(2024-03-11). Insights‰∏®German expert shows confidence in China's future success. ecns.cn China's two sessions this year have attracted global attention. During an exclusive interview with China News Network, Michael Borchmann, former head of the European and International Affairs Department of the federal German state of Hesse, highly appreciated China's achievement in urban-rural development, poverty alleviation, green energy technologies and so on."ÄÄ…
(2024-03-11). Saturday 4/20: Strike Debt Bay Area Book Group: Wealth Supremacy. indybay.org Email strike.debt.bay.area@gmail.com a few days beforehand for the online invite.
(2024-03-11). Debt Forgiveness in the Bronze Age. counterpunch.org 
(2024-03-11). In 9 Charts: India's Growing Debt Problem Has 'Crisis-Like Symptoms'. cadtm.org
(2024-03-11). A New Life for Mexico's Oldest Union. counterpunch.org 
Humberto Montes de Oca is the Secretary for Internal Relations of the Mexican Union of Electrical Workers (SME). He was originally a working-class art student who became active in the left-wing political movements of the period of Mexico's Dirty War (1970s to early 1980s). He joined the SME as a political act to become part
(2024-03-11). The Gilded Age Then, the Gilded Age Now. counterpunch.org 
How many people in India are going hungry? Researchers working on the Global Hunger Index are currently tracking 125 nations across the world. Exactly 110 of those nations, those researchers reported last fall, are suffering less hunger than India. But India, by contrast, is doing quite well on the gluttony front. Few nations today can
(2024-03-11). Sunday 4/7: LIVE FROM JENIN. indybay.org Unitarian Universalist Society of San Francisco | 1187 FRANKLIN ST. | S.F.
(2024-03-11). Sri Lankan police attack student protests against austerity measures. wsws.org These violent attacks on students, with water cannons, tear gas and batons, are part of the Wickremesinghe government's assault on the democratic and social rights of the working class.
(2024-03-11). PSC study makes recommendations on hybrid work arrangements. sanews.gov.za PSC study makes recommendations on hybrid work arrangements | The Public Service Commission (PSC) has completed a study on the impact of hybrid work arrangements on service delivery in the public service. | PSC Commissioner Anele Gxoyiya says the COVID-19 pandemic forced most organisations, including government, to consider alternative working arrangements in order to limit human and physical interaction. | "This resulted in the introduction of hybrid workspaces and the working from home (WFH) option that was new for most employees, as only a few private companies offered this option pre-COVID-19," Gxoyiya said a…
(2024-03-11). Comprehensive testing helps diagnose and manage rare genetic disorder. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org Lauri's daughter, Christy, a genetic counselor at Mayo Clinic, was instrumental in getting Lauri the testing she needed for an accurate diagnosis. Multiple doctors and multiple examinations could not figure out why Lauri Sieben had spent much of her life "never feeling quite right" physically. Fortunately for Lauri, that changed after her daughter Christy began working as a genetic counselor in Mayo Clinic's Molecular Technologies Laboratory. After seeing similarities between the patient testing she was…
(2024-03-11). Massive demonstration in Rome calls for ceasefire in Gaza. peoplesdispatch.org On March 9, Saturday, peace and working-class groups in Italy organized a major mobilization in Rome demanding an immediate ceasefire in Gaza. In the march called by the Assisi Pace Giusta committee, various organizations participated including the Italian Network for Peace and Disarmament, the Italian General Confederation of Labor (CGIL), the Communist Refoundation Party (PRC), Union of University Students (UDU), and others. The groups demanded an end to Israel's ongoing genocide in Palestine and called on the Italian and European governments to stop sending weapons to support wars. | Over 31,000 people have be…
(2024-03-11). New 55t BelAZ haul truck passes final tests. eng.belta.by BelAZ-7555M has an economical 700 hp diesel engine and a modernized | driving axle, which provides increased working life of gears and | bearings.
(2024-03-11). Russian president briefed about crew readiness for new mission to ISS. eng.belta.by Russian President Vladimir Putin held a working meeting with Yuri Borisov, Director General of the Roscosmos State Corporation to discuss, among other things, the preparation for new mission to the ISS that carries a representative of Belarus. A video of the meeting was released by the Kremlin's press service, BelTA has learned.
(2024-03-11). Gaza prison torture by Israel worse than Guantanamo: monitor. newarab.com 
Israeli detention centres have become worse than Guantanamo Bay prison as Palestinians in these prisons are suffering from "shameful forms" of torture, degrading treatment, and the deprivation of their most basic human rights, Euro-Med says. | Thousands of Palestinians have been rounded up from Gaza since the start of the war on 7 October, with hundreds kept in unknown locatio…
(2024-03-11). Life Happens. That's Why We Need a Safety Net. inequality.org Things don't always work out the way you expect. I've gotten to mix with celebrities and travel to the other side of the world. But I'm also a single mother who's experienced health crises, homelessness, and food insecurity. What I've learned is we need public policies that look out for people no matter where they …
(2024-03-11). Arab refugees in Berlin: Down and out from asylum to suicide. newarab.com 
In the cold winter evenings, a little over a hundred individuals stand in line in Berlin's Frankfurter Allee. Holding a ticket number, they wait for the opening of a shelter that provides the homeless with dinner, showers, and a warm place to sleep until the next morning. | Hassan Ahmad, born to Lebanese parents in Africa in 1970, comes here often to escape the cold winter nights, which worsen his bronchial asthma. He struggled to remember how he made it to the shelter and could not quite clearly explain the issues with his asylum papers. | A little less than six kilometres west, in the area of Kottbusser Tor,…
(2024-03-11). UN expert: Israel is engineering famine in Gaza. mondoweiss.net 
UN Special Rapporteur Michael Fakhri says Israel's intentional starvation of Gaza is unprecedented. "We've never seen a civilian population made to go hungry so completely and so quickly," he tells Mondoweiss. "Never in modern history."
(2024-03-11). Gaza: Boat carrying humanitarian aid 'ready' to leave Cyprus. newarab.com 
The New Arab's live blog on Israel's war in Gaza has now ended, and will resume tomorrow at 0800 GMT. | A boat laden with food for Palestinians in war-ravaged Gaza was "ready" to set sail from Cyprus, an NGO said Saturday, as Israel's war in the enclave ahead of Ramadan. | The sea route aims to counter aid access restrictions, which humanitarians and foreign governments have blamed on Israel, more than five months into the war which has left Gaza's 2.4 million people struggling to survive. | The United Nations has repeatedly warned of looming famine, particularly in the Palestinian territory's north where no o…
(2024-03-11). "Modern societies cannot function without a welfare state" indybay.org Modern societies cannot really function well without a general social security system. That's why we need a security system for the whole of society that everyone pays into. In addition, growing social inequality is also a major economic risk.
(2024-03-11). A Fresh Approach to Limiting CEO Pay — and Saving Our Environment. inequality.org
"The British role in Palestine is complicated…but I don't think it helps anyone to ignore history," Michael Winterbottom said during an It's an admirable position for a British filmmaker working in an industry more willing to produce films about Britain's heroic past during…
US President The move comes as warnings that Gaza is steps away from a famine grow louder and aid agencies report continuing difficulties in distributing supplies as fighting between Israeli forces and Hamas intensify.
Shtayyeh said that Palestinian women are "mourning their loved ones, being killed, displaced, hungry and deprived of the most basic human rights in full views and hearing of the world" in a glaring statement i…
Anthony Albanese's refusal to tackle structural disadvantage reveals his 'commitment to gender equality' is a farce, argues Isaac Nellist.
Things don't always work out the way you expect. I've gotten to mix with celebrities and travel to the other side of the world. But I'm also a single mother who's experienced health crises, homelessness, and food insecurity. What I've learned is we need public policies that look out for people no matter where they 
After months of warnings over the risk of famine in Gaza under Israel's bombardment, offensives and siege, Palestinian children are starting to die in the enclave. | Hunger is At least 20 people have died from malnutrition and dehydration at the north's Kamal Adwan and Shifa hospitals, according to the Health Ministry. Most of the dead are children, including ones as old as 15…
With the Biden administration facing a legally binding deadline of March 12 to end its acts of war in Yemen, officials in Congress are preparing to grant the administration the legal authorization to continue waging war in the immediate future. At a February 27 Senate hearing, U.S. lawmakers indicated that they are working on a bill 
We speak with Palestinian novelist, poet and activist Susan Abulhawa, who is in Cairo and just returned from two weeks in Gaza. "What's happening to people isn't just this death and dismemberment and hunger. It is a total denigration of their personhood, of their whole society," says Abulhawa. "What I witnessed personally in Rafah and some of the middle areas is incomprehensible, and I will call it a holocaust — and I don't use that word lightly. But it is absolutely that."…
A French channel has aired an investigation on the 'dictatorship' of Kais Saied, sparking controversy in Tunisia and risking diplomatic ties between Paris and Tunis. | On Sunday at midnight, hundreds of Tunisians tuned in to watch "Exclusive investigation: Between Poverty and Dictatorship, The Grand Step Backwards," a one-hour investigation on the shrinking freedoms within the North African country, produced by the private French channel, M6. | The investigation had already ruffled Tunisian officials' feathers before its official broadcast. | On 29 February, Tunisia's Prime Minister, Ahmed Hachani, praised his…
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More than 100 people were killed and hundreds more have been injured in Gaza while trying to get food from aid trucks. According to the United Nations, more than half a million people are at risk of famine. | To discuss the ongoing conflict, joining us: | 
In On Sunday, 3 March, thousands of protesters flooded the streets of Casablanca, knocking on empty pots in their latest attempt to make their voices heard in the corridors of the Moroccan government. Similar scenes were witnessed in other cities around the North Afr…
Ten months into a war that has sent Sudan to the "verge of collapse", the vast majority of its people are going hungry, with less than five percent of Sudanese being able to afford a square meal a day. | Since last April, Sudan has been gripped by fighting between the regular army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, which has killed thousands and created what the United Nations calls "the world's largest displacement crisis". | A combined 10.7 million people have been uprooted by the current war and previous conflicts, according to the UN. | 
Recent weeks have brought three more eye-popping glimpses of our world's unconscionable concentration of income and wealth . . . The fabled luxury automaker Lamborghini, for the first time ever, has sold over 10,000 vehicles in a single year. Lamborghini's current 2024 Revuelto model starts at $608,358 . . . Google co-founder Larry Page has 
ALBAWABA – In his recent Kansas City concert, Canadian rapper Drake took the internet by storm after paying off a $160,000 mortgage of a random fan's deceased mother after receiving a note from them. The Candian rapper made headlines after promising to pay off the debt and said through the microphone at the T-Mobile Center: "You said, 'Pay off my mom's house, rest in peace.' Your mom passed away? Alright. And you owe… Oh, this is the outstanding balance right here. This is a lot of money right here. But you know what, I'm going to pay off your momma's house for you."Drake pays off a random fan's $160k debt!
Amnesty International says Israel is "engineering famine" in Gaza. Organization head Agnes Callamard adds, "all states that cut UNRWA funding, sold weapons and supported Israel bear responsibility too."
War on Gaza: Palestinian child dies from hunger and malnutrition in Gaza | Yazan al-Kafarna, a 10-year-old with cerebral palsy, died in the al-Najjar Hospital in Rafah after suffering from malnutrition | | Yazan al-Kafarna is one of the latest to die of hunger and malnutrition in Gaza since th…
More and more children in Gaza are on the brink of malnutrition and severe dehydration, UNICEF has warned, as at least 15 children have died in the enclave due to a lack of food and water. | Israel's war on the territory continues to rage, as bombardment has been reported in Rafah, Khan Younis and Gaza City. The death toll on Sunday has reached 30,410, according to the health ministry in Gaza. | Meanwhile, Hamas officials have arrived in Cairo, Egypt in a bid to come to a truce agreement, while Qatari and US envoys are reportedly present. | A Hamas official said a ceasefire deal could be secured "within 24 to…
Israeli forces killed more than a hundred Palestinians and wounded more than 700 on February 29, 2024 during a distribution of food aid in Gaza city, pushing the Palestinian death toll to 30,000 since October 7, 2023. The food aid massacre was straightforward in its deadliness as armed Israeli forces aimed weapons at desperate, hungry Palestinian civilians and killed 
US President Joe Biden said Friday he was "hoping" for a ceasefire deal in Gaza war by the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, but an agreement was still not sealed. | "I'm hoping so, we're still working real hard on it. We're not there yet," he told reporters at the White House when asked if he expected a deal by Ramadan, which will start on March 10 or 11, depending on the lunar calendar. | "We'll get there but we're not there yet – we may not get there," Biden added, without elaborating. | Israeli forces bombed Deir al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip overnight on Friday. | More than 30,000 people have died since…
Progressive lawmakers are demanding that President Joe Biden call for a permanent ceasefire in Gaza, saying it is "clear" that Israel is violating orders by the International Court of Justice (ICJ) to avoid going further into its massacre with its famine campaign, the lawmakers said.
Israeli forces killed at least 112 Palestinians after opening fire on a crowd awaiting a food aid truck in northern Gaza on February 29. The massacre took place as one quarter of Gaza's population is at imminent risk of famine while Israel continues to blockade aid to the besieged strip.
More than half a million people are believed to be living in Almost all households are skipping meals and some families are going without food for consecutive days. | Carl Skau, the deputy executive director of the World Food Program, said this week that Gaza is "the worst leve…
Ottawa has often criticized measures that would limit the ability of Canadian companies to profit from Mexico's resource wealth.
NATO's shocking 'Humour in online information warfare' working paper reveals a sinister strategy, encouraging cyberbullying and doxxing as tools of war, unraveling the disturbing reality of meme-driven manipulation in online spaces.
Today is Charles Darwin's 215th birthday. On the Origin of Species was published in 1859, when Darwin was 50 years old. After a period of extraordinary scientific creativity in his late 20s, after returning to London from the five-year circumnavigation of the HMS Beagle, a period that included his working out of the theory of evolution via natural selection, Darwin did not publish on the subject of evolution for the next 19 years. Why?There are a lot of reasons. As part of …
Professor Ilan Pappe spoke at IHRC's annual Genocide Memorial Day in London, UK on 21st January 2024, on the need to understand that the genocide of Palestinians we are currently witnessing, as brutal as it is, is also the demise of the so-called Jewish state. We need to be ready to imagine a new world beyond it.——The idea that Zionism is settler colonialism is not new. Palestinian scholars in the 1960s working in Beirut in the PLO Research Centre had already underst …
A California inmate has donated hours' worth of his salary to The donation, worth $17.74, corresponds to what the inmate, who goes by the chosen name of "Hamza", earned for 136 hours working as a porter and janitor in prison. His hourly wage was 13 cents, according to the paycheck posted by Mashouf. | Mashouf said he had met Hamza in 2009 through a friend in Los Angeles' Muslim community who…
Sudan's forgotten masses are dying every day of starvation | At least 25 million Sudanese are suffering from hunger or malnutrition, as children die of starvation and the war continues to decimate the country | | Sacks of grain at a market in Gedaref, eastern Sudan, on 22 February 20…
According to the United Nations World Food Program, 80% of the people of the world threatened with famine — dying because of a severe lack of food or water — are Palestinians living in Gaza. Al Jazeera reports that "Half a million people in Gaza face starvation, and all 2.3 . . . | 
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It's 2024 and people are still buying into anti-addict, anti-houseless politics in the age of the opioid epidemic and record poverty in Philadelphia. Council member Quetcy Lozada, whose heart seems to be extraordinarily hardened against drug addicts and problematic users, is using her political position to attack harm reduction-based organizations . . . | 
The tiny but incredibly privileged 0.1% really are a breed apart, even from their not-quite-so-rich neighbours.
"Slavery is associated … with the emergence of several of the most profoundly cherished ideals and beliefs in the Western tradition." — Orlando Patterson | The subjugation and forced enslavement of Black bodies seized from the continent of Africa had been fundamental to the expansion and growth of the Atlantic domain since the early sixteenth century. In fact, African enslavement had been a mainstay throughout the Spanish Atlantic world for more than a generation prior to English colonization in the Americas. Seeing the Spanish not only as rivals for land, wealth, and resources, the English (not having…
ALBAWABA — Israel is reportedly planning to raise $60 billion in debt, freeze hiring for government jobs as well as implement tax surges in order to support its defenses, according to Financial Times, as the economy suffers deeply amid its war on Gaza 
Strained by its ongoing The Israeli government is set to take on nearly $60 billion in debt in 2024, temporarily stop hiring for public sector jobs, and increase taxes to almost double its defence spending after more than four months of war in Gaza, the Financial Times has reported. | Military expenditure is set to increase 85 percent compared to pre-war spending, meaning an addition…
Working at Law Enforcement Action Partnership (LEAP) taught me that America imprisons a higher percentage of its citizens than any other country in the world and that a substantial percentage of those arrests are just for non-violent violations of puritanical drug laws. Easy outrage. At that time, LEAP was represented by once fierce anti-drug warriors 
According to Philippe Lazzarini, UNRWA chief, the last 
UNRWA says that the famine in northern Gaza can be avoided if more food convoys are allowed in, but Israel continues to hold up over 2000 aid trucks. Meanwhile, Netanyahu reaffirms plans to invade Rafah, where 1.5 million Gazans have sought shelter.
A famine is unfolding in Gaza, where hundreds of thousands of displaced Palestinians have resorted to consuming animal feed amid soaring prices and dwindling supplies of food. The United Nations has already begun reporting deaths from starvation and malnutrition, while aid agencies have been forced to pause deliveries. "Israel is not allowing food into the northern part of Gaza so people would regret not having left," says Palestinian writer Mosab Abu Toha, who fled Gaza for Cairo in November and has been attempting since then to secure safe passage for his extended family members, including his siste…
A Tunisian court has slapped a six-month prison term on opposition figure Jawhar Ben Mbarek, detained since February 2023, over remarks criticising the Ben Mbarek, co-founder of the National Salvation Front opposition alliance who is on hunger strike to protest his detention, was tried over his rebuke of legislative elections in 2022 which he had called a "ridiculous coup d'etat". | Held over "conspiracy against state security", Ben Mbarek remains behind bars…