Chris Hedges (2023-08-22). The crucifixion of Julian Assange. mronline.org The Biblical prophets — Elijah, Amos, Jeremiah, Isaiah — believed that anything worth living for was worth dying for. Their enemy was not only suffering, calumny, poverty, injustice, but a life devoid of meaning.

greenleft.org.au (2023-08-22). Antipoverty Centre report calls for income-first approach. greenleft.org.au

Jeff Abbott (2023-08-22). Bernardo Arévalo Victory Is a Turning Point for Guatemala. progressive.org The president-elect has promised to crack down on corruption and break up monopolies, a welcome sign in a country gripped by a wealthy elite.

Binoy Kampmark (2023-08-23). Cutting Climate Change Research: Cuts at the Australian Antarctic Division. dissidentvoice.org Australia's funding priorities have been utterly muddled of late. At the Commonwealth level, there is cash to be found in every conceivable place to support every absurd military venture, as long as it targets those hideous authoritarians in Beijing. It seemed utterly absurd that, even as the Australian federal government announced its purchase of over …

Kojo Acheampong (2023-08-22). 'Drop the debt!' — Protestors slam BlackRock for predatory loans to Zambia. liberationnews.org BlackRock is the largest private holder of Zambia's external debt and plays a massive role in keeping Zambia underdeveloped.

Dimitri Lascaris, The Real News Network. (2023-08-22). Israeli Naval 'Piracy' Won't Stop Freedom Flotilla Voyage To Gaza. popularresistance.org The Freedom Flotilla Coalition, a grassroots people-to-people solidarity movement working to end the illegal Israeli blockade of Gaza, has launched numerous Freedom Flotilla voyages since 2008. Joel Opperdoes has served as captain for multiple Flotilla voyages, including in 2012, when his vessel was descended upon and boarded by Israeli naval forces and he and his crew were detained. TRNN contributor, lawyer, and freelance journalist Dimitri Lascaris speaks with Opperdoes aboard The Handala, the flagship vessel of the 2023 Gaza Freedom Flotilla, en route to Oslo, Norway.

Alex Bainbridge (2023-08-23). Labor fails on AUKUS, housing and taxation. greenleft.org.au Prime Minister Anthony Albanese's argument that long-term government is counterposed to pro-working class policies contains major flaws, argues Alex Bainbridge.

ecns.cn (2023-08-22). Ancient customs of Qixi Festival. ecns.cn The annual Qixi Festival, also known as Qiqiao or Begging for Skills Festival, is celebrated on the seventh day of the seventh lunar month. It falls on Tuesday this year.

ecns.cn (2023-08-23). Museum in Nanjing showcases charm of traditional Qixi culture. ecns.cn The annual Qixi Festival, also known as Qiqiao or Begging for Skills Festival, was celebrated on Tuesday, the seventh day of the seventh lunar month.

SAM (2023-08-22). Oligarchy Has Arrived. Congress Must Take Notice — and Act! inequality.org

Staff (2023-08-23). Maher al-Akhras, former long-term hunger striker, seized by occupation forces; launches immediate hunger strike. samidoun.net Occupation forces seized Palestinian leader Maher al-Akhras, a former prisoner and long-term hunger striker whose 103-day hunger strike won his freedom and galvanized Palestinian, Arab and international support, from his home in Silat al-Dhahr, south of Jenin, in the early morning hours of 23 August 2023. His family announced that he had immediately launched a …

ecns.cn (2023-08-23). Museum in Nanjing showcases charm of traditional Qixi culture. ecns.cn The annual Qixi Festival, also known as Qiqiao or Begging for Skills Festival, was celebrated on Tuesday, the seventh day of the seventh lunar month.

SAM (2023-08-22). Oligarchy Has Arrived. Congress Must Take Notice — and Act! inequality.org

Staff (2023-08-23). Maher al-Akhras, former long-term hunger striker, seized by occupation forces; launches immediate hunger strike. samidoun.net Occupation forces seized Palestinian leader Maher al-Akhras, a former prisoner and long-term hunger striker whose 103-day hunger strike won his freedom and galvanized Palestinian, Arab and international support, from his home in Silat al-Dhahr, south of Jenin, in the early morning hours of 23 August 2023. His family announced that he had immediately launched a …

ecns.cn (2023-08-20). Children from China's once poverty-stricken areas stun world with beautiful songs. ecns.cn Children dressed in traditional Yi ethnic costumes chorused a song to inaugurate the opening ceremony of the 31st summer edition of the FISU World University Games"ÄÄin southwest China's Sichuan Province."ÄÄ…

greenleft.org.au (2023-08-20). Antipoverty Centre report calls for income-first approach. greenleft.org.au

Tony Kirby (2023-08-19). Perspectives] Kelley Lee: putting the governance of global health under scrutiny. thelancet.com Kelley Lee, Professor and Canada Research Chair in Global Health Governance at Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, Canada, spent her early childhood in Vancouver's Chinatown area, where she learned how social disadvantage can profoundly shape life chances. The area, now known as the Downtown Eastside, was already a place of struggle against addiction and poverty in the 1960s. For the Asian community, it was also a place born from institutionalised anti-Chinese policies and racial segregation. Lee's grandfather paid the notorious head tax in 1911 to enter Canada, while her Canadian-born parents were denied citiz…

youtube (2023-08-19). Why Public Transportation Sucks in the US. youtube.com Access to transportation is the single most important factor in escaping poverty.

Gareth Dale (2023-08-20). The politics of degrowth – Technology, ideology, and the fight for eco-socialism. internationalviewpoint.org Degrowth identifies and critiques growth as fundamental to the capitalist system. Growth enriches property owners and the wealthy, leaving the rest of humanity behind with devastating environmental consequences. | – | / |

ecns.cn (2023-08-20). Over 3.5 million lose 'dollar millionaire' status in 2022. ecns.cn More than 3.5 million people lost their "dollar millionaire" status last year during the first fall in global wealth since the 2008 financial crisis.

Keerti Gopal (2023-08-19). YOU LOVE TO SEE IT: Millionaire Tax Feeds Hungry Kids. levernews.com Good things are happening! Millionaires pick up kids' lunch tabs, the Louisiana coast rebuilds, a top university sides with labor organizers over a huge corporation, and boat-rocking climate activists made landmark progress in Montana.Millionaires Stock The Cafeteria: Wealth taxes work! Just look at Massachusetts, where millionaires are funding free lunches for hungry school kids.Last November, the state passed a four percent tax increase on incomes over $1 million, bringing $1 billion in new revenue for its 2024 budget. Some of that money will provide free lunches to Massachusetts public school students…

Editor (2023-08-20). Vox's Student Loan 'Expert' Is Paid by Debt Collectors. scheerpost.com

Julia Conley (2023-08-19). Golden Lashes Out at Student Borrowers After Taking Donation From Sallie Mae. truthout.org The United States' first debtors' union and a former staffer of U.S. Rep. Jared Golden were among those who rebuked the corporate Democrat on Friday after he said in a statement that he opposes student debt relief because it would benefit "privileged" Americans — and refused to answer questions about donations he's taken from student loan company Sallie Mae. When asked by the Maine Beacon whether… |

Brian Williams (2023-08-19). For first time ever, debt owed on credit cards in US tops $1 trillion. themilitant.com In a stark sign of the challenges facing working people as the crisis of capitalism deepens, credit card debt in the U.S. for the first time ever topped $1 trillion in the second quarter this year. That's up 4.6% from the previous three months. "Compared to other debt categories this quarter," the New York Federal Reserve said, "credit card balances saw the most pronounced worsening in performance." | And it will keep rising as workers and farmers increasingly have to wrack up more and more debt for food, car repairs, rising rents and mortgages and all kinds of family emergencies. Inflation and sharply higher int…

midwesternmarx (2023-08-19). Argentina adopting US dollar to fight inflation would be 'insane' neocolonialism, says economist Ha-Joon Chang. By: Ben Norton. midwesternmarx.com Right-wing politicians in Argentina want to adopt the US dollar as the national currency to fight inflation. Development economist Ha-Joon Chang said this is "insane", warning dollarization would make the Latin American nation a "colony".Argentina is suffering from high rates of inflation, largely due to odious debt owed in US dollars to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and Western vulture funds.The South American nation sometimes suffers from a current accoun …

Prentiss Haney (2023-08-20). End of Pandemic-Era Child Care Aid Spells Crisis for Millions of Working Moms. truthout.org A Minnesota Public Radio article noted last month that "women are returning to the job market in droves." While it's true that women may be returning to work; they are not doing so without challenges. Most people have no idea the systems that must be in place in early childhood education to accommodate women and families and help them get back to work and stay at work. Simply put… |

_____ (2023-08-20). Documents Show Taiwan Working With FBI to Prosecute Chinese Americans, Intimidate U.S. Politicians. strategic-culture.org Amid a controversial visit from Vice President William Lai (the front-runner to be his country's next leader), official documents reviewed by "MintPress News" show that the Taiwanese government is attempting to drum up anti-China hostility, influence and intimidate American politicians and is even working with the FBI and other agencies to spy on and prosecute Chinese American citizens.

Alina Ramos Martin (2023-08-20). China interested in strengthening bilateral cooperation with Ethiopia. plenglish.com Addis Ababa, Aug 20 (Prensa Latina) China is interested in strengthening cooperation and diversifying the areas of work with Ethiopia, hence both countries are working together to achieve mutual development, an official source said.

teleSUR (2023-08-20). Ecuadorians Concerned About Deficiencies in Online Vote Abroad. telesurenglish.net Throughout Sunday morning, hundreds of Ecuadorian migrants have been denouncing that the online voting systems were not working properly. | RELATED: | This happened in countries such as Canada, Belgium, France, Italy, the United Kingdom, and Spain, where citizens have been trying to vote for hours without being able to do so. | Former Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa warned about this issue, which has been also reported by internationa…

Alan MacLeod, MintPress News. (2023-08-20). Documents Show Taiwan Working With FBI To Prosecute Chinese Americans. popularresistance.org Vice President Lai's journey to the United States is, officially, only a stopover on his way to Paraguay (the U.S. does not formally recognize Taiwan as an independent state). He is scheduled to make appearances in both New York and San Francisco. | Lai himself is an outspoken leader of the growing movement for Taiwanese independence. Many nationalists see Taiwan as culturally different from the mainland and argue it would be better off as a fully independent state. To achieve this goal, they are attempting to gain American backing and influence American public opinion. China, however, sees the matter as purely i…

Ethan Marcotte, WBUR. (2023-08-20). Why The Hollywood Strike Matters To All Of Us. popularresistance.org Over the last decade, the entertainment industry has shifted away from legacy distribution models like film and television and embraced a streaming-first model. The move has been a lucrative one, bringing billions of dollars in revenue to the industry. | But those profits haven't reached working actors and writers. Some 87% of actors earn less than $26,000 per year; many writers have to work second jobs to make ends meet. And so, for the first time since 1960, members of the Writers Guild of America (WGA) and the Screen Actors Guild (SAG-AFTRA) are on strike simultaneously — and Hollywood has effectively sh…

| Reuters | (2023-08-19). British nurse found guilty of murdering seven newborn babies. tribune.com.pk A British nurse who described herself as a "horrible evil person" was found guilty on Friday of murdering seven newborn babies and trying to kill another six in the neonatal unit of a hospital in northwest England where she worked. | Lucy Letby, 33, was convicted of killing five baby boys and two baby girls at the Countess of Chester hospital and attacking other newborns, often while working night shifts, in 2015 and 2016. | The verdict, following a harrowing 10-month trial at Manchester Crown Court, makes Letby Britain's most prolific serial child killer in modern history, local media said. | She was found no…

Tanupriya Singh (2023-08-19). Dilemmas of Humanity conference calls for Pan-African, working class power. peoplesdispatch.org At the Dilemmas of Humanity: Pan African Dialogues to Build Socialism conference, 184 delegates from 38 radical organizations charted the socialist way forward for Africa at a time of dramatic change in the world order…

Author Blank (2023-08-19). SWP: Defend free speech, political rights! themilitant.com Below is a statement issued Aug. 15 by Róger Calero, Socialist Workers Party candidate for New York City Council District 48. | Working people and all defenders of constitutional protections of free speech and assembly should oppose the campaign by the New York Times, now backed by Sen. Marco Rubio, for investigations and prosecution as "unregistered" foreign agents — in this case, for the government of China — of members or supporters of Codepink, People's Forum and other organizations. We oppose any attempts to take away the tax exempt status of groups cited by the Times. | Since its enactment in 19…

Roy Landersen (2023-08-19). Moscow's war, Ukrainian resistance and the place of the national question. themilitant.com As working people in Ukraine exert courageous efforts to reconquer parts of their country seized by the Vladimir Putin regime in Moscow, they are strongly motivated to defend their independence. At the same time, workers and oppressed nationalities across Russia are becoming increasingly disaffected from Putin's war. | At the heart of these developments is the national question. The Ukrainians were oppressed for centuries by Russia's czars. They won autonomy for a few years after the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution led by V.I. Lenin. Then they came under the iron grip of Moscow again as the counterrevolution headed by…

Anne Howie (2023-08-19). UK rail unions picket against cuts in ticket offices, jobs. themilitant.com MANCHESTER, England — Striking members of the Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers union were joined on picket lines by disability rights campaigners and other trade unionists in many parts of the country during one-day strikes by 20,000 rail workers on July 20, 22 and 29. | Weeks before, rail bosses had announced the closure of almost all station ticket offices, cutting more than 2,000 jobs. Both the RMT and the Associated Society of Locomotive Engineers and Firemen held a series of strikes over the past year. The government and rail bosses demand unions accept job cuts and attacks on working conditions to…

Amy Husk (2023-08-19). Memphis strike 'standing strong' against IFF bosses. themilitant.com MEMPHIS, Tenn. — When we went on strike "some of the supervisors told us we would only last a week. Here we are 10 weeks later, still strong, still together," Zandra Lee, a member of Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers Local 390G at the International Flavors and Fragrances plant here, said on the picket line Aug. 13. | Nearly 200 members of the union have been on strike since June 4 after working for almost a year under an expired contract. The workers make soy protein products that are used by Nestle, Nestle Purina, Kind Bars, Abbott Nutrition and other companies to manufacture baby fo…

John Studer (2023-08-19). Maui wildfire disaster caused by capitalism, gov't disdain. themilitant.com A rapidly moving wildfire rampaged across Lahaina, a historic town on Maui in Hawaii Aug. 8, laying waste to over 2,000 buildings, mainly residences, and causing the death of over 100 people to date, all but two unidentified, with more expected. It is the deadliest wildfire in modern U.S. history, surpassing the 2018 Camp Fire in Paradise, California, which wiped out the town leaving 19,000 buildings destroyed, 85 dead and displacing hundreds more. | Working people in Hawaii and elsewhere have responded with solidarity and a mobilization of help. People on the island organized to gather and deliver food and other…

Terry Evans (2023-08-19). NY forum: 'Defense of constitutional freedoms is key issue in class struggle'. themilitant.com The indictment of Donald Trump by the Biden administration's Department of Justice "is a head-on assault on free speech," Steve Clark told a Militant Labor Forum organized by the New York and Northern New Jersey branches of the Socialist Workers Party Aug. 12. Clark is a member of the party's National Committee. | "Working people fight to defend everything that provides us space to organize and act," he said. "The criminalization of political differences, led by the Democratic Party, is dangerous. The indictment is not just part of an intra-ruling-class faction fight. It's a frame-up. Class-conscious workers shou…

Staff (2023-08-19). Food insecure population grows for fifth straight month. stephensemler.substack.com If you find these notes useful, you can support this newsletter and SPRI, here. Subscribe now Share On Wednesday, I was interviewed by The Hill about a piece I wrote for The Lever called "Bidenomics isn't working for working people." In the article, I try to make sense of the disconnect between the US's impressive …

WSWS (2023-08-19). US actors, writers speak about lengthy strike and the crisis facing their profession. wsws.org The WSWS talked to several actors and writers at picket lines, and over the phone, in Los Angeles this past week. They spoke about the strike but also the broader struggles of the working class erupting across the country.

WSWS (2023-08-19). Trudeau government spending tens of billions to rearm Canadian imperialism; ruling elite clamours for more. wsws.org Canada's Liberal government—which is propped up in parliament by the trade union-sponsored New Democratic Party—is carrying out a massive rearmament program at the expense of the working class.

Misión Verdad (2023-08-19). Putin Calls for Creation of Alternative Tournaments to Olympic Games. orinocotribune.com Russian President Vladimir Putin has called for the creation of alternative tournaments to the Olympic Games, in view of the politicization of sports by the International Olympic Committee (IOC), which excluded Russia from international competitions such as the Paris Olympic Games of 2024. | Since Russia started its special military operation in Ukraine, Russia has been subjected to economic, financial, and even sporting and cultural blockades. The fact that sports institutions have taken part in the Western-led de-Russification is considered by the Russian president as "a clear degradation" of culture, and there…

WSWS (2023-08-19). Wall Street ramps up looting of Yellow freight as Apollo pulls out of bankruptcy deal. wsws.org Major Wall Street firms have jockeyed for pole positions to strip Yellow of its assets in a bankruptcy liquidation worth upwards of $2 billion.

SAM (2023-08-19). New Stats, Old Story: Our Rich Are Raking. inequality.org

Tony Kirby (2023-08-19). Perspectives] Kelley Lee: putting the governance of global health under scrutiny. thelancet.com Kelley Lee, Professor and Canada Research Chair in Global Health Governance at Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, Canada, spent her early childhood in Vancouver's Chinatown area, where she learned how social disadvantage can profoundly shape life chances. The area, now known as the Downtown Eastside, was already a place of struggle against addiction and poverty in the 1960s. For the Asian community, it was also a place born from institutionalised anti-Chinese policies and racial segregation. Lee's grandfather paid the notorious head tax in 1911 to enter Canada, while her Canadian-born parents were denied citiz…

Fight Back (2023-08-18). "They Cloned Tyrone": On national oppression. fightbacknews.org Warning: Major spoilers for They Cloned Tyrone | They Cloned Tyrone is a peculiar little science fiction movie set in the Glen, a fictional poor Black community existing in the South. It follows the life of the protagonist Fontaine, a drug dealer without any particular flair or personality. | The Glen is rife with poverty, inequality and unfairness. For an individual not well versed in political theory, these problems might seem interpersonal or individualistic. For a Marxist-Leninist, this could only be described as one thing: national oppression. | Now you may ask: is the movie operating from a Marxist-Leninist…

WSWS (2023-08-18). Drought-affected small farmers in Sri Lanka denounce government indifference. wsws.org While drought is a natural phenomenon, the decades of poverty afflicting Sri Lankan rural toilers and the now-worsening food shortages across the island are the result of capitalism and big-business government policies.

WSWS (2023-08-18). Drought affected small farmers in Sri Lanka denounce government indifference. wsws.org While drought is a natural phenomenon, the decades of poverty afflicting Sri Lankan rural toilers and the now-worsening food shortages across the island are the result of capitalism and big-business government policies.

Megan Squire, Hannah Gais (2023-08-17). Hosting Company Used by Extremists Received $3 Million in Bitcoin After 2021 Hack. splcenter.org An unidentified source sent Epik, a web services company that caters to a far-right customer base, nearly $3 million worth of bitcoin one day after hackers announced that they had broken into the company's servers, the Southern Poverty Law Center's Data Lab found.

ecns.cn (2023-08-18). Over 3.5 million lose 'dollar millionaire' status in 2022. ecns.cn More than 3.5 million people lost their "dollar millionaire" status last year during the first fall in global wealth since the 2008 financial crisis.

Rhoda Wilson (2023-08-18). We are moving toward a Global Empire and enslavement of humanity in a Digital Gulag. expose-news.com Using the fake covid pandemic narrative as cover, the privileged, power-mad parasites who pilfer the world's wealth have sharply accelerated their longstanding plan to create a single global empire that is completely …

Dana Sanchez (2023-08-17). Paramount Drops BET Sale Plans Due To Its Own Debt Load: 'Science vs Spook' Podcast Highlighted Risk Of No Deal. moguldom.com Paramount Global has decided, after five months of bids and discussions, not to sell its majority interest in BET (Black Entertainment Television) Media Group because a sale "wouldn't result in any meaningful deleveraging of its balance sheet," people familiar with the matter told the Wall Street Journal. In other words, the bids came in lower …

WSWS (2023-08-17). Deepening problems for the Chinese financial system. wsws.org The pickup in the Chinese property market at the start of the year, following the lifting of COVID public health measures, has been short-lived with a major property developer missing an interest payment on a debt.

Kate Horgan (2023-08-17). Resilience Amidst Controversy: Unveiling the Struggles of the Mountain Valley Pipeline and Unearthing Adult Supremacy. projectcensored.org The Mountain Valley Pipeline, a zombie fracked gas project that found new life in the dark corners of the debt ceiling relief bill continues to struggle through the rough terrain…

Alina Ramos Martin (2023-08-18). Luna-25 automatic station corrects its orbit. plenglish.com According to the source on its official website, the propulsion system of the automatic station performed an orbital correction that lasted 40 seconds, with the aim of providing the best conditions for the subsequent landing on the Moon. | Roscosmos pointed out that the orbit correction proceeded normally. | "All on-board systems of the Luna-25 are working perfectly, and communications with the apparatus is stable," the space agency added.

WSWS (2023-08-18). Australian advocate for scientifically-based COVID-safety measures dies. wsws.org McLaws won popular support between 2020 and early 2022 when she and other leading medical scientists, amid mounting working-class anger, compelled Australian governments to adopt limited COVID-19 mitigation measures.

Joel Wendland-Liu (2023-08-18). 'Black Folk: The Roots of the Black Working Class' in review. peoplesworld.org Last summer, the American Historical Association's former president, James H. Sweet, issued an apology. Expressing regret for "the way I have alienated some of my Black colleagues and friends," Sweet walked back a claim he had earlier made that characterized as "anachronistic" and essentially clout-seeking those historians who mixed the personal with the historical. Good …

Martha Grevatt (2023-08-18). UAW members reject concessionary contract demands. workers.org Contract negotiations between the United Auto Workers and Ford, General Motors and Stellantis (which includes Chrysler) began in July. Instead of engaging in the traditional handshake across the table with company executives — a photo op implying the parties were working together to achieve a "competitive agreement" — UAW President . . . |

Fight Back (2023-08-17). Orlando stands up against DeSantis' targeted suspension of State Attorney Worrell. fightbacknews.org Orlando, FL – On August 10, an emergency rally was held in Orlando to address Governor Ron DeSantis' recent dismissal of State Attorney Monique Worrell. | The attacks came as an affirmation by the DeSantis camp that they are an enemy of oppressed nationalities, the working class, women and LGBTQ people. | At the rally, the charges against the Tampa 5 were discussed by Anna Eskamani as a part of DeSantis's attacks on education and African Americans. Progressive forces attending the rally understand the need to develop a strong united front against DeSantis and his clique of reactionaries. When democratic rights ar…

WSWS (2023-08-18). San Diego bans homeless encampments, erects caged parking lot "solution" wsws.org A recent ban on homeless encampments by the San Diego City Council and backed by Democrat Mayor Todd Gloria will only worsen the social crisis in the city.

WSWS (2023-08-17). Australian Senator Lidia Thorpe advances right-wing racialism in speech on Voice. wsws.org Thorpe, like the proponents of the Voice, is peddling racialism to divide workers and suppress the fundamental class issues of war and social inequality.

_____ (2023-08-18). World Hunger and the War in Ukraine. strategic-culture.org It is not clear if the West will give Russia any relief on its ability to export its own agricultural products. | By Vijay PRASHAD | Join us on , , and . | On Monday, June 17, Dmitry Peskov, the spokesperson for Russia's…

Peoples Dispatch (2023-08-18). Over 1,000 Palestinian prisoners on hunger strike against increased violence by Israeli prison authorities. peoplesdispatch.org Nine Palestinian administrative detainees are on a separate indefinite hunger strike to demand their release and better treatment of fellow prisoners…

Staff (2023-08-17). "We are still on the front lines:" Palestinian prisoners launch collective response after occupation forces attack detainees. samidoun.net Palestinian prisoners are engaged in a sharp confrontation with the Israeli occupation regime, after repressive forces invaded the Naqab desert prison on Thursday, 17 August and attacked the prisoners. Approximately 1,000 Palestinian prisoners in all prisons announced that they would start a hunger strike at 7 pm Palestine time to confront the aggression of the …

Peoples Dispatch (2023-08-14). AMLO's pro-working class policies are why poverty decreased in Mexico. peoplesdispatch.org On August 10, the Mexican National Council for the Evaluation of Social Development Policy (CONEVAL) released a In these same four years, the "multidimensional poverty" level decreased from 41.9% to 36.3…

_____ (2023-08-14). (Português) Ela Canta, Pobre Ceifeira. transcend.org Ela canta, pobre ceifeira, | Julgando-se feliz talvez; | Canta, e ceifa, e a sua voz, cheia | De alegre e anónima viuvez,…

Nathan Halverson (2023-08-14). State Pension Fund Is Invested in Deal to Drain Arizona's Dwindling Groundwater. truthout.org As rural Arizonans face the prospect of wells running dry, foreign firms are sucking up vast amounts of the state's groundwater to grow hay for Saudi Arabia and other wealthy nations. Now it turns out that a key investor in this water transfer scheme is Arizona's own employee retirement fund. In La Paz County, a rural community about 100 miles west of Phoenix, Al Dahra Farms USA has been running a… |

_____ (2023-08-14). Can We Measure Inequality without Tallying the Wealth of the Wealthiest? transcend.org 31 Jul 2023 – Hundreds of prestigious economists don't think so. The World Bank, unfortunately, does.

_____ (2023-08-14). Nuclear Now—What Is Nuclear Power (Documentary). transcend.org June 2023 – Whether you're a seasoned environmentalist or a curious newcomer, Nuclear Now offers a thought-provoking look at the challenges and opportunities presented by nuclear energy. With director Oliver Stone's signature, style, and a wealth of expert insights, this is a must-see for anyone concerned about the future of our planet. And its present.

Natalia Marques (2023-08-15). BlackRock is a "modern day Dutch East India Company" say activists. peoplesdispatch.org US-based organizations gather in front of the BlackRock headquarters in New York City to demand the asset holder cancel USD 220 million of Zambia's debt…

Peoples Dispatch (2023-08-15). Activists demand Blackrock cancel Zambia's debt. peoplesdispatch.org Activists from organizations such as the People's Forum, Friends of the Congo, ANSWER Coalition, Friends of Swazi Freedom, Black Men Build and many others, protested outside the global headquarters of investment firm BlackRock in New York City to demand it cancel Zambia's debt. 70% of Zambia's debt is held by Western institutions, and 220 million is held by investment giant BlackRock. In 2021, Zambia was diverting half of its entire public income to paying its external debts. Activists argue that BlackRock, which is worth USD 10 trillion, could easily cancel the debt and allow Zambia to develop.

Luca GoldMansour (2023-08-15). Vox's student loan 'expert' is paid by debt collectors. nationofchange.org Kevin Carey's job is funded by corporations that stand to lose so much from Biden's cancellation of federal student loans deserves a disclosure from Vox.

Kate Horgan (2023-08-15). Resilience Amidst Controversy: Unveiling the Struggles of the Mountain Valley Pipeline and Unearthing Adult Supremacy. projectcensored.org The Mountain Valley Pipeline, a zombie fracked gas project that found new life in the dark corners of the debt ceiling relief bill continues to struggle through the rough terrain…

isabella (2023-08-14). How the U.S. Could Prohibit Medical Debt From Appearing on Credit Reports. inequality.org

Ann Brown (2023-08-14). Is America Financially Sick? Credit Card Balances Hit $1 Trillion For First Time Ever. moguldom.com The financial health of the U.S. isn't looking too good, judging from Americans' growing dependency on credit cards. Americans have been increasingly turning to their credit cards to make ends meet. The result s that credit card debt has soared. Credit card balances have soared to unprecedented levels, surpassing the $1 trillion threshold for the …

Oraily Madruga Rios (2023-08-15). Venezuela and Colombia double down on strengthening border policies. plenglish.com Caracas, Aug 15 (Prensa Latina) Venezuela and Colombia are presently working on the design of technological protocols to strengthen land mobility border policies and guarantee road safety between both nations.

WSWS (2023-08-15). Forty years since the beginning of civil war in Sri Lanka. wsws.org The 26-year bloody war contains important strategic lessons for the working class in Sri Lanka and internationally.

Javier Arana Villasusa (2023-08-15). Cuban expert provides information on bankarization. plenglish.com Havana, Aug 15 (Prensa Latina) The Central Bank of Cuba (BCC) reported on Tuesday that it is continuing with its plans to provide professional and specialized information to the sector working on the implementation of the banking system in the country.

John Wojcik (2023-08-15). Communists discuss history of their relationship with U.S. labor movement. peoplesworld.org CHICAGO—"Everyone agrees that the goal in the labor movement is unity within the working class. The path to that unity is difficult, and what Marxism does is uncover and overcome the obstacles on that path to unity," said Roberta Wood at a national gathering called by the Labor Commission of the Communist Party this week. …

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2023-08-15). Driven by family, fueled by hope: Mayo Clinic researcher fights against Type 1 diabetes. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org Quinn Peterson, Ph.D., was a graduate student working on a team to develop new chemotherapy drugs when a life-changing phone call reset the course of his career. His daughter, Clarissa, had been diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes. Neither he nor his wife had any known family history of the disease. "Given my background as a scientist, I felt a responsibility and an obligation to use my skills in research to address this complex disease — not only…

WSWS (2023-08-14). Spain's capitalist parties all pledge austerity following July general election. wsws.org Whatever government is eventually formed in Spain, it will be committed to waging war on the working class.

WSWS (2023-08-14). UPS workers in Chicago and New York speak out: "Sean O'Brien talks out of both sides of his mouth and insults us with this garbage contract" wsws.org UPS workers in Chicago and New York spoke to the World Socialist Web Site over the weekend about the national tentative agreement, as well as the low pay and poor working conditions they face daily.

WSWS (2023-08-14). New Zealand intelligence report targets China over "foreign interference" wsws.org New Zealand's state agencies and military are gearing up for war with China, coupled with an authoritarian crackdown on struggles by the working class over declining living standards.

WSWS (2023-08-14). US Postal Service city letter carriers face cuts under next contract. wsws.org The "Delivering for America" program aimed ultimately to privatize the USPS is step by step implementing devastating cuts in postal workers' pay and working conditions.

Dana Sanchez (2023-08-14). 'Earn Your Leisure' Became A Top Podcast In America: 5 Things To Know. moguldom.com Childhood friends Rashad Bilal and Troy Millings saw a void in financial literacy education in Black and brown communities and they're working to change that with their "Earn Your Leisure" podcast and a growing media platform where they sell merchandise, tickets to conferences and online courses. It's working. The "Earn Your Leisure" educational platform provides …

Catalina Adorno (2023-08-14). New Jersey Activists Won a Ban on Private Prisons, Now Biden Wants to Reverse It. truthout.org "There should be no private prisons, period, none, period. That's what they're talking about — private detention centers. They should not exist. And we are working to close all of them." That's what President Joe Biden said during an April 2021 speech in Georgia, where he found himself confronted by immigrant rights activists. Two years later, it's clear that those were just empty words: The Biden… |

Dave DeCamp (2023-08-14). Biden to Strengthen Alliance With South Korea and Japan at Camp David Summit. news.antiwar.com President Biden will spend his first-ever Camp David summit working to form a new trilateral alliance between the US, Japan, and South Korea as part of his strategy against China in the Asia Pacific. Biden has invited Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol to meet him at Camp David this …

Sonali Kolhatkar (2023-08-15). The rise of private cops: How not to tackle homelessness. nationofchange.org Like many cities with a serious housing problem, Portland is increasingly relying on private security to "clean up" the human debris of capitalism.

Ki-Jana Carter (2023-08-14). Teamsters blast Yellow leadership as company declares bankruptcy. liberationnews.org On August 7, the freight trucking company Yellow announced it is filing for bankruptcy, putting 30,000 people out of work. Yellow is a major player in the small-freight logistics industry. Before ceasing operations on July 30, Yellow was the third-largest carrier of "less-than-truckload" freight. Yellow truck drivers carried goods from factories to distribution centers to stores all across the country, producing $5.2 billion in revenue last year.

infobrics (2023-08-15). Wonder how bad NATO is? Latest Afghan data makes even Taliban heroes in comparison. infobrics.org Since banning poppy cultivation in April 2022, the Taliban brought down poppy cultivation to less than 1,000 hectares in Helmand, prompting farmers to start planting actually useful crops, like wheat, slowly eliminating the famine created by Western sanctions. The Taliban also banned ephedra cultivation, leading to a mass shutdown of the previously extensive network of ephedrine labs across the country, effectively dismantling the methamphetamine industry.

isabella (2023-08-15). After Catastrophic Fire, Locals Fear Lahaina Rebuild Dominated by Rich Outsiders. inequality.org

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-08-15). Sudan: Warring Parties Continue Bombardment as Thousands of Corpses Rot in the Streets and Over 20 Million Face Hunger. libya360.wordpress.com Pavan Kulkarni A scene from Khartoum on April 15, the first day of fighting in Sudan. Thousands have been killed and over four million displaced by the war between Sudan's military and paramilitary that is set to enter its fifth month with no signs of respite. Only 18 of the country's 89 main hospitals are…

Pavan Kulkarni (2023-08-14). Sudan's warring parties continue bombardment as thousands of corpses rot on the streets and over 20 million face hunger. peoplesdispatch.org Thousands have been killed and over four million displaced by the war between Sudan's military and paramilitary that is set to enter its fifth month with no signs of respite. Only 18 of the country's 89 main hospitals are functioning, that too only at partial capacity…

Peoples Dispatch (2023-08-14). 14 Palestinian administrative detainees are on hunger strike. peoplesdispatch.org The detainees are demanding their immediate release from prison and an end to mistreatment of Palestinian prisoners by the Israeli occupation authorities. Some of them have been on hunger strike for more than two weeks…

_____ (2023-08-14). (Português) Ela Canta, Pobre Ceifeira. transcend.org Ela canta, pobre ceifeira, | Julgando-se feliz talvez; | Canta, e ceifa, e a sua voz, cheia | De alegre e anónima viuvez,…

_____ (2023-08-14). Can We Measure Inequality without Tallying the Wealth of the Wealthiest? transcend.org 31 Jul 2023 – Hundreds of prestigious economists don't think so. The World Bank, unfortunately, does.

_____ (2023-08-14). Nuclear Now—What Is Nuclear Power (Documentary). transcend.org June 2023 – Whether you're a seasoned environmentalist or a curious newcomer, Nuclear Now offers a thought-provoking look at the challenges and opportunities presented by nuclear energy. With director Oliver Stone's signature, style, and a wealth of expert insights, this is a must-see for anyone concerned about the future of our planet. And its present.

SAM (2023-08-13). The Tesla Take on 'Sharing' the Wealth. inequality.org

People's Dispatch. (2023-08-14). US-Based Organizations Demand Blackrock Cancel Zambia's Debt. popularresistance.org On August 14, progressive organizations, led by the ANSWER Coalition and the Peoples Forum, will rally outside of the BlackRock global headquarters in New York City to demand that the multinational investment company cancel Zambia's debt. BlackRock, the world's largest asset manager, holds the largest privately-owned share of Zambia's debt at a staggering USD 220 million. BlackRock is not starved for funds, owning USD 10 trillion in assets and dividends and investing in industries such as private prisons, fossil fuels, and pharmaceutical giants. | "[BlackRock's] refusal to cancel or negotiate a restructuring of t…

Ann Brown (2023-08-14). Is America Financially Sick? Credit Card Balances Hit $1 Trillion For First Time Ever. moguldom.com The financial health of the U.S. isn't looking too good, judging from Americans' growing dependency on credit cards. Americans have been increasingly turning to their credit cards to make ends meet. The result s that credit card debt has soared. Credit card balances have soared to unprecedented levels, surpassing the $1 trillion threshold for the …

WSWS (2023-08-14). Spain's capitalist parties all pledge austerity following July general election. wsws.org Whatever government is eventually formed in Spain, it will be committed to waging war on the working class.

WSWS (2023-08-14). UPS workers in Chicago and New York speak out: "Sean O'Brien talks out of both sides of his mouth and insults us with this garbage contract" wsws.org UPS workers in Chicago and New York spoke to the World Socialist Web Site over the weekend about the national tentative agreement, as well as the low pay and poor working conditions they face daily.

WSWS (2023-08-14). New Zealand intelligence report targets China over "foreign interference" wsws.org New Zealand's state agencies and military are gearing up for war with China, coupled with an authoritarian crackdown on struggles by the working class over declining living standards.

WSWS (2023-08-14). US Postal Service city letter carriers face cuts under next contract. wsws.org The "Delivering for America" program aimed ultimately to privatize the USPS is step by step implementing devastating cuts in postal workers' pay and working conditions.

WSWS (2023-08-14). Far-right Temecula school board in California sued over critical race theory ban. wsws.org The WSWS condemns the attempts of the far right to censor school curricula. The working class and youth must come to reject both the racialist narrative of the Democratic Party and the false pretenses of the far right to be defending unity and equality.

Sam Yaser, Workers' World. (2023-08-14). Buffalo: Starbucks Workers, Volunteers Hold City-Wide Pickets. popularresistance.org Buffalo, New York – As part of the Starbucks Workers United (SBWU) Bus Tour, Starbucks workers and volunteers in Buffalo, New York, demonstrated the power of the Starbucks unionization campaign in the face of corporate resistance. | To bolster their efforts, dozens of Starbucks workers traveled to Buffalo on July 26, to spread information concerning the company's egregious union busting and breaking of labor laws. The Bus Tour displayed working-class power in a united front for fair compensation and protection from Starbucks' actions. | Informational pickets were dispersed around Buffalo. Customers and passersby…

ecns.cn (2023-08-14). China denounces terrorist attack on Chinese engineers in Pakistan. ecns.cn The Chinese Embassy in Pakistan and the Chinese Consulate General in Karachi have strongly denounced an attack targeting a convoy of Chinese engineers working on a project at Gwadar port, Pakistan on Sunday morning.

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2023-08-14). Driven by family, fueled by hope: Mayo Clinic researcher fights against Type 1 diabetes. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org Quinn Peterson, Ph.D., was a graduate student working on a team to develop new chemotherapy drugs when a life-changing phone call reset the course of his career. His daughter, Clarissa, had been diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes. Neither he nor his wife had any known family history of the disease. "Given my background as a scientist, I felt a responsibility and an obligation to use my skills in research to address this complex disease — not only…

ecns.cn (2023-08-13). Chinese embassy condemns terrorist attack targeting Chinese engineers in Pakistan. ecns.cn The Chinese Embassy in Pakistan and the Chinese Consulate General in Karachi have strongly condemned an attack on a convoy of Chinese engineers working on a project at Gwadar port, Pakistan on Sunday morning.

Kyle Anzalone (2023-08-13). US, Finland Negotiating Defense Agreement That Would See Deployment of American Troops. news.antiwar.com Washington and Helsinki are working on a new deal to govern the military relationship between the two nations. Finland recently became the thirty-first member of NATO, doubling the alliance's border with Russia. According to YLE News, Finnish state media, Helsinki and Washington are negotiating a new Defense Cooperation Agreement (DCA). YLE said the new deal …

Ana Perdigón (2023-08-13). President Maduro Instructs Armed Forces to Increase Operational Capacity to Eradicate Organized Crime. orinocotribune.com Venezuela President Nicolás Maduro instructed the Venezuelan armed forces to increase their presence and operative military capacity to eradicate organized crime. | President Maduro gave these instructions on Friday, August 11, during a working meeting with the expanded General High Command and the commanders of the Strategic Region of Integral Defense (REDI) and the Operational Zones of Integral Defense (ZODI) of the Bolivarian National Armed Force (FANB). | He highlighted the operational deployment of the FANB throughout Venezuela to combat threats from organized criminal gangs and to guarantee Venezuelans' sec…

Andy Kroll (2023-08-13). No Longer the "Lone" Superpower. tomdispatch.com I recall forty years ago, when I was a new professor working in the field of Chinese and Japanese international relations, that Edwin O. Reischauer once commented, "The great payoff from our victory of 1945 was a permanently disarmed Japan." Born in Japan and a Japanese historian at Harvard, Reischauer served as American ambassador to Tokyo in the Kennedy and Johnson administrations. Strange to say, since the end of the Cold War in 1991 and particularly under the administration of George W. Bush, the United States has been doing everything in its power to encourage and even accelerate Japanese rearmament. Such a…

ecns.cn (2023-08-14). China denounces terrorist attack on Chinese engineers in Pakistan. ecns.cn The Chinese Embassy in Pakistan and the Chinese Consulate General in Karachi have strongly denounced an attack targeting a convoy of Chinese engineers working on a project at Gwadar port, Pakistan on Sunday morning.

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2023-08-14). Driven by family, fueled by hope: Mayo Clinic researcher fights against Type 1 diabetes. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org Quinn Peterson, Ph.D., was a graduate student working on a team to develop new chemotherapy drugs when a life-changing phone call reset the course of his career. His daughter, Clarissa, had been diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes. Neither he nor his wife had any known family history of the disease. "Given my background as a scientist, I felt a responsibility and an obligation to use my skills in research to address this complex disease — not only…

ecns.cn (2023-08-13). Chinese embassy condemns terrorist attack targeting Chinese engineers in Pakistan. ecns.cn The Chinese Embassy in Pakistan and the Chinese Consulate General in Karachi have strongly condemned an attack on a convoy of Chinese engineers working on a project at Gwadar port, Pakistan on Sunday morning.

Kyle Anzalone (2023-08-13). US, Finland Negotiating Defense Agreement That Would See Deployment of American Troops. news.antiwar.com Washington and Helsinki are working on a new deal to govern the military relationship between the two nations. Finland recently became the thirty-first member of NATO, doubling the alliance's border with Russia. According to YLE News, Finnish state media, Helsinki and Washington are negotiating a new Defense Cooperation Agreement (DCA). YLE said the new deal …

Ana Perdigón (2023-08-13). President Maduro Instructs Armed Forces to Increase Operational Capacity to Eradicate Organized Crime. orinocotribune.com Venezuela President Nicolás Maduro instructed the Venezuelan armed forces to increase their presence and operative military capacity to eradicate organized crime. | President Maduro gave these instructions on Friday, August 11, during a working meeting with the expanded General High Command and the commanders of the Strategic Region of Integral Defense (REDI) and the Operational Zones of Integral Defense (ZODI) of the Bolivarian National Armed Force (FANB). | He highlighted the operational deployment of the FANB throughout Venezuela to combat threats from organized criminal gangs and to guarantee Venezuelans' sec…

Andy Kroll (2023-08-13). No Longer the "Lone" Superpower. tomdispatch.com I recall forty years ago, when I was a new professor working in the field of Chinese and Japanese international relations, that Edwin O. Reischauer once commented, "The great payoff from our victory of 1945 was a permanently disarmed Japan." Born in Japan and a Japanese historian at Harvard, Reischauer served as American ambassador to Tokyo in the Kennedy and Johnson administrations. Strange to say, since the end of the Cold War in 1991 and particularly under the administration of George W. Bush, the United States has been doing everything in its power to encourage and even accelerate Japanese rearmament. Such a…

Eleanor J. Bader (2023-08-13). New Book Edited by Incarcerated Writers Explores Oppression Beyond Prison Walls. truthout.org "The precariat is not the equivalent of what we used to call the working class," National Book Critics Circle award recipient Eula Biss writes in the introduction to American Precariat: Parables of Exclusion. "More common now is gig work, with no set hours, no potential for advancement, work done through the interface of an app by workers who don't know the people for whom they're working. |

JANET (2023-08-13). 'The leading class in the Philippine Revolution is the proletariat'. iacenter.org By Phoebe De Padua August 9, 2023 This slightly edited talk was presented July 31 on the Workers World Party webinar titled "Lenin and the working class." Go to youtube.com/watch?v=bNLB1b3tFKY to view the entire webinar. Phoebe De Padua Warm and militant greetings, comrades! I am very glad to be part of this important and relevant webinar presented by Workers World Party, which is focused on advancing the struggle for workers' power in the United States and across the world. Without a doubt, the leading class in the Philippine Revolution is the proletariat, the working class. History has shown that the Filipino p…

Ki-Jana Carter (2023-08-14). Teamsters blast Yellow leadership as company declares bankruptcy. liberationnews.org On August 7, the freight trucking company Yellow announced it is filing for bankruptcy, putting 30,000 people out of work. Yellow is a major player in the small-freight logistics industry. Before ceasing operations on July 30, Yellow was the third-largest carrier of "less-than-truckload" freight. Yellow truck drivers carried goods from factories to distribution centers to stores all across the country, producing $5.2 billion in revenue last year.

Staff (2023-08-13). 14 Palestinian prisoners now on hunger strike to confront administrative detention as movement grows in occupation jails. samidoun.net As the struggle continues inside occupation prisons for justice and liberation, there are currently 14 Palestinian prisoners engaged in an open hunger strike to demand freedom from administrative detention, imprisonment without charge or trial. There are over 1100 Palestinians jailed without charge or trial under such orders, over one-fifth of all Palestinian prisoners (approximately 5,000) …

Natalia Marques (2023-08-11). Hip hop and the conditions that gave rise to a cultural movement. peoplesdispatch.org Hip hop, the most popular cultural export of the United States, emerged out of the uniquely devastating conditions of deindustrialization and the criminalization of poverty…

Roselena Ramirez (2023-08-11). A Look into the Lives of Emerald Miners in Colombia. america.cgtn.com The emerald is one of the world's top-selling gemstones. Colombia is, by far, the largest producer of the green gem. The country's most valuable deposits are located outside the town of Muzo. While the area may be rich in emeralds, poverty remains a problem. Michelle Begue has the story. …

Oraily Madruga Rios (2023-08-11). President Petro backs emergency decreed in La Guajira. plenglish.com Bogota, Aug 11 (Prensa Latina) President Gustavo Petro underscored on Friday the multidimensional poverty indicators of La Guajira Department, which is in almost every way the poorest and with the greatest unsatisfied needs in Colombia.

teleSUR, rzr, SH (2023-08-11). 8.9 millones de mexicanos salieron de la pobreza en 2022. telesurtv.net El descenso en la cifra de pobreza se debe a las políticas de apoyo y al alza del salario mínimo, medidas impulsadas por el presidente Andrés Manuel López Obrador.

Brett Murphy, Alex Mierjeski, Pro Publica. (2023-08-11). The Billionaires Who Treated Justice Clarence Thomas To Luxury Travel. popularresistance.org During his three decades on the Supreme Court, Clarence Thomas has enjoyed steady access to a lifestyle most Americans can only imagine. A cadre of industry titans and ultrawealthy executives have treated him to far-flung vacations aboard their yachts, ushered him into the premium suites at sporting events and sent their private jets to fetch him — including, on more than one occasion, an entire 737. It's a stream of luxury that is both more extensive and from a wider circle than has been previously understood. | Like clockwork, Thomas' leisure activities have been underwritten by benefactors who share the…

Peter Lazenby, Morning Star Online. (2023-08-11). Time To Start A Conversation About How We Tax Wealth. popularresistance.org United Kingdom – The TUC has condemned a "tale of two Britains" which sees working people suffering "the longest pay squeeze in modern history" while bankers' bonuses are at eye-watering levels and chief executive pay is surging. | The damning criticism came as the TUC launched a blueprint to squeeze Britain's multimillionaires for a "modest" proportion of their wealth and end the country's "increasing wealth inequality." | The blueprint would raise £10 billion for the public purse and should be the "start of a national conversation about taxing wealth," said TUC general secretary Paul Nowak. | It would aff…

WSWS (2023-08-11). Amid cost of living crisis, Commonwealth Bank of Australia reports record profit. wsws.org The bank is directly profiting from increasing interest rates, which are driving hundreds of thousands of mortgage-holders to the financial brink.

CounterSpin (2023-08-11). Shankar Narayan on Facial Misrecognition, Braxton Brewington on Student Debt Abolition. fair.org CounterSpin230811.mp3 New York Times ( This week on CounterSpin: Why was Detroit mother

Peoples Dispatch (2023-08-11). US-based organizations demand BlackRock cancel it's share of Zambia's debt. peoplesdispatch.org On August 14, progressive organizations, led by the ANSWER Coalition and the Peoples Forum, will rally outside of the BlackRock global headquarters in New York City to demand that the multinational investment company cancel

Ben Norton, Geopolitical Economy. (2023-08-11). US Pressures Saudi Arabia To Sell Oil In Dollars, Not Chinese Yuan. popularresistance.org The United States is negotiating behind the scenes with Saudi Arabia, pressuring the country to keep selling its oil in dollars. | Washington is concerned that Riyadh may price its crude in other currencies, particularly China's renminbi. | Saudi Arabia is one of the world's top three oil producers. Since the 1970s, Riyadh has agreed to sell its crude in dollars, helping maintain the greenback's hegemonic status as the global reserve currency. | The Wall Street Journal reported that the US is working on a diplomatic deal in which Saudi Arabia would agree to normalize relations with Israel's apartheid regime.

WSWS (2023-08-11). New Zealand unions push through below-inflation pay deals for nurses, teachers. wsws.org Facing an election in October, the Labour-led government is depending on the trade unions to suppress emerging struggles of the working class as it moves to defend jobs and living standards.

United Front Committee For A Labor Party (2023-08-11). Which class should control Artificial Intelligence: the workers or the bosses? indybay.org Working people should control and run AI for the benefit of workers and the public. In order to do that they need the unions to break from the Democrats and build a mass democratic workers party that will stop this capitalist madness for profits and destruction of workers jobs.

ecns.cn (2023-08-11). China cracks case of selling military secrets to CIA. ecns.cn China has bust a case in which a staff member working for a Chinese military company sold core information to the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in exchange for money.

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2023-08-11). Consumer Health: Questions about breastfeeding. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org World Breastfeeding Week will be observed Aug. 1—7. This year's campaign focuses on enabling breastfeeding for working parents. The American Academy of Pediatrics has affirmed its recommendation and advocacy for breastfeeding, stating, "Research has shown that breastfeeding is linked to decreased rates of lower respiratory tract infections, severe diarrhea, ear infections and obesity. Breastfeeding is associated with lower risk of sudden infant death syndrome, as well as other protective effects." Specifically, the American Academy of Pediatrics recommendation is…

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2023-08-11). Driven by family, fueled by hope: Mayo Clinic researcher fights against Type 1 diabetes. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org Quinn Peterson, Ph.D., was a graduate student working on a team to develop new chemotherapy drugs when a life-changing phone call reset the course of his career. His daughter, Clarissa, had been diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes. Neither he nor his wife had any known family history of the disease. "Given my background as a scientist, I felt a responsibility and an obligation to use my skills in research to address this complex disease — not only…

Janvieve Williams Comrie, Black Agenda Report. (2023-08-11). Capitalist Greed And Imperialist Policies Fuel Migrant Housing Crisis. popularresistance.org In the heart of New York City, below its iconic skyline, a paradox of epic proportions unfolds. As buses full of migrants arrive in the city each day, the struggle to find affordable housing intensifies dramatically. Yet, ironically, amidst the sprawling urban growth, there are countless buildings that stand vacant, their potential as living spaces lost, untapped. For years, these empty edifices could have served as a refuge for the existing city's homeless population, which has always been in crisis, but their emptiness has been a reminder of the disconnect between the city's available resources and the willingn…

Natalia Marques (2023-08-11). Hip hop and the conditions that gave rise to a cultural movement. peoplesdispatch.org Hip hop, the most popular cultural export of the United States, emerged out of the uniquely devastating conditions of deindustrialization and the criminalization of poverty…

Roselena Ramirez (2023-08-11). A Look into the Lives of Emerald Miners in Colombia. america.cgtn.com The emerald is one of the world's top-selling gemstones. Colombia is, by far, the largest producer of the green gem. The country's most valuable deposits are located outside the town of Muzo. While the area may be rich in emeralds, poverty remains a problem. Michelle Begue has the story. …

Oraily Madruga Rios (2023-08-11). President Petro backs emergency decreed in La Guajira. plenglish.com Bogota, Aug 11 (Prensa Latina) President Gustavo Petro underscored on Friday the multidimensional poverty indicators of La Guajira Department, which is in almost every way the poorest and with the greatest unsatisfied needs in Colombia.

David Trimmer (2023-08-10). The End Child Poverty Act Would Dramatically Reduce Poverty. peoplespolicyproject.org In April of this year, the

teleSUR, rzr, SH (2023-08-11). 8.9 millones de mexicanos salieron de la pobreza en 2022. telesurtv.net El descenso en la cifra de pobreza se debe a las políticas de apoyo y al alza del salario mínimo, medidas impulsadas por el presidente Andrés Manuel López Obrador.

Brett Murphy, Alex Mierjeski, Pro Publica. (2023-08-11). The Billionaires Who Treated Justice Clarence Thomas To Luxury Travel. popularresistance.org During his three decades on the Supreme Court, Clarence Thomas has enjoyed steady access to a lifestyle most Americans can only imagine. A cadre of industry titans and ultrawealthy executives have treated him to far-flung vacations aboard their yachts, ushered him into the premium suites at sporting events and sent their private jets to fetch him — including, on more than one occasion, an entire 737. It's a stream of luxury that is both more extensive and from a wider circle than has been previously understood. | Like clockwork, Thomas' leisure activities have been underwritten by benefactors who share the…

Peter Lazenby, Morning Star Online. (2023-08-11). Time To Start A Conversation About How We Tax Wealth. popularresistance.org United Kingdom – The TUC has condemned a "tale of two Britains" which sees working people suffering "the longest pay squeeze in modern history" while bankers' bonuses are at eye-watering levels and chief executive pay is surging. | The damning criticism came as the TUC launched a blueprint to squeeze Britain's multimillionaires for a "modest" proportion of their wealth and end the country's "increasing wealth inequality." | The blueprint would raise £10 billion for the public purse and should be the "start of a national conversation about taxing wealth," said TUC general secretary Paul Nowak. | It would aff…

WSWS (2023-08-11). Amid cost of living crisis, Commonwealth Bank of Australia reports record profit. wsws.org The bank is directly profiting from increasing interest rates, which are driving hundreds of thousands of mortgage-holders to the financial brink.

Stephen Janis, Taya Graham (2023-08-10). How 'urban renewal' went from a vision for public good to a private enrichment scheme. therealnews.com America's numerous struggling cities face the unenviable task of addressing crumbling physical and social infrastructure, housing and affordability crises, and unemployment on shoestring budgets (after you account for the massive slices handed to police) and public debt. In the age of neoliberalism, the solution is all too often to turn to the private sector—which usually only results in an upward transfer of public wealth into private hands without substantial improvement to the problems at hand. Urban development, particularly in a city like Baltimore, is especially egregious in this regard. But it…

Brett Murphy (2023-08-10). Beyond Harlan Crow, Other Billionaires Funded Justice Thomas's Luxury Vacations. truthout.org During his three decades on the Supreme Court, Clarence Thomas has enjoyed steady access to a lifestyle most Americans can only imagine. A cadre of industry titans and ultrawealthy executives have treated him to far-flung vacations aboard their yachts, ushered him into the premium suites at sporting events and sent their private jets to fetch him — including, on more than one occasion… |

Ricardo Mimbela (2023-08-10). Visualizing the Racial Wealth Gap. aclu.org Systemic inequities and barriers keep people of color from achieving economic security through employment, education, and homeownership, resulting in racial disparities in wealth and income. These disparities are the consequence of ongoing discrimination, structural inequality, and biases across our institutions. They continue to emerge in new forms of technology — including artificial intelligence and algorithmic risk assessment tools — that influence nearly every facet of life. The confluence of these inequities has created a massive, persistent racial wealth gap in the United States. | Here are…

Orinoco Tribune 2 (2023-08-10). US Officials Making Secretive Trips to South Yemen to Plunder Resources: Analyst. orinocotribune.com Secretive and suspicious visits by American diplomats and military commanders to southern Yemen are part of the economic war on the Arab country and to plunder its rich natural resources, says a Yemeni analyst. | Ali Azzehri, a journalist and analyst based in Yemen, in an interview with the Press TV website, said visits by American officials have increased dramatically in recent months. | "These consecutive trips to the occupied areas in southern Yemen are part of the massive aggression on Yemen, which is mainly aimed at plundering its wealth through the fake regime imposed on southern Yemen by hostile foreign in…

CounterSpin (2023-08-11). Shankar Narayan on Facial Misrecognition, Braxton Brewington on Student Debt Abolition. fair.org CounterSpin230811.mp3 New York Times ( This week on CounterSpin: Why was Detroit mother

Peoples Dispatch (2023-08-11). US-based organizations demand BlackRock cancel it's share of Zambia's debt. peoplesdispatch.org On August 14, progressive organizations, led by the ANSWER Coalition and the Peoples Forum, will rally outside of the BlackRock global headquarters in New York City to demand that the multinational investment company cancel

Ricardo Vaz (2023-08-10). Venezuela: Defunct Opposition Parliament Approves Debt Deadline Extension. venezuelanalysis.com The move, which had been previously proposed by the Maduro government, will deter litigation over defaulted bonds.

Walter Smolarek (2023-08-10). Aug. 14 in NYC: Rally To Demand BlackRock Cancel Zambia's Debt. answercoalition.org Join the ANSWER Coalition and The People's Forum on Monday, Aug. 14 at Bella Abzug Park (542 W 36th St): | Today, debt is one of the major tools that big corporations and US-led multinational financial institutions, like the IMF and World Bank, use to keep poorer countries beholden to Western economic and political interests. | Right now, Zambia is facing a severe debt crisis. In 2021, Zambia was spending over 50% of its national income on just servicing its external public debt. That's money being diverted from funding social services, the construction of key infrastructure like roads and hospitals, p…

Ben Norton, Geopolitical Economy. (2023-08-11). US Pressures Saudi Arabia To Sell Oil In Dollars, Not Chinese Yuan. popularresistance.org The United States is negotiating behind the scenes with Saudi Arabia, pressuring the country to keep selling its oil in dollars. | Washington is concerned that Riyadh may price its crude in other currencies, particularly China's renminbi. | Saudi Arabia is one of the world's top three oil producers. Since the 1970s, Riyadh has agreed to sell its crude in dollars, helping maintain the greenback's hegemonic status as the global reserve currency. | The Wall Street Journal reported that the US is working on a diplomatic deal in which Saudi Arabia would agree to normalize relations with Israel's apartheid regime.

WSWS (2023-08-11). New Zealand unions push through below-inflation pay deals for nurses, teachers. wsws.org Facing an election in October, the Labour-led government is depending on the trade unions to suppress emerging struggles of the working class as it moves to defend jobs and living standards.

United Front Committee For A Labor Party (2023-08-11). Which class should control Artificial Intelligence: the workers or the bosses? indybay.org Working people should control and run AI for the benefit of workers and the public. In order to do that they need the unions to break from the Democrats and build a mass democratic workers party that will stop this capitalist madness for profits and destruction of workers jobs.

ecns.cn (2023-08-11). China cracks case of selling military secrets to CIA. ecns.cn China has bust a case in which a staff member working for a Chinese military company sold core information to the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in exchange for money.

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2023-08-11). Consumer Health: Questions about breastfeeding. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org World Breastfeeding Week will be observed Aug. 1—7. This year's campaign focuses on enabling breastfeeding for working parents. The American Academy of Pediatrics has affirmed its recommendation and advocacy for breastfeeding, stating, "Research has shown that breastfeeding is linked to decreased rates of lower respiratory tract infections, severe diarrhea, ear infections and obesity. Breastfeeding is associated with lower risk of sudden infant death syndrome, as well as other protective effects." Specifically, the American Academy of Pediatrics recommendation is…

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2023-08-11). Driven by family, fueled by hope: Mayo Clinic researcher fights against Type 1 diabetes. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org Quinn Peterson, Ph.D., was a graduate student working on a team to develop new chemotherapy drugs when a life-changing phone call reset the course of his career. His daughter, Clarissa, had been diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes. Neither he nor his wife had any known family history of the disease. "Given my background as a scientist, I felt a responsibility and an obligation to use my skills in research to address this complex disease — not only…

A Guest Author (2023-08-10). 'The leading class in the Philippine Revolution is the proletariat'. workers.org By Phoebe De Padua This slightly edited talk was presented July 31 on the Workers World Party webinar titled "Lenin and the working class." Go to youtube.com/watch?v=bNLB1b3tFKY to view the entire webinar. Phoebe De Padua Warm and militant greetings, comrades! I am very glad to be part of this important . . . |

Janvieve Williams Comrie, Black Agenda Report. (2023-08-11). Capitalist Greed And Imperialist Policies Fuel Migrant Housing Crisis. popularresistance.org In the heart of New York City, below its iconic skyline, a paradox of epic proportions unfolds. As buses full of migrants arrive in the city each day, the struggle to find affordable housing intensifies dramatically. Yet, ironically, amidst the sprawling urban growth, there are countless buildings that stand vacant, their potential as living spaces lost, untapped. For years, these empty edifices could have served as a refuge for the existing city's homeless population, which has always been in crisis, but their emptiness has been a reminder of the disconnect between the city's available resources and the willingn…

United Front Committee For A Labor Party (2023-08-11). Which class should control Artificial Intelligence: the workers or the bosses? indybay.org Working people should control and run AI for the benefit of workers and the public. In order to do that they need the unions to break from the Democrats and build a mass democratic workers party that will stop this capitalist madness for profits and destruction of workers jobs.

ecns.cn (2023-08-11). China cracks case of selling military secrets to CIA. ecns.cn China has bust a case in which a staff member working for a Chinese military company sold core information to the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in exchange for money.

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2023-08-11). Consumer Health: Questions about breastfeeding. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org World Breastfeeding Week will be observed Aug. 1—7. This year's campaign focuses on enabling breastfeeding for working parents. The American Academy of Pediatrics has affirmed its recommendation and advocacy for breastfeeding, stating, "Research has shown that breastfeeding is linked to decreased rates of lower respiratory tract infections, severe diarrhea, ear infections and obesity. Breastfeeding is associated with lower risk of sudden infant death syndrome, as well as other protective effects." Specifically, the American Academy of Pediatrics recommendation is…

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2023-08-11). Driven by family, fueled by hope: Mayo Clinic researcher fights against Type 1 diabetes. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org Quinn Peterson, Ph.D., was a graduate student working on a team to develop new chemotherapy drugs when a life-changing phone call reset the course of his career. His daughter, Clarissa, had been diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes. Neither he nor his wife had any known family history of the disease. "Given my background as a scientist, I felt a responsibility and an obligation to use my skills in research to address this complex disease — not only…

A Guest Author (2023-08-10). 'The leading class in the Philippine Revolution is the proletariat'. workers.org By Phoebe De Padua This slightly edited talk was presented July 31 on the Workers World Party webinar titled "Lenin and the working class." Go to youtube.com/watch?v=bNLB1b3tFKY to view the entire webinar. Phoebe De Padua Warm and militant greetings, comrades! I am very glad to be part of this important . . . |

Janvieve Williams Comrie, Black Agenda Report. (2023-08-11). Capitalist Greed And Imperialist Policies Fuel Migrant Housing Crisis. popularresistance.org In the heart of New York City, below its iconic skyline, a paradox of epic proportions unfolds. As buses full of migrants arrive in the city each day, the struggle to find affordable housing intensifies dramatically. Yet, ironically, amidst the sprawling urban growth, there are countless buildings that stand vacant, their potential as living spaces lost, untapped. For years, these empty edifices could have served as a refuge for the existing city's homeless population, which has always been in crisis, but their emptiness has been a reminder of the disconnect between the city's available resources and the willingn…

teleSUR (2023-08-10). Red Cross Calls for Collaboration to Tackle Hunger in Africa. telesurenglish.net Sub-Saharan Africa is the region with the highest hunger prevalence rate on the planet. The IFRC estimates that about 240 million people do not have access to adequate and healthy food. In this context, one in three children under 5 years of age suffers from acute malnutrition and 2 out of 5 breastfeeding women suffer from anemia. | Sub-Saharan Africa is the region with the highest hunger prevalence rate on the planet. Aug. 10, 2023.

Peoples Dispatch (2023-08-10). Prisoners launch hunger strike in Bahrain. peoplesdispatch.org

David Trimmer (2023-08-10). The End Child Poverty Act Would Dramatically Reduce Poverty. peoplespolicyproject.org In April of this year, the

WSWS (2023-08-10). Reject GEO/AFT push to impose U-M contract ultimatum! Mobilize campus workers, students, teachers against strikebreaking and poverty wages! wsws.org The grad student instructors have waged a courageous struggle and can defeat the strikebreaking of the university and its corporate and government backers. This requires the development of a rank-and-file committee independent of the AFT apparatus and its agents in the GEO leadership.

Editor (2023-08-09). Another Chance to Reduce Child Poverty. scheerpost.com

Stephen Janis, Taya Graham (2023-08-10). How 'urban renewal' went from a vision for public good to a private enrichment scheme. therealnews.com America's numerous struggling cities face the unenviable task of addressing crumbling physical and social infrastructure, housing and affordability crises, and unemployment on shoestring budgets (after you account for the massive slices handed to police) and public debt. In the age of neoliberalism, the solution is all too often to turn to the private sector—which usually only results in an upward transfer of public wealth into private hands without substantial improvement to the problems at hand. Urban development, particularly in a city like Baltimore, is especially egregious in this regard. But it…

Brett Murphy (2023-08-10). Beyond Harlan Crow, Other Billionaires Funded Justice Thomas's Luxury Vacations. truthout.org During his three decades on the Supreme Court, Clarence Thomas has enjoyed steady access to a lifestyle most Americans can only imagine. A cadre of industry titans and ultrawealthy executives have treated him to far-flung vacations aboard their yachts, ushered him into the premium suites at sporting events and sent their private jets to fetch him — including, on more than one occasion… |

Ricardo Mimbela (2023-08-10). Visualizing the Racial Wealth Gap. aclu.org Systemic inequities and barriers keep people of color from achieving economic security through employment, education, and homeownership, resulting in racial disparities in wealth and income. These disparities are the consequence of ongoing discrimination, structural inequality, and biases across our institutions. They continue to emerge in new forms of technology — including artificial intelligence and algorithmic risk assessment tools — that influence nearly every facet of life. The confluence of these inequities has created a massive, persistent racial wealth gap in the United States. | Here are…

Brett Murphy, Alex Mierjeski (2023-08-10). Clarence Thomas' 38 vacations: The other billionaires who have treated the Supreme Court Justice to luxury travel. nationofchange.org Thomas has secretly reaped the benefits from a network of wealthy and well-connected patrons that is far more extensive than previously understood.

Orinoco Tribune 2 (2023-08-10). US Officials Making Secretive Trips to South Yemen to Plunder Resources: Analyst. orinocotribune.com Secretive and suspicious visits by American diplomats and military commanders to southern Yemen are part of the economic war on the Arab country and to plunder its rich natural resources, says a Yemeni analyst. | Ali Azzehri, a journalist and analyst based in Yemen, in an interview with the Press TV website, said visits by American officials have increased dramatically in recent months. | "These consecutive trips to the occupied areas in southern Yemen are part of the massive aggression on Yemen, which is mainly aimed at plundering its wealth through the fake regime imposed on southern Yemen by hostile foreign in…

Mike Ludwig, Truthout. (2023-08-09). More People Die Young In US Due To Health Care And Welfare Cuts. popularresistance.org From 1930 through the middle of the last century, the mortality rate in the United States was lower or commensurate with the mortality rates of other wealthy nations, such as Canada, France and Britain. However, in the late 1970s through the 1980s, U.S. health outcomes and mortality rates began to diverge from those of its peers. | By 2021, about half of all U.S. deaths under the age of 65 would have been avoided if the U.S. mortality rates were on par with those of other countries, according to a new study published by the National Academy of Sciences. | In other words, on average one out of every two deaths und…

Walter Smolarek (2023-08-10). Aug. 14 in NYC: Rally To Demand BlackRock Cancel Zambia's Debt. answercoalition.org Join the ANSWER Coalition and The People's Forum on Monday, Aug. 14 at Bella Abzug Park (542 W 36th St): | Today, debt is one of the major tools that big corporations and US-led multinational financial institutions, like the IMF and World Bank, use to keep poorer countries beholden to Western economic and political interests. | Right now, Zambia is facing a severe debt crisis. In 2021, Zambia was spending over 50% of its national income on just servicing its external public debt. That's money being diverted from funding social services, the construction of key infrastructure like roads and hospitals, p…

Ricardo Vaz (2023-08-10). Venezuela: Defunct Opposition Parliament Approves Debt Deadline Extension. venezuelanalysis.com The move, which had been previously proposed by the Maduro government, will deter litigation over defaulted bonds.

teleSUR (2023-08-09). Tax Amnesty Bill Approved in Dominican Senate. telesurenglish.net In its second reading, the Senate of the Republic approved the bill that establishes a special transitory treatment, management and recovery of tax debts. | Related: | With this law, it will be possible to establish a special transitory treatment that allows to declare ex officio the prescription and the extinction of the tax debts that comply with the requirements established by law. This law is known as tax amnesty law and since July it had be…

Xiaolu Sun (2023-08-09). Credit card debt hits a record high in the U.S. america.cgtn.com Americans are borrowing more and more on their credit cards. The balances on those cards have surpassed one trillion dollars in the second quarter for the first time ever.

Julia Rock (2023-08-09). Trump Donors Get Bailout, Truckers Get Layoffs. levernews.com As tens of thousands of workers are being laid off in the bankruptcy of one of America's largest trucking companies, one player in the collapse is set to get at least some financial protection: Apollo Global Management, a politically-connected private equity firm that owns a huge chunk of the company's debt. | Read the full story for free.: | Sign up for a free subscription to The Lever to gain access to this story and more. | Already have an account?

United Front Committee For A Labor Party (2023-08-10). Which class should control Artificial Intelligence: the workers or the bosses? indybay.org Working people should control and run AI for the benefit of workers and the public. In order to do that they need the unions to break from the Democrats and build a mass democratic workers party that will stop this capitalist madness for profits and destruction of workers jobs.

A Guest Author (2023-08-10). 'The leading class in the Philippine Revolution is the proletariat'. workers.org By Phoebe De Padua This slightly edited talk was presented July 31 on the Workers World Party webinar titled "Lenin and the working class." Go to youtube.com/watch?v=bNLB1b3tFKY to view the entire webinar. Phoebe De Padua Warm and militant greetings, comrades! I am very glad to be part of this important . . . |

WSWS (2023-08-10). Australian workers call for strikes at highest rate in five years. wsws.org The growing strike vote reflects mounting opposition among broad sections of the working class to deepening real wage cuts. But Labor, the unions and the industrial courts are employing increasingly anti-democratic measures to shut down workers' struggles.

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2023-08-10). Consumer Health: Questions about breastfeeding. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org World Breastfeeding Week will be observed Aug. 1—7. This year's campaign focuses on enabling breastfeeding for working parents. The American Academy of Pediatrics has affirmed its recommendation and advocacy for breastfeeding, stating, "Research has shown that breastfeeding is linked to decreased rates of lower respiratory tract infections, severe diarrhea, ear infections and obesity. Breastfeeding is associated with lower risk of sudden infant death syndrome, as well as other protective effects." Specifically, the American Academy of Pediatrics recommendation is…

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2023-08-10). Driven by family, fueled by hope: Mayo Clinic researcher fights against Type 1 diabetes. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org Quinn Peterson, Ph.D., was a graduate student working on a team to develop new chemotherapy drugs when a life-changing phone call reset the course of his career. His daughter, Clarissa, had been diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes. Neither he nor his wife had any known family history of the disease. "Given my background as a scientist, I felt a responsibility and an obligation to use my skills in research to address this complex disease — not only…

WSWS (2023-08-09). One-day strike of 11,000 Los Angeles city workers shuts down services. wsws.org The walkout is part of the growing conflict of the working class against the austerity measures being imposed by the Democratic Party.

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-08-09). Exploiting Haiti Through the Global Fragility Act. libya360.wordpress.com Nichol Luma Port-au-Prince, Haiti, June 19, 2023 — Mother feeding her baby, among more than 165,000 homeless Haitians beset by gang violence, government corruption and hurricane disasters, in a city of nearly three million people. PHOTO: Ralph Tedy Erol / Reuters The United States has had its claws in Haiti for a century and isn't…

WSWS (2023-08-09). Yellow workers dealing with lost hours, no severance pay after freight company shuttered operations and declared bankruptcy. wsws.org Workers at the Columbus, Ohio facility were never told that they were being laid off, and only found out that they were out of a job when they arrived at the warehouse and found the gates padlocked shut.

Peoples Dispatch (2023-08-10). Prisoners launch hunger strike in Bahrain. peoplesdispatch.org

Samantha Waxman, Amelia Minkin, Center on Budget, Policy Priorities. (2023-08-08). Momentum For New And Expanded Child And Earned Income Tax Credits. popularresistance.org 2023 legislative sessions saw strong momentum toward creating and expanding child tax credits. Three states created a new permanent child tax credit, one created a one-time child tax credit payment, and seven states improved existing child tax credits. These efforts build on the success of the federal Child Tax Credit in reducing child poverty and improving outcomes for children in the near and long term. | Many states this year have also improved their earned income tax credits (EITCs). State EITCs, like the federal EITC, boost incomes for people paid low wages and provide greater support for people caring for c…

isabella (2023-08-08). Another Chance to Reduce Child Poverty. inequality.org

Mike Ludwig (2023-08-08). More People Die Young in US Due to Health Care and Welfare Cuts, Study Finds. truthout.org From 1930 through the middle of the last century, the mortality rate in the United States was lower or commensurate with the mortality rates of other wealthy nations, such as Canada, France and Britain. However, in the late 1970s through the 1980s, U.S. health outcomes and mortality rates began to diverge from those of its peers. By 2021, about half of all U.S. deaths under the age of 65 would… |

Ann Brown (2023-08-07). Georgetown Study: Researchers Show Being Born Rich is Better Than Being Smart. moguldom.com This might seem like a no-brainer to some, but a new study found that being born rich is better than being born smart. A recent study by the Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce (CEW) found that being born wealthy is a stronger predictor of adult success in the U.S. than academic excellence. The …

Sam Pizzigati (2023-08-07). Can we measure inequality without tallying the wealth of our wealthy?Ôøº. nationofchange.org Hundreds of prestigious economists don't think so. The World Bank, unfortunately, does.

Sharon Zhang (2023-08-08). Tlaib Introduces Bill to Bar Medical Debt From Showing Up on Credit Reports. truthout.org Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Michigan) introduced a bill on Tuesday aimed at reforming some of the most predatory features of the credit system in hopes of uplifting millions of Americans whose credit histories have been tarnished by fraud, abuse or medical debt. The Restoring Unfairly Impaired Credit and Protecting Consumers Act would reduce the length that adverse information stays on credit reports… |

Sharon Zhang (2023-08-08). Conservative Groups Sue to Block Forgiveness for 800,000 Student Loan Borrowers. truthout.org A pair of right-wing groups has filed a lawsuit seeking to block the Biden administration's latest plan to "fix" a key student debt forgiveness program and block 800,000 borrowers from receiving relief. On Friday, the New Civil Liberties Alliance filed a lawsuit in Michigan on behalf of the Mackinac Center for Public Policy and the Cato Institute, two conservative groups with a history of fighting… |

teleSUR (2023-08-08). US Court Blocks Biden's Student Debt Forgiveness. telesurenglish.net On Monday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit blocked a President Joe Biden's administration rule that aimed to make it easier for defrauded borrowers to obtain student loan debt relief. | RELATED: | The court issued an injunction to prevent the government from implementing regulations that took effect last month while it considers a lawsuit brought by Career Colleges and Schools of Texas, which represents 70 for…

Dongsheng Collective (2023-08-07). The Belt and Road Initiative at 10: Debt Trap or Development? dongshengnews.org Ten years after its launch in 2013, the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) has emerged as "the largest infrastructure and development project in human history". Despite a range of policy makers and researchers debunking Belt and Road Initiative activities as "debt-trapping", Western and allied groups have continually stoked fears and misunderstandings of what the BRI is and the role it is playing in the world.In this issue of Dongsheng Explains, we look at the BRI, its historical development, the implications for the countries involved, and the debt-trap narratives.

ecsorinoco (2023-08-07). Let Them Eat Bugs: Challenging the WEF's Corporate-Driven Food Reset. orinocotribune.com By Colin Todhunter — Jul 31, 2023 | The prevailing globalized agr0-industry food model is built on unjust trade policies, the leveraging of sovereign debt, population displacement, and land dispossession. It fuels commodity mono-crops and food insecurity as well as soil and environmental degradation. | It is responsible for increasing rates of illness, nutrient-deficient diets, a narrowing of the range of food crops, water shortages, chemical runoffs, increasing levels of farmer indebtedness, the undermining and destruction of local communities, and the eradication of biodiversity. | The model relies on a p…

_____ (2023-08-07). The East Is Still Red: Chinese Socialism in the 21st Century. transcend.org 1 Aug 2023 – Western media never stop warning us of China: it menaces Taiwan, threatens its neighbors and shipping lanes in the South China Sea, and sticks military bases on Cuba. It spies on us by the most devious means, through TikTok, Huawei 5G, and weather balloons, and ensnares Africa with debt traps.

Andy Kroll (2023-08-08). "The Greatest Fighting Force in Human History" tomdispatch.com In his message to the troops prior to the July 4th weekend, Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin offered high praise indeed. "We have the greatest fighting force in human history," he tweeted, connecting that claim to the U.S. having patriots of all colors, creeds, and backgrounds "who bravely volunteer to defend our country and our values." As a retired Air Force lieutenant colonel from a working-class background who volunteered to serve more than four decades ago, who am I to argue with Austin? Shouldn't I just bask in the glow of his praise for today's troops, reflecting on my own honorable service near the end o…

Zane McNeill (2023-08-08). 11,000 LA City Workers Strike After City Engaged in Bad Faith Bargaining. truthout.org More than 11,000 workers for the city of Los Angeles are joining hotel employees, Hollywood actors, and TV and movie writers who have been striking this summer for higher wages and better working conditions. "When bosses refuse to listen to demands, workers WILL shut things down," Mary Kay Henry, president of Service Employees International Union (SEIU), said on Twitter. |

United Front Committee For A Labor Party (2023-08-08). Which class should control Artificial Intelligence: the workers or the bosses? indybay.org Working people should control and run AI for the benefit of workers and the public. In order to do that they need the unions to break from the Democrats and build a mass democratic workers party that will stop this capitalist madness for profits and destruction of workers jobs.

Cristian Salazar, Next City. (2023-08-08). Virtual Power Plants Offer A Climate-Forward Response To Hot Summers. popularresistance.org As the country roasted last week under extreme heat made more intense by climate change, tens of thousands of Americans received text messages telling them they could get paid if they powered down their devices and appliances during specific periods of the day. If their homes were equipped with smart thermostats or smart water heaters, the devices may have powered down automatically. | It may have seemed like a simple action to conserve energy during hours of peak demand. But behind the scenes, a number of companies that have emerged in recent years were working with utilities to monitor and respond to the stress…

kwjorinoco (2023-08-08). Venezuela Reiterates Commitment to Protecting Amazon Rainforest. orinocotribune.com Just a day before the kickoff of a two-day Amazon summit to be held in the Brazilian city of Belém, Yván Gil, Venezuela's Minister of Foreign Affairs, reiterated Venezuela's commitment to working together with neighboring nations to protect the Amazonian rainforest, also known as the "lungs of the planet." | "With great expectations, we arrived in the Brazilian city of Belém do Pará where the Amazon summit will be held, resuming cooperation to protect the lungs of the planet and guarantee a safe Amazon of peace and belonging to all South Americans," Gil wrote in a post on the social media network X. | Con grandes…

Brian Mier (2023-08-08). Sao Paulo Governor Imports Police Violence From Rio. telesurenglish.net In 2013, while I was working as assistant producer for BBC's documentary series Welcome to Rio, military police special forces from the BOPE squadron chased two suspects into one of the favelas in the Complexo do Mare, where we were filming with a local community leader. | RELATED: | During the shoot out that followed, a police officer was killed. The next day the BOPE drove into the favela in armored vehicles and assassinated 10 people in a revenge…

WSWS (2023-08-08). Australian government vows to hold indigenous Voice referendum despite falling support. wsws.org A wider political crisis is developing. There is growing distrust in the Voice project and the Labor government itself, especially in the working class.

Zane McNeill (2023-08-08). 11,000 LA City Workers Strike After City Engaged in Bad Faith Bargaining. truthout.org More than 11,000 workers for the city of Los Angeles are joining hotel employees, Hollywood actors, and TV and movie writers who have been striking this summer for higher wages and better working conditions. "When bosses refuse to listen to demands, workers WILL shut things down," Mary Kay Henry, president of Service Employees International Union (SEIU), said on Twitter. |

United Front Committee For A Labor Party (2023-08-08). Which class should control Artificial Intelligence: the workers or the bosses? indybay.org Working people should control and run AI for the benefit of workers and the public. In order to do that they need the unions to break from the Democrats and build a mass democratic workers party that will stop this capitalist madness for profits and destruction of workers jobs.

Cristian Salazar, Next City. (2023-08-08). Virtual Power Plants Offer A Climate-Forward Response To Hot Summers. popularresistance.org As the country roasted last week under extreme heat made more intense by climate change, tens of thousands of Americans received text messages telling them they could get paid if they powered down their devices and appliances during specific periods of the day. If their homes were equipped with smart thermostats or smart water heaters, the devices may have powered down automatically. | It may have seemed like a simple action to conserve energy during hours of peak demand. But behind the scenes, a number of companies that have emerged in recent years were working with utilities to monitor and respond to the stress…

kwjorinoco (2023-08-08). Venezuela Reiterates Commitment to Protecting Amazon Rainforest. orinocotribune.com Just a day before the kickoff of a two-day Amazon summit to be held in the Brazilian city of Belém, Yván Gil, Venezuela's Minister of Foreign Affairs, reiterated Venezuela's commitment to working together with neighboring nations to protect the Amazonian rainforest, also known as the "lungs of the planet." | "With great expectations, we arrived in the Brazilian city of Belém do Pará where the Amazon summit will be held, resuming cooperation to protect the lungs of the planet and guarantee a safe Amazon of peace and belonging to all South Americans," Gil wrote in a post on the social media network X. | Con grandes…

Brian Mier (2023-08-08). Sao Paulo Governor Imports Police Violence From Rio. telesurenglish.net In 2013, while I was working as assistant producer for BBC's documentary series Welcome to Rio, military police special forces from the BOPE squadron chased two suspects into one of the favelas in the Complexo do Mare, where we were filming with a local community leader. | RELATED: | During the shoot out that followed, a police officer was killed. The next day the BOPE drove into the favela in armored vehicles and assassinated 10 people in a revenge…

WSWS (2023-08-08). Australian government vows to hold indigenous Voice referendum despite falling support. wsws.org A wider political crisis is developing. There is growing distrust in the Voice project and the Labor government itself, especially in the working class.

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2023-08-08). Consumer Health: Questions about breastfeeding. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org World Breastfeeding Week will be observed Aug. 1—7. This year's campaign focuses on enabling breastfeeding for working parents. The American Academy of Pediatrics has affirmed its recommendation and advocacy for breastfeeding, stating, "Research has shown that breastfeeding is linked to decreased rates of lower respiratory tract infections, severe diarrhea, ear infections and obesity. Breastfeeding is associated with lower risk of sudden infant death syndrome, as well as other protective effects." Specifically, the American Academy of Pediatrics recommendation is…

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2023-08-08). Driven by family, fueled by hope: Mayo Clinic researcher fights against Type 1 diabetes. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org Quinn Peterson, Ph.D., was a graduate student working on a team to develop new chemotherapy drugs when a life-changing phone call reset the course of his career. His daughter, Clarissa, had been diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes. Neither he nor his wife had any known family history of the disease. "Given my background as a scientist, I felt a responsibility and an obligation to use my skills in research to address this complex disease — not only…

Ana Vračar (2023-08-07). Climate breakdown threatens food security and health in Iraq. peoplesdispatch.org As another heat wave hit West Asia at the beginning of August, temperatures in Baghdad reached 51 degrees Celsius. "For a person like me, with access to air conditioning, this was unbearable. Imagine how it was for those with compromised health or compromised economic status," says Muntather Hassan, a dentist working at the Iraqi Al-Amal Association, reflecting on the health effects of climate change in Iraq. | Hassan authored a

WSWS (2023-08-07). DSA, Teamsters for a Democratic Union promote UPS sellout contract. wsws.org The DSA and the pseudo-left as a whole are an essential part of a state intervention against the working class, which is carried out primarily through the medium of the union bureaucracy, but also includes more direct methods such as injunctions, which the DSA also supports.

greenleft.org.au (2023-08-08). New NSW portal tracks homelessness, rent rises. greenleft.org.au

WSWS (2023-08-08). Yellow freight declares bankruptcy, in the latest assault on workers' jobs. wsws.org Yellow's bankruptcy puts 30,000 workers out of their jobs and sets the stage for a looting of the company by Wall Street.

krish-rad_ind (2023-08-08). The World Bank's Way of Tracking Inequality. consortiumnews.com

SAM (2023-08-07). Have Our Corporate Chiefs Become Expendable? inequality.org

Staff (2023-08-08). Sixth Palestinian prisoner joins hunger strike as battle escalates inside the occupation prisons. samidoun.net The battle inside Israeli occupation prisons is escalating as a growing number of imprisoned Palestinians are taking protest steps to challenge repression, isolation and administrative detention, imprisonment without charge or trial. On Tuesday, 8 August, the Palestinian Prisoners' Society announced that Sultan Khallouf, 42, from Burqin near Jenin, is also on hunger strike against his …

Staff (2023-08-07). Rising revolt against administrative detention: 5 Palestinians on hunger strike, over 1100 jailed without charge or trial. samidoun.net Palestinian prisoners are rising up behind bars in Zionist prisons to confront administrative detention, imprisonment without charge or trial. Out of nearly 5,000 total Palestinan political prisoners, approximately 1,132 are held without charge or trial under indefinitely renewable administrative detention orders, the largest number of administrative detainees in 20 years. Five prisoners are on hunger …

Ann Brown (2023-08-07). Georgetown Study: Researchers Show Being Born Rich is Better Than Being Smart. moguldom.com This might seem like a no-brainer to some, but a new study found that being born rich is better than being born smart. A recent study by the Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce (CEW) found that being born wealthy is a stronger predictor of adult success in the U.S. than academic excellence. The …

Sam Pizzigati (2023-08-07). Can we measure inequality without tallying the wealth of our wealthy?Ôøº. nationofchange.org Hundreds of prestigious economists don't think so. The World Bank, unfortunately, does.

_____ (2023-08-07). The East Is Still Red: Chinese Socialism in the 21st Century. transcend.org 1 Aug 2023 – Western media never stop warning us of China: it menaces Taiwan, threatens its neighbors and shipping lanes in the South China Sea, and sticks military bases on Cuba. It spies on us by the most devious means, through TikTok, Huawei 5G, and weather balloons, and ensnares Africa with debt traps.

Dongsheng Collective (2023-08-07). The Belt and Road Initiative at 10: Debt Trap or Development? dongshengnews.org Ten years after its launch in 2013, the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) has emerged as "the largest infrastructure and development project in human history". An extensive network of agreements demonstrates the global reach and acceptance of the initiative. Despite a range of policy makers and researchers debunking Belt and Road Initiative activities as "debt-trapping" — even by World Bank researchers who described the BRI as "largely beneficial" — Western and allied groups have continually stoked fears and misunderstandings of what the BRI is and the role it is playing in the world. | In this issue of…

ecsorinoco (2023-08-07). Let Them Eat Bugs: Challenging the WEF's Corporate-Driven Food Reset. orinocotribune.com By Colin Todhunter — Jul 31, 2023 | The prevailing globalized agr0-industry food model is built on unjust trade policies, the leveraging of sovereign debt, population displacement, and land dispossession. It fuels commodity mono-crops and food insecurity as well as soil and environmental degradation. | It is responsible for increasing rates of illness, nutrient-deficient diets, a narrowing of the range of food crops, water shortages, chemical runoffs, increasing levels of farmer indebtedness, the undermining and destruction of local communities, and the eradication of biodiversity. | The model relies on a p…

Ana Vračar (2023-08-07). Climate breakdown threatens food security and health in Iraq. peoplesdispatch.org As another heat wave hit West Asia at the beginning of August, temperatures in Baghdad reached 51 degrees Celsius. "For a person like me, with access to air conditioning, this was unbearable. Imagine how it was for those with compromised health or compromised economic status," says Muntather Hassan, a dentist working at the Iraqi Al-Amal Association, reflecting on the health effects of climate change in Iraq. | Hassan authored a

United Front Committee For A Labor Party (2023-08-07). Which class should control Artificial Intelligence: the workers or the bosses? indybay.org Working people should control and run AI for the benefit of workers and the public. In order to do that they need the unions to break from the Democrats and build a mass democratic workers party that will stop this capitalist madness for profits and destruction of workers jobs.

WSWS (2023-08-07). Vote "No" on the NSC/USW tentative agreement! Mobilize working class support across North America for our strike! wsws.org The United Steelworkers bureaucracy, working hand in hand with National Steel Car management, is trying to pull a fast one on us by presenting a new tentative agreement and forcing us to vote on it within 72 hours.

WSWS (2023-08-07). DSA, Teamsters for a Democratic Union promote UPS sellout contract. wsws.org The DSA and the pseudo-left as a whole are an essential part of a state intervention against the working class, which is carried out primarily through the medium of the union bureaucracy, but also includes more direct methods such as injunctions, which the DSA also supports.

Charlie Christ (2023-08-07). The working-class legacy of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade. peoplesworld.org After attending an Abraham Lincoln Brigade Archives workshop, Charlie Christ joined ALBA as an intern to work with Chris Brooks on the biographical database. "The Lincolns were incredibly diverse, representing the full spectrum of the American and international community. Yet as I dove deeper into their lives, one trend in particular struck me—their indelible impact …

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2023-08-07). What is cardiac arrest? A Mayo Clinic heart expert explains. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org Cardiac arrest, or sudden cardiac arrest as it is more formally known, is a medical emergency. It happens when an event, usually an electrical disturbance, quickly and unexpectedly causes your heart to stop working. It's not the same as a heart attack and is called sudden because it seems to happen without warning. Dr. Christopher DeSimone, a Mayo cardiac electrophysiologist specializing in abnormal cardiac rhythm, answers questions about cardiac arrest, the differences between cardiac arrest…

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2023-08-07). Consumer Health: Questions about breastfeeding. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org World Breastfeeding Week will be observed Aug. 1—7. This year's campaign focuses on enabling breastfeeding for working parents. The American Academy of Pediatrics has affirmed its recommendation and advocacy for breastfeeding, stating, "Research has shown that breastfeeding is linked to decreased rates of lower respiratory tract infections, severe diarrhea, ear infections and obesity. Breastfeeding is associated with lower risk of sudden infant death syndrome, as well as other protective effects." Specifically, the American Academy of Pediatrics recommendation is…

Editor (2023-08-06). No U.S./French-backed invasion of Niger! workers.org "When Africa becomes economically free and politically united, the monopolists will come face to face with their own working class in their own countries, and a new struggle will arise within which the liquidation and collapse of imperialism will be complete." — Kwame Nkrumah, Neo-Colonialism, the Last Stage of imperialism . . . |

greenleft.org.au (2023-08-07). New NSW portal tracks homelessness, rent rises. greenleft.org.au

SAM (2023-08-07). Have Our Corporate Chiefs Become Expendable? inequality.org

JP Sottile (2023-08-06). There Is a Climate Conspiracy — But Not the One Climate Denialists Are Peddling. truthout.org Imagine, if you will, a plot. It's an evil plot concocted by a power-hungry global elite determined to ensnare all of mankind in its dystopian, totalitarian net. Even more ominously, it's specifically designed to deny the planet's "freest" people — Americans — their god-given rights. If successful, this plot will force them to live within walking distance of schools and shopping and work and… |

Editor (2023-08-06). No U.S./French-backed invasion of Niger! workers.org "When Africa becomes economically free and politically united, the monopolists will come face to face with their own working class in their own countries, and a new struggle will arise within which the liquidation and collapse of imperialism will be complete." — Kwame Nkrumah, Neo-Colonialism, the Last Stage of imperialism . . . |

greenleft.org.au (2023-08-07). New NSW portal tracks homelessness, rent rises. greenleft.org.au

SAM (2023-08-07). Have Our Corporate Chiefs Become Expendable? inequality.org

JP Sottile (2023-08-06). There Is a Climate Conspiracy — But Not the One Climate Denialists Are Peddling. truthout.org Imagine, if you will, a plot. It's an evil plot concocted by a power-hungry global elite determined to ensnare all of mankind in its dystopian, totalitarian net. Even more ominously, it's specifically designed to deny the planet's "freest" people — Americans — their god-given rights. If successful, this plot will force them to live within walking distance of schools and shopping and work and… |