(2024-09-24). EXCLUSIVE interview: Mick Lynch warns 'if you use Tory rules you're going to get Tory policies'. leftfootforward.org "If you carry on with failed policies of the past which perpetuated poverty, you'll end up with the same thing"
(2024-09-24). The West's Colossal Mistake: US Decline and BRICS. indybay.org China is far ahead of the US and lifted 800 million out of extreme poverty. The US overblows China's property problems and puts tariffs on Chinese government investments in desperation. Tariffs are taxes put on one's own people on imported goods and services | Trump is raising his fist at the rain. The end of dollarization is built in the world economy.
(2024-09-24). Talk World Radio: Karen Dolan on Poverty and How We Could End It. davidswanson.org AUDIO: Talk World Radio is recorded on Zoom. Here is this week's video and all the videos on Youtube. VIDEO: This week on Talk World Radio we're talking about poverty with Karen Dolan who is Project Director of the Criminalization of Race and Poverty Project at the Institute for Policy Studies. Karen has been on …
(2024-09-24). University of California Regents summon riot police to expel students protesting further militarization of campuses. wsws.org College administrators and wealthy regents, terrified of anti-war and anti-genocide protests, are expanding the repressive elements under their command.
(2024-09-24). Study Finds Wealth Tax, Oil Subsidy Phaseout Could Generate $5T for Climate. truthout.org Research published Tuesday estimates that rich countries could mobilize over $5 trillion a year for climate action worldwide by cutting off subsidies to the oil and gas industry, imposing a levy on big polluters, and cracking down on tax evasion by large corporations and the rich. The new report from Oil Change International (OCI) was released as world leaders gathered in New York City for… |
(2024-09-24). Harris and Trump want to build more housing. What would that mean for Pa.? whyy.org 
What questions do you have about the 2024 elections? What major issues do you want candidates to address? Lilah Saber started thinking about buying a home in Philadelphia shortly after she moved to the area for college roughly 10 years ago. | With no generational wealth or family inheritance coming her way, she knew it couldn't happen immediately. But she figured at some point she'd be earning enough to buy, given Philly's "In the back of my mind, it was always, 'Philly is…
(2024-09-24). Micro Dramas, Cameron's AI Role, Coppola's 'Megalopolis', and Streep Advocates for Afghan Women. devdiscourse.com In the world of entertainment, Zhu Jian is making waves in China's film industry with micro dramas that challenge traditional norms. On the set of a medieval-themed film, Zhu plays a wealthy patriarch unaware his servant is his biological granddaughter.
(2024-09-24). Global Leaders Call for Increased Investment in Renewable Energy for Developing Nations. devdiscourse.com World leaders on Tuesday emphasized the critical need for financial support from wealthy nations to assist developing countries in achieving a threefold increase in renewable energy capacity. This call to action was made at the Global Renewables Summit, held alongside the UN General Assembly.
(2024-09-24). For Harris and Trump, runaway US debt is the elephant in the room. aljazeera.com Both presidential candidates have unveiled costly proposals that would greatly add to the ballooning national debt.
(2024-09-24). South Asia in the New Global Debt Crisis — A Call for Collective Solutions. cadtm.org
(2024-09-24). Sri Lanka's debt default. cadtm.org
(2024-09-24). Controversial Israeli film fund brings West Bank settlers' stories to the big screen. haaretz.com Five years after its establishment, what films is the Shomron Cinema Fund producing, who's working with it, and how does it stand to benefit from the culture minister's proposed changes?
(2024-09-24). Biden Claims He's Working for Peace in the Middle East But Continues to Back Israel. news.antiwar.com President Biden delivered a speech to the UN General Assembly in New York on Tuesday and claimed that he was working to bring a "greater measure of peace and stability to the Middle East" even though his administration continues to provide full-throated support for Israel's genocidal war in Gaza and its escalations in Lebanon. Biden …
(2024-09-24). Economic Conditions and Hollow Victories. dissidentvoice.org 
Among the very few things to look forward to on Labor Day is Jack Rasmus's annual report on the state of US labor. Rasmus, an accomplished political-economist, riffs on the famous Frederick Engels book with Labor Day 2024: The Condition of the American Working Class Today. It may come as a surprise to some, but …
(2024-09-24). Internet goes down in parts of south, central Gaza. newarab.com 
The internet was cut off in areas of southern and central "We regret to announce the halting of internet services in areas of Khan Younis and Deir Al-Balah because of the [Israeli] aggression," Paltel said. | "We are working hard to restore services as quickly as possible." | It is the second outage this…
(2024-09-24). PEC Condemns Murder of Indian Journalist Salman Ali Khan. pressenza.com Geneva: Press Emblem Campaign (PEC), the global media safety and rights, expressed shock over the killing of journalist Salman Ali Khan (35) in Madhya Pradesh of central India and demanded a fair probe into the murder so that the perpetrators can be booked under the law. The Rajgarh-based local television reporter was targeted by unidentified gunmen in the evening hours of 17 September. The local police guess it was a result of personal disputes between the victim and one Shahrukh. | "India continues to be a dangerous country for working journalists after Pakistan in the region where the media persons are regu…
(2024-09-24). Militarism Abuse Disorder. tomdispatch.com My name is Frida and my community is military dependent. (I feel, by the way, like I'm introducing myself at a very strange AA-like meeting with lousy coffee.) As with people who have substance abuse disorders, I'm part of a very large club. After all, there are weapons manufacturers and subcontractors in just about every congressional district in the country, so that members of Congress will never forget whom they are really working for: the military-industrial complex. Using the vernacular of the day, perhaps it's particularly on target to say that our whole country suffers from Militarism Abuse Disorder or (al…
(2024-09-24). 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.
(2024-09-24). Barcelona is turning subway trains into power stations. grist.org Most of the passengers emerging from the station in Bellvitge, a working-class neighborhood outside Barcelona, have no idea just how innovative the city's subway system is. Using technology not unlike the regenerative braking found in hybrids and electric vehicles, the trains they rode generated some of the power flowing to the EV chargers in the nearby parking lot, the lights illuminating the station, and the escalators taking them to the platforms. | Every time a train rumbles to a stop, the energy generated by all that friction is converted to electricity, which is fed through inverters and distributed thro…
(2024-09-24). CPUSA 2024 election platform. cpusa.org 
The 2024 election is a time of great risk and opportunity. The outcome of this election will determine the direction of our country and the daily lives of working people for years to come. That is why building the broadest unity possible and joining others in political action to defeat Trump and win progressive victories up and down the ballot is critically important. | A working-class victory in November would mean new opportunities to protect our planet better, increase workers' rights, defend reproductive rights, defend and expand our voting and democratic rights, and so much more. | The people's movement i…
(2024-09-24). Tortured & abused: We mustn't forget about Palestinian prisoners. newarab.com 
Israeli soldiers from the Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF), along with police officers, prison guards from the Israeli Prison Services (IPS), and interrogators from the Israel Security Agency (ISA), systematically torture Palestinian detainees during their arrest, interrogation, and detention. These methods, which include physical violence, psychological abuse, and deprivation of basic rights, have been used against Palestinians since 1948. | The widespread use of such practices has been extensively
(2024-09-24). Thirst for money enriches oligarchs, but bankrupts Europe. strategic-culture.su 
(2024-09-24). Joshua Craze: Taxonomies of Hunger. newleftreview.org Death by hunger stalks millions in the Sahel and Horn of Africa—the upshot of West-led political and economic processes as much as climate change and war. Yet only a few instances can pass the demanding criteria for famine set by the humanitarian technocrats of the international bodies charged with its alleviation.
(2024-09-24). To Secure Worker Rights, We Must Fix Our Democracy. inequality.org New waves of workers are standing up and demanding fair treatment on the job — from the fast food workers of the Fight for $15 to the workers at companies like Starbucks, Trader Joe's, and Volkswagen that are fighting for a union and a fair contract. But as these workers have made significant gains, they've simultaneously run into huge …
(2024-09-24). Landless Rural Workers' Movement candidates defend policies against hunger. peoplesdispatch.org 
Hunger continues to be an urgent and serious problem in Brazilian society, even though it has been alleviated by some of Brazilian President Lula's policies, such as Bolsa Família. However, today, there are still many families in conditions of food insecurity in over 5,000 municipalities across Brazil. | Seeking to advance policies against hunger, for development, and for a dignified life in the country's Agrarian Reform areas and municipalities, in this year's municipal elections the Landless Rural Workers' Movement (MST) is mobilizing more than 600 candidates, including landless workers and supporters of agrari…
(2024-09-24). Arab Israeli girl, 12, suspended from school after empathizing with Gazan children. haaretz.com In a class discussion, the girl said that children in Gaza were dying of hunger. Classmates said her village should burn, and allegedly attacked her after class. The school told parents said they suspended her to protect her, but Education Ministry officials accused her of 'inciting against the army'…
(2024-09-24). '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.
(2024-09-24). Leaked documents reveal U.S. intel cutout's Iranian counter-revolution plans. strategic-culture.su Leaks expose a secret effort by retired National Endowment for Democracy leader Carl Gershman to consolidate war-hungry neoconservative control over Iran's opposition, while channeling US government funds into his own pet regime change initiatives. | By Kit KLARENBERG AND Max BLUMENTHAL | ‚ùóÔ∏èJoin us on ,…