicans for Ukraine, a campaign launched by Defending Democracy Together, an organization led by neoconservative Bill Kristol. …
(2023-09-24). Zelensky Says He Met BlackRock CEO and Other Finance Leaders in US Trip. news.antiwar.com Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Sunday that during his recent trip to the US, he met with BlackRock CEO Larry Fink and other US business and finance leaders to discuss investment in Ukraine's reconstruction. "The American entrepreneurs and financiers confirmed their readiness to make large-scale investments in our country immediately after the end of the …
(2023-09-25). Artificial intelligence: profit versus freedom. nationofchange.org As with previous technological breakthroughs, AI places on society's agenda both new issues and old contentious ones.
(2023-09-25). Sep 25, 2023. sitrepworld.info ‚ô´ For What It's Worth — Buffalo Springfield Bill Kristol's Refreshingly Honest Ukraine War Ad, by Caitlin Johnstone West Crumbles While Eurasia Rises, by Matthew Ehret (Video) Lavrov's UNGA Speech — Amazing what can be said in 15 minutes, by Karl Sanchez 'Silent Coup': How capitalism defeated decolonization, by Chris Hedges (Video, Transcript) What is wrong with the Western political class? by Gaius Baltar Western powers are falling behind in technology, held back by systemic rot, by Alex Krainer Ukraine Counteroffensive: 'I'm Ready to Die … 90% of the Guys Here Will Die Too,' by A…
(2023-09-24). 'Silent Coup': How Capitalism Defeated Decolonization. popularresistance.org The 20th Century saw a great global uprising against European imperialism as the former colonial countries shook off their shackles and rose up for independence. More than a half century later, global inequality is sharper than ever before. To understand the current predicament of the vast majority of the world's people, we must understand the intervening decades. Matt Kennard and Claire Provost's book, Silent Coup: How Corporations Overthrew Democracy, looks inside the international architecture of global corporate governance that exists to flout and crush any attempts by the former colonial world to enact devel…
(2023-09-25). Presidente chino aboga por promover la nueva industrialización. telesurtv.net El primer ministro chino, Li Qiang, recalcó la importancia de optimizar la resiliencia y la seguridad de las cadenas industriales y de suministro.
(2023-09-25). Australian parliamentarians lobby for Assange in Washington. wsws.org The tour reflected a groundswell of support for Assange among ordinary people, but also underscored the bankruptcy of a fight for his freedom based on backroom diplomacy and politicking.
(2023-09-24). Protests in Syria against US mercenary militia. plenglish.com Damascus, Sep 24 (Prensa Latina) Demonstrations continue for the fifth consecutive day against the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), supported by the United States, in the municipality of Qamishi, in the northeastern province of Hasakeh, it was reported here on Sunday. Activists quoted by various media outlets reported that hundreds of angry protesters and merchants gathered in the municipal roundabout to denounce the illegal and criminal measures imposed by this illegal group and the US forces.
(2023-09-25). Moving beyond 'No New Cold War'. greenleft.org.au 
Promise Li is a socialist from Hong Kong currently based in Los Angeles, and a member of US socialist organisations Tempest and Solidarity. In the second part of our interview, he discusses multipolarity and its implications for anti-war and anti-imperialist organising, with Green Left's Federico Fuentes.
(2023-09-25). Tuesday 9/26: Reading Circle: The Planetary Crisis & the Crucial Role of a Revolutionary Party. indybay.org New Valencia Hall 747 Polk St. (near Ellis St.), San Francisco. | Seven blocks from Civic Center BART, on or new Muni bus lines #5, 19, 27, 31, 38, 49 | Or register to attend via zoom: bit.ly/ReadingCircleRegistration…
(2023-09-24). Making the Kingdom of God Present. indybay.org Freedom does not come from the market. Rather, in socialist terms, we need a market to which we are free. What we have, on the other hand, is a market that dictates everything. Our Mrs. Merkel says that democracy must conform to the market. What we have developed in our work in Costa Rica runs exactly the opposite way: the market must conform to democracy.
(2023-09-24). Tuesday 9/26: Reading Circle: The Planetary Crisis & the Crucial Role of a Revolutionary Party. indybay.org New Valencia Hall 747 Polk St. (near Ellis St.), San Francisco. | Seven blocks from Civic Center BART, on or new Muni bus lines #5, 19, 27, 31, 38, 49 | Or register to attend via zoom: bit.ly/ReadingCircleRegistration…
(2023-09-24). Media Counterinsurgency Against the African People's Socialist Party: Ignore the Show Trial, Reinforce the Anti-Russia Psyop Behind it. libya360.wordpress.com Rainer Shea The fraudulent charges against the African People's Socialist Party are supposed to represent the starting stage in our national security state's war against dissent during…
(2023-09-24). Communist Party of Chile appoints Lautaro Carmona as president. plenglish.com Santiago de Chile, Sep 24 (Prensa Latina) The Communist Party of Chile (PCCh) appointed Lautaro Carmona as its new president on Sunday to replace Guillermo Teillier, who led the organization for 18 years until his death on August 29.
(2023-09-25). Policy to help promote cross-Strait relations. ecns.cn The Communist Party of China is maintaining its strategic dominance in steering cross-Strait relations by rolling out a policy promoting integrated development of the two sides of the Taiwan Strait, thus laying the foundation for future reunification.