(2024-01-18). The Rich Get Richer While Global Poverty Deepens. popularresistance.org The wealth of the world's top five richest men has more than doubled since 2020 while 4.8 billion people, or 60% of humanity, have been further impoverished. At this rate, while it could only take a decade for the world to have its first trillionaire, it will take 229 years to ensure that no person is living in poverty. | These findings are part of a new report titled Inequality Inc. published by Oxfam International, released on the eve of the World Economic Forum meeting in Davos, Switzerland. | "We're witnessing the beginnings of a decade of division, with billions of people shouldering the economic shockwaves…
(2024-01-18). Gremios argentinos rechazan la Ley àìmnibus y aseguran el paro. telesurtv.net Las organizaciones convocantes fueron unánimes en denunciar el recrudecimiento de la pobreza.
(2024-01-18). Global 1% own 43% of financial assets, 5 richest billionaires doubled wealth while 5 billion workers got poorer. geopoliticaleconomy.com 
The world's richest 1% own 43% of global financial assets, and the wealth of the top five billionaires has doubled since 2020, while 60% of humanity got poorer, according to a report by Oxfam.
(2024-01-18). Global 1% own 43% of financial assets, 5 richest billionaires doubled wealth while 5 billion workers got poorer. geopoliticaleconomy.substack.com 
Subscribe now The world's richest 1% own 43% of global financial assets, and the wealth of the top five billionaires has doubled since 2020, while 60% of humanity — nearly 5 billion people — collectively got poorer, according to a report by Oxfam, a leading international humanitarian organization. Oxfam published the study, "Inequality Inc.", to …
(2024-01-18). A world increasingly in the hands of the super-rich few. The new Oxfam Report. pressenza.com The world's five richest men have more than doubled their fortunes in real terms since 2020, rising from $405 billion to $869 billion and growing at a rate of $14 million per hour. By contrast, the combined wealth of nearly 5 billion of the poorest people has not grown at all. | These are some of the figures in the report "
(2024-01-18). 'Sickening Profits: The Global Food System's Poisoned Food and Toxic Wealth'. mronline.org The modern food system is being shaped by the capitalist imperative for profit.
(2024-01-18). The ultra-rich become even richer yet demand more tax cuts. greenleft.org.au 
Despite their ballooning wealth, the corporate rich are using their power to demand more tax breaks and protect their industrial-scale tax dodging. Peter Boyle reports.
(2024-01-18). The WB assists those in power in a witch-hunting context. cadtm.org In July 2024, the World Bank and the IMF will be 80 years old. 80 years of financial neo-colonialism and the imposition of austerity policies in the name of debt repayment. 80 years is enough! The Bretton Woods institutions must be abolished and replaced by democratic institutions serving an ecological, feminist and anti-racist bifurcation. To mark these 80 years, we are republishing a series of articles every Wednesday until July, looking in detail at the history and damage caused by these (…) | – | / |
(2024-01-18). The WB assists those in power in a witch-hunting context. cadtm.org In July 2024, the World Bank and the IMF will be 80 years old. 80 years of financial neo-colonialism and the imposition of austerity policies in the name of debt repayment. 80 years is enough! The Bretton Woods institutions must be abolished and replaced by democratic institutions serving an ecological, feminist and anti-racist bifurcation. To mark these 80 years, we are republishing a series of articles every Wednesday until July, looking in detail at the history and damage caused by these (…) | – | / |
(2024-01-18). Change Is Coming Soon. tomdispatch.com "All Americans owe them a debt for — if nothing else — releasing the idealism locked so long inside a nation that has not recently tasted the drama of a social upheaval. And for making us look on the young people of the country with a new respect." That's how Howard Zinn opened his book The New Abolitionists about the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee of the 1960s. Zinn pointed out a truth from the Black freedom struggles of that era and earlier: that young people were often labeled aloof and apathetic, apolitical and uncommitted — until suddenly they were at the very forefront of justic…
(2024-01-18). WRAPUP 2-Battle of Khan Younis threatens biggest hospital still working in Gaza. devdiscourse.com Israeli forces advancing into the southern Gaza Strip's main city pounded areas near the biggest hospital still functioning in the enclave on Thursday, sending patients and residents fleeing a battle they feared would lay the city to waste. The heaviest battle of the year so far was under way in Khan Younis, sheltering hundreds of thousands of people who fled the north earlier in the war, now in its fourth month.
(2024-01-18). Sri Lankan health unions call off strike as government refuses to address workers' demands. wsws.org Health workers have been involved in more strikes and protests than any other section of the Sri Lankan working class since 2020. Now they need to review the political lessons of these experiences.
(2024-01-18). Biden Says Strikes Against Houthis Aren't Working as US Bombs Yemen for 5th Time. news.antiwar.com President Biden acknowledged on Thursday that his strikes against the Houthis were not working to stop the Yemeni group but vowed they would continue anyway as the US military bombed Yemen for the fifth time within a week. The president made the comments when asked by a reporter if his strikes against the Houthis were …
(2024-01-18). Marape tells PNG youth 'I'm your father' in bid to mobilise them. asiapacificreport.nz 
RNZ Pacific In the wake of last week's riots and looting across Papua New Guinea's cities, the government has announced plans to get the country's youth working. Prime Minister James Marape said efforts would be made to mobilise people aged 16 to 30, who were not in work or education. Some of the blame for…
(2024-01-18). The Challenge of Pumping Breastmilk in the Workplace: A Call for Enhanced Support and Facilities. medriva.com With nearly 100 individuals reaching out to STAT after a column highlighting the difficulty faced by working parents in pumping breastmilk at JPM, it's clear this is an issue that resonates on a larger scale. The experiences shared by many underscore the need for greater support and accommodations for breastfeeding mothers in the workplace. The…
(2024-01-18). Cypriots Protest Use of Bases by UK in Imperialist Conflicts. orinocotribune.com By Peoples Dispatch — Jan 16, 2024 | The British military has been using the Akrotiri and Dhekelia bases in Cyprus for its war-mongering, such as in the recent bombing of Yemen | On Sunday, January 14, anti-imperialist groups in Cyprus protested outside the UK bases in Akrotiri, against the use of bases on the island in the imperialist wars raging in the region. | In the protest called by the Pancyprian Peace Council, activists from various anti-war groups and political parties including the Progressive Party of Working People (AKEL), United Democratic Youth Organization (EDON), and Communist Initiative o…
(2024-01-18). Labor and Green Colonialism in the Global South. counterpunch.org 
Making a transition away from fossil fuels is going to require a lot of work. But there's a real concern that it will also require a lot fewer workers. All of the workers in fossil fuel industries, for instance, are acutely aware that their jobs are at risk, if not immediately then at some point
johnmenadue.com (2024-01-17). Child amputees and Israel's 'unchilding' reaches new depravity
Over 1,000 Gazan children have lost a limb, either one or two legs and or an arm since October 7th, making an horrific statistic – on average of 10 per day – as reported by Save the Children, and that number is growing daily. | | An earlier Pearls and Irritations article identified the Israeli policy of 'unchilding', described by Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkain, a Hebrew University of Jerusalem law professor. This policy enables Israel to treat Palestinian children as . . ."dangerous and killable bodies needing to be caged and dismembered, physically and mentally". This policy can be seen in all its horror and brutality in the physical dismembering of now over a thousand innocent children. | | The World Health Organisation reports that many of these child amputations are, "done without anaesthetic, with the healthcare system in Gaza crippled by the conflict, and major shortages of doctors and nurses, and medical supplies like anaesthesia and antibiotics".
(2024-01-18). Cameroon Mise à jour sur la sécurité alimentaire : Dans les zones de conflit, les récoltes insuffisantes entraàÆneront un début précoce de la soudure, décembre 2023. reliefweb.int 
Country: Cameroon | Source: Famine Early Warning System Network | Please refer to the attached file. | Messages clé | Des situations de Crise (Phase 3 de l'IPC) sont attendues dans les régions du nord-ouest et du sud-ouest du pays au moins jusqu'au milieu de l'année 2024. En raison de l'insécurité et des conflits, de nombreux ménages pauvres de ces régions ont épuisé les réserves de céréales de base de la campagne principale de 2023, et les récoltes de la contre-saison en cours restent inférieures à la moyenne. Cette situation conduira probablement à un début précoce de la soudure à partir de janvier/févrie…
(2024-01-18). India's soaring economy masks stark inequality: An analysis. muslimmirror.com By Mohd Ziyaullah Khan India, once the world's fifth-largest economy, has undergone a significant economic shift, surpassing the United Kingdom. Despite this achievement, it remains a nation marked by stark economic disparities, hosting the largest population of impoverished individuals globally—estimated at 228.9 million, according to the 2022 'World Inequality Report' (WIR). As economic growth slowed …
(2024-01-18). India's soaring economy masks stark inequality: An analysis. muslimmirror.com By Mohd Ziyaullah Khan India, once the world's fifth-largest economy, has undergone a significant economic shift, surpassing the United Kingdom. Despite this achievement, it remains a nation marked by stark economic disparities, hosting the largest population of impoverished individuals globally—estimated at 228.9 million, according to the 2022 'World Inequality Report' (WIR). As economic growth slowed …
(2024-01-18). Davos Elites Talk About Rebuilding Trust. The People Talk of System Change. inequality.org With war threatening to escalate in the Middle East, as well as crises in Ecuador and many other parts of the world, most people are not even aware that the annual World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland is rolling around again this week. In the context of sharpening inequalities, and perilous global politics, what relevance …
(2024-01-18). Food Insecurity in Prison Makes People Like Me Vulnerable to Labor Exploitation. scheerpost.com