Toward increased Networking (2022-07-21). Online events w) Gary Snyder. John Clark, Nina Turner, Medea Benjamin, Karen Armstrong etc. indybay.org Here are some 15 online events taking place over the next week (and starting at 10: 30 am tomorrow, July 20th), featuring people such as Gary Snyder, Kim Stanley Robinson, tiny (lisa) gray-garcia, John P. Clark, Nina Turner, David Sirota, Medea Benjamin, Dilar Dirik, Karen Armstrong, and many others. | These events are hosted from various locations all across the country, as well from Canada and the UK (however, the listed times are all for our "Pacific time zone"). Of course, feel free to share this info with others who might be interested in it.

WSWS (2022-07-21). Right-wing ruling party wins Japanese upper house election. wsws.org The LDP ability to retain control in the National Diet is an indication of the deep distrust the working class has for the Democrats and their allies.

WSWS (2022-07-21). For a Democratic and Socialist Congress of Workers and Rural Masses in Sri Lanka! wsws.org The working class must establish its own centre of political power in opposition to the anti-democratic conspiracies of the political establishment and the capitalist state. That is the significance of the SEP's call for the Democratic and Socialist Congress of Workers and Rural masses.

WSWS (2022-07-21). 22-year-old worker killed at Tyson Foods plant. wsws.org The company is claiming that Casen Garcia died as the result of a medical condition unrelated to his work at the plant, but co-workers, witnesses, and family members say the company is working to cover up its role in the young father's death.

WSWS (2022-07-21). Former GM worker: "UAW retirees have a chance to vote this year, and they should vote for Will Lehman" wsws.org Lyle Roussey, who retired in 2009 after working 25 years at four Michigan GM plants, explained why he was supporting Will Lehman and why United Auto Workers members, including 581,000 retired workers, should vote for the Mack Trucks worker running for UAW president.

WSWS (2022-07-21). Wildcat strike at TPI Turkey against low pay raise defies company, union. wsws.org Amid mass protests and strikes against the rising cost of living and unbearable living conditions around the world, workers at TPI Composites in Turkey launched a wildcat strike against low wage increases and poor working conditions.

Labor Video Projectt (2022-07-21). US Covid-19 Insanity, The Working Class. Covid & Capitalism & THE NEW NORMAL By Dr. Gordon. indybay.org Dr. Nayvin Gordon reports on abandonment of any public health protection as the Covid-19 pandemic expands over two years after the pandemic starts.

Jim Hightower (2022-07-20). Medical Debt Is a Rip-Off. otherwords.org Many big business CEOs turn out to be grifters who rip off consumers, workers, and others. But the corporate con artists I consider most vile are those who profiteer from people's health care needs. | We've had such infamous, high-profile scammers as Medicare fraudster (and now Florida Senator)

Peter Certo (2022-07-20). In OtherWords: July 20, 2022. otherwords.org This week, Sonali Kolhatkar examines the seemingly unusual incidence of women who oppose abortion rights seeking abortions for themselves. It's more common than you'd expect, Sonali argues — and actually key to understanding a range of common conservative policy positions. | Also this week, Jim Hightower sheds a light on the growing problem of medical debt. And cartoonist Khalil Bendib deftly illustrates what Senator Joe Manchin is doing the Democratic agenda in Washington. | New This Week… |

_____ (2022-07-20). New Resource: The Tenant Power Toolkit. popularresistance.org The Tenant Power Toolkit is a collaborative effort between the The Debt Collective, The LA Tenants Union, The Anti-Eviction Mapping Project, UCLA Luskin Institute on Inequality & Democracy, ACCE Action, anti-eviction lawyers and legal service providers including Gary Blasi, one of California's best known housing justice lawyers. We designed this toolkit to keep people in their homes, fight evictions, fight rent debt, and build the collective power of tenants. Together, we have the power not only to fight back against the system, but to change it. | Within the Tenant Power Toolkit project there is a core supp…

Otis Grotewohl (2022-07-20). Young workers show the way forward as economic crisis deepens. workers.org A global economic crisis is emerging, and for readers of Workers World, this comes as little to no surprise. As Marxists and dialectical materialists, we are cautious about making predictions. It is no secret that corporations are bragging about record profits at the same time working people are struggling to . . . |

Editor (2022-07-20). Wages, prices and the minimum wage. mronline.org Today the federal minimum wage is $7.25! Let that sad fact sink in. Right now you can barely buy a gallon of gas in some parts of the country with that little cash.

Isheka N. Harrison (2022-07-20). Lawyers from Bankrupted Celsius: Users Who Put Crypto On Exchange Have No Rights to Their Bitcoin, We Can Do What We Want. moguldom.com To say the crypto market has been on a downturn is an understatement. It's been crashing quickly and in a major way. Now lawyers for bankrupt crypto lender Celsius Network revealed users gave up legal rights to their Bitcoin by using their platform and they can do anything they want with the currencies. Celsius attorney …

Peoples Dispatch (2022-07-20). Daily Round-up | Turkey accused of war crimes after drone strike & other stories. peoplesdispatch.org In today's episode, we bring you stories from Turkey's drone strike in Iraqi Kurdistan, the hunger strike of Palestinian prisoners, repression in Morocco, and a court verdict on elections in Brazil…

WSWS (2022-07-20). Australian Treasurer delivers "confronting" news on cutting real wages and social spending. wsws.org Jim Chalmers' remarks represent an intensification of the Labor government's offensive, backed by the trade unions, to force working-class households to bear the burden of an escalating cost of living and COVID-19 crisis.

Benjamin Norton (2022-07-20). Real Debt Trap: Sri Lanka Owes Vast Majority to West, Not to China. towardfreedom.org Sri Lanka owes 81 percent of its external debt to U.S. and European financial institutions and to Western allies, Japan and India. China owns just 10 percent. But Washington blames imaginary "Chinese debt traps" for the nation's crisis, as it considers a 17th IMF structural adjustment program, reports Benjamin Norton.

WSWS (2022-07-20). Sri Lanka's parliament to elect president Wednesday with vast authoritarian powers in fraudulent anti-democratic exercise. wsws.org The Socialist Equality Party (SEP) has denounced Wednesday's vote as "a fraud and a conspiracy against the working class, youth and rural poor."

Dennis Broe (2022-07-20). 'Mr. Caruso Goes to Town': Corporate developer remade as California common man. peoplesworld.org Longfellow Deeds was his name, from the small town of Mandrake Falls, Vermont. Deeds takes his heart-of-America, generous sensibility to the big city, where he becomes the victim of all kinds of cynical manipulation from the media, the law, and wealthy hangers-on in the first part of Frank Capra's Depression-Era trilogy Mr. Deeds Goes to …

Imperial.ac.uk (2022-07-20). New Health Secretary sees cutting-edge medical robotics research at Imperial. imperial.ac.uk New Health Secretary Steve Barclay MP visited the College last week to meet researchers working on medical robotics and imaging at the Hamlyn Centre.

WSWS (2022-07-20). Intolerable conditions fuel class struggle in the United States. wsws.org The American working class is seething with discontent. There is a growing sentiment that things can no longer go on as they have been, and that things need to fundamentally change.

____ (2022-07-20). Chinese version of TikTok removes over 20,000 short videos for flaunting wealth. ecns.cn Chinese short video platform Douyin, the sister app of TikTok, has removed over 20,000 videos for flaunting wealth since the beginning of 2021.

_____ (2022-07-19). Brian Becker On Socialism And The US Campaign Against China. popularresistance.org In the US, where I live, more than one million people have died. More than 60 million workers lost their jobs in 2020. More than 100,000 small businesses were sent into bankruptcy. While the US was plunged into an economic recession and a healthcare crisis of unprecedented proportions, the Chinese government pursued a policy preventing such loss of life inside a country with 1.4 billion people. This would have been impossible had it not been for the policy, guidance, and unified approach of the government. That does not mean that there aren't still significant challenges, but this was a huge achievement. Also, wh…

Isabella (2022-07-19). Gilded Giving 2022: How Wealth Inequality Distorts Philanthropy and Imperils Democracy. inequality.org

Party for Socialism, Liberation (2022-07-19). PSL Editorial — Deadly heat wave sweeping Europe highlights criminal inaction on climate crisis. liberationnews.org The unfolding disaster in Europe has rightfully drawn global attention to the woefully inadequate action taken by the governments of the wealthy capitalist countries to address the climate change crisis.

Liberation Staff (2022-07-19). South Carolina Dollar General workers strike against wage theft and safety violations. liberationnews.org "Wage theft is a big issue at our store," a worker said. "I've had hours taken off my check, and management has clocked me out early when I'm still working."

Toward increased Networking (2022-07-20). Online events w) Gary Snyder. John Clark, Nina Turner, Medea Benjamin, Karen Armstrong etc. indybay.org Here are some 15 online events taking place over the next week (and starting at 10: 30 am tomorrow, July 20th), featuring people such as Gary Snyder, Kim Stanley Robinson, tiny (lisa) gray-garcia, John P. Clark, Nina Turner, David Sirota, Medea Benjamin, Dilar Dirik, Karen Armstrong, and many others. | These events are hosted from various locations all across the country, as well from Canada and the UK (however, the listed times are all for our "Pacific time zone"). Of course, feel free to share this info with others who might be interested in it.

Jim Hightower (2022-07-20). Medical Debt Is a Rip-Off. otherwords.org Many big business CEOs turn out to be grifters who rip off consumers, workers, and others. But the corporate con artists I consider most vile are those who profiteer from people's health care needs. | We've had such infamous, high-profile scammers as Medicare fraudster (and now Florida Senator)

Peter Certo (2022-07-20). In OtherWords: July 20, 2022. otherwords.org This week, Sonali Kolhatkar examines the seemingly unusual incidence of women who oppose abortion rights seeking abortions for themselves. It's more common than you'd expect, Sonali argues — and actually key to understanding a range of common conservative policy positions. | Also this week, Jim Hightower sheds a light on the growing problem of medical debt. And cartoonist Khalil Bendib deftly illustrates what Senator Joe Manchin is doing the Democratic agenda in Washington. | New This Week… |

_____ (2022-07-20). New Resource: The Tenant Power Toolkit. popularresistance.org The Tenant Power Toolkit is a collaborative effort between the The Debt Collective, The LA Tenants Union, The Anti-Eviction Mapping Project, UCLA Luskin Institute on Inequality & Democracy, ACCE Action, anti-eviction lawyers and legal service providers including Gary Blasi, one of California's best known housing justice lawyers. We designed this toolkit to keep people in their homes, fight evictions, fight rent debt, and build the collective power of tenants. Together, we have the power not only to fight back against the system, but to change it. | Within the Tenant Power Toolkit project there is a core supp…

Otis Grotewohl (2022-07-20). Young workers show the way forward as economic crisis deepens. workers.org A global economic crisis is emerging, and for readers of Workers World, this comes as little to no surprise. As Marxists and dialectical materialists, we are cautious about making predictions. It is no secret that corporations are bragging about record profits at the same time working people are struggling to . . . |

Editor (2022-07-20). Wages, prices and the minimum wage. mronline.org Today the federal minimum wage is $7.25! Let that sad fact sink in. Right now you can barely buy a gallon of gas in some parts of the country with that little cash.

Peoples Dispatch (2022-07-20). Daily Round-up | Turkey accused of war crimes after drone strike & other stories. peoplesdispatch.org In today's episode, we bring you stories from Turkey's drone strike in Iraqi Kurdistan, the hunger strike of Palestinian prisoners, repression in Morocco, and a court verdict on elections in Brazil…

WSWS (2022-07-20). Sri Lanka's parliament to elect president Wednesday with vast authoritarian powers in fraudulent anti-democratic exercise. wsws.org The Socialist Equality Party (SEP) has denounced Wednesday's vote as "a fraud and a conspiracy against the working class, youth and rural poor."

Dennis Broe (2022-07-20). 'Mr. Caruso Goes to Town': Corporate developer remade as California common man. peoplesworld.org Longfellow Deeds was his name, from the small town of Mandrake Falls, Vermont. Deeds takes his heart-of-America, generous sensibility to the big city, where he becomes the victim of all kinds of cynical manipulation from the media, the law, and wealthy hangers-on in the first part of Frank Capra's Depression-Era trilogy Mr. Deeds Goes to …

WSWS (2022-07-20). Australian Treasurer delivers "confronting" news on cutting real wages and social spending. wsws.org Jim Chalmers' remarks represent an intensification of the Labor government's offensive, backed by the trade unions, to force working-class households to bear the burden of an escalating cost of living and COVID-19 crisis.

Caitlin A. Johnstone (2022-07-19). This proxy war has no exit strategy. mronline.org The International Committee of the Democratic Socialists of America has released a statement opposing the U.S. government's ongoing proxy war in Ukraine, saying the billions being funneled into the military-industrial complex "at a time when ordinary Americans are struggling to pay for housing, groceries, and fuel" is "a slap in the face for working people."

_____ (2022-07-19). Brian Becker On Socialism And The US Campaign Against China. popularresistance.org In the US, where I live, more than one million people have died. More than 60 million workers lost their jobs in 2020. More than 100,000 small businesses were sent into bankruptcy. While the US was plunged into an economic recession and a healthcare crisis of unprecedented proportions, the Chinese government pursued a policy preventing such loss of life inside a country with 1.4 billion people. This would have been impossible had it not been for the policy, guidance, and unified approach of the government. That does not mean that there aren't still significant challenges, but this was a huge achievement. Also, wh…

_____ (2022-07-19). New Report: Gilded Giving 2022. popularresistance.org We estimate in Gilded Giving 2022 that if foundations had a 10 percent minimum payout and DAFs had a three-year mandated payout between 2018 and 2020, at least $193 billion in additional donations would have flowed to charities. | "As wealth concentrates in fewer hands, it causes troubling distortions in the charity sector," noted Chuck Collins, director of the Charity Reform Initiative at the Institute for Policy Studies and co-author of the report. "When wealthy donors can claim big tax deductions for charitable giving to private foundations that they control in perpetuity, it allows them to opt out of paying t…

Contributing Writers (2022-07-19). There was an unexpected 40% increase in "all cause deaths" in 2021 in the 18-49 year old age bracket. marktaliano.net READ MORE: COVID-19: "Excess deaths" or State-sponsored "homicide"? Death by Covid Vaccine Global ResearchGlobal Research Centre for Research on Globalization Breaking: Fifth Largest Life Insurance Company in the US Paid Out 163% More for Deaths of Working People Ages 18-64 in 2021. Total Claims/Benefits Up $6 Billion Global ResearchGlobal Research Centre …

Party for Socialism, Liberation (2022-07-19). PSL Editorial — Deadly heat wave sweeping Europe highlights criminal inaction on climate crisis. liberationnews.org The unfolding disaster in Europe has rightfully drawn global attention to the woefully inadequate action taken by the governments of the wealthy capitalist countries to address the climate change crisis.

Editor (2022-07-19). Structuring the economy to give money to the rich is inflationary. mronline.org I just read this NYT column by Bryan Stryker, on how Democrats can win back the working class. I have no idea how its proposals poll, but as an economic matter, they will do little to help the working class.

Liberation Staff (2022-07-19). South Carolina Dollar General workers strike against wage theft and safety violations. liberationnews.org "Wage theft is a big issue at our store," a worker said. "I've had hours taken off my check, and management has clocked me out early when I'm still working."

Prof Michel Chossudovsky (2022-07-19). Covid-19 Crisis: The Unspoken Objective of the WEF's "Global Reset" is to "Eliminate the Poor" globalresearch.ca

____ (2022-07-18). In Ukraine, a Proxy War on the Planet. transcend.org 15 Jul 2022 – As the Ukraine crisis causes global havoc, US officials won't negotiate with Russia to end the fighting — and are even willing to "countenance" mounting hunger as a result.

_____ (2022-07-18). Max Blumenthal And Aaron Mate Slam Corporate Media Disinformation. popularresistance.org At the Collision tech conference in Toronto on 6/21/22, before a hostile audience filled with members of the corporate press, The Grayzone's Max Blumenthal and Aaron Mate explain how the mainstream media is the most prolific source of disinformation on the planet, working closely with the national security state to cultivate public support for war while deflecting scrutiny from the oligarchy that controls it.

____ (2022-07-18). US$2 Trillion for War versus US$100 Billion to Save the Planet. transcend.org 11 Jul 2022 – The West is more fixated on spending social wealth on the military than addressing the climate catastrophe.

Editor (2022-07-18). On the bicentennial of Shelley's death: evolution of a working-class poet. mronline.org Two hundred years ago, on July 8, 1822, the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley drowned. He was less than a month short of thirty.

Fight Back (2022-07-18). Collective statement: Biden in occupied Palestine and the 'Jerusalem Declaration'. fightbacknews.org Fight Back News Service is circulating the following statement on Biden in Palestine and the Jerusalem Declaration, signed by 80 organizations, including Freedom Road Socialist Organization (FRSO). | The joint declaration of U.S. President Joe Biden and Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid reveals not only the fundamental bankruptcy of the imperialist and Zionist systems they represent but also underlines the necessity to act and stand now in solidarity with the Palestinian people and their resistance, to liberate their land from the river to the sea. This strategic partnership of violence, warmongering, repression…

Anita Snow, Eugene Garcia (2022-07-18). Long lines return at U.S. food banks as inflation hits high. peoplesworld.org PHOENIX (AP) — Long lines are back at food banks around the U.S. as working Americans overwhelmed by inflation turn to handouts to help feed their families. With gas prices soaring along with grocery costs, many people are seeking charitable food for the first time, and more are arriving on foot. Inflation in the U.S. is …

Dean Baker (2022-07-18). Structuring the Economy to Give Money to the Rich Is Inflationary. cepr.net Today's inflation should show us very directly how attacking the policies that redistribute so much income upward would help the working class.

____ (2022-07-18). In Ukraine, a Proxy War on the Planet. transcend.org 15 Jul 2022 – As the Ukraine crisis causes global havoc, US officials won't negotiate with Russia to end the fighting — and are even willing to "countenance" mounting hunger as a result.

_____ (2022-07-18). Max Blumenthal And Aaron Mate Slam Corporate Media Disinformation. popularresistance.org At the Collision tech conference in Toronto on 6/21/22, before a hostile audience filled with members of the corporate press, The Grayzone's Max Blumenthal and Aaron Mate explain how the mainstream media is the most prolific source of disinformation on the planet, working closely with the national security state to cultivate public support for war while deflecting scrutiny from the oligarchy that controls it.

____ (2022-07-18). US$2 Trillion for War versus US$100 Billion to Save the Planet. transcend.org 11 Jul 2022 – The West is more fixated on spending social wealth on the military than addressing the climate catastrophe.

Editor (2022-07-18). On the bicentennial of Shelley's death: evolution of a working-class poet. mronline.org Two hundred years ago, on July 8, 1822, the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley drowned. He was less than a month short of thirty.

Staff (2022-07-18). Petro and Maduro Working to Bring Colombia and Venezuela Closer, Report Reveals. orinocotribune.com President-elect of Colombia, Gustavo Petro, is taking the first steps to fulfill his promise to build bridges with Venezuela. | On Saturday, July 1, a memo was published by the Colombian far-right magazine In addition, a source who requested a…

Fight Back (2022-07-18). Collective statement: Biden in occupied Palestine and the 'Jerusalem Declaration'. fightbacknews.org Fight Back News Service is circulating the following statement on Biden in Palestine and the Jerusalem Declaration, signed by 80 organizations, including Freedom Road Socialist Organization (FRSO). | The joint declaration of U.S. President Joe Biden and Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid reveals not only the fundamental bankruptcy of the imperialist and Zionist systems they represent but also underlines the necessity to act and stand now in solidarity with the Palestinian people and their resistance, to liberate their land from the river to the sea. This strategic partnership of violence, warmongering, repression…

Peoples Dispatch (2022-07-18). Nepalese student union launches hunger strike at Tribhuvan University to demand educational reform. peoplesdispatch.org The students, who began their hunger strike on July 12, have demanded reforms from the University administration regarding policy, infrastructure, management, courses and more…

Rqorinoco (2022-07-18). One Year After July 11, 2021. orinocotribune.com By Ike Nahem — Jul 11, 2022 | "The heroism of normality in Cuba does not generate headlines." | -Cuban revolutionary journalist Rosa Miriam Elizalde | July 11, 2021 in Cuba quickly went from legitimate, valid, peaceful street protests to violent provocations and destructive acts directed by US clients in Cuba. Thousands of people in many cities, towns, and working-class neighborhoods took to the streets in response to harsh, deteriorating conditions — the worst of the Covid Delta infections, hospitalizations, and deaths on the island before the application of the Cuban-vaccines; the electricity blacko…

Staff (2022-07-18). Nelson Mandela: "Uno de los más extraordinarios símbolos de esta era" (+ Video). cubadebate.cu El líder sudafricano Nelson Mandela, quien este 18 de julio cumpliría 104 años de edad, nos recordaba que "mientras la pobreza, la injusticia y las grandes desigualdades persistan en nuestro mundo, ninguno de nosotros puede descansar realmente". Mandela fue desde muy joven un luchador incansable contra toda manifestación de injusticia social.

WSWS (2022-07-18). 15,000 Minnesota nurses still working without contract as union continues to block strike. wsws.org It has been over a month since 12, 0 Minneapolis-St. Paul nurses' contracts expired on May 31, and over two weeks since 2, 0 nurses in Duluth, Hastings and other Minnesota cities saw their contracts expire on June 30.

WSWS (2022-07-18). Nurses' picket protests working conditions at Michigan Medicine. wsws.org The Michigan Nurses Association (MNA) is doing everything in its power to keep nurses on the job following the expiration of their contract on June 30, including promoting Democratic Party politicians and the idea that the university regents will side with nurses' demands for better staffing ratios and cost-of-living hikes.

_____ (2022-07-17). The West's Duplicity in the Food Crisis Caused by the Shortage of Grain. journal-neo.org Governments of many countries have recently been talking more and more about a possible food crisis in the near future, actively involving representatives from the UN and other international organizations, and numerous media platforms in this information campaign. Yet, in addition to drawing everyone's attention to the issue of combating hunger, which is especially threatening …

| Reuters | (2022-07-18). Ukraine president sacks security chief, cites hundreds of treason cases. tribune.com.pk Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskiy sacked the head of the country's domestic security service and state prosecutor, citing hundreds of cases of alleged treason and collaboration with Russia, as Moscow appeared set to step up military operations. | Zelenskiy said more than 60 officials from the SBU security service and prosecutor's office were working against Ukraine in Russian-occupied territories, and 651 treason and collaboration cases had been opened against law enforcement officials. | The sackings on Sunday of Ivan Bakanov, head of the security service, and Prosecutor General Iryna Venediktova, who l…

____ (2022-07-18). In Ukraine, a Proxy War on the Planet. transcend.org 15 022 – As the Ukraine crisis causes global havoc, US officials won't negotiate with Russia to end the fighting — and are even willing to "countenance" mounting hunger as a result.

____ (2022-07-18). US$2 Trillion for War versus US$100 Billion to Save the Planet. transcend.org 11 022 – The West is more fixated on spending social wealth on the military than addressing the climate catastrophe.

Staff (2022-07-18). Petro and Maduro Working to Bring Colombia and Venezuela Closer, Report Reveals. orinocotribune.com President-elect of Colombia, Gustavo Petro, is taking the first steps to fulfill his promise to build bridges with Venezuela. | On Saturday, July 1, a memo was published by the Colombian far-right magazine In addition, a source who requested a…

Fight Back (2022-07-18). Collective statement: Biden in occupied Palestine and the 'Jerusalem Declaration'. fightbacknews.org Fight Back News Service is circulating the following statement on Biden in Palestine and the Jerusalem Declaration, signed by 80 organizations, including Freedom Road Socialist Organization (FRSO). | The joint declaration of U.S. President Joe Biden and Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid reveals not only the fundamental bankruptcy of the imperialist and Zionist systems they represent but also underlines the necessity to act and stand now in solidarity with the Palestinian people and their resistance, to liberate their land from the river to the sea. This strategic partnership of violence, warmongering, repression…

Rqorinoco (2022-07-18). One Year After July 11, 2021. orinocotribune.com By Ike Nahem — 1, 2022 | "The heroism of normality in Cuba does not generate headlines." | -Cuban revolutionary journalist Rosa Miriam Elizalde | July 11, 2021 in Cuba quickly went from legitimate, valid, peaceful street protests to violent provocations and destructive acts directed by US clients in Cuba. Thousands of people in many cities, towns, and working-class neighborhoods took to the streets in response to harsh, deteriorating conditions — the worst of the Covid Delta infections, hospitalizations, and deaths on the island before the application of the Cuban-vaccines; the electricity blacko…

WSWS (2022-07-18). 15,000 Minnesota nurses still working without contract as union continues to block strike. wsws.org It has been over a month since 12, 0 Minneapolis-St. Paul nurses' contracts expired on May 31, and over two weeks since 2, 0 nurses in Duluth, Hastings and other Minnesota cities saw their contracts expire on June 30.

Staff (2022-07-18). Nelson Mandela: "Uno de los más extraordinarios símbolos de esta era" (+ Video). cubadebate.cu El líder sudafricano Nelson Mandela, quien este 18 de julio cumpliría 104 años de edad, nos recordaba que "mientras la pobreza, la injusticia y las grandes desigualdades persistan en nuestro mundo, ninguno de nosotros puede descansar realmente". Mandela fue desde muy joven un luchador incansable contra toda manifestación de injusticia social.

WSWS (2022-07-18). Nurses' picket protests working conditions at Michigan Medicine. wsws.org The Michigan Nurses Association (MNA) is doing everything in its power to keep nurses on the job following the expiration of their contract on June 30, including promoting Democratic Party politicians and the idea that the university regents will side with nurses' demands for better staffing ratios and cost-of-living hikes.

Maria Paez Victor (2022-07-17). What Does the UBER Scandal Have to Do With Venezuelan Special Economic Zones? orinocotribune.com By María Páez Victor 13 July 2022 | "The greatest challenge facing societies has always been how to conduct trade and credit without letting merchants and creditors make money by exploiting their customers and debtors." | (Michael Hudson)(1) | It is necessary to examine the mega-taxi industry of UBER. Its path is like one of Aesop's Fables that highlights a deep morale. | Except that it is not a fable. | A few days ago, the British newspaper The Guardian,(2) has revealed a huge scandal related to the UBER taxi industry. It is well known that this company is based on not giving employment to drivers but any…

_____ (2022-07-17). The West's Duplicity in the Food Crisis Caused by the Shortage of Grain. journal-neo.org Governments of many countries have recently been talking more and more about a possible food crisis in the near future, actively involving representatives from the UN and other international organizations, and numerous media platforms in this information campaign. Yet, in addition to drawing everyone's attention to the issue of combating hunger, which is especially threatening …

____ (2022-07-17). Chinese FM spokesperson refutes 'debt trap' claim. ecns.cn A Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson on Thursday refuted the so-called "Chinese debt trap" claim, saying that it is pure disinformation and a narrative trap created by those who do not hope to see China-Africa cooperation pick up speed.

Ariana Figueroa (2022-07-17). House Panel Told Pregnant Patients Without Abortion Access Face 'Death Sentence'. commondreams.org Banning access to essential healthcare will cost lives, reproductive rights advocates told a congressional committee this week.

Ricardo Gomez (2022-07-16). YOU LOVE TO SEE IT: Chile Proposes New Constitution. levernews.com Good things are happening! The proposal of a new constitution in Chile leaves behind the Pinochet era, enshrining the rights of workers and the environment. Also, California is tired of dangerous prices for insulin and will invest in producing its own low-cost options. Californians will also receive inflation-relief checks, and congressional staffers are organizing to demand climate action from Democratic leadership. Many of the staffers have been working on key climate policy for years, and they are now escalating their organizing commitments to go after stalling leadership.

Sharmila Devi (2022-07-16). [World Report] Climate change driving east Africa towards famine. thelancet.com Consecutive years of drought caused by climate change and La Niña have led to food insecurity in many parts of east Africa. Sharmila Devi reports.

Jessamy Bagenal (2022-07-16). [Perspectives] Mariana Mazzucato: leading a new type of economics. thelancet.com Mariana Mazzucato is a firebrand economist. In 2020, she became Chair of the WHO Council on the Economics of Health For All. "The idea was instead of doing the usual of saying invest in health because it's good for the economy, what if you said invest in health for all and backtrack to design an economic system to deliver on that, meaning design a different form of budgeting, a different form of procurement, a different form of intellectual property, a different form of public—private ways of working together on projects", she explains.

_____ (2022-07-17). The West's Duplicity in the Food Crisis Caused by the Shortage of Grain. journal-neo.org Governments of many countries have recently been talking more and more about a possible food crisis in the near future, actively involving representatives from the UN and other international organizations, and numerous media platforms in this information campaign. Yet, in addition to drawing everyone's attention to the issue of combating hunger, which is especially threatening …

Maria Paez Victor (2022-07-17). What Does the UBER Scandal Have to Do With Venezuelan Special Economic Zones? orinocotribune.com By María Páez Victor 13 July 2022 | "The greatest challenge facing societies has always been how to conduct trade and credit without letting merchants and creditors make money by exploiting their customers and debtors." | (Michael Hudson)(1) | It is necessary to examine the mega-taxi industry of UBER. Its path is like one of Aesop's Fables that highlights a deep morale. | Except that it is not a fable. | A few days ago, the British newspaper The Guardian,(2) has revealed a huge scandal related to the UBER taxi industry. It is well known that this company is based on not giving employment to drivers but any…

____ (2022-07-17). Chinese FM spokesperson refutes 'debt trap' claim. ecns.cn A Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson on Thursday refuted the so-called "Chinese debt trap" claim, saying that it is pure disinformation and a narrative trap created by those who do not hope to see China-Africa cooperation pick up speed.

_____ (2022-07-16). Houston's Fight To Decriminalize Mental Illness And Homelessness. popularresistance.org While Harris County is spending millions of dollars on mental health services and service-providing agencies to reduce the number of mentally ill people entering its county jails, activists on the ground are tackling the problem from another angle—by providing direct support to the county's homeless population. | "We don't have the best safety nets in Texas, and from the mental health standpoint, there really aren't the mental health services available that people need," Catherine Villarreal, director of communications at the Coalition for the Homeless, told TRNN. But Villarreal also stressed that, for peop…

Staff (2022-07-16). Collective Statement: Biden in Occupied Palestine and the "Jerusalem Declaration" Our Response is Struggle and Solidarity. samidoun.net The joint declaration of U.S. President Joe Biden and Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid reveals not only the fundamental bankruptcy of the imperialist and Zionist systems they represent but also underlines the necessity to act and stand now in solidarity with the Palestinian people and their resistance, to liberate their land from the river to …

JANET (2022-07-16). Collective Statement: Biden in Occupied Palestine and the "Jerusalem Declaration" — Our Response is Struggle and Solidarity. iacenter.org 16 July 2022 Protesters hounded U.S. President Joe Biden in Palestine, including July 15 in Bethlehem where boys carried the photograph of Shireen Abu Akleh, Palestinian-American journalist murdered by Israeli Defense Force troops while on assignment in the Palestinian refugee camp of Jenin. Credit: Abbas Momani The joint declaration of U.S. President Joe Biden and Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid reveals not only the fundamental bankruptcy of the imperialist and Zionist systems they represent but also underlines the necessity to act and stand now in solidarity with the Palestinian people and their resistance, t…

WSWS (2022-07-16). Jerani Ratnayake, intransigent fighter for Trotskyism, dies aged 72. wsws.org Jerani overcame social barriers to actively participate in politics and fight for the unity of the working class, regardless of race, language and gender.

WSWS (2022-07-16). As Ford confirms closure of its Saarlouis plant: Lessons from years of car production. wsws.org Ford's decision to halt production at its Saarlouis plant in 2025 is part of the biggest international assault on the social gains and rights of the working class since the 1930s.

John Lawrence (2022-07-16). The US Corporate Elite Is Killing Democracy and the Planet. commondreams.org We need a united multicultural, multiracial working-class progressive front now!

Jessamy Bagenal (2022-07-16). [Perspectives] Mariana Mazzucato: leading a new type of economics. thelancet.com Mariana Mazzucato is a firebrand economist. In 2020, she became Chair of the WHO Council on the Economics of Health For All. "The idea was instead of doing the usual of saying invest in health because it's good for the economy, what if you said invest in health for all and backtrack to design an economic system to deliver on that, meaning design a different form of budgeting, a different form of procurement, a different form of intellectual property, a different form of public—private ways of working together on projects", she explains.

WSWS (2022-07-16). 100 million in the US weighed down by medical debt. wsws.org million people are paying medical bills in installments, 10 percent of those who owe have taken loans from friends of family, and 15 percent have put bills, often totaling thousands or even tens of thousands of dollars, on credit cards.

Sharmila Devi (2022-07-16). [World Report] Climate change driving east Africa towards famine. thelancet.com Consecutive years of drought caused by climate change and La Niña have led to food insecurity in many parts of east Africa. Sharmila Devi reports.

WSWS (2022-07-16). Jerani Ratnayake, intransigent fighter for Trotskyism, dies aged 73. wsws.org Jerani overcame social barriers to actively participate in politics and fight for the unity of the working class, regardless of race, language and gender.

WSWS (2022-07-16). 100 million in the US weighed down by medical debt. wsws.org million people are paying medical bills in installments, 10 percent of those who owe have taken loans from friends of family, and 15 percent have put bills, often totaling thousands or even tens of thousands of dollars, on credit cards.

Sharmila Devi (2022-07-16). [World Report] Climate change driving east Africa towards famine. thelancet.com Consecutive years of drought caused by climate change and La Niña have led to food insecurity in many parts of east Africa. Sharmila Devi reports.

San Francisco Public Library (2022-07-16). Friday 8/5: Suzanne Cope in Conversation with Cleo Silvers, Power Hungry. indybay.org [ONLINE] San Francisco Main Library | 100 Larkin Street | San Francisco, CA 94102…

____ (2022-07-16). Chinese FM spokesperson refutes 'debt trap' claim. ecns.cn A Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson on Thursday refuted the so-called "Chinese debt trap" claim, saying that it is pure disinformation and a narrative trap created by those who do not hope to see China-Africa cooperation pick up speed.

WSWS (2022-07-16). Jerani Ratnayake, intransigent fighter for Trotskyism, dies aged 72. wsws.org Jerani overcame social barriers to actively participate in politics and fight for the unity of the working class, regardless of race, language and gender.

WSWS (2022-07-16). As Ford confirms closure of its Saarlouis plant: Lessons from years of car production. wsws.org Ford's decision to halt production at its Saarlouis plant in 2025 is part of the biggest international assault on the social gains and rights of the working class since the 1930s.

Jessamy Bagenal (2022-07-16). [Perspectives] Mariana Mazzucato: leading a new type of economics. thelancet.com Mariana Mazzucato is a firebrand economist. In 2020, she became Chair of the WHO Council on the Economics of Health For All. "The idea was instead of doing the usual of saying invest in health because it's good for the economy, what if you said invest in health for all and backtrack to design an economic system to deliver on that, meaning design a different form of budgeting, a different form of procurement, a different form of intellectual property, a different form of public—private ways of working together on projects", she explains.

Vijay Prashad (2022-07-15). Will our children be literate? Will they look forward to the future with dignity?: The Twenty-Eighth Newsletter (2022). mronline.org The world is adrift in the tides of hunger and desolation. It is difficult to think about education, or anything else, when your children are not able to eat.

Miko Peled (2022-07-15). Who is Biden Working For? On Israel Visit, "Zionist" Biden Whitewashes Israel's Crimes. mintpressnews.com Judging by his performance, Joe Biden is working for AIPAC and not for the American people. He hit every note, shook every hand and repeated his mantras, clearly trying to please his donors back home.

_____ (2022-07-15). Will Our Children Look Forward To The Future With Dignity? popularresistance.org The world is adrift in the tides of hunger and desolation. It is difficult to think about education, or anything else, when your children are not able to eat. And yet, the sharp attack on education during this past decade forces us to consider the kind of future that young people will inherit. In 2018, before the pandemic, the United Nations calculated that 258 million, or one in six, school age children were out of school. By March 2020, the start of the pandemic, UNESCO estimated that 1.5 billion children and youth were affected by school closures; a staggering 91% of students worldwide had their education disr…

WSWS (2022-07-15). Major crypto lender files for bankruptcy. wsws.org In documents filed yesterday, Celsius Network revealed it had a $1.2 billion shortfall in its balance sheet resulting from what CEO Alex Mashinsky said were poor investment decisions and unanticipated losses.

Carlos Cruz Mosquera (2022-07-15). How Black Colombia Helped Bring the Left to Power. orinocotribune.com By Carlos Cruz Mosquera 2, 2022 | Although mainstream media focuses on a figurehead, Colombia's historical moment today is not just down to Gustavo Petro and his coalition's efforts. Without taking from them what was an inspired campaign to win the electorate over with a principled programme, a decisive factor in the victory was last year's national strike. | The heroic mobilisation of young racialised working-class youth brought the country to a standstill, bringing all of the radicals and progressives together with impassioned clamours for change. The consequences of the demonstrations are visible ev…

Margaret Flowers (2022-07-15). Challenging the AFL-CIO's Labor Imperialism. orinocotribune.com A little known fact, even to those who work there, is that the AFL-CIO organizes in support of US imperialist policies that drive a global race to the bottom in wages and working conditions, negatively impacting US workers too. The AFL-CIO's Solidarity Center is one of the four core components of the National Endowment for Democracy. Clearing the FOG speaks with Kim Scipes, a co-founder of the new Labor Education Project on the AFL-CIO's International Operations (LEPAIO). Scipes describes the long history of labor imperialism and how unions are challenging it. Adrienne Pine provides a brief report on workers prot…

Editor (2022-07-15). Michelle Wilde Anderson: Saving Broke and Broken America, One Town at a Time. scheerpost.com [ | Click to subscribe on: America's wealth gap has been cratering since the 2008 Great Recession, although the groundwork for this form of grotesque inequality has been…

Brittani Banks (2022-07-15). The Selfish Politics of Anti-Abortionists. independentmediainstitute.org The Supreme Court's recent decision to overturn Roe v. Wade was predictable even as it was shocking. Right-wing forces have spent years working painstakingly on multiple fronts in plain sight to ensure that the right to an abortion would no longer be guaranteed, and they have won. Two of the three Supreme Court Justices, Brett …

SAM (2022-07-15). Does the Future Belong to People Who Profit Off Our 'Excessive Wealth Disorder'? inequality.org

Arab Digest (2022-07-15). Egypt's Sisi: ringmaster of a near-bankrupt circus. fairobserver.com

_____ (2022-07-15). Debt Traps & Terrorism: The Roots of Sri Lanka's Crisis. journal-neo.org The island nation of Sri Lanka, located south-southeast of India in the Indian Ocean has suffered economic and now political chaos that has grabbed international headlines. The Western media has floated narratives ranging from "debt trap diplomacy" perpetrated by China and its Belt and Road Initiative to food shortages spurred by Russia's "blockade" of the …

____ (2022-07-14). Throat swab robots will ease burden on medics. ecns.cn Testing for COVID-19 normally has kept clinicians clad in medical protective gear working for hours. But sample collecting is stepping closer to full automation with the development of yet another robot.

Deweylaura (2022-07-15). How to avoid the mother of all recessions. cpusa.org The financial markets shook in April as the Federal Reserve announced that the United States Gross Domestic Product (GDP) had shrunk in the past quarter by 1.4%. Economists began to fret about the possibility of recession. Strictly speaking, the contraction (shrinking) of the economy over two quarters signals the beginning of a recession. Concerns …

Anonymous669 (2022-07-15). UAE Distances Itself From US-Led Anti-Iran Alliance, Says It Will Send Envoy To Tehran. southfront.org Abu Dhabi's skyline in December 2014. By Wikimedia user Wadiia. | The United Arab Emirates (UAE) is working to send an ambassador to Tehran as it seeks to rebuild bridges with Iran, Anwar Gargash, the diplomatic advisor to the Emirati President, said on July 15. | Gargash added that the idea of a confrontational approach to the issues related to Iran was not something that Abu Dhabi supported."Our conversation is ongoing … we are in the process of sending an ambassador to Tehran. All these areas of…

WSWS (2022-07-15). "Hell on Earth!"—US railroad workers speak out against intolerable working conditions. wsws.org The World Socialist Web Site has received a large volume of comments from railroad workers across the United States in recent days, which we are publishing to bring attention to our world audience the conditions in the industry.

Benjamin Norton (2022-07-15). Real Debt Trap: Sri Lanka Owes Vast Majority to West, Not China. orinocotribune.com By Benjamin Norton 2, 2022 | Sri Lanka owes 81% of its external debt to US and European financial institutions and Western allies Japan and India. China owns just 10%. But Washington blames imaginary "Chinese debt traps" for the nation's crisis, as it considers a 17th IMF structural adjustment program. | Facing a deep economic crisis and bankruptcy, Sri Lanka was rocked by large protests this July, which led to the resignation of the government. | Numerous Western political leaders and media outlets blamed this uprising on a supposed Chinese "debt trap," echoing a deceptive narrative that has been thor…

Party for Socialism, Liberation (2022-07-14). PSL Editorial — Biden's Middle East trip: Apartheid, war and oil. liberationnews.org Biden is evidently more concerned about the fading fortunes of U.S. empire than addressing the dire problems faced by working people.

It's Going Down (2022-07-14). Cracks in the Racial Order?: A Discussion on Race, Class and the Ongoing Impact of Noel Ignatiev. itsgoingdown.org On this episode of It's Going Down, we speak with former comrades of radical organizer and author Noel Ignatiev, who passed away in 2019 and is most well known for his involvement in the radical journal, Race Traitor. Before his passing, Ignatiev was also involved with Hard Crackers, which chronicles working-class life, struggle and revolt while…

Isabella (2022-07-14). Giving USA 2022: Charity Sector Stable but Increasingly Top-Heavy. inequality.org

Isabella (2022-07-14). New Ipsos Poll Shows Broad Support for Bold Charity Reform. inequality.org

WSWS (2022-07-15). Major crypto lender files for bankruptcy. wsws.org In documents filed yesterday, Celsius Network revealed it had a $1.2 billion shortfall in its balance sheet resulting from what CEO Alex Mashinsky said were poor investment decisions and unanticipated losses.

SAM (2022-07-15). Does the Future Belong to People Who Profit Off Our 'Excessive Wealth Disorder'? inequality.org

Arab Digest (2022-07-15). Egypt's Sisi: ringmaster of a near-bankrupt circus. fairobserver.com

____ (2022-07-14). Throat swab robots will ease burden on medics. ecns.cn Testing for COVID-19 normally has kept clinicians clad in medical protective gear working for hours. But sample collecting is stepping closer to full automation with the development of yet another robot.

____ (2022-07-14). Chinese FM spokesperson refutes 'debt trap' claim. ecns.cn A Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson on Thursday refuted the so-called "Chinese debt trap" claim, saying that it is pure disinformation and a narrative trap created by those who do not hope to see China-Africa cooperation pick up speed.

WSWS (2022-07-15). "Hell on Earth!"—US railroad workers speak out against intolerable working conditions. wsws.org The World Socialist Web Site has received a large volume of comments from railroad workers across the United States in recent days, which we are publishing to bring attention to our world audience the conditions in the industry.

Kristina Hille (2022-07-14). A Ukrainian-Led School Emerges in Germany to Teach Refugee Children. truthout.org Julia C. stands in front of her 24 10th-grade pupils at The Ukrainian School — a school in Dresden, Germany, staffed by teachers from Ukraine who are working with the sudden influx of school-aged refugees. The school's curriculum covers nearly all the standard school subjects while also helping Ukrainian students learn German and adjust to their new lives. | The Ukrainian School program was created in April 2022, following Russia's invasion of Ukraine and the subsequent influx of Ukrainian refugees and their children. The director of the newly reopened school is simultaneously the director of Dresden's more…

Uswah Alaydrus (2022-07-14). Indonesia between Russia and Ukraine: What is lacking in peaceful diplomacy. moderndiplomacy.eu Some global problems such as poverty, natural disasters, hunger, clean water, environmental problems, population, epidemics, conflicts and wars have indeed colored human life, but a long span of time will cause new problems and complicate life which then requires humans to find a way. get out of the problem either by thinking and doing something …

Vijay Prashad (2022-07-14). Will Our Children Be Literate? Will They Look Forward to the Future with Dignity? dissidentvoice.org Nú Barreto (Guinea-Bissau), A Esperar ('Waiting'), 2019. The world is adrift in the tides of hunger and desolation. It is difficult to think about education, or anything else, when your children are not able to eat. And yet, the sharp attack on education during this past decade forces us to consider the kind of future …

Michael Hudson (2022-07-14). The end of Western civilization. mronline.org The greatest challenge facing societies has always been how to conduct trade and credit without letting merchants and creditors make money by exploiting their customers and debtors.

Party for Socialism, Liberation (2022-07-14). PSL Editorial — Biden's Middle East trip: Apartheid, war and oil. liberationnews.org Biden is evidently more concerned about the fading fortunes of U.S. empire than addressing the dire problems faced by working people.

Jake Johnson (2022-07-14). Sanders Warns Congress Is Working 'Behind Closed Doors' on $ Billion in Corporate Welfare. commondreams.org "If you can believe it," said the Vermont senator, "this legislation may also provide a $10 billion bailout to Jeff Bezos, the second-wealthiest person in America."

| Reuters | (2022-07-14). UAE announces $2 billion investment in hi-tech Indian 'food parks' to ease shortages. tribune.com.pk The United Arab Emirates has pledged $2 billion to help develop a series of "food parks" in India to tackle food insecurity in South Asia and the Middle East, the UAE, India, the United States and Israel said on Thursday. | Speaking in Jerusalem at a virtual summit with UAE, Israeli and Indian leaders, US President Joe Biden said the investment could "increase India's food yields in the region three-fold in just five years". | The parks would bring farmers, processors and retailers together using advanced climate technology to minimise waste, conserve water and maximise crop yields. | Read more: India bans whe…

Sharon Zhang (2022-07-14). Sanders Rebukes Senate for Crafting $ Billion "Handout" to Microchip Industry. truthout.org On the Senate floor on Wednesday, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont) had harsh words for fellow members of Congress who have been crafting a bill to give major microchip companies $52 billion in corporate welfare while ignoring pressing issues that are faced by the middle and lower classes in the U.S. | "At a time of massive income and wealth inequality, the American people are sick and tired of the unprecedented level of corporate greed that we are seeing right now,"

Jason Ditz (2022-07-14). UN Extends Yemen Mission in Hodeidah by Another Year. news.antiwar.com Just days before its expiration, the UN Security Council voted to extend the mission to Hodeidah is the largest seaport in Yemen, and source of most food aid into the country. Pro-Saudi forces were trying to take the port and the UN made a deal to try to avoid the fight, worrying the port would be damaged, leading to a famine. | The Hodeidah deal hasn't been perfect, but has prevented any major offensives on the port. The UN was empha…

Tanya Wadhwa (2022-07-14). Meet the ministerial cabinet of Colombia's first left-wing government. peoplesdispatch.org Colombia's first left-wing government in 203 years since its independence is gearing up to be sworn in on August 7. The government to be headed by Gustavo Petro and Francia Márquez of the progressive Historic Pact coalition, has been working steadily to build its cabinet of ministers. To date, eight cabinet members have been appointed, five of them are women. | During his election campaign, Petro announced that he would create the Ministry of Equality and Women. On Twitter, Petro

It's Going Down (2022-07-14). Cracks in the Racial Order?: A Discussion on Race, Class and the Ongoing Impact of Noel Ignatiev. itsgoingdown.org On this episode of It's Going Down, we speak with former comrades of radical organizer and author Noel Ignatiev, who passed away in 2019 and is most well known for his involvement in the radical journal, Race Traitor. Before his passing, Ignatiev was also involved with Hard Crackers, which chronicles working-class life, struggle and revolt while…

Isabella (2022-07-14). Giving USA 2022: Charity Sector Stable but Increasingly Top-Heavy. inequality.org

Isabella (2022-07-14). New Ipsos Poll Shows Broad Support for Bold Charity Reform. inequality.org

David Moscrop (2022-07-14). No Wonder There's an Air Travel Crisis. Airlines Have Been Screwing Workers for Years. zcomm.org To solve this crisis and avoid future issues, airlines and the government should listen to workers and finally give them what they deserve: better pay and working conditions…

Thom Hartmann (2022-07-14). Dear Millennials: I'm Sorry We Didn't Stop Them. zcomm.org Your generation today holds only 4.6% of the nation's wealth and you're most likely struggling to own a home & are deeply in debt. What happened? In a word, Republicans…

Jeremy Kuzmarov (2022-07-14). While Guilty for Sex Trafficking, Ghislaine Maxwell Takes Fall for Alleged Sexual Blackmail Operation Run by Western Intelligence Agencies. covertactionmagazine.com Evidence suggests that Epstein and his paramour Ghislaine Maxwell were working for U.S., British and Israeli intelligence agencies to build …

Staff (2022-07-14). Myth of Chinese Debt Busted: Africa Trapped by Western Lenders. orinocotribune.com African countries owe three times as much to Western banks, asset managers, and oil traders as they do to China, and are charged twice as much interest, according to a study Regarding the recent accusations by the West against the Asian country, regarding the crisis in Sri Lanka, the study reveals that only 12% of the continent's external debt was owed to Chinese l…

Vidhi Bubna (2022-07-14). Bookletpedia by Piyush Poddar- A unique initiative to empower people in villages of India. moderndiplomacy.eu Piyush Poddar has done his Master's from Delhi School of Social Work, and Bachelor's in Commerce from Hans Raj College, University of Delhi. He has experience working as a consultant with the MPSRLM and organizations like Azim Premji Foundation, Society for All Round Development, and Rajasthan Mahila Kalyan Mandal, Ajmer. His experience at the grassroots …

Haiti Action Committee (2022-07-14). Thursday 7/28: France, Pay Your Debt To Haiti! indybay.org Offices of the French Consulate and Citibank at 88 Kearny Street, San Francisco, CA 94108…

WSWS (2022-07-14). What next for US railroaders after near-unanimous strike vote? wsws.org For US railroaders, the strike vote is not simply a moral victory. They know there is no other way to reverse decades of deteriorating working conditions. But the unions have no intention of calling a strike, and are demanding intervention by Biden to block it.

Homeless Garden Project (2022-07-14). Saturday 8/6: Day of Dirt and Digging. indybay.org Homeless Garden Project Farm | 100-198 Shaffer Rd Santa Cruz, CA 9 60…

_____ (2022-07-14). Real Debt Trap: Sri Lanka Owes Vast Majority To West, Not China. popularresistance.org This July, Sri Lanka's government was forced to resign, after hundreds of thousands of protesters stormed public buildings, setting some on fire, while also occupying the homes of the country's leaders. | The protests were driven by skyrocketing rates of inflation, as well as rampant corruption and widespread shortages of fuel, food, and medicine — a product of the country's inability to pay for imports. | In May, Sri Lanka defaulted on its debt. In June, it tried to negotiate another structural adjustment program with the US-dominated International Monetary Fund (IMF). This would have been Sri Lanka's 17th…

_____ (2022-07-13). Visualizing The Economic Veins That Fuel Our Carceral Reality. popularresistance.org The contemporary US prison system incarcerates people — largely Black, Native, Latinx, disabled, and working-class and poor folks — and hides them from society for years, decades, or lifetimes. This is true across the United States generally and in Massachusetts, specifically. These days, when discussing the case against incarceration and the prison system, there are a few different arguments one tends to hear: (1) the first is that incarceration is immoral and reprehensible in both its conditions and treatment of incarcerated people; (2) a second, appealing to economists and technocratic policymakers…

_____ (2022-07-13). Wars, Inflation, And Strikes: A Summer Of Discontent In Europe? popularresistance.org Are we heading toward a summer of discontent in Europe? Can we foresee a hot autumn on the Continent? It would be hasty to make such statements, but new strike activity is beginning to unfold among sectors of several countries' working class. Inflation reached 8.8 percent as a European average in May (with higher rates in countries like the UK and Spain). After years of inflation below 1.5 percent, this is a significant change that is causing a fall in the population's purchasing power, especially among the working class. Many analysts are already talking about the possibility of stagflation: a combination of rec…

Liberation Staff (2022-07-13). Keene, N.H., protest for abortion rights: 'We can do it again!'. liberationnews.org "The working class showed its power in the early 70s when fighting for Roe, under even more conservative and repressive circumstances than we find ourselves now. If they could do it then, we can do it again!"

Andreína Chávez Alava (2022-07-13). Venezuela: Oil Output Stagnates Despite Export Surge, Chevron Continues PDVSA Talks. venezuelanalysis.com Venezuelan oil shipments have increased following recent oil-for-debt licenses granted to Italy's Eni and Spain's Repsol.

David Moscrop (2022-07-14). No Wonder There's an Air Travel Crisis. Airlines Have Been Screwing Workers for Years. zcomm.org To solve this crisis and avoid future issues, airlines and the government should listen to workers and finally give them what they deserve: better pay and working conditions…

WSWS (2022-07-13). President Rajapakse flees Sri Lanka after popular uprising. wsws.org The ignominious departure of the president points to the immense power of the movement that has emerged in the working class, but an interim government will resolve nothing.

Staff (2022-07-13). Hunger to worsen in Haiti as gang violence escalates. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Jul. 13 (MNA) — Hunger is set to worsen in Haiti amid worsening gang violence, high costs of food and rising inflation, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has warned.

WSWS (2022-07-13). GM Subsystems workers denounce poverty wages as UAW pushes deal with substandard pay and benefits. wsws.org Workers employed by the General Motors subsidiary GM Subsystems voted on a contract Tuesday after the United Auto Workers kept them on the job 14 months after the expiration of their last contract.

WSWS (2022-07-13). German finance minister attacks the long-term unemployed. wsws.org To finance its war policies, the German government is applying the "debt brake" mercilessly. Special funds to assist the long-term unemployed are to be cut by over €600 million.

WSWS (2022-07-13). Australian governments reject health advice amid COVID-19 surge. wsws.org The newly elected federal Labor government is not merely continuing the homicidal "let it rip" policies, but deepening the attacks on the health and lives of the working class.

Homeless Garden Project (2022-07-13). Saturday 8/6: Day of Dirt and Digging. indybay.org Homeless Garden Project Farm | 100-198 Shaffer Rd Santa Cruz, CA 9 60…

_____ (2022-07-12). A 'Tax The Rich' Climate Protest Shuts Down The East Hampton Airport. popularresistance.org New York – East Hampton Town police arrested six people today (July 11) protesting higher taxes for the wealthy outside the East Hampton airport. The demonstration was organized by advocacy group New York Communities for Change, the latest in a series of Hamptons protests over the past few days. | New York Communities for Change is focused on climate emissions caused by wealthy Hampton residents. Around 25 people gathered outside the airport this morning, holding signs that read "tax the rich" and "make billionaires pay." In addition to linking arms in front of the entrance, one demonstrator stood atop a wooden t…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-07-12). Brazilian Youth: Right Now is Critical. libya360.wordpress.com In Sà£o Paulo, we spoke to Raiara Pieres, a member of the Movement for Popular Sovereignty in Mining (Movimento pela Soberania Popular na Mineraàßà£o — MAM) and of La Via Campesina Brasil. Raiara gives a rundown of some of the most important issues for the working class as Brazil heads into elections in October. Interviewed…

_____ (2022-07-12). The End Of Western Civilization. popularresistance.org The greatest challenge facing societies has always been how to conduct trade and credit without letting merchants and creditors make money by exploiting their customers and debtors. All antiquity recognized that the drive to acquire money is addictive and indeed tends to be exploitative and hence socially injurious. The moral values of most societies opposed selfishness, above all in the form of avarice and wealth addiction, which the Greeks called philarguria— love of money, silver-mania. Individuals and families indulging in conspicuous consumption tended to be ostracized, because it was recognized that w…

Peoples Dispatch (2022-07-12). Daily Round-Up | Leaked documents expose Uber's inner workings & other stories. peoplesdispatch.org In today's episode, we bring you stories of leaked documents that expose Uber's underbelly, Saudi attacks in Yemen, a strike by Lebanese government employees, and the assassination of a Workers' Party member in Brazil…

Rebekah (2022-07-12). NJ Activists are Fed up With Corporations Pocketing Subsidies Without Creating Local Jobs. inequality.org

Elliott Wallace (2022-07-12). NYC removes last working public payphone. america.cgtn.com New York's last working public payphone has been removed and put on display in a museum. It's now part of an exhibition teaching youngsters about the forgotten devices that drove the city's growth before computers.

Staff (2022-07-12). 1 dead, 5 hurt in shooting outside Kansas City. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Jul. 12 (MNA) — A shooting at a Kansas City bar where off-duty police officers were working security has left one person dead and five others wounded, authorities said.

Joel Richards (2022-07-12). U.S. inflation woes put pressure on businesses in Argentina. america.cgtn.com For Argentina, Latin America's third-largest economy, it compounds already-existing debt and inflation problems.

WSWS (2022-07-12). Port of Tacoma dockworker speaks out about working conditions, inequality and union corruption. wsws.org The ILWU has kept workers on the job without even a formal contract extension after their contract expired on July 1.

Jenny Farrell (2022-07-12). On the bicentennial of Shelley's death: Evolution of a working-class poet. peoplesworld.org Two hundred years ago, on July 8, 1822, the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley drowned. He was less than a month short of thirty. Revolutionary socialist Friedrich Engels's enthusiasm for Shelley lasted a lifetime. Even before he went to England as a young man, he tried his hand at translations of the English revolutionary romantic, who …

José Coss (2022-07-12). Colombia La política del amor de Martí en Petro. globalizacion.ca Un ex-guerrillero triunfa con la bandera del amor, como el primer Presidente progresista de Colombia, acompañado de una luchadora social afro-descendiente como Vice Presidenta, proveniente de los sectores más pobres del país. | Recuerdo aquel joven idealista, cuando depone las armas…

Colin Todhunter (2022-07-12). What Was Covid Really About? Triggering A Multi-Trillion Dollar Global Debt Crisis. "Ramping up an Imperialist Strategy"? globalresearch.ca If it was indeed about public health, why close down the bulk of health services and the global economy knowing full well what the implications would be? And why mount a military-style propaganda campaign to censor world-renowned scientists and terrorise entire populations…

Anonymous103 (2022-07-12). Barely Legal: The Global Uber Enterprise. southfront.org | Written by Dr. Binoy Kampmark | The lobbying of Uber should, along with those of other corporate giants, only surprise those prone to pollyannaish escapism. Its hungry, desperate behaviour takes place in plain sight, and denials merely serve to emphasise the point. It resembles, in some crudely distant way, the operating rationale of the notorious British sex pest Jimmy Savile, who preyed upon his victims with the establishment's complicity. | In terms of the gig economy, there are few more ruthless b…

Umer Beigh (2022-07-12). Taliban's religious fanaticism combines with U.S. sanctions to crush Afghanistan's women and girls. peoplesworld.org As Afghanistan undergoes a deep economic crisis with rising hunger and poverty, women in the country are facing the brunt. Economic sanctions imposed by the U.S. and the systematic restrictions imposed by the Taliban regime have only increased the suffering of women and girls in Afghanistan. Fawzia Koofi, former deputy speaker of the Afghan parliament, …

Benjamin Norton (2022-07-11). Real debt trap: Sri Lanka owes vast majority to West, not China. multipolarista.com Sri Lanka owes 81% of its external debt to US and European financial institutions and Western allies Japan and India. China owns just 10%. But Washington blames imaginary "Chinese debt traps" for the nation's crisis, as it considers a 17th IMF structural adjustment program.

Benjamin Norton (2022-07-11). Trampa de la deuda de EEUU: Sri Lanka le debe la gran mayoría a Occidente, no a China. multipolarista.com Sri Lanka les debe el 81% de su deuda externa a las instituciones financieras estadounidenses y europeas y a los aliados occidentales Japón y la India. China posee solo el 10%. Pero EEUU culpa a las "trampas de la deuda china" imaginarias por la crisis de la nación.

_____ (2022-07-11). UN agencies warn of "looming catastrophe" as global hunger rises. popularresistance.org United Nations agencies reported last week that global hunger and the chronic inability to access food soared in 2021. | A staggering 2.3 billion (30 percent) of the world's population were moderately or severely food insecure in 2021, with nearly 12 percent facing severe food insecurity. Millions across the Horn of Africa, the Sahel, Yemen and Syria already experiencing severe levels of hunger and poverty face the prospect of mass starvation. | This is set to worsen due to the US/NATO provoked war in Ukraine, with executive director of the UN's World Food Program (WPF) David Beasley warning that the food crisis…

_____ (2022-07-11). UN Agencies Warn Of 'Looming Catastrophe' As Global Hunger Rises. popularresistance.org A staggering 2.3 billion (30 percent) of the world's population were moderately or severely food insecure in 2021, with nearly 12 percent facing severe food insecurity. Millions across the Horn of Africa, the Sahel, Yemen and Syria already experiencing severe levels of hunger and poverty face the prospect of mass starvation. | This is set to worsen due to the US/NATO provoked war in Ukraine, with executive director of the UN's World Food Program (WPF) David Beasley warning that the food crisis caused by the war would push countries into famine, causing "global destabilization, starvation and mass migration on an…

_____ (2022-07-11). Schools And Labor Against Privatization. popularresistance.org Oakland, California – The Schools and Labor Against Privatization (SLAP) coalition held a barbecue on June 26 at Parker School, which the school board has ordered to be closed and eliminated. But the East Oakland elementary school is still operating this summer unofficially as a community school for its majority Black and Brown student body. | "The billionaires are not really that interested in educating working-class youth," said Oakland teacher Divya Farias at the barbecue, "just like they don't seem to care about preserving working-class jobs in the port of Oakland.

_____ (2022-07-11). Challenging The AFL-CIO's Labor Imperialism. popularresistance.org A little known fact, even to those who work there, is that the AFL-CIO organizes in support of US imperialist policies that drive a global race to the bottom in wages and working conditions, negatively impacting US workers too. The AFL-CIO's Solidarity Center is one of the four core components of the National Endowment for Democracy. Clearing the FOG speaks with Kim Scipes, a co-founder of the new Labor Education Project on the AFL-CIO's International Operations (LEPAIO). Scipes describes the long history of labor imperialism and how unions are challenging it. Adrienne Pine provides a brief report on workers prot…

_____ (2022-07-11). The CIO Was One of the Most Successful Anti-Racism Movements in U.S. History. popularresistance.org In the 1930s, a new type of union, an "industrial" union that welcomed all workers in a single workplace emerged as the cutting edge of working-class struggle. Previously, unions and employers both had a long history of racism and support for white supremacy. Certain jobs were reserved for whites, and Black workers were kept out of factories and union halls. This had catastrophic consequences for the working class. For example, in the 1919 Steel Strike, employers brought in 30,000 Black and immigrant workers to break the strike staged by white workers and their racially exclusive unions. Long prevented from joini…

____ (2022-07-11). Selling Weapons, Selling War. transcend.org War was always madness, always immoral, always the cause of unspeakable suffering, economic waste and widespread destruction, and always a source of poverty, hate, barbarism and endless cycles of revenge and counter-revenge. A Freely Downloadable Book…

____ (2022-07-11). From Cheerleader to Enemy of the State. transcend.org RADICAL PEACE presents the experiences of war resisters, deserters, and peace activists who are working to change our warrior culture.

WSWS (2022-07-12). Port of Tacoma dockworker speaks out about working conditions, inequality and union corruption. wsws.org The ILWU has kept workers on the job without even a formal contract extension after their contract expired on July 1.

José Coss (2022-07-12). Colombia La política del amor de Martí en Petro. globalizacion.ca Un ex-guerrillero triunfa con la bandera del amor, como el primer Presidente progresista de Colombia, acompañado de una luchadora social afro-descendiente como Vice Presidenta, proveniente de los sectores más pobres del país. | Recuerdo aquel joven idealista, cuando depone las armas…

Staff (2022-07-12). 1 dead, 5 hurt in shooting outside Kansas City. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Jul. 12 (MNA) — A shooting at a Kansas City bar where off-duty police officers were working security has left one person dead and five others wounded, authorities said.

_____ (2022-07-11). UN agencies warn of "looming catastrophe" as global hunger rises. popularresistance.org United Nations agencies reported last week that global hunger and the chronic inability to access food soared in 2021. | A staggering 2.3 billion (30 percent) of the world's population were moderately or severely food insecure in 2021, with nearly 12 percent facing severe food insecurity. Millions across the Horn of Africa, the Sahel, Yemen and Syria already experiencing severe levels of hunger and poverty face the prospect of mass starvation. | This is set to worsen due to the US/NATO provoked war in Ukraine, with executive director of the UN's World Food Program (WPF) David Beasley warning that the food crisis…

_____ (2022-07-11). UN Agencies Warn Of 'Looming Catastrophe' As Global Hunger Rises. popularresistance.org A staggering 2.3 billion (30 percent) of the world's population were moderately or severely food insecure in 2021, with nearly 12 percent facing severe food insecurity. Millions across the Horn of Africa, the Sahel, Yemen and Syria already experiencing severe levels of hunger and poverty face the prospect of mass starvation. | This is set to worsen due to the US/NATO provoked war in Ukraine, with executive director of the UN's World Food Program (WPF) David Beasley warning that the food crisis caused by the war would push countries into famine, causing "global destabilization, starvation and mass migration on an…

_____ (2022-07-11). Schools And Labor Against Privatization. popularresistance.org Oakland, California – The Schools and Labor Against Privatization (SLAP) coalition held a barbecue on June 26 at Parker School, which the school board has ordered to be closed and eliminated. But the East Oakland elementary school is still operating this summer unofficially as a community school for its majority Black and Brown student body. | "The billionaires are not really that interested in educating working-class youth," said Oakland teacher Divya Farias at the barbecue, "just like they don't seem to care about preserving working-class jobs in the port of Oakland.

_____ (2022-07-11). Challenging The AFL-CIO's Labor Imperialism. popularresistance.org A little known fact, even to those who work there, is that the AFL-CIO organizes in support of US imperialist policies that drive a global race to the bottom in wages and working conditions, negatively impacting US workers too. The AFL-CIO's Solidarity Center is one of the four core components of the National Endowment for Democracy. Clearing the FOG speaks with Kim Scipes, a co-founder of the new Labor Education Project on the AFL-CIO's International Operations (LEPAIO). Scipes describes the long history of labor imperialism and how unions are challenging it. Adrienne Pine provides a brief report on workers prot…

_____ (2022-07-11). The CIO Was One of the Most Successful Anti-Racism Movements in U.S. History. popularresistance.org In the 1930s, a new type of union, an "industrial" union that welcomed all workers in a single workplace emerged as the cutting edge of working-class struggle. Previously, unions and employers both had a long history of racism and support for white supremacy. Certain jobs were reserved for whites, and Black workers were kept out of factories and union halls. This had catastrophic consequences for the working class. For example, in the 1919 Steel Strike, employers brought in 30,000 Black and immigrant workers to break the strike staged by white workers and their racially exclusive unions. Long prevented from joini…

Rebekah (2022-07-11). Combating Corporate 'Pinkwashing' During Pride Month With Mutual Aid. inequality.org

Sajeev Kumar (2022-07-11). Bosses blame workers for inflation, but it's really about war and profits. peoplesworld.org Capitalism is a system that has an innate tendency to get into a cul-de-sac of crisis, and the only way it knows for coming out of a crisis is by further exploitation of the working class. The cost-of-living crisis—caused by inflation, which eats up the earnings of the working class by price increases—and starvation have …

Franc Contreras (2022-07-11). Central American migration crisis. america.cgtn.com In the northern part of Central America, hundreds of thousands of people leave their country each year. Political instability, corruption, poverty and climate change are often cited as the root causes of mass migration. But what are governments doing to solve the problem?>

Johanna Chao Kreilick (2022-07-11). The Intersection of Science and Faith: Finding Unity With the Poor People's Campaign. commondreams.org Working with the broadest range of allies, we must address the existential threats bearing down on us simultaneously, including our changing climate, threats to our democracy, and the threat posed by nuclear weapons.

WSWS (2022-07-11). French COVID-19 deaths pass 1 ,000 as Omicron BA.5 subvariant erupts across Europe. wsws.org The pandemic is set to continue indefinitely, at a devastating cost in lives and health, until the working class mobilizes on a world scale to compel a Zero-COVID policy.

WSWS (2022-07-11). KFC workers walk out at Alabama restaurant after working six weeks without air conditioning. wsws.org The walkout was led by the store's general manager Ta Edwards, who was fired immediately by upper management. The remaining workers were forced to return to work on July 5 after corporate falsely claimed they had repaired the restaurant's AC unit.

Brett Wilkins (2022-07-11). Outrage as Biden Reportedly Considers Lifting Ban on 'Offensive' Arms Sales to Saudi Arabia. commondreams.org "Saudi Arabia and the UAE are fabulously wealthy oil states and do not need any aid," noted one progressive. "U.S. weapons transfers are intended to throw our money to American arms corporations."

____ (2022-07-11). Selling Weapons, Selling War. transcend.org War was always madness, always immoral, always the cause of unspeakable suffering, economic waste and widespread destruction, and always a source of poverty, hate, barbarism and endless cycles of revenge and counter-revenge. A Freely Downloadable Book…

____ (2022-07-11). From Cheerleader to Enemy of the State. transcend.org RADICAL PEACE presents the experiences of war resisters, deserters, and peace activists who are working to change our warrior culture.

_____ (2022-07-10). Billions Of Humans Depend On 50,000 Wild Species For Food, Fuel And Income. popularresistance.org A new report from the The Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) — which is often described as the "IPCC for biodiversity" — found that billions of people depend on 50,000 wild species for food, medicine, fuel and income from activities like tourism. | "70% of the world's poor are directly dependent on wild species. One in five people rely on wild plants, algae and fungi for their food and income; 2.4 billion rely on fuel wood for cooking and about 90% of the 120 million people working in capture fisheries are supported by small-scale fishing," assessm…

_____ (2022-07-10). Inflation And Your Next Union Contract. popularresistance.org We can't predict what is to come, but the evidence from the past year hasn't been good for workers. The Consumer Price Index rose by more than 8 percent, its fastest pace in 40 years. Essential expenses like housing, food, and gas have climbed especially fast. | Despite all the talk of labor shortages and a tight job market, wages have not kept pace with the cost of living. Since April 2021, inflation-adjusted hourly earnings have fallen by more than 2 percent. Any stimulus savings that people had accrued have largely dried up by now, and there is currently no plan for federal relief for working people facing the…