(2023-03-25). Insights | Rana Mitter: China's poverty reduction achievement an inspiration to global south countries. ecns.cn The just-concluded "Two Sessions" have chartered the future plan for China's development. Amid mounting economic pressures globally, how will China's economy maintain steady growth with resilience and vitality? Rana Mitter, a professor of modern Chinese history and politics at the University of Oxford, shares his views during an exclusive interview with China News Network.
(2023-03-25). Cyclone Freddy underscores inequalities: Reparations for Africa! iacenter.org March 20, 2023 The United States has 5% of the world's population but is responsible for 28% of annual carbon emissions in the world — about 15 tons per capita per year. For the wealthiest 10%, it is closer to 55 tons per capita! In contrast, the second-largest and second-most populous continent — Africa — produces just 4% of the world's greenhouse gasses. But Africa suffers disproportionately from climate-driven disasters. With a death toll over 500 and rising, Cyclone Freddy has devastated Madagascar, Malawi and Mozambique. Lasting over a month, it is believed by the World Meteorological Assoc…
(2023-03-25). SVB: 'The bank is now insolvent'. iacenter.org March 13, 2023 It is often the case that, when the capitalist system is on the verge of a crisis, the period leading up to it is marked by buoyant explosions of optimism. On Oct. 25, 1929, President Herbert Hoover proclaimed that the U.S. economy was "on a sound and prosperous basis." Four days later the stock market crashed. (billofrightsinstitute.org) This old cartoon depicts wild economic fluctuations ending with the 1929 Wall St. crash. It's not much different almost a century later. Typically before a recession, the working class (along with uneasy wealth-holders) is reassured that the economy is "robust" or…
(2023-03-25). Treasury secretary Yellen twists to the power of money. wsws.org Over the course of three days this week, Yellen flip flopped on the question of guarantees for ultra wealthy bank depositors before predictably falling into line with the demands of Wall Street.
(2023-03-25). Health emergency! Free Alex Saab now! iacenter.org March 22, 2023 The #FreeAlexSaab Movement issued the following statement on March 17. On March 17, 2023, Camilla Saab, spouse of Alex Saab, reports on the dire health emergency facing the Venezuelan diplomat imprisoned in the U.S. Photo: #FreeAlexSaab On Friday, March 17, 2023, Camilla Saab made an urgent call to the world to denounce the dire health condition of Venezuelan diplomat Alex Saab, which endangers his life. In July 2021, the Working Group against Torture and several United Nations rapporteurs expressed their concern about the irreparable deterioration of Alex Saab's health condition. Let us recall tha…
(2023-03-25). Corporate Real Estate Investors Are Accelerating the Affordable Housing Crisis. truthout.org With billions of dollars of cash on hand, and millions of working-class families unable to find affordable housing, corporations are increasing their share of the housing stock and expanding their portfolios. A 2021 report co-authored by the Institute for Policy Studies, Bargaining for the Common Good, and Americans for Financial Reform Education Fund demonstrated how corporate and institutional… |
(2023-03-25). Ahead Of The Final Four, Houston Criminalizes Homelessness. popularresistance.org In Houston, TX., where the NCAA Final Four (college basketball tournament championship games) will take place March 31 — April 3, the mayor's office has taken it a step beyond displacing the unhoused. Mayor Sylvester Turner's office has ordered police to target people feeding those in need. | After opening a facility to move people miles from downtown from a homeless encampment near Minute Maid Park and the Toyota Center, Mayor Turner began invoking old city ordinances to ticket Food Not Bombs Houston (FNBH) food-sharing volunteers and trying to discourage them from doing what they've done for decades: feed…
(2023-03-25). [Perspectives] Love and inequality. thelancet.com Romeo and Juliet, William Shakespeare's story of the two star-crossed lovers written in 1597 and set in Verona, Italy, has fascinated audiences for centuries. The appeal of the tragic fate of two adolescent lovers driven to a dramatic end by the opposition of their families continues to resonate among young generations. There have been many modern adaptations of Romeo and Juliet, including the musical West Side Story and Baz Luhrmann's movie Romeo + Juliet. Welsh playwright Gary Owen has now created his own adaptation, Romeo and Julie, set in modern day Splott, a suburb of Cardiff, in Wales, UK.
(2023-03-25). Colombia: 'The Most Ambitious Labor Reform of the Century'. orinocotribune.com By Gustavo A Maranges — Mar 21, 2023 | This is how Colombia's Labor Minister Gloria Ines Ramirez described the labor reform bill introduced to Congress on March 17. Improving workers' conditions and rights is a major part of President Gustavo Petro's plan to reduce inequality. | The reform is the first of two planned this year by the Ministry of Labor. According to the legislative calendar, the Pension Reform will be presented on March 22, so both discussions will take place almost simultaneously. It is expected that the documents will undergo changes in Congress, but if the President's legislative force re…
(2023-03-25). Bellies of the Rich Swell Further on the Back of Hunger. globalresearch.ca
(2023-03-25). Ahead Of The Final Four, Houston Criminalizes Homelessness. popularresistance.org In Houston, TX., where the NCAA Final Four (college basketball tournament championship games) will take place March 31 — April 3, the mayor's office has taken it a step beyond displacing the unhoused. Mayor Sylvester Turner's office has ordered police to target people feeding those in need. | After opening a facility to move people miles from downtown from a homeless encampment near Minute Maid Park and the Toyota Center, Mayor Turner began invoking old city ordinances to ticket Food Not Bombs Houston (FNBH) food-sharing volunteers and trying to discourage them from doing what they've done for decades: feed…
(2023-03-25). [Perspectives] Love and inequality. thelancet.com Romeo and Juliet, William Shakespeare's story of the two star-crossed lovers written in 1597 and set in Verona, Italy, has fascinated audiences for centuries. The appeal of the tragic fate of two adolescent lovers driven to a dramatic end by the opposition of their families continues to resonate among young generations. There have been many modern adaptations of Romeo and Juliet, including the musical West Side Story and Baz Luhrmann's movie Romeo + Juliet. Welsh playwright Gary Owen has now created his own adaptation, Romeo and Julie, set in modern day Splott, a suburb of Cardiff, in Wales, UK.
(2023-03-25). Colombia: 'The Most Ambitious Labor Reform of the Century'. orinocotribune.com By Gustavo A Maranges — Mar 21, 2023 | This is how Colombia's Labor Minister Gloria Ines Ramirez described the labor reform bill introduced to Congress on March 17. Improving workers' conditions and rights is a major part of President Gustavo Petro's plan to reduce inequality. | The reform is the first of two planned this year by the Ministry of Labor. According to the legislative calendar, the Pension Reform will be presented on March 22, so both discussions will take place almost simultaneously. It is expected that the documents will undergo changes in Congress, but if the President's legislative force re…
(2023-03-25). Bellies of the Rich Swell Further on the Back of Hunger. globalresearch.ca