(2023-05-27). Correspondence] Trauma care in the face of climate change in Pakistan. thelancet.com The effect of climate change on society is broad and profound. Studies have shown that low-income countries face the greatest number of deaths due to disasters, with 33% of those deaths occurring in countries with the lowest human development indices.1 Extreme weather events have killed 10‚Äà000 people and caused US$4 billion of damage in Pakistan, which is continuously placed among the top ten most susceptible countries on the Climate Risk Index. The country is especially vulnerable to the effects of climate change due to its high rates of multidimensional poverty.
(2023-05-28). Inflation in the Age of Finance Capitalism. indybay.org The shift of profit-striving from the real- to the financial-economy lowered economic growth Unemployment and atypical jobs soared. The welfare state was weakened. At the same time, financial wealth grew exorbitantly (the DAX increased 14-fold since 1988). The development of financial derivatives made possible profiting from short-term changes in stocks, currencies and bonds.
(2023-05-27). Editorial] Childhood as a commodity: ending child labour. thelancet.com Children continue to be exposed to physical harm and denied education while toiling for long hours in the world's wealthiest nations. Children as young as 12 and 13 years have been engaged in labour involving midnight shifts, dangerous machinery, and punishing physical demands across industries supplying some of the USA's largest corporations according to a harrowing New York Times investigation. Most had migrated, unaccompanied, from central America. Uncertain of their immigration status and some indebted to traffickers, many considered dangerous labour safer than deportation.
(2023-05-28). The Debt Ceiling Standoff Has Been A Performance. levernews.com
(2023-05-28). Democrat's failed losing strategy over debt ceiling negotiations to vote on Wednesday. indybay.org Millions Of People Feel Like They Are Little More Than Bargaining Chips During The Debt Ceiling Negotiations Taking Place:…
(2023-05-27). Countering the Debt Ceiling Madness. realprogressives.org
(2023-05-27). Manufactured crisis over U.S. debt ceiling sets stage for bipartisan assault on Social Security and Medicare. mronline.org 
All of the social gains made by the working class in the course of more than a century of struggle must be wiped out to pay for the drive by the American ruling class to remove, by force of arms, Russia and China as obstacles to US hegemony, even if it means triggering a nuclear war.
(2023-05-27). Biden's debt ceiling betrayal is a Democratic Party tradition. mronline.org 
Joe Biden is continuing the ignoble tradition of colluding with republicans while pretending to fight them. The latest debt limit drama is another betrayal of the people.
(2023-05-27). The War in Ukraine Marks the End of the American Century. "What's Left is a Steaming Pile of Dollar Denominated Debt" globalresearch.ca
(2023-05-27). Cristina Fernández de Kirchner calls for renegotiation of the IMF debt and judicial reform in Argentina. peoplesdispatch.org The Argentine vice president also called for coordination between public and private sectors to regulate strategic natural resources, and renewal of the democratic pact established after the last civil-military dictatorship…
(2023-05-28). Elmhurst Hospital Resident Doctors Declare Victory In Three-Day Strike. popularresistance.org Elmhurst, Queens, New York – Following a historic three-day strike, over 160 unionized resident doctors at Elmhurst Hospital, located in a largely immigrant community in Queens, New York, declared victory May 24. Their fight was for pay parity with their nonunionized Manhattan counterparts. In 2020, Elmhurst Hospital was the epicenter of the COVID-19 pandemic in New York City. | The striking physicians are employed by the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai but were assigned to Elmhurst Hospital, a New York City public hospital, and at lower pay than those working at Mount Sinai's affluent Upper East Side loc…
(2023-05-28). Science Saturday: Orthobiologics can be nature's healing agents. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org Mayo Clinic physician-scientists are working on regenerative biotherapeutics such as orthobiologics and other regenerative bioinjectables to bring advanced procedures to more patients. Orthobiologics are biological agents that stimulate healing when standard therapies don't work. Examples are platelet-rich plasma — platelets spun from a patient's blood that promote cell repair — and bone marrow aspirate concentrate that contains stem cells and many other cells that have shown potential for tissue regeneration. "Orthobiologics are like nature's drug…
(2023-05-27). Participants of G20 meeting in India debate on combating corruption. plenglish.com New Delhi, May 27 (Prensa Latina) The second meeting of the G20 Working Group, held in Rishikesh, ended with agreements on enhancing the effectiveness of the authorities responsible for preventing and combating corruption.
(2023-05-27). Transatlantic: The plight of artists and intellectuals fleeing the Nazis in 1940. wsws.org One of the most remarkable collections of political and cultural figures ever assembled, reduced by the defeats of the working class to a wretched condition, is gathered in Marseille.
(2023-05-27). Erdoƒüan runs phony "anti-imperialist" populist campaign in Turkish elections. wsws.org Erdoƒüan can posture as an anti-imperialist and a friend of working people and refugees thanks to the political bankruptcy of his rival, Kemal Kƒ±lƒ±àßdaroƒülu.
(2023-05-27). Jacobin backs Kiliàßdaroƒülu's reactionary campaign in Turkish elections. wsws.org Pseudo-left groups support Kiliàßdaroƒülu for his bitter hostility to the developing movement in the working class and his support for the NATO war on Russia.
(2023-05-28). Bidding Farewell To The American Century. popularresistance.org Like Cicero in the Roman Republic, there are always a handful of chroniclers who can see and articulate clearly the social, cultural, and political realities of empires in terminal decline. They call out the bankruptcy of an inept and corrupt ruling class, blinded by hubris, as well as a populace that has checked out of civic life and is entranced by bread and circus spectacles. In his trilogy Blowback, The Sorrows of Empire, and Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic, Chambers Johnson does a masterful job of showing how and why we are disintegrating. So does Andrew Bacevich, who, in his newest book of e…
(2023-05-27). Britain's Broken Food System. popularresistance.org Multimillionaire food-writer Jamie Oliver has some advice for the one in five households, including 9.3 million adults and 4 million children currently experiencing food insecurity in the UK: check out his £1 Wonder website for 'thrifty tips, helpful hacks and delicious recipes that won't blow the budget'. Mind you, the energy costs are not included, access to white goods like a freezer is assumed, and you will need to put aside 2 hours and 40 minutes to cook your spag-bol. Even the BBC are at it with a page on their website dedicated to £1 meals. | Like many other personalised responses to the spiral…
(2023-05-27). Palestinian Khader Adnan Dies on Hunger Strike in Israeli Prison. unicornriot.ninja