(2024-01-02). Optimizing Interventions for Early Childhood. jamanetwork.com Early childhood is a critical period for development. The estimated costs of children not reaching their full developmental potential during this period are high and persist throughout life, including lower economic productivity and poorer health. Attaining full developmental potential has been recognized as the right of every child, and investing in early childhood development is key to breaking intergenerational cycles of poverty, increasing human capital, and improving population health and well-being. Yet the most recent estimates indicate that about 43% of children younger than 5 years in low- and middle-inc…
(2024-01-03). In The World's Wealthiest Country, Housing Should Be A Human Right. popularresistance.org Too many of us have to depend on sheer good luck to make it — especially when it comes to putting a roof over our heads. | We grow up hearing that hard work alone will lift us above the hardships we're born into. But many of us also watched as our parents worked two and three jobs, relied on extended family to watch us, and still struggled to afford stable housing. Far too many of us are living that same struggle ourselves. | It's not that we aren't resourceful. My grandmother, who barely scraped by with factory work and countless odd jobs, pulled together with neighbors who supported each other through a m…
(2024-01-03). FULL SPEECH: Museveni on corruption, wealth creation and ADF. independent.co.ug 
1Ô∏è‚É£ Promoting wealth creation in every home 2Ô∏è‚É£ Combating corruption 3Ô∏è‚É£ Embracing regional integration 4Ô∏è‚É£ Addressing the threat of terrorists from Congo Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Full end of year speech by President Yoweri Museveni December 31, 2023. **** Fellow Ugandans, I congratulate you for finishing the year 2023 and I wish you …
(2024-01-02). In the World's Wealthiest Country, Housing Should Be a Human Right and a Community Builder. scheerpost.com 
(2024-01-03). Sign CODE PINK Petition to End Genocide Against Palestinians in Gaza. indybay.org Bombing Gaza is a deliberate act of genocide against the Palestinian people. | www.codepink.org/indefensible | The US has played a significant role in this by being the biggest funder of Israel's military, providing it with $3.8 billion every year, as well as currently working to send $14.5 billion more in military "aid". Despite Israel's brutal violence against Palestinians increasing this year, and the blatant genocide being carried out in Gaza now, the US has repeatedly expressed its support for the occupying forces. Now 15,000+ Palestinians have been killed by Israel since October 7. Help us move towa…
(2024-01-03). The working class, the fight against capitalist barbarism, and the building of the World Party of Socialist Revolution , (Part One). wsws.org The New Year opens against the backdrop of a massive escalation of imperialist violence throughout the world. Genocide and nuclear war are being normalized.
(2024-01-03). Sustainable Food Systems Need Intergenerational Cooperation. popularresistance.org "There is a growing fear of insecurity about food in our societies. We fear losing control of what we will be able to eat in the future. But we also see many local initiatives across Europe working on new food systems. However, to be honest, real change is coming too slowly. One important reason seems to be an absence of exchange, understanding and trust between generations. | Elders tend to hold on to their habits, the younger generation wants to try out and take risks. We need to overcome that gap in order to move on to common action on our farming and food systems of the future. We work for a new intergenerati…
(2024-01-03). Harvard president's forced resignation: The working class must be mobilized to fight the new McCarthyism. wsws.org This letter opposing the ouster of Harvard President Claudine Gay was submitted to the WSWS by a Harvard employee.
(2024-01-02). Sign CODE PINK Petition to End Genocide Against Palestinians in Gaza. indybay.org Bombing Gaza is a deliberate act of genocide against the Palestinian people. | www.codepink.org/indefensible | The US has played a significant role in this by being the biggest funder of Israel's military, providing it with $3.8 billion every year, as well as currently working to send $14.5 billion more in military "aid". Despite Israel's brutal violence against Palestinians increasing this year, and the blatant genocide being carried out in Gaza now, the US has repeatedly expressed its support for the occupying forces. Now 15,000+ Palestinians have been killed by Israel since October 7. Help us move towa…
(2024-01-02). The Politics of Emergency Time and the Emerging Threat of Fascism. counterpunch.org 
The underbelly of contemporary violence is colonialism, the politics of disposability, religious fundamentalism, neoliberalism, and raw militarism. Violence seems to have engulfed the earth like a blinding sandstorm. Children are being killed en mass in Gaza, homelessness is increasingly spreading among youth in many countries, inequality exists at staggering levels, and a culture for justice has been replaced by a global culture of war. Gangster capitalism is waging a war on the working class, women's reproductive rights, gay rights, people of color, and democracy itself–brazenly wrapping itself in the discours…
(2024-01-02). Fake Intellectuals Working For Think Tanks Funded By the Arms Industry Are Driving Support For War After War After War. covertactionmagazine.com Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Syria, Ukraine, Russia, China, and Now Iran A few days after the October 7 attacks in northern Israel, The Atlantic Council ran an inflammatory article on its website by Jonathan Panikoff, a former deputy national intelligence officer, entitled "It doesn't matter whether Iran planned the Hamas attack—Tehran is still to blame."[1] The …
(2024-01-02). The Margins Matter. jamanetwork.com In this narrative medicine essay, an internist illustrates how working class patients juggle their health care needs‚àíwhether to eat, pay rent, or lose wages—before illness or pain propels them to see a clinician.
(2024-01-03). Homelessness crisis in Australia exposes Labor-Greens housing deal. wsws.org Soaring rents and home mortgage repayments are producing homelessness on a scale described by charities as the worst on record.
(2024-01-03). Year in Review: How the Vallejo Police Union Won in 2023. indybay.org Vallejo also struggled to contend with homelessness and declining attendance in schools…
(2024-01-02). Year in Review: How the Vallejo Police Union Won in 2023. indybay.org Vallejo also struggled to contend with homelessness and declining attendance in schools…
(2024-01-02). Madagascar: Southern Africa Price Bulletin, December 2023. reliefweb.int
(2024-01-02). Mali: Mise à jour sur la sécurité alimentaire – Accès limité des pauvres aux aliments au nord et centre du pays à cause des prix élevées et les conflits, décembre 2023. reliefweb.int
(2024-01-03). Israeli Assault Causing Disease, Hunger to Rapidly Spread Across Gaza. globalresearch.ca
(2024-01-02). War In Sudan Engulfs Agricultural Heartland Amid Record Hunger. popularresistance.org Agricultural production has come to a halt in Sudan's breadbasket, Gezira. This is at a time when hunger in the war-torn country is at the highest level ever recorded during the harvest season between October and February, with nearly 40% of the population facing "acute hunger." | The Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) are on the retreat after the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) stormed across Gezira last week, disrupting harvest in this State which produces half of all the wheat grown in Sudan. | Farmers are too terrified to return to their fields, and have in some areas "gone so far as to flood canals and sacrifice their h…
(2024-01-02). In Contempt #36: Hunger Strikes at Red Onion Prison and NWDC, Eric King Released. itsgoingdown.org 
In this column, we present our monthly roundup of political prisoner, prison rebel, and repression news, happenings, announcements, action and analysis. Packed in as always are updates, fundraisers, and birthdays. There's a lot happening, so let's dive right in! New Year's Eve Noise Demos This new year's eve, people in over 20 cities across the…
(2024-01-02). An Immense Hunger. dissidentvoice.org 
Standing there I wondered how much of what we had felt on the bridge was just hunger. I asked my wife and she said, 'I don't know, Tatie. There are so many sorts of hunger. In the spring there are more. But that's gone now. Memory is hunger. — Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast, 1964 …
(2024-01-02). Selected Articles: An Immense Hunger, Where Are We All Going? Our Visions Into a New Year… Edward Curtin. globalresearch.ca 
By Now that our revels are ended, the holiday celebrations and feasts, if one had them, just a …
(2024-01-02). Alastair Crooke: America's Fatal Hunger for Honor and Glory. thealtworld.com
(2024-01-03). Pilger's Rap Sheet On The Criminal Elite. popularresistance.org John Pilger was always on the side of the oppressed. He denounced Empire and all its violent predations — war, genocide, exploitation — as well as its endless lies and propaganda. | Till his death on Saturday, he fought tirelessly for the freedom of Julian Assange, and his last article, "We are all Spartacus," published in Consortium News, was a call to stand with the imprisoned publisher. | Pilger gave voice to the invisible and the voiceless: the hungry, the poor, the handicapped, the conscripted, the sanctioned and bombed, the dispossessed, refugees, the chemically experimented on, the structurally…