(2022-08-30). Romania: U.S. B-52s placed under NATO command for first time, practice offensive strikes. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com NATOAllied Air CommandAugust 29, 2022 B-52s brought under NATO command for the first time during mission over Romania U.S. B-52s came under NATO command and control for the first time ever during a Bomber Task Force training mission over Romania working out offensive and defensive manoeuvres with Allied fighters. The Allied aircraft from Canada, Romania …
(2022-08-30). Lillington, NC: 16-Person Hunger Strike Announced at Harnett Correctional. itsgoingdown.org Report on hunger-strike kicking off in Lillington, NC. The following is a statement from sixteen of the participants in the strike. On August 30th, sixteen prisoners housed in the SC-S 24 building of Harnett Correctional, in Lillington, NC went on an indefinite hunger strike. A supporter received the following statement, signed by all sixteen participants,…
(2022-08-30). China Space Station: Experimental cabinets work well. ecns.cn The Wentian space application system of China's Space Station has been working well since the lab was launched and started operation on July 24, the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) said on Monday.
(2022-08-30). Australia: NSW inquiry points to breakdown of public health services in rural areas. wsws.org Decades of underfunding have endangered the health of working people in rural areas, denying them essential services.
(2022-08-30). Mayo Clinic Minute: How staring at screens can affect your vision. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org More people working from home these days often means more hours looking at computer screens and mobile devices. And eye experts at Mayo Clinic say that could create some temporary vision problems. Reporter Jason Howland explains in this Mayo Clinic Minute. Watch: The Mayo Clinic Minute youtu.be/sO6ClDDtyyA Journalists: Broadcast-quality video (1: 12) is in the downloads at the end of this post. Please courtesy: "Mayo Clinic News Network." Read the script. If you stare at a computer…
(2022-08-29). An Engineered Food and Poverty Crisis to Secure Continued US Dominance. libya360.wordpress.com Colin Todhunter In March 2022, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned of a "hurricane of hunger and a meltdown of the global food system" in the wake of the crisis in Ukraine. Guterres said food, fuel and fertiliser prices were skyrocketing with supply chains being disrupted and added this is hitting the poorest the hardest and planting the seeds for…
(2022-08-29). Baltic governments use war in Ukraine to accelerate removal of Soviet World War II monuments. wsws.org The reactionary campaign is designed to sow ethnic divisions and erase from historical memory the defeat of fascism and the massive victory it signified for both the Soviet and international working class.
(2022-08-29). Afghanistan: One Year of Taliban Rule, Event Transcript. cepr.net August 15, 2022 marked one year since the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan, and the Biden administration's subsequent decision to block the Afghan central bank from accessing roughly $7 billion of its international reserves held in the United States. In that year, Afghanistan has become home to the world's largest humanitarian crisis, with more than half the population facing acute food insecurity, and near-universal poverty. | In advance of that anniversary,
(2022-08-29). To Write Off its Debt, the US Stages Wars Everywhere. journal-neo.org 
The global economic crisis that has engulfed countries due to Washington's openly voluntarist and Russophobic policies has not only thrown the United States itself into chaos, but has also destroyed the world's multipolar model, changed the status of many states, and led to an increase in contradictions between states and coalitions. It is becoming increasingly …
(2022-08-29). West's neoliberal 'age of abundance' is over, as war and sanctions boomerang home. popularresistance.org France's President Emmanuel Macron, a former banker, warned that "we are living the end of what could have seemed an era of abundance," calling it "a kind of major tipping point or a great upheaval." | Western wars and sanctions are boomeranging back at home. The neoliberal phase of capitalism is collapsing. | Neoliberalism has lost the key pillars it was built on: cheap energy and raw materials from Russia, cheap labor and consumer goods from China, an unsustainable bubble of household debt, low to zero interest rates, and Washington's ability to organize regime-change operations in any country where a governmen…
(2022-08-29). West's Neoliberal 'Age Of Abundance' Is Over. popularresistance.org France's President Emmanuel Macron, a former banker, warned that "we are living the end of what could have seemed an era of abundance," calling it "a kind of major tipping point or a great upheaval." | Western wars and sanctions are boomeranging back at home. The neoliberal phase of capitalism is collapsing. | Neoliberalism has lost the key pillars it was built on: cheap energy and raw materials from Russia, cheap labor and consumer goods from China, an unsustainable bubble of household debt, low to zero interest rates, and Washington's ability to organize regime-change operations in any country where a governmen…
(2022-08-29). Central bankers back Fed's war on the working class. wsws.org It is significant that in his very short speech to the Jackson Hole conclave, Fed chair Jerome Powell made two references to former chair Paul Volcker whose high interest rate regime in the 1980s resulted in economic devastation for millions of workers.
(2022-08-29). UK "Passed Debt and Death Sentence on Millions" by Increasing Energy Price Cap by 80%, Driving Millions into Poverty. globalresearch.ca
(2022-08-29). Real Problem Is Tuition Costs Being Out of Control in US: CNN. telesurenglish.net Canceling student debt won't fix the problem that tuition costs are out of control in the United States, said CNN in an analysis report published on Sunday. | RELATED: | U.S. President Joe Biden announced a sweeping effort last week to cancel up to 20,000 U.S. dollars in student loan debt for eligible borrowers. The decision has sparked controversy in the country. | The report pointed out that "whatever your opinion is on Biden…
(2022-08-29). Boston Liberation Center celebrates a year of organizing, education and struggle! liberationnews.org 
Over 100 people gathered at the Boston Liberation Center on Aug. 21 to celebrate the organizing center's first anniversary. The Boston Liberation Center is a working class community center located at 194 Blue Hill Avenue in the heart of Roxbury, a historically Black neighborhood and one of the oldest neighborhoods in Boston.
(2022-08-29). Kent educators' strike opens school year. workers.org 
Seattle Over 1,700 educators went on strike in working-class Kent, Washington, near Seattle, to open the school year. On Aug. 22, 1,600 school workers voted by 94% to walk out, according to Kent Education Association Vice-President Layla Jones. Picket lines of the KEA went up Aug. 25, and by the . . . |
(2022-08-29). The Pandemic Rise in Self-Employment: Who Is Working for Themselves Now? cepr.net Key Findings: | The increase in self-employment was disproportionately among women and especially non-white women. | The rise in self-employment is much larger among workers with young children (under age 6) in the household than those without young children. | Although reasons for choosing self-employment vary, the ongoing childcare crisis has made it difficult for working-class mothers with young children to seek or maintain conventional payroll jobs. Part of the rise in self-employment is likely due to some of these mothers shifting from payroll jobs to self-employment in order to meet work-family res…
(2022-08-29). Thanks for Taking Action with Inequality.org. inequality.org
(2022-08-29). Khalil Awawdeh's message to the world: "Our cause is just, regardless of the high price paid" samidoun.net 
Palestinian prisoner Khalil Awawdeh, on his 180th day of hunger strike, issued a video message to the people of the world, where he speaks slowly and laboriously, with his emaciated body visible, highlighting the justice of the Palestinian cause: "Oh, free people of the world, this suffering body, of which nothing remains but skin and …
(2022-08-29). Major League Baseball Players Launch Drive to Unionize 'Outdated, Exploitative' Minors. commondreams.org "Minor leaguers represent our game's future and deserve wages and working conditions that befit elite athletes who entertain millions of baseball fans nationwide."
(2022-08-29). 'Genocide of His People Is Complete': Last Member of Isolated Brazilian Tribe Found Dead. commondreams.org "For this was indeed a genocide—the deliberate wiping out of an entire people by cattle ranchers hungry for land and wealth," said one Indigenous rights campaigner.
(2022-08-29). American University staff union calls off five day strike against poverty-level pay and management abuses. wsws.org The AU workers' strike brought them into a conflict against not just the campus, but against powerful sections of the Democratic Party and corporate apparatus.
(2022-08-29). La crisis de precios desata el verano del descontento en Reino Unido: Pobreza energética y clubs de comida para la clase media. cubadebate.cu Cuando el kilo de mantequilla llega a las 10 libras (12 euros) y llenar el tanque gasolina te sale por 100 libras (120 euros), cuando te dicen que la luz y la calefacción te van a costar hasta 3.244 libras al año (3.800 euros), y cada vez más gente se ve en el dilema entre comer o pagar las facturas, es el momento de exigir respuestas a los políticos.
(2022-08-28). How Rural America's Assets Have Been Systematically Stripped Away. popularresistance.org Since the 1980s, financial capital has developed imaginative new ways to strip and seize the assets present in rural zones, whether these be mutually-owned banks, industries, cooperatively-owned grain elevators, local newspapers, hospitals, people's homes, or stores located in towns and malls." In the wake of the fiscal austerity agenda enacted by financial and political elites in the late 20th century, the vast majority of the wealth created in America's countryside "has accrued to shareholders in corporations and financial institutions headquartered in a handful of distant, economically dynamic urban centers."
(2022-08-28). China's Development Path: Indigenous Innovation And Global Competition. popularresistance.org In our INET working paper, "China's Development Path," we employ the "social conditions of innovative enterprise" framework to analyze the key determinants of China's development path from the economic reforms of 1978 to the present. First, we focus on how government investments in human capabilities and physical infrastructure provided foundational support for the emergence of Chinese enterprises capable of technological learning. Second, we delve into the main modes by which Chinese firms engaged in technological learning from abroad—joint ventures with foreign multinationals, global value chains, and exp…
(2022-08-28). First Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Cuba begins working visit to Vietnam. en.cubadebate.cu The First Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Cuba, Gerardo Peñalver Portal, arrived in Hanoi this Sunday to co-chair the seventh round of political consultations between foreign ministries. Gerardo Peñalver Portal was received at the N·ªôi Bà i international airport by Le C·ªông Tien, deputy director general for the Americas of the Vietnamese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and Cuban ambassador Orlando Hernández Guillén. The First Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Cuba makes his first tour of the Indochina region.
(2022-08-28). Enough With the Unseemly Whining About Student Debt Forgiveness! thiscantbehappening.net The greed, self interest and racism of US citizens never ceases to amaze and appall me. President Biden was dragged, against his own wishes, into using his executive authority to cancel a paltry $10.000 in federally insured student college debt for all those former students with current income of less than $125,000, and an … |