(2023-07-21). As Yellen dictates terms to China What we defend, what Wall Street wants to destroy. workers.org 
What is the material basis of the growing hostility on every level of the U.S. ruling class toward China? No great struggle is based on the personalities or aspirations of individuals. At the root is a very concrete, material basis that drives the conflict. Otherwise, meetings, discussions and diplomacy would . . . |
(2023-07-21). 60 Years After the March on Washington, 1 in 3 Black Children Live in Poverty. truthout.org Conservatives today would have you believe the civil rights movement of the 1960s was so successful that systemic racism is a problem of the past. Every February, white Republicans observe Black History Month by twisting famous lines from Martin Luther King Jr.'s 1963 "I Have a Dream" speech to serve their own agendas. The Constitution is "colorblind," they claim, and if this flies in the face of… |
(2023-07-21). Militant Black Unionism Offers Best Resistance to Growing White Nationalism. truthout.org The United States economy keeps Black labor at the bottom because when bosses conceded on slavery, they settled on poverty wages. While white nationalism's most visible soldiers are terror organizations and politicians, the quest for racial purity is made possible by Sears, General Motors, Dow Chemical, ExxonMobil, Chase Bank, and other so-called job creators. Corporate benefactors fund extremist… |
(2023-07-21). Not even remittances can save El Salvador from poverty. plenglish.com San Salvador, Jul 21 (Prensa Latina) At least two of ten Salvadoran families who receive remittances from the United States and other countries are in a state of poverty, El Salvador's Multipurpose Household Survey (EHPM) reported.
(2023-07-20). The World Needs a New Development Theory That Does Not Trap the Poor in Poverty. scheerpost.com 
By Vijay Prashad / Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research In June, the United Nations' Sustainable Development Solutions Network published its Sustainable Development Report 2023, which tracks the progress of the 193 member states towards attaining the seventeen Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). 'From 2015 to 2019', the network wrote, 'the world made some progress on the SDGs, although this was already …
(2023-07-20). Poem: Spiritual Land/Spiritless Man. greenleft.org.au 
Damian Balassone, on the poverty of spirit.
(2023-07-20). When The Welfare Rights Movement Was Force For Uplifting The Poor. popularresistance.org When Dartmouth history professor Annelise Orleck was still working on her first book, Common Sense and a Little Fire: Women and Working Class Politics in the United States, 1900-1965, she learned about the work of an intrepid group of low-income, southern-born women in Las Vegas, Nevada. Thirteen years of research and interviews followed. The result, Storming Caesars Palace: How Black Mothers Fought Their Own War on Poverty, tells the amazing story of fed-up and reviled welfare recipients who organized on their own behalf, winning a raft of financial, medical and educational improvements for themselves, their chi…
(2023-07-21). Is the US a Failed State with Michael Hudson. indybay.org It's a failed state because its economy is paralyzed and we're in a debt deflation, an economic polarization, that is just transferring all wealth and income away from labor, away from industry, into really the financial sector and what I call the finance, insurance, and real estate sector.
(2023-07-20). Migration and the Shadow of War. tomdispatch.com Seeking news coverage about the Adriana, the boat crowded with some 700 people migrating to Europe to seek a better life that sank in mid-June off the coast of Greece, I googled "migrant ship" and got 483,000 search results in one second. Most of the people aboard the Adriana had drowned in the Mediterranean, among them about 100 children. I did a similar search for the Titan submersible which disappeared the same week in the North Atlantic. That kludged-together pseudo-submarine was taking four wealthy men and the 19-year-old son of one of them to view the ruins of the famed passenger ship, the Titanic. They all…
(2023-07-21). Saturday 8/19: Strike Debt Bay Area Book Group: 'End Times' by Peter Turchin. indybay.org Email strike.debt.bay.area@gmail.com a few days beforehand for the online invite.
(2023-07-21). Argentine president denounces effects of debt with IMF. plenglish.com Buenos Aires, Jul 21 (Prensa Latina) The debt contracted by former President Mauricio Macri (2015-2019) with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) represents an impressive weight for the Argentine economy, President Alberto Fernández said today.
(2023-07-20). 175+ Groups Urge Biden to Immediately Enact New Student Debt Cancellation Plan. scheerpost.com 
"Restarting the fundamentally broken student loan system without first delivering on the relief promised to borrowers remains a grave mistake, and will only exacerbate already dire economic situations for millions."
(2023-07-20). New SNAP Policy Will Force People Over 50 to Work to Retain Food Benefits. truthout.org In the course of the recent resolution to the long-brewing debt ceiling crisis, it was congressional bickering that drew the most attention. Although it was largely drowned out by senatorial diatribes, the final June 2 debt ceiling measure included a substantive change: a modification to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), widely known as food stamps. The new SNAP policy… |
(2023-07-21). Union-backed coalition throws weight behind effort to revive Freedom to Vote Act. peoplesworld.org 
WASHINGTON (PAI)—Four big unions—the Teachers (AFT), the Communications Workers, the Service Employees, and AFSCME—plus Pride at Work and the Working Families Party, were among 260 groups who renewed their support for a wide-ranging pro-voting rights bill in D.C. this week. The Freedom to Vote Act, pushed by congressional Democratic leaders, was expected to come up …
(2023-07-21). Trudeau denounces Canadian dockers' "unacceptable" opposition to government-dictated contract, vows ports "can't be disrupted" wsws.org Although the government intervened in the dispute early on and the employers have been baying for state action against the dockers from day-one, the International Longshore and Warehouse Union opposes any strategy to mobilize the working class to oppose a government-dictated settlement, whether imposed by a back-to-work law or some other means.
(2023-07-21). Cuba's province of Matanzas increases digital self-service stations. plenglish.com Matanzas, Cuba, Jul 21 (Prensa Latina) With the purpose of optimizing and facilitating processes of procedures to the population, the Scientific and Technological Park of Matanzas (PCTM) is working to increase digital self-service stations.
(2023-07-20). Teamsters v. UPS: A People's World Town Hall. peoplesworld.org 
JOIN US! JULY 23rd @ 8 p.m. Eastern Time: TEAMSTERS TACKLE U.P.S. IN A STRUGGLE FOR ALL WORKING FAMILIES People's World is excited to announce an online Town Hall focusing specifically on the Teamsters and the potential for a strike against UPS. More than 90 percent of the 340,000 UPS passed a strike vote and …
(2023-07-20). Extreme Wave of Heat Hit Puerto Rico. telesurenglish.net According to a report issued by EFE, specialists from the National Meteorological Center report an unusual increase in temperatures in recent years on the Caribbean island. | Related: | Guillermo Bengochea, a worker at a Puerto Rican weather station, assured that in his 10 years of working at the station, the sensation of heat has been increasing, especially in the last two years. | "Mornings at this time of year used to be much cooler…
(2023-07-20). Lutte Ouvrière covers up police repression of French riot protests. wsws.org The pseudo-left group Lutte Ouvrière has reacted to the recent riots sparked by the killing of a 17-year-old youth by police by denouncing working-class youth.
(2023-07-21). Mayo Clinic Minute: What does a diagnosis of dense breasts mean? newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org A recent Food and Drug Administration rule requires healthcare providers to notify people if they have dense breasts. Studies have shown that dense breast tissue can make it more difficult to detect breast cancer early. Dr. Kristin Robinson, a Mayo Clinic breast radiologist, says women with dense breast tissue are at a slightly increased risk of developing breast cancer compared to women without, and that's why early detection is so important. "About 50% of women have…
(2023-07-20). From Affirmative Action To Reparations: Bridging Racial Economic Inequality. scheerpost.com 
(2023-07-20). The 5 Percent Foundation Payout Requirement May Be a Floor, but the Ceiling Is Awfully Low. inequality.org
(2023-07-20). Food Insecurity in Africa and the Politics of NATO Expansion. A Global Food Crisis is Looming. globalresearch.ca
(2023-07-21). UN agencies warn that hunger may increase in El Salvador. plenglish.com San Salvador, Jul 21 (Prensa Latina) Warnings from United Nations agencies that hunger may increase in El Salvador are highlighted today in local media such as La Prensa Grafica.