Daily Archives: September 21, 2024

2024-09-21: News Headlines

The Independent (2024-09-21). Confronting Africa's Cost-of-Living Crisis. independent.co.ug Recent protests in Nigeria and Kenya should encourage governments to rethink constraints on public spending COMMENT | HIPPOLYTE FOFACK | The rising cost of living in Africa has triggered a wave of protests in recent months, underscoring the disproportionately higher economic and social costs of inflation on a continent with persistent widespread poverty and heightened vulnerability …

SKWAWKBOX (2024-09-21). Reeves, Rayner disguised £000s cash for clothes as 'office support' etc. skwawkbox.org Labour front bench's clothing addiction continues to unravel Keir Starmer has been exposed, along with his wife, accepting tens of thousands of pounds in designer clothes from a hugely wealthy donor and, after initial attempts by his stooges to explain away the donor-funded splurges as just part of the job or even to claim they …

Michael Roberts (2024-09-21). Sri Lanka's debt default. cadtm.org

WSWS (2024-09-21). Two Canadian by-election results underscore urgency of workers repudiating the union-NDP-Liberal alliance. wsws.org Canada has been swept by a wave of militant worker struggles and mass anti-Gaza genocide protests, but in the absence of the working class mounting an independent political challenge to the Trudeau government, the field has been left open for the Conservatives and other reactionary forces to exploit mounting social anger.

newarab (2024-09-21). Biden 'working' to return people home to Israel-Lebanon border. newarab.com

newarab (2024-09-21). Iraq militant killed in Syria strike blamed on Israel. newarab.com A militant from The group named the slain militant as Abu Haidar al-Khafaji and said he was working in Damascus as a security adviser to the government. | A Br…

Rania Khalek (2024-09-21). 'The Biggest Gangster in Haiti Is the US Government' w/ Dr. Jemima Pierre. thealtworld.com Has the latest UN military occupation of Haiti improved the country's security? | Dr. Jemima Pierre says the answer is a clear "no." She joins hosts Eugene and Rania to discuss the deployment of Kenyan police to Haiti under a US-backed mission to supposedly "restore security." Pierre reveals how the US is working to turn the mission into a "full occupation force," under UN auspices, aiming to further undermine Haiti's sovereignty and exploit its resources. | Dr. Jemima Pierre is the Professor of Global Race in the Institute of Race, Gender, Sexuality and Social Justice (GRSJ) at the University of British Columbia…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2024-09-21). Dr. Jemima Pierre: 'The Biggest Gangster in Haiti is the US Government'. libya360.wordpress.com BreakThrough News Has the latest UN military occupation of Haiti improved the country's security? Dr. Jemima Pierre says the answer is a clear "no." She joins hosts Eugene and Rania to discuss the deployment of Kenyan police to Haiti under a US-backed mission to supposedly "restore security." Pierre reveals how the US is working to…

WSWS (2024-09-21). Boeing begins furloughs in response to strike by 33,000 machinists. wsws.org Boeing employees still working received a notice on the furloughs Wednesday, which noted that it will encompass tens of thousands of nonunion employees for the duration of strike.

newleftreview (2024-09-21). Rebecca Lossin: The Multiple Gaze. newleftreview.org Resisting the erasure of working-class life in the American rust belt, the critical photography of LaToya Ruby Frazier combines intimate portraiture with representations of capital's flight. Rebecca Lossin reflects on MoMA's recent retrospective of her work—and on the cultural politics of documentary image-making in an age saturated with the visual.

presstv.ir (2024-09-21). 'Rohingya in pain'- Refugees on hunger strike at India detention center. presstv.ir More than 100 Rohingya refugees living at Goalpara detention center in the Indian state of Assam began hunger strike.

aljazeera (2024-09-21). Disruptor-in-Chief: The politics of Elon Musk. aljazeera.com Elon Musk's trajectory from tech visionary to attention-hungry media baron to political anarchist.

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