(2023-10-09). LEVER TIME PREMIUM: Coming Of Age In American Poverty. levernews.com On this week's episode of Lever Time Premium, exclusively for The Lever's supporting subscribers, producer Frank Cappello is joined by Nikhil Goyal, sociologist, educator, and former senior advisor to Senator Bernie Sanders, to discuss his new book Live to See the Day: Coming Of Age In American Poverty. The book chronicles the lives of three Puerto Rican teenagers growing up in one of Philadelphia's poorest neighborhoods, and explores the failures of America's public education and welfare systems through lived experience. On the show, Goyal discusses the "school choice" movement, which has largely become a vehic…
(2023-10-08). "Economic Miracle" or Mass Poverty in Greece? "A Strong Economy means Neoliberalism" globalresearch.ca
(2023-10-09). How the Fossil Fuel Industry Came to Love Climate Change. libya360.wordpress.com Gloria Guillo Has Carbon Taxation Become an Expedient Way to Redistribute Wealth, Cover Up Environmental Crimes, Promote Hazardous Energy Policies, and Control the Working Class and Developing Nations? Does the Threat of Climate Change Misdirect the Anti-War Movement? During the early 2000s, only a few left-wing magazines with limited circulation warned about the threat of…
(2023-10-08). Abandoning the Poor. tomdispatch.com 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 of important people doing work of global significance. The effect is a feeling of economic vitality made real by the sheer scale of the buildings themselves. In stark contrast to those images of bustling productivity stands an outcropping of tall towers along the southern end of Manhattan's Centra…
(2023-10-09). IMF pushes world's poorest countries into "starvation diet" as debt burdens spiral. peoplesdispatch.org As the IMF and World Bank commence their annual meetings, an Oxfam report shows how their failed policies of austerity will force the world's poorest countries to cut USD 229 billion in public spending while hemorrhaging billions in debt payments.
(2023-10-09). Debt Abolition Activists Gear Up for Countersummit as World Bank and IMF Meet. internationalviewpoint.org
(2023-10-08). IMF Speaks: World Economy Loses $3.7 Trillion Due to Pandemic and Economic Shocks. indybay.org As World Leaders Head to Morocco, IMF Leader Raises Growth and Debt Challenges…
(2023-10-08). Debt Abolition Activists Gear Up for Countersummit as World Bank and IMF Meet. internationalviewpoint.org
(2023-10-09). Emerging economies face $220 billion in budget cuts amid debt crisis -Oxfam. channelnewsasia.com
(2023-10-09). Israel-Palestine and the Acceleration of Eternal Wars. Israel's "Long War… Working Towards Greater Israel" globalresearch.ca
(2023-10-09). 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.
(2023-10-09). 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.
(2023-10-09). Lavrov, Arab League Secretary General to discuss Gaza escalation, other issues. tass.com The Secretary General arrived in the Russian capital with a working visit under invitation from Lavrov…
(2023-10-09). Mobilise the working class against the Sri Lankan government's dictatorial Online Safety and Anti-Terrorism bills. wsws.org The new bills are aimed at vastly strengthening the repressive powers of the president and his government to suppress working-class opposition to its IMF-dictated attacks on jobs, wages and social conditions.
(2023-10-09). South Korean main opposition leader in court on corruption charges. wsws.org The government's targeting of Lee Jae-myung is meant to intimidate rival sections of the ruling class while also to prepare repressive measures directed at the working class.
(2023-10-08). 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.
(2023-10-08). 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.
(2023-10-08). Arab League Secretary General Leaves for Moscow at Lavrov's Invitation. sputnikglobe.com CAIRO (Sputnik) – Secretary General of the League of Arab States (LAS) Ahmed Aboul Gheit left Sunday for Moscow on a working visit at the invitation of Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, the LAS said.
(2023-10-08). Labour benefits from Scottish National Party collapse in Rutherglen and Hamilton West. wsws.org The Scottish National Party has suffered a disastrous by-election defeat to the Labour Party in the largely working class constituency of Rutherglen and Hamilton West.
(2023-10-09). Electri-flying: Japan bets big on electric aircraft, allocates $205nm to boost development. firstpost.com According to a recent report in the business daily Nikkei, Japan has announced a subsidy of 30.6 billion yen, equivalent to $205 million, for hydrogen fuel cell systems and related equipment. This government initiative has been designed to bolster the advancement of components required for electric aircraft, with the goal of reducing carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, as detailed in the newspaper. | The Ministry of Trade is anticipated to introduce this policy during an upcoming session of the ministry's council working group. | The government is set to earmark 17.3 billion yen for the development of hydrogen fuel c…
(2023-10-09). U.S. Receives Failing Grades on Human Right to Housing Report Card. indybay.org Limited Progress During Pandemic Offset By Inactions Since…
(2023-10-08). U.S. Receives Failing Grades on Human Right to Housing Report Card. indybay.org Limited Progress During Pandemic Offset By Inactions Since…
(2023-10-09). American economist Claudia Goldin wins Nobel Prize in Economics 2023 for research on women's labour market outcomes. firstpost.com A professor at Harvard and labour economist Claudia Goldin has won the Nobel Prize for Economics 2023. Of all the Nobel Prizes, the one for Economics has the fewest number of women who have won, with just two recipients since it was first awarded in 1969 — Elinor Ostrom in 2009 and Esther Duflo in 2019. | Goldin won the Nobel Prize for Economics for "having advanced our understanding of women's labour market outcomes," the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said on Monday. Goldin's research, has focused on inequality and the female labour force in global work spaces. | The prestigious award, formally known a…
(2023-10-09). 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
(2023-10-09). Kiev regime's hunger for weapons exacerbated by latest Israel-Gaza conflict. infobrics.org If the fighting in Gaza ends up becoming a stalemate, Israel will need a constant supply of artillery munitions, which isn't a very good prospect for the Neo-Nazi junta forces.
(2023-10-08). Thousands of South Sudan returnees at risk of hunger: UN. presstv.ir Hundreds of thousands of South Sudanese refugees fleeing Sudan's brutal war are facing hunger.