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2023-10-10: News Headlines

ecns.cn (2023-10-10). China-BRI investment reaches $380 bln. ecns.cn Investment between China and countries involved in the Belt and Road Initiative had accumulated to $380 billion from 2013 to 2022, Guo Tingting, vice-minister of commerce, said Tuesday.

Dana Sanchez (2023-10-09). The Good And Bad About America's Blockbuster Jobs Report: 3 Things To Know. moguldom.com A strong job market should be good news but in an environment of high inflation, where paychecks aren't keeping up with rising prices, a blockbuster jobs report may not make Americans feel good about the economy. The U.S. economy added 336,000 jobs in September — far more than the 170,000 expected by economists polled by …

ecns.cn (2023-10-09). Report: Chinese economy to grow about 5.2% in 2023. ecns.cn BOC Research Institute predicted that the Chinese economy will grow about 5.7 percent year-on-year in the fourth quarter to achieve yearly growth of around 5.2 percent this year, above the official annual growth target of 5 percent.

ecns.cn (2023-10-09). China to increase efforts in computing power. ecns.cn China will step up efforts to build its computing power, which will give the country an edge in building up its digital economy and injecting new vitality into the intelligent transformation of its industries…

Geopolitical Economy Report (2023-10-09). Palestinians Have a Legal Right to Armed Resistance against Israeli Colonialism. dissidentvoice.org International law clearly shows that the Palestinian people have a legal right to armed struggle against Israeli colonialism, just as South Africans did against apartheid. Gaza suffers under an illegal Israeli blockade that even a former British prime minister recognized to be a "prison camp." Journalist Ben Norton looks over the evidence. See related article: …


Laith Fadel (2023-10-09). Argentina's presidential election looms amid an economic crisis. america.cgtn.com In two weeks, Latin America's third largest economy, Argentina, will hold its presidential election. Outsider Javier Milei, a libertarian, appears to be the front-runner after winning 30 percent of the vote in the primaries. The election will be held against the backdrop of one of the country's worst economic crises in decades. CGTN's Joel Richards reports.

Luis Linares Petrov (2023-10-09). Argentina applies measures to aid small and medium-sized companies. plenglish.com Buenos Aires, Oct 9 (Prensa Latina) the Minister of Economy Sergio Massa announced that Argentina will begin to apply new incentives to encourage exports by small and medium-sized companies.

Peter Koenig (2023-10-09). El cerebro es el campo de batalla del futuro: el objetivo del Foro Económico Mundial es "alterar al ser humano" globalizacion.ca El Dr. James Giordano, neurólogo de la Agencia de Proyectos de Investigación Avanzados de Defensa (DARPA, por sus siglas en inglés) y jefe del Programa de Estudios de Neuroética de la Universidad de Georgetown, Washington DC , que también es…

Peter Koenig (2023-10-09). El cerebro es el campo de batalla del futuro: el objetivo del Foro Económico Mundial es "alterar al ser humano" globalizacion.ca

UAW. (2023-10-09). UAW Members At Mack Trucks Reject Tentative Agreement. popularresistance.org After voting by 73% to reject a tentative agreement, nearly 4,000 UAW members at Mack Trucks in Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Florida walked out on strike at 7 a.m. on Monday, October 9. | "I'm inspired to see UAW members at Mack Trucks holding out for a better deal, and ready to stand up and walk off the job to win it," said UAW President Shawn Fain. "The members have the final say, and it's their solidarity and organization that will win a fair contract at Mack." | After weeks of failing to address core economic issues, the company reached a tentative agreement with just minutes to spare before the initial deadli…


infobrics (2023-10-09). Saudi Arabia and the BRICS Bloc. infobrics.org All parties are expected to mutually benefit from the opening of Saudi markets to their trade and vice versa. Overall, Saudi Arabia is the most important trading partner of BRICS members in the Middle East…

Frank Cappello (2023-10-09). LEVER TIME PREMIUM: Coming Of Age In American Poverty. levernews.com On this week's episode of Lever Time Premium, exclusively for The Lever's supporting subscribers, producer Frank Cappello is joined by Nikhil Goyal, sociologist, educator, and former senior advisor to Senator Bernie Sanders, to discuss his new book Live to See the Day: Coming Of Age In American Poverty. The book chronicles the lives of three Puerto Rican teenagers growing up in one of Philadelphia's poorest neighborhoods, and explores the failures of America's public education and welfare systems through lived experience. On the show, Goyal discusses the "school choice" movement, which has largely become a vehic…

presstv.ir (2023-10-10). Some Israeli military personnel collaborated in al-Aqsa Storm: Report. presstv.ir An informed Palestinian official has reportedly said part of the Israeli military personnel collaborated with resistance groups in the recent surprise attack against the regime.

Sonali Kolhatkar (2023-10-10). Labor Education Starts in School. counterpunch.org

Sonali Kolhatkar (2023-10-10). Labor education starts in schoolÔøº. nationofchange.org Giving K-12 students the language, information, and tools they need to protect themselves from workplace exploitation is a critical tool to reversing the nation's capitalism-fueled inequality.

infobrics (2023-10-09). Saudi Arabia and the BRICS Bloc. infobrics.org All parties are expected to mutually benefit from the opening of Saudi markets to their trade and vice versa. Overall, Saudi Arabia is the most important trading partner of BRICS members in the Middle East…

Frank Cappello (2023-10-09). LEVER TIME PREMIUM: Coming Of Age In American Poverty. levernews.com On this week's episode of Lever Time Premium, exclusively for The Lever's supporting subscribers, producer Frank Cappello is joined by Nikhil Goyal, sociologist, educator, and former senior advisor to Senator Bernie Sanders, to discuss his new book Live to See the Day: Coming Of Age In American Poverty. The book chronicles the lives of three Puerto Rican teenagers growing up in one of Philadelphia's poorest neighborhoods, and explores the failures of America's public education and welfare systems through lived experience. On the show, Goyal discusses the "school choice" movement, which has largely become a vehic…

presstv.ir (2023-10-10). Some Israeli military personnel collaborated in al-Aqsa Storm: Report. presstv.ir An informed Palestinian official has reportedly said part of the Israeli military personnel collaborated with resistance groups in the recent surprise attack against the regime.

Sonali Kolhatkar (2023-10-10). Labor Education Starts in School. counterpunch.org

Sonali Kolhatkar (2023-10-10). Labor education starts in schoolÔøº. nationofchange.org Giving K-12 students the language, information, and tools they need to protect themselves from workplace exploitation is a critical tool to reversing the nation's capitalism-fueled inequality.

teleSUR, MS (2023-10-10). Gremio de la salud de Perú convoca a huelga indefinida. telesurtv.net EsSalud aseguran que el gobierno de Perú sostiene una política "antilaboral" con los profesionales del sector que exigen se cumplan los acuerdos pautados con anterioridad.

UFCLP & RWF (2023-10-10). Saturday 10/14: SF Labor Party Discussion & Organizing Meeting. indybay.org 474 Valencia St. | San Francisco…

Ben Carroll, Labor Notes. (2023-10-09). North Carolina Sanitation Workers Strike For $5K Bonuses. popularresistance.org "We're here to make a stand. At least 40 trucks should be on the road right now, and as far as we know, no trucks have gone out this morning," said Durham, North Carolina, sanitation worker Christopher Benjamin, flanked by 100 sanitation and other city workers at a September 6 press conference. | This was the first morning of a six-day strike by the North Carolina Public Service Workers Union (United Electrical Workers, UE, Local 150). | During the six-day "stand down," as they called it, sanitation workers would show up to the yard each morning and refuse to take out the garbage and recycling trucks, instead hol…

imperial.ac.uk (2023-10-09). Imperial College London and CABI to forge new collaborations at Silwood Park. imperial.ac.uk Imperial College London and CABI will collaborate to solve problems in agriculture and the environment.

Nik Heynen, Nikki Luke, Next City. (2023-10-09). How Cities Are Experimenting With Reparations In Urban Policy. popularresistance.org Even as politicians work to reenact Jim Crow-era silences about how white supremacy has shaped America, reparations are on the table as they have never been before. | After an upswell of grassroots organizing in 2020, we're seeing a new level of recognition that descendants of enslaved people, whose labor was stolen, are owed a debt. | While that organizing has fueled a collective understanding of the need for repair, progress has been bogged down by the weight of that debt and questions about how such debts can be repaid. These questions have been taken up across the country, from the California Reparations Task…

noreply (2023-10-09). Why I Am Ready To Explode… smoothiex12.blogspot.com each time I read some "analysis" from some pol.sci-journo "expert" in nothing who knows nothing but platitudes passed as "expertise". I spoke about this in my latest video, but I need to elaborate: |

Pavel López Lazo (2023-10-09). MINREX congratulates Uganda on its 61st independency anniversary. plenglish.com On X social media, MINREX reaffirmed Cuba ¥s willingness to continue strengthening friendly and historic diplomatic relations with Uganda. | On September 14, Cuba ¥s the Vice President Salvador Valdés and his Ugandan counterpart Jessica Alupo opened the new Ugandan embassy in Havana, in the context of the G77+China Summit. | During the event, both nations signed collaboration agreements on political, agricultural, health and research matters. | Cuba and Uganda cooperate in various sectors, including the training of health personnel at the Mbarara University of Science and Technology, at the initiative of…

teleSUR- hvh, JCM (2023-10-09). Claudia Goldin gana el premio Nobel de Economía 2023. telesurtv.net El premio se otorgó "por haber avanzado en nuestra comprensión de los resultados de las mujeres en el mercado laboral".

UFCLP & RWF (2023-10-09). Saturday 10/14: SF Labor Party Discussion & Organizing Meeting. indybay.org 474 Valencia St. | San Francisco…

Frank Cappello (2023-10-10). MOVIES VS. CAPITALISM: 9 to 5 (w/ Patricia Resnick). levernews.com On this week's Movies vs. Capitalism, hosts Rivka Rivera and Frank Cappello are joined by Patricia Resnick, screenwriter of the iconic 1980 dark comedy 9 to 5, for a deep-dive conversation about the radical pro-labor film.üéßLISTEN NOW by selecting your podcast player of choice: |

presstv.ir (2023-10-09). Some Israeli military personnel collaborated in al-Aqsa Storm: Report. presstv.ir An informed Palestinian official has reportedly said part of the Israeli military personnel collaborated with resistance groups in the recent surprise attack against the regime.

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-10-09). How the Fossil Fuel Industry Came to Love Climate Change. libya360.wordpress.com Gloria Guillo Has Carbon Taxation Become an Expedient Way to Redistribute Wealth, Cover Up Environmental Crimes, Promote Hazardous Energy Policies, and Control the Working Class and Developing Nations? Does the Threat of Climate Change Misdirect the Anti-War Movement? During the early 2000s, only a few left-wing magazines with limited circulation warned about the threat of…

Farooq Sulehria, Harris Qadeer (2023-10-10). Kashmir: Anti-neoliberal intifada convulses the Himalayas. greenleft.org.au A mass movement has erupted in Pakistani-administered Jammu and Kashmir against spiralling energy and food prices, report Farooq Sulehria and Harris Qadeer.

ecns.cn (2023-10-10). China's consumption potential further released during super Golden Week. ecns.cn China's consumption potential was further released during the Mid-Autumn Festival and National Day holiday dubbed as super Golden Week, CCTV reported on Monday.

noreply (2023-10-09). Ah, Poor Dreamers. . smoothiex12.blogspot.com Forget about England of knights in shining armor, Shakespeare, Admiral Nelson or, for that matter, Field-Marshal Bernard Viscount Montgomery. Great Britain doesn't produce anyone of this caliber anymore. She just doesn't, but she still loves to pretend that she matters by telling to herself fairy tales about London City's significance in the world of finances, or other meaningless financial legerdemain, which allegedly move the world around–whatever it takes to continue with palliative therapy for the cancer stricken patient in the geopolitical hospice. That is Great Britain today. For the country who had any s…

Rhoda Wilson (2023-10-09). If the Bilderbergers are a powerful think tank, where do they come from and what is the power behind them? expose-news.com The Bilderberg Group, formed in 1954, was founded in the Netherlands as a secretive meeting held once a year, drawing roughly 130 of the political-financial-military-academic-media elites from North America and Western Europe …

Nora Barrows-Friedman (2023-10-09). Watch: Day 3 roundtable on Gaza's Al-Aqsa Flood. electronicintifada.net Refaat Alareer reports from under Israeli assault in Gaza City.

Dave DeCamp (2023-10-10). US Scrambles to Get More Arms to Israel, Ukraine. news.antiwar.com As Israel has declared a "complete siege" on Gaza in response to the Hamas attack on southern Israel, the US is scrambling to get more weapons in the hands of the Israelis. According to The Washington Post, the Biden administration is considering combining its request for more spending on the war in Ukraine with new …

Tanupriya Singh (2023-10-09). IMF pushes world's poorest countries into "starvation diet" as debt burdens spiral. peoplesdispatch.org As the IMF and World Bank commence their annual meetings, an Oxfam report shows how their failed policies of austerity will force the world's poorest countries to cut USD 229 billion in public spending while hemorrhaging billions in debt payments.

Bill Astore (2023-10-09). War as an "Investment." The Bizarre Business-Speak of Mass Killing. globalresearch.ca

WSWS (2023-10-09). Police raid at VW: Works council members defend their high salaries. wsws.org The German industrial union IG Metall and its works councils at Volkswagen (VW) are always ready to sacrifice the jobs, wages and rights of the workforce upon the altar of "competitiveness" and "return on investment." If, however, their own six-figure salaries are on the line, they defend them by every means possible.

Patrick Mazza (2023-10-10). Imagining the Future: How to Build in Place. counterpunch.org Ursula K. LeGuin, who broke science fiction out of its obsession with gadgets and gizmos to humanize it with stunning vistas of starkly different worlds, had vital insights into how imagination could illuminate other possibilities for human life. LeGuin saw imagination's subversive potential. "The exercise of imagination is dangerous to those who profit from the

Appalachians Against Pipelines, Popular Resistance. (2023-10-09). MVP Construction Halted In National Forest Due To Pipeline Resistance. popularresistance.org Peters Mountain, VA — On Saturday morning 10/7, pipeline fighter Mickey locked themself to a sleeping dragon blockade on the Virginia side of Peters Mountain, in the Jefferson National Forest. A banner at the site read, "Defend the Forest Everywhere!" Mickey prevented tree clearing on the mountain for the full day. Around 8 PM on Saturday, Mickey was extracted and arrested. They were charged with 3 misdemeanors and bail was set at $2,500. | Mickey stated, "The same thing is happening everywhere right now. Greedy corporations and politicians dirty the water and air for profit, then tell the people it's for their…

DVM 360. (2023-10-09). Seattle's Urban Animal Debuts Veterinary Worker Cooperative. popularresistance.org Urban Animal, a Seattle-based veterinary network, has announced it will become the first worker cooperative veterinary practice in the US this fall. This will enable its 110 employees to share in the governance and profits of the company with more than 50,000 clients.1 | Urban Animal joins about 30 worker cooperative-based businesses in Washington. By introducing the limited cooperative association (LCA), Urban Animal founder Cherri Trusheim, DVM, will gift a portion of the company to seed it, striving to become a completely employee-owned worker co-op over time. With the influx of veterinary corporatization, Tru…

Gerry Condon (2023-10-09). Who Lies? Who Dies? Who Pays? Who Profits? Why Veterans Are Calling for Peace in Ukraine. globalresearch.ca

Fran Shor (2023-10-10). Skepticism of the Will. counterpunch.org The formulation, often attributed to the Italian Marxist, Antonio Gramsci — "pessimism of the intellect; optimism of the will" — actually originated with the French writer and pacifist, Romain Rolland. Rolland, along with many other well-known pacifists, had opposed the slaughter called at the time, the "Great War," and, later designated, the First World War,

WSWS (2023-10-09). Mobilise the working class against the Sri Lankan government's dictatorial Online Safety and Anti-Terrorism bills. wsws.org The new bills are aimed at vastly strengthening the repressive powers of the president and his government to suppress working-class opposition to its IMF-dictated attacks on jobs, wages and social conditions.

Speak Out Socialists (2023-10-09). Saturday 10/21: Capitalism and the Climate Crisis: Everything to Lose and a World to Win. indybay.org 2727 Event Space, 2727 California Street, Berkeley, CA 94703 | CAN'T JOIN IN-PERSON? JOIN THE EVENT VIA ZOOM | TINYURL.COM/OCTOBER-TH-2023…

WSWS (2023-10-09). Pro-Trump election deniers vie for speakership of US House. wsws.org With no clear solution to the impasse in the House of Representatives at hand, Washington's political breakdown is eroding confidence within ruling classes around the world in US imperialism's ability to crush a growing insurgency of the oppressed masses in the Middle East as well as an emerging mass movement of workers in the centers of world capitalism, including the US.

infobrics (2023-10-09). Russia and China to Build Oil Transshipment Complex for $686 Mln. infobrics.org Russia's United Oil- and Gas-Chemical Co. (ONGK) and China's Xuan Yuan Industrial Development have agreed to jointly invest 5 billion yuan ($686 million) in construction of a transshipment oil complex in Russia's far east…

Vijay Prashad (2023-10-09). Tenemos aquí, en àÅfrica, todo lo necesario para convertirnos en un continente poderoso, moderno e industrializado. globalizacion.ca En su libro de 1963, àÅfrica debe unirse, Kwame Nkrumah, primer presidente de Ghana, escribió: "Tenemos aquí, en àÅfrica, todo lo necesario para convertirnos en un continente poderoso, moderno e industrializado. | Los investigadores de las Naciones Unidas han demostrado recientemente…

Ann Brown (2023-10-09). Will Elon Musk Tamper With The US Presidential Election? 5 Facts To Consider. moguldom.com Ever since tech titan Elon Musk purchased Twitter in 2022, his critics have bashed the changes he's made to the platform, which he is rebranding under the name X. His supporters are seemingly elated, however, with the moves he has made. But as the 2024 presidential campaign heats up, many political observers are concerned about …

Peoples Health Dispatch (2023-10-09). Over 1.5 million cancer deaths in women worldwide could be avoided through proper prevention, says report by The Lancet. peoplesdispatch.org A recent The Lancet Commission analyzed data on the intersection of gender, power, and cancer distribution, issuing warnings about the unequal burden of disease still shouldered by women…

Freedom Socialist Party (2023-10-10). Friday 10/13: No to APEC — Yes to Global Worker Solidarity! indybay.org New Valencia Hall, 747 Polk Street (near Ellis St.), San Francisco | Seven blocks from Civic Center BART, on or near Muni bus lines #5, 19, 27, 31, 38, 49 ∑ wheelchair accessible | To attend online, register: bit.ly/No-APEC

Joseph Grosso (2023-10-10). Planning the Future: Toward a Socialist Anthropocene. counterpunch.org It has been almost a year since OpenAI unleashed its ChatGPT program. Every day since the business press has been awash with stories of its effect, and the effects of AI in general. For instance, investors poured $40 billion worth of venture capital into AL start-ups in the first half of 2023, five times the

Brasil De Fato, People's Dispatch. (2023-10-09). Bolivia's Ruling Party Confirms Evo Morales' Candidacy. popularresistance.org The split in Bolivia's ruling political party has become official. President Luis Arce and vice-president David Choquehuanca are no longer part of the MAS (Movement towards Socialism) party, which ratified the decision, informally announced on the 24, to present former president Evo Morales (2006-2019) as its candidate in the 2025 elections. | The MAS held its tenth congress from October 3-4 in the town of Lauca àë, a coca growing region in the center of the country. On that occasion, the party decreed the "self-expulsion" of Arce and Choquehuanca, for not attending the meeting, and of 20 other deputies alig…

Freedom Socialist Party (2023-10-09). Friday 10/13: No to APEC — Yes to Global Worker Solidarity! indybay.org New Valencia Hall, 747 Polk Street (near Ellis St.), San Francisco | Seven blocks from Civic Center BART, on or near Muni bus lines #5, 19, 27, 31, 38, 49 ∑ wheelchair accessible | To attend online, register: bit.ly/No-APEC

WSWS (2023-10-09). IYSSE at University of Melbourne holds successful meeting to re-establish club. wsws.org One year after being anti-democratically disaffiliated by the student union, the re-establishment of a genuine socialist, anti-war voice club at one of Australia's "sandstone" universities marks a significant development.

ecns.cn (2023-10-10). Xi makes instructions on work of public communication and culture. ecns.cn Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, Chinese president and chairman of the Central Military Commission, recently made important instructions on the work of public communication and culture. He pointed out that the work is extremely crucial to the future and destiny of the Party, the long-term stability of the country, and the cohesion and centripetal force of the nation.

Ileana Ferrer Fonte (2023-10-10). China's CP expels former Everbright Group president for corruption. plenglish.com Beijing, Oct 10 (Prensa Latina) The Communist Party of China (CPC) expelled Li Xiaopeng, former chairman of China Everbright Group, accused of severe violations of discipline and law.

Editor (2023-10-09). Communist Party of Israel and Hadash: "Netanyahu's fascist government bears full responsibility for the dangerous escalation" mronline.org In a statement concerning today's rapid escalation of military confrontation between Hamas and Israeli forces, the Communist Party of Israel (MAKI) and Hadash blame the criminal occupation policy of the far-right Netanyahu government, underlining the grave dangers that it poses for the peace in the region.

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2023-10-09: News Headlines

Dana Sanchez (2023-10-09). The Good And Bad About America's Blockbuster Jobs Report: 3 Things To Know. moguldom.com A strong job market should be good news but in an environment of high inflation, where paychecks aren't keeping up with rising prices, a blockbuster jobs report may not make Americans feel good about the economy. The U.S. economy added 336,000 jobs in September — far more than the 170,000 expected by economists polled by …

ecns.cn (2023-10-09). Report: Chinese economy to grow about 5.2% in 2023. ecns.cn BOC Research Institute predicted that the Chinese economy will grow about 5.7 percent year-on-year in the fourth quarter to achieve yearly growth of around 5.2 percent this year, above the official annual growth target of 5 percent.

ecns.cn (2023-10-09). China to increase efforts in computing power. ecns.cn China will step up efforts to build its computing power, which will give the country an edge in building up its digital economy and injecting new vitality into the intelligent transformation of its industries…

Geopolitical Economy Report (2023-10-09). Palestinians Have a Legal Right to Armed Resistance against Israeli Colonialism. dissidentvoice.org International law clearly shows that the Palestinian people have a legal right to armed struggle against Israeli colonialism, just as South Africans did against apartheid. Gaza suffers under an illegal Israeli blockade that even a former British prime minister recognized to be a "prison camp." Journalist Ben Norton looks over the evidence. See related article: …

Luis Linares Petrov (2023-10-09). Argentina applies measures to aid small and medium-sized companies. plenglish.com Buenos Aires, Oct 9 (Prensa Latina) the Minister of Economy Sergio Massa announced that Argentina will begin to apply new incentives to encourage exports by small and medium-sized companies.

TASS (2023-10-09). Russian stocks up as Monday trading opens. tass.com Meanwhile, the dollar exchange rate was up by 0.65% at 101.06 rubles, the euro was up by 0.67% at 106.48 rubles…


TASS (2023-10-09). Global demand for energy resources to rise by 23% by 2045 — OPEC. tass.com OPEC also expects renewable energy resources to account for 11.7% of the global energy balance in 2045, up from 2.7% in 2022…

TASS (2023-10-09). Uzbekistan negotiating gas supply contracts with Gazprom — energy minister. tass.com Daily supplies are planned at 9 mln cubic meters, while annual deliveries are expected to reach almost 2.8 bln cubic meters…

Anjoulie Woodhead (2023-10-08). IMF Speaks: World Economy Loses $3.7 Trillion Due to Pandemic and Economic Shocks. indybay.org As World Leaders Head to Morocco, IMF Leader Raises Growth and Debt Challenges…

Dimitris Eleas (2023-10-08). "Economic Miracle" or Mass Poverty in Greece? "A Strong Economy means Neoliberalism" globalresearch.ca

ecns.cn (2023-10-08). China-Europe Chang'an freight train service completes 20,000 trips. ecns.cn The number of China-Europe Chang'an freight train, connecting Xi'an in Northwest China's Shaanxi Province, with Moscow, Russia, has exceeded 20,000 trips since entering service on November 11, 2013.

Editor (2023-10-08). Palestinians Have a Legal Right to Armed Resistance Against Israeli Colonialism. scheerpost.com By Ben Norton / Geopolitical Economy Report International law clearly shows that the Palestinian people have a legal right to armed struggle against Israeli colonialism, just as South Africans did against apartheid. Gaza suffers under an illegal Israeli blockade that even a former British prime minister recognized to be a "prison camp". Journalist Ben Norton …




Justin A. Davis, Waging Nonviolence. (2023-10-08). United Campus Workers Rack Up Victories In 'Right-To-Work' Tennessee. popularresistance.org In recent years, U.S. labor organizing has turned an exciting corner. National headlines have burst with workers putting pressure on far corners of the economy for fair wages and safe, secure jobs — from employees at major logistics corporations like Amazon and UPS to auto workers and Hollywood writers and actors. The world of higher education is no different, and colleges and universities across the country have seen their own wave of new labor campaigns. Last fall, for example, 48,000 workers at the University of California went on a 40-day strike — the largest higher ed strike in U.S. history.

TASS (2023-10-08). Russia to have good harvest this year — Putin. tass.com The President of the Russian Federation noted that in 2022 a record volume of grain was harvested – almost 158 million tons…

Laith Fadel (2023-10-09). Argentina's presidential election looms amid an economic crisis. america.cgtn.com In two weeks, Latin America's third largest economy, Argentina, will hold its presidential election. Outsider Javier Milei, a libertarian, appears to be the front-runner after winning 30 percent of the vote in the primaries. The election will be held against the backdrop of one of the country's worst economic crises in decades. CGTN's Joel Richards reports.

TASS (2023-10-09). Russian Deputy PM Novak says ban on fuel exports helped saturate domestic market. tass.com "The prices of gasoline and diesel fuel on the St. Petersburg International Mercantile Exchange went down by 16-21%, respectively," Alexander Novak specified…

TASS (2023-10-09). Novak says new policies on fuel market to facilitate market stability. tass.com "Changing the damper coefficient to 1 will allow for increasing the amount of compensation in sales of motor fuel in the domestic market to refineries," Alexander Novak noted…

TASS (2023-10-09). OPEC projects rise of global oil demand to 116 mbd by 2045. tass.com OPEC also projects global oil demand to rise by 10.6 mbd in 2028 compared with 2022 to 110.2 mbd…




_____ (2023-10-09). The Climate Costs of the US Military Machine. transcend.org Fall 2023 – It is entirely possible for next generation to grow up in an economy that's about nurturing life, not waging death.

Peter Koenig (2023-10-09). El cerebro es el campo de batalla del futuro: el objetivo del Foro Económico Mundial es "alterar al ser humano" globalizacion.ca El Dr. James Giordano, neurólogo de la Agencia de Proyectos de Investigación Avanzados de Defensa (DARPA, por sus siglas en inglés) y jefe del Programa de Estudios de Neuroética de la Universidad de Georgetown, Washington DC , que también es…

Peter Koenig (2023-10-09). El cerebro es el campo de batalla del futuro: el objetivo del Foro Económico Mundial es "alterar al ser humano" globalizacion.ca

TASS (2023-10-09). Nobel Committee to announce laureate of Memorial Prize in Economics. tass.com The founder's descendants do not endorse this nomination…

UAW. (2023-10-09). UAW Members At Mack Trucks Reject Tentative Agreement. popularresistance.org After voting by 73% to reject a tentative agreement, nearly 4,000 UAW members at Mack Trucks in Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Florida walked out on strike at 7 a.m. on Monday, October 9. | "I'm inspired to see UAW members at Mack Trucks holding out for a better deal, and ready to stand up and walk off the job to win it," said UAW President Shawn Fain. "The members have the final say, and it's their solidarity and organization that will win a fair contract at Mack." | After weeks of failing to address core economic issues, the company reached a tentative agreement with just minutes to spare before the initial deadli…

Annelise Whitley (2023-10-08). Abandoning the Poor. tomdispatch.com On the island of Manhattan, where I live, skyscrapers multiply like metal weeds, a vertical invasion of seemingly unstoppable force. For more than a century, they have risen as symbols of wealth and the promise of progress for a city and a nation. In movies and TV shows, those buildings churn with activity, offices full of important people doing work of global significance. The effect is a feeling of economic vitality made real by the sheer scale of the buildings themselves. In stark contrast to those images of bustling productivity stands an outcropping of tall towers along the southern end of Manhattan's Centra…




mforinoco (2023-10-08). A Decade of BRI Development Transforms China's Xinjiang Region Into a Core Area of the Silk Road Economic Belt. orinocotribune.com By Li Xuanmin — Oct 1, 2023 | A decade of BRI development transforms the region into a core area of the Silk Road Economic Belt. | On Sunday morning, workers were harvesting grapes on farmland in Yining county in Kazak Autonomous Prefecture of Ili, Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. The freshly-picked fruit was then uploaded onto a truck, headed to Kazakhstan via highway, and within six hours, it would be delivered to the Kazakhstani market and sold to the local consumers. | "It used to take two to three days to ship goods from Xinjiang to Kazakhstan, but the time has been reduced to only…

_____ (2023-10-09). Sunak's Rhetoric On Climate Action May Embolden Britain's Far Right. truepublica.org.uk By Garrett L. Grainger (London School of Economics): In his speech at the Conservative Party Conference, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak stated that he and other Conservatives "love our natural world and want to be good stewards of it". However, he added, his government also had a "duty to treat household budgets with respect", which has …

Ajeyo Basu (2023-10-09). India, Tanzania discuss trade in local currencies. firstpost.com According to Dammu Ravi, Secretary for Economic Relations in the Ministry of External Affairs, during a press conference on Monday, India is looking into trading local currencies with Tanzania. | "We are exploring new areas of cooperation including in trade in local currencies. This is one of the topics discussed by the two leaders," Ravi told reporters in the national capital. | The two leaders expressed a willingness to increase bilateral trade using local currencies earlier in the day, according to the joint statement that was issued following their discussion. | They pointed out that the Reserve Bank of India…

FP Staff (2023-10-09). American economist Claudia Goldin wins Nobel Prize in Economics 2023 for research on women's labour market outcomes. firstpost.com A professor at Harvard and labour economist Claudia Goldin has won the Nobel Prize for Economics 2023. Of all the Nobel Prizes, the one for Economics has the fewest number of women who have won, with just two recipients since it was first awarded in 1969 — Elinor Ostrom in 2009 and Esther Duflo in 2019. | Goldin won the Nobel Prize for Economics for "having advanced our understanding of women's labour market outcomes," the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said on Monday. Goldin's research, has focused on inequality and the female labour force in global work spaces. | The prestigious award, formally known a…

teleSUR (2023-10-09). Claudia Goldin Wins 2023 Nobel Prize in Economics. telesurenglish.net On Monday, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences decided to award the 2023 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences, in memory of Alfred Nobel, to Claudia Goldin, "for having advanced our understanding of women's labour market outcomes." | RELATED: | Goldin's work has provided the first comprehensive account of women's earnings and labour market participation through the centuries, the jury noted, adding that…

infobrics (2023-10-09). Saudi Arabia and the BRICS Bloc. infobrics.org All parties are expected to mutually benefit from the opening of Saudi markets to their trade and vice versa. Overall, Saudi Arabia is the most important trading partner of BRICS members in the Middle East…




channelnewsasia (2023-10-09). Oil prices jump more than $4 as Middle East violence rattles markets. channelnewsasia.com

Frank Cappello (2023-10-09). LEVER TIME PREMIUM: Coming Of Age In American Poverty. levernews.com On this week's episode of Lever Time Premium, exclusively for The Lever's supporting subscribers, producer Frank Cappello is joined by Nikhil Goyal, sociologist, educator, and former senior advisor to Senator Bernie Sanders, to discuss his new book Live to See the Day: Coming Of Age In American Poverty. The book chronicles the lives of three Puerto Rican teenagers growing up in one of Philadelphia's poorest neighborhoods, and explores the failures of America's public education and welfare systems through lived experience. On the show, Goyal discusses the "school choice" movement, which has largely become a vehic…

Julie Wark (2023-10-08). Human Rights and Basic Income. counterpunch.org Image by Markus Spiske. | Not long ago I was asked to speak about "minority" rights and basic income at a symposium in Barcelona leading up to the celebration of the 75th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Among the human rights professionals, who were also speaking, the gagged elephant in the room was ginormous because it is, in fact, immeasurable: the crime of ecocide—the result, in particular, of capitalism, imperialism, and neoliberalism—which is also universal because it affects everyone and everything that is alive now and also future generations. Well, it may be univer…

WSWS (2023-10-08). Labour benefits from Scottish National Party collapse in Rutherglen and Hamilton West. wsws.org The Scottish National Party has suffered a disastrous by-election defeat to the Labour Party in the largely working class constituency of Rutherglen and Hamilton West.

channelnewsasia (2023-10-09). Claudia Goldin wins Nobel for work on women in the labour market. channelnewsasia.com

WSWS (2023-10-09). UK Labour backs Israel's bloody reprisals against Palestinians, supports NATO military escalation against Russia and China. wsws.org The Labour Party conference is being staged with one central goal: to profile the party's readiness for government based on a programme of militarism and class war. Support for Israel's ongoing bloodbath serve as the touchstone for these efforts.




Ben Carroll, Labor Notes. (2023-10-09). North Carolina Sanitation Workers Strike For $5K Bonuses. popularresistance.org "We're here to make a stand. At least 40 trucks should be on the road right now, and as far as we know, no trucks have gone out this morning," said Durham, North Carolina, sanitation worker Christopher Benjamin, flanked by 100 sanitation and other city workers at a September 6 press conference. | This was the first morning of a six-day strike by the North Carolina Public Service Workers Union (United Electrical Workers, UE, Local 150). | During the six-day "stand down," as they called it, sanitation workers would show up to the yard each morning and refuse to take out the garbage and recycling trucks, instead hol…

greenleft.org.au (2023-10-09). Podcast: The Palestine Laboratory with Antony Loewenstein. greenleft.org.au

greenleft.org.au (2023-10-09). Video: Naarm/Melbourne forum discusses right wing character of Albanese's Labor. greenleft.org.au

Nik Heynen, Nikki Luke, Next City. (2023-10-09). How Cities Are Experimenting With Reparations In Urban Policy. popularresistance.org Even as politicians work to reenact Jim Crow-era silences about how white supremacy has shaped America, reparations are on the table as they have never been before. | After an upswell of grassroots organizing in 2020, we're seeing a new level of recognition that descendants of enslaved people, whose labor was stolen, are owed a debt. | While that organizing has fueled a collective understanding of the need for repair, progress has been bogged down by the weight of that debt and questions about how such debts can be repaid. These questions have been taken up across the country, from the California Reparations Task…

teleSUR- hvh, JCM (2023-10-09). Claudia Goldin gana el premio Nobel de Economía 2023. telesurtv.net El premio se otorgó "por haber avanzado en nuestra comprensión de los resultados de las mujeres en el mercado laboral".

UFCLP & RWF (2023-10-09). Saturday 10/14: SF Labor Party Discussion & Organizing Meeting. indybay.org 474 Valencia St. | San Francisco…

Ben Carroll, Labor Notes. (2023-10-09). North Carolina Sanitation Workers Strike For $5K Bonuses. popularresistance.org "We're here to make a stand. At least 40 trucks should be on the road right now, and as far as we know, no trucks have gone out this morning," said Durham, North Carolina, sanitation worker Christopher Benjamin, flanked by 100 sanitation and other city workers at a September 6 press conference. | This was the first morning of a six-day strike by the North Carolina Public Service Workers Union (United Electrical Workers, UE, Local 150). | During the six-day "stand down," as they called it, sanitation workers would show up to the yard each morning and refuse to take out the garbage and recycling trucks, instead hol…

greenleft.org.au (2023-10-09). Podcast: The Palestine Laboratory with Antony Loewenstein. greenleft.org.au

greenleft.org.au (2023-10-09). Video: Naarm/Melbourne forum discusses right wing character of Albanese's Labor. greenleft.org.au

Nik Heynen, Nikki Luke, Next City. (2023-10-09). How Cities Are Experimenting With Reparations In Urban Policy. popularresistance.org Even as politicians work to reenact Jim Crow-era silences about how white supremacy has shaped America, reparations are on the table as they have never been before. | After an upswell of grassroots organizing in 2020, we're seeing a new level of recognition that descendants of enslaved people, whose labor was stolen, are owed a debt. | While that organizing has fueled a collective understanding of the need for repair, progress has been bogged down by the weight of that debt and questions about how such debts can be repaid. These questions have been taken up across the country, from the California Reparations Task…

teleSUR- hvh, JCM (2023-10-09). Claudia Goldin gana el premio Nobel de Economía 2023. telesurtv.net El premio se otorgó "por haber avanzado en nuestra comprensión de los resultados de las mujeres en el mercado laboral".

UFCLP & RWF (2023-10-09). Saturday 10/14: SF Labor Party Discussion & Organizing Meeting. indybay.org 474 Valencia St. | San Francisco…

Ana Vraƒçar (2023-10-08). Tens of thousands mobilize on the streets of Rome against far-right Meloni's policies. peoplesdispatch.org Tens of thousands of people filled Piazza San Giovanni in Rome on October 7 during a protest called for by the Italian General Confederation of Labor (CGIL). The protesters united in a call against austerity and policies that undermine constitutional rights, pushed by the far-right Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni's government. In addition to the trade unions, the protest was supported by more than 100 other groups, including political parties, peace initiatives, youth networks, and more. | Already in the lead-up to Saturday's event, CGIL leader Maurizio Landini said he expected a mass turnout — an expectation…

greenleft.org.au (2023-10-08). Podcast: The Palestine Laboratory with Antony Loewenstein. greenleft.org.au

greenleft.org.au (2023-10-08). Video: Naarm/Melbourne forum discusses right wing character of Albanese's Labor. greenleft.org.au

Labor Video Project (2023-10-08). SF City Workers Against Firings Over Vaccine, Attacks on Civil Service & Privatization. indybay.org San Francisco city workers and non-profit workers spoke out against firings over refusal to take the vaccine, attacks on the merit system and civil service and outsourcing and privatization of public services.

Rhoda Wilson (2023-10-08). The secret collaboration of CIA, MI6 and Nazis and how Ukrainian Nazis have infiltrated Europe and North America. expose-news.com The extensive support from the United States and its allies for Ukrainian Banderites against Russia draws historical parallels to the early backing of Hitler's Germany against the USSR. The following article describes …

Sudip Bhattacharya, Labor Notes. (2023-10-08). New Jersey Nurses Two Months Into Strike For Safe Staffing. popularresistance.org There ought to be nine nurses on the day shift at 9 Tower, a trauma surgery unit inside the Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Brunswick, New Jersey. | Instead, some days there are just three. | "Sometimes I'd look at a patient's face and know that I won't be able to maybe help feed them when they need to be fed," said nurse Sophia Moccio, "or clean them when they need to be cleaned. It is distressing, and depressing for us." | Staffing levels this bad are a major reason why she and 1,700 of her co-workers at RWJUH have been on strike since August 4. | Nurses in her 34-bed unit often have to manage th…

UFCLP & RWF (2023-10-08). Saturday 10/14: SF Labor Party Discussion & Organizing Meeting. indybay.org 474 Valencia St. | San Francisco…

presstv.ir (2023-10-09). Some Israeli military personnel collaborated in al-Aqsa Storm: Report. presstv.ir An informed Palestinian official has reportedly said part of the Israeli military personnel collaborated with resistance groups in the recent surprise attack against the regime.

channelnewsasia (2023-10-09). International youth teams overcome adversity, foster collaboration at robotics competition in Singapore. channelnewsasia.com CNA spoke to several teams that travelled far and wide to Singapore for the competition on their journey and aspirations.

ecns.cn (2023-10-08). Zheng'an county's guitars hit high note with BRI. ecns.cn After more than 200 elaborate and lengthy manufacturing procedures, exquisitely crafted guitars are revealed as signature products of Zheng'an county in Guizhou province.

imperial.ac.uk (2023-10-09). Imperial College London and CABI to forge new collaborations at Silwood Park. imperial.ac.uk Imperial College London and CABI will collaborate to solve problems in agriculture and the environment.

Labor Video Project (2023-10-09). SF City Workers Against Firings Over Vaccine, Attacks on Civil Service & Privatization. indybay.org San Francisco city workers and non-profit workers spoke out against firings over refusal to take the vaccine, attacks on the merit system and civil service and outsourcing and privatization of public services.

teleSUR (2023-10-09). Demonstrations in the US in Solidarity With Palestine. telesurenglish.net Mass demonstrations have been held across the U.S. in solidarity with the Palestinian people and in rejection of Israeli aggression. | RELATED: | In Washington thousands of citizens rallied in front of the White House, while in the cities of New York, Miami, Chicago and Los Angeles there were also mobilizations in support of Palestine. | Citizens condemned Washington's collaborationist policy with the Zionist regime and denounce…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-10-09). How the Fossil Fuel Industry Came to Love Climate Change. libya360.wordpress.com Gloria Guillo Has Carbon Taxation Become an Expedient Way to Redistribute Wealth, Cover Up Environmental Crimes, Promote Hazardous Energy Policies, and Control the Working Class and Developing Nations? Does the Threat of Climate Change Misdirect the Anti-War Movement? During the early 2000s, only a few left-wing magazines with limited circulation warned about the threat of…

Will Hodgkinson (2023-10-09). Boston demands Indigenous Peoples Day! workers.org Boston On Oct. 7, over 200 Indigenous activists and their allies gathered on Boston Common to demand that the Commonwealth of Massachusetts abolish Columbus Day and immediately designate the second Monday in October as Indigenous Peoples Day. Boston march, Oct. 7, 2023. WW PHOTO: Maureen Skehan This action continued the . . . |

Farooq Sulehria, Harris Qadeer (2023-10-10). Kashmir: Anti-neoliberal intifada convulses the Himalayas. greenleft.org.au A mass movement has erupted in Pakistani-administered Jammu and Kashmir against spiralling energy and food prices, report Farooq Sulehria and Harris Qadeer.

ecns.cn (2023-10-08). Golden Week holiday data shows consumption boom. ecns.cn This year's combined Mid-Autumn Festival and National Day holiday in China, from Sept 29 to Oct 6, saw a surge in consumption, as reflected in data.

ecns.cn (2023-10-08). Holiday travel boom, government vouchers drive up duty-free consumption in Hainan. ecns.cn South China's Hainan province recorded a boom in duty-free consumption during the Mid-Autumn Festival and National Day holiday period, with offshore duty-free sales reaching 1.33 billion yuan ($182 million).

ecns.cn (2023-10-08). Holiday shopping sprees up consumption figures. ecns.cn Chinese consumers unleashed their massive buying power during the eight-day combined Mid-Autumn Festival and National Day holiday period, pushing up sales of high-quality intelligent home appliances and outdoor equipment.

ecns.cn (2023-10-09). Holiday travel boom, government vouchers drive up duty-free consumption in Hainan. ecns.cn South China's Hainan province recorded a boom in duty-free consumption during the Mid-Autumn Festival and National Day holiday period, with offshore duty-free sales reaching 1.33 billion yuan ($182 million).

noreply (2023-10-09). Ah, Poor Dreamers. . smoothiex12.blogspot.com Forget about England of knights in shining armor, Shakespeare, Admiral Nelson or, for that matter, Field-Marshal Bernard Viscount Montgomery. Great Britain doesn't produce anyone of this caliber anymore. She just doesn't, but she still loves to pretend that she matters by telling to herself fairy tales about London City's significance in the world of finances, or other meaningless financial legerdemain, which allegedly move the world around–whatever it takes to continue with palliative therapy for the cancer stricken patient in the geopolitical hospice. That is Great Britain today. For the country who had any s…

Rhoda Wilson (2023-10-09). If the Bilderbergers are a powerful think tank, where do they come from and what is the power behind them? expose-news.com The Bilderberg Group, formed in 1954, was founded in the Netherlands as a secretive meeting held once a year, drawing roughly 130 of the political-financial-military-academic-media elites from North America and Western Europe …

channelnewsasia (2023-10-09). Commentary: Deadly Hamas attack is a pivotal moment for Israel. channelnewsasia.com Israel has long prided itself on the ability to pre-empt and crush threats to its borders and people. That Hamas could launch such an audacious attack suggests a massive failure, says the Financial Times' Middle East editor Andrew England.

ecns.cn (2023-10-09). Concerns over anti-subsidy inquiry by EU. ecns.cn The Financial Times and other influential Western newspapers are siding with executives from European automakers in voicing concern over the European Union's anti-subsidy investigation into imports of China-made electric vehicles.

Nora Barrows-Friedman (2023-10-09). Watch: Day 3 roundtable on Gaza's Al-Aqsa Flood. electronicintifada.net Refaat Alareer reports from under Israeli assault in Gaza City.

Tanupriya Singh (2023-10-09). IMF pushes world's poorest countries into "starvation diet" as debt burdens spiral. peoplesdispatch.org As the IMF and World Bank commence their annual meetings, an Oxfam report shows how their failed policies of austerity will force the world's poorest countries to cut USD 229 billion in public spending while hemorrhaging billions in debt payments.

Dave DeCamp (2023-10-08). Report: Biden Considering Huge $100 Billion Ukraine Spending Package. news.antiwar.com President Biden is considering asking Congress for a massive $100 billion spending package for the Ukraine war, The Telegraph reported on Saturday. The idea of the huge spending package would be to fund the proxy war through the 2024 election without having to worry about the growing opposition to the policy in Congress, as the …

Federico Fuentes, Akira Kato (2023-10-08). Japan: 'The government is taking advantage of Russia's invasion to push militarism'. greenleft.org.au Amid rising tensions in the Asia-Pacific, Japan's government is ramping up defence spending. Japanese revolutionary socialist Akira Kato discusses the background to this move with Green Left's Federico Fuentes.

sputnikglobe (2023-10-08). White House Mulls Asking Congress for $100Bln in Aid for Ukraine – Reports. sputnikglobe.com MOSCOW (Sputnik) – US President Joe Biden is considering a "one-and-done" spending bill for Ukraine, and the White House is already drawing up plans to ask Congress to release a total of $100 billion in a single aid package for Kiev, news outlet reported Saturday, citing sources familiar with the matter.

themoscowtimes (2023-10-09). Russia to Hike Spending on 'Patriotic Education' Fourfold — RBC. themoscowtimes.com A total of $450 million will be allocated toward various youth movements, school officials engaged in "patriotic" education, state insignia, and monitoring of youth online.

Bill Astore (2023-10-09). War as an "Investment." The Bizarre Business-Speak of Mass Killing. globalresearch.ca

WSWS (2023-10-09). Police raid at VW: Works council members defend their high salaries. wsws.org The German industrial union IG Metall and its works councils at Volkswagen (VW) are always ready to sacrifice the jobs, wages and rights of the workforce upon the altar of "competitiveness" and "return on investment." If, however, their own six-figure salaries are on the line, they defend them by every means possible.

ecns.cn (2023-10-08). China remains largest investor in Cambodia. ecns.cn From January to September this year, the Council for the Development of Cambodia (CDC) approved 191 investment projects exceeding 3.7 billion U.S. dollars. with China maintaining its position as the largest investor in Cambodia.

ecns.cn (2023-10-08). China's first nuclear power plant with super-large cooling towers being built in Guangdong. ecns.cn State Power Investment Corporation (SPIC) announced on Sunday that phase one construction of its Lianjiang nuclear power plant started on September 29.

ecns.cn (2023-10-09). China's first nuclear power plant with super-large cooling towers being built in Guangdong. ecns.cn State Power Investment Corporation (SPIC) announced on Sunday that phase one construction of its Lianjiang nuclear power plant started on September 29.

FP Staff (2023-10-09). South Korean chipmakers allowed to ship US chipmaking tech to their Chinese factories. firstpost.com South Korea's presidential office and several tech companies like Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix, have announced that they are now authorized to continue providing US chip equipment to their Chinese factories without the need for separate approvals from the United States. | It had been anticipated that the US would extend a previously granted waiver to these South Korean chip manufacturers, relieving them from the obligation to obtain licenses for importing US chip equipment into China. | "Uncertainties about South Korean semiconductor firms' operations and investments in China have been greatly eased; they wil…

Appalachians Against Pipelines, Popular Resistance. (2023-10-09). MVP Construction Halted In National Forest Due To Pipeline Resistance. popularresistance.org Peters Mountain, VA — On Saturday morning 10/7, pipeline fighter Mickey locked themself to a sleeping dragon blockade on the Virginia side of Peters Mountain, in the Jefferson National Forest. A banner at the site read, "Defend the Forest Everywhere!" Mickey prevented tree clearing on the mountain for the full day. Around 8 PM on Saturday, Mickey was extracted and arrested. They were charged with 3 misdemeanors and bail was set at $2,500. | Mickey stated, "The same thing is happening everywhere right now. Greedy corporations and politicians dirty the water and air for profit, then tell the people it's for their…

DVM 360. (2023-10-09). Seattle's Urban Animal Debuts Veterinary Worker Cooperative. popularresistance.org Urban Animal, a Seattle-based veterinary network, has announced it will become the first worker cooperative veterinary practice in the US this fall. This will enable its 110 employees to share in the governance and profits of the company with more than 50,000 clients.1 | Urban Animal joins about 30 worker cooperative-based businesses in Washington. By introducing the limited cooperative association (LCA), Urban Animal founder Cherri Trusheim, DVM, will gift a portion of the company to seed it, striving to become a completely employee-owned worker co-op over time. With the influx of veterinary corporatization, Tru…

Gerry Condon (2023-10-09). Who Lies? Who Dies? Who Pays? Who Profits? Why Veterans Are Calling for Peace in Ukraine. globalresearch.ca

Mehul Reuben Das (2023-10-09). Google takes on Justin Trudeau, Canada, threatens to block news links over new law. firstpost.com Google, a subsidiary of Alphabet Inc, has taken a significant step towards restricting access to news links on its search engine for Canadian users. This development follows the company's rejection of government regulations aimed at addressing its concerns regarding an impending online content law, as per a Bloomberg report. | This move represents a setback for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's administration, which has been striving to compel both Google and Meta Platforms Inc. to engage in negotiations for compensating local publishers as mandated by the Online News Act set to take effect on December 19. | About…

WSWS (2023-10-09). Mobilise the working class against the Sri Lankan government's dictatorial Online Safety and Anti-Terrorism bills. wsws.org The new bills are aimed at vastly strengthening the repressive powers of the president and his government to suppress working-class opposition to its IMF-dictated attacks on jobs, wages and social conditions.

Speak Out Socialists (2023-10-09). Saturday 10/21: Capitalism and the Climate Crisis: Everything to Lose and a World to Win. indybay.org 2727 Event Space, 2727 California Street, Berkeley, CA 94703 | CAN'T JOIN IN-PERSON? JOIN THE EVENT VIA ZOOM | TINYURL.COM/OCTOBER-TH-2023…

WSWS (2023-10-09). Pro-Trump election deniers vie for speakership of US House. wsws.org With no clear solution to the impasse in the House of Representatives at hand, Washington's political breakdown is eroding confidence within ruling classes around the world in US imperialism's ability to crush a growing insurgency of the oppressed masses in the Middle East as well as an emerging mass movement of workers in the centers of world capitalism, including the US.

Speak Out Socialists (2023-10-08). Saturday 10/21: Capitalism and the Climate Crisis: Everything to Lose and a World to Win. indybay.org 2727 Event Space, 2727 California Street, Berkeley, CA 94703 | CAN'T JOIN IN-PERSON? JOIN THE EVENT VIA ZOOM | TINYURL.COM/OCTOBER-TH-2023…

WSWS (2023-10-08). Household water bills to soar in UK. wsws.org Neither Starmer's "new regulatory approach" or Corbyn's renationalisation under capitalism can solve the problems of a water industry that has been systematically looted.

infobrics (2023-10-09). Russia and China to Build Oil Transshipment Complex for $686 Mln. infobrics.org Russia's United Oil- and Gas-Chemical Co. (ONGK) and China's Xuan Yuan Industrial Development have agreed to jointly invest 5 billion yuan ($686 million) in construction of a transshipment oil complex in Russia's far east…

Vijay Prashad (2023-10-09). Tenemos aquí, en àÅfrica, todo lo necesario para convertirnos en un continente poderoso, moderno e industrializado. globalizacion.ca En su libro de 1963, àÅfrica debe unirse, Kwame Nkrumah, primer presidente de Ghana, escribió: "Tenemos aquí, en àÅfrica, todo lo necesario para convertirnos en un continente poderoso, moderno e industrializado. | Los investigadores de las Naciones Unidas han demostrado recientemente…

ecns.cn (2023-10-08). Critical factor that's transforming nation's industrial structure. ecns.cn China's industrial structure has a new linchpin — trade in services — and it's injecting vitality into its value-added dimension.

ecns.cn (2023-10-08). China rolls out pilot ethical reviews measures on scientific and technological activities. ecns.cn Chinese authorities released on Sunday the pilot review measures of science and technology ethics. As the new round of scientific and technological revolution and industrial transformation accelerate progress, ethical issues have become a common challenge facing the whole world.

ecns.cn (2023-10-09). China rolls out pilot ethical reviews measures on scientific and technological activities. ecns.cn Chinese authorities released on Sunday the pilot review measures of science and technology ethics. As the new round of scientific and technological revolution and industrial transformation accelerate progress, ethical issues have become a common challenge facing the whole world.

Ann Brown (2023-10-09). Will Elon Musk Tamper With The US Presidential Election? 5 Facts To Consider. moguldom.com Ever since tech titan Elon Musk purchased Twitter in 2022, his critics have bashed the changes he's made to the platform, which he is rebranding under the name X. His supporters are seemingly elated, however, with the moves he has made. But as the 2024 presidential campaign heats up, many political observers are concerned about …

Ajeyo Basu (2023-10-09). Ukraine acquires 2,000 China-made drones to 'harass' Russia military. firstpost.com Ukraine has ordered 2,000 drones of Chinese origin as it gears up for yet another round of drone battles with Russia. Ukraine has managed a number of tactical wins by destroying Russian equipment but has lost most of its planes to electronic warfare and anti-aircraft fire. | Drones that are readily accessible for purchase are utilised for attack missions, ISR functions, and directing artillery fire. Even Russia used Chinese DJI drones for a long time to adjust the howitzer barrage and make sure the shells hit their targets. | Russia has considerably decreased the usage of UAVs built outside of the country. To les…

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2023-10-09). Mayo Clinic Q and A: Foods to help maximize your memory. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org DEAR MAYO CLINIC: I enjoy cooking, but I prefer to work with the freshest ingredients. As such, I grow my own fruits and vegetables in a small garden and purchase other fresh produce from a local farmers market. I've read that certain foods may help with memory function. Are there foods I can eat to help boost my cognitive health? ANSWER: Research suggests that the ability to maximize memory function may be related to what…

_____ (2023-10-09). The IMF and World Bank Talk "Good Governance" but Walk with Corrupt Governments. transcend.org There is a deeper reason for sustained corruption: Neoliberal ideology.

Peoples Health Dispatch (2023-10-09). Over 1.5 million cancer deaths in women worldwide could be avoided through proper prevention, says report by The Lancet. peoplesdispatch.org A recent The Lancet Commission analyzed data on the intersection of gender, power, and cancer distribution, issuing warnings about the unequal burden of disease still shouldered by women…

Brasil De Fato, People's Dispatch. (2023-10-09). Bolivia's Ruling Party Confirms Evo Morales' Candidacy. popularresistance.org The split in Bolivia's ruling political party has become official. President Luis Arce and vice-president David Choquehuanca are no longer part of the MAS (Movement towards Socialism) party, which ratified the decision, informally announced on the 24, to present former president Evo Morales (2006-2019) as its candidate in the 2025 elections. | The MAS held its tenth congress from October 3-4 in the town of Lauca àë, a coca growing region in the center of the country. On that occasion, the party decreed the "self-expulsion" of Arce and Choquehuanca, for not attending the meeting, and of 20 other deputies alig…

Freedom Socialist Party (2023-10-09). Friday 10/13: No to APEC — Yes to Global Worker Solidarity! indybay.org New Valencia Hall, 747 Polk Street (near Ellis St.), San Francisco | Seven blocks from Civic Center BART, on or near Muni bus lines #5, 19, 27, 31, 38, 49 ∑ wheelchair accessible | To attend online, register: bit.ly/No-APEC

WSWS (2023-10-09). IYSSE at University of Melbourne holds successful meeting to re-establish club. wsws.org One year after being anti-democratically disaffiliated by the student union, the re-establishment of a genuine socialist, anti-war voice club at one of Australia's "sandstone" universities marks a significant development.

Freedom Socialist Party (2023-10-08). Friday 10/13: No to APEC — Yes to Global Worker Solidarity! indybay.org New Valencia Hall, 747 Polk Street (near Ellis St.), San Francisco | Seven blocks from Civic Center BART, on or near Muni bus lines #5, 19, 27, 31, 38, 49 ∑ wheelchair accessible | To attend online, register: bit.ly/No-APEC

mforinoco (2023-10-08). Evo Morales Will Stand for the Presidency, Luis Arce Expelled. orinocotribune.com The congress of the Movement Towards Socialism (MAS-IPSP) has voted to present Evo Morales as its candidate for the presidency at the 2025 elections and has also voted to expel current President Luis Arce from the MAS, signifying the party's formal split with the government. | At the national party congress today in Lauca àë, Cochabamba, the plenum voted to approve two resolutions of the political co…

WSWS (2023-10-08). Netanyahu regime staggered by Palestinian uprising. wsws.org The World Socialist Web Site condemns the vicious and obscenely hypocritical statements of President Joe Biden and leaders of the European Union denouncing the Palestinian resistance as "terrorism" while supporting without any reservations Israel's onslaught on Gaza.

Editor (2023-10-09). Communist Party of Israel and Hadash: "Netanyahu's fascist government bears full responsibility for the dangerous escalation" mronline.org In a statement concerning today's rapid escalation of military confrontation between Hamas and Israeli forces, the Communist Party of Israel (MAKI) and Hadash blame the criminal occupation policy of the far-right Netanyahu government, underlining the grave dangers that it poses for the peace in the region.

WSWS (2023-10-09). October 8, 1923 Letter from Leon Trotsky to the Central Committee and the Central Control Commission of the Russian Communist Party. wsws.org This letter, sent by Leon Trotsky on October 8, 1923, to members of the Central Committee and Central Control Commission, was one of the most important documents that led to the emergence of the Left Opposition.

A Guest Author (2023-10-09). The Communist Party of Kenya strongly condemns their nation's involvement in the impending occupation of Haiti. workers.org Bulletin: According to an Oct. 9 comment from the Communist Party of Kenya on X, a "Nairobi Court has temporarily halted the planned deployment of police officers to Haiti," calling this ruling "a significant step in ensuring justice." Reprinted from an article in HaàØti Liberté, Sept. 27 and that appeared . . . |

channelnewsasia (2023-10-09). Ex-chairman of China Everbright Group Li Xiaopeng expelled from Communist Party and post. channelnewsasia.com

Communist Party USA (2023-10-09). Stop the war! End the occupation! Free Palestine! peoplesworld.org The CPUSA expresses its growing alarm and concern at the horrific violence in Palestine and Israel over the weekend. We join with the Communist Party of Israel, the Democratic Front for Equality and Peace (Hadash), our fraternal parties in Palestine, and other democratic and progressive forces around the world in placing full responsibility on Israel's …

ecns.cn (2023-10-09). 3 former officials expelled from Party on suspicion of graft, rule violations. ecns.cn Three former officials — Du Zhaocai, Yin Meigen and Liu Liange — have been expelled from the Communist Party of China for severely violating disciplines and for allegedly participating in graft, according to China's top anti-corruption watchdogs.

Joe Sims (2023-10-09). Stop the war! End the occupation! Free Palestine! cpusa.org The CPUSA expresses its growing alarm and concern at the horrific violence in Palestine and Israel over the weekend. | We join with the Communist Party of Israel, the Democratic Front for Equality and Peace (Hadash), our fraternal parties in Palestine and other democratic and progressive forces around the world in placing full responsibility on Israel's government for this weekend's rapid escalation of military confrontation between Hamas and Israeli forces. | The U.S. government is the main contributor to Israel's military budget to the tune of $3.3 billion this year alone and also bears responsibility for th…

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2023-10-08: News Headlines

Anjoulie Woodhead (2023-10-08). IMF Speaks: World Economy Loses $3.7 Trillion Due to Pandemic and Economic Shocks. indybay.org As World Leaders Head to Morocco, IMF Leader Raises Growth and Debt Challenges…

Dimitris Eleas (2023-10-08). "Economic Miracle" or Mass Poverty in Greece? "A Strong Economy means Neoliberalism" globalresearch.ca

ecns.cn (2023-10-08). China-Europe Chang'an freight train service completes 20,000 trips. ecns.cn The number of China-Europe Chang'an freight train, connecting Xi'an in Northwest China's Shaanxi Province, with Moscow, Russia, has exceeded 20,000 trips since entering service on November 11, 2013.

Justin A. Davis, Waging Nonviolence. (2023-10-08). United Campus Workers Rack Up Victories In 'Right-To-Work' Tennessee. popularresistance.org In recent years, U.S. labor organizing has turned an exciting corner. National headlines have burst with workers putting pressure on far corners of the economy for fair wages and safe, secure jobs — from employees at major logistics corporations like Amazon and UPS to auto workers and Hollywood writers and actors. The world of higher education is no different, and colleges and universities across the country have seen their own wave of new labor campaigns. Last fall, for example, 48,000 workers at the University of California went on a 40-day strike — the largest higher ed strike in U.S. history.

Anjoulie Woodhead (2023-10-07). Pope Francis Releases "Laudate Deum" Ahead of Global Economy and Climate Meetings. indybay.org Pope Francis urged international cooperation to tackle environmental crises, in a document released today. Laudate Deum — which in Latin means "Praise God" — is a follow-up to his 2015 Laudato Si, the most comprehensive Encyclical on climate and the environment.

Anjoulie Woodhead (2023-10-07). IMF Speaks: World Economy Loses $3.7 Trillion Due to Pandemic and Economic Shocks. indybay.org As World Leaders Head to Morocco, IMF Leader Raises Growth and Debt Challenges…

Colin Todhunter (2023-10-07). What Was COVID Really About? Triggering A Multi-Trillion Dollar Global Debt Crisis. "Ramping up an Imperialist Strategy"? globalresearch.ca If it was indeed about public health, why close down the bulk of health services and the global economy knowing full well what the implications would be? And why mount a military-style propaganda campaign to censor world-renowned scientists and terrorise entire populations…

ecns.cn (2023-10-07). Over 40% of autumn grains harvested in China. ecns.cn Chinese farmers have harvested a total of 42.4 percent of autumn grain crops to date, with over half of the middle-season rice, over 40 percent of the corn and 40 percent of the soybeans having been reaped nationwide.

ecns.cn (2023-10-07). Hangzhou Asian Games sets new sponsorship income record. ecns.cn The total revenue from market development for the Hangzhou Asian Games and Asian Para Games has reached 5.316 billion yuan ($728 million), with both sponsorship income and the number of sponsors being the highest in the event's history.

ecns.cn (2023-10-07). U.S. move to place 42 more Chinese companies on 'entity list' is economic coercion, bullying: MOFCOM. ecns.cn Responding to the U.S. Commerce Department's adding 42 Chinese companies to a U.S. government export control list, China's Ministry of Commerce on Saturday said that it strongly opposes the U.S. move, which is a typical act of economic coercion and unilateral bullying.

ecns.cn (2023-10-07). MOC criticizes U.S.' move against Chinese companies. ecns.cn China has expressed its strong opposition to the recent decision by the United States government to add certain Chinese companies onto its so-called entity list for export control under the pretext of alleged connections with Russia.

Julia Kopstein (2023-10-07). NYC Nannies Built an Underground Care Economy That Should Inspire US Policy. truthout.org Faced with a labor market rife with adversity, a circle of nannies in New York City have done something extraordinary, overturning economists' assumptions about "self-interested" markets. Operating in the shadows, these workers have created microeconomies of their own, where they are able to share resources, and protect their jobs and pay. Transcending basic notions of mutual aid… |

presstv.ir (2023-10-07). Iran, UAE can turn into 'world's economic hub': Parliament speaker. presstv.ir Iran says the country and the UAE can join forces towards considerably enhancing the countries' economic standing in the world.

presstv.ir (2023-10-07). Iran, Saudi FMs stress need to speed up mutual cooperation in various fields. presstv.ir Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian and his Saudi counterpart have stressed the need to boost mutual cooperation in several fields, including economy and tourism.

presstv.ir (2023-10-07). US denies Iraq access to oil dollars depleted by sanctions. presstv.ir The US has refused to provide Iraq with the proceeds of its oil sales at a time that the Arab country is struggling with a crippled economy due to Washington's illegal sanctions.

Juan M. Garcia (2023-10-07). Cuban President congratulates Putin on his birthday. plenglish.com With the sincere affection of those who have felt the value of his friendship at difficult times for Cuba, I want to congratulate and wish good health on his birthday to the President of the Russian Federation, my friend Vladimir Putin, the Cuban head of State wrote on the social network x. | Havana and Moscow maintain historic relations of friendship and cooperation in various fields, such as economy, energy, transportation, industry, pharmaceuticals, among others, which were forged on the basis of mutual respect, since the time of the Soviet Union. | Russia has made humanitarian contributions of food, medicine…

mforinoco (2023-10-08). A Decade of BRI Development Transforms China's Xinjiang Region Into a Core Area of the Silk Road Economic Belt. orinocotribune.com By Li Xuanmin — Oct 1, 2023 | A decade of BRI development transforms the region into a core area of the Silk Road Economic Belt. | On Sunday morning, workers were harvesting grapes on farmland in Yining county in Kazak Autonomous Prefecture of Ili, Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. The freshly-picked fruit was then uploaded onto a truck, headed to Kazakhstan via highway, and within six hours, it would be delivered to the Kazakhstani market and sold to the local consumers. | "It used to take two to three days to ship goods from Xinjiang to Kazakhstan, but the time has been reduced to only…

Each For All, Grassroots Economic Organizing. (2023-10-07). The Gulf Islands Food Co-Op. popularresistance.org The Gulf Islands Food Co-op was created in 2018 to foster inter-island co-operation and develop new resources and practical supports for food producers and consumers on Galiano, Mayne, Pender and Saturna islands (the Southern Gulf Islands SGI). | The co-op's main goals are to help sustainably increase island food production, food security and resilience by encouraging the growing and purchasing of local food. | Its initiatives range from educational programs, such as "healthy soils and regenerative agriculture," to sharing of local resilient seeds, supporting an Indigenous Venison/Deer workshop offered by The Gal…

Godfrey A Kisigo, Robert N Peck (2023-10-07). Comment] Integrating HIV, hypertension, and diabetes primary care in Africa. thelancet.com Hypertension and diabetes are to 2023 what HIV was to 2003—a global health crisis causing countless premature deaths and stunting global economic development with an epicentre in sub-Saharan Africa.

Javier Arana Villasusa (2023-10-07). Agricultural project benefits women in eastern province of Cuba. plenglish.com Guantanamo, Cuba, Oct 7 (Prensa Latina) An agro-ecological urban project based on women's economic empowerment is contributing to local human development, environmental sustainability and the quality of life in this eastern Cuban province.

Mamadu Baldeh, Samuel Kizito (2023-10-07). Correspondence] Call to action: HIV among adolescents in Sierra Leone. thelancet.com Sierra Leone, a west African country with an approximate population of 8 ∑5 million people, is experiencing a steady increase in HIV prevalence, despite a low national HIV prevalence of 1 ∑7%.1 The country's vulnerability to an HIV epidemic is compounded by many risk factors, such as poverty, economic deprivation, and a history marred by a decade-long civil strife and an Ebola virus outbreak that claimed more than 4000 lives.2 These collective adversities pose major obstacles to effective HIV prevention and control measures, particularly among the population aged up to 24 years.

Ralph Nader (2023-10-07). Prevention of Dangers: Mark of a Compassionate Society. dissidentvoice.org If only canes, walkers, railings and banisters were sentient, what would their message be to humans on Earth? "Prevention is the Priority, Dummies," they would exclaim. "Look at how many trips and falls we prevent for our users compared to the enormous costs in pain, suffering, family disarray and economic expenses that would occur were …

Redacted (2023-10-07). Government Targeting Journalists in Canada. dissidentvoice.org The Trudeau government in Canada is doing the bidding of the World Economic Forum in creating its very own online news registry aimed at "disinformation". This is code for censorship and control. Canada is also rolling out the Online Safety Act which will protect you from nefarious truth-tellers that speak out against government propaganda.

Vijay Prashad, Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. (2023-10-07). We Have, In Africa, Everything Necessary To Become A Powerful, Modern, And Industrialised Continent. popularresistance.org In his 1963 book, Africa Must Unite, Kwame Nkrumah, Ghana's first president, wrote, 'We have here, in Africa, everything necessary to become a powerful, modern, industrialised continent. United Nations investigators have recently shown that Africa, far from having inadequate resources, is probably better equipped for industrialisation than almost any other region in the world'. Here, Nkrumah was referring to the Special Study on Economic Conditions and Development, Non-Self-Governing Territories (United Nations, 1958), which detailed the continent's immense natural resources.

Annelise Whitley (2023-10-08). Abandoning the Poor. tomdispatch.com On the island of Manhattan, where I live, skyscrapers multiply like metal weeds, a vertical invasion of seemingly unstoppable force. For more than a century, they have risen as symbols of wealth and the promise of progress for a city and a nation. In movies and TV shows, those buildings churn with activity, offices full of important people doing work of global significance. The effect is a feeling of economic vitality made real by the sheer scale of the buildings themselves. In stark contrast to those images of bustling productivity stands an outcropping of tall towers along the southern end of Manhattan's Centra…

ecns.cn (2023-10-07). Convenience stores record growth, more penetration into lower-tier cities. ecns.cn Most convenience stores in cities this year have achieved growths and more penetration into fourth- and fifth-tier cities and county-level markets, according to an industry survey.

Isaac Nellist (2023-10-07). Supermarket workers take historic 'superstrike'. greenleft.org.au Retail and Fast Food Workers Union members at hundreds of Coles and Woolworths supermarkets took part in a historic nationwide "superstrike" as they fight for better pay and working conditions, reports Isaac Nellist.

Prof Michel Chossudovsky (2023-10-07). The Hegemonic UN-WEF-NATO Triad: U.N. "Sustainable Development" (SDG 2030) = Endless Wars, Poverty and Famine Worldwide. globalresearch.ca First published by Global Research on October 2, 2023 | *** | "Those of us who do understand the nefariousness of the empire, and the ever-increasing danger it represents, must be clear that the effective defense of life on planet Earth, including …

Julie Wark (2023-10-08). Human Rights and Basic Income. counterpunch.org Image by Markus Spiske. | Not long ago I was asked to speak about "minority" rights and basic income at a symposium in Barcelona leading up to the celebration of the 75th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Among the human rights professionals, who were also speaking, the gagged elephant in the room was ginormous because it is, in fact, immeasurable: the crime of ecocide—the result, in particular, of capitalism, imperialism, and neoliberalism—which is also universal because it affects everyone and everything that is alive now and also future generations. Well, it may be univer…

WSWS (2023-10-08). Labour benefits from Scottish National Party collapse in Rutherglen and Hamilton West. wsws.org The Scottish National Party has suffered a disastrous by-election defeat to the Labour Party in the largely working class constituency of Rutherglen and Hamilton West.

Ben Carroll, Labor Notes. (2023-10-09). North Carolina Sanitation Workers Strike For $5K Bonuses. popularresistance.org "We're here to make a stand. At least 40 trucks should be on the road right now, and as far as we know, no trucks have gone out this morning," said Durham, North Carolina, sanitation worker Christopher Benjamin, flanked by 100 sanitation and other city workers at a September 6 press conference. | This was the first morning of a six-day strike by the North Carolina Public Service Workers Union (United Electrical Workers, UE, Local 150). | During the six-day "stand down," as they called it, sanitation workers would show up to the yard each morning and refuse to take out the garbage and recycling trucks, instead hol…

Ana Vraƒçar (2023-10-08). Tens of thousands mobilize on the streets of Rome against far-right Meloni's policies. peoplesdispatch.org Tens of thousands of people filled Piazza San Giovanni in Rome on October 7 during a protest called for by the Italian General Confederation of Labor (CGIL). The protesters united in a call against austerity and policies that undermine constitutional rights, pushed by the far-right Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni's government. In addition to the trade unions, the protest was supported by more than 100 other groups, including political parties, peace initiatives, youth networks, and more. | Already in the lead-up to Saturday's event, CGIL leader Maurizio Landini said he expected a mass turnout — an expectation…

Labor Video Project (2023-10-08). SF City Workers Against Firings Over Vaccine, Attacks on Civil Service & Privatization. indybay.org San Francisco city workers and non-profit workers spoke out against firings over refusal to take the vaccine, attacks on the merit system and civil service and outsourcing and privatization of public services.

Rhoda Wilson (2023-10-08). The secret collaboration of CIA, MI6 and Nazis and how Ukrainian Nazis have infiltrated Europe and North America. expose-news.com The extensive support from the United States and its allies for Ukrainian Banderites against Russia draws historical parallels to the early backing of Hitler's Germany against the USSR. The following article describes …

Sudip Bhattacharya, Labor Notes. (2023-10-08). New Jersey Nurses Two Months Into Strike For Safe Staffing. popularresistance.org There ought to be nine nurses on the day shift at 9 Tower, a trauma surgery unit inside the Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Brunswick, New Jersey. | Instead, some days there are just three. | "Sometimes I'd look at a patient's face and know that I won't be able to maybe help feed them when they need to be fed," said nurse Sophia Moccio, "or clean them when they need to be cleaned. It is distressing, and depressing for us." | Staffing levels this bad are a major reason why she and 1,700 of her co-workers at RWJUH have been on strike since August 4. | Nurses in her 34-bed unit often have to manage th…

UFCLP & RWF (2023-10-08). Saturday 10/14: SF Labor Party Discussion & Organizing Meeting. indybay.org 474 Valencia St. | San Francisco…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-10-07). Haiti as Empire's Laboratory. libya360.wordpress.com Jemima Pierre As the United States and its allies push renewed foreign intervention, the uses and abuses of the first Black republic as a testing ground of imperialism offer stark warnings. Haiti still struggles to be free. In December 2019, President Donald Trump signed into law H.R.2116, also known as the Global Fragility Act (GFA)….

Labor Video Project (2023-10-07). Senator Laphonza Butler & SEIU 2015: Ex-Union Bureaucrat Helping UBER & The Union Busters. indybay.org Governor Newsom has appointed former SEIU 2015 union president Laphonza Butler to become US Senator for California. This interview with SEIU 2015 member and homecare worker Bradley Weidmaier looks at her role as president of the local to suppress democratic rights. He also discusses the role of the California Democratic Party which these SEIU officials have been embedded in.

Labor Video Project (2023-10-07). SF City Workers Against Firings Over Vaccine, Attacks on Civil Service & Privatization. indybay.org San Francisco city workers and non-profit workers spoke out against firings over refusal to take the vaccine, attacks on the merit system and civil service and outsourcing and privatization of public services.

Lucy Dean Stockton (2023-10-07). YOU LOVE TO SEE IT: Rent Control Lives (For Now). levernews.com Good things are happening! The Supreme Court won't listen to landlords, California incorporates labor rights into their curriculum, touring musicians get a big break, and consumer protection regulators get some much-needed help.Supreme Court (Sort Of) Saves Rent Control: The Supreme Court has

Luis Linares Petrov (2023-10-07). Chilean air traffic controllers announce new strike. plenglish.com Santiago de Chile, Oct 7 (Prensa Latina) Chilean air traffic controllers ended a strike for labor and safety improvements, but they warned about going back on strike on October 27 if they demands are not met.

Oleksiy Arunyan, Scheer Post. (2023-10-07). In Occupation, They Cared For The Vulnerable. popularresistance.org When the eastern Ukrainian city of Lyman was occupied for five months last year, Valentyna Tkach and Tetiana Potapenko stayed behind. They volunteered to help their vulnerable neighbours. They cared for elderly residents, contacted the Russian occupation administration to ask for food and coal for them, and even buried dead bodies. | Now, both women are in detention, having been accused by Ukraine's Secret Service of collaboration with Russia — a crime punishable by up to 10 years in prison. | Tkach and Potapenko were volunteers long before the occupation. Since Soviet times, Lyman's population has self-org…

Robert M. Schwartz, Labor Notes. (2023-10-07). Does Your Employer Have Illegal Rules On The Books? popularresistance.org On August 2, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), now controlled by Democratic appointees, issued a game-changing decision known as Stericycle. The ruling enables unions to effectively challenge company rules that intimidate or chill workers from engaging in protests, picketing, demonstrations, and other legitimate union activities. | Marvin Kaplan, the one dissenting Republican board member, bitterly complained that the new standard returns the board to "a bygone era… when the Board rarely saw a rule it did not find unlawful." | Stericycle, a Pennsylvania medical waste disposal company whose employees ar…

ecns.cn (2023-10-08). Zheng'an county's guitars hit high note with BRI. ecns.cn After more than 200 elaborate and lengthy manufacturing procedures, exquisitely crafted guitars are revealed as signature products of Zheng'an county in Guizhou province.

Jomo Kwame Sundaram (2023-10-07). Debt-pushing as financial inclusion. mronline.org Ajay Banga was anointed World Bank president for promoting financial inclusion. Thanks to its success and interest rate hikes, more poor people are drowning in debt as consumer prices rise.

ecns.cn (2023-10-08). Golden Week holiday data shows consumption boom. ecns.cn This year's combined Mid-Autumn Festival and National Day holiday in China, from Sept 29 to Oct 6, saw a surge in consumption, as reflected in data.

ecns.cn (2023-10-08). Holiday travel boom, government vouchers drive up duty-free consumption in Hainan. ecns.cn South China's Hainan province recorded a boom in duty-free consumption during the Mid-Autumn Festival and National Day holiday period, with offshore duty-free sales reaching 1.33 billion yuan ($182 million).

ecns.cn (2023-10-08). Holiday shopping sprees up consumption figures. ecns.cn Chinese consumers unleashed their massive buying power during the eight-day combined Mid-Autumn Festival and National Day holiday period, pushing up sales of high-quality intelligent home appliances and outdoor equipment.

ecns.cn (2023-10-07). Golden Week holiday data shows consumption boom. ecns.cn This year's combined Mid-Autumn Festival and National Day holiday in China, from Sept 29 to Oct 6, saw a surge in consumption, as reflected in data.

ecns.cn (2023-10-07). Banks beef up support for farming. ecns.cn China's banks have been pouring more funds into agriculture and rural areas this year as the country seeks to advance rural vitalization, latest data from the national financial watchdog showed.

Prof Michel Chossudovsky (2023-10-07). 22 Years Ago, US-NATO Invaded Afghanistan: Heroin Is "Good for Your Health": Occupation Forces Support Afghan Narcotics Trade. globalresearch.ca Multibillion dollar earnings for organized crime and Western financial Institutions…

Victoria Saint, Kayvan Bozorgmehr (2023-10-07). Correspondence] Funding for global health research in Germany. thelancet.com Over the past 15 years, Germany has strategically expanded its role in global health against the backdrop of geopolitical developments, upheavals, and crises (appendix p 1) to become one of the largest political and financial contributors in the field. One of Germany's key priorities has been to fortify its strong but fragmented research landscape in global health. In January, 2020, a 5-year infrastructure programme from the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF; costing approximately ‚Ǩ3 million) culminated in the progressive establishment of the German Alliance for Global Health Res…

WSWS (2023-10-07). As federal student loan repayments resume, President Biden covers up government abuse of borrowers. wsws.org While 28 million out of 43 million college loan borrowers are being forced to resume repayments this month, the Biden administration is continuing to protect the financial interests behind the fleecing of the public by the student loan system.

Dave DeCamp (2023-10-08). Report: Biden Considering Huge $100 Billion Ukraine Spending Package. news.antiwar.com President Biden is considering asking Congress for a massive $100 billion spending package for the Ukraine war, The Telegraph reported on Saturday. The idea of the huge spending package would be to fund the proxy war through the 2024 election without having to worry about the growing opposition to the policy in Congress, as the …

Federico Fuentes, Akira Kato (2023-10-08). Japan: 'The government is taking advantage of Russia's invasion to push militarism'. greenleft.org.au Amid rising tensions in the Asia-Pacific, Japan's government is ramping up defence spending. Japanese revolutionary socialist Akira Kato discusses the background to this move with Green Left's Federico Fuentes.

Maia Cook (2023-10-07). Corporate Lobbyists Are Breaking Spending Records in 2023. truthout.org Midyear lobbying reports at the federal level have consistently set spending records since 2019, and 2023 was no exception. Spending across industries for the first two federal lobbying quarters came in around $2.1 billion, surpassing 2022's record by a whopping $86.6 million. A total of 12,112 lobbyists registered with the federal government lobbied during the first half of 2023. |

ecns.cn (2023-10-07). Eight-day National Day holidays sparks Greater Bay Area travel boom. ecns.cn Tourism has surged across the Guangdong—Hong Kong—Macao Greater Bay Area, with millions traveling north from Hong Kong and Macao, with more mainland travelers spending their holidays in the two cities over this year's "Golden Week" holidays.

ecns.cn (2023-10-08). China remains largest investor in Cambodia. ecns.cn From January to September this year, the Council for the Development of Cambodia (CDC) approved 191 investment projects exceeding 3.7 billion U.S. dollars. with China maintaining its position as the largest investor in Cambodia.

ecns.cn (2023-10-07). Regional diversification top of HK's focus. ecns.cn Hong Kong's bourse operator is eyeing enterprises in Southeast Asia and the Middle East to strengthen its listing business, and solidify trade and investment ties. Oswald Chan reports from Hong Kong.

ecns.cn (2023-10-08). China's first nuclear power plant with super-large cooling towers being built in Guangdong. ecns.cn State Power Investment Corporation (SPIC) announced on Sunday that phase one construction of its Lianjiang nuclear power plant started on September 29.

Appalachians Against Pipelines, Popular Resistance. (2023-10-09). MVP Construction Halted In National Forest Due To Pipeline Resistance. popularresistance.org Peters Mountain, VA — On Saturday morning 10/7, pipeline fighter Mickey locked themself to a sleeping dragon blockade on the Virginia side of Peters Mountain, in the Jefferson National Forest. A banner at the site read, "Defend the Forest Everywhere!" Mickey prevented tree clearing on the mountain for the full day. Around 8 PM on Saturday, Mickey was extracted and arrested. They were charged with 3 misdemeanors and bail was set at $2,500. | Mickey stated, "The same thing is happening everywhere right now. Greedy corporations and politicians dirty the water and air for profit, then tell the people it's for their…

Niko Georgiades, Unicorn Riot. (2023-10-07). Be Their Voices Presser: 'No More Jail Deaths!'. popularresistance.org St. Paul, MN — Five years after losing her son Hardel Sherrell to medical malpractice and improper care while in a Minnesota jail, Del Shea Perry leads another protest against in-custody deaths. At least 15 people have died this year while inside Minnesota jails and at least 65 since 2018, according to Be Their Voices, Perry's non-profit. | A press conference titled No More Jail Deaths! organized by Be Their Voices took place on Oct. 4 at noon central in front of the Minnesota Department of Corrections building in St. Paul. In a media release about the press conference, Perry says: "The Hardel Sherell Act w…

WSWS (2023-10-07). The Kaiser workers' strike and the fight for socialized medicine. wsws.org The central question posed by the strike is who will control the healthcare industry—the healthcare giants committed to profits or the working class committed to healthcare as a social right?

Carlos L. Garrido (2023-10-07). China and the Purity Fetish of Western Marxism. orinocotribune.com By Carlos L. Garrido — Oct 4, 2023 | The stakes of the imperialist West's New Cold War against China are as great as they can get. This means that the Western left's role as controlled counter-hegemony and left-wing delegitimizers of socialist states — a role ideologically grounded in their purity fetish outlook — is as dangerous as it can get. In our current geopolitical climate, all progressive forces in the West should unite against the US and NATO's anti-China rhetoric and actions. Unfortunately, what we find from large portions of this Western left is parroting of state-department narratives…

Speak Out Socialists (2023-10-08). Saturday 10/21: Capitalism and the Climate Crisis: Everything to Lose and a World to Win. indybay.org 2727 Event Space, 2727 California Street, Berkeley, CA 94703 | CAN'T JOIN IN-PERSON? JOIN THE EVENT VIA ZOOM | TINYURL.COM/OCTOBER-TH-2023…

Speak Out Socialists (2023-10-07). Saturday 10/21: Capitalism and the Climate Crisis: Everything to Lose and a World to Win. indybay.org 2727 Event Space, 2727 California Street, Berkeley, CA 94703 | CAN'T JOIN IN-PERSON? JOIN THE EVENT VIA ZOOM | TINYURL.COM/OCTOBER-TH-2023…

WSWS (2023-10-08). Household water bills to soar in UK. wsws.org Neither Starmer's "new regulatory approach" or Corbyn's renationalisation under capitalism can solve the problems of a water industry that has been systematically looted.

Dania Albaba, Mohammed Zaher Sahloul (2023-10-07). Correspondence] A plea for psychiatric and humanitarian support in northwest Syria. thelancet.com The Syrian conflict has taken a devastating toll on the mental health of its civilian population, resulting in high levels of depression, anxiety, and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). The traumatic events experienced by people in Syria (eg, bombings, shootings, chemical weapon attacks, attacks on crucial infrastructure, terrorism, and forced displacement) have all contributed to these problems. Furthermore, the fragmentation of health-care infrastructure, the exodus of health-care providers, ongoing crises, reduced international aid, and the shortage of mental health professionals all worsen the psychologic…

Ana Luisa Brown (2023-10-07). Cuba to host International Congress on Biotechnological Products. plenglish.com Havana, Oct 7 (Prensa Latina) The 3rd International Congress on Biotechnological Products and Regulatory Affairs will bring together experts, managers, engineers and suppliers from the biomedical, agricultural and industrial sectors in Varadero, Cuba, it was announced recently.

ecns.cn (2023-10-08). China rolls out pilot ethical reviews measures on scientific and technological activities. ecns.cn Chinese authorities released on Sunday the pilot review measures of science and technology ethics. As the new round of scientific and technological revolution and industrial transformation accelerate progress, ethical issues have become a common challenge facing the whole world.

ecns.cn (2023-10-08). Critical factor that's transforming nation's industrial structure. ecns.cn China's industrial structure has a new linchpin — trade in services — and it's injecting vitality into its value-added dimension.

Brasil De Fato, People's Dispatch. (2023-10-09). Bolivia's Ruling Party Confirms Evo Morales' Candidacy. popularresistance.org The split in Bolivia's ruling political party has become official. President Luis Arce and vice-president David Choquehuanca are no longer part of the MAS (Movement towards Socialism) party, which ratified the decision, informally announced on the 24, to present former president Evo Morales (2006-2019) as its candidate in the 2025 elections. | The MAS held its tenth congress from October 3-4 in the town of Lauca àë, a coca growing region in the center of the country. On that occasion, the party decreed the "self-expulsion" of Arce and Choquehuanca, for not attending the meeting, and of 20 other deputies alig…

Freedom Socialist Party (2023-10-08). Friday 10/13: No to APEC — Yes to Global Worker Solidarity! indybay.org New Valencia Hall, 747 Polk Street (near Ellis St.), San Francisco | Seven blocks from Civic Center BART, on or near Muni bus lines #5, 19, 27, 31, 38, 49 ∑ wheelchair accessible | To attend online, register: bit.ly/No-APEC

mforinoco (2023-10-08). Evo Morales Will Stand for the Presidency, Luis Arce Expelled. orinocotribune.com The congress of the Movement Towards Socialism (MAS-IPSP) has voted to present Evo Morales as its candidate for the presidency at the 2025 elections and has also voted to expel current President Luis Arce from the MAS, signifying the party's formal split with the government. | At the national party congress today in Lauca àë, Cochabamba, the plenum voted to approve two resolutions of the political co…

WSWS (2023-10-08). Netanyahu regime staggered by Palestinian uprising. wsws.org The World Socialist Web Site condemns the vicious and obscenely hypocritical statements of President Joe Biden and leaders of the European Union denouncing the Palestinian resistance as "terrorism" while supporting without any reservations Israel's onslaught on Gaza.

Answer Coalition (2023-10-07). JOIN A PROTEST NEAR YOU: Free Palestine! answercoalition.org People all around the world are mobilizing to stand with the Palestinian people's struggle! The ANSWER coalition and other organizations are initiating or supporting demonstrations in these cities. Check back to this page for frequent updates | New York City, NY, Sunday, October 8, 1: 00 p.m., Times Square (Broadway and 42nd), Sponsored by: Palestinian Youth Movement, Party for Socialism and Liberation, New York for Palestine, Th…

Editor (2023-10-07). 'Reform, Revolution, and Opportunism: Debates in the Second International, 1900—1910' — book review. mronline.org The debates between socialists in the Congresses of the Second International raised issues which remain of central importance to the left today, argues Chris Bambery.

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-10-07). Camille Chalmers: "Haiti is the Victim of Orchestrated Chaos that Prevents it from Setting its Own Course" libya360.wordpress.com Julio Adamor Haitian Camille Chalmers is leader of the Rasin Kan Pèp la party, a socialist regroupment for a new national initiative — Daniel Jatimliansky Haitian scholar Camille Chalmers rejects yet another international intervention and says Haiti's issues have deeper roots which much be addressed Haiti was once self-sufficient in grain production. In the early…

Party for Socialism, Liberation (2023-10-07). PSL statement: Free Palestine, free all Palestinian political prisoners, end all U.S. aid to the Israeli apartheid regime! liberationnews.org The unrelenting oppression, murder, torture and occupation carried out by the Israeli apartheid regime has precipitated a counter-offensive by Palestinian resistance forces.

Suds, Snacks, Socialism Forum Committee (2023-10-07). Saturday 10/7: Fighting the Information Behemoth: Why We Need Alternative Media. indybay.org The Starry Plough Pub | 3101 Shattuck Avenue, Berkeley, CA 94705…

WSWS (2023-10-07). Voices from Lahaina: Residents languish with little relief, fear health risks. wsws.org The World Socialist Web Site interviewed people at distribution hubs throughout Maui who spoke on their experiences the day of the fire as well as the conditions they, and so many other residents, are still facing.

Ileana Ferrer Fonte (2023-10-07). Sri Lankan youths pay tribute to Che Guevara. plenglish.com Colombo, Oct 7 (Prensa Latina) The Socialist Youth Union of Sri Lanka (SYUSL) paid tribute on Saturday to Ernesto Che Guevara on the 64th anniversary of his death, in an emotional event despite a persistent rain.

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2023-10-06: News Headlines

infobrics (2023-10-05). German city residents protest construction of weapons factory to equip Kiev. infobrics.org Germany's economy is set to hit a slump in 2023.

infobrics (2023-10-05). Pashinyan doubles down on his suicidal tilt toward increasingly impotent West. infobrics.org French Foreign Minister Catherine Colonna stated that "Armenia needs to be able to defend itself", although it's highly questionable how much France cares, given that the fledgling economy of the South Caucasus country will hardly ever be able to afford French or any other Western arms shipments, especially not enough of such weapons to match Azerbaijan.

Anjoulie Woodhead (2023-10-06). Pope Francis Releases "Laudate Deum" Ahead of Global Economy and Climate Meetings. indybay.org Pope Francis urged international cooperation to tackle environmental crises, in a document released today. Laudate Deum — which in Latin means "Praise God" — is a follow-up to his 2015 Laudato Si, the most comprehensive Encyclical on climate and the environment.

Anjoulie Woodhead (2023-10-06). IMF Speaks: World Economy Loses $3.7 Trillion Due to Pandemic and Economic Shocks. indybay.org As World Leaders Head to Morocco, IMF Leader Raises Growth and Debt Challenges…

Dean Baker (2023-10-06). The Big Three's CEOs are Ripping Off Their Companies. counterpunch.org Robert Reich posted a table that tells us a huge amount about the U.S. economy. CEO pay of the largest carmakers in the world Honda: $2.3M Nissan $4.5M Toyota: $6.7M BMW: $5.6M Mercedes: $7.5M Porsche: $7.9M Ford: $21M Stellantis: $25M GM: $29M The reason this table is so informative is that the performance of these

ecns.cn (2023-10-06). China seeks unity with Himalayan neighbors. ecns.cn Beijing has called on its neighbors in the trans-Himalayan region to strengthen unity and achieve common progress in connectivity, the green economy and ecological preservation.

ecns.cn (2023-10-06). Role of BRI in Malaysia's growth hailed. ecns.cn Malaysian Prime Minister has highlighted the significance of the China-proposed Belt and Road Initiative in enhancing the growth of his country, lauding the BRI for creating job opportunities and building infrastructure, especially in the rural heartland.

ecns.cn (2023-10-06). China firmly opposes EV probe by EU. ecns.cn The Ministry of Commerce expressed strong dissatisfaction on Wednesday over the European Union's anti-subsidy investigation into electric vehicle imports from China.

ecns.cn (2023-10-06). BRI proves beneficial for Xinjiang. ecns.cn The Belt and Road Initiative has provided the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region with unprecedented opportunities for development and has helped improve the livelihoods of the residents, a senior official of the region said.

ecns.cn (2023-10-06). Tourists boost consumption numbers in holiday season. ecns.cn The prolonged holiday has seen 114 million people travel by train over the past seven days. Last year, only 72.16 million passengers took the train during the seven-day National Day holiday.

presstv.ir (2023-10-06). American Automobile workers strike. presstv.ir A US government shutdown has narrowly been averted yet there's a strong possibility that lawmakers will find themselves battling it out once again in 45 days when the deadline is reached.

presstv.ir (2023-10-06). Germany's economy headed for recession amid support for Ukraine. presstv.ir Latest figures from federal statistics agency Destatis show German exports fell more than expected in August.

presstv.ir (2023-10-06). Iran, UAE can turn into 'world's economic hub': Parliament speaker. presstv.ir Iran says the country and the UAE can join forces towards considerably enhancing the countries' economic standing in the world.

presstv.ir (2023-10-06). Iran, Saudi FMs stress need to speed up mutual cooperation in various fields. presstv.ir Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian and his Saudi counterpart have stressed the need to boost mutual cooperation in several fields, including economy and tourism.

Anjoulie Woodhead (2023-10-05). Pope Francis Releases "Laudate Deum" Ahead of Global Economy and Climate Meetings. indybay.org Pope Francis urged international cooperation to tackle environmental crises, in a document released today. Laudate Deum — which in Latin means "Praise God" — is a follow-up to his 2015 Laudato Si, the most comprehensive Encyclical on climate and the environment.

Asad Ismi (2023-10-05). Pakistan: An Economy on the Brink. globalresearch.ca

ecns.cn (2023-10-05). Experts show confidence in economy. ecns.cn In August, China reported economic data that exceeded expectations, demonstrating the ongoing recovery of the world's second-largest economy.

ecns.cn (2023-10-05). Role of BRI in Malaysia's growth hailed. ecns.cn Malaysian Prime Minister has highlighted the significance of the China-proposed Belt and Road Initiative in enhancing the growth of his country, lauding the BRI for creating job opportunities and building infrastructure, especially in the rural heartland.

ecns.cn (2023-10-05). China firmly opposes EV probe by EU. ecns.cn The Ministry of Commerce expressed strong dissatisfaction on Wednesday over the European Union's anti-subsidy investigation into electric vehicle imports from China.

ecns.cn (2023-10-05). BRI proves beneficial for Xinjiang. ecns.cn The Belt and Road Initiative has provided the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region with unprecedented opportunities for development and has helped improve the livelihoods of the residents, a senior official of the region said.

presstv.ir (2023-10-05). American Automobile workers strike. presstv.ir A US government shutdown has narrowly been averted yet there's a strong possibility that lawmakers will find themselves battling it out once again in 45 days when the deadline is reached.

infobrics (2023-10-06). UAE Entry into BRICS Increases Its Diplomatic and Economic Options. infobrics.org The UAE will have to balance its allegiance to BRICS with its established security and investment partnership with the US…

infobrics (2023-10-05). Battle of the Blocs. infobrics.org In the past month or so, the world has witnessed two summits convened by major global economic forums — the Group of 20 (G20) and Brics (named after its five core member states: Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa). The goal of each of these summits was to shape the global economic, political and security environment to best meet the needs of their respective memberships…

Godfrey A Kisigo, Robert N Peck (2023-10-07). Comment] Integrating HIV, hypertension, and diabetes primary care in Africa. thelancet.com Hypertension and diabetes are to 2023 what HIV was to 2003—a global health crisis causing countless premature deaths and stunting global economic development with an epicentre in sub-Saharan Africa.

Mamadu Baldeh, Samuel Kizito (2023-10-07). Correspondence] Call to action: HIV among adolescents in Sierra Leone. thelancet.com Sierra Leone, a west African country with an approximate population of 8 ∑5 million people, is experiencing a steady increase in HIV prevalence, despite a low national HIV prevalence of 1 ∑7%.1 The country's vulnerability to an HIV epidemic is compounded by many risk factors, such as poverty, economic deprivation, and a history marred by a decade-long civil strife and an Ebola virus outbreak that claimed more than 4000 lives.2 These collective adversities pose major obstacles to effective HIV prevention and control measures, particularly among the population aged up to 24 years.

Daniel Warner (2023-10-06). Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights: a Cold War Debate Re-ignites in Geneva. counterpunch.org If you think China is competing with the West only geopolitically in the South China Sea and materially in advanced technology, you are partially mistaken. As the Geneva Observer revealed, at the Human Rights Council in Geneva, the Chinese are proposing a resolution to prioritize economic, social, and cultural (ESC) rights ahead of the traditional

Dimitris Eleas (2023-10-06). Poverty in Greece. dissidentvoice.org New York Times published a news article "Greece, Battered a Decade Ago, Is Booming" by Liz Alderman, with additional reporting from Niki Kitsantonis (Monday, Sept. 25 / in print on Saturday, Sept. 30, Section B, Page 1 with the headline: "A New Era of Prosperity for Greece"). The article informs us that Greece was hit by an economic crisis …

presstv.ir (2023-10-06). Iran urges regional cooperation to promote peace in Caucasus. presstv.ir Iran's Foreign Minister Amir-Abdollahian urges collective cooperation aimed at promoting peace and economic development in the Caucasus region.

Scott Ferguson (2023-10-06). Reparations for Black Americans w/ William A. Darity. mronline.org We're joined this month by William A.( "Sandy") Darity to discuss reparations for Black Americans. A founding theorist of stratification economics and foremost scholar of the racial wealth gap in the United Stats, Darity is perhaps best known for his committed public advocacy for acknowledging, redressing, and resolving histories of racist violence against enslaved black people and their descendents through a federal program of reparations for black Americans.

Shailly Gupta Barnes (2023-10-06). A Wake-Up Call on Poverty. counterpunch.org This fall, the Census Bureau released new poverty data showing a stunning reversal in economic security over the course of last year. The findings included a record jump in the Supplemental Poverty Measure just one year after hitting a record low. Child poverty doubled. Some 12.4 percent of Americans were poor last year, according to that measure. But

Alan MacLeod, MintPress News. (2023-10-05). Why China's Rapid Rise Is Terrifying The United States. popularresistance.org There is no doubt about it: China is rising. Whether it sparks hope and interest or fear and worry, it is impossible to ignore the country's rapid economic and social transformation. Just a few decades ago, the words "made in China" were a synonym for bad quality junk. But today, China leads the world in all manner of high-tech industries, including photovoltaic cells, semiconductors, 5G communications technologies, and electric vehicles. | Along with rapid economic growth has come a huge increase in living standards. By 2018, China overtook the United States in average healthy life expectancy, and wages are soar…

Dae-Han Song, Popular Resistance. (2023-10-05). Okinawa: A Bastion For Peace? popularresistance.org Recently, in Taiwan, the government unveiled its first home-built submarine. In Japan, the government will upgrade civilian airports and seaports to dual military use in preparation for conflict in Taiwan. The U.S. and allies maneuver to contain China, Russia, and North Korea, while the latter band together against the former's economic sanctions and military threats. Both blocs test the strength and resilience of the region's stability. And while North Korea has been the regional bogeyman for decades, if war breaks out, it will likely be in Taiwan. | While China has called for an "indivisible security" where sec…

Peter Koenig (2023-10-05). Is Trudeau Selling Out Canada to the World Economic Forum? globalresearch.ca

presstv.ir (2023-10-05). Havana: US responsible for exodus of Cuban refugees. presstv.ir Havana says the United States is responsible for the exodus of Cuban migrants by stoking an economic crisis in the Latin American country.

presstv.ir (2023-10-05). Iran urges regional cooperation to promote peace in Caucasus. presstv.ir Iran's Foreign Minister Amir-Abdollahian urges collective cooperation aimed at promoting peace and economic development in the Caucasus region.

Robert J. Burrowes (2023-10-05). We Are Being Smashed Politically, Economically, Medically and Technologically by the Elite's 'Great Reset': Why? How Do We Fight Back Effectively? globalresearch.ca

Alina Ramos Martin (2023-10-06). DPRK delegation participates in Asia-Pacific International Forum. plenglish.com The state news agency ACNC reported that the meeting, sponsored by the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation, had as its central theme the balance of the protection of interests and rights of Asia-Pacific countries in international economic relations. | The meeting was attended by the delegation of the Central Court of the DPRK led by its president Choe Kun Yong; and the chief justices of China, Vietnam, Laos, Myanmar, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan, among other delegations and authorities from 16 countries. | On the occasion, various issues were discussed related to the protection of business rights and ensuring t…

Ileana Ferrer Fonte (2023-10-06). Cuba calls at UN for comprehensive, lasting solution to foreign debt. plenglish.com United Nations, Oct 6 (Prensa Latina) Cuba called Friday for a comprehensive and lasting solution to the foreign debt during a debate on macroeconomic policies and financing for development at the United Nations.

Luis Linares Petrov (2023-10-05). Bolivian expert denounces harmful intention of US rating agency. plenglish.com La Paz, Oct 5 (Prensa Latina) Bolivian economic analyst, Martín Moreira, denounced that the US-based international rating agency, Standard & Poor, is more interested in damaging Bolivia with its report on the Bolivian financial system, than in maintaining a constructive critical view.

Luis Linares Petrov (2023-10-05). Russia in favor of Latin America's political and economic development. plenglish.com Saint Petersburg, Russia, Oct 5 (Prensa Latina) The 6th International Forum "Russia and Ibero-America in the turbulent world" has reached its second day with the goal of analyzing the Russian Federation's commitment to the political and economic development of Latin America.

manager (2023-10-05). Conservatives' Obstruction Leads to a Tripling of American Indian Child Poverty. cepr.net The poverty rate of American Indian and Alaska Native children rose from 7.4 percent to 25.9 percent from 2021 to 2022 (Figure 1). This tripling of the American Indian child poverty rate has caused the group to have the highest child poverty rate by race in 2022. Without Congressional action to aid impoverished families, this …

manager (2023-10-05). Protected: Conservatives' Obstruction Leads to a Tripling of American Indian Child Poverty. cepr.net

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Prof Michel Chossudovsky (2023-10-05). The Hegemonic UN-WEF-NATO Triad: U.N. "Sustainable Development" (SDG 2030) = Endless Wars, Poverty and Famine Worldwide. globalresearch.ca First published by Global Research on October 2, 2023 | *** | "Those of us who do understand the nefariousness of the empire, and the ever-increasing danger it represents, must be clear that the effective defense of life on planet Earth, including …

Dan Lieberman (2023-10-05). The Contradictions of Ronald Reagan's America. dissidentvoice.org As the memory of President Ronald Reagan's administration recedes, estimation of his deeds grows, and for good reason. A cursory look at his end-of-office stats impresses the casual observer — 67% increase in GDP, from $3 trillion in 1981 to $5 trillion in 1988, net job addition of about 18 million, reduction in the unemployment …

Denise Kohr (2023-10-06). The Price of Amazon Prime's Business Model is Our Bodies. counterpunch.org Amazon is notorious for having one of highest injury rates in the warehouse industry. What's less well known is that Amazon will ignore, overcomplicate, or outright deny workers their right to disability accommodations, forcing them to perform physically impossible and excruciating work or risk giving up their income entirely. I should know — it happened to me

Jake Johnson (2023-10-05). Under Trump, IRS Audited Low-Income Families at Higher Rate Than Millionaires. truthout.org During the final year of Donald Trump's presidency, the Internal Revenue Service audited low-income families at a higher rate than millionaires for the first time, according to an Americans for Tax Fairness analysis released as congressional Republicans work to further hamper the agency's ability to crack down on rich tax cheats. Years of Republican-imposed budget cuts have left the IRS badly… |

Bill Cole, Labor Notes. (2023-10-05). Where There Are Scabs, There Is Violence. popularresistance.org The province of Quebec was the first jurisdiction in North America to pass legislation banning replacement workers, in 1977, after significant increases in picket line violence across the province. One dispute was a 20-month-long strike involving UAW Local 510 and United Aircraft (later called Pratt & Whitney), which became one of the most violent strikes in Canadian history. In a blunt observation about replacement workers, Quebec's Minister of Labour, Pierre-Marc Johnson, stated on the floor of the legislature that "where there are scabs there is violence." Johnson said his government further supported a g…

Eric Lee (2023-10-05). Ukraine and the world's unions — the view from Kyiv. greenleft.org.au Following his recent visit to Ukraine, LabourStart founding editor Eric Lee outlines the challenges in building trade union solidarity with the Ukrainian people following Russia's brutal invasion.

Editor (2023-10-06). Labor Is Back and Standing Tall. scheerpost.com

Jemima Pierre, Taylor, Francis Online. (2023-10-06). Haiti As Empire's Laboratory. popularresistance.org In December 2019, President Donald Trump signed into law H.R.2116, also known as the Global Fragility Act (GFA). Although this act was developed by the conservative United States Institute of Peace, it was introduced to Congress by Democratic Representative Eliot L. Engel, then chair of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, and cosponsored by a bipartisan group of representatives, including, significantly, Democrat Karen Bass. The GFA presents new strategies for deploying U.S. hard and soft power in a changing world. It focuses U.S. foreign policy on the idea that there are so-called "fragile states," countries…

Labor Video Project (2023-10-06). Senator Laphonza Butler & SEIU 2015: Ex-Union Bureaucrat Helping UBER & The Union Busters. indybay.org Governor Newsom has appointed former SEIU 2015 union president Laphonza Butler to become US Senator for California. This interview with SEIU 2015 member and homecare worker Bradley Weidmaier looks at her role as president of the local to suppress democratic rights. He also discusses the role of the California Democratic Party which these SEIU officials have been embedded in.

Rhoda Wilson (2023-10-06). The Great Taking: Have the global elite devised an elaborate plan to take everything we own? expose-news.com In June 2023, hedge fund manager David Rogers Webb published a book titled 'The Great Taking'. The book, one commentator said, describes a legal framework for the seizure of trillions of dollars …

WSWS (2023-10-06). How the Waffen SS Galicia division is glorified on Ukrainian television. wsws.org After the standing ovation for Nazi collaborator Yaroslav Hunka by the Canadian parliament, the Waffen SS Galicia division has been openly glorified on Ukrainian television.

Christopher Burns , Portside. (2023-10-05). University Of Maine Graduate Students Win Union Recognition. popularresistance.org The Maine Labor Relations Board last week certified the Maine Graduate Workers Union-UAW after an independent arbitrator determined it had a majority support among graduate workers, according to the Maine AFL-CIO. | The university system said in August it would recognize the union and began bargaining if an independent analysis found it had a majority support. | The graduate workers union will represent about 1,000 graduate assistants, research assistants and teaching assistants who make up a large percentage of the teaching and research workforce across the system's seven campuses, according to the Maine AFL-CIO…

Kelsey Moore (2023-10-05). The PRO Act Is Critically Important. But We Should See It as Just a Good Start. cepr.net Jacobin See original article on the Jacobin. Earlier this year, a wave of high-profile strikes ushered unions back into the national spotlight. But as the United States' so-called "hot labor summer" gives way to an equally enthusiastic fall, we must contend with the reality that while union activity is higher than it's been in years, union density remains dismally low. The share of …

Labor Video Project (2023-10-05). Senator Laphonza Butler & SEIU 2015: Ex-Union Bureaucrat Helping UBER & The Union Busters. indybay.org Governor Newsom has appointed former SEIU 2015 union president Laphonza Butler to become US Senator for California. This interview with SEIU 2015 member and homecare worker Bradley Weidmaier looks at her role as president of the local to suppress democratic rights. He also discusses the role of the California Democratic Party which these SEIU officials have been embedded in.

Maximillian Alvarez (2023-10-05). East Palestine residents still need help—the labor movement should be an ally. therealnews.com

Mike Pappas, Left Voice. (2023-10-05). Kaiser Permanente Workers Begin Largest Healthcare Strike In US History. popularresistance.org The largest health care strike in U.S. history has begun, as more than 75,000 workers at Kaiser Permanente walked off the job this morning. The scheduled three-day labor stoppage comes after Kaiser failed to meet the demands of workers, continuing to prioritize their profits over patient care. | The striking coalition includes eight unions representing health care workers from a variety of job descriptions and covers Kaiser facilities in California, Colorado, Oregon, Washington, Virginia, and Washington City. This represents about 40% of all Kaiser Permanente staff, according to spokeswoman Renee Saldana of the S…

Staff (2023-10-05). Almost 9 Million Students Back to School in Venezuela (+Teachers' Wages). orinocotribune.com Approximately 8.8 million children have now begun the 2023-2024 school year throughout Venezuela, according to a report made by President Nicolás Maduro during his television program Con Maduro+. | President Maduro elaborated in the report made this Monday, October 2, that 28,304 educational centers—both public and private—have opened their doors to receive students in their classrooms. Around 80% of them belong to the free, quality ensured, scientific, and humanistic public education system, while the remaining 20% are other types of schools, including private schools. | "When the Revolution began, i…

teleSUR, MS (2023-10-05). Blinken visita México para tratar temas de migración y narcotráfico. telesurtv.net El Secretario de Estado estadounidense insiste en que el Gobierno de México debe desmantelar más laboratorios de fentanilo.

Ileana Ferrer Fonte (2023-10-06). Documentary about Fidel Castro premieres in Chile. plenglish.com Santiago, Chile, Oct 6 (Prensa Latina) The documentary "Fidel de Cerca" (Fidel at close range), a portrait of the historic leader of the Cuban Revolution from the perspective of his friends, family, and collaborators, was premiered at the Culture House in Chile's municipality of San Miguel.

Mac Slavo (2023-10-06). Ruling Class Plans to "Fix" the Wealth Gap by Enslaving Everyone with CBDC. globalresearch.ca

Ann Brown (2023-10-05). Black America Debates Billionaire Jay-Z Not Loaning Cousin $4800 For Business Idea. moguldom.com Rap's billionaire Jay-Z has recently found himself at the center of a social media storm following revelations about a financial decision involving a family member. The debate was sparked by a resurfaced interview clip with Kevin Hart, where Jay-Z mentioned declining a cousin's request for a $4,800 loan, triggering a discussion on wealth, family dynamics, …

Victoria Saint, Kayvan Bozorgmehr (2023-10-07). Correspondence] Funding for global health research in Germany. thelancet.com Over the past 15 years, Germany has strategically expanded its role in global health against the backdrop of geopolitical developments, upheavals, and crises (appendix p 1) to become one of the largest political and financial contributors in the field. One of Germany's key priorities has been to fortify its strong but fragmented research landscape in global health. In January, 2020, a 5-year infrastructure programme from the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF; costing approximately ‚Ǩ3 million) culminated in the progressive establishment of the German Alliance for Global Health Res…

Dean Baker (2023-10-05). Team Billionaire is Winning. counterpunch.org There are of course a million and one other ways that we structure the financial sector to benefit the rich: government deposit insurance, exemption from the sort of sales taxes that apply to almost everything else we buy, and nonsensical tax preferences like the carried interest deduction that fuel private equity and hedge funds. Yet, somehow progressive intellectuals look at all the rich and super-rich in finance and just see the market being left to itself.

imperial.ac.uk (2023-10-05). Naveed Sultan is appointed Co-Director of the Centre for Financial Technology. imperial.ac.uk Naveed Sultan, Former Managing Director at Citigroup has been appointed as Co-Director of the Centre for Financial Technology at the Business School.

WSWS (2023-10-05). Chinese property giant Evergrande another step closer to collapse. wsws.org Liquidation can set in motion a desperate scramble by creditors to grab what they can leading to unforeseen consequences for the financial system.

WSWS (2023-10-05). "Highlights" of UAW-Mack deal reveal sellout contract with below-inflation wage increases. wsws.org The tentative contract includes below inflation raises averaging roughly 4 percent a year, has no COLA clause and leaves untouched the hated tier system.

Dave DeCamp (2023-10-05). EU Says It Can't Support Ukraine Without the US. news.antiwar.com The EU's top diplomat on Thursday said the European bloc could not provide Ukraine with enough support without the US amid uncertainty about when Congress might authorize the next tranche of spending on the proxy war. "Europe cannot fill the gap of the US," Josep Borrel said after arriving in Spain for a gathering of …

Dave DeCamp (2023-10-05). EU Says It Can't Support Ukraine Without the US. news.antiwar.com The EU's top diplomat on Thursday said the European bloc could not provide Ukraine with enough support without the US amid uncertainty about when Congress might authorize the next tranche of spending on the proxy war. "Europe cannot fill the gap of the US," Josep Borrell said after arriving in Spain for a gathering of …

Rhoda Wilson (2023-10-05). US House of Representatives cuts funding to UN, WHO, WEF and climate change. expose-news.com Last Thursday, the US House of Representatives passed its annual State Department and Foreign Operations spending bill, which determines the budget for the State Department and its foreign operations. The legislation allocates …

WSWS (2023-10-05). Both camps in Australia's Voice referendum pledge to cut spending for impoverished Aborigines. wsws.org The yes and no camps are both promising to slash federal spending on indigenous programs, underscoring the fraud of the entire referendum.

Franz Segbers (2023-10-06). Housing is a human right. indybay.org To guarantee the human right to housing, a fundamental change in policy would be required at all levels. At all levels – federal, state and local – the social housing provision should be enforced against private profit interests. The non-profit status of housing must be revived. Housing must not be a commodity, it must not be the object of speculation and profit interests.

Animal Liberation Press Office (2023-10-05). California "Game Breeders" Who Hold Native Wildlife Captive. indybay.org The following businesses profit from imprisoning thousands of Pheasants, Ducks, Doves, Pigeons, Partridges, Quail, Turkey, and Geese.

Anna Maria Barry-Jester (2023-10-05). How a big pharma company stalled a potentially lifesaving vaccine in pursuit of bigger profits. nationofchange.org

Franz Segbers (2023-10-05). Housing is a human right. indybay.org To guarantee the human right to housing, a fundamental change in policy would be required at all levels. At all levels – federal, state and local – the social housing provision should be enforced against private profit interests. The non-profit status of housing must be revived. Housing must not be a commodity, it must not be the object of speculation and profit interests.

Mark Curtis (2023-10-05). Britain Always Seeks a Profit in Wars. globalresearch.ca

People's Dispatch. (2023-10-05). Biggest Health Worker Strike In United States History Begins. popularresistance.org On October 4, 75,000 healthcare workers at Kaiser Permanente facilities in several US states are set to go on strike for three days following the breakdown of contract negotiations last week. A coalition of several unions representing health workers in California, Colorado, Oregon, Washington, Virginia, and Washington, DC is battling the nonprofit health giant for safe staffing levels, cost of living pay increases, and against a two-tier pay system that Kaiser is trying to introduce. | The largest union in the coalition is Service Employees International Union (SEIU)-United Healthcare Workers West (UHW) with 57,4…

midwesternmarx (2023-10-05). 50 detained, over 100 homes raided in sweeping crackdown on press freedom in India. By: Zoe Alexandra. midwesternmarx.com The homes of over 100 journalists, contractors, and former employees associated with the progressive news outlets Newsclick and Peoples Dispatch, as well as Tricontinental Research Services were raided by Indian authorities in the early morning of October 3 in the capital New Delhi. Several raids were also carried out in the cities of Noida, Ghaziabad, Gurgaon and Mumbai. According to local reports around 50 individuals were taken in to the police station for additional que …

midwesternmarx (2023-10-05). China and the Purity Fetish of Western Marxism. By: Carlos L. Garrido. midwesternmarx.com In honor of the anniversary of the founding of the Peoples Republic of China Earlier this week, we are republishing the third chapter from Garrido's The Purity Fetish and the Crisis of Western Marxism, which you may find HERE. The stakes of the imperialist West's New Cold War against China are as great as they can get. This means that the Western left's role as controlled counter-hegemony and left-wing delegitimizers of socialist states — a role ideo …

midwesternmarx (2023-10-05). Despite Protests, UNSC Approves Deployment of Troops to Haiti. By: Steve Lalla. midwesternmarx.com ​On Monday, the Security Council of the United Nations (UN) authorized the deployment of Kenyan troops to Haiti. The intervention responds to a request issued by the acting prime minister and unelected head of Haiti, Ariel Henry, whose regime has been legitimized by support from the US, France, and Canada, among others.​With 13 votes in favor and two abstentions (Russia and China), the UN Security Council (UNSC) approved resolution 2699 to initiate an international mission. Pr …

WSWS (2023-10-06). Kaiser workers call for a united struggle with all workers for better wages and safe conditions. wsws.org Workers in the largest strike of healthcare workers in US history talk about chronic understaffing, low wages and the ongoing impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Laith Fadel (2023-10-05). Wage expectations reach record high for U.S. job seekers. america.cgtn.com A recent survey revealed that U.S. job seekers have the highest wage expectations in recorded history when stepping into a new job. The average employee is unwilling to accept less than $78,000 annually, a report has found. CGTN's Karina Mitchell has more. | youtu.be/u8JBkgx4fd0

Speak Out Socialists (2023-10-06). Saturday 10/21: Capitalism and the Climate Crisis: Everything to Lose and a World to Win. indybay.org 2727 Event Space, 2727 California Street, Berkeley, CA 94703 | CAN'T JOIN IN-PERSON? JOIN THE EVENT VIA ZOOM | TINYURL.COM/OCTOBER-TH-2023…

Dania Albaba, Mohammed Zaher Sahloul (2023-10-07). Correspondence] A plea for psychiatric and humanitarian support in northwest Syria. thelancet.com The Syrian conflict has taken a devastating toll on the mental health of its civilian population, resulting in high levels of depression, anxiety, and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). The traumatic events experienced by people in Syria (eg, bombings, shootings, chemical weapon attacks, attacks on crucial infrastructure, terrorism, and forced displacement) have all contributed to these problems. Furthermore, the fragmentation of health-care infrastructure, the exodus of health-care providers, ongoing crises, reduced international aid, and the shortage of mental health professionals all worsen the psychologic…

Nova Sobieralski (2023-10-05). National Colesworth Strike! greenleft.org.au Members of the Retail and Fast Food Workers Union (RAFFWU) at Coles and Wollworths are taking industrial action after negotiations over pay and conditions fell through, reports Nova Sobieralski.

Vijay Prashad (2023-10-05). We Have Here, in Africa, Everything Necessary to Become a Powerful, Modern, and Industrialised Continent. dissidentvoice.org Wu Fang (China), ˰å˵∞ ('Journey'), 2017. In his 1963 book, Africa Must Unite, Kwame Nkrumah, Ghana's first president, wrote, 'We have here, in Africa, everything necessary to become a powerful, modern, industrialised continent. United Nations investigators have recently shown that Africa, far from having inadequate resources, is probably better equipped for industrialisation than almost any …

William D. Hartung, TomDispatch. (2023-10-05). AI Goes To War. popularresistance.org On August 28th, Deputy Secretary of Defense Kathleen Hicks chose the occasion of a three-day conference organized by the National Defense Industrial Association (NDIA), the arms industry's biggest trade group, to announce the "Replicator Initiative." Among other things, it would involve producing "swarms of drones" that could hit thousands of targets in China on short notice. Call it the full-scale launching of techno-war. | Her speech to the assembled arms makers was yet another sign that the military-industrial complex (MIC) President Dwight D. Eisenhower warned us about more than 60 years ago is still alive, a…

Suds, Snacks, Socialism Forum Committee (2023-10-06). Saturday 10/7: Fighting the Information Behemoth: Why We Need Alternative Media. indybay.org The Starry Plough Pub | 3101 Shattuck Avenue, Berkeley, CA 94705…

WSWS (2023-10-06). The Workers League's defence of the Theory of Permanent Revolution against the opportunism of the Workers Revolutionary Party. wsws.org The following lecture was delivered by Tom Peters, a leading member of the Socialist Equality Group of New Zealand, and Thomas Scripps, a leading member of the Socialist Equality Party (UK), to the SEP (US) International Summer School, held between July 30 and August 4, 2023.

Sam Wainwright (2023-10-05). After the referendum: Continue the struggle for justice. greenleft.org.au Socialist Alliance recommends a Yes vote for the referendum on the Voice. But we also recognise that substantial measures to benefit Indigenous people require a strengthening of the grassroots movements for change. This will be true whatever the outcome on October 14, writes Sam Wainwright.

Suds, Snacks, Socialism Forum Committee (2023-10-05). Saturday 10/7: Fighting the Information Behemoth: Why We Need Alternative Media. indybay.org The Starry Plough Pub | 3101 Shattuck Avenue, Berkeley, CA 94705…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-10-05). Promoting a Human Community with a Shared Future. libya360.wordpress.com We reprint below an important article by Liu Jianchao, Minister of the International Department of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, which first appeared in China Daily. In his article, Minister Liu outlines the key points and significance of the three major initiatives put forward by President Xi Jinping, namely the Global Development Initiative…

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2023-10-03: News Headlines

Center for Biological Diversity (2023-10-03). Thursday 10/12: "A Silent Transformation": Film Talk on Modern Economy & Increasing Poverty Gap w/ CBD. indybay.org Register here to view the films on demand: filmfestplus.com/get-pass/?festival=FJ23X6TGHKR3 | Register here to attend the webinars by selecting the session dates you want to attend: | biologicaldiversity-org.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_JhlM5_EbSQqtgu-oNKfhZQ#/registration

ecns.cn (2023-10-03). China's September manufacturing PMI hit 50.2. ecns.cn China's official manufacturing purchasing managers' index (PMI) for September came in at 50.2, its first time in positive territory since April, after a consecutive increase over the last four months.

Tanya Wadhwa (2023-10-03). Two weeks out from Ecuador's runoff election, candidates debate on key issues. peoplesdispatch.org Leftist lawyer Luisa González and businessman Daniel Noboa outlined their government plans, debating on the matters of economy, security, social policies and political issues…

Center for Biological Diversity (2023-10-02). Thursday 10/12: "A Silent Transformation": Film Talk on Modern Economy & Increasing Poverty Gap w/ CBD. indybay.org Register here to view the films on demand: filmfestplus.com/get-pass/?festival=FJ23X6TGHKR3 | Register here to attend the webinars by selecting the session dates you want to attend: | biologicaldiversity-org.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_JhlM5_EbSQqtgu-oNKfhZQ#/registration

Dean Baker (2023-10-02). The Big Three's CEOs Are Ripping Off their Companies. cepr.net Robert Reich posted a table that tells us a huge amount about the U.S. economy. CEO pay of the largest carmakers in the world Honda: $2.3M Nissan $4.5M Toyota: $6.7M BMW: $5.6M Mercedes: $7.5M Porsche: $7.9M Ford: $21M Stellantis: $25M GM: $29M The reason this table is so informative is that the performance …

ecns.cn (2023-10-02). Rail project a symbol of 'mutual trust'. ecns.cn Jakarta and Bandung are vibrant and dynamic Indonesian cities, and strengthening the flow of people and goods between them is crucial, according to Chinese Ambassador to Indonesia Lu Kang.

ecns.cn (2023-10-02). China's September manufacturing PMI hit 50.2. ecns.cn China's official manufacturing purchasing managers' index (PMI) for September came in at 50.2, its first time in positive territory since April, after a consecutive increase over the last four months.

Elsy Fors Garzon (2023-10-02). Assukkargenera, an enterprise with a Cuban flavor. plenglish.com Havana, Oct 2 (Prensa Latina) The MSME GRUPO SSUKKA S.R.L., Sweetery and Bread Assukkar; It stands out today as a dynamic actor in the Cuban economy, with extensive development in the productive chain and a manifest contribution to the generation of jobs and local well-being.

Laith Fadel (2023-10-02). Argentina and Ecuador brace for presidential elections. america.cgtn.com The month of October will see the election of new presidents in two South American nations. Ecuador must choose between two rivals who in a presidential debate agreed to being tough on crime but differed on the economy. While, in Argentina, candidates traded barbs in the first of two presidential debates before voting later this month. CGTN's Dan Collyns reports.

Luis Linares Petrov (2023-10-02). Debate in Argentina focused on economy, rights and denialism. plenglish.com Buenos Aires, Oct 1 (Prensa Latina) The first mandatory debate between the five candidates for the Presidency of Argentina focused on the economy, rights, democratic coexistence and denialism.

Alan Macleod (2023-10-03). Why China's Rapid Rise is Terrifying the United States, with John Ross. mintpressnews.com While many in the West take a very dim view of China, China expert John Ross is far more positive, telling MintCast that China has seen the highest sustained economic growth of any country in world history. "People don't understand the scale of China's success, and they still don't understand what it means, therefore, in the transformation of the lives of ordinary Chinese people,"

Patricia Harrity (2023-10-03). Trudeau's Liberals Paid WEF For Report Justifying Climate Change Policies. expose-news.com According to a report in The Counter Signal, documents reveal that Trudeaus Liberals' Climate Change department paid the World Economic Forum (WEF) to produce a report that made an economic case for …

Amari Butler (2023-10-02). MIT graduate workers win precedent-setting first contract. liberationnews.org On September 22, 2023 the MIT Graduate Student Union (GSU) – UE Local 256 ratified their first contract by a margin of 95.8%. After years of building their union and a year of contract negotiations, MIT graduate workers won a historic victory including protections from harassment, discrimination and bullying, an economic package with a net compensation improvement of more than 10% on average, and union security, which will allow for a strong union that can effectively enforce their contract.

Chris Hedges, Scheer Post. (2023-10-02). Why Our Popular Mass Movements Fail. popularresistance.org There was a decade of popular uprisings from 2010 until the global pandemic in 2020. These uprisings shook the foundations of the global order. They denounced corporate domination, austerity cuts and demanded economic justice and civil rights. There were nationwide protests in the United States centered around the 59-day Occupy encampments. There were popular eruptions in Greece, Spain, Tunisia, Egypt, Bahrain, Yemen, Syria, Libya, Turkey, Brazil, Ukraine, Hong Kong, Chile and during South Korea's Candlelight Light Revolution. Discredited politicians were driven from office in Greece, Spain, Ukraine, South Korea,…

Dean Baker (2023-10-02). Putting Ukraine Spending in Context. cepr.net The United States support of Ukraine, following the invasion by Russia, has featured prominently in the news in recent days as Republicans in Congress have made it front and center in the budget debate. As usual, the media has reported U.S. spending on military and economic assistance without providing any context for the spending. This …

ecsorinoco (2023-10-02). Delcy Rodríguez Addresses Puebla Group Regarding US-Led Hybrid Warfare on Venezuela. orinocotribune.com In her speech to the Puebla Group, a collaborative political group of fourteen progressive governments, the vice president spoke of the blockade, sanctions, and lawfare against the country. | This Saturday, Venezuela's Vice President Delcy Rodríguez participated in the ninth meeting of the Puebla Group held in the central Mexican city of Puebla. | Rodríguez spoke about economic sanctions, blockades, legal wars and lawfare, and strategies applied by imperialism to bring the people of the Global South to their knees. | Speaking to the group, Rodríguez exposed the truth about the hybrid war against Venezuela, the ch…

ecsorinoco (2023-10-02). Delcy Rodríguez Addresses Puebla Group Regarding US-Led Hybrid Warfare on Venezuela. orinocotribune.com In her speech to the Puebla Group, the vice president spoke of the blockade, sanctions, and lawfare against the country. | This Saturday, Venezuela's Vice President Delcy Rodríguez participated in the ninth meeting of the Puebla Group held in the central Mexican city of Puebla. | Rodríguez spoke about economic sanctions, blockades, legal wars and lawfare, and strategies applied by imperialism to bring the people of the Global South to their knees. | Rodríguez exposed the truth about the hybrid war against Venezuela, the challenges of the multipolar world, and the need to resume the integration of the peoples of A…

ecsorinoco (2023-10-02). The 'American' Economic War Against Yemen. orinocotribune.com While a fragile ceasefire exists between the Saudi-led coalition and Ansarallah-allied forces, Yemen remains subjected to severe economic warfare, designed, backed, and orchestrated entirely by western powers. | The UN-brokered truce between Sanaa and Riyadh, which was announced in April 2022 and technically expired in October, has plunged Yemen into a neither-peace-nor-war purgatory. Not only did the truce utterly fail to relieve the country's dire economic crisis caused by the US/UK-backed Saudi and Emirati aggression, but it also exacerbated the crisis to a degree not witnessed in years. | The military option…

Kester Kenn Klomegah (2023-10-02). Russian-Latin American Parliamentarians Share Thoughts on Geopolitical Situation and Economic Cooperation. globalresearch.ca

Luis Linares Petrov (2023-10-02). Ecuadorian presidential candidates disclose their social proposals. plenglish.com Quito, Oct 1 (Prensa Latina) Ecuador's presidential candidates Luisa González and Daniel Noboa disclosed their proposals on social and economical matters during a televised debate and addressed issues about institutionality and foreign policy.

Prof Michel Chossudovsky (2023-10-02). Biggest Lie in World History: There Never Was A Pandemic. The Data Base is Flawed. The Covid Mandates including the Vaccine are Invalid. globalresearch.ca Fake science was supportive of this devastating agenda. The lies were sustained by a massive media disinformation campaign. The historic March 11, 2020 lockdown triggered economic and social chaos Worldwide. It was an act of "economic warfare": a war against humanity.

WSWS (2023-10-02). New Thai government seeks foreign investment. wsws.org The newly installed Thai government is seeking to further foist the country's economic crisis onto the backs of workers and farmers.

Jose Eloy Richards Richards (2023-10-02). Nigeria celebrates its Independence Day with hope in the future. plenglish.com GHavana, 2 Oct (Prensa Latina) "Nigeria celebrated its 63rd Anniversary of independence with great hopes and projections for the advancement of the country and its people, despite the economic stand-back and social effects left by the Covid-19 pandemic". This was said by Nigeria's Ambassador to Cuba, his excellency Ben Okoyen, today, in an exclusive interview for Prensa Latina.

Alina Ramos Martin (2023-10-03). Some 2.66 million children at risk of poverty in Italy. plenglish.com Rome, Oct 3 (Prensa Latina) Some 2.66 million children are at risk of poverty in Italy, a situation that is worse than the one existing at the end of World War II, according to a report.

Jan M. Fijor (2023-10-02). How a CBDC Created Chaos and Poverty in Nigeria. globalresearch.ca

Prof Michel Chossudovsky (2023-10-02). The Hegemonic UN-WEF-NATO Triad: U.N. "Sustainable Development" (SDG 2030) = Endless Wars, Poverty and Famine Worldwide. globalresearch.ca "Those of us who do understand the nefariousness of the empire, and the ever-increasing danger it represents, must be clear that the effective defense of life on planet Earth, including that of the human species itself, inexorably demands the existence …

Eduardo Lucita (2023-10-03). After the primaries, the elections. internationalviewpoint.org "The labour and popular movement face an all-out offensive against historical social achievements and the expansion of rights achieved in recent decades, but the country has social and political reserves to face this offensive." | – | / |

Eduardo Lucita (2023-10-02). After the primaries, the elections. internationalviewpoint.org "The labour and popular movement face an all-out offensive against historical social achievements and the expansion of rights achieved in recent decades, but the country has social and political reserves to face this offensive." | – | / |

midwesternmarx (2023-10-02). What Every Child Should Know about Marx's Theory of Value. By: Michael A. Lebowitz. midwesternmarx.com Every child knows that any nation that stopped working, not for a year, but let us say, just for a few weeks, would perish. And every child knows, too, that the amounts of products corresponding to the differing amounts of needs demand differing and quantitatively determined amounts of society's aggregate labour. —Karl Marx [1] [2] Every child in Marx's day might have heard about Robinson Crusoe. That child might have heard that on his island Robinson had to work if he …

greenleft.org.au (2023-10-03). Podcast: The Palestine Laboratory with Antony Loewenstein. greenleft.org.au

greenleft.org.au (2023-10-03). Video: Naarm/Melbourne forum discusses right wing character of Albanese's Labor. greenleft.org.au

Labor Video Project (2023-10-03). Laphonza Butler & SEIU 2015: An Ex-Union Bureaucrat Now Helping UBER & The Union Busters. indybay.org California Governor Gavin Newsom has appointed former SEIU 2015 president Laphonza Butler US Senator to replace Senator Dianne Feinstein who passed away. After leaving the SEIU in California she became a consultant on how to stop labor and union busting.

WSWS (2023-10-03). Cost-of-living, jobs and social crisis deepening in Australia. wsws.org This deepening social crisis is fuelling discontent with the Labor government, reflected in media opinion polls reporting collapsing support for the government, and correspondingly for its Voice referendum.

WSWS (2023-10-03). Labor government starves Aboriginal schools of funds in Australia's Northern Territory. wsws.org The territory Labor government is continuing to impose a punitive schools funding model based on attendance, not enrolment, creating a cycle of worsening literacy rates.

Editor (2023-10-02). Mexican Auto Parts Workers Face Blacklist After Union Campaign. scheerpost.com By Charlie Saperstein and Dan DiMaggio / Labor Notes In August 2022, auto parts workers at VU Manufacturing won a landmark election to gain recognition for a new independent union, the Mexican Workers' League (La Liga). A year later, after refusing to negotiate a new contract, the company has shut down, leaving 400 workers jobless—and 71 …

greenleft.org.au (2023-10-02). Podcast: The Palestine Laboratory with Antony Loewenstein. greenleft.org.au

greenleft.org.au (2023-10-02). Video: Naarm/Melbourne forum discusses right wing character of Albanese's Labor. greenleft.org.au

Hauser & Wirth Downtown Los Angeles (2023-10-02). Saturday 12/9: Creative Workshop: Collaborative Collage. indybay.org 901 E 3rd Street | Los Angeles, CA 90013…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-10-02). UN Authorizes Kenyan-Led Military Intervention in Haiti. libya360.wordpress.com Peoples Dispatch Haitians protest against possible foreign intervention in August (Photo: Radyo Rezistans/Facebook) The multinational security force will collaborate with Haitian National Police to conduct "targeted operations" to allegedly combat gang violence On Monday, October 2, the United Nations Security Council voted to authorize a year-long Kenyan-led security intervention in Haiti for the stated goals of curbing…

Labor Video Project (2023-10-02). Government Shutdown: An Attack On All Workers! Gilbert Galam AFGE1230 TSA Worker & Leader. indybay.org The government is shutting down and millions of workers and the public will be affected. Gilbert Galam who is with AFGE Local 1230 where he Is legislative & political director and is a TSA worker talks about the last shut down and why this is an attack on the entire working class.

Staff (2023-10-02). Headlines for October 2, 2023. democracynow.org Kevin McCarthy Reverses Course, Passes Deal with House Democrats to Avert Gov't Shutdown at 11th Hour, Gavin Newsom Picks EMILY's List President Laphonza Butler to Fill Dianne Feinstein's Senate Seat, Dianne Feinstein, Longest-Serving Woman Senator, Dies at 90 After Months of Declining Health, Record Rains Turn NYC Streets into Rivers as Gov. Hochul Warns Extreme Weather Is "New Normal", Labor News: UAW Ramps Up Strike; Kaiser Permanente Health Workers Inch Closer to Major Strike, Migrants Killed Near U.S. Border; Traffic Deaths Expose Dangers for Migrants Traveling Through Mexico, R…

Luis Linares Petrov (2023-10-03). Bolivia and Brazil discussed on energy collaboration. plenglish.com La Paz, Oct 3 (Prensa Latina) Bolivia and Brazil are promoting integration in the energy sphere as part of their bilateral collaboration agenda, said the Minister of Hydrocarbons and Energy of Bolivia, Franklin Molina.

teleSUR, DRL (2023-10-02). Katalin Karikó y Drew Weissman ganan el Nobel de Medicina 2023. telesurtv.net Se trata de los líderes del equipo de investigación de vacunas de ARN mensajero, clave para la elaboración de algunas de las vacunas anticovid.

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2023-10-03). At-home COVID-19 tests: A Mayo Clinic expert answers questions on expiration dates and the new variants. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org COVID-19 at-home antigen test At-home COVID-19 tests allow you to collect your sample and detect active COVID-19 infections. But what if you have at-home COVID-19 tests nearing expiration or expired on your shelf? Matthew Binnicker, Ph.D., director of the Clinical Virology Laboratory at Mayo Clinic, says companies set the original test dates arbitrarily due to these diagnostic at-home tests being developed rapidly. So, check your boxes before you toss them. "Now that we are 3 1/2 years into…

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2023-10-03). On the road again – thanks to collaborative cancer care. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org In a matter of months, Bill McDermott went from having abdominal pain and learning he had lymphoma to being told it was time for hospice care. What his family did next would steer him in an entirely different direction. Although he doesn't remember all of the details, Bill McDermott says he began having abdominal issues and pain in mid-2021. He went in for some tests at a local hospital, where he got a diagnosis…

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2023-10-03). Mayo Clinic and GE HealthCare enter strategic collaboration to advance innovation in medical imaging and theranostics. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org Combining the world-class clinical and research expertise of Mayo Clinic with the deep research, engineering, and product development expertise of GE HealthCare, this new collaboration aims to forge an integrated innovation engine to advance the practice of radiology and care to patients worldwide. ROCHESTER, Minn. ‚Äï Today, Mayo Clinic and GE HealthCare announce a strategic healthcare collaboration for research and product development programs aimed to transform the experience of patients and clinicians in the practice…

Jake Johnson (2023-10-02). 'Unbelievably cruel': GOP pushes astronomical cuts to education, housing, and food aid. nationofchange.org "The same party who provided $2 trillion tax giveaways to the wealthy wants to slash funding for WIC, devastating women and children," said Democratic Rep. Gwen Moore.

WSWS (2023-10-02). The Voice referendum and the huge "reconciliation" march across the Sydney Harbour Bridge in 2000. wsws.org In 2000, the widespread popular disgust and anger at the continuing appalling conditions of most Aboriginal people was channelled behind a pro-business agenda that has benefited only a small layer of wealthy indigenous entrepreneurs, bureaucrats and academics.

Joel Stein (2023-10-03). LEFT WONDERING: Is Oil Extraction Tilting The Earth? levernews.com Welcome to a new edition of Left Wondering with Joel Stein, our advice column for paid subscribers of The Lever on how to lead an ethical life in an increasingly unethical world.Have a question about how to make a personal decision related to climate change, corporatization, politics, wealth inequality, globalization, or other matters that you'd like Joel to answer? Send it to .Dear Left Wondering,There was a report recently that pulling trillions of gallons of groundwater from the ground over the last many decades has caused the earth t…

E Lee Cas (2023-10-03). Back The Blue Until It Happens To You. indybay.org On June 1, 2023, a troubling incident unfolded at a Milpitas, California, 24 Hour Fitness location, prompting a determined pursuit of justice. The incident involved harassment and intimidation, with the victim seeking help from the police, only to have his request for assistance ignored by a dispatcher. When officers arrived, they displayed hostility, detaining and confiscating personal items from the victim. Allegations of false accusations and corruption emerged, suggesting collusion among these police officers and potential corruption, personal gains, and financial ties, either with the juveniles' families, St…

WSWS (2023-10-03). California Governor Newsom picks long-time Democratic Party operative Laphonza Butler to replace Senator Feinstein. wsws.org A long-time union bureaucrat and former Director for the Board of Governors of the Los Angeles branch of the Federal Reserve System, Butler is trusted agent of the financial oligrachy.

Dave DeCamp (2023-10-02). Decades-Old US-Marshall Islands Agreement Lapses, Negotiations Ongoing. news.antiwar.com A long-standing agreement that gives the US military access to the Marshall Islands in exchange for financial aid and other benefits lapsed on September 30, The South China Morning Post reported on Monday.

E Lee Cas (2023-10-02). Back The Blue Until It Happens To You. indybay.org On June 1, 2023, a troubling incident unfolded at a Milpitas, California, 24 Hour Fitness location, prompting a determined pursuit of justice. The incident involved harassment and intimidation, with the victim seeking help from the police, only to have his request for assistance ignored by a dispatcher. When officers arrived, they displayed hostility, detaining and confiscating personal items from the victim. Allegations of false accusations and corruption emerged, suggesting collusion among these police officers and potential corruption, personal gains, and financial ties, either with the juveniles' families, St…

Kyle Anzalone (2023-10-02). UN Security Council Authorizes Sending US-Backed Force to Haiti. news.antiwar.com The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) voted in favor of a US-sponsored resolution that authorizes a deployment of Kenyan-led troops to Haiti. The Washington-backed government in Port-au-Prince requested the mission after gangs captured large swaths of the capital city. The US has pledged financial support and training for the international force deployed to Haiti under …

Dana Sanchez (2023-10-02). U.S. Government Sues Tesla For Anti-Black Discrimination Against Workers. moguldom.com Twitter owner Elon Musk's electric car maker Tesla, one of the largest employers in Silicon Valley, has been sued by the federal government for discrimination and racial harassment against Black employees and for retaliating against those who complained about their treatment. The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) is responsible for enforcing federal laws that …

WSWS (2023-10-03). European Union foreign ministers meet in Ukraine to escalate war with Russia. wsws.org The leading European Union imperialist powers pledged to escalate the NATO war with Russia in Ukraine, announcing €5 billion more spending on the war.

Chris Walker (2023-10-02). Democrats to McCarthy: No Help on Speakership Vote Without Concessions. truthout.org Congress passed a government spending bill through a bipartisan measure over the weekend, with Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy (R-California) receiving help from the Democratic conference to pass the bill hours before a deadline would have forced a government shutdown. Now facing the possibility of removal from his post partly because of that vote, McCarthy will likely rely on Democrats to… |

MEE staff (2023-10-02). Turkey-Iraq oil pipeline to resume in a week, says minister. middleeasteye.net Turkey-Iraq oil pipeline to resume in a week, says minister | Turkish officials previously cited damage from February's earthquakes as a reason for suspending operations | Mon, 10/02/2023 – 09: 38 | Turkey's Energy Minister Alparslan Bayraktar talks during a meeting in Ankara on 14 September 2023 (Reuters) |

WSWS (2023-10-02). Behind the stop-gap spending bill: Democrats to agree on border crackdown in exchange for Ukraine war funding. wsws.org The bulk of the mainstream press as well as the Democrats hailed the temporary budget deal as a victory for bipartisanship and a win for "moderate" Republicans over "MAGA extremists." At the same time, they raised the alarm over the absence of funding for the Ukraine war in the bill.

Luis Linares Petrov (2023-10-02). Indian businessmen explore investment possibilities in Cuba. plenglish.com New Delhi, Oct 2 (Prensa Latina) Businessmen from the city of Bangalore analyzed investment possibilities in Cuba, during a meeting marking the 50th anniversary of Fidel Castro's first visit to India, diplomatic sources reported.

Animal Liberation Press Office (2023-10-03). California "Game Breeders" Who Hold Native Wildlife Captive. indybay.org The following businesses profit from imprisoning thousands of Pheasants, Ducks, Doves, Pigeons, Partridges, Quail, Turkey, and Geese.

Animal Liberation Press Office (2023-10-02). California "Game Breeders" Who Hold Native Wildlife Captive. indybay.org The following businesses profit from imprisoning thousands of Pheasants, Ducks, Doves, Pigeons, Partridges, Quail, Turkey, and Geese.

Editor (2023-10-02). Oct 2, 2023. sitrepworld.info ‚ô´ Jean Sibelius, Valse Triste (Herbert von Karajan) Pepe Escobar: Russia-China Partnership Defangs US Empire The Mad Propaganda Push To Normalize War Profiteering In Ukraine, by Caitlin Johnstone This Trump Thing: Aspects of a Wrecking Ball, by Fred Reed Impeachment: 'Cognitive Warfare' on Capitol Hill, by Patrick Lawrence The Western World Is Now a Tyranny, by Paul Craig Roberts The 21st century Opium War, by Alex Krainer Why Our Popular Mass Movements Fail, by Chris Hedges Gang/Counter-gang Operations: Dearlove's Sleight of Hand and the Wuhan Lab Psyop, by Matthew Ehret The Cluster B Society…

Konrad Rƒôkas (2023-10-02). Ukrainian Grain Blackmail is about the Profits of Multinational Corporations. globalresearch.ca

Marjorie Cohn, Truthout. (2023-10-02). Right-Dominated Supreme Court Is Poised To Do Grave Harm. popularresistance.org The 2023-2024 Supreme Court term will begin on Monday, October 2. Dominated by six right-wingers, the court has agreed to review cases in which voting rights, consumer protection, and the regulation of health and safety, workers' rights and the environment are in jeopardy. The cases present the issues of gerrymandering and the power of administrative agencies. In light of its recent conservative rulings, we should be wary about how the court will rule on these critical matters. | Besides the cases already on the Supreme Court's docket, the court will add more cases by mid-January. Their decisions will be issued b…

MEE staff (2023-10-03). Meet Shlomo Karhi, the outspoken Israeli minister visiting Saudi Arabia. middleeasteye.net Meet Shlomo Karhi, the outspoken Israeli minister visiting Saudi Arabia | Communications minister, who is in Riyadh, has made controversial remarks on gay pride, the Palestinian flag on campuses and media regulation | Tue, 10/03/2023 – 15: 57 | Israeli Knesset member Itamar Ben-Gvir (R), with the Likud party's Shlomo Karhi (L) during a parliament session in Jerusalem on 13 December 2022 (AFP) | Shlomo K…

midwesternmarx (2023-10-02). The Big Three Are Using Layoffs to Punish the UAW and Undermine the Strike. By: James Dennis Hoff. midwesternmarx.com The Big Three are retaliating against the UAW by laying off thousands of its members at plants across the country. Defeating these attacks will require the self organization and mobilization of all the workers. In a clear act of retaliation against striking auto workers, the Big Three have laid off thousands of employees since the United Auto Workers (UAW) strikes began on September 15. ​At Ford, more than 600 non-striking workers were laid off at the Wayne, Michigan plant jus …

midwesternmarx (2023-10-02). "The workers are the liberators," declares UAW President, sending 7,000 more out on strike. By: Natalia Marques. midwesternmarx.com United Auto Workers are expanding their strike to put additional pressure on General Motors and Ford, playing the three largest automakers against each other On September 29, United Auto Workers (UAW) President Shawn Fain announced that 7,000 more unionized auto workers are going out on strike, to join the 18,000 workers already participating in the "Stand Up Strike" against the three largest automakers in the United States.​Since 146,000 UAW auto wo …

Unitarian Universalists of SF (2023-10-02). Sunday 10/29: Global Conversations: U.S. Capitalism/Imperialism Is there an alternative? indybay.org 1187 Franklin Street, San Francisco, CA 94109 (corner of Geary Blvd).

Frank Cappello (2023-10-03). MOVIES VS. CAPITALISM: Heaven's Gate (w/ Matthew Donovan). levernews.com

William Hartung (2023-10-03). The Future of Techno-War. fpif.org On August 28th, Deputy Secretary of Defense Kathleen Hicks chose the occasion of a three-day conference organized by the National Defense Industrial Association (NDIA), the arms industry's biggest trade group, to

Federico Fuentes, Ammar Ali Jan (2023-10-03). Pakistani socialist: 'The danger is the Global South will get caught up in this New Cold War'. greenleft.org.au Ammar Ali Jan is general secretary of the anti-capitalist Haqooq-e-Khalq Party in Pakistan. He spoke with Green Left's Federico Fuentes about growing US-China tensions, its impacts on Pakistan and implications for anti-imperialism in the Global South.

Staff (2023-10-03). Venezuela's Youth Commemorate 9th Anniversary of Robert Serra's Assassination. orinocotribune.com On Sunday, at the General del Sur Cemetery in Caracas, young Venezuelans laid a floral offering commemorating the anniversary of the 2014 assassination of United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) Deputy Robert Serra. A large number of youth spoke about their experiences of meeting Serra. He was known for his humility and as a great leader within the ranks of the Bolivarian Revolution. | The president of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, commemorated the ninth anniversary of the assassination of the young leader. "Nine years ago, the young Robert Serra and María Herrera were murdered by Colombian hitmen, a fascist oper…

WSWS (2023-10-03). Socialist Equality Party meeting discusses its campaign for an active boycott of Australia's Voice referendum. wsws.org The in-person and livestreamed meeting explained the geo-strategic and class-war considerations underpinning the Albanese government's promotion of the Voice and how the working class should respond.

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-10-02). Chinese Embassy Symposium: The CPC and the Building of a Community with a Shared Future for Mankind. libya360.wordpress.com On 22 August 2023, the Chinese Embassy in the UK held a symposium themed The Communist Party of China and the Building of a Community with a Shared Future for Mankind, to which a range of political parties, organisations and individuals were invited. Three people attended the symposium on behalf of Friends of Socialist China, at…

Mike Phipps (2023-10-02). "It feels like the apocalypse" internationalviewpoint.org "The Russian Socialist Movement statement called on Azerbaijan to immediately cease hostilities and open negotiations without any preconditions, and on the international community to immediately impose sanctions against the leadership of Azerbaijan." | – | / |

Party for Socialism, Liberation (2023-10-03). PSL Statement: Modi's police targets progressive Indian outlet NewsClick with mass raids. liberationnews.org The Party for Socialism and Liberation condemns this assault on press freedoms, carried out to intimidate all those who speak out against the far right agenda of the Modi government.

Ana Luisa Brown (2023-10-02). Ziuganov confirms to Lazo that Russian communists support Cuba. plenglish.com Moscow, Oct 2 (Prensa Latina) The support to our Cuban friends is one of the main tasks of the Russian communists, stressed today the president of that group, Guennadi Ziuganov, when receiving the leader of the Cuban legislative body, Esteban Lazo.

Staff (2023-10-02). Palestine and the Palestinian prisoners' movement at the Spanish Communist Party's 2023 Fiesta. samidoun.net From 29 September through 1 October, the Spanish Communist Party (PCE) organized its annual festival, the Fiesta, in Rivas-Vaciamadrid, Spain. As in past years, the Palestinian Alternative Revolutionary Path Movement (Masar Badil) and Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network had a strong presence at the Fiesta, together with Al-Yudur, the Palestinian Youth Mobilization in the Spanish …

Ileana Ferrer Fonte (2023-10-03). Cuba recalls creation of Communist Party's Central Committee. plenglish.com Havana, Oct 3 (Prensa Latina) The creation of the first Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba (PCC) 58 years ago is recalled in this capital on Tuesday as a fundamental consolidating fact of unity in the political body, the vanguard of the Revolution.

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2023-10-01: News Headlines

ecns.cn (2023-10-01). Rail project a symbol of 'mutual trust'. ecns.cn Jakarta and Bandung are vibrant and dynamic Indonesian cities, and strengthening the flow of people and goods between them is crucial, according to Chinese Ambassador to Indonesia Lu Kang.

ecns.cn (2023-10-01). China's September manufacturing PMI hit 50.2. ecns.cn China's official manufacturing purchasing managers' index (PMI) for September came in at 50.2, its first time in positive territory since April, after a consecutive increase over the last four months.

ecns.cn (2023-09-30). Xi stresses active participation in WTO reform, stronger ability for high-level opening-up. ecns.cn The Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, on the afternoon of Sept. 27, convened its eighth group study session on the rules of the World Trade Organization (WTO) and the reform of the organization.

ecns.cn (2023-09-30). Rail project a symbol of 'mutual trust'. ecns.cn Jakarta and Bandung are vibrant and dynamic Indonesian cities, and strengthening the flow of people and goods between them is crucial, according to Chinese Ambassador to Indonesia Lu Kang.

Center for Biological Diversity (2023-10-01). Thursday 10/12: "A Silent Transformation": Film Talk on Modern Economy & Increasing Poverty Gap w/ CBD. indybay.org Register here to view the films on demand: filmfestplus.com/get-pass/?festival=FJ23X6TGHKR3 | Register here to attend the webinars by selecting the session dates you want to attend: | biologicaldiversity-org.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_JhlM5_EbSQqtgu-oNKfhZQ#/registration

Prabir Purkayastha (2023-10-01). Remembering Allende and his Project Cybersyn. peoplesdispatch.org During Salvador Allende's brief term in power, a revolutionary project sought to use technology, specifically information from factories for real-time planning and interventions in the economy. What does this tell us about knowledge and the struggle over the infrastructure that produces it?

Nick Engelfried, Waging Nonviolence. (2023-09-30). A Major Win Against Factory Farming In Oregon. popularresistance.org In July, Gov. Tina Kotek signed Oregon Senate Bill 85, which places a moratorium on factory farms' ability to use unlimited amounts of groundwater. While some advocates consider the bill to be a diluted compromise, it has potential to significantly limit the destructive activities of CAFOs in a state where a healthy remnant of the family farming economy still thrives. On a national level, it represents the first major state legislative victory against factory farming in the U.S. in years. | SB 85 is the product of a years-long organizing effort, whose ultimate goal is to pass a full moratorium on new factory farm…

Editor (2023-09-30). Files Expose Syrian 'Revolution' as Western Regime Change Operation. scheerpost.com By Kit Klarenberg / MintPress News Throughout August and September, anti-government protests have rocked Syrian cities. While the crowds are typically small, numbering only a few hundred, they show little sign of abating. Demonstrators are motivated by increasingly unlivable economic conditions spurred by crippling U.S.-led international sanctions against Damascus. These have produced hyperinflation, mass food insecurity, and …

Greg Godels (2023-09-30). Multipolarity: False Hope for the Left. dissidentvoice.org Since the end of the Cold War, important, profound changes in the relations between capitalist states, coupled with equally sharp changes in the content of those relations, have seduced left-wing intellectuals and academics to embrace those countries whose governments clash— for untold reasons— with the political or economic demands of the US and its allies. …

midwesternmarx (2023-09-30). Review of Immanuel Ness's Migration as Economic Imperialism. By: Carlos L. Garrido. midwesternmarx.com This review is adapted from the book launch presentation the author did for Immanuel Ness's Migration as Economic Imperialism, which you can purchase HERE. ​The traditional Marxist critique of ideology has understood both the functional and epistemological dimensions of bourgeois ideologue's claims. This tradition has always emphasized how ideas are both conditioned by the historical conjunctures and class positions of the people and institutions that materially embody …

Justin Podur (2023-10-01). The perilous path from Western domination to De-dollarization. peoplesdispatch.org Most countries in the Global South are in the in-between of economic suffering, perils, and difficult decisions. Extricating themselves from Western power will be painful, but no longer appears impossible…

Dean Baker (2023-09-30). Team Billionaire Is Winning: They Have Us Cursing at Markets. cepr.net There is an iconic image from The Simpsons. It is a picture of Grandpa Simpson shaking his fist at the sky, under the headline "Old Man Yells at Clouds." This aptly describes the state of intellectual thinking among progressives in the United States. We see endless diatribes against market-oriented policies, as though the problems of …

Dominic Alexander (2023-09-30). "Welfare for Markets: A Global History of Basic Income" — book review. mronline.org "Welfare for Markets" exposes the neoliberal links of basic income, and helps to explain why it is not a useful demand for the left, argues Dominic Alexander…

midwesternmarx (2023-09-30). On Conquest. By: Max Lane. midwesternmarx.com Commerce vs Conquest — "Uncle Sam (to John Bull) Don't scare him, John, the way those other fellows are doing. Tell him all we want is to have him open his harbors and markets to everybody!" Political Cartoon from 1898. The conquest of one territory and its population by another power has been a prominent part of much, if not all, of the history of human civilisation. While such conquests appeared to occur even in very early periods of history, conquest reached it …

Ben Norton (2023-09-30). Poverty Is Growing in Puerto Rico, Under US Colonialism: 57.6% Of Children Live in Poor Households. orinocotribune.com

midwesternmarx (2023-09-30). Venezuela: Gov't to Launch China-Backed Anti-Poverty Program. By: Andreína Chávez Alava. midwesternmarx.com The Social Equality and Happiness Mission will adapt the Chinese experience to the Caribbean country's reality to alleviate poverty and inequality. Caracas, September 21, 2023 (venezuelanalysis.com) — The Venezuelan government has announced a new social program focused on fighting poverty and inequality, which will be supported by China's International Poverty Reduction Center.​On Monday, during his weekly TV program, President Nicolás Maduro said&nbsp …

Prof Michel Chossudovsky (2023-10-01). The Hegemonic UN-WEF-NATO Triad: U.N. "Sustainable Development" (SDG 2030) = Endless Wars, Poverty and Famine Worldwide. globalresearch.ca "Those of us who do understand the nefariousness of the empire, and the ever-increasing danger it represents, must be clear that the effective defense of life on planet Earth, including that of the human species itself, inexorably demands the existence …

Ann Danaiya Usher (2023-09-30). World Report] COVAX: the unspent billions. thelancet.com Waning demand has left COVAX, the scheme to provide COVID-19 vaccines to lower-income countries, with billions of unspent dollars. What to do with the money? Ann Danaiya Usher reports.

Susan Price (2023-10-01). Building ties between workers & the climate justice movement. greenleft.org.au The Global Ecosocialist Network brought together labour and climate justice activists from Africa, Asia, the United States and Europe, in June, to discuss how to build stronger links, reports Susan Price.

Hauser & Wirth Downtown Los Angeles (2023-10-01). Saturday 12/9: Creative Workshop: Collaborative Collage. indybay.org 901 E 3rd Street | Los Angeles, CA 90013…

Jacob Andrewartha, Jordan AK (2023-10-01). Victoria's housing plan — a win for developers, a loss for public housing. greenleft.org.au The Victorian state Labor government's Housing Statement allows for residential developments valued at more than $50 million to be fast-tracked, proposes the demolition of all public housing towers for public-private development and sells off public land to developers, report Jacob Andrewartha and Jordan AK.

Jacob Andrewartha, Jordan AK (2023-10-01). Victoria's housing plan — a win for developers, a loss for public housing. greenleft.org.au The Victorian state Labor government's Housing Statement allows for residential developments valued at more than $50 million to be fast-tracked, proposes the demolition of all public housing towers for public-private development and sells off public land to developers, report Jacob Andrewrtha and Jordan AK.

Labor Video Project (2023-10-01). SF Labor Community Rally To Defend Community Space at Redstone Labor Temple. indybay.org

Labor Video Project (2023-10-01). Government Shutdown: An Attack On All Workers! Gilbert Galam AFGE1230 TSA Worker & Leader. indybay.org The government is shutting down and millions of workers and the public will be affected. Gilbert Galam who is with AFGE Local 1230 where he Is legislative & political director and is a TSA worker talks about the last shut down and why this is an attack on the entire working class.

United Front Committee for A Labor Party (2023-10-01). All Out Support Striking UAW Members! 32 hours Work for 40 Hours Pay, No Two Tiers, & COLA. indybay.org The United Front Committee For A Labor Party UFCCLP supports the demands of the UAW for 32 hours work for 40 hours pay, an end to tiers and a COLA. It also supports uniting the entire working class for a general strike especially connected to the attack on the working class by the government shutdown. It also calls for workers to control and benefit from AI but that requires a mass workers party that will run the country for the working class.

Hauser & Wirth Downtown Los Angeles (2023-09-30). Saturday 12/9: Creative Workshop: Collaborative Collage. indybay.org 901 E 3rd Street | Los Angeles, CA 90013…

Jeremy Fuster, Portside. (2023-09-30). Negotiating With Hollywood: Writers' Representatives Tell The Story. popularresistance.org Writers are finally back to work in Hollywood after the WGA and studios reached a deal, which has left many in the industry asking, "What took so long?" | Chris Keyser and David A. Goodman, the co-chairs of WGA's negotiating committee, pin the blame on the stall tactics that the studios used alongside the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers, one that was rendered ineffective by the solidarity built between the WGA and other unions throughout the summer. | "The AMPTP was created in the 80s during the Reagan era, a very anti-labor time. Now, labor is reasserting itself over the last few years, and t…

Labor Video Project (2023-09-30). SF Labor Community Rally To Defend Community Space at Redstone Labor Temple. indybay.org

Labor Video Project (2023-09-30). Government Shutdown: An Attack On All Workers! Gilbert Galam AFGE1230 TSA Worker & Leader. indybay.org The government is shutting down and millions of workers and the public will be affected. Gilbert Galam who is with AFGE Local 1230 where he Is legislative & political director and is a TSA worker talks about the last shut down and why this is an attack on the entire working class.

teleSUR, lfb, DRL (2023-09-30). Cuba aprueba legislación contra discriminación y acoso laboral. telesurtv.net Esta herramienta legal permitirá la identificación, prevención y control, así como la capacitación de los trabajadores y empleadores ante escenarios discriminación, violencia y acoso laboral.

United Front Committee for A Labor Party (2023-09-30). All Out Support Striking UAW Members! 32 hours Work for 40 Hours Pay, No Two Tiers, & COLA. indybay.org The United Front Committee For A Labor Party UFCCLP supports the demands of the UAW for 32 hours work for 40 hours pay, an end to tiers and a COLA. It also supports uniting the entire working class for a general strike especially connected to the attack on the working class by the government shutdown. It also calls for workers to control and benefit from AI but that requires a mass workers party that will run the country for the working class.

Jane Slaughter, Labor Notes. (2023-10-01). With No Reform Caucus, Auto Workers Would Not Be On Strike. popularresistance.org One lesson is that member power does not have to start from a supermajority; that's unlikely. UAW members are on strike today, with inspiring levels of rank-and-file energy, because four years ago a small group of activists founded a new reform caucus. That caucus, Unite All Workers for Democracy (UAWD), boldly took advantage of an unexpected opportunity, organized like crazy, and won elections. Its candidates are now leading the union. | If UAWD had not existed and organized hard, this current fight that has potential to change the stakes for the entire labor movement would not be happening.

Margaret Kimberley, Black Agenda Report. (2023-10-01). Canada, Ukraine, And Nazis. popularresistance.org There is something especially satisfying when one's opponents help make a case for something they have denied. Recently the Canadian government did just that. Their effort to prop up the failing Ukraine proxy war instead exposed that country's Nazi past and present. | Ukraine has been a divided nation ever since its founding as a state after World War I. Its population is divided by language with Ukrainian and Russian speakers, with some favoring its status as a Soviet republic while others were vehemently opposed. So strong was that faction that there were many Ukrainians who actively collaborated with German oc…

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2023-10-01). On the road again – thanks to collaborative cancer care. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org In a matter of months, Bill McDermott went from having abdominal pain and learning he had lymphoma to being told it was time for hospice care. What his family did next would steer him in an entirely different direction. Although he doesn't remember all of the details, Bill McDermott says he began having abdominal issues and pain in mid-2021. He went in for some tests at a local hospital, where he got a diagnosis…

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2023-10-01). Mayo Clinic and GE HealthCare enter strategic collaboration to advance innovation in medical imaging and theranostics. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org Combining the world-class clinical and research expertise of Mayo Clinic with the deep research, engineering, and product development expertise of GE HealthCare, this new collaboration aims to forge an integrated innovation engine to advance the practice of radiology and care to patients worldwide. ROCHESTER, Minn. ‚Äï Today, Mayo Clinic and GE HealthCare announce a strategic healthcare collaboration for research and product development programs aimed to transform the experience of patients and clinicians in the practice…

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2023-10-01). At-home COVID-19 tests: A Mayo Clinic expert answers questions on expiration dates and the new variants. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org COVID-19 at-home antigen test At-home COVID-19 tests allow you to collect your sample and detect active COVID-19 infections. But what if you have at-home COVID-19 tests nearing expiration or expired on your shelf? Matthew Binnicker, Ph.D., director of the Clinical Virology Laboratory at Mayo Clinic, says companies set the original test dates arbitrarily due to these diagnostic at-home tests being developed rapidly. So, check your boxes before you toss them. "Now that we are 3 1/2 years into…

teleSUR (2023-09-30). Kenya: Land & Funds Allocated, Public Health Emergencies, WHO. telesurenglish.net "This strategic initiative, falling under the Operations Support and Logistics (OSL) pillar, addresses a critical gap in managing the numerous public health emergencies faced by WHO-AFRO, totaling over 142 ongoing crises encompassing disease outbreaks and humanitarian challenges." | WHO's Regional Emergency Hub reflects Kenya's commitment to global health collaboration. Sep. 30, 2023.

krish-rad_ind (2023-09-30). Twenty-Five Thousand Auto Workers Are Now on Strike at the Big 3. labornotes.org

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-10-01). UK & France Should Relinquish Permanent UN Seats. libya360.wordpress.com Vijay Prashad Pamela Singh, India, "Treasure Map 006," 2014—15. The colonial past sits heavily on the present. The colonisers' power remains intact, with the Banque de France and the Bank of England remaining repositories of the wealth stolen from the colonies. What gives these old colonial powers, Britain and France, permission to remain overlords of…

WSWS (2023-09-30). The ruling class, the CIA and the pseudo-left mourn Democratic senator Dianne Feinstein. wsws.org The over three-decade long Senator from California was an enormously wealthy and faithful steward of US imperialism, which is why she is being hailed by the entire American ruling class.

WSWS (2023-09-30). The ruling class, the CIA and the pseudo-left mourn Democratic senator Dianne Feinstein. wsws.org The over three-decade-long senator from California was an enormously wealthy and faithful steward of US imperialism, which is why she is being hailed by the entire American ruling class.

Dean Baker (2023-10-01). Reuters Mistakenly Implies that the United States Government Does Already Negotiate Drug Prices. cepr.net A piece on a U.S. District Court judge's ruling in favor of the Biden administration's plan to negotiate on the price Medicare pays for drugs concluded by telling readers: "Many other countries already negotiate drug prices." In fact, the United States government already negotiates drug prices for programs like the Veterans' Administration and Federal Employee's …

Olivia Rosane (2023-09-30). Federal Judge Blocks Big Pharma Attempt to Stop Medicare Drug Price Negotiation. truthout.org A federal judge in Ohio on Friday blocked an attempt by corporate interests to stop Medicare's historic negotiation of certain drug prices with pharmaceuticals. Medicare gained the power to negotiate drug prices as part of the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), but the several industry groups and drug makers have sued to forestall the program, arguing that it is unconstitutional, CNN explained. |

Tomasz Konicz (2023-10-01). We are Zombies. indybay.org Zombie movies are an apocalyptic genre, in which there is an inkling that the given social order cannot last & has reached its development limits. The first great wave of zombies hit the Western culture industry during the crisis period of the seventies of the 20th century, when the "Golden Age" of post-war capitalism, full employment and mass consumption, came to an end.

Tomasz Konicz (2023-09-30). We are Zombies. indybay.org Zombie movies are an apocalyptic genre, in which there is an inkling that the given social order cannot last & has reached its development limits. The first great wave of zombies hit the Western culture industry during the crisis period of the seventies of the 20th century, when the "Golden Age" of post-war capitalism, full employment and mass consumption, came to an end.

E Lee Cas (2023-10-01). Back The Blue Until It Happens To You. indybay.org On June 1, 2023, a troubling incident unfolded at a Milpitas, California, 24 Hour Fitness location, prompting a determined pursuit of justice. The incident involved harassment and intimidation, with the victim seeking help from the police, only to have his request for assistance ignored by a dispatcher. When officers arrived, they displayed hostility, detaining and confiscating personal items from the victim. Allegations of false accusations and corruption emerged, suggesting collusion among these police officers and potential corruption, personal gains, and financial ties, either with the juveniles' families, St…

Prof Michel Chossudovsky (2023-10-01). "Preemptive Nuclear War": The Historic Battle for Peace and Democracy. A Third World War Threatens the Future of Humanity. globalresearch.ca US nuclear doctrine consists in portraying nuclear weapons as a means of "self defense" rather than a "weapon of mass destruction". There are powerful financial interests behind Joe Biden's $1.3 trillion nuclear weapons program initiated under Obama.

Anna Massoglia (2023-09-30). Kentucky Governor's Race Surges Towards Record-Breaking Fundraising Milestone. truthout.org The Kentucky governor's race has been nothing short of a financial juggernaut, with gubernatorial candidates collectively raking in more than $36.8 million in contributions, a new OpenSecrets analysis found. The booming fundraising puts the race on track to set a new record in the state. The most ever collectively raised by gubernatorial candidates in a prior election year was $37.1… |

E Lee Cas (2023-10-01). **Correction** Back The Blue Until It Happens To You. indybay.org On June 1, 2023, a troubling incident unfolded at a Milpitas, California, 24 Hour Fitness location, prompting a determined pursuit of justice. The incident involved harassment and intimidation, with the victim seeking help from the police, only to have his request for assistance ignored by a dispatcher. When officers arrived, they displayed hostility, detaining and confiscating personal items from the victim. Allegations of false accusations and corruption emerged, suggesting collusion among these police officers and potential corruption, personal gains, and financial ties, either with the juveniles' families, St…

presstv.ir (2023-10-01). Japanese protesters rally against military expansion amid high inflation. presstv.ir Japanese protesters rally against military expansion amid high inflation and increasing pressure on people's livelihoods.

Lucy Dean Stockton, The Lever. (2023-10-01). Automakers' Electric Vehicle Lie. popularresistance.org The United Auto Workers are entering their third week of the first-ever simultaneous strike against the three big automakers, and for the first time, a sitting US president, Joe Biden, joined them on the picket line. Executives at General Motors, Ford, and Stellantis are pushing back on worker demands by invoking the climate crisis. They say it is impossible to give workers what they want while also making a swift transition to manufacturing electric vehicles. | On September 14, Ford's CEO Jim Farley said that the union's demands — higher wages, better hours, an end to tiered employment, and guaranteed job…

Connor Freeman (2023-10-01). Congress Passes Stop-Gap Spending Bill, McCarthy Makes Deal For Separate Vote on Ukraine Aid. news.antiwar.com

Silja J.A. Talvi, Scheer Post. (2023-09-30). Inside The High-Security 'Black Site' Where Leonard Peltier Is Incarcerated. popularresistance.org Unbeknownst to most protesters who gathered at the White House on the occasion of Native American political prisoner Leonard Peltier's 79th birthday, Peltier wasn't able to celebrate, much less receive reports on how the well-attended event was progressing. | That's because Peltier, who is now spending his 48th year in captivity, was sitting on his bunk, across from his cellie, "locked down" in a cramped and concrete maximum-security cell designed for one man. | The Bureau of Prison's "lockdown" phenomenon has spread to other federal facilities, but nowhere is as pronounced and as repressive as at USP Coleman I,…

Dave DeCamp (2023-10-01). Biden Tells Congress 'Stop Playing Games' and Pass New Ukraine Aid. news.antiwar.com President Biden on Sunday told Congress to "stop playing games" and authorize the additional $24 billion in Ukraine aid that he's requested, which would bring total US spending on the proxy war to about $137 billion. Biden's comments came after Congress passed a stopgap funding bill at the last minute on Saturday to avert a …

Javier Arana Villasusa (2023-09-30). Cuba boost project to improve airport infrastructure. plenglish.com According to the Cuban News Agency, the project also aims to minimize risks in these operations and to comply with national and international regulations. | It also aims to promote an investment process according to strategic programs, with innovative technologies, environmental benefits, and promoting foreign investment. | It also intends to increase the levels of exports of goods and services, with high standards of quality and safety, supported by innovation and information and communications technologies. | The project also aims to recover and renew Cubana de Aviación's equipment in order to guarantee the tra…

Leonardo Palumbo, Camila A Picchio, Catherine Smallwood, Cristiana Salvi, Gerald Rockenschaub (2023-09-30). Correspondence] Community COVID-19 response in WHO's European region. thelancet.com The Risk Communication, Community Engagement, and Infodemic Management (RCCE-IM) unit of the WHO European region read the Correspondence by Ruth Kutalek and colleagues1 with interest. COVID-19 showed that RCCE-IM is an integral component of the emergency cycle, from preparedness to recovery. The authors rightly highlight that community engagement with civil society organisations (CSOs) deserves greater acknowledgment and investment to ensure sustainability in the long term, particularly in Europe.

Dr. Jacques R. Pauwels (2023-09-30). Profits àºber Alles! American Corporations and Hitler. globalresearch.ca This carefully researched article by Canadian historian Dr. Jacques Pauwels was first published by Global Research 19 years ago on 8 June 2004. | Pauwels historical insight is of relevance to the ongoing war in Ukraine. It provides us with an …

Revolutionary Workers Front (2023-09-30). Monday 10/2: SF Speak Out-Stop Attacks On Civil Service &. Outsourcing/Privatization Using Non-Profits. indybay.org San Francisco City Hall | Room 400 | San Francisco…

Caitlin Johnstone (2023-10-01). The Mad Propaganda Push To Normalize War Profiteering In Ukraine. caitlinjohnstone.com.au "This move has been accompanied in recent weeks by some of the most appalling mass media headlines that I have ever seen, all geared toward normalizing the military industrial complex in the eyes of the public."

Keating Zelenke, . (2023-10-01). Student-Loan Debtors Weigh Options As Debt-Payment Moratorium Expires. popularresistance.org "I'm thinking about the interest that's going to be accruing, on top of each loan, and I'm like, okay, that's going to total maybe $1,000 a month," says Rachel Jerome of the upcoming federal student-loan payment ≠resumption. | After Jerome earned her bachelor's degree, she realized that her career goals were much different than when she was 18 years old. She wanted to switch gears and go back to school for a master's in strategic communications, so she attended an online program at Syracuse University while working full-time at a nonprofit and living with her parents. | COVID-19 induced a federal moratorium on…

Patricia Harrity (2023-10-01). We're in the Middle of a Global Coup — Here's How We Stop It. expose-news.com In an interview with Dr Mercola, board-certified internist and biological warfare epidemiologist Dr. Meryl Nass discuss the dangers posed by the World Health Organization's upcoming pandemic treaty and the International Health Regulation …

Chengliang Yang, Linda Lapp, Scott J Tebbutt (2023-09-30). Correspondence] Overcoming COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy hurdles. thelancet.com Vaccine hesitancy and the spreading of misinformation continue to be important barriers to implementing crucial public health interventions to reduce the spread of COVID-19, according to the report by WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus from the 14th meeting of the International Health Regulations COVID-19 Emergency Committee.

Marjorie Cohn (2023-09-30). Right-Dominated Supreme Court Is Poised to Do Grave Harm in Upcoming Term. truthout.org The 2023-2024 Supreme Court term will begin on Monday, October 2. Dominated by six right-wingers, the court has agreed to review cases in which voting rights, consumer protection, and the regulation of health and safety, workers' rights and the environment are in jeopardy. The cases present the issues of gerrymandering and the power of administrative agencies. In light of its recent conservative… |

midwesternmarx (2023-09-30). Petro to Travel to China to Discuss Transportation Projects. By: TeleSur. midwesternmarx.com President Petro hopes the Asian nation can help Colombia with transportation projects based on the use of trains and electric technologies. On Thursday, Colombian President Gustavo Petro announced that he will travel to Beijing, where he will meet with President Xi Jinping to discuss the future of Bogota's subway. Its construction is currently being handled by a Chinese consortium."I have an interview with the Chinese president on October 25," he said, adding that he hopes the Asian nati …

midwesternmarx (2023-09-30). The Nihilism of Capital. By: Marnina Avirup. midwesternmarx.com The 19th Century was a very significant period, especially in the field of Philosophy. This era laid the foundations for Modern Philosophy and shaped the course of this discipline for centuries to come. It is also the time when Renaissance Modernism matured into its final stages(at least in Western Europe where Feudalism was being completely dismantled) since religion was dethroned from its position as the central ideological doctrine of society, it no longer formed the backbone of the he …

midwesternmarx (2023-09-30). U.S. sees Ukrainian army demoralized, no chance to win. By: Seymour Hersh. midwesternmarx.com Citing a U.S. official familiar with current intelligence, U.S. journalist Seymour Hersh said that the U.S. intelligence believes that the Ukrainian forces have become demoralized and have no chance of winning, adding that there currently exists no discussion in Kiev or the White House regarding a ceasefire.​In a new post on his Substack account, Hersh said,There are significant elements in the American intelligence community, relying on field reports and technical intelligence …

Unitarian Universalists of SF (2023-10-01). Sunday 10/29: Global Conversations: U.S. Capitalism/Imperialism Is there an alternative? indybay.org 1187 Franklin Street, San Francisco, CA 94109 (corner of Geary Blvd).

Unitarian Universalists of SF (2023-09-30). Sunday 10/29: Global Conversations: U.S. Capitalism/Imperialism Is there an alternative? indybay.org 1187 Franklin Street, San Francisco, CA 94109 (corner of Geary Blvd).

David Bollier. (2023-10-01). The Anthropocene? No, We're Actually Entering The Ecocene! popularresistance.org We moderns are so self-important that we've even named a geological epoch after ourselves, the Anthropocene. Sure, human civilization has massively transformed and destabilized the planet's ecosystems. But Anthropocene is ultimately a misleading moniker because it implies that we humans are the driving force on Earth. | How self-regarding! As a parade of wildfires, floods, droughts, and extreme heat are showing, it's Gaia who is calling the shots. She's making her own fierce, non-negotiable demands on us. She's bursting the frames of order that humans have long used to shape civilization, capitalism, the state, a…

Dave DeCamp (2023-10-01). Zelensky Pitches Arms Makers on Producing Weapons in Ukraine. news.antiwar.com Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Friday urged arms makers to produce weapons inside Ukraine in a speech opening Ukraine's first International Defense Industries Forum. "Right now, for the next decades, the most powerful defense-industrial complexes are being determined, what their priorities will be, and what the standard of defense in the world will be. It …

JANET (2023-09-30). Cash, cars and gold bars — and the crooks who slander Cuba. iacenter.org September 27, 2023 Senator Bob Menendez, in the news recently, is nothing but a front man for the Cuban right-wing Gusanos, those worms who left Cuba after the 1959 revolution stopped their exploitation and theft. The Democrat from New Jersey is notorious for his furious rants against Cuba, Venezuela, Nicaragua and any country that dares to pursue a socialist path. Menendez has taken up other despicable causes, such as backing the "Israel Anti-Boycott Act" that would criminalize free speech in support of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement (BDS). As recently as May 11, Menendez sent a vicious message…

ecns.cn (2023-10-01). Xi addresses reception to celebrate 74th founding anniversary of the PRC. ecns.cn President Xi Jinping, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and chairman of the Central Military Commission, addresses a grand reception to celebrate the 74th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing.

Alina Ramos Martin (2023-09-30). With a call for peace the CPE Party began in Madrid (+Photo). plenglish.com Madrid, Sep 30 (Prensa Latina) With a call for peace and against fascism, the 45th edition of the Communist Party of Spain (CPE) began in Madrid, the biggest political and recreational event in the country, which continues today with a multifaceted program of activities.

ecns.cn (2023-09-30). CPC leadership reviews disciplinary inspection report. ecns.cn The Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee convened a meeting on Sept. 27 to deliberate a comprehensive report on the first round of disciplinary inspections launched by the 20th CPC Central Committee. Xi Jinping, general secretary of the CPC Central Committee, presided over the meeting.

ecns.cn (2023-09-30). Xi addresses reception to celebrate 74th founding anniversary of the PRC. ecns.cn President Xi Jinping, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and chairman of the Central Military Commission, addresses a grand reception to celebrate the 74th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing.

ecns.cn (2023-10-01). CPC leadership reviews disciplinary inspection report. ecns.cn The Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee convened a meeting on Sept. 27 to deliberate a comprehensive report on the first round of disciplinary inspections launched by the 20th CPC Central Committee. Xi Jinping, general secretary of the CPC Central Committee, presided over the meeting.

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2023-09-29: News Headlines

ecns.cn (2023-09-29). Xi stresses building higher-level pilot free trade zones. ecns.cn Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, Chinese president and chairman of the Central Military Commission, has recently delivered instructions on advancing the development of pilot free trade zones (FTZs).

ecns.cn (2023-09-29). Xi stresses active participation in WTO reform, stronger ability for high-level opening-up. ecns.cn The Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, on the afternoon of Sept. 27, convened its eighth group study session on the rules of the World Trade Organization (WTO) and the reform of the organization.

Editor (2023-09-29). Scolding striking auto workers in advance for wrecking economy. mronline.org The first person quoted in the New York Times' rundown (9/19/23) on the United Auto Workers strike was a lawyer representing management from Littler Mendelson, the go-to firm for big corporations' union avoidance.

Prof Michel Chossudovsky (2023-09-29). "It's Not Socialism": China is a Capitalist Cheap Labour Economy, Based on Exceedingly Low Wages. globalresearch.ca

TASS (2023-09-29). Yakutia needs additional funding to cope with wildfires, expert says. tass.com In 2023, Yakutia's direct damage from wildfires is estimated at more than 347 million rubles ($3.5 million)…

TASS (2023-09-29). Euro surpasses 103 rubles, first time since September 20. tass.com The dollar also added 0.42%, rising to 97.21 rubles…

TASS (2023-09-29). Central Bank Governor says banking sector's capital cushion estimated at over $60 bln. tass.com Elvira Nabiullina added that the reasonability of creating a fund to support the banking sector is being discussed…

TASS (2023-09-29). Pilot project on digital ruble to be expanded in 2024 — Central Bank Governor. tass.com "Here everything is going as planned, we are testing operations, first of all the opening of wallets, transfers between citizens, the payment of purchases via QR codes," Elvira Nabiullina underlined…

TASS (2023-09-29). Belarus-Russia trade turnover may exceed record levels of 2022 by year end — ambassador. tass.com Dmitry Krutoy stressed that, despite sanctions, Minsk and Moscow "ended last year with record-breaking figures – an increase in trade turnover by 13-14 points"

Ben Norton, Geopolitical Economy. (2023-09-28). Poverty Is Growing In Puerto Rico Under US Colonialism. popularresistance.org Poverty in Puerto Rico, under US colonialism, is getting worse over time, not better. | More than two-fifths of Puerto Ricans suffer from poverty, and nearly three-fifths of Puerto Rican children live in poor households. | In 2022, the poverty rate in the colonized US "territory" grew from 40.5% to 41.7%, according to US Census Bureau data. | A staggering 57.6% of Puerto Rican children live in poverty. And 38.8% of families are below the poverty line. | Poverty has been growing in Puerto Rico even at a time when more people are working. The unemployment rate fell from 13.1% to 9.9% in 2022, while poverty got wors…

ecns.cn (2023-09-28). Xi stresses building higher-level pilot free trade zones. ecns.cn Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, Chinese president and chairman of the Central Military Commission, has recently delivered instructions on advancing the development of pilot free trade zones (FTZs).

ecns.cn (2023-09-28). Xi stresses active participation in WTO reform, stronger ability for high-level opening-up. ecns.cn The Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, on the afternoon of Sept. 27, convened its eighth group study session on the rules of the World Trade Organization (WTO) and the reform of the organization.

infobrics (2023-09-28). Trump's second presidency would be "hell" for Europe and Kiev, says top French newspaper. infobrics.org Meanwhile, Russia's economy is performing much better than predicted.

noreply (2023-09-28). A Reminder About Economy. smoothiex12.blogspot.com Real economy, and why Lavrov stated about decision on battlefield.

Staff (2023-09-28). "Donald Duck" & "Missing in Action": GOP Rivals Criticize Trump for Skipping Another Debate. democracynow.org Donald Trump skipped the second Republican presidential debate of the 2024 race on Wednesday, declining once again to share a stage with competitors for the nomination whom he leads in the polls by double digits. Florida Governor Ron DeSantis and former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie criticized Trump for his absence, but most of the seven candidates avoided direct attacks on the front-runner. Instead, they largely aimed their fire at President Joe Biden — and each other. We air highlights from the debate, including the candidates' remarks on the UAW strike, immigration and the economy.

TASS (2023-09-28). Gazprom resumes pumping via Power of Siberia after planned maintenance. tass.com In accordance with the gas purchase and sale agreement, maintenance of equipment and systems of the Power of Siberia gas pipeline is carried out twice a year: in spring and autumn…

TASS (2023-09-28). Gazprombank closes deal on purchase of Mega shopping malls from Swedish Ingka Centres. tass.com According to the press service, the transaction includes 14 shopping malls…

TASS (2023-09-28). Ruble to strengthen to 94.3 rubles per dollar by end-2023 — document. tass.com It is reported that in 2024-2026 the exchange rate dynamics will be at the range of 90-92 rubles per US dollar…

TASS (2023-09-28). Great cleanup in Khatanga. How to rescue Arctic village that dates back to 400 years ago. tass.com The plans are not just to clean Khatanga from man-made waste, but, literally, to revive the village that used to be a prosperous place: to protect the coast from collapses, to develop the scientific and tourist potential…

TASS (2023-09-29). Russia to continue providing financial support to Afghanistan — envoy. tass.com Russia also helps through contributions to the UN's World Food Program, Zamir Kabulov noted…

TASS (2023-09-29). Draft budget for coming three years submitted to Russian lower house of parliament. tass.com Federal budget revenues are projected at 35 trillion rubles ($358 bln) in 2024, 33.5 trillion rubles in 2025, and 34.1 trillion rubles in 2026…

TASS (2023-09-29). Dollar surpasses 98 rubles, first time since September 8. tass.com By 14: 03 Moscow time, the dollar reached 97.8 rubles, the euro added 1.48%, rising to 103.72 rubles…

TASS (2023-09-29). Bank of Russia extends restrictions on money transfers abroad for another six months. tass.com The limits on transfers via money transfer systems also remain in place as total transfers may not exceed $10,000 or an equivalent amount in other foreign currencies per month…

sputnikglobe (2023-09-28). US-China Trade Rift: South Korea's Semiconductor Titans Treads Carefully. sputnikglobe.com South Korea's semiconductor sector, deeply linked to China, occupies a central position in the nation's economy. However, as the United States ramps up efforts to curb China's technological progress, South Korea's vital chip industry is threatened, prompting calls for strategic solutions.

TASS (2023-09-28). Russia's GDP 2.8% growth by year end looks realistic — Reshetnikov. tass.com According to the updated forecast of socio-economic development of the Russian Federation, Russia's GDP growth in 2023 is expected to be 2.8%, in 2024-2025 – 2.3%, by 2026 – 2.2%…

TASS (2023-09-28). Putin says external pressure triggered growth of Russian production. tass.com The Russian leader has noted that such a trigger also allows to unlock the country's own potential in various sectors…

TASS (2023-09-28). Bank of Russia does not rule out banking sector profit reaching $30.9 bln in 2023. tass.com "Everything will depend on how the macroeconomic situation will develop," Olga Polyakova said…

TASS (2023-09-28). Creation of alternative to SWIFT to be discussed within BRICS — Russian minister. tass.com According to Anton Siluanov, next year it will be one of the issues on the agenda of this organization's meeting…

channelnewsasia (2023-09-29). Japan's economy minister says authorities must ensure end to deflation. channelnewsasia.com

channelnewsasia (2023-09-29). Commentary: Malaysia PM Anwar's reform credentials on the line in possible Cabinet reshuffle. channelnewsasia.com Malaysia Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim needs a major Cabinet overhaul to show he is serious about tackling the stagnant economy and cost-of-living issues, but his options may be limited, says James Chin, Asian Studies professor at the University of Tasmania.

teleSUR (2023-09-29). German Economic Institutes Slash 2023 Forecast to Minus 0.6 Pct. telesurenglish.net On Thursday, German institutes slashed their 2023 economic growth forecast for the country to minus 0.6 percent, a "strong downward revision" of 0.9 percentage points from the spring projection. | RELATED: | Although Europe's largest economy is still expected to recover next year, the institutes now expect gross domestic product (GDP) will only grow by 1.3 percent in 2024, instead of 1.5 percent. | The joint forecast was p…

teleSUR (2023-09-28). Russian President Meets With Regional Leaders. telesurenglish.net Russian President Vladimir Putin said Thursday at a meeting with elected regional leaders earlier this month that the country's economy is growing, even though opponents have predicted the opposite. | RELATED: | "We have all the capabilities for solutions, no matter how strange it may seem to some external onlookers, to those who have expected to see everything collapse here," Putin said at the meeting with the le…

infobrics (2023-09-29). BRICS: Considerations and Implications of a Single Brics Currency. infobrics.org The 15th BRICS Summit, hosted by South Africa in Johannesburg from 22 to 24 August, culminated in the widely anticipated announcement of a soon-to-be expanded BRICS bloc, with the admission of six new member countries to this economic grouping as from January 2024…

infobrics (2023-09-29). Joining BRICS Is no Rejection of the West. infobrics.org The proposed expansion of the BRICS group has prompted alarm among some western commentators. Three of the six new states invited to join, the UAE, Saudi Arabia, and Egypt, are key US allies in the Middle East who will now enter an economic bloc with Washington's geopolitical rivals…

infobrics (2023-09-29). BRICS Offers Vision for New Global Order. infobrics.org With the world entering a post-COVID environment, each country is struggling to deal with severe economic challenges. Alongside these are the possibility, if not probability, of enhanced friction between nations due to insecure regional and global environments…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-09-29). The India-Mideast-Europe Corridor's Complexities. libya360.wordpress.com Scott Ritter The US, together with a consortium of nations including India and the EU, has announced the initiation of the India-Middle East-European Economic Corridor (Imec), the latest endeavor in its global infrastructure development strategy to counter Chinese influence. During the recent G20 summit, the governments of India, the US, the United Arab Emirates, Saudi…

Murat Bay, The Real News Network. (2023-09-29). In Turkey, Villagers Fight Deforestation In Coal Mine Project. popularresistance.org Akbelen forest, western Turkey. Local villagers and environmental activists try to stop the expansion of a coal mine. Just three months after strongman President Erdoƒüan was re-elected, people flocked here from all over Turkey to try to save the remaining woodland. The protest is a symbol of a wider struggle to protect the environment in Turkey, from companies which often enjoy close relations with the government. The coal giant Limak Holding is a typical example. President Erdoƒüan dismissed the protesters as 'marginal', opposed to the country's economic development. Despite a nation-wide ou…

Tomasz Konicz & Herbert Boettcher (2023-09-29). Russia's victory in an economic war. indybay.org If perspectives for ways out of the increasingly worsening crises of capitalist socialization are to emerge, it is indispensable to look at the whole of conditions and their complex entanglements. It is necessary to break with the myths and life lies of the 'free West' as well as with those of a mission for a Russian empire or any other autocratic fundamentalism.

Abayomi Azikiwe, Black Agenda Report. (2023-09-28). G77+China Holds Summit In Cuba Calling For A Different World Order. popularresistance.org A meeting of the Group of 77 and China took place on September 15-16 in the Republic of Cuba where frustrations with the existing world system were articulated by the participants. | A declaration issued at the conclusion of the summit demanded the restructuring of the existing economic order which continues to be dominated by the capitalist mode of production, exchange and social relations. | Founded in 1964, today the organization has 130 member-states from Africa, Asia-Pacific, the Caribbean and Latin America. The summit has a rotating chairpersonship shared by all of the geopolitical regional affiliates. | Th…

Anand Naidoo (2023-09-28). The Heat: Belt and Road in Latin America. america.cgtn.com As China marks the 10th anniversary of its massive Belt and Road Initiative, more and more countries across Latin America and the Caribbean have signed on to the BRI project. | What has been the economic impact on the region? | Joining the discussion: |

ecns.cn (2023-09-28). Xi stresses WTO reform, opening-up. ecns.cn Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, underlined on Wednesday Beijing's commitment to actively and comprehensively participate in the reform of the World Trade Organization and in making adjustments to international economic and trade rules.

ecns.cn (2023-09-28). PBOC to boost support for economic recovery. ecns.cn The People's Bank of China, the nation's central bank, assured the market on Wednesday that it will continue to beef up support for economic recovery instead of paring down stimulus amid the recent uptick in recovery momentum.

Kit Klarenberg, MintPress News. (2023-09-28). Files Expose Syrian 'Revolution' As Western Regime Change Operation. popularresistance.org Throughout August and September, anti-government protests have rocked Syrian cities. While the crowds are typically small, numbering only a few hundred, they show little sign of abating. Demonstrators are motivated by increasingly unlivable economic conditions spurred by crippling U.S.-led international sanctions against Damascus. These have produced hyperinflation, mass food insecurity, and many daily hardships for the population. They also prevent vital humanitarian aid from entering the country. | The media has given the unrest blanket coverage. No reference to Washington's central role in imposing the misery…

Orinoco Tribune 2 (2023-09-28). Paradoxes of Democracy: Elections Take Place in Russian-Controlled Parts of Ukraine While Authoritarian Rule Prevails in Kiev-Controlled Regions. orinocotribune.com By Dmitri Kovalevich — Sep 26, 2023 | The Ukrainian authorities even before the 2014 coup were always very wary of any referendum initiatives or even polls addressing 'uncomfortable' issues of language, culture, economic or social policies. | On September 10, elections to regional and municipal assemblies were held across the Russian Federation. For the first time, they were held under Russian law in the two Donbass republics of Donetsk and Lugansk which formally became part of the Russian Federation in February 2022. Elections also took place in the two 'new territories', as they are called in Russia, of th…

Prof Michel Chossudovsky (2023-09-28). Biggest Lie in World History: There Never Was A Pandemic. The Data Base is Flawed. The Covid Mandates including the Vaccine are Invalid. globalresearch.ca Fake science was supportive of this devastating agenda. The lies were sustained by a massive media disinformation campaign. The historic March 11, 2020 lockdown triggered economic and social chaos Worldwide. It was an act of "economic warfare": a war against humanity.

sputnikglobe (2023-09-28). Theory or Theater: What's the Difference Between Bidenomics and Trumponomics? sputnikglobe.com US President Joe Biden looks likely to face off against his predecessor Donald Trump for a second time in the 2024 presidential election. Despite the hostile rhetoric between the two figures, Marxist economics professor Richard Wolff argues that both are peddling the same economic policy.

sputnikglobe (2023-09-28). Trump Slams Biden for Joining UAW Strike, Claims His 'Entire Career Union Destruction'. sputnikglobe.com MOSCOW (Sputnik) – Former US President Donald Trump on Wednesday slammed President Joe Biden for joining the United Auto Workers' (UAW) strike the day before, saying the incumbent president's "entire career" has been "an active economic treason and union destruction."

Tomasz Konicz & Herbert Boettcher (2023-09-28). Russia's victory in an economic war. indybay.org If perspectives for ways out of the increasingly worsening crises of capitalist socialization are to emerge, it is indispensable to look at the whole of conditions and their complex entanglements. It is necessary to break with the myths and life lies of the 'free West' as well as with those of a mission for a Russian empire or any other autocratic fundamentalism.

TASS (2023-09-29). Putin to address Russia – Latin America Parliamentary Conference today. tass.com The conference will include round tables devoted to equal and mutually beneficial economic cooperation and development of humanitarian ties between Russia and Latin America…

Abhishek Awasthi (2023-09-29). Ukraine's involvement revealed in missile strike on Poland. firstpost.com A missile attack in Poland that resulted in the deaths of two individuals has been attributed to Ukraine, as confirmed by a Polish newspaper named Rzeczpospolita. This comes day after Poland hailed progress made during talks with Ukraine in their dispute over grain exports. | As per the reports by the daily economic publication, the explosion occurred in the eastern village of Przewodow, near the Ukrainian border in November 2022, was the consequence of a rocket launched from Ukrainian territory. | The newspaper's report stated, "This rocket possesses a range of 75 km to 90 km," with a source emphasizing that, "A…

teleSUR (2023-09-29). Egypt Signs Currency Swap Agreement With UAE. telesurenglish.net UAE Central Bank Governor Khaled Mohamed Balama said the agreement reflects the depth and strength of bilateral relations between the UAE and Egypt, and constitutes an important step to boost economic and financial ties. | Egypt has signed a currency swap agreement with the UAE worth up to $1.4 billion. Sep. 29, 2023.

teleSUR (2023-09-29). Kenya To Boost Green Drive, Innovative Climate Financing. telesurenglish.net On Thursday, Kenya called on development financial institutions to devise innovative climate financing frameworks to drive green growth. | Related: | Njuguna Ndung'u, cabinet secretary of the National Treasury and Economic Planning, said that the new financial architecture would help Africa access financing for its green initiatives. | "The call for reforms in the international financing architecture would align wi…

teleSUR (2023-09-29). Puebla Group Holds Its 9th Meeting in Mexico. telesurenglish.net From Friday to Sunday, the Puebla Group will hold its 9th Meeting in Puebla, Mexico, where former presidents and progressive Ibero-American intellectuals will present foreign policy proposals. | RELATED: | More specifically, the Group will analyze its international agenda to fight hunger, economic blockades, the climate crisis, and deglobalization. | Other topics under debate will be the creation of a Latin American commo…

ecns.cn (2023-09-27). Xi stresses WTO reform, opening-up. ecns.cn Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, underlined on Wednesday Beijing's commitment to actively and comprehensively participate in the reform of the World Trade Organization and in making adjustments to international economic and trade rules.

channelnewsasia (2023-09-30). EU examines Nvidia-dominated AI chip market's abuses – Bloomberg News. channelnewsasia.com

Andreína Chávez Alava, Venezuelanalysis. (2023-09-29). Venezuela To Launch China-Backed Poverty Elimination Program. popularresistance.org Caracas, September 21, 2023 (venezuelanalysis.com) — The Venezuelan government has announced a new social program focused on fighting poverty and inequality, which will be supported by China's International Poverty Reduction Center. | On Monday, during his weekly TV program, President Nicolás Maduro said that the "Social Equality and Happiness Mission" was "almost ready" to be launched and its main purpose is to "optimize the fight against inequality, against poverty and to build a more harmonious country." | Although Maduro did not give details, he stressed that the social program will work alongside the C…

Editor (2023-09-29). Poverty is growing in Puerto Rico, under U.S. colonialism. mronline.org Poverty is rising in one of the world's oldest colonies: In Puerto Rico, 41.7% of people, including 57.6% of children, live in poverty. This is nearly four times the U.S. rate. And Puerto Rican workers are getting poorer even while unemployment falls.

scorinoco (2023-09-28). Venezuela Government to Launch China-Backed Poverty Elimination Program. orinocotribune.com

Ben Norton (2023-09-30). Poverty Is Growing in Puerto Rico, Under US Colonialism: 57.6% Of Children Live in Poor Households. orinocotribune.com

Ann Danaiya Usher (2023-09-30). World Report] COVAX: the unspent billions. thelancet.com Waning demand has left COVAX, the scheme to provide COVID-19 vaccines to lower-income countries, with billions of unspent dollars. What to do with the money? Ann Danaiya Usher reports.

Ann Brown (2023-09-29). San Francisco Mayor London Breed: No Drug Testing, No Welfare For Poor. moguldom.com San Francisco Mayor London Breed is pushing for a policy change that would mandate low-income residents to undergo substance abuse screening and treatment to qualify for welfare benefits. Breed announced the policy Sept. 26 at a news conference at City Hall. Breed emphasized the need for accountability in addressing the city's pressing challenges tied to …

Julia Conley (2023-09-28). Wealthy Americans Failed to Pay $65.7 Billion in Taxes From 2017 to 2020. truthout.org Citing "alarming" data provided by the federal government about the prevalence of tax evasion among the richest Americans, U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden on Thursday called on the Internal Revenue Service to crack down on "particularly brazen" high-income tax cheats and noted that Democratic initiatives have already helped to begin addressing the problem. Writing to IRS Commissioner Danny Werfel… |

| Anadolu Agency | (2023-09-28). 'Double victim': UN chief urges support for Pakistan as floodwater has 'receded but needs have not'. tribune.com.pk The UN secretary general has urged for support for Pakistan, which continues rebuilding in the wake of last year's devastating floods, calling the country a "double victim" of "climate chaos" and "unjust" global financial system. | "Pakistan is a double victim — of climate chaos, and of our outdated and unjust global financial system that prevents middle-income countries from accessing much needed resources to invest in adaptation and resilience," said Antonio Guterres in an address at the UN headquarters in New York on Wednesday. | Triggered by torrential monsoon rains, the 2022 floods submerged one thir…

Eduardo Lucita (2023-09-29). After the primaries, the elections. internationalviewpoint.org "The labour and popular movement face an all-out offensive against historical social achievements and the expansion of rights achieved in recent decades, but the country has social and political reserves to face this offensive." | – | / |

WSWS (2023-09-29). Next New Zealand government could include right-wing nationalist NZ First. wsws.org The NZ First Party, which is running a campaign based on racist dog whistles, bigotry and anti-vax pseudo-science, played a major role in Jacinda Ardern's Labour government from 2017‚Äí2020.

Editor (2023-09-28). Biden's Picket Line Visit Doesn't Mean He Is On Our Side. scheerpost.com

Eduardo Lucita (2023-09-28). After the primaries, the elections. internationalviewpoint.org "The labour and popular movement face an all-out offensive against historical social achievements and the expansion of rights achieved in recent decades, but the country has social and political reserves to face this offensive." | – | / |

ELEL (2023-09-30). Department of Error] Department of Error. thelancet.com GBD 2021 Diabetes Collaborators. Global, regional, and national burden of diabetes from 1990 to 2021, with projections of prevalence to 2050: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021. Lancet 2023; 402: 203—34—In this Article, institutional affiliations have been amended for Bing-Fang Hwang, Made Ary Sarasmita, and Ming-Chieh Li. These corrections have been made to the online version as of Sept 28, 2023.

ecns.cn (2023-09-29). Hong Kong delegation forges educational and cultural bonds in Beijing. ecns.cn A delegation comprising 27 young talents from leading Hong Kong universities embarked on a journey of exploration and collaboration in Beijing from Sept 18 to 22. This exchange program encompassed various facets of education, science, technology, and culture.

Editor (2023-09-29). UN Report Urges End to Forced US Prison Labor—a 'Contemporary Form of Slavery'. scheerpost.com

greenleft.org.au (2023-09-29). Naarm/Melbourne forum discusses right wing character of Albanese's Labor. greenleft.org.au

Labor Video Project (2023-09-29). SF Labor Community Rally To Defend Community Space at Redstone Labor Temple. indybay.org

Luis Feliz Leon, Labor Notes. (2023-09-29). Twenty-Five Thousand Auto Workers Are Now On Strike At The Big Three. popularresistance.org Seven thousand Auto Workers at two more assembly plants will walk off the job at noon ET today, UAW President Shawn Fain announced in a Facebook Live appearance this morning. Joining the strike are Ford's Chicago Assembly Plant and General Motors' Lansing Delta Township Assembly in Michigan. | Fain announced that Stellantis would be spared this time. The union had been expected to expand the strike today at all three companies, but, said Region 1 Director LaShawn English, three minutes before Fain was scheduled to go on Facebook Live, the UAW received frantic emails from company representatives.

Staff (2023-09-29). Nazi Veteran Honored in Canada Was Part of Wave of Collaborators Harbored in West: Lev Golinkin. democracynow.org Poland says it's preparing to seek the extradition of a 98-year-old Ukrainian Nazi after he received a standing ovation in the Canadian House of Commons last week following a speech by visiting Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. Yaroslav Hunka was invited by the speaker of the House, who has since resigned his post, and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau formally apologized for the episode on Wednesday. Hunka fought during World War II with a Nazi unit composed of Ukrainian volunteers who were involved in numerous atrocities, including massacres of Jewish civilians. But Hunka is not an outlier, acc…

Tikender Panwar (2023-09-29). Market principles will not help in mitigating the problems of the elderly. peoplesdispatch.org The universal coverage of social security schemes for all elderly must be the immediate intervention point. Apart from this, the tendency to consider the elderly as a non-progressive labor entity and burden on the society must be shed…

United Front Committee for A Labor Party (2023-09-29). All Out Support Striking UAW Members! 32 hours Work for 40 Hours Pay, No Two Tiers, & COLA. indybay.org The United Front Committee For A Labor Party UFCCLP supports the demands of the UAW for 32 hours work for 40 hours pay, an end to tiers and a COLA. It also supports uniting the entire working class for a general strike especially connected to the attack on the working class by the government shutdown. It also calls for workers to control and benefit from AI but that requires a mass workers party that will run the country for the working class.

WSWS (2023-09-29). Australian workers and youth express their support for the SEP active boycott campaign against Labor's Voice referendum. wsws.org In opposing the Voice a student remarked, "Why doesn't the population get a say on the housing crisis, or the cost-of-living crisis?"

Dan Lieberman (2023-09-28). Democratic Socialism Will Prevent the Catastrophes. dissidentvoice.org Capitalism gathered resources — land, labor, and capital to start an industrial revolution that brought prosperity and elevated standards of living to much of the earth's inhabitants. Once in motion, it generated additional capital that gathered more labor and more resources in a perpetual cycle of increased production that constantly benefitted populations. The achievements did …

ecns.cn (2023-09-28). Hong Kong delegation forges educational and cultural bonds in Beijing. ecns.cn A delegation comprising 27 young talents from leading Hong Kong universities embarked on a journey of exploration and collaboration in Beijing from Sept 18 to 22. This exchange program encompassed various facets of education, science, technology, and culture.

Editor (2023-09-28). "This fight is Global": Workers around the World are standing with striking U.S. autoworkers. mronline.org From Brazil and Mexico to South Africa and Malaysia, international labor solidarity is aiding the UAW's fight to reverse the global race to the bottom.

Finley Williams, Labor Notes. (2023-09-28). First Tire Workers To Organize In 40 Years Win First Contract. popularresistance.org It was late summer 2017 at the Overtyme Bar and Grill, a hotspot off a busy highway in Macon, Georgia, and Kumho Tire plant worker Mario Smith had important questions for local United Steelworkers (USW) president Alex Perkins: he wanted to know how he could bring a union to the one-year-old factory. | Now six years later—after two elections, many National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) cases, a virulent union-busting campaign, and the triumphant solidarity of the factory workers—that union has gained its first-ever collective bargaining agreement with Kumho Tire management, the first tire workers to uni…

greenleft.org.au (2023-09-28). Housing activists say NSW Labor's budget fails the test. greenleft.org.au

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-09-28). Nazigate: Canada's Top General Won't Apologize for Applauding Ukrainian Waffen-SS Vet. libya360.wordpress.com Wyatt Reed As Canada's top officials express embarrassment for honoring a WWII Nazi collaborator in parliament, the leader of the country's military, Gen. Wayne Eyre, refuses to apologize for his standing ovation. The Canadian military has trained Ukraine's notorious neo-Nazi Azov Battalion for years. Canadian politicians have been in frantic damage control mode since feting a…

Jane Slaughter, Labor Notes. (2023-09-28). Ford And GM Agree To End At Least One Tier; Stellantis Still Holding Out. popularresistance.org The Auto Workers announced encouraging progress in their negotiations with Ford and General Motors September 22, including an end to one of the many concessionary tiers in the union's contract. | In 2015 workers at Chrysler (now Stellantis) voted down a tentative agreement 2 to 1 because it continued an onerous two-tier wage system—and even introduced new tiers. UAW President Dennis Williams (later jailed for corruption) was pissed. At a meeting of local officials called to present that deal, Williams spluttered, "Ending two-tier is bullshit." | The UAW still has other tiers to address, but it looks like Wi…

WSWS (2023-09-28). Video: For an active boycott of Australian Labor's Voice referendum! wsws.org In this video, SEP National Secretary Cheryl Crisp explains why the party is calling for an active boycott of the Voice referendum.

Wyatt Reed (2023-09-28). Nazigate: Canada's top general won't apologize for applauding Ukrainian Waffen-SS vet. thegrayzone.com As Canada's top officials express embarrassment for honoring a WWII Nazi collaborator in parliament, the leader of the country's military, Gen. Wayne Eyre, refuses to apologize for his standing ovation. The Canadian military has trained Ukraine's notorious neo-Nazi Azov Battalion for years. Canadian politicians have been in frantic damage control mode since feting a former member of the Waffen-SS during a parliamentary reception for Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on September 22. The Speaker of Canada's House of Commons, Anthony Rota, …

Javier Arana Villasusa (2023-09-28). Peruvian labor confederation demands US security for Cuban embassy. plenglish.com Lima, Sep 28 (Prensa Latina) The General Confederation of Peruvian Workers (CGTP) on Thursday demanded that the Government of the United States guarantee the security of the Cuban Embassy in that country, and condemned the recent terrorist attack on the diplomatic mission.

teleSUR, nbb, DRL (2023-09-28). México convoca una reunión para discutir sobre migración. telesurtv.net La Organización Internacional para las Migraciones advirtió este miércoles de que el flujo "sin precedentes" de personas atravesando las Américas requiere de una mayor colaboración entre los gobiernos de Centroamérica…

Jeffrey St. Clair (2023-09-29). Roaming Charges: Our Man in Jersey. counterpunch.org I've been re-reading with great pleasure John Le Carré's mid-80s novel A Perfect Spy, which is a kind of roman à clef about the writer's turbulent relationship with his father, Ronnie Cornwell, an extravagant trickster and confidence artist, who, in one of his most elaborate hoaxes, ended up running for Parliament. But Le Carré's twisty tale of fraud and duplicity among the English moneyed classes (and those who would exploit their greed) can't really hold up to the career of New Jersey's own apex con man, Robert Menendez, whose personal embellishments and political fictions have become so labyrinthine that now t…

Kim C. Domenico (2023-09-29). Fighting Banal Evil with the Truth of Trauma. counterpunch.org Few serve truth in truth because only a few have a pure will to be just, and of those again very few have the will to justice; and the most terrible sufferings have come upon man precisely from a drive to justice which lacks power of judgment. — Nietzsche Separated from the sphere of labor

Maximillian Alvarez (2023-09-29). If the government shuts down, so does the NLRB—that'll hurt the strikes. therealnews.com It is looking increasingly likely that Congressional Republicans will bring the federal government to a shutdown starting this weekend. "U.S. government services would be disrupted and hundreds of thousands of federal workers would be furloughed without pay if Congress fails to provide funding for the fiscal year starting Oct. 1," Reuters reports. "Workers deemed essential would remain on the job, but without pay." Among the many agencies that will be furloughing workers in the event of a shutdown is the National Labor Relations Board. Not only will unionized staff workers at the NLRB itself be hurt by the…

splcenter (2023-09-29). Artist collaborations with social justice organizations propel change. splcenter.org

Rhoda Wilson (2023-09-29). UK's largest wealth manager has been charging customers for services it doesn't provide. expose-news.com The UK's Financial Conduct Authority is currently analysing information from banks and building societies to ensure they comply with the Customer Duty rules, which require firms to ensure products and services deliver …

Amy Goodman (2023-09-28). Ralph Nader: GOP Debate Was "Pretty Embarrassing" truthout.org Former presidential candidate Ralph Nader responds to Wednesday's second Republican debate, saying, "It's pretty embarrassing that this is what they put forward to become the president of the most powerful country in the world." Nader discusses the debate's topics of social media, former President Donald Trump and wealth inequality in America. Nader also calls for the Democratic Party to "stop… |

Staff (2023-09-28). Ralph Nader: Why Is GOP Not Debating Corporate Crime Wave & the Weakening of Our Democratic Society? democracynow.org Former presidential candidate Ralph Nader responds to Wednesday's second Republican debate, saying, "It's pretty embarrassing that this is what they put forward to become the president of the most powerful country in the world." Nader discusses the debate's topics of social media, former President Donald Trump and wealth inequality in America. Nader also calls for the Democratic Party to "stop engaging in candidate suppression" and respect third-party candidates such as Cornel West to run for public office as a constitutional right.

Dana Sanchez (2023-09-29). Costco Sells Out Of Gold Bars Within Hours: Is It An Indicator Of Fear? moguldom.com Big box retailer Costco is known for cheap prices but also sells things you might or might not buy on impulse, such as a kilo of caviar, a Victorian glass greenhouse or a $6,000 doomsday prepper food kit. Now, it has added gold to the list, setting off a gold rush as customers clear out …

Tomasz Konicz (2023-09-29). We are Zombies. indybay.org Zombie movies are an apocalyptic genre, in which there is an inkling that the given social order cannot last & has reached its development limits. The first great wave of zombies hit the Western culture industry during the crisis period of the seventies of the 20th century, when the "Golden Age" of post-war capitalism, full employment and mass consumption, came to an end.

teleSUR (2023-09-29). President AMLO and Blinken to Address Drug Trafficking Issues. telesurenglish.net Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO) and U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken will meet on October 5 in Mexico City during a high-level meeting on drug trafficking. | RELATED: | The meeting comes at a time of crisis due to the trafficking and consumption of fentanyl in the United States, just a few weeks after the extradition of the Mexican drug trafficker Ovidio Guzman, son of Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman. | Blinken will travel acco…

Editor (2023-09-29). Is Ibram X Kendi's 'Anti-Racism' a Scam? (w/ Norm Finkelstein). scheerpost.com By Briahna Joy Gray / Bad Faith This week, Briahna spoke to writer and professor Norman Finkelstein about the latest scandal involving famed "anti-racism" advocate Ibram X Kendi. Financial mismanagement at BU is just the tip of the iceberg as Finkelstein applies his close reading of Kendi's work to the current crisis. As interesting as …

WSWS (2023-09-29). Growing concerns over US Treasury market speculation. wsws.org In recent weeks, the role of speculation in the financing of government debt has been the subject of reports by the US Federal Reserve, the Financial Stability Board and the Bank for International Settlements.

Ann Brown (2023-09-28). Kevin Hart Claims The Unbanked Are Not Smart Enough To Get Bank Accounts: Here Is the Actual Science. moguldom.com Past remarks by comedian Kevin Hart that have recently resurfaced on social media suggesting that the unbanked lack the intelligence to obtain a bank account have sparked discussions about financial inclusion and the barriers many face in accessing traditional banking services. Hart's comments reflect a seeming lack of understanding of the complex challenges that lead …

Dean Baker (2023-09-28). Yes, Donald Trump's Lies on Financial Statements Did Cost Businesses Money. cepr.net Donald Trump claims that no one was harmed when he lied about the value of his assets on statements he made to lenders, because loans were paid off with interest. New York Times columnist, Peter Coy takes this claim far more seriously than he should. The key point that Coy misses is that lenders base …

Ileana Ferrer Fonte (2023-09-29). Hungary opposes providing additional aid to Ukraine from EU budget. plenglish.com Budapest, Sep 29 (Prensa Latina) Hungary opposes providing additional financial aid to Ukraine from the European Union (EU) if the bloc will have to grant or accept loans for it, Prime Minister Viktor Orban said on Friday.

Dean Baker (2023-09-29). Yes, Trump's Lies on Financial Statements Did Cost Businesses Money. counterpunch.org Donald Trump claims that no one was harmed when he lied about the value of his assets on statements he made to lenders, because loans were paid off with interest. New York Times columnist, Peter Coy takes this claim far more seriously than he should. The key point that Coy misses is that lenders base

teleSUR (2023-09-28). Iran to Access Now-Unfrozen Funds Transferred to Qatari Banks. telesurenglish.net Iran and Qatar have started banking operations to facilitate the transfer of recently unfrozen Iranian assets from Qatari banks. | RELATED: | This takes place after a major Qatari-brokered deal between Washington and Tehran. | Iran's Central Bank governor, Mohammad Reza Farzin, and his Qatari counterpart, Bandar bin Mohamed Al Thani met in Doha on Wednesday to facilitate the financial transition, the official Iranian news…

Dana Sanchez (2023-09-28). Can Artificial Intelligence Help Knock Out America's Inflation Problem? 5 Things To Know. moguldom.com Experts say the latest artificial intelligence technology, generative AI, will help reverse a prolonged slowdown in productivity growth that has kept costs high for businesses and made inflation harder to reign in. It could also lead to lower wages for company workers. Widespread use of generative AI could put productivity on steroids, and although it could be …

Nora Barrows-Friedman, The Electronic Intifada. (2023-09-29). Federal Complaint Alleges University Conspired Against Palestinians. popularresistance.org Students at the University of Illinois Chicago have filed a federal complaint against the school, alleging that staff discriminated against them because of their ethnicity and national origin. | The seven students, six Palestinian Americans and one Jewish American, attempted to join an informational session over the videoconferencing platform Zoom in January about a study abroad summer program in Israel. | During and after the video call, students say they were racially profiled, harassed and silenced by university staff and, later, by campus police. | In the Zoom call, UIC staff denied the students with Arab and…

sputnikglobe (2023-09-29). House Removes Ukraine Aid From Defense Spending Bill. sputnikglobe.com Republicans have repeatedly clashed with Democrats over US aid to Kiev, which has received more than $76 billion from Washington since the beginning of Russia's special military operation in Ukraine.

Silja J.A. Talvi (2023-09-28). Inside the High-Security "Black Site" Where Leonard Peltier Is Incarcerated. truthout.org Unbeknownst to most protesters who gathered at the White House on the occasion of Native American political prisoner Leonard Peltier's 79th birthday, Peltier wasn't able to celebrate, much less receive reports on how the well-attended event was progressing. That's because Peltier, who is now spending his 48th year in captivity, was sitting on his bunk, across from his cellie, "locked down" in a… |

sputnikglobe (2023-09-28). Russia Needs to Boost Defense Spending to Counter Hybrid War – Kremlin. sputnikglobe.com MOSCOW (Sputnik) – An increase in defense spending is necessary for Russia, as the country is living in a state of hybrid war deployed against it, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Thursday.

TASS (2023-09-28). Russia must increase defense spending — Kremlin spokesman. tass.com Dmitry Peskov noted that the slogan "Everything for the front, everything for victory" was among the budget's priorities…

channelnewsasia (2023-09-29). NFL-The 'Taylor Swift effect' brings spending boost to football. channelnewsasia.com

teleSUR (2023-09-29). US Gov't Shutdown Odds Grow as Congress Remains Deadlocked. telesurenglish.net A U.S. federal government shutdown now looks increasingly likely, as a Senate-proposed stopgap funding measure has a slim chance to advance in the House amid Republican infighting, which has complicated the already intense fight between the two parties. | RELATED: | Traditionally, the House of Representatives moves first on spending and revenue bills, but U.S. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy failed to gain support f…

Leonardo Palumbo, Camila A Picchio, Catherine Smallwood, Cristiana Salvi, Gerald Rockenschaub (2023-09-30). Correspondence] Community COVID-19 response in WHO's European region. thelancet.com The Risk Communication, Community Engagement, and Infodemic Management (RCCE-IM) unit of the WHO European region read the Correspondence by Ruth Kutalek and colleagues1 with interest. COVID-19 showed that RCCE-IM is an integral component of the emergency cycle, from preparedness to recovery. The authors rightly highlight that community engagement with civil society organisations (CSOs) deserves greater acknowledgment and investment to ensure sustainability in the long term, particularly in Europe.

It's Going Down (2023-09-29). Portland, OR: Industrial Timber Conference Disrupted by Protesters; Windows Busted Out. itsgoingdown.org In so-called Portland, Oregon, protesters mobilized this week to disrupt the "Who Will Own the Forest Conference," which according to Oregon Live, brought together such corporate interests as "leading names in the timber industry…[like] Weyerhaeuser, and international investment firms like J.P. Morgan." According to the website set up for a counter-conference, "Forests Over Profits," the…

ecns.cn (2023-09-28). FTZ reforms to boost trade, data flows. ecns.cn China will introduce a series of pioneering integrated reforms at its pilot free trade zones to improve areas like trade, investment, finance and cross-border data flows, government officials said on Wednesday.

infobrics (2023-09-28). UAE to Witness 'Growing Enthusiasm' for Investment Opportunities After BRICS Invite. infobrics.org The UAE's inclusion in the BRICS bloc of emerging economies — should it accept the group's invitation — is expected to open new business avenues and investment opportunities, providing the country with greater leverage globally, according to forecasts from a business setup company in the Gulf region…

channelnewsasia (2023-09-29). China trade council asks US to "carefully consider" tech investment ban. channelnewsasia.com

channelnewsasia (2023-09-29). Private sector crucial in the battle against climate change: ADB special advisor. channelnewsasia.com There is increasing interest from the private sector on investing in sustainable developments, green initiatives and climate-friendly adaptations, he said.

ecns.cn (2023-09-27). FTZ reforms to boost trade, data flows. ecns.cn China will introduce a series of pioneering integrated reforms at its pilot free trade zones to improve areas like trade, investment, finance and cross-border data flows, government officials said on Wednesday.

Revolutionary Workers Front (2023-09-29). Monday 10/2: SF Speak Out-Stop Attacks On Civil Service &. Outsourcing/Privatization Using Non-Profits. indybay.org San Francisco City Hall | Room 400 | San Francisco…

Homeless Romantic (2023-09-28). The World's Most Dangerous Marxist | John Bellamy Foster | #182 HR. mronline.org Foster explains Marx's ecological critique of capitalism and how the concept of "metabolic rift" highlights the alienation between humans and nature caused by capitalism's focus on profit over sustainability.

Luis Linares Petrov (2023-09-28). Russia develops AI for simultaneous control of drones. plenglish.com Moscow, Sep 28 (Prensa Latina) Russian researchers created an Artificial Intelligence (AI) capable of controlling up to 500,000 drones at the same time, the non-profit organization National Technology Initiative Platform reported.

Revolutionary Workers Front (2023-09-28). Monday 10/2: SF Speak Out-Stop Attacks On Civil Service &. Outsourcing/Privatization Using Non-Profits. indybay.org San Francisco City Hall | Room 400 | San Francisco…

channelnewsasia (2023-09-29). Woman jailed for selling counterfeit branded goods from Taobao at makeshift stalls. channelnewsasia.com She generated about S$2,400 in monthly profit operating her makeshift stall.

Chengliang Yang, Linda Lapp, Scott J Tebbutt (2023-09-30). Correspondence] Overcoming COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy hurdles. thelancet.com Vaccine hesitancy and the spreading of misinformation continue to be important barriers to implementing crucial public health interventions to reduce the spread of COVID-19, according to the report by WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus from the 14th meeting of the International Health Regulations COVID-19 Emergency Committee.

Rosalind English (2023-09-28). Targets for reduction in sewage outflow not unlawful, says High Court. ukhumanrightsblog.com The King (on the application of Wildfish Conservation v Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs and the Environment Agency (Defendant) and the Water Services Regulation Authority (Interested Parties) [2023] EWHC 2285 (Admin) In 2022, there were over three hundred thousand incidents of overflow into coastal waters, freshwater rivers and estuaries from …

Editor (2023-09-29). For an inverted theatre. mronline.org The majority of theatre broadly falls under the umbrella of dramatic theatre. It will have a linear plotline, actors who wholly inhabit well-developed characters, structured, thought-out themes, etc. Bertolt Brecht, the German Marxist playwright, would call it escapism.

WSWS (2023-09-28). 1982: Marxism, the revolutionary party, and the critique of Healy's Studies in Dialectics. wsws.org The following lecture was delivered by Christoph Vandreier, the national secretary of the Sozialistische Gleichheitspartei (Socialist Equality Party) of Germany to the SEP (US) International Summer School, held between July 30 and August 4, 2023.

Peoples Dispatch (2023-09-29). Educators in Serbia demand fair wages, dignity for work. peoplesdispatch.org Teachers and their unions have been demanding basic wages at par with the average wage in the country and reduction in non-academic work. Unions held a massive rally in Belgrade on September 24 to press these demands…

Eve Ottenberg (2023-09-29). More at Stake for Auto Workers Than Wages and Benefits. counterpunch.org The United Auto Workers have struck now for two weeks. Using a novel strategy to keep management on its toes, namely walking out at various plants at unexpected times, a new, different union leadership hopes to wrest some benefits from the claws of a monstrously greedy industry that has already raked in $21 billion this year. Its CEOs pull down millions of dollars annually, while the average worker's pay has long stagnated.

Jim McMahan (2023-09-29). Seattle city workers fight for wages. workers.org Over 1,000 city workers rallied on the steps of City Hall Sept. 20 to demand an improved union contract. Sixteen unions in the Coalition of City Unions (CCU), representing 6,000 workers, took part. It was a huge manifestation of the workers who keep the city running every day. These workers . . . |

Editor (2023-09-28). Capitalism: an unstoppable force meets an immovable object. mronline.org Ah, money, the driving force behind life in the modern world.

WSWS (2023-09-28). The Voice referendum and the fraud of Australian parliament's Stolen Generations apology. wsws.org The current Voice proposal is the latest in a long line of false claims to redress the crimes of Australian capitalism, including the 2008 parliamentary apology to the tens of thousands of children removed from their families.

channelnewsasia (2023-09-30). Valkyrie Funds halts ethereum purchases for exchange-traded fund. channelnewsasia.com

WSWS (2023-09-29). Build a Kaiser Workers' Rank-and-File Committee to prepare an all-out strike! wsws.org To ensure victory in their struggle, Kaiser workers must take control out of the hands of the pro-corporate CKPU bureaucrats and assert their own independent interests by forming rank-and-file committees at every Kaiser facility.

Mike Phipps (2023-09-29). "It feels like the apocalypse" internationalviewpoint.org "The Russian Socialist Movement statement called on Azerbaijan to immediately cease hostilities and open negotiations without any preconditions, and on the international community to immediately impose sanctions against the leadership of Azerbaijan." | – | / |

WSWS (2023-09-29). Sydney's Macquarie University doubles down on its political censorship of the IYSSE. wsws.org The university is simply ignoring the preponderance of evidence against its original decision, highlighting that this is a case of open political censorship of the IYSSE—the only socialist, anti-war club on campus.

Juan M. Garcia (2023-09-28). President Díaz-Canel denies zero fuel situation in Cuba. plenglish.com Havana, Sep 28 (Prensa Latina) President Miguel Díaz-Canel confirmed on Thursday that Cuba has not and will not reach a situation of total fuel shortage, despite the tightening of the United States blockade. On his account on the social network X, he wrote, "The reinforced blockade seeks that, but socialism is planning, participation and the people in power. All problems will have a response."

Mike Phipps (2023-09-28). "It feels like the apocalypse" internationalviewpoint.org "The Russian Socialist Movement statement called on Azerbaijan to immediately cease hostilities and open negotiations without any preconditions, and on the international community to immediately impose sanctions against the leadership of Azerbaijan." | – | / |

ecns.cn (2023-09-29). CPC leadership reviews disciplinary inspection report. ecns.cn The Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee convened a meeting on Sept. 27 to deliberate a comprehensive report on the first round of disciplinary inspections launched by the 20th CPC Central Committee. Xi Jinping, general secretary of the CPC Central Committee, presided over the meeting.

Aidan Jonah (2023-09-28). The House of Anti-Communists, and the Nazi Monster It Spawned. orinocotribune.com

Ileana Ferrer Fonte (2023-09-29). Cuban singer Annie Garces completes Valencia tour; now is in Madrid (+Photos). plenglish.com Madrid, Sep 29 (Prensa Latina) Cuban singer Annie Garcés has completed a tour of Valencia cities that included concerts and talks, and she will perform at the Festival of the Communist Party of Spain (PCE) that begins in Rivas-Vaciamadrid this weekend.

Juan M. Garcia (2023-09-28). Cuba takes measures to deal with complex fuel situation. plenglish.com In his speech at the closing session of the 10th Congress of the Committees for the Defense of the Revolution (CDR), Cuba's largest mass organization, the head of State noted that the rumor related to a total shortage of fuel in Cuba is false. | Díaz-Canel assured that "with the greatest transparency and traditional attachment to truth that has characterized the Revolution from the beginning, the people have been informed about everything that the leaderships of the Cuban Communist Party and the Government are doing to confront the problems that generally affect Cubans and the world, due to multiple crises." He…

Jonah Raskin (2023-09-29). "I Am Not Now, Nor Have I Ever Been": Musings on Communism and Anti-Communism. counterpunch.org March 2024 will be the seventieth anniversary of Edward R. Murrow's 1954 See It Now program that kicked McCarthy's butt all over the TV screen. Murrow ended with these words: "The actions of the junior Senator from Wisconsin have caused alarm and dismay amongst our allies abroad and given considerable comfort to our enemies. And whose fault is that? Not really his. He didn't create this situation of fear; he merely exploited it — and rather successfully." My father woke me that evening—I was 12—to tell me about Murrow's blast and to predict McCarthy's downfall. He would indeed be censored by his…

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2023-09-25: News Headlines

ecns.cn (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.

Luis Linares Petrov (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.

Radhika Desai, Michael Hudson, Geopolitical Economy. (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.

ecns.cn (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.

Federico Fuentes, Promise Li (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.

Juan M. Garcia (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.


Luis Linares Petrov (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…

Ramzy Baroud, Mintpress News. (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…

scorinoco (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…

scorinoco (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…

teleSUR, JDO (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.

teleSUR, JDO (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.




Juan M. Garcia (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.

Alasdair Baverstock (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.

ecsorinoco (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…

greenleft.org.au (2023-09-25). Housing activists say NSW Labor's budget fails the test. greenleft.org.au

Luis Linares Petrov (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.

teleSUR, JCM (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.




Tony Leah, Labor Notes. (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…

WSWS (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.

greenleft.org.au (2023-09-24). Housing activists say NSW Labor's budget fails the test. greenleft.org.au

greenleft.org.au (2023-09-24). Protesters call on Labor to protest Fukushima nuclear waste dumping. greenleft.org.au

Luis Feliz Leon, Lisa Xu, Labor Notes. (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…

Noam Chomsky, Vijay Prashad, Peoples Democracy. (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…




Juan M. Garcia (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.

Brett Wilkins (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… |

Dean Baker (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

Aly Shaw (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. |

Owen Fairclough (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.

Animal Liberation Press Office (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.




Animal Liberation Press Office (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.

Dave DeCamp (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. …

Dave DeCamp (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 …

Richard D. Wolff (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.

Editor (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…

Chris Hedges, The Real News Network. (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…

Animal Liberation Press Office (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.

Dave DeCamp (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. …

Dave DeCamp (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 …

Richard D. Wolff (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.

Editor (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…

Chris Hedges, The Real News Network. (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…

teleSUR, lfb, JCM (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.

WSWS (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.

Juan M. Garcia (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.

Federico Fuentes, Promise Li (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.

Freedom Socialist Party (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

Franz Hinkelammert, Matthias Hui & B Dietschy (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.

Freedom Socialist Party (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

Internationalist 360 ∞ (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…

Juan M. Garcia (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.

ecns.cn (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.

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2023-09-24: News Headlines

Dr. Pascal Sacré (2023-09-23). The COVID-19 RT-PCR Test: How to Mislead All Humanity. Using a "Test" To Lock Down Society. globalresearch.ca The misuse of the RT-PCR technique is used as an intentional strategy by some governments, supported by scientific safety councils and by the dominant media, to justify the violation of a large number of constitutional rights, the destruction of the economy with the bankruptcy of entire active sectors of society,…

ecns.cn (2023-09-23). Shenzhen to help Saudi Arabia diversify economy. ecns.cn High-tech hub Shenzhen is set to play a key role in the future of Saudi Arabia as the Gulf nation seeks to reduce its dependence on oil and transition into a more sustainable economy.

Elaine Reyes (2023-09-23). The Heat: United Nations Sustainable Development. america.cgtn.com From efforts to eradicate world hunger to building affordable housing, we'll discuss why sustainable development matters. | As part of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, member countries are working to complete 17 goals. They include creating sustainable cities, combating climate change, and eliminating hunger and poverty. | Later in the show, my colleague Mike Walter will bring us his conversation with the president of the UN's International Fund for Agriculture Development. | But first, my interview with

Prof Michel Chossudovsky (2023-09-23). War, Terrorism and the Global Economic Crisis. Ninety-nine Interrelated Concepts. globalresearch.ca Everything is interrelated: war, terrorism, the police state, the global economy, financial fraud, corrupt governments, poverty and social inequality, media disinformation, war propaganda, WMD, international law,…

Radhika Desai, Michael Hudson (2023-09-23). BRICS or NATO? G20 or G77? Summits debate rapidly changing world order. geopoliticaleconomy.com Political economists Radhika Desai and Michael Hudson are joined by geopolitical analyst Pepe Escobar to discuss the rapidly changing world order at a time of summits of BRICS, G20, and G77 and the UN General Assembly.

Radhika Desai, Michael Hudson (2023-09-23). BRICS or NATO? Summits debate rapidly changing world order. geopoliticaleconomy.com Political economists Radhika Desai and Michael Hudson are joined by geopolitical analyst Pepe Escobar to discuss the rapidly changing world order at a time of summits of BRICS, G20, and G77 and the UN General Assembly.

teleSUR, JDO (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.

teleSUR, JDO (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.

Ana Hurtado (2023-09-23). It's Either Cuba or Daniel Blake. dissidentvoice.org The world is in turmoil. As the Western powers and their economic policies continue to tear apart the global whole, the countries of the South have united to demand justice. This is a long story, one that continues and remains on a planet where human beings have gone straight into an invisible plane. Since the …

F. William Engdahl (2023-09-23). The "Great Zero Carbon" Conspiracy and the WEF's "Great Reset" globalresearch.ca The globalist Davos World Economic Forum is proclaiming the necessity of reaching a worldwide goal of "net zero carbon" by 2050. Yet transformations underway from Germany to the USA, are setting the stage for creation of what is called the New Word Order. In reality it is a blueprint for a global technocratic totalitarian corporativism, that promises huge unemployment, deindustrialization and economic collapse.

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-09-23). Fascism is Capitalism in Decay. libya360.wordpress.com Ekaterina Cabylis The Relationship Between Economic Decline and Authoritarianism "Fascism is capitalism in decay," we have all heard this referenced to Lenin. While it's important to note that this specific quote may not be verbatim from his writings or speeches, it does capture the essence of Lenin's views on capitalism and its potential consequences. Lenin…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-09-23). The European Union Will End Up Under China's Technological Dominance. libya360.wordpress.com The European Union faces the failure of its sanctions against Russia. Faced with a historical economic and social crisis, she is between the rock and the wall, forced to enter the economic war unleashed by the United States. Like the United States, trade relations with China have worsened within the European Union. As Washington tries…

JANET (2023-09-23). LIVE SATURDAY, SEPT 23, 7PM: CUBA & VENEZUELA SPEAK FROM NYC Inbox. iacenter.org TONIGHT, tune into Breakthrough News for a special broadcast, live from New York City, featuring Miguel Díaz-Canel, President of Cuba & Yvan Gil Pinto, Foreign Minister of Venezuela. Over the past two centuries, the United States has waged various wars, economic sabotage, coups, blockades, and sanctions across the Americas and the Caribbean to assert the interests of the U.S. business and political elite under the auspices of the Monroe Doctrine. The same forces that have carried out the Monroe Doctrine are now fighting for a rollback of fundamental civil rights in the United States. As we enter the 200th year of…

Juan Torres López (2023-09-23). Intereses bancarios: aberración económica y espada de Damocles. globalizacion.ca El semanario The Economics calculó en un informe publicado el pasado mes de febrero que las empresas, hogares y gobiernos de 58 países que en conjunto representan el 90% del PIB mundial pagaron en 2022 un total de 13 billones…

M. K. Bhadrakumar (2023-09-23). India-Middle East — Europe Economic Corridor Is a Geopolitical Pipe Dream. orinocotribune.com By M. K. Bhadrakumar — Sep 18, 2023 | The gusto with which the United States co-opted the idea of an

Mickey Z (2023-09-23). "Own Nothing" and "Be Happy": Kissinger, Gates, Schwab and the WEF Depopulation Agenda. globalresearch.ca

Mickey Z (2023-09-23). "Own Nothing" and "Be Happy": Kissinger, Gates, Schwab and the WEF's Depopulation Agenda. globalresearch.ca

midwesternmarx (2023-09-23). AFRICA'S NATO? HOW ECOWAS BECAME A TOOL FOR WESTERN IMPERIALISM By: ALAN MACLEOD. midwesternmarx.com Niger is shaping up to be the surprising frontline of the new Cold War. Yesterday, the 15-member Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) ordered the "activation" and "deployment" of "standby" military forces to the country, an action that threatens to spark a major international war that could make Syria look minor by comparison.In this venture, ECOWAS has been fully supported by the United States and Europe, leading many to suspect it is being used as an imperia …

Mosa Tsay, Grassroots Economic Organizing. (2023-09-23). Musician Cooperativism At Groupmuse. popularresistance.org I am a cellist and worker-owner of a cooperative. As an ICDE fellow, I hop out of my usual action-oriented work to reflect on why cooperativism is an alternative to the status quo for freelancing musicians. As a professional cellist, I witnessed the infrastructural fractures that musicians in the United States have to navigate. In 2020, I returned to the U.S. from a year of studying in France, after contemplating during quarantine about the economics of working as an artist. One important question I wanted to solve: Rather than competing with my colleagues for limited paid gigs, how can I generate new opportuniti…

People's Dispatch. (2023-09-23). At UN General Assembly Session, Global South Leaders Call For Urgent Reforms. popularresistance.org On the first day of the 78th session of the UN General Assembly on Tuesday, September 19, countries from the Global South raised the demand for urgent reforms in multilateral institutions, both political and economic, for a just and democratic world order. The session was addressed by UN General Assembly chair Dennis Francis, UN Secretary General António Guterres, and leaders of various countries including Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel, and Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, among others. Each of these leaders highlighted the growing geopolitical tensions in the wo…

Prof Michel Chossudovsky (2023-09-23). Biggest Lie in World History: There Never Was A Pandemic. The Data Base is Flawed. The Covid Mandates including the Vaccine are Invalid. globalresearch.ca Fake science was supportive of this devastating agenda. The lies were sustained by a massive media disinformation campaign. The historic March 11, 2020 lockdown triggered economic and social chaos Worldwide. It was an act of "economic warfare": a war against humanity.

Prof Michel Chossudovsky (2023-09-23). Global Nuclear War and Staged Pandemics: Michel Chossudovsky and Mike Adams. globalresearch.ca We are currently at the crossroads of the Most Serious Economic and Social Crisis in World History. It is an outright war against all humanity: the Planet's 8 billion people. | Starting with the corona crisis in late January 2020, the …

scorinoco (2023-09-23). AMLO Will Not Attend Asia Pacific Forum in US Due to Boluarte's Presence. orinocotribune.com Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador announced that he will not go to the United States to participate in the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Forum, to which his US counterpart Joe Biden had invited him, due to the presence of Dina Boluarte, coup president of Peru whom the Mexican government does not recognize. | "I am not going to San Francisco because we do not have relations with Peru, and it has to do with the Asia Pacific, and we do not want to participate in that, with all due respect," AMLO said on Thursday, September 21. | In August, the Mexican president had announced that he had been i…

Juan M. Garcia (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.

scorinoco (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…

scorinoco (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…

Patrick Mazza, Resilience. (2023-09-23). How To Build The Future In Place: Taking The First Steps. popularresistance.org Building the future in place envisions bringing together an ecosystem of community-based institutions and public policies that meets human needs and balances our relations within the natural world. It involves weaving together community initiatives and advocacy campaigns that now often operate in separate compartments to create a coherent politics, built around deep-rooted, place-based movements informed by comprehensive visions for transformative change at local and bioregional scales. It starts where markets and the system are failing, prioritizing communities and people who are being failed the most. In the pr…

Alasdair Baverstock (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.

Editor (2023-09-23). Venezuela: Gov't to launch China-backed anti-poverty program. mronline.org The Social Equality and Happiness Mission will adapt the Chinese experience to the Caribbean country's reality to alleviate poverty and inequality.

Ediz Tiyansan (2023-09-23). U.S. poverty rate shows record jump. america.cgtn.com The latest figures from the U.S. Census Bureau show the poverty rate rose to 12.4 percent in 2022 in what appears to be the largest one-year jump on record. | Inflation drove living costs up at a time when federal programs that provided aid to families during the COVID-19 pandemic were expiring. | Ediz Tiyansan reports.

midwesternmarx (2023-09-23). Marxism & Class By: Helena Sheehan. midwesternmarx.com This is the text of a talk at the conference of the Irish Labour History Society on September 17, 2023.What does Marxism bring to a conference on visions of labour and class?For me, this is connected to what Marxism brings to everything: context, clarity, coherence, comprehensiveness.Marxism is an intellectual tradition connected to a political movement that focuses on totality, on how everything is connected to everything else. It is a theory of everything, one that is open-ended and alw …

greenleft.org.au (2023-09-24). Housing activists say NSW Labor's budget fails the test. greenleft.org.au

greenleft.org.au (2023-09-24). Protesters call on Labor to protest Fukushima nuclear waste dumping. greenleft.org.au

Luis Feliz Leon, Lisa Xu, Labor Notes. (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…

Noam Chomsky, Vijay Prashad, Peoples Democracy. (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…

Charlie Saperstein, Dan DiMaggio, Labor Notes. (2023-09-23). Mexican Auto Parts Workers Face Blacklist After Union Campaign. popularresistance.org In August 2022, auto parts workers at VU Manufacturing won a landmark election to gain recognition for a new independent union, the Mexican Workers' League (La Liga). A year later, after refusing to negotiate a new contract, the company has shut down, leaving 400 workers jobless—and 71 workers without their legally-mandated severance pay. VU is located in the border city of Piedras Negras, Coahuila, where politicians brag about maintaining "labor peace" in the foreign-owned factories known as maquiladoras. This "peace" is largely mediated by the Confederation of Mexican Workers (CTM), a powerful company-fri…

greenleft.org.au (2023-09-23). Housing activists say NSW Labor's budget fails the test. greenleft.org.au

greenleft.org.au (2023-09-23). Protesters call on Labor to protest Fukushima nuclear waste dumping. greenleft.org.au

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-09-23). History of Fascism in Ukraine Part III: 1944-1963 UPA War, Ratlines, and the Assassination of Stepan Bandera. libya360.wordpress.com Hugo Turner Dedicated to the memory of Luciana Bohne. With special thanks to T.P. Wilkinson. The "Heroes" monument in Ellenville incorporates busts of Roman Shukhevych and Stepan Bandera, both Nazi collaborators. A monument to Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists and Ukrainian Insurgent Army was unveiled in Hamptonburgh in 1989. Just prior to the Russian invasion of…

Michael Welch (2023-09-23). Challenges for Ending the War in 2023. The Road to Peace Paved by "Russian Collaborators?" globalresearch.ca

Sky Chadde, Ryan Murphy, In These Times. (2023-09-23). Construction Companies Exploit Agricultural Visas To Underpay Workers. popularresistance.org Jose Ageo Luna Vanegas first worked for Signet Builders in the early 2000s. Hired on a temporary labor visa, he traveled from Mexico to U.S. job sites. The hours were long, but he was paid overtime. Years later, around 2017, Signet hired him again. This time, he received no overtime pay. | That's when he "started asking questions," his attorney, Jennifer Zimmermann, said. | The work was largely the same. His visa was different. Originally, Luna Vanegas was hired on an H-2B visa. Various industries use the visas to fill labor shortages. A hotel facing a busy summer might hire foreign maids, fo…

WSWS (2023-09-23). Campaign for active boycott of Australian Voice referendum wins support from workers and students. wsws.org Socialist Equality Party campaign teams are finding widespread distrust or opposition to the Albanese Labor government's referendum, seeing it as a diversion from, and a cover for, for the underlying ruling class program of war and austerity.

WSWS (2023-09-23). Socialist Alternative hysterically defends Voice referendum as its crisis deepens. wsws.org Socialist Alternative does not even pretend that the Voice will solve anything for ordinary indigenous people. But despite this, the pseudo-left is aggressively pushing Labor's policy.

Juan M. Garcia (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.

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2023-09-24). Mayo Clinic in Florida opens downtown Jacksonville site focused on education, research. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org JACKSONVILLE, Fla. ‚Äï Mayo Clinic in Florida has opened its Community Health Collaborative in downtown Jacksonville. The office aims to understand the healthcare needs of Mayo Clinic's neighbors and share health education and biomedical research that supports their needs. "Expanding Mayo Clinic's footprint into downtown Jacksonville with a dedicated space for community engagement and Mayo Clinic research teams, allows us to fully explore innovative solutions that address the communities' most pressing health issues," says Kent…

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2023-09-24). On the road again – thanks to collaborative cancer care. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org In a matter of months, Bill McDermott went from having abdominal pain and learning he had lymphoma to being told it was time for hospice care. What his family did next would steer him in an entirely different direction. Although he doesn't remember all of the details, Bill McDermott says he began having abdominal issues and pain in mid-2021. He went in for some tests at a local hospital, where he got a diagnosis…

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2023-09-24). Mayo Clinic and GE HealthCare enter strategic collaboration to advance innovation in medical imaging and theranostics. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org Combining the world-class clinical and research expertise of Mayo Clinic with the deep research, engineering, and product development expertise of GE HealthCare, this new collaboration aims to forge an integrated innovation engine to advance the practice of radiology and care to patients worldwide. ROCHESTER, Minn. ‚Äï Today, Mayo Clinic and GE HealthCare announce a strategic healthcare collaboration for research and product development programs aimed to transform the experience of patients and clinicians in the practice…

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2023-09-24). At-home COVID-19 tests: A Mayo Clinic expert answers questions on expiration dates and the new variants. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org COVID-19 at-home antigen test At-home COVID-19 tests allow you to collect your sample and detect active COVID-19 infections. But what if you have at-home COVID-19 tests nearing expiration or expired on your shelf? Matthew Binnicker, Ph.D., director of the Clinical Virology Laboratory at Mayo Clinic, says companies set the original test dates arbitrarily due to these diagnostic at-home tests being developed rapidly. So, check your boxes before you toss them. "Now that we are 3 1/2 years into…

teleSUR, JCM (2023-09-24). 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.

WSWS (2023-09-23). "School expenses are unbearable"—Students, parents and teachers denounce Sri Lankan government. wsws.org Government cuts and hyperinflation have led to a drastic rundown of education facilities and the increasing inability of parents to pay for the education of their children.

Animal Liberation Press Office (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.

Animal Liberation Press Office (2023-09-23). 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.

Kyle Anzalone (2023-09-23). House Speaker Reverses Course, Will Add Ukraine Funding to Defense Bill. news.antiwar.com House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) announced on Saturday that the House would vote on a Pentagon funding bill that includes aid for Ukraine. Initially, the Congressman said the $300 million in aid for Kyiv would be voted on separately from the annual Department of Defense spending bill. Congress is seeking to pass spending bills before …

Owen Fairclough (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.

Ralph Nader (2023-09-23). Insurers Can Be Sentinels for Health and Safety. dissidentvoice.org For nearly thirty-five years, a small nonprofit organization in Washington, D.C. has been having an outsized impact on highway and auto safety. It is Advocates for Highway and Auto Safety and it is funded by a dozen or more property-casualty insurance companies; with a board composed of consumer leaders and insurance company representatives. Its origins …

Editor (2023-09-24). System Change: An Ecosocialist Discussion on Environmental Crisis. socialistproject.ca The worst wildfire season in Canadian history, worsening environmental degradation, and the hottest week ever recorded. Amid the consequences of human impact on our planet becoming increasingly dire, large corporations — including the fossil fuel industry — continue to hold enormous sway over environmental policy and enjoy record levels of profit. Despite numerous international climate agreements and corporate pledges, market based solutions have failed at every stage to offer a credible way out of our current crisis. | It's in this moment that many in the environmental and climate justice moveme…

midwesternmarx (2023-09-23). NATO Destroyed Libya in 2011; Storm Daniel Came to Sweep Up the Remains: The Thirty-Eighth Newsletter By: Vijay Prashad. midwesternmarx.com Shefa Salem al-Baraesi (Libya), Drown on Dry Land, 2019. Dear friends,Greetings from the desk of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research.Three days before the Abu Mansur and Al Bilad dams collapsed in Wadi Derna, Libya, on the night of September 10, the poet Mustafa al-Trabelsi participated in a discussion at the Derna House of Culture about the neglect of basic infrastructure in his city. At the meeting, al-Trabelsi warned about the poor condition of the dams. As he …

midwesternmarx (2023-09-23). Ukraine lost around 85% of its initial mobilized force: Field general By: Al Mayadeen English. midwesternmarx.com

WSWS (2023-09-23). Hospital workers in Bay City, Michigan protest starvation wages. wsws.org Workers recently voted by 99 percent to authorize a strike, decisively rejecting the hospital's latest contract offer.

Chris Hedges, The Real News Network. (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…

Peoples Health Dispatch (2023-09-23). Capitalism is the greatest threat to public health, warn researchers and activists. peoplesdispatch.org During the opening of the 19th conference of the International Association of Health Policy Europe, academics and activists warned that capitalism remains biggest threat to human and planetary health…

Vijay Prashad, Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. (2023-09-23). NATO Destroyed Libya In 2011; Storm Daniel Came To Sweep Up The Remains. popularresistance.org Three days before the Abu Mansur and Al Bilad dams collapsed in Wadi Derna, Libya, on the night of September 10, the poet Mustafa al-Trabelsi participated in a discussion at the Derna House of Culture about the neglect of basic infrastructure in his city. At the meeting, al-Trabelsi warned about the poor condition of the dams. As he wrote on Facebook that same day, over the past decade his beloved city has been 'exposed to whipping and bombing, and then it was enclosed by a wall that had no door, leaving it shrouded in fear and depression'. Then, Storm Daniel picked up off the Mediterranean coast, dragged itself…

ecns.cn (2023-09-23). Purchasing limits eased to propel realty market. ecns.cn The latest adjustments to the home-purchasing restrictions policy and value-added tax exemption period in Guangzhou, Guangdong province, will better support local people in addressing housing issues through market-oriented methods and promote the recovery and development of the residential property market, local authorities and industry insiders said. | According to a notice issued by the local government on Wednesday evening, residents with local household registrations, or hukou, in the city's districts of Yuexiu, Haizhu, Liwan, Tianhe, Nansha and some areas in Baiyun district, can only purchase a maximum of tw…

Juan M. Garcia (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.

Franz Hinkelammert, Matthias Hui & B Dietschy (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.

Freedom Socialist Party (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

Internationalist 360 ∞ (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…

Franz Hinkelammert, Matthias Hui & B Dietschy (2023-09-23). 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.

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-09-23). The Success of Chinese Socialism. libya360.wordpress.com In the following article, originally published in the Young Communist League of Britain's Challenge magazine, Kate Woolford and Rares Cocilnau debunk some of the most persistent myths surrounding China's development. The first misconception discussed is that China is an undemocratic, "authoritarian" state. The authors point to China's system of whole-process people's democracy, "which allows citizens to…

Juan M. Garcia (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.

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Ben Norton (2023-09-21). Chinese balloon was not spying, US gov't admits months after manufactured crisis. geopoliticaleconomy.com The Pentagon admitted that a Chinese balloon that crossed into US territory in February was not spying; it was likely blown off course by wind. But Washington and the media milked this manufactured scandal for new cold war propaganda.

Jayati Ghosh (2023-09-20). Sri Lanka's dangerous domestic debt restructuring. mronline.org The recent bailout agreement between the International Monetary Fund and Sri Lanka fails to address the economy's structural problems. Instead, it focuses on highly regressive measures that disproportionately affect the working poor and are likely to exacerbate the country's ongoing debt distress.

Rhoda Wilson (2023-09-21). BRICS is part of the plan to reshape the world economy; it was launched decades ago by Goldman Sachs. expose-news.com On the Unchartered Territory Podcast, Dan Astin-Gregory and Sam X discussed globalisation, deglobalisation, centralisation, decentralisation and localisation. They began by discussing the global shift that appears to be on the horizon with …

Staff (2023-09-21). World Must Decarbonize Before "Point of No Return" on Climate Crisis: Colombian President Gustavo Petro. democracynow.org In Part 2 of our interview with Colombian President Gustavo Petro, he says climate change is a "vital matter" the world must address collectively. But unlike world trade, which is governed by a set of common rules, there is no organizing rubric for decarbonizing the world economy in time to prevent catastrophe. "There's no courts for this. There's no justice. So everybody can just slip by," Petro says. He says the amount of money rich countries have provided to hasten the clean energy transition falls far short of commitments made in the 2015 Paris Agreement and is a drop in th…

ecns.cn (2023-09-20). Representatives from 110 countries confirm participation in Belt and Road Forum: Chinese FM. ecns.cn Representatives from more than 110 countries have confirmed that they will attend the third Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation in Beijing in October, with preparations for the forum being well underway.

ecns.cn (2023-09-20). China files appeal over WTO ruling on countermeasures against U.S. tariffs. ecns.cn MOFCOM has said that the WTO expert panel's ruling contains legal errors regarding the report on the U.S. suing China over the latter's countermeasures against U.S. tariffs on steel and aluminum.

ecns.cn (2023-09-20). China cuts U.S. Treasury holdings in July to 14-year low. ecns.cn China cut its holdings for a fourth consecutive month in July to $821.8 billion, a 14-year low, data from the U.S. Treasury Department showed on Monday local time.

John Feffer (2023-09-20). More Butterflies, Fewer Billionaires: Unrigging the Global Economy. fpif.org In a fit of madness or just plain desperation, you've enrolled in a get-rich-quick scheme. All you have to do is sell some products, sign up some friends, make some phone calls. Follow that simple formula and you'll soon be pulling in tens of thousands of dollars a month — or so you've been promised anyway. And if you sell enough products, you'll be invited into the Golden Circle, which offers yet more perks like free concert tickets and trips to Las Vegas. | Still, I'm sure you won't be surprised to learn that there's a catch. If you don't sell a pile of products or sign up a ton of friends to do the sa…

Luis Linares Petrov (2023-09-20). Candidates for vice presidency of Argentina will hold a debate. plenglish.com Buenos Aires, Sep 20 (Prensa Latina) The vice presidential candidates from the main political forces in Argentina, will participate in a television debate on topics such as the economy, inflation and work.

midwesternmarx (2023-09-20). Intellectual Property, Knowledge Monopoly and the Rent Economy By: Prabir Purkayastha. midwesternmarx.com ​Neoliberalism privatised the rewards but socialised the risks of the patents system. Image Courtesy: Left Word The twentieth century saw the emergence of public funded universities and technical institutions, while technology development was concentrated in the R&D laboratories of large corporations. The age of the lone inventor—Edison, Siemens, Westinghouse, Graham Bell—had ended with the nineteenth century.1 The twentieth century was more about industry-bas …

Bob Bishop (2023-09-21). Could the Strategic Petroleum Reserve storage caverns collapse? sonar21.com Congress in 1975 enacted the Energy Policy and Conservation Act ("EPCA"), creating the Strategic Petroleum Reserve. The Act attempts to shield the U.S. economy from oil supply shocks, including those…

ecns.cn (2023-09-21). Chinese association urges EU to objectively view China's EV industry development. ecns.cn CPCA on Wednesday urged the EU to objectively view the development of China's electric vehicle (EV) industry, rather than arbitrarily use unilateral economic and trade tools to hinder the development Chinese EV products in Europe.

Rhoda Wilson (2023-09-21). Climate Related News: Wildfires, urban fires, climate change and economic depression have something in common but it is not CO2. expose-news.com Corporate media frequently spread conspiracy theories but this is never acknowledged. Corporate media also spreads propaganda according to the wishes of their paymasters. Propaganda which includes all things related to a "human-caused …

Staff (2023-09-21). Lift the Blockade on Venezuela & Cuba: Colombian President Petro Warns U.S. Sanctions Are Driving Migration. democracynow.org In Part 3 of our interview with leftist Colombian President Gustavo Petro, he describes how hard-line U.S. policies are preventing the Americas from addressing issues like migration, calling on the Biden administration to "open up a plural dialogue" to bring the region closer together. He notes many people moving through Latin America to seek asylum in the United States are from Venezuela, a country that has been devastated by U.S. sanctions. He calls for an end to punitive economic sanctions against both Venezuela and Cuba, both to slow migration and to address historic injustice. "The scars of…

Brett Wilkins (2023-09-20). GM, Ford Paid Average Combined Tax Rate of Just 1 Percent on $42B in Profits. truthout.org Despite reaping tens of billions of dollars in profits between them over the past five years, General Motors and Ford paid an average combined tax rate of just 1% on total pre-tax income, an analysis published Tuesday by economic justice advocates revealed — as the auto giants claimed they cannot afford striking workers' demands for better pay. The Americans for Tax Fairness (ATF) analysis — which… |

ecns.cn (2023-09-20). China-ASEAN Expo shines light on shared future. ecns.cn With closer economic and trade ties, China and member countries of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations are expected to embrace a brighter shared future.

Jim Hightower (2023-09-20). An Attack Weaker Than Near Beer. otherwords.org Oh, thank God for Ted Cruz! Once again, the far-right-wing U.S. senator is saving you and me from a political horror that doesn't exist. | This is Ted's specialty, for he seems unable to deal with the real economic and social problems that workaday people actually have. Thus, he constantly tries to divert attention by staging embarrassing political stunts, such as his furious fulminations against Big Bird, Mickey Mouse, and other fictional characters. | Unable to triumph over them, however, Cruz is now conjuring up entirely fictional conflicts to let him — a Harvard-educated elitist — pose as a hero o…

Julio Adamor (2023-09-20). Lula takes a stand before Joe Biden by condemning the embargo on Cuba. peoplesdispatch.org Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva's speech and that of US President Joe Biden at the opening ceremony of the 78th United Nations General Assembly shared many similarities: they talked about hunger in the world, social inequality, extreme environmental events such as climate change and the need to democratize the UN and global governance as a whole. But one topic was approached in quite different terms by the two presidents: the Caribbean countries, particularly the embargo on Cuba. | "Brazil will continue to reject measures taken without support from the UN Charter, such as the economic and financial…

Luis Linares Petrov (2023-09-20). Cuba receives signs of solidarity at the UN. plenglish.com The president of Brazil, Luiz Inacio Lula Da Silva, condemned the United States blockade against Cuba once again: "Brazil will continue to denounce measures taken without support of the UN Charter, such as the economic and financial blockade imposed on Cuba". He also spoke out against the attempts to classify Cuba as a state sponsoring terrorism. | The president of Bolivia, Luis Arce, also described the blockade as "inhumane and criminal," and criticized such coercive measures and the reprisals applied by hegemonic powers against the people in detriment of their development and most basic human rights. | Accordi…

midwesternmarx (2023-09-20). Pepe Escobar: Russia, North Korea Stage 'Strategic Coup' Against Western Hegemony. midwesternmarx.com It will take ages to unpack the silos of information inbuilt in the Eastern Economic Forum in Vladivostok last week, coupled with the — armored – train-keeps-a-rollin' conducted by North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un straddling every nook and cranny of Primorsky Krai.The key themes all reflect the four main vectors of the New Great Game as it's being played across the Global South: energy and energy resources; manufacturing and labor; market and trade rules; and logistics. But they go wa …

Peoples Dispatch (2023-09-20). A new and more just global contract is imperative, says Cuba's Miguel Díaz-Canel at UN General Assembly. peoplesdispatch.org Speaking at the UN General Assembly session, Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel stressed the need for "changes that can no longer be postponed in the midst of the unjust, irrational and abusive international economic order"

ecns.cn (2023-09-21). I disapprove politically motivated negative comments about China: Nobel Prize winner. ecns.cn Attending a forum to mark the 10th anniversary of China (Shanghai) Pilot Free Trade Zone, Christopher A Pissarides, the 2010 Nobel Prize winner in economics, delivered a speech on Wednesday. "ÄÄ…

Edward Hunt (2023-09-21). US Claims to Central Pacific Flout International Law. counterpunch.org In defiance of international norms and rules, U.S. officials are laying claim to the large oceanic area in the central Pacific Ocean that is home to the compact states. Now that they are renewing the economic provisions of the compacts of free association with Palau, the Marshall Islands, and the Federated States of Micronesia, U.S. officials are

Javier Arana Villasusa (2023-09-21). Venezuelan President recalls International Day of Peace. plenglish.com That is the path of the Bolivarian Republic and "we will always insist on building a world without hatred and violence, where human solidarity and social justice prevail," the head of State wrote on his X account, formerly Twitter. | The United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) declared September 21, 1981, as the International Day of Peace, with the goal of commemorating the ideals of peace of every people and every nation. | The date makes special emphasis on social and economic development on issues such as poverty, hunger, health care, education, climate change, gender equality, water, sanitation, electricity,…

Staff (2023-09-21). Colombian President Gustavo Petro on Ukraine, Palestine & Why Latin America Rejects Western Hypocrisy. democracynow.org Colombian President Gustavo Petro joins Democracy Now! for an exclusive broadcast interview after his address to the United Nations General Assembly in New York, where he spoke of the need to end wars and stop the climate crisis. Petro is the first leftist to ever govern Colombia. He was elected in 2022 after campaigning to fight inequality and poverty, increase taxes on the wealthy, expand social programs, restore peace and end Colombia's dependence on fossil fuels. He is a former M-19 guerrilla who went on to become the mayor of Bogotá and a senator before rising to the presidency. In Part 1 of the interv…

Peoples Dispatch (2023-09-20). Socialists in the Netherlands accuse government of failing to combat rising poverty. peoplesdispatch.org Proposals in the 2024 budget presented by the caretaker government on Prince's Day have been deemed as inadequate to mitigate the rise in poverty amid a severe cost of living and housing crisis…

WSWS (2023-09-20). Unite educators and all workers behind the autoworkers' strike! End poverty wages and unsafe conditions! wsws.org The strike by autoworkers against the Big Three automakers is part of a growing international wave of struggles against inflation, concessions and job losses.

WSWS (2023-09-21). Fed pauses rate increases but indicates more to come. wsws.org The Fed wants the unemployment rate to rise, with projections by members of the FOMC—the so-called dot plot—putting the jobless rate at 4.1 percent next year, up from its present level of 3.8 percent.

Helena Sheehan (2023-09-21). Marxism & Class. mronline.org The working class makes the world go round. The working class should not be positioned as the most vulnerable in need of help, but as those who labour and deserve a just distribution of the fruits of their labour.

WSWS (2023-09-21). New Zealand election debate points to bipartisan agenda of austerity and war. wsws.org The televised leaders' debate underscores that both the incumbent Labour Party and the opposition National Party are committed to strengthening New Zealand's role in the US-led war drive against China and Russia, while slashing spending on public services amid the worsening cost-of-living crisis.

Ann Garrison (2023-09-21). Amnesty International pushes regime change in Eritrea with dubious, unverifiable report. thegrayzone.com Amnesty's new report accusing Eritrea's government of gruesome war crimes relies entirely 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 fiercely 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 …

greenleft.org.au (2023-09-21). Housing activists say NSW Labor's budget fails the test. greenleft.org.au

greenleft.org.au (2023-09-21). Protesters call on Labor to protest Fukushima nuclear waste dumping. greenleft.org.au

Labor Video Project (2023-09-21). Zionists & Anti Zionists Protest Netanyahu In SF. indybay.org Zionists and Anti Zionists rallied in San Francisco at. Union Square. on. September. 18th to protest the visit of Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu.

Labor Video Project (2023-09-21). Stop Robo Trucks! IBT At Capitol Demand That Gov. Newsom Sign AB316: Chant Of "Fuck Gavin" indybay.org Hundreds of Teamsters from throughout California rallied at the State Capitol in Sacramento to demand that Governor Gavin Newsom sign AB 316 which requires a driver for trucks over 10,000 pounds.

Danielle J. Brown, Maryland Matters. (2023-09-20). Healthcare Workers In Maryland, Virginia And DC Authorize Strike. popularresistance.org Some 3,800 union healthcare workers in Maryland, Virginia and Washington, D.C., are threatening to go on strike at the end of this month if the leadership at Kaiser Permanente and the union cannot agree to a new contract addressing staffing shortages and low pay for workers. | According to a Monday statement from OPEIU Local 2, which represents 8,000 workers in the region, about 98% of health care workers from the union voted to authorize a strike to protest "unfair labor practices" if no agreement is reached by Sept. 30. | The health care workers represented by OPEIU Local 2 union include optometrists, pharmacis…

greenleft.org.au (2023-09-20). Protesters call on Labor to protest Fukushima nuclear waste dumping. greenleft.org.au

imperial.ac.uk (2023-09-20). Imperial and Indian Institute of Science driving innovative, high-impact science. imperial.ac.uk Imperial College London and Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore are collaborating on several highly innovative research projects.

Joe DeManuelle-Hall, Labor Notes. (2023-09-20). Don't Do The Boss Any Favors. popularresistance.org Management everywhere relies on workers "going the extra mile." We cut corners, we skip breaks, and we look the other way on common violations of the contract, work rules, or even safety. | But it's also possible, when the time is right, to just stop doing the boss these favors. After all, how often does management do workers a favor? | As they build momentum for a possible strike, General Motors worker Nick Livick in Kansas City reports that his co-workers are refusing to help management as they normally would. Instead they are waiting for direct orders, and stopping the line when management starts it up early a…

Keith Brower Brown, Jane Slaughter, Labor Notes. (2023-09-20). Work Extra During A Strike? Auto Workers Say 'Eight And Skate'. popularresistance.org Only 13,000 of 146,000 auto workers at the Big 3 companies are on strike, so far. But others still on the job are turning up the heat by refusing voluntary overtime. | At all three companies—Ford, General Motors, and Stellantis—Auto Workers (UAW) members have told Labor Notes about overtime refusals. Many Big 3 plants are hugely dependent on overtime to make up for understaffing. | Organizing on the shop floor and on Facebook, many auto workers unified so fast to do their part for the strike that they forced management to shut their plants for this entire past weekend. | That followed advice from top…

Labor Video Project (2023-09-20). Zionists & Anti Zionists Protest Netanyahu In SF. indybay.org Zionists and Anti Zionists rallied in San Francisco at. Union Square. on. September. 18th to protest the visit of Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu.

Labor Video Project (2023-09-20). Stop Robo Trucks! IBT At Capitol Demand That Gov. Newsom Sign AB316: Chant Of "Fuck Gavin" indybay.org Hundreds of Teamsters from throughout California rallied at the State Capitol in Sacramento to demand that Governor Gavin Newsom sign AB 316 which would require drivers of trucks over 10,000 pounds…

noreply (2023-09-20). Update On Sub Damage. smoothiex12.blogspot.com Which explains the cropping of surrounding in the photo, to avoid identification of the place which IS NOT Sevastopol–because it is photoshop. Russian submariners already pointed that out, especially this side "hole", plus, the "base photo" is taken from… the dock in either St. Petersburg or Kronshtadt. There your go–the "price" of Western "naval experts". Most likely the damage in a front of sail is the only thing which did happen, but I already elaborated on it.

People's Dispatch. (2023-09-20). Manifiesta 2023: 15,000 Voices Amplify Call For Solidarity And Hope. popularresistance.org Approximately 15,000 people gathered in Ostend, Belgium, on September 9-10 for the latest edition of the solidarity festival Manifiesta. This year's festival was an enormous success and featured additional programs designed to immerse visitors in the event. Music performances by Meteor and Axelle Red drew large crowds during the evenings, but so did Chris Smalls from the Amazon Labor Union, as he reminded listeners that the workers' struggle is "a marathon, rather than a sprint." | The experience of building the Amazon Labor Union serves as a practical example of the possibility of creating a different world, a m…

Prabir Purkayastha (2023-09-20). Is Intellectual Property Turning Into a Knowledge Monopoly? orinocotribune.com By Prabir Purkayastha — Sep 7, 2023 | The twentieth century saw the emergence of public funded universities and technical institutions, while technology development was concentrated in the R&D laboratories of large corporations. The age of the lone inventor Edison, Siemens, Westinghouse, Graham Bell had ended with the nineteenth century. The twentieth century was more about industry-based R&D laboratories, where corporations gathered together leading scientists and technologists to create the technologies of the future. In this phase, capital was still expanding production. Even though finance capital was al…

manager (2023-09-21). Off-the-Mark Media Coverage Aside, UAW Strike Shows the Time is Now for Workers to Unite. cepr.net The US is in the throes of a major resurgence of union drives and strike activity, and the "hot labor summer" seems poised to become a vibrant labor autumn. With private sector union membership at just 6.0 percent in 2022, the size and scope of the strikes are still far from what they were in …

teleSUR- hvh, DRL (2023-09-21). Sindicatos protestan contra nueva ley laboral en Grecia. telesurtv.net La ley presentada permite dos empleos a tiempo completo y establece un sexto día laboral en determinadas empresas.

teleSUR, JDO (2023-09-20). Denuncian éxodo de enfermeros de Puerto Rico a EE.UU. telesurtv.net Buscan mejorar sus condiciones laborales. Esta migración comenzó hace 20 años y se agudizó a partir de la pandemia de la Covid-19.

cameron orr (2023-09-21). Show solidarity with striking auto workers. cpusa.org The following letter was sent from the CPUSA Labor Commission to attendees of a "Solidarity with auto workers" event, hosted one day before the UAW's contract was set to expire. | Dear fellow worker, | It was great to see you at the "Solidarity with auto workers" online meeting last week. | We wanted to share with you some resources for solidarity action. | Many folks are introducing resolutions of support in their unions or other organizations.

Mark Gruenberg, John Wojcik (2023-09-21). Biden, Brazil's Lula unveil joint deal to promote workers' rights. peoplesworld.org NEW YORK—When Brazil's President Luíz Inacio "Lula" da Silva, replaced Jair Bolsinaro, the "Donald Trump of the Global South," as president of his country, the Biden administration had high hopes of being able to work with the newly-elected president. It has turned out that Biden and Lula, who leads his country's Workers Party, see eye …

Dana Sanchez (2023-09-21). Analyst On Real Estate Market: I'm More Concerned With HELOC Borrowing Than ARM Mortgages. moguldom.com Thanks to skyrocketing pandemic housing prices, Americans have an average of $200,000 in home equity and they're tapping into it in increasing numbers, using their No. 1 source of wealth to borrow against the value of real estate with home equity lines of credit. Home equity lines of credit or HELOCs have become more popular than cash-out …

E Lee C (2023-09-21). Back The Blue Until It Happens To You. indybay.org On June 1, 2023, a troubling incident unfolded at a Milpitas, California, 24 Hour Fitness location, prompting a determined pursuit of justice. The incident involved harassment and intimidation, with the victim seeking help from the police, only to have their cry ignored by a dispatcher. When officers arrived, they displayed hostility, detaining and confiscating personal items from the victim. Allegations of false accusations and corruption emerged, suggesting collusion with juveniles and potential financial ties. The victim was subsequently arrested without cause, faced false charges, and endured injuries. Seekin…

Kit Klarenberg (2023-09-21). Intel-linked UK official pushing censorship of Russell Brand. thegrayzone.com The author of letters to social media companies demanding the financial punishment of Russell Brand is a British lawmaker implicated in London's war on Covid-19 and Ukraine dissenters. Her husband was a commander in the Army's psy-ops division. Allegations of sexual impropriety and abuse by comedian and podcaster Russell Brand by the British media prompted YouTube to demonetize the star's popular channel on September 20. The Grayzone can now reveal that YouTube's financial censorship of Brand is the result of …

Block the Streets (2023-09-20). Round Two: Protest at Hilton where TERFs are Convening. indybay.org Sustained protest in action! Following a Noon to 2pm demo in front of the Hilton in San Francisco's Financial District, a second more radical round of action from 2pm lasted about 4 hours on Sept 16.

Brett Wilkins, Common Dreams. (2023-09-20). Climate Defenders Arrested While Blocking Entry To NY Federal Reserve. popularresistance.org A day after tens of thousands of climate activists marched through Manhattan's Upper East Side demanding an end to oil, gas, and coal production, thousands more demonstrators hit the streets of Lower Manhattan Monday, where more than 100 people were arrested while surrounding the Federal Reserve Bank of New York to protest fossil fuel financing. | Protesters chanted slogans like "No oil, no gas, fossil fuels can kiss my ass" and "We need clean air, not another billionaire" as they marched from Zuccotti Park—ground zero of the 2011 Occupy Wall Street movement—to pre-selected sites in the Financial Dist…

E Lee C (2023-09-20). Back The Blue Until It Happens To You. indybay.org On June 1, 2023, a troubling incident unfolded at a Milpitas, California, 24 Hour Fitness location, prompting a determined pursuit of justice. The incident involved harassment and intimidation, with the victim seeking help from the police, only to have their cry ignored by a dispatcher. When officers arrived, they displayed hostility, detaining and confiscating personal items from the victim. Allegations of false accusations and corruption emerged, suggesting collusion with juveniles and potential financial ties. The victim was subsequently arrested without cause, faced false charges, and endured injuries. Seekin…

Global Research News (2023-09-20). Selected Articles: G77 Rejects "Digital Monopolies" and Calls for "Reform" of the Financial System. globalresearch.ca By Cuban President…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-09-20). UN General Assembly: Global South Leaders Call for Urgent Reforms in Multilateral Institutions. libya360.wordpress.com Peoples Dispatch UN Secretary General António Guterres speaks at the the 78th session of the UN General Assembly at the UN headquarters in New York, September 19, 2023. (Photo: Xinhua/Li Rui) Reforms in multilateral institutions, both political and financial, must reflect the need of the changing world which is multipolar and against hegemonic practices, leaders…

Peoples Dispatch (2023-09-20). At UN General Assembly session, Global South leaders call for urgent reforms in multilateral institutions. peoplesdispatch.org Reforms in multilateral institutions, both political and financial, must reflect the need of the changing world which is multipolar and against hegemonic practices, leaders from the Global South said at the UN General Assembly said…

Ryan Grim, Murtaza Hussain, Orinoco Tribune. (2023-09-20). US Helped Pakistan Get IMF Bailout With Secret Arms Deal For Ukraine. popularresistance.org Secret Pakistani arms sales to the U.S. helped to facilitate a controversial bailout from the International Monetary Fund earlier this year, according to two sources with knowledge of the arrangement, with confirmation from internal Pakistani and American government documents. The arms sales were made for the purpose of supplying the Ukrainian military — marking Pakistani involvement in a conflict it had faced U.S. pressure to take sides on. | The revelation is a window into the kind of behind-the-scenes maneuvering between financial and political elites that rarely is exposed to the public, even as the pub…

infobrics (2023-09-20). India expels Canadian diplomat as relations continue to deteriorate over Khalistan. infobrics.org Trudeau's popularity declines as inflation and unaffordability spikes.

Matt Stoller (2023-09-20). The Missing Inflation Data. levernews.com

Luis Linares Petrov (2023-09-21). Argentina: candidates for vicepresidents held debates. plenglish.com Buenos Aires, Sep 21 (Prensa Latina) A debate, held on Wednesday, between the candidates for vice presidents of the five parties that will compete in the general elections on October 22nd in Argentina, was focused on inflation, security, work, the role of the State, the defense of human rights and the impact of the debt with the International Monetary Fund (IMF).

Lindsay Koshgarian, Alliyah Lusuegro (2023-09-20). Climate Is the Fight of Our Lifetime. Our Federal Budget Should Reflect That. fpif.org More than half of discretionary spending goes to the military. Only a tiny fraction addresses the most urgent threat to our security.

WSWS (2023-09-20). Far-right Republicans block short-term funding proposal, increasing chance of government shutdown. wsws.org Political warfare between Trump-aligned members of the House Freedom Caucus and Speaker Kevin McCarthy over proposed spending cuts is driving the government towards a shutdown at the end of the month.

Jake Johnson (2023-09-21). House GOP unveils budget with trillions in cuts to medicaid, food benefits, and more. nationofchange.org The Republican proposal would cut federal discretionary spending by nearly $5 trillion over the next decade.

ecns.cn (2023-09-20). Greater scope likely for energy, renewables biz with Arab nations. ecns.cn China and Arab nations, which have cooperated in the oil and gas sector for decades, should continue to expand investments in energy and promote the development of new energy business including solar and wind power.

David Starr (2023-09-21). BRICS Attempts to Establish Multi-Polar World, Rejecting U.S.-dominated Uni-Polar World. covertactionmagazine.com On August 22-24, the BRICS organization (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) held its 15th Summit in Johannesburg, South Africa. BRICS Chairman Cyril Ramaphosa, who is president of South Africa, made concluding remarks about the Summit in a media briefing: "Leading up to the Summit, there was a wide-ranging BRICS business program aimed at attracting investment, …

Editor (2023-09-21). Sep 21, 2023. sitrepworld.info ‚ô´ Simple Man — Lynyrd Skynyrd Lavrov's Devastating UNSC Presentation, by Karl Sanchez War Profiteers Are A Sign Of A Profoundly Sick Society, by Caitlin Johnstone So They Want Negotiations, Now. Have they any idea what they are talking about? by Aurelien A spiritual warrior against the empire of greed, by Paul Cudenec The Worst Global Food Crisis In Modern History, About To Go To An Entirely New Level, by Michael Snyder The west destroyed Africa, Eurasia will revive it, by Matthew Ehret How Not to Launch a Global Anti-Censorship Movement, by CJ Hopkins Iranian President Raisi addresses th…

Zane McNeill (2023-09-20). Citizen Groups Sue EPA for Using Black Neighborhoods as "Sacrifice Zones" truthout.org Environmental citizen groups in Louisiana, West Virginia and Texas are suing the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) after Black communities in these states were excluded from an effort to tighten regulations regarding cancer-causing air pollution. The lawsuit alleges that majority-Black communities in these states are disproportionately burdened with facilities that are major sources of… |

midwesternmarx (2023-09-20). Elliot Abrams Was a CIA Agent According to Daughter of CIA-Mafia Liaison By: Jeremy Kuzmarov. midwesternmarx.com Appointment of Abrams to Public Diplomacy Commission Shows President Biden's Close Ties to the CIA In September 1998, Desiree A. Ferdinand gave a sworn deposition, in a case filed with the U.S. District Court of Massachusetts, detailing the career of her father, Colonel Albert V. Carone, an army intelligence officer in World War II who she claimed was a CIA liaison with organized crime.​Ferdinand testified in a civil suit brought against the CIA and then-Vice President and fo …

Caitlin A. Johnstone (2023-09-21). Capitalism is a giant scam. mronline.org Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Caitlin Johnstone): One of the most formative moments of my life was when I was running a small eco blog called Earth Mums in the mid-00s which focused on consumer solutions to the problem of environmental destruction. Back then I still believed that while capitalism was…

Mike Pappas, Left Voice. (2023-09-20). The Housing Crisis And Migrant Crisis Are Crises Of Capitalism. popularresistance.org New York City mayor Eric Adams declared in August that there is "no room" in the city for hundreds of migrants being forced to sleep on the street because shelters are already crowded and in disrepair. The mayor initially encouraged those seeking shelter to "consider another city" as they struggled to survive. Adams announced plans to house as many as 2,000 in a tent complex on Randalls Island and later designated space on an airfield to house asylum seekers. These spaces are identified, as the claim goes, that the city simply doesn't have housing space for those seeking asylum, especially because it is already d…

Bill Fletcher, Jr. (2023-09-21). Amilcar Cabral in the age of 'identity politics'. therealnews.com During his life, Bissau-Guinean revolutionary Amilcar Cabral co-founded the PAIGC and dedicated his life to the liberation of his native Guinea and Cape Verde from Portuguese colonialism and capitalism-imperialism. One of his most celebrated works, Return to the Source, has recently been republished by Monthly Review Press. To mark this occasion, Polly Gaster began to wor…

Industrial Workers of the World (2023-09-21). Three Peet's Cafes Organize with IWW in California. itsgoingdown.org Report on successful union organizing campaign in the bay area of so-called California at Peet's Cafe chain stores by the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW). Three Peet's Coffee shops in Berkeley and Oakland, California, United States, won their campaign to form a union with the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW). On June 9,…

Dana Sanchez (2023-09-20). Crypto Pioneer Arthur Hayes Brings Attention To Capital Flight From China: 5 Things To Know. moguldom.com Arthur Hayes, the co-founder of the BitMEX crypto exchange with a passion for Bitcoin, brought attention to capital flight from China in a recent Twitter thread, expressing his hopes that some of the money that has left the country "finds its way to Lord Satoshi and $BTC". At its height in 2019, BitMEX was worth …

Jorge Alemán (2023-09-21). Argentina — Coartada neoliberal. globalizacion.ca Veo en la TV argentina a un politólogo italiano Loris Zanatta entrevistado por Carlos Pagni, ambos situándose como dos liberales encantados de conocerce en su afinidad ideológica. | Segun Zanatta, el kirchnerismo y el fenómeno Milei vuelven a repetir un ciclo…

Editor (2023-09-20). Degrowth and ecosocialist revolution. mronline.org It is becoming increasingly clear that humanity cannot resolve the anthropogenic ecological crises without radically restructuring our social relations—a consensus shared by the degrowth movement and revolutionary socialism. Panel Discussion at Socialism 2023…

Staff (2023-09-21). Colombian President Gustavo Petro Denounces U.S. Intervention in Americas, from Chilean Coup to Drug War. democracynow.org Colombian President Gustavo Petro says the U.S.-backed coup in Chile 50 years ago, when General Augusto Pinochet deposed socialist President Salvador Allende, left a lasting scar across Latin America. Many progressives took up arms against corrupt governments, often led by "Nazis," Petro says, fueling decades of conflict that is only now beginning to fade. "Today, having closed out that cycle of weapons and violence, we need to rethink democracy," Petro told Democracy Now! in an exclusive interview this week at Colombia's Permanent Mission to the United Nations in New York. He also d…

Freedom Socialist Party (2023-09-20). Tuesday 9/19: 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

Peoples Dispatch (2023-09-20). "France out of Africa, US and NATO too!" Activists picket the UNGA. peoplesdispatch.org On Tuesday September 19, the opening day of the United Nations General Assembly, anti-imperialist activists rallied outside the UN Headquarters in New York City to demand that France end its imperialist meddling in West Africa and the Sahel. Organizers with the Party for Socialism and Liberation, the December 12th Movement, Bridging Africa and Black America, and others denounced the neocolonial policies of the European nation and voiced solidarity and support to Burkina Faso, Mali, Guinea, and Niger, which recently underwent coups opposing French neocolonialism. Activists demanded that France end its neocolonial…

WSWS (2023-09-20). "It's almost like we are in a civil war between the rich and the poor": Autoworkers respond to Will Lehman's Newsweek op-ed. wsws.org Autoworkers have responded with enthusiasm to the editorial written by the Pennsylvania Mack Trucks worker and socialist candidate for UAW president in 2021.

WSWS (2023-09-21). The role of Security and the Fourth International in the fight for the continuity of the International Committee of the Fourth International. wsws.org The following lecture was delivered by Eric London, a leading member of the Socialist Equality Party (US), to the SEP (US) International Summer School, held between July 30 and August 4, 2023.

Amanda Yee (2023-09-21). The Korean War Continues With Biden's Renewal of Travel Ban to North Korea. socialistproject.ca On August 22, the US State Department

Joanna Straughn, Everett, Sara Flounders (2023-09-21). Summer Smith was 'guided by a great feeling of love'. workers.org Summer Smith, a communist organizer, mother and educator died after a long battle with cancer on Aug. 10, 2023, in Salt Lake City, Utah, at the age of 41. She is survived by her daughter, Violet. Summer Smith at Wells Fargo protest for workers rights, Salt Lake City, Jan. 1, . . . |

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