(2023-07-25). Sanctions Are an Act of War. orinocotribune.com By Phyllis Bennis — Jul 20, 2023 | Economic sanctions which claim to target authoritarian governments and wealthy profiteers of global conflicts only hurt innocent civilian populations. | Economic sanctions have a long and brutal history, almost as long as the history of war itself. | What they don't have— especially in recent memory— is a history of accomplishing their ostensible goal of changing governments' behavior. | Over the past 30-plus years, roughly beginning with the 1990‚Äâ—‚Äâ1991 Gulf crisis and U.S.-led war against Iraq, Washington's impositio…
(2023-07-24). Study: Affirmative Action for the Richest 1 Percent Is Common at Elite Colleges. truthout.org Just weeks after the Supreme Court ruled to end race-based affirmative action in college admissions, a new study suggests that "affirmative action" for the rich is very much alive when wealthy Americans seek acceptance to the most elite colleges in the U.S. According to a study released Monday by Opportunity Insights, a Harvard University-based research group, students from families within the… |
(2023-07-24). Is the US a Failed State with Michael Hudson. indybay.org It's a failed state because its economy is paralyzed and we're in a debt deflation, an economic polarization, that is just transferring all wealth and income away from labor, away from industry, into really the financial sector and what I call the finance, insurance, and real estate sector.
(2023-07-24). Wind turbines are an eyesore, a hazard and an environmental disaster. expose-news.com Wind turbines, once touted by the few wealthy and less populated countries as a clean solution for electricity, are now becoming an eyesore, a hazard, and a significant environmental threat. Will Wind …
(2023-07-24). How They Are Destroying Millions of Lives. expose-news.com Interest rates were kept absurdly low for years in order to trap businesses and homeowners into acquiring huge debts. As interest rates race up towards normal the cost of servicing loans and …
(2023-07-24). Saturday 8/19: Strike Debt Bay Area Book Group: 'End Times' by Peter Turchin. indybay.org Email strike.debt.bay.area@gmail.com a few days beforehand for the online invite.
(2023-07-24). Colonialism or Sovereignty? How the Global Financial System Traps Countries in Debt. transcend.org 12 Jul 2023 – Political economists Radhika Desai, Michael Hudson, and Ann Pettifor discuss how the international financial system traps Global South countries in debt, reinforcing a neocolonial order.
(2023-07-24). Chasing Clicks Through Ad Money, Media Does PR For Amazon. popularresistance.org Every year, America's corporate media celebrates the coming of that most sacred and deal-laden of holidays, so-called Amazon "Prime Day." The media fanfare around Prime Day is such a staple that it has become a perennial strategic rallying point for Amazon workers trying to draw attention to Amazon's low wages, unsafe working conditions, and aggressive anti-union corporate culture. These are year-round problems that ramp up to 11 during the taxing and brutal period before, during, and after Prime Day, when workers are pressured into long hours, exposed to high temperatures, and given impossible performance metric…
(2023-07-24). Spain in election limbo after right-wing Popular Party and far-right Vox fail to secure majority to govern. wsws.org Calls for "Unity against fascism" will be used as a weapon against the working class, to try and blackmail workers into uniting behind a renewed Socialist Party-Sumar government to try and stifle a movement to the left that has seen an eruption of struggles against their pro-war and austerity policies.
(2023-07-24). Stop the censorship of socialist students at Macquarie University! wsws.org The IYSSE is being targeted because it "is the only organization that advances a genuine anti-war perspective based on the unification of the international working class against the capitalist nation-state system."
(2023-07-24). CIA Has Been Working to Overthrow the People's Republic of China (PRC) Since Its Inception in 1949. covertactionmagazine.com New book details saga of two CIA officers, Jack Downey and Richard Fecteau, who were imprisoned for 19 years in China following a botched covert operation in the "Asian Bay of Pigs." Six years ago, The New York Times reported that the Chinese government systematically dismantled CIA spying operations in the country starting in 2010, killing …
(2023-07-24). Mayo Clinic Minute: What does a diagnosis of dense breasts mean? newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org A recent Food and Drug Administration rule requires healthcare providers to notify people if they have dense breasts. Studies have shown that dense breast tissue can make it more difficult to detect breast cancer early. Dr. Kristin Robinson, a Mayo Clinic breast radiologist, says women with dense breast tissue are at a slightly increased risk of developing breast cancer compared to women without, and that's why early detection is so important. "About 50% of women have…
(2023-07-24). Cop City and the escalating war on environmental defenders. therealnews.com 
This story originally appeared in In These Times on July 13, 2023. It is shared here with permission. The fight in Atlanta over Cop City, a massive police training facility, has turned into ground zero for overlapping crises facing our country: the climate emergency, vast political and economic inequality, ever-militarizing police forces and systemic racism. If we …