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2022-09-18: News Headlines

____ (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.

Labor Video Project (2022-09-18). 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.

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,…

James Magnus-Johnston (2022-09-18). 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.

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.

Labor Video Project (2022-09-18). 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.

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!

Madison Park Tenants Council (2022-09-18). 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…

Freedom Socialist Party (2022-09-18). Sunday 9/25: Turning ideas into action: Taking to the streets with the FSP. indybay.org via zoom: tinyurl.com/FSP-Sept-25-mtg…

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.

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 …

_____ (2022-09-17). Washington Throws Kiev under the Turkish Bus. journal-neo.org Although Turkey continues to be economically, politically and militarily dependent on the US and NATO, it is also moving further and further away from being an unquestioning supporter of Washington. And there are many reasons for this, which showed Erdogan the collapse of the once monolithic "Pax Americana" system. Wherever Turkey sees a prospect for …

WSWS (2022-09-17). Australian central bank demands deeper cuts to wages and social spending. wsws.org This is a message of class war—demanding that the workers must be made to pay for the global inflationary spiral and capitalist crisis.

WSWS (2022-09-17). Sri Lanka: Glenugie Estate workers protest wage cuts and harsh conditions. wsws.org The wage cuts and new work targets are part of the ongoing efforts of the tea plantation companies, assisted by the trade unions, to drive up productivity and boost profits.

Dean Baker (2022-09-17). The Non-Mystery of a Smaller Labor Force. cepr.net It is bizarre how the media keep insisting that we have some big problem of missing workers, since we don't. The Washington Post has the latest entry in the search for non-missing workers. As with other pieces, it implies that an unusual large percentage of people are opting not to be in the labor market. …

_____ (2022-09-17). Joe Biden Thinks A Rail Strike Has Been Averted. popularresistance.org Just after 5 a.m. on Thursday, Marty Walsh tweeted that the railroad companies and the railroad unions had come to a tentative agreement, less than 19 hours from a potential shutdown: | "Moments ago, following more than 20 consecutive hours of negotiations at [the Department of Labor], the rail companies and union negotiators came to a tentative agreement that balances the needs of workers, businesses, and our nation's economy. The Biden Administration applauds all parties for reaching this hard-fought, mutually beneficial deal. Our rail system is integral to our supply chain, and a disruption would have had cata…

Colin Todhunter (2022-09-17). An Engineered Food and Poverty Crisis to Secure Continued U.S. Dominance. globalresearch.ca The issue is not food shortage but speculation on food commodities and the manipulation of an inherently flawed global food system that serves the interests of corporate agribusiness traders and suppliers of inputs at the expense of people's needs and genuine food security.

_____ (2022-09-17). Mining Mafias Ruin Livelihoods Of Farmers And Pastorals, Spread Terror. popularresistance.org In Kolawalpur village of Banda District (state of Uttar Pradesh), many farmers complained bitterly that the miners of river sand had destroyed their farms and standing crops. What is more, threat of floods in the rainy season and the river drying up in the dry season had increased due to the excessive extraction of sand from the river using heavy machines. Workers who were employed in sand mining had not been paid the wages due to them. | In Mahawa and Bhirala villages of Sikar district (state of Rajasthan) the farmers and pastorals had been devastated by mining of stone and the use of dynamite for this. Water so…

Jenny Pierson (2022-09-17). Evil Empire: Let the Monarchy Die Along With Elizabeth. independentmediainstitute.org The death of Queen Elizabeth II, the longest-serving monarch of British royalty, has sparked global fascination and spawned thousands of clickbait reports of the details of her funeral. Americans, who centuries ago rejected monarchy, are seemingly obsessed with the ritualism, bizarrely mourning the demise of an elderly and fabulously wealthy woman who was born into …

Staff (2022-09-17). Iranian Ambassador explains Iran's stance on Caucasus. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Sep. 17 (MNA) — In a series of tweets, the Iranian Ambassador to Baku has elaborated on Iran's stances on the two northern neighbors of Armenia and Azerbaijan.

Prof Michel Chossudovsky (2022-09-17). Video: The Covid-19 "Killer Vaccine", Devastating Social and Economic Impacts of the Lockdown. Join Hands and Break "The Covid Consensus" globalresearch.ca

Labor Video Project (2022-09-17). Terrorism, Racism & Union Busting Against SEIU1021 SF General Hospital Workers By HR DPH. indybay.org Workers and SEIU 1021 SF General Hospital union leaders reported on the epidemic of bullying, racist discrimination and union busting by DPH and CCSF HR. The City has spent over $100 million on paying for illegal discrimination, defendant lawyers and City lawyers to defend illegal racist attacks and systemic racism.

Richard Eskow (2022-09-17). Is Progress Obsolete? The United States Is Now an 'Un-Developing' Country. commondreams.org The rankings include the absence of poverty and hunger, good health and education, gender equality, clean air and water, and reduced inequality.

Staff (2022-09-17). Se iniciará este lunes la XIV Comprobación Nacional al Control Interno. cubadebate.cu La XIV Comprobación Nacional al Control Interno comenzará el lunes próximo y será hasta el 31 de octubre, con el objetivo de constatar cómo la empresa estatal socialista cumple las 43 medidas dirigidas a perfeccionarla y fortalecerla, como actor principal en la producción de bienes y servicios, muchos asociados a la calidad de vida de la población.

Staff (2022-09-17). A sacar a Cuba de la lista negra. cubadebate.cu Ahora, cuando el Gobierno de Petro le ha pedido al de La Habana que continúe siendo sede de los diálogos con el ELN y otros países se han ofrecido a colaborar con el proceso, el Gobierno de Biden no tiene un solo argumento para no dar los pasos necesarios con el fin de sacar de inmediato a Cuba de la tenebrosa lista.

_____ (2022-09-17). A Socialist Take On The Women's March Convention. popularresistance.org On the weekend of August 12, over 1,700 people converged on Houston, Texas, for the Women's March Convention. | Upon check-in at the almost $200 per night Hilton hotel, the convention displayed in the lobby beautifully painted "protest signs" that read "My Body, My Choice," "El lugar de la mujer es en la resistencia (women's place is in the resistance)" and "The whole damn system is wrong." Images highlighted Black and Latinx women in particular, with radical imagery invoking the Black Panthers and indigenous women in struggle. | The conference was sponsored by the usual suspects — including the Women's Mar…

Scorinoco (2022-09-17). Iran-Venezuela Expo Opens in Caracas, Will Strengthen Scientific And Technological Cooperation, President Maduro Says. orinocotribune.com Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro inaugurated the Iran-Venezuela Scientific, Technological and Industrial Expo, being held at the Poliedro de Caracas, on Thursday, September 15. "Venezuela is a strong market in the sale of family vehicles," he said while touring the expo-fair. Iranian vehicles will soon be commercialized in the country, as part of the agreements established between Venezuela and the Islamic Republic of Iran. | During a tour of the Expo, the president also spoke about the cooperation between Iran and Venezuela for the assembly of tractors for agricultural work. He explained, together with the…

TeleSUR, jaa, MER (2022-09-17). Presidente de Bolivia afirma que modelo económico es soberano. telesurtv.net El mandatario destacó que el modelo económico sigue demostrando su éxito en la reducción de las desigualdades sociales y económicas en Bolivia.

Infobrics (2022-09-16). BRICS New Development Bank: A Second Bretton Woods or a New Trend with its Own Future. infobrics.org The main institutions of the Bretton Woods system, which have existed since the Second World War, are rapidly losing their economic weight. At this time, key actors in the developing world are coming to the fore, calling into question the out-dated rules of the game, including the hegemony of the West. Instead of destroying the legacy of the last century, they offer an alternative economic system where each player is able to influence important decisions at the international level…

Editor (2022-09-16). How a City's Unequal Infrastructure Makes Poorer Neighborhoods Hotter. scheerpost.com

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2022-09-17: News Headlines

____ (2022-09-17). 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.

Labor Video Project (2022-09-17). 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.

Erin McCarley (2022-09-17). It's Time to Call it What It Is: A Capitalism-Induced Ecological Crisis. zcomm.org We must make ourselves useful to the movements around us that are already taking the biggest risks and doing the hardest work…

Labor Video Project (2022-09-17). 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.

Lee Siu Hin (2022-09-17). 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!

Madison Park Tenants Council (2022-09-17). 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 (2022-09-17). 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.

Staff (2022-09-16). US unilateralism seeks to hold states back from development. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Sep. 16 (MNA) — Iranian President Ebrahim Raeisi said that in recent years, economic and political multilateralism has been seriously threatened and American unilateralism seeks to hold countries back from their independent development path.

Lee Camp (2022-09-16). The Fed's Secret Plan to Suck Workers Dry. mintpressnews.com Workers have the power right now, and corporate America does not. And now we have proof that corporate America — which owns our government – wants to turn this all around immediately.

Infobrics (2022-09-16). NATO membership will harm Swedish international image and cause economic losses. infobrics.org The country may see a decrease in its exports if confirmed its adhesion to NATO.

____ (2022-09-16). Xinjiang local rebuffs claims of 'forced labor' during UN session. ecns.cn The allegation of "forced labor" in China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region is an absolute lie, a representative from Xinjiang stood out at the 51st regular session of the UN Human Rights Council.

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-09-16). Izyum is Bucha 2.0: New Ukrainian False Flag War Crimes and Western PSYOP. libya360.wordpress.com Nicolas Cinquini While the authorities have ordered lawsuits and detention of collaborators but private channels are simply spurring the murder of civilians, Ukraine pretends on September 15, 2022, to have found out a mass grave of 440 bodies near Izyum. The Russian forces have seized Izyum, northeastern Ukraine, in March, on their path to the…

_____ (2022-09-16). Ukraine Is The New Israel. popularresistance.org Western support for the Ukrainian war effort will have long-lasting consequences for U.S. foreign policy in the world. The impact will most certainly be felt in the Middle East region and especially in Israel. | But the U.S. and NATO's generous economic and military aid for Ukraine's war effort must be making Israel nervous. | Unlike Gulf regimes, which merely buy Western protection, Israel is dependent on U.S. military largesse for its salvation. Ukraine is today the ultimate Western cause: never has any state received such military aid from the West and no state has so galvanized Western public opinion. (Notice…

WSWS (2022-09-16). Quebec election campaign dominated by right-wing, chauvinist appeals. wsws.org Like the rest of Canada, Quebec has been roiled by the two-and-a-half year-long COVID-19 pandemic and the economic fallout from the US-NATO instigated war with Russia over Ukraine. Yet neither of these pivotal issues figures prominently in the official campaign.

Kyle Anzalone (2022-09-16). Putin Scores Several Diplomatic Wins as West Attempts To Isolate the Kremlin. news.antiwar.com After Russian forces invaded Ukraine in February, Western leaders led by President Joe Biden vowed the Kremlin would face historic isolation that would bring its war machine to a halt and cripple Moscow's economy. However, nearly seven months into the war, Russia has maintained its economic strength as Moscow has found several partners worldwide. Russian …

TeleSUR (2022-09-16). Germany Confiscates Oil Refinery Owned by Russian Rosneft. telesurenglish.net On Friday, the German Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action (BMWK) announced that its country took control of a major refinery owned by Russian oil company Rosneft. | RELATED: | Rosneft Deutschland and RN Refining & Marketing, two German subsidiaries of the Russian company, have been placed under the trusteeship of the Federal Network Agency. The Agency will now take over the PCK refinery in Schwedt, by far the bigge…

Russiancouncil.ru (2022-09-16). Meeting with an Indian Society Figure, Dr Dalbir Singh. russiancouncil.ru Discussion focused on prospects for closer Russia — India collaboration, especially on the economic front…

Orinoco Tribune 2 (2022-09-16). The West Is Poised To Throw Yemen Under the Bus Again To Fuel Its Economic War on Russia. orinocotribune.com

_____ (2022-09-16). The Sickness Of The American Left And The Path To Recovery. popularresistance.org The U.S. has entered a dark period. Economic crisis wracks its capitalist system. Military instability and chaos reign supreme over its imperialist ventures. Political illegitimacy worsens by the year, at times by the month. These conditions sound favorable to the growth of revolutionary possibilities within the citadel of imperialism. | But such is not the case at the moment. Discipline and organization are at perhaps their weakest point in generations. Young people are moving toward socialist politics. However, a similar number of people have embraced the politics of a U.S.-led New Cold War against Russia and C…

____ (2022-09-16). China's surveyed urban unemployment rate down to 5.3 pct in August. ecns.cn China's surveyed urban unemployment rate stood at 5.3 percent in August, down from 5.4 percent in July, data from the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) showed Friday.

____ (2022-09-16). China's property investment down in January-August period. ecns.cn China's investment in property development went down 7.4 percent year on year in the first eight months of 2022, data from the National Bureau of Statistics showed Friday.

____ (2022-09-16). China's industrial output up 3.6 pct in first eight months. ecns.cn China's value-added industrial output, an important economic indicator, went up 3.6 percent year on year in the first eight months of this year, data from the National Bureau of Statistics showed Friday.

____ (2022-09-16). China's home prices ease in August. ecns.cn China's home prices in 70 large and medium-sized cities eased in August, with more cities seeing a decline in home prices, according to data released by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) on Friday.

____ (2022-09-16). China's fixed-asset investment up 5.8 pct in first 8 months. ecns.cn China's fixed-asset investment went up 5.8 percent year on year in the first eight months of this year, data from the National Bureau of Statistics showed Friday.

Fight Back (2022-09-16). Statement condemning the OHCHR's 'Assessment of human rights concerns in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, People's Republic of China'. fightbacknews.org Fight Back News Service is circulating the following statement initiated by Friends of Socialist China. Freedom Road Socialist Organization is among the signers. | We strongly condemn the publication by the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) 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 Assessmen…

_____ (2022-09-16). Ridiculous Right-Wing Grifters Cash In Posing As 'Patriotic Socialists'. popularresistance.org MAGA 'Communism'? Ben Norton and Danny Haiphong discuss the absurd concepts of MAGA "communism" and "patriotic socialism" in the imperialist US. Pro-Trump opportunists are posing as leftists to recruit the right – and make lots of money.

_____ (2022-09-16). US To Release Stolen Afghan Reserves, With A Catch. popularresistance.org The US government announced on 13 September that it would release a significant portion of the $7 billion stolen Afghan central bank funds to a bank of international settlements in Basel, Switzerland. | The trusteeship will help the US to oversee the disbursements of the funds in order to bypass the Taliban government in Kabul. | Washington withdrew its financial support for Afghanistan, following the Taliban victory against the US-trained army in 2021. Besides harsh economic sanctions, the US government also froze the funds of Afghanistan's Central Bank, causing a widespread humanitarian crisis in the country.

Orinoco Tribune 2 (2022-09-16). India's Media at 75: Shackled by Profit, Politically Imprisoned. 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 a on a very sensitive issue that demands attention. | By P. Sainath Aug 17, 2022 | Prime Minister Narendra Modi's lockdown speech of March 24, 2020 gave a nation of 1.4 billion people four hours to shut itself down. It would devastate hundreds of millions of livelihoods within days. Minutes after Modi's speech, his government listed the essential services that would remain operational through the lockdown. | Refreshingly…

_____ (2022-09-16). War Is Not The Answer To Deep Planetary Insecurity. popularresistance.org Grave news comes to us from the United Nations (UN). The latest Human Development Report (2021—22) records that for the first time in thirty-two years, the Human Development Index has registered a second consecutive year of decline. The previous five years of gains in areas such as health and education have been negated by this reversal. 'Billions of people face the greatest cost-of-living crisis in a generation', says the report. 'Billions already grapple with food insecurity, owing largely to inequalities in wealth and power that determine entitlements to food. A global food crisis will hit them hardest'.

Dean Baker (2022-09-16). Do Workers Have to Take It on the Chin to Fight Inflation? cepr.net My toolbox includes a financial transactions tax, universal accounts at the Fed, stop pension funds from making private equity partners rich, and stop universities from making hedge fund partners rich by managing their endowments.

CounterSpin (2022-09-16). Sumayyah Waheed on CNN's Copaganda Hire, Chris Becker on Inflation Coverage. fair.org CNN's John Miller | This week on CounterSpin: Journalist-turned-cop-turned-journalist-turned-cop-turned-journalist

Dana Sanchez (2022-09-16). Consumers Start To Default On Payments for The Goldman Sachs Apple Card: 'Well Above Subprime Lenders'. moguldom.com Credit card customers at Goldman Sachs, one of the most prestigious banks on Wall Street, are starting to miss payments and default on loans at higher rates than bigger U.S. card issuers. Americans are charging inflation on their credit cards, according to Federal Reserve Bank of New York data. The bank reported a 13 percent …

Miles Mogulescu (2022-09-16). How Democrats Should Respond When Republican Candidates Yell 'Inflation, Inflation, Inflation'. commondreams.org Despite all their noise, Republicans have absolutely no solution for inflation except to tax the poor and jeopardize Social Security and Medicare.

WSWS (2022-09-16). Essity ends lockout in New Zealand after unions impose sellout deal. wsws.org After 145 workers at the Kawerau paper mill were locked out for nearly six weeks and starved into accepting a below-inflation pay offer, the union bureaucracy is celebrating this sellout.

Phillip Dexter, Roscoe Palm (2022-09-16). Hiding in Plain Sight: The Capture of South African 'Independent' Media by the U.S. State and Big Capital. towardfreedom.org It is time we knew who the masters of South African media really are, write Phillip Dexter and Roscoe Palm of Pan-African Institute for Socialism.

WSWS (2022-09-16). How the trade unions suppressed the class struggle during UK's "Summer of Discontent" wsws.org The working class cannot take a step forward except by wresting control of their struggles from the TUC and the Labour Party—and their defenders.

TeleSUR (2022-09-16). US Labor Department Averts Railway Strike With Tentative Deal. telesurenglish.net After a grueling day of negotiations, U.S. railroad firms and unions have reached a tentative deal, averting a potential rail strike that could be economically damaging. | RELATED: | U.S. Secretary of Labor Marty Walsh announced the agreement early on Thursday, writing that "following more than 20 consecutive hours of negotiations," the temporary deal "balances the needs of workers, businesses, and our nation's economy." | "The Biden…

Ann Brown (2022-09-16). Christopher Marshall: Record Companies Recruit Serial Killers Like Colleges Recruit 6'8″ High School Athletes. moguldom.com Writer/researcher Christopher Marshall recently tweeted, "Getting the notoriety of robbing and or killing a rapper could literally lead to a record deal because record labels recruit serial killers and prolific criminals like D1's recruit 6'8 nyghas." Are record companies recruiting serial killers like colleges recruit 6'8″ high school athletes? Record companies have profited off of …

_____ (2022-09-16). Workers At Big South Florida Hotel Boost Minimum Pay To $20. popularresistance.org Hollywood, Florida – Weeks after a big strike vote, 450 hotel workers at the Diplomat Beach Resort in Hollywood, Florida, have reached a tentative agreement on a four-year contract that boosts minimum hourly pay to $20, halts subcontracting, and restores daily housekeeping. | "This is an incredible victory for workers in South Florida," said Wendi Walsh, secretary-treasurer of UNITE HERE Local 355, in a statement. "This was possible because workers decided to fight back, willing to risk it all. Hospitality workers are the backbone of South Florida's economy and finally the value of their contribution is being rec…

Editor (2022-09-16). How a City's Unequal Infrastructure Makes Poorer Neighborhoods Hotter. scheerpost.com

Editor (2022-09-16). Queen's Funeral Shuts Food Banks Amid Cost of Living Crisis. scheerpost.com Elizabeth II's coffin leaves Holyrood Palace. Taras Young, CC BY-SA 4.0 By Ruby Lott-Lavigna / The Queen's funeral will shut down food banks and other cost of living services while the country grapples with its worst poverty crisis in decades. | Critics say millions at risk…

TeleSUR (2022-09-16). Zambia Rallies Africa for Common Voice at Climate Negotiations. telesurenglish.net On Thursday, the Zambian government called for closer collaboration among African countries and Least Developed Countries (LDCs) in advancing mutual interests ahead of the 27th session of the Conference of the Parties (COP 27) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) slated for Egypt in November this year. | RELATED: | The Minister of Green Economy and Environment Collins Nzovu said as chair of the Af…

TeleSUR (2022-09-16). UN Decries High Child Labor Rates in Africa Amid Rising Poverty. telesurenglish.net On Thursday, the International Labour Organization (ILO) decried the high child labor rates in Africa amid the rising poverty. | RELATED: | ILO Country Director for Tanzania, Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, and Uganda Wellington Chibebe told journalists in Nairobi, the capital of Kenya, that Africa accounts for about 92 million out of 160 million child laborers in the world. | "Africa stands out as the region with the highest p…

TeleSUR (2022-09-16). Venezuelan Institutions Seek Cooperation With Iran. telesurenglish.net "Basically, we expect to create alliances, alliances at the health level to continue helping the Venezuelan people in everything related to health," said Quimbiotec's head of public affairs, Giselle Longa, in an interview with Sputnik Agency. | RELATED: | On Wednesday, President Nicolas Maduro inaugurated the Iran-Venezuela Scientific, Technological and Industrial Expo Fair intending to strengthen the commercial, scie…

Jeffrey D. Sachs (2022-09-16). Pakistan's Devastation Is Just a Preview of the Future—and the Biggest Climate Polluters Must Pay Up. commondreams.org The developing world will not forget the leading role that industrialized economies have played in permanently altering the climate and making catastrophic events more likely.

WSWS (2022-09-16). German corporations use economic crisis to impose mass layoffs. wsws.org While the largest energy and auto corporations are making record profits, small and medium sized companies are being driven to insolvency en masse and tens of thousands of workers sacked.

Erin McCarley (2022-09-16). It's Time to Call It What It Is—A Capitalism-Induced Ecological Crisis. commondreams.org Capitalism as an economic system requires constant growth, constant profit, and endless extraction in order to achieve profit.

Mark Gruenberg (2022-09-16). Poll: 85% of swing state voters, 18 to 40, back unions. peoplesworld.org WASHINGTON —Young voters in nine swing states with tight Senate races strongly back workers' rights, and especially the Protect The Right To Organize (PRO) Act, says a new Hart Research poll, commissioned by the Communications Workers. As a matter of fact, support for the PRO Act, organized labor's #1 legislative priority, is so lopsided among …

WSWS (2022-09-16). Democratic House Speaker Pelosi to rail workers: Accept a pro-company deal or we'll force you to. wsws.org Pelosi, with a net worth of $135 million, is one of the richest individuals in a Congress composed largely of millionaires. When Pelosi declares that the agreement is "good for our economy," she really means it is good for Wall Street.

WSWS (2022-09-16). No to another school year of mass infections, and deaths! For a unified struggle of educators! wsws.org This school year, educators must combine the developing struggle for wages and benefits with the fight for the necessary public health measures to stop the pandemic and save lives.

____ (2022-09-16). Chinese premier stresses continuous efforts to promote mass entrepreneurship, innovation. ecns.cn Chinese Premier Li Keqiang on Thursday stressed continuous efforts to promote mass entrepreneurship and innovation, and pool wisdom and strengths to nurture market entities and foster new economic drivers.

Staff (2022-09-16). Ceneuro y CENESEX se unen en convenio a favor de victimas de abuso sexual infantil. cubadebate.cu El Centro de Neurociencias de Cuba y CENESEX se unen en un nuevo proyecto de investigación científica. Ambas instituciones firmaron un convenio de colaboración que permitirá llevar adelante el estudio "Eficacia de la terapia cognitiva conductual en víctimas de abuso sexual infantil: bases biológicas". El acuerdo facilitará el intercambio científico recíproco.

Staff (2022-09-16). Cervecerías de Reino Unido podrían cerrar tras el incremento del precio del dióxido de carbono. cubadebate.cu Productores de cerveza del Reino Unido podrían interrumpir la elaboración de la bebida en los próximos meses por al incremento del precio de uno de sus componentes. Se trata del dióxido de carbono, utilizado para carbonatar y envasar las cervezas. Su costo se encareció 10 veces y el grupo estadounidense que lo produce detuvo la elaboración.

Manlio Dinucci (2022-09-16). L'offensiva del complesso militare-industrial. globalresearch.ca La recente avanzata ucraina è stata pianificata mesi fa dagli USA, che hanno fornito alle forze di Kiev in tempo reale le informazioni sugli obiettivi russi da colpire: lo rivela il New York Times in base a fonti ufficiali. Cià≤ …

TeleSUR -ysm, DRL (2022-09-16). Gremios docentes rechazan nuevo ciclo lectivo en Buenos Aires. telesurtv.net El jefe del Gobierno porteño, Horacio Rodríguez Larreta, anunció que tres sábados serán laborales el ciclo lectivo 2023.

Staff (2022-09-15). Iran interacts with entire world, particularly neighbors. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Sep. 15 (MNA) — Seyyed Ebrahim Raeisi held a meeting with Iranian businessmen residing in Uzbekistan on Thursday, stressing neighbors are an economic and commercial priority for Iran.

Kamal Iranidoost (2022-09-15). Japan trade with Russia up by 31% due to growing fuel prices. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Sep. 15 (MNA) — Japan's trade with Russia increased by 31% in August as compared with the same period last year largely due to the growth of global prices on fuels, figures released by the Japanese finance ministry said Thursday.

Dean Baker (2022-09-15). China is the World's Largest Economy: Get Over It. cepr.net Some folks seem to find it hard to accept that the US does not have the world's largest economy, but such is life. Donald Trump lost the election and the US is number 2.

Dave DeCamp (2022-09-15). Biden Signs Executive Order to Limit Foreign Investments in US Technology in Move Aimed at China. news.antiwar.com President Biden on Thursday signed an executive order aimed at limiting foreign investment in US technology in a move that clearly targets China. The executive order directs the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) to increase scrutiny on certain foreign investments in the US in several areas. CFIUS was formed in 1975 …

____ (2022-09-15). East China demonstration area handles more China-Europe freight trains. ecns.cn A demonstration area in east China for local economic and trade cooperation between China and the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) handled more China-Europe freight trains in the first eight months of 2022, local customs said.

_____ (2022-09-15). Workers Building New US Embassy In Honduras Are On Strike. popularresistance.org 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 U.S. 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 construction site in Tegucigalpa s…

Fight Back (2022-09-15). Greece: All-Workers Militant Front (PAME) Solidarity with the Nurses' Strike in Minnesota and Wisconsin. fightbacknews.org Fight Back News Service is circulating the following statement from the influential Greek labor organization, the All-Workers Militant Front (PAME). | PAME that represents the class unions of Greece, expresses its solidarity with the strike of thousands of nurses in Minnesota and Wisconsin in the USA who are demanding 27% wage increases. | Health workers both before and during the pandemic have been on the front line of protecting the lives and health of the people. But governments and business groups that treat health as a commodity on the one hand treat the sick as customers who must pay to get well and on the…

Laith Fadel (2022-09-15). Smart guns could be the future of firearm control. america.cgtn.com Gun ownership in the United States spiked during the COVID-19 pandemic — almost 20 million guns were purchased last year. And with that came more accidents. Firearms are the number one cause of death for young people in the country. Soon, there could be a …

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2022-09-16: News Headlines

Orinoco Tribune 2 (2022-09-16). India's Media at 75: Shackled by Profit, Politically Imprisoned. 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 a on a very sensitive issue that demands attention. | By P. Sainath &#1 ; Aug 17, 2022 | Prime Minister Narendra Modi's lockdown speech of March 24, 2020 gave a nation of 1.4 billion people four hours to shut itself down. It would devastate hundreds of millions of livelihoods within days. Minutes after Modi's speech, his government listed the essential services that would remain operational through the lockdown. | Refreshingly…

Binoy Kampmark (2022-09-16). Royal Money: Charles III and the Wealth Dimension. dissidentvoice.org Once the fixated adoration with the late Queen Elizabeth II starts cooling, the accountants of public welfare and decency will be stunned to realise the costs and wealth associated with the royal institution. Her successor, Charles III, is continuing in that vein, a jarring note of wealth and pomp even as prices rise and the …

William Pesek (2022-09-16). Falling FX Reserves Herald Asia Financial Crisis 2.0. asia-pacificresearch.com

Martin Clarke (2022-09-16). Britain: New King won't solve deep crisis. greenleft.org.au The new King, however powerful, will not be able to solve the new Prime Minister's dilemmas regarding Britain's deep economic and social crisis, writes Martin Clarke.

Lee Siu Hin (2022-09-16). 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!

Labor Video Project (2022-09-16). Chile's 9/11 & The Rise Of US Fascism. indybay.org Labor Historian & Professor Ruth Needleman talks about the lessons of Chile's coup in relation to the growing fascist movement in the US.

Freedom Socialist Party (2022-09-16). Sunday 9/25: Turning ideas into action: Taking to the streets with the FSP. indybay.org via zoom: tinyurl.com/FSP-Sept-25-mtg…

Labor Video Project (2022-09-16). 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.

Labor Video Project (2022-09-16). Terrorism, Racism & Union Busting Against SEIU1021 SF General Hospital Workers By HR DPH. indybay.org Workers and SEIU 1021 SF General Hospital union leaders reported on the epidemic of bullying, racist discrimination and union busting by DPH and CCSF HR. The City has spent over $100 million on paying for illegal discrimination, defendant lawyers and City lawyers to defend illegal racist attacks and systemic racism.

_____ (2022-09-15). Latin Americans Reject Resource Plundering By Same NATO Countries Fueling Military Conflict In Ukraine. popularresistance.org On August 6 we celebrated 197 years of independence here in Bolivia. We listened intently to the speech by President Luis Arce delivered in Sucre, the capital city in Bolivia's Chiquisaca department. Among other issues, he spoke about the current military conflict in Ukraine and the need for peace in today's world. | President Arce said there cannot be peace in the world so long as there is continued foreign military intervention and economic blockades and sanctions, so very painful to humanity. He went on to say that Bolivians are placing much attention on the conflict taking place in Ukraine. He cautioned again…

____ (2022-09-15). First shipping route launched between China's SCODA, Vladivostok. ecns.cn A shipping route between the China-SCO Local Economic and Trade Cooperation Demonstration Area (SCODA) in east China's Shandong Province and Russia's port city of Vladivostok was officially launched Wednesday.

____ (2022-09-15). RCEP exhibits showcased at 19th China-ASEAN Expo. ecns.cn Exhibits from Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) countries have been gathered at the 19th China-ASEAN Expo to be held on Friday in Nanning, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region.

The Socialist Program (2022-09-15). Vijay Prashad and Noam Chomsky on Afghanistan War & the Fragility of US Empire. liberationnews.org The U.S. government has destroyed cities, countries, and towns around the world, through bombs and air raids, military ground invasions, naval attacks, economic sanctions and strangulation, coups, and more. Some say U.S. force is never ending, others say it's on a fast decline, almost gone forever. Vijay Prashad and Noam Chomsky argue in their new book, "The Withdrawal: Iraq, Libya, Afghanistan, and the Fragility of U.S. Power," that U.S. military might is somewhere in the middle: it's fragile.

Dana Sanchez (2022-09-15). Is The Ethereum Merger And Upgrade A Sell-The-News Event? moguldom.com A long-awaited Ethereum software upgrade known as "The Merge" has finally happened with promises that it will reduce energy consumption by 99.95 percent for transactions of the world's second-largest cryptocurrency. Many are calling the Merge the most important moment in crypto history. It is expected to set the stage for more technical upgrades that will …

Otis Grotewohl (2022-09-15). UMWA commemorates the Mine Wars on Labor Day weekend. workers.org Marmet, West Virginia During Labor Day weekend, the West Virginia Mine Wars Museum hosted two ceremonies entitled "Courage in the Hollers" to present permanent monuments in honor of the coal miners who fought in the Battle of Blair Mountain. That conflict is considered the largest labor uprising in U.S. history . . . |

WSWS (2022-09-15). Warnings of financial turbulence amid rising workers' struggles. wsws.org The key issue for ruling circles in the US and elsewhere is how far and how fast interest rates must be raised to suppress the growing movement of the working class for wage increases.

Prof Michel Chossudovsky (2022-09-15). 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.

_____ (2022-09-15). UN Special Rapporteur Calls For End Of All Unilateral Sanctions Against Iran. popularresistance.org Claiming that unilateral coercive measures taken by the US and some of its allies against Iran had harmed ordinary Iranians' rights to employment, health, and food, the UN Special Rapporteur Alena Douhan demanded the withdrawal of all such sanctions immediately and proposed mechanisms to prevent such measures being taken in the future. | Douhan's report on Iran was released on Monday, September 12. | Douhan, a professor of international law, told Iranian news website Tehran Times in an interview on Monday that, contrary to claims by countries who pursue such policies, "ordinary people are directly affected by the…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-09-15). Afghan People Face a Deadly Humanitarian Crisis. libya360.wordpress.com Amitabha Roychowdhury As winter approaches, the UN Security Council should set aside differences and urgently focus on how to send assistance to Afghanistan's impoverished people The massive humanitarian crisis and the perilous condition of the economy in Afghanistan are likely to worsen with the impending onset of the harsh winter season for the second time…

Infobrics (2022-09-15). BRICS Industrial Innovation Contest Final Kicks Off in Xiamen. infobrics.org Contestants compete in the industrial internet, intelligent manufacturing, and green development during the contest themed "industrial innovation for stronger, greener, and healthier global development"

Carlos L. Garrido (2022-09-15). The Failed Serotonin Theory of Depression: A Marxist Analysis. orinocotribune.com By Carlos L. Garrido &#1 ; Sep 9, 2022 | A recent study published in the journal Molecular Psychiatry sent shockwaves across the scientific community and popular outlets as it disproved the predominant "serotonin hypothesis" of depression. In just two weeks since its publication it has been accessed by nearly half a million people and the subject of dozens of subsequent articles. The researchers analyzed a total of seventeen systematic reviews, meta-analyses, and other large studies focused on the following six tenets pertinent to the "serotonin hypothesis" of depression: | "(1) Serotonin and the serotonin metabo…

Editor (2022-09-15). Freight Workers Explain Why National Railroad Strike is Looming. scheerpost.com A national rail shutdown, which has not occurred since the early 1990s, would have a major economic impact. Photo: Jim Hamilton, CC BY 2.0. | By Maximillian Alvarez / On Friday, September 16, the United States could see its first major rail strike and/or rail lockout since the early '90s. Railroad workers have reached the end of their rope after years of enduring dramatic staff cuts that have piled more work onto fewer workers, along with exhausting schedules and draconian attendance…

_____ (2022-09-15). Analysis Shows 'Quiet Fleecing' Of US Workers Is The Real Problem. popularresistance.org "Quiet quitting"—an allegedly new trend characterized by workers performing only their required job duties and no more—has been getting a lot of attention in recent weeks, but the defining trend of the past 40 years of U.S. economic history is "quiet fleecing," and we should be talking much more about it. | That's the argument put forth Friday by the Economic Policy Institute (EPI), a progressive think tank with a long track record of popularizing research on wage suppression and runaway inequality. | "Everyone's obsessed with a post-pandemic phenomenon called 'quiet quitting,'" EPI wrote in an email.

Prof. Anthony J. Hall (2022-09-15). Biotechnology Over Human Rights: US President Joe Biden Issues Executive Order Promoting "Biotechnology" and "Biomanufacturing" in "American Bioeconomy" globalresearch.ca

_____ (2022-09-15). A Minnesota Nurse Speaks Out About Exploitative Working Conditions. popularresistance.org Hello, my name is Danielle and I'm a nurse at Methodist Hospital. I want to speak a little about the situation we are seeing currently which has led to this strike. | HealthPartners permanently closed seven clinics putting 200 people jobless during the pandemic as the company seeks to put profit first—and accessibility for healthcare last. HealthPartners closed thirty pharmacies and left 300 people jobless while also selling their patients to Walgreens pharmacies before the pandemic. HealthPartners bought Park Nicollet Hospital in order to consolidate and control the market. They created an insurance compan…

Matt Sedlar (2022-09-15). The US Response to the World's Worst Humanitarian Crisis: Seize and Privatize. cepr.net What is the role of central bank reserves in a contemporary functioning economy? To whom do these reserves ultimately belong? How rational is it to constitute a parallel private foundation assigned to perform the duties of a central bank?

WSWS (2022-09-15). Veteran UK rail worker speaks on British and US rail struggles. wsws.org The World Socialist Web Site interviewed a rail worker of more than three decades on the ongoing national strikes in Britain and the struggle of railroad workers in the United States.

Mark Gruenberg (2022-09-15). Pittsburgh case reflects depth of illegal moves by Starbucks. peoplesworld.org PITTSBURGH—A comprehensive case out of Pittsburgh shows the depths to which Starbucks will stoop in labor law-breaking to stop its workers from unionizing. The offenses the National Labor Relations Board's regional office cataloged were so many and so varied that Starbucks Workers United, the Service Employees sector that aids the grass-roots organizing drives from coast …

Jackson Potter (2022-09-15). Justice for Teachers: The Strike That Started the Red Wave. commondreams.org Ten years ago, Chicago teachers modeled what a militant fight for public education looks like by walking off the job. A decade later, the legacy of social justice unionism continues to animate the U.S. labor movement.

____ (2022-09-15). Chinese premier chairs State Council executive meeting. ecns.cn Chinese Premier Li Keqiang on Tuesday presided over a State Council executive meeting, which made decisions on multiple economic issues.

WSWS (2022-09-15). Australia: Rail union announces token industrial action to conceal plans for sellout. wsws.org New South Wales rail workers will turn off Opal readers in an "action" designed by the Rail, Tram and Bus Union to blind workers to its efforts to bury their dispute in the industrial courts.

Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis (2022-09-15). The United States of America as a Sacrifice Zone. commondreams.org Despite the encouraging policy-making that hit the headlines this summer, America remains a significant sacrifice zone with economic policies that justify their painful impact on the poor and marginalized as necessary for the greater good.

Julia Conley (2022-09-15). US Announces Fund to Benefit Afghan Economy—Using Stolen Afghan Bank Reserves. commondreams.org "The Afghan Fund is funded by Afghanistan, and the U.S. is only delivering unprecedented suffering," said one economic policy group.

WSWS (2022-09-15). Fiji government prepares for another anti-democratic election. wsws.org With an escalating economic and social disaster following the COVID pandemic, Fiji's Prime Minister Frank Bainimarama is for the first time since his 2006 coup facing possible defeat in the forthcoming election.

Sonali Kolhatkar (2022-09-15). Honoring Barbara Ehrenreich, Who Exposed How Toxic Positivity Is Used to Dismiss Economic Inequality. commondreams.org The late Nickel and Dimed author also laid bare the "positive thinking" industry that put a smiley face on inequality.

Labor Video Project (2022-09-15). 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.

Staff (2022-09-15). Bajo los brillos de Hanoi. cubadebate.cu Pasados 40 años de la renovación del modelo socialista, Vietnam es hoy una nación pujante dentro de su propio entorno geográfico y en el mundo, que se proyecta vertiginosamente al futuro sin renegar de su pasado, mejor aun dignificándolo con el aliento de cambios que transpira su sociedad. "Cambio o muerte" es una de las ocurrentes y lapidarias sentencias con la que nos sorprenden.

Staff (2022-09-15). La labor de las agencias transitarias avanza de manera estable. cubadebate.cu El miembro del Buró Político y primer ministro, Manuel Marrero Cruz, chequeó la situación de las agencias transitarias y la entrega de paquetería internacional, tema que ha sido una constante en la atención del Gobierno durante los últimos meses.

Staff (2022-09-15). Conduce Díaz-Canel última jornada de visita partidista a Isla de la Juventud. cubadebate.cu El primer secretario del Comité Central del PCC y presidente cubano, Miguel Díaz-Canel, conduce este jueves la última jornada de la visita del Secretariado y la estructura auxiliar del Comité Central al municipio especial Isla de la Juventud. Esta visita comenzó el lunes 12 de septiembre. La comitiva acudirá a centros laborales, empresas estatales, mipymes, cooperativas, instituciones culturales y proyectos sociales y comunitarios.

Staff (2022-09-15). Villa Clara: Condecorados 25 combatientes del Cuerpo de Bomberos por su labor durante el incendio en zona industrial de Matanzas. cubadebate.cu En la actividad, que estuvo encabezada por Osnay Miguel Colina y Alberto López Díaz, máximas figuras política y gubernamental del territorio, respectivamente, el coronel Gustavo Díaz Villalobos, jefe del Minint en Villa Clara, dio lectura a una carta de felicitación del ministro del Interior a los condecorados, quienes colocaron flores ante la llama eterna ubicada en el Mausoleo.

_____ (2022-09-14). Economist Richard Wolff: Sanctions Against Russia, Inflation. popularresistance.org European countries, as well as the United States, continue to be imperiled by an economic crisis following the imposition of sanctions on Russia. The policy has backfired spectacularly and has had worse economic ramifications on those levying the sanctions, than those being sanctioned. In this week's episode, Lowkey speaks to respected U.S. economist Dr. Richard Wolff, discussing the links between the war in Ukraine, inflation, and the class war at home. | Before exploring the people's definition of inflation, Dr. Wolff contextualizes the economic crisis currently unfolding across the West. | In the conversation,…

Jim Spellman (2022-09-14). Latest on inflation in the U.S. america.cgtn.com The Consumer Price Index for last month shows inflation cooling in the U.S., but not as much as many analysts had expected. The good news for consumers: gas prices are way down. The bad news: just about everything is costing more. CGTN's Jim Spellman …

Dana Sanchez (2022-09-14). World's Biggest Hedge Fund Bridgewater: A Large Recession Is Coming To America, Will Be Difficult. moguldom.com Economists, analysts, and market participants are divided on whether the U.S. is headed for a recession but the world's biggest hedge fund is betting that the U.S. is the epicenter of a global financial bubble, making it the country most at risk for a crushing recession when the bubble bursts. Greg Jensen, co-chief investor of …

Ann Brown (2022-09-14). Corrupt French Dentist Arrested, Preyed On Low-Income Patients With Mutilation And Unnecessary Work. moguldom.com Lionel Guedj, 41, was a multi-millionaire dentist in France who has been sentenced to eight years in jail for deliberately mutilating patients from low-income neighborhoods of Marseille. In the horrifying money-making scheme, Lionel Guedj performed thousands of unnecessary procedures carrying out work on healthy teeth of low-income patients. His father, Carnot Guedj, 70, who worked part-time for …

_____ (2022-09-14). Hundreds Protest As Starbucks Holds Investor Day Without Retail Workers. popularresistance.org Seattle, Washington – Hundreds of workers took to the streets in front of Starbucks's Seattle headquarters on Tuesday as the company hosted investors for its biennial investor day, in which executives and investors discuss the company's outlook — an event that has never once included representation from a Starbucks retail worker, the workers' union says. | Joined by other union members, workers with Starbucks Workers United are demanding that the company give them a say in its strategy and financial decisions and a place at the bargaining table for contract negotiations, which the company has been delaying.

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-09-14). South Africa: Civil Society, Human Rights Organizations Call for Urgent Intervention to Protect Abahlali baseMjondolo. libya360.wordpress.com PRESS STATEMENT 14 SEPTEMBER 2022 CIVIL SOCIETY CALLS FOR URGENT NATIONAL INTERVENTION TO PROTECT ABAHLALI BASEMJONDOLO On Friday, 9 September 2022, the Socio-Economic Rights Institute of South Africa (SERI) sent a letter concerning the ongoing attacks on Abahlali baseMjondolo to various members of the South African executive and legislature, as well as commissioners of regional…

Elliott Wallace (2022-09-14). Modern slavery: Number of enslaved increases by 10 million over five years. america.cgtn.com The number of people under modern slavery increased by 10 million people globally over the last five years, according to researchers from Geneva. Data gathered by the UN's International Organization for Migration, the International Labor Organization and the Walk Free Foundation human rights group show …

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2022-09-15: News Headlines

Erin McCarley (2022-09-15). It's Time to Call it What It Is: A Capitalism-Induced Ecological Crisis. dissidentvoice.org One-third of Pakistan is under water. Record heat waves blanket the globe driving up temperatures beyond what humans can survive. Polar glaciers are melting much faster than scientists predicted. Droughts, fires and floods are ravaging the planet, forcing the displacement of tens of millions of people. And this is just the beginning. It's time to …

Freedom Socialist Party (2022-09-15). Sunday 9/25: Turning ideas into action: Taking to the streets with the FSP. indybay.org via zoom: tinyurl.com/FSP-Sept-25-mtg…

Labor Video Project (2022-09-15). Terrorism, Racism & Union Busting Against SEIU1021 SF General Hospital Workers By HR DPH. indybay.org Workers and SEIU 1021 SF General Hospital union leaders reported on the epidemic of bullying, racist discrimination and union busting by DPH and CCSF HR. The City has spent over $100 million on paying for illegal discrimination, defendant lawyers and City lawyers to defend illegal racist attacks and systemic racism.

Labor Video Project (2022-09-15). Chile's 9/11 & The Rise Of US Fascism. indybay.org Labor Historian & Professor Ruth Needleman talks about the lessons of Chile's coup in relation to the growing fascist movement in the US.

WorkWeek (2022-09-15). WW CNA Kaiser Nurses/Patients In Danger. PG&E Newsom Leg Corruption & UPS Oven In Trucks. indybay.org WorkWeek covers CNA Kaiser Nurses & Patients In Danger & PG&E Newsom Legislature Corruption & UPS "Oven In The Trucks" IBT Workers Heat & Labor Poet Tongo Issac-Martin…

Lee Siu Hin (2022-09-15). 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!

_____ (2022-09-14). Contractors Cash In As Congress Adds Billions To Pentagon Budget. popularresistance.org Congress has spoken when it comes to next year's Pentagon budget and the results, if they weren't so in line with past practices, should astonish us all. The House of Representatives voted to add $37 billion and the Senate $45 billion to the administration's already humongous request for "national defense," a staggering figure that includes both the Pentagon budget and work on nuclear weapons at the Department of Energy. If enacted, the Senate's sum would push spending on the military to at least $850 billion annually, far more — adjusted for inflation — than at the height of the Korean or Vietnam war…

G. Dunkel (2022-09-14). War propaganda threatens nuclear meltdown. workers.org Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Station The United States and its imperialist allies in the European Union have a big political problem. The embargo/boycott that they so swiftly and gleefully placed on Russia's energy exports, mainly oil and gas, had the unintended consequence of guaranteeing much higher profits to Russia in selling . . . |

Anonymous103 (2022-09-14). Military Situation In Eastern Ukraine On September 14, 2022 (Map Update). southfront.org The AFU attacked Russian positions in the Lyman area; | Russian forces claimed control of Mykolaivka-2 village; | Clashes between the AFU and Russian Army continue in the Belogorovka area; | Clashes between the AFU and Russian Army continue in the Soledar town; | Russian forces entered the industrial zone of Bakhmut; | Clashes continue in the Svyatogorsk area; | Russian-led forces are storming Ukrainian positions near Pervomaiske; | Clashes continue in Maryinka…

A Guest Author (2022-09-14). Ukraine: the invasion of capital to take over agriculture. workers.org By Michael Roberts Marxist economist Michael Roberts worked in the City of London (the British Wall Street) as an economist for over 40 years. He published this article on his blog, thenextrecession.wordpress.com, Aug. 13. It details plans of Western imperialism to privatize and take over Ukrainian agriculture, taking advantage of . . . |

Infobrics (2022-09-14). EU gives up on Russian natural gas price cap amid fears of Moscow's retaliation. infobrics.org EU's decision is a positive signal that Brussels learned at least something from its failed economic siege of Russia.

Felix Abt (2022-09-14). Most of Asia is On the Side of China and Not the U.S. in Growing Conflict. covertactionmagazine.com Background observations by a European author living in Asia on the current escalation with China After the megaphones of the West have already called for all-out economic war against Russia, the battle cry against China is now being heard, regardless of the consequences for the "common people." The reaction of the Asian countries, however, is …

____ (2022-09-14). Express shipping speeds goods to Russia, Europe. ecns.cn The maiden voyage on the China-Russia express route between the China-Shanghai Cooperation Organization Local Economic and Trade Cooperation Demonstration Area and Vladivostok, Russia, was launched on Wednesday at Qingdao Port in Shandong province.

____ (2022-09-14). China-Kazakhstan economic links expected to see rapid development. ecns.cn China-Kazakhstan business cooperation is expected to experience rapid growth in the coming years, as both countries actively promote regional connectivity, the growth of foreign trade and energy-related projects to further boost their business ties.

_____ (2022-09-14). Fear And Misinformation Dominate Discourses Of Brazilian Right. popularresistance.org 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 have seen a dramatic increase in hunger, homelessness, unemployment, and the prices of basic commodities. The currency, the Real, has tumbled. Above all, the colossal number of deaths due to COVID-19 continues to cast a shadow on the lives of m…

Jon Queally (2022-09-14). Big Oil PR Firms a No-Show at House Hearing on Climate Disinformation. commondreams.org "This week Congress is set to take on Big Oil's lies and profiteering. The fossil fuel industry has made billions fueling the climate crisis and exploiting working people. We need to make them pay."

WSWS (2022-09-14). Wall Street slumps as inflation data signify continued Fed interest rate hikes. wsws.org All 30 stocks in the Dow fell as the index dropped by nearly 1300 points, the S&P 0 slid 4.3 percent and the tech-heavy and interest-rate sensitive NASDAQ was down 5.2 percent, with the three indexes recording their biggest one-day fall since June 2020.

WSWS (2022-09-14). Unite postpones London bus strikes out of respect for the Queen, puts below-inflation pay offer to members. wsws.org This regime of "national mourning", enforced through censorship and repression, is aimed against the working class…

Sonali Kolhatkar (2022-09-14). Remembering Barbara Ehrenreich, Who Exposed the 'Cult of Positive Thinking'. otherwords.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 was published in 2009, between the Great Recession and the Occupy Wall Street movement, which called a…

WSWS (2022-09-14). War and poverty in Elizabeth Strout's novel, Oh William! wsws.org History, poverty and the difficulty of human relationships are baked into the lives of the characters.

Scorinoco (2022-09-14). When Market Fundamentalism Overcomes Common Sense: Myth of Electricity Markets. orinocotribune.com By Prabir Purkayastha — Sep 11, 2022 | The so-called electricity markets were created to help private capital, not people. It is time we wound up these bogus markets and returned public services to people, to be run cooperatively for their benefit. | The price of electricity has

____ (2022-09-14). Commerce Ministry encourages foreign investment. ecns.cn The Chinese Ministry of Commerce released three reports to encourage foreign investment and a Catalogue of Industries for Encouraging Foreign Investment is expected soon.

Julia Conley (2022-09-14). As Strike Looms, Sanders Blocks GOP Bill to Force Rail Workers Into Deal With No Sick Days. commondreams.org "Republicans are viciously against collective bargaining, but carriers are going to have to respect people's lives and there's going to have to be respect for these workers," said one labor leader.

____ (2022-09-14). Diplomat lauds Sino-Kazakh relationship. ecns.cn The firm political mutual support, deep economic cooperation, broad cultural and person-to-person exchanges and real benefits to both peoples have made Sino-Kazakh relations an example of relations between neighboring countries, said a Chinese senior diplomat.

Wes Jackson, Robert Jensen (2022-09-14). The Politics of Overconsumption and Getting the Scale Right. commondreams.org No matter how difficult the transition may be, in the not too distant future we will have to live in far smaller and more flexible social organizations than today's nation-states and cities.

Laith Fadel (2022-09-14). Possible freight rail strike could be costly to the U.S. economy. america.cgtn.com A potential logistical and economic crisis is looming in the United States if the nation's freight railroad workers go on strike in the next couple of days. Freight rail carries about 30% of U.S. goods into the market. A work stoppage would disrupt already strained supply chains. …

Julia Conley (2022-09-14). Even These Capitalists Controlling $39 Trillion in Assets Know Fossil Fuel Era Must End. commondreams.org Governments must "enact policies the world needs to avert the worst of the climate crisis and… investors need to usher in a new era of economic prosperity built around a just, sustainable, clean energy economy," said a coalition of investor groups.

____ (2022-09-14). Iran, Brazil take giant stride in developing mining coop. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Sep. 14 (MNA) — The Iranian ambassador to Brazil said that giant steps were taken for developing mining and economic cooperation between the two countries of Iran and Barzil.

Staff (2022-09-14). Iran, Pakistan call for expanding shared markets. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Sep. 14 (MNA) — Iran and Pakistan stressed boosting joint border markets during Third Inter-Parliamentary Union Regional Seminar on Achieving Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in Islamabad, Pakistan.

TeleSUR- lvm, JL (2022-09-14). México cuenta con 277 médicos cubanos por colaboración. telesurtv.net Las entidades sanitarias de México anunciaron que durante el mes de septiembre, llegarían al país 333 nuevos médicos cubanos.

Alejandro Kirk (2022-09-14). Ofensiva y contraofensiva en Ucrania. telesurtv.net En la zona de Járkov se ha establecido ya el terror contra los "colaboradores" de los rusos: profesores, administradores, empresarios que participaban de la normalización de la vida. Los informes de redes sociales hablan de oleadas de mercenarios sin control en las calles.

_____ (2022-09-13). "Russian Oil Price Cap": the Middle East's Perspective. journal-neo.org Attempts by G7 countries to set a price limit on the sale of Russian oil on world markets are provoking reactions in the Middle East region, especially in oil-producing countries. In local analyst circles, the message promoted by the proponents of this idea that the demand for hydrocarbons has decreased, is not popular. The Americans …

Sara Flounders (2022-09-13). How royalty reinforces imperialism. workers.org As Britain's Queen Elizabeth was near death, a professor of Nigerian heritage at Carnegie Mellon University, Uju Anya, tweeted her view: "I heard the chief monarch of a thieving, raping genocidal empire is finally dying. May her pain be excruciating." This tweet brought down a torrent of condemnation. The countries . . . |

Staff (2022-09-13). Price Increases Persist Despite Supply Chain Progress. cepr.net The overall Consumer Price Index rose 0.1 percent in August, core was up 0.6 percent; up 8.3 percent and 6.3 percent year-over-year, respectively. Overall, the picture shows inflation persisting in a wide variety of areas where it seems that supply chain issues are being overcome. This is not a good story. Food at home prices …

Ann Brown (2022-09-13). Who is Political Scientist Adolph Reed? 7 Things Black America Should Know About This Brilliant Thinker. moguldom.com The short bio on Adolph Reed is that he is an American professor emeritus of political science at the University of Pennsylvania. He focuses on the issues of racism and U.S. politics. He is also an author having written extensively on racial and economic inequality. Here are seven things Black America should know about this …

The Socialist Program (2022-09-13). The Deepening Assault on Core Democratic Rights in the USA. liberationnews.org The United States is in the midst of a political upheaval right now, after the 2020 uprising, the Jan. 6 storming of the Capitol, and the Dobbs decision that overturned one of the Supreme Court's biggest decisions — access to abortion under Roe v. Wade.

Mario Hernandez (2022-09-13). Democratic power of the people at the heart of Cuban socialism. liberationnews.org Cuba takes the democracy and power of the people more seriously than anything I have ever seen in the United States.

John Dick (2022-09-13). Labor history tour guide remembers his mail deliverer days. peoplesworld.org I hoist the mail bag over my shoulder. Damn, this thing is heavy. I begin to walk down the sidewalk, satchel bursting with papers. Drip, drip, drip. The sweat begins to roll down from my forehead and back of neck. My shirt becomes stained with perspiration as I struggle with the overbearing load. I haven't …

TeleSUR, gao, SH (2022-09-13). Reconocen labor de Venezuela en campaña de vacunación. telesurtv.net Durante los próximos meses la campaña de vacunación asegurará una cobertura del 95 por ciento en niños de Venezuela.

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Aleks Wansbrough (2022-09-14). Psychoanalysing reverence for the royals. greenleft.org.au Aleks Wansbrough argues that the queen's passing shows how modern capitalism has a tendency to uproot and decontextualise forms of cultural kinship and care, relativising everything as a commodity.

WSWS (2022-09-14). War and poverty in Elizabeth Strout's novel, Oh William! wsws.org History, poverty and the difficulty of human relationships are baked into the lives of the characters.

Labor Video Project (2022-09-14). Terrorism, Racism & Union Busting Against SEIU1021 SF General Hospital Workers By HR DPH. indybay.org Workers and SEIU 1021 SF General Hospital union leaders reported on the epidemic of bullying, racist discrimination and union busting by DPH and CCSF HR. The City has spent over $100 million on paying for illegal discrimination, defendant lawyers and City lawyers to defend illegal racist attacks and systemic racism.

Lee Siu Hin (2022-09-14). 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!

WorkWeek (2022-09-14). WW CNA Kaiser Nurses/Patients In Danger. PG&E Newsom Leg Corruption & UPS Oven In Trucks. indybay.org WorkWeek covers CNA Kaiser Nurses & Patients In Danger & PG&E Newsom Legislature Corruption & UPS "Oven In The Trucks" IBT Workers Heat & Labor Poet Tongo Issac-Martin…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-09-13). The Specter of Germany is Rising. libya360.wordpress.com Diana Johnstone Olaf Scholz, federal chancellor of Germany, meets Volodymyr Zelenskyy, president of Ukraine, in Kiev, Feb. 14, 2022. (President of Ukraine) To meet the imaginary Russian threat to Western Europe, Germany will lead an expanded, militarized EU. The European Union is girding for a long war against Russia that appears clearly contrary to European economic…

Infobrics (2022-09-13). BRICS' Reserve Currency: An Attempt to Reduce the Dollar's Dominance. infobrics.org Whilst Russia and China are leading de-dollarisation initiatives due to their geopolitical rivalry with the US, India, Brazil, and South Africa have supported BRICS' statements on altering the global financial system for their own interests…

Anonymous103 (2022-09-13). Europe's Leaders Continue To Prioritise US Interests Over Citizens' Wellbeing. southfront.org Click to see full-size imageEuropean protestors demand an end to anti-Russia sanctions to alleviate cost-of-living crisis. | Written by Ahmed Adel, Cairo-based geopolitics and political economy researcher | With winter approaching, Europeans are thinking about how their livelihoods will be affected. Rallies, strikes, demonstrations and protests are gaining momentum as the cost-of-living becomes unbearable. Although European media tried to hide this, even paid local propagandists cannot ignore the growing anger…

WSWS (2022-09-13). Socialism 2022 Conference: The pseudo-left promotes imperialist war. wsws.org The primary aim of the Socialism 2022 Conference was to promote the US-NATO war against Russia, in line with the policy of the Biden administration, while seeking to bolster the trade unions as instruments for the suppression of the class struggle.

____ (2022-09-13). China's largest desert panel base in northwestern Ningxia starts construction. ecns.cn China's largest desert photovoltaic (PV) base, located at Tengger Desert in Zhongwei, Northwest China's Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, has started construction.

_____ (2022-09-13). Will the Balkans become Part of the "Great Turan"? journal-neo.org The Balkan Peninsula and the South Caucasus are priority regions for Turkey, based on the neo-Ottomanism ideology. In the face of the failure of the policy and prestige of the United States and the European Union against the backdrop of the intensifying economic and energy crisis in the West, Erdogan is in a hurry to …

Fight Back (2022-09-13). UIC students want free reproductive health clinic. fightbacknews.org Chicago, IL – On September 7, 30 students marched at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) to demand the administration open a reproductive health clinic on campus that is free for students and the community. | Despite its roughly $3.6 billion budget, the university hasn't taken any steps to provide reproductive healthcare for its students. Other demands included access to birth control and an end to the university's contracts with companies based in heartbeat bill states. | The action, which drew members from Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), Young Democratic Socialists of America (YDSA) and Freed…

Dana Sanchez (2022-09-13). High Inflation Readings In Closely Watched CPI Report Shock America, Stocks And Crypto Crash. moguldom.com Stock and crypto markets saw share prices spike over the weekend in anticipation of a positive inflation report for August, but markets plummeted Tuesday when expectations for cooler inflation numbers failed to materialize. Inflation rose a higher-than-expected 0.1 percent in August and 8.3 percent year over year, with higher prices for food, shelter and medical …

WSWS (2022-09-13). Minnesota nurses support call for open-ended strike: "I don't think they're going to budge until we do it" wsws.org 15,000 nurses began a strike in Minnesota yesterday against inadequate staffing , overwhelming workloads, shrinking pay amid inflation and ongoing safety issues.

_____ (2022-09-13). The Genius Of Ella Jo Baker. popularresistance.org Ella Jo Baker will be inducted into the Cooperative Hall of Fame as an "Unsung Hero" at a ceremony at the National Press Club on Oct. 6 in Washington DC. | Ella Baker is well-regarded as a giant in the Civil Rights Movement, known for her unique participatory grassroots organizing style and also for her ability to galvanize young people to bring a militancy in the struggle to end segregation. But Baker is less known for her innovative organizing prowess before the 1960s — forming a network of self-help cooperatives to bring economic relief to black people during the Depression. | "Ella Baker was one of the…

James Zogby (2022-09-13). Peaceful Resistance Turns Military Might Into Weakness. commondreams.org Civil disobedience and general strikes by Palestinian laborers, boycotts, and mass peaceful demonstrations at check points and the borders would paralyze Israel.

A Guest Author (2022-09-13). 'Monarchy is a survival of the tyranny'. workers.org 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 . . . |

Joe Sims (2022-09-13). To defeat imperialism, the peace movement needs every possible ally, even inconsistent ones. peoplesworld.org The following remarks were presented by Joe Sims, national co-chair of the Communist Party, at the CPUSA International Conference 2022: Dismantling Imperialism in the 21st Century, Sept. 10, 2022. Good afternoon, comrades, And greetings to all and especially to our fraternal parties and those who have joined us from abroad. We're glad to have you …

Asha Banerjee, Ben Zipperer (2022-09-13). It Shouldn't Take a Pandemic to Prove We Could End Child Poverty. commondreams.org Given the overwhelming effectiveness of various programs that lifted millions of children and families out of poverty, it is unconscionable that policymakers have allowed them to expire.

Jackson Todd (2022-09-13). California's fast food sectoral bargaining law could revolutionize the labor movement. peoplesworld.org It was a historic Labor Day for California's 5 ,000 fast food workers. Gov. Gavin Newsom signed the FAST Recovery Act, transforming labor rights for workers in the industry after a long organizing effort from workers across the state. Beyond California or fast food, this victory could shape a new era of the labor movement and …

Catherine Conlan, Mark Gruenberg (2022-09-13). Hospitals force 15K nurses into largest private-sector nurses strike ever. peoplesworld.org Hospital refusal to address sort-staffing, nurse-patient ratios, patient safety, and low pay forced more than 15,000 Minnesota nurses at 16 hospitals into what their union says is the largest private sector nurses strike in U.S. history. The nurses, members of the Minnesota Nurses Association/National Nurses United, gave their official strike notice to institutions in the …

____ (2022-09-13). IKCO exports "Tara", "Dena" cars to Armenia. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Sep. 13 (MNA) — With the re-entry of Iran Khodro Industrial Group (IKCO)'s products to the Armenian market, suitable ways have been provided for the Group to export its products to the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU).

WSWS (2022-09-13). UAW presidential candidate Will Lehman challenges other candidates to debate. wsws.org On Tuesday, September 13, rank-and-file socialist candidate for UAW president Will Lehman issued a statement challenging incumbent UAW President Ray Curry to commit to attending the debate scheduled for September 22 at 6 p.m. (Eastern).

Staff (2022-09-13). Oil Minister of Venezuela Presents New Evidence on PDVSA's Rafael Ramírez Corruption Case (Brother-in-Law Implicated). orinocotribune.com This Monday, September 12, Venezuelan Minister of Petroleum and President of Petróleos de Venezuela (PDVSA) Tareck El Aissami presented to the Attorney General's Office new evidence of the irregular financing that Rafael Ramírez, former president of PDVSA and former minister of Petroleum, had received from private non-financial entities. The case is going on in the framework of investigations into corruption in the Venezuelan oil industry. | "We have consigned the audit of the years 2012 and 2013," Minister El Aissami said in statements broadcast by Venezolana de Televisión (VTV). "Rafael Ramírez uses the false a…

TeleSUR, mcs, JL (2022-09-13). Presidente ruso destaca planes económicos en medio de sanciones. telesurtv.net El mandatario indicó que el plan de medidas anticrisis posibilitó que el presupuesto ruso se encuentre en mejor situación que muchos países del G20 y de los Brics.

____ (2022-09-12). Putin Sees Future with Asia and Claims Western Economic Decline in New Speech. transcend.org 9 Sep 2022 – Speaking at the Eastern Economic Forum, Putin addressed Western sanctions, Russia's growing relationship with Asia and an update on Ukraine.

Lowkey (2022-09-12). Economist Richard Wolff: Sanctions Against Russia, Inflation & Class War. mintpressnews.com Economist Dr. Richard Wolff joins Lowkey where he exposes ways economic policy can be a code term used by the political establishment for class war. Wolff explains how the cost of enmity with Russia is being placed on the shoulders of the working class in the West, whom recently experienced one of the worst crashes of capitalism in its history.

Alasdair Baverstock (2022-09-12). Controversial Trump-era policy exacerbates U.S.-China tensions in academia. america.cgtn.com U.S.-China tensions may be bleeding into the academic sector, and specifically scientific collaboration, as Chinese American scientists feel the ugly legacy of the Trump-era China tensions.

____ (2022-09-12). Students' enrollment rate on par with developed world. ecns.cn The gross enrollment rates of all levels of education in China have reached or exceeded those of middle- to high-income countries, Minister of Education Huai Jinpeng said on Friday.

Nora Barrows-Friedman (2022-09-12). Podcast Ep 64: Light in Gaza. electronicintifada.net A new anthology by Palestinian writers aims to break the intellectual blockade and imagine a liberated future.

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-09-12). The Widening Gap between Rich and Poor is Hastening the Transition to a Multipolar World. libya360.wordpress.com Veniamin Popov According to the charity Oxfam, which fights against poverty throughout the world, the ten wealthiest people in the world have seen their combined assets double in the last two years, from $700 billion to $1.5 trillion. In its briefing on inequality, Oxfam points out that "central banks pumped trillions of dollars into financial…

JANET (2022-09-12). My 70 years and the departed GDR. iacenter.org By Victor Grossman September 9, 2022 Karl-Marx-Allee, Berlin August 2022 — It's a momentous day! Not for the world — for which it's nothing special. But for me! Just 70 years ago, in nervous panic, I took off my U.S. Army jacket, shoes and sleeve insignia, and stepped into the swift Danube River which, at Linz in still-occupied Austria, divided the U.S. Zone from the USSR Zone. Although very wet at this short sector, it was part of the long Iron Curtain. And I was swimming across it in what most [U.S.] Americans would consider a very wrong direction! Author Victor Grossman (left) greets Pete Seeger at…

____ (2022-09-12). Electoral Conflicts and Political Polarization: What Can Mediators Do? transcend.org In conflict, our options ultimately boil down to two: go it alone or face it together. We make these choices every day, as individuals and neighbors, as organizations, societies, and nations. With the development of mediation, dialogue facilitation, collaborative negotiation, consensus building, and similar skills, we are better able to face our problems together and collaboratively.

Stan Cox (2022-09-12). 'We'll Meet Them Out in the Fields': Challenging the Pipelines to Nowhere. commondreams.org The primary purpose of these and other carbon pipeline systems was never to reduce atmospheric CO2. Its backers' aim is to turn a profit by spiffing up the environmental image of US feed-grain agriculture.

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Infobrics (2022-09-13). South Africa: Brics Urged to Work Collectively in Global Food, Fuel Crisis. infobrics.org The Speaker of the National Assembly, Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula, has emphasised the need for a collective solution from the Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (BRICS) bloc to mitigate the global food, fuel and financial crisis…

WSWS (2022-09-13). Socialism 2022 Conference: The pseudo-left promote imperialist war. wsws.org The primary aim of the Socialism 2022 Conference was to promote the US-NATO war against Russia, in line with the policy of the Biden administration, while seeking to bolster the trade unions as instruments for the suppression of the class struggle.

Infobrics (2022-09-13). BRICS Ties Seen As Key to Global Recovery. infobrics.org China is willing to continuously enhance practical cooperation with other four BRICS countriesÔºçBrazil, Russia, India, and South AfricaÔºçto jointly benefit from the New Industrial Revolution…

WSWS (2022-09-13). Spanish Morenoites back Podemos government's moves to suppress struggles against inflation. wsws.org The CRT is terrified of growing working class struggles against massive price hikes being used to pass costs of the US-NATO proxy war against Russia in Ukraine onto workers.

____ (2022-09-13). China invests more in water conservancy projects in past decade. ecns.cn China's investment in water conservancy projects during the past 10 years was five times as much as that in the previous decade, a water management official said Tuesday.

____ (2022-09-13). Provinces take lead in stabilizing growth. ecns.cn China's major provincial economies are stepping up efforts to stabilize the growth in their regions, with strong focus on expanding effective investment and spurring consumption.

Labor Video Project (2022-09-13). Google & Tech Workers With Community Demand No Tech For Apartheid! Cancel Project Nimbus. indybay.org Google workers who were members of CWA Alphabet Workers Union joined with other tech workers and community members rallied at San Francisco Google and Amazonn to protest the retaliation against Google worker Ariel Koren for speaking out against the Project Nimbus which uses Google technology to spy on Palestinian people for the apartheid regime.

WSWS (2022-09-13). Minnesota Nurses support call for open-ended strike: "I don't think they're going to budge until we do it." wsws.org 15,000 nurses began a strike in Minnesota yesterday against inadequate staffing levels, overwhelming workloads, shrinking pay exacerbated by inflation, and ongoing safety issues confronting nurses and their patients.

WSWS (2022-09-13). Minnesota Nurses support call for open-ended strike: "I don't think they're going to budge until we do it" wsws.org 15,000 nurses began a strike in Minnesota yesterday against inadequate staffing , overwhelming workloads, shrinking pay amid inflation and ongoing safety issues.

Jessica Corbett (2022-09-13). 15,000 Minnesota nurses launch historic strike to put 'patients before profits'Ôøº. nationofchange.org "We feel like this is the only thing we can do," said one nurse. "Hospitals tell us it's our fault, but we've been actively involved and getting nowhere."

_____ (2022-09-13). The Jackson Water System Has Been Failing For Decades Due To Racism. popularresistance.org Residents of West Jackson are in the midst of a severe water crisis due to the failure of a water treatment facility and don't know when they will have clean water in their homes again. The state is failing to get water to everyone, so many local groups are organizing mutual aid efforts. The governor refuses to access federal funds to fully repair the city's water infrastructure, which has been failing for decades. Clearing the FOG speaks with Kali Akuno, a co-founder of Cooperation Jackson, about the current crisis, including how the wealthy residents were spared, how it fits into the bigger picture of systemic…

Labor Video Project (2022-09-13). Chile's 9/11 & The Rise Of US Fascism. indybay.org Labor Historian & Professor Ruth Needleman talks about the lessons of Chile's coup in relation to the growing fascist movement in the US.

WSWS (2022-09-13). Effusive official response to Queen's death underlines deep political crisis in Australia. wsws.org Nervously, the Queen is being variously described as the "anchor," "ballast" and "bedrock" that held society together for 70 years amid economic, political and social turmoil.

WSWS (2022-09-13). UAW presidential candidate Will Lehman launches new campaign website: "Put rank-and-file workers in power!" wsws.org Collected on the new site are a wide range of statements that Lehman has issued since launching his campaign in June which elaborate his program and perspective.

WorkWeek (2022-09-13). WW CNA Kaiser Nurses/Patients In Danger. PG&E Newsom Leg Corruption & UPS Oven In Trucks. indybay.org WorkWeek covers CNA Kaiser Nurses & Patients In Danger & PG&E Newsom Legislature Corruption & UPS "Oven In The Trucks" IBT Workers Heat & Labor Poet Tongo Issac-Martin…

WSWS (2022-09-13). New Zealand government ends COVID mask mandates. wsws.org New Zealand's Labour Party-led government has embraced the demands of the far-right, anti-vax protesters, removing almost all mask mandates, all vaccine mandates, and promoting the lie that the pandemic is over.

Isaac Nellist (2022-09-13). Apple workers organise to fight for a fair enterprise agreement. greenleft.org.au Retail workers at Apple stores across the country have applied to the Fair Work Commission to take industrial action for a fair enterprise agreement. Isaac Nellist reports.

WSWS (2022-09-13). US dollar surge causing financial and economic instability. wsws.org The rise in the dollar, which is fuelling price hikes in the rest of the world via imported goods, is one of the factors driving interest rate hikes by central banks, particularly in Europe.

Staff (2022-09-13). Cuadrando la caja: øOtra empresa estatal socialista es posible? (II) (+Video). cubadebate.cu Este domingo 11 de septiembre conversamos sobre la empresa estatal socialista en Cuba… øHan condicionado las decisiones tomadas hasta ahora, una mejor gestión y un incremento de la eficiencia y la productividad? øQué frena las transformaciones necesarias: preparación de los directivos, tradición verticalista, falta de liderazgo?

_____ (2022-09-12). The Widening Gap between Rich and Poor is Hastening the Transition to a Multipolar World. journal-neo.org According to the charity Oxfam, which fights against poverty throughout the world, the ten wealthiest people in the world have seen their combined assets double in the last two years, from $700 billion to $1.5 trillion. In its briefing on inequality, Oxfam points out that "central banks pumped trillions of dollars into financial markets to …

WSWS (2022-09-12). 15,000 Minnesota nurses begin statewide strike: Build rank-and-file committees to unite with health care workers in Wisconsin, Michigan, New York and California! wsws.org Health care workers everywhere want to end intolerable working conditions, the eating up of their meager paychecks by inflation, and the subordination of health care to corporate profit.

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-09-12). Urgent: Witch Hunt by Neo-Nazis in Kharkov, Ukraine. libya360.wordpress.com Borotba Borotba banner at a rally outside the Kharkov Regional Administration building in May 2014. Photo: Svetlana Licht. Borotba (Struggle) is a revolutionary Marxist organization based in Ukraine and the Donbass people's republics. It has been outlawed by the Kiev regime since the U.S.-backed coup in 2014. Sept. 10 — Very disturbing news comes from…

Infobrics (2022-09-12). Massive propaganda machine behind Ukraine fakes. infobrics.org With direct financial backing from the US and NATO, spreading disinformation about Russia has become the mainstay in Western state-run mass media.

Editor (2022-09-12). Richard Wolff: Sanctions Against Russia, Inflation and Class War. scheerpost.com Economist Dr. Richard Wolff joins Lowkey where he exposes ways economic policy can be a code term used by the political establishment for class war. Wolff explains how the cost of enmity with Russia is being placed on the shoulders of the working class in the West, whom recently experienced one of the worst crashes of capitalism in its history.

____ (2022-09-12). Documents to be discussed at upcoming CPC Central Committee plenary session deliberated. ecns.cn The Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee on Friday held a meeting to deliberate documents to be submitted for discussion at the seventh plenary session of the 19th CPC Central Committee.

Infobrics (2022-09-12). Folha de S.Paulo: Brazil Becomes Main Country for Chinese Investment. infobrics.org The People's Republic of China (PRC) tripled its investment in Brazil in 2021, making the South American nation a major destination for Chinese capital…

Nora Barrows-Friedman (2022-09-12). Podcast Ep 64: Light in Gaza. electronicintifada.net A new anthology by Palestinian writers aims to break the intellectual blockade and imagine a liberated future.

_____ (2022-09-12). AAR Report: Nationwide Rail Shutdown Could Cost $2 Billion Per Day. popularresistance.org According to the report, if negotiations between the remaining rail unions and the National Carrier Conference Committee (NCCC), which represents most Class I railroads and many smaller ones, remain unsettled by Friday, Sept. 16 at 12: 01 a.m., "Congress must act to prevent a service interruption that would immediately harm every economic sector served by rail." Failure to act, AAR says, could idle more than 7,000 trains daily and trigger retail product shortages, widespread manufacturing shutdowns, job losses and disruptions to hundreds of thousands of passenger rail customers. | Specifically, the report updates…

Isheka N. Harrison (2022-09-12). Billionaires Jay-Z And Jack Dorsey Airdrop $1000 Worth Of Bitcoin Each To Residents Of Marcy Projects. moguldom.com Billionaires Shawn "Jay-Z" Carter and Jack Dorsey have shared some of their wealth — their bitcoin wealth that is — with residents of Marcy Houses, the Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn-based public housing complex where Jay-Z grew up. The duo granted $1,000 in bitcoin to each adult Marcy resident who completed their Bitcoin Academy's inaugural cohort, a free …

Dana Sanchez (2022-09-12). Bankruptcies Are Starting: Owner Of Regal Cinemas Files Chapter 11. moguldom.com Twenty large U.S. companies filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in the first half of 2022 — less than half the number in the first half of 2021 — but an uptick of smaller commercial bankruptcy filings in August could be a prelude to a wave of reorganizations in the fall. Higher interest rates, inflation, a …

Dana Sanchez (2022-09-12). Biden's Inflation Reduction Act: Here Are Tips To Qualify For Up To $14K In Home Upgrades. moguldom.com President Joe Biden's Inflation Reduction Act is incentivizing low- and middle-income Americans to help mitigate climate change with up to $14,000 in tax credits and direct cash rebates offered to people who upgrade their homes to be more energy-efficient. Consumers who buy energy-efficient appliances like dryers and stoves or install rooftop panels, for example, …

Staff (2022-09-12). The Fed Should Wait and See. cepr.net With recent data showing that both inflation and inflation expectations have eased, it would be irresponsible for the US Federal Reserve to create much higher unemployment. Amid so much uncertainty, it should instead pause interest-rate hikes until a more reliable assessment of macroeconomic conditions is possible.

WSWS (2022-09-12). Australian retail lobby calls for working age to be lowered to 13. wsws.org Amid spiralling inflation and the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the ruling class is intent on destroying the hard-won rights gained by workers over a whole historical period, including restrictions on child labour.

Joseph Stiglitz, Dean Baker (2022-09-12). As Inflation Eases, It's Time for Fed to Pause on Rate Hikes. commondreams.org Amid so much uncertainty, the Federal Reserve should pause interest-rate hikes until a more reliable assessment of macroeconomic conditions is possible.

WSWS (2022-09-12). Sri Lankan farmers speak out over catastrophic conditions. wsws.org SEP members have been campaigning among farmers in northern parts of Sri Lanka as part of the party's struggle for the establishment of action committees and for a Democratic and Socialist Congress of Workers and Rural Masses.

_____ (2022-09-12). Protests Throughout The Global South Signal Opposition To Austerity. popularresistance.org It has now been two months since tens of thousands of Sri Lankans stormed the presidential palace and toppled the country's president in a powerful rejection of price hikes on food and fuel. As shocking and inspiring as the news was, many economists and geopolitical experts were quick to point out that Sri Lanka would not be the last country to experience a mass-uprising. | Around the world, the policies of the neoliberal era are straining economies as the neoliberal system is pitched into crisis after crisis. In the last several years, these crises have been fueled by supply chain disruptions from the pandemic,…

_____ (2022-09-12). Ten Years Ago, Chicago Teachers Gave Us All A Jolt Of Hope. popularresistance.org If you feel like your union needs a jump-start—whether you're a longtime shop steward or just started your first union job—this book is for you. | The impulse you have ("This union could be stronger and better, and I want to help change it") makes you part of a long tradition—what we at Labor Notes affectionately call the trouble-making wing of the labor movement. | One basic principle unites us troublemakers. We believe democracy, meaning broad member participation at every level of the union, is the heart of union power. | The Chicago Teachers Union's 2012 strike didn't just put the union on t…

Labor Video Project (2022-09-12). "Working In An Oven" IBT UPS Teamsters Speak Out On Deadly Heatwave, Life and Death. indybay.org IBT UPS drivers and warehouse workers speak out about the dangerous temperature conditions that workers must operate in. Additionally many UPS trucks do not even have a fan.

____ (2022-09-12). Let's Stop Pretending America Is a Functioning Democracy. transcend.org 4 Sep 2022 – The U.S. posits itself as a champion of opportunity, freedom, human rights and civil liberties, even as half the country struggles at subsistence level, militarized police gun down and imprison the poor with impunity, and the primary business of the state is war. This collective self-delusion masks who we have become. Under inverted totalitarianism, there is no attempt, unlike fascism and state socialism, to address the needs of the poor.

Rqorinoco (2022-09-12). 'The Haitian People Need a Socialist State,' Says Journalist Jean Waltès Bien-Aimé. orinocotribune.com By Tanya Wadhwa — Sep 8, 2022 | Tens of thousands of Haitians have been taking to the streets, demanding the resignation of Ariel Henry. To understand the situation on the ground, we spoke with Haitian journalist Jean Waltès Bien-Aimé | Since August 22, under the banner of "Rise Up for Another Independence," tens of thousands of Haitians have been repeatedly taking to the streets in different parts of the country, demanding the resignation of de-facto Prime Minister and acting President Ariel Henry. Protesters have criticized that during the past year of his governance, the economic, political, and social c…

Orinoco Tribune 2 (2022-09-12). Declassified Mossad Document Reveals Military Collaboration With Lebanese Christian Militias. orinocotribune.com The report establishes 1958 as the year when contact between Lebanese officials and the Israeli military establishment was first initiated | Almost a week before the 40th anniversary of the Sabra and Shatila massacre, a document submitted to the Israeli High Court of Justice has revealed Israel's role in Lebanon's bloody conflicts, dating back to the 19 's. | The report establishes 1958 as the year when contact was first made between Lebanese Christian leaders and the Israeli military establishment. | Then-Lebanese President Camille Chamoun requested armed assistance from the Israeli army to counter the 1958 powe…

Editor (2022-09-12). The Big Myth About Inequality: It Just Happened! scheerpost.com By Dean Baker / Beat the Press/CEPR The standard line in policy circles about the soaring inequality of the last four decades is that it is just an unfortunate outcome of technological change. As a result of technological developments, education is much more highly valued and physical labor has much less value. The drop in …

Kevin Gosztola (2022-09-12). US Labor Department Sues Texas Newspaper For Firing Reporter Who Complained About Bugs. thedissenter.org Killeen Daily Herald, a Texas newspaper, was sued by the US Labor Department for allegedly firing a reporter who complained about bugs…

WSWS (2022-09-12). Seattle educators speak out on the consequences of understaffing, inadequate support and low pay. wsws.org Several teachers at Seattle Public Schools spoke with the World Socialist Web Site about the key issues they are fighting to address in their ongoing strike, which began on September 7.

____ (2022-09-12). King Charles III pledges 'lifelong service' as Britain's new monarch. ecns.cn Britain's King Charles III on Friday pledged "lifelong service" in his first address to the nation and the Commonwealth after assuming the throne following the death of his mother, Queen Elizabeth II, on Thursday.

WSWS (2022-09-12). UAW presidential candidate Will Lehman discusses socialism with libertarian worker (and other correspondence). wsws.org Every week, UAW presidential candidate Will Lehman, a socialist rank-and-file Mack Trucks worker from Macungie, Pennsylvania, receives letters from workers in the UAW and in other industries on his campaign to abolish the bureaucracy and give power to the workers on the shop floor.

WSWS (2022-09-12). Nevada nurses refuse to clock-in due to understaffing. wsws.org Former Henderson Hospital ICU nurse, Diana, spoke with the World Socialist Web Site and described the terrible working conditions at the hospital.

WSWS (2022-09-12). "They're trying to ram the same thing down our throats": US Steel worker in Gary, Indiana, denounces USW-Cliffs sellout deal. wsws.org A US Steel worker speaks out against union-management collaboration to deepen exploitation of the working class and plans to push through a concessions contract.

Ashik Siddique (2022-09-12). Canceling All Student Debt Would Cost About as Much as The Pentagon's F-35 Boondoggle. commondreams.org When it comes to military spending in the United States, money is no object—even for programs like the F-35, which has been criticized for many years as an expensive failure that should be phased out altogether.

Suds, Snacks,, Socialism Forum Committee (2022-09-12). Saturday 9/10: Housing: Commodity or Human Right? indybay.org

Joel Richards (2022-09-12). Food prices skyrocketing in Argentina. america.cgtn.com In 2021 Argentina became the world ¥s second largest producer of corn. It also remained in the top three main exporters of beef and soy. So why are food prices so high for locals? Joel Richards reports.

____ (2022-09-12). Conflicts with Asteroid Mining. transcend.org 30 Aug 2022 – Questions abound about unregulated space mining. Before humans rush off into the heavens in a quest to extract wealth, that the institutions on Earth be enabled and prepared to monitor and regulate the process.

WSWS (2022-09-12). Dilapidated dormitory complex in Munich highlights drastic situation facing students. wsws.org The number of students facing the financial abyss continues to grow. A report by the charity Parità§tischer Wohlfahrtsverband makes clear that students have been fobbed off with meagre handouts by politicians for years.

Michelle Hernandez (2022-09-12). First city in Southeast Los Angeles to win rent stabilization and just cause ordinance. liberationnews.org On August 22, the Bell Gardens City Council voted unanimously in favor of the first Rent Control and Just Cause ordinance in Southeast Los Angeles. This victory comes after 2.5 years of tireless organizing by the largely working class immigrant women and families that make up the Union de Vecinas of Bell Gardens, backed by non-profit California Latinas for Reproductive Justice. The ordinance still requires one more final vote of approval, but once passed will set an incredible precedent in a region of LA County that has been historically neglected, marginalized and victim to corruption scandals.

Staff (2022-09-12). Cuadrando la Caja: Las nuevas medidas económicas. cubadebate.cu Y hace algunos días anunciábamos en este mismo espacio que dedicaríamos un programa para analizar, reflexionar, sobre las medidas que recientemente dio a conocer nuestro Viceprimer Ministro y Ministro de Economía Alejandro Gil para impulsar nuestra economía. Si le cuadra el tema por favor acompáñenos, porque hoy es el primero de un ciclo de programas que dedicaremos para abordar este tema.

_____ (2022-09-11). Joe Biden, the US Military-Industrial Complex, and Arms Supplies to Ukraine and Taiwan. journal-neo.org It is an open secret that money plays a decisive role in US presidential election campaigns &#1 ; all those advertisements and consultancy and PR services have to be paid for. Moreover, as the Democrats' strategy has made clear, organizing street protests and media and other Information campaigns is an expensive business &#1 ; and a lot …

Editor (2022-09-11). The President Gets an "F" in American History. scheerpost.com By Jim Mamer / Original to ScheerPost For 35 years I taught high school classes in politics, economics and American history. And for 35 years I struggled against a mythological past that is central to virtually every state-approved secondary American history textbook. I'm not referring to what might be called "conservative" texts or to those …

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2022-09-12: News Headlines

Christian Hacke, Peter Nowak (2022-09-12). We are witnessing the collapse of diplomacy. indybay.org We, who keep this society running, are footing the bill, while the super-rich and big corporations are lining their pockets, making profits from the crises.

WSWS (2022-09-12). Russia's debacle in Kharkiv. wsws.org The military collapse is not a tactical, but a strategic failure. It has exposed the total bankruptcy of the Russian government's response to the US-NATO war drive, and the Putin government's catastrophic miscalculation in launching the invasion of Ukraine on February 20.

Infobrics (2022-09-12). BRICS Ties Seen As Key to Global Recovery. infobrics.org China is willing to continuously enhance practical cooperation with other four BRICS countriesÔºçBrazil, Russia, India, and South AfricaÔºçto jointly benefit from the New Industrial Revolution…

Suds, Snacks,, Socialism Forum Committee (2022-09-12). Saturday 9/10: Housing: Commodity or Human Right? indybay.org

Labor Video Project (2022-09-12). Chile's 9/11 & The Rise Of US Fascism. indybay.org Chile and the world will commemorate the 49th anniversary of the 1973 coup. The coup we organized and funded by the US government with the active support of the AFL-CIO American Institute For Free Labor Development. Labor professor Ruth Needleman from Indiana University was in Chile prior to the coup and interviewed many of the Chilean supporters and the AIFLD and US operatives. She talks about that coup and the rise of fascism in the United States.

WorkWeek (2022-09-12). WW CNA Kaiser Nurses/Patients In Danger. PG&E Newsom Leg Corruption & UPS Oven In Trucks. indybay.org WorkWeek covers CNA Kaiser Nurses & Patients In Danger & PG&E Newsom Legislature Corruption & UPS "Oven In The Trucks" IBT Workers Heat & Labor Poet Tongo Issac-Martin…

_____ (2022-09-11). Michael Hudson On Debt Relief, Inflation, Ukraine And More. popularresistance.org This is Ben Norton of Multipolarista. I'm joined by one of my favorite guests today, the brilliant economist Michael Hudson. And there are a lot of things that we plan on talking about today. | We're going to address the partial student debt relief in the United States, and the problem of debt, which is something that Professor Hudson has written a lot about. | We're going to talk about the inflation crisis, and some of the history of responses to the inflation that we've seen in the US. For instance, I'm going to pick Professor Hudson's brain about Richard Nixon's response. Nixon imposed price controls and froze…

Staff (2022-09-11). Italian minister calls for price cap on all gas imported. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Sep. 11 (MNA) — Italian Minister for Ecological Transition Roberto Cingolani said the European Union should introduce a cap on gas prices for exporters across the board as targeting Russia's dwindling gas exports to Europe "makes no sense."

____ (2022-09-11). China automobile sector maintains rapid growth momentum. ecns.cn China's automobile industry continued to see robust growth in production and sales in August despite COVID-19 outbreaks, industrial data showed Friday.

_____ (2022-09-11). Rifles, Tasers And Jails: How Cities And States Spent Billions Of COVID-19 Relief. popularresistance.org After signing the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) last spring, President Joe Biden touted what the economic stimulus bill would deliver: food assistance to millions of people in need, lower healthcare premiums for millions of Americans, and $350 billion for state and local governments to spend on COVID-19 recovery. Economists say it was the largest infusion of federal funding in local governments in almost 40 years. | A year later, ARPA became one of President Biden's talking points to demonstrate Democrats are not out to defund the police. | "[T]he American Rescue Plan … provided $350 billion tha…

____ (2022-09-11). Iran's exports value to Iraq at about $14bn: Deputy FM. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Sep. 11 (MNA) — Iran's Deputy Foreign Minister for the Economic Diplomacy Affairs considered country's trade with Iraq 'very important' and put Iran's exports value to neighboring Iraq at about $14 billion.

Fight Back (2022-09-11). Red Theory: The National Question in the era of imperialism. fightbacknews.org Imperialism means monopoly capitalism, but it brings along with it war and national oppression. Because of the peculiar dynamics of imperialism in the era of proletarian revolution, the national question takes on a particular importance, and, concretely, must be understood and dealt with practically in ways that differ from the pre-imperialist period of competitive capitalism. | What do we mean by the "national question" and why is this important? Essentially, Marxist-Leninists, when referring to the national question, are referring to the analysis of the problems posed to the revolutionary movement by the mater…

_____ (2022-09-11). Greek Students And Teachers Protest Deployment Of 'University Police'. popularresistance.org On Thursday, September 8, students, teachers and other university workers took out a massive rally in the Constitution Square in Athens protesting the deployment of police on campuses. Activists from the Students Struggle Front (MAS) and Communist Youth of Greece (KNE) were among those who participated in the mobilization. | They condemned the conservative New Democracy (ND)-led government's bid to put the university campuses under police surveillance. The protesters in Athens denounced the deployment of 'University Police' at the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), Athens University of Economics and…

Contributing Writers (2022-09-11). The Truth about the Soviet Gulag — Surprisingly Revealed by the CIA. marktaliano.net Fact and propaganda have been at odds for over a century, and the prospect that the Big Lie will finally vanish remains slim. Introduction Aleksandr Solhenitsyn, a misguided patriot and unapologetic reactionary was used for many years by the West as a propaganda battering ram against the USSR, and communism in general. "Humanitarian" lies serve to …

Staff (2022-09-11). Soaring energy prices provoke new protests across Europe. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Sep. 11 (MNA) — The severely increasing energy prices in European countries have sparked new rounds of protests by the Yellow Vests in France, people in the Austrian capital Vienna, and angry protesters in Italy's Naples.

Anonymous669 (2022-09-11). First French-Made GM 403 Long-Range Radar Enters Service With Iraqi Army (Video). southfront.org Screen grab from footage released by the Iraqi Ministry of Defense. | On September 11, the Iraqi military activated the first of several Ground Master 403 radars it recently purchased from France. | The GM 403 is a fully digital active electronically scanned array long-range air defense 3D radar, that offers detection from very high to very low altitudes. It tracks a wide range of targets from highly maneuverable tactical aircraft flying at low altitudes to the unconventional small radar-cross-section de…

WSWS (2022-09-11). German State Labour Court rejects appeal by sacked WISAG airport bus drivers. wsws.org The court's rejection of the appeal by sacked airport bus drivers shows that workers in struggle against an unscrupulous employer cannot rely on the judicial system.

Thomas Palley, Leo Ensel (2022-09-11). How the West betrayed Mikhail Gorbatchev. indybay.org Gorbachev wanted to transform the Soviet Union from a closed, repressive system into an open, communicative socialist system that would be part of the European family. This effort was called glasnost (openness) and was advanced through the reform movement called perestroika.

Staff (2022-09-11). Realizan prueba dinámica para votación en el exterior del referendo por el Código de las Familias. cubadebate.cu El canciller cubano, Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla, informó en Twitter que concluyó con éxito la prueba dinámica para la votación del referendo por el Código de las Familias que se realizó este domingo entre los cubanos en misiones diplomáticas o compromisos laborales en el extranjero. El referendo se realizará el domingo 18 en las misiones de Cuba en el exterior.

Staff (2022-09-11). Solidaridad europea impulsa plataforma para la colaboración con Cuba. cubadebate.cu Representantes de España, Francia e Italia, y a nivel europeo, apoyaron la declaración final del foro convocado por la asociación Cuba Coopération France (CubaCoop), texto que llama a elevar el acompañamiento a la isla hacia una etapa superior, en forma de alianza estratégica frente al bloqueo económico, comercial y financiero.

TeleSUR- jaa, JL (2022-09-11). Continúan labores de rescate a mineros atrapados en Ecuador. telesurtv.net "Por causas desconocidas se suscitó el colapso de un puntal que sostenía una viga con materia de relleno en la Mina Señor de Roma", señala el informe como causa principal del desplome.

TeleSUR, JGN (2022-09-11). Carlos III es proclamado de manera oficial nuevo rey del Reino Unido. telesurtv.net El nuevo monarca británico se comprometió a consolidar "la armonía y la prosperidad de los pueblos de estas islas y de los reinos y territorios de la Commonwealth en todo el mundo".

Staff (2022-09-11). Adivinando a las proteínas (II): Inteligencia natural y artificial. cubadebate.cu Desde hace más de medio siglo el Laboratorio Nacional de Brookhaven, en los EE.UU., y la Universidad de Cambridge, en el Reino Unido, se asociaron para crear un almacén de información acerca de la constitución de proteínas que se iban obteniendo a partir de mediciones experimentales. Inicialmente eran una pocas, pues una sola determinación era muy costosa en tiempo y recursos. Se trata del famoso "Protein Data Bank" o simplemente PDB. Hoy tienen diversos datos estructurales de cerca de 200 000 proteínas.

Ana Perdigón (2022-09-11). Venezuela Ready to Export Fuel to Europe and the US. orinocotribune.com On Saturday, September 10, the president of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, said that Venezuela is ready to export fuel to the United States and Europe. | During an official program at the PetroCedeño Industrial Complex, the president said that Venezuela has the oil and gas needed to stabilize the world energy market. | "Venezuela is ready and prepared to export our products to any market that need it," said President Maduro. | Gracias a instrucciones del Pdte.

Peter Dreier (2022-09-10). Barbara Ehrenreich Showed Us the Need for Socialist Policies. commondreams.org "If we are serious about collective survival in the face of our multiple crises, we have to build organizations, including explicitly socialist ones, that can mobilize this talent, develop leadership, and advance local struggles," she wrote.

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2022-09-11: News Headlines

Labor Video Project (2022-09-11). Google & Tech Workers With Community Demand No Tech For Apartheid! Cancel Project Nimbus. indybay.org Google workers who were members of CWA Alphabet Workers Union joined with other tech workers and community members rallied at San Francisco Google and Amazonn to protest the retaliation against Google worker Ariel Koren for speaking out against the Project Nimbus which uses Google technology to spy on Palestinian people for the apartheid regime.

Christian Hacke, Peter Nowak (2022-09-11). We are witnessing the collapse of diplomacy. indybay.org We, who keep this society running, are footing the bill, while the super-rich and big corporations are lining their pockets, making profits from the crises.

____ (2022-09-11). Students' enrollment rate on par with developed world. ecns.cn The gross enrollment rates of all levels of education in China have reached or exceeded those of middle- to high-income countries, Minister of Education Huai Jinpeng said on Friday.

____ (2022-09-11). Documents to be discussed at upcoming CPC Central Committee plenary session deliberated. ecns.cn The Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee on Friday held a meeting to deliberate documents to be submitted for discussion at the seventh plenary session of the 19th CPC Central Committee.

Labor Video Project (2022-09-11). "Working In An Oven" IBT UPS Teamsters Speak Out On Deadly Heatwave, Life and Death. indybay.org IBT UPS drivers and warehouse workers speak out about the dangerous temperature conditions that workers must operate in. Additionally many UPS trucks do not even have a fan.

Anonymous103 (2022-09-11). The "Scariest Paper Of 2022" Reveals The Terrifying Fate Of Biden's Economy: Millions Are About To Lose Their Job. southfront.org Originally published by ZeroHedge For much of the past year (and certainly at the time, more than a year ago,…

Suds, Snacks,, Socialism Forum Committee (2022-09-11). Saturday 9/10: Housing: Commodity or Human Right? indybay.org

____ (2022-09-11). King Charles III pledges 'lifelong service' as Britain's new monarch. ecns.cn Britain's King Charles III on Friday pledged "lifelong service" in his first address to the nation and the Commonwealth after assuming the throne following the death of his mother, Queen Elizabeth II, on Thursday.

Labor Video Project (2022-09-11). Chile's 9/11 & The Rise Of US Fascism. indybay.org Chile and the world will commemorate the 49th anniversary of the 1973 coup. The coup we organized and funded by the US government with the active support of the AFL-CIO American Institute For Free Labor Development. Labor professor Ruth Needleman from Indiana University was in Chile prior to the coup and interviewed many of the Chilean supporters and the AIFLD and US operatives. She talks about that coup and the rise of fascism in the United States.

WSWS (2022-09-10). Prague: Mass protest against war and inflation reveals crisis of political perspective. wsws.org 70,000 people demonstrated in the Czech capital of Prague on 3 September against rising energy prices and the NATO war in Ukraine, demanding the government resign.

Ahmed Adel (2022-09-10). Poland Destroys Economy to Strengthen NATO's Eastern Border with Russia. globalresearch.ca

Anonymous103 (2022-09-10). Key Chinese Components In F-35s Show Vulnerabilities Of US Military Industrial Complex. southfront.org F-35A Lightning II in the Heart of Texas Airshow April 7, 2019. (Senior Airman Alexander Cook/U.S. Air Force)The F-35 is a premier ISR platform that allows the US unprecedented access to other countries' intelligence, which is aimed against Russia and China. | Written by Drago Bosnic, independent geopolitical and military analyst | It is no secret that in the last couple of decades the global economy has become so intertwined that any sort of trouble in one seemingly unimportant market can cause a ripple effect on a sc…

F. William Engdahl (2022-09-10). Global Planned Financial Tsunami Has Just Begun. globalresearch.ca Green Energy mandates are driving this inflation crisis: global shortages of fertilizers, soaring prices of natural gas, grain supply losses, coupled with the global snowballing of defaults, bankruptcies, amid a soaring inflation.

Dean Baker (2022-09-10). Republicans: Another Reason a Recession Would be Really Bad News. cepr.net If there is one lesson we have learned well following the Great Recession, it is much easier for the Fed to use monetary policy to slow the economy than to boost it out of a recession.

Roger D. Harris (2022-09-10). Possible Prisoner Exchange in US Hybrid War Against Venezuela. orinocotribune.com By Roger D. Harris &#1 ; Sep 7, 2022 | US special presidential envoy for hostage affairs Roger Carstens is on a case which could lead to freeing Venezuelan diplomat Alex Saab. Pressure is building on the Biden administration to swap Saab for some American citizens currently incarcerated in Venezuela. | Alex Saab targeted in the US economic war against Venezuela | Alex Saab, who has been confined for over two years, is a victim of the US economic war calculated to achieve regime-change in Venezuela. He has been targeted because of his role in helping circumvent the sanctions imposed on Venezuela by the US. These m…

_____ (2022-09-10). States Propose Expanding Highways With Federal Infrastructure Funds. popularresistance.org In November 2021, President Joe Biden signed the Bipartisan Infrastructure Package into law, which allocates $1.2 trillion toward infrastructure and was meant to reduce transportation emissions. While the federal government is guiding states to use the funding toward public transit and other improvements, like increased bike lanes, a new report finds that state and local governments may lean toward using the money toward highway expansions instead. | The report from U.S. Public Interest Research Group, a nonprofit organization, maps out highway projects across the country that could use up infrastructure funding…

_____ (2022-09-10). States Propose Expanding Highways With Federal Infrastructure Funds Intended to Reduce Emissions. popularresistance.org In November 2021, President Joe Biden signed the Bipartisan Infrastructure Package into law, which allocates $1.2 trillion toward infrastructure and was meant to reduce transportation emissions. While the federal government is guiding states to use the funding toward public transit and other improvements, like increased bike lanes, a new report finds that state and local governments may lean toward using the money toward highway expansions instead. | The report from U.S. Public Interest Research Group, a nonprofit organization, maps out highway projects across the country that could use up infrastructure funding…

Scorinoco (2022-09-10). Economic War Against Venezuela Began in 2002, President Maduro Says. orinocotribune.com The president of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro said this Friday, September 9, that the economic war against Venezuela, carried out by the US and the collective "West," began in December 2002 with the oil strike of the Venezuelan political right wing. | "Imperialism aimed for an economic collapse [of Venezuela]," the president commented during an official program at the Petrocedeño Industrial Complex. "The economic war began long before the sanctions. It began on December 6, 2002. That was when the intense economic war began. Targeting the principal wealth of the country in order to defeat Comandante Hugo Chávez. That…

Kamal Iranidoost (2022-09-10). Enemies seek to starve Yemenis in new form of war. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Sep. 10 (MNA) — The speaker of the Iranian Parliament Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf said Saturday that the enemies seek to turn the war on Yemen into an economic war after failing in the military battlefied.

Christina Yek, Sarah Warner, Alex Mancera, Sameer S Kadri (2022-09-10). [Correspondence] Misclassification bias in estimating clinical severity of SARS-CoV-2 variants. thelancet.com Tommy Nyberg and colleagues1 use an unvaccinated cohort to show differences between the intrinsic severity of the omicron (B.1.1.529) and delta (B.1.617.2) variants of SARS-CoV-2 without confounding by pre-existing immunity. They report an 80% reduction in the severity of the omicron compared with the delta variant, suggesting the possibility of living through the COVID-19 pandemic without social and economic disruptions. However, reliance on SARS-CoV-2 test positivity to identify cases of COVID-19 and on all-cause hospitalisations and deaths as outcomes could have introduced misclassification bias and residual c…

_____ (2022-09-10). University of Washington Moves to Divest from Fossil Fuels. popularresistance.org After more than two years of pressure from student climate activists at the University of Washington, the University's Board of Regents passed a resolution to divest the school's endowment, worth more than $6B, from the fossil fuel industry. | The resolution, released last Friday, would move investments of around $124 million currently funding fossil fuel projects into "climate solutions." This move would add UW to a long list of public and private universities which have committed to removing investments in fossil fuel projects. "Moves like this are necessary to restore our faith in institutions during a crisis…

_____ (2022-09-10). This is How We Heal by Susan Anglada Bartley and Lexy Kahn. popularresistance.org It was that tiny shred of hope that drove us out of our homes, but for many a mass reckoning around white privilege was also a motivating factor. The geographic, social, and economic demographics of Portland, a city deemed 'The Whitest City in America,' a city located in a state that was originally founded as a white supremacist utopia, a city also known for both anarchist underpinnings and quirky white liberal Portlandia funkiness, was the only place where this could have happened exactly as it did. Portland was already known for massive protests. The history of protest in Portland in the past twenty years must…

_____ (2022-09-10). Biden's MAGA Obsession Won't Help Democrats. popularresistance.org "MAGA proposals are a threat to the very soul of this country." Joe Biden"The MAGA agenda represents an extremism that threatens the very foundations of our Republic." Joe Biden"The MAGA ideology looks at America and sees carnage and darkness and despair." Joe Biden"MAGA Republicans in Congress look at the mob that stormed the United States Capitol on January 6th not as insurrectionists but as patriots." Joe Biden | Anyone paying attention knows that Joe Biden's accomplishments as president are pretty sparse. The oligarchy allowed his American Rescue Plan stimulus program to go through but then put a stop on Buil…

Anonymous669 (2022-09-10). UAE Wants To Buy 120 Bayraktar Combat Drones From Turkey — Report. southfront.org Bayrakdar TB2 UCAV, source: ssb.gov.tr | The United Arab Emirates (UAE) is negotiating the purchase of 120 Bayraktar TB2 combat drones from Turkey's Baykar, Two people familiar with the negotiations told London-based news outlet that Baykar and the Emirati arms procurement agency Tawazun have been negotiating the deal since March."[Bayraktar TB2 drones] will…

WSWS (2022-09-10). With one week left before potential national rail strike, showdown building between US railroaders and Biden administration. wsws.org All of the institutions, which the ruling class has relied upon for so long to suppress the class struggle, are now mired in crisis, while the working class is being thrust into struggle by the deepest crisis of American and world capitalism in a century.

WSWS (2022-09-10). Homelessness worsens dramatically in New Zealand under Labour. wsws.org The Labour Party-led government of Jacinda Ardern, which promised to fix the housing crisis in its 2017 election campaign, is now seeing its support plummet as the social crisis becomes even more severe.

Imani Countess (2022-09-10). The US Must Ends Its Complicity in Illicit Financial Flows Out of Africa. commondreams.org Currently, there are no consequences for the U.S.-based companies involved in the illicit looting of African nations' wealth.

Sarah Anderson, Rebekah Entralgo (2022-09-10). A Farmworker Speaks Truth to Power in Washington. commondreams.org Labor Secretary Marty Walsh got an earful from essential workers before inducting them into the agency's Hall of Honor.

Staff (2022-09-10). Alicia Bárcena es ratificada como embajadora de México ante Chile. cubadebate.cu En comisiones, el Senado ratificó por unanimidad el nombramiento presidencial de Alicia Bárcena Ibarra como embajadora de México ante Chile, luego de una comparecencia en la que la ex titular de la Comisión Económica para América Latina y Caribe expresó que buscaría ampliar los vínculos de colaboración con el país andino.

TeleSUR, DRL (2022-09-10). Mineros del cobre van a huelga por inseguridad laboral en Chile. telesurtv.net Fue convocada por el sindicato de los trabajadores chilenos de la minera de cobre más productiva del mundo.

Benjamin Norton (2022-09-09). Economist Michael Hudson on debt relief, inflation, Ukraine disaster capitalism, petrodollar crisis. multipolarista.com Economist Michael Hudson discusses partial student debt relief in the US, inflation and the Fed, disaster capitalism in Ukraine, and China's challenge to the petrodollar.

____ (2022-09-08). China to scale up support for employment, entrepreneurship to expand space of employment. ecns.cn China will step up policy support for employment and business start-ups to broaden the space of employment, help market entities emerge and grow, and foster new drivers of growth, according to a State Council executive meeting chaired by Premier Li Keqiang on Wednesday.

Victor Grossman (2022-09-09). Guest commentary/My 70 years and the departed GDR. workers.org Karl-Marx-Allee, Berlin August 2022 — It's a momentous day! Not for the world — for which it's nothing special. But for me! Just 70 years ago, in nervous panic, I took off my U.S. Army jacket, shoes and sleeve insignia, and stepped into the swift Danube River which, at Linz . . . |

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2022-09-10: News Headlines

____ (2022-09-10). China automobile sector maintains rapid growth momentum. ecns.cn China's automobile industry continued to see robust growth in production and sales in August despite COVID-19 outbreaks, industrial data showed Friday.

____ (2022-09-10). Documents to be discussed at upcoming CPC Central Committee plenary session deliberated. ecns.cn The Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee on Friday held a meeting to deliberate documents to be submitted for discussion at the seventh plenary session of the 19th CPC Central Committee.

Labor Video Project (2022-09-10). Google & Tech Workers With Community Demand No Tech For Apartheid! Cancel Project Nimbus. indybay.org Google workers who were members of CWA Alphabet Workers Union joined with other tech workers and community members rallied at San Francisco Google and Amazonn to protest the retaliation against Google worker Ariel Koren for speaking out against the Project Nimbus which uses Google technology to spy on Palestinian people for the apartheid regime.

Labor Video Project (2022-09-10). "Working In An Oven" IBT UPS Teamsters Speak Out On Deadly Heatwave, Life and Death. indybay.org IBT UPS drivers and warehouse workers speak out about the dangerous temperature conditions that workers must operate in. Additionally many UPS trucks do not even have a fan.

Harsha Walia (2022-09-10). We Need a World Without Borders on Our Increasingly Warming Planet. zcomm.org Mass migration is the outcome of the actual crises of capitalism, conquest and climate change…

Imani Countess (2022-09-10). The U.S. Must Ends Its Complicity in Illicit Financial Flows Out of Africa. zcomm.org Currently, there are no consequences for the U.S.-based companies involved in the illicit looting of African nations' wealth…

Christian Hacke, Peter Nowak (2022-09-10). We are witnessing the collapse of diplomacy. indybay.org We, who keep this society running, are footing the bill, while the super-rich and big corporations are lining their pockets, making profits from the crises.

Thomas Palley, Leo Ensel (2022-09-10). How the West betrayed Mikhail Gorbatchev. indybay.org Gorbachev wanted to transform the Soviet Union from a closed, repressive system into an open, communicative socialist system that would be part of the European family. This effort was called glasnost (openness) and was advanced through the reform movement called perestroika.

Suds, Snacks,, Socialism Forum Committee (2022-09-10). Saturday 9/10: Housing: Commodity or Human Right? indybay.org

____ (2022-09-10). King Charles III pledges 'lifelong service' as Britain's new monarch. ecns.cn Britain's King Charles III on Friday pledged "lifelong service" in his first address to the nation and the Commonwealth after assuming the throne following the death of his mother, Queen Elizabeth II, on Thursday.

_____ (2022-09-09). Fact Finding Mission To Donbass Part Three. popularresistance.org From May 1 to May 12, I traveled to both Russia and the Lugansk People's Republic, an independent republic in the Donbass region, formerly part of eastern Ukraine. The purpose of this fact-finding mission initiated by the Socialist Unity Party and Struggle-La-Lucha.org was to report the suppressed information challenging the narrative of NATO and its member states, led by the U.S., in this proxy war in Ukraine against Russia. | My visit to Lugansk was made possible with the assistance of Borotba (Struggle), a socialist political organization in Ukraine and Donbass that we have worked with for many years. Alexey A…

____ (2022-09-09). Blinken pledges billions more for Ukraine military. ecns.cn The U.S. financial pipeline to Europe continued to flow on Thursday, with Secretary of State Antony Blinken traveling to Kyiv and pledging $2.8 billion more in military aid to Ukraine and its neighbors.

Infobrics (2022-09-09). SA Stands to Gain from Chances for Trade Amid Sanctions Against Russia. infobrics.org If investors are willing to commit capital to the local economy, should the country embrace such business deals or demand restraint?>

Infobrics (2022-09-09). Poland destroys economy to strengthen NATO's eastern border with Russia. infobrics.org Warsaw escalates tensions with Moscow by banning entry of Russian citizens.

Infobrics (2022-09-09). Key Chinese components in F-35s show vulnerabilities of US military industrial complex. infobrics.org The F-35 is a premier ISR platform that allows the US unprecedented access to other countries' intelligence, which is aimed against Russia and China.

____ (2022-09-09). China, Russia discuss business opportunities at Far East forum. ecns.cn Representatives from Russia and China discussed expanding bilateral economic and trade cooperation at a forum held this week.

Anonymous103 (2022-09-09). Liz Truss To Contain China And Russia Amid Major Internal Problems. southfront.org Click to see full-size imageBritain's new prime minister will continue Boris Johnson's foreign policy. | Written by Ahmed Adel, Cairo-based geopolitics and political economy researcher | Liz Truss as British Prime Minister does not bode well for peace in the Asia-Pacific region as her stance on foreign policy is quite predictable. During her tenure as Foreign Secretary in Boris Johnson's cabinet, Liz Truss obviously spoke many times on foreign policy issues, but often in a manner that seemingly appeared she wanted a…

____ (2022-09-09). Apple's latest iPhone 14 launched in China without anticipated price hike. ecns.cn U.S. tech company Apple Inc launched its latest iPhone 14 lineups and smartwatches without raising prices over previous models.

____ (2022-09-09). China's CPI up 2.5 pct in August. ecns.cn China's consumer price index (CPI), a main gauge of inflation, rose 2.5 percent year on year in August, the National Bureau of Statistics said Friday.

____ (2022-09-08). China says U.S. tariff decision on Chinese goods will hurt U.S. ecns.cn The U.S. decision to continue imposing additional tariffs on Chinese goods amid mounting inflation is bound to inflict more losses on U.S. enterprises and consumers, China's Ministry of Commerce said Thursday.

____ (2022-09-09). Foreign-invested projects in China progressing well: commerce spokesperson. ecns.cn Key foreign-funded projects in China are making good progress amid the country's efforts to stabilize foreign investment, a spokesperson with the Ministry of Commerce said Thursday.

Jonathan Cook (2022-09-09). The Queen and Her Legacy: 21st Century Britain Has Never Looked So Medieval. mintpressnews.com If the Queen's job was to rebrand the empire as Commonwealth, transmuting the Mau Mau massacre into gold medals for Kenyan long-distance runners, Charles' job will be to rebrand as a Green Renewal the death march led by transnational corporations.

Editor (2022-09-09). An indictment of modern capitalism — a WW editorial. workers.org Just imagine if the Joe Biden administration and Congress had agreed to spend $54 billion to advance health care in the U.S. as COVID-19 variants continued to claim more lives. Instead of life expectancy dropping for the second year in a row, more lives would have been saved. That $54 . . . |

Dave Kamper, Sebastian Martinez Hickey (2022-09-09). Keeping up: 12 states, D.C. tie minimum wage increases to inflation rate. peoplesworld.org (EPI)—Twelve states and the District of Columbia have policies that increase (or index) their state's minimum wage based on inflation. Most of those indexed increases are based on the August-to-August change in the Consumer Price Index, which will be announced sometime in mid-September. With inflation higher than it has been in recent years, the indexed …

_____ (2022-09-09). Sanctions Are Destructive, Illegitimate, And Totally Bipartisan. popularresistance.org What right does the United States have to starve civilians to achieve political goals? Despite its obvious importance, this question is largely absent from mainstream discourse. Through economic sanctions, or economic warfare, the U.S. can unilaterally collapse economies and generate famine in foreign countries. The civilian death toll from sanctions is often equal to—and sometimes greater than—the toll from conventional warfare. Yet on both sides of the aisle, it is taken for granted that we have the "right" to impose destitution on civilian populations in order to advance our interests. The U.S. adm…

WSWS (2022-09-09). Sri Lankan plantation workers protest to demand reinstatement of sacked colleagues. wsws.org The protest, organised by the Socialist Equality Party and workers' action committees on the plantations, won significant support.

TeleSUR (2022-09-09). Colombia May Declare an Emergency Prior to Winter Season. telesurenglish.net On Thursday, President Gustavo Petro announced that his administration is evaluating the possibility of declaring an "economic emergency" in Colombia due to the upcoming winter season, which could trigger a climate crisis due to the possible increase in rainy activity. | RELATED: | During a visit to the Atlantico department, he asked institutions involved in risk management to establish preventive measures, mainly in the most vulne…

Fight Back (2022-09-09). Columbus protests police killing of Donovan Lewis. fightbacknews.org Columbus, OH – Hundreds of Columbus area residents gathered over the Labor Day weekend to protest the murder of 20-year-old Donovan Lewis by Columbus police officer Ricky Anderson. The demonstrations called for the firing and conviction of Ricky Anderson. They also demanded an end to qualified immunity, criticized nighttime raids, and showed support for the Lewis family by collecting signatures and donations. | Demonstrations took place in front of the Columbus Police Department headquarters, the Ohio State House, and along a busy North High Street – where protesters chanted, "Out of the bars and into the street!

TeleSUR (2022-09-09). King Charles III Pledges Lifelong Service as Britain's Monarch. telesurenglish.net On Friday, Britain's King Charles III pledged "lifelong service" in his first address to the nation and the Commonwealth after assuming the throne following the death of his mother, Queen Elizabeth II. | RELATED: | "I speak to you today with feelings of profound sorrow. Throughout her life, Her Majesty The Queen — my beloved Mother — was an inspiration and example to me and to all my family, and we owe her the most h…

TeleSUR (2022-09-09). Canada's Unemployment Rate Rises in August. telesurenglish.net

WSWS (2022-09-09). Australia: Thousands of early childcare educators protest poverty-level conditions. wsws.org The poverty-level conditions faced by EC educators are the product of the privatisation of childcare services, implemented and overseen by both Labor and Liberal-National governments over decades.

Kamal Iranidoost (2022-09-09). Senior cleric hails Raeisi adm. for active economic diplomacy. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Sep. 09 (MNA) — Tehran's interim Friday Prayers Leader Ayatollah Kazem Sedighi commended the 13th Iranian administration under President Raeisi for its active diplomacy and serving people's interests.

WSWS (2022-09-09). Australian union seeks to bury New South Wales rail workers' struggle in industrial courts. wsws.org Rail workers have been consigned by the Rail, Tram and Bus Union to the sidelines of their own dispute, which both the government and the union intend to prosecute through the pro-business Fair Work Commission.

Party for Socialism & Liberation (2022-09-09). Sunday 9/11: Climate Solutions Beyond Capitalism — National Book Tour. indybay.org Peace & Justice Center | 467 Sebastopol Ave., Santa Rosa…

WSWS (2022-09-09). Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and New Zealand. wsws.org India: Madhya Pradesh power workers strike over unpaid wages; Indonesian workers and students protest higher fuel prices; Australia: Knorr-Bremse rail carriage parts workers national walkout.

WSWS (2022-09-09). Heat emergency threatens thousands of lives in California. wsws.org The on-going heat wave has exposed the class and income divide in California, one of the world's wealthiest and most unequal regions.

WSWS (2022-09-09). Cost of energy crisis piles more pressure on UK's National Health Service and social care. wsws.org Since the government's energy "cap" only applies to private households, health and care providers are exposed to the full surge in energy prices.

Marilyn Bechtel (2022-09-09). Labor Day rally marks Kaiser mental health clinicians' fourth week on strike. peoplesworld.org OAKLAND, Calif.—As over 2,000 Kaiser psychologists, social workers, and therapists entered the fourth week of the longest mental health strike in U.S. history, hundreds of clinicians, elected officials, patients, family members, union leaders, and community supporters rallied outside Kaiser Permanente's flagship Oakland Medical Center on Labor Day to demand the giant HMO staff up to …

DLI (2022-09-09). Gorbachev, Obama & U.S. Imperial legacy. indybay.org U.S. media exploitation of Mikhail Gorbachev began right after the Soviet Union imploded in December of 1991. But the latest torrent of "crocodile tears" eulogies after his recent passing simply serve to reinforce the NeoLiberal narrative that the Western Capitalist "rules-based" world order is here to stay, until the "end of History." Really? Is there an alternative, perhaps more apropos, analysis of the checkered Gorbachev legacy?>

WSWS (2022-09-09). Cost of energy crisis pushes piles more pressure on UK's National Health Service and social care. wsws.org Since the government's energy "cap" only applies to private households, health and care providers are exposed to the full surge in energy prices.

WSWS (2022-09-09). Business groups demand that Congress intervene to block national railroad strike. wsws.org In reality, the trade groups are worried not about the impact of a strike on the population, but on their profits, given that they have made a killing from rising commodity prices over the past two years.

WSWS (2022-09-09). Spanish home care workers continue strike after two-week stoppage. wsws.org 3, 0 home care workers are striking in Asturias over working conditions and low wages and against back-door talks between the unions and big business.

TeleSUR, ysm, JCM (2022-09-09). Presidente colombiano evalúa decretar emergencia económica. telesurtv.net El mandatario mostró preocupación por las lluvias asociadas al próximo invierno, que pueden acarrear efectos nocivos a la economía del país.

Alexander Rubinstein (2022-09-08). Zelensky Rings New York Stock Exchange Bell as Euro Dips Below Dollar. mintpressnews.com As the Ukraine proxy war triggers economic crisis across the West, Zelensky has kicked of a campaign inviting foreign investors to plunder his country and is crushing the labor rights of his citizens.

____ (2022-09-07). Stronger foreign trade expected. ecns.cn China's foreign trade is expected to expand steadily in the coming months, driven by the government's supportive policies and the resilience of its industrial chain in electromechanical industry, experts said on Wednesday.

Reyna Wang (2022-09-08). Labor Day rally demands recognition of Amazon and Starbucks unions. liberationnews.org On Sept. 5, hundreds of workers and organizers gathered in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of New York City for a Labor Day March for Recognition rally. Amazon Labor Union (ALU) and Starbucks Workers United (SWU) organized the action to demand recognition of their respective unions and show support for labor struggles across the city. They were joined in solidarity by workers from Google's Alphabet Workers' Union, the Trader Joe's Union, the Retail, Wholesale, and Department Store Union (RWDSU), and members from the Party for Socialism and Liberation.

TeleSUR (2022-09-08). Boat Sinks in Northern Brazil: At Least 14 People Dead. telesurenglish.net "There were 70 people on board, 30 were rescued, and we recovered 14 bodies," according to the government of the Pará State. | The boat was not authorized for intercity water transport of passengers, according to the Public Services Regulation and Control Agency of the State of Pará (Arcon). Sep. 8, 2022.

Staff (2022-09-08). øOtra empresa estatal socialista es posible? (II), el próximo domingo en Cuadrando la Caja. cubadebate.cu El domingo 11 de septiembre continuaremos conversando sobre la empresa estatal socialista en Cuba… øHan condicionado las decisiones tomadas hasta ahora, una mejor gestión y un incremento de la eficiencia y la productividad? øQué frena las transformaciones necesarias: preparación de los directivos, tradición verticalista, falta de liderazgo?

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2022-09-09: News Headlines

Labor Video Project (2022-09-09). "Working In An Oven" IBT UPS Teamsters Speak Out On Deadly Heatwave, Life and Death. indybay.org IBT UPS drivers and warehouse workers speak out about the dangerous temperature conditions that workers must operate in. Additionally many UPS trucks do not even have a fan.

Christian Hacke, Peter Nowak (2022-09-09). We are witnessing the collapse of diplomacy. indybay.org We, who keep this society running, are footing the bill, while the super-rich and big corporations are lining their pockets, making profits from the crises.

Thomas Palley, Leo Ensel (2022-09-09). How the West betrayed Mikhail Gorbatchev. indybay.org Gorbachev wanted to transform the Soviet Union from a closed, repressive system into an open, communicative socialist system that would be part of the European family. This effort was called glasnost (openness) and was advanced through the reform movement called perestroika.

Party for Socialism & Liberation (2022-09-09). Sunday 9/11: Climate Solutions Beyond Capitalism — National Book Tour. indybay.org Peace & Justice Center | 467 Sebastopol Ave., Santa Rosa…

Suds, Snacks,, Socialism Forum Committee (2022-09-09). Saturday 9/10: Housing: Commodity or Human Right? indybay.org

____ (2022-09-08). China-Arab ties ever-prosperous. ecns.cn While China and Arab countries were economically connected by the Silk Road over a thousand years ago, more recently, the rollout of the landmark Belt and Road Initiative over the past nine years in the region has succeeded in revitalizing the ancient trade route.

____ (2022-09-07). Western countries try to preserve old world order despite irreversible changes in int'l system: Putin. ecns.cn Western countries are trying to preserve the old world order despite irreversible transformations happening in the system of international relations, Russian President Vladimir Putin said Wednesday during the plenary session of the 7th Eastern Economic Forum (EEF).

WSWS (2022-09-08). No to war and surging prices! wsws.org Resistance is growing across Europe to the massive price hikes being used to pass the costs of the proxy war the US and NATO are waging against Russia in Ukraine onto working people.

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-09-08). Asia's Future Takes Shape in Vladivostok, the Russian Pacific. libya360.wordpress.com Pepe Escobar Sixty-eight countries gathered on Russia's far eastern coast to listen to Moscow's economic and political vision for the Asia-Pacific The Eastern Economic Forum (EEF) in Vladivostok is one of the indispensable annual milestones for keeping up not only with the complex development process of the Russian Far East but major plays for Eurasia integration. Mirroring an immensely…

TeleSUR (2022-09-08). Argentina Formally Requests China to Join BRICS. telesurenglish.net The President of Argentina, Alberto Fernandez, has sent a letter to his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, requesting the formal accession of his country to the BRICS group. | Argentinean President A. Fernandez wrote to President Xi Jinping to officially request to join the BRICS. With the support of India, Russia and China, the Russian FM believes the country meets all the requirements to join the most important economic group on the planet.

Infobrics (2022-09-08). Weighing Up Options: Will Algeria Join BRICS. infobrics.org Early in August, Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune hinted that Algeria may apply to join BRICS, the economic bloc comprised of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa. Mohamed Si Bachir discusses the idea and its motivations…

Infobrics (2022-09-08). China's Investment Cooperation with the BRICS Countries. infobrics.org The BRICS countries have the potential to become a driving force of the global economy in the next decade, as they have enormous joint potential and great opportunities within the organization. Trade, economic and investment cooperation is a key area of the institution, which can enhance the further growth of the BRICS economies. China takes the leading role in this process through active investment in other member countries, trade and humanitarian policies, and infrastructure projects within the territory of its partners…

____ (2022-09-08). Energy efficiency emerging as big business with investment potential. ecns.cn Energy efficiency is emerging as a burgeoning market with increasing investment opportunities as China pledged to accelerate the formation of a resource pricing mechanism during a recent meeting amid attempts to call for sustainably using resources while minimizing environmental impact.

____ (2022-09-08). Xi Jinping stresses mobilizing national resources for core technology breakthroughs in key fields. ecns.cn Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, president of the People's Republic of China, chairman of the Central Military Commission and head of the Central Commission for Comprehensively Deepening Reform, presided over the commission's 27th meeting on Tuesday afternoon.

____ (2022-09-08). China's foreign currency reserves at 3.0549 trln U.S. dollars. ecns.cn China's foreign exchange reserves totaled 3.0549 trillion U.S. dollars at the end of August, down 49.2 billion U.S. dollars from July, data from the State Administration of Foreign Exchange showed Wednesday.

TeleSUR (2022-09-08). Chile: Escondida Copper Mine Workers Announce Strike. telesurenglish.net The mining company BHP is being accused of anti-union practices and safety violations, so with the strike, the workers intend to "claim and resolve recurring violations of safety and labor laws." | RELATED: | Without specifying a date for the start of the action, the workers agreed to initiate a 12-hour warning strike for each shift and a subsequent "definitive strike" in case their demands met deaf ears. | The Workers' Union said…

WSWS (2022-09-08). New turn in Fed policy threatening financial stability. wsws.org There are warnings that the central bank's quantitative tightening in which it sells government bonds and mortgage-backed securities rather than buying them as it has for the past 14 years could create a "liquidity hole" in financial markets.

TeleSUR (2022-09-08). US Fed Survey Shows Price Levels Remain Highly Elevated. telesurenglish.net Price levels remained "highly elevated," with some districts reporting "some degree of moderation" in the rate of increase, the U.S. Federal Reserve said in a survey released on Wednesday. | RELATED: | Economic activity was unchanged, on balance, since early July, with five districts reporting "slight to modest growth in activity" and five others reporting "slight to modest softening," the Fed said in its latest B…

Steven Sahiounie (2022-09-08). Syria Is Key to Turkey's Future, Economically and Politically. globalresearch.ca

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-09-08). The Unity Imperative: Lessons for Building the Anti-Fascist Alliance. libya360.wordpress.com Joe Sims Members of the Communist Party USA and Young Communist League proceed along Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington during the Poor People's Campaign's Moral March, June 18, 2022. | Jose Luis Magana / AP The call for unity resonates across a wide swath of today's democratic and social movements. Attend any demonstration and you're likely…

TeleSUR (2022-09-08). East and Horn of Africa Epicenter of Forced Migration – IOM. telesurenglish.net 13.2 million people were forcibly displaced in the East and Horn of Africa last year, according to the International Organization for Migration (IOM). | Conflict, insecurity, climate stress, poverty, unemployment and pandemic-related shocks fuel the forced migration of vulnerable populations, namely women, children and youth, according to IOM report. Sep. 8, 2022.

Reid Hulleza (2022-09-08). Fighting to keep the lights on: Detroit residents vs. electricity monopoly profits. peoplesworld.org DETROIT—Residents, activists, and community leaders here are coming together to fight back against plans by the local electricity monopoly to hike power bills by 8.8%. The scheme by DTE (Detroit Edison) would be the second highest rate increase by any investor-owned utility in the country. A public hearing on Aug. 22 was a chance for …

Prof Michel Chossudovsky (2022-09-08). Video: The Covid-19 "Killer Vaccine", Devastating Social and Economic Impacts of the Lockdown. Join Hands and Break "The Covid Consensus" globalresearch.ca

Mark Gruenberg (2022-09-08). Speedy organizing drive brings minor-league baseball players into union fold. peoplesworld.org WASHINGTON—In a record for speedy organizing—one week—more than 90% of the nation's 5,400 minor league baseball players signed National Labor Relations Board union election authorization cards to join the Major League Baseball Players Association. The announcement, from MLBPA Executive Director Tony Clark—a former minor leaguer and major league star himself and devoted unionist&#1 ;came at a …

WSWS (2022-09-08). South Korean truck drivers continue months-long protest for better conditions. wsws.org The KCTU and its affiliated unions are systematically isolating the drivers to prevent other exploited sections of the working class from joining in a broader struggle in defence of their wages and working conditions.

In Modesto (2022-09-08). Anti-Fascists Fight Back at "Straight Pride" Rally. indybay.org Saturday August 27 was Straight Pride's 4th annual appearance in the Central Valley town of Modesto, California. This far right group is on the Southern Poverty Law Center's hate list.

WSWS (2022-09-08). Australian central bank continues aggressive interest rate rises as government outlines austerity budget. wsws.org The interest rate rises are part of a broader assault on the working class which includes austerity budget cuts being enforced by the Labor government.

____ (2022-09-08). Policy measures to grab what 'golden September' has to offer. ecns.cn The central authorities have recently introduced a package of policies to stabilize the economy.

A Guest Author (2022-09-08). Labor Day sip-ins for Portland Starbucks workers. workers.org At the Macadam Starbucks in Portland, Oregon, Maddi Johnson, on the right, and Milo, second from the right. By Maddi Johnson Sept. 5 — When it comes to Starbucks, Portland has the highest unionization density of any city in the U.S. Local supporters of Starbucks workers kept the pressure on . . . |

Mark Gruenberg (2022-09-08). For Sen. Sherrod Brown, 'dignity of work' is essential to life. peoplesworld.org WASHINGTON—For progressive Democratic Sen. Sherrod Brown, "the dignity of work" means more than just quantity of jobs, symbolized by the latest low monthly unemployment rate of 3.7%. The same could be said for Biden Administration Labor Secretary Marty Walsh. "It means hard work pays off no matter who you are or what you do," the …

WSWS (2022-09-08). Diary of a socialist Amazon worker: "Labor Day 2022—just another day of labor" wsws.org The following is the first entry in the series "Diary of a socialist Amazon worker," a column authored by Austin Bailey, a socialist-minded worker in his twenties, who has followed the World Socialist Web Site since 2016. Bailey writes this column to reach other workers, especially at Amazon, who have burning questions about the realities of working class life.

WSWS (2022-09-08). What does the newly-established "Socialist Union of Forces" in Turkey stand for? wsws.org The main function of the misnamed Socialist Union of Forces is to try to drive rising social opposition into the safe political channels and prevent the development of a genuine revolutionary socialist alternative for the working class.

WSWS (2022-09-08). RMT, Unite and GMB unions denounce North Sea oil and gas rig wildcat strikes. wsws.org Those taking unofficial action are rebelling against the union/management collusion that is plunging them into poverty.

Mark Gruenberg (2022-09-08). Newsom firma una gran victoria legislativa para las trabajadoras de comida rápida de California. peoplesworld.org SACRAMENTO, Calif.—Esta es una manera real de celebrar el Día del Trabajo: una gran victoria en la legislatura de su estado—en este caso, California. Ese día, el gobernador demócrata Gavin Newsom firmó AB257, una medida laboral histórica que establece una junta estatal, con poderes de ejecución, para imponer salarios mínimos y condiciones laborales para los …

Staff (2022-09-08). MINCEX pospone encuentro con actores económicos relacionados con las fuentes renovables de energía. cubadebate.cu El MINCEX informa que la convocatoria para mipymes y cooperativas de los sectores de informática y fuentes renovables de energía para tratar el tema de la realización de actividades de comercio exterior de manera directa se pospone. Se anunciará la nueva fecha de manera oportuna.

Staff (2022-09-08). President Maduro: 'I Demand That Governors and Mayors Go Out Into the Streets'. orinocotribune.com On Tuesday, September 6, the president of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, made an assessment on the progress of the 1àó10 System of Good Government and the progress of the Community Brigades for Healthcare and Education (Bricomiles). | From the 23 de Enero parish in Caracas, the head of state evaluated the repair work at the Gabriela Mistral educational unit and highlighted the work of the community brigades in this populous Caracas neighborhood. | "Where the incapable and the bureaucrats say that it cannot be done, it can be done. With the union of grassroots power and the Bolivarian…

TeleSUR, SH (2022-09-08). Sube a 33 la cifra de muertos por incendio en karaoke en Vietnam. telesurtv.net Las labores de búsqueda de cuerpos debieron ser suspendidas por la falta de material para abrir algunas habitaciones del local que se encuentran cerradas.

Staff (2022-09-08). Consejo Mundial de Iglesias pide la exclusión de Cuba de la lista de patrocinadores del terrorismo. cubadebate.cu El reverendo canadiense, Christopher Ferguson, informó que el Consejo Mundial de Iglesias aprobó este jueves una resolución en la cual pide retirar a Cuba de la cuestionada lista estadounidense de países patrocinadores del terrorismo que elabora el Departamento de Estado de Estados Unidos.

TeleSUR, ysm, JDO (2022-09-08). Al menos 23 fallecidos por incendio en bar karaoke de Vietnam. telesurtv.net Aún continúan las labores de búsqueda de posibles víctimas, en uno de los incendios más devastadores de los últimos años en Vietnam.

Oneworld.press (2022-09-07). Was Western Intel Behind ISIS-K's Terrorist Attack Against The Russian Embassy In Kabul. oneworld.press The Anglo-American Axis' strategic interests are to punish Russia for its leading role in the Taliban's geo-economic balancing act; prompt Moscow to either double down with Wagner mercenary deployments in order to militarily overextend itself in Eurasia or quickly abandon its growing influence in Afghanistan; and attempt to revive the formerly heated rivalry between it and Pakistan over that country.

Rachel Hu, Chris Garaffa (2022-09-07). CovertAction Bulletin: Let Cuba Live — End the Blockade. covertactionmagazine.com For over 60 years, the United States government has been trying to overthrow the Cuban revolution. Using assassination attempts, sabotage, bombs, spies and more, Washington has made it clear over and over that it will not rest until Cuba is returned to semi-colonial status. In the face of these attacks the Cuban people have survived, going on to defend and continue to build their revolution. The efforts of socialist Cuba to develop a society based on equality and justice where all people have rights show their resilience and determination in the face of U.S. covert action launched from just 90 miles away…

____ (2022-09-06). China's terrestrial ecosystems can offset 18 pct of energy-related CO2 emissions in 2060: study. ecns.cn China's CO2 emissions released from energy consumption accounted for more than 85 percent of its total CO2 emissions in 2020.

TeleSUR (2022-09-07). Rising Energy Prices Test the Resilience of Dutch Bakeries. telesurenglish.net Numerous bakeries across the Netherlands have already been pushed to the brink of bankruptcy by the rising costs of energy, according to the Dutch Bread and Pastry Bakers Association (NBOV). | RELATED: | If the government does not intervene immediately, many bakers will have to close shop early next year because their energy bills have already increased up to tenfold compared to two years ago. | "Around 40 percent to 60…

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