2023-10-01: News Headlines

Ben Norton (2023-09-30). Poverty Is Growing in Puerto Rico, Under US Colonialism: 57.6% Of Children Live in Poor Households. orinocotribune.com

midwesternmarx (2023-09-30). Venezuela: Gov't to Launch China-Backed Anti-Poverty Program. By: Andreína Chávez Alava. midwesternmarx.com The Social Equality and Happiness Mission will adapt the Chinese experience to the Caribbean country's reality to alleviate poverty and inequality. Caracas, September 21, 2023 (venezuelanalysis.com) — The Venezuelan government has announced a new social program focused on fighting poverty and inequality, which will be supported by China's International Poverty Reduction Center.​On Monday, during his weekly TV program, President Nicolás Maduro said&nbsp …

Prof Michel Chossudovsky (2023-10-01). The Hegemonic UN-WEF-NATO Triad: U.N. "Sustainable Development" (SDG 2030) = Endless Wars, Poverty and Famine Worldwide. globalresearch.ca "Those of us who do understand the nefariousness of the empire, and the ever-increasing danger it represents, must be clear that the effective defense of life on planet Earth, including that of the human species itself, inexorably demands the existence …

Center for Biological Diversity (2023-10-01). Thursday 10/12: "A Silent Transformation": Film Talk on Modern Economy & Increasing Poverty Gap w/ CBD. indybay.org Register here to view the films on demand: filmfestplus.com/get-pass/?festival=FJ23X6TGHKR3 | Register here to attend the webinars by selecting the session dates you want to attend: | biologicaldiversity-org.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_JhlM5_EbSQqtgu-oNKfhZQ#/registration

Hedelberto López Blanch (2023-09-30). Niños pobres en el país más rico del mundo. globalizacion.ca Quién podría pensar que en pleno siglo XXI, en Estados Unidos el país más rico del planeta, existan nueve millones de niños en la pobreza, mientras 975 estadounidenses son multimillonarios con un capital conjunto de 4,45 billones de dólares. | En…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-10-01). UK & France Should Relinquish Permanent UN Seats. libya360.wordpress.com Vijay Prashad Pamela Singh, India, "Treasure Map 006," 2014—15. The colonial past sits heavily on the present. The colonisers' power remains intact, with the Banque de France and the Bank of England remaining repositories of the wealth stolen from the colonies. What gives these old colonial powers, Britain and France, permission to remain overlords of…

WSWS (2023-09-30). The ruling class, the CIA and the pseudo-left mourn Democratic senator Dianne Feinstein. wsws.org The over three-decade long Senator from California was an enormously wealthy and faithful steward of US imperialism, which is why she is being hailed by the entire American ruling class.

WSWS (2023-09-30). The ruling class, the CIA and the pseudo-left mourn Democratic senator Dianne Feinstein. wsws.org The over three-decade-long senator from California was an enormously wealthy and faithful steward of US imperialism, which is why she is being hailed by the entire American ruling class.

Editor (2023-09-30). The perilous path from Western domination to de-dollarisation. mronline.org One of the major problems faced by Global South countries is that they are saddled with immense debts in dollars, and Western corporations claim ownership over their resources.

Keating Zelenke, . (2023-10-01). Student-Loan Debtors Weigh Options As Debt-Payment Moratorium Expires. popularresistance.org "I'm thinking about the interest that's going to be accruing, on top of each loan, and I'm like, okay, that's going to total maybe $1,000 a month," says Rachel Jerome of the upcoming federal student-loan payment ≠resumption. | After Jerome earned her bachelor's degree, she realized that her career goals were much different than when she was 18 years old. She wanted to switch gears and go back to school for a master's in strategic communications, so she attended an online program at Syracuse University while working full-time at a nonprofit and living with her parents. | COVID-19 induced a federal moratorium on…

ecns.cn (2023-10-01). Consultation helps take ties 'step forward'. ecns.cn Analysts said Beijing and Washington "made one step forward" this week in advancing working-level pragmatic discussions on managing differences, as senior diplomats from both sides convened in Washington DC for a China-US consultation on Asia-Pacific affairs, which was the first of its kind.

Labor Video Project (2023-10-01). Government Shutdown: An Attack On All Workers! Gilbert Galam AFGE1230 TSA Worker & Leader. indybay.org The government is shutting down and millions of workers and the public will be affected. Gilbert Galam who is with AFGE Local 1230 where he Is legislative & political director and is a TSA worker talks about the last shut down and why this is an attack on the entire working class.

United Front Committee for A Labor Party (2023-10-01). All Out Support Striking UAW Members! 32 hours Work for 40 Hours Pay, No Two Tiers, & COLA. indybay.org The United Front Committee For A Labor Party UFCCLP supports the demands of the UAW for 32 hours work for 40 hours pay, an end to tiers and a COLA. It also supports uniting the entire working class for a general strike especially connected to the attack on the working class by the government shutdown. It also calls for workers to control and benefit from AI but that requires a mass workers party that will run the country for the working class.

ecns.cn (2023-09-30). Consultation helps take ties 'step forward'. ecns.cn Analysts said Beijing and Washington "made one step forward" this week in advancing working-level pragmatic discussions on managing differences, as senior diplomats from both sides convened in Washington DC for a China-US consultation on Asia-Pacific affairs, which was the first of its kind.

Labor Video Project (2023-09-30). Government Shutdown: An Attack On All Workers! Gilbert Galam AFGE1230 TSA Worker & Leader. indybay.org The government is shutting down and millions of workers and the public will be affected. Gilbert Galam who is with AFGE Local 1230 where he Is legislative & political director and is a TSA worker talks about the last shut down and why this is an attack on the entire working class.

United Front Committee for A Labor Party (2023-09-30). All Out Support Striking UAW Members! 32 hours Work for 40 Hours Pay, No Two Tiers, & COLA. indybay.org The United Front Committee For A Labor Party UFCCLP supports the demands of the UAW for 32 hours work for 40 hours pay, an end to tiers and a COLA. It also supports uniting the entire working class for a general strike especially connected to the attack on the working class by the government shutdown. It also calls for workers to control and benefit from AI but that requires a mass workers party that will run the country for the working class.

WSWS (2023-09-30). Looming US government shutdown targets the working class. wsws.org The budget impasse at the center of world imperialism takes the form of a savage intensification of the attack on the working class.

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2023-10-01). Mayo Clinic Minute: Red flags for heart failure during pregnancy. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org Heart disease is the leading cause of death for women in the U.S. Deaths from heart disease in women who are pregnant or delivered a baby within one year has increased over the previous 30 years. Dr. Demilade (Demi-lad-ay) Adedinsewo (Ah-ded-in-shay-woah), a Mayo Clinic cardiologist, explains the red flags for heart failure during pregnancy and how healthcare professionals are working to detect the condition earlier. Watch: The Mayo Clinic Minute youtu.be/DCgDX2yvUc0 Journalists: Broadcast-quality video pkg…

Pete Dolack (2023-10-01). It's a Capitalist World. counterpunch.org Image by Ehimetalor Akhere Unuabona. | Conditions for working people continue to get worse. The right to strike, or to join a union, is denied by increasing numbers of the world's governments. The 2023 Global Rights Index report issued by the International Trade Union Confederation makes for grim reading, as has consistently been the case for the decade that the ITUC has issued its yearly reports. | Once again, there is no country on Earth that fully protects workers' rights, the

teleSUR (2023-09-30). Kenya: Progress To Boosting Child Online Safety, Unicef. telesurenglish.net On Friday, a United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) official said that Kenya is making progress in enhancing child online safety amid the rapid proliferation of the internet. | Related: | According to Eri Mathers Suzuki, chief of child protection at the UNICEF Kenya office, the East African nation has established a multi-sectoral technical working group comprising UN agencies, government bodies and civil society to lea…

EastSide Cultural Center & SWFC (2023-09-30). Friday 9/29: "A Rising Tide: A Look at Homelessness in Alameda County" – Film & Discussion w/ Filmmaker. indybay.org EastSide Cultural Center | 2277 International Blvd | Oakland 94606 | FREE film screening & discussion w/ filmmaker…

Miko Peled, MintPress News. (2023-10-01). Mahmoud Abbas: A Global Betrayal Of Palestine's Struggle For Justice. popularresistance.org The United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) has primarily been a demonstration of a world that has turned its back on Palestine and is determined to allow the wholesale killing of Palestinians to go on uninterrupted. Sadly, there was no one to represent the Palestinian people. Tragically, Mahmoud Abbas, a man who stands at the head of an organization that enables the ongoing suffering of the Palestinian people, was introduced as the "President of the State of Palestine." | Abbas' performance was a farce. He resorted to language that was outdated and irrelevant. His remarks constituted little more than begging for…

Editor (2023-09-30). Files Expose Syrian 'Revolution' as Western Regime Change Operation. scheerpost.com By Kit Klarenberg / MintPress News Throughout August and September, anti-government protests have rocked Syrian cities. While the crowds are typically small, numbering only a few hundred, they show little sign of abating. Demonstrators are motivated by increasingly unlivable economic conditions spurred by crippling U.S.-led international sanctions against Damascus. These have produced hyperinflation, mass food insecurity, and …

Staff (2023-09-30). 30 September, Berlin: Demonstration in solidarity with Palestinian prisoners and against anti-Palestinian repression. samidoun.net Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network is organizing a demonstration on Saturday, 30 September at 1 pm in Berlin, Germany, in Hermannplatz, in solidarity with Palestinian prisoners on hunger strike, the resistance in occupied Palestine, and as part of the

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