(2023-09-02). War, Terrorism and the Global Economic Crisis. Ninety-nine Interrelated Concepts. globalresearch.ca Everything is interrelated: war, terrorism, the police state, the global economy, financial fraud, corrupt governments, poverty and social inequality, media disinformation, war propaganda, WMD, international law,…
(2023-09-02). Defriending Canada: Natural Disasters and Facebook's Information Scrub. dissidentvoice.org Australia experienced this in February 2021. Facebook had gotten nastily stroppy, wishing to dictate public policy to the Commonwealth government. To teach Canberra mandarins a lesson, it literally unfriended the entire country, scrubbing all news platforms of content and making any posted links through the platform inaccessible. It mattered not that the content involved the …
(2023-09-02). Mohamed Al-Fayed, Father of Princess Diana's Late Beau Dodi, Dead at 94. sputnikglobe.com The successful Egyptian-born tycoon amassed a wealth of an estimated $2 billion by the time of his death. He also never stopped mourning the death of his son, which led him to spiral into conspiracy theories regarding the fatal car crash.
(2023-09-01). Christie's Cancels Jewelry Auction From Heiress Fortune Made by Nazi Anti-Jewish Laws. sputnikglobe.com Christie's auction house in the United Kingdom has announced it is canceling a forthcoming auction of jewels from the fortune of an Austrian heiress whose wealth was made as a result of anti-Jewish discriminatory laws passed by the Nazis in the 1930s.
(2023-09-02). Global Coup d'État and the "Great Reset". Global Debt and Neoliberal "Shock Treatment" globalresearch.ca
(2023-09-02). US 'Laying Groundwork for Defeats' in 'Two Wars of Choice, Against Russia & China'. sputnikglobe.com The Biden administration recently unveiled another weapons package for Ukraine, while giving the green light to military aid for Taipei amounting to about $80 million. However, this military spending spree comes as the federal government is knee-deep in debt, with its own munitions stockpiles dwindling.
(2023-09-02). Transmashholding to supply around 200 cars to Moscow metro by year-end – CEO. tass.com The company, together with the Moscow Department of Transport, is currently working to develop of technologically advanced metro cars…
(2023-09-02). Detroit teachers denounce DFT union's last-minute sellout deal, low pay, and unsanitary, unsafe working conditions. wsws.org Only 26 percent of the district's teachers voted for the last-minute deal, pushed through at the start of the school year.
(2023-09-02). "It is beyond toxic. The morale is so low": Texas rural letter carrier speaks out on terrible working conditions, massive pay cuts. wsws.org With a new "evaluation period" beginning last week for tens of thousands of rural letter carriers, which is used to determine their pay for the next six months, even deeper cuts to their pay are on the horizon.
(2023-09-01). The cassette tape's cultural and political impact in the Middle East. middleeasteye.net 
The cassette tape's cultural and political impact in the Middle East | Sixty years since the cassette tape was invented in Germany, Middle East Eye traces how it became a vehicle for cultural, political, and religious innovation across the Middle East | Fri, 09/01/2023 – 11: 01 | An Iraqi audio repair technician working on a cassette player at his workshop in central Baghdad on 29 June 2008 (AFP)…
(2023-09-01). Is Bidenomics Working? Harvard University Researchers Say 46% Of American Renters Are Struggling To Make Ends Meet. moguldom.com When Joe Biden toured the U.S. in June on a mission to persuade the public that the economy has improved under his presidency, not everyone was buying it. "Americans are worse off under Biden," said Republican National Committee Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel. The public agreed. A poll released in late June by the Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs …
(2023-09-01). Documents Show Taiwan Working With FBI to Prosecute Chinese Americans, Politicians. scheerpost.com 
(2023-09-01). Several thousand transactions with digital ruble made as part of pilot project — regulator. tass.com Olga Skorobogatova stressed that the platform of the Bank of Russia and interaction with banks are working…
(2023-09-01). Bank of Russia doing its best to solve issue of blocked assets — regulator. tass.com Elvira Nabiullina also said that the Bank of Russia and the Finance Ministry are working on a mechanism for exchanging frozen assets with foreigners, but negotiations with foreign regulators and investors are not currently underway…
(2023-09-01). Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific. wsws.org 70,000 South Korean school teachers to strike over dangerous working conditions; Indian sanitation workers protest in Delhi over work deaths; Australia: University academics strike in Victoria over wages and conditions.
(2023-09-01). India's anti-Modi opposition electoral alliance: A right-wing political trap for the working class. wsws.org The Stalinist parties are among the most enthusiastic members of the opposition alliance and fully support its aim—providing the Indian bourgeoisie with an alternate, right-wing government-in-waiting.
(2023-09-01). The campaign against Spain's Luis Rubiales over "the kiss" wsws.org Rubiales is being subjected to a ferocious witch-hunt by the media, in a campaign Spain's politicians are only too happy to see drown out the major political issues confronting the working class.
(2023-09-01). Catastrophic floods and forest fires kill dozens and leave thousands homeless in Chile. wsws.org On top of the flooding and fires, Chile confronts a water crisis that is due not only to protracted drought, but also to the wholesale privatization of the nation's water supplies, 80 percent of which are controlled by corporate interests.
(2023-09-02). Shocked by Niger Coup, Victoria Nuland Appeared 'Desperate' During Africa Tour. orinocotribune.com 
By Anya Parampil ∑ Aug 29, 2023 | A veteran South African official detailed meeting with an unprepared and "desperate" Acting Deputy Secretary of State, Victoria Nuland, begging for local help rolling back the popular coup in Niger. The recent BRICS conference might give Nuland even more to fret about. | When US Acting Deputy Secretary of State, Victoria Nuland, traveled to South Africa on July 29, her reputation as a blunt instrument of Washington's hegemonic interests preceded her. | According to a veteran South African official who attended meetings with the senior US diplomat in Pretoria, however, Nuland…
(2023-09-01). 200,000 children at risk of starvation in Mali, warn UN agencies. plenglish.com Bamako, Sep 1 (Prensa Latina) A nexus of protracted armed conflict, internal displacement and limited humanitarian access threatens to plunge nearly one million children under the age of five into acute malnutrition by the end of this year — with at least 200,000 at risk of dying of hunger if life-saving aid fails to reach them, UN agencies said on Friday.