presstv.ir (2024-08-25). UAE's support of Israeli economy and militarism. presstv.ir The UAE has allotted $10 billion for direct investment in the Zionist entity in compliance with the US-guided Abraham Accords.

ecns.cn (2024-08-25). More internationalized yuan a growing reality. ecns.cn The RMB remained the fourth most active currency for global payments by value for the ninth consecutive month in July. Overall, RMB payment value increased by 13.37 percent from that in June, SWIFT said.

ecns.cn (2024-08-25). China, Belarus eye deepening cooperation in trade, innovation. ecns.cn China and Belarus have set out priorities for future bilateral cooperation during Premier Li Qiang's first visit to the country as Chinese premier, vowing greater efforts in promoting trade and investment, scientific innovation, infrastructure connectivity and other fields.

ecns.cn (2024-08-25). Optimized real estate policies benefit millions. ecns.cn A senior housing official in China said on Friday that by the end of last year, the per capita housing construction area in urban areas in China exceeded 40 square meters.

presstv.ir (2024-08-25). Iran's relative advantages for export of agricultural goods. presstv.ir Iran's reliance on oil revenues have made its foreign exchange income and economy prone to oil price fluctuations, indicating how it is important to diversify export products and promote non-oil trade.

David S. D'Amato (2024-08-25). Economic Warfare and the Chokehold of Empire. counterpunch.org

ecns.cn (2024-08-25). China extradites ponzi suspect from Thailand. ecns.cn The Ministry of Public Security announced on Friday that its "Fox Hunt" working group successfully extradited a major economic crime suspect surnamed Zhang, who was allegedly involved in organizing and leading pyramid scheme activities, from Thailand back to China on Tuesday evening.

Tomasz Konicz (2024-08-25). Crisis Beyond the Bubble. indybay.org The speculative air is slowly leaking out of the global valorization machine — but hardly anyone seems to have noticed. At the beginning of 2024, the World Bank warned of a "lost decade," the worst economic performance in more than 30 years. Without a "major course correction," the 2020s will go down as a "decade of missed opportunities,"

Juan M. Garcia (2024-08-25). Cuba reaffirms solidarity with Venezuela and Nicolas Maduro. plenglish.com Havana, Aug 25 (Prensa Latina) Cuba's Committees for the Defense of the Revolution (CDR) reaffirmed their militant solidarity with Venezuela and President Nicolas Maduro, who was reelected on July 28. In a statement issued on Saturday, Cuba's largest mass organization stressed that the Venezuelan people defied the roadblocks, riots, economic sabotage and international press campaigns to ignore the results of these elections.

newleftreview (2024-08-25). Radhika Desai: Peak Hindutva? newleftreview.org As Modi's BJP loses its overall majority, Radhika Desai examines the part played by India's capitalist conglomerates in his rise—and the contradictions on which their strategy has foundered. The economic crisis of the parched countryside as brake on Hindutva's forward march.

NEOB (2024-08-25). Lives will improve in Ekurhuleni, vows government. sanews.gov.za Lives will improve in Ekurhuleni, vows government | Government is committed to improving the lives of residents of the City of Ekurhuleni Municipality through interventions including "expanded support for small businesses and intensified efforts to spare communities from crime". | Other interventions will be in security of tenure for people living and working on farms, and much needed repairs to major roadways that serve as economic arteries to the municipality. | On Friday, President Cyril Ramaphosa led a District Development Model Presidential Imbizo in the municipality. | READ |

UMMID (2024-08-25). Google's (Illegal) Search Monopoly. ummid.com Google, the world's most conspicuous and dominant behemoths of Silicon Valley, was found to be operating an illegal monopoly in internet search and advertising markets, thereby breaching the Sherman Act.

Kristen Mosbrucker-Garza (2024-08-25). Will Philly's car-free streets boost business? Some retailers will find out in September. whyy.org Have a question about Philly's neighborhoods or the systems that shape them? PlanPhilly reporters want to hear from you! Center City's Rittenhouse Square neighborhood will get a temporary pedestrian-only zone next month over four consecutive Sundays starting on September 8. | And there are about 50 retail storefronts along the stretch between 15th and 19th Streets along Walnut Street. There are no mobile food trucks, street vendors or pop-up markets — only existing retailers can participate. | The retail corridor…

newleftreview (2024-08-25). Owen Hatherley: Labourism: In and Against? newleftreview.org Owen Hatherley on Andy Beckett, The Searchers. Interlinked portraits of the Labour Party's Bennite bloc, from 1968 to the Corbyn leadership.

UFCLP (2024-08-25). Monday 9/2: On 2024 Labor Day: Bust The Union Busters & Racists At Fremont Elon Musk's Tesla Plant! indybay.org Tesla Fremont Assembly Plant | Industrial Drive & Fremont Blvd | Fremont, CA…

noemail (2024-08-25). Chris Hemsworth Joins Ed Sheeran Onstage: A Rocking Collaboration! devdiscourse.com Beyond his acclaimed acting career, Chris Hemsworth has revealed another talent: drumming. The actor made a surprising appearance at Ed Sheeran's concert in Bucharest, Romania, dazzling an estimated 70,000 fans with his drum performance, reported Variety.

Staff (2024-08-25). teleSUR anuncia el concurso "Sur Influyente" telesurtv.net El concurso invita a jóvenes, mayores de edad, creadores de contenidos a elaborar piezas audiovisuales de máximo 60 segundos en formato vertical (9: 16).

NEOB (2024-08-25). Hawks committed to fighting serious crime. sanews.gov.za Hawks committed to fighting serious crime | The National Head of the Directorate for Priority Crime Investigation (DPCI), Lieutenant General Godfrey Lebeya, has assured South Africans that the Hawks, as the directorate is known, are committed to the mandate of "investigating, preventing and combating national priority offences". | Lebeya was speaking during a media briefing to outline progress and take stock of milestones achieved during the first quarter of financial year 2024/2025. | "…We note that the fight against national priority offences remains an ongoing challenge that requires sustained commitment and…

noemail (2024-08-25). CBI Launches Major Probe into Financial Irregularities at RG Kar Medical College. devdiscourse.com The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Sunday initiated search operations at the premises of former RG Kar Medical College principal Sandip Ghosh, ex-MSVP Sanjay Vashisth, and 13 others in Kolkata, officials confirmed. This move is part of an investigation into alleged financial irregularities at the respected medical college.

ecns.cn (2024-08-25). EU probe into China EV makers 'not transparent'. ecns.cn Shi Yonghong, vice-president of the China Chamber of Commerce for Import and Export of Machinery and Electronic Products, told China Daily in an exclusive interview that under the new Foreign Subsidies Regulation, the European Union will conduct in-depth investigations into local investments in industries that it suspects of receiving foreign subsidies.

Rhoda Wilson (2024-08-25). When did the Globalists' plan to enslave the world using chronic illness begin? expose-news.com Many writers in the resistance try to figure out when the crisis began — the crisis being that global monopoly capitalism is trying to enslave the entire developed world via chronic illness. …

newleftreview (2024-08-25). Cédric Durand: Landscapes of Capital. newleftreview.org A critical engagement with the work of Brett Christophers, whose books—The New Enclosure, Rentier Capitalism, Our Lives in Their Portfolios and The Price Is Wrong—unfold a novel critique of the 'rentier stage' of contemporary capitalism, in the tradition of radical historical geography developed by Lefebvre, Harvey and Davis.

Paramjit Singh (2024-08-25). Peasants and Politics in Neoliberal India: The 2020-21 Peasant Movement. cadtm.org

ecns.cn (2024-08-25). Official urges study of Deng Xiaoping Theory. ecns.cn A senior Communist Party of China official has called on scholars to further study and apply Deng Xiaoping Theory and firm up confidence in socialism with Chinese characteristics in order to make greater contributions to building a strong country and realizing national rejuvenation.

Juan M. Garcia (2024-08-25). Cuban president congratulates Frei Betto on his 80th birthday. plenglish.com From #Cuba, where he is admired and loved for his contribution to the understanding of Church-State relations in his book "Fidel and Religion," and for his unwavering defense of the Socialist Revolution and his work for social justice, we congratulate brother Frei Betto on his 80th birthday, the president wrote. | Carlos Alberto Libanio Christo, known as Frei Betto (Belo Horizonte, 1944), is one of the greatest exponents of liberation theology. He is the author of some 60 books in various literary genres, and has supported liberation movements in Latin America. | Frei Betto is also an advisor to social movements…

ecns.cn (2024-08-25). Leadership highlights development of western region. ecns.cn The leadership of the Communist Party of China has reiterated the need to push forward the national strategy for the development of China's western region to enhance its overall strength and sustainable development capabilities, according to a key Party meeting on Friday.

ecns.cn (2024-08-25). CPC leadership reviews measures on western region's development. ecns.cn The Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee held a meeting on Friday to review policies and measures to open up a new vista in the large-scale development of the western region.

newarab (2024-08-23). Algerian fuel tanker on mercy mission to power-short Lebanon. newarab.com An Algerian oil tanker set sail Thursday for power-hungry Clashes in Lebanon's south since last October has only added to the troubles of a country which is politically largely rudderless, whose economy collapsed five years ago and where Prime Mini…

Paul Craig Roberts (2024-08-23). Paul Craig Roberts: Defeat for Israel? What the Media Isn't Telling You! — NATO's Devastating Gamble. thealtworld.com Paul Craig Roberts (PCR) has had careers in scholarship and academia, journalism, public service, and business. He is chairman of The Institute for Political Economy. | President Reagan appointed Dr. Roberts Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy and he was confirmed in office by the U.S. Senate. From 1975 to 1978, Dr. Roberts served on the congressional staff where he drafted the Kemp-Roth bill and played a leading role in developing bipartisan support for a supply-side economic policy. After leaving the Treasury, he served as a consultant to the U.S. Department of Defense and the U.S. Departmen…

aljazeera (2024-08-23). Gaza war extends toll on Israel's economy. aljazeera.com Combat operations are straining Israel's economy, leading to shrinking of the GDP and downgrading of sovereign rating.

aljazeera (2024-08-23). Nepal lifts TikTok ban after blocking app over 'social harmony' concerns. aljazeera.com Move comes weeks after Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli was sworn into office following collapse of previous government.

aljazeera (2024-08-23). Transgender woman's ban from female-only app discriminatory, court rules. aljazeera.com Australian judge orders trans woman be paid $6,700 in compensation over exclusion from Giggle for Girls networking app.

aljazeera (2024-08-23). Canada intervenes to end freight rail shutdown triggered by labour dispute. aljazeera.com Ottawa orders railroads to enter arbitration with labour union to avert prolonged disruption to services.

ecns.cn (2024-08-23). China and Belarus new trade agreement to establish mutual openness. ecns.cn China and Belarus signed a trade agreement in services and investment on Thursday to further enhance their business ties, said China's Ministry of Commerce.

ecns.cn (2024-08-22). China and Belarus new trade agreement to establish mutual openness. ecns.cn China and Belarus signed a trade agreement in services and investment on Thursday to further enhance their business ties, said China's Ministry of Commerce.

ecns.cn (2024-08-23). Unlock Chinese Cities: Ancient city ignites night economy. ecns.cn In Central China's Henan Province lies an ancient city Luoyang, hailed as the Divine Capital. It's one of the Eight Great Ancient Capitals, a cradle of Chinese civilization. The centuries-old Luoyang historical and cultural block is a must-visit spot for tourists who come to this central Chinese city.

ecns.cn (2024-08-23). Per capita residential construction area in urban areas exceeds 40 square meters. ecns.cn Per capita residential construction area in China's urban areas exceeded 40 square meters by the end of 2023: housing and urban-rural development authorities.

ecns.cn (2024-08-22). Unlock Chinese Cities: Ancient city ignites night economy. ecns.cn In Central China's Henan Province lies an ancient city Luoyang, hailed as the Divine Capital. It's one of the Eight Great Ancient Capitals, a cradle of Chinese civilization. The centuries-old Luoyang historical and cultural block is a must-visit spot for tourists who come to this central Chinese city.

ecns.cn (2024-08-22). Per capita residential construction area in urban areas exceeds 40 square meters. ecns.cn Per capita residential construction area in China's urban areas exceeded 40 square meters by the end of 2023: housing and urban-rural development authorities.

WSWS (2024-08-23). Gold price reaches record high. wsws.org Another clear sign of the growing instability in the US and global economy and financial system.

hindustantimes (2024-08-23). Fresh Headache For Israel, Electricity Crisis Set To Worsen Amid Global Anger Over Gaza War | Watch. hindustantimes.com Just days after Colombia halted coal exports to Israel, similar demands erupted in South Africa. Anti-Israel protesters on August 22 gathered outside offices of Glencore coal in Johannesburg. Protesters demanded that the company end its economic relations with Israel. The protest occurred days after Colombia suspended coal exports to Israel on August 19. Watch for more.

Eve Ottenberg (2024-08-23). Economic War with China is a Losing Proposition. counterpunch.org It's always better to do business with people than to pick fights with them. But this piece of common sense seems to have dropped out of the brains — if they have them — of American congressional and white house leaders. During his presidential tenure, Donald "The Tariff Man" Trump slapped tariffs on washing machines, aluminum, steel, solar panels and other goods, totaling $380 billion worth of trade from China, the U.S.'s third biggest trading partner. That amounted to a tax increase of $80 billion. Not to be outdone in the stupidity sweepstakes, Joe "Copycat" Biden added his tariffs. They affected b…

Tomasz Konicz (2024-08-23). Crisis Beyond the Bubble. indybay.org The speculative air is slowly leaking out of the global valorization machine — but hardly anyone seems to have noticed. At the beginning of 2024, the World Bank warned of a "lost decade," the worst economic performance in more than 30 years. Without a "major course correction," the 2020s will go down as a "decade of missed opportunities,"

Abdul Rahman (2024-08-23). Afghans continue to bear the cost of two decades of US occupation. peoplesdispatch.org Three years since the defeat and withdrawal of the US from Afghanistan, the people of the country face extreme economic difficulties and deteriorating human rights…

Elsy Fors Garzon (2024-08-23). Russian and Armenian leaders discuss Armenian-Azerbaijani relations. plenglish.com According to the communication, both leaders referred to the steps taken to guide relations between Yerevan and Baku, including the recent dialogue between Putin and Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev during the former's official visit to the South Caucasian nation. | The Russian head of state confirmed Moscow's willingness to continue providing assistance to Yerevan and Baku to "develop a peace agreement, promote the process of delimitation and demarcation of the border, as well as unblock transport and logistics connections." | Putin and Pashinyan also discussed bilateral trade and economic cooperation and note…

Maria Calvo (2024-08-23). Medios de Prensa en Cuba explican nuevas medidas económicas. radiohc.cu La Habana, 23 ago (RHC) El medio de Prensa digital, Cubadebate relata hoy con detalle las nuevas medidas económicas aplicadas en el país, con la finalidad de abrir el camino hacia soluciones a los problemas de esta nación.

WSWS (2024-08-23). Australian "Closing the Gap" report reveals worsening conditions for Aboriginal youth and workers. wsws.org Regardless of token official apologies for injustices and the Labor government's posturing of concern during its failed indigenous Voice referendum campaign, economic and social conditions are deteriorating.

Staff (2024-08-23). Los municipios podrán aprobar nuevos actores económicos. cubadebate.cu El proceso de descentralización de la facultad de aprobación de nuevos actores y otras autorizaciones a los municipios es coherente con la autonomía municipal que se prevé en la Constitución del año 2019. Se ha previsto un proceso de 180 días en el que se irán incorporando paulatinamente los municipios que ya tengan las condiciones técnicas y el personal preparado para ello.

WSWS (2024-08-23). Increased mortgage rates push 320,000 UK adults into poverty. wsws.org The Institute for Fiscal Studies has highlighted the damage being caused by an exploding mortgage timebomb, with those renewing their home loans, or having to take out new loans in the past two years experiencing a sharp fall in their disposable income.

Labor Video Project (2024-08-23). Thousand of Chicago Protesters at DNC Oppose Harris Biden US Supported Israeli Genocide. indybay.org Thousands of people rallied in Chicago to protest the continuing genocide supported by the Democratic Party and the Harris Biden administration.

UFCLP (2024-08-23). Monday 9/2: On 2024 Labor Day: Bust The Union Busters & Racists At Fremont Elon Musk's Tesla Plant! indybay.org Tesla Fremont Assembly Plant | Industrial Drive & Fremont Blvd | Fremont, CA…

Pablo Rafael Fuentes (2024-08-23). La mujer cubana es protagonista de su destino. radiohc.cu La Habana, 23 ago (RHC) El General de Ejército Raúl Castro Ruz, líder de la Revolución Cubana, envió un mensaje de felicitación ´a todas las federadas cubanas por la labor heroica que han desarrollado en estos 64 años, por lo que han hecho y continúan haciendo ª, informó en la red social X la Secretaria General de la Federación de Mujeres Cubanas.

Maria Calvo (2024-08-23). FMC, incansable labor a favor de las mujeres cubanas. radiohc.cu Hoy, 23 de agosto, llega a un nuevo aniversario una organización que desde su creación, un año después del triunfo revolucionario de enero de 1959, promovió un cambio radical en la vida de todas las cubanas.

Maria Calvo (2024-08-23). Agradecen en Vietnam valiosa y generosa ayuda de Cuba. radiohc.cu Hanoi, 23 ago (RHC) La valiosa y generosa ayuda brindada por Cuba tanto en la batalla por la liberación y unificación nacional, como en la actual labor de construcción y protección de la Patria, fue agradecida hoy en un acto realizado hoy en esa norteña provincia, a propósito del 71 aniversario del asalto al cuartel Moncada…

Staff (2024-08-23). teleSUR anuncia el concurso "Sur Influyente" telesurtv.net El concurso invita a jóvenes, mayores de edad, creadores de contenidos a elaborar piezas audiovisuales de máximo 60 segundos en formato vertical (9: 16).

newarab (2024-08-23). Egypt govt hikes electricity prices by 40% to cut subsidy bill. newarab.com The A source at the electricity ministry told Mada Masr on Thursday that the increases will be made public soon on the Egyptian Electric Utility and Consumer Protection Regulatory Agency's official website. | The planned electricity price increases have been delayed several times in recent years ov…

aljazeera (2024-08-23). Under the radar, Ireland is helping illegal Israeli settlements do business. aljazeera.com If it is to maintain its pro-Palestinian rights reputation, Ireland must end its financial ties to settlements.

newarab (2024-08-23). US unveils sweeping sanctions against Russia's defense sector. newarab.com The US imposed sweeping sanctions Friday on hundreds of firms in Russia and across Europe, Asia and the Middle East, accusing them of providing products and services that enable Russia's war effort and aiding its ability to evade sanctions. | Among those sanctioned by the Treasury Department were 60 Russian-based technology and defense companies, including three Russian financial tech companies. | Also sanctioned were firms in Turkey, France and Hong Kong that act as suppliers to Russia-based Promtekh, a wholesale distributor of transportation equipment, and an ammunition procurement network connected to Itali…

Manasi Karthik (2024-08-23). Kenya Protests: A Wake-Up Call to a Failing International Financial Architecture. fpif.org Protests ignited by recent

C.J. Polychroniou (2024-08-23). Interest Rate Cuts Now Could Help Workers. But That's Not Who the Fed Serves. truthout.org The Federal Reserve hasn't changed interest rates since July of last year, after 11 hikes between March 2022 and July 2023 in the hope that higher borrowing costs would slow down consumer and business demand so inflation rates would drop. It kept the benchmark interest rate unchanged in its latest meeting ending July 31, 2024, but Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said that the first rate cut in… |

aljazeera (2024-08-23). Argentina's Milei to veto pension reform to push through austerity measures. aljazeera.com The Senate defied the president by approving a pension increase to match the country's triple-digit inflation rate.

Germán Gorraiz López (2024-08-23). China and the new US nuclear strategy. pressenza.com The Anglo-Jewish axis would outline for the next five years a plan that would involve the recovery of the role of the US as a world gendarme through an extraordinary increase in US military interventions abroad to recover the Unipolarity in global geopolitical framework; following the Wolfowitz Doctrine, which outlined "a policy of unilateralism" and "preventive military action to suppress possible threats from other nations and prevent dictatorships from being elevated to the status of a superpower". | Biden and the "Nuclear Employment Guide" | According to the New York Times, President Joe Biden approved a high…

MEE staff (2024-08-23). Saudi Arabia: 34 Egyptians among dozens facing execution for drug offences. middleeasteye.net Saudi Arabia: 34 Egyptians among dozens facing execution for drug offences | At least 50 people face the death penalty for drug offences in Tabuk prison, with many tortured while on death row, says a rights group | Fri, 08/23/2024 – 10: 05 | Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman arrives at the Future Investment Initiativ…

tvbrics (2024-08-23). Brazil's pulp and paper sector announces investments. tvbrics.com Investment plan promises to create around 36,000 jobs during the works and another 7,000 permanent vacancies…

WSWS (2024-08-23). Bangladesh's right-wing interim government moves to consolidate its power, end popular ferment. wsws.org The government's first orders of business are ensuring that capitalist "law and order" is re-established, Bangladesh's garment industry resumes pumping out profits for global investors, and the IMF austerity measures Hasina agreed to in January 2023 in exchange for a $4.7 billion emergency loan are implemented.

tvbrics (2024-08-23). Saudi Arabia introduces new regulations for groundwater conservation. tvbrics.com The use of groundwater from wells will now be strictly controlled…

WSWS (2024-08-23). Wellington rail workers reject proposed attacks on wages and conditions: Form a rank-and-file committee to fight back! wsws.org The Socialist Equality Group in New Zealand is holding an online meeting for Wellington rail workers this Sunday, August 25, to discuss the need for a rank-and-file committee, independent of the RMTU bureaucracy that is working with Transdev and Hyundai Rotem to impose another sellout deal.

Democracy Now! (2024-08-23). Democracy Now! 2024-08-23 Friday. democracynow.org Headlines for August 23, 2024; "Historic Moment": Barbara Ransby on the Symbolism & Shortcomings of Kamala Harris's Nomination; Watch: Palestinian American Lawmaker Gives Speech the DNC Wouldn't Allow on Stage; Thousands March Against U.S. Arming of Israel as Harris Accepts Presidential Nomination; How Shirley Chisholm & Fannie Lou Hamer Paved the Way for Kamala Harris; "Two Faces of American Capitalism": Juan González on What the RNC & DNC Reveal About U.S. Politics; "A Generational Fight": Political Organizers on Kamala Harris, Defeating Authoritarianism & More; &…

Paramjit Singh (2024-08-23). Peasants and Politics in Neoliberal India: The 2020-21 Peasant Movement. cadtm.org

infobrics (2024-08-23). The Future of BRICS Countries in a Multipolar World: Humanitarian and Long-Term Dimensions. infobrics.org It is important that efforts be made in a more tangible and practical way to bolster our common humanity should we seek a shared destiny. Drawing upon the uneven distribution of knowledge competences, it could prove useful for the BRICS+ to utilise their capacities and capabilities in science and technology to provide information and technical solutions on a more socialised basis, Rasigan Maharajh writes…

Janet Mayes (2024-08-23). Consciousness raising: personal and social — The struggle for change. workers.org The process of raising social consciousness about the need for revolutionary socialism parallels the process of raising personal consciousness in psychotherapy. People are brought up by people. Their original primary caretaker(s) are responsible for their existing, surviving and thriving even from before the moment of birth, usually until pre-adolescence, when . . . |

ecns.cn (2024-08-23). Xi urges advancing socialism with Chinese characteristics on 120th birth anniversary of Deng Xiaoping. ecns.cn Chinese President Xi Jinping lauded the "outstanding contributions" of late leader Deng Xiaoping and urged advancing socialism with Chinese characteristics initiated by Deng, as the country marked Deng's 120th birth anniversary on Thursday.

Ileana Ferrer Fonte (2024-08-23). Cuban Women's Federation celebrates its 64th anniversary. plenglish.com Havana, Aug 23 (Prensa Latina) Intending to make a decisive contribution to safeguarding the Revolution, defending socialism, and promoting sustainable prosperity for the nation, the Cuban Women's Federation (FMC) is celebrating its 64th anniversary on Friday.

WSWS (2024-08-23). Left-wing organisations in Sri Lanka support "Free Bogdan Syrotiuk" campaign. wsws.org The United Socialist Party, the Socialist People's Forum and the Frontline Socialist Party's "Youth for Change" have issued statements demanding the immediate release of Bogdan Syrotiuk.

WSWS (2024-08-23). Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez at the DNC: The pro-imperialist politics of the DSA. wsws.org The role of the Democratic Socialists of America and DSA-backed candidates in defending the pro-capitalist and imperialist policies of the Democratic Party has emerged as a significant element of the Democratic National Convention.

Staff (2024-08-23). Las pequeñas empresas estatales y el socialismo. cubadebate.cu Hace unos días salió publicado en la Gaceta Oficial (N 78-2024) el Decreto-Ley 88 "Sobre las micro, pequeñas y medianas empresas". Es un tema del que se discute mucho en Cuba. øHablamos sobre cualquier empresa pequeña, o hablamos de las que son de tecnología avanzada, o hablamos de las que son (o pueden ser) exportadoras, o hablamos de las que son de propiedad estatal, privada o mixta?

ecns.cn (2024-08-23). CPC leadership reviews measures on western region's development. ecns.cn The Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee held a meeting on Friday to review policies and measures to open up a new vista in the large-scale development of the western region.

ecns.cn (2024-08-22). CPC leadership reviews measures on western region's development. ecns.cn The Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee held a meeting on Friday to review policies and measures to open up a new vista in the large-scale development of the western region.

Editor (2024-08-22). 'Sandwiched' caregivers show need for improved welfare state. mronline.org Our economy and society are heavily dependent on unpaid care work, disproportionately performed by women.

aljazeera (2024-08-22). Can Kamala Harris help boost the world's largest economy? aljazeera.com The economic vision set out by Democratic US presidential candidate Kamala Harris is in the spotlight.

Alexandra Jacobo (2024-08-22). Bernie Sanders calls economic inequality America's unspoken crisis at Progressive Central 2024. nationofchange.org At the Progressive Central 2024 conference, Bernie Sanders and Pramila Jayapal emphasized the urgent need to address income and wealth inequality, arguing that these issues remain largely ignored in national discourse despite their profound impact on American society.

Alexandra Jacobo (2024-08-22). Bernie Sanders calls economic inequality America's unspoken crisis at Progressive Central 2024. nationofchange.org At the Progressive Central 2024 conference, Bernie Sanders and Pramila Jayapal emphasized the urgent need to address income and wealth inequality, arguing that these issues remain largely ignored in national discourse despite their profound impact on American society.

Alina Ramos Martin (2024-08-22). Ethiopia highlights strong bilateral economic cooperation with China. plenglish.com Addis Ababa, Aug 22 (Prensa Latina) The Ethiopian Minister of Finance, Ahmed Shide, reportedly welcomed a delegation led by the Chinese Deputy Minister of Commerce, Sheng Qiuping, on which occasion he highlighted the strong bilateral economic cooperation in the last two decades.

infobrics (2024-08-22). New Cuban Missile Crisis-like episode on the way – this time in Germany. infobrics.org Beyond economic suicide, Europe is now placing itself at risk, militarily. With the deployment of American nuclear warheads to Germany, the world becomes a less safe place, and the future looks darker.

Cameron Harrison (2024-08-22). Labor to Trump: You can't be anti-union and claim you're pro-worker. peoplesworld.org CHICAGO—"Workers in their unions are the biggest exercise in democracy," declared Julie Su, acting Secretary of Labor in the Biden administration, during the second Labor Council session at the DNC on Wednesday. The opposing ticket in the presidential race, Trump-Vance of the Republican Party, have claimed that their platform represents the working families in the …

Staff (2024-08-22). teleSUR anuncia el concurso "Sur Influyente" telesurtv.net El concurso invita a jóvenes, mayores de edad, creadores de contenidos a elaborar piezas audiovisuales de máximo 60 segundos en formato vertical (9: 16).

Ana Luisa Brown (2024-08-22). South African national health laboratory recovered after cyber-attac. plenglish.com According to a statement issued today by Deputy Minister of Health Joe Phaahla, the Ministry thanks the NHLS for its swift and tireless efforts to restore its laboratories to full operational capacity, following a successful and comprehensive rebuilt of its information technology systems and infrastructure. | More than 70 percent of healthcare decisions depend on those services, he recalled, so the restoration of operations is a commitment with the country's public healthcare attention. | The NHLS is described in the text as the backbone of South Africa's public health, whose networked system serves more than 85…

Staff (2024-08-22). DNC 2024 LIVE: Beyond the Hype. youtube.com Watch BreakThrough News for special LIVE coverage of the 2024 Democratic National Convention, in collaboration with @freespeechtv and Act TV. Hosts Eugene Puryear and Rania Khalek will be joined by a panel of special guests bringing analysis and perspectives you won't see in the corporate media. BT's Kei Pritsker will report from outside the DNC …

Sam Wainwright (2024-08-22). Fight Labor's attack on the CFMEU. socialist-alliance.org Labor's new laws appointing an administrator with absolute dictatorial powers to run every branch of the Construction Forestry Maritime Employees Union is the most serious attack on a union in living memory, argues Sam Wainwright.

Rob Larson (2024-08-22). The Best Families: Enduring Ruling-class Alibis. counterpunch.org Defenders of ruling elites have seldom been satisfied with the argument that the rich deserve their wealth because of their grudging willingness to provide jobs for everyone else. Very commonly, the tendency is to celebrate the rich and powerful as being different kinds of people from the rest of us—suggesting that they built their gigantic companies up from scratch by their own almost miraculously superior knowledge, relentless drive, and willingness to make tough calls.

Alexandra Jacobo (2024-08-22). Kamala Harris signals support for billionaires tax amid growing wealth inequality. nationofchange.org This endorsement marks a crucial step in addressing the widening wealth gap in the country, particularly as billionaires continue to amass vast fortunes while millions of Americans struggle financially.

Alexandra Jacobo (2024-08-22). Kamala Harris signals support for billionaires tax amid growing wealth inequality. nationofchange.org This endorsement marks a crucial step in addressing the widening wealth gap in the country, particularly as billionaires continue to amass vast fortunes while millions of Americans struggle financially.

Editor (2024-08-22). Chevron and Israel: Profits above human rights. mronline.org Big oil and gas company Chevron is deeply entwined with the Israeli state.

Nina Silber (2024-08-22). 75 Years Ago, the KKK and Anti-Communists Teamed up to Violently Stop a Folk Concert in NY. counterpunch.org Few Americans today know about the events that occurred 75 years ago in the small Hudson Valley community of Peekskill, New York. That's where a riot broke out at a folk concert that marked a significant turning point in the political landscape of…

ecns.cn (2024-08-16). Hasina calls for probe into violent protests in Bangladesh. ecns.cn In her first statement since resigning and leaving Bangladesh on Aug 5, Bangladesh's former prime minister Sheikh Hasina called for an investigation into the violence during weeks of student-led protests in the country.

ecns.cn (2024-08-16). Evacuation of thousands more begins from Kursk. ecns.cn Russia began evacuating thousands more people from its border regions on Thursday after Ukraine said it was advancing deeper into the country in a lightning incursion aimed at forcing Moscow to slow its advance along the rest of the front.

infobrics (2024-08-16). Kiev's use of British-made weapons in Russia's Kursk is already backfiring. infobrics.org Footage shows British-made tanks used in Kursk destroyed by Russian forces.

infobrics (2024-08-16). China and Russia Launch New Bi-modal Service Around Siberia. infobrics.org China and Russia have inaugurated the Arctic Express No 1 Rail-Sea Cargo Service, marking a notable milestone in their trade relations…

infobrics (2024-08-16). More Nations Interested in Joining BRICS. infobrics.org Trend reflects desire of Global South to counter Western dominance, analysts say…

infobrics (2024-08-16). Boosting India-Russia Trade: Strategies and Challenges. infobrics.org The Global Trade Research Initiative believes India can boost its trade with Russia through steps such as increasing exports, using local currencies, and formalizing a free trade agreement with the Eurasian Economic Union. Despite a significant trade imbalance due to increased crude oil imports from Russia, strategic measures could help India achieve its $100 billion trade target by 2030…

editor (2024-08-16). Biden and United Nations: are you listening to Netanyahu? onlineopinion.com.au If Biden and the Security Council need any more convincing that any Palestinian State is just a mirage — they should heed the words of Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Time on 4 August.

Staff (2024-08-16). Headlines for August 16, 2024. democracynow.org Israel Continues Deadly Attacks in Gaza as Ceasefire Talks Resume for Day 2, Israeli Settlers Kill Palestinian as They Go on Armed Rampage in Occupied West Bank, Prices on 10 Common Medications Will Go Down in 2026 After First Round of Medicare Negotiations, Make the Road Action Endorses Kamala Harris for President, AZ's Top Court Allows GOP to Describe Fetuses as "Unborn Human Beings" on Ballot Measure Pamphlet, Doctors in India to Strike Amid Protests over Rape and Murder of Kolkata Medical Trainee, Paetongtarn Shinawatra Named Thai Prime Minister, Indonesian President Holds First Cabinet Meet…

ecns.cn (2024-08-16). Lights illuminate Great Wall to mark 50th anniversary of China-Brazil diplomatic ties. ecns.cn China and Brazil celebrated the 50th anniversary of their diplomatic relations on Thursday.

ecns.cn (2024-08-16). China's expanding visa-free 'circle of friends' draws more global travelers. ecns.cn With China's increasing efforts in promoting unilateral visa exemptions and mutual visa-free policies, the expanding visa-free "circle of friends" has been drawing more foreign travelers to China.

ecns.cn (2024-08-16). Huawei cloud summit lights up digital Thailand. ecns.cn Chinese tech giant Huawei Cloud announced on Thursday its commitment to joint efforts with the Thai government and build the kingdom a regional cloud hub with its digital technologies.

ecns.cn (2024-08-16). EconoScope | China invests over $364 bln in urban renewal. ecns.cn China has invested 2.6 trillion yuan (about $364.58 billion) in over 66,000 projects designed to renovate urban infrastructure, according to recent data from the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development (MOHURD).

ecns.cn (2024-08-16). Senior Xinjiang officials meet with visiting Cambodian King Norodom Sihamoni in Urumqi. ecns.cn Northwest China's Xinjiang regional Party chief Ma Xingrui and Erkin Tuniyaz, chairman of the regional government met with Cambodian King Norodom Sihamoni in Urumqi on Thursday.

ecns.cn (2024-08-16). Hong Kong welcomes birth of first giant panda twin cubs. ecns.cn The Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) government on Thursday announced the birth of panda twins early Thursday morning in Hong Kong, according to the Xinhua News Agency.

ecns.cn (2024-08-16). Rescued raptors released back into wild in Beijing. ecns.cn Eight common kestrels rescued this summer were released back into the wild at Beijing Nanyuan Forest Wetland Park on Thursday, China's second National Ecology Day.

ecns.cn (2024-08-16). Shenzhen, Dubai enhance financial cooperation. ecns.cn The SZSE and DFM have signed a memorandum of understanding outlining plans to explore closer cooperation in indexes, exchange traded funds, and fixed-income products, and the feasibility of new mechanisms and channels for cross-market financing.

ecns.cn (2024-08-16). China's investments in high-tech industries rise 10.4% in first seven months: NBS. ecns.cn China's investment in fixed assets continued to expand, with more investment going to high-tech industries.

ecns.cn (2024-08-16). Construction of Tongzi River grand bridge to be completed in Guizhou. ecns.cn Spanning 965meters, the 1,422-meter-long bridge with the main tower of 208 meters high is an important part of the Jinsha-Renhuai-Tongzi Highway.

ecns.cn (2024-08-16). Travel safety concerns increase after deadly waterfall accident. ecns.cn A tragic accident at a waterfall tourism spot in the Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region has heightened concerns about travel safety during the busy summer season.

ecns.cn (2024-08-16). Chinese badminton player He Bingjiao retired from international badminton. ecns.cn Chinese badminton player He Bingjiao has retired from international badminton, the Badminton World Federation(BWF) announced on Tuesday. The 27-year-old won her career-best Olympic silver in women's singles at Paris2024 on August 5.

ecns.cn (2024-08-16). China increases holdings of U.S. treasury bonds to $780.2 billion in June. ecns.cn China's holdings of U.S. treasury bonds reached $780.2 billion in June, a gain of $11.9 billion from a month earlier, marking the second time this year that China has increased the holding since first addition in April.

ecns.cn (2024-08-16). Brussels rolls out stunning flower carpet. ecns.cn Aerial view of a flower carpet made of nearly millions of flowers at the Grand-Place during the 23rd edition of the Brussels' Flower Carpet show in Brussels, Belgium, August 15, 2024.

ecns.cn (2024-08-16). Scientists encouraged to collaborate to save planet. ecns.cn Scientists from around the world were urged to collaborate across borders and disciplines to tackle climate change through technological innovation on Thursday.

ecns.cn (2024-08-16). Panda twins born in Hong Kong. ecns.cn Giant panda Le Le gave birth to panda twins on Thursday. The pair, a female and a male, were cubs of Ying Ying and Le Le, pandas given as a gift by the central government to Hong Kong in 2007. In March, Ying Ying and Le Le completed natural mating in Ocean Park.

ecns.cn (2024-08-16). Global efforts in dire need against mpox. ecns.cn The World Health Organization called for a coordinated global response against the mpox outbreak on Wednesday after declaring it a public health emergency of international concern, or PHEIC, the agency's highest alarm at the moment.

ecns.cn (2024-08-16). Number of Chinese scientists leaving U.S. increasing yearly. ecns.cn Scientists of Chinese descent in the United States have been leaving the country because of "pull factors" from China and the "push factor" of the China Initiative of 2018, according to a major research study published in an American scientific journal.

ecns.cn (2024-08-16). Experts aid Indonesian artificial reef projects. ecns.cn Experts from Shanghai Ocean University and Guangdong Ocean University are scheduled to complete the construction of artificial reefs in the coastal waters of Indonesia this month.

ecns.cn (2024-08-16). China tightens examination measures to prevent the import of monkeypox virus. ecns.cn The General Administration of Customs said on Friday morning that it will tighten examination measures for incoming travelers with a high risk of contracting monkeypox.

ecns.cn (2024-08-16). Reporter's inappropriate remarks on Quan Hongchan spark investigation. ecns.cn Sports reporter Zhu Xiaolong recently violated regulations by participating in an online program, where he made inappropriate remarks about Chinese Olympic champion Quan Hongchan.

ecns.cn (2024-08-16). 1 detained in rape of girl who later died. ecns.cn A man has been criminally detained on suspicion of raping a 14-year-old girl at a self-discipline training camp in Jiangxi province, police announced on Wednesday.

ecns.cn (2024-08-16). Aerial view of Hailongtun Fortress Site in Guizhou. ecns.cn The Hailongtun fortress, the best well-preserved medieval castle ruins in China, was constructed in 1257 during the Southern Song Dynasty (1127-1279). It was added to UNESCO's World Heritage List in 2015.

ecns.cn (2024-08-16). Realty draws hope from data. ecns.cn Fewer Chinese cities reported new home price rises in July compared to June, suggesting a need for various Chinese cities to explore new demand.

ecns.cn (2024-08-16). Drone deliveries guided by Beidou begin. ecns.cn The first drone delivery service guided by China's Beidou Navigation Satellite System has begun operations in Zhuzhou, Hunan province, offering local residents a glimpse into a futuristic, fast-paced delivery system.

editor (2024-08-16). Living standards fall as unreliables rise. onlineopinion.com.au Without more pie, announced policies claimed to boost incomes for all will fail. 'Magic puddings' are the fantasies of Bunyip Bluegum and Norman Lindsay.

teleSUR, JDO, MER, JGN, JCM, SH (2024-08-16). Minuto a minuto del asedio israelí contra la Franja de Gaza. telesurtv.net En varios países continúan realizándose actividades para expresar apoyo al pueblo palestino y condenar el genocidio que comete Israel.

Staff (2024-08-16). Apple planea retirar los espejos retrovisores de los autos. cubadebate.cu Apple Inc., conocida mundialmente por sus icónicos iPhones, está explorando un amplio abanico de proyectos que trascienden la esfera de los teléfonos móviles. La empresa tecnológica californiana ha registrado una serie de patentes para dispositivos futuristas, entre los que se destacan unos AirPods con pantalla táctil que permiten consultar a Siri y ver el pronóstico del tiempo, y un anillo para controlar las Vision Pro.

Staff (2024-08-16). La matemática de la economía y la sociedad. cubadebate.cu Podemos imaginar a un cazador asociando el número de presas con ciertos dedos de la mano para así poder saber si un día le fue mejor que otro. Seguramente a alguien se le ocurrió, en algún otro momento, ponerles un nombre ordenado a los dedos de las manos. Al asociarlos con las presas del día tuvieron así el primer conteo y los primeros números.

teleSUR, ahf, YSM (2024-08-16). Eleva a 22 el número de muertos por inundaciones en Sudáfrica. telesurtv.net Las graves inundaciones han afectado casas que han sido arrasadas por las aguas del temporal, así como carreteras anegadas y árboles arrancados de raíz.

teleSUR, JCM (2024-08-16). EE.UU. anuncia que limita las solicitudes de asilo en la frontera. telesurtv.net Su entrada en vigor se producirá cuando el número de cruces en la frontera supere los 2.500 diarios durante una semana.

teleSUR, odr, YSM (2024-08-16). Unesco advierte sobre deterioro acelerado de los océanos desde 2003. telesurtv.net La directora del ente, Audrey Azoulay, manifestó que factores como "temperatura, acidificación, nivel del mar: están sonando todas las alarmas".

teleSUR, ahf, YSM (2024-08-16). Ataque ucraniano deja tres heridos en Bélgorod, Rusia. telesurtv.net Hace solo dos días esta región rusa registró otro ataque que cobró la vida del subjefe del municipio de Korochanski.

teleSUR, MS (2024-08-16). Gobierno colombiano y la Segunda Marquetalia inician diálogos de paz. telesurtv.net Las partes firmantes, representadas por el consejero comisionado de paz de Colombia, Otty Patiño, e Iván Márquez, exnegociador de los diálogos que condujeron al acuerdo de paz de 2016 de las disidencias de las FARC.

teleSUR, YSM (2024-08-16). Venezuela denuncia campaña mediática internacional para desconocer procesos electorales. telesurtv.net Jorge Rodríguez advirtió a la ultraderecha que no se permitirá la vulneración de la paz venezolana.

teleSUR, odr, YSM (2024-08-16). López Obrador asegura que continuará investigación del caso Ayotzinapa. telesurtv.net El presidente destacó que "bajo ninguna circunstancia se va a cerrar el caso".

teleSUR, dcdc, YSM (2024-08-16). Encuesta: 88,2 % de peruanos desaprueban desempeño de Dina Boluarte. telesurtv.net El informe refleja que un 81,2 por ciento considera que Boluarte debería dejar "cuanto antes" su cargo.

teleSUR, ahf, YSM (2024-08-16). Docentes universitarios realizan paro nacional en Argentina. telesurtv.net Si no encuentran una respuesta satisfactoria, los manifestantes han declarado que existen posibilidades de que la semana próxima vayan nuevamente al paro.

teleSUR, dcdc, JCM (2024-08-16). Líder mapuche Héctor Llaitul inicia huelga de hambre en prisión. telesurtv.net A través de un comunicado, Llaitul exigió la nulidad del juicio y que los recursos presentados hace unas semanas sean revisados por la Corte Suprema.

teleSUR, YSM (2024-08-16). Trabajadores de telecomunicaciones rechazan ley de medios en Uruguay. telesurtv.net Los Diputados acordaron que el documento será nuevamente analizado después del 30 de junio.

teleSUR, JGN (2024-08-16). Comunidad internacional saluda victoria de Sheinbaum en México. telesurtv.net Xiomara Castro dijo que acordó con Sheinbaum "trabajar juntas por la unidad de Latinoamérica y el Caribe".

teleSUR, MER (2024-08-16). Presidente Maduro alerta sobre violencia de la extrema derecha. telesurtv.net El mandatario le expresó al pueblo venezolano que es necesario cuidar la paz.

teleSUR, MER (2024-08-16). Presidente Maduro conversa con mandataria electa de México. telesurtv.net Ambas autoridades ratificaron los lazos de hermandad entre México y Venezuela, así como su disposición en fortalecer la Celac.

teleSUR, idg, JCM (2024-08-16). Militares franceses en Ucrania serán blanco legítimo para tropas rusas. telesurtv.net Canciller Lavrov se reúne con su homólogo congoleño en Oyo, tras comenzar este lunes una gira por África para reforzar los vínculos de Rusia en el continente.

teleSUR, idg, JCM (2024-08-16). Narendra Modi celebra su victoria en las elecciones generales. telesurtv.net Narendra Modi necesitará el apoyo de otros partidos para gobernar, algo inédito en sus anteriores mandatos.

teleSUR, idg, JCM (2024-08-16). Venezuela y China muestran sintonía en agenda bilateral. telesurtv.net La visita es una invitación del ministro chino de Relaciones Exteriores, Wang Yi, miembro del Buró Político del Comité Central del Partido Comunista de China.

teleSUR, MS (2024-08-16). Inundación de una mina de carbón en China deja tres muertos. telesurtv.net La tragedia tuvo lugar el pasado sábado alrededor de las 17H00, cuando diez trabajadores se encontraban en la zona afectada. Dos lograron escapar por sus propios medios, dejando a ocho atrapados.

teleSUR, odr, SH (2024-08-16). Autoridades dominicanas colocan a 25 provincias en alerta verde. telesurtv.net El COE aumenta 14 provincias y al Distrito Nacional en alerta amarilla debido a una masa de aire húmeda dejada por una onda tropical en el país caribeño.

teleSUR, dcdc, JCM (2024-08-16). Irán inicia etapa de calificación de candidatos a elecciones. telesurtv.net Tras el proceso de investigación, el Ministerio del Interior anunciará los candidatos finales el 11 de junio, y los calificados tendrán 15 días, del 12 al 26 de junio, para llevar a cabo sus campañas electorales.

teleSUR, ahf, YSM (2024-08-16). Venezuela acogerá la Serie del Caribe en el año 2026. telesurtv.net La lista de sedes por año quedaría de la siguiente forma: Mexicali 2025, Venezuela 2026, Hermosillo 2027, República Dominicana 2028 y Puerto Rico 2029.

teleSUR, JCM (2024-08-16). ONU condena más de 500 asesinatos de palestinos en Cisjordania. telesurtv.net Más de 500 palestinos han muerto desde el 7 de octubre en actos de violencia en la ocupada Cisjordania vinculados al asedio del Ejército israelí de ocupación en Gaza.

teleSUR, odr, YSM (2024-08-16). Presidente de Siria recibe a canciller de Irán. telesurtv.net Ambos políticos debatieron sobre el estado de las relaciones bilaterales, así como el avance de la agresión de Israel en la Franja de Gaza.

Staff (2024-08-16). teleSUR anuncia el concurso "Sur Influyente" telesurtv.net El concurso invita a jóvenes, mayores de edad, creadores de contenidos a elaborar piezas audiovisuales de máximo 60 segundos en formato vertical (9: 16).

aljazeera (2024-08-15). Record 39 candidates to run in Sri Lanka's presidential election. aljazeera.com Economy remains key issue after protesters angered by financial crisis toppled President Gotabaya Rajapaksa in 2022.

ecns.cn (2024-08-15). China reports growth in the consumer economy. ecns.cn China reported major economic data on Thursday that pointed to faster growth on the consumer side while both industrial production and investment grew at a slower pace in July.

ecns.cn (2024-08-15). Online visas to enhance business, tourism for Pakistan. ecns.cn Pakistan offering online visas for Chinese citizens signals closer economic cooperation and mutual exchanges between the South Asian nation and China, analysts said, adding that it can help enhance Pakistan's economy.

ecns.cn (2024-08-15). China to increase support for foreign businesses to attract investment: official. ecns.cn Ministry of Commerce will increase whole-process support for foreign-invested projects and will help to address issues facing foreign businesses in order to attract more foreign investment.

ecns.cn (2024-08-15). China's retail sales up 2.7% in July year-on-year. ecns.cn China's domestic consumption continued to expand in July, with consumption of services and upgraded industrial goods growing at a faster pace, showcasing the country's vast potential in ramping up consumption and economic growth.

ecns.cn (2024-08-15). China funding aids Africa development. ecns.cn Financial assistance from China has played a crucial role in infrastructure development in Africa since the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation, or FOCAC, was established, paving the way for economic prosperity.

geo.tv (2024-08-15). Trump slams Harris on economy ahead of major policy rollout. geo.tv Republican presidential nominee and former US President Donald Trump gestures as he speaks at a campaign event in Asheville, North Carolina, U.S. August 14, 2024. — Reuters | Ukrainian servicemen ride a military vehicle, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, near the Russian border in Sumy region, Ukraine August 12, 2024. —Reuters | Afghan girls attend a class at the Ishkashim high school for girls in the northeastern province of Badak…

presstv.ir (2024-08-15). Makran, a watershed in Iran's sea-based economy plans. presstv.ir The geopolitical features of Iran are considered one of the most important indicators of its empowerment, including turning the country into a regional magnet for commerce and investment.

hindustantimes (2024-08-15). Amid Kursk Gamble, Zelensky Refuses To Repay Foreign Debt: Ukraine Economy Hit By Rating Downgrade. hindustantimes.com Ukraine's economy is on the brink of disaster as the war with Russia rages on and Western support weakens. In a shocking move, Ukraine has defaulted on a major debt repayment, prompting Fitch Ratings to downgrade the country to 'Restricted Default.' With billions in Western aid failing to stabilize the situation, could this be the beginning of Ukraine's economic collapse?>

WSWS (2024-08-15). Strengthening recessionary trends in global economy. wsws.org Investor sentiment seems to have "collapsed" in the eurozone and its largest economy, Germany, according to a recent survey.

UMMID (2024-08-15). Challenges before Yunus' interim government in Bangladesh. ummid.com The challenges at the frontiers of Yunus' interim government in Bangladeshare (unlucky) seven: law and order; economy; military, elections; justice; religious freedom; and freedom of expression.

Amanda Lee (2024-08-15). China's interbank system promoted as safeguard against Swift consequences. scmp.com A senior researcher has encouraged China to expand the use of its interbank transfer protocol, warning of risks inherent in the use of Western systems like Swift.

noemail (2024-08-15). China's Housing Market Faces Steep Decline Amid Lingering Economic Concerns. devdiscourse.com China's new home prices fell at their fastest pace in nine years in July, as a slew of support policies failed to stabilize prices and restore confidence in the struggling property sector. This prolonged housing market slump is weighing heavily on the world's second-largest economy and its consumers, raising questions over Beijing's 5% GDP target for 2024.

Igor Patrick (2024-08-15). Chinese tile manufacturer in Mexico accused of illegal water use during drought. scmp.com Time Ceramics of Fujian province arrived in Hidalgo last year with hopes of boosting local economy, but residents say company's activities have hurt area's water supply.

aljazeera (2024-08-15). What's the economic impact of immigrants? aljazeera.com The West is seeing record immigration inflows, but far-right groups are blaming their economic grievances on migrants.

ecns.cn (2024-08-15). China's reform, opening-up add certainty to world, Indonesian envoy says. ecns.cn China's high-quality development and high-level opening-up inject certainty to a world plagued by challenges including weak economic recovery and frequent regional conflicts, an Indonesian diplomat said.

ecns.cn (2024-08-15). Germany says Ukrainians sabotaged Nord Stream pipelines. ecns.cn This handout photo taken on September 28, 2022 from an aircraft of the Swedish Coast Guard (Kustbevakningen) shows the release of gas emanating from a leak on the Nord Stream 1 gas pipeline, in the Swedish economic zone in the Baltic Sea.

ecns.cn (2024-08-15). China reaffirms support for a stable Myanmar. ecns.cn China firmly supports Myanmar in staying committed to domestic peace, stability, and economic development, and opposes chaos and wars in the country, Foreign Minister Wang Yi said on Wednesday.

noemail (2024-08-15). Managing the Double-Edged Sword of AI: Lessons from the EU. devdiscourse.com Governments around the globe are contending with the rapidly-evolving challenges posed by artificial intelligence (AI), which, while offering economic benefits and easing menial tasks, brings significant risks such as AI-enabled crime, misinformation, and privacy invasion.

Samiullah Farid (2024-08-15). Harris to focus on grocery costs, child tax credit in economic agenda, advisers say. gnnhd.tv Harris will call for a federal law banning corporations from setting excessive prices…

newleftreview (2024-08-15). Radhika Desai: Peak Hindutva? newleftreview.org As Modi's BJP loses its overall majority, Radhika Desai examines the part played by India's capitalist conglomerates in his rise—and the contradictions on which their strategy has foundered. The economic crisis of the parched countryside as brake on Hindutva's forward march.

SM Saifee Islam (2024-08-15). Semiconductor Tech Is a New Battlefield in the US—China Rivalry. fairobserver.com Semiconductor chips, or microchips, are the tiny brains that run countless devices we use each day. These marvels power everything from refrigerators to smartphones, car navigation to wearable tech. The ever-growing demand for smart devices has created a desire for smaller, faster and more efficient chips. This pursuit of miniaturization has propelled the semiconductor industry…

ecns.cn (2024-08-15). Xi hails China, Brazil as like-minded good friends. ecns.cn Chinese President Xi Jinping said on Thursday that China and Brazil, both major developing countries and key emerging markets, are like-minded good friends.

Pressenza IPA (2024-08-15). Pakistan Celebrates Independence Day on August 14. pressenza.com by Irshad Ahmad Mughal | The 14th of August is the Independence Day of Pakistan. There are lots of flags all around. Dangerous demonstrations are made on the roads due to the one-wheeling of motorcyclists. A 12-gun salute is fired by the Army and messages are given on the day by the Chief of Army Staff, the President and the Prime Minister. | For the past several decades, Pakistan has not had the same splendor of the day as it used to. You can say that common people suffer from inflation, terrorism, lawlessness, bribery, unemployment, and political corruption. All these diseases have made them emaciated. | They a…

WSWS (2024-08-15). Rail drivers in England should reject ASLEF's Labour-backed sellout deal. wsws.org ASLEF leader Whelan's claim to have averted a "land grab" on working conditions is bogus. The plan is that these will be negotiated away once the dispute is over as part of the Great British Railways agenda of the Labour government.

newleftreview (2024-08-15). Owen Hatherley: Labourism: In and Against? newleftreview.org Owen Hatherley on Andy Beckett, The Searchers. Interlinked portraits of the Labour Party's Bennite bloc, from 1968 to the Corbyn leadership.

hindustantimes (2024-08-15). Hamas Gets Powerful Company In Gaza As IDF Suffers Multiple Attacks Simultaneously | Iran | Haniyeh. hindustantimes.com Hamas and its allies seem to have equipped a new 'attack strategy' against Israeli forces. Al Jazeera, citing war monitors, said multiple Palestinian armed groups have collaborated in the Gaza Strip. The groups are reportedly carrying out combined attacks on IDF forces and their command posts. Watch for more.

Labor Video Project (2024-08-15). Capitalism, Imperialism, The 2024 French Olympics & The Working Class. indybay.org The 2024 Olympics in France should the role of profiteering and capitalism as well as nationalism and imperialism as tools used by the US and other major imperialist countries.

Mark Gruenberg (2024-08-15). Audubon Society good to birds but awful to its own staff. peoplesworld.org NEW YORK—When it comes to treatment of its unionized staffers, the Audubon Society is in trouble with the National Labor Relations Board. It has also forced the 260 unionized Audubon staffers, members of the "Bird Union" unit of Communications Workers Local 1180, to take to the streets, and not just to aid bird watchers. They'll …

GABIK (2024-08-15). KZN CoGTA budget to empower traditional leadership, enhance local governance. sanews.gov.za KZN CoGTA budget to empower traditional leadership, enhance local governance | KwaZulu-Natal Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs (COGTA) MEC, Thulasizwe Buthelezi, has presented the department's R1.8 billion, which is aimed at bolstering traditional leadership, enhancing local governance, and driving community development in the province. | Tabling the department's budget before the KwaZulu-Natal Legislature this week, Buthelezi said one of the cornerstones of the budget is the empowerment of amakhosi as cultural custodians. | To foster collaboration and address challenges faced by traditional communit…

EDWIN (2024-08-15). NSG hosts symposium on China-Africa relations. sanews.gov.za NSG hosts symposium on China-Africa relations | China-Africa Media and Publishing, in collaboration with the National School of Government of South Africa, is set to hold a symposium titled: "The Governance of China: Forging a Closer China-Africa Community of a Shared Future, in Pretoria on Thursday. | Thursday's event will bring together South African and Chinese government officials, scholars, experts, and journalists for a robust exchange of ideas and insights. | The seminar serves as a critical forum to discuss and shape the future of China-Africa relations and is a side precursor event to the upcoming Beij…

Staff (2024-08-15). teleSUR anuncia el concurso "Sur Influyente" telesurtv.net El concurso invita a jóvenes, mayores de edad, creadores de contenidos a elaborar piezas audiovisuales de máximo 60 segundos en formato vertical (9: 16).

Mark Gruenberg (2024-08-15). Harris to battle price-gouging at the grocery store. peoplesworld.org WASHINGTON—Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris is set to announce her plan to ban corporate price-gouging at the grocery store. Her boss Joe Biden's Federal Trade Commission is already working on it too. The agency's new Strike Force on Unfair and Illegal Pricing is tackling the issue. For several months on the campaign trail, Vice President …

Agence France-Presse (2024-08-15). Will Biden and Harris' 'historic' drug price deal resonate with US voters in November? scmp.com US residents face the highest prescription drug prices in the world, leaving many people to pay partly out of their own pocket, despite already exorbitant insurance premiums.

noemail (2024-08-15). Biden Administration Announces Reduced Medicare Drug Prices in Historic Deal. devdiscourse.com The Biden administration is celebrating a ground-breaking deal with drug companies to reduce the prices of 10 widely-used Medicare drugs. Officials anticipate that US taxpayers will save $6 billion while seniors could save $1.5 billion, though specifics on the new prices have yet to be disclosed.

Aseel Saleh (2024-08-15). The US reasserts its support for Israel's massacres by selling it 20 billion in arms. peoplesdispatch.org While blaming Iran and its allies of threatening peace and security in the region, the US has provided Israel with the needed financial support to proceed with one of the most hideous genocides in history.

Yoram Gabison (2024-08-15). Israeli airline El Al rakes in record $147M in quarterly profits with help of Gaza war. haaretz.com Benefitting from decreased competition from foreign airlines operating in Israel, the company, which faced deep financial struggle at the start of the decade, was able to reduce its net financial debt from the end of 2022 in this year's second quarter by $1.089 billion…

Staff (2024-08-15). Delhi Imams and Muezzins face financial hardship as salaries go unpaid for months. muslimmirror.com By Muslim Mirror Staff Hundreds of Imams and muezzins working in city mosques have not received their salaries for months, causing significant distress. Several Imams shared their struggles with media, expressing frustration with the city government's "apathy" towards their plight, which has made it challenging to sustain their livelihoods. "Receiving five months' pay in three …

Khushboo Razdan (2024-08-15). Hesai's reported removal from Pentagon blacklist draws criticism from Republican senators. scmp.com Financial Times said the sensor maker has been dropped from a list of Chinese companies barred from defence contracts, but the Pentagon won't confirm or deny.

The Independent (2024-08-15). FINCA unveils Janet Mudoola as brand Ambassador to drive sustainable growth. independent.co.ug Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | FINCA Uganda, a microfinance pioneer in Uganda has unveiled Janet Mudoola as its brand ambassador in a bid to further spread its financial and non-financial services to its clients. Mudoola was among the first customers served in the eastern district of Iganga by FINCA Uganda in 1992. She has signed …

Samiullah Farid (2024-08-15). Bloomberg says Pakistan has highest inflation in Asia. gnnhd.tv American media company says the ratio of electricity bills is higher than the house rent…

Kate Yoder (2024-08-15). Most Americans don't know the country's biggest climate law helps the climate. grist.org

splcenter (2024-08-15). Debunking ADF's 'Debanking' Conspiracy Theory. splcenter.org Anti-LGBTQ+ hate group Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) is engaged in an ongoing crusade to force private businesses to adhere to conservative Christian theology, in part by spreading the false narrative that private sector banks have been dropping conservative religious clients since the Obama administration. The conspiratorial claim, which ADF calls "debanking," has arisen out of an ongoing effort from ADF to ban or disrupt private sector investments in diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) and environmental sustainability.

Cathy Bussewitz (2024-08-15). Federal ban on noncompete agreements comes under legal attack. whyy.org The federal government wants to make it easier for employees to quit a job and work for a competitor. But some companies say a new rule created by the Federal Trade Commission will make it hard to protect trade secrets and investments they make in their employees. | At least three companies have sued the FTC after it voted to ban noncompete agreements, which prevent employees from working for competitors for a period of time after leaving a job. Their cases are now pending in Florida, Pennsylvania and Texas and the issue could end up in front of the U.S. Supreme Court. | Here's what you should know about noncompe…

The Independent (2024-08-15). MTN Uganda's unveils second phase of MTN Changemakers. independent.co.ug The company plans to invest Shs 500 million in 25 projects countrywide Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | MTN Uganda, through the MTN Foundation has launched the second phase of the MTN Changemakers Initiative, a transformative program designed to drive positive social change across Uganda. This new phase will see an investment ofShs 500 million, dedicated …

Bryant Arroyo (2024-08-15). Anatomy of America's wasteful prison-industrial complex. workers.org Bryant Arroyo (WW Photo: Joe Piette) Bryant Arroyo is a jailhouse lawyer, environmental activist and outspoken advocate for aging and elderly prisoners. He was a rank-and-file union worker before his unjust incarceration in 1994 and he repeatedly exposes the corporate interests which profit off the prison-industrial complex. Arroyo successfully organized . . . |

Ofelia Rivas (2024-08-15). Tohono O'odham Ofelia Rivas 'The Pirates Who Stole My Words'. indybay.org Ofelia Rivas, Tohono O'odham, points out that today more than 20 books use her words about O'odham and the border without her permission. The pirates range from the United Nations and book authors, to non-profits and corporate-paid activists. Ofelia's words and life work are often plagiarized for profit and self-promotion by those who do not live on the Tohono O'odham Nation.

The Independent (2024-08-15). Advertising body unveils 3rd edition of the annual industry Silverback Awards. independent.co.ug Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Uganda Advertising Association (UAA) in partnership with Loeries and the Uganda Marketers Society (UMS) has officially unveiled the 3rd edition of the Silverback Awards 2024 to be held on November 23, 2024, in Kampala. Under the theme "Innovative Sustainable Marketing: Harnessing Ethics, Impact, and Profitability in the Digital Age" the …

Communist Party of India Marxist-Leninist Liberation (2024-08-15). India: Marxist Coordination Committee merges with CPI(ML) Liberation. links.org.au CPI(ML) Liberation — The unification of Jharkhand's two leading Left forces, CPI(ML) Liberation and Marxist Coordination Committee, was announced on 10 August.

WSWS (2024-08-15). More Australian workers and youth explain why they have joined the SEP as electoral members. wsws.org "As a Palestinian myself I've always felt that all these systems of oppression are interconnected. We see that in the most violent and blatant way in Israel and the occupied territories, but really the whole world is basically occupied by capitalism, by greed."

Ashley Smith, Michael Roberts (2024-08-15). The Persistence of Global Capitalism's Long Depression. cadtm.org

newleftreview (2024-08-15). Cédric Durand: Landscapes of Capital. newleftreview.org A critical engagement with the work of Brett Christophers, whose books—The New Enclosure, Rentier Capitalism, Our Lives in Their Portfolios and The Price Is Wrong—unfold a novel critique of the 'rentier stage' of contemporary capitalism, in the tradition of radical historical geography developed by Lefebvre, Harvey and Davis.

ecns.cn (2024-08-15). Scholars hail Zhejiang's green progress. ecns.cn Foreign experts lauded the progress Zhejiang province has made toward sustainable development during a recent visit to several sites focused on green energy and green industrial production.

Ahmed Adel (2024-08-15). US Defense Firms Reluctant to Cooperate with Ukraine Due to Safety, Corruption. globalresearch.ca US military contractors are concerned about corruption and the security of co-production in Ukraine and are therefore in no rush to sign contracts, a US State Department spokesperson said. Without the US being able to construct military-industrial infrastructure, Ukraine will …

Angela (2024-08-15). Thursday 8/15: Webinar: The Border Industrial Complex in the Time of Elections. indybay.org Online | secure.everyaction.com/TpAKN-FrqkuUK6lI5JXRUQ2…

WSWS (2024-08-15). Boeing Board of Directors onboards defense industry veteran as new CEO. wsws.org Kelly Ortberg has been brought in to strengthen Boeing's connection to the US military-industrial complex.

WSWS (2024-08-15). Socialist autoworker Will Lehman proposes 3-point program to defend Warren Truck jobs. wsws.org A rebellion against the UAW bureaucrats is needed. Workers should replace them with leaders drawn from the shop floor, exercising leadership democratically through rank-and-file action committees.

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2024-08-15). Venezuela Today: Revolution and Elections. libya360.wordpress.com Chris Gilbert Celebrating Maduro's victory. (Rome Arrieche) In light of recent imperialist aggressions, Chris Gilbert reflects on the challenges and complexities of using elections as a tool for socialist construction. Hugo Chávez changed the way socialists viewed elections around the world. The left had long been skeptical about them. The main arguments were that elections…

Pablo Rafael Fuentes (2024-08-15). Alerta Diosdado Cabello sobre nuevos planes violentos en Venezuela. radiohc.cu La Habana, 15 ago (RHC) El primer vicepresidente del Partido Socialista Unido de Venezuela (PSUV), Diosdado Cabello, alertó sobre nuevos planes violentos orquestados por la ultraderecha para el venidero sábado, trascendió hoy en Caracas.

WSWS (2024-08-15). Free Bogdan Syrotiuk! wsws.org This resolution was unanimously adopted by the Eighth National Congress of the Socialist Equality Party (US), held from August 4 to August 9, 2024.

Shimbun Akahata (2024-08-15). Japanese Communists defend decision excluding Israel from atomic bomb peace ceremony. peoplesworld.org NAGASAKI, Japan—Japanese Communist Party Secretariat Head Koike Akira said at a press conference in Nagasaki on Aug. 9 that the city's decision not to invite Israel to its annual peace ceremony "should not be criticized." Koike said this when asked by reporters about the exclusion of Israeli government representatives from the peace event held to …

ecns.cn (2024-08-15). Vietnam president to visit China. ecns.cn To Lam, general secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam Central Committee and Vietnam's president, will pay a state visit to China from August 18 to 20, Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying announced on Thursday.

Caitlin Johnstone, Consortium News. (2024-08-14). US To Iran: Only Israel May Escalate. popularresistance.org In an article titled "U.S. Warns Iran of 'Serious Risk' if It Conducts Major Attack on Israel," The Wall Street Journal reports that officials within the Biden administration have been warning Iran not to "escalate" against Israel in its planned retaliatory strikes for the assassination of a Hamas leader in Tehran. | "The United States has sent clear messaging to Iran that the risk of a major escalation if they do a significant retaliatory attack against Israel is extremely high," an anonymous U.S. official told The Wall Street Journal, adding that "there is a serious risk of consequences for Iran's economy and t…

David Rosenberg (2024-08-14). War is hell. And it doesn't come cheap. haaretz.com Netanyahu shrugged off Israel's credit downgrade by Fitch and promised all will soon be well for the economy. But he's doing nothing to ensure that…

Staff (2024-08-14). How Amazon "Lied, Spied, Cheated Its Way to the Top": WSJ Reporter Dana Mattioli. democracynow.org We speak with Wall Street Journal reporter Dana Mattioli about her new book, The Everything War, which examines how Amazon came to dominate the U.S. economy through its "scorched-earth" tactics. "I found just a ton of business practices driven by this toxic culture at Amazon, where the company lied, spied, cheated its way to the top," she says. Mattioli also discusses the threat of antitrust lawsuits to Amazon and other Big Tech firms, political pressure on Federal Trade Commission Chair Lina Khan and more.

ecns.cn (2024-08-14). Housing prices in the top cities may stabilize in H2. ecns.cn China's housing prices in first- and second-tier cities may stabilize in the second half of the year upon proper policy adjustments.

ecns.cn (2024-08-14). Survey: High interest rates not spooking Hong Kong SMEs. ecns.cn Enterprises are most willing to invest in research and development, followed by training related to e-commerce or digital technology, as well as overall staff training.

ecns.cn (2024-08-14). Brokers punished for illegal activities as China steps up securities regulation. ecns.cn Chinese securities regulators have issued more than 12 penalties to securities brokers for illegal activities, in the latest sign of tighter regulations for the securities market to tackle risks and ensure stable development.

ecns.cn (2024-08-14). EU's provisional tariffs against Chinese EVs cause unease, uncertainty: trade chamber. ecns.cn The China Chamber of Commerce to the EU said on Tuesday that the EU's protectionist measures against Chinese electric vehicle (EV) makers have caused unease and uncertainty.

Basit Mahmood (2024-08-14). Liz Truss storms off stage after being humiliated by lettuce banner prank. leftfootforward.org Former Prime Minister Liz Truss stormed off stage at an event where she was promoting her book, after a banner featuring a lettuce with the words 'I crashed the economy' was unfurled behind her as part of a stunt by a campaign group. | Truss, whose premiership ended in disaster after her mini-budget crashed the economy and sent mortgage costs soaring, was speaking at the event about why she supported President Trump and why Americans were struggling with the economy. | The stunt, carried out by campaign group Led by Donkeys, was a reference to the challenge set by the Daily Star newspaper in October 2022 to se…

presstv.ir (2024-08-14). Makran, a watershed in Iran's sea-based economy plans. presstv.ir The geopolitical features of Iran are considered one of the most important indicators of its empowerment, including turning the country into a regional magnet for commerce and investment.

UMMID (2024-08-14). Challenges before Yunus' interim government in Bangladesh. ummid.com The challenges at the frontiers of Yunus' interim government in Bangladeshare (unlucky) seven: law and order; economy; military, elections; justice; religious freedom; and freedom of expression.

Guest Blogger (2024-08-14). "Green" Hydrogen Subsidies Are 1,900x Larger Than What's Given To Nuclear. wattsupwiththat.com the hydrogen economy requires scads of electricity (a high quality form of energy) to make a tiny molecule that's hard to handle, difficult to store, and expensive to use.

newarab (2024-08-14). Polanyi's The Great Transformation and the myth of free markets. newarab.com Looking at economic and other transformations during the Industrial Revolution and beyond, he showed that there is nothing inevitable and 'natural' about free markets, the ideological belief that they can solve most economic problems being utopian and dangerous. | JM Keynes, an important economic thinker of the last century, saw those in authority as distilling thoughts "from some academic scribbler of a few years back." Indeed, his ideas underpin much economic policy today. | However, unlike Keynes who was an apologist for some form of capitalism, the less-remembered Polanyi's "scribbling" shows that market f…

newarab (2024-08-14). Polanyi's The Great Transformation and the myth of free markets. newarab.com Karl Polanyi's 1944 work, The Great Transformation: The Political and Economic Origins of Our Time, exposes the myths of laissez-faire, which remains widespread in the West and elsewhere. | Looking at economic and other transformations during the Industrial Revolution and beyond, he showed that there is nothing inevitable and 'natural' about free markets, the ideological belief that they can solve most economic problems being utopian and dangerous. | JM Keynes, an important economic thinker of the last century, saw those in authority as distilling thoughts "from some academic scribbler of a few years back." In…

Orinoco Tribune. (2024-08-14). Ex-Bangladeshi Prime Minister Says US Orchestrated Her Ouster. popularresistance.org Former Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has accused the United States, in a letter published on Sunday, of orchestrating her ouster after she refused to give up the sovereignty of the strategic island of St. Martin. | "I could have remained in power if I had surrendered the sovereignty of Saint Martin Island and allowed America to hold sway over the Bay of Bengal," the letter obtained by The Economic Times read. | Hasina said last summer that Bangladesh would not lease the island, without specifying the details or the interested party. US State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller said days later that t…

National Lawyers Guild International Committee. (2024-08-14). Legal Experts: US Unilateral Economic Sanctions Violate International Law. popularresistance.org New York, NY — A new letter from legal groups, legal scholars, and attorneys calls on the Biden administration to end the use of broad unilateral economic sanctions, noting their civilian harms and illegality under international law. The letter, sent to the White House today, is signed by 38 organizations and 200 individual attorneys, including dozens of legal scholars. | The letter notes that, 75 years since the signing of the Geneva Conventions, which prohibit the collective punishment of civilian populations as a war crime, "collective punishment is a standard practice of US foreign policy in the form of…

aljazeera (2024-08-14). Kiribati votes in key election after years of turbulence. aljazeera.com Pacific island nation is strategically important, but voters also have economic concerns.

Daniel Falcone (2024-08-14). African Politics is Invisible to the Wider World: How Nigeria Became a 'Soldier's Paradise'. counterpunch.org "If you want to keep militaries out of civilian politics, you have to offer people some other way," scholar argues. British rule had profound effects on Nigeria starting in the late 1800s and largely included economic, political, social, and cultural forms of imperialism. Many of the devastating impacts are still visible in the country today and are especially

NEOB (2024-08-14). Government, business partnership begins to flourish. sanews.gov.za Government, business partnership begins to flourish | The government and business partnership to resolve South Africa's challenges is beginning to bear fruit, although much more needs to be done. | This is according to a statement released by the Presidency and Business for South Africa. | The partnership between the two parties was established last year in a bid to work together to resolve the question of inclusive and economic growth. | The collaboration has targeted three areas for particular interest, including energy, transport and logistics, and crime and corruption. | PHOTOS | President Ramaphosa meets wit…

newleftreview (2024-08-14). Radhika Desai: Peak Hindutva? newleftreview.org As Modi's BJP loses its overall majority, Radhika Desai examines the part played by India's capitalist conglomerates in his rise—and the contradictions on which their strategy has foundered. The economic crisis of the parched countryside as brake on Hindutva's forward march.

EDWIN (2024-08-14). Minister and Mayor to tour neglected buildings and harbour. sanews.gov.za Minister and Mayor to tour neglected buildings and harbour | The Department of Public Works and Infrastructure Minister, Dean Macpherson, and the City of Cape Town Executive Mayor, Geordin Hill-Lewis, are expected to embark on a tour to neglected and hijacked departmental-owned buildings in Cape Town. | "The Minister and the Mayor are committed to working together to find long-term solutions to these buildings to ensure that they are used for the public good and contribute to the overall economic growth and job creation in the city," said the department. | The two are set to visit 2 Keizersgracht Street which has…

GABIK (2024-08-14). Garden to assist George Hill residents. sanews.gov.za Garden to assist George Hill residents | The eThekwini Municipality has stepped in to help residents of George Hill Informal Settlement, which has been plagued by unemployment, poverty, and crime. | To address these challenges, the Inner eThekwini Regeneration and Urban Management Programme (ITRUMP) Area Based Management (ABM) has identified the need to start an organic vegetable garden to support poverty-stricken families in ward 31. | The vegetable garden was recently launched by the city, after ITRUMP ABM reached out to sister departments for help to make the garden a success. | Under the mentorship of Althea…

DikelediM (2024-08-14). UIF commissioner to host employer breakfast session in Queenstown. sanews.gov.za UIF commissioner to host employer breakfast session in Queenstown | The Unemployment Insurance Fund (UIF) is calling on employers in the Eastern Cape to attend an Employer Breakfast session that is set to take place in Queenstown next week. | The session which will be held at Aloe Grove Guest Farm, will be hosted by the fund's Commisssioner, Teboho Maruping. | Employers from all sectors, including commercial business owners and operators of Small Medium and Micro Enterprises (SMMEs) in Komani (Queenstown) as well as the broader Eastern Cape Province are invited to attend the session on Monday, 19 August 2024. | "

Prof. Joseph H. Chung (2024-08-14). America's Perpetual War: Six Questions. globalresearch.ca America's multi-trillion dollar perpetual war has denied and deprived millions of Americans of decent income, adequate housing, needed foods, necessary health care, safety on the street, reliable infrastructure facilities, essential education…

aljazeera (2024-08-14). Will the UK's new Labour government halt arms sales to Israel? aljazeera.com Since 2008, the UK has licensed arms exports to Israel worth at least 576 million pounds ($740m).

newarab (2024-08-14). Labour Party VAT hike threatens future of UK Islamic schools. newarab.com As Britain watched on with bated breath during this historic

newleftreview (2024-08-14). Owen Hatherley: Labourism: In and Against? newleftreview.org Owen Hatherley on Andy Beckett, The Searchers. Interlinked portraits of the Labour Party's Bennite bloc, from 1968 to the Corbyn leadership.

Reuters (2024-08-14). Canada to reform temporary foreign worker scheme that UN says promotes slavery. scmp.com The programme meant to fill labour shortages has come under fire for suppressing wages and leaving workers vulnerable to abuse.

Richard D. Wolff (2024-08-14). Capitalism, Mass Anger and the 2024 Elections. counterpunch.org In the wake of his huge defeat on June 30, 2024, when 80 percent of voters rejected French "centrist" President Emmanuel Macron, he said he understood the French people's anger. In the UK, Conservative loser Rishi Sunak said the same about the British people's anger, as Labor leader Starmer now says as the anger explodes.

Staff (2024-08-14). How Elon Musk Broke with the Democrats to Spend Millions on Donald Trump's Reelection Campaign. democracynow.org The United Auto Workers has filed federal labor charges against Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump and billionaire Tesla CEO Elon Musk, accusing them of illegally attempting to threaten and intimidate workers who go on strike. The UAW's complaint comes in response to comments made by Trump during a discussion with Musk Monday on the social media platform X, which Musk owns. The Wall Street Journal reports that Musk is funding a new super PAC to help Trump in swing states and return him to the White House. There have been reports Musk was planning to spend $45 million a month to help elect Trump, b…

ecns.cn (2024-08-14). New system urged for better health. ecns.cn China should promote closer collaboration between hospitals and retail pharmacies to better manage chronic diseases and reduce disease burdens, industry experts said.

Labor Video Project (2024-08-14). SF DA Brooke Jenkins, Drop the Charges! Demand Palestine Supporters of the Golden Gate 26. indybay.org

Mark Gruenberg (2024-08-14). UAW suit against Trump and Musk breaks new ground. peoplesworld.org DETROIT—The United Auto Workers are suing Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump and billionaire mogul Elon Musk for flagrantly breaking labor law after Trump praised Musk for illegally firing strikers. The move by the union is significant because the UAW is saying that what is often referred to as "labor law" is not, as corporations would …

Mark Gruenberg (2024-08-14). Progressive 'Squad' member Omar beats chief challenger Samuels in Minnesota primary. peoplesworld.org MINNEAPOLIS—By a 56.2%-42.9% margin, progressive "Squad" member Rep. Ilhan Omar, the Democratic-Farmer-Labor (DFL) incumbent lawmaker from Minneapolis, beat her chief challenger, former city commissioner Don Samuels, in the August 13 DFL primary there. The win virtually guarantees her re-election in the very progressive city-centered congressional district this fall. Omar's win was the most-notable development in …

NEOB (2024-08-14). Continued collaboration key to addressing challenges. sanews.gov.za Continued collaboration key to addressing challenges | Government and business have recommitted to working together to resolve some of South Africa's most pressing challenges. | On Tuesday, President Cyril Ramaphosa, together with members of his Cabinet, held a meeting with senior business leaders and technical experts from government and business to discuss a new era of collaboration for a partnership launched over a year ago to address barriers to growth in South Africa. | President Ramaphosa said since last year when the partnership was established, much progress has been recorded in key areas, including elect…

Staff (2024-08-14). Anuncian cierre temporal del túnel de Quinta Avenida por mantenimiento. cubadebate.cu El túnel de Quinta Avenida, en La Habana, será sometido a labores de mantenimiento del 14 al 31 de agosto venidero, por lo cual la Comisión Provincial de Seguridad Vial anunció medidas de cierre en determinados horarios y sentidos de movimiento durante ese período con el fin de reorganizar el tráfico en ese importante nudo de vialidad.

Staff (2024-08-14). teleSUR anuncia el concurso "Sur Influyente" telesurtv.net El concurso invita a jóvenes, mayores de edad, creadores de contenidos a elaborar piezas audiovisuales de máximo 60 segundos en formato vertical (9: 16).

Heba Gowayed, In These Times. (2024-08-14). Borders And The Exchange Of Humans For Debt. popularresistance.org The jagged shoreline of the island of Lesbos, Greece, which runs into the Aegean Sea just miles from the Turkish coastline, is a site of the macabre and systemic practice of "border externalization," where wealthy states enlist less wealthy states — often indebted ones — to intercept and brutalize human beings destined for their borders. | It is here that 23-year-old Ahmed‚Äâ—‚Äâwho left Gaza in 2021 to find refuge from a life behind Israel's Iron Wall and violence, which promised "no future, no work, no possibilities"&s…

editor (2024-08-14). Women and wealth. onlineopinion.com.au But the relentless moaning is actually a cover for a far bigger story. The truth that is being strenuously downplayed is that, overall, women will soon be sitting pretty, right on top in the wealth stakes.

The Independent (2024-08-14). Parliament declines to proceed with Alcohol Control Bill. independent.co.ug Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Parliament has rejected the Alcohol Control Bill, 2023 that sought to regulate the purchase, sell and consumption of alcohol. The private members Bill that was introduced for the first time by Tororo District Woman Representative, Sarah Opendi in November 2023 also aimed to regulate the time and premises where alcohol …

Schuyler Mitchell (2024-08-14). Activists Are Bringing the Heat to the Banks Funding Climate Crisis. truthout.org As the world broils under month after month of record-shattering temperatures, thousands of activists are engaging in a new campaign of civil disobedience to make fossil fuel's biggest funders feel the heat. Backed by a coalition of more than 80 climate and racial justice groups, the "Summer of Heat" is convening every day on Wall Street all summer to take direct action against the financial… |

Shefali Luthra (2024-08-14). Most Women Support Abortion Protections, Including 40 Percent of GOP Women. truthout.org Most women between the ages of 18 and 49 support a national right to abortion, oppose a national ban on the procedure, and don't believe abortion rights should be left up to individual states, according to a new survey from KFF, a nonprofit health policy research, polling and news organization. Majorities of Democratic and independent women oppose restrictions and support a law enshrining a… |

tvbrics (2024-08-14). Saudi Arabia launches initiatives to empower the non-profit sector in mining. tvbrics.com Five industrial associations are currently under the ministry's control…

Finbarr Bermingham (2024-08-14). EU subsidy raids on Chinese company Nuctech were legal, court rules. scmp.com Landmark decision rejects firm's assertion that complying with bloc's regulation put it on collision course with mainland criminal laws.

WSWS (2024-08-14). Fascist billionaires Trump and Musk express hatred of working class and fear of Marxism in interview on X. wsws.org For over two hours, the two billionaires used the global communications platform to spread their neo-Nazi ideology and politics.

Ashley Smith, Michael Roberts (2024-08-14). The Persistence of Global Capitalism's Long Depression. cadtm.org

newleftreview (2024-08-14). Cédric Durand: Landscapes of Capital. newleftreview.org A critical engagement with the work of Brett Christophers, whose books—The New Enclosure, Rentier Capitalism, Our Lives in Their Portfolios and The Price Is Wrong—unfold a novel critique of the 'rentier stage' of contemporary capitalism, in the tradition of radical historical geography developed by Lefebvre, Harvey and Davis.

Angela (2024-08-14). Thursday 8/15: Webinar: The Border Industrial Complex in the Time of Elections. indybay.org Online | secure.everyaction.com/TpAKN-FrqkuUK6lI5JXRUQ2…

A Guest Author (2024-08-14). Sube el desempleo: øqué pueden hacer los trabajadores? workers.org Por James Foster El Promedio Industrial Dow Jones experimentó una importante caída tras el último informe de empleo, publicado el 2 de agosto, que reveló una modesta adición de 114.000 puestos de trabajo y un aumento de la tasa de desempleo hasta el 4,3%. Las noticias sobre la economía estadounidense . . . |

The Independent (2024-08-14). Absa Bank Uganda donates shs100 million to Uganda Red Cross towards immediate disaster relief for victims of Lusanja Kiteezi landslide. independent.co.ug KAMPALA, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Absa Bank Uganda has today handed over a donation worth UGX100 million to the Uganda Red Cross Society to boost immediate disaster relief to households affected by the Lusanja Kiteezi landfill slide. The funds will go towards strengthening the disaster response by funding the purchase of essential relief supplies …

WSWS (2024-08-14). Stop the mass layoffs at Stellantis Warren Truck Assembly Plant! wsws.org The auto companies are relying completely on the bureaucrats in the UAW, and their counterparts in other countries, to strangle opposition to layoffs.

WSWS (2024-08-14). Socialist Equality Party achieves ballot status in Washington state. wsws.org Supporters of the SEP collected 1,395 signatures during the course of a three-month-long campaign across Washington state, well over the 1,000 required to place Kishore and White on the ballot.

WSWS (2024-08-14). The 2024 US elections and the tasks of the Socialist Equality Party. wsws.org We are publishing here the main resolution adopted by the Eighth National Congress of the Socialist Equality Party (US), held from August 4 to August 9, 2024.

ecns.cn (2024-08-14). China Answers | From urban development to easier entry, what has high-level openness brought to China. ecns.cn Opening up is a defining feature of Chinese modernization, as stated at the 3rd Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China. | As a foreign expert now living in Shanghai, Joseph Gregory Mahoney, professor of politics and international relations at East China Normal University said that the cohesive and open development in the Yangtze River Delta region, as well as China's entry facilitation measures and urbanization progress are major topics to him.

Joel Wendland-Liu (2024-08-14). 'Transnational Communism Across the Americas' offers valuable insights despite its anti-communist tropes. peoplesworld.org Historical research on communist parties and their multiple international relationships has flourished in the past two decades. One remarkable contribution to this field is the book Transnational Communism Across the Americas. This collection of multiply-authored chapters digs into the communist parties of various Latin American countries, such as Cuba, Puerto Rico, El Salvador, Mexico, and …

ecns.cn (2024-08-11). Securities firms' merger to help industry grow. ecns.cn Consolidation among Chinese securities brokerage firms, propelled by central regulators' policy support and guidance, will allocate industry resources more rationally and lead to a rapid growth of securities firms, experts said.

ecns.cn (2024-08-11). Services seen as bright spot for economy. ecns.cn China has employed an array of policy measures to foster greater openness within the services sector, as the country aims to further boost consumption by improving the provision of more quality services, officials and experts said on Friday…

ecns.cn (2024-08-11). China files suit with WTO over EU's provisional anti-subsidy measures against Chinese EVs. ecns.cn China on Friday initiated dispute settlement proceedings against the EU's provisional anti-subsidy measures against Chinese EVs at the WTO to safeguard the interests of its electric vehicle industry's development and global green transition cooperation.

ecns.cn (2024-08-11). In Numbers: Ancient festival fuels the modern romantic economy. ecns.cn

Robert Kurz (2024-08-11). Totalitarian Economy and Paranoia of Terror: The Death Wish of Capitalist Reason. indybay.org While the financial capitalist crisis mechanisms of shareholder value threw billions of people into poverty and despair, the majority of the global intelligentsia mockingly sang the song of capitalist democratic optimism. They now have paid the price: When critical reason is silenced, its place is taken by murderous hate.

Ben Norton (2024-08-11). USA lets athletes cheat with steroids, as it accuses Russia & China of violating anti-doping rules. geopoliticaleconomy.com The World Anti-Doping Agency says the US has for a decade allowed athletes in international competitions, including the Olympics, to cheat by using prohibited drugs, while it hypocritically criticizes Russia and China.

noemail (2024-08-11). Bangladesh's Interim Government Faces Economic Revival Challenge. devdiscourse.com The interim government of Bangladesh, appointed after the fall of the Sheikh Hasina-led Awami League, faces the daunting task of reviving a faltering economy. Finance and Planning Adviser Salehuddin Ahmed, directed by interim leader Muhammad Yunus, highlighted the government's priorities, including banking reforms and restoring public trust.

ecns.cn (2024-08-10). China files suit with WTO over EU's provisional anti-subsidy measures against Chinese EVs. ecns.cn China on Friday initiated dispute settlement proceedings against the EU's provisional anti-subsidy measures against Chinese EVs at the WTO to safeguard the interests of its electric vehicle industry's development and global green transition cooperation.

ecns.cn (2024-08-10). Securities firms' merger to help industry grow. ecns.cn Consolidation among Chinese securities brokerage firms, propelled by central regulators' policy support and guidance, will allocate industry resources more rationally and lead to a rapid growth of securities firms, experts said.

ecns.cn (2024-08-10). In Numbers: Ancient festival fuels the modern romantic economy. ecns.cn

ecns.cn (2024-08-10). China's CPI up 0.5% y-o-y in July. ecns.cn China's consumer price index (CPI), a main gauge of inflation, edged up 0.5 percent year-on-year in July, data released by the National Bureau of Statistic showed on Thursday.

ecns.cn (2024-08-10). Services seen as bright spot for economy. ecns.cn China has employed an array of policy measures to foster greater openness within the services sector, as the country aims to further boost consumption by improving the provision of more quality services, officials and experts said on Friday…

Robert Kurz (2024-08-10). Totalitarian Economy and Paranoia of Terror: The Death Wish of Capitalist Reason. indybay.org While the financial capitalist crisis mechanisms of shareholder value threw billions of people into poverty and despair, the majority of the global intelligentsia mockingly sang the song of capitalist democratic optimism. They now have paid the price: When critical reason is silenced, its place is taken by murderous hate.

CADTM Afrique (2024-08-11). The fourth CADTM-Africa University, in coordination with the World March of Women (WMW) and the National Forum on Economic and Social Strategies (FNSES). cadtm.org

newleftreview (2024-08-11). Radhika Desai: Peak Hindutva? newleftreview.org As Modi's BJP loses its overall majority, Radhika Desai examines the part played by India's capitalist conglomerates in his rise—and the contradictions on which their strategy has foundered. The economic crisis of the parched countryside as brake on Hindutva's forward march.

Alan Waring (2024-08-11). Is the Search for Justice Futile in Today's Tyrannical Climate? fairobserver.com We live in an era of increasing exposure to harmful threats and risks to individuals, groups, societies, nations and humankind. As the 2024 World Economic Forum Global Risks Report narrates, many of these hazards, whether natural or manmade, are made worse by the failure of public and private authorities to act decisively and appropriately. Many…

Chris Habiby (2024-08-10). End Israel's system of economic apartheid in Palestine. mondoweiss.net Often overlooked, Israel's intentional system of economically fragmenting and dispossessing Palestinians is an essential part of its plan to ethnically cleanse the land and deny Palestinian liberation.

CADTM Afrique (2024-08-10). The fourth CADTM-Africa University, in coordination with the World March of Women (WMW) and the National Forum on Economic and Social Strategies (FNSES). cadtm.org

Caitlin Johnstone (2024-08-10). Nobody Would Vote For Any Of This Bullshit Without Extensive Manipulation. thealtworld.com One of the biggest lies we are sold in western politics is that election results paint an accurate picture of what the public truly wants. We are told that candidates who promote peace and economic justice lose elections because their platforms are unpopular with the wider public, as though the people are organically coming into worldviews which support poverty, inequality, war and militarism all on their own. | "Socialism just isn't popular!" we are told, as though we don't live under a capitalist empire that has spent generations violently stomping out socialism wherever it pops up and brainwashing the public i…

geo.tv (2024-08-10). Former YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki's husband pens down heartfelt note following her death. geo.tv Susan Wojcicki, CEO of YouTube addresses delegates of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. —REUTERSFormer YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki's husband Denis Troper posted a heartfelt note after his wife's death on his Facebook handle on Saturday. "Her impact on…

Staff (2024-08-10). Challenging the Injustice: The impact of Article 341 on Muslim representation in India. muslimmirror.com By Zakir Hussain The Muslim community in India has faced numerous challenges in the educational and economic sectors since independence. A significant concern is the continuous decline in Muslim participation in government jobs, a trend that has been exacerbated by the religious restrictions imposed by Article 341 of the Constitution. These restrictions have created barriers …

Staff (2024-08-10). Challenging the Injustice: The impact of Article 341 on Muslim representation in India. muslimmirror.com By Zakir Hussain The Muslim community in India has faced numerous challenges in the educational and economic sectors since independence. A significant concern is the continuous decline in Muslim participation in government jobs, a trend that has been exacerbated by the religious restrictions imposed by Article 341 of the Constitution. These restrictions have created barriers …

Baba Aye (2024-08-10). Economic hardship sparks nationwide protest in Nigeria. links.org.au Baba Aye — Tens of thousands of people have trooped out on the streets across Nigeria in nationwide #EndBadGovernance protests against hardship and hunger, since 1 August.

newleftreview (2024-08-10). Radhika Desai: Peak Hindutva? newleftreview.org As Modi's BJP loses its overall majority, Radhika Desai examines the part played by India's capitalist conglomerates in his rise—and the contradictions on which their strategy has foundered. The economic crisis of the parched countryside as brake on Hindutva's forward march.

Author Blank (2024-08-10). 25, 50 and 75 years ago. themilitant.com August 30, 1999: | SASKATOON, Saskatchewan — An estimated 1,200 farmers organized convoys of farm vehicles, tractors, combines, and grain trucks along Saskatchewan highways Aug. 2, causing traffic delays of several hours. Farmers wanted to draw attention to the severe crisis hitting agriculture in this province and demand action from the federal and provincial governments. | Federal government statistics show that this will be the worst year for farm income since statistics were first recorded in 1926. Federal government cutbacks have meant that farm subsidies have been slashed on typical Saskatchew…

newleftreview (2024-08-11). Owen Hatherley: Labourism: In and Against? newleftreview.org Owen Hatherley on Andy Beckett, The Searchers. Interlinked portraits of the Labour Party's Bennite bloc, from 1968 to the Corbyn leadership.

Rhoda Wilson (2024-08-10). Stand Up to Racism: An organisation that stokes racism and xenophobia in the UK to overthrow parliamentary democracy. expose-news.com Ricky Jones, a 57-year-old Labour councillor from Dartford in Kent, has been arrested on suspicion of encouraging murder and charged with one count of encouraging violent disorder. The incident occurred during a …

WSWS (2024-08-10). New Zealand Labour Party feigns opposition to anti-China AUKUS military pact. wsws.org As the right-wing coalition government signals it will join the AUKUS, the Labour Party is feigning opposition in an effort to prevent the eruption of anti-war opposition in the working class.

newleftreview (2024-08-10). Owen Hatherley: Labourism: In and Against? newleftreview.org Owen Hatherley on Andy Beckett, The Searchers. Interlinked portraits of the Labour Party's Bennite bloc, from 1968 to the Corbyn leadership.

Ajamu Baraka, Black Agenda Report. (2024-08-10). US Rejection Of Venezuela's Democracy Vindicates Trump. popularresistance.org The dust-up on January 6, 2021, was nothing compared to an opposition in Venezuela calling for the nation's military forces to ignore the declaration of state authorities recognizing the result of their electoral process. Instead. they collaborated with external powers involved in ongoing illegal actions to undermine the state and its democratically elected leadership. | Even Donald Trump didn't attempt to institute a similar course of action following the 2020 elections. And even if he wanted to, it would not have been effective since then Joint Chief of Staff, Mark Milley, inserted himself into the local securi…

Chris Beck (2024-08-10). I Helped Organize An Architect's Union. progressive.org Here's how designers can build a stronger labor movement.

GABRIELLE PROSSER (2024-08-10). 'We say the working class needs its own party, a party of labor'. themilitant.com Minnesota: Thousands hear the SWP campaign program: | MINNEAPOLIS — "No offense, but how are you guys going to change things?" Steven Lutchen, a truck driver, asked Dennis Richter, Socialist Workers Party candidate for vice president, at a Hmong Farmers Market in St. Paul Aug. 4. "They won't give you any publicity." | "We're counting on what's beginning to change among working people," Richter replied, pointing to recent labor struggles, from flight attendants fighting for a new contract to the autoworkers strike last fall. | "We need to build a party of labor, to organize to fight in the interests…

Dongsheng Collective (2024-08-10). Introducing Wenhua Zongheng: International Journal on Chinese Thought. dongshengnews.org Dear reader, | Over the past year and a half, the Dongsheng team has been collaborating with Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research to publish the international edition of Wenhua Zongheng (ÊñáÂåñÁ∫µÊ®™), a leading journal of contemporary political and cultural thought in China. Founded in 2008, the journal publishes issues every two months, featuring articles by a wide array of intellectuals across the country and building a platform for discussion of different ideological positions and values in China's intellectual community. The…

WSWS (2024-08-10). Australian government has given secret "commitments" over AUKUS pact. wsws.org Even in the establishment press, the question is being raised of whether Labor has formally committed to participate in any US-led war with China.

Staff (2024-08-10). teleSUR anuncia el concurso "Sur Influyente" telesurtv.net El concurso invita a jóvenes, mayores de edad, creadores de contenidos a elaborar piezas audiovisuales de máximo 60 segundos en formato vertical (9: 16).

Cherri Murphy (2024-08-10). Community Ready Corps Video Exposes Extremists & Billionaires Behind Oakland Recalls. indybay.org The Oakland recall efforts aren't about public safety. They aim to spread misinformation and invoke fear. When you look at recall efforts nationally, you see that this strategy is a national attempt to maintain the status quo, and these efforts are backed by corporate interests, extremists, the wealthy, and police unions to resist the changes brought by those who were elected to do things differently.

Brian Williams (2024-08-10). Working people face continuing crisis of high prices, debts. themilitant.com "This is the most money we've ever made and this is the brokest we've ever felt," said Nicole Lewis, a mother of three who lives near Flint, Michigan, the Wall Street Journal reported July 30. Working as a medical assistant, she and her husband's combined pay rose after the pandemic. | But they still couldn't cover the persistent price hikes for everything from groceries to auto insurance. So like millions, they became dependent on using their credit cards, a giant profit-making bonanza for the big banks, which charge over 20% annual interest rates. | Trips to the beach and bowling alley are out, she told the Jou…

The Independent (2024-08-11). KITEEZI TRAGEDY: Museveni orders UPDF to join rescue. independent.co.ug Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | President Yoweri Museveni has ordered the UPDF Special Forces to assist in the rescue at Kiteezi landfill that collapsed and killed unknown numbers of people. He also directed the State House Comptroller to financially assist the families of those who died with Sh.5million per person and Sh.1 million per …

presstv.ir (2024-08-10). US to provide Israel with additional $3.5bn in military aid amid Gaza war. presstv.ir The administration of US President Joe Biden has announced plans to send an additional $3.5bn to Israel to spend on US-made weapons and military equipment.

MEE correspondent (2024-08-10). Iranian press review: Execution of 2022 anti-establishment protester sparks outrage. middleeasteye.net Iranian press review: Execution of 2022 anti-establishment protester sparks outrage | Meanwhile, expert says Iran faces challenges in retaliating against Israel, Tehran says the New York Times acts as a propaganda tool for Israel, and industries experience financial setbacks due to power shortages | Sat, 08…

Tim Anderson (2024-08-10). Five Myths About the Venezuelan Elections. orinocotribune.com By Tim Anderson — Aug 7. 2024 | Here is the lesson for future Venezuelan politicians: Will they join national institutionality or simply become the latest creatures of comprador coup culture? | In the global culture wars, there persists a notion that independent countries must somehow gain approval from large, predatory military or financial powers. This of course misses the point that the right to self-determination of peoples and the independence of nations presupposes separation from and resistance to those same imperial powers. | Ever since the phenomenon of Hugo Chavez in the late 1990s dispensed with t…

Vivian Sahner (2024-08-10). Fight for a world where children can prosper, not one without kids. themilitant.com In an Aug. 4 Financial Times column, Pilita Clark, an associate editor at the paper and Harvard graduate, joined the liberal chorus attacking Donald Trump's vice presidential candidate, J.D. Vance, for comments he made in 2021 about "childless cat ladies." | Few actually quote what he said. In an interview with Tucker Carlson, Vance said, "We are effectively run in this country via the Democrats, via our corporate oligarchs, by a bunch of childless cat ladies who are miserable at their own lives and the choices that they've made and so they want to make the rest of the country miserable too. How does it make sens…

Unicorn Riot (2024-08-10). Sport-washing, Militarization and Financial Scandals: A Brief Analysis of the Past Five Summer Olympics. unicornriot.ninja

WSWS (2024-08-10). Paramount Global to slash 15 percent of workforce as jobs disaster in film and television deepens. wsws.org The job cuts were long expected. The workers are being made to pay for the ongoing sharp crisis in Hollywood and the profit drive of Wall Street and other financial sharks.

noemail (2024-08-10). Kerala Seeks Central Aid for Climate Crisis Recovery. devdiscourse.com Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan on Saturday requested financial assistance from the Central government to aid in the rehabilitation of people affected by the recent massive landslides in Wayanad. He also called for support to tackle the mounting challenges of climate change.

scorinoco (2024-08-10). Central Bank: July Inflation in Venezuela Was 0.7%. orinocotribune.com The Central Bank of Venezuela (BCV) reported that in July 2024, the inter-monthly variation of the National Consumer Price Index (NCPI) in Venezuela was 0.7%, the lowest so far this year and the lowest for any month since this index was first launched in 2008. | View this post on Instagram | In a post on social media on Friday, August 8, the BCV explained that in the last three months, the accumulated inflation stood at 3.2%, the lowest since t…

scorinoco (2024-08-10). Central Bank of Venezuela: Inflation in July Was 0.7%. orinocotribune.com The Central Bank of Venezuela (BCV) reported that in July 2024, the inter-monthly variation of the National Consumer Price Index (NCPI) in Venezuela was 0.7%, the lowest so far this year and the lowest for any month since this index was first launched in 2008. | View this post on Instagram | In a post on social media on Friday, August 8, the BCV explained that in the last three months, the accumulated inflation stood at 3.2%, the lowest since t…

Oraily Madruga Rios (2024-08-10). Venezuelan Central Bank reveals inflation drops 0.7 percent in July. plenglish.com Caracas, Aug 10 (Prensa Latina) Venezuela's Consumer Price Index was 0.7 percent in July, the lowest value in 2024 and in the last 16 years since the indicator has been registered, the Central Bank revealed.

aljazeera (2024-08-10). Who is Pavel Rubtsov, the journalist released in Russia-West prisoner swap? aljazeera.com Dual Russian-Spanish citizen was greeted by President Putin last week after spending years in a Polish jail.

Staff (2024-08-10). Pretending Project 2025 Cuts Military Spending Is Weird. davidswanson.org In the August 4 San Francisco Chronicle, Brett Wagner, formerly of the U.S. Naval War College, and now adjunct fellow at the weapons-funded Center for Strategic and International Studies, writes that the "Department of Defense" section of the Heritage Foundation's "Project 2025" "envisions a world in which the U.S. slashes its military commitments and related …

noemail (2024-08-11). Hindenburg's Allegations Against SEBI Chief: The Adani Connection. devdiscourse.com Hindenburg Research has brought forth accusations against Madhabi Puri Buch, the current head of SEBI, alleging she and her husband had investments in offshore funds tied to the Adani Group. Buch and her husband have labeled these allegations as 'baseless' and an attempt at 'character assassination.'

tvbrics (2024-08-10). New land allocation proposal in Egypt targets to create more jobs and attract investment from various sectors. tvbrics.com Egyptian authorities are considering a new project to improve land management practices…

Jeff St. John, Canary Media (2024-08-10). Biden administration announces more than $2 billion in grants to boost US power grid. grist.org The U.S. power grid is overburdened and under-resourced — and the Biden administration just announced a major investment aimed at helping solve those problems. | The Department of Energy has offered $2.2 billion to eight projects across 18 states that could expand and strengthen the grid. The projects range from deploying grid-enhancing technologies that boost the capacity of existing power lines to building brand-new high-voltage transmission cables that will enable wind farms in the Great Plains and off the coast of New England to plug into the grid. | Tuesday's announcement represents another signific…

The Independent (2024-08-10). Table tennis players call for more investment in the game. independent.co.ug Jinja, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | A section of veteran table tennis players is calling for increased investment in the sport from both the government and private sector. They emphasize the need for greater focus on developing table tennis across the country, highlighting its potential for job creation and talent development. At this year's third edition …

tvbrics (2024-08-11). Centre for environment regulation in Saudi Arabia carried out more than 25,000 inspections. tvbrics.com The environmental check-ups were completed in the first six months of 2024…

noemail (2024-08-10). AIT Denounces China's Escalatory Regulations Against Taiwan Independence Advocates. devdiscourse.com The American Institute in Taiwan (AIT) has condemned China's newly introduced regulations targeting Taiwan's independence advocates, labeling them as "escalatory and destabilizing." AIT has called on China to engage in constructive dialogue with Taiwan and preserve the status quo that has maintained regional peace for years.

Edwin Fruit (2024-08-10). Endeavor Air flight attendants rally for parity in wages, benefits. themilitant.com MINNEAPOLIS — Chanting, "I don't know what you've been told, Delta's greed is getting old" and "Close the gap and it's a wrap," 40 flight attendants and their supporters rallied at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport July 31. | These members of the Association of Flight Attendants-CWA fly for Endeavor Air, a commuter airline run by Delta. The union represents some 1,600 flight attendants at Endeavor. They are demanding parity in wages, benefits and scheduling with Delta flight attendants, who are not currently organized in a union. | "While those who work at mainline Delta received a small raise…

Jenny Ufer, Resilience. (2024-08-11). Towards A Degrowth Border Perspective. popularresistance.org What do we do with our borders? The right-wing shift in the European political climate in recent years has meant a higher degree of securitisation. At the same time, some are calling for border controls to be reduced or even abolished. Perhaps the answer lies in a change of perspective; a new outlook free from the shackles of capitalism and inspired by degrowth. | Recent national and European elections have marked a shift to the right in European politics. While the far-right Rassemblement National (National Rally, RN) failed to win a majority in France's parliamentary election, it will still be the most represen…

Ashley Smith, Michael Roberts (2024-08-11). The Persistence of Global Capitalism's Long Depression. cadtm.org

newleftreview (2024-08-11). Cédric Durand: Landscapes of Capital. newleftreview.org A critical engagement with the work of Brett Christophers, whose books—The New Enclosure, Rentier Capitalism, Our Lives in Their Portfolios and The Price Is Wrong—unfold a novel critique of the 'rentier stage' of contemporary capitalism, in the tradition of radical historical geography developed by Lefebvre, Harvey and Davis.

Ashley Smith, Michael Roberts (2024-08-10). The Persistence of Global Capitalism's Long Depression. cadtm.org

newleftreview (2024-08-10). Cédric Durand: Landscapes of Capital. newleftreview.org A critical engagement with the work of Brett Christophers, whose books—The New Enclosure, Rentier Capitalism, Our Lives in Their Portfolios and The Price Is Wrong—unfold a novel critique of the 'rentier stage' of contemporary capitalism, in the tradition of radical historical geography developed by Lefebvre, Harvey and Davis.

Staff (2024-08-10). US to provide $3.5 billion in additional military aid for Israel's war on Gaza. muslimmirror.com The US is preparing to give $3.5 billion to Israel to purchase American weapons and military equipment from a $14.1 billion supplemental bill approved by Congress in April, an official told Anadolu. "On Thursday, August 8 the Department notified Congress of our intent to obligate $3.5 billion in FY 2024 Foreign Military Financing using funding …

ecns.cn (2024-08-11). World's largest car carrier ship prepares to embark in Jiangsu. ecns.cn The world's largest car carrier ship was delivered in Nantong, east China's Jiangsu Province on Thursday, according to China Merchants Heavy Industry.

ecns.cn (2024-08-10). World's largest car carrier ship prepares to embark in Jiangsu. ecns.cn The world's largest car carrier ship was delivered in Nantong, east China's Jiangsu Province on Thursday, according to China Merchants Heavy Industry.

Rhoda Wilson (2024-08-11). UK government is supercharging its assault on free speech, both within the UK and globally. expose-news.com By criminalising open discussion and sharing of content online relating to the unrest in the UK, the new socialist UK government under TwoTierKeir, assisted by an ideologically two-tier police force, is suppressing …

scorinoco (2024-08-10). PSUV Leader Diosdado Cabello: We Have Submitted All Documents to the Supreme Court. orinocotribune.com The vice president of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV), Diosdado Cabello, reported that the PSUV has delivered all the documents asked for by the Electoral Chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice (TSJ) regarding the July 28 presidential elections. | "The United Socialist Party of Venezuela and the comrades of the different parties of the Great Patriotic Pole, the alliance that nominated President Nicolás Maduro, attended the TSJ summons in recognition of its authority, of the authority of the Electoral Chamber in everything concerning the electoral issue," Cabello declared to the press after exiting…

Róger Calero (2024-08-10). 1952: Cuban farmworkers in a fight get help from Fidel Castro. themilitant.com Earlier this year the Militant received a letter from Javier Perdomo, one of the millions of working people caught up by the "enormous machine for grinding people up" that is the U.S. criminal "justice" system. That quote comes from Ramón Labañino, one of the five Cuban revolutionaries framed up by the FBI in 1998 for monitoring counterrevolutionary groups that operate in Florida and carry out attacks against Cuba. | Perdomo wrote about receiving the socialist newsweekly in the Florida prison where he is incarcerated. "I am grateful an issue of the paper fell into my hands. It spoke about Che, Fidel, and the work…

WSWS (2024-08-10). SEP (Sri Lanka) presidential election meeting: Fight for international socialism against war, austerity and dictatorship! wsws.org Only our party speaks the truth and explains to workers, the poor and young people the serious situation they confront and the necessity of fighting for a revolutionary socialist alternative.

Michael Hudson, Geopolitical Economy. (2024-08-09). As Stock Market Crashes, Is US Facing New Financial Crisis? popularresistance.org Is the United States on the verge of a potential new financial crisis? This is a question that financial analysts are asking after there was a market crash on August 5. It is being compared to the famous "Black Monday" crash in the stock market in 1987. They also both happened on a Monday. So is this another Black Monday? | This was the biggest market plunge since the beginning of the pandemic in 2020, when many investors were selling off their holdings, fearing that there was going to be a big recession. | In fact, as of the August 5th crisis, the volatility index, the VIX, which is a measurement of how rapidly…

aljazeera (2024-08-09). China wrestles with 'quantity over quality' in generative AI patents. aljazeera.com China has filed for more patents than any other country, but US export controls are not its only hurdle.

aljazeera (2024-08-09). Indian exports, small businesses hit by Bangladesh unrest. aljazeera.com Bilateral trade relations between India and Bangladesh have been drastically affected due to the current violence.

ecns.cn (2024-08-09). In Numbers: Ancient festival fuels the modern romantic economy. ecns.cn

ecns.cn (2024-08-09). Shenzhen to issue new offshore bonds in HK. ecns.cn The Shenzhen municipal government in Guangdong province will issue offshore renminbi-denominated bonds in Hong Kong for the fourth time since 2021.

ecns.cn (2024-08-09). China's CPI up 0.5% y-o-y in July. ecns.cn China's consumer price index (CPI), a main gauge of inflation, edged up 0.5 percent year-on-year in July, data released by the National Bureau of Statistic showed on Thursday.

WSWS (2024-08-09). Fall in Chinese growth indicative of mounting problems in global economy. wsws.org Data for the second quarter showed an annualised growth rate of 4.7 percent—the lowest in five months.

infobrics (2024-08-08). Why the BRICS Need to Focus on the Macroeconomy of the Global South. infobrics.org Despite the growing interest on the part of developing economies in the BRICS+ platform, as well as a rising prominence of the BRICS on the international stage there is a perplexing lack of coordination and discussion within the bloc of the macroeconomic agenda of mutual cooperation…

infobrics (2024-08-08). Why the BRICS Need to Focus on the Macroeconomy of the Global South. infobrics.org Despite the growing interest on the part of developing economies in the BRICS+ platform, as well as a rising prominence of the BRICS on the international stage there is a perplexing lack of coordination and discussion within the bloc of the macroeconomic agenda of mutual cooperation…

Dave DeCamp (2024-08-08). Report: US Warns Iran of 'Serious Risk' If It Launches Major Attack on Israel. news.antiwar.com US officials have issued a threat to Iran, warning of serious consequences to the Iranian economy and the country's new government if it launches a major reprisal attack on Israel for the killing of Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran, The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday. "The United States has sent clear messaging to Iran that the …

Ben Norton (2024-08-08). As Stock Market Crashes, Is US Facing New Financial Crisis? Economist Michael Hudson Explains. orinocotribune.com

aljazeera (2024-08-08). US court orders FTX to pay $12.7bn to customers. aljazeera.com The repayment order implements a settlement between the CFTC and the bankrupt crypto exchange.

aljazeera (2024-08-08). Bangladesh economy under pressure amid 'uncharted' political turmoil. aljazeera.com Hopes that interim government under Muhammad Yunus can restore stability and address country's inequalities.

ecns.cn (2024-08-08). Xizang has lively first half in foreign trade. ecns.cn The Xizang autonomous region reported total imports and exports of 3.8 billion yuan ($529 million) in the first half of 2024, marking a substantial 132 percent increase, according to the customs office in Lhasa.

ecns.cn (2024-08-07). Sino-Australian trade ties deliver major benefits. ecns.cn Amid calls for greater cooperation between the two countries, latest analysis shows that Australia's trade with China has significantly benefited Australian households.

ecns.cn (2024-08-08). Sino-Australian trade ties deliver major benefits. ecns.cn Amid calls for greater cooperation between the two countries, latest analysis shows that Australia's trade with China has significantly benefited Australian households.

ecns.cn (2024-08-08). Kenya, China to further strengthen cooperation. ecns.cn China and Kenya have committed to strengthening bilateral cooperation ahead of this year's Forum on China-Africa Cooperation, or FOCAC, summit to be held in Beijing next month.

ecns.cn (2024-08-08). Markets rebound but volatility remains. ecns.cn Stock markets in Asia, Europe and the United States stabilized on Tuesday and Wednesday, after massive earlier volatility over fears that the US was heading for a recession.

ecns.cn (2024-08-07). Kenya, China to further strengthen cooperation. ecns.cn China and Kenya have committed to strengthening bilateral cooperation ahead of this year's Forum on China-Africa Cooperation, or FOCAC, summit to be held in Beijing next month.

Editor (2024-08-08). Delivery drivers fear for their lives as far-right riots enter second week. mronline.org DELIVERY drivers in the gig economy are fearing for their lives because of the wave of far-right riots that continue across the country.

CADTM Afrique (2024-08-09). The fourth CADTM-Africa University, in coordination with the World March of Women (WMW) and the National Forum on Economic and Social Strategies (FNSES). cadtm.org

Damon Orion (2024-08-09). The Aquadome Lives On. counterpunch.org The economic repercussions of COVID-19 have dealt a heavy blow to intimate music venues in the U.S. and abroad. According to the music industry news platform Hypebot, "The UK lost 125 smaller music venues" in 2023, "and Australia lost 1,300 or one-third of its small and midsized music venues since the start of the COVID pandemic. While

Richard D. Wolff (2024-08-09). Capitalism's Unequal Distribution Deprives You of True Freedom. counterpunch.org As the French economist Thomas Piketty most recently exposed, capitalism, across time and space, has always tended to produce ever-greater economic inequality. Oxfam, a global charity, reported that 2022's 10 richest men together had six times more wealth than the poorest 3.1 billion people on earth. The lack of democracy inside workplaces or enterprises is both a cause and an effect of capitalism's unequal distribution of income and wealth.

Megan Russell (2024-08-09). The US is Preparing for an Unwinnable War Against China. counterpunch.org In war, there are no winners— and in a war between the US and China, the entire world would lose. That's not just considering the mass loss of life that would occur, but also the reverberating effects of war that would sink millions into economic devastation, destroy the environment, and lead to widespread displacement and

Graham Peebles (2024-08-09). UK Riots: Racism And Islamophobia Meets Community Unity. counterpunch.org The legacy left by the Conservatives after 14 years in government is not just economic stagnation, and the destruction of public services, it is social division, far right extremism and anger. Violence, racism and hate are the common language of far-right groups/individuals the world over, all of which has been writ large on the streets

tvbrics (2024-08-09). Egypt's Minister notes importance of space partnership with China. tvbrics.com Egypt's Minister of Planning, Economic Development, and International Cooperation, spoke about possible areas of cooperation and the impact of the Egyptian-Chinese partnership on the national space programme…

newleftreview (2024-08-09). Radhika Desai: Peak Hindutva? newleftreview.org As Modi's BJP loses its overall majority, Radhika Desai examines the part played by India's capitalist conglomerates in his rise—and the contradictions on which their strategy has foundered. The economic crisis of the parched countryside as brake on Hindutva's forward march.

Elsy Fors Garzon (2024-08-08). New airport in Nicaragua will be able to handle 3.5 million travelers. plenglish.com Managua, Jul 8 (Prensa Latina) The Punta Huete international airport that Nicaragua will build in collaboration with China, will be able to receive 3.5 million travelers a year to boost the economic development of the country.

infobrics (2024-08-08). Brics Needs Common Values, Respect for Human Dignity. infobrics.org The Association for Welfare, Community, and Dialogue (Acid) welcomes the statement by Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim that Malaysia is preparing to join the emerging economic group known as Brics…

infobrics (2024-08-08). Brics Needs Common Values, Respect for Human Dignity. infobrics.org The Association for Welfare, Community, and Dialogue (Acid) welcomes the statement by Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim that Malaysia is preparing to join the emerging economic group known as Brics…

CADTM Afrique (2024-08-08). The fourth CADTM-Africa University, in coordination with the World March of Women (WMW) and the National Forum on Economic and Social Strategies (FNSES). cadtm.org

Abayomi Azikiwe (2024-08-08). Nigerian Economic Crisis Underlines Mass Demonstrations. globalresearch.ca After weeks of anticipation, the #endbadgovernance campaign began on August 1 amid the worsening cost of living situation in the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Africa's most populous state. | The largely youth-led protests were met with fierce repression resulting in 13 …

Gunther Sosna (2024-08-08). Around the mountain. indybay.org Capitalism has reached its natural limits and is now beginning to collapse under its own weight…Financial capital is beyond control and social responsibility. It has no enemies to fear, it operates globally, marauding around the globe and leaving scorched earth in its wake…The portrayal of capitalism as the best and therefore only economic solution has become the general party doctrine.

Elsy Fors Garzon (2024-08-08). Cuban authorities analyze socioeconomic requirements in Havana. plenglish.com Havana, Aug 8 (Prensa Latina) The Secretary of Organization of the Communist Party of Cuba, Roberto Morales, met today with authorities in the capital to evaluate results of the implementation of agreements and work priorities of the organization.

Alex Gloy (2024-08-08). Japanese Rate Hikes Cause Colossal Losses in World Markets. fairobserver.com On Monday, August 5, the Japanese Nikkei stock market index dropped 12.4%, marking the worst day since the worldwide "Black Monday" crash of October 1987. This Monday, the US S&P 500 index lost 3%, while the tech-heavy Nasdaq lost 3.4%. The VIX index, a measure of volatility, reached 65, its third-highest reading in history. Only…

Anand Naidoo (2024-08-08). The Heat: Global Market Turmoil. america.cgtn.com Weak jobs numbers and recent speculation about a U.S. recession contributed to warnings that this year's stock rally may have gone too far. From New York to London and Tokyo, equities were hit hard. Wall Street's "fear gauge" dropped from 65 on Monday to about 28 on Wednesday, indicating that investor's fears were easing. What's behind the instability in global financial markets? | Joining the discussion: | John Gong is a Professor at the University of International Business and Economics. |

infobrics (2024-08-08). BRICS Gathered in Geneva to Discuss a New Digital Order. infobrics.org Experts and antitrust officials met in Geneva to propose solutions to the challenges faced by antitrust authorities in the digital markets of the BRICS countries to find common ground between them, especially in the area of regulation of digital platforms and AI…

infobrics (2024-08-08). BRICS Gathered in Geneva to Discuss a New Digital Order. infobrics.org Experts and antitrust officials met in Geneva to propose solutions to the challenges faced by antitrust authorities in the digital markets of the BRICS countries to find common ground between them, especially in the area of regulation of digital platforms and AI…

Guest Blogger (2024-08-08). No Farms, No Food. wattsupwiththat.com Food freedom should mean open markets, farmer rights and ensuring this absolutely vital part of supporting humanity remains in the hands of many, not a few.

Justin Talbot Zorn — Mark Weisbrot (2024-08-08). Why is the "Pro-Family" GOP Blocking Legislation that Would Help Lift Many Kids Out of Poverty? counterpunch.org Republican vice presidential nominee JD Vance told Megyn Kelly last month that Democrats are calling for an end to the Child Tax Credit because they are "anti-family and anti-kid." Vance, who has courted controversy for calling Democrats the party of "childless cat ladies," then declared, "We should send the signal to the culture that we

WSWS (2024-08-08). Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa. wsws.org National walkout by nurses in Portugal and health workers in Germany, including doctors at some hospitals walk out over pay and conditions; strikes by nurses and other workers in Iran as protests continue against low pensions, poverty and social conditions; doctors' pay strike in Ogun State Nigeria as thousands protest food insecurity and lack of access to electricity…

Eve Ottenberg (2024-08-09). The Supreme Court to the Homeless: Drop Dead! counterpunch.org So income from your three jobs won't cover your rent increase. There are no beds at the shelter and public housing has a waiting list decades long. You buy a tent and sleeping bag and move into a town park. This would have worked until June 28, when the Supreme Court essentially ruled that municipalities

newleftreview (2024-08-09). Owen Hatherley: Labourism: In and Against? newleftreview.org Owen Hatherley on Andy Beckett, The Searchers. Interlinked portraits of the Labour Party's Bennite bloc, from 1968 to the Corbyn leadership.

The Canary (2024-08-09). More Black and brown MPs in parliament won't save us. thecanary.co On 4 July 2024, the UK elected the most diverse Labour Party government ending 14 years of Conservative hold. Over 40% of MPs are women, and 14% are from ethnic minority backgrounds. While this signals significant progress, we cannot assume simply having more diverse representatives will transform the deep-seated misogyny, sexism, and racism baked into […] | By

Imran Mulla (2024-08-08). Far-right riots: UK Labour Party 'ordered MPs not to join anti-racist protests'. middleeasteye.net

WSWS (2024-08-08). Mass protests erupt against UK's far-right: The way forward. wsws.org There can be no successful struggle against the far-right danger that does not base itself on the fight to mobilise the entire working class against the ruling capitalist class and the war and austerity agenda of its Labour government.

WSWS (2024-08-09). In endorsement of Harris for president, Association of Flight Attendants bureaucrats hail anti-strike Railroad Labor Act. wsws.org The invocation of the law used to ban a rail strike in 2022 as "pro-worker" in their endorsement exposes the bureaucracy's role as an agent of capitalist politics.

WSWS (2024-08-09). Australia: New South Wales public sector health workers reject Labor government wage cut. wsws.org The "no" vote by almost 5,000 Health Services Union members shows that health workers are ready to fight. But the union bureaucracy is hostile to any struggle for real improvements to wages and conditions.

newarab (2024-08-08). My Brother, My Land: Tales of Palestinian resistance and return. newarab.com In a harmonious collaboration at preserving oral history, Sami Hermez provides the space for Sireen Sawalha to tell the story of her family in The title itself reflects the fact that there is no dividing Palestine from the people and their narratives. | "What I remember most from what my mother told me, is how people were walking in the opposite direction screaming at us to turn around," Sireen reflects at th…

Ferdinand Ibebuchi, Black Agenda Report. (2024-08-08). From East To West Africa: The People Are Uprising Against Colonial Oppression And Corruption. popularresistance.org The time for Africans to reclaim their land, dignity, and future is now. The only means by which Africans can achieve liberation and self-determination is through collaborative unity, in the form of scientific socialism. A divided continent will only remain mired in the exploitation and degradation that has defined its very existence since the imposition of colonialism a century and a half ago.

Audrey Elberger, Labor Notes. (2024-08-08). Lack Of Worker Input Creates Bumps In The Road For EV Buses. popularresistance.org Electric buses are rolling out nationally, and promise to help clean up city air. California is leading the way, with more than 650 active vehicles in 2022, and has mandated a completely electric or hydrogen fleet by 2040. | But what happens when managers pick buses that can't drive up the hills? | Drivers and mechanics say bosses picked buses without regard for the requirements of the routes. Safety is also an issue. School bus drivers in San Francisco say their new EV buses have a fiberglass frame that puts a blinding glare in the rear view mirror. They also worry the bus frame, widened to fit large batteries,…

Isabela Escalona (2024-08-08). Dispatch From a Meatpacking Factory: "If We Unite as Workers, We Have the Power" truthout.org Dina Velasquez Escalante is a poultry worker in southwest Minnesota. She spends her workdays inspecting the chicken millions of Americans eat every day. She looks for tumors, stray bones and organs, and removes bile. After six years of hard work and cultivating expertise on almost every position on the line, she's now in the laboratory testing samples of poultry to ensure the highest quality. |

WSWS (2024-08-08). Vote "no" to sellout union-management agreement at Australia Post! wsws.org A "no" vote must be the first step in a fight against Australia Post's union- and Labor government-backed restructuring agenda.

Ayurella Horn-Muller (2024-08-08). High-tech textiles can protect workers from the heat — but not from their bosses. grist.org Nick Lubecki has been an urban farmer in Pittsburgh for the last 15 years. The heat has noticeably intensified over that time, with back-to-back summers of sweltering temperatures affecting when he harvests produce at Braddock Farm, a small urban plot nestled next to an operating steel mill that grows vegetables like lettuce, collards, and tomatoes. His current strategy for beating the brutal heat: a wide brim hat and plenty of water. Lately, farming consistently throughout the day has been "significantly more exhausting," he said. "It's really hard to keep going." | Summers are getting hotter everywhere, and…

Rhoda Wilson (2024-08-09). A brief history of Britain's immigration. expose-news.com The story of Britain's immigration policy begins in 1948 when the government allowed those living in UK Dominions or Commonwealth countries to live and work in Britain in the same way native …

Rhoda Wilson (2024-08-08). Sickening Profits‚Ää: The Global Food System's Poisoned Food and Toxic Wealth. expose-news.com The modern food system is heavily influenced by the pursuit of profit, leading to issues such as land loss, food insecurity, illness and environmental degradation. Large investment firms and agribusinesses profit from …

Prof Michel Chossudovsky (2024-08-09). "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.

ecns.cn (2024-08-09). China's CPI up 0.5% in July. ecns.cn China's consumer price index, the main gauge of inflation, rose 0.5 percent in July on a yearly basis, data from the National Bureau of Statistics showed on Friday.

Melvin Goodman (2024-08-09). Mainstream Media's Leading Warmonger: NYT Columnist Bret Stephens. counterpunch.org The New York Times has always favored Israel in its editorial writings, but no Times' columnist compares to Bret Stephens, whose writings are chauvinistic and bellicose., Stephens, a former editor of the Jerusalem Post and a supporter of all Israeli policies, left the Wall Street Journal to join the Times in 2017 because he believed Israel was not getting a fair hearing in the mainstream media. In doing so, he joined other Jewish columnists at the Times (Thomas Friedman, David Brooks, Paul Krugman, and Roger Cohen). However, these men brought some objectivity to America's Israel problem. Stephens has no limits in…

Mohammed al-Hajjar (2024-08-08). 'Raped by female soldiers': Palestinian in leaked Sde Teiman photo speaks out. middleeasteye.net 'Raped by female soldiers': Palestinian in leaked Sde Teiman photo speaks out | The man in the famous photo, Ibrahim Salem, spent eight months in Israeli detention, where rape, electrocution and beatings were routine | Thu, 08/08/2024 – 06: 05 | After spending eight months in Israeli detention, I…

Ashley Curtin (2024-08-08). EPA announces emergency order immediately suspending weedkiller DCPA. nationofchange.org The ban of the pesticide, dimethyl tetrachloroterephthalate and chlorthal-dimethyl, goes into affect immediately while the EPA begins the cancellation process, which will lead to a permanent ban of DCPA.

ecns.cn (2024-08-09). Insights | Robert Kuhn: New quality productive forces core of Chinese modernization. ecns.cn Robert Kuhn, Chairman of the Kuhn Foundation, analyzed that high-quality development driven by new quality productive forces is the core of Chinese modernization. Unlike the previous rapid investment return model, Kuhn believes investment in high-quality development will be measured in multiple years.

Brett Wilkins, Common Dreams. (2024-08-09). Investigation Exposes How Etsy Profits From Israeli Apartheid. popularresistance.org Etsy, the popular U.S.-based e-commerce website, is profiting from goods made and sold in Israel's illegal settler colonies in the occupied West Bank, a report published Wednesday revealed. | "Under the radar, Etsy—the popular online platform for selling and buying artisanal and vintage items, with a mission to 'keep commerce human'—has been profiting from businesses with shops in illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied Palestinian territory (OPT)," states the briefing, which was published by the Institute for Journalism and Social Change (IJSC), Global Justice Now, and War on Want. | "It's time t…

Helen Santoro (2024-08-08). Are White Nationalists Behind The GOP's Worker Surveillance Push? levernews.com This election season, an anti-immigration nonprofit with ties to hate groups is pushing conservative lawmakers to expand a controversial worker surveillance tool that critics say is discriminatory and harms businesses and workers.At a recent American Legislative Exchange Council gathering of conservative lawmakers and corporate lobbyists, the nonprofit NumbersUSA hosted a workshop promoting E-Verify, a government website used to screen workers' immigration status. Mandating that employers use E-Verify would allow "state legislatures to take control of [the immigration] situation," said Andrew Good, NumbersUSA's…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2024-08-08). Groveling at the Feet of Greed: How U.S. Politicians Sacrifice Lives for Profit and Power. libya360.wordpress.com Peter S. Baron Picture the strength of a unified populace, rejecting the exploitation and brutality inflicted in our name. We must rise together, in defiance of the so-called leaders who have sacrificed their integrity on the altar of capitalism. For every life shattered by their betrayal, for every dream crushed under the weight of their…

Alina Ramos Martin (2024-08-08). Bolivia begins adaptation to MERCOSUR regulations. plenglish.com La Paz, Aug 8 (Prensa Latina) Bolivians begin with optimism the adaptation of their legal system to the regulations of the Southern Common Market (MERCOSUR), after the entry into force of the Protocol of Accession to this integrationist bloc.

Jonah Raskin (2024-08-09). The Neo-Marxism of Malcolm Harris is Alive and Well in "Palo Alto" counterpunch.org Someone, I forget who, said "we're all Marxists now," and, while that might have been truer during the antifascist 1930s than at any other time in history, it is not true now. Marxism probably has as many if not more fierce foes today around the world, and from Hungary to Brazil, as it had during the height

WSWS (2024-08-09). Striking Dakkota auto parts worker in Chicago speaks out: "We are not making living wages" wsws.org There is widespread opposition by Ford Chicago workers to the possibility they will be forced to handle scab-made parts from Dakkota.

Ashley Smith, Michael Roberts (2024-08-09). The Persistence of Global Capitalism's Long Depression. cadtm.org

newleftreview (2024-08-09). Cédric Durand: Landscapes of Capital. newleftreview.org A critical engagement with the work of Brett Christophers, whose books—The New Enclosure, Rentier Capitalism, Our Lives in Their Portfolios and The Price Is Wrong—unfold a novel critique of the 'rentier stage' of contemporary capitalism, in the tradition of radical historical geography developed by Lefebvre, Harvey and Davis.

Ashley Smith, Michael Roberts (2024-08-08). The Persistence of Global Capitalism's Long Depression. cadtm.org

WSWS (2024-08-08). Macron's moves to form right-wing French government expose bankruptcy of New Popular Front. wsws.org Mélenchon's New Popular Front won the July 7 legislative elections, but it is standing aside, making no appeal to mobilize the working class as Macron tramples upon the election result.

Binoy Kampmark (2024-08-09). Terror Threats and Radicalization Down Under. counterpunch.org Bureaucrats tasked with protecting national security are often inclined to encourage insecurity. It's all part of the job prescription. The imperative is understandable if chillingly amoral: increased budgets are demanded to counter threats, however spectral; justifications for existing budgets needlessly bloated are always sought. In the Cold War, an old favourite was the teeth-chattering concern that the other

ecns.cn (2024-08-09). World's largest car carrier ship prepares to embark in Jiangsu. ecns.cn The world's largest car carrier ship was delivered in Nantong, east China's Jiangsu Province on Thursday, according to China Merchants Heavy Industry.

Kim Petersen (2024-08-08). On Being a Patriot. dissidentvoice.org Journalist and political analyst Caleb Maupin put out a video "Scott Ritter's home raided by the FBI." Maupin affirmed his solidarity with Ritter, a staunch opponent of US militaristic support for Ukraine and Israel. Ritter's anti-imperialist stand is nothing new. He first came to wider attention with his opposition to US plans to attack Iraq …

aljazeera (2024-08-08). Socialist Salvador Illa elected leader of Spain's Catalonia. aljazeera.com Illa's confirmation by Catalan parliament ends a decade of separatist regional rule in northeastern Spanish region.

Amiad Horowitz (2024-08-08). In Vietnam, democracy means rule of the people. peoplesworld.org In the United States, most people are educated to understand that democracy means multi-party elections and that any country that does not have multi-party elections is repressive and undemocratic. However, democracy simply means "rule of the people" and doesn't necessarily have anything to do with multi-party elections. For example, the Socialist Republic of Vietnam is …

Eric Brooks (2024-08-08). How Democracy Works in Vietnam. cpusa.org In the United States, most people are educated to understand that democracy means multi-party elections and that any country that does not have multi-party elections is repressive and undemocratic. However, democracy simply means "rule of the people" and doesn't necessarily have anything to do with multi-party elections. | For example, the Socialist Republic of Vietnam is a single party state that is also democratic. While this concept might seem confusing to many educated in "the West", it is quite true. On March 4th, delegates from the Communist Party USA's Hello Comrade Program met with Truong Thi Ngoc Anh,…

WSWS (2024-08-03). VIDEO: SEP (Australia) national secretary calls for workers and youth to put a socialist anti-war party on the ballot. wsws.org In this video, Cheryl Crisp urges viewers to support the Socialist Equality Party's campaign to provide the working class with a political voice, in opposition to the pro-genocide, pro-war Labor government and political establishment.

Max Elbaum (2024-08-03). The United States presidential election after Biden's withdrawal — The energy has changed. The underlying politics have not. links.org.au Max Elbaum — The mood among opponents of MAGA has shifted dramatically. But the electoral map hasn't changed, and the Gaza genocide continues. What does this mean for progressives and the socialist Left?

Hanny Al-Samkari, James B Bussel, Yoshi Miyakawa, Catherine M Broome (2024-08-03). Correspondence] Efgartigimod for primary immune thrombocytopenia: the ADVANCE IV trial — Authors' reply. thelancet.com We thank Jeremy W Jacobs and colleagues for their comments about the ADVANCE IV trial.1 Regarding efgartigimod and laboratory assessment of immunohaematologic parameters, the authors raise some intriguing approaches that could be investigated in the future. In clinical trials, efgartigimod has resulted in a 60—80% reduction of IgG concentrations from baseline,1,2 as has been observed with other neonatal Fc receptor inhibitors. Whether this reduction reaches the IgG concentrations required for the potential effect described by Jacobs and colleagues is unknown.

Jangu E Banatvala, Peter Muir, Will Irving, Emma Meader, Sandeep Ramalingam, Mike Kidd (2024-08-03). Correspondence] The role of the clinical virologist in pandemic responses. thelancet.com The UK Government's response to the COVID-19 pandemic has been widely criticised. In an Offline piece,1 The Lancet described the findings of the COVID-19 Inquiry as evidence of "criminal incompetence". Many of the people who advised the Government had little front-line experience in laboratory, epidemiological, and clinical aspects of infection. Although expert advisory groups could not be expected to accommodate all scientific specialties, it is unfortunate that clinical virologists, who have front-line expertise in diagnosis, infection control, and epidemiology, were not widely consulted on setting up the Natio…

Juan Garay, Elham Kateeb, Diana Zeballos, Luis Eugenio Souza, Steering Committee of the Sustainable Health Equity Movement (2024-08-03). Correspondence] Inequity in sustainable health today. thelancet.com The COVID-19 pandemic starkly highlighted health inequities disproportionately affecting socioeconomically vulnerable communities worldwide. Disadvantaged populations faced higher infection and mortality risks than advantaged populations, compounded by systemic inequities that treat health as a commodity. Overwhelmed health-care systems in high-income countries foreshadowed dire challenges for low-income and middle-income nations. Wealthier nations' stockpiling and profiteering led to an open letter to the UN, supported by over 120 entities representing five million public health professionals and advocates for t…

WSWS (2024-08-03). Australian Labor government whitewashes Israel's murder of aid worker. wsws.org The report into the killing of Zomi Frankcom is a straight repeat of IDF lies, underscoring Labor's full support for the murderous operations of the Zionist regime, including those directed against Australian citizens.

scorinoco (2024-08-03). President Maduro and 8 Former Candidates Attend Supreme Court Hearing, Far-Right Edmundo González Absent. orinocotribune.com Venezuela President Nicolás Maduro, along with eight former candidates for the July 28 presidential elections, went to the Supreme Court of Justice (TSJ) to sign a document in which they promised to comply with the commitment to collaborate with and abide by the decisions of the highest court of the country. | On Friday, August 2, President Maduro, Antonio Ecarri from Lápiz Alliance, José Brito from Primero Venezuela, Luis Eduardo Martínez from Acción Democrática and COPEI, Benjamín Rausseo from Conde, Javier Bertucci from El Cambio, Daniel Ceballos from AREPA, Claudio Fermín from Solutions for Venezuela, and Enr…

Greg Godels (2024-08-03). Searching for JD Vance. dissidentvoice.org What explains the meteoric rise of a little-known principal at an investment firm to one of the youngest, least politically experienced Vice-Presidential candidates in US history? How did Senator J. D. Vance rise from relative obscurity in 2016 to become the current running mate to Donald Trump? Simple: groveling service to the ruling class. In …

Rachel Fink (2024-08-03). These are the airlines cutting flights to Israel as regional tensions and prices skyrocket. haaretz.com So far, all U.S. airlines serving Israel, along with several European carriers, have suspended flights. El Al, Israel's flagship airline, is maintaining its regular schedule, but prices have soared…

newarab (2024-08-03). Ben Sedrine, ex-head of Tunisia's truth commission arrested. newarab.com In "This decision [to arrest Sedrine] was based on an investigation initiated by the investigating judge of the economic and financial judicial hub, following a complaint from a member of the Truth and Dignity Commission," said Mohamed Zitouna, spokesperson for the Tunis First Instance Court, to local radio Mosaique FM. | The Truth and Dignity Commission (TDC, or IV…

Duncan Freeman, Labor Notes. (2024-08-03). Leadership In AFSCME DC 37 Is Stifling Rank And File Engagement. popularresistance.org Members of District Council 37's Local 3005 in New York City say that attempts to mobilize their coworkers over the last two years have been stonewalled and met with apathy by union leadership. | Current and former members say that since the pandemic, they have presented proposals to create a membership committee, speak out about city budget cuts, fight for telework rights and other efforts and that all were slow-walked or shot down by the union's president Jeff Oshins. | Most recently, some members have wanted to introduce motions calling for a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip and for the New York City Employees' Ret…

Editor (2024-08-03). How Unelected Regulators Unleashed the Derivatives Monster — and How It Might Be Tamed. scheerpost.com By Ellen Brown / Original to ScheerPost "It was not the highly visible acts of Congress but the seemingly mundane and often nontransparent actions of regulatory agencies that empowered the great transformation of the U.S. commercial banks from traditionally conservative deposit-taking and lending businesses into providers of wholesale financial risk management and intermediation services." — …

Paddy Colligan (2024-08-03). Remembering Vietnamese hero Nguy·ªÖn Phú Tr·ªçng. workers.org Nguy·ªÖn Phú Tr·ªçng, General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam, Secretary of the Central Military Commission of the Communist Party and Chairman of the National Assembly, died July 19, 2024, at the age of 80. Tr·ªçng was widely respected for his ideological contributions as well as his long leadership . . . |

aljazeera (2024-08-03). Vietnam President To Lam gets top job as Communist Party chief. aljazeera.com Lam has taken the nation's top job but it is unclear whether he will also remain president.

CADTM Afrique (2024-08-03). The fourth CADTM-Africa University, in coordination with the World March of Women (WMW) and the National Forum on Economic and Social Strategies (FNSES). cadtm.org

Patrick Bond (2024-08-03). Corporate Corruption of South African Politics and Economics. cadtm.org

ecns.cn (2024-08-03). CPC Central Committee seeks opinions, suggestions from non-CPC personages on economic work for second half of this year. ecns.cn The Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee held a symposium at Zhongnanhai in Beijing on July 26 to seek opinions and suggestions from leaders of the central committees of non-CPC political parties, the All-China Federation of Industry and Commerce (ACFIC), and representatives of personages without party affiliation on the country's current economic situation and economic work for the second half of the year.

ecns.cn (2024-08-03). China taking steps to expand market access. ecns.cn China is taking significant steps to expand market access and encourage foreign investment across a wide range of industries such as finance, manufacturing and services, the Ministry of Commerce said on Friday.

ecns.cn (2024-08-03). China aims to expand FTAs. ecns.cn China is poised to expand its high-standard free trade zone network, with a focus on accelerating its accession to the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership and advancing negotiations with multiple countries.

ecns.cn (2024-08-03). To Lam elected as Vietnam's party general secretary. ecns.cn Vietnamese President To Lam has been elected as general secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) Central Committee, according to a press conference here on Saturday.

ecns.cn (2024-08-03). Xi congratulates To Lam on election as general secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam Central Committee. ecns.cn General Secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee Xi Jinping on Saturday sent a message to To Lam, congratulating him on election as general secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) Central Committee.

Rhoda Wilson (2024-08-03). Official at the centre of the Olympic gender row worked at WEF and calls Kier Starmer an "old mate" expose-news.com Mark Adams, the spokesman for the International IOC who is vehemently defending the right for men to compete in Olympic women's boxing events, worked at the World Economic Forum for 10 years …

Rhoda Wilson (2024-08-03). Official at the centre of the Olympic gender row worked at WEF and calls Kier Starmer an "old mate" expose-news.com Mark Adams, the spokesman for the International IOC who is vehemently defending the right for men to compete in Olympic women's boxing events, worked at the World Economic Forum for 10 years …

Prof Denis Rancourt (2024-08-03). Spatiotemporal Variation of Excess All-cause Mortality in the World (125 countries) During the COVID Period 2020-2023 Regarding Socio-Economic Factors and Public Health and Medical Interventions. globalresearch.ca Summary: | We studied all-cause mortality in 125 countries with available all-cause mortality data by time (week or month), starting several years prior to the declared pandemic, and for up to and more than three years of the Covid period (2020-2023). …

Michael Webster (2024-08-03). The Looming Financial Crisis: An Urgent Warning. indybay.org The U.S. financial landscape is characterized by a complex interplay of economic indicators, market dynamics, and geopolitical factors. Recent trends suggest heightened vulnerabilities in various sectors, including housing, debt markets, and international trade…

Yaiyr Carter (2024-08-03). Intro To Black August by Yaiyr Carter. indybay.org Black August is about the kinds of resistance to white supremacy that is not limited by the bounds set by the ruling class and its collaborators.

Speak Out Socialists (2024-08-03). Friday 8/16: Our Society in Crisis: We Don't Have to Accept This! indybay.org 2727 California St. | Berkeley, CA…

Labor Video Project (2024-08-03). Arrest Billionaires Not The Homeless! Rally At SF City Hall To Protest Attack On Homeless. indybay.org

Michael Webster (2024-08-03). The Looming Financial Crisis: An Urgent Warning. indybay.org The U.S. financial landscape is characterized by a complex interplay of economic indicators, market dynamics, and geopolitical factors. Recent trends suggest heightened vulnerabilities in various sectors, including housing, debt markets, and international trade…

East Bay Democratic Socialists of America (2024-08-03). Monday 8/26: üåπ Divest From Apartheid: Teach-in. indybay.org EBDSA Office/Zoom – 1610 Harrison St Suite D, Oakland, CA, 94612…

Yaiyr Carter (2024-08-03). Intro To Black August by Yaiyr Carter. indybay.org Black August is about the kinds of resistance to white supremacy that is not limited by the bounds set by the ruling class and its collaborators.

Editor (2024-08-03). Spanish citizens revolt: 'Less tourism, more life'. mronline.org Spaniards across the country are protesting against the uncontrolled influx of tourists that has caused a collapse in quality of life, a jump in housing prices and a rise in the cost of basic necessities.

Editor (2024-08-03). U.S. economists 'expose' China's economy. mronline.org Bourgeois economists, ever ready to proclaim the impending demise of the socialist economic model in the People's Republic of China (PRC), find every opportunity to throw shade on China's economic system.

Gerardo Daumon (2024-08-03). The Havana Reporter /No 8 AGO 3, 2024. plenglish.com Discussions at the National Assembly of People's Power; approval of new laws; announcement of measures to face the serious economic crisis the country faces, and constant calls for unity in the face of the increasing hostility by the United States, are some of the topics featured in the August edition of The Havana Reporter. In …

Martin Hacthoun (2024-08-03). Cuba will increase sevenfold solar energy generation. plenglish.com Havana, Aug 3 (Prensa Latina) Cuba will reportedly increase sevenfold the generation of energy with the use of solar radiation through a macro investment program that is part today of the program to change its energy matrix and sovereignty on this field.

presstv.ir (2024-08-03). At least 13 killed in Nigeria protests against economic crisis. presstv.ir Nigeria's security forces have killed at least 13 people protesting against economic hardship, rights groups say.

presstv.ir (2024-08-03). Hundreds join pro-Palestine rally in Sydney attempting to disrupt NSW Labour conference. presstv.ir Hundreds joined pro-Palestine rally outside Sydney Town Hall demanding Australia's PM Albanese to speak for ceasefire in Gaza.

unitedEditor (2024-08-03). Venezuela: Logbook of a new victory. uwidata.com By Sergio Rodríguez Gelfenstein, Caracas, Venezuela The presidential election has concluded. They were long days of extreme tension in which the Venezuelan people were subjected to strong psychological pressure campaigns accompanied by enormous financial and media support for the opposition that included an action of digital terrorism against the National Electoral Council (CNE), preventing it …

WSWS (2024-08-03). Organise action committees to fight privatisation of Telecom, Insurance and Electricity corporations! wsws.org We cannot defend our jobs, wages and working conditions and improve them under these unions. We have no time to waste in organising a united struggle against the government's IMF austerity.

WSWS (2024-08-03). Intel slashes 15,000 jobs as US unemployment rate jumps to 4.3 percent. wsws.org The cuts at intel are only the latest in a global offensive against jobs, particularly through the use of new labor-saving technologies.

WSWS (2024-08-03). Way forward for Walmart Chile workers after union federation sells out mass strike. wsws.org The accumulation of obscene wealth by Walmart and the Walton family is a direct product of the super-exploitation of an underpaid workforce, which has been reduced from 2.3 million in 2020 to 2.1 million in 2024.

WSWS (2024-08-03). The way forward for Walmart Chile workers after union federation sells out mass strike. wsws.org The accumulation of obscene wealth by Walmart and the Walton family is a direct product of the super-exploitation of an underpaid workforce, which has been reduced from 2.3 million in 2020 to 2.1 million in 2024.

WSWS (2024-08-03). Top-level US-Philippine ministers meeting escalates war drive against China. wsws.org Blinken announced that the US would be providing $US500 million in additional military funding for the Philippines to "boost security collaboration."

Jess Spear (2024-08-03). Jess Spear (RISE, Ireland): Capitalism kills — The case for ecosocialism. links.org.au Jess Spear — We need to place an understanding of the ecological crisis at the centre of what we are doing. We are not just ecosocialists when we are campaigning about the environment and socialists the rest of the time.

Liliana Segura (2024-08-03). Bitcoin Bros and the MAGA Faithful Converge in Nashville — and Embrace an Alternate Reality. theintercept.com It was an hour before the motorcade was set to arrive in downtown Nashville, and the lady in the "Trump Save America" T-shirt was explaining why she hates Kamala Harris. "I'm not meaning to say I'm a prejudiced person," she began. Of the many ways to end such a sentence, none were promising. I assumed she would call the vice president a "DEI hire," as right-wing pundits had done all week. But she veered in a different direction. | Harris, the woman went on, believes in pushing homosexuality, transgenderism, and "people acting like cats and dogs." At her grandniece's public school in Kentucky, students identify…

noemail (2024-08-03). Innovations in Science: Fighting Dengue, Unveiling Mummy Mysteries, and Moon Discoveries. devdiscourse.com A Spanish laboratory is actively stemming the tide of dengue fever by breeding and sterilising thousands of tiger mosquitoes, as climate change accelerates their spread across Europe. Utilizing an electron accelerator, the Biological Pest Control Centre in Valencia sterilises approximately 45,000 male mosquitoes weekly to reduce the mosquito population by preventing females from transmitting diseases.

noemail (2024-08-03). Justin Timberlake's DWI Charge and Olympic Athlete's Financial Rescue. devdiscourse.com In a recent development, pop star Justin Timberlake has pleaded not guilty to a driving while intoxicated (DWI) charge during a court hearing in Sag Harbor, New York. Following his arrest in June for not obeying a stop sign and veering off lane, his driving privileges in New York have been suspended pending his next hearing on August 9.

Anand Naidoo (2024-08-03). The Heat: Global Economy. america.cgtn.com

newleftreview (2024-08-03). Radhika Desai: Peak Hindutva? newleftreview.org As Modi's BJP loses its overall majority, Radhika Desai examines the part played by India's capitalist conglomerates in his rise—and the contradictions on which their strategy has foundered. The economic crisis of the parched countryside as brake on Hindutva's forward march.

Holly Chik,Ralph Jennings (2024-08-03). Despite reforms, Vietnam remains a non-market economy, US declares. scmp.com US Commerce Department keeps the country on a list of12 nations so designated, including China and Russia, surprising some analysts.

Urban CNY News (2024-08-03). New York State Announces $17.2 Million To Strengthen Social Services that help Vulnerable Families Achieve Financial Stability. urbancny.com Governor's Family-Centered Services Initiative Supports Local Departments That Serve Hundreds of Thousands of Low-Income Families Across New York Initiative First Announced as Part of Governor's 2024 State of the State Governor Kathy Hochul on August 2nd, announced $17.2 million in awards through the Family-Centered Services initiative to strengthen social services that help vulnerable families achieve financial stability. This funding will help local social services departments throughout New York to hire more staff as they continue serving hundreds of thousands of low-income families statewide. "We're strengthe…

Kandy Wong (2024-08-03). China's EV, battery firms bolt into emerging markets as trade remains caustic. scmp.com Although China's electric vehicles are proving a sore spot for the US and EU, firms making the cars and their batteries are setting up facilities in emerging markets to meet a groundswell of demand.

The Independent (2024-08-03). Deputy Secretary to the Treasury: Loan repayments are chocking Uganda. independent.co.ug Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Uganda has joined the international chorus urging for the reform of international financial architecture. The Deputy Secretary to the Treasury, Patrick Ocailap says reforming the international financial architecture is imperative to give developing countries like Uganda a fair chance to turn its immense potential into opportunities to overcome future challenges. …

Charles Rotter (2024-08-03). Exposing the Financial Web: Clinton-Run Organizations Funding Climate Activists. wattsupwiththat.com American voters who have bought tote bags decorated with pictures of Mrs Clinton or sweatshirts promoting abortion rights have inadvertently funded disruption in the UK.

UMMID (2024-08-03). Indonesia announces major crackdown on smoking, cigarette sales. ummid.com In a major crackdown on smoking, Indonesia on Wednesday banned cigarette sales to people under the age of 21 while announcing a new regulations to curb tobacco addiction.

newleftreview (2024-08-03). Owen Hatherley: Labourism: In and Against? newleftreview.org Owen Hatherley on Andy Beckett, The Searchers. Interlinked portraits of the Labour Party's Bennite bloc, from 1968 to the Corbyn leadership.

newleftreview (2024-08-03). Cédric Durand: Landscapes of Capital. newleftreview.org A critical engagement with the work of Brett Christophers, whose books—The New Enclosure, Rentier Capitalism, Our Lives in Their Portfolios and The Price Is Wrong—unfold a novel critique of the 'rentier stage' of contemporary capitalism, in the tradition of radical historical geography developed by Lefebvre, Harvey and Davis.

Holly Chik,Ralph Jennings (2024-08-03). Despite reforms, Vietnam remains a non-market economy, US declares. scmp.com US Commerce Department keeps the country on a list of 12 designated nations, including China and Russia, surprising some analysts.

Pablo Rafael Fuentes (2024-08-03). Intercambia Primer ministro de Cuba con colaboradores en Angola. radiohc.cu La Habana, 3 ago (RHC) La compleja situación por la que atraviesa Cuba y las acciones para reimpulsar su economía centraron hoy el diálogo entre el primer ministro, Manuel Marrero, y una representación de los colaboradores de la isla en Angola.

WSWS (2024-07-23). Australian Zionist lobby targets journalist Mary Kostakidis for opposing Israeli war crimes. wsws.org The Zionist Federation of Australia, sections of the media and the Labor government are seeking to criminalise opposition to Israel's unfolding genocide in Gaza.

Brandon Chew (2024-07-23). United Auto Workers to spearhead labor ceasefire contingent in Netanyahu protests. peoplesworld.org WASHINGTON—The United Auto Workers said its members will join a "mass mobilization" protesting against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's upcoming address to Congress. Netanyahu left for the U.S. on Monday and is scheduled to speak to Congress Wednesday, amid continuing global anger over Israel's genocide against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. A recent report from …

newarab (2024-07-23). Houthis, Yemeni government reach financial 'de-escalation' deal. newarab.com

Imran Mulla (2024-07-23). How the UK's approach to Israel has changed under Labour. middleeasteye.net How the UK's approach to Israel has changed under Labour | Foreign Secretary David Lammy has significantly shifted Labour's approach to arms sales and international law since he entered government | Tue, 07/23/2024 – 15: 48 | Foreign Secretary David Lammy announced the restoration of UK funding to Unrwa last week (A…

newarab (2024-07-23). Tunisia migrants in 'unsuitable conditions': rights group. newarab.com More than half of the mainly In its latest study on migration, the Tunisian Forum for Economic and Social Rights (FTDES) found that "over half" of migrants in Tunisia lived "in the street, public parks, encampments, and outdoor areas". | Tunisia is a key departure point for <...

Staff (2024-07-23). Venezuela Will Not Admit Spanish Delegation for Elections. orinocotribune.com In the absence of an invitation to observe the presidential elections on July 28, Venezuelan authorities will not allow a delegation from the Spanish Senate to enter the country. Right-wing delegations sent from Europe and other "Western" countries to elections in socialist and anti-imperialist countries have been a long-standing practice as a propaganda tool for their imperialist agendas. | According to

Clare Carlile, Brigitte Wear, DeSmog. (2024-07-23). World's Biggest Meat And Dairy Companies Spend More On Ads Than Cutting Emissions. popularresistance.org Global meat and dairy giants are investing just a fraction of their revenues into cutting emissions despite being among the world's largest polluters, according to new estimates. | Company spending on advertising outstripped that on low-carbon solutions, the report by campaign group Changing Markets Foundation found, as corporations ramped up attempts to win consumers over with their green credentials. | The meat and dairy sector — responsible for over 14 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions — has come under increasing pressure in recent years to tackle major climate harms. | The New Merchants o…

The Last Farm, Resilience. (2024-07-23). Five Ways Permaculture Must Change. popularresistance.org I've been a permaculture enthusiast for over 25 years. It has influenced my thinking about ecology, subsistence, and the role of human beings in our biosphere. I have experimented with countless techniques, read dozens of books, and learned a wealth of things from other practitioners. I regard it as an overwhelmingly positive experience. | That said, there have always been aspects of permaculture that haven't sat right with me. This is made somewhat complicated by the fact that there are different strains of permaculture which lean in different directions; some I have more affinity with than others (I'm oriented…

People's Dispatch. (2024-07-23). CPC Charts Path To Achieve An Advanced Socialist Society By 2050. popularresistance.org The third plenary session of the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC) was held in Beijing from Monday July 15 to Thursday, July 18. It adopted a resolution listing a set of reforms with the objective of deepening the modernization process in the country in the path to complete building an advanced socialist market economy in China by the year 2035 and an advanced socialist society by 2050. | Chinese President Xi Jinping who is also the general secretary of the CPC presided over the meeting attended by 199 members and 165 alternate members. | Each elected Central Committee, the highest deci…

Editor (2024-07-23). AI, Guaranteed Income and the 'Which Way Is Up?' Problem Afflicting Our Elites. scheerpost.com By Dean Baker / Beat the Press Leading media outlets like The New York Times, The Atlantic, and The New Yorker have about as much concern for intellectual consistency as TikTok videos. In very serious and somber tones they will warn the rest of us about a major problem and then in the next issue, …

ecns.cn (2024-07-23). Tsinghua professor expounds on 'active government' within socialist market economy. ecns.cn The concept of an "active government" has been a topic of discussion in recent years, with debates on the appropriate extent of governmental involvement in various sectors. However, the third plenary session of the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC) has shed light on this issue, a senior Chinese scholar has said.

ecns.cn (2024-07-23). China spending more on education, ministry says. ecns.cn China's education expenditures saw a 5.3 percent year-on-year increase in 2023, reaching a total of 6.5 trillion yuan ($890 billion), according to data released by the Ministry of Education on Monday.

ecns.cn (2024-07-23). Insights | China's economic transformation promotes global growth: French expert. ecns.cn "I do believe that China is going the right way," said Thierry Laurent, chairman of the Climate Change Working Group, French Foreign Trade Advisors China Committee, in an exclusive interview regarding the topics addressed at the third plenary session.

ecns.cn (2024-07-23). Financial institutions upbeat on China economy. ecns.cn Overseas financial institutions have expressed their confidence in the prospects of China's economy, as the country's high-quality growth efforts are gradually paying off.

ecns.cn (2024-07-23). China emphasizes reforms of management systems to boost two-way investment: Tsinghua professor. ecns.cn The 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC) concluded its third plenary session in Beijing last Thursday, issuing a communique that states opening up is a defining feature of Chinese modernization.

Patrick Bond (2024-07-23). Corporate Corruption of South African Politics and Economics. cadtm.org

Joe Lauria, Consortium News (2024-07-23). NATO Summit: Collectively Losing Their Minds. indybay.org U.S.-led NATO could not launch its economic, information and proxy war against Russia without cause. That cause would be Russia invading Ukraine to defend ethnic Russians in a civil war that had raged since 2014, sparked when the U.S. helped to overthrow the democratically-elected government that year.

Labor Video Project (2024-07-23). Kamala Harris Charged with Covering up Corruption by Residents of Radioactive Treasure Island. indybay.org Former residents of radioactive Treasure Island charged that Kamala Harris was involved in covering up corruption by the developers and politicians who have pushed building million dollar condos on the former nuclear military training facility. Many residents, children and sailors were poisoned and sickened by the radioactive material on the Island and the cover-up by the politicans and government agencies responsible for health and safety of the people of California.

LaborFest (2024-07-23). Tuesday 7/23: Silicon Toxic Dumpsites, Workers Health & Safety & the RICO Case Against Apple. indybay.org By Zoom…

LaborFest (2024-07-23). Tuesday 7/23: Silicon Toxic Dumpsites, Workers Health & Safety & The RICO Case Against Apple. indybay.org On Line…

Anjoulie Woodhead (2024-07-23). Africa Religious Leaders: Debt Forgiveness Key to Region's Economic Renewal. indybay.org Interfaith Africa Leaders Call for Changes to Global Economy during Jubilee 2025…

Imran Mulla (2024-07-23). Cambridge University to review investments in response to pro-Gaza protests. middleeasteye.net Cambridge University to review investments in response to pro-Gaza protests | University says demonstrations and appeals by the student union and in colleges prompted it to consider whether policy 'in line with our institutional values' | Tue, 07/23/2024 – 16: 54 | The encampment on Cambridge's iconic King's Parade…

Ileana Ferrer Fonte (2024-07-23). Over ten countries to attend Angola International Fair. plenglish.com Hermenegildo Santos, Communications and Marketing manager of the Arena Group, stated that among the nations represented in the pavilions of the Luanda-Bengo Special Economic Zone are Portugal, Brazil, Italy, the United States, Germany, Japan, and South Korea. | The number of exhibitors, in general, has already exceeded the previous edition of the event, when 1,300 companies brought their products and services. but organizers continue to receive registration requests, Santos told Jornal de Angola. | FILDA will be held until July 28 under the theme "Food Security and International Partnership." | Angola's Industry…

Javier Arana Villasusa (2024-07-23). Cuba and Zimbabwe review bilateral relations in Ethiopia. plenglish.com Addis Ababa, Jul 23 (Prensa Latina) Cuban Deputy Foreign Minister Elio Rodriguez Perdomo met on Tuesday with Zimbabwe's deputy minister of Finance, Economic Development and Investment Promotion, David Kudakwashe Mnangagwa, to discuss bilateral issues.

presstv.ir (2024-07-23). Samsung Electronics union workers strike for higher pay, more benefits. presstv.ir Members of a Samsung Electronics union have staged a rally in their continued strike in South Korea, demanding higher wages and improved benefits.

Éric Toussaint (2024-07-23). France Election: Massive Mobilization of the Left. socialistproject.ca What are the results of the parliamentary elections in France on 7 July 2024?: | In the second round of France's

tvbrics (2024-07-23). The Archipelago 2024 project-educational intensive draws attention to unmanned technologies. tvbrics.com Civil unmanned aviation becomes a new sector of the Russian economy…

hindustantimes (2024-07-23). Trump's Son Mocks Zelensky After Biden Exits Poll Race: 'My Money Still Coming Right?' | Ukraine War. hindustantimes.com In a viral social media post, Donald Trump Jr. takes a jab at Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky following Joe Biden's withdrawal from the presidential race. As Biden has been one of Ukraine's strongest supporters against Russia, Trump Jr.'s post suggests that Zelensky will struggle without Biden's financial and military aid.

WSWS (2024-07-23). The Party for Socialism and Liberation (PSL): The alliance of Stalinism and middle-class radicalism. wsws.org An organization and its class character must be judged, not by what it says of itself, but on the basis of its history and program.

WSWS (2024-07-23). Australian government persecutes refugees, including on remote Nauru. wsws.org The Albanese Labor government has rapidly expanded the number of refugees detained on the remote tiny Pacific island of Nauru, under appalling and punitive conditions.

WSWS (2024-07-23). UK judge hands down four and five-year jail terms to Just Stop Oil campaigners for peaceful protest. wsws.org Though the bulk of these proceedings leading to the jailings took place under Rishi Sunak's Conservative government, they have been signed off by Sir Keir Starmer's new Labour government.

WSWS (2024-07-23). Minneapolis park board strike at the crossroads following overwhelming rejection of latest contract offer. wsws.org The 91 percent rejection is not only in defiance of the management, but a sharp rebuke to the union bureaucrats who brought the deal to a vote.

The Independent (2024-07-23). Graphic design sector flourishes in Uganda. independent.co.ug Young, tech-savvy individuals are at forefront of local and international projects COMMENT | RONNY KAHUMA | The graphic design industry in Uganda is experiencing a vibrant transformation, evolving from a niche profession into a vital component of the nation's creative economy. A growing appreciation for visual aesthetics and the increasing demand for high-quality design in …

Johnny Perez-Gonzalez (2024-07-23). No more distractions: Delaware lawmakers back effort to seal away cell phones in the classroom. whyy.org From Philly and the Pa. suburbs to South Jersey and Delaware, what would you like WHYY News to cover? Across the country, schools are increasingly embracing policies to either ban cell phones or limit their use in the classroom. The new rules aim to reduce distractions and foster the development of student's social and emotional skills, ultimately creating a more focused and supportive learning environment. | At the close of this year's legislative session, Delaware lawmakers approved a $168 million supplemental spending bill that included money for a plethora of one-time ex…

nosihle (2024-07-23). New law paves way for establishment of one-stop-shop for small businesses. sanews.gov.za New law paves way for establishment of one-stop-shop for small businesses | President Cyril Ramaphosa has assented to the National Small Enterprise Amendment Bill, which streamlines the support services government provided to small and medium businesses as part of broadening participation in the economy by a greater number of South Africans. | "The National Small Enterprise Amendment Act signed by the President amends the National Small Enterprise Act of 1996 to establish a new entity, the Small Enterprise Development Finance Agency, which will incorporate the Small Enterprise Development Finance Agency (SEFA), t…

noemail (2024-07-23). Hope and Discontent: Parliament Debates Amid Budget Presentation. devdiscourse.com As Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman arrived in Parliament to present the first budget of the NDA 3.0 government on Tuesday, Shiv Sena (UBT) MP Priyanka Chaturvedi expressed hope for relief from rising inflation and unemployment. Speaking to ANI, Chaturvedi highlighted the disconnect between the economic survey and the ground reality, pointing out the peak in unemployment and joblessness.

newleftreview (2024-07-23). Owen Hatherley: Labourism: In and Against? newleftreview.org Owen Hatherley on Andy Beckett, The Searchers. Interlinked portraits of the Labour Party's Bennite bloc, from 1968 to the Corbyn leadership.

Abul Rizvi (2024-07-23). Kiwis pour into Australian labour market. independentaustralia.net

aljazeera (2024-07-23). Anant Ambani's glitzy wedding highlights India's 'missing middle class'. aljazeera.com India's middle class is much poorer than China's after decades of strong growth despite starting at a similar base.

newleftreview (2024-07-23). Radhika Desai: Peak Hindutva? newleftreview.org As Modi's BJP loses its overall majority, Radhika Desai examines the part played by India's capitalist conglomerates in his rise—and the contradictions on which their strategy has foundered. The economic crisis of the parched countryside as brake on Hindutva's forward march.

EDWIN (2024-07-23). Local company to showcase wares at Essential and Vegetable Oils conference. sanews.gov.za Local company to showcase wares at Essential and Vegetable Oils conference | Dinda Technologies, a distinctly South African company and role-player in harnessing the power of indigenous plants for modern uses and purposes, will display its innovative approach at the third South African Conference on Essential and Vegetable Oils. | The Department of Trade, Industry and Competition (the dtic) will host the conference in partnership with the Swiss State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO), the United Nations Industrial Development Organisation (UNIDO), and the Southern African Essential Oils Producers Associatio…

Kandy Wong (2024-07-23). China hopes US firms can 'play a strong role' after top executives visit Beijing. scmp.com A delegation from the US-China Business Council met with Chinese Vice-Premier He Lifeng and Foreign Minister Wang Yi in Beijing on Monday.

Knowledge (2024-07-23). Fertility Rates Are Declining. Is Tech to Blame? fairobserver.com Rising inequality and social isolation have led to an "epidemic of despair" that is driving down fertility rates worldwide, according to a new paper by University of Pennsylvania neuroscientists Michael Platt and Peter Sterling. This acute sense of loneliness and anxiety is contributing to more physical and mental ailments, particularly in high-income countries, and dampening…

GABIK (2024-07-23). Public consultations on raw water tariffs. sanews.gov.za Public consultations on raw water tariffs | The Department of Water and Sanitation (DWS) has started public consultation meetings on the proposed raw water use charges for the 2025/26 financial year. | During these meetings, the department will get inputs from various role players within the sector on the proposed raw water charges prior to the finalisation, approval and implementation of the proposed water use charges. | The consultations are also aimed at ensuring transparency in the determination of raw water charges for public buy-in and support. | In terms of the National Water Act of 1998, the department is…

nosihle (2024-07-23). SA's response to climate change outlined in new law. sanews.gov.za SA's response to climate change outlined in new law | President Cyril Ramaphosa has signed into law the Climate Change Bill, which sets out a national climate change response, including mitigation and adaptation actions, which also constitutes South Africa's fair contribution to the global climate change response. | "The Climate Change Act, as endorsed by the President, enables the alignment of policies that influence South Africa's climate change response, to ensure that South Africa's transition to a low carbon and climate resilient economy and society is not constrained by policy contradictions," the Presidenc…

newleftreview (2024-07-23). Cédric Durand: Landscapes of Capital. newleftreview.org A critical engagement with the work of Brett Christophers, whose books—The New Enclosure, Rentier Capitalism, Our Lives in Their Portfolios and The Price Is Wrong—unfold a novel critique of the 'rentier stage' of contemporary capitalism, in the tradition of radical historical geography developed by Lefebvre, Harvey and Davis.

aljazeera (2024-07-23). Bangladesh curfews, internet blackout batter economy amid quota protests. aljazeera.com The South Asian country is estimated to have lost $1.2bn in revenue over the past five days with garment exports hit.

Staff (2024-07-23). teleSUR anuncia el concurso "Sur Influyente" telesurtv.net El concurso invita a jóvenes, mayores de edad, creadores de contenidos a elaborar piezas audiovisuales de máximo 60 segundos en formato vertical (9: 16).

Sara Flounders (2024-07-22). Silent sanctions weapon used against Venezuela elections. workers.org Flounders, a coordinator of the SanctionsKill Campaign, will moderate the July 23 webinar described at the end of this article. The upcoming elections in Venezuela, scheduled for July 28, are in the crosshairs of another attempted U.S.-orchestrated regime change operation. U.S. politicians have already intentionally created years of economic hardship . . . |