Daily Archives: September 10, 2022

2022-09-10: News Headlines

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

Jacob Andrewartha (2022-09-10). Solidarity shown to Readings Bookshop workers. greenleft.org.au Readings workers are resisting a two-year wage freeze and demanding a living wage, secure jobs and better working conditions. Jacob Andrewartha reports.

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

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

Richard Lane (2022-09-10). [Perspectives] Dinesh Palipana: clinician and leading disability rights advocate. thelancet.com "I have a very rich working life and am grateful for that", says Dinesh Palipana, Registrar in the Emergency Department of the Gold Coast University Hospital in Southport, QLD, Australia. There he combines clinical work with research into spinal cord injury. Palipana is also an advocate for the rights of disabled people in academic medicine and wider society, including as a Senior Adviser to an Australian Disability Royal Commission into improving access rights for disabled people.

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

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

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

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

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

_____ (2022-09-09). Durham Employees Call On Google And Amazon To Cut Ties With Israel. popularresistance.org Google employees in Durham protested outside of their office Thursday afternoon, calling on Google and Amazon to stop working with the Israeli government and military. | The protest, which included around 40 employees, was part of the national #NoTechforApartheid campaign, a movement based around a $1.22 billion project contract that Google and Amazon signed with the Israeli government in May 2021. Known as "Nimbus," the project intends to provide cloud support for Israel's military and government. | Google and Amazon signed the deal while Israel was conducting airstrikes in civilian areas of the Gaza Strip and f…

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

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

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

_____ (2022-09-09). Good News In The Financial Arena In Nicaragua. popularresistance.org The international main-stream media rarely focuses on good news from Nicaragua, on its achievements in reducing poverty, and maternal and infant mortality, or on its expansion of health care, education, electrification, water and sewerage, renewable energy, and roadways. However, a recent article published on the web page of the Center for Strategic and International Studies conceded that Nicaragua had made major advances economically and, in spite of US sanctions, had "rebounded relatively well from Covid-19" and had ensured that Nicaraguans could feed themselves. The article noted that the Nicaraguan economy gr…

Rian Overy (2022-09-09). Can healthcare reduce its reliance on single-use plastic? healtheuropa.com Andreea Zotinca from Health Care Without Harm Europe discusses the impact of healthcare's reliance on single-use plastic, and how it can be reduced. Plastic is ubiquitous in all our lives, and though many industries and individuals are making great strides in reducing their reliance on plastic, the amount of waste produced as a result of …

Dean Baker (2022-09-09). The Big Myth on Inequality: It Just Happened. cepr.net The standard line in policy circles about the soaring inequality of the last four decades is that it is just an unfortunate outcome of technological change. As a result of technological developments, education is much more highly valued and physical labor has much less value. The drop in relative income for workers without college degrees …

SAM (2022-09-09). What's Hiking the Heat Up So High This Summer? inequality.org

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

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

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

Deweylaura (2022-09-09). How the ruling class does it: 7 strategies to stay in power. cpusa.org The following is adapted from a talk given at the Marxist School in New York City in 2022. As we see the erosion of the rights that working people have won by a Supreme Court that wants to roll people's rights back to 1787 and that cavalierly disregards the will of the majority, it …

TeleSUR, hvh, JCM (2022-09-09). Rusia aumentará suministro de cereales a países más pobres. telesurtv.net El jefe de Estado señaló que "es correcto aumentar el suministro particularmente a los países más pobres".

TeleSUR (2022-09-09). US Most Populous County Has Over 69,000 Homeless People. telesurenglish.net An estimated 69,144 people are experiencing homelessness in Los Angeles, the most populous county in the United States, according to the results of the 2022 Homeless Count released by the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority (LAHSA) on Thursday. | RELATED: | The number marks a 4.1 percent rise from the last count in 2020, said the authority, adding that a count was not conducted in 2021 in the county, home to around 10 milli…

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