(2023-05-18). The Two Decades That Created Our World's First Mass Middle Class. inequality.org
(2023-05-18). A Tale of Two Retirements: CEOs Versus the Rest of Us. inequality.org
(2023-05-17). 'We Are Not Taxing The Very Wealthy Enough': Runaway Inequality About To Get Worse. progressivehub.net JAKE JOHNSON | COMMON DREAMS…
(2023-05-17). Racism Tool for US Politicians to Pursue Greedy Interests. telesurenglish.net U.S. politicians have been exploiting racism to pursue their "greedy" capitalist interests while encouraging inequalities between races in every sphere of life, said Baris Doster, a professor of communication and journalism with Istanbul-based Marmara University. | RELATED: | "White people have privileges over blacks in many domains like courts, political life, private sector and bureaucracy," the Turkish scholar said…
(2023-05-18). Asian Americans Have the Lowest Incomes in Mississippi; Highest in New Jersey. cepr.net Asian Americans have the highest median household income of the major racial and ethnic groups in the United States. This is partially the result of an immigration process that has favored Asian immigrants with higher levels of educational attainment. However, it is important to remember that the Asian American population is diverse, and the median …
(2023-05-18). Minnesota lawmakers on verge of banning captive audience meetings. peoplesworld.org 
ST. PAUL, Minn.—Minnesota lawmakers appear on the verge of banning one of employers' most notorious anti-union tactics, so-called "captive audience meetings." If approved and signed by Gov. Tim Walz, DFL-Minn., an Education Minnesota union member, Minnesota would join Connecticut and Oregon in outlawing the meetings, one of the most intimidating—and successful—devices bosses use to thwart …
(2023-05-18). New donation to the Guayabera Museum in Cuba. plenglish.com Sancti Spiritus, Cuba, May 18 (Prensa Latina) The Guayabera House-Museum in this city on Thursday received a new donation from Mariela Castro, director of the National Center for Sexual Education, as part of the Day against Homophobia and Transphobia.
(2023-05-18). Vote "No" on the OEA's tentative agreement! Fight for what Oakland educators and students need! wsws.org The tentative agreement released just after 3am Monday morning by the Oakland Education Association leadership is a complete betrayal of our seven-day strike and must be voted down.
(2023-05-17). Who Ya Gonna Get to Hammer Nails and Wire up your Internet? dissidentvoice.org 
I know, I know, every time I get onto the Zoom Doom thing with the Chronicle for Higher Education, the entire experience is dirty beyong dirty. Today, it was more bizarro people yammering about "talent search challenges for getting people to go into higher education." Three women went into their experiences recruiting and screening potential …
(2023-05-17). UK education unions begin ballots for strike action. wsws.org Strike ballot deadlines will be spread across several weeks meaning that any industrial action will not take place until after the summer holidays in the new term in September.
(2023-05-19). Tech mandated by Online Safety Bill 'could turn phones into surveillance tools'. imperial.ac.uk Tech mandated by the UK Government's Online Safety Bill could be used to turn millions of phones into facial recognition tools.
(2023-05-18). 'Cop City' Panel Member Posted Slurs Online, Archived Tweets Indicate. unicornriot.ninja
(2023-05-18). See 867 US Military Bases on New Online Tool. Interactive Map. globalresearch.ca
(2023-05-18). Indonesia launches national payment system to replace VISA, MasterCard. mronline.org 
Dicky Kartikoyono the Head of Strategic Management and Governance Department of the Central Bank, says that Indonesia will launch its very own national payments system to be used in state-owned institutions and enterprises.
(2023-05-18). Understanding the highly complex world of Western China analysis. mronline.org 
Former Pentagon official Elbridge Colby was interviewed on The National Review's Charles CW Cooke Podcast, where he provided some very high-level analysis on the tensions around China, Taiwan, and the United States.
(2023-05-18). Climate breakdown, extinction and 'the most stupid boast'. mronline.org 
Hyde—or Marina Elizabeth Catherine Dudley-Williams, as she prefers not to be known—was, in fact, making 'the most stupid boast' that could be made by a journalist, to quote George Seldes (1890-1995), the U.S. press critic.
(2023-05-18). Durham report reveals the real threat to "democracy" — The FBI weaponized by Democrat Party affiliated elites. mronline.org 
Six years and millions of dollars later, the "Durham report" released on May 15th confirmed once again what a few of us had the nerve to argue before all of the reports and stories that subsequently emerged—that "Russiagate" was the most massive fraud ever perpetrated on the U.S. public by a section of the capitalist rulers and represented a maturing of a form of U.S. neofascism unique to this historical moment.
(2023-05-18). Western silence needs to be confronted: Ilan Pappe on the Nakba, Gaza and inclusive solidarity. mronline.org 
Once more the Gaza Strip is bombarded from the air, land, and sea, and, once more, Israeli inhumanity and cruelty are met with Western silence.
(2023-05-18). See 867 US Military Bases on New Online Tool. Interactive Map. globalresearch.ca
(2023-05-18). Indonesia launches national payment system to replace VISA, MasterCard. mronline.org Dicky Kartikoyono the Head of Strategic Management and Governance Department of the Central Bank, says that Indonesia will launch its very own national payments system to be used in state-owned institutions and enterprises.
(2023-05-18). Understanding the highly complex world of Western China analysis. mronline.org Former Pentagon official Elbridge Colby was interviewed on The National Review's Charles CW Cooke Podcast, where he provided some very high-level analysis on the tensions around China, Taiwan, and the United States.
(2023-05-18). Climate breakdown, extinction and 'the most stupid boast'. mronline.org Hyde—or Marina Elizabeth Catherine Dudley-Williams, as she prefers not to be known—was, in fact, making 'the most stupid boast' that could be made by a journalist, to quote George Seldes (1890-1995), the U.S. press critic.
(2023-05-18). Durham report reveals the real threat to "democracy" — The FBI weaponized by Democrat Party affiliated elites. mronline.org Six years and millions of dollars later, the "Durham report" released on May 15th confirmed once again what a few of us had the nerve to argue before all of the reports and stories that subsequently emerged—that "Russiagate" was the most massive fraud ever perpetrated on the U.S. public by a section of the capitalist rulers and represented a maturing of a form of U.S. neofascism unique to this historical moment.
(2023-05-18). Western silence needs to be confronted: Ilan Pappe on the Nakba, Gaza and inclusive solidarity. mronline.org Once more the Gaza Strip is bombarded from the air, land, and sea, and, once more, Israeli inhumanity and cruelty are met with Western silence.
(2023-05-18). Ingenuity helps Brazilian residents receive e-commerce. america.cgtn.com 
Delivering online purchases to Brazil's favelas is difficult due to security and address limitations. Local entrepreneurs are finding creative ways to overcome these obstacles. See more.
(2023-05-18). The Global Multipolarity Conference. unitedworldint.com The institutions Nova Resistência (Brazil), the New International Order Initiative Türkiye), the International Eurasian Movement (Russia), the Thinkers' Forum (China) and the International Russophile Movement organized a 'Global Multipolarity Conference' on April 29th, 2023. Hundreds of personalities from all over world participated in the conference in part personally and in part online. The Foreign Minister …
(2023-05-17). Woody Guthrie prize given to punk rock group that supports escalation of Ukraine war and overthrow of Russian government. mronline.org 
As a proponent of peaceful relations with the Soviet Union, Woody Guthrie would likely be rolling over in his grave if he knew how his heirs betrayed his name.
(2023-05-17). Ian Angus — "The War Against the Commons: Dispossession and Resistance in the Making of Capitalism" mronline.org 
In his latest book, Ian Angus answers a question that apologists for the capitalist system would like to pretend does not exist.
(2023-05-17). Why 90% of foreign military bases are American. mronline.org You can't talk about how many bases the United States has without talking about what those bases actually represent — U.S. imperialism. With about 750 bases overseas, in 80 countries and colonies, the U.S. has more foreign military bases than any empire, people or country in world history. #Military #War #UnitedStates…
(2023-05-17). Fighting fascism in feminism. mronline.org 
I was first introduced to the power of far-right ideologies within feminism through the work of so-called feminists who were dead set on criminalizing sex work, even if it cost women their lives. Back in 2004, I was new to sex work organizing, spurred by the massacre of street-based sex workers on Vancouver's Downtown Eastside.
(2023-05-17). Venezuela: Food is not a commodity, it's a human right: Pueblo a Pueblo builds food sovereignty (Part I). mronline.org 
An organization that brings together rural producers with urban consumers breaks with the dictates of the market.
(2023-05-18). Renationalizing Soviet History and Who breaks the International Rules? indybay.org The construction of differentiated historical narratives that overcome one-dimensional perpetrator-victim polarizations in discourse with other affected nations and integrate one's own complicity step by step is an extremely laborious, painful process. It will probably take decades, as the struggle to come to terms with the past in Germany has shown.
(2023-05-18). Budget battle on Capitol Hill: Forecasting the winners and losers. stephensemler.substack.com 
Subscribe now Share Situation Yesterday, House Republicans advanced a draft of the FY2024 Military Construction, Veterans Affairs (VA), and Related Agencies funding bill (one of the 12 annual appropriations bills). The legislation would provide $152.5 billion for the VA — $15 billion more than Biden requested and $18 billion more than the amount enacted for …
(2023-05-18). Russia, Cuba to reach agreements to boost strategic cooperations. plenglish.com Havana, May 18 (Prensa Latina) Russia and Cuba have reached several agreements Thursday to boost bilateral strategic cooperation in different areas including phytosanitary control, customs service, construction, sugar production and sports.
(2023-05-18). Automaker Stellantis suspends construction on Windsor, Ontario EV battery plant in bid for bigger government handout. wsws.org Stellantis and LG announced on Friday that they were implementing "contingency plans," claiming the government of Canada had not delivered on its agreements with the companies.
(2023-05-17). Housing Units Under Construction Still Above Year Ago Level. cepr.net 
Many people (including me) have been surprised by how little impact the Fed's rate hikes seem to have had in slowing the economy to date. A big part of that story is that the housing sector still seems relatively strong, with employment in residential construction still above the level it was at when the Fed …
(2023-05-17). ICE, Homeland Security Accused Of Targeting Outspoken Migrant Worker For Deportation. thedissenter.org 
The following article was made possible by paid subscribers. Support independent journalism on secrecy, whistleblowers, and press freedom. Subscribe and get a Immigrant rights attorneys filed a complaint against United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) that alleges that ICE detained a migrant worker known for speaking out against workplace abuse at construction and poultry plants. | Baldomero Orozco Juarez, an indigenous father from Guatemala who lives in Mississippi, was arrested at an ICE check-in on April 12, 2023. Author…
(2023-05-18). Analizan en parlamento cubano proyecto de ley de Comunicación Social. cubadebate.cu Diputados electos por municipios de La Habana discutieron hoy el proyecto de ley de Comunicación Social, en encuentro encabezado por Esteban Lazo, presidente de la Asamblea Nacional del Poder Popular de Cuba. El proyecto pretende establecer los principios de organización y funcionamiento para todos los medios de comunicación social en el país.
(2023-05-18). National Conference For Black Self-Determination And Pan-African Unity. popularresistance.org From June 23rd to the 25th, a historic gathering of Black radical organizers will take place in the city of Atlanta, hosted by Community Movement Builders . The National Black Radical Organizing Conference will serve as a rallying point for individuals dedicated to our collective liberation struggle. Under the theme of "Unity in our Lifetime: Connecting the National Black Struggle for Self-Determination with Pan-Africanism," this conference aims to propel our movement to new heights and reaffirm our unwavering commitment to dismantling systemic oppression. | During conference keynotes, panels, plenaries, workshop…
(2023-05-18). Goodbye to the American Century. tomdispatch.com Not so long ago, political analysts were speaking of the "G-2" — that is, of a potential working alliance between the United States and China aimed at managing global problems for their mutual benefit. Such a collaborative twosome was seen as potentially even more powerful than the G-7 group of leading Western economies. As former Undersecretary of the Treasury C. Fred Bergsten, who originally imagined such a partnership, wrote in 2008, "The basic idea would be to develop a G-2 between the United States and China to steer the global governance process." That notion would become the basis for the Obama admin…
(2023-05-18). Fallece en La Habana intelectual cubano Iroel Sánchez. telesurtv.net El intelectual se destacó por su labor en el Ministerio de Comunicaciones, atendiendo la informatización de la sociedad.
(2023-05-18). Se descarrila tren con granos cerca de Simferópol, Crimea. telesurtv.net Como resultado del incidente, no hubo víctimas ni amenaza ambiental y los especialistas necesarios laboran en el lugar.
(2023-05-18). Banko Brown Murder & License To Kill: SF Press Conference At DA Brook Jenkins Office. indybay.org The murder of Banko Brown by a Walgreen security guard in San Francisco and the failure to prosecute by the District Attorney Brook Jenkins backed up by Mayor London Breed has led to fury among people in San Franicsco. Many Democratic Party officials organized a rally at Jenkins office to protest and call for prosecution. There are over 61 billionaires in San Francisco and speakers charged that there is massive ethnic cleansing going on in San Francisco with Blacks being driven out of San Francisco by a Black Mayor, District Attorney and police chief. | There is also a campaign to drive Black workers from their p…
(2023-05-18). Petition-Hands Off Namibian Labor Lawyer Hewat Beukes & the Dismissed Union Miner Leaders. indybay.org An international campaign to end the terrorism against Namibian labor lawyer Hewat Beukes and for the rehiring of 9 union leaders of the Rossing uranium mine owned by the Chinese National Nuclear Corporation and the Namibian government. This union busting drive is also going on at other mines throughout Namibia.
(2023-05-18). La Habana: Sesiona Comisión Intergubernamental Cuba-Rusia. cubadebate.cu Bajo amplias expectativas, por los beneficios que puede aportar a la economía cubana, comenzó hoy en La Habana la XX Sesión de la Comisión Intergubernamental para la colaboración económico-comercial y científico-técnica entre Cuba y Rusia. Las delegaciones examinarán aspectos de interés mutuo en las áreas económica, financiera, energética, de transporte, entre otras.
(2023-05-18). Falleció el intelectual cubano Iroel Sánchez, a los 58 años. cubadebate.cu En la tarde de hoy, jueves 18 de mayo de 2023, a la edad de 58 años, falleció en La Habana el destacado intelectual cubano Iroel Sánchez Espinosa, graduado de ingeniero informático por la CUJAE y reconocido por su activa labor como dirigente cultural, periodista, analista político, escritor, editor y realizador audiovisual.
(2023-05-18). Ukraine: How Western Nations Pushed for Privatization of Agriculture and the Devastating Consequences. libya360.wordpress.com Peter Korotaev A farmer on his farmland in Western Ukraine. Image credit: CGTN. Part I: Ukraine's Privatized Agriculture: A Hungry Guarantor of Global Food Security Former Canadian ambassador to Ukraine Roman Waschuk said Ukraine is a country where the IMF does 'economic experiments'. Ukraine is a laboratory for testing radical neo-liberal policies, irrespective of the…
(2023-05-18). Zimbabwe: Suspected Cholera Cases Surpass 1,000. telesurenglish.net The government of Zimbabwe, in a recent release, has stated that, as of February, the number of suspected of cholera cases in Zimbabwe has resulted in over 1,000, with 288 cases confirmed and 6 fatalities. | Related: | "As of May 16, 2023, a cumulative total of 1,017 suspected cholera cases, six laboratory confirmed deaths, 20 suspected cholera deaths and 288 laboratory confirmed cases were reported," the Ministry of Health an…
(2023-05-18). NATO's Strategic Warfare Development Command: AI, new warfighting domain. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com NATOAllied Command TransformationMay 17, 2023 NATO and Industry: Allied Command Transformation Provides Frameworks for Collaboration Allied Command Transformation, NATO's Strategic Warfare Development Command, continues military adaptation and transformation of the Alliance's Military Instrument of Power, to contest, maintain, and improve the defensive edge over adversaries and competitors…. Supreme Allied Commander Transformation, General Philippe Lavigne recently …
(2023-05-17). Vale Stewart West: a rare Labor man of principle. greenleft.org.au Tributes to Stewart West were powerfully worded, but hearing Anthony Albanese and Peter Dutton honour him for the kinds of things they mostly do not do made me angry. Emily McGrath looks at the legacy of her late grandfather.
(2023-05-17). To Protect Our Children, Tax the Rich. otherwords.org Ever since the middle of the 20th century, our history textbooks have applauded the reform movement that put an end to the child-labor horrors that ran widespread throughout the early Industrial Age. | Now those horrors are reappearing. | The number of kids employed in direct violation of existing child labor laws, the Economic Policy Institute More recently there was the alarming news that three Kentucky-based McDonald's franchis…
(2023-05-17). Corporate Food Chains Are Ripping You Off. otherwords.org Oftentimes, when you suspect you're being gouged by corporate price fixers, you're right. | Take the rat-a-tat-tat of today's price jumps at supermarkets and chain restaurants. They make you want to race to the cash register before they raise prices again. | No, no cry the CEOs of food giants, it's not us, it's "supply chain disruptions." Then corporate politicians and economists chime in with old platitudes about the invisible hand of "supply and demand" while media know-nothings pile on, blathering about "ne'er-do-wells" causing a labor shortage. | But that's hogwash — your suspicions are right: It's plai…
(2023-05-18). Urban Ore Workers in Berkeley Win IWW Union Election, Get Ready to Negotiate Contract. itsgoingdown.org Report on struggle by retail workers in Berkeley, California to unionize under the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW). The Urban Ore workers of Berkeley, California won their union election with a two-thirds majority of workers' votes on April 7, 2023. The union received confirmation of their certification from the NLRB as a bargaining unit…
(2023-05-18). French rail workers mobilize to save rail freight operator Fret SNCF. peoplesdispatch.org Earlier this year, the European Commission opened an investigation into support measures including capital injection and debt cancellation taken to help Fret SNCF. These steps allegedly do not comply with European state aid rules. Workers feat that is if the rail company is penalized, its operations will be affected and jobs will be lost…
(2023-05-18). Argentine dockworkers strike over co-worker's death. wsws.org Dockers in the Port of Rosario struck after a sixty-year old longshoreman drowned on May 12 in Argentina's Parana River.
(2023-05-18). Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa. wsws.org National strike in Belgium against "social dumping" by Delhaize and other companies to drive down wages and conditions; continuing strikes and protests across Iran over cost of living, pay and conditions involving pensioners, Haft Tappeh sugarcane workers as strike leaders of offshore gas workers arrested; Nigerian doctors give union mandate for indefinite stoppage over pay, unions call five-day warning strike…
(2023-05-18). Communication Workers Union unites with management to enforce revisions at Parcelforce. wsws.org Before any member has cast a single vote on the deal proposed to end the national dispute on the surrender terms offered by the CWU leadership, it is being treated as an accomplished fact.
(2023-05-18). A balance sheet of the contract disputes in Germany's public sector, at Deutsche Post and the railways: Build independent action committees! wsws.org This statement was agreed upon Tuesday at a combined meeting of the Public Sector and Postal Workers Action Committees.
(2023-05-18). Who is Teamsters bureaucrat Lindsay Dougherty, head of the union's Motion Picture and Theatrical Trade Division? wsws.org The promotion of Dougherty within the context of the writers' strike is a media operation, aimed at falsely promoting her and other union bureaucrats as militant workers' leaders in order to rein in a rank-and-file challenge from below.
(2023-05-18). A call to action to rank-and-file autoworkers: Mobilize support for the Clarios strike! wsws.org The strike of 525 autoworkers at the Clarios battery plant outside Toledo, Ohio, is of decisive importance for autoworkers everywhere. This is the first battle in the contract fight of 150,000 Big Three autoworkers in the US and 23,000 in Canada.
(2023-05-18). TWU keeps New York City transit workers on the job as contract expires. wsws.org While the union and transit agency attempt to drag out negotiations, anger over intolerable working conditions continues to build.
(2023-05-17). Kenya's 'anti-people' Finance Bill met with widespread opposition as cost of living soars. peoplesdispatch.org Amid rising debt payments the Kenyan government has proposed new tax and levy regimes in the Finance Bill 2023. Unions and left forces, especially the Communist Party of Kenya, have argued that the measures will further burden workers while they are already struggling under an economic crisis…
(2023-05-17). From Asia to Latin America: global agro-ecological produce debuted at the MST Fair. peoplesdispatch.org 
National borders were no longer enough to encompass the products that arrived at the National Agrarian Reform Fair, which began on May 11 and ran until last Sunday, May 14, at the àÅgua Branca Park, in Sà£o Paulo, Brazil. | For the first time in its history, the event received international delegations from Asia, Europe and Latin America who brought with them products developed from agroecological growing processes. | According to Cássia Bechara, a national leader with the Landless Rural Workers' Movement (MST) and an organizer of the internationalist stall that brought together agroecological product…
(2023-05-17). New immigration law impacts Florida farmworkers. america.cgtn.com 
A new immigrant law in Florida is creating panic in the agricultural community of the state.
(2023-05-17). Families of the detained see echoes of dictatorial past in El Salvador's gang crackdown. therealnews.com 
El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele is a millennial social media sensation, who has ruled with an iron fist over the last year, instituting a state of exception and locking up 65,000 suspected gang members. For much of the country, his policies have been an overwhelming success, slashing crime rates like never seen. But, thousands of family members of the detained say their loved ones are innocent. On May 1, they led a huge International Workers Day march against the government. Their stories, and the signs they carry, are eerily reminiscent. In the 1970s and '80s, 30,000 innocent civilians were detained,…
(2023-05-17). White House debt limit talks: A manufactured, bipartisan conspiracy to make workers pay for war. wsws.org The Biden administration and both Democrats and Republicans in Congress are united in their determination to use the manufactured debt ceiling crisis to implement brutal attacks on social programs.
(2023-05-17). Dana workers in Pottstown, Pennsylvania expose unsafe conditions. wsws.org Dana workers at the auto parts maker's oldest facility in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, reached out to the WSWS to discuss the abuses and low pay at the profitable corporation.
(2023-05-18). "Independent" union provides cover for AMLO's attacks on migrants in Mexico. wsws.org Completely ignoring the plight of migrants, SNITIS union officials held two massive saint-like pictures of AMLO under the slogan "The poor come first."
(2023-05-17). A Geopolitical European Union? socialistproject.ca 
On taking office as President of the EU Commission in 2019, Ursula von der Leyen said she wanted to create a 'geopolitical Commission': "We have enormous tasks ahead of us: Brexit, climate change, 5G expansion, the rise of protectionism, and the reform of the European asylum system — to name just a few. To manage these upheavals, Europe must stand united and assert itself more globally." Her goal, she said, is to achieve 'strategic sovereignty' for the EU on a par with the US, China, and Russia. Since the Ukraine war in February 2022, the EU grandees have outdone themselves with buzzwords on the topic of…
(2023-05-17). A new generation of organizers are building union power in the South. therealnews.com 
(2023-05-18). AI won't take jobs, but create more: Baidu CEO Robin Li. ecns.cn Artificial Intelligence (AI) won't steal job opportunities, on the contrary, it will create more, said Robin Li Yanhong, CEO of Baidu, a Chinese tech giant.
(2023-05-18). Israel Aimed To Eradicate Islamic Jihad, Bring Resistance Groups to Knees but Failed (Interview). orinocotribune.com The Israeli regime, by its recent onslaught on the besieged Gaza Strip, aimed to eradicate the Islamic Jihad resistance movement and bring other Palestinian resistance groups to their knees, but failed, according to a Lebanese political analyst. | Faysal Abdel Sater made the comment in an exclusive interview with Press TV Website after the Tel Aviv regime launched a deadly bombing campaign on Gaza on May 9, sparking the firing of over 1,000 rockets by the Islamic Jihad toward the occupied territories. | The two sides agreed after five days of fighting to an Egyptian-brokered ceasefire that took effect on Saturday…
(2023-05-18). Digital Privacy Legislation is Civil Rights Legislation. scheerpost.com 
By Paige Collings and Adam Schwartz / Electronic Frontier Foundation Our personal data and the ways private companies harvest and monetize it plays an increasingly powerful role in modern life. Corporate databases are vast, interconnected, and opaque. The movement and use of our data is difficult to understand, let alone trace. Yet companies use it to …
(2023-05-18). Europe's Hospitals on Strike: Different Countries, Same Labour Struggle. socialistproject.ca 
Germany Against Hospital Spending Cuts: | In recent years, an increasingly broad and well-networked hospital movement in Germany has dispelled the myth that hospital strikes are impossible. This labour struggle was set in motion by the introduction of a new form of hospital financing. The so-called case-by-case flat rate system (in which hospitals receive fixed amounts for diagnoses rather than, as previously, for hospital stays — Fallpauschalensystem) led to immense pressure to cut costs in public hospitals. Hospital staff felt these cuts first: in 2012, Germany had the worst staffing ratio of t…
(2023-05-18). David Project: tenderness and solidarity of Bridges of Love. plenglish.com Washington, May 18 (Prensa Latina) The David project, an American boy who proposed to assist foster homes in Cuba, is presently moving the social networks of the ®Bridges of Love ® movement, coordinated from the United States by Professor Carlos Lazo.
(2023-05-18). Sri Lankan ruling party demonises last year's mass uprising. wsws.org The Wickremesinghe government's denigration of last year's mass movement that forced out President Gotabhaya Rajapakse is in preparation for state repression against the working class and rural masses.
(2023-05-17). People's Action Congratulates Sara Innamorato on Winning the Primary for Allegheny County Executive. peoplesaction.org WASHINGTON, D.C.—People's Action today issued the following statement from Movement Politics Director Marta Popadiak, congratulating Sara Innamorato on a victorious primary campaign for Allegheny County Executive. "Sara Innamorato is one of us, and that's why we endorsed her for Allegheny County Executive. She attended People's Action's candidate training, worked alongside our members and many other …
(2023-05-18). Truck Drivers Plan Boycott Of Florida Over State's New Anti-Immigrant Bill. popularresistance.org A nationwide truckers boycott of Florida is being organized in opposition to a new state law targeting undocumented migrants and refugees. | The new legislation was initially announced by the state's fascistic governor Ron DeSantis in February and framed as a means of countering what he termed "the Biden administration's failure to secure our nation's borders." In a statement published on a government website, DeSantis declared, "Florida is a law and order state, and we won't turn a blind eye to the dangers of Biden's Border Crisis. We will continue to take steps to protect Floridians from reckless federal open b…
(2023-05-18). From Waterboarding to Rape, Abu Zubaydah Depicts Torture at Black Sites & Gitmo in Graphic Sketches. democracynow.org 
The Center for Policy and Research has just published a new report titled "American Torturers: FBI and CIA Abuses at Dark Sites and Guantánamo," which compiles a series of 40 drawings by Guantánamo Bay prisoner Abu Zubaydah that chronicle the horrific torture he endured since 2002 in CIA dark sites and at Guantánamo Bay, where he has been detained without charge since 2006. The United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention has issued a new call for the United States to release him immediately. We speak with one of his attorneys, Mark Denbeaux, and CIA whistleblower John Kiriakou, who exposed the…
(2023-05-18). China Is Governed in the Interests of Working People, the US in the Interests of Capital (Interview). orinocotribune.com In this interview with The very concept of shared future and cooperation has a profound impact. It's not threatening to other countries, and it has the win-win idea, meaning if your e…
(2023-05-18). Russia and Cuba complete work on 10 investment projects. plenglish.com Havana, May 18 (Prensa Latina) Russia and Cuba are working on 10 investment projects and seek to deepen mutually advantageous cooperation in the scientific-technical sphere, Cuban Deputy Prime Minister Ricardo Cabrisas said today.