2023-08-18: News Headlines

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2023-08-18). Mayo Clinic expert discusses ways to reduce healthcare disparities in Black and minority communities. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org Healthcare disparities still persist in 2023. It's a problem that has plagued the U.S. for decades. A report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), shows Black people and other minorities have higher mortality rates in certain areas, including heart disease and cancer. Dr. Kim Barbel Johnson, a Mayo Clinic family medicine physician, discusses ways patients and healthcare professionals can close the health equity gap. "We all are aware that health disparities, health…

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

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

Mark Gruenberg (2023-08-18). Teachers, civil rights leaders fight DeSantis history whitewash. peoplesworld.org TALLAHASSEE, Fla.—Right-wing Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis's whitewash—the word is deliberate—of U.S. history is upsetting teachers, students, civil libertarians, and civil rights leaders. A dark cloud of racism, they say, has descended on the Sunshine State's schools. But teachers, students, and civil liberties groups are fighting back, with rallies, lobbying, and, for the ACLU, a …

Orinoco Tribune 2 (2023-08-18). US Soldier Sought Asylum in North Korea To Flee Racism, Injustice in Army: Pyongyang. orinocotribune.com The African American soldier that crossed the border from South Korea last month to seek asylum in the North did so to escape "inhuman maltreatment and racial discrimination" in the US military, Pyongyang has declared. | The statement, released Wednesday by North Korea's official KCNA news agency, are the country's first public assertions on the defection of the South Korea-based US soldier Travis King, who crossed into North Korea on July 18 while on a tourist tour of the Joint Security Area (JSA) that separates the two rival countries. | The statement further noted that King had confessed to crossing the border…

LEPAIO (2023-08-18). No More AFL-CIO Support For Coups On The 50th Anniversary Of The 1973 Chile Coup. indybay.org September 11, 2023 is the 50th anniversary of the US coup in Chile that cost the lives of tens of thousands of workers and people. The AFL-CIO leadership was centrally involved in this coup and continues to cover up it's role and also continues to take tens of millions of dollars from the National Endowment For Democracy NED for operations in over 62 countries. An educational conference will be held in Washington DC on September 10 and a rally at the AFL-CIO headquarters on September 11th to demand justice and against the continued funding of the AFL-CIO international operations by the US government.

ecns.cn (2023-08-18). Experts talk about Tibetan women's right to education. ecns.cn From August 14 to 16, the 7th Beijing International Seminar"ÄÄon Tibetan Studies"ÄÄwas held in Beijing. Several experts highlighted that in recent years, the educational level of Tibetan women has steadily improved, and the protection of women's rights has been progressing towards higher quality. "ÄÄ…

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

WSWS (2023-08-17). US public schools open for Fall 2023 amid wave of educators' struggles. wsws.org Teachers and school workers are heading into an explosive year in public education, and the rank-and-file must seize control of these struggles from the trade union bureaucracies.

Zoya Teirstein, Native News Online. (2023-08-17). Indian Country's Forever Chemical Problem. popularresistance.org Laurie Harper, director of education for the Bug-O-Nay-Ge-Shig School, a K-12 tribal school on the Leech Lake Band Indian Reservation in north-central Minnesota, never thought that a class of chemicals called per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, or PFAS, would be an issue for her community. | That's partly because, up until a few months ago, she didn't even know what PFAS were. "We're in the middle of the Chippewa National Forest," she said. "It's definitely not something I had really clearly considered dealing with out here." | Late last year, tests conducted by the Environmental Protection Agency revealed that…

ELEL (2023-08-19). Department of Error] Department of Error. thelancet.com Jones CMP, Day RO, Koes BW, et al. Opioid analgesia for acute low back pain and neck pain (the OPAL trial): a randomised placebo-controlled trial. Lancet 2023; 402: 304—12—In the Summary and Acknowledgments of this Article, the funders should have been Australia's National Health and Medical Research Council, University of Sydney Faculty of Medicine and Health, and ReturnToWorkSA. This correction have been made to the online version as of Aug 17, 2023.

Brennan Center for Justice (2023-08-18). Wednesday 8/23: U.S. v. Trump: The Big Lie on Trial. indybay.org Online event…

ecns.cn (2023-08-18). Station massage chairs rub netizens wrong way. ecns.cn China's railway stations have been ordered to ensure that pay-to-use massage chairs in waiting areas account for no more than 20 percent of the total seating, after photos of a packed waiting area filled with massage chairs caused a stir online.

Vijay Prashad (2023-08-18). The BRICS have changed the balance of forces, but they will not by themselves change the World: The Thirty Third Newsletter (2023). mronline.org Despite the limitations of the BRICS project, it is clear that the increase in South-South trade and the development of Southern institutions (for development financing, for instance) challenges the neo-colonial system even if it does not immediately transcend it.

CounterSpin (2023-08-18). Baher Azmy on Abu Ghraib Torture Lawsuit, Thomas Germain on Online History Destruction. fair.org

Chris Walker (2023-08-17). Trump Supporters Are Sharing Personal Information of Georgia Grand Jury Members. truthout.org Several fierce supporters of former President Donald Trump have posted publicly, online, the supposed personal information of Fulton County, Georgia, grand jury members who recently voted to indict him and his 18 co-defendants over their efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election results in the state. Several news websites have reported on…

Editor (2023-08-17). Possible meanings of the judicial proceedings against Donald Trump. mronline.org As of this writing, Trump is already facing charges (34) in a Manhattan, New York court for an alleged business fraud related to the payment to an adult film actress (avoiding to say pornographic), in order to avoid an incriminating action. Additionally, he was indicted from two investigations in Florida for the mishandling of classified documents, adding another 40 charges.

Jomo Kwame Sundaram (2023-08-17). World Bank climate finance plan little help, unfair. mronline.org The World Bank plans to use public funds to subsidize private finance, ostensibly to mobilize much more capital to address the climate crisis. But the new plan is not the solution it purports to be.

WSWS (2023-08-17). ONLINE MEETING SUNDAY: The "No" vote at UPS and the next stage of the battle against the Teamsters bureaucracy. wsws.org A "No" vote is necessary, but no matter what happens, to leverage their power, UPS workers have to finally settle their score with the union bureaucracy.

ecns.cn (2023-08-18). Legoland eyes theme park visitors. ecns.cn The key design of a theme park at Legoland Shanghai Resort has been completed and construction of the main project will begin in September, local government authorities said on Wednesday.

ecns.cn (2023-08-18). Planners descend on Mentougou for recovery work. ecns.cn More than 100 planners from universities, architectural institutes and government bodies went to Mentougou district to help with post-disaster planning and collect firsthand data for scientific reconstruction in recent days.

Pavel López Lazo (2023-08-17). Housing Turquino Plan underway for Cuban farmers. plenglish.com Sancti Spíritus, Cuba, Aug 17 (Prensa Latina) One of the largest housing construction plans of the last decade in the mountainous areas of this central Cuban province is underway this year, as confirmed by the Turquino Plan directors.

Fight Back (2023-08-18). Union hospital workers in Milwaukee march on the boss over withheld bonuses. fightbacknews.org Milwaukee, WI – On the morning of August 14, 15 workers at Ascension Saint Francis Hospital (SFH) represented by the Wisconsin Federation of Nurses and Health Professionals (WFNHP) Local 5000 marched to the top hospital administrator's office with a stack of 144 individual grievances. Administration denied the union workers at SFH a bonus while providing it to the non-bargaining unit workers at the hospital and to workers at all of the other non-union Ascension hospitals in the state. | Union leadership was told by administration that workers at Saint Francis will not be receiving the raise because it is no…

Dr. William Makis (2023-08-18). Forced Into Taking COVID-19 mRNA Vaccines, Nurses Are Developing Advanced Turbo Cancers. globalresearch.ca

Peoples Health Dispatch (2023-08-17). Will Germany's bid to address shortage of nurses put more pressure on Brazil's health system? peoplesdispatch.org As Germany seeks to recruit overseas nurses to bridge its healthcare staff deficit, questions are arising about the strategy's impact on the health systems of source countries…

Press Associates (2023-08-17). Safe staffing, wage hike in new pact for 8,000 NYC nurses. peoplesworld.org NEW YORK—Two big bonuses producing pay parity between public sector and private sector hospital nurses, mandatory safe-staffing ratios at the bedside highlight the new pact between the New York State Nurses Association and the New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation, the government agency which runs city's 11 public hospitals and associated clinics. After the …

Fight Back (2023-08-18). Los Angeles joins National Day of Action for Tampa 5. fightbacknews.org Los Angeles, CA — On August 9, Centro CSO, along with the Chicano Moratorium organizing committee, staged an action outside of the U.S. Marines recruitment office in East Los Angeles and joined a national call to action in solidarity with the Tampa 5. Joined with cities nationwide, 30 people gathered to protest the injustices faced by the Tampa 5, and to demand the U.S. stop funding wars overseas like in Ukraine and for Israel. | The Tampa 5 – Gia Davila, Lauren Pineiro, Laura Rodriguez, Jeanie Kida and Chrisley Carpio – are the five Students for a Democratic Society protesters at the University of South F…

teleSUR, DRL (2023-08-18). Incendio de Tenerife sin control: ya quemó 3.800 hectáreas. telesurtv.net Bomberos de Islas Canarias explicaron que las labores de extinción del incendio de Tenerife, considerado el peor de los últimos 40 años, experimentarán dificultades por las condiciones meteorológicas.

United Front Committee For Labor Partty (2023-08-18). Wednesday 8/23: Shut Robotaxis Down NOW! Health and Safety Emergency In SF. indybay.org 530 10th St/Bryant St Next To Costco | San Francisco, CA…

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2023-08-18). Mayo Clinic provides internships, mentoring for undergrads on accelerated career pathway. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org By Jay Furst ROCHESTER, Minn. — Akhil Kollengode is a University of Minnesota Rochester (UMR) student who aims to be a project manager or operations manager in healthcare when he graduates. Thanks to an innovative collaboration between Mayo Clinic and UMR, he's on a fast track to achieving that. Kollengode is a paid intern at Mayo Clinic as part of the Bachelor of Science in Health Sciences degree program at UMR. The internship is a…

Vijay Prashad (2023-08-17). Lo que está ocurriendo en Níger no es un típico Golpe. peoplesdispatch.org La reciente oleada de golpes de Estado en àÅfrica Occidental debe entenderse en el contexto del descontento generalizado con las élites gobernantes y su colaboración con el imperialismo.

Anonymous103 (2023-08-17). Oil Trading Showdown: Developed vs Developing Economies. southfront.org SPONSORED: | Illustrative Image | Oil trading is a crucial aspect of the global economy, and understanding its dynamics in developed and developing economies is vital. This comparative study explores the implications and future trends, considering factors such as economic growth, sustainability, and collaboration. This Comparative Analysis: Develop…

Dan Cohen, Orinoco Tribune. (2023-08-17). US Apparel Industry Endorses Looming Haiti Invasion. popularresistance.org As the Biden administration works diligently to organize an invasion of Haiti — most recently with Kenya's pledge to send 1,000 police officers — the sweatshop labor industry is celebrating. | American Apparel and Footwear Association (AAFA) president and CEO Steve Lamar applauded Kenya's recent announcement that it would send 1,000 police officers in support of an "anti-gang" mission, telling the trade publication Sourcing Journal that it "reinforces that a country like Kenya has shared values, and shared prosperity, with the United States and with Haiti, and is trying to be a long-term partner. He a…

Fight Back (2023-08-18). Association of Flight Attendants-CWA Day of Solidarity picket outside Alaska Airline headquarters. fightbacknews.org Seattle, WA – Usually at Angle Lake Park, the noise of jets taking off from nearby SeaTac International Airport drowns out the sound of everyday activity. But on the morning of August 15, it was chants of "Pay us or chaos" that could be heard over everything else, as hundreds gathered for the Day of Solidarity informational picket in support of Association of Flight Attendants-CWA's fight for a new contract. | The morning began with a rally, where Alaskan Airlines flight attendants were joined by pilots, fellow union workers, and community activists. Sara Nelson, the AFA-CWA international president, spoke to the…

WSWS (2023-08-18). UAW president grovels before Biden, as opposition builds among autoworkers. wsws.org Fain's reply deliberately covered up the purpose of Biden's intervention in the auto contracts, which is to ensure that the profit interests of the corporations are protected and that the class struggle is contained.

WSWS (2023-08-18). Australian rental crisis hitting workers. wsws.org The Anglicare report showed that essential workers are being driven into housing insecurity due to skyrocketing rental prices.

WSWS (2023-08-18). Founding resolution of the German Railworkers' Rank-and-File Committee: "Form rank-and-file committees to break the dictatorship of the EVG apparatus" wsws.org This resolution was passed overwhelmingly Tuesday night at a meeting of more than 50 railroad employees, other active and former transit workers and their supporters in Germany.

WSWS (2023-08-18). Details of Australian Pharmaceutical Industries deal reveal union sell-out of warehouse workers. wsws.org The union had advanced a claim for 7 percent per annum, but the deal includes nominal pay increases of 7 percent in the first year, then just 4 percent in the second year, 3.5 and 3.5 percent per annum in the third and fourth years, scarcely an improvement on the initial company offer.

A Guest Author (2023-08-18). En defensa del derecho a la soberanía e independencia de los pueblos de àÅfrica. workers.org En defensa del derecho a la soberanía e independencia de los pueblos de àÅfrica Declaración por la Coordinación Estatal Contra la OTAN y las Bases, publicado el 11 de agosto de 2023, en el Estado español. Fuente, lahaine.org. Las cosas están cambiando rápidamente en àÅfrica Occidental y las repercusiones se . . . |

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

Eleanor J. Bader (2023-08-17). Kitchen Workers Demand Federal Protections Against Excessive Heat. truthout.org Ever since she became old enough to work, Ariana Lingerfeldt has found cooking jobs in cafes and restaurants. "It's something I'm good at," she told Truthout. For the past two years, her workplace has been the Green Sage Cafe in South Asheville, North Carolina. The eatery unionized in February 2023 and is part of Teamsters Local 61; staff are now among the 3 percent of workers in the Tar Heel… |

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-08-17). MST Founder Joà£o Pedro Stedile Faces Off against Right Ring in Congress. libya360.wordpress.com Peoples Dispatch Joà£o Pedro Stedile of the National Board of the MST testifies in the CPI on the MST. Photo: Lula Marques/Agência Brasil The leader was summoned by right-wing deputies to testify before the Parliamentary Commission of Inquiry that is "investigating" the Landless Rural Workers' Movement After seven hours of questioning before the Parliamentary Commission…

Peoples Dispatch (2023-08-17). MST founder Joà£o Pedro Stedile faces off against right wing in Congress. peoplesdispatch.org After seven hours of questioning before the Parliamentary Commission of Inquiry (CPI) "investigating" the Landless Rural Workers' Movement (MST), Joà£o Pedro Stedile exited the Chamber of Deputies and was embraced by dozens of representatives of people's movements, religious leaders, and parliamentarians who sang "This struggle is ours, this struggle is of the people. And only in struggle, will we create a new Brazil." | Stedile was summoned to testify to the CPI by the right-wing deputies Ricardo Salles, the minister of the environment under Jair Bolsonaro, and Zucco, a member of the Brazilian military. Th…

WSWS (2023-08-17). Providence union accepts agreement at two units, isolating workers at a third unit. wsws.org There is no doubt that Providence management, with the help of ONA, deliberately tried to split off the PHHH from the other bargaining units, and will use this to try to enforce a worse contract there.

WSWS (2023-08-17). Lear auto parts workers vote to authorize strike: "The first contract proposal was an insult" wsws.org The strike authorization vote comes after workers voted down a proposed contract on August 6 that was backed by the United Auto Workers (UAW).

WSWS (2023-08-17). Royal Mail's new regime: PDAs used to sack workers for tea break at local pub. wsws.org The sackings at Prenton are a direct outcome of the national agreement between the Communication Workers' Union and Royal Mail which includes the use of PDA data for performance management.

WSWS (2023-08-17). Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa. wsws.org Around 15,000 civil servants in Romania in wildcat strike against austerity cuts attacking jobs and pay; protests continue across Iran against cost-of-living crisis in opposition to authoritarian regime by telecom retirees, Tehran metro workers and contract teachers; South African metal workers on indefinite strike over pay and conditions attacked and arrested while picketing Ekapa Diamond Mine…

Editor (2023-08-17). °Detengan la guerra contra Irán antes de que empiece! workers.org Desde el 8 de agosto, el Pentágono ha desplegado 3.000 marineros e infantes de marina en los mares cercanos a Irán, algunos en buques civiles. Tres semanas antes, el "Secretario de Defensa" de Estados Unidos, Lloyd Austin, envió "el destructor USS Thomas Hudner, cazas F-35 y cazas F-16 a la . . . |

John Catalinotto (2023-08-17). NY Times publishes hit job on anti-war activists; solidarity must be the answer. workers.org Left, Jodie Evans of Code Pink, who the New York Times attacked for the group's straightforward message. Once in a while, the New York Times runs an article that reveals what this media conglomerate really represents. People often call the Times "liberal." That's because it seems to oppose some of . . . |

Fight Back (2023-08-18). Chicago stands against FOP arbitrator's attempts to undermine police accountability. fightbacknews.org Chicago, IL – On Monday, August 14, 50 people joined the Chicago Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression and the Empowering Communities for Public Safety coalition in the pouring rain in Chicago's Union Park to march to the Fraternal Order of Police (FOP) headquarters in response to an arbitrator's recent decision. The decision states that Chicago Police Department officers facing discipline, regardless of the severity, would have the option to take their case to arbitration, behind closed doors, instead of going before the public Police Board. | Currently, officers facing discipline that could result i…

SAG AFTRA, Writers Guild, AFL-CIO (2023-08-18). Tuesday 8/22: National Day of Solidarity – San Fran-NorCal – Picket Union Buster Reed Hastings NetFlix HQ. indybay.org Netflix 101 Albright Way, Los Gatos, CA 95032 (@Winchester Blvd.)…

Peoples Dispatch (2023-08-18). Tunisian authorities arrest bakers' union chief as bread crisis continues. peoplesdispatch.org The arrest comes in the aftermath of the government revoking flour subsidy to 1,500 bakeries amid a severe bread shortage in the country, leading to protests and suspension of production…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-08-17). African Union Will Not Back ECOWAS Intervention in Niger. libya360.wordpress.com Pavan KulkarniLeaders of the National Council for the Safeguard of the Homeland, Niger's ruling military junta, at a rally on August 6. Photo: Balima Boureima/Anadolu Agency Niger's popular military government has been consolidating domestic and regional support. Meanwhile, ECOWAS is beset by disunity and domestic opposition after threatening military intervention to restore the ousted Mohamed…

Pavan Kulkarni (2023-08-17). La Unión Africana no respaldará la intervención de la CEDEAO en Níger. peoplesdispatch.org El popular gobierno militar de Níger ha ido consolidando su apoyo nacional y regional. Mientras tanto, la CEDEAO se ve acosada por la desunión y la oposición interna tras amenazar con una intervención militar para restaurar al derrocado Mohamed Bazoum con el respaldo de Francia y EE.UU.

Sharon Zhang (2023-08-17). Cornell Drops Starbucks After Company Shuttered All of Ithaca's Unionized Stores. truthout.org Cornell University is ending a contract with Starbucks after the company permanently closed all three of its locations in Ithaca, New York, where the university is located, a year after the stores each voted to unionize. The university announced on Wednesday that it will not renew its contract as part of the "We Proudly Serve Starbucks" program, under which the university's cafes serve Starbucks… |

Staff (2023-08-17). Nagorno-Karabakh: Armenia Demands End to Azerbaijan Blockade Amid Accusations of Genocide. democracynow.org Armenia is calling on the United Nations Security Council to address a worsening humanitarian crisis in Nagorno-Karabakh, a region of Azerbaijan home to ethnic Armenians that has been under a blockade for eight months. Armenia and Azerbaijan have fought multiple wars over the territory since the collapse of the Soviet Union, most recently in 2020. Azerbaijan closed the only road into the region in December, severely restricting the movement of food, medicine and other supplies for the roughly 120,000 people living there. "We cannot accept a new Armenian genocide in 2023," says Luis Moreno Ocampo, the…

Staff (2023-08-17). The Kid at Los Alamos Who Gave the Secrets to the Soviet Union. davidswanson.org The movie-like question for movie audiences now is: can you handle the truth?>

WSWS (2023-08-17). Vote No to the union sellout at Macquarie University! wsws.org Union officials and branch representatives created confusion in order to push through a motion to accept a rotten "in-principle" enterprise agreement with management.

Dean Baker (2023-08-17). Job Loss from Going Green Is Nothing Like the Loss of Manufacturing Jobs Due to Trade. cepr.net The United States suffered from a massive loss of manufacturing jobs in the 00s. This has come to be known as the "China Shock," since it was associated with a flood of imports, especially from China, and a rapid rise in the U.S. trade deficit. In the decade from December of 1999 to December of …

Andreas Bikfalvi (2023-08-19). Correspondence] Medicine should not engage in a war of position. thelancet.com I read with great surprise Richard Horton's purely political Offline.1 The culture war is not a Manichean object; it needs a highly differentiated analysis. People with left-wing beliefs can be critical of both right-wing and left-wing identitarians. Susan Neiman defends this position (from the left) vigorously, and her recent book2 should be obliged reading for all. Furthermore, the fragmented and ill-structured piece contained a multitude of mixed-up topics, such as immigration, Sinophobia, and the identitarian movement.

Grahame Russell (2023-08-17). US, Canada-Backed Guatemalan Elites Threaten Coup Amid Opposition Party Runoff. truthout.org Guatemala has received an unusual amount of international media attention in recent months, thanks to its historic elections as well as brazen elite efforts to overturn them. On June 25, to the shock of most Guatemalans and international observers, opposition party Movimiento Semilla ("seed movement") finished second place in first-round elections, forcing a runoff against the establishment Unidad… |

Staff (2023-08-17). Victory for Palestine in Dutch court: From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free. samidoun.net On Tuesday 15 August, a Dutch court confirmed that the slogan "From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free" falls under freedom of expression and is not punishable by law. The court's verdict represents a victory for the Palestinian movement in general, and in the Netherlands specifically. Expressions for Palestinian liberation cannot simply …

Anonymous669 (2023-08-17). Hamas Showcases Captured Israeli Loitering Munition (Video). southfront.org File image. | On August 15, the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of the Palestinian Hamas Movement, announced that it had seized an Israeli Orbiter drone that crashed in the Gaza Strip. | The brigades released video footage of the seized drone, which reportedly crashed in the Zaytoun neighborhood of Gaza City a day earlier. | The Orbiter is a lightweight drone that was developed by Israel's Aeronautics Defense Systems for use in military and security reconnaissance missions. The version seized by…

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

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

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

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2023-08-15: News Headlines

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

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

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

Staff (2023-08-15). Britain's workers abused by the Tories and bosses — from racism to zero-hours contracts. thecanary.co The UK's labour market is little more than an insecure, racist aberration — not that that's anything new. However, what is new is that it's actually getting worse, as two analyses from the Trades Union Congress (TUC) found. Structural racism in the UK labour market First up, the TUC has found that the number of …

Fight Back (2023-08-14). Oak Lawn Arab community demands investigation into police department. fightbacknews.org Chicago, IL – Family and supporters of Murod Kurdi packed a Bridgeview Circuit court room, August 8, to demand justice in a case that highlights the racism of the Oak Lawn Police Department. | The case, which was continued to September 18, referenced a speeding ticket issued to Leanne Cusack on June 5, when she struck and killed Murod Kurdi with her car. Cusack had admitted to drinking before getting in her vehicle, but when Oak Lawn Police Department (OLPD) arrived at the scene, they allowed Cusack to leave without alcohol tests or arrest for the death she caused. The next day she was seen drinking at the same b…

Kate Miriam Hildreth (2023-08-15). The Lancet Censored Science, Education, and Our Right to Informed Consent. globalresearch.ca


WSWS (2023-08-15). University and College Union sanctions further UK strikes only to maintain control of its members. wsws.org The only Higher Education Committee faction to explicitly support an early strike ballot was the UCU Left, led by the Socialist Workers Party. But anyone looking to them for leadership will be cruelly disappointed.

Chris Walker (2023-08-15). Arkansas Will Not Recognize AP Black History for Credit, Only European History. truthout.org This past weekend, the Arkansas Department of Education alerted school districts across the state offering Advanced Placement (AP) African American Studies that it would no longer recognize the course, and that students who complete it would not receive high school credit for doing so. The course is a pilot program, offered to a number of districts across the country at the moment with hopes of… |

Kwolanne Felix (2023-08-15). Despite Reversing AP Psychology Ban, Some Florida Schools Still Won't Teach It. truthout.org The College Board, the nonprofit that devises Advanced Placement (AP) courses, recently announced its AP psychology course was effectively banned by the Florida Board of Education. The course discusses psychological concepts aligned with current research about gender and sexuality that violate Florida's abhorrent "Don't Say Gay" bill. The College Board has rightly refused to censor science for… |

Michael Berkowitz (2023-08-15). 'The Busing Battleground' and 'The Harvest': An education in Black and white. peoplesworld.org This September, the distinguished, award-winning Public Television series The American Experience is releasing two important documentaries on this country's uneven attempt to desegregate its schools. Much can be learned from these halting, painful experiments. Writer-director Sharon Grimberg and director Cyndee Reeddean's The Busing Battleground tells the story of how different neighborhoods in Boston dealt with …

teleSUR (2023-08-15). Uruguay: Students March To Commemorate Student Martyrs' Day. telesurenglish.net On Monday, 55 years after the murder of Líber Arce by the Uruguayan police and to commemorate the day of the Student Martyrs, Uruguayan students and unions demanded memory and justice so that such acts do not exist again and mobilized in a day for their rights. | Related: | The students of secondary education and of the University of the Republic (Udelar) mobilized from the university headquarters to the Legislative Palace, with a hi…

WSWS (2023-08-14). Committee For Public Education members advance independent perspective in defence of educators, Julian Assange. wsws.org "What was absolutely clear is that the union apparatus cannot tolerate one iota of criticism of its role and that of the Labor government," Sue Phillips explained, "This is an expression not of its strength but its weakness."


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

Zoya Teirstein (2023-08-14). As US Begins Crackdown on PFAS, Indigenous Communities Are Getting Left Behind. truthout.org Laurie Harper, director of education for the Bug-O-Nay-Ge-Shig School, a K-12 tribal school on the Leech Lake Band Indian Reservation in north-central Minnesota, never thought that a class of chemicals called per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, or PFAS, would be an issue for her community. That's partly because, up until a few months ago, she didn't even know what PFAS were. "We're in the middle… |

thecommunists (2023-08-14). Why do so many trade union struggles in Britain fail? thecommunists.org This article is reproduced from the Class Consciousness Project, with thanks. ***** The National Education Union (NEU), Britain's biggest teaching union, announced on 31 July that, following a consultation with its members, it would be accepting the 6.5 percent pay offer made by the government through its proxy, the Schools Teachers' Review Body. Thus the …

infobrics (2023-08-14). Russia and Brazil: Developing Culture and Education. infobrics.org Russia and Brazil are two nations whose economic power cannot be underestimated. Brazil is Russia's main trading partner in Latin America and the Caribbean, accounting for a third of trade between Moscow and the region…

jamanetwork (2023-08-15). Incorrect Nonauthor Collaborator Name. jamanetwork.com In the Original Investigation titled "Effect of Ivermectin vs Placebo on Time to Sustained Recovery in Outpatients With Mild to Moderate COVID-19: A Randomized Clinical Trial," published in the October 25, 2022, issue of JAMA, a nonauthor collaborator's surname was incorrectly listed. The full name should have been listed as Upinder Singh. This article was corrected online.

Editor (2023-08-15). What we lose through the ghettoisation of urban India. mronline.org The gigantic question is, is there a way out? It gets harder everyday with the kind of blatantly divisive social atmosphere which is promoted by the powers that be.

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

Zoya Teirstein (2023-08-14). As US Begins Crackdown on PFAS, Indigenous Communities Are Getting Left Behind. truthout.org Laurie Harper, director of education for the Bug-O-Nay-Ge-Shig School, a K-12 tribal school on the Leech Lake Band Indian Reservation in north-central Minnesota, never thought that a class of chemicals called per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, or PFAS, would be an issue for her community. That's partly because, up until a few months ago, she didn't even know what PFAS were. "We're in the middle… |

thecommunists (2023-08-14). Why do so many trade union struggles in Britain fail? thecommunists.org This article is reproduced from the Class Consciousness Project, with thanks. ***** The National Education Union (NEU), Britain's biggest teaching union, announced on 31 July that, following a consultation with its members, it would be accepting the 6.5 percent pay offer made by the government through its proxy, the Schools Teachers' Review Body. Thus the …

infobrics (2023-08-14). Russia and Brazil: Developing Culture and Education. infobrics.org Russia and Brazil are two nations whose economic power cannot be underestimated. Brazil is Russia's main trading partner in Latin America and the Caribbean, accounting for a third of trade between Moscow and the region…

jamanetwork (2023-08-15). Incorrect Nonauthor Collaborator Name. jamanetwork.com In the Original Investigation titled "Effect of Ivermectin vs Placebo on Time to Sustained Recovery in Outpatients With Mild to Moderate COVID-19: A Randomized Clinical Trial," published in the October 25, 2022, issue of JAMA, a nonauthor collaborator's surname was incorrectly listed. The full name should have been listed as Upinder Singh. This article was corrected online.

Editor (2023-08-15). What we lose through the ghettoisation of urban India. mronline.org The gigantic question is, is there a way out? It gets harder everyday with the kind of blatantly divisive social atmosphere which is promoted by the powers that be.

Owen Schalk (2023-08-15). Niger coup will have global ramifications for the U.S., France, and Canada. mronline.org This isn't what Western countries wanted to sow in West Africa, writes Owen Schalk.

Patricia Harrity (2023-08-15). Maui and the WEF There is No Such Thing As a Coincidence. expose-news.com Theories have been spreading online that the fires that have devastated Maui were allegedly started "too suddenly" and "burned too harshly" to be a regular wildfire, as reported on The Expose earlier …

Prabir Purkayastha (2023-08-15). Oppenheimer Paradox: Power of science, weakness of scientists. mronline.org The bomb dropped on Hiroshima in 1945 heralded the atomic age and ushered in the military-industrial complex that took over the United States.

WSWS (2023-08-14). Sanders promotes UAW bureaucracy, economic nationalism in online event. wsws.org Sanders' and Fain's rhetorical appeals to social discontent were combined with a lying narrative which covered up for the Democratic Party and the UAW bureaucracy, which are both centrally responsible for creating the conditions workers now confront.

Staff (2023-08-14). Headlines for August 14, 2023. democracynow.org Maui Wildfire Death Toll Nears 100 as Residents Continue Search for Missing Loved Ones, Nigerien Military Leaders Announce Plan to Prosecute Deposed President Bazoum, At Least 6 Asylum Seekers Drown in Channel; 2 Off Tunisian Coast, 3-Year-Old Toddler from Venezuela Dies on Migrant Bus from Texas to Chicago, Taiwan Vice President Defies Chinese Intimidation While on U.S. Visit, Israeli Forces Kill Palestinian in West Bank as Int'l Group of Academics Slams Israeli Apartheid, Jordan Cracks Down on Online Speech with "Draconian" Cybercrime Law, U.N. Completes Transfer of 1 Billion+ Barrels of Oil f…

Andy Merrifield (2023-08-14). John Berger and Gramsci in Rome: Personal Reflections. mronline.org "A week or so on, John Berger was still with me, there in spirit. Or, better, I was still with him. When in Rome, I told myself…well, what better thing to do than to visit Gramsci, the great Marxist, whose grave lies in the city's 'Non-Catholic Cemetery' in Testaccio."

Editor (2023-08-14). A primer on the occupation of Western Sahara. mronline.org As Israel recognizes the sovereignty of Morocco over Western Sahara, it is imperative that we stand in solidarity with the indigenous Sahrawis and their right to self-determination.

Editor (2023-08-14). U.S. pressures Saudi Arabia to sell oil in dollars, not Chinese yuan, amid Israel negotiations. mronline.org As part of negotiations for Saudi Arabia to recognize Israel, the United States is demanding that Riyadh keep pricing its oil in dollars, not China's renminbi or other currencies.

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

ecns.cn (2023-08-14). Terror attack in Pakistan slammed. ecns.cn China on Monday strongly condemned the terrorist attack on a convoy carrying Chinese engineers to the Gwadar Port in Pakistan, saying that any attempt to undermine the China-Pakistan friendship or the construction of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor will never succeed.

Staff (2023-08-15). SEIU Wisconsin and other Unions Organizing to Protest the RNC Presidential Candidates Debate August 23, 2023 in Milwaukee (Sign Up Information). wibailoutpeople.org Mobilize sign-up link for GOP Date is: Union members meet at: 1037 W McKinley Avenue, Milwaukee, WI 3-7 P.M. | [NOTE: The RNC presidential candidates debate is at the Fiserv Forum, 901 N 4th Street in Milwaukee from 8-10 P.M. Central Time] | On August 23, 2023, we're bringing together

WSWS (2023-08-15). US Labor Department uses spurious arguments to reject Will Lehman's election complaint, sanctions disenfranchisement of UAW members. wsws.org The August 8 letter from the Office of Labor-Management Standards Enforcement ignores the widespread evidence of voter suppression by the UAW bureaucracy.

ecns.cn (2023-08-15). China to suspend releasing youth jobless data as labor market statistics work needs improvement: NBS. ecns.cn China will suspend releasing jobless data for the youth starting from August, as labor market statistics work needs improvement amid economic and social development.

teleSUR, SH (2023-08-15). Organizaciones marcharán durante ascensión presidencial en Paraguay. telesurtv.net Los organizadores de "El otro 15 agosto" exigirán al nuevo presidente paraguayo, salarios justos, respeto a los derechos laborales, entre otras demandas.

teleSUR, SH (2023-08-15). Presidente nicaragàºense encabeza aniversario de la Fuerza Naval. telesurtv.net El presidente Daniel Ortega, reconoció la labor y esfuerzo de la Fuerza Naval en el resguardo de las costas del país.

Ann Brown (2023-08-15). Timbaland's Artist Magoo Passes Away At Only 50: 3 Things To Know. moguldom.com The world is celebrating the 50th anniversary of the birth of hip-hop. But the celebration has paused a bit to recognize the death of one of the American music genre's veterans, Magoo. A former collaborator of super producer Timbaland, Magoo reportedly died on Aug. 13 at the age of 50. Here are three things to …

Oraily Madruga Rios (2023-08-15). Youth jobless among Panama's challenges. plenglish.com Panama City, Aug 15 (Prensa Latina) Experts in labor market on Tuesday warned of challenges that jobless represents for youngsters in Panama, a social indicator worsened on Tuesday by the Covid-19 impact.

C.J. Hopkins (2023-08-15). The "Free-Speech Twitter" PSYOP. dissidentvoice.org It's never a very enjoyable experience, facing the fact that you've been bamboozled. Realizing that you've fallen prey to an elaborate con, or PYSOP, is painful. It's embarrassing. People feel ashamed. No one likes to see themselves as a sucker. It's humiliating. It makes people angry. It makes them want to lash out at someone. …

Mark Gruenberg (2023-08-15). CPUSA Labor Commission makes proposals for 2024 election work. peoplesworld.org CHICAGO—With a warning from a veteran unionist and political activist ringing in their ears, attendees at the CPUSA Labor Commission's special session in Chicago started laying political plans for 2024. The Iowan activist, a veteran of the 15-day Teamsters forced strike against UPS in 1997, warned the packed session that "What you win on the …

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2023-08-15). Science Saturday: Progressive alliance advances science through patient-powered research. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org Harnessing the power of patients' lived experiences and their biospecimen data, a unique relationship between a nonprofit patient advocacy group called The MOG Project, a team of Mayo Clinic neurologists, and the Autoimmune Neurology Laboratory at Mayo Clinic has created a synergetic bridge that's advancing the science behind a devastating neurological illness. Myelin oligodendrocyte glycoprotein antibody-associated disease, or MOGAD, is a rare, central nervous system demyelinating disorder that can render an individual blind, paralyzed, or comatose….

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2023-08-15). Mayo Clinic provides internships, mentoring for undergrads on accelerated career pathway. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org By Jay Furst ROCHESTER, Minn. — Akhil Kollengode is a University of Minnesota Rochester (UMR) student who aims to be a project manager or operations manager in healthcare when he graduates. Thanks to an innovative collaboration between Mayo Clinic and UMR, he's on a fast track to achieving that. Kollengode is a paid intern at Mayo Clinic as part of the Bachelor of Science in Health Sciences degree program at UMR. The internship is a…

Staff (2023-08-15). We Rise Fighting! Labor Podcast — Pro-Union, Pro-Worker Podcast on Labor News, History and Theory. wibailoutpeople.org All Episodes:

teleSUR, dcdc, MER (2023-08-15). Sube a 96 cifra de muertos por incendios forestales en Hawái. telesurtv.net Las autoridades prevén que la cifra aumente a medida que los equipos de búsqueda sigan sus labores en las zonas afectadas.

WSWS (2023-08-15). Biden's Labor Department uses spurious arguments to reject Will Lehman's election complaint, sanctions disenfranchisement of UAW members. wsws.org The August 8 letter from the Office of Labor-Management Standards Enforcement ignores the widespread evidence of voter suppression by the UAW bureaucracy.

Eric A. Gordon (2023-08-14). Modern Yiddish publishing: New feminist horror stories by Elizabeth Schwartz. peoplesworld.org Elizabeth Schwartz is a singer extraordinaire, recording artist, filmmaker—and the subject of a film documentary—podcast writer (of, among other things, the 2021 audio drama, Debs in Canton, about Eugene V. Debs, which won multiple awards for excellence in writing). She is a frequent collaborator with her husband, klezmer musician and also multi-talented creative, Yale Strom. …

Jim McMahan (2023-08-14). Starbucks workers on the move. workers.org Seattle The Starbucks Workers United (SBWU) "Union Calling" bus came to Seattle to demonstrate outside Starbucks world headquarters on Aug. 8. Hundreds of baristas and their allies came to protest Starbucks' union-busting campaign against the workers. At the rally and press conference, which was addressed by Washington State Labor Council . . . |

WSWS (2023-08-15). Biden's intervention in the UAW-Big Three contracts: A warning to autoworkers. wsws.org Biden, fearing that the administration of UAW President Shawn Fain may not have the situation under control, issued a statement Monday calling on the companies and the UAW apparatus to work together to hammer out an agreement, one which he knows will contain massive attacks on workers.

WSWS (2023-08-15). Growing resistance to sellout arbitration recommendation by German rail union. wsws.org The latest WSWS articles on the arbitrator's ruling were read by tens of thousands and widely shared by workers on social media and among their colleagues. Individual local and company groups of the EVG published statements calling for rejection of the arbitration offer.

WSWS (2023-08-15). Unifor targeting Ford in Detroit Three auto talks, seeks to divide Canadian and US workers. wsws.org Unifor President Lana Payne reiterated at a press conference Thursday that the union bureaucracy will work to keep Canadian autoworkers separated from their co-workers in the US, despite the near simultaneous expiration of their contracts in September and the common corporate assault on their jobs and wages.

WSWS (2023-08-15). Workers Struggles: The Americas. wsws.org Thousands protested in Buenos Aires Friday against the killing of a journalist while workers at Lycoming Engines aviation voted by 98 percent to reject a contract brought back by the United Auto Workers.

ecns.cn (2023-08-15). Beijing medics provide free treatment to patients in NE China. ecns.cn About 140 medical workers from Beijing set up free clinics and distributed medicine for patients of various ethnic groups in over 10 townships in Aihui District of Heihe City, northeast China's Heilongjiang Province on Monday.

Fight Back (2023-08-15). U of MN Twin Cites SDS stands in solidarity with Tampa 5. fightbacknews.org Minneapolis, MN – On August 9, University of Minnesota Students for a Democratic Society (UMN SDS) hosted a noise demonstration, joining the nationwide day of action to demand justice for the Tampa 5 | Students and community members banded together to raise awareness for the Tampa 5, five students and workers from the University of South Florida facing unjust felony charges for protesting on their campus. Equipped with tambourines, kazoos and spirited chanting, nearly 30 people stood on a busy intersection to stand in solidarity with the Tampa 5. The broader campus community was extremely receptive to their messa…

Dana Sanchez (2023-08-15). Fact Check: Singers And Rappers Got Over $100 Million In Covid Money From Government. moguldom.com Dozens of businesses controlled by big-name artists received government grants with no obligation to repay the money through a covid relief program called The Shuttered Venue Operators Grant (SVOG). Dubbed "Save Our Stages," the aid bill was marketed or hyped to Congress and approved by Congress as supporting small venues and behind-the-scenes workers — not …

Staff (2023-08-15). Black Voters Matter Co-Founder: Trump's Georgia Indictment Is "Step Forward" in Defending Democracy. democracynow.org We're joined in Atlanta by LaTosha Brown, co-founder of the Black Voters Matter Fund, to discuss Donald Trump's latest criminal indictment. Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis is charging Trump and more than a dozen of his allies with plotting to steal Electoral College votes during the 2020 presidential election. "There was an attempt to disenfranchise voters in the state of Georgia," says Brown, who also describes Trump's targeting of poll workers Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss and how Georgia's status as one of five states where the governor cannot grant pardons will af…

Staff (2023-08-15). Georgia Grand Jury Charges Trump & 18 Co-Conspirators with Racketeering for 2020 Election Interference. democracynow.org Former President Donald Trump now faces a fourth criminal indictment regarding his actions during his 2020 reelection campaign, after a Georgia grand jury indicted him and 18 of his allies for attempting to overturn the state's 2020 presidential election results. We speak to Michael Isikoff, a veteran investigative journalist who is writing a book on the Georgia investigation, about this "sprawling indictment," which uses Georgia's expansive RICO statute to lay out how Trump's team pressured election officials, intimidated election workers, broke into election offices, lied to the Ge…

Staff (2023-08-15). RMT taking the fight over ticket office closures to Rishi Sunak's front door. thecanary.co The National Union of Rail, Maritime, and Transport Workers (RMT) will be taking the fight to stop ticket office closures right to PM Rishi Sunak's front door at Downing Street. So, save the date, as it's going to be an important protest — not least for chronically ill, disabled, and older people. Ticket office closures: …

WSWS (2023-08-14). Union thugs assault workers in effort to suppress Turkey's wildcat strike movement. wsws.org A strike by municipality workers in Istanbul and Ankara and 2,000 textile workers in Gaziantep has seen the DİSK union apparatus resort to physical violence in attempt to suppress the action on behalf of the employers and the state.

WSWS (2023-08-14). Legionnaires' disease reported among two Stellantis Warren Truck workers. wsws.org Two workers at WTAP contract Legionnaires' disease exposing the continued spread of potentially deadly diseases throughout the auto industry and Michigan.

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

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

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-08-14). Brazil: Joà£o Pedro Stedile Does Not Fear Parliamentary Investigation into MST. libya360.wordpress.com Igor Carvalho Ahead of his testimony, the Landless Rural Workers' Movement leader said he regrets the outcome of the commission so far On August 15, the Parliamentary Commission of Inquiry (CPI) investigating the Landless Rural Workers' Movement (MST) will receive Joà£o Pedro Stedile, founder and national leader of the Movement, who will give a testimony to the…

A Guest Author (2023-08-14). Palestine Writes Festival returns. workers.org Palestine Writes Literature Festival Returns with an Outstanding Line-up of Writers and Artists ÿ®ŸäÿßŸÜ ÿµÿ≠ŸÅŸä (ŸÑŸÑŸÜÿ¥ÿ± ÿߟџşàÿ±Ÿä) ÿπŸàÿØÿ© ÿߟџ֟áÿ±ÿ¨ÿßŸÜ ÿߟÑÿ£ÿØÿ®&Yu…

A Guest Author (2023-08-14). Free Mumia Abu-Jamal Coalition For the people of Niger and their new leadership. workers.org The Free Mumia Abu-Jamal Coalition issued the following statement Aug. 10. Signers include Mobilization4Mumia, Mumia United Nations Liaison Group, International Concerned Friends and Family of Mumia Abu-Jamal, Friends of Mumia Mexico, Workers World Party, Communist Workers League and Malcolm X Commemoration Committee. Graphic: Anastasya Eliseeva The new government of Niger . . . |

Greg Kearney (2023-08-14). DeSantis to government workers: "We are slitting throats on Day One" peoplesworld.org If he wins the White house, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis promised mass murder of "bureaucrats," a favorite Republican denigration of government workers—local, state, and federal. "We are going to start slitting throats on Day One" of the federal employees, he stated. Read the full story: DeSantis in N.H. calls for slitting the throats of federal workers…

jacobin (2023-08-14). The American Political Science Association's Profile in Cowardice. jacobin.com In declining to cancel its annual conference at Southern California hotels where workers are on strike, the American Political Science Association is refusing to sacrifice for workers whose cause is just.

Staff (2023-08-15). All RNC Presidential Candidates Are Racist, Anti-Worker War Criminals! (List, Bio and Photos) — With People's Protest Information for August 23, 2023 in Milwaukee. wibailoutpeople.org The RNC presidental debate will take place in Milwaukee August 23, 2023 at the There will be union and other people's protests. | AUGUST 23, 2023 MILWAUKEE PROTEST INFORMATION | Protests will take place beginning at 3 p.m. with an SEIU Wisconsin tailgate at 1037 W McKinley Avenue, Milwaukee, followed…

Staff (2023-08-15). March on the Presidential Debate in Milwaukee August 23, 2023 to Protest the RNC's Anti-Worker, Anti-Union and Racist Agenda! — Build the People's Movement! wibailoutpeople.org

teleSUR (2023-08-15). Paraguay: Santiago Peña Assumes the Presidency Amid Marches. telesurenglish.net On Tuesday, the Clasista Trade Union Action (ASC), the Citizen Participation Party (PPC), the Social Platform for Human Rights, Memory and Democracy, the Paraguayan Communist Party (PCP) and other progressive organizations called for marches in Asuncion amid the Santiago Peña presidential inauguration ceremony. | RELATED: | The marches will begin at 10: 00 a.m. from Italia Square and aim to ask the new Paraguayan president…

Fight Back (2023-08-15). Atlanta students and community march to defend "No Cop City" petition effort. fightbacknews.org Atlanta, GA – On the morning of August 14, about 30 people gathered outside the 11th Circuit US Court of Appeals to protest the city of Atlanta's attempt to appeal the "Stop Cop City" referendum. Protesters gave speeches and chanted "APF you have blood on your hands! No more cops on stolen land!" | The protest was organized by members of the Student Coalition Against Cop City and was supported by groups like Cop City Vote and Community Movement Builders. | The city of Atlanta sought to overturn a recent ruling by Judge Mark Cohen which allows people living outside of the city to collect signatures as part of the…

Editor (2023-08-15). McCarthyism Is Back, and It's Coming for the Peace Movement. scheerpost.com By Defending Rights & Dissent Defending Rights & Dissent condemns in the strongest possible terms the increasing McCarthyite attacks on leftwing and peace groups critical of US-policy towards China. As tensions between the US and China escalate, we have unsurprisingly seen attacks against those who dissent from the prevailing foreign policy orthodoxy. Over the weekend, …

teleSUR (2023-08-15). Italian PM Meloni to Increase Expulsions of Migrants. telesurenglish.net On Tuesday, the Italian Interior Ministry Matteo Piatendosi announced that Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni will issue a decree to increase expulsions of migrants starting in September. | RELATED: | This policy will be implemented given that the number of undocumented migrants increased by 115 percent in the first seven months compared to the same period of the previous year. | From January to the end of July, 89,1…

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Paul Haeder (2023-08-14). One Woman Turns Lemons into Wine. dissidentvoice.org Bayside Cellars (Waldport, OR) proprietor just getting started — Community Journalism gets to the soul of humanity and our connections to the larger world. First appeared in Newport News Times Pulling out all the skills one gains through living, working and surviving can turn a dream into a going concern. One Waldport entrepreneur is digging …

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Michael H. Gavin (2023-08-13). Amid Extremist Attacks on Higher Ed, We Must Go Beyond Diversity and Inclusion. truthout.org In a single academic year, political and judicial leaders have escalated their anti-democratic, anti-educational movement aimed at dismantling higher education's focus on diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI), initiating a furiously paced rejection of racial, sexual and ethnic diversity — as well as basic humanity. Multiple states have instituted curricular gag orders through "divisive concept"… |

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

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

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

Paul Craig Roberts (2023-08-13). The 14th Amendment's Requirement of Equality Under Law Is a Dead Letter Constitutional Guarantee. thealtworld.com I explained and documented in my 1995 book, The New Color Line, that the EEOC had created in defiance of the 1964 Civil Rights Act and the 14th Amendment a two-tier legal system in which "preferred minorities" enjoyed rights superior to those of white American citizens to university admissions, employment, and promotion. Less qualified blacks according to the objective admission scores can be admitted at the exclusion of more qualified whites, and less qualified blacks can be hired and promoted at the expense of more qualified whites. I have stressed for many years that the failure of the courts to defend the 14t…


WSWS (2023-08-14). New York University hosts segregated "anti-racism workshops": The logic of identity politics exposed. wsws.org The workshop demonstrates that the logic of identity politics is not to eliminate prejudice, but to enshrine it as the central axis of society.

Fight Back (2023-08-14). Oak Lawn Arab community demands investigation into police department. fightbacknews.org Chicago, IL – Family and supporters of Murod Kurdi packed a Bridgeview Circuit court room, August 8, to demand justice in a case that highlights the racism of the Oak Lawn Police Department. | The case, which was continued to September 18, referenced a speeding ticket issued to Leanne Cusack on June 5, when she struck and killed Murod Kurdi with her car. Cusack had admitted to drinking before getting in her vehicle, but when Oak Lawn Police Department (OLPD) arrived at the scene, they allowed Cusack to leave without alcohol tests or arrest for the death she caused. The next day she was seen drinking at the same b…

WSWS (2023-08-14). Committee For Public Education members advance independent perspective in defence of educators, Julian Assange. wsws.org "What was absolutely clear is that the union apparatus cannot tolerate one iota of criticism of its role and that of the Labor government," Sue Phillips explained, "This is an expression not of its strength but its weakness."

infobrics (2023-08-14). Russia and Brazil: Developing Culture and Education. infobrics.org Russia and Brazil are two nations whose economic power cannot be underestimated. Brazil is Russia's main trading partner in Latin America and the Caribbean, accounting for a third of trade between Moscow and the region…

thecommunists (2023-08-14). Why do so many trade union struggles in Britain fail? thecommunists.org This article is reproduced from the Class Consciousness Project, with thanks. ***** The National Education Union (NEU), Britain's biggest teaching union, announced on 31 July that, following a consultation with its members, it would be accepting the 6.5 percent pay offer made by the government through its proxy, the Schools Teachers' Review Body. Thus the …


WSWS (2023-08-14). Sanders promotes UAW bureaucracy, economic nationalism in online event. wsws.org Sanders' and Fain's rhetorical appeals to social discontent were combined with a lying narrative which covered up for the Democratic Party and the UAW bureaucracy, which are both centrally responsible for creating the conditions workers now confront.

Andy Merrifield (2023-08-14). John Berger and Gramsci in Rome: Personal Reflections. mronline.org What's fascinating about Guttuso is that it was, in fact, John's first book, from 1957.

Anonymous (2023-08-14). LAVC Omsbudsman Stalked Whistleblowers. indybay.org For over a decade Los Angeles Valley College Dean of Students Annie G. Reed (Goldman), made gaslighting, catfishing, online stalking and impersonation, and a culture of surveillance standard practices at LAVC. New information confirms she also continued to stalk former students after they left Valley College.

Caitlin A. Johnstone (2023-08-14). New York Times helps Marco Rubio push persecution of antiwar leftists. mronline.org Citing a recent McCarthyite smear piece by The New York Times, Senator Marco Rubio published a letter on Wednesday that he'd sent to Attorney General Merrick Garland calling for the investigation of American leftist antiwar groups, claiming they are "tied to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and operating with impunity in the United States."

Editor (2023-08-14). A primer on the occupation of Western Sahara. mronline.org As Israel recognizes the sovereignty of Morocco over Western Sahara, it is imperative that we stand in solidarity with the indigenous Sahrawis and their right to self-determination.

WSWS (2023-08-14). Sanders promotes UAW bureaucracy, economic nationalism in online event. wsws.org Sanders' and Fain's rhetorical appeals to social discontent were combined with a lying narrative which covered up for the Democratic Party and the UAW bureaucracy, which are both centrally responsible for creating the conditions workers now confront.

Andy Merrifield (2023-08-14). John Berger and Gramsci in Rome: Personal Reflections. mronline.org What's fascinating about Guttuso is that it was, in fact, John's first book, from 1957.

Anonymous (2023-08-14). LAVC Omsbudsman Stalked Whistleblowers. indybay.org For over a decade Los Angeles Valley College Dean of Students Annie G. Reed (Goldman), made gaslighting, catfishing, online stalking and impersonation, and a culture of surveillance standard practices at LAVC. New information confirms she also continued to stalk former students after they left Valley College.

Caitlin A. Johnstone (2023-08-14). New York Times helps Marco Rubio push persecution of antiwar leftists. mronline.org Citing a recent McCarthyite smear piece by The New York Times, Senator Marco Rubio published a letter on Wednesday that he'd sent to Attorney General Merrick Garland calling for the investigation of American leftist antiwar groups, claiming they are "tied to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and operating with impunity in the United States."

Editor (2023-08-14). A primer on the occupation of Western Sahara. mronline.org As Israel recognizes the sovereignty of Morocco over Western Sahara, it is imperative that we stand in solidarity with the indigenous Sahrawis and their right to self-determination.

Staff (2023-08-14). Headlines for August 14, 2023. democracynow.org Maui Wildfire Death Toll Nears 100 as Residents Continue Search for Missing Loved Ones, Nigerien Military Leaders Announce Plan to Prosecute Deposed President Bazoum, At Least 6 Asylum Seekers Drown in Channel; 2 Off Tunisian Coast, 3-Year-Old Toddler from Venezuela Dies on Migrant Bus from Texas to Chicago, Taiwan Vice President Defies Chinese Intimidation While on U.S. Visit, Israeli Forces Kill Palestinian in West Bank as Int'l Group of Academics Slams Israeli Apartheid, Jordan Cracks Down on Online Speech with "Draconian" Cybercrime Law, U.N. Completes Transfer of 1 Billion+ Barrels of Oil f…

ecns.cn (2023-08-14). China won't 'sit idle' if Germany bans Chinese 5G gear recklessly: ambassador. ecns.cn China will not 'sit idle' if Germany decides to ban Chinese telecommunication firms from the country's 5G network construction without offering hard evidence that Chinese firms pose a so-called "national security" threat.

JANET (2023-08-13). Wars against Black history. iacenter.org By Mumia Abu-Jamal August 9, 2023 This slightly edited July 21, 2023 commentary was recorded on prisonradio.org. Mumia Abu-Jamal And now we see, perhaps for the first time in modern days, states like Florida waging war against Black history by passing laws against what teachers can teach, and, perhaps more importantly, what they cannot. In the land that brags about First Amendment laws of free speech, teachers are threatened to be silent about any Black history after 1875, or the time of Reconstruction. It's as if, for Black people, history stopped at Reconstruction and nothing happened in their lives. To add mor…

ecns.cn (2023-08-13). Core of 'world-first' modular reactor in place. ecns.cn The core module of the Linglong One small modular reactor was installed in Changjiang, Hainan province, on Thursday, marking a significant step in the construction of the world's first onshore commercial modular pressurized water reactor.

ecns.cn (2023-08-13). World's largest inland water-saving ship lock under construction in Guangxi. ecns.cn Aerial view of the construction site of Madao Junction of Pinglu Canal in Lingshan County, Qingzhou, south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, Aug. 10, 2023.

John Capodanno, Labor Notes. (2023-08-14). How We Turned Our Backs On An Abusive UPS Manager. popularresistance.org I'm a 34-year Teamster and package car driver for UPS, and I've been a steward for the past seven years. Since I've been with UPS for so long, I am very used to the constant harassment and intimidation this company has thrived on. | I had the honor to be put on the national negotiating team for the UPS contract by my local union—one of the strongest in the country, Local 25 in Boston. After UPS walked away from the negotiating table in early July, I was at barns helping to run practice picket lines. | The UPS center in Westwood, a suburb of Boston, has a new center manager from New Orleans named Brian Newma…

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

Labor Video Project (2023-08-14). Robo Taxis Battle In SF In SF at CPUC Where SEIU87 Pres Opposes IBT & CA AFL-CIO. indybay.org At a hearing of the California Public Utilities Commission in San Francisco on 8/10/23 a struggle took place over whether 200 robo taxis should be able to operate 24 hours a day. SEIU 87 Olga Miranda supported Cruise owned by GM and Waymo which is owned by Google. | IBT District Council president Jason Rabinoowitz said the Teamsters and California AFL-CIO were united against allowing robot taxis from expanding.

teleSUR, JCM (2023-08-14). Siete frases de pensadores en el Día Internacional del Filósofo. telesurtv.net Este 13 de agosto se celebra el Día Internacional del Filósofo. En el marco de este día se busca destacar la labor de las personas que han dedicado su labor a dar respuestas a las preguntas existenciales.

Luis Linares Petrov (2023-08-14). Ordinary session of African environmental conference began today. plenglish.com Addis Ababa, Aug 14 (Prensa Latina) The nineteenth Ordinary Session of the African Ministerial Conference on the Environment (AMCEN) is taking place under the motto "Take advantage of opportunities and improve collaboration to address environmental challenges in Africa" with the aim of strengthening institutional collaboration and improving global and regional environmental frameworks.

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2023-08-14). Science Saturday: Progressive alliance advances science through patient-powered research. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org Harnessing the power of patients' lived experiences and their biospecimen data, a unique relationship between a nonprofit patient advocacy group called The MOG Project, a team of Mayo Clinic neurologists, and the Autoimmune Neurology Laboratory at Mayo Clinic has created a synergetic bridge that's advancing the science behind a devastating neurological illness. Myelin oligodendrocyte glycoprotein antibody-associated disease, or MOGAD, is a rare, central nervous system demyelinating disorder that can render an individual blind, paralyzed, or comatose….

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2023-08-14). Mayo Clinic provides internships, mentoring for undergrads on accelerated career pathway. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org By Jay Furst ROCHESTER, Minn. — Akhil Kollengode is a University of Minnesota Rochester (UMR) student who aims to be a project manager or operations manager in healthcare when he graduates. Thanks to an innovative collaboration between Mayo Clinic and UMR, he's on a fast track to achieving that. Kollengode is a paid intern at Mayo Clinic as part of the Bachelor of Science in Health Sciences degree program at UMR. The internship is a…

teleSUR, dcdc, MER (2023-08-14). Sube a 96 cifra de muertos por incendios forestales en Hawái. telesurtv.net Las autoridades prevén que la cifra aumente a medida que los equipos de búsqueda sigan sus labores en las zonas afectadas.

_____ (2023-08-13). Australian Government Insists on Unfettered War Powers. strategic-culture.org By Mike HEAD | Join us on , , and . | With virtually no media coverage, let alone public discussion, the Albanese Labor government last week released its official response to a parliamentary committee report on the power to…

Andy O'Brien, Labor Notes. (2023-08-13). Ironworkers' Loud Contract Campaign Gets The Goods. popularresistance.org To make company negotiators feel their power, ironworkers in Augusta, Maine, got loud—hammering on beams in the plant and leaning on their car horns. | "Hammer time" was one of many pressure points they used to win a good contract in May. Another one: when the company dragged its feet in bargaining, workers just stopped putting in extra hours—and stopped going the extra mile when they were there. | Ironworkers Local 807 represents 85 shop fabricators at the facility, owned by the steel manufacturing company Cives. Their contract had been extended twice for short periods, but as the company continued i…

WSWS (2023-08-14). Legionnaires' disease reported among two Stellantis Warren Truck workers. wsws.org Two workers at WTAP contract Legionnaires' disease exposing the continued spread of potentially deadly diseases throughout the auto industry and Michigan.

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

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

Christian Betancourt, Next City. (2023-08-14). Texas Cities Are Getting Ready For The State's 'Death Star' Law. popularresistance.org In 2015, El Paso became the second city in the country to safeguard its workers by passing a historic wage theft ordinance. As a sweeping new state law aimed at handicapping Texas's more liberal city governments is set to take effect Sept. 1, that protection is now facing an existential threat. | House Bill 2127 — also known as the Super Preemption Bill or, among opponents, the "Death Star" bill — aims to regulate many aspects of commerce and trade in local jurisdictions that differ from state-imposed directives. | Passed in May and signed into law by Texas Gov. Greg Abbott a month later, the legislat…

Hannah Sharland, The Canary. (2023-08-14). Aberdeen Community To Lose Last Green Space In Energy Transition Land-Grab. popularresistance.org On Wednesday 9 August, campaigners from Climate Camp Scotland, This is Rigged, and Scot.E3 demonstrated outside the headquarters of Ironside Farrar in Edinburgh. Campaigners held the peaceful demonstration in solidarity with residents of Torry, Aberdeen. Torry is to be the site of a large-scale industrial development that threatens a precious local park and wetland. | The project developer has commissioned Ironside Farrar to produce a master plan for the site. The coalition of climate groups and energy workers were protesting the advancing implementation of Scotland's so-called Energy Transition Zone (ETZ).

krish-rad_ind (2023-08-14). Starbucks workers, volunteers participate in city-wide pickets in Buffalo. workers.org

WSWS (2023-08-13). After the convention: A balance sheet of the DSA, 2016-2023. wsws.org The Democratic Socialists of America's 2023 convention provides an opportunity to take stock of the role the organization has played in the period beginning in 2015-16, when an initial but powerful radicalization of workers and youth spurred growing interest in socialism and drove 13 million people to vote for self-proclaimed socialist candidate Bernie Sanders.

WSWS (2023-08-13). How the "friends" of Royal Mail workers helped the CWU inflict defeat — Part 2. wsws.org The determined, year-long battle at Royal Mail has provided an object lesson in the pro-capitalist politics of pseudo-left organisations which defended the trade union bureaucracy against a rank-and-file insurgency.

WSWS (2023-08-13). German Rail workers contract: Do not be intimidated by the union bosses—prepare an all out strike! wsws.org The EVG leadership is trying to intimidate opponents of the latest sell out deal, threatening that, in the event of an indefinite strike, rail workers will lose everything.

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

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

Yasiel Betancourt Clavijo (2023-08-14). Union por la Patria ranks first in Argentinean province. plenglish.com Buenos Aires, Aug 14 (Prensa Latina) After 61.20 percent of votes were counted, the candidate from Unión por la Patria (Union for the Homeland), Axel Kicillof, was in the first place in the race to rule the Argentinean province of Buenos Aires.

scorinoco (2023-08-13). Venezuela Disagrees With UN Special Rapporteurs on Application of Anti-Terrorism Laws. orinocotribune.com The attorney general of Venezuela, Tarek William Saab, announced that Venezuela disagrees with UN rapporteurs' recent statements about the application of Venezuelan anti-terrorism laws against six people convicted of conspiracy. | "The Attorney General's Office of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela expresses its total disagreement with the position of the United Nations rapporteurs Fionnuala Ní Aoláin and Clément Nyaletsossi Voule who, through a statement, have expressed concern regarding the application of anti-terrorism laws against alleged trade unionists without having any basis for it," Saab wrote on socia…

Fight Back (2023-08-13). Chicago rally demands charges against the Tampa 5 be dropped. fightbacknews.org Chicago, IL – On August 9, Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) at UIC and Chicago Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression joined forces with a powerful coalition to demand justice for the Tampa 5, at a rally in the Federal Plaza. | This dynamic coalition – including the United States Palestinian Community Network, Anakbayan Chicago, Mientras Haya Amor Hay Esperanza (As Long As There's Love There's Hope), Freedom Road Socialist Organization, LVLHS Fight Back!, and members of the Chicago Teachers Union – embodied the rallying cry of "The people united will never be defeated!" with speeches and message…

JANET (2023-08-13). A declaration from West Africa Peoples Organization on Niger. iacenter.org August 7, 2023 The slightly edited statement was released on Aug. 2, 2023. The West Africa Peoples Organisation (WAPO) released a declaration condemning the ultimatums announced by the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) and West African Economic and Monetary Union (Union Economique et Monétaire Ouest Africaine, UEMOA) on the situation in Niger. WAPO is an anti-imperialist platform of progressive people's organizations from across West Africa, including members of the International Peoples' Assembly. The ECOWAS Heads of State meeting in Abuja on July 31, 2023 have taken serious decisions against th…

JANET (2023-08-13). Ohio special election: Abortion access advocates, unions crush right wing. iacenter.org By Martha Grevatt August 9, 2023 Issue 1 opponents celebrate victory at Fire Fighters Local 67 hall, Columbus, Ohio, Aug. 8, 2023. Cleveland Issue 1, a maneuver by right-wing Ohio legislators to thwart efforts to enshrine abortion access in the state constitution, went down in defeat Aug. 8. In a special election closely watched around the country, 57% of the voters said "no" to requiring a 60% supermajority to amend Ohio's constitution. Issue 1 also would have made it more difficult to collect the requisite number of voter signatures to place a constitutional amendment on the state ballot. On July 5, Ohioans for…

teleSUR (2023-08-13). Presidential Candidate Massa Votes in the Argentine Primaries. telesurenglish.net Sergio Massa, the Economy Minister and presidential candidate for the ruling coalition "Union for the Homeland," stated that he has "positive expectations" regarding the outcome of the primary elections taking place in Argentina on Sunday. | RELATED: | "Today marks a first step. Every political force will determine their candidates. We hold optimistic expectations for today," Massa affirmed after casting his vote at a school in…

Staff (2023-08-13). Solidarity With Milwaukee Autonomous Tenants Union! — Stop Slumlord Attacks! — Housing is a Human Right! wibailoutpeople.org

Staff (2023-08-13). Unions to Rally and March in Milwaukee, Wisconsin to Protest the RNC Presidential Debate August 23, 2023. wibailoutpeople.org

People's Dispatch. (2023-08-13). People's Movements Worldwide: 'Cuba Is Not A State Sponsor Of Terror!'. popularresistance.org On August 11, artists, intellectuals, political leaders, people's movements, trade unions, and political parties from around the world launched a historic campaign to call on US President Joe Biden to remove Cuba from the state sponsors of terrorism list. | The convening organizations of this campaign, the International Peoples' Assembly (IPA), ALBA Movimientos, Foro de Sà£o Paulo, Trade Union Confederation of the Americas, Jornada Continental por la Democracia y Contra el Neoliberalismo, World March of Women, Continental Latin American and Caribbean Network in Solidarity with Cuba, and La Vía Campesina, se…

Defending Rights, Dissent. (2023-08-14). McCarthyism Is Back, And It's Coming For The Peace Movement. popularresistance.org Defending Rights & Dissent condemns in the strongest possible terms the increasing McCarthyite attacks on leftwing and peace groups critical of US-policy towards China. As tensions between the US and China escalate, we have unsurprisingly seen attacks against those who dissent from the prevailing foreign policy orthodoxy. Over the weekend, the New York Times published an inflammatory regurgitation of innuendo, aspersions, and propaganda focusing on a number of groups, including Code Pink and the People's Forum. With the "paper of record" giving these smears a veneer of legitimacy, Senator Marco Rubio sent a…

Luis Linares Petrov (2023-08-14). Cuba solidarity organizations demand end of US blockade. plenglish.com Tegucigalpa, Aug 14 (Prensa Latina) Solidarity movements from Latin America and the Caribbean demanded an end of the United States blockade against Cuba, which prevents the country's development, in the framework of the 3rd Central America Cuba Solidarity Meeting.

Luis Linares Petrov (2023-08-14). Israeli army enters Gaza Strip. plenglish.com At least a dozen vehicles entered agricultural land near the security fence, in the vicinity of the city of Beit Lahiya, the Safa news agency reported on Monday. | According to the source, the convoy consisted of five bulldozers, a Namer armored personnel carrier, two Merkava tanks and several jeeps. | Israel has kept Gaza locked down since 2007, when the Islamic Resistance Movement came to power there. | According to data from the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, the cumulative cost of the Israeli siege of Gaza and economic restrictions totaled 16.7 billion dollars in 2007 and 2018, accountin…

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

midwesternmarx (2023-08-13). Right-Wing Has Not Tried to Suppress Teaching the History of Anti-Imperialist Movements Because They Are Rarely Discussed in Any Course By: David Starr. midwesternmarx.com ​Meeting of the Anti-Imperialist League circa. 1900. [Source: zloetscher001.weebly.com] On February 20, journalist Max Blumenthal gave a powerful address at the Rage Against the War Machine rally across from the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., in which he emphasized how Ukrainians had been used as pawns to advance U.S. imperial interests.​Blumenthal said that people on the other side of the U.S. empire did not care whether people identified as leftist or …

Rhoda Wilson (2023-08-13). Karen Kingston: "I'm being hunted by our own government. They want me dead" expose-news.com Karen Kingston is claiming that her life is in danger because she's outed Dr. Robert Malone as a double agent who has infiltrated the resistance movement. He's revealed some pertinent information yet …

progressive.international (2023-08-13). 2023 Palestine Delegation: Report. progressive.international In May, the Progressive International delegation to Palestine visited East Jerusalem, Hebron, Bethlehem, the Naqab Desert, and Ramallah.

Alberta Guerra (2023-08-13). The great approach of philanthropy in support of the agroecological movement. actionaidusa.org I was really impressed by this article by the Agroecology Fund and the Global Greengrants Fund about their partnership and approach to fostering agroecology through direct support to grassroots movements and Indigenous Peoples. This is the kind of support I would love to see predominant in philanthropy because it embeds all the principles I believe…

teleSUR (2023-08-13). Ecuador: Zurita to Replace Assassinated Presidential Candidate. telesurenglish.net On Sunday, the Construye movement decided to appoint journalist Christian Zurita as its presidencial candidate, replacing Fernando Villavicencio, who was assassinated. | RELATED: | This came after Vice Presidential candidate Andrea Gonzalez-Nader was unable to assume the presidential candidacy due to current legal regulations. | "The candidate we have chosen in agreement with Construye is Christian Zurita, a fellow…

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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