(2021-11-08). Online platforms change how universities work. ecns.cn Challenges created by the global COVID-19 pandemic are shaping the contours of a new internationalization of higher education and encouraging universities to look for ways to deepen collaboration, such as by working digitally, presidents of universities said at a recent forum held in Jinan in Shandong province.
(2021-11-08). "Dealin with the Devil": musicians confront Joe Manchin at Kennedy Center concert. mronline.org Senator Joe Manchin has emerged in recent weeks as the leading opponent of vital social programs to provide relief to working people in the areas of education, healthcare, the environment and much more.
(2021-11-08). New emergency strikes Baldwin's 'Rust' movie set. rt.com A crew member working to wind down production of Alec Baldwin's movie 'Rust' — after the cinematographer was accidentally shot dead on set — was bitten by a venomous spider and may end up losing his arm. | The incident involving lamp operator and pipe rigger Jason Miller occurred some time ago, with Sky News learning about it through a 'Just Giving' page set up raise money for the man's treatment. | Miller was working at the production site in New Mexico when he was bitten in the arm by a brown recluse spider, which injects necrotic venom into its prey. | The crew member was hospitalized several da…
(2021-11-08). With new school program on Quebec Culture and Citizenship, CAQ government intensifies its national-chauvinist offensive. wsws.org Faced with rising social tensions and mounting working class resistance, Quebec's CAQ government is redoubling its efforts to divide workers along linguistic, ethnic and religious lines.
(2021-11-08). Sri Lankan president's "One Country, One Law" taskforce will provoke racial tensions. wsws.org Rajapakse is attempting to whip up ethnic and religious communalism to break up and divert a rising working class movement against his government.
(2021-11-08). Why the SEP has taken up the fight against Australia's anti-democratic electoral laws. wsws.org Launched amid the COVID-19 disaster, the Socialist Equality Party's campaign is part of the fight for the independent mobilisation of the working class against the capitalist profit system.
(2021-11-08). New Orleans sanitation workers strike over pay and working conditions. wsws.org Workers are fighting against low pay, poor health insurance and safety and equipment failures at the New Orleans facility.
(2021-11-08). Milwaukee vigil backs Palestinian prisoner hunger strike. liberationnews.org Israel couldn't get away with this ethnic cleansing if it weren't for the U.S. war machine propping it up.
(2021-11-07). A Project for Survival in These United States. tomdispatch.com When President Biden first unveiled the Build Back Better agenda, it appeared that this country was on the path to a new war on poverty. In April, he told Congress that "trickle-down economics have never worked" and that it was time to build the economy "from the bottom-up." This came after the first reconciliation bill of the pandemic included the child tax credit that — combined with an expanded Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program and unemployment benefits, stimulus checks, and other emergency programs — reduced the poverty rate from 13.9% in 2018 to 7.7% in 2021. (Without such actions, it was…
(2021-11-07). Ricos de Forbes, pobres de Eurostat. globalizacion.ca No sé qué cifra impresiona más, si los ricos de la lista de Forbes haciéndose un 17% más ricos en 2020 o que un 27% de españoles continúe en riesgo de pobreza y exclusión. Un 27% significa ir por la…
(2021-11-07). Nuestra América, la más desigual. globalizacion.ca La pobreza no se resuelve con políticas asistencialistas y focalizadas, no es un asunto de subsidios puntuales al mejor estilo neoliberal: se trata de un asunto de justicia en la repartición de la producción en el propio proceso social del…
(2021-11-07). "Herd Stupidity": The Manufactured Covid Crisis, the Gene-based mRNA "Vaccine" and "The Pinnacles of Wealth and Power" globalresearch.ca
(2021-11-07). 270 Trucks Of US-led Coalition Spotted Leaving Northeastern Syria. southfront.org Illustrative image. | A large convoy of some 270 trucks working for the US-led coalition left Syria's northeastern region to the Iraqi Kurdistan Region between November 5 and 7, according to the Syrian Arab News Agency."A convoy consisting of 150 cargo trucks and 120 covered flatbed carriers carrying vehicles of the American occupation left a military base at Kharab al-Jeer Airport between midnight yesterday and today's morning … and headed to northern Iraq through the illegal al-Waleed crossing," a source with knowl…