David Trimmer (2023-08-10). The End Child Poverty Act Would Dramatically Reduce Poverty. peoplespolicyproject.org In April of this year, the

WSWS (2023-08-10). Reject GEO/AFT push to impose U-M contract ultimatum! Mobilize campus workers, students, teachers against strikebreaking and poverty wages! wsws.org The grad student instructors have waged a courageous struggle and can defeat the strikebreaking of the university and its corporate and government backers. This requires the development of a rank-and-file committee independent of the AFT apparatus and its agents in the GEO leadership.

Editor (2023-08-09). Another Chance to Reduce Child Poverty. scheerpost.com

Stephen Janis, Taya Graham (2023-08-10). How 'urban renewal' went from a vision for public good to a private enrichment scheme. therealnews.com America's numerous struggling cities face the unenviable task of addressing crumbling physical and social infrastructure, housing and affordability crises, and unemployment on shoestring budgets (after you account for the massive slices handed to police) and public debt. In the age of neoliberalism, the solution is all too often to turn to the private sector—which usually only results in an upward transfer of public wealth into private hands without substantial improvement to the problems at hand. Urban development, particularly in a city like Baltimore, is especially egregious in this regard. But it…

Brett Murphy (2023-08-10). Beyond Harlan Crow, Other Billionaires Funded Justice Thomas's Luxury Vacations. truthout.org During his three decades on the Supreme Court, Clarence Thomas has enjoyed steady access to a lifestyle most Americans can only imagine. A cadre of industry titans and ultrawealthy executives have treated him to far-flung vacations aboard their yachts, ushered him into the premium suites at sporting events and sent their private jets to fetch him — including, on more than one occasion… |

Ricardo Mimbela (2023-08-10). Visualizing the Racial Wealth Gap. aclu.org Systemic inequities and barriers keep people of color from achieving economic security through employment, education, and homeownership, resulting in racial disparities in wealth and income. These disparities are the consequence of ongoing discrimination, structural inequality, and biases across our institutions. They continue to emerge in new forms of technology — including artificial intelligence and algorithmic risk assessment tools — that influence nearly every facet of life. The confluence of these inequities has created a massive, persistent racial wealth gap in the United States. | Here are…

Brett Murphy, Alex Mierjeski (2023-08-10). Clarence Thomas' 38 vacations: The other billionaires who have treated the Supreme Court Justice to luxury travel. nationofchange.org Thomas has secretly reaped the benefits from a network of wealthy and well-connected patrons that is far more extensive than previously understood.

Orinoco Tribune 2 (2023-08-10). US Officials Making Secretive Trips to South Yemen to Plunder Resources: Analyst. orinocotribune.com Secretive and suspicious visits by American diplomats and military commanders to southern Yemen are part of the economic war on the Arab country and to plunder its rich natural resources, says a Yemeni analyst. | Ali Azzehri, a journalist and analyst based in Yemen, in an interview with the Press TV website, said visits by American officials have increased dramatically in recent months. | "These consecutive trips to the occupied areas in southern Yemen are part of the massive aggression on Yemen, which is mainly aimed at plundering its wealth through the fake regime imposed on southern Yemen by hostile foreign in…

Mike Ludwig, Truthout. (2023-08-09). More People Die Young In US Due To Health Care And Welfare Cuts. popularresistance.org From 1930 through the middle of the last century, the mortality rate in the United States was lower or commensurate with the mortality rates of other wealthy nations, such as Canada, France and Britain. However, in the late 1970s through the 1980s, U.S. health outcomes and mortality rates began to diverge from those of its peers. | By 2021, about half of all U.S. deaths under the age of 65 would have been avoided if the U.S. mortality rates were on par with those of other countries, according to a new study published by the National Academy of Sciences. | In other words, on average one out of every two deaths und…

Walter Smolarek (2023-08-10). Aug. 14 in NYC: Rally To Demand BlackRock Cancel Zambia's Debt. answercoalition.org Join the ANSWER Coalition and The People's Forum on Monday, Aug. 14 at Bella Abzug Park (542 W 36th St): | Today, debt is one of the major tools that big corporations and US-led multinational financial institutions, like the IMF and World Bank, use to keep poorer countries beholden to Western economic and political interests. | Right now, Zambia is facing a severe debt crisis. In 2021, Zambia was spending over 50% of its national income on just servicing its external public debt. That's money being diverted from funding social services, the construction of key infrastructure like roads and hospitals, p…

Ricardo Vaz (2023-08-10). Venezuela: Defunct Opposition Parliament Approves Debt Deadline Extension. venezuelanalysis.com The move, which had been previously proposed by the Maduro government, will deter litigation over defaulted bonds.

teleSUR (2023-08-09). Tax Amnesty Bill Approved in Dominican Senate. telesurenglish.net In its second reading, the Senate of the Republic approved the bill that establishes a special transitory treatment, management and recovery of tax debts. | Related: | With this law, it will be possible to establish a special transitory treatment that allows to declare ex officio the prescription and the extinction of the tax debts that comply with the requirements established by law. This law is known as tax amnesty law and since July it had be…

Xiaolu Sun (2023-08-09). Credit card debt hits a record high in the U.S. america.cgtn.com Americans are borrowing more and more on their credit cards. The balances on those cards have surpassed one trillion dollars in the second quarter for the first time ever.

Julia Rock (2023-08-09). Trump Donors Get Bailout, Truckers Get Layoffs. levernews.com As tens of thousands of workers are being laid off in the bankruptcy of one of America's largest trucking companies, one player in the collapse is set to get at least some financial protection: Apollo Global Management, a politically-connected private equity firm that owns a huge chunk of the company's debt. | Read the full story for free.: | Sign up for a free subscription to The Lever to gain access to this story and more. | Already have an account?

United Front Committee For A Labor Party (2023-08-10). Which class should control Artificial Intelligence: the workers or the bosses? indybay.org Working people should control and run AI for the benefit of workers and the public. In order to do that they need the unions to break from the Democrats and build a mass democratic workers party that will stop this capitalist madness for profits and destruction of workers jobs.

A Guest Author (2023-08-10). 'The leading class in the Philippine Revolution is the proletariat'. workers.org By Phoebe De Padua This slightly edited talk was presented July 31 on the Workers World Party webinar titled "Lenin and the working class." Go to youtube.com/watch?v=bNLB1b3tFKY to view the entire webinar. Phoebe De Padua Warm and militant greetings, comrades! I am very glad to be part of this important . . . |

WSWS (2023-08-10). Australian workers call for strikes at highest rate in five years. wsws.org The growing strike vote reflects mounting opposition among broad sections of the working class to deepening real wage cuts. But Labor, the unions and the industrial courts are employing increasingly anti-democratic measures to shut down workers' struggles.

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2023-08-10). Consumer Health: Questions about breastfeeding. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org World Breastfeeding Week will be observed Aug. 1—7. This year's campaign focuses on enabling breastfeeding for working parents. The American Academy of Pediatrics has affirmed its recommendation and advocacy for breastfeeding, stating, "Research has shown that breastfeeding is linked to decreased rates of lower respiratory tract infections, severe diarrhea, ear infections and obesity. Breastfeeding is associated with lower risk of sudden infant death syndrome, as well as other protective effects." Specifically, the American Academy of Pediatrics recommendation is…

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2023-08-10). Driven by family, fueled by hope: Mayo Clinic researcher fights against Type 1 diabetes. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org Quinn Peterson, Ph.D., was a graduate student working on a team to develop new chemotherapy drugs when a life-changing phone call reset the course of his career. His daughter, Clarissa, had been diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes. Neither he nor his wife had any known family history of the disease. "Given my background as a scientist, I felt a responsibility and an obligation to use my skills in research to address this complex disease — not only…

WSWS (2023-08-09). One-day strike of 11,000 Los Angeles city workers shuts down services. wsws.org The walkout is part of the growing conflict of the working class against the austerity measures being imposed by the Democratic Party.

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-08-09). Exploiting Haiti Through the Global Fragility Act. libya360.wordpress.com Nichol Luma Port-au-Prince, Haiti, June 19, 2023 — Mother feeding her baby, among more than 165,000 homeless Haitians beset by gang violence, government corruption and hurricane disasters, in a city of nearly three million people. PHOTO: Ralph Tedy Erol / Reuters The United States has had its claws in Haiti for a century and isn't…

WSWS (2023-08-09). Yellow workers dealing with lost hours, no severance pay after freight company shuttered operations and declared bankruptcy. wsws.org Workers at the Columbus, Ohio facility were never told that they were being laid off, and only found out that they were out of a job when they arrived at the warehouse and found the gates padlocked shut.

Peoples Dispatch (2023-08-10). Prisoners launch hunger strike in Bahrain. peoplesdispatch.org

Samantha Waxman, Amelia Minkin, Center on Budget, Policy Priorities. (2023-08-08). Momentum For New And Expanded Child And Earned Income Tax Credits. popularresistance.org 2023 legislative sessions saw strong momentum toward creating and expanding child tax credits. Three states created a new permanent child tax credit, one created a one-time child tax credit payment, and seven states improved existing child tax credits. These efforts build on the success of the federal Child Tax Credit in reducing child poverty and improving outcomes for children in the near and long term. | Many states this year have also improved their earned income tax credits (EITCs). State EITCs, like the federal EITC, boost incomes for people paid low wages and provide greater support for people caring for c…

isabella (2023-08-08). Another Chance to Reduce Child Poverty. inequality.org

Mike Ludwig (2023-08-08). More People Die Young in US Due to Health Care and Welfare Cuts, Study Finds. truthout.org From 1930 through the middle of the last century, the mortality rate in the United States was lower or commensurate with the mortality rates of other wealthy nations, such as Canada, France and Britain. However, in the late 1970s through the 1980s, U.S. health outcomes and mortality rates began to diverge from those of its peers. By 2021, about half of all U.S. deaths under the age of 65 would… |

Ann Brown (2023-08-07). Georgetown Study: Researchers Show Being Born Rich is Better Than Being Smart. moguldom.com This might seem like a no-brainer to some, but a new study found that being born rich is better than being born smart. A recent study by the Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce (CEW) found that being born wealthy is a stronger predictor of adult success in the U.S. than academic excellence. The …

Sam Pizzigati (2023-08-07). Can we measure inequality without tallying the wealth of our wealthy?Ôøº. nationofchange.org Hundreds of prestigious economists don't think so. The World Bank, unfortunately, does.

Sharon Zhang (2023-08-08). Tlaib Introduces Bill to Bar Medical Debt From Showing Up on Credit Reports. truthout.org Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Michigan) introduced a bill on Tuesday aimed at reforming some of the most predatory features of the credit system in hopes of uplifting millions of Americans whose credit histories have been tarnished by fraud, abuse or medical debt. The Restoring Unfairly Impaired Credit and Protecting Consumers Act would reduce the length that adverse information stays on credit reports… |

Sharon Zhang (2023-08-08). Conservative Groups Sue to Block Forgiveness for 800,000 Student Loan Borrowers. truthout.org A pair of right-wing groups has filed a lawsuit seeking to block the Biden administration's latest plan to "fix" a key student debt forgiveness program and block 800,000 borrowers from receiving relief. On Friday, the New Civil Liberties Alliance filed a lawsuit in Michigan on behalf of the Mackinac Center for Public Policy and the Cato Institute, two conservative groups with a history of fighting… |

teleSUR (2023-08-08). US Court Blocks Biden's Student Debt Forgiveness. telesurenglish.net On Monday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit blocked a President Joe Biden's administration rule that aimed to make it easier for defrauded borrowers to obtain student loan debt relief. | RELATED: | The court issued an injunction to prevent the government from implementing regulations that took effect last month while it considers a lawsuit brought by Career Colleges and Schools of Texas, which represents 70 for…

Dongsheng Collective (2023-08-07). The Belt and Road Initiative at 10: Debt Trap or Development? dongshengnews.org Ten years after its launch in 2013, the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) has emerged as "the largest infrastructure and development project in human history". Despite a range of policy makers and researchers debunking Belt and Road Initiative activities as "debt-trapping", Western and allied groups have continually stoked fears and misunderstandings of what the BRI is and the role it is playing in the world.In this issue of Dongsheng Explains, we look at the BRI, its historical development, the implications for the countries involved, and the debt-trap narratives.

ecsorinoco (2023-08-07). Let Them Eat Bugs: Challenging the WEF's Corporate-Driven Food Reset. orinocotribune.com By Colin Todhunter — Jul 31, 2023 | The prevailing globalized agr0-industry food model is built on unjust trade policies, the leveraging of sovereign debt, population displacement, and land dispossession. It fuels commodity mono-crops and food insecurity as well as soil and environmental degradation. | It is responsible for increasing rates of illness, nutrient-deficient diets, a narrowing of the range of food crops, water shortages, chemical runoffs, increasing levels of farmer indebtedness, the undermining and destruction of local communities, and the eradication of biodiversity. | The model relies on a p…

_____ (2023-08-07). The East Is Still Red: Chinese Socialism in the 21st Century. transcend.org 1 Aug 2023 – Western media never stop warning us of China: it menaces Taiwan, threatens its neighbors and shipping lanes in the South China Sea, and sticks military bases on Cuba. It spies on us by the most devious means, through TikTok, Huawei 5G, and weather balloons, and ensnares Africa with debt traps.

Andy Kroll (2023-08-08). "The Greatest Fighting Force in Human History" tomdispatch.com In his message to the troops prior to the July 4th weekend, Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin offered high praise indeed. "We have the greatest fighting force in human history," he tweeted, connecting that claim to the U.S. having patriots of all colors, creeds, and backgrounds "who bravely volunteer to defend our country and our values." As a retired Air Force lieutenant colonel from a working-class background who volunteered to serve more than four decades ago, who am I to argue with Austin? Shouldn't I just bask in the glow of his praise for today's troops, reflecting on my own honorable service near the end o…

Zane McNeill (2023-08-08). 11,000 LA City Workers Strike After City Engaged in Bad Faith Bargaining. truthout.org More than 11,000 workers for the city of Los Angeles are joining hotel employees, Hollywood actors, and TV and movie writers who have been striking this summer for higher wages and better working conditions. "When bosses refuse to listen to demands, workers WILL shut things down," Mary Kay Henry, president of Service Employees International Union (SEIU), said on Twitter. |

United Front Committee For A Labor Party (2023-08-08). Which class should control Artificial Intelligence: the workers or the bosses? indybay.org Working people should control and run AI for the benefit of workers and the public. In order to do that they need the unions to break from the Democrats and build a mass democratic workers party that will stop this capitalist madness for profits and destruction of workers jobs.

Cristian Salazar, Next City. (2023-08-08). Virtual Power Plants Offer A Climate-Forward Response To Hot Summers. popularresistance.org As the country roasted last week under extreme heat made more intense by climate change, tens of thousands of Americans received text messages telling them they could get paid if they powered down their devices and appliances during specific periods of the day. If their homes were equipped with smart thermostats or smart water heaters, the devices may have powered down automatically. | It may have seemed like a simple action to conserve energy during hours of peak demand. But behind the scenes, a number of companies that have emerged in recent years were working with utilities to monitor and respond to the stress…

kwjorinoco (2023-08-08). Venezuela Reiterates Commitment to Protecting Amazon Rainforest. orinocotribune.com Just a day before the kickoff of a two-day Amazon summit to be held in the Brazilian city of Belém, Yván Gil, Venezuela's Minister of Foreign Affairs, reiterated Venezuela's commitment to working together with neighboring nations to protect the Amazonian rainforest, also known as the "lungs of the planet." | "With great expectations, we arrived in the Brazilian city of Belém do Pará where the Amazon summit will be held, resuming cooperation to protect the lungs of the planet and guarantee a safe Amazon of peace and belonging to all South Americans," Gil wrote in a post on the social media network X. | Con grandes…

Brian Mier (2023-08-08). Sao Paulo Governor Imports Police Violence From Rio. telesurenglish.net In 2013, while I was working as assistant producer for BBC's documentary series Welcome to Rio, military police special forces from the BOPE squadron chased two suspects into one of the favelas in the Complexo do Mare, where we were filming with a local community leader. | RELATED: | During the shoot out that followed, a police officer was killed. The next day the BOPE drove into the favela in armored vehicles and assassinated 10 people in a revenge…

WSWS (2023-08-08). Australian government vows to hold indigenous Voice referendum despite falling support. wsws.org A wider political crisis is developing. There is growing distrust in the Voice project and the Labor government itself, especially in the working class.

Zane McNeill (2023-08-08). 11,000 LA City Workers Strike After City Engaged in Bad Faith Bargaining. truthout.org More than 11,000 workers for the city of Los Angeles are joining hotel employees, Hollywood actors, and TV and movie writers who have been striking this summer for higher wages and better working conditions. "When bosses refuse to listen to demands, workers WILL shut things down," Mary Kay Henry, president of Service Employees International Union (SEIU), said on Twitter. |

United Front Committee For A Labor Party (2023-08-08). Which class should control Artificial Intelligence: the workers or the bosses? indybay.org Working people should control and run AI for the benefit of workers and the public. In order to do that they need the unions to break from the Democrats and build a mass democratic workers party that will stop this capitalist madness for profits and destruction of workers jobs.

Cristian Salazar, Next City. (2023-08-08). Virtual Power Plants Offer A Climate-Forward Response To Hot Summers. popularresistance.org As the country roasted last week under extreme heat made more intense by climate change, tens of thousands of Americans received text messages telling them they could get paid if they powered down their devices and appliances during specific periods of the day. If their homes were equipped with smart thermostats or smart water heaters, the devices may have powered down automatically. | It may have seemed like a simple action to conserve energy during hours of peak demand. But behind the scenes, a number of companies that have emerged in recent years were working with utilities to monitor and respond to the stress…

kwjorinoco (2023-08-08). Venezuela Reiterates Commitment to Protecting Amazon Rainforest. orinocotribune.com Just a day before the kickoff of a two-day Amazon summit to be held in the Brazilian city of Belém, Yván Gil, Venezuela's Minister of Foreign Affairs, reiterated Venezuela's commitment to working together with neighboring nations to protect the Amazonian rainforest, also known as the "lungs of the planet." | "With great expectations, we arrived in the Brazilian city of Belém do Pará where the Amazon summit will be held, resuming cooperation to protect the lungs of the planet and guarantee a safe Amazon of peace and belonging to all South Americans," Gil wrote in a post on the social media network X. | Con grandes…

Brian Mier (2023-08-08). Sao Paulo Governor Imports Police Violence From Rio. telesurenglish.net In 2013, while I was working as assistant producer for BBC's documentary series Welcome to Rio, military police special forces from the BOPE squadron chased two suspects into one of the favelas in the Complexo do Mare, where we were filming with a local community leader. | RELATED: | During the shoot out that followed, a police officer was killed. The next day the BOPE drove into the favela in armored vehicles and assassinated 10 people in a revenge…

WSWS (2023-08-08). Australian government vows to hold indigenous Voice referendum despite falling support. wsws.org A wider political crisis is developing. There is growing distrust in the Voice project and the Labor government itself, especially in the working class.

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2023-08-08). Consumer Health: Questions about breastfeeding. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org World Breastfeeding Week will be observed Aug. 1—7. This year's campaign focuses on enabling breastfeeding for working parents. The American Academy of Pediatrics has affirmed its recommendation and advocacy for breastfeeding, stating, "Research has shown that breastfeeding is linked to decreased rates of lower respiratory tract infections, severe diarrhea, ear infections and obesity. Breastfeeding is associated with lower risk of sudden infant death syndrome, as well as other protective effects." Specifically, the American Academy of Pediatrics recommendation is…

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2023-08-08). Driven by family, fueled by hope: Mayo Clinic researcher fights against Type 1 diabetes. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org Quinn Peterson, Ph.D., was a graduate student working on a team to develop new chemotherapy drugs when a life-changing phone call reset the course of his career. His daughter, Clarissa, had been diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes. Neither he nor his wife had any known family history of the disease. "Given my background as a scientist, I felt a responsibility and an obligation to use my skills in research to address this complex disease — not only…

Ana Vračar (2023-08-07). Climate breakdown threatens food security and health in Iraq. peoplesdispatch.org As another heat wave hit West Asia at the beginning of August, temperatures in Baghdad reached 51 degrees Celsius. "For a person like me, with access to air conditioning, this was unbearable. Imagine how it was for those with compromised health or compromised economic status," says Muntather Hassan, a dentist working at the Iraqi Al-Amal Association, reflecting on the health effects of climate change in Iraq. | Hassan authored a

WSWS (2023-08-07). DSA, Teamsters for a Democratic Union promote UPS sellout contract. wsws.org The DSA and the pseudo-left as a whole are an essential part of a state intervention against the working class, which is carried out primarily through the medium of the union bureaucracy, but also includes more direct methods such as injunctions, which the DSA also supports.

greenleft.org.au (2023-08-08). New NSW portal tracks homelessness, rent rises. greenleft.org.au

WSWS (2023-08-08). Yellow freight declares bankruptcy, in the latest assault on workers' jobs. wsws.org Yellow's bankruptcy puts 30,000 workers out of their jobs and sets the stage for a looting of the company by Wall Street.

krish-rad_ind (2023-08-08). The World Bank's Way of Tracking Inequality. consortiumnews.com

SAM (2023-08-07). Have Our Corporate Chiefs Become Expendable? inequality.org

Staff (2023-08-08). Sixth Palestinian prisoner joins hunger strike as battle escalates inside the occupation prisons. samidoun.net The battle inside Israeli occupation prisons is escalating as a growing number of imprisoned Palestinians are taking protest steps to challenge repression, isolation and administrative detention, imprisonment without charge or trial. On Tuesday, 8 August, the Palestinian Prisoners' Society announced that Sultan Khallouf, 42, from Burqin near Jenin, is also on hunger strike against his …

Staff (2023-08-07). Rising revolt against administrative detention: 5 Palestinians on hunger strike, over 1100 jailed without charge or trial. samidoun.net Palestinian prisoners are rising up behind bars in Zionist prisons to confront administrative detention, imprisonment without charge or trial. Out of nearly 5,000 total Palestinan political prisoners, approximately 1,132 are held without charge or trial under indefinitely renewable administrative detention orders, the largest number of administrative detainees in 20 years. Five prisoners are on hunger …

Ann Brown (2023-08-07). Georgetown Study: Researchers Show Being Born Rich is Better Than Being Smart. moguldom.com This might seem like a no-brainer to some, but a new study found that being born rich is better than being born smart. A recent study by the Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce (CEW) found that being born wealthy is a stronger predictor of adult success in the U.S. than academic excellence. The …

Sam Pizzigati (2023-08-07). Can we measure inequality without tallying the wealth of our wealthy?Ôøº. nationofchange.org Hundreds of prestigious economists don't think so. The World Bank, unfortunately, does.

_____ (2023-08-07). The East Is Still Red: Chinese Socialism in the 21st Century. transcend.org 1 Aug 2023 – Western media never stop warning us of China: it menaces Taiwan, threatens its neighbors and shipping lanes in the South China Sea, and sticks military bases on Cuba. It spies on us by the most devious means, through TikTok, Huawei 5G, and weather balloons, and ensnares Africa with debt traps.

Dongsheng Collective (2023-08-07). The Belt and Road Initiative at 10: Debt Trap or Development? dongshengnews.org Ten years after its launch in 2013, the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) has emerged as "the largest infrastructure and development project in human history". An extensive network of agreements demonstrates the global reach and acceptance of the initiative. Despite a range of policy makers and researchers debunking Belt and Road Initiative activities as "debt-trapping" — even by World Bank researchers who described the BRI as "largely beneficial" — Western and allied groups have continually stoked fears and misunderstandings of what the BRI is and the role it is playing in the world. | In this issue of…

ecsorinoco (2023-08-07). Let Them Eat Bugs: Challenging the WEF's Corporate-Driven Food Reset. orinocotribune.com By Colin Todhunter — Jul 31, 2023 | The prevailing globalized agr0-industry food model is built on unjust trade policies, the leveraging of sovereign debt, population displacement, and land dispossession. It fuels commodity mono-crops and food insecurity as well as soil and environmental degradation. | It is responsible for increasing rates of illness, nutrient-deficient diets, a narrowing of the range of food crops, water shortages, chemical runoffs, increasing levels of farmer indebtedness, the undermining and destruction of local communities, and the eradication of biodiversity. | The model relies on a p…

Ana Vračar (2023-08-07). Climate breakdown threatens food security and health in Iraq. peoplesdispatch.org As another heat wave hit West Asia at the beginning of August, temperatures in Baghdad reached 51 degrees Celsius. "For a person like me, with access to air conditioning, this was unbearable. Imagine how it was for those with compromised health or compromised economic status," says Muntather Hassan, a dentist working at the Iraqi Al-Amal Association, reflecting on the health effects of climate change in Iraq. | Hassan authored a

United Front Committee For A Labor Party (2023-08-07). Which class should control Artificial Intelligence: the workers or the bosses? indybay.org Working people should control and run AI for the benefit of workers and the public. In order to do that they need the unions to break from the Democrats and build a mass democratic workers party that will stop this capitalist madness for profits and destruction of workers jobs.

WSWS (2023-08-07). Vote "No" on the NSC/USW tentative agreement! Mobilize working class support across North America for our strike! wsws.org The United Steelworkers bureaucracy, working hand in hand with National Steel Car management, is trying to pull a fast one on us by presenting a new tentative agreement and forcing us to vote on it within 72 hours.

WSWS (2023-08-07). DSA, Teamsters for a Democratic Union promote UPS sellout contract. wsws.org The DSA and the pseudo-left as a whole are an essential part of a state intervention against the working class, which is carried out primarily through the medium of the union bureaucracy, but also includes more direct methods such as injunctions, which the DSA also supports.

Charlie Christ (2023-08-07). The working-class legacy of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade. peoplesworld.org After attending an Abraham Lincoln Brigade Archives workshop, Charlie Christ joined ALBA as an intern to work with Chris Brooks on the biographical database. "The Lincolns were incredibly diverse, representing the full spectrum of the American and international community. Yet as I dove deeper into their lives, one trend in particular struck me—their indelible impact …

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2023-08-07). What is cardiac arrest? A Mayo Clinic heart expert explains. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org Cardiac arrest, or sudden cardiac arrest as it is more formally known, is a medical emergency. It happens when an event, usually an electrical disturbance, quickly and unexpectedly causes your heart to stop working. It's not the same as a heart attack and is called sudden because it seems to happen without warning. Dr. Christopher DeSimone, a Mayo cardiac electrophysiologist specializing in abnormal cardiac rhythm, answers questions about cardiac arrest, the differences between cardiac arrest…

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2023-08-07). Consumer Health: Questions about breastfeeding. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org World Breastfeeding Week will be observed Aug. 1—7. This year's campaign focuses on enabling breastfeeding for working parents. The American Academy of Pediatrics has affirmed its recommendation and advocacy for breastfeeding, stating, "Research has shown that breastfeeding is linked to decreased rates of lower respiratory tract infections, severe diarrhea, ear infections and obesity. Breastfeeding is associated with lower risk of sudden infant death syndrome, as well as other protective effects." Specifically, the American Academy of Pediatrics recommendation is…

Editor (2023-08-06). No U.S./French-backed invasion of Niger! workers.org "When Africa becomes economically free and politically united, the monopolists will come face to face with their own working class in their own countries, and a new struggle will arise within which the liquidation and collapse of imperialism will be complete." — Kwame Nkrumah, Neo-Colonialism, the Last Stage of imperialism . . . |

greenleft.org.au (2023-08-07). New NSW portal tracks homelessness, rent rises. greenleft.org.au

SAM (2023-08-07). Have Our Corporate Chiefs Become Expendable? inequality.org

JP Sottile (2023-08-06). There Is a Climate Conspiracy — But Not the One Climate Denialists Are Peddling. truthout.org Imagine, if you will, a plot. It's an evil plot concocted by a power-hungry global elite determined to ensnare all of mankind in its dystopian, totalitarian net. Even more ominously, it's specifically designed to deny the planet's "freest" people — Americans — their god-given rights. If successful, this plot will force them to live within walking distance of schools and shopping and work and… |

Editor (2023-08-06). No U.S./French-backed invasion of Niger! workers.org "When Africa becomes economically free and politically united, the monopolists will come face to face with their own working class in their own countries, and a new struggle will arise within which the liquidation and collapse of imperialism will be complete." — Kwame Nkrumah, Neo-Colonialism, the Last Stage of imperialism . . . |

greenleft.org.au (2023-08-07). New NSW portal tracks homelessness, rent rises. greenleft.org.au

SAM (2023-08-07). Have Our Corporate Chiefs Become Expendable? inequality.org

JP Sottile (2023-08-06). There Is a Climate Conspiracy — But Not the One Climate Denialists Are Peddling. truthout.org Imagine, if you will, a plot. It's an evil plot concocted by a power-hungry global elite determined to ensnare all of mankind in its dystopian, totalitarian net. Even more ominously, it's specifically designed to deny the planet's "freest" people — Americans — their god-given rights. If successful, this plot will force them to live within walking distance of schools and shopping and work and… |

Sam Knight (2023-08-05). Employer Debt Traps Violate Workers' Rights, Federal Regulators Say. truthout.org Bosses that foist debt on new hires, an increasingly common management practice, appear to be violating their workers' right to organize unions. According to a report published on July 20 by federal regulators, employment agreements that require workers to pay for training if they quit before an arbitrary deadline have the same effect as another type of legally dubious contract. The study… |

Farooque Chowdhury (2023-08-05). Fitch Downgrades US Debt Rating. dissidentvoice.org On Tuesday, Fitch Ratings, one of the leading three US credit rating agencies, announced: US' long-term foreign-currency issuer defaulting rating would be downgraded. Among other factors pushing this downgrading, Fitch cited issues with governance, rising deficits and a looming recession. Fitch, on an earlier occasion, put the US on watch for a potential downgrade. At …

JANET (2023-08-06). No U.S./French-backed invasion of Niger! iacenter.org August 6, 2023 "When Africa becomes economically free and politically united, the monopolists will come face to face with their own working class in their own countries, and a new struggle will arise within which the liquidation and collapse of imperialism will be complete." — Kwame Nkrumah, Neo-Colonialism, the Last Stage of imperialism Today, Aug. 6, is the deadline issued by the Economic Community Of West African States for the current government of Niger, headed by Abdourahamane Tchiani, to abdicate power or face a possible military intervention by ECOWAS forces. Tchiani came to power through a military…

Luis Linares Petrov (2023-08-06). French solidarity association marks anniversary of working with Cuba. plenglish.com Paris, Aug 6 (Prensa Latina) The French association Cuba Linda celebrates its 25th anniversary "with the pride of accompanying Cuba, its people and its Revolution, and helping (others) know their reality," the president of the association Didier Lalande said.

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2023-08-06). What is cardiac arrest? A Mayo Clinic heart expert explains. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org Cardiac arrest, or sudden cardiac arrest as it is more formally known, is a medical emergency. It happens when an event, usually an electrical disturbance, quickly and unexpectedly causes your heart to stop working. It's not the same as a heart attack and is called sudden because it seems to happen without warning. Dr. Christopher DeSimone, a Mayo cardiac electrophysiologist specializing in abnormal cardiac rhythm, answers questions about cardiac arrest, the differences between cardiac arrest…

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2023-08-06). Consumer Health: Questions about breastfeeding. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org World Breastfeeding Week will be observed Aug. 1—7. This year's campaign focuses on enabling breastfeeding for working parents. The American Academy of Pediatrics has affirmed its recommendation and advocacy for breastfeeding, stating, "Research has shown that breastfeeding is linked to decreased rates of lower respiratory tract infections, severe diarrhea, ear infections and obesity. Breastfeeding is associated with lower risk of sudden infant death syndrome, as well as other protective effects." Specifically, the American Academy of Pediatrics recommendation is…

JANET (2023-08-05). No tech for Israeli apartheid! iacenter.org By Marsha Goldberg July 31, 2023 New York City Tech workers from Amazon and Google rallied outside the annual Amazon Web Services Summit at the Javits Center in New York City on July 26. Workers chanted loud and clear: "Free free Palestine, no tech for Israel's crimes!" The rally was part of their continuing two-year "No Tech for Apartheid" campaign. WW Photo: Marsha Goldberg Hand-painted signs throughout the crowd showed working class solidarity with the Palestinian people, targeting Amazon and Google bosses for the billion dollar contracts that enable mass surveillance by the Israeli apartheid state. Some of th…

WSWS (2023-08-05). Notes on police violence in the United States. wsws.org Emboldened by Republican and Democratic politicians who have renounced any pretensions of "reform," police throughout the country continue to shoot, assault and torture working class and poor people.

Ed Grystar, Counter Punch. (2023-08-06). Why Has Progress In The National Single-Payer Movement Stalled? popularresistance.org With the public support for a national single payer system remaining strong and the need greater than ever, why is the movement stalled? What are the key sources of our power? Who are our allies? What can we do and how do we focus our energies to build the power necessary to end profiteering and make health care free at the point of service? | More than a decade after the misnamed Affordable Care Act, (ACA) we still have tens of millions without any coverage while millions more are saddled with high deductible, narrow network "junk health insurance" plans. The pandemic exposed the USA's bankrupt for-profit privat…

Dr. Pascal Sacré (2023-08-05). The COVID-19 RT-PCR Test: How to Mislead All Humanity. Using a "Test" To Lock Down Society. globalresearch.ca The misuse of the RT-PCR technique is used as an intentional strategy by some governments, supported by scientific safety councils and by the dominant media, to justify the violation of a large number of constitutional rights, the destruction of the economy with the bankruptcy of entire active sectors of society,…

WSWS (2023-08-05). Wall Street moves to profit from mass layoffs as Yellow prepares to file for bankruptcy. wsws.org Yellow laid off 30,000 workers after failing to satisfy the demands of its creditors.

Javier Arana Villasusa (2023-08-05). Five Palestinians on hunger strike in Israeli prisons. plenglish.com Ramallah, Aug 5 (Prensa Latina) Five Palestinians imprisoned in Israel continue today on an indefinite hunger strike in rejection of their administrative detention, which allows the Israeli authorities to keep them locked up without charge or trial for an indefinite period of time.

JP Sottile (2023-08-06). There Is a Climate Conspiracy — But Not the One Climate Denialists Are Peddling. truthout.org Imagine, if you will, a plot. It's an evil plot concocted by a power-hungry global elite determined to ensnare all of mankind in its dystopian, totalitarian net. Even more ominously, it's specifically designed to deny the planet's "freest" people — Americans — their god-given rights. If successful, this plot will force them to live within walking distance of schools and shopping and work and… |

ecns.cn (2023-08-03). China's Finance Ministry announces tax reductions for key groups to boost employment. ecns.cn China's Ministry of Finance and three other departments on Wednesday announced tax reduction for key groups including college graduates and people who just walk out of poverty, in a bid to support entrepreneurship and employment.

Prabhat Patnaik (2023-08-03). The poverty of UN poverty estimates. mronline.org ON April 3 this year, the minister of state for planning, Rao Inderjeet Singh, said in the Rajya Sabha that the government had no data after 2011-12 for estimating poverty, and therefore had no idea how many people had been lifted out of poverty since then.

Ben Norton, Geopolitical Economy. (2023-08-04). Burkina Faso's New President Condemns Imperialism. popularresistance.org The new president of Burkina Faso, Ibrahim Traoré, has vowed to fight imperialism and neocolonialism, invoking his country's past revolutionary leader Thomas Sankara and quoting Che Guevara. | The West African nation has also formed close diplomatic ties with the revolutionary governments in Nicaragua, Venezuela, Cuba, and Iran, as well as with NATO's arch-rival Russia. | In January 2022, a group of nationalist military officers in Burkina Faso toppled the president, Roch Kaboré, a wealthy banker who had fostered close ties with the country's former colonizer, France, where he was educated.

Uriel Araujo (2023-08-04). Fitch Ratings Downgrades U.S.: "Erosion of Governance, Fiscal Mismanagement" Attributable to Debt and War Spending. globalresearch.ca

infobrics (2023-08-04). Fitch ratings downgraded US, projects recession – debt and war spending being key reasons. infobrics.org American fiscal decline and its huge war-fueled debt is part of a larger societal and civilizational crisis.

Roger Stoll (2023-08-04). The East is Still Red: Chinese Socialism in the 21st Century by Carlos Martinez (Book Review). orinocotribune.com By Roger Stoll — Aug 1, 2023 | Introduction | Western media never stop warning us of China: it menaces Taiwan, threatens its neighbors and shipping lanes in the South China Sea, and sticks military bases on Cuba. China, we are told, spies on us by the most devious means, through TikTok, Huawei 5G, and weather balloons. And China, say our media, ensnares Africa with debt traps. Meanwhile, the US government and its media-echo decry China's abuses of its own people. China, the US says, has committed "cultural" and literal genocide against Uyghur muslims in Xinjiang. As for the Covid-19 pandemic, the West with w…

Dana Sanchez (2023-08-03). Fitch Rating Agency Downgrades America's Credit Rating: 5 Things To Know. moguldom.com A divided United States does not inspire confidence in the country's ability to pay its debt, according to Fitch Ratings, which downgraded the U.S. credit rating due to fiscal concerns, an erosion of governance, and political polarization reflected in part by the Jan. 6 insurrection. Fitch announced it had downgraded the U.S. long-term foreign-currency issuer …

Jake Johnson (2023-08-03). GOP's 'fiscal vandalism and political sabotage' prompts second-ever US credit downgrade. nationofchange.org "The debt ceiling was a bad idea when it was first put in place, and it has become the worst idea as the Republicans have figured out how to weaponize it."

Stan Karp, Rethinking Schools. (2023-08-03). 50 Years Older And Deeper In Debt. popularresistance.org This year marks the 50th anniversary of San Antonio Independent School District v. Rodriguez, the landmark 5-4 Supreme Court decision that held that education is not a fundamental right protected by the U.S. Constitution. The decision dashed hopes that the historic Brown v. Board of Education ruling that ended legal segregation in 1954 would be followed by a sustained federal commitment to making education equality a reality. | Demetrio Rodriguez was a sheet metal worker and a member of the Edgewood Concerned Parent Association when he became the lead plaintiff in the case. He thought his three children were bein…

WSWS (2023-08-03). US credit downgrade: Another sign of a deepening crisis. wsws.org In its decision, Fitch Ratings Agency said there had been a "steady deterioration in standards of governance over the last 20 years, including on fiscal and debt matters."

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2023-08-04). What is cardiac arrest? A Mayo Clinic heart expert explains. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org Cardiac arrest, or sudden cardiac arrest as it is more formally known, is a medical emergency. It happens when an event, usually an electrical disturbance, quickly and unexpectedly causes your heart to stop working. It's not the same as a heart attack and is called sudden because it seems to happen without warning. Dr. Christopher DeSimone, a Mayo cardiac electrophysiologist specializing in abnormal cardiac rhythm, answers questions about cardiac arrest, the differences between cardiac arrest…

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2023-08-04). Consumer Health: Questions about breastfeeding. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org World Breastfeeding Week will be observed Aug. 1—7. This year's campaign focuses on enabling breastfeeding for working parents. The American Academy of Pediatrics has affirmed its recommendation and advocacy for breastfeeding, stating, "Research has shown that breastfeeding is linked to decreased rates of lower respiratory tract infections, severe diarrhea, ear infections and obesity. Breastfeeding is associated with lower risk of sudden infant death syndrome, as well as other protective effects." Specifically, the American Academy of Pediatrics recommendation is…

Andreína Chávez Alava (2023-08-03). Venezuela: Gov't Presents Plan to Clean Up Oil-Contaminated Maracaibo Lake. venezuelanalysis.com A team of experts is working alongside the community to decontaminate Maracaibo Lake from waste, microalgae and oil leaking from corroded pipelines.

ecns.cn (2023-08-03). Rescue operations continue after Beijing's heaviest rainfall in 140 years. ecns.cn Rescue teams were spotted working around the clock to assist and relocate trapped individuals by floodwaters on Wednesday in Fangshan District of Beijing. "ÄÄ…

Editor (2023-08-03). Artificial Intelligence and the class struggle. mronline.org Since the earliest days of the industrial revolution, workers have fought company owners over their use of automated machinery to step up the pace of exploitation.

Nonviolence Radio Team, Waging Nonviolence. (2023-08-03). Cutting The Ties Between Higher Education And The Military. popularresistance.org This episode of Nonviolence Radio welcomes @hellaJinsella from the UK peace organization, DeMilitarise Education, or dED. Jinsella has been actively working to raise awareness about the ties between higher education and the military. As these relationships have not generally been made public, military funding, and the accompanying environmental degradation the arms industry entails, has been able to thrive within universities without sustained challenge. DeMilitarise Education seeks to bring these connections to light. To this end, it has set up a database which tracks schools' ties with the military and arms com…

teleSUR (2023-08-04). Multilateral Peace System Is Needed to Tackle Hunger: Ghelani. telesurenglish.net On Thursday, Reena Ghelani, the United Nations Famine Prevention and Response Coordinator, called for a reinvigorated multilateral system for peace in order to address the root causes of hunger. | RELATED: | A quarter billion people suffered from acute food insecurity last year, the highest number recorded in recent years. Of these people, some 376,000 were facing famine-like conditions in seven countries. Anothe…

Pavel López Lazo (2023-08-03). Conflicts, climate crisis aggravate food insecurity — UN. plenglish.com United Nations, Aug 3 (Prensa Latina) Conflicts are key factors in hunger and food insecurity aggravated by climate and economic crises, the UN Famine Prevention and Response Coordinator Reena Ghelani said. She said that while the threat of famine — people starving slowly to death — must be a red line, amid the multiple challenges the world is facing today, the number of people suffering from acute food insecurity reached a quarter billion in 2022 — the highest recorded in recent years.

Andreína Chávez Alava (2023-08-03). Venezuela: Gov't Presents Plan to Clean Up Oil-Contaminated Maracaibo Lake. venezuelanalysis.com A team of experts is working alongside the community to decontaminate Maracaibo Lake from waste, microalgae and oil leaking from corroded pipelines.

ecns.cn (2023-08-03). Rescue operations continue after Beijing's heaviest rainfall in 140 years. ecns.cn Rescue teams were spotted working around the clock to assist and relocate trapped individuals by floodwaters on Wednesday in Fangshan District of Beijing. "ÄÄ…

Editor (2023-08-03). Artificial Intelligence and the class struggle. mronline.org Since the earliest days of the industrial revolution, workers have fought company owners over their use of automated machinery to step up the pace of exploitation.

Nonviolence Radio Team, Waging Nonviolence. (2023-08-03). Cutting The Ties Between Higher Education And The Military. popularresistance.org This episode of Nonviolence Radio welcomes @hellaJinsella from the UK peace organization, DeMilitarise Education, or dED. Jinsella has been actively working to raise awareness about the ties between higher education and the military. As these relationships have not generally been made public, military funding, and the accompanying environmental degradation the arms industry entails, has been able to thrive within universities without sustained challenge. DeMilitarise Education seeks to bring these connections to light. To this end, it has set up a database which tracks schools' ties with the military and arms com…

teleSUR (2023-08-04). Multilateral Peace System Is Needed to Tackle Hunger: Ghelani. telesurenglish.net On Thursday, Reena Ghelani, the United Nations Famine Prevention and Response Coordinator, called for a reinvigorated multilateral system for peace in order to address the root causes of hunger. | RELATED: | A quarter billion people suffered from acute food insecurity last year, the highest number recorded in recent years. Of these people, some 376,000 were facing famine-like conditions in seven countries. Anothe…

Pavel López Lazo (2023-08-03). Conflicts, climate crisis aggravate food insecurity — UN. plenglish.com United Nations, Aug 3 (Prensa Latina) Conflicts are key factors in hunger and food insecurity aggravated by climate and economic crises, the UN Famine Prevention and Response Coordinator Reena Ghelani said. She said that while the threat of famine — people starving slowly to death — must be a red line, amid the multiple challenges the world is facing today, the number of people suffering from acute food insecurity reached a quarter billion in 2022 — the highest recorded in recent years.

isabella (2023-08-04). A Perfect Example of Donor-Advised Fund Slipperiness in Silicon Valley. inequality.org

isabella (2023-08-03). Here We Go Again, Again With the Commercial Donor-Advised Fund Industry. inequality.org

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-08-03). The Conflict in Ukraine and the Political Battle Over Feeding a Hungry World. libya360.wordpress.com Dmitri Kovalevich July marked the one-and-a-half year anniversary of the start of the Russian Special Military Operation (SMO) in Ukraine. The key developments during the past month were Russia's withdrawal from the agreement reached one year ago by each of Russia and Ukraine with Turkey and the UN for exports of grain from Ukraine, and…

SAM (2023-08-01). Can We Measure Inequality Without Tallying the Wealth of Our Wealthy? inequality.org

Caleb Crowder (2023-07-31). Why Not Tax Private Jets Out of Existence? ips-dc.org Is it possible to deter Kim Kardashian The luxury private jet industry not only exploits our planet's precious resources but makes the rest of us subsidize the extravagant lifestyles of the ultra-rich. Jet excess is a dangerous symptom of extreme wealth inequality. As wealth gets more concentrated in the hands of the global billionaire class, there has been a surge in consumer deman…

Ann Brown (2023-07-31). Veteran Wealth Manager Tunde Ogunlana Talks Generational Wealth-Building Through Life Insurance. moguldom.com Meet Tunde Ogunlana. Ogunlana is a veteran wealth manager and financial advisor who also co-hosts a podcast that does deep dives on socially relevant issues. He and his longtime friend James Keys III, founder The Keys Law Firm, PLLC, co-host the podcast "Call It Like I See It." "We had a group text of four …

greenleft.org.au (2023-08-01). Behavioural 'experts' quietly shaped Robodebt's most devilish details. greenleft.org.au

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-07-31). Let Them Eat Bugs: Challenging the WEF's Corporate-Driven Food Reset. libya360.wordpress.com Colin Todhunter The prevailing globalised agrifood model is built on unjust trade policies, the leveraging of sovereign debt, population displacement and land dispossession. It fuels commodity monocropping and food insecurity as well as soil and environmental degradation. It is responsible for increasing rates of illness, nutrient-deficient diets, a narrowing of the range of food crops,…

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2023-08-01). What is cardiac arrest? A Mayo Clinic heart expert explains. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org Cardiac arrest, or sudden cardiac arrest as it is more formally known, is a medical emergency. It happens when an event, usually an electrical disturbance, quickly and unexpectedly causes your heart to stop working. It's not the same as a heart attack and is called sudden because it seems to happen without warning. Dr. Christopher DeSimone, a Mayo cardiac electrophysiologist specializing in abnormal cardiac rhythm, answers questions about cardiac arrest, the differences between cardiac arrest…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-08-01). Politics of the Commons: The Open-Ended History of Communes. libya360.wordpress.com Reinaldo Iturriza López I The history of the Communes is the history of the organization of the working class. But not the working class in an abstract sense, but that of the really existing one in a specific historical moment. Both the available documentary record and the testimony of organizers allow us to conclude that Hugo Chávez,…

WSWS (2023-08-01). The Yellow bankruptcy and the US ruling class's war on two fronts. wsws.org While the US government proclaims it will fund the war in Ukraine for "as long as it takes," no resources are supposedly available to prevent tens thousands of working class families from being thrown into destitution in the largest trucking bankruptcy in US history.

jamanetwork (2023-08-01). Pediatric Mental Health Hospitalizations at US Acute Care Hospitals—Reply. jamanetwork.com In Reply Inspired by our team's experiences working with children and adolescents in inpatient settings, we used the Kids' Inpatient Database to chronicle how hospitalizations for mental health diagnoses changed from 2009 to 2019 among youths aged 3 to 17 years. While the objective of our work was to highlight trends in hospitalizations at the national level, our findings also raised the following questions: why have the numbers of hospitalizations for mental health diagnoses increased and what needs to be done?

teleSUR (2023-08-01). India: Crane Collapses at Road Construction Site, 17 Killed. telesurenglish.net On Tuesday, at least 17 workers were killed, and three others injured, after a crane collapsed at a road construction site in the western Indian state of Maharashtra. | Related: | "Today an unfortunate incident happened at Shahpur Tehsil of Thane District on under construction Samruddhi Expressway in which one Crane fell on a Slab of a Bridge in which two teams of NDRF are working on the site," India's National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) sai…

Larry Johnson (2023-08-01). Judge Napolitano and I Talk Intelligence and Gonzalo Lira Speaks. sonar21.com I want to get this up without a lot of commentary. The most important news is that Gonzalo Lira was released on bail on July 6 and is now working…

WSWS (2023-07-31). The Yellow Corp. bankruptcy: A brutal attack on the working class. wsws.org The fifth largest trucking firm in the United States shut its operations last Friday and laid off 30,000 drivers, yard workers and office staff across the US.

WSWS (2023-07-31). Communication Workers Union welcomes Martin Seidenberg as Group CEO after betrayal of Royal Mail dispute. wsws.org Ward and Furey greeted Seidenberg's appointment as head of International Distribution Services with the words: "We are absolutely committed to working with the new CEO and improving industrial relations".

WSWS (2023-07-31). Hundreds of heat deaths across US Southwest and Mexico: A capitalist crime. wsws.org Amid sweltering heat, homeless people die outside, retirees from power cut-offs and neglect, and workers are hospitalized from heat-related illnesses.

C.J. Polychroniou (2023-08-01). Noam Chomsky on Why This is the Most Dangerous Point in Human History. indybay.org We live in a world facing existential threats while extreme inequality is tearing our societies apart and democracy is in sharp decline. The U.S., meanwhile, is bent on maintaining global hegemony when international collaboration is urgently needed to address the planet's numerous challenges.

F. William Engdahl (2023-08-01). Moscow Accused of Inciting "Hunger Games": The World Will Not Face Wheat Crisis in the Wake of the "Ukraine Deal" globalresearch.ca

Staff (2023-08-01). What Are the Real Reasons for the Global South Food Crisis? scheerpost.com Different variations of rice from Kerala, India. Photo from Flickr by Manfred Sommer, June 20, 2020. By Anuradha Chenoy / The Nation The global food crises, exacerbated by the Black Sea grain initiative's end, disproportionately impacts the Global South. But will the resumption of these grain shipments bring closure to the extreme hunger rampant in many …

WSWS (2023-07-31). Communication Workers Union welcomes Martin Seidenberg as Group CEO after betrayal of Royal Mail dispute. wsws.org Ward and Furey greeted Seidenberg's appointment as head of International Distribution Services with the words: "We are absolutely committed to working with the new CEO and improving industrial relations".

WSWS (2023-07-31). Hundreds of heat deaths across US Southwest and Mexico: A capitalist crime. wsws.org Amid sweltering heat, homeless people die outside, retirees from power cut-offs and neglect, and workers are hospitalized from heat-related illnesses.

C.J. Polychroniou (2023-08-01). Noam Chomsky on Why This is the Most Dangerous Point in Human History. indybay.org We live in a world facing existential threats while extreme inequality is tearing our societies apart and democracy is in sharp decline. The U.S., meanwhile, is bent on maintaining global hegemony when international collaboration is urgently needed to address the planet's numerous challenges.

F. William Engdahl (2023-08-01). Moscow Accused of Inciting "Hunger Games": The World Will Not Face Wheat Crisis in the Wake of the "Ukraine Deal" globalresearch.ca

Staff (2023-08-01). What Are the Real Reasons for the Global South Food Crisis? scheerpost.com Different variations of rice from Kerala, India. Photo from Flickr by Manfred Sommer, June 20, 2020. By Anuradha Chenoy / The Nation The global food crises, exacerbated by the Black Sea grain initiative's end, disproportionately impacts the Global South. But will the resumption of these grain shipments bring closure to the extreme hunger rampant in many …