Andreína Chávez Alava, Venezuelanalysis. (2023-09-29). Venezuela To Launch China-Backed Poverty Elimination Program. popularresistance.org Caracas, September 21, 2023 (venezuelanalysis.com) — The Venezuelan government has announced a new social program focused on fighting poverty and inequality, which will be supported by China's International Poverty Reduction Center. | On Monday, during his weekly TV program, President Nicolás Maduro said that the "Social Equality and Happiness Mission" was "almost ready" to be launched and its main purpose is to "optimize the fight against inequality, against poverty and to build a more harmonious country." | Although Maduro did not give details, he stressed that the social program will work alongside the C…

Editor (2023-09-29). Poverty is growing in Puerto Rico, under U.S. colonialism. mronline.org Poverty is rising in one of the world's oldest colonies: In Puerto Rico, 41.7% of people, including 57.6% of children, live in poverty. This is nearly four times the U.S. rate. And Puerto Rican workers are getting poorer even while unemployment falls.

Ben Norton, Geopolitical Economy. (2023-09-28). Poverty Is Growing In Puerto Rico Under US Colonialism. popularresistance.org Poverty in Puerto Rico, under US colonialism, is getting worse over time, not better. | More than two-fifths of Puerto Ricans suffer from poverty, and nearly three-fifths of Puerto Rican children live in poor households. | In 2022, the poverty rate in the colonized US "territory" grew from 40.5% to 41.7%, according to US Census Bureau data. | A staggering 57.6% of Puerto Rican children live in poverty. And 38.8% of families are below the poverty line. | Poverty has been growing in Puerto Rico even at a time when more people are working. The unemployment rate fell from 13.1% to 9.9% in 2022, while poverty got wors…

scorinoco (2023-09-28). Venezuela Government to Launch China-Backed Poverty Elimination Program. orinocotribune.com

teleSUR, dcdc, JDO (2023-09-29). Pobreza en Argentina alcanza 40,1 % en primer semestre de 2023. telesurtv.net En el caso de los niños de hasta 14 años, la pobreza alcanza el 56 por ciento, mientras que la indigencia llega al 3 por ciento.

teleSUR, jaa, JGN (2023-09-29). Pobreza en Uruguay aumenta y se ubica en un 10,4 %. telesurtv.net En Uruguay de cada 1.000 personas, 91 no superan el ingreso mínimo suficiente para cubrir las necesidades bajas alimentarias.

teleSUR, JDO (2023-09-29). Sindicalistas colombianos respaldan reformas sociales del presidente Petro. telesurtv.net Durante el congreso de la Confederación General del Trabajo, se destacó que estas procuran transformar la sociedad y restituir los derechos los trabajadores y los sectores más empobrecidos.

teleSUR, dcdc, JDO (2023-09-28). Pobreza en Argentina alcanza 40,1 % en primer semestre de 2023. telesurtv.net En el caso de los niños de hasta 14 años, la pobreza alcanza el 56 por ciento, mientras que la indigencia llega al 3 por ciento.

teleSUR, JDO (2023-09-28). Sindicalistas colombianos respaldan reformas sociales del presidente Petro. telesurtv.net Durante el congreso de la Confederación General del Trabajo, se destacó que estas procuran transformar la sociedad y restituir los derechos los trabajadores y los sectores más empobrecidos.

Rhoda Wilson (2023-09-29). UK's largest wealth manager has been charging customers for services it doesn't provide. expose-news.com The UK's Financial Conduct Authority is currently analysing information from banks and building societies to ensure they comply with the Customer Duty rules, which require firms to ensure products and services deliver …

Amy Goodman (2023-09-28). Ralph Nader: GOP Debate Was "Pretty Embarrassing" truthout.org Former presidential candidate Ralph Nader responds to Wednesday's second Republican debate, saying, "It's pretty embarrassing that this is what they put forward to become the president of the most powerful country in the world." Nader discusses the debate's topics of social media, former President Donald Trump and wealth inequality in America. Nader also calls for the Democratic Party to "stop… |

Julia Conley (2023-09-28). Wealthy Americans Failed to Pay $65.7 Billion in Taxes From 2017 to 2020. truthout.org Citing "alarming" data provided by the federal government about the prevalence of tax evasion among the richest Americans, U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden on Thursday called on the Internal Revenue Service to crack down on "particularly brazen" high-income tax cheats and noted that Democratic initiatives have already helped to begin addressing the problem. Writing to IRS Commissioner Danny Werfel… |

Staff (2023-09-28). Ralph Nader: Why Is GOP Not Debating Corporate Crime Wave & the Weakening of Our Democratic Society? democracynow.org Former presidential candidate Ralph Nader responds to Wednesday's second Republican debate, saying, "It's pretty embarrassing that this is what they put forward to become the president of the most powerful country in the world." Nader discusses the debate's topics of social media, former President Donald Trump and wealth inequality in America. Nader also calls for the Democratic Party to "stop engaging in candidate suppression" and respect third-party candidates such as Cornel West to run for public office as a constitutional right.

Jessica Corbett (2023-09-29). Senate Dems want to cancel all student lunch debt—a 'term so absurd that it shouldn't even exist'. nationofchange.org U.S. Sen. John Fetterman said the aim of the bill is to "stop humiliating kids and penalizing hunger."

WSWS (2023-09-29). Growing concerns over US Treasury market speculation. wsws.org In recent weeks, the role of speculation in the financing of government debt has been the subject of reports by the US Federal Reserve, the Financial Stability Board and the Bank for International Settlements.

Kristin Collier (2023-09-28). Thousands of Borrowers File Appeals as Student Loan Payments Loom. truthout.org In 1972 the U.S. government reauthorized the Higher Education Act with new amendments that not only increased access to college for women and people of color but also left these same students at the "mercy of bankers." As a result, they were forced to debt-finance their education, as scholar Elizabeth Tandy Shermer wrote in Indentured Students: How Government-Guaranteed Loans Left Generations… |

Staff (2023-09-28). Dreizin's late night thoughts on New York's Trump takedown: No trial, no jury, no defense is bad enough, but what's even wackier… How do you place all of a company's assets in receivership… when there's no bad debts, no creditors calling??? What does it mean??? What's the next step??? Will the judge force auctions… and then, who keeps the proceeds??? WE'RE BEYOND THE TWILIGHT ZONE. (Caution: Not scripted, not edited! As I said, late night thoughts.). thedreizinreport.com I'm not even getting into the judge claiming Trump's Florida castle-club (on 20 acres) as being worth $18 million, certainly less than 10 percent of its market value. Of course, EVERY company that ever applied for a "credit facility" (loan) is GUILTY, if some "hanging judge on a mission" can go through every asset listed...…

Tatiana Cozzarelli, Left Voice. (2023-09-29). Biden's Picket Line Visit Doesn't Mean He Is On Our Side. popularresistance.org Yesterday, Joe Biden became the first sitting president to visit a picket line of striking workers. It is historic. | A few hours later, Jacobin published an article entitled "The Militancy of the UAW Strike Forced Joe Biden to Take a Side and Walk the Picket Line," by Nick French. Jacobin is right that Biden's visit to the picket line results from the UAW strike's strength. But Jacobin is dead wrong in its assessment that Biden is "on the side of the working class." | Instead, Biden's visit is a product of the capitalist crisis in which both Trump and Biden are vying for influence over the working class in a tig…

United Front Committee for A Labor Party (2023-09-29). All Out Support Striking UAW Members! 32 hours Work for 40 Hours Pay, No Two Tiers, & COLA. indybay.org The United Front Committee For A Labor Party UFCCLP supports the demands of the UAW for 32 hours work for 40 hours pay, an end to tiers and a COLA. It also supports uniting the entire working class for a general strike especially connected to the attack on the working class by the government shutdown. It also calls for workers to control and benefit from AI but that requires a mass workers party that will run the country for the working class.

Dan La Botz (2023-09-28). Auto Workers Strike All of the Big Three Companies for the First Time. internationalviewpoint.org " I know that we're on the right side in this battle, because it's a battle of the working class against the rich, the halves versus the have nots, the billionaire class against everybody else." | – | / |

TASS (2023-09-28). Russia continues to develop relations with African countries — Kremlin spokesman. tass.com Dmitry Peskov specified that today Putin "will hold Russian-South Sudanese talks and then have a working luncheon with President Kiir"

WSWS (2023-09-28). Under new contract, former UPS air drivers in Northern Virginia working in record heat for nearly 50 percent less pay. wsws.org Since the new contract has gone into effect, the workers have been bumped up to $21.50 an hour, far less than the new top rate for air drivers of $36.69.

WSWS (2023-09-28). Court rejects call for South Korean opposition leader's arrest. wsws.org The corruption case against Lee Jae-myung is another warning sign that the government is preparing to crack down on any opposition to its policies, above all by the working class.

Elsy Fors Garzon (2023-09-29). Patrols against migrant trafficking agreed in Europe. plenglish.com In this sense, the German Minister of the Interior, Nancy Faeser, highlighted in a statement the importance of detecting and preventing unauthorized entries at an early stage. | The joint working group formed by Faeser and his Czech counterparts, Vít Rakusan; and Polish, Mariusz Kaminski, will operate under the protection of the European Police (Europol) and Empac, the continental Multidisciplinary Platform against Criminal Threats, the text specified. | But analysts consider that the solution to the migration issue in the regional bloc involves establishing a common policy on the issue, which today constitutes a…

WSWS (2023-09-29). UAW president again orders vast majority of Big Three autoworkers to continue working two weeks after contracts expired. wsws.org The UAW has refused to call out any production facilities in the Detroit metro area, which remains the center of the US auto industry, with tens of thousands employed in the auto and auto parts plants.

WSWS (2023-09-29). German media and politicians launch smear campaign against refugees. wsws.org Refugees are being targeted in a campaign by the ruling class to advance its war against the working class and to strengthen the most right-wing forces in doing so.

EastSide Cultural Center & SWFC (2023-09-29). Friday 9/29: "A Rising Tide: A Look at Homelessness in Alameda County" – Film & Discussion w/ Filmmaker. indybay.org EastSide Cultural Center | 2277 International Blvd | Oakland 94606 | FREE film screening & discussion w/ filmmaker…

EastSide Cultural Center & SWFC (2023-09-28). Friday 9/29: "A Rising Tide: A Look at Homelessness in Alameda County" – Film & Discussion w/ Filmmaker. indybay.org EastSide Cultural Center | 2277 International Blvd | Oakland 94606 | FREE film screening & discussion w/ filmmaker…

Homeless Romantic (2023-09-28). The World's Most Dangerous Marxist | John Bellamy Foster | #182 HR. mronline.org Foster explains Marx's ecological critique of capitalism and how the concept of "metabolic rift" highlights the alienation between humans and nature caused by capitalism's focus on profit over sustainability.

WSWS (2023-09-28). Homelessness rises in the UK as rents skyrocket. wsws.org According to the government's figures, loss of private tenancy—including through the landlord selling or re-letting the property or increasing the rent—was the largest single cause of homelessness in the first three months of the year, affecting 39 percent more households than the year before.

Mark Taliano (2023-09-29). Canada's Morally Bankrupt, "Nazi-Supporting Politicians". "Nazism Deeply Embedded in Ukraine Regime" globalresearch.ca

Mark Taliano (2023-09-28). Canada's Morally Bankrupt, Nazi-Supporting Political Class. marktaliano.net Canadian legacy media and morally bankrupt politicians are going to whitewash this Nazi SS veteran story. The real story is staring us in the face. Standing beside Prime Minister Trudeau as the Canadian government gives a standing ovation to an elderly SS (credibly accused) war criminal, is Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelensky, spawn of Washington's 2014 neo-nazi …

SAM (2023-09-29). How About a General Strike Against Dollar General? inequality.org

Kelly Hayes (2023-09-28). To Fight Big Tech, We Must Seize the Means of Computation. truthout.org "If you've never tried to organize a movement without the internet, I'm here to tell you, it's really hard. We need to seize the means of computation, because while the internet isn't the most important thing that we have to worry about right now, all the things that are more important, gender and racial justice, inequality, the climate emergency, those are struggles that we're going to win or… |

Kit Klarenberg, MintPress News. (2023-09-28). Files Expose Syrian 'Revolution' As Western Regime Change Operation. popularresistance.org Throughout August and September, anti-government protests have rocked Syrian cities. While the crowds are typically small, numbering only a few hundred, they show little sign of abating. Demonstrators are motivated by increasingly unlivable economic conditions spurred by crippling U.S.-led international sanctions against Damascus. These have produced hyperinflation, mass food insecurity, and many daily hardships for the population. They also prevent vital humanitarian aid from entering the country. | The media has given the unrest blanket coverage. No reference to Washington's central role in imposing the misery…

MEE staff (2023-09-29). Tunisia: Opposition leader Rached Ghannouchi begins hunger strike. middleeasteye.net Tunisia: Opposition leader Rached Ghannouchi begins hunger strike | Ghannouchi, who has been jailed since April, says he will not eat until restrictions on him and other prisoners are lifted | Fri, 09/29/2023 – 08: 14 | Ennahdha Rached Ghannouchi, the head of Tunisia's Islamist movement, greets supporters upon arriving at a police station in Tunis on 21 February 2023 (AFP) | Rached Ghannouchi, the leade…

teleSUR (2023-09-29). Puebla Group Holds Its 9th Meeting in Mexico. telesurenglish.net From Friday to Sunday, the Puebla Group will hold its 9th Meeting in Puebla, Mexico, where former presidents and progressive Ibero-American intellectuals will present foreign policy proposals. | RELATED: | More specifically, the Group will analyze its international agenda to fight hunger, economic blockades, the climate crisis, and deglobalization. | Other topics under debate will be the creation of a Latin American commo…

channelnewsasia (2023-09-29). Mineral-hungry clean tech sees countries seeking to escape China's shadow. channelnewsasia.com

Brett Wilkins (2023-09-24). Island Nations Back Fossil Fuel Treaty at Global Citizen Festival. truthout.org Two island nations on Saturday joined the growing bloc of countries endorsing a fossil fuel nonproliferation treaty amid a worsening climate emergency and continued inadequate action by the larger and wealthier polluters most responsible for causing the planetary crisis. Answering United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres' exhortation at this week's Climate Ambition Summit for countries to… |

ecsorinoco (2023-09-25). Amnesty International Pushes Regime Change in Eritrea with Dubious, Unverifiable Report. orinocotribune.com Amnesty's new report accusing Eritrea's government of gruesome war crimes relies heavily on anonymous testimony, grainy satellite images, and zero field investigation. It is the latest salvo in the West's campaign to topple the country's independent government. | Eritrea is a small country with a geostrategically significant coast on the Red Sea. Fiercely independent, it is one of only two African nations that refuse to collaborate with AFRICOM, the US Africa Command. Committed to an incremental, self-reliant development strategy, it has chosen not to saddle itself with IMF or World Bank debt. It was also the onl…

Owen Fairclough (2023-09-24). Republicans in Congress clash over spending as government shutdown looms. america.cgtn.com U.S. Republican lawmakers are spending the weekend trying to introduce legislation aimed at avoiding a government shutdown in less than a week. | But a small faction of their hardline conservative colleagues opposes them, demanding that their leader trim spending to reduce debts. | Owen Fairclough reports.

Ashli Blow, Next City. (2023-09-25). They Halted A Pipeline; Now Can They Get Clean Drinking Water? popularresistance.org In 2019, energy companies announced a plan to route a major crude oil pipeline through Boxtown and other mostly Black communities in southwest Memphis. The location had been chosen, a company representative stated then, because it was the "point of least resistance." | But residents came together, proving the company wrong. In 2021, a powerful grassroots movement shut down the pipeline, which would have been built through a historic neighborhood founded by emancipated people and atop the world-famous Memphis Sand Aquifer. | Now, two years later, the same activists are working to get reliable, safe drinking water…

WSWS (2023-09-24). Turkish government downplays danger as COVID-19 surge spreads. wsws.org Turkish officials and media have been forced to acknowledge that the pandemic is on the rise, but are working to suppress calls for necessary public health measures.

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2023-09-25). Mayo Clinic Minute: Red flags for heart failure during pregnancy. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org Heart disease is the leading cause of death for women in the U.S. Deaths from heart disease in women who are pregnant or delivered a baby within one year has increased over the previous 30 years. Dr. Demilade (Demi-lad-ay) Adedinsewo (Ah-ded-in-shay-woah), a Mayo Clinic cardiologist, explains the red flags for heart failure during pregnancy and how healthcare professionals are working to detect the condition earlier. Watch: The Mayo Clinic Minute youtu.be/DCgDX2yvUc0 Journalists: Broadcast-quality video pkg…

Unitarian Universalists of SF (2023-09-25). Sunday 11/12: Two Years on the Streets of San Francisco: Homelessness up Close and Personal. indybay.org 1187 Franklin Street, San Francisco, CA 94109 | or via Zoom…

Unitarian Universalists of SF (2023-09-24). Sunday 11/12: Two Years on the Streets of San Francisco: Homelessness up Close and Personal. indybay.org 1187 Franklin Street, San Francisco, CA 94109 | or via Zoom…

Editor (2023-09-24). System Change: An Ecosocialist Discussion on Environmental Crisis. socialistproject.ca The worst wildfire season in Canadian history, worsening environmental degradation, and the hottest week ever recorded. Amid the consequences of human impact on our planet becoming increasingly dire, large corporations — including the fossil fuel industry — continue to hold enormous sway over environmental policy and enjoy record levels of profit. Despite numerous international climate agreements and corporate pledges, market based solutions have failed at every stage to offer a credible way out of our current crisis. | It's in this moment that many in the environmental and climate justice moveme…

Tony Leah, Labor Notes. (2023-09-25). Auto Bargaining In Canada—Stuck In The Past? popularresistance.org Bargaining with the Detroit 3 auto corporations is happening in Canada and the United States at the same time this year—the first time that bargaining has aligned since the disastrous bankruptcy negotiations and forced concessions of 2009. Unifor just reached a tentative agreement with Ford earlier this week, while the United Auto Workers' strike against selected Ford, Stellantis and General Motors plants is ongoing. | This is indicative of the major differences in the strategies of the two unions. The UAW, under new leadership, is doing things dramatically differently—raising bold demands, mobilizing…

WSWS (2023-09-25). Australian parliamentarians lobby for Assange in Washington. wsws.org The tour reflected a groundswell of support for Assange among ordinary people, but also underscored the bankruptcy of a fight for his freedom based on backroom diplomacy and politicking.

Chris Hedges, The Real News Network. (2023-09-24). 'Silent Coup': How Capitalism Defeated Decolonization. popularresistance.org The 20th Century saw a great global uprising against European imperialism as the former colonial countries shook off their shackles and rose up for independence. More than a half century later, global inequality is sharper than ever before. To understand the current predicament of the vast majority of the world's people, we must understand the intervening decades. Matt Kennard and Claire Provost's book, Silent Coup: How Corporations Overthrew Democracy, looks inside the international architecture of global corporate governance that exists to flout and crush any attempts by the former colonial world to enact devel…

Matt Taibbi, Scheer Post. (2023-09-24). Forget Bellingcat — Meet A Real 'Open Source' Watchdog. popularresistance.org On September 11th of this year, on the third floor of the Nauticus museum in Norfolk, Virginia, defense and intelligence representatives gathered for the first and only unclassified meeting of a Naval Special Warfare Command "technology integration exercise," called Trident Spectre 2024. What is Trident? The three-minute video above was unveiled for attendees. It pitched the program as a matchmaking forum for contractors and "defense leaders" who "tour the experimentation camp during the exercise, leading to technology transition or outright acquisition," the contract-hungry crowd was told, in tantalizing narrati…

Editor (2023-09-23). Venezuela: Gov't to launch China-backed anti-poverty program. mronline.org The Social Equality and Happiness Mission will adapt the Chinese experience to the Caribbean country's reality to alleviate poverty and inequality.

Ediz Tiyansan (2023-09-23). U.S. poverty rate shows record jump. america.cgtn.com The latest figures from the U.S. Census Bureau show the poverty rate rose to 12.4 percent in 2022 in what appears to be the largest one-year jump on record. | Inflation drove living costs up at a time when federal programs that provided aid to families during the COVID-19 pandemic were expiring. | Ediz Tiyansan reports.

Elaine Reyes (2023-09-23). The Heat: United Nations Sustainable Development. america.cgtn.com From efforts to eradicate world hunger to building affordable housing, we'll discuss why sustainable development matters. | As part of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, member countries are working to complete 17 goals. They include creating sustainable cities, combating climate change, and eliminating hunger and poverty. | Later in the show, my colleague Mike Walter will bring us his conversation with the president of the UN's International Fund for Agriculture Development. | But first, my interview with

Prof Michel Chossudovsky (2023-09-23). War, Terrorism and the Global Economic Crisis. Ninety-nine Interrelated Concepts. globalresearch.ca Everything is interrelated: war, terrorism, the police state, the global economy, financial fraud, corrupt governments, poverty and social inequality, media disinformation, war propaganda, WMD, international law,…

Dan Lieberman (2023-09-23). Government Debt is Not the Problem. dissidentvoice.org Polarization of the American public reflects the polarization of its political Parties, both of whom strive for ascendancy by demeaning, contradicting, and formulating proposals to wrong the other; each Party wrongs itself and the American public. The recent and periodic arguments concerning the proposed federal budget, an entrance for initiating threats to "close the government," …

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-09-23). We Can Do Better than the Sustainable Development Goals Model. libya360.wordpress.com Vijay Prashad of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research talks about the Sustainable Development Goals. He explains the limitations of the model and how discussion around these goals often avoids the structural questions such as land reform, the role of trade unions, and debt. Vijay also addresses how summits on these goals often end with just…

Owen Fairclough (2023-09-24). Republicans in Congress clash over spending as government shutdown looms. america.cgtn.com U.S. Republican lawmakers are spending the weekend trying to introduce legislation aimed at avoiding a government shutdown in less than a week. | But a small faction of their hardline conservative colleagues opposes them, demanding that their leader trim spending to reduce debts. | Owen Fairclough reports.

midwesternmarx (2023-09-23). Marxism & Class By: Helena Sheehan. midwesternmarx.com This is the text of a talk at the conference of the Irish Labour History Society on September 17, 2023.What does Marxism bring to a conference on visions of labour and class?For me, this is connected to what Marxism brings to everything: context, clarity, coherence, comprehensiveness.Marxism is an intellectual tradition connected to a political movement that focuses on totality, on how everything is connected to everything else. It is a theory of everything, one that is open-ended and alw …

Mosa Tsay, Grassroots Economic Organizing. (2023-09-23). Musician Cooperativism At Groupmuse. popularresistance.org I am a cellist and worker-owner of a cooperative. As an ICDE fellow, I hop out of my usual action-oriented work to reflect on why cooperativism is an alternative to the status quo for freelancing musicians. As a professional cellist, I witnessed the infrastructural fractures that musicians in the United States have to navigate. In 2020, I returned to the U.S. from a year of studying in France, after contemplating during quarantine about the economics of working as an artist. One important question I wanted to solve: Rather than competing with my colleagues for limited paid gigs, how can I generate new opportuniti…

Naomi Oreskes (2023-09-23). Perspectives] Standing up to anti-science. thelancet.com Peter J Hotez has had a distinguished career working to develop treatments and vaccines for neglected tropical diseases and other illnesses. He is Professor in the Departments of Pediatrics and Molecular Virology and Microbiology and Dean for the National School of Tropical Medicine at the Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, TX, USA, and has also worked to counter vaccine hesitancy among people who wrongly believe that routine childhood vaccination causes autism. In 2018, he published a unique book that combined his personal experience as a parent of an autistic child and his scientific expertise to explain, a…

Palestine Legal (2023-09-23). Civil Rights Groups Warn UCSC Attempts to Censor Pro-Palestine Scholarship May Violate Federal Laws. indybay.org On Wednesday, Palestine Legal and the Center for Constitutional Rights wrote to the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC) warning them to cease attempts to unlawfully censor the upcoming Institute for the Critical Study of Zionism (ICSZ) convening, "Battling the 'IHRA definition': Theory & Activism", which is set to be jointly held at UCSC and New York University (NYU) on October 13th and 14th. The convening is a working meeting of the Institute's community of scholars and activists, aimed at combating dangerous efforts to use a distorted definition of antisemitism to silence advocacy for Palestinian rights…

Peoples Health Dispatch (2023-09-23). Health workers in Sweden demand workforce policies that do not rely on international recruitment. peoplesdispatch.org Nina Bergman from the Swedish Association of Health Professionals talks about the working conditions of health workers in Sweden and the trade union's support for the struggles for workers' rights in the Global South…

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2023-09-24). Mayo Clinic Minute: Red flags for heart failure during pregnancy. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org Heart disease is the leading cause of death for women in the U.S. Deaths from heart disease in women who are pregnant or delivered a baby within one year has increased over the previous 30 years. Dr. Demilade (Demi-lad-ay) Adedinsewo (Ah-ded-in-shay-woah), a Mayo Clinic cardiologist, explains the red flags for heart failure during pregnancy and how healthcare professionals are working to detect the condition earlier. Watch: The Mayo Clinic Minute youtu.be/DCgDX2yvUc0 Journalists: Broadcast-quality video pkg…

Unitarian Universalists of SF (2023-09-24). Sunday 11/12: Two Years on the Streets of San Francisco: Homelessness up Close and Personal. indybay.org 1187 Franklin Street, San Francisco, CA 94109 | or via Zoom…

Todd Wallack, Christine Willmsen, ProPublica. (2023-09-23). Massachusetts Has A Huge Waitlist For State-Funded Housing. popularresistance.org In a state with some of the country's most expensive real estate, Libby is among the 184,000 people — including thousands who are homeless, at risk of losing their homes or living in unsafe conditions — on a waitlist for the state's 41,500 subsidized apartments. | As they wait, a WBUR and ProPublica investigation found that nobody is living in nearly 2,300 state-funded apartments, with most sitting empty for months or years. The state pays local housing authorities to maintain and operate the units whether they're occupied or not. So the vacant apartments translate into millions of Massachusetts taxpa…

Editor (2023-09-24). System Change: An Ecosocialist Discussion on Environmental Crisis. socialistproject.ca The worst wildfire season in Canadian history, worsening environmental degradation, and the hottest week ever recorded. Amid the consequences of human impact on our planet becoming increasingly dire, large corporations — including the fossil fuel industry — continue to hold enormous sway over environmental policy and enjoy record levels of profit. Despite numerous international climate agreements and corporate pledges, market based solutions have failed at every stage to offer a credible way out of our current crisis. | It's in this moment that many in the environmental and climate justice moveme…

Dr. Pascal Sacré (2023-09-23). 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 (2023-09-23). Ibram X. Kendi's "antiracism research center" squanders $43 million, lays off staff. wsws.org The episode at Boston University reveals—once again—the pecuniary, intellectually bankrupt, and essentially fraudulent character of racialist ideology.

Chris Hedges, The Real News Network. (2023-09-24). 'Silent Coup': How Capitalism Defeated Decolonization. popularresistance.org The 20th Century saw a great global uprising against European imperialism as the former colonial countries shook off their shackles and rose up for independence. More than a half century later, global inequality is sharper than ever before. To understand the current predicament of the vast majority of the world's people, we must understand the intervening decades. Matt Kennard and Claire Provost's book, Silent Coup: How Corporations Overthrew Democracy, looks inside the international architecture of global corporate governance that exists to flout and crush any attempts by the former colonial world to enact devel…

The Lancet (2023-09-23). Editorial] Protecting the integrity of WHO's regional offices. thelancet.com Global health is in crisis. Widening inequalities, a growing burden of non-communicable diseases, and the danger of future pandemics are compounded by a climate crisis and multiple geopolitical conflicts. AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria, together with preventable deaths among women and children, remain urgent concerns. Food insecurity is growing. Meanwhile, consistent financing for health is under constant threat. Effective leadership from WHO, the only legitimate multilateral agency dedicated to protecting and advancing health, is crucial.

Zoe Alexandra, Vijay Prashad, People's Dispatch. (2023-09-23). Is This The End Of French Neo-Colonialism In Africa? popularresistance.org In Bamako, Mali, on September 16, the governments of Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger created the Alliance of Sahel States (AES). On X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter, Colonel Assimi GoàØta, the head of the transitional government of Mali, wrote that the Liptako-Gourma Charter which created the AES would establish "an architecture of collective defense and mutual assistance for the benefit of our populations." The hunger for such regional cooperation goes back to the period when France ended its colonial rule. Between 1958 and 1963, Ghana and Guinea were part of the Union of African State…

Matt Taibbi, Scheer Post. (2023-09-24). Forget Bellingcat — Meet A Real 'Open Source' Watchdog. popularresistance.org On September 11th of this year, on the third floor of the Nauticus museum in Norfolk, Virginia, defense and intelligence representatives gathered for the first and only unclassified meeting of a Naval Special Warfare Command "technology integration exercise," called Trident Spectre 2024. What is Trident? The three-minute video above was unveiled for attendees. It pitched the program as a matchmaking forum for contractors and "defense leaders" who "tour the experimentation camp during the exercise, leading to technology transition or outright acquisition," the contract-hungry crowd was told, in tantalizing narrati…

Peoples Dispatch (2023-09-21). We can do better than the Sustainable Development Goals model. peoplesdispatch.org In this interview, Vijay Prashad points out how summits on sustainable development goals often end with only calls for increasing funding which serves merely as band-aid. Ending hunger, poverty, and the other crises of our time requires greater political will and structural changes…

Staff (2023-09-21). Colombian President Gustavo Petro on Ukraine, Palestine & Why Latin America Rejects Western Hypocrisy. democracynow.org Colombian President Gustavo Petro joins Democracy Now! for an exclusive broadcast interview after his address to the United Nations General Assembly in New York, where he spoke of the need to end wars and stop the climate crisis. Petro is the first leftist to ever govern Colombia. He was elected in 2022 after campaigning to fight inequality and poverty, increase taxes on the wealthy, expand social programs, restore peace and end Colombia's dependence on fossil fuels. He is a former M-19 guerrilla who went on to become the mayor of Bogotá and a senator before rising to the presidency. In Part 1 of the interv…

Peoples Dispatch (2023-09-20). Socialists in the Netherlands accuse government of failing to combat rising poverty. peoplesdispatch.org Proposals in the 2024 budget presented by the caretaker government on Prince's Day have been deemed as inadequate to mitigate the rise in poverty amid a severe cost of living and housing crisis…

WSWS (2023-09-20). Unite educators and all workers behind the autoworkers' strike! End poverty wages and unsafe conditions! wsws.org The strike by autoworkers against the Big Three automakers is part of a growing international wave of struggles against inflation, concessions and job losses.

Javier Arana Villasusa (2023-09-21). Venezuelan President recalls International Day of Peace. plenglish.com That is the path of the Bolivarian Republic and "we will always insist on building a world without hatred and violence, where human solidarity and social justice prevail," the head of State wrote on his X account, formerly Twitter. | The United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) declared September 21, 1981, as the International Day of Peace, with the goal of commemorating the ideals of peace of every people and every nation. | The date makes special emphasis on social and economic development on issues such as poverty, hunger, health care, education, climate change, gender equality, water, sanitation, electricity,…

Dana Sanchez (2023-09-21). Analyst On Real Estate Market: I'm More Concerned With HELOC Borrowing Than ARM Mortgages. moguldom.com Thanks to skyrocketing pandemic housing prices, Americans have an average of $200,000 in home equity and they're tapping into it in increasing numbers, using their No. 1 source of wealth to borrow against the value of real estate with home equity lines of credit. Home equity lines of credit or HELOCs have become more popular than cash-out …

Strike Debt Bay Area (2023-09-21). Saturday 10/21: Strike Debt Bay Area Book Group: Jackson Rising Redux: Building the Future in the Present. indybay.org Email strike.debt.bay.area@gmail.com a few days beforehand for the online invite.

Dean Baker (2023-09-20). A High National Debt Can be Bad News, Sort of Like a High Stock Market. cepr.net The media have been giving considerable attention to the national debt in the last year or so. They have some cause, it has been rising rapidly, and more importantly, the interest burden of the debt has increased sharply since the Fed began raising rates last year. But, if we want to be serious, rather than …

Jayati Ghosh (2023-09-20). Sri Lanka's dangerous domestic debt restructuring. mronline.org The recent bailout agreement between the International Monetary Fund and Sri Lanka fails to address the economy's structural problems. Instead, it focuses on highly regressive measures that disproportionately affect the working poor and are likely to exacerbate the country's ongoing debt distress.

Strike Debt Bay Area (2023-09-20). Saturday 10/21: Strike Debt Bay Area Book Group: Jackson Rising Redux: Building the Future in the Present. indybay.org Email strike.debt.bay.area@gmail.com a few days beforehand for the online invite.

WSWS (2023-09-20). Student loan borrowers face servicer disarray as monthly payments are set to resume. wsws.org The tens of millions of student loan borrowers who must begin making payments in October are confronted with confusion and lack of information from the privately-owned corporations that service their debts under contract with the US Department of Education.

Luis Linares Petrov (2023-09-21). Argentina: candidates for vicepresidents held debates. plenglish.com Buenos Aires, Sep 21 (Prensa Latina) A debate, held on Wednesday, between the candidates for vice presidents of the five parties that will compete in the general elections on October 22nd in Argentina, was focused on inflation, security, work, the role of the State, the defense of human rights and the impact of the debt with the International Monetary Fund (IMF).

Juan M. Garcia (2023-09-20). G77+China demands immediate action to alleviate debt. plenglish.com United Nations, Sep 20 (Prensa Latina) Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel on Wednesday demanded the relief of the foreign debt that represents a serious threat to the development of the members of the G77+China, a bloc chaired by Cuba.

Peoples Dispatch (2023-09-21). Thousands of Greek workers take to the streets in national strike against government's anti-labor bill. peoplesdispatch.org Unions organized a country-wide strike against a bill introduced by the conservative New Democracy government in Greece. The bill seeks to increase daily and weekly working hours, among other changes…

Helena Sheehan (2023-09-21). Marxism & Class. mronline.org The working class makes the world go round. The working class should not be positioned as the most vulnerable in need of help, but as those who labour and deserve a just distribution of the fruits of their labour.

Adam Johnson (2023-09-20). Republicans Try to Manufacture Disingenuous Pro-Worker Branding Amid UAW Strike. truthout.org Every few years, the public is force fed another manufactured attempt to rebrand the GOP as a party that is "no longer in lockstep with corporate America" and is "newly focused on winning over more of the working class." Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) triumphantly announced in Nov. 2020 that Republicans "are a working class party now. That's the future." Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) has repeatedly heralded the… |

Jennifer Lenz, The Real News. (2023-09-20). Bakehouse Workers In Chicago Fight For Independent Union. popularresistance.org Despite the Biden administration's decision to terminate the national Public Health Emergency Declaration on May 11, COVID-19 has continued to spread and mutate, leaving millions dead around the world and millions of others chronically ill, permanently disabled, and/or immunocompromised. The pandemic itself, and the botched responses to it by powerful state and market actors (including, and especially, the United States), have inflicted irreversible damage upon our societies, and that damage has been disproportionately felt by marginalized, poor, and working-class people. But the many injustices working people ha…

Michael Berkowitz (2023-09-21). '6ixtynin9': Sex, drugs and rock and roll! peoplesworld.org No one is safe from mockery in the smart, funny Thai black comedy 6ixtynin9. Against the backdrop of Thailand's energetic pro-democracy, anti-corruption, student-led demonstrations, writer-director Pen-Ek Ratanaruang has fashioned a droll lampoon of police corruption, corporate mismanagement, feckless random drug gang violence, vapid youth culture and working-class frustration. Ratanaruang has taken his surprise hit film …

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2023-09-21). Mayo Clinic Minute: Red flags for heart failure during pregnancy. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org Heart disease is the leading cause of death for women in the U.S. Deaths from heart disease in women who are pregnant or delivered a baby within one year has increased over the previous 30 years. Dr. Demilade (Demi-lad-ay) Adedinsewo (Ah-ded-in-shay-woah), a Mayo Clinic cardiologist, explains the red flags for heart failure during pregnancy and how healthcare professionals are working to detect the condition earlier. Watch: The Mayo Clinic Minute youtu.be/DCgDX2yvUc0 Journalists: Broadcast-quality video pkg…

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2023-09-21). Mayo Clinic cancer researchers targeting racial disparities in genomic data. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org Yan Asmann, Ph.D. (left), and Aaron Mansfield, M.D. Standing at the forefront of Mayo Clinic's genomics advancements, Yan Asmann, Ph.D., and Aaron Mansfield, M.D. are working to tailor the diagnosis and treatment of certain cancers to a person's unique genomic makeup. As a bioinformatician, Dr. Asmann is pursuing individualized therapeutic cancer vaccines that target a person's distinctive tumor characteristics. Dr. Mansfield, a medical oncologist, is on a quest to discover biomarkers to predict which patients with cancer could benefit from immunotherapy,…

Palestine Legal (2023-09-21). Civil Rights Groups Warn UCSC Attempts to Censor Pro-Palestine Scholarship May Violate Federal Laws. indybay.org On Wednesday, Palestine Legal and the Center for Constitutional Rights wrote to the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC) warning them to cease attempts to unlawfully censor the upcoming Institute for the Critical Study of Zionism (ICSZ) convening, "Battling the 'IHRA definition': Theory & Activism", which is set to be jointly held at UCSC and New York University (NYU) on October 13th and 14th. The convening is a working meeting of the Institute's community of scholars and activists, aimed at combating dangerous efforts to use a distorted definition of antisemitism to silence advocacy for Palestinian rights…

Julio Adamor (2023-09-20). Lula takes a stand before Joe Biden by condemning the embargo on Cuba. peoplesdispatch.org Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva's speech and that of US President Joe Biden at the opening ceremony of the 78th United Nations General Assembly shared many similarities: they talked about hunger in the world, social inequality, extreme environmental events such as climate change and the need to democratize the UN and global governance as a whole. But one topic was approached in quite different terms by the two presidents: the Caribbean countries, particularly the embargo on Cuba. | "Brazil will continue to reject measures taken without support from the UN Charter, such as the economic and financial…

Shawn Fain, In These Times. (2023-09-20). UAW President Sets Friday Deadline For Companies To Meet Demands. popularresistance.org Hey UAW family. Last week, we announced the launch of the Stand-Up Strike. I want to give a major shout out to the thousands of members who are on the picket line right now, fighting for all of us. For the first time in our union's history, we're on strike at all three of the Big Three. | The stand up strike is a new approach to striking. Instead of striking all plants all at once, select locals will be called on to stand up and walk out on strike. This is our generation's answer to the movement that built our union: the sit-down strikes of 1937. | Then, as now, we faced massive inequality across our society. The…

Sam Pizzigati (2023-09-20). America's Auto Workers: On Strike Against Inequality. Again. counterpunch.org

Bharat Dogra (2023-09-18). Poverty in India: Providing Schools for the Most Marginalized Children in Remote Villages in Uttar Pradesh. globalresearch.ca

Rick Kohn, Resumen English. (2023-09-18). New US Sanctions Bill Designed To Bring Misery To Nicaraguans. popularresistance.org As we all know, the U.S. already has imposed sanctions on Nicaragua, but they haven't yet brought about the kind of hunger and poverty and suffering that some U.S. policymakers think is necessary to overthrow the popular Nicaraguan government. So there is a new sanctions bill co-sponsored by Marco Rubio and Tim Kaine that will try to further depress the Nicaraguan economy, increase unemployment, decrease revenue for the government's popular programs so the government will be less popular. | The stated goal is the overthrow of the Nicaraguan government and a "free and fair election" to replace Daniel Ortega.

Algernon Austin (2023-09-19). Conservative Politicians Choose Higher Child Poverty Rates. counterpunch.org The U.S. Census Bureau released its annual report on poverty today. It confirms that policymakers have all the tools necessary to reduce poverty rates, but they choose to have a high U.S. poverty rate. Although the United States is one of the richest countries in the world, the U.S. has a much higher child poverty

Matt Bruenig (2023-09-18). Who Are the Poor in 2021 and 2022? peoplespolicyproject.org The Census The headline from the report is that the expiration of the one-year pandemic-era Child Tax Credit and the lack of one-off stimulus payments resulted in child poverty being much higher in 2022 than 2021. This headline is certainly true, though some of the specific numbers involved may n…

teleSUR, lvm, YSM (2023-09-18). Honduras en la ONU: el conocimiento tiene que ser para todos. telesurtv.net "El capitalismo profundiza la depauperación de todas las personas en el planeta y a los pobres los hace más pobres", dijo el ministro de Planificación de Honduras, Ricardo Salgado.

Sam Pizzigati, Inequality. (2023-09-19). America's Auto Workers: On Strike Against Inequality, Again. popularresistance.org This past Thursday night, just hours before the expiration of the United Auto Workers contract with Detroit's Big Three, UAW president Shawn Fain had plenty on his mind. | Most of that plenty would be obvious and predictable. The impending expiration of his union's auto industry contract, with no new pact in sight. The state of the union's readiness for what could be the UAW's most pivotal strike since 1937. But Fain had something else on his mind as well: the continuing and unforgivable maldistribution of America's income and wealth. | "Just as in the 1930s," Fain reminded his fellow auto workers, "we're living…

Ramzy Baroud (2023-09-18). What the Media Not Telling Us About West Africa. mintpressnews.com Little attention has been paid to the possibility that perhaps African countries are fed up with the old apparatus, that of Western-supported wealthy and violent dictators – and supposed 'democrats' – who squander their country's wealth to remain in power.

Railroad Workers United, Popular Resistance. (2023-09-19). Groups In Queen City Fight To Stop Privatization Of Railroad. popularresistance.org Railroad Workers United is working with local organizations to keep the nation's only municipally owned interstate mainline freight railroad in public hands. The Cincinnati Southern was chartered and built by the City of Cincinnati in the 19th century and has been run successfully for well over a century, historically being leased to a designated operator. Now, today's operator Norfolk Southern wants to take over the infrastructure outright. Citizens across the Queen City are organizing to maintain ownership and control of their railroad. Railroad workers stand with them in their struggle! | As the November 7th v…

Sarah Lazare, Jeff Schuhrke, In These Times. (2023-09-18). UAW'S 'Element Of Surprise' Strike Appears To Be Working. popularresistance.org Workers walked off their shifts on September 14 at midnight to cheering crowds as the United Auto Workers launched its first simultaneous strike against the "Big Three" automakers‚Äâ—‚ÄâFord, General Motors and Stellantis. The initial work stoppages were not company-wide but instead targeted three locations: GM's Wentzville Assembly in Missouri, Stellantis' Toledo Assembly Complex in Ohio, and Ford's Michigan Assembly Plant in Wayne, Mich., just outside Detroit. The plants employ some 12,700 of the roughly 150,000 UAW members who work for the Big Three.

Ramzy Baroud (2023-09-18). What the Media Not Telling Us About West Africa. mintpressnews.com Little attention has been paid to the possibility that perhaps African countries are fed up with the old apparatus, that of Western-supported wealthy and violent dictators – and supposed 'democrats' – who squander their country's wealth to remain in power.

Railroad Workers United, Popular Resistance. (2023-09-19). Groups In Queen City Fight To Stop Privatization Of Railroad. popularresistance.org Railroad Workers United is working with local organizations to keep the nation's only municipally owned interstate mainline freight railroad in public hands. The Cincinnati Southern was chartered and built by the City of Cincinnati in the 19th century and has been run successfully for well over a century, historically being leased to a designated operator. Now, today's operator Norfolk Southern wants to take over the infrastructure outright. Citizens across the Queen City are organizing to maintain ownership and control of their railroad. Railroad workers stand with them in their struggle! | As the November 7th v…

Sarah Lazare, Jeff Schuhrke, In These Times. (2023-09-18). UAW'S 'Element Of Surprise' Strike Appears To Be Working. popularresistance.org Workers walked off their shifts on September 14 at midnight to cheering crowds as the United Auto Workers launched its first simultaneous strike against the "Big Three" automakers‚Äâ—‚ÄâFord, General Motors and Stellantis. The initial work stoppages were not company-wide but instead targeted three locations: GM's Wentzville Assembly in Missouri, Stellantis' Toledo Assembly Complex in Ohio, and Ford's Michigan Assembly Plant in Wayne, Mich., just outside Detroit. The plants employ some 12,700 of the roughly 150,000 UAW members who work for the Big Three.

WSWS (2023-09-19). Gabon coup: Morenoites deny growing opposition to French imperialism. wsws.org Amidst massive working class opposition to French Imperialism throughout the Sahel, Revolution Permanente presents Gabon coup as a purely national conflict between Gabonese bourgeoisie.

Kate Horgan (2023-09-18). Unveiling Maui's Unheard Voices: Indigenous and Mutual Aid Activists Speak Out. projectcensored.org You've likely heard a lot about Maui in recent weeks but chances are you haven't heard a lot from Indigenous or frontline mutual aid activists working to protect and support…

krish-rad_ind (2023-09-18). UAW's "Element of Surprise" Strike Appears to Be Working. inthesetimes.com

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2023-09-18). Mayo Clinic Minute: Red flags for heart failure during pregnancy. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org Heart disease is the leading cause of death for women in the U.S. Deaths from heart disease in women who are pregnant or delivered a baby within one year has increased over the previous 30 years. Dr. Demilade (Demi-lad-ay) Adedinsewo (Ah-ded-in-shay-woah), a Mayo Clinic cardiologist, explains the red flags for heart failure during pregnancy and how healthcare professionals are working to detect the condition earlier. Watch: The Mayo Clinic Minute youtu.be/DCgDX2yvUc0 Journalists: Broadcast-quality video pkg…

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2023-09-18). Mayo Clinic cancer researchers targeting racial disparities in genomic data. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org Yan Asmann, Ph.D. (left), and Aaron Mansfield, M.D. Standing at the forefront of Mayo Clinic's genomics advancements, Yan Asmann, Ph.D., and Aaron Mansfield, M.D. are working to tailor the diagnosis and treatment of certain cancers to a person's unique genomic makeup. As a bioinformatician, Dr. Asmann is pursuing individualized therapeutic cancer vaccines that target a person's distinctive tumor characteristics. Dr. Mansfield, a medical oncologist, is on a quest to discover biomarkers to predict which patients with cancer could benefit from immunotherapy,…

Nicole Drapluk, Victor Urquiza (2023-09-18). Durham sanitation workers fight for higher wages and justice. liberationnews.org On Sept. 6, sanitation workers in Durham, North Carolina began a historic standoff after the city failed to meet any of their basic demands related to fairer wages and better working conditions for weeks. Specifically, Durham sanitation workers are calling for vacant staff positions to be filled, pay for work outside of their job description, permanent positions for temporary workers, a liveable wage, and an immediate $5,000 bonus.

teleSUR (2023-09-18). Chinese Foreign Minister Pays Official Visit to Moscow. telesurenglish.net Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi met on Monday in Moscow with his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov as part of a working agenda that will run until next Thursday. | RELATED: | "China and Russia, as major world powers and permanent members of the UN Security Council, have a special responsibility for maintaining global strategic stability and world progress. The more violent unilateral actions of hegemony and bloc confrontation become, the more important it is for us to keep up…

teleSUR (2023-09-18). Portuguese Teachers Begin a Week-Long Strike. telesurenglish.net On Monday, teachers began a week-long strike in Portugal, coinciding with the return to classes after the summer holidays, due to the deterioration of their working conditions. | RELATED: | "There are more than 100,000 students in the country who are without one or more teachers in one or more subjects. This is happening due to very harmful educational policies," said Andre Pestana, the president of the Union of All…

Mike Garrity (2023-09-18). Alliance for Wild Rockies Halts Degradation of Red Rocks Lake Wilderness. counterpunch.org In what was undoubtedly one of the most bizarre attempts to "save" a handful of lake grayling, Biden's U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Montana's Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks, and Montana Trout Unlimited tried to throw the Wilderness Act under the bus by totally ignoring its legal protections against "trammeling" Wilderness Areas. Thanks to

Candice Norwood, Scheer Post. (2023-09-17). Teenagers' Detention At Angola Exposes Fractured Juvenile System. popularresistance.org This week the state of Louisiana was expected to transfer a group of mostly Black boys out of the former death row unit of Louisiana State Penitentiary — a maximum-security adult prison also known as Angola. But a federal appeals court on Wednesday temporarily paused a judge's order requiring the state to move the children out of Angola by Friday. | The American Civil Liberties Union, the Southern Poverty Law Center and several law firms, pushed for a year to stop the state from detaining children at the prison, which is located on a former slave plantation. The legal advocates praised a federal judge's man…

Matthew Cunningham-Cook, Lucy Dean Stockton, The Lever. (2023-09-17). Automakers Hand Billions To Shareholders While Stiffing Workers. popularresistance.org Roughly 150,000 auto workers are preparing to launch what may be the biggest strike in decades this Thursday over their employers' refusal to provide adequate pay and job security. Meanwhile, in the past twelve months, the Big Three automakers — General Motors, Ford, and Stellantis — have authorized $5 billion in stock buybacks, effectively giving billions of dollars to shareholders that could have gone to auto workers. | On top of the stock buybacks, the Big Three have reported $21 billion in profits in just the first six months of 2023. Despite the enormous gains, the companies have cried poverty in…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-09-16). G-77 Has a Common Position to Create a New International Order. libya360.wordpress.com Addis Ababa, September 16, 2023 (The Ethiopian Herald)- "The group of 77 needs a collective reflection on how to face the new global realities to have access to development, eradicate poverty, defend cultures and take its rightful place in the global decision-making that affects everyone. Since its establishment, this group has played an important role as…

Vijay Prashad, Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. (2023-09-16). The Polycrisis Is The Singular Dilemma Of Humanity Called Capitalism. popularresistance.org Dilemmas of humanity abound. There is little need to look at statistical data to know that we are in a spiral of crises, from the environmental and climate crisis to the crises of poverty and hunger. In 1993, the philosophers Edgar Morin and Anne-Brigitte Kern used the term 'polycrisis' in their book Terre-Patrie ('Homeland Earth'). Morin and Kern argued that 'there is no single vital problem, but many vital problems, and it is this complex intersolidarity of problems, antagonisms, crises, uncontrolled processes, and the general crisis of the planet that continues the number one vital problem'.

Mario Hernández (2023-09-17). El FMI reclama más ajuste y nos hunde en la pobreza. globalizacion.ca "El FMI debe estar dispuesto a retirar su financiación si el país no toma las medidas necesarias", afirmó Jay Shambaugh, subsecretario del Tesoro norteamericano para Asuntos Internacionales. El plan de campaña de Massa se financia con cerca de 1,7 billones…

WSWS (2023-09-16). Australian studies reveal record levels of wealth inequality. wsws.org In the decade 2009‚Äí2019, 93 percent of economic growth in Australia benefitted just the richest 10 percent of the population.

Uhuru Solidarity Movement (2023-09-17). Reparations Organizers Targeted by FBI to Speak in Oakland. indybay.org The Uhuru Solidarity Movement presents "The Uhuru 3" on U.S.- wide speaking tour to expose the FBI's violent, pre-dawn raids and the U.S. Department of Justice baseless charges against African People's Socialist Party leader Chairman Omali Yeshitela and two reparations activists working under his leadership. Learn about the struggle for reparations and black economic development!

Michelle Chiang (2023-09-16). Perspectives] The weight of words: human relationality in end-of-life memoirs. thelancet.com Working in the intersection of literature and philosophy, one of my research interests is literary representations of loss. In medical education, illness narratives are often used as tools to foster professional identity development, clinical empathy, and cultural understanding. What this approach sometimes loses sight of is what scholars, such as Anne Hunsaker Hawkins, Rita Charon, Arthur W Frank, and Arthur Kleinman, established while charting the way forward for the use of stories in medical curricula: narratives are important at the level of the human.

Pavel López Lazo (2023-09-16). G77+China: Final Declaration defends developing countries claims. plenglish.com After two-day debates at the Havana International Conference Center, a hundred official delegations agreed upon the significance of science, technology and innovation use to boost the nations of the Global South. | At the closing ceremony of the event, the host Prime Minister Manuel Marrero stressed that for a few days Havana became the capital of the world and a center of hope. | Marrero thanked participants for their valuable contributions and invited them to continue working on the proposals put forward. | He claimed that all the countries of the Global South have proved what the leader of the Cuban Revolution…

Uhuru Solidarity Movement (2023-09-16). Reparations Organizers Targeted by FBI to Speak in Oakland. indybay.org The Uhuru Solidarity Movement presents "The Uhuru 3" on U.S.- wide speaking tour to expose the FBI's violent, pre-dawn raids and the U.S. Department of Justice baseless charges against African People's Socialist Party leader Chairman Omali Yeshitela and two reparations activists working under his leadership. Learn about the struggle for reparations and black economic development!

Javier Arana Villasusa (2023-09-17). Venezuela keeps standing up in solidarity, Pdt Nicolas Maduro assured. plenglish.com Through his X account, the head of state called to continue working with the premise of respect, effort and union for the success of the present and future projects of the new world. | "We are here to make them a reality!" he said. | Maduro fulfilled an intense work agenda abroad with a week-long visit to China in which he strengthened alliances as the two countries signed 31 agreements in strategic areas such as economy, trade, aerospace, mining, agriculture, and tourism, among others. | After his stay in China, he traveled accompanied by the first combatant and deputy to the National Assembly, Cilia Flores, to…

Don Thompson (2023-09-16). California Health Workers Could Soon Secure Nation-Leading $25 Minimum Wage. truthout.org A sweeping agreement between labor and the health industry would gradually raise the minimum wage for hundreds of thousands of health workers in California to a nation-leading $25 an hour while ending a years-long battle over dialysis clinics. The pact approved by state lawmakers on Thursday, the last day of this year's legislative session, would phase in the wage increase for hospitals… |

SAM (2023-09-16). America's Auto Workers: On Strike Against Inequality. Again. inequality.org

Christian Sorenson, Substack. (2023-09-16). Public Need Versus The Business Of War. popularresistance.org The American public is hurting. The bare necessities—clean water, nutritious food, and affordable housing—are hard to come by. | Tap water is contaminated with lead, PFAS, and other pollutants. The water systems that serve cities and towns suffer additional stressors, including drought, overuse, and a failure to incorporate greywater systems. And, like many necessities, you have to pay for it in the United States: Water utility prices continue to go up and up. | Hunger is a severe problem. Insufficient money and/or access means that millions of families regularly go hungry. Massive corporations domina…

SAM (2023-09-16). America's Auto Workers: On Strike Against Inequality. Again. inequality.org

Christian Sorenson, Substack. (2023-09-16). Public Need Versus The Business Of War. popularresistance.org The American public is hurting. The bare necessities—clean water, nutritious food, and affordable housing—are hard to come by. | Tap water is contaminated with lead, PFAS, and other pollutants. The water systems that serve cities and towns suffer additional stressors, including drought, overuse, and a failure to incorporate greywater systems. And, like many necessities, you have to pay for it in the United States: Water utility prices continue to go up and up. | Hunger is a severe problem. Insufficient money and/or access means that millions of families regularly go hungry. Massive corporations domina…

Vijay Prashad (2023-09-15). Beneath the polycrisis is the singular dilemma of humanity called capitalism: The Thirty-Seventh Newsletter (2023). mronline.org Dilemmas of humanity abound. There is little need to look at statistical data to know that we are in a spiral of crises, from the environmental and climate crisis to the crises of poverty and hunger.

WSWS (2023-09-15). Child poverty in the US doubled in 2022 with ending of expanded benefits. wsws.org The doubling of poverty is the direct result of a deal cut between President Joe Biden and congressional Republicans last year on a federal budget which protected massive military spending while slashing the limited social program expansions implemented at the outset of the pandemic.

Ashley Curtin (2023-09-14). Poverty in America on the rise in 2022 based on Census Bureau data. nationofchange.org While Supplemental Poverty Measures (SPM) showed sharp increases, childhood poverty more than doubled in 2022.

Dana Sanchez (2023-09-14). Is Bidenomics Working? Black Child Poverty Skyrockets To Almost 18%. moguldom.com The child supplemental poverty rate among Black children spiked from less than 10 percent to almost 18 percent in 2022 after inflation sent the cost of living into the stratosphere and federal pandemic stimulus programs expired for families. Heightened poverty rates followed two years of historic declines in poverty, driven mainly by safety net programs created or …

isabella (2023-09-14). Poverty Just Jumped — And It Was No Accident. inequality.org

Lucrecia Franco (2023-09-14). Refugee-led language school helps migrants. america.cgtn.com "Rebuilding trust and reigniting global solidarity," will be on top of the agenda at this year's United Nations General Assembly. | One key global issue is the refugee crisis which has seen millions of people flee war-torn and poverty-stricken countries. | In Brazil, there are over 65,000 registered refugees, a number that grows steadily every year, but one initiative is providing refugees and vulnerable migrants an opportunity to start a new life by using their native languages.

manager (2023-09-14). New Analysis Shows Restoring the Expanded Child Tax Credit is Vital in an Age of Frequent Work Instability. cepr.net Earlier this week, the Census Bureau reported its annual income, poverty, and health insurance data for 2022. Due to the tight labor market and the partial continued pandemic benefits, the 2022 supplemental poverty rate (at 12.4 percent) changed very little relative to pre-pandemic levels (at 12.3 percent from 2018 to 2019). However, we are seeing …

Max Jones, Scheer Post. (2023-09-14). Poverty Rose In 2022 As Inflation Surged, Pandemic Aid Terminated. popularresistance.org In the aftermath of pandemic relief programs such as increased unemployment and nutrition benefits, greater rental assistance and the child tax credit — policies which the Biden administration allowed to expire in 2021 — Americans faced the largest one-year increase of poverty on record. | According to a report from the Census Bureau published on Sept. 12, the sharpest increase in poverty affected children, as child poverty more than doubled from a record low of 5.2 percent to now 12.4 percent. This was indicated by the Supplemental Poverty Measure, which "factors in the impact of government assistanc…

Sharon Zhang (2023-09-14). Child Poverty More Than Doubled in 2022 After Congress Let Tax Credit Expire. truthout.org New data shows that child poverty skyrocketed in 2022 after lawmakers allowed pandemic stimulus provisions to expire, leaving millions to languish even as the pandemic and its economic consequences raged on. According to the Census Bureau's latest report on poverty in the U.S., the supplemental poverty rate among children more than doubled between 2021 and 2022, jumping from 5.2 percent to 12.4… |

Staff (2023-09-14). Conservative Politicians Choose Higher Child Poverty Rates. cepr.net The U.S. Census Bureau released its annual report on poverty today. It confirms that policymakers have all the tools necessary to reduce poverty rates, but they choose to have a high U.S. poverty rate. Although the United States is The United States moved in the right direction on poverty in response…

Vijay Prashad (2023-09-14). Beneath the Polycrisis Is the Singular Dilemma of Humanity Called Capitalism. dissidentvoice.org Tsherin Sherpa (Nepal), Lost Spirits, 2014. Dilemmas of humanity abound. There is little need to look at statistical data to know that we are in a spiral of crises, from the environmental and climate crisis to the crises of poverty and hunger. In 1993, the philosophers Edgar Morin and Anne-Brigitte Kern used the term 'polycrisis' …

Rodolfo Bueno (2023-09-15). Ucrania: Como siempre, mentira e hipocresía. globalizacion.ca La administración Biden anunció el suministro de proyectiles de uranio empobrecido a Kiev, como ayuda destinada a satisfacer sus necesidades de seguridad y defensa, lo que es el segundo envío de este tipo municiones a Ucrania, luego de que Inglaterra…

teleSUR, lvm, YSM (2023-09-14). Ascienden a 9 millones los niños pobres en EE.UU. telesurtv.net "El número de personas con ingresos por debajo del umbral de pobreza en 2022 aumentó en 15,3 millones", dijo el CBPP.

Editor (2023-09-15). End Wealth Supremacy. scheerpost.com

Abayomi Azikiwe, Black Agenda Report. (2023-09-14). Nigerian Trade Unions Go On Two-day Strike Amid Economic Crisis. popularresistance.org Nigeria is Africa's most populous state and is listed as having the largest economy on the continent with huge deposits of oil, natural gas and other strategic resources. | In possession of these material assets along with the 223 million people that inhabit the West African state, the achievements of Nigeria should be limitless. | However, the system of neo-colonialism in Africa, where the national wealth of various states largely benefits imperialism, is still maintaining a dominant position over the labor and resources of the people. This system of exploitation constitutes the major impediment to genuine sover…

Chris Walker (2023-09-14). DeSantis Didn't Disclose Trips Paid for by Wealthy Donors — Report. truthout.org Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis, a candidate for the 2024 GOP nomination for president, failed to disclose multiple high-end trips, stays and other gifts from wealthy benefactors, a new report from The Washington Post details. The report showcases how DeSantis embarked on at least six separate trips on private planes that he did not disclose on campaign finance forms. The trips took place… |

Editor (2023-09-14). Sep 14, 2023. sitrepworld.info ‚ô´ Tom Lehrer: It Makes A Fellow Proud To Be A Soldier Wealthy Capitalist Accidentally Makes Great Argument For Revolution, by Caitlin Johnstone McCarthy Launches Biden Impeachment Inquiry, by Tyler Durden Lavrov's Recent Press Interviews & Zakharova's EEF Statement, by Karl Sanchez Chris Hedges Podcast w/former Amb. Craig Murray on likely imminent extradition to U.S. of Julian Assange MoA: More Voices Call On Biden To Withdraw From The 2024 Race If US Democracy Is Dead What Potential Forms of Dictatorship Come Next? by Richard Solomon A Personal Journey Through the National Security State, by…

Staff (2023-09-14). Headlines for September 14, 2023. democracynow.org Mayor of Flooded Libyan City Says Death Toll Could Rise to 20,000, Environmental Damage Has Brought Earth Outside "Safe Operating Space for Humanity", Morocco Rejects Offers of Foreign Aid as Earthquake Death Toll Nears 3,000, Human Rights Groups Accuse World Leaders of Failing to Act on Atrocities in Sudan, Ukraine Says Attack on Russian Black Naval Sea Fleet Struck Two Warships, Senate Subpoenas Saudi Wealth Fund as It Probes PGA-LIV Merger, New England and Eastern Canada Brace For Hurricane Lee, UAW on Cusp of Historic Strike as Automakers Fail to Meet Worker Demands Despite Massive Profits, &#8220…

Michelle Chiang (2023-09-16). Perspectives] The weight of words: human relationality in end-of-life memoirs. thelancet.com Working in the intersection of literature and philosophy, one of my research interests is literary representations of loss. In medical education, illness narratives are often used as tools to foster professional identity development, clinical empathy, and cultural understanding. What this approach sometimes loses sight of is what scholars, such as Anne Hunsaker Hawkins, Rita Charon, Arthur W Frank, and Arthur Kleinman, established while charting the way forward for the use of stories in medical curricula: narratives are important at the level of the human.

Anna Stavrianakis, Consortium News. (2023-09-15). A Very British Arms Fair. popularresistance.org This week, 35,000 arms company representatives, military officers and state officials from around the world are congregating at the Excel Centre in Newham, East London. | Over four days, [Sept. 12-15] guests at Defence and Security Equipment International (DSEI) can watch demonstrations of new weapons systems, listen to keynote speakers euphemise the global appetite for war-making, visit warships moored on the Thames, and make connections with buyers and sellers via a dedicated networking app. | For the more sportingly inclined, there is the tri-force tug of war to show off the brawn and teamwork of the British A…

TASS (2023-09-15). Ukrainian foreign ministry irritated by Russian singer Netrebko's return to Berlin Opera. tass.com According to the statement, the Ukrainian embassy in Berlin started "working" to prevent Netrebko from returning to the stage in Berlin immediately after news of her return were made public…

WSWS (2023-09-15). Oppose all capitalist parties in the New Zealand election! Fight against war and for world socialism! Build the Socialist Equality Group! wsws.org This statement of the Socialist Equality Group explains the socialist perspective needed to unite the working class against the agenda of war and austerity shared by Labour, National and all the parliamentary parties.

ecns.cn (2023-09-14). Man tells of overseas fraud gang ordeal. ecns.cn A former academic researcher who was tricked into working for telecom fraud gangs in Myanmar more than a year ago has returned to China, according to a social media post from the man, who wrote that he hopes his story can provide a warning to others.

WSWS (2023-09-14). Shawn Fain orders vast majority of autoworkers to "keep working" if contract expires. wsws.org In a Facebook live event Wednesday evening, UAW President Shawn Fain said the Big Three have each rejected all the membership's most basic demands, but nevertheless ordered the vast majority of rank-and-file workers to stay at work and keep production going while only a select few plants go on strike.

WSWS (2023-09-14). Australian property developer Tim Gurner reveals the real face of capitalism. wsws.org Gurner said the unemployment rate must rise by 50 percent to hit the working class and change its "attitudes" and "arrogance" by bringing "pain" to the economy.

WSWS (2023-09-14). Public meeting: For an active boycott of Australian Labor's Voice referendum! wsws.org In the struggle to end the oppression of Aboriginal people, the critical issue is the development of an independent political movement of the working class, directed against the entire political establishment, its program of war and austerity, and the capitalist system itself.

WSWS (2023-09-14). UK's Birmingham council, largest local authority in Europe, declares effective bankruptcy. wsws.org According to reports, "at least 26" more councils could be in the same position, some "within months." Bradford, Devon, Guildford, Hastings, Kent and Southampton, with millions of people in these areas, have been identified as at risk.

Canadian Tire Fire (2023-09-14). Canadian Tire Fire #64: Fairy Creek Updates, Radical Pride, Migrant Prison Hunger Strike and #SearchTheLandfill Solidarity. itsgoingdown.org In August, wildfires continued to burn across Canada. By mid-August, the amount of land burnt by wildfires this season amounted to 15.3 million hectares, which is 10 times more than 2022. On August 18th, British Columbia declared a state of emergency in response to a fire near Kelowna, which required more than 35,000 people to…

WSWS (2023-09-14). Australian property developer Tim Gurner reveals the real face of capitalism. wsws.org Gurner said the unemployment rate must rise by 50 percent to hit the working class and change its "attitudes" and "arrogance" by bringing "pain" to the economy.

WSWS (2023-09-14). Public meeting: For an active boycott of Australian Labor's Voice referendum! wsws.org In the struggle to end the oppression of Aboriginal people, the critical issue is the development of an independent political movement of the working class, directed against the entire political establishment, its program of war and austerity, and the capitalist system itself.

WSWS (2023-09-14). UK's Birmingham council, largest local authority in Europe, declares effective bankruptcy. wsws.org According to reports, "at least 26" more councils could be in the same position, some "within months." Bradford, Devon, Guildford, Hastings, Kent and Southampton, with millions of people in these areas, have been identified as at risk.

Canadian Tire Fire (2023-09-14). Canadian Tire Fire #64: Fairy Creek Updates, Radical Pride, Migrant Prison Hunger Strike and #SearchTheLandfill Solidarity. itsgoingdown.org In August, wildfires continued to burn across Canada. By mid-August, the amount of land burnt by wildfires this season amounted to 15.3 million hectares, which is 10 times more than 2022. On August 18th, British Columbia declared a state of emergency in response to a fire near Kelowna, which required more than 35,000 people to…

WSWS (2023-09-11). Poverty Strategy Commission report finds millions "surviving not living" in Britain. wsws.org Low pay and lack of support for the disabled are the major driving factors of this ongoing social disaster. Half of all people in poverty are disabled themselves or live with someone who is disabled. Nearly two-thirds are in a household where someone works, and over a fifth where all adults work full time.

Fight Back (2023-09-12). Minneapolis: UFCW 663 workers fighting for better pay, respect at Seward Co-op; management walks out of bargaining. fightbacknews.org Minneapolis, MN – United Food and Commercial Workers 663 workers at Seward Community Co-op have been working without a contract since their previous one expired on August 20 of this year, and in bargaining for a new agreement, management has fought against workers' demands on nearly every issue. | The key demands from workers in bargaining have included increased pay, an additional week of paid parental leave, wage equity and cost of living raises, and pushing against automation, such as self-checkout lanes. A tentative agreement was reached only on one demand so far in bargaining, that being increased autonomy o…

Margaret Flowers, Clearing the FOG. (2023-09-12). As A Working Class-Led Global Movement Rises, Elites Are Panicking. popularresistance.org Around the world, a major organizing effort is underway, led by civil society and unions with the International People's Assembly, to build a working class movement for alternative systems that address the many crises we face. A series of regional conferences called the Dilemmas of Humanity are taking place in preparation for an international conference in South Africa in mid October. Clearing the FOG speaks with Eugene Puryear of BreakThrough News about the recent meeting in Atlanta, which is part of this process. Puryear speaks about the significance of the Stop Cop City movement and the necessity of leadership…

Working Families Party, partners (2023-09-12). Sunday 9/10: Show Solidarity w/ United Auto Workers Union Virtual Rally. indybay.org Virtual rally to support UAW: www.mobilize.us/moveon/event/578744/…

WSWS (2023-09-12). The social roots of the Moroccan earthquake disaster. wsws.org The Moroccan earthquake catastrophe is not primarily a natural but a social disaster, caused by the inability of the capitalist system to deliver earthquake-resistant housing and emergency services to the working population.

WSWS (2023-09-12). Public meeting: A socialist perspective against war and austerity in New Zealand's crisis election. wsws.org The SEG and IYSSE are holding a meeting in Wellington on October 4 to explain the socialist perspective needed to unite the working class against the agenda of war and austerity shared by Labour, National and all the parliamentary parties.

ecns.cn (2023-09-11). Top online sales host apologizes for insensitive comments. ecns.cn China's top online sales host Li Jiaqi apologized on Monday after he blamed viewers who found the price of an eyebrow pen expensive, that they were not working hard enough to make more money during a live-streaming session.

James Kilgore (2023-09-11). "E-Carceration" Is the Newest Surveillance Trend Spreading Across the Globe. truthout.org From the shanty town favelas of Rio de Janeiro, to working-class community housing estates in New Zealand, to the battle-weary streets of Chicago's South Side, electronic monitors — digital tracking devices that monitor the location and behaviors of people facing increased surveillance by police — have become normalized. Like police cars and bodegas, they are part of the social landscape. |

Peoples Dispatch (2023-09-11). Socialist "movement incubator" celebrates five year anniversary in the heart of NYC. peoplesdispatch.org The People's Forum in New York City, founded in 2018 as a "movement incubator" to unite working class movements in the US and abroad, celebrated its five year anniversary on Saturday, September 9. In its five years of existence, TPF has been able to support the strengthening of progressive and socialist organizations from the heart of world capitalism. | "Over the past five years, TPF has become a reference for people who are seeking to understand what's going on in the world around them, and who want a place where they can ask questions and exchange ideas, and where there's space for socialist and internationali…

Working Families Party, partners (2023-09-11). Sunday 9/10: Show Solidarity w/ United Auto Workers Union Virtual Rally. indybay.org Virtual rally to support UAW: www.mobilize.us/moveon/event/578744/…

WSWS (2023-09-11). Zelensky government cracks down on conscription loopholes. wsws.org Amidst the failure of the counteroffensive and declarations by the US that it will fund the war for "as long as it takes," the Zelensky government is ramping up its attacks on draft dodgers and the Ukrainian working class as a whole.

ecns.cn (2023-09-11). Top online sales host apologizes for insensitive comments. ecns.cn China's top online sales host Li Jiaqi apologized on Monday after he blamed viewers who found the price of an eyebrow pen expensive, that they were not working hard enough to make more money during a live-streaming session.

Working Families Party, partners (2023-09-11). Sunday 9/10: Show Solidarity w/ United Auto Workers Union Virtual Rally. indybay.org Virtual rally to support UAW: www.mobilize.us/moveon/event/578744/…

WSWS (2023-09-11). Zelensky government cracks down on conscription loopholes. wsws.org Amidst the failure of the counteroffensive and declarations by the US that it will fund the war for "as long as it takes," the Zelensky government is ramping up its attacks on draft dodgers and the Ukrainian working class as a whole.

Helen Flannery, Inequality. (2023-09-10). Over Half Of 20 Top Public Charities Are Donor Advised Funds. popularresistance.org Last year, we wrote about how donor-advised funds, or DAFs, had become the top recipients of charitable giving in the United States. At the time, we were astounded to discover that DAF sponsors made up six of the top 10 and nine of the top 20 most successful public-charity fundraisers in the country. | We've updated the data for 2021 — the most recent year for which complete data is available — and the picture has only gotten more stark. Donor-advised fund sponsors now make up seven of the top 10 and eleven of the top 20 public charities in the United States. Public charities are nonprofits that rely…

Richard Horton (2023-09-09). Comment] Offline: A job is important, but so is life. thelancet.com A debate has fermented over this fading English summer, one with hard consequences for medical science. The squall began in June with a column in The Times by Emma Duncan, formerly a deputy editor at The Economist and someone who declares an "obsessive" taste for 19th-century novels. Her article, "We should cheer decline of humanities degrees", asked why a younger generation felt so betrayed by their parents. Her answer was their rising levels of debt. And the cause of those debts? "Elite overproduction." A society's elite is small in number.

TASS (2023-09-10). G20 leaders call for greater role of developing nations in financial institutions. tass.com The G20 is also reportedly working to improve the effectiveness of and ease of access to multilateral development banks…

Anonymous Contributor (2023-09-09). Help Support Anti-Authoritarian Efforts In Solidarity with Migrants in Chicago. itsgoingdown.org Announcing solidarity efforts in so-called Chicago to support migrants "becoming co-organizers within anti-oppression frameworks." We are a small group of Brown and Indigenous anti-authoritarians working with Tenants United in "Chicago" to support global south migrants who've been entering Chicago in rising numbers. The manufactured scarcity, statecraft, ruling class depredations, and arbitrary borders are turning Chicago…

Margaret Kimberley, Black Agenda Report. (2023-09-09). Congressman Jamaal Bowman And Black Misleadership. popularresistance.org Everyone knows what it means to mislead. The simplicity of the word gives it a lot of power. Black elected officials are beholden to the Democratic Party and their corporate, neo-liberal and imperialist interests. Working in concert with them is by definition working against the interests of Black people. | Of course the misleaders can't be obvious about their subterfuge. They have to at least go through the motions of opposing the Republican Party, the white people's party, and anyone who is seen as a prominent representative of that group. Performance is the order of the day, while any concrete actions made on…

Working Families Party, partners (2023-09-09). Sunday 9/10: Show Solidarity w/ United Auto Workers Union Virtual Rally. indybay.org Virtual rally to support UAW: www.mobilize.us/moveon/event/578744/…

WSWS (2023-09-09). One month after deadly wildfires in Maui, public anger grows over government response. wsws.org With hundreds still missing and Lahaina in ruins, government and media officials are working to coverup of the scale of the disaster.

WSWS (2023-09-09). Scholz's "Germany Pact": A war alliance against the population. wsws.org The budget, which is currently being discussed in the Bundestag, is a declaration of war on the working population. It contains massive cuts and aims to launch the largest rearmament offensive since the end of World War II.

Anonymous Contributor (2023-09-09). "We make the community by defending it:" neighborhood resists eviction of homeless people by local nonprofit board and business owners. itsgoingdown.org This article was originally published in Fight to Win, a publication of the General Defense Committee (GDC) in so-called Michigan. by Lindy and LK GROWING HOPE, GROWING FENCES Wednesday, August 23rd, the board of the local nonprofit Growing Hope called the cops and evicted all people staying underneath their downtown Marketplace Hall — without notice…

Yasir Alshareefy (2023-09-09). Correspondence] The promise of peace talks for Yemen's health-care system. thelancet.com The possibility of peace in Yemen presents a glimmer of hope for the country's beleaguered health-care system, which has been gravely impacted by years of conflict that first began in 2014. Hospitals and clinics have been destroyed, medical supplies and equipment are scarce, and health-care workers are struggling to provide care during the violence.1 In addition to the collapsed health-care system, Yemen is in the middle of a famine that has resulted in one of the highest current rates of child malnutrition globally.