(2024-05-22). University of Michigan police violently clear anti-genocide encampment. wsws.org Four students were arrested and several more injured after riot police assaulted the peaceful encampment early Tuesday morning. The police attack came less than two weeks after the lecturers' union forced through a poverty contract that doubled as a political betrayal of the students and workers, who have protested for months against the Gaza genocide.
(2024-05-22). Prof. Marandi on the Ugly Empire of War and Terrorism, and Genocide, and Lies. marktaliano.net Your Ugly Empire is Guilty as it is Guilty in the Genocide Today in Gaza. Professor Marandi: Who was al-Qaeda? They were working with you in Afghanistan. And then 10 years later in Syria, in Libya, al-Qaeda was cooperating with you. We have an email from Jake Sullivan, February 12, 2012, that he sent to …
(2024-05-22). Political prisoners mount hunger strike as state repression grows in Turkey. wsws.org Police raids and arrests have expanded after May Day protests in Istanbul. Political prisoners subjected to isolation and ill-treatment are on hunger strike.
(2024-05-22). Tuesday 7/30: "Autocracies Inc": Book Talk on Urgent Call to Protect World's Democracies w/ A. Applebaum. indybay.org Online event…
(2024-05-22). Many Asian American Renters Are Struggling to Pay for Housing. cepr.net Asian American households have the highest median income of the major racial and ethnic groups. Although Asian Americans have a higher median income than the non-Hispanic white population, they also have a higher poverty rate than the white population on the Supplemental Poverty Measure (SPM). (The SPM is a more comprehensive poverty measure that also …
(2024-05-22). Why the Student Debt Crisis Would Likely Worsen Under a Second Trump Administration. counterpunch.org The crisis of student debt has reached proportions never before seen in the United States. Collectively, students owed $1.6 trillion in federal student loans at the end of 2023. However, that total is slightly lower than it was two years prior, thanks to some proactive actions from the Biden administration. The administration has pursued a
(2024-05-22). UK deputy PM makes secret trip to UAE after rising diplomatic tensions. middleeasteye.net 
UK deputy PM makes secret trip to UAE after rising diplomatic tensions | Oliver Dowden travelled to Emirates last week, following failed Telegraph takeover and spat over alleged Emirati involvement in the Sudan war | | Britain's Deputy Prime Minister Oliver Dowden attends a Commonwealth Day service c…
(2024-05-22). US officials threaten sanctions over ICC warrants against Netanyahu and Gallant. peoplesdispatch.org US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has suggested that he will work with US lawmakers to issue sanctions against the International Criminal Court, over Some congressmembers, including Republican Senators James Risch and Lindsey Graham, are working on legislation to sanction the ICC, and hoping to gather bipartisan support. | "Together, we'll find a way to register our displeasure with the ICC,…
(2024-05-22). Working class life expectancy falling in England. wsws.org The Institute of Health Equity confirms that life expectancy for the working class is stagnating and falling, while the life expectancy of the wealthiest rises.
(2024-05-22). Chinese influencers face online ban for parading wealth, materialism. ecns.cn Several super-rich Chinese influencers have been banned by major online platforms for flaunting "wealth and materialism."
(2024-05-22). Homes handed over to workers of Phase 1 of the Lesotho Highlands Water Project. sanews.gov.za Homes handed over to workers of Phase 1 of the Lesotho Highlands Water Project | Water and Sanitation Minister, Senzo Mchunu, in partnership with the Trans-Caledon Tunnel Authority (TCTA), has donated 40 houses to families living in the Kgubetswana Township in Clarens, Free State. | The residential houses were built by TCTA as accommodation for out-of-town staff members working on the construction of the Ash River Outfall during the implementation of the Lesotho Highlands Water Project Phase 1 (LHWP-1). | The organisation started leasing out the houses to the residents of Kgubetswana with the intention of sellin…
(2024-05-22). US working with EU to counter China on its Russia support, overcapacity, say Antony Blinken and Janet Yellen. scmp.com America's top diplomat describes Beijing as seeking 'better relations with Europe' while fuelling its 'greatest security threat' since the Cold War.
(2024-05-22). Ian Angus's "The War Against the Commons": A vital new history of the bloody rise of capitalism. mronline.org 
Primitive accumulation is the historical process through which capitalists stole their wealth or took it by force. Canadian ecosocialist Ian Angus has contributed an excellent new book on this history, covering the violent transition from feudalism to capitalism in depth while demonstrating its continuing relevance to the modern world..
(2024-05-22). The World Bank and the IMF: the creditors' bailiffs. 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 (…) | – | / |
(2024-05-22). The Mexican debt crisis and the World Bank. cadtm.org
(2024-05-22). A World of Inequality. cadtm.org
(2024-05-22). Clashes in Paris as firefighters unions protest working conditions. presstv.ir Police clashed with protesters in Paris as French firefighters' unions protested over working conditions.