(2023-01-29). Income of Chinese people exiting poverty increases by 14.3% in 2022. ecns.cn In 2022, the per capita net income of people who have been lifted out of poverty reached 14,342 yuan (about $2,114.56), an increase of 14.3 percent year on year, which was higher than the 6.3 percent growth rate disposable income of rural residents across the country, according to National Rural Revitalization Administration"ÄÇ…
(2023-01-28). 2022 Was A Big Year For Climate Action In The Courts. popularresistance.org A pair of climate cases from opposite sides of the country appear to be the closest yet to holding fossil fuel companies accountable in court. Lawsuits filed by Honolulu, Hawaii, and by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts have both overcome initial procedural hurdles and are advancing in state courts, despite dogged attempts by lawyers for the fossil fuel firms to punt the cases into federal courts where they hoped to find an easier path to dismissal. And the two cases have each taken a big leap forward in state courts with judges denying fossil fuel defendants' requests to dismiss the litigation. | Earlier this ye…
(2023-01-29). Income of Chinese people exiting poverty increases by 14.3% in 2022. ecns.cn In 2022, the per capita net income of people who have been lifted out of poverty reached 14,342 yuan (about $2,114.56), an increase of 14.3 percent year on year, which was higher than the 6.3 percent growth rate disposable income of rural residents across the country, according to National Rural Revitalization Administration"ÄÇ…
(2023-01-28). 2022 Was A Big Year For Climate Action In The Courts. popularresistance.org A pair of climate cases from opposite sides of the country appear to be the closest yet to holding fossil fuel companies accountable in court. Lawsuits filed by Honolulu, Hawaii, and by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts have both overcome initial procedural hurdles and are advancing in state courts, despite dogged attempts by lawyers for the fossil fuel firms to punt the cases into federal courts where they hoped to find an easier path to dismissal. And the two cases have each taken a big leap forward in state courts with judges denying fossil fuel defendants' requests to dismiss the litigation. | Earlier this ye…
(2023-01-28). Billionaire's Lawsuit Against O'Rourke May Stifle Criticism of Money in Politics. truthout.org A recent Texas lawsuit has opened a new front in the ongoing battle over the reign of money in politics, making it a prime example of how wealthy individuals and mighty corporations seek to wield political influence while avoiding public accountability. As Jordan Uhl reported in a January 2023 article for The Lever, Kelcy Warren, a Texas billionaire whose fortune derives from gas and propane… |
(2023-01-28). [Comment] Offline: America—a codicil. thelancet.com Yes, the US will remain a dominant force in global health for the foreseeable future. But Shannon K O'Neil, in her provocative book The Globalization Myth, casts doubt on the sustainability of America's influence. First, the positive. The US is wealthy and has vastly skilled human resources to draw on. The country is a global leader in creating and defending a rules-based international order. Industries that depend on technology and discovery science thrive. Logistics are a strength. And the quality of American universities is second to none.
(2023-01-28). How Concentrated Wealth and Corporate Power Nurtures the Greed of Thieves. commondreams.org 
What makes for a thieving culture? An overabundance of pickpockets? Tsunamis of burglary and shoplifting? Most definitely not. To truly gauge a society's larcenous leanings, many of us would posit, we need to look beyond the nimble-fingered and focus more on the smooth-talkers, the power-suited flimflammers who thrive in any society where significant numbers of …
(2023-01-28). The Debt Ceiling Fight in Historical Perspective. americanthinker.com In the absence of a fiscal rule imposing a budget constraint, the most likely outcome of budget negotiations for 2024 is business as usual.
(2023-01-28). China Tells US to 'Solve Its Debt Problem' Instead of Worrying About Zambia's. orinocotribune.com The People's Republic of China has fired back at US criticism of its relationship with Zambia, arguing that Washington should address its own crisis first. | A statement released by the Chinese Embassy in Lusaka on Tuesday has urged the US Treasury to focus on "solving the US' own domestic debt problem." | "The biggest contribution that the US can make to the debt issues outside the country is to act on responsible monetary policies, cope with its own debt problem and stop sabotaging other sovereign countries' active efforts to solve their debt issues," the statement blasted. | "We do hope [US Treasury Secret…
(2023-01-28). Video: The Corona Lockdowns, The Vaccine and the Global Debt. globalresearch.ca
(2023-01-28). 103 years since 'Palmer Raids' unleashed FBI against workers. themilitant.com "This Day in History" on Fox News retold the story about the Jan. 2, 1920, "Palmer Raids," carried out by Democratic President Woodrow Wilson, Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer and his right-hand man, J. Edgar Hoover. They "unleashed a shocking and often violent unconstitutional nationwide dragnet," the article said, "detaining as many as 10,000 people." | The arrests, deportations and prosecutions targeted unions, the newly formed Communist parties and immigrant workers. | Throughout the next 100 years the rulers' political police have continued assaulting freedoms that are vital to working people. Last year t…
(2023-01-28). Chicago university faculty strike for six days, win student support. themilitant.com CHICAGO — Nearly 900 faculty at the University of Illinois at Chicago struck Jan. 17, demanding pay raises to keep up with inflation, job security and expanded mental health support for students. They are members of UIC United Faculty, an affiliate of the Illinois Teachers Union, and were working without a contract since August. | The union is requesting that students get access to free evaluations for learning disabilities, a benefit that students at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign already receive, and free psychological and neuropsychological testing. Students have been picketing and joinin…
(2023-01-28). Drought crisis is result of profit system. themilitant.com Statement issued Jan. 25 by Ellie García, Socialist Workers Party candidate for U.S. Senate from California in 2022. | Working farmers are victims of conditions over which they have no control. But these are not primarily natural disasters such as the drought raging in California today. They are social conditions, the result of the workings of capitalism. | Farmers are exploited by the banks and real estate sharks that hold title to their land. Processing and distribution of food and other farm products is monopolized by giant corporations that ruthlessly squeeze them. The manufacturers of farm implements, seed,…
(2023-01-28). What Nurses And Teachers Won By Withholding Their 'Feminized Labor'. popularresistance.org At the intensive care unit at Abbott Northwestern Hospital in Minneapolis, nurse Kelley Anaas has cared for a lot of people who have gotten sick with Covid-19 during the pandemic. | "I took care of plenty of people who got sick at their work," said Anaas, who has been a nurse for 14 years and is a steward with the Minnesota Nurses Association (MNA). "I remember taking care of a woman five years older than me, who didn't make it, who got her job working in a liquor store. Her family's not gonna get a dime for the sacrifice she made and the choice she didn't have. I saw the ramifications of that in a much more real…
(2023-01-28). 'Sheer Brutality': Released Footage Shows Fired Memphis Cops Beating Tyre Nichols. scheerpost.com 
"Charging or jailing the killers is not enough," said the national director of the Working Families Party. "Justice is changing the conditions so no one dies during a traffic stop."
(2023-01-28). Surging inflation intensifies cost-of-living crisis in Australia. wsws.org Working-class households are experiencing enormous hardship, and the greatest cut to living standards since World War II, as the central bank and the Labor government, assisted by the trade union bureaucrats, insist that real wages must continue to fall.
(2023-01-28). Layoffs expand in US manufacturing and retail amid deepening economic slowdown. wsws.org More layoffs in the manufacturing and retail industries were announced on Thursday amid the drive to impose the inflation crisis onto the working class through interest rate increases.
(2023-01-28). Internment Camps For Homeless People Is Increasingly Mainstream. popularresistance.org "Homelessness Crisis" discourse can generally be broken down into two distinct trends, depending on how one interprets the terms involved: On one side, there are those who believe the crisis in question is that there are human beings living without shelter and the central conflict is a lack of available homes and care for the people who need them; on the other side, there are those who think the crisis is that there are too many homeless people in public spaces who, by virtue of existing, are "hurting business" and generally undermining the "quality of life" of "taxpayers." These two groups almost always talk pas…
(2023-01-28). Belmarsh Tribunal in Washington D.C. makes bankrupt appeal to Biden to drop charges against Assange. wsws.org While there were important remarks from a number of journalists and whistleblowers, the tribunal was characterized by the bankrupt orientation of the "Progressive International" to the Biden administration and the Democratic Party.
(2023-01-28). The COVID-19 RT-PCR Test: How to Mislead All Humanity. Using a "Test" To Lock Down Society. globalresearch.ca The misuse of the RT-PCR technique is used as an intentional strategy by some governments, supported by scientific safety councils and by the dominant media, to justify the violation of a large number of constitutional rights, the destruction of the economy with the bankruptcy of entire active sectors of society,…
(2023-01-28). It Was The Workers Who Brought Us Democracy. popularresistance.org Democracy has a dream-like character. It sweeps into the world, carried forward by an immense desire by humans to overcome the barriers of indignity and social suffering. When confronted by hunger or the death of their children, earlier communities might have reflexively blamed nature or divinity, and indeed those explanations remain with us today. But the ability of human beings to generate massive surpluses through social production, alongside the cruelty of the capitalist class to deny the vast majority of humankind access to that surplus, generates new kinds of ideas and new frustrations. This frustration, sp…
(2023-01-28). Prisoners in Greece: Hunger Strike as a Weapon. unicornriot.ninja
(2023-01-28). Belmarsh Tribunal Makes the Case for Julian Assange's Immediate Release. commondreams.org 
"The first casualty when war comes is truth," U.S. Senator Hiram W. Johnson of California said in 1929, debating ratification of the Kellogg-Briand Pact, a noble but ultimately failed attempt to ban war. Reflecting on World War I, which ended a decade earlier, he continued, "it begins what we were so familiar with only a brief period ago, this mode of propaganda whereby…people become war hungry in their patriotism and are lied into a desire to fight. We have seen it in the past; it will happen again in the future."Time and again, Hiram Johnson has been proven right. Our government's impulse to control…