(2023-03-09). Australian "youth barometer" survey highlights growing poverty, precariousness. wsws.org Bank accounts are so tight that over half of the young people surveyed went without eating for a whole day at some point during the past twelve months.
(2023-03-09). Ron DeSantis, Interstate Autocratization, and Building Resistance. itsgoingdown.org 
Support Vishal Singh HERE Florida's far-Right Republican governor Ron DeSantis spoke in Southern California over the weekend— kicking off a pre-election book tour and anti-leftism roadshow. DeSantis is undoubtedly preparing to run for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination. In order to take on the juggernaut of Trumpism, he will need to court wealthy conservative donors…
(2023-03-08). Calls for Climate Reparations Have Grown Following Recent Severe Weather Events. truthout.org Originally published by Capital B. America is finally joining the global movement of wealthy nations agreeing to pay poorer countries for the damage they've endured because of climate change. To the dismay of many Republican legislators, last year the Biden administration agreed to participate in the United Nations' fund for "loss and damage," also known as climate reparations. |
(2023-03-09). Deepening debt and currency crises hit poorer countries. wsws.org Factories are halting production, power supplies are being cut, crops are threatened and medical supplies drying up because of widespread dollar shortages in less developed economies.
(2023-03-09). Australian "youth barometer" survey highlights growing poverty, precariousness. wsws.org Bank accounts are so tight that over half of the young people surveyed went without eating for a whole day at some point during the past twelve months.
(2023-03-09). Ron DeSantis, Interstate Autocratization, and Building Resistance. itsgoingdown.org Support Vishal Singh HERE Florida's far-Right Republican governor Ron DeSantis spoke in Southern California over the weekend— kicking off a pre-election book tour and anti-leftism roadshow. DeSantis is undoubtedly preparing to run for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination. In order to take on the juggernaut of Trumpism, he will need to court wealthy conservative donors…
(2023-03-08). Calls for Climate Reparations Have Grown Following Recent Severe Weather Events. truthout.org Originally published by Capital B. America is finally joining the global movement of wealthy nations agreeing to pay poorer countries for the damage they've endured because of climate change. To the dismay of many Republican legislators, last year the Biden administration agreed to participate in the United Nations' fund for "loss and damage," also known as climate reparations. |
(2023-03-09). Deepening debt and currency crises hit poorer countries. wsws.org Factories are halting production, power supplies are being cut, crops are threatened and medical supplies drying up because of widespread dollar shortages in less developed economies.
(2023-03-08). Patrick Lawrence: What Dan Ellsberg Means. scheerpost.com 
The term "Fourth Estate" had taken on the dust of a neglected antique before the release of the Pentagon Papers. Afterwards it seemed possible to think again of the press as the independent pole of power required by a working democracy.
(2023-03-08). An Army of Women is Building Venezuela's Housing Revolution. libya360.wordpress.com Andreína Chávez Alava The women from Caracas' Antímano Parish have trained themselves to build homes for their families as part of Venezuela's Great Housing Mission, created by Hugo Chávez in 2011. (Andreína Chávez Alava / Venezuelanalysis) In Caracas, an army of self-trained women are working to build their own homes while they transform the reality around them….
(2023-03-08). La Via Campesina: International Working Women's Day. libya360.wordpress.com #8M23: "By rebelling, we sow popular peasant feminism, build food sovereignty, and organize against crises and violence!" La Via Campesina is calling for global solidarity actions on 8th March 2023, the International Working Women's Day. As peasants, landless women, indigenous women, fisherfolk, pastoralists, farmworkers, migrants, and diversity organizations within La Via Campesina, we acknowledge the specific…
(2023-03-08). "Stand Up for Afghan Women": U.N. Calls Afghanistan World's Most Repressive Country for Women, Girls. democracynow.org 
A top United Nations official said Wednesday that "Afghanistan under the Taliban remains the most repressive country in the world regarding women's rights." Since taking power nearly 19 months ago, the Taliban has moved systematically to erase women from public life by banning women and girls from schools, from working with nongovernmental organizations and from traveling without a male relative. "Afghanistan is now effectively one of the biggest prisons in the world for women," says Zahra Nader, a freelance Afghan journalist who was formerly a reporter for The New York Times in Kabu…
(2023-03-08). üéß LEVER TIME: Nina Turner On Dems' Working-Class Voter Problem. levernews.com 
(2023-03-08). Nina Turner On Dems' Working-Class Voter Problem. levernews.com
(2023-03-08). The way forward after collapse of School Strike for Climate movement in Australia. wsws.org The perspective of appealing to governments has failed. The alternative is a turn to the growing struggles of the working class to overturn the profit system, the root cause of the climate crisis.
(2023-03-09). Three Women Discover the Americas' Best Kept Secret—Nicaragua! indybay.org Eyewitness account-inspiring trip Jan.2023. 50% of government is female. Met w/ Minister of Women, Sandinista legislators, peasant revolutionaries, agro-ecologists at women cooperatives, health pro's. Model of resilience, caring economy/society, alternative to capitalist corporatocracy. Preschool thru post doc free. Free health care. No hunger or homeless. Si se puede!
(2023-03-08). Interview with Houston activist fighting mayor's attacks on food programs for homeless. liberationnews.org 
Liberation News speaks with Shere Dore, an organizer with Food Not Bombs Houston. Dore has been advocating for the city's homeless for over a decade.
(2023-03-08). Could The Largest FDIC-Regulated Crypto Bank Go Down Like Lehman? 5 Things To Know. moguldom.com 
Silvergate, a Federal Reserve member bank and a one-time major player in crypto banking, has raised fears that it is headed for bankruptcy after delaying its annual report, saying it is evaluating its viability after a $1 billion loss in the fourth quarter. U.S. regulators with the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp (FDIC) arrived at the California …
(2023-03-09). Is there a famine in North Korea in 2023? journal-neo.org 
(2023-03-08). Inequality Costs Social Security Trillions. Here's How We Fix It. otherwords.org
(2023-03-08). Millions face 'hunger cliff' as food stamps cut. workers.org 
During the COVID-19 pandemic, which caused millions of people to either lose or be suspended from their jobs, Congress enacted an Emergency Allotment increase in federal funding for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP). These additional food stamp benefits helped millions of people to get food and sustain themselves during . . . |
(2023-03-08). Khader Adnan enters 32nd day of hunger strike for freedom. samidoun.net 
Palestinian prisoner Khader Adnan enters the 32nd day of his hunger strike for freedom on 8 March 2023. Adnan, 44, is married to Randa and the father of nine children, the youngest of which is one and a half years old and the oldest 14 years old. He is a former long-term hunger striker who …