Economic News and Views

2022-09-28: News Headlines

____ (2022-09-28). Washington admits to conducting biological research on low-income Ukrainians: Russian media. ecns.cn The U.S. delegation in Geneva has admitted that Washington had been conducting biological research on low-income citizens from Ukraine at a meeting of the states parties to the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention.

_____ (2022-09-28). Russia Shifts to a Zero-waste Nuclear Cycle in its NPPs. journal-neo.org The global energy crisis, arguably the worst since 1973, is forcing adjustments in nuclear energy policy in the European Union and many other parts of the world. Washington's policy of squeezing Russia out of the European energy market, decommissioning European NPPs and forcing a "green agenda," for the express purpose of strangling its main economic …

Dave DeCamp (2022-09-28). Sanctions on Russia Opens Markets for US Weapons Makers: White House Official. news.antiwar.com Sanctions that make it harder for Russia to export military equipment create an "opportunity" for US weapons makers to find new markets, a White House official "As a practical matter, countries that have had to rely on Russian equipment are going to find it very difficult to get even basic supplies from Russia's defense industrial base," Cara Abercrombie, the National Security Council's director of defense policy and arms con…

WSWS (2022-09-28). Mélenchon's Unsubmissive France party implodes over concocted domestic violence scandal. wsws.org The scandal over Adrien Quatennens' divorce bears all the hallmarks of a political operation designed to distract attention from the mounting danger of nuclear war and economic collapse.

Admin_ips (2022-09-28). Report: Billionaire Enabler States. ips-dc.org Billionaire Enabler States: How U.S. States Captured by the Trust Industry Help the World's Wealthy Hide Their Fortunes: | Kalena Thomhave | Chuck Collins: | Introduction: : | After Russia's invasion of Ukraine, Ukraine's allies zeroed in on a possible weak spot for the attacking country: the hidden fortunes of Russian elites. Russian wealth has been parked in assets such as homes, apartments, art, yachts, and more — from oligarch Igor Makarov's private trust company in Wyoming to Igor Sechin's superyacht docked in France. | Oligarchy, however, is not confined to Russia. The clandestine world…

Infobrics (2022-09-28). Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (BRICS) Trade in Services Report Offers Insights for Growth. infobrics.org BRICS countries — Brazil, the Russian Federation, India, China and South Africa — are increasingly important players in global services markets, despite pandemic-induced setbacks. BRICS countries accounted for 10% of global services exports and 13% of global services imports in 2020…

____ (2022-09-27). Russia's total grain harvest may reach record 1 mln tons this year: Putin. ecns.cn Russian President Vladimir Putin said Russia could harvest a record 1 million tons of grain this year.

____ (2022-09-28). RCEP partners witness ongoing growth opportunities. ecns.cn Government officials and business leaders from China and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations are bullish on future business growth opportunities arising from the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership agreement.

W. T. Whitney Jr. (2022-09-28). Press coverage of declining U.S. life expectancy evades the truth about class. peoplesworld.org Reporting by U.S. news services often takes China to task for its strict preventative measures imposed to prevent COVID-19 infection. Reports point to economic instability and people's distress resulting from such an uncompromising attitude. The slant of New York Times reporting, which minimized Chinese lives saved, earned sharp criticism on Sept. 9 from the Fairness …

____ (2022-09-28). Trade growth in H2 to fuel economy. ecns.cn Despite softer overseas demand, China's foreign trade is expected to grow during the second half of the year and help fuel the upward momentum of the Chinese economy, a senior commerce official said on Tuesday.

____ (2022-09-27). China to allow deferrals of gov't-levied charges, tax concessions for private pensions. ecns.cn China will allow market entities to defer payments of certain government-levied charges to further reduce financial burdens, and offer tax concessions for private pension schemes, according to a State Council executive meeting.

____ (2022-09-28). Experts: Economy still on track to steady growth. ecns.cn The Chinese economy is still on track to a steady recovery with a gradual normalization of activities and strong policy support, as profits at China's major industrial companies declined at a slower pace in August.

Vijay Prashad (2022-09-28). Without Culture, Freedom Is Impossible. dissidentvoice.org Roberto Matta (Chile), Cuba es la capital ('Cuba Is the Capital'), 1963. In 2002, Cuba's President Fidel Castro Ruz visited the country's National Ballet School to inaugurate the 18th Havana International Ballet Festival. Founded in 1948 by the prima ballerina assoluta Alicia Alonso (1920—2019), the school struggled financially until the Cuban Revolution decided that ballet …

Jonathan Cook (2022-09-28). How Britain's Labour Party Became a Criminal Conspiracy Against its Members. mintpressnews.com For many years, former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn's supporters have claimed that he, and they, were targeted in a coordinated attack from the right of the party, comprising a majority of Labour MPs as well as senior party staff. The aim was to sabotage Corbyn's chances of taking power. | Those allegations were dismissed as a wild conspiracy theory by the British media. But the first independent verification came as early as April 2020, shortly after Corbyn stepped down as leader, with the leak of a cache of internal Labour Party documents. They showed that Labour bureaucrats, responsible to the party's general s…

Infobrics (2022-09-28). Zelensky admits US sends $1.5 billion to Kiev regime per month. infobrics.org The political elites of the collective West and the corrupt oligarchs of the Kiev regime are profiting from the "financial aid" back and forth, while regular people are suffering the consequences.

WSWS (2022-09-28). British pound collapse at centre of global currency and financial storm. wsws.org The turmoil reached a new level of intensity this week, sparked by the reaction of financial markets to the UK mini-budget, which handed out £45 billion in tax cuts to the wealthy while increasing government debt by £72 billion.

Misión Verdad (2022-09-28). USAID's New Stage of Pressure and Interference Against Venezuela. orinocotribune.com By Misión Verdad — Sep 22, 2022 | On September 15, Marcela Escobari, current assistant administrator for Latin America and the Caribbean of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), offered a testimony before the Committee on Foreign Relations of the United States Senate, in which she evaluated Washington's policy towards Venezuela, more specifically, that of that agency. | As we know, USAID, through financial support and training programs, is part of the US interventionist apparatus and has been influencing the internal affairs of Venezuela for several years, with less and less discre…

Warm Water Wellness (2022-09-28). State Attorney General Urged to Investigate Sutter Health's Use of CARES Act Money. indybay.org DALY CITY — San Mateo County Supervisor David Canepa announced that he has sent a letter to California Attorney General Rob Bonta urging him to investigate Sutter Health's use of federal CARES Act dollars. The not-for-profit health care giant received $853 million in CARES Act funding, yet closed the Mack E. Mickelson therapy pool, the only warm water rehabilitation facility of its kind on the Peninsula. | "The federal CARES Act of 2020 was passed for the express purpose of keeping vital medical and community resources like the Mickelson therapy pool open during the COVID pandemic," Canepa said. "Yet despit…

Safe Ag Safe Schools (2022-09-28). Cancer-Causing Pesticide exceeds State risk levels over the last decade at Monterey County. indybay.org Concerned about the use of the cancer-causing drift-prone pesticide 1,3-dichloropropene (1,3-D), more than pesticide reform advocates, including farmworkers, health professionals, teachers, and their allies held a news conference and rally at the Monterey County Government Center on Tuesday, September 27th — the 60th anniversary of the publication of Rachel Carson's Silent Spring. The group, organized by Safe Ag Safe Schools and the Monterey Bay Central Labor Council, called on the County Ag Commissioner to reduce 1,3-D use and web-post warnings. | The news conference can be seen in its entirety at: https…

Ana Perdigón (2022-09-28). Venezuela's PSUV: Border Reopening With Colombia Represents Blow to Imperialism. orinocotribune.com The vice president of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV), Diosdado Cabello, said this Monday, September 27, that the opening of the border between Colombia and Venezuela represents a blow to imperialism. | During the weekly PSUV press conference, Cabello denounced the empire for giving orders to Colombia's rulers to attack Venezuela. | "The opening of the border between the two Bolivarian nations represents a blow to those orders," said Cabello. | Likewise, he…

Fight Back (2022-09-28). Cuba accepts new Families Code, approves same-sex marriage, women's rights. fightbacknews.org The people of Cuba have voted on a series of changes to their Families Code that will provide legal same-sex marriages and unions, adoption rights for same-sex couples, and an updated set of women's and families' rights. Other amendments to this document include promote equitable sharing of domestic responsibilities, prenuptial agreements, and assisted pregnancies. | The vote was cast vastly in favor of the new code, with 66.87% of participants voting for the code with a turnout rate of 74.01% ,according to the Communist Party newspaper Granma. Granma reported in March that 54% of attendees of these town halls ar…

Peter Certo (2022-09-28). Poor People Will Be Voting for Their Lives in the Midterms. ips-dc.org New poverty data reveals the effectiveness of pandemic aid programs that are now expired. Foor poor Americans, building on that success is a matter of life and death.

____ (2022-09-28). High-profile bridge completed in Guizhou. ecns.cn Construction was completed on a high-profile bridge in Guizhou on Monday, which when open will reduce travel time in the province and promote local economic development.

WSWS (2022-09-28). Socialist Equality Group to hold online event "The Crisis of Democracy in Brazil and the Perspective of Socialist Revolution" wsws.org The event will be held Saturday, at 3pm (GMT-3), on the eve of elections which mark the highest point of the crisis of bourgeois rule in Brazil in four decades.

WSWS (2022-09-28). The tragic death of two brothers at a BP refinery and America's industrial slaughterhouse. wsws.org This week the grieving families and friends of Ben and Max Morrissey will bury the two brothers, who died in the September 20 fire at the BP-Husky oil refinery in Oregon, Ohio.

____ (2022-09-28). Xi Jinping visits exhibition themed "Forging Ahead in the New Era," stresses vigorousness, resoluteness and solidarity in striving for new success of socialism with Chinese characteristics. ecns.cn Xi Jinping visited an exhibition themed "Forging Ahead in the New Era" at Beijing Exhibition Center on September 27.

Shailly Gupta Barnes (2022-09-28). Thanks to public programs, 20 million fewer Americans were poor in 2021. peoplesworld.org The U.S. Census Bureau recently reported that poverty dropped notably in 2021. Amid a pandemic and widespread economic pain, this is a significant accomplishment. There are three lessons here—about government programs, about how we measure poverty, and about how far we have left to go. First, these numbers show that government programs work. After Social Security, refundable tax credits …

Betsey Piette (2022-09-28). Peoples' Townhomes on front lines of struggle for affordable housing. workers.org Residents in 69 low-income housing units at the University City Townhomes in West Philadelphia received welcome news Sept. 23. Their pending Oct. 8 eviction date was moved to Dec. 27, after the property owner IBID Associates applied for an extension of their federal contract with Housing and Urban Development. UC . . . |

WSWS (2022-09-28). Alberta Labour Relations Board bans scaffolders from refusing voluntary overtime, declares it an "illegal strike" wsws.org The labour board ruling testifies not just to the ruthless profiteering of energy corporations but the function of state institutions ostensibly aimed at guarantee workplace protections and the trade unions who support them as tools of the corporate elite.

Labor Video Project (2022-09-28). SF Chronicle No Silence On Assange! indybay.org

People's Tribune (2022-09-28). Santa Cruz Dismantles Camp of Hundreds of the Houseless. indybay.org The City of Santa Cruz, CA, in a county with the second highest rent in the country, is evicting an estimated 300 people living in wall-to-wall tents running along a riverbed right next to this largely wealthy city's downtown. The camp, in existence for about three years, was sanctioned by the City; houseless people were directed to go there because the City didn't have enough beds. Now, the City cites sanitation, drug use and complaints as reasons for closing the Benchlands camp. "This never needed to become a crisis for the hundreds of houseless people driven to the Benchlands by police and social service agenc…

____ (2022-09-28). Virology institute launches in Shanghai. ecns.cn The Shanghai Institute of Virology, a collaboration between the Shanghai municipal government and Shanghai Jiao Tong University, was launched on Monday with renowned virologist Guan Yi appointed as its first chief.

Labor Video Project (2022-09-28). Do You Hear Us?UAL Flight Attendants March Against Union Busting & Join SFO Unite Here. indybay.org Hundreds of UAL Association of Flight Attendants AFA flight attendants joined with 1,000 striking SFO Unite Here food service workers at the airport. The UAL AFA leaders charged that UAL is engaged in union busting practices and refuse to negotiate with the union over changes effecting passengers and the workers. SFO Unite Here workers have been without a wage increase since 2018 at the airport and cannot survive on their wages…

Labor Video Project (2022-09-28). No Honors For Former Japan Prime Minister Abe Say Protesters In San Francisco. indybay.org

Suds, Snacks,, Socialism Forum Committee (2022-09-28). Saturday 10/8: The California Propositions Demystified. indybay.org

TeleSUR, MER (2022-09-28). Presidente Maduro destaca crecimiento económico de Venezuela. telesurtv.net El mandatario explicó que, en el último trimestre, "estamos teniendo un crecimiento superior al 20 por ciento de la economía real".

TeleSUR, SH (2022-09-28). Avanzas labores para recuperar el servicio eléctrico en Cuba. telesurtv.net El director técnico de la Unión Eléctrica nacional advirtió que en el occidente de Cuba las operaciones para restaurar el servicio será más complejo y paulatino.

TeleSUR (2022-09-27). Danish PM: Nord Stream Pipeline Leaks "Deliberate Actions" telesurenglish.net On Monday, Danish and Swedish officials said that leaks had been identified in two natural gas pipelines — Nord Stream 1 and its twin, Nord Stream 2 — under the Baltic Sea off the coast of Denmark's Bornholm island, near the exclusive economic zones of Denmark and Sweden. | Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen arrives for the second day meeting of the European Union (EU) special summit in Brussels, Belgium, on Oct. 2, 2020.

Dominique McGee (2022-09-27). Director of Program Compliance & Risk Management. peoplesaction.org ABOUT PEOPLE'S ACTION/INSTITUTE People's Action Institute ( 1c3), and sister organization People's Action ( 1c4), are national progressive organizations supporting the mobilization and leadership of the grassroots in support of an agenda that reflects people over profits. People's Action/Institute builds the power of poor and working people in rural, suburban, and urban areas to win change through …

Dave DeCamp (2022-09-27). Congressional Negotiators Agree on $12 Billion in New Ukraine Aid. news.antiwar.com Congressional negotiators agreed to include nearly $12 billion in new spending on the war in Ukraine in a stopgap spending bill that will likely be voted on this week, Reuters reported on Monday. Sources told Reuters that the $12 billion will include $4.5 billion in funding for arms being sent to Ukraine and $2.7 billion …

Infobrics (2022-09-27). India to Soon Begin Trade Settlement with Russia in Rupees. infobrics.org According to an estimate, there is a steep jump in Russian oil export to India, as it has increased ten times this year and Russian crude oil is now fulfilling almost ten per cent of India's imported oil consumption…

_____ (2022-09-27). A Final Word On 'MAGA Communism' And Social Conservatism. popularresistance.org A fashionable online trend has emerged that presumes social conservatism and "Make America Great Again" (MAGA), the Trump-inspired ideology, as sufficient responses to the liberal branding of the Democratic Party. Some have even called for a "MAGA" communist movement. The reasoning behind this is simple. MAGA inspired millions of mostly white workers to support Trump's anti-Free Trade, anti-NATO, and pro-détente with Russia campaign message. Trump's political base therefore is assumed to possess more revolutionary potential than the Democratic Party camp. | The problems with this formulation are many. For one, it…

____ (2022-09-27). NEV tax exemptions extended until end-2023. ecns.cn China's latest efforts to extend the tax exemption policy for new energy vehicle purchases are expected to further stimulate consumer buying sentiment and inject strong impetus into the automobile market.

____ (2022-09-27). More policy tweaks likely to settle realty. ecns.cn China may signal more policy adjustments to stabilize the real estate market as a regulatory official recently noted that "bubble signs and the financialization trend in China's real estate sector have been substantially reversed", experts said.

WSWS (2022-09-27). Diary of a socialist Amazon worker: Bezos, the royalist. wsws.org Wading into the debate that followed the death of Queen Elizabeth was none other than the founder of the company where I work, mega-billionaire Jeff Bezos, who rushed to the queen's defense.

WSWS (2022-09-27). Vote No at Arriva London North: take the dispute out of the hands of Unite's pro-company officials! wsws.org Unite accepts Arriva's claim that it "cannot afford" to pay more, despite parent company Deusche Bahn growing revenue by 18.4 percent last year to ‚Ç¨47.3 billion, with net profit of ‚Ç¨5 billion.

_____ (2022-09-27). 'We've Incentivized Corporations To Go After This Price-Gouging Strategy'. popularresistance.org Janine Jackson: In a section labeled "Core of the matter," the Economist declared: "Despite rosier figures, America still has an inflation problem. Is higher unemployment the only cure?" | I guess we're meant to find solace in the idea that the magazine thinks there might conceivably be other responses, in addition to what we are to understand is the proven one: purposely throwing people out of work, with all of the life-changing harms that come with that. | CNBC's story, "Inflation Fears Spur Shoppers to Get an Early Jump on the Year-End Holidays," encouraged us to think that "inflation is a Scrooge." | So[mdash…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-09-27). Haiti: Anti-Government Protests in Enter Sixth Week. libya360.wordpress.com Tanya Wadhwa Since August 22, Haitians have been mobilizing against poverty, inflation, shortage of fuel, gang-related violence, and the devaluation of the national currency. (Photo: Radyo Rezistans/Facebook) Since August 22, Haitians have been mobilizing against poverty, food insecurity, soaring inflation, fuel shortages, and widespread kidnappings and killings Thousands hit the streets in Haiti once again…

Jens Berger, Guido Speckmann (2022-09-27). Raising interest rates to fight inflation is a crazy idea. indybay.org Monetarism was conceived in the 1960s as a kind of liberal answer to the teachings of John Maynard Keynes, tracing back directly to the neoliberal mastermind Milton Friedman. The core of the monetarist doctrine is that the money supply mono-causally determines the value of money.

____ (2022-09-27). OECD sees global growth slowing as inflation, monetary tightening bite. ecns.cn The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) said on Monday that global economic growth is projected to remain subdued in the second half of 2022, before slowing further in 2023 to an annual growth of just 2.2 percent.

Fight Back (2022-09-27). New York City rallies for Zimbabwe. fightbacknews.org New York, NY – A crowd of over 50 people gathered in front of the United Nations on Saturday, September 24 to rally in solidarity with Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa, who spoke at the UN a couple days before. The group was also protesting the U.S. sanctions against Zimbabwe, which they stated are illegal. Despite the sanctions, President Mnangagwa has started making progress toward ending poverty and hunger, as well as implementing various infrastructure projects to help build Zimbabwe and maintain independence from U.S. influence. | The action was called for by the December 12th Movement and included sp…

Staff (2022-09-27). What Would We Do Without Police, Prisons, Surveillance, Borders, Wars, Nukes, and Capitalism? Watch and See! davidswanson.org

____ (2022-09-27). Chinese e-commerce firms enhance overseas warehouse network. ecns.cn Chinese logistics firms are beefing up efforts to invest in logistics infrastructure and launch overseas warehouses in a key step to bolster the development of cross-border e-commerce and ensure the stability of industrial and supply chains.

Staff (2022-09-27). Se desploma el valor de la libra esterlina en Reino Unido. cubadebate.cu En el centro de esta turbulencia hay un objeto por el momento inamovible: el presupuesto neoliberal a ultranza que presentó el ministro de finanzas Kwasi Kwarteng el viernes. Lejos de seducir ha aterrorizado a los mismos que beneficia: los ricos y los mercados. La caída de la libra comenzó apenas terminó su presentación ante el parlamento hasta caer a su nivel más bajo en 37 años.

TeleSUR (2022-09-27). Venezuelan MP Sees Regional Integration if Lula Wins on Oct 2. telesurenglish.net In this sense, the lawmaker of the ruling United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV), Roy Daza, said in case Lula wins, there will be "a political turn at least in Latin America, particularly in South America," which will contribute to integration in the region. | RELATED: | The Atlas survey released Tuesday revealed that the Workers' Party leader is the frontrunner in voting intention with 48.3 percent, while incumben…

_____ (2022-09-27). Rural County Jails Are Now The Main Driver Of Mass Incarceration. popularresistance.org All across the United States, city and state governments have increasingly turned to fines and fees to make up for budget shortfalls. This has required a corresponding explosion in police department budgets, creating a perverse cycle where local governments must consistently expand policing in order to continue to pay for policing. Rural America has not escaped this trend, and a new Vera Institute report has found that small and rural counties are now the main drivers of growth in the prison industrial complex. According Vera's research, the boom in county jails appears to be driven by an increased amount of peop…

Eugyppius (2022-09-27). Germany's Energy Apocalypse. Uncontrolled Outages. Evolving Social Crisis. Mass Poverty on the Horizon? globalresearch.ca

Fight Back (2022-09-27). Tallahassee: Activists attend final meeting to fight for a People's Budget. fightbacknews.org Tallahassee, FL — On Wednesday, September 21, the Tallahassee Community Action Committee, the Freedom Road Socialist Organization and Florida State's Students for a Democratic Society attended the Tallahassee city commission meeting at City Hall to speak on the approval of the upcoming year's city budget. | The activists demanded that instead of passing the unjust budget that City Manager Reese Goad drafted, they enact a People's Budget. Dedicated organizers collaborated for over a year to rework the city budget to remove funding from the city's police force and instead contribute it to social services, saf…

Zach Farber, Michaela Malone (2022-09-27). Athens public transit workers strike to protest austerity bill. liberationnews.org On Sept. 21 public transit workers in Athens, Greece went on strike to protest a new law that essentially privatized public transit and gutted labor rights.

Kathy Durkin (2022-09-27). Youth join global strike for climate justice. workers.org Climate strikers in Bengaluru, India, one of 450 global locations, were among hundreds of thousands demanding "climate reparations and justice" Sept. 23. Young people in Asia, Africa and Europe joined a coordinated Global Climate Strike that called for wealthy countries to pay reparations to poorer countries that have been the . . . |

Deweylaura (2022-09-27). Our best chance for peace is worldwide working-class unity. cpusa.org These remarks were delivered by CPUSA Co-Chair Rossana Cambron at the opening of the CPUSA International Conference 2022: Dismantling Imperialism in the 21st Century, September 11—12. Good morning, Comrades, Lenin once said, "Capital is an international force. To vanquish it, an international workers' alliance, an international workers brotherhood, is needed." As Marx and Engels …

WSWS (2022-09-27). Lawsuits on mRNA technology show profit-driven struggle for control over vital scientific discoveries. wsws.org Recent lawsuits on mRNA technology are attempts by various corporations to take control of these vital discoveries for their own enrichment. Recent advances in molecular technology that allows for gene editing and protein manufacturing portend a revolution in medicine that can offer personalized treatments for a broad array of diseases.

WSWS (2022-09-27). Mussolini's heirs return to power in Italy. wsws.org The election of a far-right government is the product of the disenfranchisement of the working class by reactionary parties that the ruling elite falsely markets as the "left."

Julia Conley (2022-09-27). Applauding Biden Push to End US Hunger, Groups Demand 'Deeper' Structural Reforms. commondreams.org "To end hunger we need a serious effort to address poverty and its root causes," said one anti-hunger campaigner. "A framework that is focused on dismantling structural inequities and ensuring broad based prosperity for all is essential."

WSWS (2022-09-27). UK: Starmer offers a Labour government to rescue big business from catastrophe. wsws.org Starmer's promise to the ruling elite is that he can impose austerity measures by working with the trade unions to control and suppress rising opposition in the working class.

____ (2022-09-27). U.S. Dow gets walloped on global currency turmoil. ecns.cn The U.S. Dow Jones Industrial Average continued to dive on Monday amid surging interest rates and volatile international currencies.

____ (2022-09-27). Chinese phone maker Vivo launches latest 5G smartphones in Saudi Arabia. ecns.cn Chinese phone maker Vivo unveiled on Monday two 5G smartphones in Saudi Arabia's capital Riyadh.

WSWS (2022-09-27). Brazilian Workers Party turns sharply to the right a week before elections. wsws.org As Brazil's fascistic president Bolsonaro declares he will accept no result other than his victory in Sunday's election, the PT's only appeal against a coup has been to the financial markets and the US embassy.

_____ (2022-09-27). Mutual Aid Emerges As A Critical Survival Tool In Puerto Rico. popularresistance.org A network of mutual aid groups in Puerto Rico were quick to react when the island lost power on Sept. 18 before being hit by Hurricane Fiona. Nearly 750,000 people are still without power a week after the storm caused mass flooding, landslides and property damage. | Mutual aid groups like the feminist community-based organization Taller Salud, the collective sustenance and solidarity group Brigada Solidaria del Oeste and LGBTQIA+ support group Waves Ahead have provided Puerto Rico residents with direct economic aid, as well as emergency essentials like first-aid kits, water filters, lamps, nonperishable foo…

TeleSUR (2022-09-27). Multiple Crises Converge Into Humanitarian Tragedy in Haiti. telesurenglish.net Over the past several weeks, the three crises have begun to intersect in altogether new and frightening ways in Haiti, Helen La Lime, the UN Secretary-General's Special Representative and head of the UN Integrated Office in Haiti, told the Security Council in a briefing. | RELATED: | A gang crisis continues to violently disrupt daily life, driving more than 20,000 people from their homes. An economic crisis has the…

____ (2022-09-26). Renminbi's global use set to expand. ecns.cn China's renminbi is expected to continue its steady rise in global use and play a bigger part in safeguarding international financial stability, as the country further advances its financial opening-up while deepening trade and investment cooperation, experts said.

_____ (2022-09-26). SCO is Shaping the Contours of a New World Order. journal-neo.org The Samarkand summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) brought together representatives of 15 countries — not only members of the organization, but also observers and future members who are interested in its activities. The SCO now encompasses half the world's population and its GDP corresponds to a quarter of the world's, transforming this powerful …

____ (2022-09-26). Iran, Thailand stress developing trade-economic coop. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Sep. 26 (MNA) — Islamic Republic of Iran and Thailand emphasized the expansion of trade and economic cooperation.

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2022-09-27: News Headlines

Renfrey Clarke (2022-09-27). Ukraine faces hyperinflation, economic collapse. greenleft.org.au Ukraine is almost certain to slip into hyperinflation if its war with Russia continues beyond the next few months, reports Renfrey Clarke.

Robert Reich (2022-09-27). The truth behind "self-made" billionaires. nationofchange.org Billionaires are not made by rugged individuals. They're made by policy failures. And a system that rewards wealth over work.

Submedia.tv (2022-09-27). System Fail 15: The New Normal. itsgoingdown.org SubMedia returns with w new episode of System Fail, which looks at global news from an anarchist perspective. As economic crises, climate catastrophe and war crimes become increasingly normalized, a creeping nihilism is starting to take hold. In Lebanon people have had enough of rampant corruption, inflation and limits on bank withdrawals. Without any other…

Warm Water Wellness (2022-09-27). State Attorney General Urged to Investigate Sutter Health's Use of CARES Act Money. indybay.org DALY CITY — San Mateo County Supervisor David Canepa announced that he has sent a letter to California Attorney General Rob Bonta urging him to investigate Sutter Health's use of federal CARES Act dollars. The not-for-profit health care giant received $853 million in CARES Act funding, yet closed the Mack E. Mickelson therapy pool, the only warm water rehabilitation facility of its kind on the Peninsula. | "The federal CARES Act of 2020 was passed for the express purpose of keeping vital medical and community resources like the Mickelson therapy pool open during the COVID pandemic," Canepa said. "Yet despit…

Eugyppius (2022-09-27). Germany's Energy Apocalypse. Uncontrolled Outages. Evolving Social Crisis. Mass Poverty on the Horizon? globalresearch.ca

People's Tribune (2022-09-27). Santa Cruz Dismantles Camp of Hundreds of the Houseless. indybay.org The City of Santa Cruz, CA, in a county with the second highest rent in the country, is evicting an estimated 300 people living in wall-to-wall tents running along a riverbed right next to this largely wealthy city's downtown. The camp, in existence for about three years, was sanctioned by the City; houseless people were directed to go there because the City didn't have enough beds. Now, the City cites sanitation, drug use and complaints as reasons for closing the Benchlands camp. "This never needed to become a crisis for the hundreds of houseless people driven to the Benchlands by police and social service agenc…

Labor Video Project (2022-09-27). No Honors For Former Japan Prime Minister Abe Say Protesters In San Francisco. indybay.org

Staff (2022-09-27). Philly Residents Organize to Block Evictions in University City Townhomes & Preserve Affordable Housing. democracynow.org Low-income Black and Brown housing activists in Philadelphia are fighting to stop the displacement of residents who live in an affordable housing complex in the largely gentrified neighborhood of University City. The complex, known as University City Townhomes, was built to provide affordable housing to low-income residents, many of whom are elderly and disabled, but the property owner has since announced plans to redevelop the property, which is near the University of Pennsylvania and Drexel University. We speak with University City Townhomes residents Rasheda Alexander and Sheldon Davids, who have held months o…

Labor Video Project (2022-09-27). SF Chronicle No Silence On Assange! indybay.org

Staff (2022-09-27). "Immoral & Sinful": Bishop Barber Blasts Mississippi Gov. for Failing to Protect Jackson's Water. democracynow.org We speak with Bishop William Barber of the Poor People's Campaign to get an update on the water crisis in Jackson, Mississippi, where tens of thousands of residents are still without clean tap water. "It's an immoral and sinful violation of equal protection under the law and human rights," says Barber, who led a rally Monday outside the Governor's Mansion in Jackson demanding the state reverse decades of disinvestment in the majority-Black capital. "Everything we're talking about was created by bad policy, therefore it can be fixed by good policy."…

____ (2022-09-27). Chinese phone maker Vivo launches latest 5G smartphones in Saudi Arabia. ecns.cn Chinese phone maker Vivo unveiled on Monday two 5G smartphones in Saudi Arabia's capital Riyadh.

Staff (2022-09-27). Jared Kushner's Firm to Pay $3.25M for Deceiving & Cheating Tenants in Baltimore's "Kushnerville" democracynow.org A property management company partly owned by Donald Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner has agreed to pay a $3.25 million fine to the state of Maryland and to reimburse potentially tens of thousands of tenants in Baltimore. The state of Maryland sued the Kushner-owned company after ProPublica published a 2017 investigation that exposed how the company hounded low-income tenants with a barrage of lawsuits, eviction notices and late fees — even when residents had the legal right to continue living there. We speak with Alec MacGillis, the author of the 2017 ProPublica report, who describes how Kushner was…

Guy Standing (2022-09-27). How private corporations stole the sea. greenleft.org.au Our seas are being ravaged by exploitation for corporate profit, creating a social, economic and ecological crisis that threatens the very life support system of the Earth, writes Guy Standing.

Staff (2022-09-26). Grossi stresses need to find solutions to Iran-IAEA issues. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Sep. 26 (MNA) — IAEA Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi stressed a need to find common solutions to problems between Iran and IAEA that are not going to go away if they do not solve them in a collaborative fashion.

Editor (2022-09-26). Chris Hedges: The Return of Fascism. scheerpost.com The Bankruptcy of the Liberal Ass — by Mr. Fish | By Chris Hedges / Original to ScheerPost | Energy and food bills are soaring. Under the onslaught of inflation and prolonged wage stagnation, wages are in free fall. Billions of dollars are diverted by Western nations at a time of economic crisis and staggering income inequality to fund a proxy war in Ukraine. The liberal class, terrified by the rise of neo-fascism and demagogues such as Donald Trump, have thrown in their lot with discredited and reviled establishment politicians who slavishly do the bidding of the war industry, oligarchs and corporations…

____ (2022-09-26). Unlocked: NATO Prolongs the Ukraine Proxy War, and Global Havoc. transcend.org 21 Sep 2022 – With diplomacy thwarted, the US and its allies plan for "open-ended" military and economic warfare against Russia — despite acknowledging that "the most dangerous moments are yet to come."

Fight Back (2022-09-26). Red Theory: The party of a new type. fightbacknews.org In order to have a successful revolution that can overthrow the capitalist ruling class, put the working class into power, and build socialism, we need to be organized in the way that is best suited to that task. The great leader of the Bolshevik revolution, V.I. Lenin, took up this question of Marxist revolutionary organization in 1902 in his book, What is to be Done? In this book, Lenin for the first time gives us the theory of the "Party of a new type." | In this early period of the revolutionary movement in Russia, much like in the U.S. today, there were many groups and organizations contending for leadershi…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-09-26). 'Hot Autumn' of Resistance as Germans Suffer from Sanctions on Russia. libya360.wordpress.com C.J. Atkins A banner at the protest in Leipzig reads: 'Prices down, Wages up.' | Martin Heinlein / Die Linke via Unsere Zeit LEIPZIG, Germany—Around 5,000 in Leipzig and another 1,000 in Berlin last Monday took part in the first rallies of a campaign that's being called the start of a "hot autumn" of resistance…

____ (2022-09-26). Brainwashed for War with Russia. transcend.org 22 Sep 2022 – Most Americans are oblivious to the reality that Western media are owned and operated by the same corporations that make massive profits by helping to stoke small wars and then peddling the necessary weapons. Corporate leaders, and Ivy-mantled elites, educated to believe in U.S. "exceptionalism," find the lucre and the luster too lucrative to be able to think straight.

____ (2022-09-26). All delegates to 20th CPC National Congress elected. ecns.cn A total of 2,296 delegates were elected to attend the upcoming 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (CPC), according to an official statement released Sunday.

Benjamin Norton (2022-09-26). Imperialism and capitalism are 'bleeding the world dry': At UN, Nicaragua calls for global rebellion. multipolarista.com At the United Nations General Assembly, Nicaragua's Sandinista government called for a global rebellion against the "imperialist and capitalist system" that is "bleeding the world dry." Condemning illegal sanctions and war, it urged a new multipolar order.

Benjamin Norton (2022-09-26). El imperialismo y capitalismo están 'desangrando al mundo': En la ONU, Nicaragua llama a una rebelión global. multipolarista.com En la Asamblea General de las Naciones Unidas, el gobierno sandinista de Nicaragua llamó a una rebelión global contra el "sistema imperialista y capitalista" que está "desangrando al mundo". Condenando las sanciones ilegales y la guerra, instó a un nuevo orden multipolar.

Center For Biological Diversity (2022-09-26). Legislative "Side Deal" of the Inflation Reduction Act in Favour of Big Oil: Most Significant Environmental Rollback in Decades. globalresearch.ca

Center For Biological Diversity (2022-09-26). Legislative "Side Deal" of the Inflation Reduction Act: Most Significant Environmental Rollback in Decades in Favor of Big Oil. globalresearch.ca

Owen Fairclough (2022-09-26). Is the Fed plan to tackle inflation working? america.cgtn.com The U.S. central bank is aggressively raising its main interest rate to try to tame inflation, but it isn't working fast enough.

Brett Redmayne-Titley (2022-09-26). Liz Truss and the Collapse of the British Pound Sterling. Hyperinflation Looming. globalresearch.ca

_____ (2022-09-26). Bolivia's Social Progress Shows A Better Way Is Possible. popularresistance.org Since the re-election of the Movement Towards Socialism (MAS) government in 2020, led by former economic minister Luis Arce, the Bolivian government has ensured that the social progress initiated by Evo Morales' government continues across all sections of society. | These progressive steps can be seen in a range of measurers: the introduction of progressive and pluralistic economic policies, the implementation of bold education policies centred around improving access to education for every community in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the initiation of partnerships with fellow progressive governments across La…

_____ (2022-09-26). At United Nations, Colombia Condemns 'Addiction To Money And Oil'. popularresistance.org Colombia's first ever left-wing President Gustavo Petro delivered a historic speech at the United Nations declaring, "The war on drugs has failed." | Petro emphasized that drug addiction is a social problem, and cannot be solved with violence and militarization. Rather, he argued, it is a mere symptom of a much deeper problem: the capitalist system itself, with its "addiction to money and oil." | The Colombian leader warned that the infinite greed of capitalism is destroying the planet, threatening life on Earth. | "The cause of the climate disaster is capital — the logic of dedicating ourselves to consume…

Staff (2022-09-26). Poverty Correlates with the Recent Increase in Gun Violence. cepr.net Eliminating poverty will bring numerous social benefits to US society, and one of them might be a significant reduction in the country's extremely high rate of gun violence.

Steven Sahiounie (2022-09-26). Lebanese-Israeli Off-shore Agreement May End the Lebanese Financial Crisis. globalresearch.ca

Rqorinoco (2022-09-26). The Kissinger Continuum: The Unauthorized History of the Wef's Young Global Leaders Program. orinocotribune.com Editorial note: As a rule, Orinoco Tribune does not re-publish opinion pieces more than 10 days after their original publication, but in this case we are making an exception because this is on a very sensitive issue that demands attention. | By Johnny Vedmore — Aug 29, 2022 | The World Economic Forum's Young Global Leaders program, Klaus Schwab's supposed brainchild, is actually an almost exact replica of Henry Kissinger's International Seminar that was originally run out of Harvard and was funded by the CIA. In this article, Johnny Vedmore investigates the people behind Kissinger's International Seminar, t…

Chris Hedges (2022-09-26). We Have Seen This Movie Before: The Fascists Have Arrived. commondreams.org The failure of the neoliberal order—which continues to ignore the needs and aspirations of the people—gives fuel to an ascendant far right that feeds on the despair and humiliation of the working class.

WSWS (2022-09-26). Protests in Iran enter second week after young woman's police-custody death. wsws.org The protests are being fuelled by a devastating economic crisis that is the intended outcome of Washington's brutal, illegal sanctions regime.

Wood Street Comrades (2022-09-26). Wood Street Community Faces Eviction. indybay.org In light of serial evictions, a self-organized community of unhoused and advocates at Wood Street in West Oakland have presented an elegant plan to build a tiny home community and resource center, however the City of Oakland and Caltrans have fallen short on collaborating or providing access to real resources.

Mark Gruenberg (2022-09-26). Progressive religious leaders push lawmakers on voting rights, raising wages. peoplesworld.org WASHINGTON—The usual news about religion in the nation's Capital is coming from the religious right. After all, they've been making the most noise and exercising the most political clout—especially on so-called "social issues," such as opposing abortion, endorsing guns, and agitating against gays—for decades. On September 22, it was the progressives' turn to speak up. …

Staff (2022-09-26). UK defence spending to double to £100bn: minister. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Sep. 26 (MNA) — The UK defence secretary, Ben Wallace, has said military spending will double from its current level to hit £100bn in 2030 as a result of Liz Truss's commitment to increase the armed forces' budget to 3% of GDP.

____ (2022-09-26). Hainan Free Trade Port RCEP Business Service Center unveiled. ecns.cn The Hainan Free Trade Port RCEP (Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership) Business Service Center was unveiled simultaneously in Haikou and Beijing on Friday.

WSWS (2022-09-26). The UAW presidential debate: A rank-and-file socialist confronts the apparatus. wsws.org The debate revealed two irreconcilable positions. Lehman advanced a program of abolishing the UAW apparatus, which he called "a subdivision of the companies," and transferring power to the workers on the shop floor. All the other candidates spoke represented and defended this apparatus.

Editor (2022-09-26). California's Dependency on Prison Labor for Fighting Fires Must End. scheerpost.com A prison firefighter from Oak Glen Conservation Camp looks out of a gated window as he is transported to a work assignment under the authority of CAL FIRE on September 28, 2017, near Yucaipa, California (DAVID MCNEW / AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES) | By Abby Cunniff / On September 7, 2022, after many attempted delays from the City of Susanville, California, a Lassen County judge ruled in favor of Gov. Gavin Newsom's plan to close one of Susanville's two prisons. The court case and public deba…

____ (2022-09-26). Why Are Politicians Able to Read — and Understand — Some Texts and Not Others? transcend.org 20 Sep 2022 – Day after day, the world's scientific community, based on solid investigations, elaborates dozens of studies identifying the causes of the existing emergencies facing humanity. They also prepare understandable summaries and conclusions and propose feasible solutions to the current crises and ways to prevent major future risks.

____ (2022-09-26). US sanctions deal heavy blow to intl. politico-economic order. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Sep. 26 (MNA) — Emphasizing that the US has sanctioned nearly 40 countries up to the present time, Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesman said that these sanctions have caused serious humanitarian disaster among half of the world's population.

Staff (2022-09-26). Matemática y poesía con las 15 provincias y la Isla de la Juventud, a lo RARJ. cubadebate.cu Con el riesgo de problemas en la participación, ya que la tormenta tropical Ian, tal vez como huracán, nos azote a partir del lunes en la noche, voy con la colaboración del amigo RARJ. Hay que poner en acción conocimientos, asociaciones creativas, algo de números; y, al final, acudir a la musa de la poesía para escribir una cuarteta.

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-09-26). Ten Theses on Marxism and Decolonization. libya360.wordpress.com Tricontinental Violet Parra (Chile). Untitled (unfinished), 1966. Embroidery / natural burlap. 136 x 200 cm. The works of art in this dossier belong to Casa de las Américas' Haydee Santamaría Art of Our America (Nuestra América) collection. Since its founding, Casa de las Américas has established close ties with a significant number of internationally renowned…

Labor Video Project (2022-09-26). LA Protest Shuts Down FCMAT Meeting:Protesters Say Stop Closures, Charters/Privatization. indybay.org Community activists, kids and public education supporters protested at the LA meeting of FCMAT. They spoke out and shut it down when the FCMAT refused to provide answers.

Fight Back (2022-09-25). Milwaukee Alliance confronts MPD at 'listening session'. fightbacknews.org Milwaukee, WI – On September 24, the Milwaukee Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression confronted the Milwaukee Police Department at the third of 15 community listening sessions. As with the first two sessions, the third had abysmal attendance. | There were only two community members attending, joined by activists of the Milwaukee Alliance. Most of the room was police officers in uniform, staffers and officials of Community Collaborative Commission (CCC), Fire and Police Commission (FPC), and Mayers Strategic Solutions, LLC. | Given that this session was held in the city's South Side, with significant C…

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2022-09-26: News Headlines

Center For Biological Diversity (2022-09-26). Legislative "Side Deal" of the Inflation Reduction Act: Most Significant Environmental Rollback in Decades in Favor of Big Oil. globalresearch.ca

Jens Berger, Guido Speckmann (2022-09-26). Raising interest rates to fight inflation is a crazy idea. indybay.org Monetarism was conceived in the 1960s as a kind of liberal answer to the teachings of John Maynard Keynes, tracing back directly to the neoliberal mastermind Milton Friedman. The core of the monetarist doctrine is that the money supply mono-causally determines the value of money.

Steven Sahiounie (2022-09-26). Lebanese-Israeli Off-shore Agreement May End the Lebanese Financial Crisis. globalresearch.ca

Labor Video Project (2022-09-26). SF Chronicle No Silence On Assange! indybay.org

TeleSUR (2022-09-25). Swiss Referendum Rejects Ban on Intensive Livestock Farming. telesurenglish.net On Sunday, the Swiss attended a referendum in which they were consulted on the prohibition of intensive livestock farming, which would have also vetoed the import of products from this type of unsustainable exploitation. | RELATED: | The ban initiative, which was raised by the Greens and part of the Swiss Socialist Party, was widely defeated today by 63 percent of the vote in 25 out of 26 cantons in the country. | The propo…

Staff (2022-09-25). Cuban President votes in a referendum on the Family Code. en.cubadebate.cu The President of the Republic of Cuba, Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, and his wife Lis Cuesta arrived at 7: 48 in the morning at school 3 of constituency 57, in the municipality of Playa, where they exercised their right to vote in the popular referendum. of the Family Code. At the end of the process, he told the press that it is going to be an intense day, which we arrived at as a result of a process that had to do with the construction of a fair, necessary, up-to-date, modern regulation that gives rights and guarantees to all people and diversities of families and creeds.

TeleSUR (2022-09-25). Venezuela Supports Mediation Committee for Ukrainian Crisis. telesurenglish.net On Saturday, Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro backed the Mexican proposal to create a "Mediation Committee" to promote the end of the Ukrainian conflict. | RELATED: | "We reject all the military provocations and interfering economic sanctions that have been taken against Russia, as well as the hate campaign unleashed to the detriment of the Slavic people, considering that these actions, far from adding to pea…

_____ (2022-09-25). Despite What Biden Says, The Pandemic Isn't Over. popularresistance.org On Sunday night, Joe Biden declared in an interview on CBS's 60 Minutes that the Covid-19 "pandemic is over." Not so coincidentally, this statement comes right after existing federal pandemic response funding has run out, and after attempts at approving more money were routinely removed from spending bills in order to designate more money for Ukraine. If the pandemic is "over," the government can be excused for failing to provide additional support. But while official cases, hospitalization, and death counts are all much lower now compared to the peak of the Omicron wave in January, and while vaccines continue to…

TeleSUR (2022-09-25). Hungarian Chief Diplomat: Western Sanctions "Complete Failure" telesurenglish.net "This was a complete failure, as it is now clear that these sanctions have hurt Europe much more than Russia itself and are causing enormous damage to the EU's economy," Hungarian Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Peter Szijjarto said. | Hungarian Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Peter Szijjarto speaks during a press event in Budapest, Hungary, on July 29, 2022.

_____ (2022-09-25). Whistleblower Objects To Pentagon Purchases Of Browsing Data. popularresistance.org A United States military whistleblower filed a series of complaints alleging the Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS) is engaged in the warrantless purchase and use of Americans' internet browsing data, which it obtained from a broker. | "According to the whistleblower, NCIS is purchasing access to data, which includes netflow records and some communications content from Team Cymru," Senator Ron Wyden shared in a letter to the offices of the inspector general for the Pentagon, Justice Department, and Homeland Security Department. | The warrantless purchase of Americans' data is not limited to the NCIS. Wyd…

WSWS (2022-09-25). Rail workers in Germany: "We face the same problems here as our colleagues in the US" wsws.org The World Socialist Web Site spoke with rail workers in Germany about the industrial struggle in the US where 100,000 railroaders are confronting the White House, billion-dollar rail companies and their trade unions.

TeleSUR (2022-09-25). Taking Climate Action in Interests of Every Country: Bahamas PM. telesurenglish.net At the United Nations General Assembly on Saturday, Bahamian Prime Minister Philip Edward Davis said Saturday that taking climate action is "in the interests of every country." | RELATED: | For a long time, decision-makers in both the public and private sectors believed that climate action must come at the expense of economic growth, but now, many are beginning to understand that climate inaction is the most expensive…

WSWS (2022-09-25). Fuel poverty report warns of child deaths as the UK faces "humanitarian crisis" this winter. wsws.org At the launch of the Fuel Poverty report, co-author Professor Ian Sinha said he had "no doubt" that children would die this winter as a result.

Tom Valovic (2022-09-25). The Spoils of War: Why Boston is No Longer the "Athens of America" commondreams.org The military industrial complex in Massachusetts has continued to grow and prosper over recent years.

TeleSUR (2022-09-25). COVID-19 Vaccination of Children Under 5 Begins in Peru. telesurenglish.net This was announced by the Minsal last Wednesday after the arrival in the country of a first batch of 1.5 million pediatric vaccines from the Moderna laboratory. A second batch of 1 499 900 doses is expected to arrive on September 28. | RELATED: | The plan consists of immunizing 2 404 106 children under 5 years of age. The head of the General Directorate of Strategic Public Health Interventions, Alexis Holguin, said the process will b…

____ (2022-09-25). Shanghai lifts restrictions on roadside stalls. ecns.cn Nearly 20 years after Shanghai banned roadside stalls for the sake of maintaining the city's appearance, the city finally lifted the ban, a move widely applauded by netizens and experts for not only having economic benefits, but bringing convenience to people's lives.

Editor (2022-09-25). Is Communism Really Causing the Influx of Migrants to the Southern Border? scheerpost.com Nick Cruse of Revolutionary Blackout Network debates Robby Soave on the real cause of why citizens of Latin American countries are trying to cross the border.

SP Editor (2022-09-25). Anti-Poverty Measures Work—The Proof Is in the Census. scheerpost.com [ By The There are three lessons here — about government programs, about how we measure…

Staff (2022-09-25). Raúl Castro recibe en La Habana a primer ministro del Reino de Cambodia. cubadebate.cu El primer ministro del Reino de Cambodia, Samdech Techo Hun Sen, rememoró su visita a Cuba en 1999, momento en que recibió la Orden José Martí de manos del Líder Histórico de la Revolución Cubana, Fidel Castro Ruz. Asimismo, destacó la colaboración médica como un pilar en las relaciones desarrolladas a través de los años.

Staff (2022-09-25). Consejo funerario para aprendices de capitalismo. cubadebate.cu La propiedad privada no creó al Capitalismo. Este último la perpetúa y la hace "sacrosanta". Quien creó la propiedad privada fue el egoísmo humano. La corrupción, el burocratismo, la discriminación, la desigualdad, la injusticia social y la explotación humana y ambiental, no son creaciones comunistas. El pecado original del Socialismo fue reproducir esos vicios que lo matan.

Xin Ni, Zhe Li, Xinping Li, Xiao Zhang, Guoliang Bai, Yingying Liu, Rongshou Zheng, Yawei Zhang, Xin Xu, Yuanhu Liu, Chenguang Jia, Huanmin Wang, Xiaoli Ma, Huyong Zheng, Yan Su, Ming Ge, Qi Zeng, Shengcai Wang, Junyang Zhao, Yueping Zeng, Guoshuang Feng, Yue Xi, Zhuo Deng, Yongli Guo, Zhuoyu Yang, Jinzhe Zhang (2022-09-24). [Articles] Socioeconomic inequalities in cancer incidence and access to health services among children and adolescents in China: a cross-sectional study. thelancet.com Our study showed that the burden of cancer in children and adolescents in China is much higher than previously nationally reported from 2000 to 2015. The distribution of the accessibility of health services, as a social determinant of health, might have a notable role in the socioeconomic inequalities in cancer incidence among Chinese children and adolescents. With regards to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals, policy approaches should prioritise increasing the accessibility of health services for early diagnosis to improve outcomes and subsequently reduce disease burdens, as well as narrowing the socioe…

Benjamin Norton (2022-09-24). 'War on drugs has failed': At UN, Colombia condemns 'addiction to money and oil'. multipolarista.com Colombia's first ever left-wing President Gustavo Petro delivered a historic UN speech declaring, "The war on drugs has failed." He warned capitalism is destroying the environment, with its "addiction to money and oil," and called for debt relief for the Global South.

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2022-09-25: News Headlines

Jens Berger, Guido Speckmann (2022-09-25). Raising interest rates to fight inflation is a crazy idea. indybay.org Monetarism was conceived in the 1960s as a kind of liberal answer to the teachings of John Maynard Keynes, tracing back directly to the neoliberal mastermind Milton Friedman. The core of the monetarist doctrine is that the money supply mono-causally determines the value of money.

SP Editor (2022-09-25). Anti-Poverty Measures Work—The Proof Is in the Census. scheerpost.com [ By The There are three lessons here — about government programs, about how we measure…

Wood Street Comrades (2022-09-25). Wood Street Community Faces Eviction. indybay.org In light of serial evictions, a self-organized community of unhoused and advocates at Wood Street in West Oakland have presented an elegant plan to build a tiny home community and resource center, however the City of Oakland and Caltrans have fallen short on collaborating or providing access to real resources.

Labor Video Project (2022-09-25). SF Chronicle No Silence On Assange! indybay.org

Labor Video Project (2022-09-25). LA Protest Shuts Down FCMAT Meeting:Protesters Say Stop Closures, Charters/Privatization. indybay.org Community activists, kids and public education supporters protested at the LA meeting of FCMAT. They spoke out and shut it down when the FCMAT refused to provide answers.

_____ (2022-09-24). Why Manchin's Side Deal Or 'Permitting Reform' Must Be Blocked. popularresistance.org It seems the mainstream narrative is that the IRA (Inflation Reduction Act) is a big step toward addressing the climate crisis while the side deal is a step backwards, but we may not be able to stop it. I disagree; from my perspective, the giveaways to the fossil fuel and nuclear industries in the IRA make it most likely a net negative for the environment. | Renewable energy has been outcompeting fossil fuels in most places; they are much cheaper than nuclear power everywhere. Won't giving subsidies to all three help the previously losing industries most? In any case, subsidies for buying outsize electric vehicle…

_____ (2022-09-24). COP27 To Be Held In Egypt Amid Global Challenges. popularresistance.org African nations are preparing for the United Nations Climate Conference (COP27) scheduled to take place in the Egyptian resort area of Sharm-el-Sheikh from November 6-20. | This gathering is taking place during a period of rising uncertainty due to burgeoning food deficits along with the crisis of accumulation and distribution related to agricultural products in general. | Energy costs have skyrocketed due to several important factors including the Pentagon-NATO war in Ukraine; the failure of the United States government to curtail inflation through price controls utilizing higher taxation rates against corporati…

Sumit Gupta (2022-09-24). [Comment] Using data to improve care: childhood cancer in China. thelancet.com The last decades have seen substantial improvements in childhood cancer treatment, with cure rates of more than 80%.1 Although these statistics represent hope for families, they are only relevant to those treated in high-income countries. Cure rates are far lower in low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs), where more than 80% of children with cancer reside.2 This survival gap is one of the starkest inequalities in global child health. In this context, Xin Ni and colleagues3 established childhood cancer incidence rates across China by leveraging new health services databases that approach population-level c…

Danny Haiphong (2022-09-24). A Final Word on 'MAGA Communism' and Social Conservatism. orinocotribune.com By Danny Haiphong — Sep 21, 2022 | Opportunism and foolishness have resulted in the latest example of US decline, the concept of "MAGA Communism." This absurdity is proof that a true socialist movement is badly needed. | A fashionable online trend has emerged that presumes social conservatism and "Make America Great Again" (MAGA), the Trump-inspired ideology, as sufficient responses to the liberal branding of the Democratic Party. Some have even called for a "MAGA" communist movement. The reasoning behind this is simple. MAGA inspired millions of mostly white workers to support Trump's anti-Free Trade, anti…

Asa Winstanley (2022-09-24). Labour officials laughed at death of member accused of anti-Semitism. electronicintifada.net Senior party officers shared fantasies about murdering Jeremy Corbyn.

Misión Verdad (2022-09-24). PDVSA Reports Income Recovery in First Two Quarters of 2022. orinocotribune.com Venezuelan state oil company PDVSA's accumulated income in the first eight months of this year reached $10 billion, which is 62% higher than what it earned during the same period in 2021, according to a report by the website specializing in economics, According to data presented by Petroguía, the average volume of exports for the last two quarters is 617,000 barrels per day, and the Merey crude, a marker used to brand the oil that Venezuela e…

____ (2022-09-24). Iran, EAEU trade value hits $5bn: official. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Sep. 24 (MNA) — The Advisor to the Trade Promotion Organization of Iran (TPOI) for Trade Agreements and International Affairs put the current value of trade between Iran and the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) at $5 billion.

Talha Burki (2022-09-24). [World Report] Uncertainty over the future of Sri Lankan health care. thelancet.com An economic crisis is hampering the provision of care for many Sri Lankans. Talha Burki reports.

Martha Grevatt (2022-09-24). Railroad contracts: Biden, Walsh thwart use of strike weapon. workers.org As the deadline for a national railroad strike loomed, President Joe Biden and U.S. Secretary of Labor Marty Walsh hammered out a tentative agreement between the rail freight bosses and those railroad unions which had not already agreed to a contract. For now, this maneuvering has averted a strike that . . . |

Editor (2022-09-24). Military Whistleblower Challenges Pentagon's Warrantless Purchase of Internet Data. scheerpost.com Satellite image of the By Kevin Gosztola / A United States military whistleblower filed a series of complaints alleging the Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS) is engaged in the warrantless purchase and use of Americans' internet browsing data, which it obtained from a broker. | "Acc…

_____ (2022-09-24). A People's Analysis Of A World On Fire. popularresistance.org As several popular movements, together with many organic intellectuals, have been warning, we are undergoing a crisis of the capitalist system globally. The results of this crisis are unpredictable. Contrary to what liberals and even some heterodoxy argue, this crisis is a product of neoliberalism. That is to say, the crisis is a product of the intrinsic development of capital itself and not a problem alien to the "normal functioning of the system". It is the very development of capital itself that creates all the contradictions which, when they become more acute, lead to crisis. | This crisis does not affect the…

JANET (2022-09-24). Saladin Muhammad: a life dedicated to organizing Southern Black workers. iacenter.org By Dante Strobino September 22, 2022 Saladin Muhammad, a revolutionary Black union organizer and propagandist, died on Sept. 19 in Rocky Mount, North Carolina, at age 76 after a long illness. The writer is the International Representative of the United Electrical Workers (UE) 1 who worked with Muhammad for many years. Saladin Muhammad and Dante Strobino at the Fruit of Labor World Cultural Center on April 6, 2013, following annual Black Workers for Justice Dr. Martin Luther King Support for Labor banquet in Raleigh, North Carolina. Saladin Muhammad's contributions to the global struggle for Black liberation and…

Ricardo Gomez (2022-09-24). YOU LOVE TO SEE IT: Schools Take Off. levernews.com Good things are happening! Schools are getting into energy in a big way, while the health care industry is feeling the heat for its investments in fossil fuels. Meanwhile, a young activist scored a big victory against Idaho's far right, while a major library just took a stand against banned books. Finally, unionization efforts are spreading, this time to Home Depot stores and a big metro newspaper.All this and much more in this week's edition of You Love To See It, available below for supporting subscribers. | Read the full story: | Sign up now to read the full story and get access to all paid po…

____ (2022-09-24). Iran's non-oil exports to SCO member states up by 29% in Q1. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Sep. 24 (MNA) — The Director-General of the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Finance for Financial and Commercial Markets announced the 29 percent growth of non-oil goods with Shanghai Cooperation Organization's member states in 1st quarter.

____ (2022-09-24). Iran, Nicaragua FMs emphasize developing economic ties. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Sep. 24 (MNA) — Iranian and Nicaraguan foreign ministers exchanged views on the expansion of bilateral relations especially in the field of economy.

JANET (2022-09-24). 'Monarchy is a survival of the tyranny'. iacenter.org September 13, 2022 Irish Freedom Fighter, Marxist and labor leader James Connolly wrote these words in 1910. Connolly, who along with James Larkin, was a leader of the Irish Transport and General Union during the 1913 Dublin Lockout. The British government executed Connolly by firing squad in 1916 for his leadership role in that year's heroic Easter Rising. James Connolly What is monarchy? From whence does it derive its sanction? What has been its gift to humanity? Monarchy is a survival of the tyranny imposed by the hand of greed and treachery upon the human race in the darkest and most ignorant days of our hist…

Dean Baker (2022-09-24). It's Lower-Income Families Who Will Be Hit Hardest by Fed Rate Hikes. commondreams.org Let's not pretend we don't understand who will be punished here.

WSWS (2022-09-24). "My turn is to workers on the factory floor": Highlights from UAW presidential candidate Will Lehman's debate with the union bureaucracy. wsws.org The World Socialist Web Site is publishing excerpts from the historic debate for UAW president, in which rank-and-file worker Will Lehman challenged the entire union apparatus.

Shailly Gupta Barnes (2022-09-24). Direct Cash Transfers Lifted 28 Million Americans Out of Poverty During Pandemic. commondreams.org Nevertheless, 112 million people in the United States were still poor or one emergency away from being poor in 2021, showing how far we have left to go.

Dr. Mathew Maavak (2022-09-24). Is It Time to Dissolve the British Commonwealth? globalresearch.ca

Thedi Ziegler, Ann Moen, Wenqing Zhang, Nancy J Cox (2022-09-24). [Comment] Global Influenza Surveillance and Response System: 70 years of responding to the expected and preparing for the unexpected. thelancet.com When a cluster of respiratory viral infections occurs, early recognition by clinicians linked to a global network is essential for rapid identification of the causal pathogen and subsequent risk assessment and public health response. Crucial to this process are sentinel physician and hospital networks where samples are collected from patients with febrile respiratory infections; trained laboratory staff to identify the causative pathogen; and epidemiologists and public health staff to collect data and evaluate pathogen spread and disease severity in susceptible populations.

Staff (2022-09-24). Autoridades cubanas impiden tráfico ilícito de fósil de pez cubano de 23 millones de años de antigàºedad. cubadebate.cu La labor de autoridades cubanas impidió la salida del país del fósil de un pez con unos 23 millones de años de antigàºedad, el día 8 último, trascendió en una conferencia sobre tráfico ilícito de bienes culturales durante el VII Taller de Museología y Sociedad. Se trata de un esqueleto fósil casi completo de pez actinopterigio, en buenas condiciones.

Joe Piette (2022-09-23). Philly Museum of Art workers strike. workers.org During a one-day strike Sept. 16, workers at the Philadelphia Museum of Art picketed the renowned institution as a warning to senior management of what will happen if the bosses continue their unfair labor practices. With 180 members, the PMA Union (Local 397 of AFSCME District Council 47) has been . . . |

Margie Mason, Robin McDowell (2022-09-23). Prison labor helped build U.S. capitalists' business empires. peoplesworld.org More than 1 years ago, a prison complex known as the Lone Rock stockade operated at one of the biggest coal mines in Tennessee. It was powered largely by African American men who had been arrested for minor offenses—like stealing a hog—if they committed any crime at all. Women and children, some as young as …

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2022-09-24: News Headlines

Jens Berger, Guido Speckmann (2022-09-24). Raising interest rates to fight inflation is a crazy idea. indybay.org Monetarism was conceived in the 1960s as a kind of liberal answer to the teachings of John Maynard Keynes, tracing back directly to the neoliberal mastermind Milton Friedman. The core of the monetarist doctrine is that the money supply mono-causally determines the value of money.

Wood Street Comrades (2022-09-24). Wood Street Community Faces Eviction. indybay.org In light of serial evictions, a self-organized community of unhoused and advocates at Wood Street in West Oakland have presented an elegant plan to build a tiny home community and resource center, however the City of Oakland and Caltrans have fallen short on collaborating or providing access to real resources.

Dean Baker (2022-09-24). It's Lower-Income Families Who Will Be Hit Hardest by Fed Rate Hikes. commondreams.org Let's not pretend we don't understand who will be punished here.

____ (2022-09-24). Shanghai lifts restrictions on roadside stalls. ecns.cn Nearly 20 years after Shanghai banned roadside stalls for the sake of maintaining the city's appearance, the city finally lifted the ban, a move widely applauded by netizens and experts for not only having economic benefits, but bringing convenience to people's lives.

Dr. Mathew Maavak (2022-09-24). Is It Time to Dissolve the British Commonwealth? globalresearch.ca

Labor Video Project (2022-09-24). LA Protest Shuts Down FCMAT Meeting:Protesters Say Stop Closures, Charters/Privatization. indybay.org Community activists, kids and public education supporters protested at the LA meeting of FCMAT. They spoke out and shut it down when the FCMAT refused to provide answers.

WSWS (2022-09-23). Ontario education support workers: Vote YES to strike! Build rank-and-file committees to defend public education and stop COVID! wsws.org A decisive vote for strike action must be made the starting point for the political mobilization of all education workers to defend public education, defeat the hard-right Ford government's austerity agenda, and secure inflation-busting wage and benefit increases.

The Socialist Program (2022-09-23). Ukraine War Escalates—And Nuclear War Threats Grow. liberationnews.org The Ukraine war is escalating—dramatically…

_____ (2022-09-23). Brainwashed For War With Russia. popularresistance.org Thanks to Establishment media, the sorcerer apprentices advising President Joe Biden — I refer to Secretary of State Antony Blinken, national security adviser Jacob Sullivan, and China specialist Kurt Campbell — will have no trouble rallying Americans for the widest war in 77 years, starting in Ukraine, and maybe spreading to China. And, shockingly, under false pretenses. | Most Americans are oblivious to the reality that Western media are owned and operated by the same corporations that make massive profits by helping to stoke small wars and then peddling the necessary weapons. Corporate leaders, and…

_____ (2022-09-23). 87% Of World Doesn't Support West's New Cold War On Russia. popularresistance.org Two former US diplomats have acknowledged that the vast majority of the global population does not support the West's new cold war on Russia. | In a Newsweek op-ed titled "Nearly 90 Percent of the World Isn't Following Us on Ukraine," ex diplomats Michael Gfoeller and David H. Rundell wrote: | While the United States and its closest allies in Europe and Asia have imposed tough economic sanctions on Moscow, 87 percent of the world's population has declined to follow us. Economic sanctions have united our adversaries in shared resistance. Less predictably, the outbreak of Cold War II, has also led countries that we…

____ (2022-09-23). Chinese premier calls on China, Japan to enhance economic cooperation. ecns.cn Chinese Premier Li Keqiang on Thursday said China is ready to work with Japan to upgrade the all-round, wide-ranging and multi-level cooperation.

____ (2022-09-23). China's consumption market expands with strong impetus over decade: report. ecns.cn China's consumer market has logged rapid development in the last decade, with its structure becoming more balanced and new business forms gaining steam, an official report showed on Thursday.

____ (2022-09-23). Nation to advance FTA strategy. ecns.cn China will advance its free trade agreement strategy to effectively connect domestic and foreign markets and relevant resources, in terms of "expanding scope, improving quality and raising efficiency".

____ (2022-09-23). Decade-long efforts to safeguard cross-Strait peace and stability, promote China's reunification. ecns.cn The Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC) with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core has effectively safeguarded peace and stability across the Taiwan Strait and advanced the process toward the reunification of the motherland over the past decade.

____ (2022-09-23). Steady China-Japan ties beneficial to both, Li says. ecns.cn Premier Li Keqiang emphasized on Thursday Beijing's readiness to work with Tokyo to enable the upgrading of bilateral cooperation in all dimensions, wide-ranging areas and multiple levels, calling on the two sides to better tap into the potential for regional economic growth.

____ (2022-09-23). Xi extends greetings ahead of farmers' harvest festival. ecns.cn Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, has extended festive greetings and sincere regards on behalf of the CPC Central Committee to farmers and people working on agricultural and rural fronts ahead of the fifth Chinese farmers' harvest festival.

Kevin Gosztola (2022-09-23). White House Says Migrants 'Fleeing Communism'—Plus, Toxic Lead In Chicago Water. thedissenter.org Hosts Rania Khalek and Kevin Gosztola had a limited amount of time for this week's episode. Rania was in New York to cover the UN General Assembly meeting, where a number of Latin American leaders condemned US imperialism. | Rania and Kevin talk a bit about some of the speeches and also respond to Biden Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre saying the migrants being flown by Republican governors to blue cities are "fleeing communism" in Cuba, Nicaragua, and Venezuela.

Orinoco Tribune 2 (2022-09-23). Where Do the Largest Number of Traffickers and Victims of Human Trafficking Live? orinocotribune.com By Francisco Arias Fernández Sep 19, 2022 | The International Labor Organization estimates there are 24.9 million victims of trafficking globally, a criminal activity that generates around $1 billion annually in illicit profits. | Online Internet prostitute services; foreign and resident women victims of smuggling, forced and coerced to work in the sex industry; regular customers; pimps; online child traffickers; lifeguards, computer scientists and corrupt Disney amusement park waiters; and other collateral merchants were part of an alarming police finding in early 2022. | More than 100 people, several Dis…

WSWS (2022-09-23). German government spends 29 billion euros on gas importer Uniper. wsws.org The biggest part of the ‚Ç¨29 billion for Uniper will flow into the coffers of the large energy concerns, who are making record profits as a result of the energy shortage and astronomical prices on the spot markets.

Joseph Zimmer (2022-09-23). This Constitution Week Let's Stop Using Brands That Support Prison Slavery. commondreams.org An estimated $14 billion in wages are stolen every year from incarcerated workers across the country.

TeleSUR (2022-09-23). US Dow Hits Bear Market Territory on Inflation Woes. telesurenglish.net The Dow ended below the 30,000 mark and at one point fell to a new low for this year. The losses reflect investors' fears that inflation is not fading as fast as they thought, which has prompted the U.S. Federal Reserve to continue on its aggressive rate-hiking path. | A trader works at the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York, the United States, on Aug. 26, 2022.

Dean Baker (2022-09-23). How Will the Fed's Rate Hikes Help the Poor? cepr.net Those at the bottom end of the income distribution will be paying the biggest price for the Fed's anti-inflation policy, and it is important to recognize this fact.

Matt Sedlar (2022-09-23). The Fed's Interest Rate Hikes Are Going to Hit the Most Vulnerable. cepr.net The Fed should pause before it hikes further and see the extent to which its hikes to date, along with supply chain fixes, have quelled inflation.

WSWS (2022-09-23). Vowing "pain," Federal Reserve pledges to slash workers' wages. wsws.org Behind the Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell's rhetoric about "fighting inflation" is a brutal class policy of using mass unemployment to drive down wages.

Anand Naidoo (2022-09-23). The Heat: Bolivian President Luis Arce and UN Head of Biodiversity Elizabeth Mrema. america.cgtn.com How did Bolivia escape rampant global inflation? And why is biodiversity critical to the survival of our planet?>

TeleSUR (2022-09-23). UK Business Activity Falls at Fastest Rate Since Early 2021. telesurenglish.net The United Kingdom's business activity fell in September at the fastest rate since January 2021, as cost pressures remain high and demand wanes. | RELATED: | The S&P Global/CIPS Flash UK PMI Composite Output Index slipped to 48.4 from 49.6 in August, hitting a 20-month low and pointing to a further decline in UK private sector output. | Falling business activity indicates that the economy is likely in recession, said…

WSWS (2022-09-23). "Through this brutality, Sri Lanka's government is imposing IMF burdens on the people": Support builds for SEP meeting against state repression. wsws.org The Socialist Equality Party (Sri Lanka) is holding a meeting this Sunday to outline a revolutionary socialist program to mobilize the working class and and oppressed masses against the wave of repression unleashed by the newly installed government of President Ranil Wickremesinghe.

Kevin Gosztola (2022-09-23). Military Whistleblower Challenges Pentagon's Warrantless Purchase Of Internet Data. thedissenter.org

Mark Taliano (2022-09-23). Washington's "Long War" Against Us All. marktaliano.net The West, led by Washington is leading a "long war" (1) against humanity. It is global. The war is even extending to local populations. Some call it internal colonialism, neoliberalism, eugenics (2). It is all three. The jabs kill and the "controllers" know it. In Syria and beyond the Western miitary -intelligence operations support the …

Carole Concha Bell (2022-09-23). 'Only Way Out Is Emancipation': Mapuche Ponder Future As Chile Rejects Constitution. towardfreedom.org Chile's population rejecting a proposed constitution on September 4 will hit hard one group: Indigenous people, who are socially and economically disadvantaged, thanks to generations of land dispossession and invisibility in Chile's political landscape. Carole Concha Bell reports.

Staff (2022-09-23). Decorations are awarded for the anniversary of the CDR, with the presence of Díaz-Canel. en.cubadebate.cu With the presence of Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, first secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba (PCC) and president of the Republic, the National Directorate of the Committees for the Defense of the Revolution (CDR) celebrates in Havana the act of decorations in salute to the 62nd anniversary of the cederista organization. The ceremony, in the El Laguito Protocol Hall, recognizes the work of outstanding members and groups in the fulfillment of their tasks, with relevant revolutionary trajectory and loyalty to the Homeland.

_____ (2022-09-23). Without Culture, Freedom Is Impossible. popularresistance.org In 2002, Cuba's President Fidel Castro Ruz visited the country's National Ballet School to inaugurate the 18th Havana International Ballet Festival. Founded in 1948 by the prima ballerina assoluta Alicia Alonso (1920—2019), the school struggled financially until the Cuban Revolution decided that ballet — like other art forms — must be available to everyone and so must be socially financed. At the school in 2002, Castro remembered that the first festival, held in 1960, 'asserted Cuba's cultural vocation, identity, and nationality, even under the most adverse circumstances, when major dangers and…

Ashley Sadler (2022-09-23). World Economic Forum Cites Compliance with COVID Mandates to Promote 'Climate Change' Lockdowns. globalresearch.ca

TeleSUR (2022-09-23). Jamaica Calls for Climate Action to Save Small Island States. telesurenglish.net On Thursday, Jamaican Prime Minister Andrew Holness stressed the need for climate action to ensure the survival of small island developing states (SIDS). | RELATED: | "Climate Change is an immediate existential threat for small island developing states like Jamaica," Holness said at the UN General Assembly, noting that a single climate event could wipe out 100 percent of the economy of a small island developing state…

_____ (2022-09-23). Poverty Is A Public Policy Choice. popularresistance.org It should not have taken a pandemic to realize poverty is a public policy choice. | Public investments in safety net programs continue to be extremely effective poverty reduction tools, as newly released Census income data show. Government social programs kept tens of millions of people out of poverty in 2021. Because of expansions to programs like unemployment insurance benefits and the child tax credit, poverty rates were actually lower in 2021 than they were prior to the Covid-19 pandemic. | The poverty reduction achieved through expanded social insurance programs highlights how much policymakers' choices can…

JANET (2022-09-23). Support & Pre-Order New Book 'Sanctions: A Wrecking Ball in a Global Economy'. iacenter.org Donate! Pre-Order your book now! Help an international campaign opposing US sanctions on more than 40 countries. A Crime Against Humanity. Help cover our printing costs. All donations of $25 or MORE will receive a copy of Sanctions: A Wrecking Ball in a Global Economy A 200 page book produced by the SanctionsKill Campaign, delivered in November, 2022.

TeleSUR (2022-09-23). Botswana Seeks to Reduce Its Reliance on Diamonds. telesurenglish.net On Thursday, Botswana should diversify its economy to reduce its heavy dependence on diamonds, President Mokgweetsi Masisi told world leaders attending the general debate of the 77th session of the UN General Assembly. | RELATED: | Botswana is facing "an uphill battle" to attract investors to diversify its economy away from dependence on diamonds, the president said, while pointing out the resource is still the "bedrock" of its economy. | When Botswan…

TeleSUR (2022-09-23). Lula Reaches 49 Percent 9 Days Before the Brazilian Elections. telesurenglish.net On Friday, Brazil's Institute for Social, Political and Economic Research (IPESPE) published the results of its most recent voting intention poll, which was conducted from Sept. 19 to Sept. 21 with a sample of 2,000 field interviews nationwide. | RELATED: | It shows that the Workers' Party candidate Lula da Silva has already reached 49 percent of citizen preferences and could easily exceed the percent of valid votes neede…

_____ (2022-09-23). Stop The Uberisation Of Royal Mail. popularresistance.org This morning, the Communication Workers Union (CWU) leadership met with Royal Mail Group's senior management. We hoped this meeting would begin resolving the ongoing industrial strife that has seen hundreds of thousands of employees take strike action against degrading real-terms pay cuts and the deterioration of workplace conditions. | However, they had other ideas. While we waited, managers began being briefed across the country about new plans for the 'modernisation' of the company. One of the company's CEOs, Simon Thompson, handed us two letters.

Orinoco Tribune 2 (2022-09-23). The US Response to the World's Worst Humanitarian Crisis: Seize and Privatize. orinocotribune.com By Andres Arauz Sep 19, 2022 | On August 10, more than 70 economists, including Nobel laureate Joseph Stiglitz, former economy minister for Argentina Martín Guzmán, and myself, sent a In the letter, we describe how the seizure of the reserves is contributing to mass death and starvation:…

TeleSUR (2022-09-23). South Africa Raises Policy Rate by 75 Basis Points. telesurenglish.net On Thursday, South African Reserve Bank Governor Lesetja Kganyago said that the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) had decided to raise the policy rate by 75 basis points to 6.25 percent per annum with effect from Friday. | RELATED: | This means the current repurchase rate of 5.5 percent will now increase to 6.25 percent and the prime lending rate to 9.75 percent. The bank has raised the repurchase rate for the sixth suc…

Elise Gould (2022-09-23). After Expanded Child Tax Credit Slashed Poverty, Letting It Lapse Was Enormous Mistake. commondreams.org All in all, child poverty was the lowest on record in 2021, largely due to key expansions of the Child Tax Credit. Unfortunately, that's where the good news ends.

A Guest Author (2022-09-23). Boston Marches for Indigenous Peoples Day. workers.org By K. James Protesters will march through the streets of Boston on Oct. 8 to demand that the Commonwealth of Massachusetts celebrate Indigenous Peoples Day (IPD) instead of Columbus Day. For decades, Indigenous peoples in the United States have been demanding an end to the public celebration of Christopher Columbus, . . . |

WSWS (2022-09-23). New Zealand government promotes complacency about COVID-19. wsws.org After removing nearly all mask mandates and other public health measures, the Labour Party-led government is scrapping regular COVID press briefings, as it seeks to normalise mass infection and death.

WSWS (2022-09-23). Arriva London North bus drivers to strike indefinitely from October as Unite prevents city-wide pay fight. wsws.org The role of the Unite leader Sharon Graham as British capitalism's chief industrial fire fighter is coming into sharp focus.

WSWS (2022-09-23). On eve of Brazil's election, Workers Party covers up collaboration in Bolsonaro's COVID-19 "herd immunity" policy. wsws.org The Workers Party's claim that it will "rebuild and transform" Brazil is directly refuted by the role it played in implementing the herd immunity policy in Brazil.

____ (2022-09-23). First time in over 20 years: Japan takes action to curb yen's slide. ecns.cn The Japanese government on Thursday took steps to intervene in the foreign exchange market to stem the yen's decline for the first time since 1998, according to a senior Finance Ministry official.

Mark Gruenberg (2022-09-23). Poor People's Campaign's 400,000-strong network to mobilize five million voters. peoplesworld.org WASHINGTON—Seeking to build on success in 2020, the Poor People's Campaign is undertaking a massive campaign across multiple states not just to register new poor and low-income/low-wealth people to vote, but to ensure those who already are registered actually do vote this year. And, given some of the states with the highest concentrations of such …

____ (2022-09-23). Report: Chinese enterprises banking on digitalization for global expansion. ecns.cn Despite external uncertainties, Chinese enterprises are actively expanding their overseas footprint, with investments mainly focusing on advanced manufacturing and technology.

Sonali Kolhatkar (2022-09-23). Working-class tribune Barbara Ehrenreich exposed inequality and capitalism's positive thinking cult. peoplesworld.org The late Barbara Ehrenreich was best known for her 2001 bestseller Nickel and Dimed, which showed that hard-working people simply weren't making it in America. But Ehrenreich, who passed away this September at 81, made an equally great contribution to economic justice with her subsequent book, Bright-Sided. It argued that the cult of "positive thinking" was putting …

WSWS (2022-09-23). Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and New Zealand. wsws.org India: Gujarat tuberculous health workers strike; Tamil Nadu railway workers oppose mass sackings; Australia: Pacific National train drivers in Queensland hold more strikes; South32 miners' strike enters sixth week New Zealand aircraft engineers in ninth week of industrial action[…

WSWS (2022-09-23). In historic debate, UAW presidential candidate Will Lehman calls for abolition of union bureaucracy, power to the rank and file. wsws.org The debate largely took the form of efforts by the various representatives of the apparatus to defend themselves against Lehman, who combined a fight for rank-and-file power with a call for a socialist and internationalist perspective.

Mark Gruenberg (2022-09-23). Poor People's Campaign's 400,000-strong network to mobilize 5 million voters. peoplesworld.org WASHINGTON—Seeking to build on success in 2020, the Poor People's Campaign is undertaking a massive campaign across multiple states not just to register new poor and low-income/low-wealth people to vote, but to ensure those who already are registered actually do vote this year. And, given some of the states with the highest concentrations of such …

Richard Heinberg (2022-09-23). What You Need to Know About the Energy Crisis. commondreams.org Every discussion about energy should begin or end with a reminder that building a global industrial economy on the basis of ever-increasing rates of extracting and burning finite fossil fuel resources, with polluting byproducts, was and is utterly insane.

____ (2022-09-23). State Council executive meeting calls for more measures to bolster recovery. ecns.cn Premier Li Keqiang heard a report on the ninth round of the State Council's accountability inspection. He called for greater efforts in policy implementation to bolster the recovery and growth of the economy.

Olivier De Schutter (2022-09-23). A Welfare System Built to Exclude Will Never Reduce Poverty in the US. commondreams.org To fix its broken welfare system, the U.S. must move away from its fixation on fraud, exclusions by design, and the stigmatization of people in poverty.

A guest author (2022-09-22). Statement condemns OHCHR's 'Assessment of human rights concerns' in China's Uyghur Autonomous Region. workers.org As this map illustrates, U.S. imperialism menaces China with over 400 military bases. The following statement has been initiated by Friends of Socialist China. You can add your name as an individual signatory using the form at socialistchina.org. Once you do so, your name will appear on this page within . . . |

Asa Winstanley (2022-09-22). New bombshell film exposes Israel lobby role in UK Labour Party. electronicintifada.net Al Jazeera obtains huge leak of internal documents revealing dirty tricks.

SP Editor (2022-09-22). The Pentagon Is Waging War on Planet Earth. scheerpost.com [ By On October 1st, the U.S. military will start spending the more than $800 billion Congress is going to provide it with in fiscal year 2023. And that whopping sum will just be the beginning. According to the

TeleSUR (2022-09-22). Swedish Krona Falls to Record Low Against US Dollar. telesurenglish.net The Swedish krona fell to a historic low against the U.S. dollar on Thursday. | For a brief, the krona traded at 0.090 dollars, its lowest ever, against the backdrop of staggering inflation and a string of domestic and international rate hikes, TT news agency reported. | RELATED: | The krona weakened despite Tuesday's decision by the Swedish central bank (Riksbank) to raise its main policy rate by 100 basis points t…

Anonymous103 (2022-09-22). Bitcoin Influence The Material Area Over Globe. southfront.org SPONSORED: | | The textile industry has expanded the supply chain by entering into the modern culture and leaving the traditional functions behind in stage production. It is charming to witness the culture of the new systems in the sector of growth and interaction. The Desire for a person indirectly develop a cultural relationship with the consumer from their smartphone is a beautiful way of communicating and controlling the mindset. The exact circulations of the transactions are done through the digital…

Shailly Gupta Barnes (2022-09-22). Census Data Proves Anti-Poverty Measures Work. otherwords.org The U.S. Census Bureau recently reported that poverty dropped notably in 2021. Amid a pandemic and widespread economic pain, this is a significant accomplishment. There are three lessons here — about government programs, about how we measure poverty, and about how far we have left to go. First, these numbers show that government programs work. …

Editor (2022-09-22). Caitlin Johnstone: America's Perverse Poverty Draft. scheerpost.com

Staff (2022-09-22). New York: Prosecutor sues Trump and three of his children for more than 200 cases of fraud. en.cubadebate.cu The 214-page lawsuit is the culmination of a three-year investigation showing that Donald Trump and his children Ivanka, Eric and Donald Trump Jr., as well as Trump Organization executives Allen Weisselberg and Jeffrey McConney, allegedly used the image of wealth and opulence of the former president to make him look like a great businessman who earned millions of dollars when he was a television presenter, as well as during his presidency. James announced the details of the lawsuit at a news conference, where she said the case was civil, not criminal.

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2022-09-23: News Headlines

Jake Johnson (2022-09-23). Koch Network Showers Fascist Election Deniers With Campaign Cash Ahead of Midterms. commondreams.org "His choice is not unlike the choices that most German industrialists made in the Weimar Republic," one critic said of billionaire Charles Koch.

Anonymous103 (2022-09-23). Liz Truss and Britain's 0.17% "Democracy" (Monocracy). southfront.org "Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." John F. Kennedy. | Written by With another unelected Prime Minister continuing the Conservative Party's forty-year destruction of the British family- sans the rich- and hyperinflation looming above a long predicted economic depression, let us examine the day's headline on the ascent of Liz Truss."After a drawn-out contest, the country's…

Kevin Gosztola (2022-09-23). Military Whistleblower Challenges Pentagon's Warrantless Purchase Of Internet Data. thedissenter.org

Wood Street Comrades (2022-09-23). Wood Street Community Faces Eviction. indybay.org In light of serial evictions, a self-organized community of unhoused and advocates at Wood Street in West Oakland have presented an elegant plan to build a tiny home community and resource center, however the City of Oakland and Caltrans have fallen short on collaborating or providing access to real resources.

Labor Video Project (2022-09-23). LA Protest Shuts Down FCMAT Meeting:Protesters Say Stop Closures, Charters/Privatization. indybay.org Community activists, kids and public education supporters protested at the LA meeting of FCMAT. They spoke out and shut it down when the FCMAT refused to provide answers.

Anonymous103 (2022-09-22). Kiev's Attempt To Disrupt Referendum Claimed Lives Of At Least 6 Civilians In Donetsk (18+). southfront.org On September 22, the Ukrainian Nazis again struck the center of the city of Donetsk with heavy artillery. Ukrainian shells hit a market and a bus stop nearby. Markets are almost the only crowded places in the city, that's why they remain the main targets for Ukrainian forces who do not stop daily terrorist attacks on civilians in the DPR and LPR. | The timing of the attack was also chosen in accordance with the main goal of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, which is to kill as many civilians as…

Andy Kroll (2022-09-22). The Nightmare of Military Spending on an Overheating Planet. tomdispatch.com On October 1st, the U.S. military will start spending the more than $800 billion Congress is going to provide it with in fiscal year 2023. And that whopping sum will just be the beginning. According to the calculations of Pentagon expert William Hartung, funding for various intelligence agencies, the Department of Homeland Security, and work on nuclear weaponry at the Energy Department will add another $600 billion to what you, the American taxpayer, will be spending on national security. That $1.4 trillion for a single year dwarfs Congress's one-time provision of approximately $300 billion under the recently pas…

_____ (2022-09-22). US Gas Exporters Grabbed A Wartime Windfall From Conflict In Ukraine. popularresistance.org New analysis shows that US fossil gas exporters have raked in huge financial gains since Russia's invasion of Ukraine, while a seperate report exposes how President Biden's response to the war includes a set of measures demanded by a secretive gas industry lobby group. | We found that Cheniere, the US's biggest exporter of liquified natural gas (LNG), increased its cash earnings by $3.8 billion in the first half of 2022, compared to the previous year. | US LNG exporter Freeport's revenues from sales to Europe also rocketed in the first five months after Russia's attack on Ukraine, up from $490 million over the sa…

Staff (2022-09-22). Pope Francis: Humanity is globalized, but poverty, injustice and inequality remain. en.cubadebate.cu The great recession of 2007, public debt, covid, the Ukraine war, global threats. And meanwhile: "cruel" conflicts throughout the world, the explosion of migrations, climate change, endemic poverty because, during these years, "while some men and women improved their daily lives, another part suffered unscrupulous elections, becoming the main victims of a kind of counter-development". It is a stark analysis, as stark as the reality that the world has been forced to face in the last fifteen years, that of Pope Francis in his speech to Deloitte Global.

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-09-22). Confidential RAND Report: Halt of Russian Energy Supplies Will Destroy German and EU Economies, Strengthen US. libya360.wordpress.com Deborah L. Armstrong Construction of Nord Stream 2. Photo: en.riss.ru What if I told you that the economic hardships which Germany and the European Union are experiencing right now are all part of a plan which was outlined back in January? And what if I told you that the White House Chief of Staff, US Department…

WSWS (2022-09-22). America's "New World Order"— The historical and social roots of US plans for war with Russia and China. wsws.org The following is a report given by Andre Damon to the Seventh Congress of the Socialist Equality Party (US) in support of the resolution titled "Mobilize the working class against imperialist war!"

TeleSUR (2022-09-22). Global Renewable Energy Jobs Hit 12.7 Million. telesurenglish.net Worldwide employment in renewable energy reached 12.7 million last year, a jump of 700,000 new jobs in one year, with China alone accounting for 42 percent of the global total. | RELATED: | The report titled "Renewable Energy and Jobs: Annual Review 2022", published by the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) in collaboration with the International Labour Organization (ILO), shows that almost two-thirds of all these jobs are in…

____ (2022-09-22). Pass-through game 'Sheep A Sheep' becomes overnight sensation in China, while questions remain over durability. ecns.cn A new pass-through mini game named "Yang Le Ge Yang," translated as "Sheep A Sheep," has become a national online sensation in China over recent days but also aroused controversy over its likely profitability and game rules.

____ (2022-09-22). China expresses concern over US' discriminatory EV subsidy provisions. ecns.cn China is concerned about the discriminatory electric vehicle subsidy provisions in the US Inflation Reduction Act, according to the Ministry of Commerce on Thursday.

_____ (2022-09-22). Statement Condemns 'Assessment Of Human Rights Concerns' In China. popularresistance.org We strongly condemn the publication by the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights of its Assessment of human rights concerns in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, People's Republic of China. In the words of former OHCHR lawyer and human rights expert Alfred de Zayas, this document "should be discarded as propagandistic, biased and methodologically flawed." | Based on substandard research methods and biased sources, the Assessment is completely lacking in credibility. It treats arms of the military-industrial complex, such as the Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI), along with professional a…

Asa Winstanley (2022-09-22). New bombshell film exposes Israel lobby role in UK Labour Party. electronicintifada.net Al Jazeera obtains huge leak of internal documents revealing dirty tricks.

_____ (2022-09-22). Biden's Afghan Shell Game Prompts Media Shrugs And Stenography. popularresistance.org More than a year after it froze $7 billion of Afghanistan's central bank reserves in the wake of the Taliban's military victory, the US has announced it will use half the money to establish a fund at a Swiss bank to help stabilize the cratering Afghan economy. | President Joe Biden's refusal over the past year to allow the Afghan central bank access to its own reserves has caused an economic crisis that has pushed most of the population into extreme poverty and malnutrition. Moreover, in February, Biden announced that he was reserving half of Afghanistan's money for families of 9/11 victims, sparking internationa…

Derrick Broze (2022-09-22). The Biden Administration Embraces Technocracy with Promise of $2 Billion in Funding for the "BioEconomy" thelastamericanvagabond.com The Biden Administration's recent Executive Order has made headlines lately, but this is only the latest step In the direction of the Technocratic Age. To understand where we are headed we need to know what is meant by "advancing Biotechnology and Biomanufacturing". On September 12, the White House issued an executive order titled, Advancing Biotechnology

TeleSUR (2022-09-22). Interest Rate Hikes in the US Affect Middle Eastern Countries. telesurenglish.net As the U.S. Federal Reserve raised its benchmark rates by 0.75 percentage points on Wednesday, the third such rate hike in a row and the fifth increase in a year, Middle Eastern countries look set to suffer more from their already dramatic depreciation in the local currency and high inflation. | RELATED: | On Thursday, the Turkish lira was trading at a record low of 18.42 to the U.S. dollar, having plunged more th…

Dana Sanchez (2022-09-22). Edward Harrison On Fed 75 BP Rate Hike: Big Investment Funds Will Be Moving Money From Volatile Stocks To 4% Savings Accounts. moguldom.com The Federal Reserve just handed down its third consecutive 75-basis-point interest rate hike to fight inflation, making it more expensive to borrow money for things like homes and cars. However, there is a silver lining. Rock-bottom interest rates on so-called high-yield savings accounts are finally starting to be higher-yielding, presenting an opportunity to help you …

WSWS (2022-09-22). Top US official visits Sri Lanka to bolster strategic ties. wsws.org Wherever it intervenes, Washington's posturing over "poverty," "human rights," "democracy" and "good governance" is to camouflage its predatory geopolitical interests.

Contributing Writers (2022-09-22). Interview with Australian Dr. Tim Anderson over Syria. marktaliano.net Syria Insider September 20, 2017 ∑ Professor Tim Anderson, senior Lecturer in Political Economy at Sydney University and honorable writer of the" The Dirty War on Syria", highlighted the victory of the Syrian Arab Army over the imperialist powers and their auxiliaries in Deir Ezzor, saying" the defeat of Daesh in the area would …

Anonymous669 (2022-09-22). New Wave Of Turkish Airstrikes Hit SDF Positions In Northern Syria (Video). southfront.org On September 22, a new wave of Turkish airstrikes hit areas held by the Democratic Forces (SDF) in Syria's northern region. | At least four airstrikes targeted positions of the Kurdish-led group in the outskirts of the town of Maraanaz in the northern countryside of Aleppo. The Hawar news agency reported that the airstrikes resulted in some material losses, without elaborating. | The airstrikes were a response to an indirect fire attack that targeted a Turkish military b…

Stan Cox (2022-09-22). War Spending Like This as the Climate Emergency Grows Is a Global Nightmare. commondreams.org The military-industrial complex and Earth-killing capitalism only seem to grow ever mightier.

TeleSUR (2022-09-22). Brazil's Ex-President Henrique Cardoso Hints at Supporting Lula. telesurenglish.net On Thursday, former Brazilian President Fernando Henrique Cardoso (1995-2002) hinted at supporting Workers' Party candidate Lula da Silva in the October 2 elections. | RELATED: | Although Cardoso did not explicitly quote the leftist leader in a note posted on social networks, he did speak out in defense of Lula's government proposal, which is radically opposed to President Jair Bolsonaro's neoliberal project. | "

TeleSUR (2022-09-22). Donald Trump Sued for Financial Fraud. telesurenglish.net On Wednesday, New York Attorney General Letitia James filed a lawsuit against former U.S. President Donald Trump for alleged financial fraud. | RELATED: | James accused Trump, the Trump Organization, senior management, and involved entities of "engaging in years of financial fraud to obtain a host of economic benefits." | The civil lawsuit alleged Trump, with the help of his three adult children and senior executives at t…

Anonymous103 (2022-09-22). A Few Great Purposes Of Bitcoin Crypto! southfront.org SPONSORED: | | The global economy is running behind the digital crowd that has become the new finance ecosystem. Before digital money, people depended upon currency transfer through paper money. Public or private institution requirements were necessary to deal with the promising project. Multiple people address the cryptocurrency sector as a prominent industry where people can exchange their units and serve the purpose of their requirements. Digital growth upscales the benefit and defines digital money as reali…

Editor (2022-09-22). Caitlin Johnstone: America's Perverse Poverty Draft. scheerpost.com

Orinoco Tribune 2 (2022-09-22). IMF Tells Bolivia To Drop Its Successful Economic Model. orinocotribune.com The IMF released The report takes aim at the government's spending on development, saying, "The government must restrict spending, including eliminating the end…

TeleSUR (2022-09-22). S.Korean Currency Tumbles After Fed's Rate Hike. telesurenglish.net South Korea's currency tumbled on Thursday after U.S. Federal Reserve's rate hike led to a strong U.S. dollar. | The won/dollar exchange rate finished at 1,409.7 won per dollar, up 15.5 won from the previous close. | RELATED: | It marked the highest close in more than 13 years since March 2009 when the global financial crisis roiled financial markets across the world. | The Fed took a giant step again overnight, raising its benchmark interest rate by 0.75 percen…

Edu Montesanti (2022-09-22). Latin American Economy Under the COVID-19 Pandemic: An Interview With Ladislau Dowbor. orinocotribune.com For Pointing out neoliberal governments, in the following interview Doctor Dowbor observes that Latin America is "systemically dysfunctional," which has caused the region the world's most severe economic crisis under the new coronavirus, since the disease got to the region in February 2020. Latin Am…

_____ (2022-09-22). Case New Holland Workers' Strike Enters Fifth Month, Negotiations Stall. popularresistance.org Racine, Wisconsin – Back in July, I took a weekend trip to Burlington, Iowa, to visit manufacturing workers at Case New Holland (CNH Industrial), who, along with their coworkers at another plant in Racine, Wisconsin, have been on strike since May 2. When I arrived, the early shift of picketers stood jovially together under the hot morning sun. Even at 10AM, the temperature was already a blistering 86 degrees, with humidity high enough that it made your clothes damp to the touch. The picketers didn't seem to mind as they made their way slowly past the entrance to the Case New Holland plant, holding up a line of em…

_____ (2022-09-22). Oil Palm Plantations And Water Grabbing: Ivory Coast And Gabon. popularresistance.org Industrial palm oil production in West and Central Africa is mainly controlled by five companies: Socfin, Wilmar, Olam, Siat, and Straight KKM (former Feronia). These multinationals control an estimated 67 per cent of the industrial oil palm planted area with foreign investment and may drive continuous expansion. (1) Their established industrial plantations have been linked to numerous impacts on the populations and territories. | The impact on water availability for communities that live in and around industrial oil palm plantations is systematic and dramatic. This is becoming increasingly evident with the many…

WSWS (2022-09-22). French auto workers at Hourdain Stellantis plant on wildcat strike. wsws.org Stellantis workers at Hordain revolted against rapidly deteriorating economic conditions in France and across Europe and the treacherous role of pro-company union officials.

Julia Conley (2022-09-22). Climate Leaders Arrested Outside Senate During Protest Against Manchin's Dirty Deal. commondreams.org "Sens. Manchin and Schumer's Dirty Deal is sending a clear message that Big Oil is willing to sacrifice entire communities, especially Black and Brown communities, in the pursuit of profits."

Eric A. Gordon (2022-09-22). The Portuguese Communists' Avante Festival is a party like no other. peoplesworld.org ATALAIA-AMORA-SEIXAL, Portugal—"Nà£o há festa como esta!" proclaim the slogans and t-shirts here. "There's no festival like this one!" It takes herculean effort to put on a show like this, and a slew of Communist Party volunteers from all parts of Portugal do most of the work. Organization Back in 1965, when the Portuguese Communist Party …

____ (2022-09-22). US should correct its security review abuse: ministry. ecns.cn That is not conducive to normal investment and trade exchanges, or to growth promotion and employment increase, she said, adding that it will not only harm others but also affect the US.

Vicky Badillo (2022-09-22). Lives Are on the Line: It's Time for a National Paid Leave Policy. commondreams.org There is no economic and racial justice without access to paid leave.

Mark Gruenberg (2022-09-22). New York AG sues Trump and his children for "massive fraud" peoplesworld.org NEW YORK—New York Attorney General Letitia "Tish" James became the first legal heavyweight to throw the book at Donald Trump, his kids and his company, unveiling in a civil suit the tale of years of financial fraud, including during Trump's time in the Oval Office. Good government groups hailed the case. Additional criminal charges could …

Monica Moorehead (2022-09-22). Slap on Sarver's wrist, funds for Favre — capitalist culture in sports. workers.org NBPA Executive Director Tamika Tremaglio calls for lifetime ban on Robert Sarver on NBA Today, Sept. 16. U.S. sports — whether professional or amateur — like almost every institution under capitalism, is all about making profits before meeting human needs. Bosses of professional teams, usually referred to as owners, are . . . |

UFCLP (2022-09-22). Saturday 10/1: Press Conf Keep Laguna Honda OPEN! Discharges = Deaths Say Labor, Community & Families. indybay.org Laguna Honda Hospital | (entrance in front of old building) | 375 Laguna Honda Blvd. | San Franciscco…

WSWS (2022-09-22). The Forgiven: The accidental death of "a nobody" wsws.org The 2021 film concerns the consequences of a wealthy couple, on the verge of divorce, accidentally hitting and killing a young boy, while driving to a party in the Moroccan desert.

Madison Park Tenants Council (2022-09-22). Monday 9/19: Vulcan Tenants Defend Rent Control Before RAP Board. indybay.org Join Zoom Meeting | us02web.zoom.us/j/87047860266?pwd=MHNFd21hRkFEMGljKzNIRS9vWDBSUT09 | Meeting ID: 870 4786 0266 | Passcode: 892339 | Or | Dial from your location | +1669 900 9128 US {San Jose) | Meeting ID: 870 4786 0266…

Deweylaura (2022-09-22). Stop using migrants as pawns in your racist games! cpusa.org The Communist Party USA (CPUSA) strongly condemns the interstate transfer of migrants seeking asylum. For the past several months, anti-immigration Republican governors have been sending migrants, through deceit and coercion, to northern states and Washington, D.C. They are cruelly using human beings as pawns to score political points. This is being carried out by …

WSWS (2022-09-22). French auto workers at Hordain Stellantis plant on wildcat strike. wsws.org Stellantis workers at Hordain revolted against rapidly deteriorating economic conditions in France and across Europe and the treacherous role of pro-company union officials.

TeleSUR, jaa, MER (2022-09-22). Cuba denuncia ante ONU que bloqueo de EE.UU. es un acto de guerra en tiempo de paz. telesurtv.net El canciller indicó que EE.UU. presiona a Gobiernos, instituciones bancarias y compañías del mundo interesados en relacionarse con Cuba para provocar el colapso económico.

TeleSUR, ysm, JCM (2022-09-22). Argentina elimina uso obligatorio de mascarillas. telesurtv.net El uso del barbijo será optativo, pero se insta a llevarlo en centros laborales, educativos y el transporte público.

____ (2022-09-21). Region's diplomats praise ties with key trade partner. ecns.cn Regional ambassadors to China have spoken highly of China-ASEAN cooperation at a recent expo amid hopes the two sides can further explore economic and trade opportunities under the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership, or RCEP.

Prof. James Petras (2022-09-21). How Billionaires Become Billionaires. globalresearch.ca America has the greatest inequalities, highest mortality rate, most regressive taxes, and largest public subsidies for bankers and billionaires of any developed capitalist country. One of the most likely sources of billionaire wealth is through tax evasion in all of its guises and forms.

Labor Video Project (2022-09-21). Barbara Lee & "Pete" Get An Earful In Oakland Over Tax Dollars For A's Owner John Fisher. indybay.org Congresswoman Barbara Lee, US Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg and Oakland Mayor Libby Schaff joined together to talk about Federal funding for Oakland projects. Barbara Lee and "Pete" refused to say whether they supported Federal funds going to the GAP A's billionaire owner John Fisher's proposed new A' stadium on Port of Oakland public land at Howard Terminal. "Pete" also refused to say whether this project would harm the Port of Oakland as a working port.

Contributing Writers (2022-09-21). BBC Collaborates with Facebook to Purge Vaccine-Injured Groups Online/ Peter Gabriel MD. marktaliano.net Original Link Here: www.trialsitenews.com/a/bbc-collaborates-with-facebook-to-purge-vaccine-injured-groups-online-f05740be A major media member of the Trusted News Initiative (TNI) has warned a primary tech member about vaccine injury groups gaming the system to avoid algorithm detection and thus scrutiny. In what could be described as a dangerous move, the BBC collaborates with Facebook to shut down vaccine injury support groups …

Jeremy Kuzmarov (2022-09-21). Murder on Embassy Row—46 Years On: Remembering the Assassination of Orlando Letelier and Ronni Moffitt. covertactionmagazine.com [This article continues CAM's series on political assassinations.—Editors] On the morning of September 21, 1976, a car bomb took the lives of Orlando Letelier, Minister of Foreign Relations and Ambassador to the U.S. under Chile's socialist president Salvador Allende (1970-1973), and Ronni Karpen Moffitt, a 25-year-old fundraiser for the Institute for Policy Studies (IPS), a …

_____ (2022-09-21). Detroiters Say 'Hell No!' to DTE's Proposed Electricity Rate Hike. popularresistance.org Recurring power outages have become a fact of life in Detroit and Southeast Michigan. The most recent mass outage left hundreds of thousands in Metro Detroit without power following a brief windstorm on August 29th. Four days on, tens of thousands were still unable to run their medical devices and prevent their food from spoiling. With outages becoming more severe and more frequent as the climate crisis worsens, profit-driven utilities want to take more out of the pockets of working people struggling to afford their unreliable energy service. | Even before the most recent outages, the frustration in Detroit and s…

Isheka N. Harrison (2022-09-21). Backed By Bloomberg, Former National Security Agency (NSA) Official To Lead Data Research Center On Black Wealth. moguldom.com National Security Agency (NSA) veteran Natalie Evans Harris has been tapped to lead Bloomberg Philanthropies' new Black Wealth Data Center (BWDC). The center's launch was announced on Thursday, Sept. 15, from its official Twitter account. "We are the Black Wealth Data Center, a go-to resource for wealth equity data that public and private sector leaders can …

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2022-09-22: News Headlines

A Guest Author (2022-09-22). Statement condemns OHCHR's 'Assessment of human rights concerns' in China's Uyghur Autonomous Region. workers.org As this map illustrates, U.S. imperialism menaces China with over 400 military bases. The following statement has been initiated by Friends of Socialist China. You can add your name as an individual signatory using the form at socialistchina.org. Once you do so, your name will appear on this page within . . . |

WSWS (2022-09-21). Podemos backs Madrid's commitment to NATO war on Russia. wsws.org Podemos' aggressive support for NATO's war in Ukraine against Russia, amid mounting working class anger at inflation and war, exposes it as a reactionary petty-bourgeois militarist party.

Infobrics (2022-09-21). China's Relations with Russia in a New Age. infobrics.org It's gone under the radar, but China's trade and investment in the Russian Far East is significant and growing fast…

_____ (2022-09-21). The Orientation of World Political Power Moves Inexorably Eastward. journal-neo.org Vladivostok recently hosted the Eurasian Economic Forum where it was addressed by Russia's president Vladimir Putin. Vladivostok itself is an important centre of development in the Russian Far East and therefore appropriate as the host of the conference whose theme centred on the "path to a multipolar world." The conference was attended by representatives from …

____ (2022-09-21). Experts: Major regions to keep trade resilient in H2. ecns.cn China's foreign trade is expected to stay resilient in the second half of the year as key regions have ramped up efforts to further boost imports and exportsÔºçand this will likely help shore up the national economy.

____ (2022-09-21). Media registration opens for 5th China International Import Expo. ecns.cn Media registration for the fifth China International Import Expo (CIIE) will begin on Wednesday, announced the organizers.

____ (2022-09-21). RCEP delivers prominent dividends: Chinese official. ecns.cn Trade between China and the other 14 Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) members reached 8.32 trillion yuan (about 1.20 trillion U.S. dollars) in the first eight months of this year, accounting for 30.5 percent of China's total foreign trade.

____ (2022-09-21). Interest rate cut feasible tool to spur growth. ecns.cn While a number of central banks are expected to announce big tightening steps this week to beat inflation, China may continue to go in the opposite direction by tamping down interest rates in the coming months to spur growth.

____ (2022-09-21). One year on, Universal Beijing Resort spreads cheer, increases sales. ecns.cn Universal Beijing Resort, a 40 billion yuan ($5.75 billion) joint venture between Chinese and U.S. companies, celebrated its first anniversary on Tuesday, in the process showing the consumption power of the Chinese has not waned despite COVID-19.

The Socialist Program (2022-09-21). Inflation Crisis & the March Towards Recession. liberationnews.org The capitalist class remains determined to drive the economy off a cliff to eviscerate workers' living standards and bargaining power.

TeleSUR (2022-09-21). Fed: Third Straight Big Hike To 3.25% Amid Persistent Inflation. telesurenglish.net The U.S. Federal Reserve on Wednesday enacted the third consecutive three-quarter-point rate hike, as it continues to ramp up its fight against surging inflation. | Federal Reserve Board Chairman Jerome Powell holds a news conference after the Fed decided to once again raise interest rates by three-quarters of a percentage point at the William McChesney Martin Jr. Building in Washington, DC, USA, 21 September 2022.

Dale Walker (2022-09-21). Don't Be Fooled by Republicans. The Inflation Reduction Act Is a Big Win for Tax Fairness in America. commondreams.org Democrats should ignore their specious arguments and, instead, use this tax initiative as a rallying cry for the upcoming midterm elections.

Mark Gruenberg (2022-09-21). AFL-CIO panel: Blame corporate greed, not workers, for inflation. peoplesworld.org WASHINGTON—With the Federal Reserve Board poised to "fight inflation" by raising prime interest rates again—driving up the interest costs consumers pay on everything from credit cards to kids' college loans—AFL-CIO President Liz Shuler and a panel of pro-worker economists warned policymakers to blame corporate greed, not workers, for inflation. "Today's inflation really is rooted in …

WSWS (2022-09-21). Key question from today's policy meeting: Where the US Fed is heading? wsws.org The phrase "fighting inflation" is essentially a cover for the Fed's real agenda which is the suppression of wage claims being advance by workers to try to compensate for the biggest price hikes in four decades by contracting the economy and driving up unemployment.

Steve Gillis, Jim McMahan, Minnie Bruce Pratt (2022-09-21). Amazon, Starbucks say 'get back': Workers say fight back! workers.org Big Business would like to believe that the wave of class struggle by U.S. workers is fading — despite being so visible in Amazon Labor Union's historic victory at the JFK8 warehouse in Staten Island, New York, and in the lightning spread of Starbucks Workers United (SBWU). Hundreds of Starbucks . . . |

Prof Michel Chossudovsky (2022-09-21). Biggest Lie in World History: There Never Was A Pandemic. The Data Base is Flawed. The Covid Mandates including the Vaccine are Invalid. globalresearch.ca Fake science was supportive of this devastating agenda. The lies were sustained by a massive media disinformation campaign. The historic March 11, 2020 lockdown triggered economic and social chaos Worldwide. It was an act of "economic warfare": a war against humanity.

Editor (2022-09-21). Busing migrants, targeting socialism. workers.org Playing with human lives in a despicable political stunt, Greg Abbott, right-wing governor of Texas, has bused thousands of undocumented migrants north from the U.S. border with Mexico since the beginning of August. The buses dump homeless, jobless, hungry people — far from their own countries, with few to . . . |

_____ (2022-09-21). UN Women & Blackrock. popularresistance.org An open letter signed by 700-plus feminist groups and activists sent on Aug. 8 to UN Women, protesting a recently announced partnership between the agency and BlackRock, a United States-based hedge fund, resulted in the cancellation of the arrangement. | The letter pointed out that BlackRock personifies "crisis-prone speculation-based capitalism" and that the May 25 joint press releases announcing the partnership by both parties offered no useful or explicit details on what it would accomplish. | Such vagueness, the letter writers contended, could give UN Women the appearance of "pinkwashing" BlackRock, since the…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-09-21). This Odious Global System. libya360.wordpress.com Paul Cudenec Throughout my adult life I have tended to describe the thing to which I am primarily opposed as "capitalism". Over the last couple of years, however, I have started to wonder whether this is quite the right word. Not only does it hinder communication with people used to different political terminologies, but it…

_____ (2022-09-21). PRC-ROK Relations from the End of 2021; the Economic Aspect. journal-neo.org The Chinese market, including Hong Kong, accounts for 33% of Korea's total trade, but several distinct trends can be identified in the two countries' economic relations. The first trend is the development of economic cooperation in several areas. For example, on December 22, 2021 South Korea's SK Hynix received Chinese approval to buy Intel's NAND …

Scorinoco (2022-09-21). Venezuela Offers 5 Million Hectares for Agricultural Investment from Iran. orinocotribune.com Venezuelan Agriculture Minister Wilmar Castro Soteldo said that Caracas has offered at least 5 million hectares of land following agricultural investment agreements with producers from Iran and other countries. | He made the remarks on September 12 at a presentation ahead of the Iran-Venezuela Scientific, Industrial and Technological Expo Fair, which was held in Caracas during September 14-18. | "We are making available 5 to 7 million hectares [of land] that our country has to develop to reach 30 million cultivable hectares," the minister said. | He added that Venezuela is offering the farmlands to foreign produc…

TeleSUR (2022-09-21). UN: Latin American Leaders Call For End to US Blockade of Cuba. telesurenglish.net At the 77th session of the United Nations General Assembly, Alberto Fernández of Argentina, Xiomara Castro of Honduras, and Luis Arce of Bolivia demanded an end to the economic, commercial, and financial blockade imposed by the U.S. on Cuba for over half a century. | RELATED: | The President of Argentina said that "according to the UN Charter, the only legitimate sanctions are those imposed by the Security Council to e…

Dana Sanchez (2022-09-21). Largest Hedge Fund Bridgewater: If Interest Rates Go To 4.5%, That Means Stocks Crash Another 20%. moguldom.com The Federal Reserve is expected this week to deliver a third consecutive 0.75 percentage point interest rate hike following a higher-than-expected consumer price index reading in August and hawkish comments on rate hikes from Fed leaders that have put pressure on stock prices. Legendary hedge fund manager Ray Dalio has a pessimistic prediction for stocks and …

_____ (2022-09-21). Finally We Have A Global Registry Of Fossil Fuels. popularresistance.org New data published today shows that producing and combusting the world's reserves would yield over 3.5 trillion tons of greenhouse gas emissions, over seven times the remaining carbon budget for 1.5C and more than all emissions produced since the industrial revolution. | The finding comes from the Global Registry of Fossil Fuels, launched today by Carbon Tracker and Global Energy Monitor. | To date, climate change policy efforts have focussed on reducing demand and consumption of oil, gas and coal, but ignored the supply of those fuels. The Paris Agreement, for example, does not even mention fossil fuels, despite…

TeleSUR (2022-09-21). Over 300 French Companies Ask for Solutions to the Price Crisis. telesurenglish.net On Tuesday, over 300 French companies alerted the French government to the negative effects of the surging energy prices, Minister Delegate for Industry Roland Lescure said. | RELATED: | He mentioned that the risk of the companies going under remains limited, and that President Emmanuel Macron's administration has no plans to extend the energy tariff shield to companies with more than 10 employees. | According to Lescure, these com…

Anonymous103 (2022-09-21). Some Familiarity With Helpful Guide To Investing In Bitcoin. southfront.org SPONSORED: | | Bitcoin has become the new sensation in the market that is accepted and delivered with an open heart. The digital token requests the customers or investors to understand the circumstances and the never-ending opportunities. Every evening point of the cryptocurrency adds more appealing profit in the process. The association of the cryptocurrency profit with recognized sites helps know about the application and the other utility for the applicable services. Also, people who are interested in crypto…

The Socialist Program (2022-09-21). How the Ultra-Right Intends to Take & Consolidate Political Power. liberationnews.org The right wing of the U.S. ruling class, using the Supreme Court and other undemocratic institutions, has begun eviscerating hard-fought economic, social, and political rights that have been achieved in past decades.

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-09-21). Political Cartography of a World in Crisis. libya360.wordpress.com Katu Arkonada After 40 years of neoliberal order, the crisis of the world-system and of the capitalist mode of production is deepening. World trade, which represented twice the world GDP, is now equal in value to a world GDP which has seen its value reduced by a third, as a result of the economic crisis…

_____ (2022-09-21). United Nations Women And Blackrock. popularresistance.org An open letter signed by 700-plus feminist groups and activists sent on Aug. 8 to UN Women, protesting a recently announced partnership between the agency and BlackRock, a United States-based hedge fund, resulted in the cancellation of the arrangement. | The letter pointed out that BlackRock personifies "crisis-prone speculation-based capitalism" and that the May 25 joint press releases announcing the partnership by both parties offered no useful or explicit details on what it would accomplish. | Such vagueness, the letter writers contended, could give UN Women the appearance of "pinkwashing" BlackRock, since the…

TeleSUR (2022-09-21). Brussels, Scene of Mass Demonstration on Cost-of-Living Crisis. telesurenglish.net On Wednesday, the Belgian capital was the scene of a massive rally of over 10 000 demonstrators who took to the streets to protest the price hikes. | Representatives of trade unions during protest for better wages and against rising energy prices in Brussels, Belgium, 21 September 2022. Organizers are expecting up to 10,000 representatives in the streets of Brussels.

_____ (2022-09-21). Supporting Native American Students In Higher Education. popularresistance.org In 2019, 25% of Native Americans over the age of 25 had an associate degree or higher. When compared to 42% of all those over the age of 25, the gap is evident. Coupled with challenges that many Native higher education students face — including financial instability, the need for support in more ways than one is apparent. From the research done on the matter to the strides made in tuition assistance and how institutions of higher education can go the extra mile in creating a more inclusive academic environment, here's what you should know. | With regard to Native Americans and higher education data, one For…

James Magnus-Johnston (2022-09-21). Pandemic and the Policy Roots of a Steady State Economy. indybay.org We are in the midst of a radical disruption and nurturing the roots of a just transition. Whichever way events unfold over the coming years, it's clear that returning to the pre-pandemic status quo is less realistic and more difficult than embracing the change that's well underway. James Magnus-Johnston is a PhD researcher at McGill University.

Karen Dolan (2022-09-21). Data Reveals Poverty Is a Political Choice. commondreams.org New data from the U.S. Census Bureau reveals that there were a whopping 45 million fewer Americans in poverty in 2021 than in 2020.

____ (2022-09-21). Universal Beijing Resort marks first anniversary with surging visits. ecns.cn Universal Beijing Resort celebrated its first anniversary on Tuesday, and despite the COVID-19 epidemic it has remained popular, with visits surging. It has also boosted consumption at surrounding hotels and restaurants.

Joe Sims (2022-09-21). CPUSA leader: Democracy itself is on the ballot this November. peoplesworld.org The following is adapted from a report presented by Communist Party USA Co-Chair Joe Sims at the party's National Committee meeting, Sept. 18, 2022. Watch a video of his remarks here. In just a few weeks, voters will decide who controls Congress. Will it be those who outlawed abortion, blocked voting rights, and now want to …

WSWS (2022-09-21). Boil-water notice lifted in Jackson, Mississippi, but serious problems remain. wsws.org Since late July, the state's health department instructed the more than 1 ,000 residents of the state's capital to bring all water used for consumption, food preparation, and hygiene to a boil.

____ (2022-09-21). FM focusing on promoting Iran's foreign trade in intl. arenas. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Sep. 21 (MNA) — Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister for the Economic Diplomacy Affairs said that Ministry of Foreign Affairs is making its utmost efforts to enhance country's foreign policy in the international arenas.

Staff (2022-09-21). President Petro to Attend Border Reopening Ceremony. orinocotribune.com Next Monday, September 26, the reopening of the border between Colombia and Venezuela will take place. Earlier today, Colombia's President Gustavo Petro announced, from the United Nations in New York, that he will be in attendance. | "We are working to participate in the launching of the economic, commercial and human opening, which is the most important thing," Petro told the media. "Hopefully the end of the humanitarian crisis that, violating human rights, affected millions of people [and] family members, on both sides of the border." | "Estamos evaluando asistir a al comienzo de una apertura económica, comerci…

WSWS (2022-09-20). Biden on "60 Minutes": American capitalism is at war with the world, at war with reality. wsws.org In the space of 25 minutes, Biden declared the COVID-19 "pandemic over," threatened a massive escalation of war against Russia and pledged US forces to a possible war with China.

Ahmed Al-Sammak, Aya Emad (2022-09-20). Suicide in Gaza: "A message of anger" electronicintifada.net Poverty, unemployment and hopelessness are some of the reasons why Palestinians in Gaza are dying by suicide.

Tamara Nassar (2022-09-20). Palestinians protest PA collaboration with Israel. electronicintifada.net Man killed as Palestinian security forces do Israel's dirty work in Nablus.

Jack Gilroy (2022-09-20). Exposing the Merchants of Death. covertactionmagazine.com The village of Endicott, New York, is where the computer age began. International Business Machines, or IBM, has roots in Endicott back to 1916 as a time clock company. It later became the acclaimed leader in the design and building of business machines and, in 1981, introduced to the world the first personal computer. At …

_____ (2022-09-20). Iran's Membership in the SCO Only Strengthens It. journal-neo.org The irreversible fundamental changes that have recently emerged in world politics and economics make the growing role of the new centers of power increasingly clear. They interact with each other based on the universally recognized principles of the primacy of international law and the Charter of the UN, to ensure equal and indivisible security, respect …

Colin Todhunter (2022-09-20). Agricultores holandeses resistiendo la transición tóxica. globalizacion.ca En los últimos años, los gobiernos han estado demostrando su sumisión a sus amos multimillonarios en Big Finance, las fundaciones Gates y Rockefeller, BlackRock y toda la gama de fuerzas en el complejo militar-financiero-industrial detrás del 'Gran reinicio', 'Nueva normalidad'…

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Jeremy Kuzmarov (2022-09-21). Murder on Embassy Row—46 Years On: Remembering the Assassination of Orlando Letelier and Ronni Moffitt. covertactionmagazine.com On the morning of September 21, 1976, a car bomb took the lives of Orlando Letelier, Minister of Foreign Relations and Ambassador to the U.S. under Chile's socialist president Salvador Allende (1970-1973), and Ronni Karpen Moffitt, a 25-year-old fundraiser for the Institute for Policy Studies (IPS), a left-wing think-tank in Washington, D.C. The Chevrolet Malibu in which they were traveling exploded near Sheridan Circle in Washington, D.C., on Embassy Row. Ronni's husband Michael survived the bombing with minor wounds, cursing the "fascists" who had killed Letelier and his young wife. Two years after the bombing,…

_____ (2022-09-21). Finally we have a Global Registry of Fossil Fuels. popularresistance.org New data published today shows that producing and combusting the world's reserves would yield over 3.5 trillion tons of greenhouse gas emissions, over seven times the remaining carbon budget for 1.5C and more than all emissions produced since the industrial revolution. | The finding comes from the Global Registry of Fossil Fuels, launched today by Carbon Tracker and Global Energy Monitor. | To date, climate change policy efforts have focussed on reducing demand and consumption of oil, gas and coal, but ignored the supply of those fuels. The Paris Agreement, for example, does not even mention fossil fuels, despite…

_____ (2022-09-21). Supporting Native American Students in Higher Education. popularresistance.org In 2019, 25% of Native Americans over the age of 25 had an associate degree or higher. When compared to 42% of all those over the age of 25, the gap is evident. Coupled with challenges that many Native higher education students face — including financial instability, the need for support in more ways than one is apparent. From the research done on the matter to the strides made in tuition assistance and how institutions of higher education can go the extra mile in creating a more inclusive academic environment, here's what you should know. | With regard to Native Americans and higher education data, one For…

Tamara Pearson (2022-09-21). Does Mexico's wind industry deliver more dirty profits than clean energy? greenleft.org.au Almost all wind farms in Mexico are privately owned, typically by European and US transnational companies. While wind farms are touted as climate solutions, the profit-hungry companies are actually causing widespread damage to the regions they're based in, reports Tamara Pearson.

UFCLP (2022-09-21). Saturday 10/1: Press Conf Keep Laguna Honda OPEN! Discharges = Deaths Say Labor, Community & Families. indybay.org Laguna Honda Hospital | (entrance in front of old building) | 375 Laguna Honda Blvd. | San Franciscco…

Madison Park Tenants Council (2022-09-21). Monday 9/19: Vulcan Tenants Defend Rent Control Before RAP Board. indybay.org Join Zoom Meeting | us02web.zoom.us/j/87047860266?pwd=MHNFd21hRkFEMGljKzNIRS9vWDBSUT09 | Meeting ID: 870 4786 0266 | Passcode: 892339 | Or | Dial from your location | +1669 900 9128 US {San Jose) | Meeting ID: 870 4786 0266…

TeleSUR, ysm, JCM (2022-09-21). Argentina elimina uso obligatorio de mascarillas. telesurtv.net El uso del barbijo será optativo, pero se insta a llevarlo en centros laborales, educativos y el transporte público.

TeleSUR (2022-09-20). AMLO: Mexico's Proposal on Peace for Ukraine To Reach UNGA. telesurenglish.net President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard would present the proposal at the 77th session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) in New York, U.S. | RELATED: | Andrés Manuel López ObradorAMLO said in his morning press conference from the National Palace that Mexico advocates peace, not war, not economic sanctions, not arms shipments, and called to promptly initiate dialogue to stop the suffering, displaced, refugees and deaths.

Anonymous103 (2022-09-20). Military Situation In Southern Ukraine On September 20, 2022 (Map Update). southfront.org The AFU are transferring reinforcements to Novohrednevo and Malaya Seidemenukha; | The AFU attempt to build five pontoon crossings south of Bereznegovatoe under constant fire of Russian artillery; | The AFU attempted to attack Russian forces in the area of Davidov Brod, but were repelled; | In the area of Andreevka, the AFU were repelled from the area of Karlo-Marxovskoe and Bezimennoe to Sukhoi Stavok; | The AFU are preparing a landing operation on th…

Infobrics (2022-09-20). Japan maintains sanctions but boosts its LNG imports from Russia. infobrics.org Japan's economic woes are compounded by anti-Russia sanctions…

_____ (2022-09-20). Pakistan's Relations with Russia are Progressing Well. journal-neo.org Historically, relations between Moscow and Islamabad have been rather complicated. After declaring independence from British India, Pakistan made a geopolitical choice in its early decades, opting for close military-political and economic ties with the US, which largely predetermined the cool relations between the former and the Soviet Union. There were particularly difficult periods in bilateral …

____ (2022-09-20). China, Russia hold new round of strategic security consultation. ecns.cn Yang Jiechi, a member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, Monday co-chaired the 17th Round of Strategic Security Consultation between China and Russia with Nikolai Patrushev, secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation, in east China's Fujian Province.

____ (2022-09-20). Gas shortages, cold weather to deal blows to European companies, says economist. ecns.cn With colder weather on the way and European countries' access to natural gas from Russia cut off, rising expenses and scarce energy supplies could create an economic "tsunami" for many European companies.

____ (2022-09-20). Biden order would further restrict Chinese investment in U.S. tech. ecns.cn As the latest move to contain China's technology development, U.S. President Joe Biden has issued a new order to further restrict foreign investment in American technologies, but experts said it may undercut the U.S. economic competitiveness.

____ (2022-09-20). China-ASEAN Expo a boost to shaping an open regional economy: FM spokesperson. ecns.cn Under the theme of "Sharing RCEP New Opportunities, Building a Version 3.0 China-ASEAN Free Trade Area", this year's China-ASEAN Expo saw 40 investment promotion activities with 1,653 enterprises participating in offline events and more than 2,000 enterprises participating in online events. A total of 267 cooperation projects were inked with a record high investment of 413 billion yuan, up by 37% from the previous expo.‚ÄÇ…

____ (2022-09-20). China to expand digital yuan utility from four trial cities to province wide: central bank. ecns.cn China will expand the utility area for the digital yuan from the first four trial cities to province wide testing, to continue push the innovation of China's recognized cryptocurrency.

____ (2022-09-20). Jan-Aug FDI up 16%, likely to grow this year. ecns.cn Bright prospects for growth, further opening-up measures and sufficient power supply at a reasonable cost will keep China's attraction for global capital strongÔºçand foreign investment will likely grow by double digits this year.

Tamara Nassar (2022-09-20). Palestinians protest PA collaboration with Israel. electronicintifada.net Man killed as Palestinian security forces do Israel's dirty work in Nablus.

Staff (2022-09-20). ISIRI must participate in developing 2024 plans of ISO. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Sep. 20 (MNA) — Iranian Institute of Standards and Industrial Research (ISIRI) must have a role in developing the 2024 plans of the ISO organization for the Asia-Pacific region, ISO Asia-Pacific Regional Coordinator said.

WSWS (2022-09-20). African countries face double whammy of debt crisis and food crisis. wsws.org The World Bank has warned that the number of Africans living in extreme poverty is set to rise from 424 million before the pandemic in 2019 to 463 million this year, more than one third of the continent's 1.2 billion population.

TeleSUR (2022-09-20). Sweden Announces Biggest Interest Rate Hike in Three Decades. telesurenglish.net On Tuesday, Sweden's central bank Riksbank announced its sharpest policy rate hike in nearly three decades, raising it by 100 basis points to 1.75 percent to curb soaring inflation. | RELATED: | This is the third hike in a row following Riksbank's declaration in February that its policy rate would remain at zero percent until 2024. In April, the policy rate was raised to 0.25 percent, and then in June, to 0.75 percent. | "I…

Dana Sanchez (2022-09-20). These 10 Metro Areas Have The Highest Inflation And Are Silently Stealing The Most From Americans. moguldom.com Baltimore, Atlanta, and four metropolitan areas in Florida and Texas account for six of the top 10 in the U.S. for the highest inflation rates. Black Americans are more likely than whites to report having serious financial problems related to inflation, according to a new poll. "Inflation is impacting Black families more than many other …

WSWS (2022-09-20). Strikes and protests for wages grow as inflation surges in Turkey. wsws.org As official inflation rises to 80 percent and millions of workers are unable to make ends meet, strikes and protests are erupting across Turkey.

TeleSUR (2022-09-20). Argentina's President: Pandemic Highlights World's Inequalities. telesurenglish.net The President of Argentina, Alberto Fernández, warned on Tuesday at the United Nations that the covid-19 pandemic exacerbated the gap between the wealthiest and the poorest countries. | President of the Argentine Republic, Alberto Fernandez delivers his address during the 77th General Debate inside the General Assembly Hall at United Nations Headquarters in New York, New York, USA, 20 September 2022.

WSWS (2022-09-20). COVID, Capitalism, and Class War: A Social and Political Chronology of the Pandemic. wsws.org Mehring Books, the publishing arm of the Socialist Equality Party (US), is proud to announce the publication of Volume 1 of COVID, Capitalism, and Class War: A Social and Political Chronology of the Pandemic, a compilation of the World Socialist Web Site's coverage of this global crisis. We post today Evan Blake's introduction to the book.

TeleSUR (2022-09-20). Chile's President Brings up Constitutional Process at UNGA. telesurenglish.net In his speech at the 77th session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), Boric referred to the constituent process carried out in Chile in recent years, which he said was "the way out to walk in the peaceful and democratic solution" to the crisis marked by the social outburst in 2019. | RELATED: | Boric talked about the agreement reached between the main political forces that "allowed the elaboration of a route…

Orinoco Tribune 2 (2022-09-20). As African Countries Kick off Local Energy Projects, West Rolls Out Climate Agenda-Based Opposition. orinocotribune.com By Olga Borodkina Sep 17, 2022 | While many countries in Africa are experiencing energy poverty, suffering from electricity cuts, and are working on regional energy projects, the West appears to be skeptical of African nations' strive for self-sufficiency in this area. | The Nigeria-Morocco Gas Pipeline (NMGP) project, an initiative of Nigeria and Morocco that was initially proposed in December 2016, officially kicked off with the signing of a memorandum of understanding (MoU) between Nigeria, Morocco, and the Economic Community of West African States on Thursday in Rabat. | "Once completed, the project wil…

_____ (2022-09-20). Philadelphia Museum of Art Workers Hold 1-Day Strike for Better Wages, Benefits. popularresistance.org Unionized workers at the Philadelphia Museum of Art began a one-day "unfair practices" strike Friday morning amid ongoing negotiations with museum leadership on their first collective bargaining agreement. | The decision comes less than three weeks after AFSCME Local 397 members voted overwhelmingly to authorize a strike and filed eight unfair labor practice charges with the National Labor Relations Board, claiming that museum management engaged in union-busting practices during contract negotiations.

TeleSUR (2022-09-20). UN: Bolivia Asks for Peace and Blames Capitalism for Conflicts. telesurenglish.net The President of Bolivia, Luis Arce, advocated for world peace in his speech at the seventieth session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York and accused the transnational corporations of the capitalist system of generating global conflicts. | President of Bolivia, Luis Alberto Arce Catacora delivers his address during the 77th General Debate inside the General Assembly Hall at United Nations Headquarters in New York, New York, USA, 20 September 2022.

_____ (2022-09-20). Domestic workers will now have some of the same labor protections as other employees in Colorado. popularresistance.org Domestic workers — including people who care for children, tend gardens and clean other people's homes — have new rights under a state law that went into effect this summer. | HB22-1367 officially says domestic workers are "employees," just the same as those who work for a boss at an office or a factory. It went into effect Aug. 10. | That means nannies, gardeners and others are now protected by the state's civil rights laws, according to employment attorney Rachel Ellis of Livelihood Law.

WSWS (2022-09-20). A conversation with film historian Max Alvarez about Hollywood blacklist victim, actress Marsha Hunt (1917—2022): "The entertainment industry hierarchy is … more acquiescent than ever" wsws.org Hunt was one of last surviving victims of the Hollywood blacklist of the late 1940s and early 19 s. Never a Communist Party member, she nonetheless became identified with opposition to the vicious witch-hunting in the film industry.

Mark Gruenberg (2022-09-20). Grass-roots railroaders' movement to picket September 21 against proposed pact. peoplesworld.org WASHINGTON—A grass-roots movement of railroaders, who believe their national union leaders fell short of getting them what they deserve in a tentative agreement the Biden administration brokered between their unions and freight railroads, will conduct informational picketing nationally on September 21. The organization, Rail Labor for Coordinated Bargaining in 2025—which is when the next contract …

WSWS (2022-09-20). Australia: More than 3,000 COVID-19 deaths in residential aged care this year. wsws.org Since the May 21 federal election, more than 1, 0 aged care residents have died from the virus, exposing Labor's promise to bring "dignity, quality and humanity back into aged care" as an utter fraud.

Labor Video Project (2022-09-20). US Rail Workers Fed Up & On Verge Of National Strike Over Working Conditions, Health/Safety. indybay.org Gabe Christenson a conductor and Co-chair of Railroad Workers United RWU is interviewed about the conditions and health and safety for railroad workers.

____ (2022-09-19). Xi sends congratulatory letter to int'l forum on industrial, supply chains. ecns.cn Chinese President Xi Jinping on Monday sent a congratulatory letter to the International Forum on Resilient and Stable Industrial and Supply Chains.

April Lanuza (2022-09-20). High cost of living fuels a pet crisis. america.cgtn.com The thought of having to give up your pet is a heartbreaking one, but a growing number of families are having to make this impossible choice because of their financial situation.

Staff (2022-09-20). Iran resolved to expand cooperation with Pakistan. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Sep. 21 (MNA) — Iran considers no limits for the development of cooperation with Pakistan in the fields of trade, economy, energy and transportation, President Raeisi said.

Staff (2022-09-20). Exhibition on opportunities in Iran mining sector kicks off. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Sep. 20 (MNA) — The 11th International Investment Opportunities in Iran's Mines and Mining Industries Exhibition and Conference kicked off in Tehran on Tuesday.

Imperial.ac.uk (2022-09-20). New type of investment could narrow funding gap for climate adaptation projects. imperial.ac.uk Creating a new type of investment could be the key to protecting infrastructure projects from the impact of climate change according to a new report.

WSWS (2022-09-20). New School instructors rally to end three years of wage freezes. wsws.org Part-time faculty and students at the "progressive" university in New York City are demanding an end to low wages and austerity.

Manlio Dinucci (2022-09-20). La ofensiva del complejo militaro-industrial. globalizacion.ca Al sostener la guerra de Kiev contra los ruso-parlantes de Ucrania, los straussianos ‚Äéestadounidenses buscaban provocar la respuesta de la Federación Rusa. Pero ‚Äéno calcularon bien las consecuencias de esa manipulación. Las industrias militares de Occidente ya no logran garantizar…

TeleSUR, hvh, JCM (2022-09-20). Trabajadores marcharán por derechos laborales en Panamá. telesurtv.net El secretario general de Conusi llamó a los trabajadores a participar en el mitin fijado para el próximo jueves.

TeleSUR (2022-09-20). Cuba Boosts Cigar Exports to Facilitate Recovery Amid Sanctions. telesurenglish.net Cuba continues to promote cigar exports for economic recovery as the country braves the headwinds from the COVID-19 pandemic and the U.S. trade embargo. | RELATED: | Situated on the outskirts of the Cuban capital city of Havana, the El Laguito cigar factory is well known for producing Cohiba cigars over the past five decades.The factory, one of the five making cigars for exports in Havana, has some 2 workers, with 70 percent being w…

Staff (2022-09-19). Details of Iran-Russia contract for purchase and gas swap. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Sep. 18 (MNA) — According to a report by the Iranian Ministry of Oil, the swap contract and the purchase of Russian gas in the amount of 6 and 9 million cubic meters per day is going to be done soon through Azerbaijan.

Dean Baker (2022-09-19). NYT Spreads Myths on Inflation. cepr.net There is a common myth that Germany's hyperinflation led to the collapse of democracy in Germany and the rise of Hitler. That is a nice story for pushing the inflation hawks' agenda, but it doesn't correspond to reality. | The hyperinflation had

Fight Back (2022-09-19). Red Theory: What is neo-colonialism? fightbacknews.org In the previous two articles in this series, we've discussed imperialism, or monopoly capitalism, which Lenin called "the last stage of capitalism." We explained how imperialism and monopoly capitalism are synonymous, the laws of motion inherent in capitalism that lead to imperialism, how imperialism means war, and how imperialism has affected the national question. In our last article, we talked about how and why the contradiction between imperialism and the national liberation movements is the principal contradiction on a world scale. | In 1916, Lenin wrote, "Imperialism, as the highest stage of capitalism in…

Dana Sanchez (2022-09-19). Crypto Miners Expect Deeper Challenges After Ethereum Merge: 'No One Is Profitable'. moguldom.com Since the long-anticipated and much-hyped Ethereum merge on Sept. 15, 2022, crypto miners have been shutting off their rigs and considering selling their computer graphics processing units (GPUs) because few, if any, cryptocurrencies are profitable if you try to mine them, at least right now. With the merge, Ethereum phased out GPU-based mining, an energy-intensive …

Contributing Writers (2022-09-19). The Military-Industrial Complex Offensive/ By Manlio Dinucci. marktaliano.net

WSWS (2022-09-19). Protests erupt across Haiti against hike in fuel prices, political establishment. wsws.org Haiti's capital city Port-au-Prince and other major cities reached a new level of turmoil this week amid mass protests against Prime Minister Ariel Henry's pledge to end fuel subsidies and raise gas prices.

____ (2022-09-19). RCEP contributes to region's post-pandemic recovery efforts: ASEAN joint statement. ecns.cn The Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) free trade agreement could be a contributor to the region's post-COVID-19 pandemic recovery efforts, according to an ASEAN joint statement released on Sunday.

____ (2022-09-19). Reinventing Employment with Solidarity Ethics. transcend.org Solidarity ethics offers keys that open many doors. Here I suggest that if not by force of law, then by force of conscience, they oblige everyone to contribute, to the extent that they can, to the creation of employment with dignity for all those who need it.

Jorge Alemán (2022-09-19). Ultraderecha internacional argentina. globalizacion.ca Del mismo modo que el neoliberalismo no rechaza al Estado, la nueva ultraderecha no se opone a la democracia, más bien quiere controlarla y manipularla a su antojo. | Por otro lado, la ultraderecha no surge exclusivamente del odio político a…

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Infobrics (2022-09-20). Japan maintains sanctions but boosts its LNG imports from Russia. infobrics.org Japan's economic woes are compounded by anti-Russia sanctions…

Labor Video Project (2022-09-20). Barbara Lee & "Pete" Get An Earful In Oakland Over Tax Dollars For A's Owner John Fisher. indybay.org Congresswoman Barbara Lee, US Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg and Oakland Mayor Libby Schaff joined together to talk about Federal funding for Oakland projects. Barbara Lee and "Pete" refused to say whether they supported Federal funds going to the GAP A's billionaire owner John Fisher's proposed new A' stadium on Port of Oakland public land at Howard Terminal. "Pete" also refused to say whether this project would harm the Port of Oakland as a working port.

Abolition Media (2022-09-20). Uprising Intensifies in Haiti as Fuel Costs Continue to Rise. itsgoingdown.org Report on ongoing rebellion in Haiti as fuel costs continue to rise and the city of Port-au-Prince is barricaded amidst growing class conflict. photo: @HaitiInfoProj The Haitian government announced last week that it will be doubling the already absurdly high fuel prices in the country. The fuel prices are but one of many reasons behind…

Madison Park Tenants Council (2022-09-20). Monday 9/19: Vulcan Tenants Defend Rent Control Before RAP Board. indybay.org Join Zoom Meeting | us02web.zoom.us/j/87047860266?pwd=MHNFd21hRkFEMGljKzNIRS9vWDBSUT09 | Meeting ID: 870 4786 0266 | Passcode: 892339 | Or | Dial from your location | +1669 900 9128 US {San Jose) | Meeting ID: 870 4786 0266…

James Magnus-Johnston (2022-09-20). Pandemic and the Policy Roots of a Steady State Economy. indybay.org We are in the midst of a radical disruption and nurturing the roots of a just transition. Whichever way events unfold over the coming years, it's clear that returning to the pre-pandemic status quo is less realistic and more difficult than embracing the change that's well underway. James Magnus-Johnston is a PhD researcher at McGill University.

Peter Boyle (2022-09-20). Green Left Show #28: Republic, royal succession and radical democracy. greenleft.org.au Leading Socialist Alliance member Peter Boyle joins the Green Left Show to discuss the manufactured outpouring of pro-monarchist propaganda, the push for a republic and what real democratic change would look like.

UFCLP (2022-09-20). Saturday 10/1: Press Conf Keep Laguna Honda OPEN! Discharges = Deaths Say Labor, Community & Families. indybay.org Laguna Honda Hospital | (entrance in front of old building) | 375 Laguna Honda Blvd. | San Franciscco…

Angela Carr (2022-09-20). Socialist Alliance candidate: 'Labor rejects real solutions to cost-of-living crisis'. greenleft.org.au The federal Treasurer tells us that cost-of-living pressures are only going to get worse before they get better. Angela Carr argues that Labor must abandon its neoliberal approach.

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-09-19). NATO Prolongs the Ukraine Proxy War and Global Unrest. libya360.wordpress.com Aaron Maté With diplomacy thwarted, the US and its allies plan for "open-ended" military and economic warfare against Russia, no matter the costs at home and abroad. The Ukrainian military's routing of Russian forces from Kharkiv, which relied extensively on US planning, weaponry and intelligence, has sparked triumphant declarations that the tide has turned. According to The Atlantic's Anne…

Anonymous103 (2022-09-19). US Unlikely To Provide Ukraine With Fighter Jets. southfront.org A US fighter jet during practice maneuvers over the desert (Credit: US Air Force by Master Sgt. Benjamin Bloker)Supplying Ukraine with fighter jets will not change the course of the war. | Written by Ahmed Adel, Cairo-based geopolitics and political economy researcher | There is a debate in the US about providing further military support for Ukraine, particularly on whether F-16, F-15 and A-10 fighter aircraft should be transferred. However, the biggest concern from Washington's perspective is that it could escalate the w…

_____ (2022-09-19). 'Leading From Behind': Is Washington At War With Moscow? popularresistance.org Though Washington insists that it is not interested in a direct military conflict with Moscow, the latter claims that the US is, in fact, directly involved. But who is telling the truth? | On September 8, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken appeared in Kyiv on an unannounced visit. He carried with him pledges of yet another military and financial package of nearly $3 billion, mostly to Ukraine but also to other Eastern European countries. According to a report published by the New York Times last May, US financial support to Ukraine has exceeded $54 billion. | Devex's Funding Platform states that "a relatively s…

____ (2022-09-19). Revealed: US & EU Plans to Plunder Ukraine. transcend.org 8 Sep 2022 – Lee Camp has evidence that the most powerful people in the world have been planning to plunder the Ukrainian economy since at least 2017. The West's favorite form of diplomacy is to use conditional loans to dismantle struggling governments and sell their assets to the rich.

People's World (2022-09-19). Die Linke Lawmaker: Russia Sanctions Causing 'Social and Economic Catastrophe' in Germany. globalresearch.ca

Anonymous103 (2022-09-19). Austrian Citizens Dissatisfied With Anti-Russian Measures. southfront.org Click to see full-size imageProtests against sanctions and gas prices are likely to increase in the entire European continent. | Written by Protests against gas prices are rising in Europe. European citizens are increasingly dissatisfied with the directions taken by their countries and organize demonstrations to express their opinions against…

____ (2022-09-19). Asia's Future Takes Shape in Vladivostok, the Russian Pacific. transcend.org 8 Sep 2022 – Sixty-eight countries gathered on Russia's far eastern coast to listen to Moscow's economic and political vision for the Asia-Pacific.

Staff (2022-09-19). details of Iran-Russia contract for purchase and swap gas. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Sep. 18 (MNA) — According to a report by the Iranian Ministry of Oil, the swap contract and the purchase of Russian gas in the amount of 6 and 9 million cubic meters per day is going to be done soon through Azerbaijan.

Staff (2022-09-19). Mike Pompeo angry at China's purchase of Iranian oil. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Sep. 19 (MNA) — In a series of tweets, the former US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has lashed out at Joe Biden's administration's foreign and domestic policy.

____ (2022-09-19). China's FDI inflow up 16.4 pct in first eight months. ecns.cn Foreign direct investment (FDI) into the Chinese mainland, in actual use, expanded 16.4 percent year on year to 892.74 billion yuan in the first eight months of the year, the Ministry of Commerce said Monday.

____ (2022-09-19). Nation rolls out policies to attract foreign investment. ecns.cn China is expected to make the country increasingly more attractive by ramping up efforts to stabilize the expectations of foreign investors, according to government officials and experts.

____ (2022-09-19). China mulls measures to further boost foreign investment. ecns.cn China will take measures to boost foreign investment, with the manufacturing industry as a priority, the country's top economic planner said Monday.

Orinoco Tribune 2 (2022-09-19). Fear and Misinformation Dominate Discourses of Brazilian Right. orinocotribune.com By Zoe Alexandra Sep 13, 2022 | In the lead-up to the general elections in Brazil, the far-right has intensified its campaign of hysteria and fear-mongering instead of providing concrete solutions to the crises affecting the people | Brazil is less than a month away from historic elections. Over 156 million Brazilians will go to the polls on October 2 to cast their vote for the president of the republic, State governors, 27 senators, 513 federal deputies, and State and district deputies. The elections take place amid an acute political, economic, and social crisis in the country. The past several years h…

Dana Sanchez (2022-09-19). Number Of $1B-On-Paper Startup Valuations Collapses As Investors Step Up Scrutiny, Leverage. moguldom.com Unicorns — startups with valuations of more than $1 billion — have struggled to sustain high valuations in 2022 after investments ballooned more than 100 percent in 2021 into tech startups. Recent market turbulence is making listing on the stock market a less attractive exit route for investors. Inflation-induced high interest rates have caused many …

Aditi Ramaswami (2022-09-19). ELECTION INSIDER: Who's Buying The Midterms? levernews.com As we rapidly approach the country's November midterm elections, corporate media seems uninterested in one of the biggest threats to democracy: Billionaires and Big Business using huge sums of money to try to secretly buy elections on both sides of the aisle.Increasingly, a small handful of donors hold outsized influence in American elections, thanks in large part to the Supreme Court's 2010 ruling in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, which gave wealthy donors and special interest groups license to spend unlimited cash on elections. This year is no exception.We know little to nothing about some o…

Dave DeCamp (2022-09-19). State Department Stops Publishing Military Expenditures, Arms Transfer Report. news.antiwar.com The State Department announced in August that it will no longer publish World Military Expenditures and Arms Transfers (WMEAT) reports, which have been released by the US government since the 1960s. The WMEATs detail US global military spending, arms transfers, and related data for each country in the world. The 2022 National Defense Authorization Act …

Paul Wilcox (2022-09-19). British monarchy flaunts its vast wealth while workers suffer. liberationnews.org While an enormous amount of public resources are devoted to the funeral of Queen Elizabeth — what essentially amounts to a celebration of the institution of the monarchy in England — the country's working class is responding to the global inflation crisis with a strike wave.

WSWS (2022-09-19). Drastic increases in commodity prices pummel Peruvian working class. wsws.org Peru's central bank continues to raise its inflation estimate and raise interest rates in response, further crushing the working class…

WSWS (2022-09-19). World Bank says interest rate hikes are leading to global recession. wsws.org With virtually all central banks, large and small, lifting their rates as governments reduce spending, the bank said the global economy "is in the midst of one of the most internationally synchronous episodes of monetary and fiscal tightening of the past five decades."

WSWS (2022-09-19). Diary of a socialist Amazon worker: "Why is it so hot in the warehouses?" wsws.org The Amazon worker writes, "Why are warehouses so unbearably hot at Amazon and at other warehouses and workplaces across the country and around the world? The answer is capitalism."

Lacina Onco (2022-09-19). Abolish the Need for Student Debt With Free Public Higher Ed. commondreams.org Taxing the extremely wealthy and corporations more fairly to pay for student debt relief is an important step toward equity, but it still leaves borrowers like me with plenty left to pay. And it doesn't address the underlying problem.

Rqorinoco (2022-09-19). Workers Building New US Embassy in Honduras Strike Over Severed Fingers, Illegal Contracts. orinocotribune.com By Judy Ancel — Sep 12, 2022 | The Biden administration has pledged that "the United States will work with governments to strengthen… the enforcement of labor laws, promote decent work, and support workers in exercising their freedom of association and collective bargaining rights," as one of four pillars of its strategy to address the root causes of migration from Central America. | In Honduras today the US has an opportunity to practice this with the 1,100 workers it has hired to build a new embassy. But it's blowing it. | Instead, police have been called in to bust a strike that's been going on at the…

Thomas H. Greco, Jr. (2022-09-19). The Money Economy Is Not the Real Economy: "The Global Banking and Financial System is Fatally Flawed" globalresearch.ca

Ann Brown (2022-09-19). Allensworth: The True History Of The Black Man In California Who Purchased 9,000 Acres, 'Tuskegee Of The West'. moguldom.com There was a town called Allensworth. But was not just any town. Though now no longer thriving, Allensworth is the only California community to be founded, financed, and governed by African Americans. It was founded in 1908 by a Black man named Allen Allensworth, and at one point, the town was a self-contained bustling community …

_____ (2022-09-19). Protests Across Austria Demand Solution To Cost Of Living Crisis. popularresistance.org On Saturday, September 17, trade unions and other working class sections hit the streets across Austria protesting the government's inefficiency in tackling the ongoing cost of living crisis. The protests called by the Austrian Trade Union Federation (OGB) saw the participation of various groups including the Party of Labor of Austria (PdA), Youth Front, Communist Youth of Austria (KJO), Communist Party of Austria (KPO), and Links, among others. Marches were held in cities in all federal States including Vienna, Eisenstadt, Bruck an der Mur, Salzburg, Innsbruck, Bregenz, Lower Austria, and Upper Austria. Accordin…

Editor (2022-09-19). Democracy Now Interviews Dr. Gabor Maté on New Book, "The Myth of Normal" scheerpost.com Dr. Gabor Maté discusses how the healthcare system has harmfully promoted the "mechanization of birth," how the lack of social services for parents has led to "a massive abandonment of infants," and how capitalism has fueled addiction and the rise of youth suicide rates.

_____ (2022-09-19). Struggle To Save Oak Flats Exposes Ravages Of Colonization, Capitalism. popularresistance.org In 2014, Congress used a midnight rider added to the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) to hand the Indigenous Sacred Land at Oak Flats in Arizona over to a subsidiary of Rio Tinto, Resolution Copper, to mine, which would destroy the land and pollute the local water. Apache Stronghold and its allies are fighting to protect the land and with it, their cultural identity and religious freedom. A new Bureau of Land Management report and conflict within the Ninth Circuit Court are promising for them. Clearing the FOG speaks with Dr. Wendsler Nosie, Sr. about the significance of Oak Flats and how it exposes the…

WSWS (2022-09-19). Australian workers striking at highest rate in almost two decades. wsws.org The growth of industrial action highlights the need for workers to break with the unions and form independent rank-and-file committees.

WSWS (2022-09-19). With Ontario government plotting to ban education strikes, workers demand to know how unions plan to respond. wsws.org An exchange between a rank-and-file OSBCU member and its president Laura Walton showed growing anger over the education unions' refusal to oppose the Ford government's attacks on wages and conditions.

WSWS (2022-09-19). Illinois autoworker Travis Baker died after being injured the Belvidere Stellantis plant. One month later, his family has no answers. wsws.org An investigation is reportedly pending in the plant, which has been subjected to unrelenting job cuts as the Stellantis raked in mega-profits.

WSWS (2022-09-19). German trade unions and employers conspire against the working class in a new round of the "Concerted Action" wsws.org Wages, social gains and jobs can only be defended in a rebellion against the unions and their policy of "social partnership."

WSWS (2022-09-19). The queen and the Commonwealth: A legacy of imperialist domination and oppression. wsws.org One of the most notorious crimes was the brutal suppression of the Mau Mau insurgency in Kenya. It began shortly after then Princess Elizabeth left Kenya in February 1952.

WSWS (2022-09-19). Illinois autoworker Travis Baker died after being injured at the Belvidere Stellantis plant. One month later, his family has no answers. wsws.org An investigation is reportedly pending in the plant, which has been subjected to unrelenting job cuts as the Stellantis raked in mega-profits.

WSWS (2022-09-19). Social attacks continue in Greece despite end of enhanced EU financial surveillance. wsws.org For the Greek population, what is being presented as a chapter that has been closed and celebrated means the continuation of austerity and an intensification of the social crisis for decades to come.

Staff (2022-09-19). The New York Times denounces that 97 US congressmen are involved in unfair trading of financial assets. en.cubadebate.cu At least 97 current members of the US Senate and House of Representatives reported selling and buying stocks and other financial assets by themselves or their immediate family members in sectors that could be affected by their area of work in Congress, according to an extensive investigation by The New York Times, published in September, which is based on the analysis of trade data from 2019 to 2021. Thus, the newspaper's journalists compared the politicians' transactions with the work of committees.

WSWS (2022-09-19). Protests erupt across Haiti against hike in fuel prices. wsws.org Haiti's capital Port-au-Prince and other major cities reached a new level of turmoil this week with mass protests against Prime Minister Ariel Henry's pledge to end fuel subsidies.

Manlio Dinucci (2022-09-19). The Military-Industrial Complex Offensive. globalresearch.ca

Staff (2022-09-19). Iran, Qatar sign world's largest saffron trade agreement. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Sep. 19 (MNA) — The largest trade agreement in the field of saffron between Iran and Qatar was signed in the presence of political and economic figures of the two countries.

PAI (2022-09-19). Want to wear union gear at work? NLRB says go for it. peoplesworld.org WASHINGTON (PAI)—Workers can wear union insignia, such as buttons and patches, on the job in most cases, the National Labor Relations Board has ruled. Firms can legally ban it only when they prove "special circumstances" justify their action, case by case. In the 3-2 decision along party lines, the full board ruled for the United …

Contributing Writers (2022-09-19). The Military-Industrial Complex Offensive/ By Manlio Dinucci. marktaliano.net

WSWS (2022-09-19). Illinois autoworker Travis Baker died after being injured at the Belvidere Stellantis plant; one month later, his family has no answers. wsws.org An investigation is reportedly pending in the plant, which has been subjected to unrelenting job cuts as the Stellantis raked in mega-profits.

Staff (2022-09-19). Cola.CU (I): A bet against hoarders and resellers. en.cubadebate.cu Since September 1, 2020, the Cola.CU application has been operating in the capital, aimed at strengthening order in the stores of the Caribe and Cimex chains. The automated system records purchase history and makes it possible to identify the frequency with which people visit these facilities, as well as the products they purchase. The idea -which arose in the midst of covid-19- was promoted by the Union of Informatics of Cuba and developed by the Eureka Scientific Group of the "José Antonio Echeverría" Technological University of Havana (Cujae), led by Professor Joaquín Pina Amargos.

WSWS (2022-09-19). Hurricane Fiona knocks out power in all of Puerto Rico. wsws.org Hurricane Fiona's impact on Puerto Rico will be all the more devastating at a time in which the Puerto Rican society is still dealing with three major shocks: the COVID-19 pandemic, the considerable damage inflicted by Hurricanes Irma and Maria, and the ongoing effects of the island's financial bankruptcy…

TeleSUR, JGN (2022-09-19). Presidente de Colombia expone a Guterres esfuerzos por lograr la paz total. telesurtv.net Guterres reiteró a Petro la disposición de la ONU a colaborar con su Gobierno en la consolidación de la paz, y "proteger a las comunidades de la violencia".

Staff (2022-09-19). Consejo de Estado analiza marcha de medidas económicas aprobadas en el país. cubadebate.cu Los miembros del Consejo de Estado analizaron temas de la agenda económico-social del país en la sesión de este lunes encabezada por el presidente de este órgano, Esteban Lazo Hernández, y con la participación del primer secretario del Comité Central del Partido y presidente de la República de Cuba, Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez.

Staff (2022-09-19). Con el dengue tenemos que actuar de forma acelerada y sin demoras. cubadebate.cu Cuba acumula experiencia en el enfrentamiento al dengue. Y precisamente en esa experiencia se basa también la prioridad que concedemos al papel del personal médico y de enfermería en los diferentes niveles de atención, como también al accionar de nuestra población, tanto en los centros laborales y escolares como en las comunidades.

_____ (2022-09-19). On the First Ministerial Meeting of IPEF Member Countries. journal-neo.org On September 8-9, the first meeting of the trade ministers of the member countries of the Indo-Pacific Economic Framework for Prosperity, which is oftentimes abbreviated to, for some reason, only IPEF (rather than, say, IPEFP), was held in Los Angeles. US President Joe Biden announced the very fact of this association being created on May …

Staff (2022-09-18). Biden administration will expand restrictions on exports of chips and technological tools to China. en.cubadebate.cu The US government plans starting next month to extend restrictions on US exports to China of semiconductors used in artificial intelligence and chip-making tools, Reuters reports, citing sources familiar with the matter. The US Department of Commerce intends to include new regulations, based on the notification letters sent at the beginning of the year to three companies in the North American country: KLA Corp, Lam Research and Applied Materials.

Nora Barrows-Friedman (2022-09-18). Podcast Ep 65: Sabra and Shatila 40 years on. electronicintifada.net Author and longtime activist Donald Wagner gives his testimony of the massacre.

Ricardo Gomez (2022-09-18). LEVER WEEKLY: Connecting The Dots Between Rail Workers And Nurses' Unrest. levernews.com Labor actions captured the nation's attention this week, as health care workers launched the largest nurses strike in U.S. history and railroad employees threatened to launch a major rail strike. In a series of stories, The Lever exposed the common denominator fueling labor unrest in these vital frontline industries: Executives and shareholders reaping exorbitant payouts from booming profits, while crying poor and denying workers better pay and benefits.The Lever also broke a number of other key stories, including how the architects of the 2008 financial crisis are funding the culture war, how President Joe Bi…

EDMIN (2022-09-18). The Overview: An all-encompassing Axiom. sitrepworld.info I used to develop databases in Filemaker, an Apple software product so easy that it was often the Administrative Assistant who created the organization's database(s). Except for enormous transactional systems, like those handling the ATMs of large banks, Filemaker was a far better choice, for many reasons, than the clumsy, dysfunctional piece of junk called Oracle, for a tiny fraction of the cost. I bring this up because this is one of innumerable examples of the innate corruption of the Imperialist/Capitalist system, where profit predictably trumps common sense, not to mention simple human decency. Oracle,…

Staff (2022-09-18). Un necesario análisis marxista-leninista. cubadebate.cu Mis alumnos corroborarán lo difícil que es llegar a las esencias de la naturaleza, la sociedad, el pensamiento humano y la red de interrelaciones que se suceden entre ellos. Solo el Marxismo-Leninismo, como ciencia, filosofía y teoría, con su método científico fundamental: el "materialismo dialéctico", puede ofrecer certeras respuestas.

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Infobrics (2022-09-19). Austrian citizens dissatisfied with anti-Russian measures. infobrics.org Protests against sanctions and gas prices are likely to increase in the entire European continent.

Manlio Dinucci (2022-09-19). The Military-Industrial Complex Offensive. globalresearch.ca

Labor Video Project (2022-09-19). Barbara Lee & "Pete" Get An Earful In Oakland Over Tax Dollars For A's Owner John Fisher. indybay.org Congresswoman Barbara Lee, US Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg and Oakland Mayor Libby Schaff joined together to talk about Federal funding for Oakland projects. Barbara Lee and "Pete" refused to say whether they supported Federal funds going to the GAP A's billionaire owner John Fisher's proposed new A' stadium on Port of Oakland public land at Howard Terminal. "Pete" also refused to say whether this project would harm the Port of Oakland as a working port.

Miriam Torzillo (2022-09-19). Disrupt the military industrial complex at Land Forces. greenleft.org.au The Brisbane Exhibition Centre is about to play host to Land Forces, a weapons expo. As Miriam Torzillo and Lilli Barto report, it is not not about defence but the business of war.

James Magnus-Johnston (2022-09-19). Pandemic and the Policy Roots of a Steady State Economy. indybay.org We are in the midst of a radical disruption and nurturing the roots of a just transition. Whichever way events unfold over the coming years, it's clear that returning to the pre-pandemic status quo is less realistic and more difficult than embracing the change that's well underway. James Magnus-Johnston is a PhD researcher at McGill University.

Jim McIlroy (2022-09-19). Qantas crisis the result of privatisation. greenleft.org.au Qantas CEO Alan Joyce's aggressive cost-cutting program at the start of the pandemic has been blamed for Qantas's poor performance. Jim McIlroy argues Labor's decision to privatise Qantas in the early 1990s is the root cause.

Madison Park Tenants Council (2022-09-19). Monday 9/19: Vulcan Tenants Defend Rent Control Before RAP Board. indybay.org Join Zoom Meeting | us02web.zoom.us/j/87047860266?pwd=MHNFd21hRkFEMGljKzNIRS9vWDBSUT09 | Meeting ID: 870 4786 0266 | Passcode: 892339 | Or | Dial from your location | +1669 900 9128 US {San Jose) | Meeting ID: 870 4786 0266…

Labor Video Project (2022-09-19). US Rail Workers Fed Up & On Verge Of National Strike Over Working Conditions, Health/Safety. indybay.org Gabe Christenson a conductor and Co-chair of Railroad Workers United RWU is interviewed about the conditions and health and safety for railroad workers.

UFCLP (2022-09-19). Saturday 10/1: Press Conf Keep Laguna Honda OPEN! Discharges = Deaths Say Labor, Community & Families. indybay.org Laguna Honda Hospital | (entrance in front of old building) | 375 Laguna Honda Blvd. | San Franciscco…

Kamal Iranidoost (2022-09-18). Large Russian trade delegation to arrive in Tehran tomorrow. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Sep. 18 (MNA) — A big Russian economic delegation consisting of 65 companies representatives will arrive in Tehran for economic talks tomorrow, Iran's industry ministry spokesman said.

Anonymous669 (2022-09-18). Financial Support For Syrian Opposition Coalition In Turkey Has Been Suspended. southfront.org The official logo of the National Coalition of Syrian Revolutionary and Opposition Forces. | The backers of the National Coalition of Syrian Revolutionary and Opposition Forces, commonly known as the Syrian Opposition Coalition (SOC), had suspended their financial support, Sputnik reported on September 18. | According to the Russian news agency, the decision to suspend financial support to the Istanbul-based coalition came as Syrian opposition leaders are preparing to travel to the United States to attend…

____ (2022-09-18). 19th China-ASEAN Expo kicks off with exhibition area for RCEP members. ecns.cn The 19th China-ASEAN Expo, scheduled to be held from Sept. 16 to 19 in Nanning, established an exhibition area for participants of the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) for the first time.

Nora Barrows-Friedman (2022-09-18). Podcast Ep 65: Sabra and Shatila 40 years on. electronicintifada.net Author and longtime activist Donald Wagner gives his testimony of the massacre.

_____ (2022-09-18). Louisiana Court Strikes Blow To Formosa's Giant Plastics Plant. popularresistance.org Louisiana – A years-long battle to stop the chemical company Formosa from building a massive petrochemical complex along the Mississippi River in southern Louisiana swung in favor of residents on Wednesday when a state district judge withdrew the air permits that the company needs to operate. | The Taiwan-based chemical giant first announced its plans to build the $9.4 billion petrochemical complex on a sprawling 2,400-acre site in St. James Parish in April 2018. If approved, the so-called "Sunshine Project" would have been one of the largest and most expensive industrial projects in the state's history. Governor…

_____ (2022-09-18). The Fed's Secret Plan To Suck Workers Dry. popularresistance.org We're still getting over a pandemic. Healthcare costs are totally out of control. Everyone's in debt and hates their job. The insects are disappearing, which feels like a bad sign. I have to watch a Jeff Bezos interview just to see bug eyes anymore. | On top of all that, the bankers at the Federal Reserve have decided they're going to make things way worse. | As reported in Common Dreams, "Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said… that the U.S. central bank is ready to inflict 'pain' on households as it continues to fight inflation, remarks that drew widespread backlash from experts who warned the Fed appears p…

WSWS (2022-09-18). Unite declares "massive win" over below inflation agreement at London United after cancelling strikes. wsws.org London United bus workers have first-hand experience of the role of General Secretary Sharon Graham who boasts of her close relationship with the reps, and has hailed every de facto pay cut agreement as a victory.

_____ (2022-09-18). IMF Tells Bolivia To Drop Its Successful Economic Model. popularresistance.org The IMF released a report today on the Bolivian economy in which it recommends adopting drastic neoliberal measures, including; reducing workers' salaries, cutting public investments, and ending currency controls. These policies have turned Bolivia from one of the poorest countries in the region into it's fastest-growing economy. | The report takes aim at the government's spending on development, saying, "The government must restrict spending, including eliminating the end of year wage bonus for workers, they must restrict the growth of wages for public sector workers, and limit the growth of public investment an…

_____ (2022-09-18). Seattle Teachers End Week-Long Strike. popularresistance.org Seattle, Washington – Six thousand Seattle educators walked out on strike September 7, which would have been the first day of school. The top issue was the district's proposal—disguised in social justice language—to end student-teacher ratios for many categories of special education. | Also key were struggles over class size, cuts to services, and wages, especially for substitutes and paraprofessionals, who often work most closely with students with disabilities. | Late in the day September 12 the bargaining teams announced a tentative agreement, but provided only a summary to members. On September 13…

Kamal Iranidoost (2022-09-18). Tatarstan president arrives in Tabriz for economic talks. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Sep. 18 (MNA) — President of the Republic of Tatarstan Rustam Minnikhanov arrived in the Iranian city of Tabriz to discuss economic relations.

Lee Siu Hin (2022-09-18). Fall 2022 National Immigrant Solidarity Network Immigrant Justice News Alert! indybay.org U.S. Political Prisoners Special Report: We Have Hundreds of Political Prisoners, Thousands of Asian-American Hate Victims, Half Million Child Farm Labors!

____ (2022-09-18). Gaining economic benefit Iran aim of its membership in SCO. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Sep. 18 (MNA) — Referring to Iran's official membership in Shanghai Cooperation Organization, Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister for Economic Diplomacy said that gaining economic benefit is the main aim of the country of its membership in SCO.

Charles Pierce (2022-09-17). Ukraine War, Divided Left: "Social Patriots" and the "Anti-Imperialism of Fools"! covertactionmagazine.com Since Russia's military operation commenced on February 24, the socialist left has been divided in its response to the armed conflict in Ukraine. On one side are those who align with the U.S., NATO and the Ukrainian state in denouncing Russia as the principal villain. In opposition are those who view the conflict as the outcome …

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