(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.
(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.
(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".
(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.
(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…
(2023-10-16). Unmasking Russia's Influence and Changing Situation Within the Commonwealth of Independent States. globalresearch.ca
(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…
(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.
(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.
(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.
(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 …
(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."
(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.
(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 …
(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.
(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 …
(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…
(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.
(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.
(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…
(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 <...
(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…
(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 …
(2023-10-16). Militarism Will Inevitably Lead America into Bankruptcy. globalresearch.ca
(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 …
(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.
(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.