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2023-01-26: News Headlines

Tanya Wadhwa (2023-01-26). Latin American and Caribbean leaders reaffirm commitment to regional integration. peoplesdispatch.org On January 24, Latin American and Caribbean leaders reaffirmed their commitment to advance in regional integration and unity at the 7th Summit of the Heads of State and Government of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC). The summit was held in the Argentine capital, Buenos Aires. | During the summit, the leaders discussed common issues and how to overcome them through joint regional strategies such as consolidation of peace and democracy in the region, reduction of hunger and poverty, improvement of public health and education systems, advancement of sustainable development in the face of…

ecns.cn (2023-01-25). China key contributor to Cambodia's development: Cambodian senior official. ecns.cn China is a key contributor to Cambodia's socioeconomic development and poverty reduction, Cambodian Economy and Finance Ministry's Standing Secretary of State Vongsey Vissoth said here on Wednesday.

imperial.ac.uk (2023-01-25). Gap between rich and poor has increased more quickly in the US than in Europe. imperial.ac.uk Wealth inequality in the United States has increased more quickly than in Europe in the last 50 years, according to a new Imperial study.

Isheka N. Harrison (2023-01-25). 7 Reasons to Reduce Your Social Media Consumption in 2023: Health, Wealth, and Self. moguldom.com Social media consumption is at an all-time high. According to recent data from Smart Insights, 59 percent of the world's population uses social networking. The number of users grew from 4.2 billion in January 2021 to 4.74 billion in Oct. 2022. The Pew Research Center found the number of social media users increases to 72 percent when isolated to …

_____ (2023-01-25). America's Very Broken Healthcare System. popularresistance.org The United States is the only industrialized nation in the world without universal healthcare. Instead, Americans are forced to rely on a mixture of profit and nonprofit private and public healthcare insurers and providers. The United States federal government provides healthcare coverage through Medicare to individuals ages 65 years and older, and to some individuals with disabilities, military veterans, and children through Medicaid and the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP). | Around 26 million Americans, about 8% of the population, including just under 2% of children, have no health insurance coverage…

Anjoulie Woodhead (2023-01-25). Concerns of Growth, Pandemic, War and Inflation Top World Economic Forum Agenda. indybay.org World Bank Cuts Global Growth Forecast as Developing Countries Struggle with Debt…

Editor (2023-01-25). Debt, Overcrowding, or Death: America's Very Broken Healthcare System. scheerpost.com

Ellen Brown (2023-01-25). Solving the debt crisis the American way. nationofchange.org When the old system finally breaks and we are primed for a new one, these are the principles that should guide us in its development.

Rep. Ron Paul (2023-01-25). Debt Ceiling Hysteria and Hypocrisy. globalresearch.ca

Staff (2023-01-25). Federal Workers Union Says Biden Right Not to Negotiate With GOP Over Debt Ceiling. commondreams.org The largest union of federal workers in the U.S. urged Congress this week to raise the debt ceiling without mandating reductions in social spending, arguing that President Joe Biden is right to reject the GOP's attempt to use the nation's borrowing limit as leverage to force through devastating cuts. "The debt limit must be cleanly …

_____ (2023-01-25). South Korea: Intelligence Agency Raids Top Union Confederation. popularresistance.org South Korea's intelligence agency raided the offices of the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions, the country's largest organization of independent unions, and an affiliate on January 18. | The high-profile raid, over alleged ties between four former and current union officers and North Korean agents, has raised fears that the conservative government is reverting to dictatorship-era methods of attacking labor by conflating organizing with threats to national security. | The moves come at the same time as the conservative government, led by president Yoon Suk-yeol, seeks to lift restrictions on long working hours…

ecns.cn (2023-01-25). Ice-snow tourism becoming new 'tradition' for Chinese New Year. ecns.cn Having spent the first day of the Spring Festival holiday at home, He Rui rushed to the ski resort early on the second day and was ready to start the Year of the Rabbit on his snowboard. This enthusiast has mastered the S-turn, and is working on his edging.

Editor (2023-01-25). Let the ruling classes tremble! workers.org The working class of France has a long and significant history in the struggle between labor and capital, including the revolutions of 1848 that engulfed several European countries. It was in the context of these revolutions that Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels wrote the Communist Manifesto — then and now, . . . |

infobrics (2023-01-25). India, Russia Explore Coop in Biotech, AI & Quantum Tech & Oceanography. infobrics.org Russian and Indian scientists, representatives of universities and relevant ministries took part in the 12th meeting of the Russian-Indian Working Group on Science and Technology…

Monica Moorehead (2023-01-25). International webinar on Sam Marcy's legacy for today's struggles. workers.org For over 70 years, Sam Marcy, a founding member and the late-chairperson of Workers World Party, dedicated his life to the liberation of the global multinational working class from the yoke of imperialism in all its oppressive forms. Feb. 1 will mark the 25th anniversary of his death in 1998. . . . |

WSWS (2023-01-25). Sri Lankan SEP to contest local government elections. wsws.org The SEP is the only party in Sri Lanka that fights for the unified mobilisation of the working class on an international socialist perspective and against the communal divisions whipped up by the ruling elites.

WSWS (2023-01-25). Sri Lankan SEP to run candidates in local government elections. wsws.org The SEP is the only party in Sri Lanka that fights for the unified mobilisation of the working class on an international socialist perspective and against the communal divisions whipped up by the ruling elites.

Peter Boyle (2023-01-25). Billionaires: We don't need them but they need us! greenleft.org.au Oxfam's annual report on global inequality is a damning indictment of the chronically inequitable capitalist system, argues Peter Boyle.

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2023-01-25: News Headlines

americanthinker (2023-01-24). Eat ze bugs! EU approves adding defatted and powdered insects to foods. americanthinker.com Another step to Save The Planet so Davos elites can continue to fly in their private jets and eat steak, while the hoi poloi slip into poverty.

Orinoco Tribune 2 (2023-01-24). Nicaragua Stands Out in Latin America With Its Lower Poverty Rate. orinocotribune.com On today's broadcast of Estudio TN8, we talk about how Nicaragua stands out in Latin America in terms of its poverty reduction with economist Frank Matus and sociologist and political analyst Freddy Franco. | Frank Matus: Within Latin America, Nicaragua is among the countries that has best managed to reduce its poverty rate. In 2007, Nicaragua's poverty rate was at 48.3%. After the transition to a Sandinista government, this percentage has been steadily reduced and currently is at 24.9%. | Estudio TN8: How was this possible? | Freddy Franco: I think the key was the arrival of the FSLN government, which proposed a…

Sharon Zhang (2023-01-24). Republicans Want to Raise Retirement Age to 70 as Life Expectancy Is Falling. truthout.org In a time when life expectancy in the U.S. is declining for the first time in decades and Americans can expect on average to enjoy even fewer years of retirement, Republicans are considering a radical plan to shrink the retirement window. House Republicans have been working out the details of their deeply unpopular plan to cut Social Security and Medicare in order to deepen poverty and shackle… |

Isheka N. Harrison (2023-01-24). Kyrie Irving Donated $ K To Oldest Independent Black-Owned Press In U.S. moguldom.com Kyrie Irving is once again supporting the culture by using his wealth to support Black-owned businesses. The NBA Champion recently donated $ ,000 to the Third World Press Foundation, the nation's oldest independent Black publishing company. Irving donated to the company's Flood Fund via a GoFundMe campaign. According to the campaign's description, funding will help the non-profit publisher …

Josh Bivens (2023-01-24). This Is Absurd. The Debt Ceiling Must Be Abolished. commondreams.org

U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen announced last week that the federal government had reached the statutory debt limit and that her department had begun "extraordinary measures" to meet required spending obligations. It is estimated that by July these extraordinary measures will no longer be able to keep some spending obligations from being missed.The fact that the statutory debt limit can inject such chaos into the American political system and economy is truly odd. The debt limit measures nothing coherent and has no relationship to any serious measure of the economic burden imposed by the nation's d…

Lynda Carson (2023-01-24). Debt limit crisis threatens Social Security and Bay Area subsidized housing renters. indybay.org Lydia Gans Photo Of A San Rafael Tenant Meeting In 2005 That I Helped To Organize With Housing Activist Marion Brady, To Help Save Section 8 Tenants From Losing Their Housing Vouchers. That's Me Standing Near The Back Of The Room In A Red Top And Black Sweater Reading Some Information That I Helped Pass Out To The Tenants:…

Michael Sainato (2023-01-24). Debt, crowdfunding, or death: America's very broken healthcare system. therealnews.com The United States is the

Sharon Zhang (2023-01-24). Warren: Debt Ceiling Crisis Wouldn't Even Exist Without Trump Tax Overhaul. truthout.org Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Massachusetts) dug into Republicans for their willingness to "wreck the economy" over the debt ceiling, pointing out that the GOP is only interested in protecting their rich allies and creating an economic crisis that would reflect poorly on President Joe Biden. In an appearance on MSNBC, Warren said that the conservative regressive tax policies that the GOP has pushed for… |

Tanupriya Singh (2023-01-24). Who is responsible for Ghana's debt crisis? peoplesdispatch.org Ghana has approached the G20 to restructure its external debts, the majority of which are held by private lenders. The process is necessary to unlock a $3 billion IMF bailout that will see severe austerity measures imposed on the Ghanaian people…

_____ (2023-01-24). How We Began To Bring The Mail Back. popularresistance.org Across the country and here in Portland, Oregon, carriers are working 12-, 14-, and 16-hour days, into the dark as late as 9 p.m., 10 p.m., even midnight! At several stations we have begun to bring the mail back at 12 hours (or 10 hours) and stop work at 60 hours in a week. | We are refusing orders to continue delivering. Filing form 1767 (hazardous conditions, "exhausted") and form 1571 (undelivered mail). And we are getting away with it. We heard it through the grapevine. Several carriers in Seattle refused to carry past 12 hours and brought the mail back. Their discipline (for "insubordination") was overturned…

_____ (2023-01-24). A New Worker Movement From The Shell Of The Old. popularresistance.org In this third decade of the twenty-first century, the U.S. and global working class confront conditions unique both in their potential for advancing justice and in their ability to deepen already gaping economic and racial inequality and planetary peril. Especially since 2020, workers have engaged in protest and organizing in ways that inspire great hope. Workers are angry, organizing, striking, and challenging their bosses and the systemic racism they face. From Red for Ed and teacher strikes, to the strikes at John Deere and Kellogg, and the organizing at Amazon and Starbucks, there are growing examples of work…

Editor (2023-01-24). Ukraine's Corruption Comes Home To Roost. scheerpost.com

americanthinker (2023-01-24). The effort to save students from gender madness is working. americanthinker.com If a Tennessee teacher's TikTok video is anything to go by, parents who push for change are seeing that change play out in the classroom.

Danny O'Brien (2023-01-24). In Cuba, housing is a right! workers.org Portland, Oregon I work at a congregate shelter for people experiencing homelessness in Portland, Oregon, where the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development considers 5,228 people homeless. Of those, 3,057 are unsheltered in Multnomah County alone. My experience in working there has shown me that there is limited cooperation . . . |

Lyn Neeley (2023-01-24). Oregon nurses fight for a decent contract. workers.org In Portland, Oregon, nurses and community supporters rallied Jan. 20 in front of Providence Hospital corporate headquarters. Thousands of nurses in three Providence hospitals have been working since fall 2022 without a contract that would ensure basic safety standards and incorporate their union's common-sense proposals. Portland, Oregon nurses rally for . . . |

Natalia Marques (2023-01-24). The US blockade of Cuba hurts medical patients in both countries. peoplesdispatch.org By lifting sanctions against Cuba, people in the US could have access to life-saving treatments being developed in Cuba for diseases which ravage working-class communities each year…

WSWS (2023-01-24). Ontario teacher unions seek to soften up members for major concessions as opposition grows among rank and file. wsws.org While CUPE's sellout materially weakened the education workers in their struggle, conditions remain highly favourable for the development of a mass working class movement against capitalist austerity and an end to real-terms wage cuts.

Jon Shelton (2023-01-24). To Save Our Democracy, We Must Transcend Bill Clinton's Legacy. commondreams.org

| Thirty years ago this month, Bill Clinton launched a presidency he claimed, in his inaugural address, would "reinvent America." Clinton was right: he did reinvent America, definitively shifting the Democratic Party away from a politics that saw economic security for American working people as the fundamental task of government, a path that had brought the party decades of political success. The disastrous consequences of that shift, limiting working Americans' expectations about how our political system can improve their lives, are with us to this day. To save our imperiled democracy, we must definiti…

WSWS (2023-01-24). Shooting at San Diego shelter highlights the rise in violence against the homeless. wsws.org The shooting was the second directed against the Alpha Project since the downtown San Diego shelter opened five years ago.

Mickey Z. (2023-01-24). Healthcare without the Health or Care. dissidentvoice.org "It makes me sick that they were heralded as 'heroes' while they allowed people to suffer and die alone." (I didn't realize it was "part 1" but I posted this last week. It's short so please give it a look before continuing.) Part 2 was inspired by comments that appeared after the first post. …

Alberta Guerra (2023-01-24). The GAFSP has opened the call for proposals for PO-led projects. actionaidusa.org As our world faces an unprecedented crisis, the number of food-insecure people is expected to double from what it was in 2019, placing 49 countries at risk of famine. The Global Agriculture and Food Security Program (GAFSP), which was created to help low-income countries build sustainable and resilient agriculture and food systems, continues to provide…

WSWS (2023-01-24). Workers, students denounce inequality at youth protest against French pension cuts. wsws.org "It's very visible that Macron is more on the side of the bosses and not the population. You can see it every day. He wants to force us to work all the time, to create more and more precarious people."

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2023-01-24: News Headlines

Anjoulie Woodhead (2023-01-24). Concerns of Growth, Pandemic, War and Inflation Top World Economic Forum Agenda. indybay.org World Bank Cuts Global Growth Forecast as Developing Countries Struggle with Debt…

Josh Bivens (2023-01-24). This Is Absurd. The Debt Ceiling Must Be Abolished. commondreams.org

americanthinker (2023-01-23). California seems to find a new way to chase away residents every day. americanthinker.com This time, they've cooked up a new 'wealth tax.'

Antonio C.S. Rosa (2023-01-23). Harry the 'Traitor' and Lynch 'the Grinch': The Corporate Media's Automatic Smear Machine. transcend.org 19 Jan 2023 – Whatever we think of the Harry and Meghan Markle saga, it matters when the son of the current king and brother of the future king writes in his new book, 'Spare': "Does the Crown generate tourism income that benefits all? Of course. Does it also rest upon lands obtained and secured when the system was unjust and wealth was generated by exploited workers and thuggery, annexation and enslaved people? Can anyone deny it?"

Editor (2023-01-23). Shocking inequality: Richest 21 Indian billionaires have more wealth than 70 crore Indians. mronline.org Under the Modi government, India's ruling classes have joined the ruling classes of the rest of the world in intensifying exploitation and earning super profits.

Editor (2023-01-23). Shocking inequality: Richest 21 Indian billionaires have more wealth than 700,000,000 Indians. mronline.org Under the Modi government, India's ruling classes have joined the ruling classes of the rest of the world in intensifying exploitation and earning super profits.

isabella (2023-01-23). New Report on Extreme Wealth and Potential Wealth Tax Revenue. inequality.org

Shannon Dawson (2023-01-23). Ed Reed Had 'Billionaires' Set To Invest In Bethune-Cookman, Football Hall Of Fame Player Says. newsone.com Before his dismissal from the head coach position, Ed Reed had tapped some wealthy investors like Shaquille O'Neal to help improve Bethune-Cookman's campus conditions, football hall of famer Edgerrin James said.

Staff (2023-01-23). Warren Slams Republicans for Creating 'Economic Chaos' to Protect the Rich. commondreams.org Sen. Elizabeth Warren on Monday took aim at the Republican Party for creating what she called a "manufactured crisis" as a potential fight over the debt ceiling looms, slamming the GOP's threats to public spending as the party works to make it even easier for the wealthy to avoid paying taxes. On MSNBC's "Morning Joe," …

Antonio C.S. Rosa (2023-01-23). Solving the Debt Crisis the North American Way. transcend.org 20 Jan 2023 – Our forefathers turned their debts into currency. That Constitutional approach could work today.

Rania Khalek (2023-01-23). Who's Responsible for Africa's Debt Trap: China or the West? thealtworld.com U.S. politicians and corporate media blame China for debt crises in African countries, yet African governments owe three times more debt to private Western lenders than to China. Furthermore, interest rates on Western private loans are almost double those on Chinese loans. | Tim Jones, Head of Policy at Debt Justice in the UK, explains the reality behind the African debt and how the only just way forward is its cancellation.

Tanupriya Singh (2023-01-23). $10 billion in aid has been promised to Pakistan's flood survivors but many questions remain. peoplesdispatch.org Pakistan received nearly $10 billion in funding pledges for post-flood recovery at a conference in Geneva this month, but 90% of this money will be in the form of loans, at a time when Pakistan is already facing a severe debt crisis and worsening socio-economic conditions…

Dr. Mark Trozzi (2023-01-23). UK Data Shows: The mRNA "Vaccine" Bioweapon Is Working. globalresearch.ca

Editor (2023-01-23). Chris Hedges: The Plague of Social Isolation. scheerpost.com The rupture of social bonds and loss of community, caused by the decades-long assault on the poor and working class and the ravages of the pandemic, have resulted in a dangerous social isolation.

WSWS (2023-01-23). Google lays off 12,000 workers as tech jobs bloodbath intensifies. wsws.org The announcement by Google that it is laying off 12,000 workers is the latest in the intensifying jobs bloodbath in the technology sector internationally and the spearhead of a drive by the financial elite to impose the inflation crisis on the backs of the working class.

Rania Khalek (2023-01-23). Nickel & Dimed: How Restaurant Lobbyists Scam Workers to Keep Wages Low. thealtworld.com Restaurant workers are being put into food safety courses where the fees then fund the industry's anti-worker lobbying against minimum wage increases. The National Restaurant Association has raised millions over the years through its ownership of ServSafe, the de facto food-safety training course for the industry. | Teo Reyes, Chief Program Officer at ROC United, breaks down the ServSafe scam and the National Restaurant Associations' decades-long fight to prevent minimum wage and subminimum wage increases.

Sarah Anderson (2023-01-23). America's inequality problem in one statistic. nationofchange.org If you work for a big corporation, your boss likely made more money on January 2 than you will this whole year.

WSWS (2023-01-23). Texas prisoners on hunger strike against solitary confinement. wsws.org Texas is currently holding more than 3,000 inmates in what the TDCJ refers to as "restrictive housing." Of those, more than 0 have been held in solitary confinement for at least 10 years and 138 for at least 20 years.

WSWS (2023-01-23). UK: Mother collapses from hunger at South Tyneside Food Bank. wsws.org Approximately six million people are already reporting that they did not eat due to lack of money in the past month and 76 percent of adults that they are having to try and cut back on spending.

Antonio C.S. Rosa (2023-01-23). The WEF and WHO — Are They Running a Death Cult? A WHO/Pharma Controlled Worldwide Tyrannical "Health System" transcend.org 10 Jan 2023 – Let us never let an abject power-hungry non-elected criminal like Klaus Schwab, with his roots in the Third Reich, and his NGO, the World Economic Forum, dominate humanity. May sheer solidarity, togetherness of thought and will power, overcome the pathological objectives of the psychopaths' wish for power and money dominance.

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2023-01-23: News Headlines

isabella (2023-01-23). New Report on Extreme Wealth and Potential Wealth Tax Revenue. inequality.org

americanthinker (2023-01-23). California seems to find a new way to chase away residents every day. americanthinker.com This time, they've cooked up a new 'wealth tax.'

Anjoulie Woodhead (2023-01-23). Concerns of Growth, Pandemic, War and Inflation Top World Economic Forum Agenda. indybay.org World Bank Cuts Global Growth Forecast as Developing Countries Struggle with Debt…

Lynda Carson (2023-01-23). Debt limit crisis threatens Social Security and Bay Area subsidized housing renters. indybay.org Lydia Gans Photo Of A San Rafael Tenant Meeting In 2005 That I Helped To Organize With Housing Activist Marion Brady, To Help Save Section 8 Tenants From Losing Their Housing Vouchers. That's Me Standing Near The Back Of The Room In A Red Top And Black Sweater Reading Some Information That I Helped Pass Out To The Tenants:…

Antonio C.S. Rosa (2023-01-23). The Plague of Social Isolation. transcend.org 21 Jan 2023 – The rupture of social bonds and loss of community, caused by the decades-long assault on the poor and working class and the ravages of the pandemic, have resulted in a dangerous social isolation.

Dr. Mark Trozzi (2023-01-23). UK Data Shows: The mRNA "Vaccine" Bioweapon Is Working. globalresearch.ca

Isheka N. Harrison (2023-01-22). Top Reparations Scholar Dr. Sandy Darity Appears In New Hulu Docuseries 'The 1619 Project'. moguldom.com Renowned reparations scholar Dr. William' Sandy' Darity Jr. will be featured in Hulu's upcoming film adaptation of Nikole Hannah-Jones' award-winning journalistic work, "The 1619 Project." A trailer for the namesake six-part docuseries shows Hannah-Jones interviewing Darity about reparations and the amount of the debt owed to Black Americans. "You are calling for reparations. What is …

Staff (2023-01-22). We Need a New Approach to Debt—One Borrowed From the Past. commondreams.org On Friday, Jan. 13, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen wrote to Congress that the U.S. government will hit its borrowing limit on Jan. 19, forcing the new Congress into negotiations over the debt limit much sooner than expected. She said she will use accounting maneuvers she called "extraordinary measures" to keep U.S. finances running for a …

_____ (2023-01-22). Multipolar Economic Order. popularresistance.org The international economic system had been dominated for decades by the United States, but this financial architecture is rapidly fracturing with the creation of new institutions in the Global South. | The BRICS bloc of Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa is working "to develop a fairer system of monetary exchange", to challenge the "dominance of the dollar", South Africa's foreign minister has revealed. | Saudi Arabia publicly confirmed that it is considering selling its oil in other currencies. China's President Xi Jinping said Beijing will buy energy from the Persian Gulf states in its own currency,…

_____ (2023-01-22). Why I'm Not Running Again For City Council. popularresistance.org This is now the tenth year I've had the honor to serve as an elected representative of Seattle's working people. | Workers in Seattle, through getting organized alongside my socialist City Council office, and my organization, Socialist Alternative, have won historic victories, from the $15/hour minimum wage to the Amazon Tax to landmark renters' rights. | These victories have set a powerful example that has had a national and even international impact. | In our four election victories and in every struggle, we've had to overcome the combined might of big business, the corporate media, and the political establishm…

Robert Norse (2023-01-22). Stop Felton's Mountain Community Resource Center Driving Homeless Out Into the Rain. indybay.org Charges of cruel, discriminatory, and unnecessary evictions of unhoused folks into survival-threatening weather at Felton's Mountain Community Resource Center have prompted this protest. Two fliers describe the situation and ask the community to respond.

Staff (2023-01-22). We Need Housing for People to Live In, Not for Corporations to Invest In. commondreams.org Anyone who is active in our communities knows that housing insecurity and homelessness are rising fast, due in part to an ever-shrinking lot of affordable rentals and homes. Housing should be the rallying cry right now. There are a number of structural reasons for this housing crisis, and the most truly terrifying fact is that …

Sarah Anderson (2023-01-22). Is Mining Money Behind the Arrest of Salvadoran Water Defenders? inequality.org

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2023-01-18: News Headlines

CA Poor People's Campaign (2023-01-18). Monday 1/16: Close the Wealth Gap CA! MLK Day Reading of PPC Third Reconstruction Agenda to End Poverty. indybay.org Online event…

infobrics (2023-01-18). Lula Da Silva's New Term Begins: Will Brazil Shine Again on Global Stage?>. infobrics.org Lula was the first Brazilian president from a working-class origin who helped lift millions of ordinary citizens out of the scourge of poverty…

oliviaalperstein (2023-01-18). New Institute for Policy Studies Report Finds That an Annual Wealth Tax on the World's Richest Could Raise $1.7 Trillion Globally. ips-dc.org The report includes country-by-country data on wealth inequality and the revenue possibilities of national wealth taxes.

oliviaalperstein (2023-01-18). Report: "Extreme Wealth: The growing number of people with extreme wealth and what an annual wealth tax could raise" ips-dc.org

Editor (2023-01-18). Ellen Brown: Solving the Debt Crisis the American Way. scheerpost.com By Ellen Brown / Original to ScheerPost On Friday, Jan. 13, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen wrote to Congress that the U.S. government will hit its borrowing limit on Jan. 19, forcing the new Congress into negotiations over the debt limit much sooner than expected. She said she will use accounting maneuvers she called "extraordinary measures" …

Strike Debt Bay Area (2023-01-18). Saturday 2/11: Strike Debt Bay Area Book Group: Cannibal Capitalism. indybay.org We meet via Zoom. Email strike.debt.bay.area@gmail.com a few days beforehand for the online invite.

WSWS (2023-01-18). US Department of Education publishes plan to revise income-based student loan payments. wsws.org The proposed plan would reduce monthly payments from 10 percent of discretionary income to 5 percent for undergraduate loans and ease the impact of interest accrual on debt payments. It would not forgive student debt for years, if ever.

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2023-01-18). 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…

WSWS (2023-01-18). "I want them to keep on fighting!": University of Illinois faculty begin strike with widespread student support. wsws.org The walkout by hundreds of UIC faculty is part of a growing movement of the working class internationally against an escalating cost-of-living crisis and massive social inequality.

WSWS (2023-01-18). Police attack protest by Sri Lankan students against state repression. wsws.org In the struggle to defend their democratic and social rights, students need to turn towards the working class, the only social force that can lead that political struggle.

WSWS (2023-01-18). "I want them to keep on fighting!": University of Illinois Chicago faculty begin strike with widespread student support. wsws.org The walkout by hundreds of UIC faculty is part of a growing movement of the working class internationally against an escalating cost-of-living crisis and massive social inequality.

Homeless Garden Project (2023-01-18). Monday 2/20: MLK Day of Service at the Farm. indybay.org Homeless Garden Project Farm | 100-198 Shaffer Rd, Santa Cruz…

Robert Norse (2023-01-18). Stop Felton's Mountain Community Resource Center Driving Homeless Out Into the Rain. indybay.org Charges of cruel, discriminatory, and unnecessary evictions of unhoused folks into survival-threatening weather at Felton's Mountain Community Resource Center have prompted this protest. Two fliers describe the situation and ask the community to respond.

_____ (2023-01-17). Martin Luther King Day Special Encore Program: Restructuring The Edifice That Produces Poverty. popularresistance.org In celebration of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday, Clearing the FOG brought back an interview from ten years ago with Cheri Honkala of the Poor People's Economic and Human Rights Campaign and Robert Pollin of the Political Economy Research Institute. The program is centered on Dr. King's speech before the Southern Christian Leadership Conference in August 1967, "Where Do We Go From Here?" The guests, along with co-host Kevin Zeese discuss the current economic challenges and efforts to bring transformation at the local and national levels. That conversation is relevant today as we continue to face multiple c…

Ben Norton (2023-01-17). Richest 1% made 2/3rds of global wealth since 2020 twice as much as 99% of population earned. geopoliticaleconomy.com In 2020 and 2021, the wealthiest 1% of the world's population made nearly two-thirds of all new wealth – six times greater than the wealth made by the poorest 90%. Yet while billionaires get richer, poverty is increasing, Oxfam warns.

Shenali D Waduge (2023-01-17). Sri Lanka Trapped into Debt and IMF Sponsored Poverty. globalresearch.ca

WSWS (2023-01-17). Oxfam: Social inequality and poverty soaring in Australia. wsws.org The widening social gulf has been intensified by corporate profiteering on the most basic human necessities—food and energy.

_____ (2023-01-17). Russell Banks, John Brown And The American Soul. popularresistance.org The deep malaise that defines American society — the rage, despair and widespread feelings of betrayal and loss — is rarely captured and almost never explained in the pages of newspapers or on screens. To grasp what has happened to the United States, the savage economic and emotional cost of deindustrialization; the destruction of our democratic institutions; the Neolithic violence that sees us beset with almost daily mass shootings in malls, offices, schools and movie theaters; the rise of the militarized state; and the consolidation of national wealth by a tiny cabal of corrupt bankers and corporati…

_____ (2023-01-17). U.S. Spy Chief Gives His Support to Libya PM As Part of a DEAL OVER LOCKERBIE? strategic-culture.org The greatest cover up since JKF — The Lockerbie bombing — might be coming apart at the seams, Martin Jay writes. | America seems to be getting skittish about its dirty work in Libya and how the greatest cover up since JKF — The Lockerbie bombing — might be coming apart at the seams. | Like Afghanistan, Libya, a country rich in oil wealth and underpopulated, is heading towards being branded another major NATO f***-up as analysts worry that delayed elections, the hilarious farce of now having two rival prime ministers in office and an economy in freefall, could all point to rival factions re…

Juan Cole (2023-01-17). Billionaires Gobbled up 2/3s of New Wealth at $2.7 bn/ day, as 800 million go to bed Hungry: Oxfam. juancole.com Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) Oxfam , the British charity, has released a new report finding that the global problem of wealth inequality is growing ever more threatening. Of all the new wealth the entire human race has produced in the past two years, the richest 1% gobbled up 66% of it. The less-rich 99% …

Sharon Zhang (2023-01-17). For Every $1 Gained by a Bottom 90 Percenter Since 2020, a Billionaire Got $1.7M. truthout.org While the vast majority of people were struggling to stay alive and weather economic instability during the first two years of the pandemic, the world's richest 1 percent were thriving as the proportion of new global wealth they were capturing soared to new heights, a report reveals. Over the past decade, the global top 1 percent has taken about half of all new wealth — an already extremely high… |

WSWS (2023-01-17). Oxfam report documents "explosion of inequality" during pandemic. wsws.org Despite a slight reduction in overall wealth, billionaires and major corporations became "dramatically richer" in 2022 and were the main driver of global inflation.

Staff (2023-01-17). Rep. Ro Khanna on CA Flooding, Big Oil's Climate Denial, Debt Ceiling, Assange & Possible Senate Bid. democracynow.org The death toll from two weeks of flooding in California has reached at least 20. As climate scientists are predicting more extreme weather linked to climate change over the next two years, outrage is growing over how fossil fuel companies were fully aware of the link between fossil fuel emissions and global warming but spent decades obscuring the science in order to make maximum profits. We speak with Democratic California Congressmember Ro Khanna, who recently concluded a congressional investigation into the allegations and says the oil industry needs to be held accountable for the damage it has wrought. Khanna…

_____ (2023-01-17). More Austerity In 2023 Will Fuel Protests. popularresistance.org This week world leaders meet in Davos to discuss cooperation to address multiple crises, from COVID-19 and escalating inflation to slowing economic growth, debt distress and climate shocks. | Only three months earlier, finance ministers had gathered in Washington DC for the same reason. The mood was grim. The need for ambitious actions could not be greater; however, there were no agreements, evidencing the fragility of multilateralism and international cooperation. | Worse, policy makers -advised by the International Monetary Fund- are resorting to old, failed and regressive policies, such as austerity (now calle…

americanthinker (2023-01-17). SF Reparations Committee proposal demonstrates the greed and unreality behind demands for slavery reparations. americanthinker.com I am grateful to San Francisco's official African American Reparations Advisory Committee for the damage it has done to the notion that the current populace of the United States, none of whom were alive during slavery, owe some kind of debt to African Americans.

Sharon Zhang (2023-01-17). White House Warns GOP Not to Tie Debt Ceiling to Social Security Cuts. truthout.org Democrats are warning Republicans that they will not negotiate over raising the debt ceiling to avoid economic catastrophe after Republicans spent the last months warning that they may pursue cuts to key social programs by holding debt limit legislation hostage. On Friday, White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said that Congress must pass legislation raising the debt ceiling "without… |

Alan Macleod (2023-01-17). How Elon Musk Is Aiding the US Empire's Regime Change Operation in Iran. mintpressnews.com Elon Musk is working with the US to smuggle hundreds of Starlink communications devices into Iran to aid the US-backed opposition in overthrowing their government.

Ann Brown (2023-01-17). Highlights From Dr. Umar Johnson's Breakfast Club Appearance. moguldom.com The ever-controversial Dr. Umar Johnson visited the popular morning radio show The Breakfast Club. As per usual, Johnson had more than a few eyebrow-raising statements. The interview premiered on Dec 9, 2022. According to his website, Johnson is a doctor of clinical psychology and a certified school psychologist who specializes in working with the parents …

Isheka N. Harrison (2023-01-17). 'Becky With The Hands' Raises Over $16,000 After Waffle House Fight Went Viral, Gets Fox News Support. moguldom.com The public has rallied around a former Waffle House cook by donating over $16,000 to a GoFundMe campaign after she was blacklisted from working at the restaurant due to her involvement in a fight with customers. Last year, Halie Booth was employed at an Austin, Texas, location of the popular restaurant chain. She went viral after footage …

Sharon Zhang (2023-01-17). 38 Percent of Americans Delayed Medical Care Due to Cost in 2022, a Record High. truthout.org New polling finds that the proportion of Americans who have delayed medical treatment due to costs has hit a record high as the pandemic rages on and it becomes harder for the working class to afford regular and emergency costs. According to Gallup, 38 percent of Americans had either put off seeking medical treatment themselves or a member of their families did so in 2022. This is a 12 percent… |

Peoples Dispatch (2023-01-17). Daily Round-Up | Protests continue in Peru and other stories. peoplesdispatch.org In today's episode, we bring you stories of the ongoing protests in Peru, the Oxfam report on inequality, the continuing Israeli atrocities in Palestine, and protests in Tunisia…

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2023-01-17: News Headlines

CA Poor People's Campaign (2023-01-17). Monday 1/16: Close the Wealth Gap CA! MLK Day Reading of PPC Third Reconstruction Agenda to End Poverty. indybay.org Online event…

Strike Debt Bay Area (2023-01-17). Saturday 2/11: Strike Debt Bay Area Book Group: Cannibal Capitalism. indybay.org We meet via Zoom. Email strike.debt.bay.area@gmail.com a few days beforehand for the online invite.

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2023-01-17). 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…

Homeless Garden Project (2023-01-17). Monday 2/20: MLK Day of Service at the Farm. indybay.org Homeless Garden Project Farm | 100-198 Shaffer Rd, Santa Cruz…

americanthinker (2023-01-16). What Is Capitalism? Even Conservatives Can't Explain It. americanthinker.com Capitalism is not simply free markets. It is a designed, self-accelerating economic system that reduces prices and poverty.

news.un (2023-01-16). Poorest learners benefit the least from public education: UNICEF. news.un.org Governments are not investing enough in those children who need education the most, the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) said in a report published on Tuesday, calling for equitable financing to combat "learning poverty".

_____ (2023-01-16). House Republican Rules Package Designed To Enable Skewed Priorities. popularresistance.org The House Republican majority recently adopted a rules package to guide that chamber's legislative action that would put up steep barriers to investments in critical national needs while paving the way for ever more tax cuts, inevitably tilted toward the wealthy and profitable corporations. That isn't an agenda that will expand opportunity or support broadly shared economic growth. | Proponents describe the rules as "restoring fiscal sanity," but they just reflect an ideology that ignores reams of evidence showing that the tax cuts of recent decades haven't meaningfully boosted economic growth. The large tax cuts…

Dean Baker (2023-01-16). Why Debate Markets vs. Government When We Let the Right Rig the Market? cepr.net I was happy to see this segment of Ezra Klein's show (hosted by Rogé Karma) which featured an interview with Columbia University Law Professor Katharina Pistor. Pistor is the author of The Code of Capital: How the Law Creates Wealth and Inequality. I've not yet read the book, but got the gist from the interview. …

oliviaalperstein (2023-01-16). MEDIA AVAILABILITY: Authors of Report on "Billionaire Enabler States" Available for Comment on The New Yorker Exposé on Allegations of Getty Family Trusts' Tax Dodging. ips-dc.org "Nevada has helped make it possible for super-wealthy families like the Gettys to dodge taxes owed to other states like California."

WSWS (2023-01-16). US treasury secretary issues warning on debt ceiling. wsws.org In a letter to Congress Janet Yellen said Treasury would have to undertake "extraordinary measures" to prevent the US defaulting on its debt obligations.

_____ (2023-01-16). New Zealand's New Sectoral Bargaining Law Holds Lessons For US. popularresistance.org In one of the more important advances in collective bargaining around the world, New Zealand recently passed an innovative sectoral bargaining policy, called Fair Pay Agreements. Labor supporters in Britain and Australia want to replicate elements of the policy in their countries, while for American audiences the most important lesson may be how New Zealand's experiences highlight that sectoral bargaining — in conjunction with worksite bargaining — is necessary to improve working conditions in today's economy and thus should be part of policy efforts to strengthen unions. | Sectoral bargaining, someti…

_____ (2023-01-16). Students Protest Fossil Fuel Involvement In Campus Career Center. popularresistance.org Washington – UW students are protesting on campus to demand that the UW Career and Internship Center amend their employer user policy to prohibit companies in the Fossil Fuel industry from recruiting on campus or using the center's services in any capacity to engage with students. The requested change would deny members of the Fossil Fuel industry a space to recruit students through university networking platforms and career fair events, and also leverage the UW's agenda-setting power by encouraging similar institutions to follow suit. | After several meetings and an attempt to work with the executive director of…

Antonio C.S. Rosa (2023-01-16). How the Workers' Parliaments Saved the Cuban Revolution. transcend.org 13 Jan 2023 – A Rare Look from Inside Cuba: In highlighting the little-known role of the Cuban working class during the Special Period, the author has produced a book essential to understanding the survival of revolutionary Cuba.

ecns.cn (2023-01-16). Asia-Pacific countries eager to welcome back Chinese tourists. ecns.cn China's recent optimization of its COVID-19 response and the gradual return of Chinese citizens' overseas travel have encouraged those working in the tourism sectors of Asia-Pacific countries.

WSWS (2023-01-16). Australia: Vote "no" to union-enforced real wage cuts at Pampas! Form a rank-and-file committee to fight for jobs and pay! wsws.org A "no" vote is a critical first step, but to take their struggle forward, Pampas workers will need to take up a fight against the United Workers' Union bureaucracy, which is working to impose a sell-out.

_____ (2023-01-16). Striking Workers From A Homelessness Charity Beat Their Tight-Fisted Bosses. popularresistance.org Workers from the homelessness charity Shelter have won their battle against the bosses. Unite the Union, which organises Shelter workers, said they had won a "vastly improved pay offer" following effective strike action. In addition, a one-off payout was also prised out of the bosses. A statement on the Unite website announced: | During the strike action talks were held at the conciliation service Acas and an improved pay offer was made. The revised offer was for an increase in pay of seven per cent, which was more than double the three per cent the workers had previously been offered. | And added that: | In addi…

repost (2023-01-16). Democrat Barbara Lee Wants Millions of Gov Funds For Billionaire Fisher's A's Stadium. indybay.org Democratic Party politician Congresswomen Barbara Lee is supporting spending $182 million of US DOT funds for GAP A's billionaire owner John Fisher's stadium project. While thousands are homeless in Oakland, she wants to spend millions on Fisher's privately owned stadium project.

rebekah (2023-01-16). How the Getty and Walton Families Use Trusts To Dodge Taxes. inequality.org

SAM (2023-01-16). Oxfam Wants To More than Double the Tax Rate on Our Richest. inequality.org

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2023-01-16: News Headlines

CA Poor People's Campaign (2023-01-16). Monday 1/16: Close the Wealth Gap CA! MLK Day Reading of PPC Third Reconstruction Agenda to End Poverty. indybay.org Online event…

Strike Debt Bay Area (2023-01-16). Saturday 2/11: Strike Debt Bay Area Book Group: Cannibal Capitalism. indybay.org We meet via Zoom. Email strike.debt.bay.area@gmail.com a few days beforehand for the online invite.

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2023-01-16). 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…

Homeless Garden Project (2023-01-16). Monday 2/20: MLK Day of Service at the Farm. indybay.org Homeless Garden Project Farm | 100-198 Shaffer Rd, Santa Cruz…

SAM (2023-01-16). Oxfam Wants To More than Double the Tax Rate on Our Richest. inequality.org

Ann Brown (2023-01-15). Why Dr. Claud Anderson Argues Socialism Doesn't Work For Black Americans. moguldom.com Dr. Claud Anderson was recently asked during an interview if Capitalism was "cap." "Cap" means a lie. While he answered "yes," without hesitation, Anderson pointed out capitalism, with all its foibles, is the only way for Black people to wealth, and that socialism will never work for Black people. Anderson is president of PowerNomics …

WSWS (2023-01-15). RMT union directly colluding with UK rail companies to sell-out strikes. wsws.org The RMT and train operating companies issued a joint tight-lipped two-line statement reading, "We have had detailed discussions and we are working jointly towards a revised offer."

WSWS (2023-01-15). NASUWT teachers union UK strike ballot fails to reach threshold: Who is responsible? wsws.org The result does not reflect "apathy" on the part of educators. It is entirely due to the lack of any confidence by workers in the NASUWT leadership to wage a struggle to overturn the decades-long dismantling of state education—in which the unions have been fully complicit.

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2023-01-15: News Headlines

Staff (2023-01-14). President Maduro Announces 6 Lines of Work for 2023 in Annual Address to the Nation. orinocotribune.com On Thursday, January 12, the president of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, in his Annual Address to the Nation, announced the six lines of work his government will implement in 2023. | The lines are: | 1- Consolidate economic growth, diversification of the economy and generation of wealth with equality. | The president stated that progress must be made in "healing the wounds" and "the inequalities that have been created as a result of the economic war and illegal sanctions." | 2- Expand protection and social security to all the Venezuelan people, especially the victims of the economic blockade. | Misiones and Grandes M…

Dean Baker (2023-01-14). The Fun Way to Deal with the Debt Ceiling. cepr.net Like all good Keynesian economists, I'm a big fan of the platinum coin. The law explicitly allows the Treasury to print platinum coins in any denomination. That means it absolutely could deal with the debt ceiling by printing a platinum coin denominated for $1 trillion and selling it to the Fed. This would not count …

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2023-01-14). 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…

Peoples Dispatch (2023-01-14). The French working class organizes to defeat Macron's pension reforms. mronline.org The Macron-led government is making a new bid to push controversial pension reforms, calling to increase the retirement age from 62 to 64.

WSWS (2023-01-14). Teachers union pushes through sellout contract to avert a strike in Akron, Ohio. wsws.org The concessions contract agreed to by the union effectively cuts teachers' pay and meets none of their demands for safe working conditions.

WSWS (2023-01-14). Australian rank-and-file health workers support Pampas pastry workers. wsws.org "We urge Pampas workers to vote 'no' to the UWU-management agreement and form a rank-and-file committee to discuss and develop a campaign for secure jobs, a real wage increase and improved working conditions."

_____ (2023-01-14). Allied Community And Co-operative Shared Services (ACCESS). popularresistance.org So basically, ACCESS is a shared services platform and it provides a collective of professional services that are aligned with co-ops, nonprofits and other social purpose organizations. And we just have been working on this for the last year and a half. And the kind of the backstory to ACCESS — I was approached by the ED at ACCA, the Alberta Community Cooperative Association, and I was asked if I would be interested in writing a grant. And I think I was a month into the job there, and I wasn't quite sure what I knew about co-ops and, you know, even writing a grant application at that level. But once I saw w…

_____ (2023-01-14). The Supreme Court Could Gut The Right To Strike. popularresistance.org The Supreme Court heard oral arguments January 10 in Glacier Northwest Inc. v. International Brotherhood of Teamsters Local Union No. 174, a court case that labor advocates say threatens the right to strike. | "The ability to withhold your labor is the one powerful tool throughout the history of unionization that has ensured workers can improve their working conditions," Teamsters General President Sean M. O'Brien offered in a statement issued the same day. "This right is now on trial at the Supreme Court," O'Brien said, calling on the court to affirm the rulings of lower courts. Noel J. Francisco, the Jones Day…

Homeless Garden Project (2023-01-14). Monday 2/20: MLK Day of Service at the Farm. indybay.org Homeless Garden Project Farm | 100-198 Shaffer Rd, Santa Cruz…

repost (2023-01-14). Democrat Barbara Lee Wants Millions of Gov Funds For Billionaire Fisher's A's Stadium. indybay.org Democratic Party politician Congresswomen Barbara Lee is supporting spending $182 million of US DOT funds for GAP A's billionaire owner John Fisher's stadium project. While thousands are homeless in Oakland, she wants to spend millions on Fisher's privately owned stadium project.

Andy Merrifield (2023-01-14). DADA NEW YEAR: Tristan Tzara's Boom, Boom, Boom. mronline.org I know I'm not the only one thinking that our world has lost its mind. It's not easy being some relatively sane person nowadays. At the best of times, politics is bankrupt. At its worst, it's toxic, dominated by demagogues, liars and cheats. Their falsehoods fly wholesale, rarely disgruntling masses of people, let alone damaging a demagogue's political career.

SP Editor (2023-01-14). What It Means for Hunger to Burn Through the Pentagon's Ranks. scheerpost.com Co-creator of the Costs of War Project and military spouse Andrea Mazzarino describes in all-too-devastating detail that a staggeringly over-funded military-industrial complex is, to use Eisenhower's phrasing, indeed stealing from "those who hunger and are not fed."

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2023-01-13: News Headlines

Staff (2023-01-13). The Crisis of Missing Migrants: Tens of Thousands of People Have Disappeared on Their Way to Europe. democracynow.org Twenty-four volunteer rescue workers connected to the group Emergency Response Centre International face trial for human smuggling in Greece for giving life-saving assistance to thousands of migrants, mostly from sub-Saharan Africa and the Middle East, fleeing violence, poverty and persecution. A European Parliament report described the trial as Europe's "largest case of criminalization of solidarity." We're joined by New Yorker staff writer Alexis Okeowo. Their latest piece, "The Crisis of Missing Migrants," covers the migrant crisis in the Mediterranean and the tens of thousa…

_____ (2023-01-13). North America's Trilateral Summit. popularresistance.org The United States, Mexico and Canada on Tuesday, January 10 vowed to tighten economic ties, producing more goods regionally and boosting semiconductor output, even as integration is hampered by an ongoing dispute over Mexico's energy policies. | U.S. President Joe Biden, Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau met in Mexico City and pledged to beef up supply chains after weathering serious disruptions during the COVID-19 pandemic. | "We're working to a future to strengthen our cooperation on supply chains and critical minerals so we can continue to accelerate in ou…

WSWS (2023-01-13). Fed chief Powell defends the dictatorship of finance capital. wsws.org Speaking at a symposium in Stockholm, Sweden, on central bank independence Powell made it clear that the Fed and other central banks, acting in the interests of finance capital, must be allowed a free hand in imposing the crisis of capitalism on to the backs of the working class.

Homeless Garden Project (2023-01-13). Monday 2/20: MLK Day of Service at the Farm. indybay.org Homeless Garden Project Farm | 100-198 Shaffer Rd, Santa Cruz…

Roselena Ramirez (2023-01-13). Climate Change and Migration Threatening El Salvador's Food Security. america.cgtn.com Drought, global inflation, and heavy migration. Those factors created a perfect storm in Central America for food insecurity. Alasdair Baverstock went to El Salvador to report on its high prices and food scarcity.

Andrea Mazzarino (2023-01-13). What It Means for Hunger to Burn Through the Pentagon's Ranks. globalresearch.ca

Adriaan Alsema (2023-01-12). Poverty, violence and Colombia's State failures main human rights concerns in 2022: HRW. colombiareports.com Human Rights Watch (HRW) said that high levels of poverty and violence, and failures in the justice system were the main human rights concerns last year. In its annual report…

Gary Olson (2023-01-12). US-China War Is No Longer Unthinkable. dissidentvoice.org China offers a threatening alternative model of development that is non-capitalist, non-Western, and non-colonial. As such, it undermines the West's neocolonial domination of the Third World and its debt-trap-based forced underdevelopment of subverience and exploitation. — K.T. Noh1 If the United States were to posit that it could eliminate the economic challenge from China by …

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2023-01-12). Mayo Clinic Q and A: Reducing stress in the new year. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org DEAR MAYO CLINIC: I am a working mom of two teenagers. I have a career that requires long hours, and I struggle with juggling work and home responsibilities. I don't get to the gym as often as I'd like. I'm having more episodes of headache and struggling with sleep. I also realized I am coping with stress by eating more than normal. With the new year, I'd like to find ways to improve my health and…

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2023-01-12). 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…

WSWS (2023-01-12). Macron's attack on pensions sets stage for showdown with French working class. wsws.org President Emmanuel Macron had abandoned his plan to raise the pension age two years, which provoked a rail strike in 2019, amid mass strikes at the outset of the COVID-19 pandemic.

WSWS (2023-01-12). Australian teachers and postal workers support Pampas workers. wsws.org "We warn Pampas workers, the biggest obstacle you confront is the UWU bureaucracy, which is working hand-in-glove with management to impose real wage cuts that will only drive workers further into the ground."

fvorinoco (2023-01-12). Freddy Bernal: Venezuela to Propose Sustainable Salary Increase. orinocotribune.com During an interview with journalist Mary Pili Hernández on Unión Radio, governor of the state of Táchira and member of the National Directorate of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) Freddy Bernal reported that the Venezuelan government is working on proposing a sustainable salary increase. Bernal indicated that the PSUV is very aware of the problems placed on the Venezuelan people by the devaluation of the currency, and that the issue has been discussed at length within the party. | Bernal pointed out that "yesterday (Monday), we touched on the salary issue in the leadership of the PSUV… The ministe…

Jennifer Peltz (2023-01-12). Nurses at 2 NYC hospitals return to work as deal ends strike. peoplesworld.org NEW YORK (AP) — Thousands of nurses at two New York City hospitals ended a three-day strike Thursday after reaching a tentative contract agreement that union officials said offers better working conditions, in addition to pay raises. The tentative deals at Mount Sinai Hospital, in Manhattan, and Montefiore Medical Center, in the Bronx, include raises totaling 19% …

WSWS (2023-01-12). UK ambulance workers stage second national strike. wsws.org The trade unions continue to suppress strike action by National Health Service workers with the potential to draw behind it the entire working class.

repost (2023-01-12). Democrat Barbara Lee Wants Millions of Gov Funds For Billionaire Fisher's A's Stadium. indybay.org Democratic Party politician Congresswomen Barbara Lee is supporting spending $182 million of US DOT funds for GAP A's billionaire owner John Fisher's stadium project. While thousands are homeless in Oakland, she wants to spend millions on Fisher's privately owned stadium project.

isabella (2023-01-12). Historic Victory: After 3 Days on Strike, New York Nurses Win Deal With Hospitals. inequality.org

rebekah (2023-01-12). How Private Equity Amplifies the Abuse of Predatory Lending. inequality.org

_____ (2023-01-12). Why The Climate Justice March In South Korea Could Be A Game Changer. popularresistance.org On September 24, 2022, more than 30,000 people occupied the main roads of downtown Seoul, South Korea, for the nation's largest climate justice march. The sheer turnout of people from all walks of life and the participation by a wide range of advocacy groups were a testament to the impact of climate change on every aspect of life: human rights, women's rights, religion, food insecurity, and labor rights. For many of these advocacy movements in Seoul, recent crises like COVID-19 have brought home the urgent need to address the climate crisis. | Opening with a rally in Namdaemun Plaza at 3 p.m., the two-hour march…

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2023-01-12: News Headlines

isabella (2023-01-12). Historic Victory: After 3 Days on Strike, New York Nurses Win Deal With Hospitals. inequality.org

rebekah (2023-01-12). How Private Equity Amplifies the Abuse of Predatory Lending. inequality.org

Andy Kroll (2023-01-12). What It Means for Hunger to Burn Through the Pentagon's Ranks. tomdispatch.com By any standard, the money the United States government pours into its military is simply overwhelming. Take the $858-billion defense spending authorization that President Biden signed into law last month. Not only did that bill pass in an otherwise riven Senate by a bipartisan majority of 83-11, but this year's budget increase of 4.3% is the second highest in inflation-adjusted terms since World War II. Indeed, the Pentagon has been granted more money than the next 10 largest cabinet agencies combined. And that doesn't even take into account funding for homeland security or the growing costs of caring for the ve…

Dana Sanchez (2023-01-11). Nina Turner: Credit Scores Are Deeply Flawed And Designed To Keep People In Poverty. moguldom.com Activist, commentator and former Ohio State Sen. Nina Turner periodically calls for the repeal of credit scores, and has tweeted at least three times in the last six months that the system used to decide how likely a person is to pay his or her bills is "a scam," "designed to keep people in poverty" …

WSWS (2023-01-11). US House passes rules package dictated by Republican far right. wsws.org The basic thrust of the rules changes is to slash federal spending on social programs, block tax increases on the wealthy, and make it easier to block federal government funding and any increase in the debt limit.

_____ (2023-01-11). In Indianapolis, Building A Community Food Ecosystem In An 'Apartheid Zone'. popularresistance.org In Indianapolis' Northeast Corridor, a predominantly Black area with a growing Latinx population, more than half of residents live in a food desert. | One community-led initiative seeks to build a local food ecosystem, one that will not only feed them in times of crisis but will sustain their health, wealth and wellbeing for generations to come. | In 2021, in the climate of the ongoing pandemic, the Equitable Food Access Initiative (EFAI) was created to address these dueling public health crises, in one of the top five cities in the country with the most people living in "food deserts," or areas where low-income…

Florence CGTN (2023-01-11). U.S. consumers getting buried under credit card debt. america.cgtn.com With inflation still three times higher than the Federal Reserve's target rate, a potential recession looming, and a central bank bent on cooling a hot labor market — 2023 is poised to deliver a bumpy ride for consumers carrying credit card debt.

Owen Fairclough (2023-01-11). U.S. lawmakers face battle over debt ceiling. america.cgtn.com The 118th U.S. Congress finally began this week after the Speaker of the House standoff brought government business almost to a standstill. But if it brought relief for new Speaker Kevin McCarthy after the most protracted election for more than 1 years, some lawmakers …

Ann Brown (2023-01-11). Fact Check: Biden Promised Black America He Would Forgive HBCU Loans But Hasn't. moguldom.com There has been a political battle over President Joe Biden's proposed student loan forgiveness program, which would forgive a set amount on loans for students overall. But did Biden proposed full debt forgiveness for students of Historically Black Colleges and Universities? Yes, while Biden was campaigning for president during the 2020 campaign cycle, this was …

WSWS (2023-01-11). Union imposes sell-out contract on Renault-Nissan India workers through sham vote. wsws.org Working in close concert with management, the union effectively ambushed the workers, forcing them to immediately vote on a contract they had not seen.

Dana Sanchez (2023-01-11). Car Dealership Expert Explains Why You Should Never Buy a BMW, Only Lease. moguldom.com "CarDealershipGuy," a pseudonymous auto expert with 2 ,600 followers on Twitter, has gone viral with his unvarnished insights on car-buying, dealer operations and the inner workings of the used-car business. He is credited with busting through the "opaque" walls of the auto industry by tweeting humorous quips, car-buying advice, and industry news from the perspective of …

Fight Back (2023-01-11). Greece: Militant musical protest of artists' unions and art schools. fightbacknews.org Fight Back News Service is circulating the following statement from the influential Greek labor organization, the All-Workers Militant Front (PAME). | A massive, militant, musical protest took place on Tuesday, January 10 at the Ministry of Education in Athens against the Presidential Decree 85 that downgrades the degrees of Art Schools and the working rights of artists. | Students and teachers of Art Schools, musicians, dancers, actors and more protested in front of the Ministry with music, dance and banners with paintings demanding recognition of their education and studies, demanding to be free and public. | T…

Morning Star (2023-01-11). Ahead of major strike, Amazon closes three U.K. warehouses, endangering 1,200 jobs. peoplesworld.org LONDON—Amazon's plans to shut three of its warehouses in Britain, putting 1,200 jobs at risk, are a "real kick in the teeth for hard-working staff," the British union GMB said Tuesday. The union, which represents hundreds of the U.S.-owned firm's British-based staff, blasted Amazon's announcement that it had launched consultations on the widely-criticized move. About …

scorinoco (2023-01-11). Under Musk, Twitter Continues to Promote US Propaganda Networks. orinocotribune.com By Bryce Greene Jan 6, 2023 | Twitter's "state-affiliated media" policy has an unwritten exemption for US government-funded and -controlled news media accounts. Twitter even boosts these accounts as "authoritative" sources for news during the Russian/Ukrainian war. | Elon Musk's controlled release of the documents known as the "Twitter Files" has given us some insight into the inner workings of the social media platform. The batch of docs released on

ecns.cn (2023-01-11). U.S. Los Angeles County declares state of emergency over homeless crisis. ecns.cn Los Angeles County in the United States approved a motion on Tuesday to declare a state of emergency over the region's homeless crisis.

Chris Hedges (2023-01-11). Chris Hedges: America's Theater of the Absurd. mintpressnews.com The internecine warfare in the House is not between those who respect democratic institutions and those who do not. McCarthy, backed by Trump and far-right conspiracy theorist Marjorie Taylor Greene, is as morally bankrupt as those trying to bring him down.

Andy Higginbottom (2023-01-11). Mapuche Political Prisoners Hunger Strike Reaches Critical Stage. mronline.org Nine political prisoners of the Mapuche people in southern Chile have been on hunger strike since November 27. Now, their protest has reached a dangerous and crucial moment.

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