Pablo Meriguet (2024-10-03). AMLO and his eternal struggle to refound Mexico. peoplesdispatch.org This piece is part two in a series about former Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) who finished his term in office on September 30, 2024. AMLO made history by leaving office with a record 80% approval rating largely attributed to his efforts of poverty reduction and wealth redistribution. After the defeat…
Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead (2024-10-03). Reversing two-child limit would be 'cost-effective' way to pull 540,000 children out of poverty, says IFS. leftfootforward.org 'The recent rise in measured child poverty is entirely driven by higher rates of poverty among families with three or more children. Scrapping the two-child limit would be a cost-effective way of reducing child poverty.'
Colin Todhunter (2024-10-03). What Was COVID Really About? Triggering a Multi-Trillion Dollar Global Debt Crisis. "Ramping Up an Imperialist Strategy"? globalresearch.ca If it was indeed about public health, why close down the bulk of health services and the global economy knowing full well what the implications would be? And why mount a military-style propaganda campaign to censor world-renowned scientists and terrorise entire populations…
Staff (2024-10-03). Israeli Airstrikes Target Medical Facility, Kill Five Health Ministry Workers. unicornriot.ninja 
Gaza, Palestine — More than 1,150 Palestinians working in the health sector in Gaza have been killed by Israeli forces since Oct. 7, 2023 — one of many atrocities inflicted upon Palestinians over the last year. Two weeks ago, 986 health workers who've been killed were named publicly. Four days later, on Sept. 21, five …
Ed Sykes, The Canary. (2024-10-03). Assemblies Can 'Make The Public A Formidable Force'. popularresistance.org Assemble is a group working to set up local assemblies around Britain. Its aim is for ordinary people to deliberate on important local, national, and international issues, and on the potential solutions to them. Then, delegates would come together at a House of the People. The launch of this house took place in August, and you can see the Canary's full, first-hand report on it here. | On 23 September, Assemble spokesperson Maddison Wheeldon delivered a statement outside parliament. She highlighted "five urgent political priorities" that people around the country had decided on at the launch. Having stood as an in…
As'Ad AbuKhalil, Consortium News. (2024-10-03). The Middle East After Nasrallah. popularresistance.org There is no doubt that leaders do matter in the life of nations and movements, no matter how much one must acknowledge the role played by the masses of ordinary, working people. | The death of Egyptian President Gamal Abdul Nasser in 1970 changed the political landscape in the region forever and helped launch what is commonly dubbed the "Saudi era" (i.e., the domination of Saudi Arabia over the affairs of the Arab world). | Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah's impact on the Arab-Israeli question has been, perhaps, bigger than Nasser's because he has been more effective — from the standpoint of the Arab strug…
UMMID (2024-10-03). In a 1st, scientists discover brain cells hanging out together. ummid.com A latest research has revealed that brain neuron cells exhibit patterns akin to friends spending time in each other's company and collaborating, and that networking and communal behavior are traits shared even by neurons.
Drago Bosnic (2024-10-03). Zelensky's Laughable 'Victory Plan' Seems to be 'Working' — He Already Got $8 Billion. Is He Engaged in "Election Meddling"? globalresearch.ca In the last two and a half years, the Neo-Nazi junta frontman Volodymyr Zelensky pitched a number of "peace" plans, formulas, platforms and whatnot. Last year,
infobrics (2024-10-03). India-Russia Collaborate on Space Monitoring for Disaster Management. infobrics.org India and Russia discussed utilizing space monitoring technologies for risk forecasting and emergency response at their joint commission meeting on emergency management in Moscow. They signed a working plan for 2025-26, focusing on disaster management cooperation, including training rescue specialists, and agreed to intensify joint efforts for enhanced early warning systems and capacity building…
infobrics (2024-10-03). Zelensky's laughable 'victory plan' seems to be 'working' — he already got $8 billion. infobrics.org What is this "victory plan" about? It wouldn't be the first time that the Neo-Nazi junta is claiming that it can "win", but it "just needs this one game changer". So far, only nuclear weapons and aircraft carriers haven't been delivered to its forces. However, nothing worked, so how would this new "plan" turn the tide? Russian offensive capabilities only keep growing, with a deadly combination of artillery dominance and air superiority aided by unrivaled long-range strike systems. Not even NATO itself can match that, let alone the battered Kiev regime forces.
Staff (2024-10-03). An Excellent Impersonation. commondreams.org 
If you missed it — staying in the cave is so enticing — there was a vice-presidential "debate" Tuesday night. What you missed: Walz did fine, Vance lied about everything — Trump saved Obamacare, we got no abortion ban plans here — working hard not to say anything weird or hateful about women, migrants, children, …
Eric A. Gordon (2024-10-03). George Mann produces Si Kahn's 'Labor Day: A Tribute to Hard Working People Everywhere'. peoplesworld.org 
Larry Cohen, past president of the Communications Workers of America (CWA), and founding chair of Our Revolution, the successor organization to the Bernie Sanders campaign of 2016, generously lent his name and a short memoir to the liner notes of George Mann's new album: "When it comes to A Tribute to Hard Working People Everywhere, …
Mark Eric Owor (2024-10-03). How 3 German nationals entered Uganda illegally, got arrested. independent.co.ug 
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Three German nationals were picked up recently by the Directorate of Citizenship and Immigration for working in Uganda illegally. The trio, whose identities have been withheld were working for Konrad Adenauer Stiftung-KAS at their Uganda -South Sudan offices in Kampala. According to people who spoke to URN on condition of anonymity …
Imani Nile, Black Agenda Report. (2024-10-03). End The Siege On New York City. popularresistance.org On May 1, 2023, Jordan Neely walked onto the F train at the Second Avenue subway stop in Manhattan and never walked out. Daniel Penny, a former Marine from West Islip in suburban Suffolk County, executed Jordan Neely in a full subway car while passengers watched. They were forced to witness Penny keep Neely in a chokehold for about six minutes — even after he had gone completely motionless. | Neely, a known subway performer and Michael Jackson impersonator, was homeless and battled a number of mental health conditions. That day on the train, he began to cry out in anger and anguish and instead of receiving…
tvbrics (2024-10-03). UAE leads Arab countries in the use of soil salinisation technologies. tvbrics.com 
The technologies are being implemented as part of the G20 Global Initiative on Reducing Land Degradation…
Ana Vraƒçar (2024-10-03). Israel's attacks on healthcare in Lebanon echo devastation in Gaza. peoplesdispatch.org Israel's destruction of Gaza's civil and health infrastructure continues to shock humanitarian workers who manage to enter the enclave during their missions. Isabelle Defourny, a physician with Doctors Without Borders (MSF), described the dire conditions in Gaza during a recent media briefing, following her latest visit to the region. She was once again stunned by the precarious living conditions of forcibly displaced people and the landscape, completely flattened by Israeli attacks. | One of the major concerns at the moment is the approaching winter, which most of Gaza's population will face in makeshift tents,…
Staff (2024-10-03). "Starving Gaza": Al Jazeera Film Shows U.S. Keeps Arming Israel as It Uses Hunger as a Weapon of War. democracynow.org 
A deliberate, man-made famine is underway in Gaza, according to many human rights experts. Starving Gaza is a new documentary by Al Jazeera English's Fault Lines investigating how Israel has killed civilians seeking aid and attacked humanitarian networks. The harrowing film is based on the work of Palestinian reporters in Gaza who are suffering the same conditions as their subjects. "They've been displaced, they've been injured, they've watched their own children die in front of them, and yet they somehow conjure the professionalism to pick up a camera and record and tell other peopl…
Chris Mills Rodrigo (2024-10-03). A Tribute to a Brave Anti-Mining Activist. °Juan López, Presente! inequality.org As hired gunmen kill human rights leaders to protect private interests, transnational corporations are suing Honduras for halting "mafia-style" investments made during coup-instituted regimes, before the current government led by Xiomara Castro. Juan López is the latest in a long list of environmental defenders whose lives have been taken for opposing extractivism, often linked …
Chris Mills Rodrigo (2024-10-03). Highway Robbery: How Bad Trade Policies Make Life Unaffordable. inequality.org Many of us know the pain of paying steep tolls, especially when a turnpike is taken over by a private company. Now imagine you live in one of our hemisphere's most impoverished countries. Do that and you'll get a glimpse into how unfair trade deals help make life unlivable in many countries — and force …
Democracy Now! (2024-10-03). Democracy Now! 2024-10-03 Thursday. democracynow.org Headlines for October 03, 2024; "Don't Do It": Lebanese Lawyer Warns Israel Against Using War to Create a "New Middle East"; "Starving Gaza": Al Jazeera Film Shows U.S. Keeps Arming Israel as It Uses Hunger as a Weapon of War; Six Factory Workers Feared Dead in Tennessee After Being Swept Away During Hurricane Helene | Headlines for October 03, 2024; "Don't Do It": Lebanese Lawyer Warns Israel Against Using War to Create a "New Middle East"; "Starving Gaza": Al Jazeera Film Shows U.S. Keeps Arming Israel as It Uses Hunger as a Weapo…
Aseel Saleh (2024-10-03). Mother of Alaa Abdel Fattah starts hunger strike to protest his continued imprisonment. peoplesdispatch.org
presstv.ir (2024-10-03). '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 (2024-10-03). In South Sudan, hunger complicates plans to end wildlife poaching. aljazeera.com Conservationists urge the protection of wildlife, but in absence of food, many communities say they are forced to hunt.
Mark Eric Owor (2024-10-03). UBA's Tony Elumelu uses UNGA 79 to urge global leaders to invest in Africa's future. independent.co.ug 
Tony Elumelu at #NGA79: Driving Financial Inclusion, Tackling Global Hunger, Unemployment New York, the United States | THE INDEPENDENT | Tony Elumelu, Group Chairman of United Bank for Africa (UBA) and founder of The Tony Elumelu Foundation, used his platform at the 79th United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) in New York this September to urge …
The report from UNICEF added that around 690 children have been reported wounded in the last six weeks of the Israeli onslaught. | The organisation said it was working to provide emergency humanitarian relief and medical supplies to affected areas and communities…
Oman will host the forum's 16th annual gathering in Muscat. | "We are delighted to announce that @elonmusk, CEO of @SpaceX and @Tesla and Chairman of @X, will be joining us this November at our annual meeting in Muscat, Oman. He will discuss the #Technology and trends shaping today's world and the likely changes it will cast in…
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Cross-Cultural Foundation of Uganda (CCFU) has urged the Kampala Capital City Authority (KCCA) to expedite the "Historic Building Ordinance" to safeguard historical buildings and sites in the city. KCCA is working on the Ordinance to protect and preserve historical buildings and sites in the city. The Ordinance will help …