(2024-08-29). Project 2025: How the far-right's tax plan would hike middle-class taxes while slashing taxes for the wealthy. nationofchange.org Project 2025, a far-right agenda, proposes radical tax reforms that would disproportionately burden middle-income Americans while granting significant tax breaks to the wealthiest households and large corporations.
(2024-08-29). Bangladesh: the 'Global South' debt crisis intensifies. cadtm.org
(2024-08-29). From the "Committee for the Cancellation of Third World Debt" to the "Committee for the Abolition of Illegitimate Debt" cadtm.org
(2024-08-29). Social Movements and the Politics of Debt. cadtm.org
(2024-08-29). The Debt System: The CADTM's analyses and theoretical foundations. cadtm.org Extract from "Social Movements and the Politics of Debt: Transnational Resistance against Debt on Three Continents"
| In this extract from his doctoral thesis, Christoph Sorg begins by drawing a distinction between the CADTM and Eurodad, a European NGO specialising in debt and development financing. Christoph Sorg then focusses on the analyses produced by the CADTM. This extract from the thesis corresponds to pages 167 to 171.
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(2024-08-29). The worst ever global debt crisis. cadtm.org
(2024-08-29). Pakistan Debt Crisis. ummid.com A surprising part of the debt crisis of Pakistan is that it has been increasing despite Pakistan having enjoyed very good relations with the richest countries for very considerable periods of time.
(2024-08-29). Reform UK Repays £200k to Side-Lined Leader Days After Nigel Farage Dethrones Him. bylinetimes.com 
The accounts show that the party is dependent on a large loan from a director. | Despite making a profit in 2023, the party — which is unusually set up as a This debt is owed to the party's former leader, and now dep…
(2024-08-29). Gulf states protest Netflix's 'The Goat Life', ignore kafala. newarab.com 
Audiences in The nearly three-hour film portrays the hardships of a Malayali Indian migrant worker who was coerced into working without pay as an isolated goat herder in Saudi Arabia, sparking considerable backlash from many in the kingdom who accuse it of misrepresenting the country. |
(2024-08-29). The Slide Into Authoritarianism. popularresistance.org All of us who care about civil liberties, civil rights, human rights and freedom of the press have had a front-row seat lately to a slide toward what can only be described as authoritarianism. The governments of the U.S., U.K. and even Canada have been working hard, sometimes in a coordinated fashion, to silence dissenting voices. The governments' tactics have been heavy-handed, to say the least. | Most recently, journalist Richard Medhurst was arrested last week by British authorities. Richard, who is one of the loudest and most important voices in support of human rights for Palestinians, was arrested at Heathr…
(2024-08-29). The economy and the election: Democrats and Republicans can't deliver for workers. liberationnews.org 
Neither of the two capitalist parties have an answer for the cost-of-living crisis facing the working class.
(2024-08-29). Deaths of Delta maintenance workers underscore urgent need for union representation. peoplesworld.org 
ATLANTA—Two Delta Airlines workers were killed and another grievously injured on Tuesday when a tire on a Boeing 757 plane exploded during maintenance at Atlanta's Hartsfield-Jackson airport at the mile-wide Delta TechOps maintenance facility. Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) said it has opened an investigation, while Delta said it was "working with authorities." The …
(2024-08-29). Astronauts showed up for 8-day shift, now stuck in space for months. peoplesworld.org 
Imagine showing up to work for an eight-day shift—not unthinkable in industries like shipping, trucking, airlines, oil rigs, and rural medicine—and then the boss announces that actually, due to unsafe working conditions, you will be forced to work a nine-month shift instead. Just one day on the job happens to come with a lot of …
(2024-08-29). U.S. Coast Guard Has A Working Heavy Icebreaker Again. twz.com 
The U.S. Coast Guard's heavy icebreaker
(2024-08-29). Rebecca Lossin: The Multiple Gaze. newleftreview.org Resisting the erasure of working-class life in the American rust belt, the critical photography of LaToya Ruby Frazier combines intimate portraiture with representations of capital's flight. Rebecca Lossin reflects on MoMA's recent retrospective of her work—and on the cultural politics of documentary image-making in an age saturated with the visual.
(2024-08-29). Israel's 'starvation strategy': IDF targets World Food Program vehicle as Gaza's famine worsens. nationofchange.org As famine spreads across Gaza, the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) are accused of targeting humanitarian workers, including a World Food Program vehicle, in what some are calling a deliberate strategy to starve the Palestinian population.
(2024-08-28). Bangladesh: the 'Global South' debt crisis intensifies. cadtm.org
(2024-08-28). From the "Committee for the Cancellation of Third World Debt" to the "Committee for the Abolition of Illegitimate Debt" cadtm.org
(2024-08-28). Social Movements and the Politics of Debt. cadtm.org
(2024-08-28). The Debt System: The CADTM's analyses and theoretical foundations. cadtm.org Extract from "Social Movements and the Politics of Debt: Transnational Resistance against Debt on Three Continents"
| In this extract from his doctoral thesis, Christoph Sorg begins by drawing a distinction between the CADTM and Eurodad, a European NGO specialising in debt and development financing. Christoph Sorg then focusses on the analyses produced by the CADTM. This extract from the thesis corresponds to pages 167 to 171.
| CADTM ("Committee for the Abolition of Illegitimate Debt") shares (…) | – | / | <...
(2024-08-28). The worst ever global debt crisis. cadtm.org
(2024-08-28). US Treasuries No Longer A "Safe Haven," Warn Experts. globalresearch.ca New research presented at the Federal Reserve's annual research conference in Kansas City, Wyoming, found weaknesses in US Treasuries, once labelled a "safe haven" for securities. This is devastating news for the US as unsustainable debt and the weaponisation of …
(2024-08-28). Supreme Court rebuffs Biden administration plea to restore multibillion-dollar student debt plan. whyy.org The The justices rejected an administration request to put most of it back into effect. It was blocked by the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. | In an unsigned order, the court said it expects the appeals court to issue a fuller decision on the plan "with appropriate dispatch." | The Education Department is seeking to provide a faster path to…
(2024-08-28). Vessels turned into floating hospitals. ecns.cn Engineers at a shipyard in Jiangyin, a coastal city in Jiangsu province, have been working on a project never undertaken before in China: converting container ships into floating hospitals.
(2024-08-28). Kenyan officers in Haiti frustrated over inadequate pay. plenglish.com The African military officers were concerned about the missing supplemental payments because they will soon have to pay for their children's school fees and guarantee current expenses and food for their relatives back home. | Le Nouvelliste newspaper, based on a report by CNN, informed that those officers were expecting a significant financial bonus for their mission in Haiti. | They are involved in an exhausting mission more suited for a military force than a police detachment, the source said, noting that the officers are not allowed to leave their base in Port-au-Prince after working hours.
(2024-08-28). Labour Decides To Create Fear — But The British Public See Through Their Agenda. expose-news.com Keir Starmer, a man who has fallen into power, by default, has, in a few months, managed to destroy and divide a once great and proud United Kingdom. While the everyday, hardworking, …
(2024-08-28). UN's WFP investigates its Sudan operations as famine spreads. newarab.com 
The The investigation by the