WSWS (2023-10-30). Capitalism, German nationalism and fake populist demagogy—the program of Sahra Wagenknecht's new party. wsws.org The new party is intended to prevent resistance to social decline, poverty, war and oppression from challenging the capitalist social order and uniting with the struggles of the international working class.

Bill Fletcher, Jr. (2023-10-31). In defense of AMLO — understanding MORENA's project. therealnews.com US corporate media decries AMLO as an 'authoritarian.' Some in the US left have criticized AMLO's party, MORENA, for its emphasis on extractivism and its conflicts with some Indigenous communities. What's often left out of the narrative is that MORENA has successfully lifted 9 million Mexicans out of poverty since 2018. What's the true story of MORENA's political project?

Sam Pizzigati (2023-10-31). A New Portrait of the World's Wealth — and Wealthiest. counterpunch.org How can we comprehend — truly comprehend — how concentrated the wealth of our world has become? We have some choices. We can choose to see the world of concentrated wealth through the eyes of those who directly serve the richest among us, people like the veteran Australian sea captain Brendan O'Shannassy, the author of

Editor (2023-10-30). 'Killers of the Flower Moon': U.S. director Martin Scorsese's film about the "Reign of Terror" against the Osage Indians. mronline.org The "Reign of Terror," which lasted from the end of World War I to 1931, involved the murder of at least 60 wealthy, full-blood Osage Natives, but Grann argues that the actual total of suspicious deaths may number in the hundreds.

WSWS (2023-10-30). Artists oppose firing of Artforum editor—under pressure from wealthy collectors—for defending Palestinians. wsws.org Over 50 employees and contributors to Artforum have also signed a letter to the owners of the magazine demanding that Velasco be reinstated.

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-10-30). Germany Has a Historic Debt to the Palestinian People. libya360.wordpress.com Marcel Cartier A woman shows a poster reading 'Israel fights against terror in Gaza' during a demonstration against antisemitism and to show solidarity with Israel in Berlin, Germany, October 22, 2023 The crimes of German fascism are of a magnitude so enormous that they are almost difficult to comprehend. Without question the most heinous in…

midwesternmarx (2023-10-30). Germany Has a Historic Debt to the Palestinian People. By: Marcel Cartier. midwesternmarx.com ​The crimes of German fascism are of a magnitude so enormous that they are almost difficult to comprehend. Without question the most heinous in its breadth was the Holocaust, the systematic attempt by the Nazi regime to annihilate the Jewish people that ultimately led to the mass murder of around two-thirds of the European Jewish population. It is only correct that today's German state would see itself as having a historic responsibility towards Jews, both at home and abroad. …

WSWS (2023-10-31). Democrats, Republicans work to rig 2024 US congressional election through gerrymandering. wsws.org Using their control of state legislatures and various courts, the two capitalist parties Democrats are attempting to control the 2024 congressional election and prevent working people from having any influence on the outcome.

Eleanor Goldfield, Project Censored. (2023-10-30). A Look At Assange From Inside The CIA, State Department And US Military. popularresistance.org You may have heard of Julian Assange, but chances are that you haven't heard about him from inside the CIA, State Department and US military. In this special episode, Eleanor first talks with former CIA counterterrorism officer and whistleblower John Kiriakou about what Assange would face if extradited to the United States, as Kiriakou himself has sat in the very same court that awaits Assange. Kiriakou also discusses the CIA's rabid stance against Assange and inside workings that allowed the CIA to plan Assange's murder with total abandon and without any accountability. Next up, former Marine Corps captain and S…

Ileana Ferrer Fonte (2023-10-30). India and WHO work together to tackle global challenges. plenglish.com New Delhi, Oct 30 (Prensa Latina) India and the World Health Organization (WHO) are working together to address global challenges in the health sector, Minister for Health and Family Welfare Mansukh Mandaviya said.

Sharon Zhang (2023-10-30). Thousands of Gazan Workers in Israel Have Gone Missing Since Gaza Siege Began. truthout.org Thousands of workers from Gaza who were in Israel on work permits have been unaccounted for since Israel began its current siege of Gaza on October 7, with their families fearing that the workers have been detained by Israeli forces. Roughly 4,500 Palestinian workers who were working in Israel are feared missing, Palestinian Minister of Labor Nasri Abu Jaish told The Independent. |

WSWS (2023-10-30). 24 migrant children illegally working at Ohio chicken slaughter house. wsws.org The latest discovery of children working in a poultry processing plant is the most recent example of the growing use of child labor throughout the United States.

WSWS (2023-10-30). Hundreds of Houston teachers and students protest against right-wing district takeover. wsws.org The appointment of Miles to oversee Houston ISD is entirely undemocratic and must be opposed, but this requires the independent mobilization of the working class against both big business parties and their policies of war and austerity.

imperial.ac.uk (2023-10-31). Research with AMD to optimise computer hardware for AI. imperial.ac.uk Imperial is working with the semiconductor company AMD to optimise computer processors for machine learning.

Editor (2023-10-31). Israeli targets journalists, kills their families as Big Tech & Biden admin silence Palestinians. mronline.org With Israeli airstrikes on Gaza killing at least twenty Palestinian journalists—and the Biden administration working to muzzle others—Big Tech is quietly coordinating with Tel Aviv to muzzle Palestinian media outfits.

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2023-10-31). A closer look at heart health: Research shows social factors at play. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org A recent Mayo Clinic study of residents living in a mostly rural, 11‚Äêcounty region of southeast Minnesota found that patients with heart failure and multiple social risk factors were more likely than other heart failure patients to experience adverse outcomes such as emergency department visits, hospitalization, delayed recovery and reduced quality of life. Researchers investigated the effect of social factors, including education, isolation and "community deprivation" — a lack of community resources and opportunities measured at the…

Mnar Adley, MintPress News. (2023-10-31). The Hannibal Directive: What Really Happened On October 7. popularresistance.org We were told Hamas killed 1400 Israelis on October 7, that they carried out rapes and torture of civilians en masse and, of course, that they beheaded babies. | These claims are being used to justify Israel's bombardment of Gaza — the world's largest open-air prison. Israel's bombing of the strip, where over 50% of the population are children, has cost the lives of more than 5,000 people and left more than one million homeless. | Recent events surrounding the Gaza conflict have prompted questions about the accuracy of reported actions attributed to Hamas and Israel's military response. A closer examination…

teleSUR (2023-10-30). US Sees Massive Retail Closures Amid Negative Economic Trends. telesurenglish.net Thousands of stores are closing across the United States this year, with some citing increased crimes as a reason, but industry experts said crime isn't the full story. | RELATED: | Rite Aid, one of the largest pharmacy chains in the country, has joined the growing list of retailers to shed locations. The company filed for bankruptcy this month and is set to close more than 100 drug stores as the first step while negotiating a b…

WSWS (2023-10-30). Hundreds of Houston teachers and students protest against right-wing district takeover. wsws.org The appointment of Miles to oversee Houston ISD is entirely undemocratic and must be opposed, but this requires the independent mobilization of the working class against both big business parties and their policies of war and austerity.

imperial.ac.uk (2023-10-31). Research with AMD to optimise computer hardware for AI. imperial.ac.uk Imperial is working with the semiconductor company AMD to optimise computer processors for machine learning.

Editor (2023-10-31). Israeli targets journalists, kills their families as Big Tech & Biden admin silence Palestinians. mronline.org With Israeli airstrikes on Gaza killing at least twenty Palestinian journalists—and the Biden administration working to muzzle others—Big Tech is quietly coordinating with Tel Aviv to muzzle Palestinian media outfits.

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2023-10-31). A closer look at heart health: Research shows social factors at play. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org A recent Mayo Clinic study of residents living in a mostly rural, 11‚Äêcounty region of southeast Minnesota found that patients with heart failure and multiple social risk factors were more likely than other heart failure patients to experience adverse outcomes such as emergency department visits, hospitalization, delayed recovery and reduced quality of life. Researchers investigated the effect of social factors, including education, isolation and "community deprivation" — a lack of community resources and opportunities measured at the…

Mnar Adley, MintPress News. (2023-10-31). The Hannibal Directive: What Really Happened On October 7. popularresistance.org We were told Hamas killed 1400 Israelis on October 7, that they carried out rapes and torture of civilians en masse and, of course, that they beheaded babies. | These claims are being used to justify Israel's bombardment of Gaza — the world's largest open-air prison. Israel's bombing of the strip, where over 50% of the population are children, has cost the lives of more than 5,000 people and left more than one million homeless. | Recent events surrounding the Gaza conflict have prompted questions about the accuracy of reported actions attributed to Hamas and Israel's military response. A closer examination…

teleSUR (2023-10-30). US Sees Massive Retail Closures Amid Negative Economic Trends. telesurenglish.net Thousands of stores are closing across the United States this year, with some citing increased crimes as a reason, but industry experts said crime isn't the full story. | RELATED: | Rite Aid, one of the largest pharmacy chains in the country, has joined the growing list of retailers to shed locations. The company filed for bankruptcy this month and is set to close more than 100 drug stores as the first step while negotiating a b…

WSWS (2023-10-30). Death toll mounts after Category 5 hurricane destroys Acapulco, Mexico. wsws.org Amid already rampant inequality, the socio-economic impact will be felt for years, as hundreds of thousands of livelihoods have been erased overnight.

Sarah Anderson (2023-10-31). Why is Biden Cracking Down on Stock Buybacks in Just One Industry? inequality.org The Biden administration is giving companies a leg up in the competition for new subsidies for U.S. semiconductor manufacturing if they agree to forgo all stock buybacks for five years. The reasoning? These CHIPS program subsidies, explained Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo, "should be used to expand in America, to out-innovate the rest of the world. …

Patricia Harrity (2023-10-30). Andrew Bridgen takes on the Power-Hungry WHO. expose-news.com Kathy Gyngell from the Conservative Woman (TCW) writes, "HARD on the heels of his excess deaths debate last Tuesday, the admirably energetic and purposeful Andrew Bridgen MP has been granted leave to bring in a Parliamentary …

WSWS (2023-10-30). Capitalism, German nationalism and fake populist demagogy—the program of Sahra Wagenknecht's new party. wsws.org The new party is intended to prevent resistance to social decline, poverty, war and oppression from challenging the capitalist social order and uniting with the struggles of the international working class.

WSWS (2023-10-30). Artists oppose firing of Artforum editor—under pressure from wealthy collectors—for defending Palestinians. wsws.org Over 50 employees and contributors to Artforum have also signed a letter to the owners of the magazine demanding that Velasco be reinstated.

Editor (2023-10-30). 'Killers of the Flower Moon': U.S. director Martin Scorsese's film about the "Reign of Terror" against the Osage Indians. mronline.org The "Reign of Terror," which lasted from the end of World War I to 1931, involved the murder of at least 60 wealthy, full-blood Osage Natives, but Grann argues that the actual total of suspicious deaths may number in the hundreds.

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-10-30). Germany Has a Historic Debt to the Palestinian People. libya360.wordpress.com Marcel Cartier A woman shows a poster reading 'Israel fights against terror in Gaza' during a demonstration against antisemitism and to show solidarity with Israel in Berlin, Germany, October 22, 2023 The crimes of German fascism are of a magnitude so enormous that they are almost difficult to comprehend. Without question the most heinous in…

midwesternmarx (2023-10-30). Germany Has a Historic Debt to the Palestinian People. By: Marcel Cartier. midwesternmarx.com ​The crimes of German fascism are of a magnitude so enormous that they are almost difficult to comprehend. Without question the most heinous in its breadth was the Holocaust, the systematic attempt by the Nazi regime to annihilate the Jewish people that ultimately led to the mass murder of around two-thirds of the European Jewish population. It is only correct that today's German state would see itself as having a historic responsibility towards Jews, both at home and abroad. …

Ileana Ferrer Fonte (2023-10-30). India and WHO work together to tackle global challenges. plenglish.com New Delhi, Oct 30 (Prensa Latina) India and the World Health Organization (WHO) are working together to address global challenges in the health sector, Minister for Health and Family Welfare Mansukh Mandaviya said.

WSWS (2023-10-30). Hundreds of Houston teachers and students protest against right-wing district takeover. wsws.org The appointment of Miles to oversee Houston ISD is entirely undemocratic and must be opposed, but this requires the independent mobilization of the working class against both big business parties and their policies of war and austerity.

Frances Kuo (2023-10-29). Wang Yi reiterates importance of maintaining a working relationship between China and the U.S. america.cgtn.com China's top diplomat Wang Yi's closely watched three-day visit to Washington ended on Saturday. | Wang met with President Joe Biden, Secretary of State Antony Blinken, other U.S. officials and had engagements with the strategic and business communities. | The talks come just weeks before the U.S. leader is scheduled to host a gathering of Asian Pacific leaders in San Francisco. | CGTN's Frances Kuo reports.

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2023-10-30). Healthcare professionals, caregivers, people living with dementia to connect at Mayo Clinic Conference on Brain Health and Dementia. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org Artwork by Anne Labovitz ROCHESTER, Minn. — Mayo Clinic and community partners working to advance the health of older adults and people impacted by dementia will host a conference Saturday, Nov. 4, to share the newest research and strategies for reducing dementia risk and living well with cognitive decline. The Mayo Clinic Conference on Brain Health and Dementia is hosted with collaborators AARP Minnesota and Alzheimer's Association Minnesota-North Dakota, and offers people living with dementia…

teleSUR (2023-10-30). US Sees Massive Retail Closures Amid Negative Economic Trends. telesurenglish.net Thousands of stores are closing across the United States this year, with some citing increased crimes as a reason, but industry experts said crime isn't the full story. | RELATED: | Rite Aid, one of the largest pharmacy chains in the country, has joined the growing list of retailers to shed locations. The company filed for bankruptcy this month and is set to close more than 100 drug stores as the first step while negotiating a b…

Brenda Norrell (2023-10-29). Targeting Buffy Sainte Marie: The Genocide Makers Have a New War to Promote. indybay.org The genocide makers — Canada, the US and the UK — have a new war to promote in Palestine. It comes as no surprise that the morally bankrupt media is targeting Buffy Sainte Marie. The genocide makers always target those who speak out against war. Buffy says, "I know who I am."

WSWS (2023-10-30). Death toll mounts after Category 5 hurricane destroys Acapulco, Mexico. wsws.org Amid already rampant inequality, the socio-economic impact will be felt for years, as hundreds of thousands of livelihoods have been erased overnight.

Dean Baker (2023-10-29). The Return of the Aging Crisis: Diverting Attention from Inequality. cepr.net Back in the 1990s, whining about the impending disaster from the retirement of baby boomer cohorts was all the rage. Private equity billionaire Peter Peterson's polemics were big sellers, as very serious people struggled with how we could deal with this tidal wave of retirees. The basic story was that a rising ratio of retirees …

Patricia Harrity (2023-10-30). Andrew Bridgen takes on the Power-Hungry WHO. expose-news.com Kathy Gyngell from the Conservative Woman (TCW) writes, "HARD on the heels of his excess deaths debate last Tuesday, the admirably energetic and purposeful Andrew Bridgen MP has been granted leave to bring in a Parliamentary …

Leila Warah, Mondoweiss. (2023-10-28). 'Operation Al Aqsa Flood' Day 20: Israel Using Starvation As A Weapon. popularresistance.org Gaza's population of over 2 million, which continues to be carpet bombed, is still being denied fuel, clean water, and adequate food supply by Israel's ongoing siege on the enclave. | The situation is "horrific" as millions are being "collectively punished in full view of the world," says Oxfam, a British charity focused on alleviating global poverty. | "It's estimated that only three liters of clean water are now available per person. The UN said a minimum of 15 liters a day is essential for people in the most acute humanitarian emergencies as a bare minimum," they stated.

Gerald E. Scorse (2023-10-28). Taxes in America Are Unfair to Most Americans. dissidentvoice.org For decades, time and again, America's tax code has been twisted and tweaked to give tax breaks to the top and crumbs (or nothing) to the tens of millions on the bottom and in the middle. Levels of wealth and inequality have become so gross that experts are clamoring for change, painting unflattering portraits of …

Rhoda Wilson (2023-10-28). UK Government's Covid-19 Inquiry — Frightened of the Truth? expose-news.com I hate to sound immodest but the last few years have proved beyond any doubt that I know more about covid-19 and the associated and infamous 'vaccine' than anyone working for the …

Taroa Zúñiga Silva (2023-10-28). Elections in Argentina: A working class perspective. peoplesdispatch.org A few days before the October 22 elections in Argentina,

WSWS (2023-10-28). A call to the working class and youth: Stop the imperialist-Zionist genocide in Gaza! wsws.org The WSWS calls for strikes and other protest actions by the working class in every country. We urge the organization of mass demonstrations in cities and emergency solidarity protests by college and high school students.

Frances Kuo (2023-10-29). Wang Yi reiterates importance of maintaining a working relationship between China and the U.S. america.cgtn.com China's top diplomat Wang Yi's closely watched three-day visit to Washington ended on Saturday. | Wang met with President Joe Biden, Secretary of State Antony Blinken, other U.S. officials and had engagements with the strategic and business communities. | The talks come just weeks before the U.S. leader is scheduled to host a gathering of Asian Pacific leaders in San Francisco. | CGTN's Frances Kuo reports.

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2023-10-29). Healthcare professionals, caregivers, people living with dementia to connect at Mayo Clinic Conference on Brain Health and Dementia. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org Artwork by Anne Labovitz ROCHESTER, Minn. — Mayo Clinic and community partners working to advance the health of older adults and people impacted by dementia will host a conference Saturday, Nov. 4, to share the newest research and strategies for reducing dementia risk and living well with cognitive decline. The Mayo Clinic Conference on Brain Health and Dementia is hosted with collaborators AARP Minnesota and Alzheimer's Association Minnesota-North Dakota, and offers people living with dementia…

Brenda Norrell (2023-10-28). Targeting Buffy Sainte Marie: The Genocide Makers Have a New War to Promote. indybay.org The genocide makers — Canada, the US and the UK — have a new war to promote in Palestine. It comes as no surprise that the morally bankrupt media is targeting Buffy Sainte Marie. The genocide makers always target those who speak out against war. Buffy says, "I know who I am."

Brenda Norrell (2023-10-29). Targeting Buffy Sainte Marie: The Genocide Makers Have a New War to Promote. indybay.org The genocide makers — Canada, the US and the UK — have a new war to promote in Palestine. It comes as no surprise that the morally bankrupt media is targeting Buffy Sainte Marie. The genocide makers always target those who speak out against war. Buffy says, "I know who I am."

Elliott Wallace (2023-10-24). United Nations Day marks 78th anniversary of UN Charter amid ongoing global challenges. america.cgtn.com Tuesday is United Nations Day, marking the 78th anniversary of the UN Charter. | The annual day celebrates the history of the global organization, and aims to refocus public attention on its goals, from ending poverty to tackling climate change. | CGTN's Sally Patterson reports.

Rubén Armendáriz (2023-10-24). Argentina — Massa supo vender esperanza y ganó contra los mensajes de odio de la derecha. globalizacion.ca A pesar del ajuste del Fondo Monetario Internacional, de la inflación creciente que caotiza la economía y superó el 138 % anual; a pesar de la pobreza del 40 % que hunde las condiciones de vida de millones, el candidato-ministro…

ecns.cn (2023-10-25). Nongfu Spring CEO Zhong Shanshan tops Hurun China Rich List for third time. ecns.cn The report noted that entrepreneurs with more wealth growth over the past year came mainly from sectors such as online gaming, semiconductors, software services, and food and beverage.

ecns.cn (2023-10-25). Huijin's ETF buys elevate China stocks. ecns.cn Central Huijin Investment Ltd, an arm of China Investment Corp, the nation's sovereign wealth fund, has increased its holdings of Chinese equities for the second time in half a month, helping the A-share market to end Tuesday on an upbeat note.

Strike Debt Bay Area (2023-10-24). Saturday 11/18: 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.

Strike Debt Bay Area (2023-10-25). Saturday 11/18: 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.

ecns.cn (2023-10-24). China-U.S. economic working group holds its first meeting via video link. ecns.cn As agreed on by Chinese Vice Premier He Lifeng and U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen in July, the China-U.S. economic working group held its first meeting via video link on Tuesday, according to China's Ministry of Finance.

United Front Committee For A Labor Party (2023-10-24). APEC, Labor & Imperialism: APEC's Role In Attacking Working People and the Oppressed. indybay.org The APEC conference wlll be held in San Francisco November 9 through 12th. This meeting will report on the role of APEC in pushing privatization and deregulation in the US and around the world. APEC also is connected directly to the WTO and includes China as a partner. There will also be a report on the fight against outsourcing and privatization of San Francisco City jobs to non-profits, attacks on Civil Service and retaliation against SF City Worker with the support of top union officials.

United Front Committee For A Labor Party (2023-10-24). Sunday 11/5: APEC, Labor & Imperialism-An Attack On The Working Class & Oppressed. indybay.org 518 Valencia St. Near 16th St. | San Francisco…

WSWS (2023-10-24). IMF releases second instalment of Sri Lanka's bailout loan. wsws.org The Sri Lankan government has assured the IMF that it will deepen the assault on working people, further increasing taxation, privatisations and subsidy-slashing measures.

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2023-10-25). Healthcare professionals, caregivers, people living with dementia to connect at Mayo Clinic Conference on Brain Health and Dementia. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org Artwork by Anne Labovitz ROCHESTER, Minn. — Mayo Clinic and community partners working to advance the health of older adults and people impacted by dementia will host a conference Saturday, Nov. 4, to share the newest research and strategies for reducing dementia risk and living well with cognitive decline. The Mayo Clinic Conference on Brain Health and Dementia is hosted with collaborators AARP Minnesota and Alzheimer's Association Minnesota-North Dakota, and offers people living with dementia…

United Front Committee For A Labor Party (2023-10-25). APEC, Labor & Imperialism: APEC's Role In Attacking Working People and the Oppressed. indybay.org The APEC conference wlll be held in San Francisco November 9 through 12th. This meeting will report on the role of APEC in pushing privatization and deregulation in the US and around the world. APEC also is connected directly to the WTO and includes China as a partner. There will also be a report on the fight against outsourcing and privatization of San Francisco City jobs to non-profits, attacks on Civil Service and retaliation against SF City Worker with the support of top union officials.

United Front Committee For A Labor Party (2023-10-25). Sunday 11/5: APEC, Labor & Imperialism-An Attack On The Working Class & Oppressed. indybay.org 518 Valencia St. Near 16th St. | San Francisco…

Editor (2023-10-24). Amid Discouraging Inequality Data, Some Signs of Hope. scheerpost.com By Sam Pizzigati / CounterPunch Back in the early 20th century, earnest middle-class reformers out to overturn America's plutocratic order gravitated to the pages of The Public, a weekly magazine whose editor, Louis Post, would become the U.S. Assistant Secretary of Labor in 1913. One year later, the associate editor of The Public would offer a cutting critique …

isabella (2023-10-24). The UAW Wins Fight for Just Transition. inequality.org

Sam Pizzigati, Inequality. (2023-10-24). Amid Discouraging New Inequality Stats, Some Rays Of Hope. popularresistance.org Back in the early 20th century, earnest middle-class reformers out to overturn America's plutocratic order gravitated to the pages of The Public, a weekly magazine whose editor, Louis Post, would become the U.S. assistant secretary of labor in 1913. | One year later, the associate editor of The Public would offer a cutting critique of the legal system that so protected our nation's plutocratic powers-that-be. That system, Stoughton Cooley of The Public avowed, rendered judgments "so far from justice and common sense" that average citizens believe "absolutely that the poor have no redress against the rich."

Strike Debt Bay Area (2023-10-24). Saturday 11/18: 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.

Jon Queally (2023-10-23). $10 trillion in added US debt since 2001 shows 'Bush and Trump tax cuts broke our modern tax structure'. nationofchange.org "In their blind loyalty to their mega-donors, Republicans' fixation on giant tax cuts for billionaires has created a revenue problem that is driving up our national debt," said Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse in response to new Treasury Department figures.

Sharon Zhang (2023-10-23). Debt Activists Bought $10M in Student Debt for $125,000 — and Canceled It All. truthout.org Debt activists have bought out the student debt balances held by nearly all of the attendees of a historically Black college for a penny on the dollar — and canceled it entirely. On Monday, a debtors' union called the Debt Collective announced that, in collaboration with its sister organization, the Rolling Jubilee Fund, it had bought nearly $10 million of debt in collections from Morehouse… |

Strike Debt Bay Area (2023-10-23). Saturday 11/18: 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.

ecns.cn (2023-10-24). China-U.S. economic working group holds its first meeting via video link. ecns.cn As agreed on by Chinese Vice Premier He Lifeng and U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen in July, the China-U.S. economic working group held its first meeting via video link on Tuesday, according to China's Ministry of Finance.

United Front Committee For A Labor Party (2023-10-24). APEC, Labor & Imperialism: APEC's Role In Attacking Working People and the Oppressed. indybay.org The APEC conference wlll be held in San Francisco November 9 through 12th. This meeting will report on the role of APEC in pushing privatization and deregulation in the US and around the world. APEC also is connected directly to the WTO and includes China as a partner. There will also be a report on the fight against outsourcing and privatization of San Francisco City jobs to non-profits, attacks on Civil Service and retaliation against SF City Worker with the support of top union officials.

United Front Committee For A Labor Party (2023-10-24). Sunday 11/5: APEC, Labor & Imperialism-An Attack On The Working Class & Oppressed. indybay.org 518 Valencia St. Near 16th St. | San Francisco…

WSWS (2023-10-24). IMF releases second instalment of Sri Lanka's bailout loan. wsws.org The Sri Lankan government has assured the IMF that it will deepen the assault on working people, further increasing taxation, privatisations and subsidy-slashing measures.

Chris Gilbert (2023-10-23). Growing native potatoes in synergy with the land and its people. mronline.org Campesinos high up in the beautiful Andean valley of Gavidia are working to preserve the native potato and the way of life that goes with it.

WSWS (2023-10-23). The global protests against Israel's genocide in Gaza must turn to the working class. wsws.org The escalating Israeli genocide against the Palestinians in Gaza has sparked massive demonstrations, involving millions of people, on every inhabited continent in the world.

Sam Pizzigati (2023-10-23). Amid discouraging new inequality stats, some Encouraging Rays of HopeÔøº. nationofchange.org In California, a trailblazing move to a much more union-conscious tomorrow.

Mark Weisbrot, Center for Economic, Policy Research. (2023-10-16). Ecuador's Election Could Have Lasting Consequences. popularresistance.org Imagine a developing country where a 43-year-old economist with a PhD from the University of Illinois, who is relatively unknown as a politician, runs for president and wins. Despite the preceding decades of corruption and institutional rot, he puts together a competent government and gets the economic policy right. The numbers tell much of the story: in the 10 years of his presidency, poverty fell by 41 percent; income per person grew at more than twice the rate of the previous 25 years; and public investment and government expenditure on health services doubled as a share of the economy.

Pavel López Lazo (2023-10-17). UNDP prioritizes poverty eradication with a female approach. plenglish.com Panama, Oct 17 (Prensa Latina) Putting an end to multidimensional poverty with focus on women is priority for the UN Development Program (UNDP), the UNDP Director of the Regional Bureau for Latin America and the Caribbean Michelle Muschett said.

ecns.cn (2023-10-17). Pakistan's PM says Belt and Road comes with benefits. ecns.cn Pakistani Prime Minister Anwaar-ul-Haq Kakar has lauded the Belt and Road Initiative for having "advanced inclusive development to reduce poverty and inequality, improved people's ability to pay taxes and enhanced governments' ability to retire their debts".

teleSUR, lvm, JGN (2023-10-17). øCuáles son las principales causas de pobreza en el mundo?>. telesurtv.net Más de 4.000 millones de personas continúan totalmente desprotegidas en el mundo.

Staff (2023-10-17). Oligarch Daniel Noboa Wins Ecuador's Presidential Elections (+Tax Evasion). orinocotribune.com The results of the runoff of the presidential elections in Ecuador show the winner as the wealthy heir Daniel Noboa, 35 years old, candidate of the National Democratic Action (ADN) alliance and son of oligarch àÅlvaro Noboa, who on five occasions sought the Ecuadorian presidency without success. According to data from the National Electoral Council (CNE), with 93.02% of the valid votes counted, Noboa reached 52.21% of the votes (4,983,195), while Luisa González from the Citizen Revolution movement (RC) got 47.79% (4,561,646). | "Ecuador has practically Daniel Noboa Azín as president," said CNE President Dia…

Kester Kenn Klomegah (2023-10-16). Unmasking Russia's Influence and Changing Situation Within the Commonwealth of Independent States. globalresearch.ca

Peoples Dispatch (2023-10-17). Ecuador elects new right-wing president linked to big banana business. peoplesdispatch.org With 97.3% of the votes counted, Daniel Noboa Azin, son of one of the wealthiest men in Ecuador, was elected as the new president of the Andean nation on Sunday, October 15. | 35-years old Daniel Noboa of the right-wing National Democratic Action (ADN) alliance, accepted his victory and thanked the Ecuadorian people for their confidence and for voting for him. | "Today we have made history. Ecuadorian families chose the New Ecuador. They chose a country with security and employment," Noboa wrote on his X (formerly Twitter) account. | Noboa added that he looks forward to changing the country to a place "of realiti…

infobrics (2023-10-16). Militarism will inevitably lead America to bankruptcy. infobrics.org The US debt-to-GDP ratio is nearly 130%, but Washington DC keeps raising the debt ceiling. Namely, in January 2023, the belligerent thalassocracy hit its debt limit and by June 2023, it was forced to suspend it to avoid default.

Anjoulie Woodhead (2023-10-17). Morocco G20 Finance Meetings Make Few Decisions on Crisis Response. indybay.org G20 finance ministers met on global economic growth, debt, inflation, expanding development bank aid, the pandemic and other crises.

ecns.cn (2023-10-17). Top economist ardent on continued success. ecns.cn China will not follow in Japan's footsteps of the 1990s and fall into a so-called balance-sheet recession period characterized by income being used to pay down debt rather than spend, according to a top economist.

Dave DeCamp (2023-10-17). Israel Asks US for Additional $10 Billion in Military Aid. news.antiwar.com Israel has asked the US for an additional $10 billion in military aid amid its onslaught in Gaza, The New York Times reported on Monday night. The report said lawmakers in Congress are working with the White House to craft a spending package that will include military aid for Israel, Ukraine, and Taiwan and additional …

WSWS (2023-10-17). Australian workers oppose the Voice, call for better conditions for Aboriginal people. wsws.org "The Labor government is not working class, it is an elite group of people, setting up a puppet called the Voice."

Cira Pascual Marquina (2023-10-16). The commune is a comprehensive reworking of social relations: A conversation with Chris Gilbert. mronline.org A new book exploring the theory, practice and history of socialist commune building in Venezuela.

Jonathan Cook (2023-10-16). What the Media Forgets to Tell You about Israel and Gaza. dissidentvoice.org The missing context for what's happening in Gaza is that Israel has been working night and day to ethnically cleanse the Palestinian people from their homeland since even before Israel become a state — when it was known as the Zionist movement. Israel didn't just cleanse Palestinians in 1948, when it was founded as a …

Mnar Adley (2023-10-16). How Media Outlets Work With Israel To Control Gaza Narrative. mintpressnews.com From watchdogs to lapdogs: Mnar Adley reveals the disappointing state of the fourth estate in the West, exposing how biased media, often working directly with the Israeli government, has been complicit in whitewashing Israeli crimes in Palestine.

National HR (2023-10-16). Climate Justice Senior Strategist. peoplesaction.org About People's Action/Institute People's Action Institute (501c3) and its sister organization People's Action (501c4) are national progressive organizations supporting the mobilization and leadership of the grassroots in support of an agenda that reflects people over profits. People's Action/Institute builds the power of poor and working people in rural, suburban, and urban areas to win change …

Oraily Madruga Rios (2023-10-16). Presidents Maduro and Lula discuss issues of common interest. plenglish.com The Bolivarian head of State revealed on X that they had a "pleasant conversation," in which they addressed important issues of the cooperation map between the countries. | Brazil and Venezuela have a clear path to continue working alongside for the welfare, development and prosperity of our peoples, Maduro said. | Caracas and Brasilia resumed diplomatic relations in January 2023, after being disrrupted for three years during the government of former right-wing president Jair Bolsonaro (2019-2022). | With Lula's return to power, both executives advanced in the reestablishment of bilateral relations and agreed to…

WSWS (2023-10-16). As the UAW prepares to suppress US auto strike, GM and Mercedes-Benz announce new round of layoffs in Brazil. wsws.org Just as in the US, unions in Brazil have suppressed the struggles of the working class, collaborating with companies and the capitalist state in increasing unemployment and slashing workers' living standards.

WSWS (2023-10-16). Defeat of Australian Labor's Voice referendum highlights massive class divide. wsws.org The result is not the outcome of widespread racism and hostility to indigenous people. Instead it demonstrates the growing hostility of working people to the entire political establishment.

teleSUR (2023-10-16). WHO Delivers Medical Supplies to Lebanon Amid Border Escalation. telesurenglish.net The World Health Organization (WHO) has sent critical medical supplies to Lebanon in case of further casualties as fighting on the Lebanon-Israel border intensifies. | RELATED: | The U.N. agency said in a statement that "WHO is working with the Ministry of Public Health and health partners in Lebanon to strengthen readiness within the health system to respond to possible increases in casualties due to the escalating violence." | Two ship…

Mnar Muhawesh (2023-10-16). How Media Outlets Work With Israel To Control Gaza Narrative. thealtworld.com From watchdogs to lapdogs: Mnar Adley reveals the disappointing state of the fourth estate in the West, exposing how biased media, often working directly with the Israeli government, has been complicit in whitewashing Israeli crimes in Palestine. | Israelis were killed, while Palestinians merely "died." | That's the leading headline Some media outlets are <...

Sonali Kolhatkar (2023-10-16). How California's Fast-Food Workers Won $20 an Hour. counterpunch.org The origins of this momentous victory can be traced back to a movement that began on the opposite side of the country more than a decade ago. The Service Employees International Union (SEIU)'s Fight for $15 campaign, launched in the form of a walkout in New York City in 2012 demanded a wage floor that, at the time, sounded audacious. While it's no longer terribly bold to demand $15 an hour in an economy where inflation has disproportionately impacted low-wage workers and where billionaires continue to enjoy unimaginable riches, consider this: there are more than a dozen states in the U.S. where the minimum wage r…

Rhoda Wilson (2023-10-17). The stock market is waking up to Pfizer's greedy, unethical and reckless behaviour which Facebook, Google and corporate media have helped to hide. expose-news.com The stock market may be waking up to the possibility that Pfizer may go bankrupt due to the upcoming covid injection claims. Many parallels can be drawn between the corporate behaviours of …

Drago Bosnic (2023-10-16). Militarism Will Inevitably Lead America into Bankruptcy. globalresearch.ca

Sarah Anderson (2023-10-17). Fifth-Grader Takes on the Powerful Climate-Polluting Private Jet Set. inequality.org EDITOR'S NOTE: Kalea Foo, a fifth-grader from Lexington, Massachusetts, delivered this speech at an October 2 protest against the proposed expansion of Hanscom Field, an airport outside Boston that already serves as New England's largest private jet port. She joined IPS's Chuck Collins in speaking at the rally, calling for "no new private jet expansion …

Lucrecia Franco (2023-10-16). Brazil's food insecurity. america.cgtn.com October 16 is World Food Day, commemorating the founding of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, the FAO, in 1979. | This year in Brazil, Latin America's largest and most populous country, there is not much to celebrate. | Tens of millions of Brazilians suffer "moderate" to "severe" food insecurity. | This past weekend in Rio de Janeiro, directors and volunteers of Brazil's biggest movement against hunger, took to the streets to protest and launch one more Christmas food drive for those in need.

Maureen Clare Murphy (2023-10-16). Hunger, thirst may kill Gazans spared by Israeli bombs. electronicintifada.net Palestinians dig mass graves as more than 1,000 remain under the rubble.

Binoy Kampmark (2023-10-15). A Losing Voice: The Fall of an Indigenous Referendum Measure. dissidentvoice.org Even before October 14, The Voice, or, to describe in full, the Referendum on the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice to Parliament, was in dire straits. Referenda proposals are rarely successful in Australia: prior to October 14, 44 referenda had been conducted since the creation of the Commonwealth in 1901. Only eight had passed. …

krish-rad_ind (2023-10-15). Share The Wealth Vs. Waste The Wealth. popularresistance.org

D. W. Livingstone (2023-10-15). Class Leaders and Tipping Point for Advanced Capitalism. socialistproject.ca We are living in the most dangerous time for the human species since our early origins. The massive numbers of wildfires destroying large swaths of Canada and elsewhere this summer are one sign among many that we are mere years away from irreversible environmental degradation. The Ukraine War reminds us that we are within a few minutes of nuclear winter. We are witnessing historic highs in the inequitable concentration of wealth and lows in popular confidence in elected governments. The capitalist system is driven by the obsessive need to turn every conceivable material good and service into profitable commodi…

Mnar Adley (2023-10-16). How Media Outlets Work With Israel To Control Gaza Narrative. mintpressnews.com From watchdogs to lapdogs: Mnar Adley reveals the disappointing state of the fourth estate in the West, exposing how biased media, often working directly with the Israeli government, has been complicit in whitewashing Israeli crimes in Palestine.

WSWS (2023-10-16). As the UAW prepares to suppress US auto strike, GM and Mercedes-Benz announce new round of layoffs in Brazil. wsws.org Just as in the US, unions in Brazil have suppressed the struggles of the working class, collaborating with companies and the capitalist state in increasing unemployment and slashing workers' living standards.

WSWS (2023-10-16). Defeat of Australian Labor's Voice referendum highlights massive class divide. wsws.org The result is not the outcome of widespread racism and hostility to indigenous people. Instead it demonstrates the growing hostility of working people to the entire political establishment.

ecns.cn (2023-10-15). Chinese scholar Lu Haina elected as member of UN Human Rights Council Special Procedures. ecns.cn Chinese human rights scholar Lu Haina was elected as a member from the Asia-Pacific States to the UN Human Rights Council Working Group on discrimination against women and girls at the 54th regular session of the United Nations Human Rights Council, on Friday.

Luis De Jesus Reyes (2023-10-15). Moving from rhetoric to action to build socialism. peoplesdispatch.org The organization of the working class internationally, the right of people to health and housing, food sovereignty and the rights of immigrants were at the center of the discussion on Sunday October 15 of the III International Conference Dilemmas of Humanity taking place in the city of Johannesburg, South Africa. | On the second day of the meeting, attended by around 500 delegates from more than 70 countries, the presentations were once again centered around the main dilemmas facing humanity today due to the prevailing capitalist system and the advance of imperialism in every corner of the planet. | The day began…

WSWS (2023-10-15). Mobilize workers and youth throughout the world against Israel's genocide! wsws.org The strength of the working class in every country must be mobilized to stop the developing genocide against more than two million Palestinians in Gaza.

Alina Ramos Martin (2023-10-15). Arab League accused Israel of committing war crimes in Gaza. plenglish.com Cairo, Oct 15 (Prensa Latina) The Arab League accused Israel of committing war crimes in the Gaza Strip and affirmed that it is working to reach a cease-fire that will allow humanitarian aid to be brought to the Palestinian population of the enclave.

Sonali Kolhatkar (2023-10-16). How California's Fast-Food Workers Won $20 an Hour. counterpunch.org The origins of this momentous victory can be traced back to a movement that began on the opposite side of the country more than a decade ago. The Service Employees International Union (SEIU)'s Fight for $15 campaign, launched in the form of a walkout in New York City in 2012 demanded a wage floor that, at the time, sounded audacious. While it's no longer terribly bold to demand $15 an hour in an economy where inflation has disproportionately impacted low-wage workers and where billionaires continue to enjoy unimaginable riches, consider this: there are more than a dozen states in the U.S. where the minimum wage r…

Maureen Clare Murphy (2023-10-16). Hunger, thirst may kill Gazans spared by Israeli bombs. electronicintifada.net Palestinians dig mass graves as more than 1,000 remain under the rubble.

Rhoda Wilson (2023-10-15). Agenda 2030's goal is "no farmers, no food" — if we can't own property, we become the property. expose-news.com The UN's latest report on global hunger shows we are moving backwards. At least 828 million people went hungry one way or another on a daily basis last year. The prices of …

The Lancet (2023-10-14). Editorial] The future of work and health. thelancet.com The world of work is changing rapidly. Estimates suggest that by as early as 2025, employers will divide work equally between human beings and machines, disrupting 85 million jobs globally. A move towards automation and outsourcing is in direct contrast to the political dialogue, which has framed employment as the antidote to poverty. Most people assume that employment with good working conditions is good for health: it offers connection, community, and purpose. Sustainable Development Goal 8 calls for achieving full and productive employment and decent work for all by 2030.

Phyllis Bennis (2023-10-13). Beware the Anti-China Sentiment Pushing Us Towards Another Cold War! indybay.org If the United States can't learn to cooperate with China, our future will be one of constant escalation of wars and threats of wars and all that comes with them—including massive refugee flows, environmental destruction, and rising poverty.

Phyllis Bennis (2023-10-12). Beware the Anti-China Sentiment Pushing Us Towards Another Cold War! indybay.org If the United States can't learn to cooperate with China, our future will be one of constant escalation of wars and threats of wars and all that comes with them—including massive refugee flows, environmental destruction, and rising poverty.

Mariana Carbajal (2023-10-12). Argentina — Milei quiere empobrecer a las mujeres. globalizacion.ca El candidato presidencial Javier Milei niega que exista la brecha salarial de género —como también niega la violencia de género y el terrorismo de Estado durante la última dictadura militar— y su postura quedó en evidencia en el primer debate…

ecns.cn (2023-10-12). Central Huijin Investment increases stake in four China commercial banks. ecns.cn Central Huijin Investment Ltd, an arm of China's sovereign wealth fund, has increased its stake in China's four biggest commercial banks on Wednesday, sending the A-share market climbing on Thursday morning.

Liz Theoharis (2023-10-12). Abandoning the Poor. counterpunch.org On the island of Manhattan, where I live, skyscrapers multiply like metal weeds, a vertical invasion of seemingly unstoppable force. For more than a century, they have risen as symbols of wealth and the promise of progress for a city and a nation. In movies and TV shows, those buildings churn with activity, offices full

SAM (2023-10-12). Share the Wealth vs. Waste the Wealth. inequality.org

Roselena Ramirez (2023-10-13). Jackson Hole: A Tale of Income Inequality and the Vanishing Affordable Housing. america.cgtn.com Jackson Hole, located in the American state of Wyoming, boasts luxurious ski resorts and breathtaking scenery. It is also home to some of the wealthiest citizens in the country. However, the area has faced a significant issue of skyrocketing rents over the last decade, making affordable housing almost nonexistent. This has led to one of the highest rates of income inequality in America. In this context, Mike Kirsch explains why the situation in Jackson Hole is a cause for concern.

Anjoulie Woodhead (2023-10-13). IMF and World Bank Meetings Wrestle with Low Growth, High Interest Rates, Debt Crises and. indybay.org As world leaders arrive for the Annual IMF and World Bank Meetings, the IMF forecasts the global economy to grow 3% this year, which remains below the average of growth for the two decades before the pandemic.

Anjoulie Woodhead (2023-10-13). African Catholic Bishops: Marrakesh Meetings Should Act on "True Jubilee of Hope in Africa. indybay.org World leaders attending the annual IMF, G20 and World Bank meetings should promote urgent debt relief, aid and lending policies to address the interlinked crises African countries face, noted a body that represents African Catholic Bishops.

Anjoulie Woodhead (2023-10-12). World Leaders Focus on High Debt Levels and Poor Economic Growth as Morocco Meetings Begin. indybay.org World leaders, finance ministers, business groups, academics and development organizations descend on Marrakesh, Morocco, for the IMF and World Bank Annual Meetings. IMF head Kristalina Georgieva reports that the global economy lost $3.7 trillion due to shocks since 2020 and that slow and unequal growth continues.

Anjoulie Woodhead (2023-10-12). IMF and World Bank Meetings Wrestle with Low Growth, High Interest Rates, Debt Crises and. indybay.org As world leaders arrive for the Annual IMF and World Bank Meetings, the IMF forecasts the global economy to grow 3% this year, which remains below the average of growth for the two decades before the pandemic.

Anjoulie Woodhead (2023-10-12). African Catholic Bishops: Marrakesh Meetings Should Act on "True Jubilee of Hope in Africa. indybay.org World leaders attending the annual IMF, G20 and World Bank meetings should promote urgent debt relief, aid and lending policies to address the interlinked crises African countries face, noted a body that represents African Catholic Bishops.

Keerti Gopal (2023-10-12). A Plan To Stop The Vulture Funds Fueling Global Debt. levernews.com

imperial.ac.uk (2023-10-13). Imperial President – College making big moves to accelerate medical innovation. imperial.ac.uk Professor Hugh Brady says that Imperial is working to speed development of innovations that have potential to be as transformational as penicillin.

Stephen F. Eisenman (2023-10-13). We Need a Working-Class Environmental Movement. counterpunch.org

WSWS (2023-10-13). For an active boycott of the Voice referendum! Build a socialist movement of the working class against war and austerity! wsws.org The referendum will solve nothing. The key issue is building a movement against the the entire political establishment, and its program of war, austerity and dictatorship.

WSWS (2023-10-13). Australian educators rank-and-file committee endorses Voice referendum active boycott campaign. wsws.org Education workers, parents and students call for a unified struggle by the working class, indigenous and non-indigenous, against the racialist policies of both the Yes and No camps.

Derrick Crowe (2023-10-12). Massachusetts: "Working Class as F***!" Movement Politics in the field. peoplesaction.org Natasha Megie-Maddrey, our Neighbor to Neighbor MA member running for office in Lynn, won her primary for ward councilor in early September! Many met her during the convention in D.C. where she went on stage and said: "I've been working since I was 14 years old and I'm working class as FUCK!" Natasha is facing …

Derrick Crowe (2023-10-12). Washington: Building Alignment. peoplesaction.org For the past year, ONE America and Washington CAN have been working together to develop a powerbuilding alignment table with 7 other organizations across Washington State. The purpose is to build and wield serious electoral power in Washington State and advance a shared political power building strategy that deepens their bases through field and elections. …

Palestine Action. (2023-10-12). Launch Of 50-Target-Map Of Companies Complicit In Israel's Weapons Trade. popularresistance.org Israel has now declared a 'full siege' on Gaza, dropping 1,000 tonnes of bombs on the 25-mile long Strip and cutting off all supplies, food, energy and water to its 2 million inhabitants. Over 700 Palestinians have been killed, over 180,000 made homeless, and Gazans are preparing for worse to come — until now, it was unthinkable that their 17 years of captivity and starvation could be made any worse. At this moment, those of us living in the globe's imperial core face a choice: between silence and complicity in the decades-long brutalisation of Palestine, or standing with the liberation efforts of those sub…

Robert Inlakesh (2023-10-13). "Beheaded Israeli Babies", "Raped Women" And Other Disinformation To Justify Gaza Massacre. thelastamericanvagabond.com Following Israel's onslaught against Gaza, killing over a thousand civilians, rendering hundreds of thousands homeless and cutting off the water, food, international aid, electricity, and fuel to what Israel's Defense Minister called "human animals" in Gaza, an immense focus has been placed upon the nature of the initial Hamas attack against Israel. By now you

WSWS (2023-10-13). Laid-off Yellow workers struggling to find work as Wall Street prepares billion dollar sale of bankrupt freight company. wsws.org Wall Street is preparing to reap billions of dollars from the sale of Yellow's assets while many Yellow workers struggle to find new jobs…

Harvey Wasserman (2023-10-12). How "Dumb Money" Nukes Boil & Bankrupt The Earth. counterpunch.org No new U.S. reactors, big or small, fission or fusion will be built here within at least the next five years…more like ten. Those that try will do nothing but divert resources away from the Solartopian technologies needed to save the Earth. They'll also lose big money for their billionaire backers and the taxpayers who'll

Ali Abunimah (2023-10-12). Germany affirms support for famine and extermination in Gaza. electronicintifada.net Chancellor Olaf Scholz offers Israel military aid to facilitate mass killing of Palestinians.

Maureen Clare Murphy (2023-10-12). Famine looms in Gaza amid Israeli carpet bombing. electronicintifada.net Rights groups call for immediate international intervention to stave off humanitarian catastrophe.

Tamara Pearson (2023-10-13). There is a Way Out of the Global Love Crisis. counterpunch.org An infestation of coldness haunts me, particularly on Friday nights. Heart hunger, perhaps, and a wash of sadness. Like many people, I'm very worried, and vulnerable. Then I scroll through social media and the message is that people who have been treated badly should work on themselves. But while we all need to learn and

Mariana Lopes Simàµes (2023-10-12). Tackling malnutrition in an era of political uncertainty: the case of Brazil. peoplesdispatch.org During an era marked by the ascent of far-right governments and influenced by a neoliberal economic agenda, addressing malnutrition challenges — including undernutrition and its consequences, as well as overweight/obesity — demands the development of strategies to overcome systemic barriers that prevent countries from ensuring the right to health on the national level. The implementation of such strategies needs to be bulletproof to political changes and instability, as illustrated by some examples in Latin America. | Years ago, Brazil embarked on a journey to eliminate hunger, a mission grounded in a…

Phyllis Bennis (2023-10-12). Beware the Anti-China Sentiment Pushing Us Towards Another Cold War! indybay.org If the United States can't learn to cooperate with China, our future will be one of constant escalation of wars and threats of wars and all that comes with them—including massive refugee flows, environmental destruction, and rising poverty.

ecns.cn (2023-10-11). Cliff road leads to prosperity in Chongqing. ecns.cn The "sinkhole village" had long struggled against poverty until one day villagers decided to carve out a mountain road on their own. After 7 years, a 8-kilometer cliff road was carved out by villagers to the outside world in 2004.

Peter Certo (2023-10-11). In OtherWords: October 11, 2023. otherwords.org This week in OtherWords, we've got two more strong pieces on the structural causes of poverty to complement our issue from last week. | First, Amy Adams riffs on Jason Aldean's controversial country song, "Try That in a Small Town." It's not more fear or vigilantism that small towns need, Amy says — it's public investment. She shares Second, Jim Hightower calls out gentrification in a surprising plac…

WSWS (2023-10-11). WSWS speaks to workers and student ahead of New Zealand election. wsws.org Workers and students who spoke with the WSWS described worsening poverty, soaring living costs, and denounced the pro-imperialist positions of the Labour and National parties.

Phyllis Bennis (2023-10-11). Beware the Anti-China Sentiment Pushing Us Towards Another Cold War! indybay.org If the United States can't learn to cooperate with China, our future will be one of constant escalation of wars and threats of wars and all that comes with them—including massive refugee flows, environmental destruction, and rising poverty.

Nicolás Centurión (2023-10-11). Uruguay: infancias empobrecidas, futuro hipotecado. globalizacion.ca Los últimos datos de pobreza, correspondientes al primer semestre del 2023, presentados por el Instituto Nacional de Estadística (INE) proclaman que en Uruguay sobreviven casi 160.000 niños bajo la línea de pobreza. | Es decir que el 50 % de los…

ecns.cn (2023-10-12). Central Huijin Investment increases stake in four China commercial banks. ecns.cn Central Huijin Investment Ltd, an arm of China's sovereign wealth fund, has increased its stake in China's four biggest commercial banks on Wednesday, sending the A-share market climbing on Thursday morning.

Liz Theoharis (2023-10-12). Abandoning the Poor. counterpunch.org On the island of Manhattan, where I live, skyscrapers multiply like metal weeds, a vertical invasion of seemingly unstoppable force. For more than a century, they have risen as symbols of wealth and the promise of progress for a city and a nation. In movies and TV shows, those buildings churn with activity, offices full

sputnikglobe (2023-10-12). Chemists Make Exciting New Discovery About Leonardo's 'Mona Lisa'. sputnikglobe.com Leonardo's enigmatic "Mona Lisa" painting has captivated even those unfamiliar to the art world for decades. Researchers have noted the treasured portrait depicts Madam Lisa Giocondo, the wife of a wealthy Florentine silk merchant from the early 1500s.

TASS (2023-10-12). Lavrov to discuss current international issues with CIS counterparts in Bishkek. tass.com The meeting participants will consider the prospects for cooperation in the commonwealth format, including taking into account Russia's upcoming chairmanship in the association from January 1, 2024…

Sharon Zhang (2023-10-11). Report: Harlan Crow Has a Stake in 4 SCOTUS Cases — and Thomas Hasn't Recused. truthout.org The firm that provided Justice Clarence Thomas's billionaire benefactor Harlan Crow with his business success and extreme wealth could stand to majorly benefit from several key Supreme Court cases that Thomas is set to rule on, new research reveals. Crow, his real estate firm Crow Holdings and subsidiary Trammell Crow Residential (TCR) — a real estate development company founded by Crow's father… |

Anjoulie Woodhead (2023-10-12). World Leaders Focus on High Debt Levels and Poor Economic Growth as Morocco Meetings Begin. indybay.org World leaders, finance ministers, business groups, academics and development organizations descend on Marrakesh, Morocco, for the IMF and World Bank Annual Meetings. IMF head Kristalina Georgieva reports that the global economy lost $3.7 trillion due to shocks since 2020 and that slow and unequal growth continues.

Anjoulie Woodhead (2023-10-12). IMF and World Bank Meetings Wrestle with Low Growth, High Interest Rates, Debt Crises and. indybay.org As world leaders arrive for the Annual IMF and World Bank Meetings, the IMF forecasts the global economy to grow 3% this year, which remains below the average of growth for the two decades before the pandemic.

Anjoulie Woodhead (2023-10-12). African Catholic Bishops: Marrakesh Meetings Should Act on "True Jubilee of Hope in Africa. indybay.org World leaders attending the annual IMF, G20 and World Bank meetings should promote urgent debt relief, aid and lending policies to address the interlinked crises African countries face, noted a body that represents African Catholic Bishops.

Ashley Smith, Éric Toussaint (2023-10-12). Debt Abolition Activists Gear Up for Countersummit as World Bank and IMF Meet. internationalviewpoint.org

Anjoulie Woodhead (2023-10-11). World Leaders Focus on High Debt Levels and Poor Economic Growth as Morocco Meetings Begin. indybay.org World leaders, finance ministers, business groups, academics and development organizations descend on Marrakesh, Morocco, for the IMF and World Bank Annual Meetings. IMF head Kristalina Georgieva reports that the global economy lost $3.7 trillion due to shocks since 2020 and that slow and unequal growth continues.

Ashley Smith, Éric Toussaint (2023-10-11). Debt Abolition Activists Gear Up for Countersummit as World Bank and IMF Meet. internationalviewpoint.org

Anjoulie Woodhead (2023-10-11). IMF and World Bank Meetings Wrestle with Low Growth, High Interest Rates, Debt Crises and. indybay.org As world leaders arrive for the Annual IMF and World Bank Meetings, the IMF forecasts the global economy to grow 3% this year, which remains below the average of growth for the two decades before the pandemic.

Anjoulie Woodhead (2023-10-11). African Catholic Bishops: Marrakesh Meetings Should Act on "True Jubilee of Hope in Africa. indybay.org World leaders attending the annual IMF, G20 and World Bank meetings should promote urgent debt relief, aid and lending policies to address the interlinked crises African countries face, noted a body that represents African Catholic Bishops.

channelnewsasia (2023-10-11). US Yellen, PBOC's Pan to meet for talks including on debt. channelnewsasia.com

krish-rad_ind (2023-10-11). An Urgent Call For Debt, Climate And Economic Justice. popularresistance.org

SAM (2023-10-11). To Win In 2024, Biden Should Run On Mass Debt Relief. progressivehub.net SCOTT REMER | IN THESE TIMES…

Chris Hedges, Scheer Post. (2023-10-11). Fascism Comes To America. popularresistance.org The parting gift, I expect, of the bankrupt liberalism of the Democratic Party will be a Christianized fascist state. The liberal class, a creature of corporate power, captive to the war industry and the security state, unable or unwilling to ameliorate the prolonged economic insecurity and misery of the working class, blinded by a self-righteous woke ideology that reeks of hypocrisy and disingenuousness and bereft of any political vision, is the bedrock on which the Christian fascists, who have coalesced in cult-like mobs around Donald Trump, have built their terrifying movement. | Trump, as the writer Jeff Shar…

TASS (2023-10-11). Russia's defense chief inspects production, repair of cargo aircraft in Ulyanovsk. tass.com According to the Defense Ministry, Sergey Shoigu also held a working meeting in which he pointed to "an almost manifold" increase in the workload of Russian military cargo aviation…

WSWS (2023-10-11). Walgreens Pharmacy employees walk out against unsafe working conditions. wsws.org Non-union pharmacy employees stage a three-day walkout to protest unsafe working conditions that have only been exacerbated by the COVID pandemic.

WSWS (2023-10-11). Walgreens Pharmacy employees walk out across the US against unsafe working conditions. wsws.org Non-union pharmacy employees stage a three-day walkout to protest unsafe working conditions that have only been exacerbated by the COVID pandemic.

Betsey Piette (2023-10-12). House battle over speaker — time for working-class intervention. workers.org The eleventh hour 209-126 compromise vote between House of Representative Democrats and Republicans on Sept. 30, orchestrated by former Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy, provided a temporary extension of federal spending. But it has opened a hornet's nest of political wrangling which shows that the U.S. regime is in . . . |

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2023-10-12). Homing in on the importance of diversity in research. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org Minerva Carrasquillo, Ph.D. Hispanic Heritage Month pays tribute to the history, culture and traditions of Americans of Hispanic ancestry. In this Q&A, Minerva Carrasquillo, Ph.D., a neurogeneticist at Mayo Clinic in Florida, shares a snapshot of her current research and why she believes fostering diversity in research is critical. What is your research focus and what are you working on now? I am an assistant professor and associate consultant in the Department of Neuroscience at Mayo Clinic in…

Ajeyo Basu (2023-10-11). Afghanistan: More homes destroyed as another earthquake strikes Herat province. firstpost.com Following a series of devastating quakes on Saturday, authorities were forced to redeploy relief and rescue workers already on the ground after a major earthquake shook Afghanistan's western province of Herat on Wednesday. | Provincial officials said that hundreds of homes had been demolished, but disaster management spokesperson Janan Sayeeq told Reuters that there were no current figures on casualties. | Without providing further information, the governor of Herat's administration claimed that some localities had sustained "huge losses." | "Mobile medical teams and officials have been working together and have…

Herman Rosenfeld (2023-10-11). Similar Challenges, Different Narratives: A Tale of Two Unions. socialistproject.ca The 2023 auto bargaining between the auto unions and the Detroit "Big 3" is shaking out to be different in a way that few of us could have imagined. | The objective conditions favour an environment of working-class gains, with some countervailing factors. Job markets favour workers, despite a post-COVID inflationary period and high interest rates used to force neoliberal levels of inflation. Workers across the economies of both the US and Canada have been looking to make up for the huge losses resulting from previous concessions (since the early 2000s and inflation and the recent inflationary period). | The st…

Palestine Action. (2023-10-12). Launch Of 50-Target-Map Of Companies Complicit In Israel's Weapons Trade. popularresistance.org Israel has now declared a 'full siege' on Gaza, dropping 1,000 tonnes of bombs on the 25-mile long Strip and cutting off all supplies, food, energy and water to its 2 million inhabitants. Over 700 Palestinians have been killed, over 180,000 made homeless, and Gazans are preparing for worse to come — until now, it was unthinkable that their 17 years of captivity and starvation could be made any worse. At this moment, those of us living in the globe's imperial core face a choice: between silence and complicity in the decades-long brutalisation of Palestine, or standing with the liberation efforts of those sub…

presstv.ir (2023-10-11). Israeli bombing of Gaza leaves Press TV journalist 'homeless'. presstv.ir A Press TV correspondent in Gaza saw his home entirely destroyed in an Israeli assault.

Harvey Wasserman (2023-10-12). How "Dumb Money" Nukes Boil & Bankrupt The Earth. counterpunch.org No new U.S. reactors, big or small, fission or fusion will be built here within at least the next five years…more like ten. Those that try will do nothing but divert resources away from the Solartopian technologies needed to save the Earth. They'll also lose big money for their billionaire backers and the taxpayers who'll

WSWS (2023-10-12). Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony files for bankruptcy days before beginning of 2023-24 season. wsws.org Music and the arts are not viewed as something worth supporting by the financial elite because they represent a drain on resources that could be, from the point of view of the capitalists, better spent on investing in the stock market or waging war.

Élodie Gavrilof (2023-10-12). Nagorno-Karabakh condemned to famine in the indifference of the international community. internationalviewpoint.org "Peace cannot be achieved under these conditions, but that is not what the Azerbaijani authorities are seeking. Their policy is intended to force Armenians in the region to leave or die." | – | / |

Élodie Gavrilof (2023-10-11). Nagorno-Karabakh condemned to famine in the indifference of the international community. internationalviewpoint.org "Peace cannot be achieved under these conditions, but that is not what the Azerbaijani authorities are seeking. Their policy is intended to force Armenians in the region to leave or die." | – | / |

infobrics (2023-10-11). Crimes against humanity committed in responses to Palestinian attack. infobrics.org Israel and the West use Hamas attack as an excuse to foment war and famine.

Victoria Kim (2023-10-12). Rep. Jasmine Crockett Is Gathering The Government. newsone.com Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett during a House Oversight Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., on September 28, 2023. | Source: Anadolu Agency / Getty | The Texas Representative who went viral for her blunt takedown of impeachment-hungry Republicans, Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett, is the latest guest on the Small Doses with Amanda Seales podcast. | A video of Rep. Crockett (D-Texas) is making the rounds in which she swiftly gathers House Republicans at the first hearing on the

ecns.cn (2023-10-11). Cliff road leads to prosperity in Chongqing. ecns.cn The "sinkhole village" had long struggled against poverty until one day villagers decided to carve out a mountain road on their own. After 7 years, a 8-kilometer cliff road was carved out by villagers to the outside world in 2004.

Peter Certo (2023-10-11). In OtherWords: October 11, 2023. otherwords.org This week in OtherWords, we've got two more strong pieces on the structural causes of poverty to complement our issue from last week. | First, Amy Adams riffs on Jason Aldean's controversial country song, "Try That in a Small Town." It's not more fear or vigilantism that small towns need, Amy says — it's public investment. She shares Second, Jim Hightower calls out gentrification in a surprising plac…

WSWS (2023-10-11). WSWS speaks to workers and student ahead of New Zealand election. wsws.org Workers and students who spoke with the WSWS described worsening poverty, soaring living costs, and denounced the pro-imperialist positions of the Labour and National parties.

Liz Theoharis (2023-10-10). Abandoning the poor. nationofchange.org Or confronting the needless scourge of poverty.

Phyllis Bennis (2023-10-11). Beware the Anti-China Sentiment Pushing Us Towards Another Cold War! indybay.org If the United States can't learn to cooperate with China, our future will be one of constant escalation of wars and threats of wars and all that comes with them—including massive refugee flows, environmental destruction, and rising poverty.

Nicolás Centurión (2023-10-11). Uruguay: infancias empobrecidas, futuro hipotecado. globalizacion.ca Los últimos datos de pobreza, correspondientes al primer semestre del 2023, presentados por el Instituto Nacional de Estadística (INE) proclaman que en Uruguay sobreviven casi 160.000 niños bajo la línea de pobreza. | Es decir que el 50 % de los…

Deb Nelson, Next City. (2023-10-10). Four Winning Models For Building Community Wealth. popularresistance.org If we're ever going to have a just economy, we'll have to build it from the ground up. | Flowing resources to front-line communities that face the worst of the climate crisis and the racial wealth gap is the ideal way to plant the roots of a new economy. Not only is it essential for justice, but it's also a practical, scalable strategy for seeding system change. | As executive director of the Just Economy Institute, I've collaborated with many JEI fellows who are leading promising community wealth-building initiatives. These financial activists share a set of principles: They support community self-determination…

Will Hodgkinson, Workers' World. (2023-10-10). Boston Demands Indigenous Peoples Day! popularresistance.org On Oct. 7, over 200 Indigenous activists and their allies gathered on Boston Common to demand that the Commonwealth of Massachusetts abolish Columbus Day and immediately designate the second Monday in October as Indigenous Peoples Day. | This action continued the Indigenous-led movement to end the racist cult glorifying Christopher Columbus, a Genoese mercenary backed by Spanish monarchs and mercantile investors. He commanded the 1492 voyage to the Caribbean that initiated the transatlantic slave trade and began the ongoing settler-colonial genocide of Indigenous peoples.

_____ (2023-10-10). HMRC: Just 11 'Wealthy' People Prosecuted For Tax Fraud Last Year. truepublica.org.uk By Ed Siddons and Lucy Nash: HMRC investigations led to prosecutions against just 11 "wealthy" people last year, an investigation by the Bureau of Investigative Journalism and TaxWatch can reveal. Critics say the figure, obtained by freedom of information requests, suggests the UK tax inspector is doing too little to punish rich tax cheats at …

Anjoulie Woodhead (2023-10-11). World Leaders Focus on High Debt Levels and Poor Economic Growth as Morocco Meetings Begin. indybay.org World leaders, finance ministers, business groups, academics and development organizations descend on Marrakesh, Morocco, for the IMF and World Bank Annual Meetings. IMF head Kristalina Georgieva reports that the global economy lost $3.7 trillion due to shocks since 2020 and that slow and unequal growth continues.

Ashley Smith, Éric Toussaint (2023-10-11). Debt Abolition Activists Gear Up for Countersummit as World Bank and IMF Meet. internationalviewpoint.org

Ashley Smith, Éric Toussaint (2023-10-10). Debt Abolition Activists Gear Up for Countersummit as World Bank and IMF Meet. internationalviewpoint.org

Debt for Climate. (2023-10-10). An Urgent Call For Debt, Climate And Economic Justice. popularresistance.org Communities all over the world are struggling and resisting the impacts of multiple crises. At a time of intensifying climate impacts and speculative increases of food and energy prices, governments, particularly in the Global South, are responding to unsustainable public debts and the lack of development and climate finance, with a rising wave of austerity, subjugation and extractivism. | We vehemently denounce the role of the World Bank (WB) and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) that, together with other private and public lenders, perpetuate a flawed international financial architecture that exacerbates de…

WSWS (2023-10-10). Bond market "rout" a result of major structural shifts. wsws.org There is a recognition that the period in which the escalation of US government debt could be endlessly financed because interest rates were at historic lows has come to an end.

Anjoulie Woodhead (2023-10-11). IMF and World Bank Meetings Wrestle with Low Growth, High Interest Rates, Debt Crises and. indybay.org As world leaders arrive for the Annual IMF and World Bank Meetings, the IMF forecasts the global economy to grow 3% this year, which remains below the average of growth for the two decades before the pandemic.

Anjoulie Woodhead (2023-10-11). African Catholic Bishops: Marrakesh Meetings Should Act on "True Jubilee of Hope in Africa. indybay.org World leaders attending the annual IMF, G20 and World Bank meetings should promote urgent debt relief, aid and lending policies to address the interlinked crises African countries face, noted a body that represents African Catholic Bishops.

channelnewsasia (2023-10-11). US Yellen, PBOC's Pan to meet for talks including on debt. channelnewsasia.com

ecns.cn (2023-10-11). Local debt swaps may forestall financial risks. ecns.cn China might have pushed ahead a "debt swap program" that could be worth 2.3 trillion yuan ($315.2 billion) at most.

Debt for Climate. (2023-10-10). An Urgent Call For Debt, Climate And Economic Justice. popularresistance.org Communities all over the world are struggling and resisting the impacts of multiple crises. At a time of intensifying climate impacts and speculative increases of food and energy prices, governments, particularly in the Global South, are responding to unsustainable public debts and the lack of development and climate finance, with a rising wave of austerity, subjugation and extractivism. | We vehemently denounce the role of the World Bank (WB) and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) that, together with other private and public lenders, perpetuate a flawed international financial architecture that exacerbates de…

WSWS (2023-10-10). Bond market "rout" a result of major structural shifts. wsws.org There is a recognition that the period in which the escalation of US government debt could be endlessly financed because interest rates were at historic lows has come to an end.

Anjoulie Woodhead (2023-10-11). IMF and World Bank Meetings Wrestle with Low Growth, High Interest Rates, Debt Crises and. indybay.org As world leaders arrive for the Annual IMF and World Bank Meetings, the IMF forecasts the global economy to grow 3% this year, which remains below the average of growth for the two decades before the pandemic.

Anjoulie Woodhead (2023-10-11). African Catholic Bishops: Marrakesh Meetings Should Act on "True Jubilee of Hope in Africa. indybay.org World leaders attending the annual IMF, G20 and World Bank meetings should promote urgent debt relief, aid and lending policies to address the interlinked crises African countries face, noted a body that represents African Catholic Bishops.

channelnewsasia (2023-10-11). US Yellen, PBOC's Pan to meet for talks including on debt. channelnewsasia.com

ecns.cn (2023-10-11). Local debt swaps may forestall financial risks. ecns.cn China might have pushed ahead a "debt swap program" that could be worth 2.3 trillion yuan ($315.2 billion) at most.

Anjoulie Woodhead (2023-10-10). World Leaders Focus on High Debt Levels and Poor Economic Growth as Morocco Meetings Begin. indybay.org World leaders, finance ministers, business groups, academics and development organizations descend on Marrakesh, Morocco, for the IMF and World Bank Annual Meetings. IMF head Kristalina Georgieva reports that the global economy lost $3.7 trillion due to shocks since 2020 and that slow and unequal growth continues.

channelnewsasia (2023-10-10). Sri Lanka, EXIM Bank of China, reach pact on debt disposal -China. channelnewsasia.com

Chris Hedges, Scheer Post. (2023-10-11). Fascism Comes To America. popularresistance.org The parting gift, I expect, of the bankrupt liberalism of the Democratic Party will be a Christianized fascist state. The liberal class, a creature of corporate power, captive to the war industry and the security state, unable or unwilling to ameliorate the prolonged economic insecurity and misery of the working class, blinded by a self-righteous woke ideology that reeks of hypocrisy and disingenuousness and bereft of any political vision, is the bedrock on which the Christian fascists, who have coalesced in cult-like mobs around Donald Trump, have built their terrifying movement. | Trump, as the writer Jeff Shar…

TASS (2023-10-11). Russia's defense chief inspects production, repair of cargo aircraft in Ulyanovsk. tass.com According to the Defense Ministry, Sergey Shoigu also held a working meeting in which he pointed to "an almost manifold" increase in the workload of Russian military cargo aviation…

WSWS (2023-10-11). Walgreens Pharmacy employees walk out against unsafe working conditions. wsws.org Non-union pharmacy employees stage a three-day walkout to protest unsafe working conditions that have only been exacerbated by the COVID pandemic.

Global Research News (2023-10-10). Selected Articles: Israel-Palestine and the Acceleration of Eternal Wars. Israel's "Long War… Working Towards Greater Israel" globalresearch.ca By In the meantime, on the same day of Hamas' Operation Al-Aqsa Storm, Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu, declared war …

Peoples Dispatch (2023-10-10). Protests grow in Belgium against bill to restrict demonstrations. peoplesdispatch.org Working class sections and left-wing parties in Belgium have intensified the agitation against a bill proposed by Justice Minister Vincent Van Quickenborne with provisions to ban 'rioters' from participating in protests. Due to fierce opposition from legislators of the Workers' Party of Belgium (PTB/PVDA), the coalition government has postponed voting on the bill in the parliament. | On October 5, around 10,000 demonstrated in Brussels demanding that the bill be withdrawn as it endangers the right to organize and the freedom of expression. The protest was called for by trade unions including the General Labor Fed…

PNW Street Medics (2023-10-10). Zello for Street Medics. indybay.org We recommend adding the Zello app to your smartphone, both as a means of communicating between street medics working in the field, and for having another communications channel to stay in touch with your friends, family, and support groups.

presstv.ir (2023-10-10). Thousands march in Rome for better working conditions, peace in Ukraine. presstv.ir Thousands of demonstrators took to the streets of Rome to demand better working conditions and an end to the conflict in Ukraine without sanctions and European arms supplies.

WSWS (2023-10-11). Walgreens Pharmacy employees walk out across the US against unsafe working conditions. wsws.org Non-union pharmacy employees stage a three-day walkout to protest unsafe working conditions that have only been exacerbated by the COVID pandemic.

WSWS (2023-10-10). IMF withholds second installment of bailout loan to Sri Lanka. wsws.org President Wickremesinghe's regime is being ordered to escalate its attacks on the working class and poor, which means even more brutal increases in taxes and the cost of essentials and basic services.

WSWS (2023-10-10). SEG and IYSSE hold public meeting ahead of New Zealand election. wsws.org Speakers presented a socialist program to unite the working class against war, austerity, and the racial divisions being whipped up by all the established parties ahead of the October 14 election.

WSWS (2023-10-10). Israeli army lays siege to Gaza. wsws.org Halting the escalation of the bloodshed being planned by the Israeli government, backed by the NATO imperialist powers, requires mobilizing opposition in the international working class.

Ajeyo Basu (2023-10-11). Afghanistan: More homes destroyed as another earthquake strikes Herat province. firstpost.com Following a series of devastating quakes on Saturday, authorities were forced to redeploy relief and rescue workers already on the ground after a major earthquake shook Afghanistan's western province of Herat on Wednesday. | Provincial officials said that hundreds of homes had been demolished, but disaster management spokesperson Janan Sayeeq told Reuters that there were no current figures on casualties. | Without providing further information, the governor of Herat's administration claimed that some localities had sustained "huge losses." | "Mobile medical teams and officials have been working together and have…

FP Staff (2023-10-11). Indian embassy assures help for all stranded Indian nationals in Israel. firstpost.com Urging Indian nationals in Israel "to remain calm, vigilant," the Indian Embassy in Tel Aviv on Wednesday reassured them that it is "monitoring the situation closely" and "working constantly to help our fellow citizens in Israel." | In a recorded message on X, the social media platform, India's Ambassador to Israel, Sanjeev Singla, said: "This is to assure you that the embassy is working constantly for your safety and welfare. All of us are going through very difficult times but please do remain calm and vigilant and follow the local security guidelines." "We are here to help you, and we thank many of you who hav…

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2023-10-11). Homing in on the importance of diversity in research. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org Minerva Carrasquillo, Ph.D. Hispanic Heritage Month pays tribute to the history, culture and traditions of Americans of Hispanic ancestry. In this Q&A, Minerva Carrasquillo, Ph.D., a neurogeneticist at Mayo Clinic in Florida, shares a snapshot of her current research and why she believes fostering diversity in research is critical. What is your research focus and what are you working on now? I am an assistant professor and associate consultant in the Department of Neuroscience at Mayo Clinic in…

TASS (2023-10-10). Russian diplomat highlights risk of further escalation in Israel-Palestine conflict zone. tass.com "The current priority goal is to ensure the safety of our fellow citizens and provide an opportunity to be evacuated to those who are interested in that, which is what we are working on at the moment," Sergey Ryabkov added…

Palestine Action. (2023-10-12). Launch Of 50-Target-Map Of Companies Complicit In Israel's Weapons Trade. popularresistance.org Israel has now declared a 'full siege' on Gaza, dropping 1,000 tonnes of bombs on the 25-mile long Strip and cutting off all supplies, food, energy and water to its 2 million inhabitants. Over 700 Palestinians have been killed, over 180,000 made homeless, and Gazans are preparing for worse to come — until now, it was unthinkable that their 17 years of captivity and starvation could be made any worse. At this moment, those of us living in the globe's imperial core face a choice: between silence and complicity in the decades-long brutalisation of Palestine, or standing with the liberation efforts of those sub…

presstv.ir (2023-10-11). Israeli bombing of Gaza leaves Press TV journalist 'homeless'. presstv.ir A Press TV correspondent in Gaza saw his home entirely destroyed in an Israeli assault.

presstv.ir (2023-10-10). Israeli bombing of Gaza leaves Press TV journalist 'homeless'. presstv.ir A Press TV correspondent in Gaza saw his home entirely destroyed in an Israeli assault.

FP Explainers (2023-10-11). Gaza has one exit route and Israel is bombing it. Where do its people go?>. firstpost.com They call it the world's largest open-air prison. And right now there is no escaping it. After Hamas's stealth attack on Israel, its military continues to pound Gaza, home to more than two million people. In five days, 900 people have died and around 2,60,000 persons have been rendered homeless. | Residential buildings, schools, hospitals and mosques have been reduced to rubble. Two days ago, the Israeli military asked Palestinians to flee

channelnewsasia (2023-10-10). Chinese EV startup WM Motor files for bankruptcy. channelnewsasia.com

Élodie Gavrilof (2023-10-11). Nagorno-Karabakh condemned to famine in the indifference of the international community. internationalviewpoint.org "Peace cannot be achieved under these conditions, but that is not what the Azerbaijani authorities are seeking. Their policy is intended to force Armenians in the region to leave or die." | – | / |

infobrics (2023-10-11). Crimes against humanity committed in responses to Palestinian attack. infobrics.org Israel and the West use Hamas attack as an excuse to foment war and famine.

Sonali Kolhatkar (2023-10-10). Labor education starts in schoolÔøº. nationofchange.org Giving K-12 students the language, information, and tools they need to protect themselves from workplace exploitation is a critical tool to reversing the nation's capitalism-fueled inequality.

Cesar Chelala (2023-10-10). Women are Key to Ending World Hunger. counterpunch.org It is one of the world's greatest tragedies, and it is still neglected. In 2021, the world reached a new, although unwelcome landmark: the number of people affected by hunger rose to 828 million, an increase of about 150 million since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic. This, according to a United Nations report, The

Cesar Chelala (2023-10-10). Women are Key to Ending World Hunger. counterpunch.org It is one of the world's greatest tragedies, and it is still neglected. In 2021, the world reached a new, although unwelcome landmark: the number of people affected by hunger rose to 828 million, an increase of about 150 million since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic. This, according to a United Nations report, The

FP Staff (2023-10-11). Power-hungry: AI bots like ChatGPT will have higher energy demands than many countries by 2027. firstpost.com According to recent research published in the journal Joule, the energy consumption associated with artificial intelligence (AI) applications is projected to surpass the annual electricity requirements of entire nations like the Netherlands, Argentina, and Sweden by the year 2027. | This energy-intensive trend is attributed to the widespread adoption of AI, with particular emphasis on generative AI technologies like ChatGPT, which generate content by drawing upon the data they were trained on. The surge in the use of such AI systems has been notably prominent since 2022. | Training these tools is an energy-intens…