2024-04-13: News Headlines

Cristen Hemingway Jaynes, EcoWatch. (2024-04-13). United Nations: We Have 'Two Years To Save The World' From Climate Crisis. popularresistance.org We are running out of time to take action on climate change, says Simon Stiell, executive secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. | In a speech titled "Two Years to Save the World," Stiell emphasized that governments, development banks and business leaders must take steps to avert much more serious impacts of the climate crisis within that time frame, reported Reuters. | "For those who say that climate change is only one of many priorities, like ending poverty, ending hunger, ending pandemics, or improving education, I simply say this…

Dana Floberg, Morgan Duckett, Scheer Post. (2024-04-13). The Slow Death Of A Prison Profiteer. popularresistance.org Last week, the nation's largest prison and jail telecom corporation, Securus, effectively defaulted on more than a billion dollars of debt. After decades of preying on incarcerated people and their loved ones with exploitative call rates and other predatory practices that have driven millions of families into debt, Securus is being crushed under the weight of its own. In March, the company's creditors gave the corporation an eight-month extension to pay up, urging its sale to a new owner to stave off an otherwise imminent bankruptcy.

Adam Wetzstein (2024-04-13). Milei's policies push Argentina to the brink. workers.org Four months after Javier Milei's inauguration as president, Argentina's crisis of leadership has worsened, with the working class suffering the worst poverty rate in 20 years. Fed up by decades of government that failed working people, some of the public fell for Milei's anti-establishment theatrics while on the campaign trail . . . |

midwesternmarx (2024-04-13). The Integral Crisis in the U.S. and the Purity Fetish By: Carlos L. Garrido. midwesternmarx.com Lecture at the National Autonomous University of Mexico The United States tells the world and its citizens that it is the greatest country on the planet, where freedom and democracy reign, and where there is an American dream that gives everyone the opportunity to live flourishing "middle class" lives with white-fenced houses and two cars. For the American working masses, however, as the great critical comedian George Carlin noted, "it's called the American dream because you have to be a …

WSWS (2024-04-13). UAW President Fain at the White House dinner: The corporatist alliance for World War III. wsws.org The role of the bureaucracy in the plans for war are to discipline the working class on the "home front," to ensure the continued production and deployment of military equipment and to prevent opposition from workers both to the war itself and the demands for their "sacrifice," which will inevitably accompany it.

WSWS (2024-04-13). Woody Allen's Coup de Chance: The "wonderfully wealthy" businessman as a sociopath. wsws.org The newest film by Woody Allen had to be made in France because the US movie industry has essentially excluded the veteran writer-director.

The Independent (2024-04-13). Parliament delays allocation of Shs200 billion for UNRA staff. independent.co.ug Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Parliament has rejected and re-allocated Shs200 billion budgeted to compensate Uganda National Roads Authority (UNRA) staff that will be affected by rationalisation. The funds have now been earmarked for debt repayment. This decision came amidst deliberations led by Dan Atwijukire, the Chairperson of the Committee on Physical Infrastructure, during the …

newarab (2024-04-13). Al-Shifa Hospital witnesses reveal bloodshed of Israeli raid. newarab.com Witnesses of According to testimonies collected by Mondoweiss, civilians working for the Gaza government had been at the hospital collecting salaries at the time of the Israeli assault. | This included civil defence crews, police officers, internal secu…

newarab (2024-04-13). US official admits parts of Gaza 'already suffering famine'. newarab.com A senior US humanitarian official stated that US Agency for International Development (USAID) chief Samantha Power's admission came on Wednesd…

presstv.ir (2024-04-13). Rescuers pull bodies from rubble after Israeli strike on Rafah. presstv.ir Rescue teams searching the area were working on retrieving two more bodies of the Zorob family from under the debris.

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