(2023-04-20). Alliance Defending Freedom is a Hate Group. indybay.org While the Supreme Court maintains full access to the abortion pill mifepristone until at least tomorrow, the anti-abortion group Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) said the Supreme Court should keep restrictions on mifepristone in place as the legal battle over the pill plays out. The Southern Poverty Law Center has designated the ADF as a hate group.
(2023-04-19). Poverty Is the 4th Leading Cause of Death in the US, Research Shows. truthout.org Research published this week in the Journal of the American Medical Association estimated that poverty was linked to at least 183,000 deaths in the United States in 2019 among people aged 15 or older, making inadequate income the nation's fourth-leading mortality driver that year behind heart disease, cancer, and smoking. "Poverty kills as much as dementia, accidents, stroke, Alzheimer's… |
(2023-04-19). UN says 34 million Afghans in poverty under Taliban rule. channelnewsasia.com
(2023-04-20). Tax-free day for the ultra-wealthy. mronline.org 
New data show the wealthiest Americans have stashed $2 trillion in offshore tax havens, as the government relaxes efforts to combat tax evasion.
(2023-04-20). To renew working-class resistance, the labour movement must be democratized. educationactiontoronto.com Understanding the huge challenges we face in an economic-political world that increasingly values the wealth of a few.
(2023-04-19). Don't Shred the Safety Net — Expand It. otherwords.org Most of us rely on some cash assistance to get by at some point, whether we realize it or not. | For wealthy people, that might include a family trust or any number of elaborate tax breaks. For middle-income people, it might come in the form of a mortgage interest deduction on their taxes, an inheritance, or a grandparent's contribution to a college fund. | But for many working people, that kind of help can only come from public programs — the kind that are now under threat from conservatives in Congress. | I worked in a homeless shelter for disabled adults for a decade. The work was grueling, physically an…
(2023-04-20). Alliance Defending Freedom is a Hate Group. indybay.org While the Supreme Court maintains full access to the abortion pill mifepristone until at least tomorrow, the anti-abortion group Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) said the Supreme Court should keep restrictions on mifepristone in place as the legal battle over the pill plays out. The Southern Poverty Law Center has designated the ADF as a hate group.
(2023-04-19). Poverty Is the 4th Leading Cause of Death in the US, Research Shows. truthout.org Research published this week in the Journal of the American Medical Association estimated that poverty was linked to at least 183,000 deaths in the United States in 2019 among people aged 15 or older, making inadequate income the nation's fourth-leading mortality driver that year behind heart disease, cancer, and smoking. "Poverty kills as much as dementia, accidents, stroke, Alzheimer's… |
(2023-04-19). UN says 34 million Afghans in poverty under Taliban rule. channelnewsasia.com
(2023-04-20). Tax-free day for the ultra-wealthy. mronline.org New data show the wealthiest Americans have stashed $2 trillion in offshore tax havens, as the government relaxes efforts to combat tax evasion.
(2023-04-20). To renew working-class resistance, the labour movement must be democratized. educationactiontoronto.com Understanding the huge challenges we face in an economic-political world that increasingly values the wealth of a few.
(2023-04-19). Don't Shred the Safety Net — Expand It. otherwords.org Most of us rely on some cash assistance to get by at some point, whether we realize it or not. | For wealthy people, that might include a family trust or any number of elaborate tax breaks. For middle-income people, it might come in the form of a mortgage interest deduction on their taxes, an inheritance, or a grandparent's contribution to a college fund. | But for many working people, that kind of help can only come from public programs — the kind that are now under threat from conservatives in Congress. | I worked in a homeless shelter for disabled adults for a decade. The work was grueling, physically an…
(2023-04-20). Critics Say House GOP's Debt Ceiling Legislation Would Benefit Rich Tax Dodgers. truthout.org The Democratic chair of the Senate Finance Committee said Wednesday that the House GOP's newly released debt ceiling legislation shows that the often fractious right-wing caucus is unified around at least one common objective: "Helping rich people cheat on their taxes." The Limit, Save, Grow Act of 2023, unveiled by the House Republican leadership as the U.S. barrels toward a debt default crisis… |
(2023-04-20). Corporate Real Estate Debt Defaults Likely To Hit America, Stress The System: Investing Legend Howard Marks. moguldom.com To say Howard Marks knows a thing or two about the commercial real estate market would be an understatement. Marks is considered an investing legend. The billionaire businessman is the co-founder and co-chairman of Oaktree Capital Management, the largest investor in distressed securities worldwide. And now he's warning that due to the remote working trend …
(2023-04-20). PSL Editorial: Right wing prepares "debt ceiling" attack — Will Biden capitulate? liberationnews.org 
The debt ceiling is a manufactured crisis. Only in recent years has the right wing decided to use it as a point of leverage to try to force through spending cuts…
(2023-04-20). Why the US Bank Crisis is Not Over. indybay.org There must always be a financial crash at some point. That is because interest-bearing debt grows exponentially, but the economy follows an S-curve and then turns down. And when the economy turns down… the magnitude of financial claims on the economy exceeds the ability to pay.
(2023-04-20). Hedge fund BFAM, others file lawsuit against Chinese developer for debt repayment. channelnewsasia.com
(2023-04-19). China cuts U.S. Treasury holdings in Feb to near 13-year low, raises economic security. ecns.cn China further reduced its holdings of U.S. Treasury debt in February to the lowest level in nearly 13 years, as other foreign holders cut their holdings by 4.7 percent year-on-year to $7.34 trillion, data from the U.S. Treasury Department showed.
(2023-04-19). Corporate Real Estate Debt Defaults Are Likely To Hit America, Stress The System: Investing Legend Howard Marks. moguldom.com Commercial real estate loans and debt defaults are some of the biggest worries for U.S. banks today in an economy faing high interest rates and a looming recession, according to billionaire investor Howard Marks, the co-founder and co-chairman of the world's largest investor in distressed securities. With a net worth of $2.2 billion, Marks heads …
(2023-04-20). Prepping for War… Western State-Owned Media Unveil 'Russian Sabotage Trawlers'. strategic-culture.org What makes the situation all the more dangerous is that Western media are working shamelessly to promote the war agenda. | Russian fishing trawlers are on stealth missions to spy on transatlantic communications and sabotage energy supplies in Europe, according to a coordinated "investigation" by European state-owned media outlets. | Excuse the pun, but there is something putridly fishy about this Russian trawler story. | Britain's state-owned BBC
(2023-04-20). Gary Hicks—Mentor, revolutionary, and poet— °Presente! peoplesworld.org 
On Dec. 2, 2022, the international working-class movement lost an organizing and literary giant, Gary Graham Hicks. Comrades and friends gathered at the Marxist Library in Oakland, Calif., on Saturday, March 25, for a memorial to remember the diverse contributions of a beloved poet, theorist, and internationalist. We write this tribute so that future generations …
(2023-04-20). Reasons For Underlining Bitcoin As A Money. southfront.org 
SPONSORED: | Illustrative Image | Bitcoin is a control less currency that does not get the back of the leading country government. It is an open unit with a value created by itself in the market by working on the monetary functions and attributes that wisely make the economy. The open decentralization of the network makes the fastest retail transaction, and it has created similar benefits in the assessment quantity. The intelligent function of the technology provides an application of financial services across…
(2023-04-20). A new heart and a renewed zest for life. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org Whether it was working around the home or out hiking the trails, Steven Fietek says he has always been active. But when Steven turned 52, he started to notice shortness of breath. "Slowly but surely, I got to the point where the fatigue and the shortness of breath was troublesome." Steven says he was diagnosed with dilated cardiomyopathy. "Which I keep telling people, it's a big, big word for weak heart muscle." A few years…
(2023-04-20). Canada's federal workers' strike and the global resurgence of the class struggle. wsws.org The strike of 120,000 workers is part of a global upsurge of the working class that is driven by the same capitalist crisis propelling the ruling elites in all the major powers towards world war.
(2023-04-20). "For first time in history, U.S. forces will be permanently stationed on eastern flank of Europe, in Poland" — Brzezinski. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com U.S. Air Forces in Europe Air Forces AfricaApril 20, 2023 U.S. Air Force tankers moved to NATO's Eastern Flank, strengthen collective defense U.S.-based tanker aircraft began working at their new primary location in Poland, March 10, as part of a U.S. Air Forces in Europe activity called Copper Arrow, demonstrating U.S. European Command's efforts to …
(2023-04-20). A Recession May Already Be Here — But Only For The Working Class. progressivehub.net JULIAN JACOBS | JACOBIN…
(2023-04-19). Officials Ignored Repeated Warnings About Migrant Children Being Used for Labor. truthout.org Our guest Hannah Dreier, a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter at The New York Times, has published a bombshell new investigation headlined "As Migrant Children Were Put to Work, U.S. Ignored Warnings." It reports that the Biden administration has repeatedly ignored or missed warnings about a surge of migrant children as young as 12 working in factories across the United States under grueling and… |
(2023-04-19). LGBT Allies Are Working Together to Jam Missouri's Anti-Trans "Tip Line" truthout.org Social media users are urging people to protest against an online form created by Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey, which solicits responses from state residents who claim to have knowledge of questionable practices relating to gender-affirming care for transgender people. The form in question urges Missourians to "submit a complaint or concern about gender transition intervention you have… |
(2023-04-19). China hopeful of solution to Yemen issue. ecns.cn While analysts urged relevant parties in Yemen to continue working in good faith for peace amid a multifaceted and complex situation, China expressed its hope for substantial steps toward a political solution to the Yemen conflict.
(2023-04-19). Connecticut Communists issue emergency housing program. peoplesworld.org 
HARTFORD, Conn.—Tired of the same old system, a rising movement is organizing around the cornerstone principle that all people have the right to housing. In Connecticut, the movement is organizing for secure and stable housing as a means of creating a fairer, more stable, and more reliable democracy that puts the interests of working people …
(2023-04-20). North Carolina Judge Convicts Journalists Of 'Trespassing' While Covering Eviction Of Homeless Encampment. thedissenter.org 
A judge in North Carolina found two journalists with the Asheville Blade guilty of "trespassing" on Christmas in 2021 when they stayed in a public park to cover Asheville police as officers evicted a homeless encampment. | Veronica Coit and Matilda Bliss were "sentenced to pay $25 fines and court costs." Coit received an additional sentence of "one year of unsupervised probation with a 10-day suspended [prison] sentence," according to the Asheville Citizen-Times. | The
(2023-04-19). Homeless "Sweeps" Increase Mortality Rates of Unhoused People, Research Finds. truthout.org New research, published by the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), finds that police sweeps of homeless encampments have the potential to increase deaths among people who are unhoused by 25 percent by 2028. On a single night in 2022, more than half a million people in the U.S. were unhoused, the research found, with LGBTQ youth, Black people and Indigenous people experiencing… |
(2023-04-19). Crisis in California Shows Why Housing Must Be Protected as a Human Right. truthout.org Mayors from around California gathered in Sacramento last week to discuss the state's homelessness crisis. They urged Gov. Gavin Newsom to find $3 billion per year, on a rolling basis, to furnish a stable source of funding to provide shelter to the rapidly growing population of people living on the streets. Newsom's administration has already spent billions of dollars on homelessness… |
(2023-04-20). Dead Man Walking: America's Central Bank Is Bankrupt. southfront.org 
Illustrative Image | Written by But the corrupt U.S. Congress will pass along to U.S. taxpayers its losses. That's illegal, but what the law says, no longer matters in Washington. | Here are the details: | The U.S. Federal Reserve Bank, America's central bank, now has a negative net worth, and Congress is therefore supposed to cl…
(2023-04-20). 'Illegal corporate price-fixing' is rampant in US economy: Report. nationofchange.org "Oligopolies are not just a cause of inflation. They exacerbate social and economic inequality, and thus weaken democracy."
(2023-04-20). Headlines for April 20, 2023. democracynow.org Sudan's Humanitarian Crisis Worsens as Rival Military Factions Battle for Sixth Day, Dozens Killed, Over 100 Injured by Crowd Crush in Yemen's Capital, U.N. Warns 50 Million Across West and Central Africa at Risk of Hunger, Climate Crisis Fuels Deadly Heat Wave Across Much of Asia, Research Finds Air Pollution Harms Human Health at Every Stage of Life, Study Finds African Americans Live Longer in Counties with More Black Doctors, Supreme Court Delays Decision on Medication Abortions Until Friday, Oklahoma Officials Caught on Tape Discussing Lynching Black People, Murdering Journalists, Autopsy Shows T…
(2023-04-20). Khader Adnan 'Near Death' in Israeli Detention: Urgent call from Randa Musa, Khader Adnan's wife. samidoun.net 
Randa Musa, the wife of Khader Adnan, the Palestinian prisoner currently on his 75th day of hunger strike, issued the following urgent call to action to the people of the world. On Thursday, 20 April, the Israeli occupation military court once again postponed the hearing on his release, ordering yet another report on his medical …
(2023-04-20). Hunger Profiteers, Granny Killers and Skin-Deep Morality. globalresearch.ca
(2023-04-20). Hunger Profiteers, Granny Killers, and Skin-Deep Morality. dissidentvoice.org Today, a fifth (278 million) of the African population are undernourished, and 55 million of that continent's children under the age of five are stunted due to severe malnutrition. In 2021, an Oxfam review of IMF COVID-19 loans showed that 33 African countries were encouraged to pursue austerity policies. Oxfam and Development Finance International also revealed that 43 out …