August 2022 Archives

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2022-08-31: News Headlines

WSWS (2022-08-31). Structural shifts in global economy driving central bankers' class war program. wsws.org At this year's Jackson Hole meeting, Fed chair Powell set the stage for the response, taken up by all participants, that central banks must not waver from interest rate hikes and, if necessary, go beyond the measures carried out by Fed chair Paul Volcker in the 1980s that produced economic devastation for the working class in the US and internationally under the banner of "fighting inflation."

Staff (2022-08-31). Militants kill at least 40 villagers in east Congo attacks. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Aug. 31 (MNA) — Suspected militants killed at least 40 civilians in a string of attacks on several villages in the east Democratic Republic of Congo between Thursday and Monday, a local human rights group and a hospital worker said Tuesday.

WSWS (2022-08-31). New Australian Labor government intensifies assault on working class and war preparations against China. wsws.org These remarks were delivered by Cheryl Crisp, the national secretary of the Socialist Equality Party (SEP) in Australia, to the Seventh National Congress of the SEP (US), held from July 31 to August 5, 2022.

____ (2022-08-31). Former Soviet leader Gorbachev dies at 91. ecns.cn Former President of the Soviet Union Mikhail Gorbachev has died at 91, Russian media reported Tuesday.

WSWS (2022-08-31). Licensed therapist explains the terrible working conditions behind strike of Kaiser mental health workers. wsws.org "Aside from the workload and the number of patients that we are expected to hold, the bigger struggle for me and many of my colleagues is that we're forced under a Kaiser system to practice unethically."

Staff (2022-08-31). Mikhail Gorbachev died at age 91. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Aug. 31 (MNA) — Mikhail Gorbachev, the first president of the Soviet Union, has died at the age of 91, the Central Clinical Hospital said on Tuesday.

____ (2022-08-31). Meeting of CPC Central Committee Political Bureau proposes convening 20th CPC National Congress on Oct. 16 in Beijing. ecns.cn The Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee on Tuesday held a meeting on the preparatory work for the seventh plenary session of the 19th CPC Central Committee, and the 20th CPC National Congress. Xi Jinping, general secretary of the CPC Central Committee, presided over the meeting.

Labor Video Project (2022-08-31). South Africa SAFTA/COSATU General Strike For Workers & Communities. indybay.org WorkWeek covers the South African general strike called by SAFTU and COSATU on August 24,. 2022. Memetlwe Sebei, president of the General Industrial Union of South Africa. GIWUSA which is with SAFTU and Ayesha Rajah who is the chairperson of the Sotasonke Civic Organization are interviewed about the conditions that led to the strike, the organizing for the strike and the future.

WSWS (2022-08-31). Australia: Expand strike action by NSW nurses! Form rank-and-file committees to fight for unified struggle! wsws.org The New South Wales Nurses and Midwives Association is stepping up its isolation of the nurses' struggle, confining a statewide strike to protests at individual hospitals.

Fight Back (2022-08-31). University of Minnesota Teamsters picket, march against poverty wages. fightbacknews.org Minneapolis, MN — More than 300 University of Minnesota (UMN) service workers represented by Teamsters Local 320, along with members AFSCME, students, faculty, and others, protested on the school's campus, August 30, to demand an end to poverty wages and abusive employment practices. | Local 320 represents 1500 workers at UMN who clean buildings, service dormitories, maintain grounds, prepare food, maintain HVAC systems, care for research animals, drive trucks, and perform other activities across the university's five campuses. Many of the workers are Black, including immigrants from Somalia, Ethiopia and…

WSWS (2022-08-31). "The IAM has sold us out once more": Railroad machinists speak out after union announces sellout deal. wsws.org "We as Labor must unite against the bureaucracy; the outright dismissal of our contribution to the record profits, home life suppression and abuse we receive from the Carriers!"

WSWS (2022-08-31). Workers Struggles: The Americas. wsws.org Police savagely attacked a protest over soaring fuel and food costs in Haiti, while teachers in Uruguay held a nationwide protest strike over budget cuts last week.

WSWS (2022-08-31). "Unless people take a stand, nothing will ever change": Volvo Trucks workers in Virginia back Will Lehman's campaign for UAW president. wsws.org UAW presidential candidate Will Lehman met with Volvo Trucks workers in Dublin, Virginia who built a rank-and-file committee to lead the three-month-long contract battle last year.

WSWS (2022-08-31). Australia: Unions, business and Labor deepen collaboration as Summit nears. wsws.org The purpose of the Jobs and Skills Summit is to bring unions, business and the government together to plan a tripartite assault on wages, conditions and social spending.

WSWS (2022-08-31). Tensions mount at West Coast ports as dockworkers enter third month without contract. wsws.org While ILWU bureaucrats are making every possible effort to prevent job actions, this is being challenged by the global resurgence of the class struggle.

WSWS (2022-08-31). YDSA helps kick Will Lehman volunteers from public event at Wayne State University in Detroit. wsws.org On Monday at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan, Young Democratic Socialists of America (YDSA) campus president Harrison Cole orchestrated the police removal of a table set up by volunteers for rank-&-file autoworker Will Lehman's campaign for UAW president.

Ulrich Thielemann (2022-08-31). Only a progressive tax revolution can stop climate collapse. indybay.org There is an urgent need for a pluralistic opening of the economic sciences, so that the argumentative dispute about the ethically correct interpretation of market-competitive interaction relations and the status of market logic again becomes a normal part of economic discourse.

WSWS (2022-08-31). The same criminal "profits before lives" response by capitalism to COVID-19 and monkeypox is allowing the resurgence of polio. wsws.org Years of negligence and underfunding have created the current conditions under which a dread disease that causes severe, lifelong paralysis and sometimes death, which should have been eradicated from the globe decades ago, is resurging.

WSWS (2022-08-31). The fight against mass COVID infection and militarism in New Zealand. wsws.org These remarks were delivered by Tom Peters, the leading member of the Socialist Equality Group in New Zealand, to the Seventh National Congress of the Socialist Equality Party (US), held from July 31 to August 5, 2022.

TeleSUR, JL (2022-08-31). Fallece Mijaíl Gorbachov, expresidente de la Unión Soviética. telesurtv.net El exdirigente de la Unión Soviética se habría internado para recibir un tratamiento por una enfermedad.

Slingshot Collective (2022-08-31). Saturday 9/24: Article deadline for Slingshot issue #136. indybay.org Long Haul infoshop – 3124 Shattuck Ave. Berkeley, CA 94705 – 510 540 0751 – 2 blocks from Ashby BART – corner of Shattuck and Woolsey across from La Pena…

Infobrics (2022-08-30). Energy Sanctions on Russia Have Been a Boon for China and India. infobrics.org When the UK and the U.S. banned Russian oil imports, and the European Union approved sanctions that made it a lot harder to trade in Russian oil, media reports highlighted the argument that Russian could not possibly replace Europe with Asia as its biggest oil client…

Staff (2022-08-30). George H. W. Bush carrier strike group, anti-missile warships enter Mediterranean. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com U. S. European CommandAugust 25, 2022 George HW Bush Carrier Strike Group transits the Strait of Gibraltar USS George H.W. Bush (CVN 77), transited the Strait of Gibraltar and entered the Mediterranean Sea as part of a regularly scheduled deployment in the U.S. Naval Forces Europe-Africa (NAVEUR-NAVAF) area of operations, Aug. 25, 2022. The strike …

Staff (2022-08-30). Romania: U.S. B-52s placed under NATO command for first time, practice offensive strikes. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com NATOAllied Air CommandAugust 29, 2022 B-52s brought under NATO command for the first time during mission over Romania U.S. B-52s came under NATO command and control for the first time ever during a Bomber Task Force training mission over Romania working out offensive and defensive manoeuvres with Allied fighters. The Allied aircraft from Canada, Romania …

Francisco Dominguez (2022-08-30). The Stakes in Brazil's Election Couldn't Be Higher. orinocotribune.com By Francisco Dominguez &#1 ; Aug 25, 2022 | Ahead of October's election, with leftist Lula leading the polls, fears are rising of a Bolsonaro coup — meaning it's the entirety of Brazil's democracy at stake. | After four years of a right-wing Bolsonaro government, Brazilians will vote for a new president on 2 October 2022. Former president Lula—currently high in the polls—is confronting an increasingly delirious incumbent, who appears to have threatened violent unconstitutional action should he lose. | Bolsonaro's victory came two years after the impeachment of Workers' Party president Dilma Rous…

_____ (2022-08-30). Biden is Trying to Bring Down Xi Jinping and Organize a "Color Revolution" in China. journal-neo.org This autumn will be a momentous time for China &#1 ; in the XX National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party the delegates will confirm China's strategy and development priorities, and elect the country's leader for the next five years. It is likely that Xi Jinping, the current head of the Party, will be reelected for …

_____ (2022-08-30). Residents Refuse To Be Forced From Homes Won Through Past Struggle. popularresistance.org Forty years ago, residents of Philadelphia won a subsidized housing community in the area known as Black Bottom after fighting the discrimination and displacement being used to clear the way for University City. Now the city is allowing that community, 72 residences called University City Townhomes (UCT), to be sold for gentrification. Clearing the FOG spoke with Rasheda Alexander, a resident of UCT, and Sterling Johnson of Philadelphia Housing Action about their efforts to protect UCT and stop the wave of evictions and displacement that primarily target low income black and brown people. Their organizing and act…

Maureen Clare Murphy (2022-08-30). Israel sentences Gaza aid worker to 12 years after sham trial. electronicintifada.net Conviction and recent raids on rights groups increase "chilling effect" in Palestine.

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-08-30). 'Bitter Street' in Lugansk: A Battle Line Drawn with Nazi Elements after 2014. libya360.wordpress.com John Parker From left: Alexey Albu of Borotba; John Parker of Socialist Unity Party; and Evgeniy Miroshnichenko, member of the Youth Parliament, State Duma of Russia. SLL photo From May 1 to May 12, I traveled to both Russia and the Lugansk People's Republic, an independent republic in the Donbass region, formerly part of eastern…

Diegoramos718 (2022-08-30). Ukraine's Anti-Worker Law Comes Into Effect. scheerpost.com Workers on McDonald's Facade &#1 ; Odessa, Ukraine 2016. Adam Jones from Kelowna, BC, Canada, CC BY-SA 2.0 By ODR Team / On 17 August, Ukraine's president Volodymyr Zelenskyi ratified Law 5371, which removes rights for workers at small and medium-sized…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-08-30). French Energy Firm Seek Deal to Increase Algerian Natural Gas Supply. libya360.wordpress.com Abayomi Azikiwe Algeria President Abdelmadjid Tebboune Holds Talks With French Counterpart Emmanuel Macron President Emmanuel Macron spends three days in the North African state in efforts to mend relations strained over colonial legacy Geostrategic Analysis Since the beginning of the Russian special military operation in neighboring Ukraine, the United States and the European Union (EU)…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-08-30). Ukraine: Somewhere Between Afghanization and Syrianization. libya360.wordpress.com Pepe Escobar Ukraine is finished as a nation — neither side will rest in this war. The only question is whether it will be an Afghan or Syrian style finale. One year after the astounding US humiliation in Kabul — and on the verge of another serious comeuppance in Donbass — there is reason to believe…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-08-30). Russia: A Strategic Challenge for NATO in the Arctic. libya360.wordpress.com NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg on Friday warned of the "strategic challenge" posed to the Atlantic Alliance by Russia's increased presence in the Arctic. Stoltenberg concluded a three-day visit to Canada at Cold Lake Air Base in northwestern Canada where North American Aerospace Defense Command (Norad) fighter jets tasked with patrolling the Arctic are based….

WSWS (2022-08-30). BT and Openreach workers return to picket lines across the UK. wsws.org With inflation climbing to over 12 percent, compounded by household energy bills rising by 80 percent in October, anger is growing.

_____ (2022-08-30). Malaysia's Ex PM Explains Imperialism's Roots In Capitalism. popularresistance.org Malaysia's longest-serving Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad warned that the US is trying to start a war with China over Taiwan. He also explained how imperialism is rooted in capitalism and detailed its economic exploitation of the Global South. | It's quite obvious that when the Eastern bloc was still there, it was a bustle between capitalism and communism. Once communism was defeated, then capitalism could expand and show its true self. It's no longer constrained by the need to be nice, so that people will choose their so-called free-market system as opposed to the centrally planned system. | So because of that,…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-08-30). How France Underdevelops Africa. libya360.wordpress.com Anis Chowdhury and Jomo Kwame Sundaram SYDNEY and KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 30 2022 (IPS) — Most sub-Saharan African French colonies got formal independence in the 1960s. But their economies have progressed little, leaving most people in poverty, and generally worse off than in other post-colonial African economies. Decolonization? Pre-Second World War colonial monetary arrangements were consolidated into the Colonies…

WSWS (2022-08-30). "The Rank-and-File needs to be brought back!": As West Coast dockworkers approach two months without a contract, casual worker calls for unity. wsws.org The International Longshore and Warehouse Union has kept workers on the job without a deal, in maneuvers coordinated with the Pacific Maritime Association and the Biden Administration.

_____ (2022-08-30). Southern Workers Are Teaching Each Other How To Organize. popularresistance.org This summer I went on strike at Dollar General in Holly Hill, South Carolina. My coworkers and I were standing up for our rights and fighting back against a company that put our safety at risk, stole our wages, and made it impossible for us to take care of our families. | Our organizing started when my coworker Tara Thompson called us to a meeting at her house. I said, "I don't feel safe at work," and everyone nodded. The store had been robbed three times since I've been here. One day a customer came into the store with a gun, having some mental health problems and talking about how he can't trust anyone. I calle…

_____ (2022-08-30). If Biden Can Cancel Some Student Debt, He Can Cancel All Student Debt In The US. popularresistance.org "I cosigned for 70K in loans to put my disabled grandchild through a private college that would meet his specific needs," said a 70-year-old debtor I met during the Debt Collective's virtual older debtors' assembly in mid-August. "I don't think I'll be able to pay off these loans in my lifetime," another debtor told me. | As I listened to these stories in a Zoom breakout room, I couldn't help but feel overwhelmed by the conclusion that debt controls the lives of millions of people in the U.S., especially our most vulnerable. The Debt Collective, the nation's first debtors' union, is known for opening and facilita…

Anonymous765 (2022-08-30). Locations Of US Carrier Strike Groups — August 30, 2022. southfront.org This is the newest update of the 'U.S. Carrier Strike Groups Locations Map' exclusive series showing the approximate locations of U.S. Carrier Strike Groups. SouthFront: Analysis & Intelligence tracks locations of U.S. aircraft carriers using the available open-source information. No classified information was used in production of the map. | Carrier strike group (CSG) is an operational formation of the United States Navy. It is centered on an aircraft carrier and a carrier air w…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-08-30). How Can Americans Tolerate U.S. Government's Crucifixion of Julian Assange? libya360.wordpress.com Eric Zuesse Julian Assange has long been in solitary-confinement imprisonment in Britain awaiting extradition to America on charges which could bring him 175 years in prison, but he has never been convicted of anything, and the U.S. Government has violated both the U.S. Constitution and U.S. laws by having thus imprisoned him for over a…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-08-30). US in Latin America: Interference, Extortion and Blackmail in Times of Global Reconfiguration. libya360.wordpress.com Jorge Elbaum The disordered and brutal intentionality of the United States to control the political, economic, communicational, military and cultural orientations of Latin America is linked to the loss of its relevance in the region. Last Thursday, the U.S. Ambassador to Argentina, Marc Stanley, arrogated to himself the right to give his opinion on the…

_____ (2022-08-30). Organizers Have Fought For Debt Cancellation For Over A Decade. popularresistance.org Following over a decade of activism against the United States' massive student debt crisis, President Biden announced a plan on Wednesday to cancel a significant amount of student loan debt for tens of millions of low and middle-income Americans. | Many organizers, whose work made the announcement possible, have viewed the news as a major victory for their movement. However, they also see it as just a small first step in a country where many borrowers — especially Black and Brown borrowers — are saddled with far deeper debts, and the root causes of educational inequity remain largely unaddressed. | "T…

WSWS (2022-08-30). Outrage among Columbus teachers as union pushes through concessions contract. wsws.org After having called off the strike by 4, 0 public school teachers, nurses, librarians, councilors and other educators early Thursday morning, the union pushed through a contract Sunday which meets none of the teachers' basic demands.

WSWS (2022-08-30). Candidate for UAW President Will Lehman: "For a united struggle of US, Mexican and Canadian workers!" wsws.org Our struggle against the corrupt, gangster-ridden unions or charros on either side of the border depends on organizing internationally and mustering our combined forces through the International Workers Alliance of Rank-and File Committees (IWA-RFC).

Dan Bacher (2022-08-30). CA Tribes and Delta E.J. groups ask State Water Board to reconsider Delta Plan. indybay.org "The State Water Board has made a public commitment to addressing the State sponsored racial inequity baked into the water rights system," said Rica Garcia, an attorney with the Environmental Law Clinic at Stanford Law School. "It now needs to act in alignment with that commitment by addressing the issues raised in the Petition."

WSWS (2022-08-30). The fight against Canadian imperialism and for socialist internationalism. wsws.org These remarks were delivered by Keith Jones, the national secretary of the Socialist Equality Party (Canada), to the Seventh National Congress of the SEP (US), held from July 31 to August 5, 2022.

____ (2022-08-30). Senior Chinese official stresses accelerating media integration. ecns.cn Huang Kunming, a senior Communist Party of China (CPC) official, on Tuesday urged swifter action to deepen media integration and muster great strength to work together and achieve progress.

____ (2022-08-30). Iran, EAEU to expand trade ties. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Aug. 30 (MNA) — Iran and the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) are poised to take giant strides in line with promoting bilateral trade and business.

WSWS (2022-08-30). Unions announce first tentative agreements with US railroads, as bureaucracy employs divide-and-conquer strategy. wsws.org The announcement of tentative agreements which workers did not want and did not ask for is fresh proof of the need for railroaders to organize themselves independently, and in opposition to, the corrupt union bureaucracy.

WSWS (2022-08-30). Why is the MNA-UMPNC saying Michigan Medicine nurses will receive no strike pay? wsws.org The MNA-UMPNC has posted a series of FAQs on its website in advance of the work stoppage authorization vote this week, one of which says that nurses will not receive any strike pay if they vote to walk out at Michigan Medicine to fight for their rights.

WSWS (2022-08-30). New Zealand Labour government to expand exploitative migrant labour schemes. wsws.org While tight restrictions remain on permanent residency for immigrants, the Labour government is expanding exploitative and low-paid temporary work schemes.

WSWS (2022-08-30). New revolutionary epoch opens doors for building the ICFI in Brazil. wsws.org These remarks were delivered by Tomas Castanheira, a leading member of the the Socialist Equality Group in Brazil, to the Seventh National Congress of the Socialist Equality Party (US), held from July 31 to August 5, 2022.

____ (2022-08-30). Task forces to speed up stimulus package. ecns.cn A worker cuts a steel part at the construction site of the T3B terminal project of Chongqing Jiangbei International Airport in Southwest China's Chongqing, July 11, 2022.

WSWS (2022-08-30). Enough is Enough campaign: A political fraud in service to the Labour Party and TUC. wsws.org Enough is Enough has been launched to police and suppress immense social anger in the working class, to shield the Labour Party and trade unions from political challenge and prevent an uncontrolled eruption of the class struggle that would threaten the survival of British imperialism.

Staff (2022-08-30). øOtra empresa estatal socialista es posible?, el próximo domingo en Cuadrando la Caja. cubadebate.cu El domingo 4 de septiembre conversaremos sobre la empresa estatal socialista en Cuba… øPor qué la empresa estatal cubana es y debe seguir siendo socialista? øQué obstáculos frenan su desarrollo? øQué le falta para lograr sostener en el tiempo productividad y eficiencia? øCómo dinamizarla?

Boris Acosta Reyes (2022-08-30). Apoyo popular a Luis Arce: Nunca más un golpe de Estado en Bolivia. globalizacion.ca La movilización popular fue convocada por el llamado ´Pacto de Unidad ª, que reúne a los sindicatos y organizaciones de campesinos e indígenas afines al gobernante Movimiento Al Socialismo (MAS). | El presidente de Bolivia, Luis Arce, advirtió que "jamás vamos a…

Staff (2022-08-30). De vallados, puentes levantados y el giro de la historia. cubadebate.cu El atropello al Estado de Derecho perpetrado por la "Justicia" Federal en la causa Vialidad en contra de Cristina Fernández de Kirchner y algunos de sus colaboradores, en donde lo que brilló por su ausencia fueron los hechos, las evidencias y las pruebas concretas, procuró ser disimulado montando un festival de logomaquia en donde lo importante eran la vacía verborragia y la espectacularidad de los gestos del fiscal Diego Luciani.

TeleSUR, lvm, SH (2022-08-30). Gobierno chileno ratifica convenio laboral contra la violencia. telesurtv.net De aprobarse en el Congreso esta ley tendría obligatoriedad en todos los sectores públicos y privados y abarcaría la economía formal e informal.

Fight Back (2022-08-30). New Orleans protest demands hurricane relief for all immigrants, defends DACA. fightbacknews.org New Orleans, LA – Dozens of protesters rallied at the statue of Benito Juarez on August 27 to demand hurricane relief funds for all immigrants, regardless of legal status. The rally also came in response to national call to action by the Legalization for All Network to defend DACA against legal attacks and to commemorate the Chicano Moratorium. | The rally was planned to coincide with the anniversaries of Hurricane Katrina and Hurricane Ida, which both made landfall in Louisiana on August 29. Although it was largely the labor of immigrant workers that rebuilt New Orleans after both disasters, many immigrants face…

_____ (2022-08-29). West's neoliberal 'age of abundance' is over, as war and sanctions boomerang home. popularresistance.org France's President Emmanuel Macron, a former banker, warned that "we are living the end of what could have seemed an era of abundance," calling it "a kind of major tipping point or a great upheaval." | Western wars and sanctions are boomeranging back at home. The neoliberal phase of capitalism is collapsing. | Neoliberalism has lost the key pillars it was built on: cheap energy and raw materials from Russia, cheap labor and consumer goods from China, an unsustainable bubble of household debt, low to zero interest rates, and Washington's ability to organize regime-change operations in any country where a governmen…

_____ (2022-08-29). West's Neoliberal 'Age Of Abundance' Is Over. popularresistance.org France's President Emmanuel Macron, a former banker, warned that "we are living the end of what could have seemed an era of abundance," calling it "a kind of major tipping point or a great upheaval." | Western wars and sanctions are boomeranging back at home. The neoliberal phase of capitalism is collapsing. | Neoliberalism has lost the key pillars it was built on: cheap energy and raw materials from Russia, cheap labor and consumer goods from China, an unsustainable bubble of household debt, low to zero interest rates, and Washington's ability to organize regime-change operations in any country where a governmen…

Staff (2022-08-29). 2022 War Abolisher Awards to Go to Italian Dock Workers, New Zealand Filmmaker, U.S. Environmental Group, and British MP Jeremy Corbyn. davidswanson.org By World BEYOND War, August 29, 2022 World BEYOND War's Second Annual War Abolisher Awards will recognize the work of an environmental organization that has prevented military operations in state parks in Washington State, a filmmaker from New Zealand who has documented the power of unarmed peacemaking, Italian dock workers who have blocked the shipment … 2022 War Abolisher Awards to Go to Italian Dock Workers, New Zealand Filmmaker, U.S. Environmental…

_____ (2022-08-29). Climate Change Causes Torrential Flooding In Pakistan. popularresistance.org Devastating floods are occurring across Pakistan due to monsoon rains. Since June, more than 1,000 people have been killed by floods, with thousands more being displaced and having to go without food. Capitalism makes these disasters the new normal, with workers, particularly those of the Global South, bearing the brunt. | Just this weekend, tens of thousands of people have had to flee their homes in Northern Pakistan due to floods. There are many more that still need to be rescued. More than 33 million people have been affected over the past few weeks, millions of homes have been destroyed, and infrastructure su…

_____ (2022-08-29). Strikes Across The UK As Regulator Lifts Energy Price Cap By 80%. popularresistance.org A new wave of strikes are underway across the UK. From postal workers to barristers, organised labour is turning out on picket lines against the backdrop of looming energy cost hikes. Workers across the UK are fighting back by withdrawing labour, sharing their experiences and, on one occasion, surfing around ports at high speed! | The strikes come as Don't Pay, which is campaigning to encourage people to refuse to pay extortionate energy bills, reported an 80% hike had been nodded through by regulator Ofgem. Don't Pay's East London branch also announced a protest at Canary Wharf for Saturday 27 August. Postal wor…

JANET (2022-08-29). Sept 8: National organizing call — Demand Amazon, Starbucks recognize unions now! iacenter.org Demand Amazon and Starbucks recognize unions now! Attend the virtual solidarity mobilization meeting for coordinated mass actions across the country Thursday, September 8 7pm et | 6pm ct | 5pm mt | 4pm pt Register for the call We have proposed these dates for coordinated mass actions across the country: Monday, Sept. 5, Labor Day (or around that date, depending on the city): Organize a presence at Labor Day marches or organize your own action; the Amazon Labor Union is holding an action with Starbucks Workers United in New York City, Sept. 5. Thursday, Sept. 29: Put on a pro-u…

A Guest Author (2022-08-29). In Bolivia, a massive rally says 'The coup plotters shall not pass'. workers.org Andrés Figueroa Cornejo wrote this article from Bolivia (under a Creative Commons license) about a massive popular preemptive action aimed at stopping a U.S.-backed military coup before it got rolling. The article was published in rebelion.org on Aug. 27. Translation: John Catalinotto. La Paz, Bolivia, Aug. 25: Mass rally counters . . . |

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2022-08-30: News Headlines

Labor Video Project (2022-08-30). South Africa SAFTA/COSATU General Strike For Workers & Communities. indybay.org WorkWeek covers the South African general strike called by SAFTU and COSATU on August 24,. 2022. Memetlwe Sebei, president of the General Industrial Union of South Africa. GIWUSA which is with SAFTU and Ayesha Rajah who is the chairperson of the Sotasonke Civic Organization are interviewed about the conditions that led to the strike, the organizing for the strike and the future.

Staff (2022-08-30). Minint: Ante solicitud de auxilio, se realizan labores de búsqueda de involucrados en salida ilegal del país. cubadebate.cu Mediante una llamada realizada al 107 (número de emergencia marítima), se supo de la solicitud de auxilio de un número indeterminado de personas, involucradas en una salida ilegal por vía marítima, este 28 de agosto, por la localidad de Isabela de Sagua, Villa Clara. Fuerzas cubanas realizan labores de búsqueda en la zona.

Slingshot Collective (2022-08-30). Saturday 9/24: Article deadline for Slingshot issue #136. indybay.org Long Haul infoshop – 3124 Shattuck Ave. Berkeley, CA 94705 – 510 540 0751 – 2 blocks from Ashby BART – corner of Shattuck and Woolsey across from La Pena…

Benjamin Norton (2022-08-29). US pushing war on China: Malaysia's ex PM explains imperialism's roots in capitalism. multipolarista.com Malaysia's ex Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad warned the US is provoking war with China over Taiwan. He also explained how imperialism is rooted in capitalism.

____ (2022-08-29). Iran says U.S. presence in Syria 'illegal, condemned'. ecns.cn The Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman condemned on Friday the U.S. military presence in Syria as an "occupation" and the fresh U.S. airstrikes there as an "illegal aggression against defenders of Syria's independence and territorial integrity."

____ (2022-08-29). Comicomment: When will U.S. bullying hegemony end. ecns.cn The U.S. military launched airstrikes against Iranian-backed groups in eastern Syria. The United States is not only stealing oil from Syria, but further destroying the oil-rich region.

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-08-29). An Engineered Food and Poverty Crisis to Secure Continued US Dominance. libya360.wordpress.com Colin Todhunter In March 2022, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned of a "hurricane of hunger and a meltdown of the global food system" in the wake of the crisis in Ukraine. Guterres said food, fuel and fertiliser prices were skyrocketing with supply chains being disrupted and added this is hitting the poorest the hardest and planting the seeds for…

WSWS (2022-08-29). Baltic governments use war in Ukraine to accelerate removal of Soviet World War II monuments. wsws.org The reactionary campaign is designed to sow ethnic divisions and erase from historical memory the defeat of fascism and the massive victory it signified for both the Soviet and international working class.

TeleSUR (2022-08-29). Germany Seeks to Ban National Vetoes in EU. telesurenglish.net Olaf Scholz, the German Chancellor, called on members of the European Union to drop the right to veto in favor of majority voting in several key areas, explaining that this would contribute to the bloc's future expansion. | RELATED: | The German official emphasized that changing the voting practices might facilitate the bloc's growth, describing how the current schemas could annulate the accession of a candidate cou…

Staff (2022-08-29). Why Israel fiercely opposes nuclear deal with Iran. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Aug. 29 (MNA) — Mossad chief David Barnea issued a warning shot against the 2015 Iran nuclear deal while the European Union, together with Iran and the US, were engaged in a flurry of diplomatic efforts to get the nuclear deal revived.

Yanis Varoufakis (2022-08-29). We Need Public Utilities and We Need Them Now. commondreams.org The European Union's power sector is a good example of what market fundamentalism has done to electricity networks the world over. With the end of cheap natural gas, retail consumers and businesses are paying the price for their governments' embrace of a shoddy theory.

____ (2022-08-29). Vera Sharav: When a Holocaust Survivor Confirms the Parallels, We Need to Listen. transcend.org 22 Aug 2022 – This is the New Eugenics. It is embraced by the most powerful global billionaire technocrats who gather at Davos: Big Tech, Big Pharma, the financial oligarchs, academics, government leaders & the military industrial complex. These megalomaniacs have paved the road to another Holocaust. This time, the threat of genocide is Global in scale.

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-08-29). To Write Off its Debt, the US Stages Wars Everywhere. libya360.wordpress.com Vladimir Platov The global economic crisis that has engulfed countries due to Washington's openly voluntarist and Russophobic policies has not only thrown the United States itself into chaos, but has also destroyed the world's multipolar model, changed the status of many states, and led to an increase in contradictions between states and coalitions. It is…

WSWS (2022-08-29). Koggala free trade zone workers in Sri Lanka establish action committee. wsws.org Esquel and Aura garment workers denounce job-cutting union betrayals in the free trade zone and the necessity to form action committees independent of trade unions and the capitalist parties.

Kathy Durkin (2022-08-29). Louisiana case shows: the human toll of abortion bans. workers.org Nancy Davis has been confronted by a terrible dilemma. She and her fiancé, Shedrick Cole, who have three children, wanted to have another child. They were very happy about her pregnancy. But instead of looking forward to having a healthy baby, the couple was shocked to get the devastating news . . . |

Robert Inlakesh (2022-08-29). Iraq Heads Towards Chaos As Sadr Supporters Revolt. thelastamericanvagabond.com Popular Shia cleric, Moqtada al-Sadr, declared on Monday that he had withdrawn from political life completely, closing down most of his party's offices. Soon after Sadr supporters stormed Iraqi government buildings and fears have grown of a large-scale violent conflict erupting. The Joint Operations Command of the Iraqi security forces announced a 15: 30 curfew in

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-08-29). US-China Tensions Over Taiwan Update (Aug 29, 2022) — US Warships in Taiwan Strait. libya360.wordpress.com Update on US-China Tensions Over Taiwan for August 29, 2022 After a series of provocative meetings between US officials and Taiwan's administration in violation of US bilateral agreements with Beijing over the One China policy, the US has now transited warships through the Taiwan Strait. Throughout this series of provocations China has steadily expanded military…

Jenny Farrell (2022-08-29). Herstory: Unmanageable revolutionaries, women and the Irish national struggle. peoplesworld.org Margaret Ward's groundbreaking 1983 book on revolutionary women in Ireland, Unmanageable Revolutionaries: Women and Irish Nationalism, 1880-1980, was republished in an updated, revised, and richly illustrated new edition by Arlen House in late 2021. It is a superb introduction to some of the great women in Irish history since Anna Parnell and an excellent detailed …

WSWS (2022-08-29). Central bankers back Fed's war on the working class. wsws.org It is significant that in his very short speech to the Jackson Hole conclave, Fed chair Jerome Powell made two references to former chair Paul Volcker whose high interest rate regime in the 1980s resulted in economic devastation for millions of workers.

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-08-29). Freeze or Starve? Sanctioning Russia Leaves Germans a Choice this Winter. libya360.wordpress.com C.J. ATKINS Freeze or starve: With energy costs driving up the price of everything, Germans will face a choice this winter. Here, a pedestrian walks through the freezing winter fog in Berlin. | Maurizio Gambarini / dpa via AP The biggest beneficiary in the whole affair, Pohl argues, has been U.S. imperialism. Its energy companies…

Daven McQueen (2022-08-29). Boston Liberation Center celebrates a year of organizing, education and struggle! liberationnews.org Over 100 people gathered at the Boston Liberation Center on Aug. 21 to celebrate the organizing center's first anniversary. The Boston Liberation Center is a working class community center located at 194 Blue Hill Avenue in the heart of Roxbury, a historically Black neighborhood and one of the oldest neighborhoods in Boston.

TeleSUR (2022-08-29). Brazil: Bolsonaro's Aggressions Cloud First Presidential Debate. telesurenglish.net On Sunday night, six Brazilian presidential candidates participated in a television debate that lasted over 2 hours. Citizen attention, however, was focused on the candidates with the best chance of winning the October elections: the Workers' Party leader Lula da Silva and far-right President Jair Bolsonaro, who is seeking a second term in office. | RELATED: | "The debate once again served Bolsonaro to lie about P…

Staff (2022-08-29). The Pandemic Rise in Self-Employment: Who Is Working for Themselves Now? cepr.net Key Findings: | The increase in self-employment was disproportionately among women and especially non-white women. | The rise in self-employment is much larger among workers with young children (under age 6) in the household than those without young children. | Although reasons for choosing self-employment vary, the ongoing childcare crisis has made it difficult for working-class mothers with young children to seek or maintain conventional payroll jobs. Part of the rise in self-employment is likely due to some of these mothers shifting from payroll jobs to self-employment in order to meet work-family res…

Jim McMahan (2022-08-29). Kent educators' strike opens school year. workers.org Seattle Over 1,700 educators went on strike in working-class Kent, Washington, near Seattle, to open the school year. On Aug. 22, 1,600 school workers voted by 94% to walk out, according to Kent Education Association Vice-President Layla Jones. Picket lines of the KEA went up Aug. 25, and by the . . . |

Phebe Eckfeldt (2022-08-29). Yvonne Swan Wanrow set precedent for self-defense cases. workers.org Record numbers of women and gender-oppressed people are being locked up. Writing for the Guardian, Marianne Kaba estimated that between 71% and 95% of incarcerated women have experienced physical violence from an intimate partner. As children and adults they experienced multiple forms of physical and sexual violence. This has been . . . |

Staff (2022-08-29). PSUV Celebrates Election of Community Delegates. orinocotribune.com "More than 45,000 communities in popular assemblies have elected their respective delegates and I express all my support. We are all winners," said President Maduro. | On Saturday, August 27, the president of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, congratulated the country on the election of the new community delegates of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV). | "More than 45,000 communities in popular assemblies have elected their leaders. I e…

Staff (2022-08-29). PSUV: 79% of Elected Street Delegates Are Women (+Irregularities). orinocotribune.com During this weekend's election day for the United Socialist Party of Venezuela's (PSUV) grassroots representatives, 55% of street delegates' mandates were renewed. | "Congratulations to those compañeras and compañeros who have already taken office," said PSUV vice president Diosdado Cabello during a press conference. "At this time, 45,125 communities have been registered. One process is teaching the others. We have been learning. The creativity of our people has been extraordinary." | This week the elections of the heads of the Hugo Chávez Battle Units (UBCh) will be held, noted Cabello. For this process, the vot…

Dr. Steven Kwon (2022-08-29). One Year Later, the US Must Evacuate the Kabul Drone Strike Survivors. aclu.org One year ago, my phone rang in California at what I knew was 2: 00 a.m. in Afghanistan. It was the country director of Nutrition & Education International, the non-profit food aid organization I founded 18 years ago and lead as president. "Dr. Kwon, Zemari is no longer with us," he told me. "Zemari has died with his children due to a drone strike." In my immediate shock, this news hardly made any sense at all. | Zemari was one of the first six people NEI ever hired. He grew up poor, like many Afghans, and started with us in 2006 as a handyman. He never attended school for formal training, but was extraordinaril…

Staff (2022-08-29). Khalil Awawdeh's message to the world: "Our cause is just, regardless of the high price paid" samidoun.net Palestinian prisoner Khalil Awawdeh, on his 180th day of hunger strike, issued a video message to the people of the world, where he speaks slowly and laboriously, with his emaciated body visible, highlighting the justice of the Palestinian cause: "Oh, free people of the world, this suffering body, of which nothing remains but skin and …

Fight Back (2022-08-29). Red Theory: Capitalist accumulation and overproduction. fightbacknews.org It is a fact of historical materialism that the development of the productive forces reduces the amount of labor required by production. As technology and techniques improve, the amount of work required to meet human needs is reduced. This should be a fact that liberates humanity from toil, freeing us to pursue our interests, hobbies, goals of self-development, and so on. | But that's not what has happened, and there is a material reason why that hasn't happened. In fact, under capitalism, it cannot happen. The capitalist relations of production – the relations of class, division of labor and ownership – stand i…

José Luis Granados Ceja (2022-08-29). Venezuela's Maduro Expresses Solidarity with Argentina's Cristina Fernández Against 'Abominable' Lawfare. venezuelanalysis.com "It is no coincidence that this new right-wing offensive against you is unleashed precisely when renewed projects of unity Our America have begun to take shape," said Maduro.

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-08-29). Macron Insulted Africans' Intelligence. libya360.wordpress.com Andrew The shameless ethno-nationalist supremacy associated with his hateful remark will result in Africans doubling down on their anti-imperialist and Pan-Africanism activism since no self-respecting person would ever capitulate in the face of such blatantly racist pressure and thus voluntarily submit themselves to being dominated by their abuser. French President Macron claimed during his latest trip to…

David Trujillo (2022-08-29). The United Farm Workers march to the California state capitol. peoplesworld.org SACRAMENTO, Calif. — The United Farm Workers Union (UFW) and their supporters assembled at Southside Community Park two miles from the California State Capital. Thousands of supporters came to support the UFW unionization protection bill. They chanted and marched to the State Capitol to show support for Assembly Bill 2183. AB 2183 would amend the …

Martin Rizzo-Martinez & Daniel Stonebloom (2022-08-29). Challenging Colonialism s01 Bonus: Take Action to Protect Juristac. indybay.org Amah Mutsun Tribal Band member Carolyn Rodriguez and Green Foothills Policy and Advocacy Director Alice Kaufman speak about the urgent need to protect Juristac–and how you can contribute.

WSWS (2022-08-29). Exchange with a railroad worker and Will Lehman, socialist candidate for UAW president: How to build rank-and-file committees. wsws.org Lehman is running on a platform of abolishing the UAW apparatus and to build workers' power through rank-and-file committees.

WSWS (2022-08-29). Five construction workers injured in explosion in Auckland, New Zealand. wsws.org While the precise cause of the disaster is not known, New Zealand's construction industry is increasingly dangerous, with 12 workplace deaths recorded last year.

WSWS (2022-08-29). Kaiser mental health workers in Northern California share their experiences as strike enters third week. wsws.org As the strike at Kaiser reaches its third week, workers explain that they are on strike for better staffing and shorter wait times for patients.

WSWS (2022-08-29). American University staff union calls off five day strike against poverty-level pay and management abuses. wsws.org The AU workers' strike brought them into a conflict against not just the campus, but against powerful sections of the Democratic Party and corporate apparatus.

WSWS (2022-08-29). UFCW's message to Columbus Kroger workers following rejection of second sellout deal: "Continue to work" wsws.org Columbus workers handily defeated the sellout contract by an over 70 percent margin, which was reached after just one day of negotiations and included barely any changes to the first contract, which workers rejected in July.

WSWS (2022-08-29). Union strangles dockworkers' strike movement in Germany. wsws.org On closer inspection, the wage settlement turns out to be a sham. Nothing has been decided yet, and dockers should make it clear that they will not accept this sell-out.

WSWS (2022-08-29). Monkeypox reported at General Motors' Wentzville plant, suspected at Flint Assembly. wsws.org The UAW has remained silent on the spread of monkeypox in the plants, in line with its efforts to cover up the disastrous toll COVID-19 has had on workers.

Rebecca Pera (2022-08-29). Minnesota nurse kicked in abdomen in 31st week of pregnancy. peoplesworld.org MINNEAPOLIS&#1 ;Union nurses from the Minnesota Nurses Association and 15 hospitals from the Twin Cities and Duluth held an informational picket line in front of Hennepin Healthcare on Monday after they overwhelmingly voted on August 15 to authorize a strike. Nurses are demanding that hospital CEOs put Patients Before Profits and implement safe levels of staffing, solutions …

WSWS (2022-08-29). UAW presidential candidate Will Lehman concludes historic tour of US auto plants with online meeting. wsws.org More than 1 workers and supporters of Lehman's campaign attended an online meeting Saturday to discuss the development of a rank-and-file movement against the UAW apparatus.

Brett Wilkins (2022-08-29). 'Sign the Bill!': United Farm Workers Press Newsom on California Union Measure. commondreams.org "We will let Gov. Newsom know our desire and courage to stand up for what is right for farmworkers and the labor movement," said labor and civil rights icon Dolores Huerta.

____ (2022-08-29). NASA moon rocket on track for launch despite lightning strikes. ecns.cn The rocket remained on track to blast off on a crucial test flight despite a series of lightning strikes at the launch pad.

Tomasz Konicz (2022-08-29). The necessary breach and Rackets and Rockets. indybay.org The climate movement should not be afraid of being accused of radicalism. Given the civilization-threatening dimensions of the climate crisis, it is a matter of sheer collective will to survive to solve this monstrous problem. It is obvious that global capitalism, in its boundless compulsion to grow, is incapable of reducing resource consumption and emissions.

WSWS (2022-08-29). London United bus drivers take second round of two-day strike action. wsws.org At Shepherds Bush a driver discussed with David O'Sullivan the issue of a rank-and-file committee, "I would like to know how this would work. We got 1.5 percent from the union last year and our strike was left completely isolated…We need something different."

WSWS (2022-08-29). Ford-Spain signals plant closure, more attacks on auto workers in Valencia. wsws.org Last week, Ford Spain announced it was refusing millions of euros in corporate bailout from the Spanish government, citing a "revised outlook for Europe".

Brett Wilkins (2022-08-29). Major League Baseball Players Launch Drive to Unionize 'Outdated, Exploitative' Minors. commondreams.org "Minor leaguers represent our game's future and deserve wages and working conditions that befit elite athletes who entertain millions of baseball fans nationwide."

Staff (2022-08-29). Acertijos de dos colaboradores y un ejercicio de pensamiento creativo de actualidad. cubadebate.cu Este acertijo que cierra agosto será a seis manos y tres: Marga, RARJ y yo. Marga, siempre fiel a nuestra columna, no nos olvida y aún lleva un tiempito por la Ciudad Luz. RARJ no quiere dejar pasar el homenaje al reciente aniversario de la FMC. Y yo voy con un exprimidor de neuronas para lidiar con los apagones. °Manos y mente a la obra!

TeleSUR, JGN (2022-08-29). Más de 29.000 venezolanos se acogen a Plan Vuelta a la Patria. telesurtv.net "Celebramos el éxito de este programa que brinda el abrazo protector del Gobierno Bolivariano a nuestros connacionales en el mundo", expresó el canciller.

TeleSUR -HIM (2022-08-29). Hallan explosivo en Colombia previo a reunión de Gustavo Petro. telesurtv.net El mandatario reiteró en Ituango el llamado a los grupos armados a pactar un cese al fuego multilateral y acogerse a su propuesta de paz total.

Elias Khalil Jabbour (2022-08-28). How China and its anti-neoliberal globalization challenges US-led imperialism and its Monroe Doctrine. multipolarista.com The hegemony of US imperialism led to a global consolidation of capitalism. But the rise of China and its model of productive, anti-neoliberal globalization offers an opportunity for Latin America, and the world, to challenge neocolonialism.

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-08-28). The Ethiopian Embassy in the US Decisively Responded to the New York Times' Disinformation. libya360.wordpress.com Andrew Korybko What's so devious about their latest report is that it masquerades as objective but deliberately twists some key facts while purposely omitting others in order to artificially manufacture a false perception of the conflict that entirely blames the central government for everything. Casual news consumers might therefore easily be misled into falling for…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-08-28). Faced with U.S. 'Decapitation Drill', DPRK Korea Missile Launch is Self-Defense. libya360.wordpress.com Sara Flounders Tens of thousands of South Koreans demonstrate Aug. 13, during the first round of military drills Aug. 8-14. This "military drill" was described as preparation for a larger 11-day U.S.-South Korean military operation Aug. 22 to Sept. 1. Credit: Xinhua The western corporate media described the Democratic People's Republic of Korea's launch of…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-08-28). Every Meddling Tactic the U.S. Empire Has Used in Ukraine Has a Historical Precedent. libya360.wordpress.com Rainer Shea The perception of the events in Ukraine that U.S. imperialism seeks to propagate is one of "see no evil, hear no evil" when it comes to the role Washington has played. The demonization of Russia is so extreme that Kiev supporters often can't even admit the conflict is a proxy war, for fear…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-08-28). Russian Allegations of Rampant Nazism in Europe. libya360.wordpress.com Gilbert Doctorow A couple of weeks before Vladimir Putin announced his 'special military operation' in Ukraine, he met in the Kremlin with Germany's chancellor Olaf Scholz. At their joint press conference following the meeting, Putin mentioned in passing that Ukraine is controlled today by neo-Nazis. This remark was famously ridiculed by Scholz as "laughable," thereby…

_____ (2022-08-28). The Twin City Co-op Wars: An Interview With Erik Esse. popularresistance.org In this episode of All Things Co-op, Cinar and Kevin talk with Erik Esse, the producer of the new documentary The Co-op Wars. The Co-op Wars traces the history of the food cooperative movement in the mid to late 1970s in Minnesota's Twin Cities. The rapid development of the food co-op network in the area prompted a split between anarchist "hippies" and Bolsheviks who styled themselves as the "Cooperative Organization" and set about taking over the People's Warehouse by force. The film provides powerful lessons for cooperative organizations and activists today. As Erik and the ATC guys dissect the film and its imp…

Fight Back (2022-08-28). Philippines: Free Adora Faye de Vera, poet, patriot and warrior for women's liberation. fightbacknews.org Fight Back News Service is circulating the following August 27 statement from the Communist Party of the Philippines. | We join the clamor of women's groups, artists, poets, rights defenders and other democratic organizations for the immediate release of Adora Faye de Vera. Adora Faye was arrested by police last Wednesday afternoon in her place of residence in Quezon City, and later brought to Calinog town, Iloilo, where she is being made to face false criminal charges. She joins at least 800 other political prisoners in the Philippines who continue to suffer unjust incarceration. | Adora Faye is an artist, a poe…

_____ (2022-08-28). Oakland, CA: Tenants Demand Repairs, Declare Rent Strike. popularresistance.org Oakland, California – Tenants of 180-unit Oakland apartment building Merritt on 3rd are collectively refusing rent Sept. 1 until the landlord meets demands related to chronic habitability issues. | The Merritt on 3rd Tenant Council and Tenant and Neighborhood Councils (TANC) present speakers and banners at a rally at the 1130 3rd Ave. building on Tues., Aug 30, 6pm. | The Merritt on 3rd Tenant Council formed in June, 2022 to address building deterioration, mismanagement, and high rent imposed by landlord Kennedy Wilson and FPI Management. | Habitability issues resulting from the landlord's neglect include a rat i…

Nino Brown (2022-08-28). Activists land in Cuba with emergency medicine delivery. answercoalition.org On Friday, August 26, activists with the Hatuey Project and ANSWER Coalition successfully delivered a shipment of medicines and equipment to help in the treatment of the people who suffered serious burns in the massive Supertanker oil fire in Matanzas, Cuba. Four tanks carrying millions of gallons of fuel were consumed by flames after a lightning strike, starting August 5. Hundreds of people were burned. Tragically, 14 firefighters died fighting the fire. | | As soon as the giant fire became news, ANSWER and the Hatuey Project issued an emergency appeal for donations, together with other solidarity organizat…

Pavan Kulkarni (2022-08-28). 'A fearless leader': South African shack-dwellers' leader, Lindokuhle Mnguni, assassinated in Durban. liberationnews.org 28-year-old Lindokuhle Mnguni, the twice imprisoned chairperson of the eKhenana commune of South African shack dwellers' movement, Abahlali baseMjondolo (AbM), was gunned down at his home…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-08-28). Protests Threaten Biden Administration's Plans for a New Golden Era in U.S.-South Korean Relations. libya360.wordpress.com Jeremy Kuzmarov Protests in Seoul against THAAD missiles. [Source: defensenews.com] Protesters in Seoul demand withdrawal of U.S. troops from South Korea During his trip to the Indo-Pacific in May, U.S. President Joe Biden made his first stop in South Korea where he hoped to inaugurate a new golden era of U.S.-South Korean relations. South Korea's…

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2022-08-29: News Headlines

Edward Curtin (2022-08-29). Impressions of Donald Trump. dissidentvoice.org Neurosis to a greater or lesser degree is the norm in western industrialized societies. Drawing on this fact is the key to effective propaganda. It is well known that neurotics always return to the place they are running away from. It's a circle game of frustration in which being frustrated is actually the "solution," because …

WSWS (2022-08-29). UAW presidential candidate Will Lehman concludes historic tour of US auto plants with online meeting. wsws.org More than 1 workers and supports of Lehman's campaign attended an online meeting Saturday to discuss the development of a rank-and-file movement against the UAW apparatus.

Labor Video Project (2022-08-29). South Africa SAFTA/COSATU General Strike For Workers & Communities. indybay.org WorkWeek covers the South African general strike called by SAFTU and COSATU on August 24,. 2022. Memetlwe Sebei, president of the General Industrial Union of South Africa. GIWUSA which is with SAFTU and Ayesha Rajah who is the chairperson of the Sotasonke Civic Organization are interviewed about the conditions that led to the strike, the organizing for the strike and the future.

Dan Bacher (2022-08-29). CA Tribes and Delta E.J. groups ask State Water Board to reconsider Delta Plan. indybay.org "The State Water Board has made a public commitment to addressing the State sponsored racial inequity baked into the water rights system," said Rica Garcia, an attorney with the Environmental Law Clinic at Stanford Law School. "It now needs to act in alignment with that commitment by addressing the issues raised in the Petition."

Slingshot Collective (2022-08-29). Saturday 9/24: Article deadline for Slingshot issue #136. indybay.org Long Haul infoshop – 3124 Shattuck Ave. Berkeley, CA 94705 – 510 540 0751 – 2 blocks from Ashby BART – corner of Shattuck and Woolsey across from La Pena…

Benjamin Norton (2022-08-28). West's neoliberal 'age of abundance' is over, as war and sanctions boomerang home. multipolarista.com France's President Macron warned of the end of "an era of abundance." Western wars and sanctions are boomeranging back at home. The neoliberal phase of capitalism is collapsing, having lost cheap Russian energy and cheap labor and consumer goods from China, and with regime-change ops failing.

WSWS (2022-08-28). Union-backed arbitration decision condemns Canadian Pacific Rail workers to real-terms pay cut, onerous working conditions. wsws.org The arbitration award, the outcome of the Teamsters' sabotage of last March's militant strike, retains the brutal scheduling regime and dangerous working conditions that prevail across North America's railroads.

TeleSUR (2022-08-28). Lula and Bolsonaro Partake in First Electoral Debate in Brazil. telesurenglish.net Former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and President Jair Bolsonaro, the two candidates leading all opinion polls for the upcoming elections in Brazil, will participate today in a first television debate. | RELATED: | According to analysts, both politicians have made the election the most polarized in the country's recent history. | Lula, candidate of the Workers' Party (PT), confirmed his attendance to the debate…

____ (2022-08-28). Xi: Teamwork of China, Africa media crucial. ecns.cn President Xi Jinping called on Thursday for media outlets in China and African countries to become facilitators of people-to-people exchanges and guardians of equity and justice to jointly advocate global development.

Revolution Books (2022-08-28). Wednesday 8/24: Pelosi's Taiwan Visit: U.S. Dangerous Saber-Rattling vs. Rival China. indybay.org Revolution Books, 2444 Durant Ave. Berkeley CA 94704…

WSWS (2022-08-28). Kent School District teachers near Seattle strike for safe staffing, expanded support services and higher pay. wsws.org Teachers at Kent Public School launch a strike with overwhelming support to struggle against inadequate wages, manageable class sizes, worsening school and living conditions, and the mass spread of COVID.

Tenant, Neighborhood Councils (2022-08-28). Rent Strike: Merritt on 3rd Tenants Demand Repairs, Refuse Rent. indybay.org Merritt on 3rd Tenant Council rent strike rally Tues., Aug 30, 6pm at 1130 3rd Avenue, Oakland.

Staff (2022-08-28). Iran Armed Forces unveil latest precision strike drone. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Aug. 28 (MNA) — Iranian Defense Ministry unveils the latest precision strike unmanned aerial vehicle manufactured by the country's Armed Forces.

Staff (2022-08-28). Historia de una locomotora: øQuién paga por el patrimonio perdido? (+ Infografía). cubadebate.cu Tras una amplia investigación, tanto en Jatibonico como en Sancti Spíritus, la pérdida de la locomotora No. 1 363, con 105 años de historia, quedó en unas cuantas reuniones. La raíz del lamentable acontecimiento fue una reunión donde se acordó desmembrarla porque "ocupaba espacio y no cumplía ningún objetivo" y sería más útil a Materias Primas.

TeleSUR (2022-08-28). Cristina Fernandez Expresses Gratitude for Solidarity. telesurenglish.net The vice-president of Argentina, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, expressed on Saturday night her gratitude for the multitudinous expressions of solidarity she has received as a result of the judicial persecution against her. | RELATED: | "There are people who want to exterminate Peronism and do not tolerate people expressing themselves. Today's violence was provoked by the hatred of Peronist love," said the vice-p…

Kyle Anzalone (2022-08-27). Biden Receives Bipartisan Criticism for Bombing Syria. news.antiwar.com After three days of airstrikes against Shia groups allied with the Syrian government, some members of Congress are taking aim at the White House. Democratic Senator Chris Murphy called for rethinking American troop presence in the Middle East. Republicans capitalized on the fighting to call for an end of nuclear talks with Iran. On Tuesday, …

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-08-27). Ukraine: The Ground Beneath Zelensky's Feet is Shifting. libya360.wordpress.com M. K. BHADRAKUMAR A HIMARS vehicle on deployment in Eastern Ukraine (File photo) Reading and rereading the US President Joe Biden's statement last Monday on Ukraine Independence Day, one is reminded of English poet John Keats' immortal line, 'Heard melodies are sweet but those unheard are sweeter.' Three things are striking. Biden repeatedly invoked the abiding nature…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-08-27). Russian Ops in Ukraine Update (August 27, 2022) — Latest US Military Aid Package "Biggest" Yet. libya360.wordpress.com Update on Russian military operations in Ukraine for August 27, 2022 US to send air defense systems, VAMPIRE laser-guided rockets, Puma UAS and parts for (not additional drones) ScanEagle drones… many of these systems will not reach Ukraine for months if not years. While the Pentagon is trying to convince Moscow it is in this…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-08-27). Advice to Ukrainians from a Resident of Mariupol. libya360.wordpress.com Vitaly Skorokhod Fighting is approaching major cities — Kharkov, Nikolaev, Zaporozhye. Soon, battles will be fought on the streets of these and other cities. Therefore, I want to give some advice to residents of the territories controlled by the Kiev regime. Unlike the sofa "experts", I have the right to do this, since together with my family I survived a…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-08-27). The US Blockade Against Cuba is an Act of War. libya360.wordpress.com HELEN YAFFE Cubans drive past the US embassy during a rally calling for the end of the US blockade. (YAMIL LAGE/AFP via Getty Images) For sixty years, the United States' blockade against Cuba has worked to hinder the island's development and prevent it from trading even with third countries. It's time Washington stopped its cruel…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-08-27). Canadian Media Once Called Azov Neo-Nazis. Now They Hide That Fact. libya360.wordpress.com Davide Mastracci and Alex Cosh News outlets have stopped labelling the Azov Regiment as neo-Nazis because it has become politically inconvenient. Earlier this month, The Globe and Mail published a story profiling the wife of an Azov Regiment colonel, who denied that the group is made up of neo-Nazis. Instead, she insisted it's "the most motivated, most…

Staff (2022-08-27). Solidarity with Khalil Awawdeh and all Palestinian prisoners in Toulouse, France. samidoun.net On Friday, 26 August, the Collectif Palestine Vaincra organized a Palestine Stand at the Bagatelle metro station in Toulouse, France. This action took place amid a day of mobilization called for by the Palestinian prisoners' movement in support of the growing struggle behind occupation bars. Since 22 August, the struggle has escalated to confront Israeli …

Dean Baker (2022-08-27). Thoughts on Industrial Policy. cepr.net There is much confusion surrounding the concept of industrial policy, starting at the definitional level. If we think of industrial policy as a set of policies designed to favor certain industries, then we are always doing industrial policy. For example, the decision to have the government finance the construction of airports supports the airline industry, …

TeleSUR (2022-08-27). Chilean Women Urge Approval of New Constitution. telesurenglish.net Women from the communes of the Metropolitan Region of Santiago de Chile participated this Saturday in a massive act to support the project of the new Constitution, which will be submitted to a plebiscite on September 4. | RELATED: | The event took place at the Caupolicán Theater, located in downtown Santiago, and was called "Caupolicanazo Feminista por la Nueva Constitución" (Feminist Caupolicanazo for the New Constit…

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2022-08-28: News Headlines

____ (2022-08-28). Comicomment: When will U.S. bullying hegemony end. ecns.cn The U.S. military launched airstrikes against Iranian-backed groups in eastern Syria. The United States is not only stealing oil from Syria, but further destroying the oil-rich region.

____ (2022-08-28). Iran says U.S. presence in Syria 'illegal, condemned'. ecns.cn The Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman condemned on Friday the U.S. military presence in Syria as an "occupation" and the fresh U.S. airstrikes there as an "illegal aggression against defenders of Syria's independence and territorial integrity."

Staff (2022-08-28). 9 PKK members killed in Turkey's operation in N Iraq. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Aug. 28 (MNA) — Turkey has announced that its military forces have killed 9 members of the PKK terrorist group (Kurdistan Workers' Party) in northern Iraq.

Revolution Books (2022-08-28). Wednesday 8/24: Pelosi's Taiwan Visit: U.S. Dangerous Saber-Rattling vs. Rival China. indybay.org Revolution Books, 2444 Durant Ave. Berkeley CA 94704…

Dan Bacher (2022-08-28). CA Tribes and Delta E.J. groups ask State Water Board to reconsider Delta Plan. indybay.org "The State Water Board has made a public commitment to addressing the State sponsored racial inequity baked into the water rights system," said Rica Garcia, an attorney with the Environmental Law Clinic at Stanford Law School. "It now needs to act in alignment with that commitment by addressing the issues raised in the Petition."

Martin Rizzo-Martinez & Daniel Stonebloom (2022-08-28). Challenging Colonialism s01 Bonus: Take Action to Protect Juristac. indybay.org Amah Mutsun Tribal Band member Carolyn Rodriguez and Green Foothills Policy and Advocacy Director Alice Kaufman speak about the urgent need to protect Juristac–and how you can contribute.

Labor Video Project (2022-08-28). South Africa SAFTA/COSATU General Strike For Workers & Communities. indybay.org WorkWeek covers the South African general strike called by SAFTU and COSATU on August 24,. 2022. Memetlwe Sebei, president of the General Industrial Union of South Africa. GIWUSA which is with SAFTU and Ayesha Rajah who is the chairperson of the Sotasonke Civic Organization are interviewed about the conditions that led to the strike, the organizing for the strike and the future.

Tomasz Konicz (2022-08-28). The necessary breach and Rackets and Rockets. indybay.org The climate movement should not be afraid of being accused of radicalism. Given the civilization-threatening dimensions of the climate crisis, it is a matter of sheer collective will to survive to solve this monstrous problem. It is obvious that global capitalism, in its boundless compulsion to grow, is incapable of reducing resource consumption and emissions.

TeleSUR, JGN (2022-08-28). Más de 29.000 venezolanos se acogen a Plan Vuelta a la Patria. telesurtv.net "Celebramos el éxito de este programa que brinda el abrazo protector del Gobierno Bolivariano a nuestros connacionales en el mundo", expresó el canciller.

TeleSUR -HIM (2022-08-28). Hallan explosivo en Colombia previo a reunión de Gustavo Petro. telesurtv.net El mandatario reiteró en Ituango el llamado a los grupos armados a pactar un cese al fuego multilateral y acogerse a su propuesta de paz total.

Abayomi Azikiwe (2022-08-27). Blinken Returns Empty Handed From Africa Tour. orinocotribune.com By Abayomi Azikiwe — Aug 24, 2022 | United States Secretary of State Antony Blinken visited three African Union (AU) member-states during early August in an attempt to enhance the presence of Washington in the continent. | This tour came amid an escalation of tensions between Washington the Russian Federation and the People's Republic of China. | Blinken first visited the Republic of South Africa where he had a joint meeting with Naledi Pandor, his diplomatic counterpart. Pandor reiterated the views of the African National Congress (ANC) government which has refused to denounce Moscow over its special milit…

WSWS (2022-08-27). Pledging "pain," Federal Reserve declares war on the working class. wsws.org Jerome Powell's Jackson Hole speech outlined a policy of class war on workers aimed at sustaining record profits, with US corporate profit margins recently hitting a 72-year high.

Staff (2022-08-27). Turkey renews attacks on Raqqa countryside in Syria. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Aug. 26 (MNA) — Syrian sources reported Friday that Turkish forces launched airstrikes on northern areas of Raqqa city in Syria.

Orinoco Tribune 2 (2022-08-27). Africans Take UK to Court Over Abuses Committed During Colonial Era. orinocotribune.com Kenyan activists are suing the United Kingdom for its grave abuses during the country's colonial era after London refused to take any accountability for its crimes. | Several Kenyan activists are suing the United Kingdom over abuses committed during the British empire's colonial era, raising a case against the country in the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) on Tuesday. | The plaintiffs, Africans forced off their land in the Kenyan Rift Valley, are saying London violated the European Convention of Human Rights through the abuses it committed in Africa during its colonial rule of the continent. | The UK is a s…

Staff (2022-08-27). Russian forces destroy large HIMARS ammo depot. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Aug. 27 (MNA) — A large US-made HIMARS ammo depot was destroyed in a Russian high-precision strike in the Dnepropetrovsk Region, Russian Defense Ministry Spokesman, Lieutenant General Igor Konashenkov, reported on Saturday.

Anonymous669 (2022-08-27). Russia Deploys Air Defenses in Syria's Deir Ezzor After US Strikes On Iranian Forces (Video). southfront.org The Russian military has deployed air defense systems in Syria's Deir Ezzor in what appears to be a response to recent US strikes on Iranian-backed forces in the governorate. | On August 27, a video showing at least one Pantsir-S short-range air-defense system on a road near the town of Hatlah surfaced online. | Hatlah is located within a small pocket on the eastern bank of the Euphrates River that is held by the Syrian Arab Army and Iranian-backed forces. The pocket is surrounded by bases of the US…

Raúl Ilargi Meijer (2022-08-27). European Union: Controlled Demolition, Energy and Food Crisis. Economic Suicide. globalresearch.ca

WSWS (2022-08-27). German workers pay the cost of war as gas and electricity prices skyrocket. wsws.org A price rise tsunami is racing toward working-class households, which means ruin for many. Experts predict that the official inflation rate at the end of the year will be 10 percent, several times higher than the wage settlements agreed by the trade unions.

_____ (2022-08-27). Trader Joe's Union Campaign Takes Two Steps Forward, One Step Back. popularresistance.org Trader Joe's workers in Minneapolis won their union in a landslide vote August 12, making theirs the second store to go with the new, independent Trader Joe's United. The win raises the question of whether the grocer, with its 530 locations and progressive image, could be the next Starbucks. | It seems that Trader Joe's management is considering becoming the next Starbucks in a different sense: closing stores and harassing workers out of union drives. A store in Boulder, Colorado, had a vote lined up for this week, but workers seeking affiliation with Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) Local 7 there withdrew thei…

WSWS (2022-08-27). Warning strike at Frankfurt University Hospital in Germany. wsws.org A two-day warning strike left the Frankfurt University Hospital paralyzed until Friday evening. More than 4,000 non-medical employees are taking part, protesting against staff shortages and catastrophic working conditions.

WSWS (2022-08-27). Contra Costa County Educators move towards a potential strike over pay and class sizes. wsws.org Potential strike of 90 teachers, who educate students with mental and physical disabilities, after working in unsafe conditions for months.

WSWS (2022-08-27). Recently-released videos show federal agents assaulting immigrant workers in 2018 raid at Tennessee slaughterhouse. wsws.org Agents carried out their rampage despite not having warrants, deportation orders or any proof of wrongdoing.

_____ (2022-08-27). Workers At MOM's Organic Market In Baltimore Vote To Unionize. popularresistance.org Dozens of workers at MOM's Organic Market in Hampden voted Friday night to unionize. | The vote is the latest in a string of pro-labor pushes from employees in the greater Baltimore area. Workers at MOM's Organic Market voted 58-5 to join Teamsters Local 570. | "It was truly an honor to do this with my coworkers. I'm so glad that we get to secure a dignified workplace for right and for future MOM's workers," said MOM's employee Kelsey Oppenheimer.

_____ (2022-08-27). Teachers Suspect Mayor Tried To Fire Them For Opposing New Scrapyard. popularresistance.org Chicago, Illinois – In late July, Lauren Bianchi and Chuck Stark, two teachers at George Washington High School on the Southeast Side of Chicago, were on the verge of losing their jobs. In what Chicago Teachers Union officers suspect was an act of retaliation from Mayor Lori Lightfoot, Chicago Public Schools recommended that Bianchi and Stark be fired for their involvement in the student-, teacher-, and community-led effort to stop the relocation of the General Iron metal shredder from the wealthy Northside neighborhood of Lincoln Park to a site half a mile from their school. With the union and their community be…

WSWS (2022-08-27). US rail unions in damage control mode as railroaders press for strike action after pro-company federal intervention. wsws.org Now that the PEB's report has been released, however, the unions are desperate to find someway to overcome the opposition from railroaders and ram through a deal along the lines of the board's recommendations.

WSWS (2022-08-27). New Zealand firefighters hold second one-hour strike. wsws.org While firefighters are determined to fight and have significant public support, the unions are isolating the dispute, and preventing a broader struggle against the Labour government's austerity measures.

WSWS (2022-08-27). UK postal workers speak during national strike: Bradford, Bournemouth and Cambridge. wsws.org World Socialist Web Site reporters spoke with Royal Mail and post office workers on picket lines across the UK on Friday, during the first of six days of strikes.

Manlio Dinucci (2022-08-27). The B61-12 Mini-nukes "Made in America" to be Used in "A Nuclear First Strike". Coming Soon to Italy, Belgium, Germany, Netherlands. globalresearch.ca

Staff (2022-08-27). Air strike on playground kills 7 in Ethiopia's Tigray region. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Aug. 27 (MNA) — An air raid killed at least seven people, including three children, in the capital of Ethiopia's northern Tigray region.

WSWS (2022-08-27). Kent School District teachers strike for pay rise, smaller class sizes. wsws.org Teachers at Kent Public Schools have launched a strike with overwhelming public support to struggle against inadequate wages, unmanageable class sizes, worsening school and living conditions, and the mass spread of COVID-19.

Staff (2022-08-27). Cuba and Vietnam in a position to strengthen ties. en.cubadebate.cu Cuba and Vietnam have all the factors and conditions to further strengthen their fraternal ties of brotherhood, the island's ambassador, Orlando Hernández Guillén, affirmed this Saturday in Hanoi. "The spirit of independence, resilience, equitable and mutually beneficial cooperation for the cause of the revolution of each country and as a contribution to peace, stability, cooperation and development, are bases on which to support the strengthening of bilateral ties. ", he pointed.

Newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2022-08-27). RISE for Youth program celebrates successful first year. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org RISE for Youth, a first-of-its-kind collaboration between Mayo Clinic and the Rochester branch of the NAACP, recently wrapped up its inaugural year of programming. The program, which received funding through Mayo Clinic's $100 million commitment against racism, drew rave reviews from scholars, community partners and Mayo Clinic staff. For as long as she can remember, Aisha Qassim has wanted to become a surgeon. But with no doctors in her family, she wasn't sure of the…

Staff (2022-08-27). ISIL hideout in Anbar destroyed in Iraqi army's airstrike. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Aug. 27 (MNA) — Iraq's security information headquarters announced the destruction of a headquarters belonging to the ISIL terrorist groups in an airstrike by the country's army in Anbar province.

Anonymous669 (2022-08-27). PKK Releases Footage Of Recent Attacks On Turkish Troops In Northern Iraq. southfront.org The Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) has released two videos documenting recent attacks on the Turkish military in Iraq's northern region. | Both attacks took part in the northern parts of the Kurdistan Region, where the Turkish military has been counducting an operation against the PKK since mid-April. The operation codenamed, Claw-Lock, is meant to end the Kurdish guerilla group presence in the areas of Metina, Zap and Avashin Basyan. | The first video released by the PKK shows an a…

TeleSUR, JDO (2022-08-27). Unión Económica Euroasiática profundiza su integración. telesurtv.net Países de este bloque revelan que el 75 por ciento de sus flujos comerciales se pagan con monedas nacionales.

Staff (2022-08-27). Cuando el amor traspasa las rejas. cubadebate.cu Un caballo, osos, casitas, camiones y conejos sobresalen encima de una pequeña mesa. Se trata de juguetes artesanales que, a la usanza de un gran tesoro pirata, fueron confeccionados por reclusos del sistema penitenciario de la provincia. Se trata de vincular a las instituciones de la provincia en el trabajo educativo dentro de las prisiones, generando así ofertas laborales para los reclusos.

TeleSUR, gao, SH (2022-08-27). Británicos pagarán 80 por ciento más en energía. telesurtv.net La creciente inflación en Gran Bretaña ha provocado huelgas de diversos sectores laborales en demanda por aumentos salariales.

JANET (2022-08-26). A Marxist view of the search at Mar-a-Lago. iacenter.org By John Catalinotto August 23, 2022 Aug. 21 — The most recent conflict among U.S. ruling institutions displays the depth of the crises wracking U.S. imperialism. As U.S. worldwide dominance declines and the government at home fails to stem growing inequality or resolve health and climate disasters, internal conflicts are sharpening. U.S. ruling-class organizations are battling for control of the U.S. capitalist regime —which decides how and for whom $3 trillion is spent each year. What's unusual is that politicians and pundits have taken public positions contrasting with their past positions. How the…

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2022-08-27: News Headlines

____ (2022-08-27). Comicomment: When will U.S. bullying hegemony end. ecns.cn The U.S. military launched airstrikes against Iranian-backed groups in eastern Syria. The United States is not only stealing oil from Syria, but further destroying the oil-rich region.

Staff (2022-08-27). Leader condoles demise of Ayatollah Nasseri. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Aug. 27 (MNA) — Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei has expressed condolences over the passing of Iranian cleric Ayatollah Mohammad Ali Nasseri.

Dan Bacher (2022-08-27). CA Tribes and Delta E.J. groups ask State Water Board to reconsider Delta Plan. indybay.org "The State Water Board has made a public commitment to addressing the State sponsored racial inequity baked into the water rights system," said Rica Garcia, an attorney with the Environmental Law Clinic at Stanford Law School. "It now needs to act in alignment with that commitment by addressing the issues raised in the Petition."

Labor Video Project (2022-08-27). South Africa SAFTA/COSATU General Strike For Workers & Communities. indybay.org WorkWeek covers the South African general strike called by SAFTU and COSATU on August 24,. 2022. Memetlwe Sebei, president of the General Industrial Union of South Africa | GIWUSA which is with SAFTU and Ayesha Rajah who is the chairperson of the Sotasonke Civic Organization are interviewed about the conditions that led to the strike, the organizing for the strike and the future.

____ (2022-08-27). Xi: Teamwork of China, Africa media crucial. ecns.cn President Xi Jinping called on Thursday for media outlets in China and African countries to become facilitators of people-to-people exchanges and guardians of equity and justice to jointly advocate global development.

Tomasz Konicz (2022-08-27). The necessary breach and Rackets and Rockets. indybay.org The climate movement should not be afraid of being accused of radicalism. Given the civilization-threatening dimensions of the climate crisis, it is a matter of sheer collective will to survive to solve this monstrous problem. It is obvious that global capitalism, in its boundless compulsion to grow, is incapable of reducing resource consumption and emissions.

Tenant, Neighborhood Councils (2022-08-27). Rent Strike: Merritt on 3rd Tenants Demand Repairs, Refuse Rent. indybay.org Merritt on 3rd Tenant Council rent strike rally Tues., Aug 30, 6pm at 1130 3rd Avenue, Oakland.

Martin Rizzo-Martinez & Daniel Stonebloom (2022-08-27). Challenging Colonialism s01 Bonus: Take Action to Protect Juristac. indybay.org Amah Mutsun Tribal Band member Carolyn Rodriguez and Green Foothills Policy and Advocacy Director Alice Kaufman speak about the urgent need to protect Juristac–and how you can contribute.

Revolution Books (2022-08-27). Wednesday 8/24: Pelosi's Taiwan Visit: U.S. Dangerous Saber-Rattling vs. Rival China. indybay.org Revolution Books, 2444 Durant Ave. Berkeley CA 94704…

____ (2022-08-27). Iran says U.S. presence in Syria 'illegal, condemned'. ecns.cn The Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman condemned on Friday the U.S. military presence in Syria as an "occupation" and the fresh U.S. airstrikes there as an "illegal aggression against defenders of Syria's independence and territorial integrity."

WSWS (2022-08-26). Britain's next prime minister Liz Truss says she is ready for global nuclear annihilation. wsws.org Liz Truss, foreign secretary and most likely the next Conservative prime minister of the UK, has declared that she would launch a nuclear strike on Russia, even though the result would be "global annihilation.

Infobrics (2022-08-26). Quality of Relations, Level of Trust Important for China-Russia Ties in the Next Decade. infobrics.org Why could China achieve its first centenary goal? What will a great modern socialist country look like? Alexey Maslov, Director of the Institute of Asian and African Studies of Moscow State University, shared his opinions on these issues with Global Times…

WSWS (2022-08-26). Former Navy SEAL Edward Gallagher, pardoned by Trump for war crimes, provided "training" to police in Tallahassee, Florida. wsws.org Terrified by growing socialist consciousness and militancy in the working class, police departments are actively seeking paramilitary training from murderous war criminals.

Staff (2022-08-26). Twitterstorm Friday, 26 August: #FreeKhalil #FreeThemAll &#1 ; Our Social Media Toolkit. samidoun.net #FreeKhalil #FreeThemAll Twitterstorm Friday, 26 August 2022 10 am Pacific &#1 ; 1 pm Eastern &#1 ; 7 pm central Europe &#1 ; 8 pm Palestine Link to sample tweets: bit.ly/freekhaliltweet Palestinian prisoner Khalil Awawdeh has continued his hunger strike for the 176th day. Since his detention was "suspended" on Friday, 19 August, he has been held in …

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-08-26). From Nurseries to Nazis: Ukraine's Terrorist Radicalization of Children. libya360.wordpress.com Deborah L. Armstrong Part I "Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it." — Proverbs 22: 6, New King James Version Ukrainian toddler taught to "cut Russians." The year is 2015. The little Ukrainian girl is wearing a Hello Kitty t-shirt that says…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-08-26). 'Peacemaker' of Death: This Ukrainian Website Threatens Hundreds of Thousands with Extrajudicial Killings. libya360.wordpress.com Olga Sukharevskaya Mirotvorets, which compiles lists of 'enemies of Ukraine', has been operating with impunity for eight years For the last eight years, a group of publicly unknown activists in Ukraine have been compiling lists of 'enemies of the people' with impunity. Hundreds of thousands have been declared criminals without trial. Among them are not…

TeleSUR (2022-08-26). Eurasian Economic Union Deepens Its Integration. telesurenglish.net The heads of government of the countries that make up the Eurasian Economic Union, meeting in the capital of Kyrgyzstan, Bishkek, agreed on Friday to create the Eurasian Reinsurance Company to support trade ties and continue reducing the dependence of these nations on the West. | RELATED: | According to media reports, the decision taken by the Prime Ministers of Russia, Kyrgyzstan, Armenia, Belarus, and Kazakhstan will provide insurance support for foreign…

Ramzy Baroud (2022-08-26). Deliberate Misrepresentation: Western Media Bias Makes Israeli War on Palestinians Possible. mintpressnews.com On August 16, the Israeli military finally admitted that it was behind the strikes that killed the 5 young Palestinian boys of Jabaliya. Whether the NYT reported on that or not matters little. The damage has been done, and that was Israel's plan from the start.

Sara Flounders (2022-08-26). Faced with U.S. 'Decapitation Drill'/DPRK Korea missile launch is self-defense. workers.org The western corporate media described the Democratic People's Republic of Korea's launch of two missiles Aug. 17 as threatening, aggressive and paranoid. What most media failed to report was the prior U.S. military exercises with Japan and South Korea off Hawai'i, in preparation for extensive war exercises off Korea, that . . . |

Workers World West Virginia bureau (2022-08-26). Inflation Reduction Act increases Appalachian climate crisis. workers.org Charleston, West Virginia Women, including Crystal Cavalier-Keck and Desiree Shelley, led the May 2021 Water Walk against the Mountain Valley Pipeline. Credit: Crystal Cavalier-Keck After an Aug. 7 Senate passage, the "Inflation Reduction Act" (IRA) passed the U.S. House of Representatives Aug. 12, and President Joe Biden signed it into . . . |

G. Dunkel (2022-08-26). Angered by inflation, British workers strike. workers.org Ever since then-Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher "solved" Britain's economic problems by hammering down workers while ignoring their needs in the 1980s, the British rulers have preferred the tactic of confronting and crushing the workers. This summer, workers have begun to hit back with a wave of strikes. Thousands, organized by . . . |

TeleSUR (2022-08-26). Inflation Sparks Strikes in Europe, Disrupting Supply Chains. telesurenglish.net Persistently high inflation across Europe has sparked waves of strikes this summer and the industrial actions could put extra pressure on the supply chain that extreme weather has already disrupted. | RELATED: | "There is some concern about strikes at key transport infrastructure impacting global supply chains," said Sarah Schiffling, senior lecturer in supply chain management at Liverpool John Moores University. | Over 1,900 members of Unit…

WSWS (2022-08-26). Union representing 55,000 Ontario, Canada education support workers delays strike vote, as Ford government unveils wage-cutting plan. wsws.org The government's proposed four-year deal is a declaration of war on the working class. The below-inflation pay offer sets the stage for an intensification of the assault on public education and an escalation of attacks on the living standards of all workers.

WSWS (2022-08-26). Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and New Zealand. wsws.org Bangladesh: 1 ,000 tea garden workers remain on strike; India: Police attack protesting power workers in Telangana; Sri Lankan government printing workers demand wage rise; Australia: Northern Territory public teachers strike; New Zealand packaging manufacture workers strike for higher pay…

_____ (2022-08-26). Congress Considers A National Domestic Workers Bill Of Rights. popularresistance.org $71,610.03: the back wages, interest, and civil penalties paid to a live-in domestic worker by their negligent employer in Seattle. In July, King5 News reported, the city's Office of Labor Standards orchestrated the employer's settlement — redress for their failure to pay minimum wage, provide overtime pay, and track payment. | "I would encourage other domestic workers to come forward and not to be afraid if they believe that the contracts and the form of payment are not being fulfilled according to the work that is done," the anonymous domestic worker shared in the wake of her repayment. | In 2018, exactly…

WSWS (2022-08-26). South African trade unions organise "stay away" as warning to ANC. wsws.org COSATU and Saftu are desperately seeking to restore the credibility of the trade unions, guaranteeing the political ties necessary for the capitalists to maintain their exploitation over the working class, and to warn the African National Congress it is sitting on a social volcano.

TeleSUR (2022-08-26). Royal Mail Postal Workers Go on Strike in London. telesurenglish.net On Friday, workers at the former state-owned Royal Mail postal company went on strike in London to demand better wages. | RELATED: | Members of the Communications Workers Union (CWU) began protesting from early morning next to one of the capital's post offices, expressing their outrage by beating drums, waving flags, and displaying banners. | They want an appropriate wage increase and oppose the company-imposed…

_____ (2022-08-26). 2,000 Frontier Communications Workers Just Won A Strike. popularresistance.org For the past week, roughly 2,000 telecom workers at Frontier Communications in Southern California have been out on a unfair labor practice strike over a grievance stemming from the company's continued reliance on subcontracting at the expense of union employees' job security. The Frontier workers, affiliated with the Communication Workers of America District 9, walked out last Friday across eight locals representing technicians, call center employees, dispatchers, clerks, mechanics, and construction workers. | On Wednesday night, Aug. 23, Thomas Ham, a fiber-optic technician with Local 9588, announced on Twitter…

_____ (2022-08-26). Indian Workers Defend Their Steel With Their Lives. popularresistance.org The virus of deindustrialisation that beset North America and Europe in the 1970s created a field of scholarly literature on post-work and post-industrial society. These writings led to the curious assumption that the digital economy would be the primary motor of capital accumulation; there was marginal interest in the fact that even the digital economy needed infrastructure, including satellites and undersea cables as well as plants to generate electricity and gadgets to link to the digital highways. This digital economy is grounded in a range of metals and minerals — from copper to lithium. Old steel, tem…

_____ (2022-08-26). Nine For-Profit Nursing Homes Pull A Simultaneous Strike. popularresistance.org One thousand workers at nine for-profit nursing homes in Western New York held one-day strikes July 12 and 13. It's the first time that 1199SEIU (United Healthcare Workers East) has held a coordinated strike across different nursing home employers in the region. | The nursing homes had a common contract expiration date, April 30, and the workers have common demands. They want a $15 starting wage for food service workers, laundry workers, and housekeepers. | "It was about calling on these for-profit owners to meet the wage standards that we have set with the not-for-profit nursing homes in the area," said Grace Bo…

_____ (2022-08-26). The Stakes In Brazil's Election Couldn't Be Higher. popularresistance.org After four years of a right-wing Bolsonaro government, Brazilians will vote for a new president on 2 October 2022. Former president Lula—currently high in the polls—is confronting an increasingly delirious incumbent, who appears to have threatened violent unconstitutional action should he lose. | Bolsonaro's victory came two years after the impeachment of Workers' Party president Dilma Rousseff in 2016, the first woman to be president. The Workers' Party (aka Partido dos Trabalhadores, or PT) had held office since 2003. | The period 2010-2016 was dominated by the 'credit crunch' crisis that sent the w…

_____ (2022-08-26). UPS Is Firing Union Activists In The Middle Of Contract Negotiations. popularresistance.org During the first week of August, UPS Teamsters organized rallies across the country with thousands of workers to kick off their 2023 contract campaign. From now to July of next year when the current contract is set to expire, UPS workers will be fighting for their demands and preparing to strike if they are not met. Among those demands are: air-conditioned trucks, no more excessive overtime, an end to the two-tier system of "22.4s," higher part-time pay, more full-time jobs, an end to harassment, and an end to outsourcing. If UPS Teamsters don't reach a suitable agreement with the company, over 340,000 workers co…

Simon Ma (2022-08-26). 2,000 Kaiser mental health workers strike for better patient care. liberationnews.org Over 2,000 unionized therapists, social workers, and mental health clinicians at Kaiser Permanente Northern California are on strike until the nation's largest non-profit healthcare institution improves access to mental healthcare for their patients.

TeleSUR (2022-08-26). Venezuelan Embrasur Aircraft Crew Meets With Relatives. telesurenglish.net On Thursday, 27 relatives of the 14 Venezuelan crew members of the plane held in Argentina left the Maiquetía International Airport for Buenos Aires to reunite with their loved ones. | RELATED: | Previously, Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro activated a "special mission" so that the crew members of Emtrasur are reunited with their families. | "Our humanist and socialist government is in solidarity with those who n…

Staff (2022-08-26). Government of Venezuela Launches Mission to Reunite EMTRASUR Crew Members with Families. orinocotribune.com This Thursday, August 25, Venezuela's national government launched a special mission to reunite the EMTRASUR Boeing 747 crew members, who have been illegally detained in Argentina since June 6, with their relatives. | "On instructions from President Nicolás Maduro, we launched a special mission to reunite the EMTRASUR crew members with their families. Our humanist and socialist government is in solidarity with those in need. The fight for the release of the crew continues," the Minister for Transportation and president of the Venezuelan Consortium of Aeronautical Industries and Air Services SA (Conviasa), Ramón C…

Isheka N. Harrison (2022-08-26). Former Home Malcolm X Shared With Brother Wilfred Being Excavated, Turned Into Museum. moguldom.com A group of archeologists began digging at one of the former homes of iconic revolutionary Malcolm X last month in preparation for turning it into a museum. Located at 4336 Williams St. in Inkster, Michigan, which is about 30 minutes from Detroit, the home was finally recognized by the National Register of Historic Places in …

_____ (2022-08-26). Why People Say There's A 'Nonprofit Industrial Complex'. popularresistance.org Lots of nonprofits do important work‚Äâ—‚Äâlike, say, In These Times, which is a reader-supported 501(c)(3). But the "nonprofit-industrial complex" refers to the larger ecosystem of elite foundations and corporate influence-peddling. | Incite, a network of radical anti-state violence activists, convened a conference to detail this relationship in 2004, titled, "The Revolution Will Not Be Funded: Beyond the Non-Profit Industrial Complex." Incite had been grant-funded by the Ford Foundation— funding Incite lost because of its support for Palestine. | As outlined at the…

Ana Perdigón (2022-08-26). Venezuela Makes Revolutionary Advances in Stem Cell Treatments. orinocotribune.com At a press conference on Wednesday, August 24, the president of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, highlighted the progress that Venezuela has made in the development of stem cell treatments. | During a day dedicated to innovation and research for healthy living and sovereignty, Maduro guaranteed the Venezuelan government's support for the stem cell the…

Jordan Jace (2022-08-26). Inmates declare hunger strike in Rhode Island's maximum security prison. liberationnews.org Inmates at Rhode Island's maximum security prison began a hunger strike August 21, sparked by the recent heat wave sending prisoners to the hospital.

Rebekah (2022-08-26). Want More Teachers? Start Valuing Education. inequality.org

_____ (2022-08-26). US Carries Out Airstrikes In Syria's Deir ez Zor Province. popularresistance.org The US armed forces carried out air raids in Syria's Deir ez Zor province on Tuesday, August 23, allegedly targeting forces allied with Iran and the Syrian government of Bashar al-Assad, as per a statement issued by the US Central Command. The exact location of the airstrikes and number of casualties, if any, are yet not confirmed. | The statement claimed that "precision strikes" inside Syria were carried to "defend and protect U.S. forces from attacks like the ones on August 15." It said that the strike targeted "Iran backed groups" and were carried out under the direction of US President Joe Biden. | On August…

Staff (2022-08-26). 29 August, NYC: Emergency rally to free Khalil Awawdeh and all Palestinian Prisoners. samidoun.net Monday, 29 August | 5 pm | Washington Square Park, NYC | Meet under the Arch | Info: Come show your support for Khalil Awawdeh, on hunger strike for over 177 days, and all Palestinian prisoners!

Dr. Christine Harb, DO, MPH (2022-08-26). Thousands of Minnesota nurses ready to strike for safe staffing and respect. liberationnews.org As the CEOs dug in their heels throughout the five months of negotiations, MNA members overwhelmingly voted to authorize a potential strike of 15,000 nurses.

WSWS (2022-08-26). Britain's TUC launches farcical campaign for £15 an hour minimum wage by 2030. wsws.org The Trades Union Congress' announcement reveals an organisation hostile to the working class, and indifferent to the social distress gripping millions.

WSWS (2022-08-26). The social and political crisis in the UK and the tasks of the working class. wsws.org These remarks were delivered by Chris Marsden, the national secretary of the Socialist Equality Party (UK), to the Seventh National Congress of the SEP (US), held from July 31 to August 5, 2022.

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-08-26). Colombian President's Security Delegation Attacked. libya360.wordpress.com Peoples Dispatch The government of President Gustavo Petro is willing to negotiate peace agreements with all paramilitary groups to achieve total peace in Colombia. (Photo: Colombian Presidency/Twitter) President Gustavo Petro stated that the violence must end in the country and reiterated his government's commitment to achieve total peace On Wednesday, August 24, a security delegation…

WSWS (2022-08-26). "It is 140 to 1 degrees in the back of those trucks": UPS workers speak out about intense heat and other abuses at the logistics giant. wsws.org UPS workers spoke to World Socialist Web Site reporters about the abuses and lies of the logistics corporation and the role of the Teamsters in abetting these conditions.

WSWS (2022-08-26). Australia: Where to for the New South Wales rail dispute? wsws.org After months of limited stoppages and halting industrial action on the railways, the Rail, Tram and Bus Union is preparing to strike a deal with the government and wrap up the dispute.

WSWS (2022-08-26). Columbus Kroger workers: Vote NO on the UFCW's "new" contract! Build support in the working class for a counter-offensive for better wages and working conditions! wsws.org The "new" contract is no different than the one which workers rejected in July. Little wonder it only took the UFCW a day to "negotiate" it with Kroger management.

Mark Gruenberg (2022-08-26). Pandemic resulted in more worker militancy among other workplace changes. peoplesworld.org WASHINGTON—The coronavirus pandemic, which isn't over yet, has wreaked massive changes on the world of work. At the height of the coronavirus-caused closures in June 2020, 31.3% of U.S. workers teleworked from home, the Bureau of Labor Statistics, through its American Community Survey, reported. That totaled 44.64 million workers, including 41% of working women in …

A Guest Author (2022-08-26). On Labor Day, hail workers in motion!/Support Workers World! workers.org Workers World/Mundo Obrero newspaper cheers on the Amazon and Starbucks workers who are leading struggles to unionize their workplaces. These mainly young people of many nationalities and genders are in the forefront of the class struggle in the U.S. Their bold actions have sparked an upsurge of worker-led union drives . . . |

Brett Wilkins (2022-08-26). Ted Cruz Worries Working Class Might 'Get Off the Bong' and Vote After Student Debt Relief. commondreams.org "Republicans revealing what they REALLY think about the working class," said one progressive commentator.

Brett Wilkins (2022-08-26). 'Historic Victory': Chipotle Workers in Michigan Vote to Form Fastfood Chain's First Union. commondreams.org "What this vote shows is that workers are going to keep taking the fight to big corporations like Chipotle and demand the working conditions we deserve," said an 18-year-old organizer at the chain eatery's Lansing location.

____ (2022-08-26). Tibet aids COVID-hit population. ecns.cn A total of 7,270 people in difficulties including 2,452 stranded travelers and migrant workers have been provided with basic living materials valuing 1.818 million yuan (about $265 thousand) since the latest outbreak of COVID-19 in Tibet Autonomous Region, said an official at a press conference on Wednesday.

WSWS (2022-08-26). Boston teachers must reject the tentative agreement reached by the teachers union. wsws.org The tentative agreement presented by the BTU to Boston teachers denies the existence and danger of the continuing COVID-19 pandemic for teachers, students and their families and provides a paltry wage increase.

WSWS (2022-08-26). UK postal workers speak as national strike begin. wsws.org "They are trying to kill the job. If you come into Royal Mail now looking for a secure job and secure pension, if they get away with this, you're coming out with nothing."

WSWS (2022-08-26). UK: Royal Mail and Post Office workers begin first of a series of strikes, BT to follow. wsws.org There were large turn outs on picket lines at delivery offices, mail centres and Parcelforce depots across the UK.

WSWS (2022-08-26). Expand the Kaiser mental health workers strike! Demand strike pay! Fight for staffing and patients! wsws.org The mental health workers have demonstrated immense courage standing up to a health care giant like Kaiser. But their struggle is being actively isolated and starved by the NUHW.

Emily Corwin (2022-08-26). Government subsidizing replacement of permanent workers with temps. peoplesworld.org DeMond Bush was living in his friend's basement in Louisville, Kentucky, in 2017 when he heard about a job that could help him get beyond his past. Since getting out of prison two years earlier, the 43-year-old had cycled through day labor and temp work but hadn't been able to find anything steady. He'd spent …

WSWS (2022-08-26). "The union doesn't exist in the plant": Powerful support for Will Lehman at Ford Kentucky Truck Plant. wsws.org Ford workers at the Louisville plant were anxious to discuss Lehman's fight to empower workers on the shop floor and sweep away the pro-company UAW apparatus…

Princess Harmony (2022-08-26). Clínicas de metadona: acabar con el estigma y el control social. workers.org En la década de 1930, la empresa alemana I.G. Farben buscaba una solución a la escasez de opio y a la incapacidad de la compañía para crear nuevos analgésicos. La empresa encontró la solución en un producto químico llamado entonces Dolophine. Ahora llamado metadona (Methadose, Diskets), circuló una leyenda urbana . . . |

Staff (2022-08-26). Especialistas de Cuba y EEUU conversan sobre labores de saneamiento y rehabilitación ambiental en Matanzas. cubadebate.cu Especialistas de Cuba y Estados Unidos intercambiaron experiencias sobre las labores de saneamiento y rehabilitación ambiental relacionadas con el siniestro ocurrido en la occidental ciudad de Matanzas, informó hoy la cancillería. Las partes abordaron las posibles vías de cooperación para la rehabilitación de las áreas más afectadas.

A Guest Author (2022-08-26). Una llamada de emergencia a la acción: Amazon, Starbucks, °reconoced a los sindicatos ya! workers.org Red de apoyo a los trabajadores de Amazon El Sindicato de Trabajadores de Amazon (ALU) celebra la victoria electoral frente a las oficinas de la NLRB, en la ciudad de Nueva York, el 1 de abril. La Red de Apoyo a las y los Trabajadores de Amazon emitió el . . . |

____ (2022-08-26). Friday, Or… Are Fart Jokes Funny? smoothiex12.blogspot.com Unless one is a prude (a euphemism for being a hypocrite), toilet jokes, in general, are funny. I am not going to elaborate on the psychological or cultural reasons for those jokes being funny, but low brow humor does have a massive following and whatever one says, I remember us watching the Naked Gun first time in 1980s and people were suffering from severe stomach pains during the episode of Frank Drebin (God Bless your soul, Leslie Nielsen) going to bathroom during the press-conference of LA authorities in preparation to Queen's visit. So, let's cut the crap here and admit–fart jokes are funny and universal i…

Special to People's World (2022-08-26). Andrea Bowers, revolutionary feminist artist retrospective at Hammer Museum until September 4. peoplesworld.org LOS ANGELES — This exhibition offers the first in-depth look at the multifaceted career of Los Angeles-based artist Andrea Bowers (American, b. 1965). Studying at CalArts (California Institute of the Arts) in the early 1990s and part of a generation of artists who established Los Angeles as an international center of contemporary art practice, Bowers …

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-08-25). Journalists Who Challenge NATO Narratives Are Now 'Information Terrorists'. libya360.wordpress.com Vanessa Beeley Nazis congregate on Google Plus 2019. A US state department sponsored round table on 'countering disinformation' was recently held at the National Security and Defence Council of Ukraine. "Information terrorists should know that they will have to answer to the law as war criminals" Andrii Shapovalov According to the press release — "NGOs, mass media…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-08-25). Ukraine's Growing Dependency on Terrorism. libya360.wordpress.com An up-tick of sabotage and terrorism from Ukraine comes as Kiev's forces fail to make any gains on the battlefield. International relations and security expert Mark Sleboda breaks down the context the recent assassination of Darya Dugina took place within, what it means for both Ukraine and Russia now and in the near future, and…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-08-25). US Becomes a Party to the Conflict in Ukraine. libya360.wordpress.com Valery Kulikov The fact that the escalation of the Ukraine conflict is happening not only at the direct instigation of the United States and other NATO allies but also with direct encouragement from Washington, is now openly expressed by many politicians and observers. As Russian Federation Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov told Russia-1 TV on…

_____ (2022-08-25). Are North Korean Military Construction Workers Getting Sent to the DLNR? journal-neo.org The establishment of diplomatic relations between the DPRK and the Donbass republics has brought some implications, including negotiations on the restoration of areas destroyed by the Kyiv regime with the participation of North Korean construction workers. On June 17, the head of the Ministry of Regional Development of the Russian Federation A. Chekunkov stated in …

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-08-25). The TPLF's Latest Terrorist Offensive Intended to Punish Ethiopia. libya360.wordpress.com Andrew Korybko The West and Egypt want their TPLF proxies to punish Ethiopia for its rising global role as recognized by the BRICS countries and especially Russia, Prime Minister Abiy decisively avoiding war with Sudan earlier this summer, and Addis' third filling of GERD. The TPLF unsurprisingly launched another terrorist offensive in northern Ethiopia after…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-08-25). SBU HQ in Mariupol: Torture and Executions. libya360.wordpress.com Laurent BrayardA few days ago we went with Father Theophane to two SBU buildings in Mariupol, where he himself was tortured and witnessed the execution of a man. The first building was the central SBU headquarters in the city, the second the headquarters for the whole of the former Donetsk oblast. We were expecting a…

_____ (2022-08-25). Iran Receives US Response To EU Proposal To Revive Nuclear Deal. popularresistance.org Iran said on Wednesday that it had received the US response to an EU proposal aimed at reviving the nuclear deal, known as the JCPOA. Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Nasser Kanaani said Tehran has begun a "careful review" of the US response. | "This evening Iran received the US response through the European Union. The careful review of the response has started in Tehran," Kanaani said. "Iran will share its view with the EU, as the coordinator of the nuclear talks, upon completion of Tehran's review." | The State Department confirmed that the US has responded to the proposal, which came after Iran gave its resp…

Dave DeCamp (2022-08-25). Report: British Envoy Praises Israeli Bombing Campaign in Syria. news.antiwar.com According to a report from Axios, the UK's special envoy for Syria, Jonathan Hargreaves, praised Israel's bombing campaign in Syria during a visit to Jerusalem at the end of June. In recent years, Israel has launched hundreds of airstrikes in Syria. The Israelis say that the bombing campaign is to prevent Iran from becoming further …

_____ (2022-08-25). The US Legacy In Afghanistan. popularresistance.org The mid-point of August is an important moment in history for Afghanistan and the world. It marks the anniversary of the Taliban's ouster of large portions of the U.S. military from Afghanistan, putting a formal end to a two-decade occupation. U.S. forces left Afghanistan just as murderously as they came in. Joe Biden's administration oversaw numerous war crimes during its haphazard "withdrawal" on August 15th 2021. This included a drone strike that killed ten civilians and at least seven children. | The cost of the twenty-year total siege of Afghanistan is well documented. According to Brown University's Cost of…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-08-25). Nehanda Abiodun and the Legacy of Resistance to the Prison Industrial Complex. libya360.wordpress.com Abayomi Azikiwe African American revolutionary exemplified the movement to end national oppression and the criminalization of a people Black August Series No. 4 Since the early 1980s, the prison population in the United States has grown exponentially with African Americans, Latin Americans and other working class people making up the majority of those incarcerated in…

_____ (2022-08-25). First Columbus Teachers Strike In Almost 50 Years. popularresistance.org At 7 o'clock Monday morning, teachers and education workers of the Columbus Education Association union in Ohio went on strike, marking the first time teachers have gone on strike in the city since 1975. Columbus City Schools is the largest school district in the state of Ohio and the school year was originally scheduled to begin today. | The 4,500-member union — representing teachers, librarians, nurses, counselors, psychologists and other education professionals — met for more than three hours to vote on Sunday. Over 94 percent of members voted to reject the Columbus City school board's latest "fina…

_____ (2022-08-25). Haitians Mobilize Against Insecurity And High Cost Of Living. popularresistance.org On Monday, August 22, thousands of Haitians took to the streets across the country to protest against rampant insecurity, chronic gang violence and a rising cost of living. The protesters demanded the resignation of Prime Minister and acting President Ariel Henry, arguing that under his management, the economic and social crisis deepened in the Caribbean country. | In the capital of Port-au-Prince, members of several civil society organizations, popular movements, trade unions, and opposition parties held a massive rally, condemning fuel shortages and soaring prices of essential commodities and basic services. Pr…

_____ (2022-08-25). Reality Is Not What It Seems And That Might Just Save the Climate. popularresistance.org Anti-science rhetoric and special interests have pushed us to the edge of climate chaos. But just as quantum physics disrupted our view of matter and energy, quantum social change disrupts our beliefs about what's possible, how fast, and by whom. | As the world gasped in wonder at the first images of our infant universe from the James Webb Space Telescope last month, we were reminded that human beings are still capable of acts that elevate us all and advance our collective potential. | "[When] my grandchildren … look up at a star, point to it and say 'there's life!' — that's going to be a moment more prof…

_____ (2022-08-25). FBI Harasses Cuban Solidarity Activists For Delivering Medical Aid. popularresistance.org The president of the Cuba Solidarity Committee (CSC) of Puerto Rico, Milagros Rivera, denounces the intimidation operation unleashed by federal agents through calls and visits to several activists of the Committee and members of the Juan Rius Rivera Brigade. | Claiming that they were investigating the Cuba Solidarity Committee, they tried to find out details about the Committee's spokesperson and the recent trip to Cuba by the Brigade under the category "various types of support for the Cuban people". On its tour of the country, the brigade delivered sanitary donations to fight against COVID-19 in hospitals and e…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-08-25). Brazil: Is Lula Under Threat? libya360.wordpress.com Julian Cola "It's also in your hands to prevent the return of corruption and robbery to take hold of the country…It's you who can prevent the release of a prisoner [Lula] convicted of corruption" —Geraldo Alckmin speaking during his 2018 presidential campaign. Four years on, the former governor of Sà£o Paulo is now Lula's vice-presidential…

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2022-08-26: News Headlines

Labor Video Project (2022-08-26). Pelosi Resign! San Franciscans Accuse Pelosi of War Mongering Against China. indybay.org Dozens of people rallied in Portsmouth Square in San Francisco Chinatown and demanded that San Francisco House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi resign. They accused her of whipping up war against China and being responsible for the escalating attacks on Chinese and Asian Americans.

Juan Cole (2022-08-26). California to Require All New Car Purchases in 2035 to be Electric, in Massive Change for Auto Industry. juancole.com Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) &#1 ; The California Air Resources Board has ruled that no all-gasoline cars can be sold new in California by 2035, according to AP. This measure has brought California into line with the European Union, which has the same deadline for going electric, as does Canada. Some 17 other states, including New …

Tenant, Neighborhood Councils (2022-08-26). Rent Strike: Merritt on 3rd Tenants Demand Repairs, Refuse Rent. indybay.org Merritt on 3rd Tenant Council rent strike rally Tues., Aug 30, 6pm at 1130 3rd Avenue, Oakland.

Dan Bacher (2022-08-26). CA Tribes and Delta E.J. groups ask State Water Board to reconsider Delta Plan. indybay.org "The State Water Board has made a public commitment to addressing the State sponsored racial inequity baked into the water rights system," said Rica Garcia, an attorney with the Environmental Law Clinic at Stanford Law School. "It now needs to act in alignment with that commitment by addressing the issues raised in the Petition."

Samantha Hepburn (2022-08-26). Opening 10 new oil and gas sites is a win for fossil fuel companies, a staggering loss for Australia. greenleft.org.au The Anthony Albanese Labor government is heading in the wrong direction by opening up new fossil fuel exploration, writes Samantha Hepburn.

Martin Rizzo-Martinez & Daniel Stonebloom (2022-08-26). Challenging Colonialism s01 Bonus: Take Action to Protect Juristac. indybay.org Amah Mutsun Tribal Band member Carolyn Rodriguez and Green Foothills Policy and Advocacy Director Alice Kaufman speak about the urgent need to protect Juristac–and how you can contribute.

Newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2022-08-26). RISE for Youth program celebrates successful first year. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org RISE for Youth, a first-of-its-kind collaboration between Mayo Clinic and the Rochester branch of the NAACP, recently wrapped up its inaugural year of programming. The program, which received funding through Mayo Clinic's $100 million commitment against racism, drew rave reviews from scholars, community partners and Mayo Clinic staff. For as long as she can remember, Aisha Qassim has wanted to become a surgeon. But with no doctors in her family, she wasn't sure of the…

Tomasz Konicz (2022-08-26). The necessary breach and Rackets and Rockets. indybay.org The climate movement should not be afraid of being accused of radicalism. Given the civilization-threatening dimensions of the climate crisis, it is a matter of sheer collective will to survive to solve this monstrous problem. It is obvious that global capitalism, in its boundless compulsion to grow, is incapable of reducing resource consumption and emissions.

Revolution Books (2022-08-26). Wednesday 8/24: Pelosi's Taiwan Visit: U.S. Dangerous Saber-Rattling vs. Rival China. indybay.org Revolution Books, 2444 Durant Ave. Berkeley CA 94704…

WSWS (2022-08-26). Columbus Education Association shuts down three-day strike after reaching "conceptual agreement" wsws.org The CEA abruptly called off the picketing, failing to even solidify a tentative agreement, only a "conceptual" agreement. In other words, no actual agreement in fact exists.

____ (2022-08-26). Xi: Teamwork of China, Africa media crucial. ecns.cn President Xi Jinping called on Thursday for media outlets in China and African countries to become facilitators of people-to-people exchanges and guardians of equity and justice to jointly advocate global development.

Anonymous103 (2022-08-25). EU Tug-Of-War Policy On Ukraine Crumbling Further As Member States Diverge. southfront.org People supporting an EU integration attend a rally at Independence Square in Kiev December 4, 2013. UkSince sanctions started affecting the EU more than Russia itself, the leadership in Brussels is trying to spin the narrative. However, the EU public is not very receptive to this. | Written by Drago Bosnic, independent geopolitical and military analyst | The European Union's support is key to the sustainment of the Kiev regime. Without the bureaucratic bloc, the Neo-Nazi junta would've never been able to survive…

TeleSUR (2022-08-25). EU Sanction on Russian Coal To Worsen World Energy Crisis. telesurenglish.net According to the most prominent Russian coal producer, SUEK, the sanctions imposed by the European Union on Russian coal imports represent a worsening of the current global energy crisis, affecting the European economy and consumers. | RELATED: | "European sanctions in respect of Russian coal suppliers deepen the rising global energy crisis and turn the EU into the territory of prohibitively high prices and infl…

WSWS (2022-08-25). Strike blocked at key ammunition plant after media portrayed work stoppage as national security threat. wsws.org In the days leading up to the contract expiration this month, Forbes published claims that a work stoppage would be connected with Russian "meddling," and warned of the danger of outside influences and social media.

TeleSUR (2022-08-25). Spanish Head of Government To Host EU-CELAC Summit. telesurenglish.net The President of the Spanish Government, Pedro Sánchez, announced on Wednesday in Colombia, hours before traveling to Ecuador, that he wishes to take advantage of the moment when Spain holds the presidency of the Council of the European Union to hold a summit between the European Union (EU) and the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC). | RELATED: | During a meeting with representatives of some 8 S…

WSWS (2022-08-25). Socialist Equality Party and action committees in Sri Lanka to demonstrate this Sunday in defence of victimised estate workers. wsws.org Plantation management has unleashed its victimisations not just to intimidate Alton Estate workers, but as part of a national plan to impose even harsher workloads in all estates and to drive-up company profits.

WSWS (2022-08-25). Eighteen months after being accused, still no trial for framed-up Sri Lankan plantation workers. wsws.org The victimisation of Alton Estate workers was a calculated attack, not just on militant workers at this particular estate but in order to intimidate the entire plantation workforce.

Shaun Richman (2022-08-25). Independent Unions Can Help Break Through the Economic Crisis and Labor's Paralysis. socialistproject.ca Review of In a period of extreme social and economic crises, when the major labor unions have reduced their organizing programs to a fraction of what they once were and the courts stand athwart any effort to protect workers' interests, scrappy new independent unions raise hope against hope that maybe — just maybe — workers c…

TeleSUR (2022-08-25). Bolivian Social Movements March in Support of President Arce. telesurenglish.net On Thursday, the Pact of Unity (PU) and the Central Obrera Boliviana (COB) called for a march to reject attempts at political destabilization and ratify their support for President Luis Arce and Vice President David Choquehuanca. | RELATED: | The march started from the El Alto City towards Saint Francis Square in downtown La Paz, where thousands of workers, farmers, and students gathered to affirm their will for eco…

TeleSUR (2022-08-25). Lula Sweeps Bolsonaro 61 to 20 in Bahia's Voting Intention. telesurenglish.net On Thursday, the Datafolha Institute released data from an opinion poll conducted with a sample of 1,008 voters in 63 municipalities in the state of Bahia. | RELATED: | The figures show that the Workers' Party candidate Lula da Silva has managed to capture 61 percent of the voting intentions, while President Jair Bolsonaro reaches 20 percent. | The rest of the electoral preferences are divided between Ciro Gomes (7 p…

Orinoco Tribune 2 (2022-08-25). Palestinian Collective Struggle on the Rise Inside Occupation Prisons. orinocotribune.com Palestinian prisoners

Liberation Staff (2022-08-25). PSL editorial — U.S. troops out of Syria! liberationnews.org The United States has no right to carry out airstrikes in a country against the will of its sovereign government, and these latest attacks show the complete disregard the U.S. government has for the Syrian people's right to determine their own affairs.

Dana Sanchez (2022-08-25). Husband Of Nancy Pelosi, Multimillionaire Paul Pelosi Sentenced To 5 Days In Jail For Ridin' Dirty, DUI. moguldom.com Paul Pelosi, the husband of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, pleaded guilty to driving under the influence of alcohol and was sentenced to five days in jail and three years of probation for a crash in California's wine country that injured another driver. Pelosi, 82, has already served two days in jail after the May 28 …

Ricardo Vaz (2022-08-25). Venezuela: Gov't to Partner with Siemens to Recover Electric Grid. venezuelanalysis.com The German company will collaborate to boost the energy supply to Caracas and to the oil industry.

Abayomi Azikiwe (2022-08-25). The Legacy of Resistance to the Prison Industrial Complex. Nehanda Abiodun Enters the Struggle. globalresearch.ca

Staff (2022-08-25). Cuban president visits supertanker base in Matanzas. en.cubadebate.cu Díaz-Canel arrived at the super tanker base in Matanzas. Photo: Presidency of Cuba/ Twitter. The first secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba and President of the Republic Miguel Díaz Canel Bermúdez arrived this Thursday at the industrial zone of Matanzas to check the recovery program of the supertanker base after an unprecedented fire that occurred due to an electrical discharge on August 5.

WSWS (2022-08-25). Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa. wsws.org Airline pay strikes continue to sweep Europe in Spain, Romania, Germany, Portugal; civil servants, firefighters and teachers in one-day national walkout in Kosovo; rolling strikes by Dutch railway workers over conditions and cost of living begin; 2,700 teachers walk out in Norway over pay and staff shortage; waste and recycling workers' stoppages sweep Scotland as rubbish piles up in streets; Qatar government deports migrant workers after arresting them for protesting non-payment of wages; National one-day stoppage in South Africa against plunging living standards; | One striker shot dead and three hospitalised b…

WSWS (2022-08-25). The revival of German militarism and the fight for socialism. wsws.org These remarks were delivered by Christoph Vandrier to the Seventh National Congress of the Socialist Equality Party (US). Vandrier is the chairman of the Sozialistische Gleichheitspartei (SGP), the German section of the International Committee of the Fourth International.

WSWS (2022-08-25). Public sector unions preparing sell out in Western Australia. wsws.org The Public Sector Alliance is designed as a veneer of "solidarity" over the divisive tactics of the unions, giving workers an impression of a unified struggle, while the bureaucrats continue to work closely with management to broker individual sell-out deals.

Alasdair Baverstock (2022-08-25). Mexico's campaign to recover stolen artifacts. america.cgtn.com Mexico, a country with a painful colonial history, is staging an international pressure campaign to get stolen artifacts and wealth returned to the country.

Orinoco Tribune 2 (2022-08-25). Thousands of Rail Workers Strike for Job Security in UK. orinocotribune.com Thousands of rail workers in the United Kingdom went on strike over pay and job security on Saturday, August 20, as the cost-of-living crisis continues to bite. | Members of the RMT and TSSA trade unions staged their latest walkout in a dispute affecting Network Rail and several train-operating companies across the country. | RMT general secretary Mick Lynch said: "I think that the British public are fed up of being ripped off by this government and by corporate Britain, which have seen companies like BP and British Gas making massive profits while people are struggling to make a living." | Both unions have accus…

Anonymous669 (2022-08-25). US Announces New Wave Of Strikes On Iranian-Backed Forces In Syria's Deir Ezzo. southfront.org ERBIL, Iraq — An AH-64E Apache helicopter from the 4th Squadron, 6th Cavalry Regiment, Task Force Saber, hovers prior to taking off to conduct a mission, July 11,2017, Erbil, Iraq. (U.S. Army photo by Capt. Stephen James) | On August 25, the United States Central Command (CENTCOM) announced that its forces had carried out a new wave of strikes on Iranian-backed forces in Syria's Deir Ezzor. | The strikes were a response two indirect fire attacks that targeted the US-led coalition's C…

Labor Video Project (2022-08-25). NUHW In Kaiser Strike Demand That Newsom & Demos Prosecute Flagrant Violations Of CA Law. indybay.org At an NUHW Kaiser strike rally at the Kaiser headquarters the union demanded that Governor Newsom and California politicians enforce the healthcare laws which Kaiser they charged is flagrantly violating. Workers and patients also spoke about what they are facing.

WSWS (2022-08-25). The socialist response to US railroads' false claim that "labor does not contribute to profits" wsws.org During hearings before the Presidential Emergency Board, the railroads companies argued that labor from railroad workers does not contribute to their profits.

WSWS (2022-08-25). As teachers continue strike in Columbus, Ohio, UAW presidential candidate Will Lehman visits picket lines. wsws.org The Biden administration, concerned the walkout in Columbus could spark a wider movement of educators, has intervened with a federal mediator in an effort to crush the strike before teachers can win their demands.

____ (2022-08-25). U.S. launches airstrikes against Iranian-backed groups in Syria. ecns.cn The U.S. military on Tuesday launched airstrikes against Iranian-backed groups in eastern Syria, the U.S. Central Command said in a statement.

WSWS (2022-08-25). Video statement: Mobilize all workers to support striking Columbus educators! wsws.org UAW presidential candidate Will Lehman issued this statement on Wednesday, before the union and school board announced a "conceptual" agreement to shut down the strike.

WSWS (2022-08-25). Michigan Medicine recruiting strikebreakers in anticipation of nurses' strike. wsws.org The WSWS Health Care Workers Newsletter urges nurses to vote overwhelmingly to strike. But it must be a strike to win, not to be isolated and sold out by the union bureaucracy!

____ (2022-08-25). UN calls for restraint in wake of U.S. airstrikes in Syria. ecns.cn The United Nations on Wednesday called for restraint following U.S. airstrikes in eastern Syria.

Deweylaura (2022-08-25). LGBTQ+ theory, history, and the CPUSA (part 1). cpusa.org The following article has been adapted from a talk presented at the Little Red Schoolhouse in New York City, July 28, 2022. Part 2 will be posted next week. Good afternoon, everyone. Some of you may be familiar with my name, Eric A. Gordon, as a writer. I'm the Cultural Editor of People's World …

Orinoco Tribune 2 (2022-08-25). Thousands of Rail Workers Strike for Job Security at the Weekend. orinocotribune.com Thousands of rail workers went on strike over pay and job security on Saturday as the cost-of-living crisis continues to bite. | Members of the RMT and TSSA unions staged their latest walkout in a dispute affecting Network Rail and several train-operating companies across the country. | RMT general secretary Mick Lynch said: "I think that the British public are fed up of being ripped off by this government and by corporate Britain, which have seen companies like BP and British Gas making massive profits while people are struggling to make a living." | Both unions have accused Transport Secretary Grant Shapps of b…

WSWS (2022-08-25). Canada's pseudo-left Fightback group champions Teamsters' top-down Amazon unionization drive. wsws.org Fightback, with its militant bluster promoting the corporatist trade unions, serves as the "left" flank of the trade union/Liberal/NDP governmental alliance.

WSWS (2022-08-25). Will Lehman's ad for UAW president: "Power to the Rank-and-File" wsws.org The historic candidacy by a worker and socialist for the presidency of the UAW is the spearhead of a growing rank-and-file rebellion against the pro-corporate dictatorship of the union apparatus.

Mark Gruenberg (2022-08-25). AFL-CIO kicks off Labor Day with detailed political plan. peoplesworld.org WASHINGTON—The AFL-CIO kicked off the Labor Day weekend, in advance, with a detailed political plan for the fall elections and beyond, released August 24 in a nationwide zoom call. The plan features massive from-the-ground-up member-driven involvement, including a feedback loop where workers' recommendations will adjust the federation's issue priorities between now and Election Day, and …

Cameron orr (2022-08-25). The struggle for full legalization of our party. cpusa.org On the CPUSA's visible "existence" in national life Before I joined the CPUSA in the spring of 2017, I had no idea that the Communist Party of the United States still existed. As someone new to the movement at the time, being only exposed to the Black Lives Matter movement following the murders of Trayvon …

WSWS (2022-08-25). Australia: Union limits industrial action at University of Newcastle. wsws.org The union, having enforced hundreds of job cuts over the past two years, is suppressing demands from staff for strike action.

Staff (2022-08-25). Italia y España donan insumos para contribuir a la asistencia a los lesionados en el incendio en la zona industrial de Matanzas. cubadebate.cu El gobierno de Italia enviará a Cuba un donativo de medicamentos e insumos sanitarios para contribuir a la asistencia a los lesionados en el incendio en la zona industrial de Matanzas. Por su parte, procedente de España, con 414 kilogramos de insumos médicos y medicamentos, Cuba recibió un donativo para las víctimas del trágico accidente.

TeleSUR -ysm- JL (2022-08-25). Venezuela y Belarús evalúan acciones para fortalecer relaciones. telesurtv.net El intercambio entre los representantes gubernamentales buscó analizar los escenarios para ampliar e impulsar la colaboración.

Dave DeCamp (2022-08-24). US Troops Wounded in Rocket Attacks in Syria After US Airstrikes. news.antiwar.com Three US troops were wounded in rocket attacks in Syria on Wednesday that came after the US launched airstrikes in the country, US Central Command (CENTCOM) said. The rocket attacks targeted the US base at Green Village and the Conoco gas fields, which are both located in eastern Syria. CENTCOM said one service member was …

Diegoramos718 (2022-08-24). WSJ Sells Lithium Neocolonialism as Climate Necessity. scheerpost.com By Teddy Ostrow / FAIR True to its name, the Wall Street Journal never fails to lay bare its corporate sympathies. In a recent feature headlined "The Place With the Most Lithium is Blowing the Electric-Car Revolution" (8/10/22), the Journal warps anti-neoliberal and Indigenous resistance to ecological destruction and resource plundering into pesky obstacles to green capitalist innovation. The …

Arjae Red (2022-08-24). Starbucks ordered to rehire organizers — Memphis Seven win. workers.org Back in February, Starbucks made headlines with the most viciously racist union-busting move since the start of its union-busting campaign: the firing of the entire, mostly Black and Brown, union organizing committee at the Poplar and Highland store in Memphis, Tennessee. Now, six months later, these seven workers claimed a . . . |

Charlie Dyell (2022-08-24). Pensacola service workers walk out over unsafe working conditions. liberationnews.org On July 31, service industry workers staged a walkout at The Leisure Club cafe in Pensacola over intolerable working conditions.

David Sirota (2022-08-24). NEW LEVER E-BOOK: John Roberts' Revolution. levernews.com Supporting subscribers can obtain a copy of this brand new e-book at the bottom of this page.In 2005, a U.S. Chamber of Commerce lawyer who had helped George W. Bush steal an election was nominated to be chief justice of the United States Supreme Court. An archconservative lauded as "the go-to lawyer for the business community," John Roberts was confirmed by a huge bipartisan Senate vote. Since then, Roberts has been widely billed by corporate media as a thoughtful and pragmatic moderate earnestly fighting against other conservative justices to preserve the court's legitimacy. But as The Lever's reporting has…

Anonymous (2022-08-24). Same Thing Happened in Fiji. indybay.org Australian establishment in cover up mode over former PM's secret ministerial positions In the days since it was revealed that former Prime Minister Scott Morrison secretly appointed himself to five key ministerial portfolios in 2020 and 2021, the Australian political and media establishment has desperately sought to cover up the political significance of the measures, which amounted to nothing less than the preparations for a prime ministerial dictatorship.

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2022-08-25: News Headlines

WSWS (2022-08-25). Socialist Equality Party and action committees in Sri Lanka to demonstrate this Sunday in defence of victimised estate workers. wsws.org Plantation management has unleashed its victimisations, not just to intimidate Alton Estate workers but as part of a national plan to impose even harsher workload in all estates and to drive-up company profits.

Orinoco Tribune 2 (2022-08-25). Palestinian Collective Struggle on the Rise Inside Occupation Prisons. orinocotribune.com Palestinian prisoners

____ (2022-08-25). UN calls for restraint in wake of U.S. airstrikes in Syria. ecns.cn The United Nations on Wednesday called for restraint following U.S. airstrikes in eastern Syria.

Tenant, Neighborhood Councils (2022-08-25). Rent Strike: Merritt on 3rd Tenants Demand Repairs, Refuse Rent. indybay.org Merritt on 3rd Tenant Council rent strike rally Tues., Aug 30, 6pm at 1130 3rd Avenue, Oakland.

Martin Rizzo-Martinez & Daniel Stonebloom (2022-08-25). Challenging Colonialism s01 Bonus: Take Action to Protect Juristac. indybay.org Amah Mutsun Tribal Band member Carolyn Rodriguez and Green Foothills Policy and Advocacy Director Alice Kaufman speak about the urgent need to protect Juristac–and how you can contribute.

Newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2022-08-25). RISE for Youth program celebrates successful first year. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org RISE for Youth, a first-of-its-kind collaboration between Mayo Clinic and the Rochester branch of the NAACP, recently wrapped up its inaugural year of programming. The program, which received funding through Mayo Clinic's $100 million commitment against racism, drew rave reviews from scholars, community partners and Mayo Clinic staff. For as long as she can remember, Aisha Qassim has wanted to become a surgeon. But with no doctors in her family, she wasn't sure of the…

Tomasz Konicz (2022-08-25). The necessary breach and Rackets and Rockets. indybay.org The climate movement should not be afraid of being accused of radicalism. Given the civilization-threatening dimensions of the climate crisis, it is a matter of sheer collective will to survive to solve this monstrous problem. It is obvious that global capitalism, in its boundless compulsion to grow, is incapable of reducing resource consumption and emissions.

Revolution Books (2022-08-25). Wednesday 8/24: Pelosi's Taiwan Visit: U.S. Dangerous Saber-Rattling vs. Rival China. indybay.org Revolution Books, 2444 Durant Ave. Berkeley CA 94704…

Oneworld.press (2022-08-24). Russia Warned Its SCO Partners About The Ulterior Motives Behind The US' Central Asian Drills. oneworld.press The very fact that three of Russia's CSTO military allies — one of whom Russian National Security Council Secretary Nikolay Patrushev just claimed had survived a US-backed Color Revolution plot — are participating in multilateral military drills in the part of the world that the US-led West misleadingly describes as Moscow's "sphere of influence" discredits the Mainstream Media's emerging information warfare narrative alleging that this Eurasian Great Power is colonialist, hegemonic, and imperialist.

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-08-24). Russia Warned SCO Partners about the Ulterior Motives Behind the US' Central Asian Drills. libya360.wordpress.com Andrew Korybko The very fact that three of Russia's CSTO military allies — one of whom Russian National Security Council Secretary Nikolay Patrushev just claimed had survived a US-backed Color Revolution plot — are participating in multilateral military drills in the part of the world that the US-led West misleadingly describes as Moscow's "sphere of…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-08-24). Blinken Returns Empty Handed from Africa Tour. libya360.wordpress.com Abayomi Azikiwe Us Imperialism In Africa And Middle East Graphic By Cwl Secretary of States travelled to three countries seeking to undermine the influence of China and Russia United States Secretary of State Antony Blinken visited three African Union (AU) member-states during early August in an attempt to enhance the presence of Washington on the…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-08-24). An Assassin's Bomb and the Death of the West. libya360.wordpress.com Christopher Black In September 2018 I wrote an essay about the brutal murder of Alexander Zakharchenko, the leader of the Donetsk Republic, by Kiev agents, backed by NATO, who was killed by a bomb on August 31 of that year, signalling the death of the Minsk Agreements and the inevitability of Russia's special military operation…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-08-24). US Plotting to Erode Southeast Asia's Current Security Architecture. libya360.wordpress.com Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu "Following Europe, a front is being put together to contain China. The so-called Taiwan problem is being deliberately worsened, and territorial disputes in the South China and East China Seas are being fomented," the minister specified. TASHKENT, August 24. TASS. In order to ensure its global hegemony, the US is…

Vijay Prashad (2022-08-24). When People Want Housing in India, They Build It. orinocotribune.com By Vijay Prashad — Aug 18, 2022 | It all started with a survey. In April 2022, members of the Communist Party of India (Marxist), or CPI(M), went door to door in the town of Warangal in Telangana state. The party was already aware of challenges in the community but wanted to collect data before working on a plan of action. Thirty-five teams of three to four CPI(M) members and supporters went to 45,000 homes and learned how people were suffering from a range of issues, such as the lack of pensions and subsidised food. Many expressed anxieties around the absence of permanent housing, with a third saying that…

Asa Winstanley (2022-08-24). Labour sabotaged pro-Corbyn candidates in 2019 election. electronicintifada.net Secret document accuses party staff of undermining their own leader.

Staff (2022-08-24). US military biological program poses threat to SCO nations. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Aug. 24 (MNA) — The Pentagon has funded the activities of over 30 Ukrainian biological laboratories developing components of bioweapons, which poses a direct threat to members of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), Shoigu said.

Dave DeCamp (2022-08-24). Iran Receives US Response to EU Proposal to Revive Nuclear Deal. news.antiwar.com Iran said on Wednesday that it had "This evening Iran received the US response through the European Union. The careful review of the response has started in Tehran," Kanaani said. "Iran will share its view with the EU, as the coordinator of the nuclear talks, upon completion of Tehran's r…

Jim Hightower (2022-08-24). Billion Dollar Franchises Are Paying Workers Chicken Feed. otherwords.org America's stringent system of corporate capitalism keeps carving out new depths of worker exploitation. Take Chick-fil-A — a right-wing, Atlanta-based fast-food operation that likes to boast about following "biblically-based" principles. | Like slavery? | Well, Chick-fil-A hasn't gone quite that Biblical yet, but one of its North Carolina franchises recently This outlet of the $11-billion-a-year c…

Luigino Bracci (2022-08-24). Venezuela Condemns US Court Decision in ConocoPhillips Case. orinocotribune.com The Venezuelan government has released a statement categorically condemning the decision by a judge in the United States authorizing oil company ConocoPhillips to execute an arbitration award for $8.7 billion to the detriment of Venezuela. The Venezuelan state announced that the decision "was made by violating the right to defense of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela." | US District Judge Carl Nichols of the Washington DC Court issued a ruling on Friday, August 19, ordering the Venezuelan government to pay $8.7 billion to ConocoPhillips, as compensation for allegedly having confiscated the energy company's ass…

Dave DeCamp (2022-08-24). Iran Denies Links to Groups the US Bombed in Syria. news.antiwar.com Iran on Wednesday denied that it had any links to the groups that the US targeted in airstrikes in Syria, contradicting a claim made by the US military. US Central Command (CENTCOM) announced late Tuesday that it targeted facilities in Syria used by groups "affiliated with Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC)" in Deir ez-Zor, …

WSWS (2022-08-24). Lockout of Essity workers in New Zealand in third week. wsws.org The unions, the media and the Labour Party are seeking to isolate the 145 locked out workers in the town of Kawerau, in order to force them to accept a pay agreement below the rate of inflation.

Anonymous669 (2022-08-24). Turkish Loitering Munition Kills Three Civilians In Syria's Aleppo (Videos). southfront.org An STM Kargu loitering munition. Source: STM. Click to see full-size image. | On August 24, three civilians were killed and six others were wounded when a Turkish loitering munitions struck the municipality of Tell Rifaat town in Syria's Aleppo. | Tell Rifaat, one of the largest urban centers in the northern countryside of Aleppo, is jointly held by the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) and the Syrian Arab Army. | The strike was likely carried out with an STM Kargu loitering munition, which has a maximum…

WSWS (2022-08-24). Petroleum workers in Sri Lanka protest against privatisation. wsws.org The restructuring of the CPC is part of a broader program of austerity dictated by the International Monetary Fund.

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-08-24). Haiti: Beware of Washington's Trap! libya360.wordpress.com Berthony Dupont Haitian people have never ceased their protest of foreign domination. Port-au-Prince, Haiti October 4, 2019. (Photo by REUTERS/Andres Martinez Casare) The United States uses its puppet, the Organization of American States, to continue destabilizing Haiti. The Haitian political crisis is a concrete example of cynical manipulation by the imperialist powers. Is it an…

Imperial.ac.uk (2022-08-24). Royal Society awards Imperial physicist for his dedication to equity in science. imperial.ac.uk Dr Mark Richards is recognised in the Royal Society's annual awards for his commitment to increasing equity in physics.

JANET (2022-08-24). Fighting fire with solidarity. iacenter.org August 22, 2022 These are especially bitter days to be living in the United States for those of us who are communists, socialists, progressives, even those remotely left of center. The killing of Roe v. Wade and the state subjection of women and anyone who can get pregnant to the role of breeding animals. The up-reared head of the rawest racists, in cop blue or proto-Nazi black shirt, gun in hand, aiming at people of color. The laws against teaching scientific and historical truths in the schools — against teaching that nature has a variety of genders, that U.S. presidents were, yes, owners of enslaved peop…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-08-24). Intelligence Expert Believes CIA Behind Car Bomb Assassination of Darya Dugin. libya360.wordpress.com Jeremy Kuzmarov Alexander Dugin and his daughter Darya Douglas Valentine says that "Zelensky doesn't go to the bathroom without asking permission from his CIA case officer." CIA expert Douglas Valentine, author of the seminal book The Phoenix Program (1990), believes that the CIA was behind the car bomb that killed Darya Dugin, a journalist and…

Liberation Staff (2022-08-24). Social & Economic Crisis in Turkey w/ TKP Secretary General. liberationnews.org A political, social, economy, and class struggle has been intensifying in Turkey. What are the demands of the people and the progressive forces like the TKP, the Communist Party of Turkey?>

Patrick Samonte (2022-08-24). San Diego's IAMAW Local 1484's strike completes second month. liberationnews.org August 17 marked the second month of striking for machinists affiliated with International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers Local 1484 at Mercedes Benz of San Diego. For two months the workers have been striking against unfair labor practices, management's stubbornness in negotiations, and the wrongful termination of 20 employees as a retaliation for the strike.

Fight Back (2022-08-24). Cedar Rapids, Iowa: Day 22 for striking Ingredion workers. fightbacknews.org Cedar Rapids, IA – Over 120 workers from the Ingredion plant in Cedar Rapids, Iowa have been on strike for 22 days after rejecting the bosses "last, best and final offer" on August 1. The striking workers are members of the Bakery, Confectionary, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers union (BCTGM). | Ingredion produces starches and sweeteners mostly for industry. The plant was purchased by Ingredion in 2015 and that's when the union says everything began to go downhill. | According to the union, the bosses offer would give them 4.5 to 7.3% raises over the length of the contract which they say is not enough. The offer…

John Catalinotto (2022-08-24). WW commentary: A Marxist view of the search at Mar-a-Lago. workers.org Aug. 21 — The most recent conflict among U.S. ruling institutions displays the depth of the crises wracking U.S. imperialism. As U.S. worldwide dominance declines and the government at home fails to stem growing inequality or resolve health and climate disasters, internal conflicts are sharpening. Credit: Tony Murphy U.S. ruling-class . . . |

Richie Merino (2022-08-24). Palestinians resist U.S. imperialism and Israeli occupation. workers.org On Aug. 18, Israeli occupation forces raided, physically blocked and imposed closure orders on the offices of seven prominent Palestinian human rights, feminist and social services organizations operating in the Ramallah area of the occupied West Bank. Background to the demonization In 2021, Israel falsely and preemptively designated six of . . . |

Ted Kelly (2022-08-24). Bradford Gamble, liberated activist and prison whistleblower. workers.org When Bradford Gamble died, he was surrounded by his family. The 65-year-old had been imprisoned for nearly a lifetime — 46 years — before he learned he was dying of cancer. With the help of activists on both sides of the prison walls, Gamble fought relentlessly to win his freedom. . . . |

_____ (2022-08-24). Minnesota Nurses' Strike Vote Puts Safety And Conditions In Spotlight. popularresistance.org Minnesota – Throughout the Covid pandemic, nurses around the US have faced deteriorating working conditions and challenges, from safety concerns to increasing workloads that have stemmed from understaffing as nurses have quit their jobs or retired early. | Those nurses who are still on the job at many hospitals say they have been expected to do more with fewer resources, an issue that nurses say is causing retention crises and jeopardizing patient safety and care. | Now nurses at 15 hospitals in the Twin Cities area (Minneapolis-St Paul) and Duluth, Minnesota, that are negotiating new union contracts with their r…

Liberation Staff (2022-08-24). How U.S. Capitalism Buries Students in Debt. liberationnews.org How did we end up in a situation where borrowers have accumulated over $1.7 trillion in debt just because they wanted to get an education?>

_____ (2022-08-24). Repurposing Prisons Can Revitalize Rural America. popularresistance.org The economic fortunes of rural communities across the United States are often deeply intertwined with the prison industrial complex. This poses a real challenge to the project of ending mass incarceration. How can organizers build political opposition to prisons in areas where prisons are the lifeblood of a community? And what should be done with former prisons once they are closed? The question of repurposing prisons in particular is too often neglected by state governments. A new report from the Sentencing Project finds that while 21 states have closed prisons since 2000, many of these sites have simply become…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-08-24). Mali Presents the UN with Evidence of French Support of Terrorists. libya360.wordpress.com Vladimir Danilov Recently, Radio RFI has announced that Malian authorities made accusations against France, citing a letter of Mali's Foreign Minister Abdoulaye Diop, that alleged that Paris was supplying terrorists with weapons and called for the convening of an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council. In his August 15 letter, Abdoulaye Diop cited some…

Anonymous669 (2022-08-24). Iran Says IRGC General Was Killed In Syria. southfront.org A general of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) had been killed while "on a mission" in Syria, Iranian state media reported on August 23."General Abolfazl Alijani, a member of the IRGC's ground forces who was on a mission in Syria as a military adviser, was martyred on [Sunday August 21]," the state broadcaster said on its website. | Alijani, originally from the central city of Esfahan, was not a member of the extraterritorial Quds Force, but an IRGC Ground Force officer. | The state media descr…

WSWS (2022-08-24). Second union-backed tentative agreement for Columbus Kroger workers nearly identical to the one workers rejected in July. wsws.org The new agreement was reached after just one day of negotiations and includes barely any changes to the contract which workers had rejected.

WSWS (2022-08-24). UAW presidential candidate Will Lehman: Mobilize the entire working class behind striking Columbus teachers! wsws.org This statement was issued by UAW presidential candidate Will Lehman in support of 4,000 teachers in Columbus, Ohio currently on strike.

WSWS (2022-08-24). UK: 170,000 telecom and postal workers to strike at BT Group, Royal Mail and Post Office. wsws.org The Communication Workers Union hailed a boardroom coup to remove Royal Mail chief executive Rico Back in May 2020, claiming this would result in a more compassionate form of management.

Uhuru Solidarity Movement (2022-08-24). Tuesday 9/13: Day of Reparations to African People. indybay.org Uhuru House | 7911 MacArthur Blvd, Oakland, CA 94605…

Sarah Anderson (2022-08-24). Recommended Labor Day Reading, Viewing, and Listening. inequality.org

WSWS (2022-08-24). Mass layoffs at Ford: Ruling class launches new stage in offensive against jobs. wsws.org The attacks on autoworkers' jobs are part of a broader process underway throughout the world economy, as the ruling class seeks to make workers pay for a developing economic crisis.

WSWS (2022-08-24). American Historical Association president issues groveling apology after racialist social media attack. wsws.org Professor James Sweet was viciously attacked for his mild criticism of the 1619 Project and similar work for its "presentism" and US-centric outlook on slavery.

John Bachtell (2022-08-24). Heartland Alliance workers say wages qualify them for its services. peoplesworld.org CHICAGO &#1 ; Over 0 workers are locked in a battle with Heartland Alliance, one of the nation's oldest, largest, and most venerable social justice non-profits, over wages and health and safety conditions. The workers say poverty-level wages qualify them for many of the agency's services. Heartland and its unionized workforce are negotiating a new contract …

Marilyn Bechtel (2022-08-24). Fighting for their patients, Kaiser mental health clinicians enter second week of strike. peoplesworld.org OAKLAND, Calif.—Over 2,000 mental health clinicians at Kaiser Permanente facilities in northern California and the Central Valley have entered the second week of their open-ended strike as they demand the giant healthcare nonprofit staff up to provide its millions of members timely, quality mental health care. On Aug. 29 the psychologists, marriage and family therapists, …

WSWS (2022-08-24). Australian Labor PM tries to smother outrage over Morrison's secret ministerial appointments. wsws.org Prime Minister Albanese instructed the solicitor-general to report on only one appointment, not the power grab as a whole!

WSWS (2022-08-24). "Everything has gotten worse since the UAW sold out the GM strike": UAW presidential candidate Will Lehman speaks to workers in Flint, Michigan. wsws.org

Staff (2022-08-24). US says it has carried out strike in Syria's Deir ez-Zur. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Aug. 24 (MNA) — While all parties to the JCPOA are waiting for the US answer to the draft agreement proposed by Europeans, the US military has claimed that it has targeted Iran's allies in the Deir ez-Zur of Syria.

WSWS (2022-08-24). Video statement: The Flint Sit-Down Strike and the role of socialists in establishing the UAW. wsws.org UAW presidential candidate Will Lehman issued this video statement reviewing the history and lessons of the 1936-37 Flint Sit-Down Strike.

Newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2022-08-24). Mayo Clinic announces a strategic collaboration for a new era of biomanufacturing. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org ROCHESTER, Minn. — Mayo Clinic today announced a strategic collaboration in biomanufacturing to deliver novel biotherapeutics for rare and complex conditions. The collaboration brings together science, engineering and manufacturing to advance Mayo Clinic's vision of bringing new cures to clinical care. The focus will be on therapies derived from human sources known as biologics — cells, blood, enzymes, tissues, genes or genetically engineered cells — for use in medicines. Therapeutics based on biologics have the…

Jackson Todd (2022-08-24). Compensation rolls in for Chipotle workers following NYC Fair Workweek settlement. peoplesworld.org NEW YORK—Ed Dealecio needed more hours, but his boss decided to hire more employees instead of offering Dealecio and his co-workers more shifts. Dealecio has worked for almost three years at a busy Chipotle burrito restaurant in midtown Manhattan. During the pandemic, he found himself facing more financial pressure. He's still paying off his student …

TeleSUR -ysm- JL (2022-08-24). Gobierno de Chile retoma proyecto para reducir jornada laboral. telesurtv.net El mandatario afirmó que el Senado actuará con celeridad para reducir escalonadamente la jornada laboral de 45 a 40 horas semanales.

TeleSUR, hvh, JCM (2022-08-24). Poder judicial de Irak suspende labores por protestas. telesurtv.net Los seguidores de Al Sadr instalaron tiendas de campaña en la instancia judicial más importante del país.

_____ (2022-08-23). The Economy Should Serve People — Not Vice Versa. popularresistance.org The economy's job is to work for people. It is not the job of people to sacrifice themselves on the altar of the economy. The subconscious feeling drummed into all of us that we should feel some sense of collective pride for being ground into dust in service of economic growth is a sick bit of indoctrination that is stubbornly hard to escape. The simple step of asking what the economy is doing for us‚Äâ—‚Äârather than what our lives are contributing to the economy‚Äâ—‚Äâcan go a long way toward reframing how we all think about this.

_____ (2022-08-23). Scenes From A Summer Of Strikes In A South Carolina Starbucks. popularresistance.org Since the Starbucks Workers United campaign launched last fall, workers have won union authorization elections at 220 stores, and struck at least 60. The company has retaliated harshly—closing some stores, firing dozens of union leaders, claiming interference by the National Labor Relations Board, and calling for a moratorium on mail-in elections. | Starbucks also barred union stores from receiving long-awaited benefits to be implemented August 1, provoking several strikes. | Jonah Furman from Labor Notes spoke with Tripathi about the joys of the picket line, Starbucks' retaliation, and how a store manager…

_____ (2022-08-23). Victory For Powerloom Workers In Pakistan. popularresistance.org For two weeks, several thousand workers and their families participated in a sit-in protest on Jhang road, blocking the route to Faisalabad International Airport, demanding an increase in wages. The workers claimed that the Labor Department in Punjab had failed to implement the new minimum wages set by the provincial government. | After several rounds of negotiations and backtracking by the district administration and the powerloom owners, an agreement was reached between them and the leaders of the Labour Qaumi Movement (LQM), the umbrella body of powerloom workers in Faisalabad. Most of the demands of the nearl…

_____ (2022-08-23). Graduate Students Across The US Are Organizing For Abortion Rights. popularresistance.org This week, graduate students from more than fifty colleges and universities across the United States launched the Graduate Student Action Network (GSAN), a coalition centered around fighting for abortion rights and other forms of reproductive justice. GSAN's first action is to coordinate a National Student Day of Action for abortion rights, to be held on October 6, the anniversary of the day a federal judge first blocked the draconian anti-abortion law in Texas. | The network includes graduate student unions, graduate student governments, and student advocacy organizations like Socialists of Caltech and CUNY For…

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2022-08-24: News Headlines

Tenant, Neighborhood Councils (2022-08-24). Rent Strike: Merritt on 3rd Tenants Demand Repairs, Refuse Rent. indybay.org Merritt on 3rd Tenant Council rent strike rally Tues., Aug 30, 6pm at 1130 3rd Avenue, Oakland.

Uhuru Solidarity Movement (2022-08-24). Tuesday 9/13: Day of Reparations to African People. indybay.org Uhuru House | 7911 MacArthur Blvd, Oakland, CA 94605…

Martin Rizzo-Martinez & Daniel Stonebloom (2022-08-24). Challenging Colonialism s01 Bonus: Take Action to Protect Juristac. indybay.org Amah Mutsun Tribal Band member Carolyn Rodriguez and Green Foothills Policy and Advocacy Director Alice Kaufman speak about the urgent need to protect Juristac–and how you can contribute.

WSWS (2022-08-24). "Everything has gotten worse since the UAW sold out the GM strike": UAW presidential candidate Will Lehman speaks to workers in Flint, Michigan. wsws.org

Revolution Books (2022-08-24). Wednesday 8/24: Pelosi's Taiwan Visit: U.S. Dangerous Saber-Rattling vs. Rival China. indybay.org Revolution Books, 2444 Durant Ave. Berkeley CA 94704…

Newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2022-08-24). RISE for Youth program celebrates successful first year. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org RISE for Youth, a first-of-its-kind collaboration between Mayo Clinic and the Rochester branch of the NAACP, recently wrapped up its inaugural year of programming. The program, which received funding through Mayo Clinic's $100 million commitment against racism, drew rave reviews from scholars, community partners and Mayo Clinic staff. For as long as she can remember, Aisha Qassim has wanted to become a surgeon. But with no doctors in her family, she wasn't sure of the…

Labor Video Project (2022-08-24). NUHW In Kaiser Strike Demand That Newsom & Demos Prosecute Flagrant Violations Of CA Law. indybay.org At an NUHW Kaiser strike rally at the Kaiser headquarters the union demanded that Governor Newsom and California politicians enforce the healthcare laws which Kaiser they charged is flagrantly violating. Workers and patients also spoke about what they are facing.

WSWS (2022-08-23). Spanish-Russian journalist Pablo Gonzalez held six months in Polish jail on bogus spying charge. wsws.org His arrest was coordinated between NATO states, including Spain's Socialist Party (PSOE)-Podemos government, and has met with silence by European and US media.

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-08-23). In Just Under Three Weeks, Ukrainian-Fired Prohibited "Petal" Mines Maim At Least 44 Civilians, Kill 2, in Donetsk Region. libya360.wordpress.com Eva Bartlett [Source: Photo Courtesy of Eva Bartlett] Ukraine continues to fire internationally-banned anti-personnel mines on civilian areas of Donetsk and other cities in the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR), in violation of international law and of the mine ban convention Ukraine signed in 1999 and ratified in 2005. Since July 27, Ukraine has been firing rockets containing…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-08-23). Kiev's Ambassador to Kazakhstan Criticized for Inciting Ethnic Hatred. libya360.wordpress.com Andrew Korybko Nobody in good conscience could endorse anyone else gleefully talking about committing genocide like Vrublevsky just shamelessly did. If there's any silver lining to this scandal, however, it's that it showed just how comfortable that regime's representatives are talking about the plans that they have for their country's Russian minority. Ukrainian Ambassador to…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-08-23). US Space Force Wants to Disrupt Russia-China Space Cooperation. libya360.wordpress.com Drago Bosnic Both Russia and China have been responding to the US militarization of space by enhancing their own capabilities, both separately and jointly. Close strategic partnership between Russia and China has been the mainstay of their relationship for decades. The US has been trying to disrupt this successful partnership ever since, especially as Russia…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-08-23). Ghost Stories of Capitalism: Mental Health is a Class Issue. libya360.wordpress.com Danny Haiphong We can't fight capitalism or imperialism without confronting the psychic suffering that these systems have spread far and wide among us In addition to producing socialist and anti-imperialist independent media, I've been in social work for nine years. Before this, I moved from childhood to adulthood within a household that struggled with mental…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-08-23). Evidence of Ukrainian Shelling of Zaporozhye Provided to UN. libya360.wordpress.com Statement by Permanent Representative Vassily Nebenzia at UNSC briefing regarding the attacks of Ukrainian armed forces on the Zaporozhye NPP Mr. President, I thank Under-Secretary-General R.DiCarlo for her briefing. In the context of the briefing I would like to point out that we've heard her words that the electricity of the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant…

____ (2022-08-23). Shanghai's trade with EU tops 65 bln USD in Jan.-July. ecns.cn Imports and exports between Shanghai and its largest foreign-trade partner, European Union (EU), reached 450.81 billion yuan (about 65.8 billion U.S. dollars) in the first seven months, marking a slight decrease of 0.2 percent year on year.

Staff (2022-08-23). Revived nuclear deal 'closer now than it was two weeks ago'. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Aug. 23 (MNA) — The US State Department spokesperson says that the US is still conducting consultations on European Union's presented proposal, adding that some divisions remain between the United States and Iran.

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-08-23). Mali: Expectations and Challenges. libya360.wordpress.com Mikhail Gamandiy-Egorov Following the now complete withdrawal of the French military presence from Mali, challenges remain in a context where the former colonial metropolis and other Western regimes do not intend to ease the pressure on the country, which has become another example of a pan-Africanist and pro-multipolar orientation. After nine years of military presence…

WSWS (2022-08-23). Interest rate hikes and inflation deepen crisis for advanced and less developed economies alike. wsws.org The global rise in interest rates is being driven by the US Federal Reserve which is continuing to tighten its monetary policy in a bid to drive down workers' wage demands in response to the highest inflation in four decades.

WSWS (2022-08-23). Release students detained under Sri Lanka's anti-terror laws! wsws.org The detention of student activists under the draconian Prevention of Terrorism Act is part of President Wickremesinghe's broad class-war assault on the working class and the poor.

WSWS (2022-08-23). Australian Labor government supplies more fuel to Sri Lankan navy for anti-refugee operations. wsws.org The fuel arrangements seek to bolster the repressive military-backed government and stop refugees fleeing the poverty-stricken country.

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-08-23). Totalitarianism and the Descent into Collective Madness. libya360.wordpress.com Alastair Crooke "The gigantic catastrophes that threaten us today are not elemental happenings of a physical or biological order, but psychic events. To a quite terrifying degree we are threatened by wars and revolutions which are nothing other than psychic epidemics. At any moment several million human beings may be smitten with a new madness,…

Lucrecia Franco (2022-08-23). Few Brazilians aware of country's dark ties to slavery. america.cgtn.com The Valongo wharf in Rio de Janeiro once the main port of entry for African slaves arriving in the Americas. However, not many Brazilians know this history. Find out more.

Staff (2022-08-23). PSUV Organizes Almost 267,000 Peoples' Assemblies. orinocotribune.com On Monday, August 22, vice president of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV), Diosdado Cabello, announced, that 266,927 assemblies were organized at the national level last weekend. | Cabello described the process, whereby the party's "street speakers" were renewed, as "extraordinary": | "Extraordinary process; beautiful. The 266, 927 assemblies throughout the country: this is said and written very quickly. The problem is to do it." | Cabello detailed how extraordinary actions were witnesses during the process, including a beautiful call in which the collective prevailed, to the widespread participation…

TeleSUR (2022-08-23). Palestinian Prisoners Are Determined to Pursue Hunger Strike. telesurenglish.net On Tuesday, the Palestinian Prisoners' National Emergency Committee announced that prisoners in Israeli jails will continue with another day of protests if the Israel Prison Service (IPS) continues to violate the agreed agreements. | RELATED: | "The jailer will not impose his will on us," the Committee said and urged the Palestinian population in the West Bank and Gaza Strip to support the indefinite hunger strike that the Palestinian Pr…

TeleSUR (2022-08-23). Argentina's Vice President Faces Legal Persecution. telesurenglish.net On Monday, Argentina's President Alberto Fernandez, governors, lawmakers, and leaders of the Front of All Party expressed their solidarity with Vice President Cristina Fernandez-Kirchner, who is the victim of a political, judicial, and media harassment organized by the Argentine right to prevent her from being a presidential candidate. | RELATED: | Previously, prosecutor Diego Luciani requested before the Second Feder…

TeleSUR (2022-08-23). Intl. Leaders Support the Approval of New Chilean Referendum. telesurenglish.net An international group of intellectuals and social leaders signed a letter in support of the inclusion of the right to housing and the city in the upcoming Chilean referendum on a new constitution and called for approval of the said constitution. | RELATED: | In the declaration, which includes prominent personalities from around the world related to the right to housing and the city, said they value "leaving behind a constitution imposed in a dictatorship" and…

TeleSUR (2022-08-23). South Africa Steps Up Efforts to Combat Cybercrimes. telesurenglish.net On Monday, South Africa's Special Investigative Unit (SIU) and the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) signed an memorandum of understanding (MoU) and agreed to take coordinated effort to combat corruption and maladministration through technological advancement. | RELATED: | "The fight against corruption and cybercrimes is a major issue in South Africa. Through this partnership, the CSIR will utiliz…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-08-23). Colombia and the Mythical Creation of Cuba as "State Sponsor of Terrorism" libya360.wordpress.com Gustavo A Maranges We recently published two articles called "Cuba and the Peace Talks between the ELN and the Colombian Government: New Opportunities vs. Old Obstacles," in which we referred to Cuba's commitment to peace in Colombia; something that former President Ivan Duque boycotted. At that time, we only had public information to justify our thesis…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-08-23). Colombian Government Launches Initiative for Protection of Social Leaders. libya360.wordpress.com Peoples Dispatch On August 20, the government of President Gustavo Petro in Colombia launched the first Unified Command Post for Life (PMU), in the municipality of Caldono, in the Cauca department. (Photo: Alfonso Prada/Twitter) Interior Minister Alfonso Prada reported that the protection plan will cover the 65 municipalities hardest hit by violence in the country…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-08-23). Mexico Declares Ayotzinapa 43 Case a State Crime. libya360.wordpress.com Alejandra Garcia On September 26, 2014, 43 students from the Ayotzinapa Normal Rural School disappeared in the Mexican city of Iguala, in the Guerrero state, and their loved ones never heard from them again. Eight years later, the controversy remains unsolved despite the families' endless calls for justice. After two years of intense investigations, the…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-08-23). Nicaragua: Bishop of the Money Gods. libya360.wordpress.com Fabrizio Casari The liberation of the Matagalpa cathedral, which had been occupied by Bishop Alvarez, ended an attempt to unleash a climate of confrontation in that city. The coup-supporting bishop is now in the capital, Managua, where he is under house arrest, but enjoying the presence of his family and visits from the prelates of…

WSWS (2022-08-23). "The entire union machine needs to be wiped out": Growing rank-and-file support for Will Lehman's campaign for UAW president. wsws.org The Mack Trucks worker and socialist candidate for UAW president spoke with Ford and Chrysler (Stellantis) workers at Detroit-area plants on Sunday and Monday.

Staff (2022-08-23). Justice must be expanded in sociey with Leader's help. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Aug. 23 (MNA) — In a ceremony held for renewing allegiance to the ideals of Imam Khomeini (RA), president Ebrahim Raeisi said that Iranian officials must make effort to expand justice in society with help of the Leader of Islamic Revolution.

Labor Video Project (2022-08-23). NUHW Kaiser Strike TikTok Video. indybay.org Striking NUHW Kaiser clinicians rallied at the Kaiser headquarters in Oakland and did a TikTok video.

WSWS (2022-08-23). Unions sabotage Scottish local authority workers' strikes as class tensions escalate. wsws.org The Scottish trade unions are seeking to sabotage local authority workers' strikes, fearing an uncontrollable eruption of the class struggle seeking reversal of the terrible damage of the last decades in terms of pay, conditions and public services.

WSWS (2022-08-23). Shipyard workers denounce United Steelworkers, months after contract rammed through at Newport News. wsws.org In the months since the most recent sell-out contract rammed through by the United Steelworkers (USW) at Newport News Shipbuilding (NNS) earlier this year, the full consequences of this betrayal have come to light.

Jamanetwork (2022-08-23). New Mental Health Crisis Hotline. jamanetwork.com Round-the-clock care for mental health crises is now accessible through the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline, formerly known as the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline. Supported by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), the new 3-digit number is a collaborative effort among the Federal Communications Commission, US Department of Health and Human Services, and US Department of Veterans Affairs (VA).

WSWS (2022-08-23). Striking Columbus teacher speaks on school conditions. wsws.org "At the top no one cares. But the workers give every inch of their heart, their sweat and tears to make schools successful."

Staff (2022-08-23). Justice must be expanded in society with Leader's help. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Aug. 23 (MNA) — In a ceremony held for renewing allegiance to the ideals of Imam Khomeini (RA), president Ebrahim Raeisi said that Iranian officials must make effort to expand justice in society with help of the Leader of Islamic Revolution.

WSWS (2022-08-23). "At the top no one cares. But the workers give every inch of their heart, their sweat and tears to make schools successful." wsws.org A teacher in Columbus, Ohio, describes the deplorable conditions that have led to the strike in the school district.

WSWS (2022-08-23). Video: UAW presidential candidate Will Lehman on the lessons of the 1932 Ford Hunger March and the transformation of the UAW. wsws.org "The Ford Hunger March," Lehman said, "was part of many struggles led by socialist workers during the Great Depression of the 1930s, which established the UAW as a mass industrial union."

WSWS (2022-08-23). Workers Struggles: The Americas. wsws.org Teachers in Argentina's Rio Negro province struck for two days last week over pay while 170 Ontario safety inspectors are in the fifth week of strike.

WSWS (2022-08-23). Brooklyn teacher speaks out after year of COVID and budget cuts. wsws.org A teacher in Brooklyn discussed the last school year, including COVID, budget cuts, and the Educators Rank-and-File Committees, with the World Socialist Web Site.

WSWS (2022-08-23). "We want our pound of flesh": US railroaders press for strike action after pro-company ruling by Biden's Presidential Emergency Board. wsws.org Hundreds of railroaders have contacted the WSWS over the past week with their thoughts about the PEB ruling and the potential for strike action.

WSWS (2022-08-23). Solicitor-General and Labor government greenlight former PM Morrison's secret ministerial appointments as "legal" wsws.org Labor is covering up the sweeping, anti-democratic implications of Morrison's ministerial positions, as it seeks to bury the issue in a toothless inquiry.

Lee Siu Hin, China-US Solidarity Network (2022-08-23). 8/20 LEE SIU HIN: Stupid Self-Defeating U.S. Sanctions Make China Even Stronger. indybay.org Why the latest desperate, racist and phony high-tech ban against China by the U.S. — the CHIPS Act — won't work and will only serve to put taxpayer money into the wallets of corporate America and the corrupt politicians.

WSWS (2022-08-23). South Korean workers take action against assault on working conditions. wsws.org Not only do workers face the companies and the government of President Yoon Suk-yeol, but the trade unions that are isolating workers' struggles and blocking a political fight against capitalism.

WSWS (2022-08-23). Worker at UK's Drax power station speaks out on pay and conditions in the industry. wsws.org Two weeks ago, a wave of wildcat strikes by mainly subcontracted workers hit refineries and power stations in the UK. A worker at Drax told our reporter about the pay and conditions that sparked the walkouts.

WSWS (2022-08-23). No to another school year of mass infection, death and austerity! wsws.org The breakdown of public education and the policies of mass infection are symptoms of the crisis of capitalism and must be opposed through the building of rank-and-file committees in every school and neighborhood.

TeleSUR (2022-08-23). Brazilian Police Looks for Businessmen Supporting Coup d'Etat. telesurenglish.net The Brazilian Supreme Court Judge Alexandre de Moraes ordered the arrest of eight businessmen who spread anti-democratic messages through social networks. | RELATED: | Besides ratifying their allegiance to far-right President Jair Bolsonaro, these businessmen said they will support a coup d'état if Workers' Party presidential candidate Lula da Silva wins the October elections. | Judge Moraes also ordered the blocking of…

Kwjorinoco (2022-08-23). Rooftop Farming at 23 de Enero Building Set to Provide Christmas Bonanza. orinocotribune.com Thanks to an alliance formed by the National Institute for Training and Socialist Education (INCES), the Three Roots Foundation, and the Ministry of Urban Agriculture, the roof of the 23 de Enero National Bolivarian Educational Unit, located in the densely populated neighborhood of El Mirador, will be used to grow four thousand pepper plants to make hallacas, a traditional Venezuelan dish, this Christmas. | This information was provided by Edui Otai…

Staff (2022-08-23). Continúa recuperación en la zona industrial de Matanzas: Mayor daño medioambiental está en el suelo. cubadebate.cu El primer secretario del Comité Central del Partido y presidente de la República, Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, continuó dando seguimiento a las labores de recuperación en la zona industrial de Matanzas.

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-08-23). Venezuela's Road to Economic Recovery. libya360.wordpress.com Kawsachun News The following is a translation of a guest lecture delivered by Venezuela's Ambassador in Bolivia, César Trómpiz, at the UMSA university in La Paz. For 100 years, our natural market for oil exports had been the United States. In 2019, the US decided to stop buying oil from Venezuela for political reasons and…

_____ (2022-08-22). US Taunts Russia To Escalate In Ukraine. popularresistance.org In military terms, the crude, locally assembled drone dropping a country-made bomb or two on unguarded sites in Crimea are at best pin pricks in the big picture of Russia's special military operation in Ukraine. But it can be profoundly consequential in certain other ways. | For a start, this escalation has Washington's approval. A senior Joe Biden administration official told NatSec Daily that the US supports strikes on Crimea if Kiev deems them necessary. "We don't select targets, of course, and everything we've provided is for self-defence purposes. Any target they choose to pursue on sovereign Ukrainian soil…

_____ (2022-08-22). Argentinian Unions Mobilize Against Runaway Inflation. popularresistance.org August 18 – Argentinian unions and social movements are marching today towards the National Congress to protest against runaway inflation and 'speculators'. | The march has been organized by the two largest union confederations; CGT and CTA. Their joint statement said; "Our country demands firm commitments to mitigate the social injustice that is suffocating us today (..) political actors must abandon petty electoral confrontation for the benefit of individual interests. Inflation has reached intolerable levels and is pulverizing the purchasing power of workers." | Sergio Palazzo, lawmaker for the ruling Frente d…

_____ (2022-08-22). Dockers At England's Largest Cargo Port Strike Against Inflation. popularresistance.org Things are heating up in the United Kingdom's "summer of discontent" — the name that's been given to the wave of strikes against falling wages resulting from inflation. London's public transit network is paralyzed, and across the country only one train in five is running. Massive strikes in the transportation sector are playing out as walkouts —sometimes wildcat ones — erupting at refineries and Amazon facilities. Meanwhile, a growing number of unions in other sectors are voting to authorize strikes. | The English bourgeois press reports that inflation is 10.1 percent (the same figure the French…

_____ (2022-08-22). Chile's New Constitution Will Empower Chilean Workers. popularresistance.org The first step toward a new constitution in Chile is now complete. The draft of the new Magna Carta was officially delivered on May 16, paving the way for major changes in Chilean society, particularly in the areas of social rights, gender parity in political participation, and constitutional recognition of native peoples. | In terms of social rights, the new constitution recognizes demands that have been a banner for popular struggles since Augusto Pinochet's neoliberal counterrevolution in the 1970s. It guarantees access to health, housing, education, decent pensions, nonsexist education, and the right to abort…

_____ (2022-08-22). Independent Unions Can Help Break Through The Economic Crisis. popularresistance.org In a period of extreme social and economic crises, when the major labor unions have reduced their organizing programs to a fraction of what they once were and the courts stand athwart any effort to protect workers' interests, scrappy new independent unions raise hope against hope that maybe — just maybe — workers can fight back and win. I'm writing, of course, about the early 1930s. A newly published book finds some surprising parallels between that era and our own. | An eleventh volume in the prolific Marxist labor historian Philip S. Foner's History Of The Labor Movement In The United States has jus…

Mumia Abu-Jamal (2022-08-22). Albert Woodfox, Angola Three warrior passes. workers.org August 9 Who has not heard of the Angola Three, three young Black prisoners who were falsely accused of killing a prison guard in 1972, in the infamous Louisiana maximum-security prison, sited at a former slave plantation and named for the place where the African captives came from: Angola. On . . . |

Editor (2022-08-22). Fighting fire with solidarity. workers.org These are especially bitter days to be living in the United States for those of us who are communists, socialists, progressives, even those remotely left of center. The killing of Roe v. Wade and the state subjection of women and anyone who can get pregnant to the role of breeding . . . |

Princess Harmony (2022-08-22). El crimen de las grandes farmacéuticas: los beneficios de la adicción. workers.org El fiscal general de New Hampshire, John Formella, ha lanzado una demanda contra Walmart, Walgreens, CVS, RiteAid y otras farmacias por no hacer un seguimiento de las prescripciones de opioides y por no tomar medidas contra la prescripción de opioides posiblemente innecesaria, fraudulenta o excesiva. Las direcciones de las farmacias . . . |

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Anonymous (2022-08-23). Same Thing Happened in Fiji. indybay.org Australian establishment in cover up mode over former PM's secret ministerial positions In the days since it was revealed that former Prime Minister Scott Morrison secretly appointed himself to five key ministerial portfolios in 2020 and 2021, the Australian political and media establishment has desperately sought to cover up the political significance of the measures, which amounted to nothing less than the preparations for a prime ministerial dictatorship.

Uhuru Solidarity Movement (2022-08-23). Tuesday 9/13: Day of Reparations to African People. indybay.org Uhuru House | 7911 MacArthur Blvd, Oakland, CA 94605…

Newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2022-08-23). Mayo Clinic announces a strategic collaboration for a new era of biomanufacturing. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org ROCHESTER, Minn. — Mayo Clinic today announced a strategic collaboration in biomanufacturing to deliver novel biotherapeutics for rare and complex conditions. The collaboration brings together science, engineering and manufacturing to advance Mayo Clinic's vision of bringing new cures to clinical care. The focus will be on therapies derived from human sources known as biologics — cells, blood, enzymes, tissues, genes or genetically engineered cells — for use in medicines. Therapeutics based on biologics have the…

Labor Video Project (2022-08-23). NUHW Kaiser Strike TikTok Video. indybay.org Striking NUHW Kaiser clinicians rallied at the Kaiser headquarters in Oakland and did a TikTok video.

Newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2022-08-23). RISE for Youth program celebrates successful first year. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org RISE for Youth, a first-of-its-kind collaboration between Mayo Clinic and the Rochester branch of the NAACP, recently wrapped up its inaugural year of programming. The program, which received funding through Mayo Clinic's $100 million commitment against racism, drew rave reviews from scholars, community partners and Mayo Clinic staff. For as long as she can remember, Aisha Qassim has wanted to become a surgeon. But with no doctors in her family, she wasn't sure of the…

Labor Video Project (2022-08-23). NUHW In Kaiser Strike Demand That Newsom & Demos Prosecute Flagrant Violations Of CA Law. indybay.org At an NUHW Kaiser strike rally at the Kaiser headquarters the union demanded that Governor Newsom and California politicians enforce the healthcare laws which Kaiser they charged is flagrantly violating. Workers and patients also spoke about what they are facing.

Anonymous (2022-08-22). *Same Thing Happened in Fiji*. indybay.org Australian establishment in cover up mode over former PM's secret ministerial positions In the days since it was revealed that former Prime Minister Scott Morrison secretly appointed himself to five key ministerial portfolios in 2020 and 2021, the Australian political and media establishment has desperately sought to cover up the political significance of the measures, which amounted to nothing less than the preparations for a prime ministerial dictatorship.

WSWS (2022-08-22). Ukrainian government uses war to enforce privatization, passes new anti-Russian laws. wsws.org The Zelensky government is using the war to push through long-standing privatization plans while whipping up anti-Russian hatred to divide the working class.

Tamara Nassar (2022-08-22). Israel refuses to release hunger striker. electronicintifada.net Khalil Awawdeh's release was one of the issues at the heart of Gaza ceasefire.

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-08-22). How One Spook-Run London College Department is Training the World's Social Media Managers. libya360.wordpress.com Alan MacLeod Staffed by NATO military officers and former government ministers and notorious for training the West's top spies, the Department of War Studies at King's College London is also providing the workforce for many of the largest social media companies. This includes Facebook, TikTok, Google, and Twitter. A MintPress study of professional databases and employment websites reveals a…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-08-22). Darya Dugina Assasinated by Ukrainian Secret Services. libya360.wordpress.com The murder of Russian journalist Darya Dugina has been solved, Russia's federal security service FSB has said. It was prepared by Ukrainian secret services. The perpetrator &#1 ; a citizen of Ukraine identified as Natalia Vovk &#1 ; escaped to Estonia, the FSB's public relations center stated. "As a result of urgent detective measures, the federal security…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-08-22). How Russia and the U.S. See Africa's Place in the World. libya360.wordpress.com Ivan Loshkaryov Since the early days of Russia's special military operation in Ukraine, the diplomacy of the –°ollective West has been striving to isolate Moscow, punishing it for resolving the conflict in Donbass. However, one cannot talk about isolation without accounting for the position of developing countries: Alongside the golden billion, there are another 7…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-08-22). The Western Strategy to Dismantle the Russian Federation. libya360.wordpress.com Thierry Meyssan Renewing the strategies of Germany during the First World War and of the United States and the Ukrainian integral nationalists during the Cold War, the Westerners have just created a Forum of the free peoples of Russia. The aim is to prolong the break-up of the USSR, to create separatist movements and, ultimately,…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-08-22). Ukraine's Next "Wonder Weapon" &#1 ; US Anti-Radar Missiles. libya360.wordpress.com Russia has claimed and the Pentagon has confirmed that the US has sent Ukraine AGM-88 High-Speed Anti-Radiation Missiles (HARM) for targeting Russian radars used for air defense and counter battery operations. While the Pentagon and the Western media have once against hyped the impact of these missiles, the truth is even under ideal conditions they…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-08-22). Ukraine's Next "Wonder Weapon" — US Anti-Radar Missiles. libya360.wordpress.com Russia has claimed and the Pentagon has confirmed that the US has sent Ukraine AGM-88 High-Speed Anti-Radiation Missiles (HARM) for targeting Russian radars used for air defense and counter battery operations. While the Pentagon and the Western media have once against hyped the impact of these missiles, the truth is even under ideal conditions they…

WSWS (2022-08-22). UK bus workers' strike at Arriva North West ends as Unite and GMB push through below-inflation deal. wsws.org Unite and the GMB unions settled an 11.1 percent deal with the company last Wednesday. The unions immediately suspended the strike before workers had either seen the deal or balloted.

Dana Sanchez (2022-08-22). CEO Of The Largest U.S. Bank, JP Morgan Chase: 'Something Worse' Than a Recession Could Be On Its Way. moguldom.com JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon predicts the chance of a recession is in the neighborhood of 10-to-30 percent, but the boss of the largest U.S. bank said there are "storm clouds" and something worse could be coming. The U.S. economy is strong, Dimon told wealthy clients in an Aug. 9 note. Consumers' balance sheets and …

TeleSUR (2022-08-22). The UK Heads Towards Its Worst Economic Crisis Since 1926. telesurenglish.net As millions of people in Britain face the prospect of escalating bills, Keith Baker, a research fellow in fuel poverty and energy policy at Glasgow Caledonian University, warned the country could face its worst peacetime crisis since the General Strike of 1926. | RELATED: | For many British families, food prices were already rocketing, adding extra dollars to weekly food bills, but planned rises in the cost of electricity and gas du…

____ (2022-08-22). Majority of Chinese consumers value trademark protection: survey. ecns.cn Chinese consumers have a relatively high level of awareness when it comes to intellectual property rights with the majority valuing trademark protection, an industrial survey showed.

WSWS (2022-08-22). What did the Australian Labor Party know about former PM Morrison's secret ministerial appointments? wsws.org Labor MP Ed Husic has stated that he was aware in 2021 that former Prime Minister Scott Morrison had become the "decision maker" for the industry, science, resources and energy ministerial portfolio.

Isabella (2022-08-22). At Long Last, Congress Considers a National Domestic Workers Bill of Rights. inequality.org

TeleSUR (2022-08-22). Lula Promises to End Illegal Mining in the Brazilian Amazon. telesurenglish.net During a press conference on Monday, the Workers' Party (PT) presidential candidate Lula da Silva promised to contain the deforestation of the Amazon basin through a forceful fight against illegal mining in Brazil. | RELATED: | "We are going to put an end to illegal mining," Lula said and pledged to work to stop the destruction of the Amazon rainforest, which has accelerated due to President Jair Bolsonaro's pro-market pol…

Staff (2022-08-22). Palestinian collective struggle on the rise inside occupation prisons. samidoun.net Palestinian prisoners announced that they will pursue steps of collective struggle inside occupation prisons beginning on Monday, 22 August. These collective struggle steps were suspended in March 2022 after an agreement was purportedly reached to improve conditions for Palestinian detainees whose rights are systematically violated by occupation forces, from denial of family visits to constant …

SAM (2022-08-22). Ohio Teachers Strike Just Days Before The School Year Starts. progressivehub.net IVANA SARIC | AXIOS…

Staff (2022-08-22). The world says: "Free Khalil Awawdeh!" as Palestinian prisoner continues hunger strike for 172nd day. samidoun.net Palestinian prisoner Khalil Awawdeh has continued his hunger strike for the 172nd day. Since his detention was "suspended" on Friday, 19 August, he has been held in Assaf Harofeh hospital, where he has been interviewed by journalists and visited by his family members and loved ones. He has repeatedly affirmed that he will only end …

TeleSUR (2022-08-22). Australia Launches Preventative DNA Screening for Cancer. telesurenglish.net A nationally collaborative project, led by Australia's Monash University, has allowed young people to know if they face an increased risk of some cancers or heart disease through free DNA saliva tests. The project announced is the world-first DNA screening study for such risks. | RELATED: | It will screen at least 10,000 individuals aged 18-40 for genes that increase the risk of certain types of cancers and hear…

TeleSUR (2022-08-22). Cuban Minister Praises International Solidarity. telesurenglish.net Cuba's Minister of Interior Trade, Betsy Díaz, thanked the international solidarity received as a result of the large-scale fire at the Supertanker Base in the western province of Matanzas. | RELATED: | During the arrival of a ship from Nicaragua with 35 containers of food donations for the victims of the disaster, Díaz stressed in statements to the press that the initiative joins that of other countries in the region such as Bolivia, Mexico and Venezue…

WSWS (2022-08-22). El Salvador's President Bukele arrests 1 percent of population in four-month "state of exception" wsws.org Tens of thousands of mostly young workers are being detained arbitrarily, processed in mass hearings and forced to sleep on the floor in packed cells with little food. Dozens have reportedly been beaten to death.

WSWS (2022-08-22). New Zealand firefighters hold nationwide strike. wsws.org The strike by nearly 2,000 firefighters and support workers is an indication of rising anger in the working class more broadly over soaring living costs, the uncontrolled spread of COVID-19 and the running down of essential, life-saving services.

Staff (2022-08-22). Tapia Fonseca checks the preparations for the sugar harvest in Villa Clara. en.cubadebate.cu Despite the lack of material resources, solutions must be encouraged from the productive base, exhorted Jorge Luis Tapia Fonseca, Cuban deputy prime minister, when verifying the progress of the repairs in the sugar mills during meetings with managers from the province of Villa Clara committed to the realization of an agro-industrial efficiency harvest. The sector has to "work like a family, without distortions and inaccuracies, and with a different perspective on direct links between producers and service entities.

____ (2022-08-22). Global support for vocational education urged. ecns.cn All countries have been encouraged to increase support and funding for vocational education, improve the incomes and status of technical workers, and enhance social recognition of vocational education, according to an initiative adopted over the weekend.

Staff (2022-08-22). Falleció Jorge Pérez, director de la empresa Metal-Mecánica Varona. cubadebate.cu Este domingo falleció el director de la empresa Metal-Mecánica Varona, Jorge Pérez, quien dedicó su vida laboral a la sustitución de importaciones en varios sectores de la economía nacional. El presidente cubano, Miguel Díaz-Canel, envío condolencias a familiares y amigos de Pérez.

Party for Socialism, Liberation (2022-08-22). Sunday 8/21: Stop the Trigger Laws!: March and Rally to Defend Abortion Rights. indybay.org San José City Hall | 200 East Santa Clara Street | San José, CA 95113…

WSWS (2022-08-22). Workers and campaigners speak in support of the UK rail strike. wsws.org Reporters from the World Socialist Web Site spoke with several workers and campaigners who came out last week to show solidarity at rail workers' rallies and pickets in Sheffield and London.

WSWS (2022-08-22). Down with the conspiracies of Bolsonaro and the military! wsws.org The GSI calls on the working class to mobilize independently against the dictatorial threats, rejecting the pseudo-left's demands for submission to capitalism and the bourgeois state.

WSWS (2022-08-22). Dangerous air conditioning issues remain New Jersey's Saint Michael's Hospital in aftermath of deadly heatwave. wsws.org The JNESO union, which shut down a militant strike by the hospital workers in June, bears direct responsibility for the dangerous conditions.

WSWS (2022-08-22). Democrats allow school budget cuts in New York City to move ahead. wsws.org A ruling by an appeals court to restore the cuts shows the need to mobilize the working class to defend public education.

WSWS (2022-08-22). El Salvador's Bukele arrests 1 percent of population in four-month "state of exception" wsws.org Tens of thousands of mostly young workers are being detained arbitrarily, processed in mass hearings of up to 0 at a time, and forced to sleep on the floor in packed cells in a pandemic and with little food. Dozens have reportedly been beaten to death.

Juan Laborda (2022-08-22). Propuestas heterodoxas para luchar contra la inflación. globalizacion.ca En el artículo anterior detallamos por qué los economistas de la corriente dominante se han convertido en un serio problema para la sociedad. La única propuesta encima de la mesa, a modo de receta, para luchar contra la inflación actual…

WSWS (2022-08-22). "We're at an unheard of level of solidarity to strike"—Letter from a US railroader. wsws.org "If our union leaders aren't willing to fight and risk being arrested for standing up against these companies," the worker said, "then maybe they need to step down from their cushy retirement jobs."

WSWS (2022-08-22). "We're at an unheard of level of solidarity to strike"—Letter from a BNSF railroader. wsws.org "If our union leaders aren't willing to fight and risk being arrested for standing up against these companies," the worker said, "then maybe they need to step down from their cushy retirement jobs."

TeleSUR, gao, SH (2022-08-22). Ascienden a siete los muertos por derrumbe de templo en Irak. telesurtv.net El gobernador local dijo que cerrará el acceso al templo chií después de las labores de rescate para investigar las causas del siniestro.

WSWS (2022-08-22). What's behind the US air traffic controller labor shortages. wsws.org The coronavirus pandemic has greatly worsened a staffing crisis which has been in the making for decades, since the destruction of the PATCO union by President Reagan in 1981.

WSWS (2022-08-22). UFCW claims passage of contract in Fort Wayne, announces second agreement in Columbus, Ohio after one day of negotiations. wsws.org The union has not provided any vote totals, but assuming the 72 percent margin is accurate, the UFCW pushed through this contract by withholding information and deliberately structuring the vote to suppress turnout.

WSWS (2022-08-22). Lessons of the 2021 Kaiser Permanente contract struggles. wsws.org Last year, over 100,000 Kaiser workers demonstrated their willingness to join together to fight against the systematic dismantling of the health care system. They faced a pan-union conspiracy, acting on behalf of the Democratic Party to keep workers isolated from each other, pushing through concessions contracts against growing rank-and-file opposition.

____ (2022-08-22). Turkey launches new airstrike on village in Iraq's Duhok. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Aug. 22 (MNA) — A Lebanese news source in Iraq on Monday morning announced the new airstrike launched by Turkish army against a village in Iraq's Duhok province.

WSWS (2022-08-22). William Ruto declared winner in Kenyan presidential election amid mass abstention. wsws.org In recent years, mass strikes have erupted among teachers, university lecturers, health workers, port workers and long-distance truck drivers over low pay and precarious conditions.

Khubaka, Michael Harris (2022-08-22). California poised to celebrate 2022 International Day for People of African Descent. indybay.org Together, we will call for the Great State of California to stand in solidarity with H. Res 615. People of African descent and friends across the diaspora stand against systemic racism and supports the transformational agenda for racial justice and equality as identified in the Systemic Racism Report, and implemented through the subsequent Human Rights Council Resolution and the Permanent Forum on People of African Descent.

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-08-21). The Assassination of Alexander Dugin's Daughter Darya Was a Dastardly Terrorist Attack. libya360.wordpress.com Andrew Korybko Darya's assassination represents a crossing of the Rubicon in the Ukrainian Conflict whereby Kiev has escalated its terrorist attacks to the point of targeting the family members of civilians who they were duped by fake news into falsely thinking are unofficially very influential policymakers like they seem to have believed that her father…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-08-21). BBC Assault on Antiwar Academics Was Apparent Product of UK Intel Plot. libya360.wordpress.com Kit Klarenberg Leaked emails expose the fingerprints of UK intelligence all over a factually challenged BBC special that aimed to deprive antiwar academics of their jobs and destroy their reputations. On May 31, BBC Radio initiated an embarrassing imbroglio when it broadcast a factually challenged, overtly propagandistic documentary special called Ukraine: The Disinformation War. Fronted by a British…

_____ (2022-08-21). China Forgives 23 Loans For 17 African Countries. popularresistance.org The Chinese government has announced that it is forgiving 23 interest-free loans for 17 African nations, while pledging to deepen its collaboration with the continent. | This is in addition to China's cancellation of more than $3.4 billion in debt and restructuring of around $15 billion of debt in Africa between 2000 and 2019. | While Beijing has a repeated history of forgiving loans like this, Western governments have made baseless, politically motivated accusations that China uses "debt-trap diplomacy" in the Global South. | The United States has turned Africa into a battleground in its new cold war on China an…

Fight Back (2022-08-21). Homegrown delivery workers take one-day strike action against invasive surveillance cameras. fightbacknews.org Seattle, WA – Workers at the Homegrown distribution center began a 24-hour strike on August 17 over invasive surveillance cameras, kicking off strike votes at other locations of the company. | Workers at Homegrown Sustainable Sandwiches went public with a union campaign on June 3 and have been fighting for recognition ever since – escalating from delegations to pickets and, as of Wednesday morning, strike action. In response to organized workers, the company installed high-tech facial recognition cameras in delivery trucks, designed to intimidate drivers. Drivers and packers showed they wouldn't be intimida…

Fight Back (2022-08-21). Red Theory: Surplus value, the secret of capitalist exploitation. fightbacknews.org When we enter into employment, our bosses are trying to play a trick on us. They want us to understand the process one way, when, in fact, something else is happening. They want us to think that we have agreed, as equals, upon a deal, where they pay us an agreed up hourly wage, and we, in turn, do some agreed upon labor for them. They make a profit and we get paid, and everyone gets what they agreed upon. At least, that's how they want us to understand the process. | But what is really going on here? In the end, they've somehow got all of the money and we did all of the work. The capitalist bosses are like stage…

____ (2022-08-21). (W.E. Talk) Liu Zhipeng: How to look back on the century since the Revolution of 1911 and the founding of the Communist Party of China. ecns.cn "We have long looked back on the past hundred years from a western viewpoint," said Liu Zhipeng, associate vice president and professor of history at Lingnan University in Hong Kong, in an exclusive interview with China News Service's "W.E. Talk". "When we re-examined it from the perspective of contemporary world history, what we learn is, of course, different from what we have seen in the last 100 years."

Staff (2022-08-21). India's Prabhat Patnaik: Fascism Is Rooted in the Crisis of Neoliberalism (Interview). orinocotribune.com Renowned Indian economist and political analyst Prabhat Patnaik spoke with Bengali newspaper Ganashakti about the present state of India's economy and politics, on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of India's independence from British colonial rule. | After 75 years of independence, wealth inequality and unemployment are increasing rapidly, while employment and the guarantee of an income for the majority of the population are decreasing every day. Does this mean that India is no longer a welfare state? | If we consider the definition of "welfare state" properly, India was never a "welfare state." Even if a "we…

____ (2022-08-21). Biden says slavery 'America's original sin'. ecns.cn Slavery is "America's original sin," U.S. President Joe Biden said on Saturday in a statement.

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2022-08-22: News Headlines

Lee Siu Hin, China-US Solidarity Network (2022-08-22). 8/20 LEE SIU HIN: Stupid Self-Defeating U.S. Sanctions Make China Even Stronger. indybay.org Why the latest desperate, racist and phony high-tech ban against China by the U.S. — the CHIPS Act — won't work and will only serve to put taxpayer money into the wallets of corporate America and the corrupt politicians.

Labor Video Project (2022-08-22). NUHW In Kaiser Strike Demand That Newsom & Demos Prosecute Flagrant Violations Of CA Law. indybay.org At an NUHW Kaiser strike rally at the Kaiser headquarters the union demanded that Governor Newsom and California politicians enforce the healthcare laws which Kaiser they charged is flagrantly violating. Workers and patients also spoke about what they are facing.

Labor Video Project (2022-08-22). NUHW Kaiser Strike TikTok Video. indybay.org Striking NUHW Kaiser clinicians rallied at the Kaiser headquarters in Oakland and did a TikTok video.

Newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2022-08-22). RISE for Youth program celebrates successful first year. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org RISE for Youth, a first-of-its-kind collaboration between Mayo Clinic and the Rochester branch of the NAACP, recently wrapped up its inaugural year of programming. The program, which received funding through Mayo Clinic's $100 million commitment against racism, drew rave reviews from scholars, community partners and Mayo Clinic staff. For as long as she can remember, Aisha Qassim has wanted to become a surgeon. But with no doctors in her family, she wasn't sure of the…

Newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2022-08-22). Mayo Clinic announces a strategic collaboration for a new era of biomanufacturing. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org ROCHESTER, Minn. — Mayo Clinic today announced a strategic collaboration in biomanufacturing to deliver novel biotherapeutics for rare and complex conditions. The collaboration brings together science, engineering and manufacturing to advance Mayo Clinic's vision of bringing new cures to clinical care. The focus will be on therapies derived from human sources known as biologics — cells, blood, enzymes, tissues, genes or genetically engineered cells — for use in medicines. Therapeutics based on biologics have the…

Uhuru Solidarity Movement (2022-08-22). Tuesday 9/13: Day of Reparations to African People. indybay.org Uhuru House | 7911 MacArthur Blvd, Oakland, CA 94605…

Staff (2022-08-21). Iran's H1 trade with EU rises to ‚Ç¨2.5b. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Aug. 21 (MNA) — Iran and the European Union's 27 member states traded ‚Ç¨2.59 billion worth of goods in the first six months of 2022, registering a 15.23% rise compared with last year's corresponding period.

Oneworld.press (2022-08-21). Russia's Military-Industrial Chief Is Right: The US' S-400 Waiver To India Is A Sign Of Weakness. oneworld.press Although State Department spokesman Ned Price reaffirmed his declining unipolar hegemon's continued commitment to meddle in India's foreign policy just last week, it's clearly incapable of imposing its zero-sum will onto that rising multipolar Great Power.

Anonymous103 (2022-08-21). Military Situation In Iraq On August 21, 2022 (Map Update). southfront.org On August 21, a U.S. logistical convoy was targeted by IED attack in the Salah al-Din province; | On August 20, Maryam al-Qahtani, the leader of ISIS in Salah al-Din province, along with five other ISIS members were killed as a result of the Iraqi airstrikes in the Hamrin mountains; | On August 20, the newly established Iraqi group "Tashkil al-Warithin" announced the attack by several suicide drones on the US military positions in Ali Al Salem Air Base in Kuwait; | On Au…

Staff (2022-08-21). Occupation raids, attacks Palestinian organizations: EU, US and Canada are complicit! samidoun.net In the early morning hours of Thursday, 18 August, armed Israeli occupation forces invaded the offices of seven prominent Palestinian NGOs, civil society organizations and human rights defenders: the Health Work Committees, Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association, Al-Haq, Union of Palestinian Women's Committees, Bisan Centre, Defence for Children International &#1 ; Palestine, and the …

Labor Video Project (2022-08-21). No More Kaiser Suicides! NUHW Members Strike Kaiser Health System. indybay.org Two thousand Kaiser NUHW healthcare workers went on an indefinite strike on August 15, 2022 for proper staffing and compensation to keep healthcare professionals on the jobs. As a result of a lack of proper staffing, Members and patients at Kaisers have committed suicide. Clinicians…

Labor Video Project (2022-08-21). NUHW Kaiser Strike TikTok Video. indybay.org Striking NUHW Kaiser clinicians rallied at the Kaiser headquarters in Oakland and did a TikTok video.

Dylan Manshack (2022-08-21). La cumbre de trabajadores jóvenes de Texas muestra la nueva militancia del movimiento. peoplesworld.org ROUND ROCK, Texas—Las recientes victorias de los trabajadores jóvenes de todo el país han brindado esperanza para la perspectiva de un movimiento laboral renovado y, a raíz de estos éxitos, la AFL-CIO de Texas celebró su 3ra Reunión Anual de Jóvenes Líderes Laborales Activos (YALL) Cumbre aquí el mes pasado. El orador principal de la …

____ (2022-08-21). Biden says slavery 'America's original sin'. ecns.cn Slavery is "America's original sin," U.S. President Joe Biden said on Saturday in a statement.

WSWS (2022-08-21). 2,000 workers begin eight day strike at UK's largest container port in Felixstowe. wsws.org Dockers have begun an eight day strike in Felixstowe, the UK's largest container port, responsible for about 48 percent of container traffic. It handles 4 million containers a year from 2,000 ships.

Lee Siu Hin, China-US Solidarity Network (2022-08-21). 8/20 LEE SIU HIN: Stupid Self-Defeating U.S. Sanctions Make China Even Stronger. indybay.org Why the latest desperate, racist and phony high-tech ban against China by the U.S. — the CHIPS Act — won't work and will only serve to put taxpayer money into the wallets of corporate America and the corrupt politicians.

WSWS (2022-08-21). London United bus drivers on strike: "What we're all facing is the same thing, and we should stand together" wsws.org Striking London United bus strikers spoke to WSWS reports during their strike this weekend.

Staff (2022-08-21). Porto FC dubs Mehdi Taremi 'Persian Gulf Boy'. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Aug. 21 (MNA) — Porto FC has given the Iranian striker Mehdi Taremi the unofficial name of "Persian Gulf Boy".

WSWS (2022-08-21). UK rail workers conclude third round of national strikes. wsws.org Confrontations between a ruling class turning to dictatorial forms of rule and a working class emerging from decades of suppression of the class struggle are on the agenda all over the world.

Party for Socialism, Liberation (2022-08-21). Sunday 8/21: Stop the Trigger Laws!: March and Rally to Defend Abortion Rights. indybay.org San José City Hall | 200 East Santa Clara Street | San José, CA 95113…

Staff (2022-08-21). India's Prabhat Patnaik: Fascism Is Rooted in the Crisis of Neoliberalism (Interview). orinocotribune.com Renowned Indian economist and political analyst Prabhat Patnaik spoke with Bengali newspaper Ganashakti about the present state of India's economy and politics, on the occasion of 75 years of India's independence from British colonial rule. | After 75 years of independence, wealth inequality and unemployment are increasing rapidly, while employment and the guarantee of an income for the majority of the population are decreasing every day. Does this mean that India is no longer a welfare state? | If we consider the definition of "welfare state" properly, India was never a "welfare state." Even if a "welfare state"

Staff (2022-08-21). Unión Eléctrica prevé una afectación superior a 702 MW en horario pico. cubadebate.cu Con este pronóstico, se estima para el horario pico una disponibilidad de 2468 MW y una demanda máxima de 3100 MW, para un déficit de 632 MW, por lo que de mantenerse las condiciones previstas se pronostica una afectación de 702 MW al pico.

Anonymous (2022-08-21). *Same Thing Happened in Fiji*. indybay.org Australian establishment in cover up mode over former PM's secret ministerial positions In the days since it was revealed that former Prime Minister Scott Morrison secretly appointed himself to five key ministerial portfolios in 2020 and 2021, the Australian political and media establishment has desperately sought to cover up the political significance of the measures, which amounted to nothing less than the preparations for a prime ministerial dictatorship.

Uhuru Solidarity Movement (2022-08-21). Saturday 8/27: Yard Sale for Reparations Fundraiser. indybay.org Seminary Ave at Camden St, East Oakland, CA 94605…

Staff (2022-08-21). Israel unable to take measure against Iran: IRGC. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Aug. 21 (MNA) — The spokesman of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) says the Israeli regime is in the worst security conditions, stressing that it is unable to take any measures against Iran.

Khubaka, Michael Harris (2022-08-21). California poised to celebrate 2022 International Day for People of African Descent. indybay.org Together, we will call for the Great State of California to stand in solidarity with H. Res 615. People of African descent and friends across the diaspora stand against systemic racism and supports the transformational agenda for racial justice and equality as identified in the Systemic Racism Report, and implemented through the subsequent Human Rights Council Resolution and the Permanent Forum on People of African Descent.

Anonymous669 (2022-08-21). Palestinian Fighter Killed In Alleged Israeli Strike On Egypt's Sinai — Reports. southfront.org quadron 161 ("The Black Snake") marks its reopening as the only "Zik" Squadron (Hermes 4 ) in the UAV, absorbing all the "Zik" aircraft from Squadron 166 ("Firebirds"). Taken on 6 December 2020 by Amit Agronov. Source: the Israeli Defense Forces. | A Palestinian fighter from the Gaza Strip has been reportedly killed in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula under suspicious circumstances. | The death of the fighter, Basel Khaled Eid, was first reported by Palestinian and Egyptian news sources…

Newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2022-08-21). RISE for Youth program celebrates successful first year. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org RISE for Youth, a first-of-its-kind collaboration between Mayo Clinic and the Rochester branch of the NAACP, recently wrapped up its inaugural year of programming. The program, which received funding through Mayo Clinic's $100 million commitment against racism, drew rave reviews from scholars, community partners and Mayo Clinic staff. For as long as she can remember, Aisha Qassim has wanted to become a surgeon. But with no doctors in her family, she wasn't sure of the…

Uhuru Solidarity Movement (2022-08-21). Tuesday 9/13: Day of Reparations to African People. indybay.org Uhuru House | 7911 MacArthur Blvd, Oakland, CA 94605…

Newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2022-08-21). Mayo Clinic announces a strategic collaboration for a new era of biomanufacturing. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org ROCHESTER, Minn. — Mayo Clinic today announced a strategic collaboration in biomanufacturing to deliver novel biotherapeutics for rare and complex conditions. The collaboration brings together science, engineering and manufacturing to advance Mayo Clinic's vision of bringing new cures to clinical care. The focus will be on therapies derived from human sources known as biologics — cells, blood, enzymes, tissues, genes or genetically engineered cells — for use in medicines. Therapeutics based on biologics have the…

Dmitri Kovalevich (2022-08-20). Ukrainian Regime Led by Media Darling Volodymyr Zelensky Kidnaps Student Dissidents, Bans Opposition Parties, Shuts Down Independent Media, Commits Egregious War Crimes and Imposes Regressive Labor Laws. covertactionmagazine.com More Ukrainian Soldiers Continue to Defect as Eastern Ukrainians See Better Future with Russian Federation For more than five months, full-scale hostilities have taken place on the territory of Ukraine. The number of victims is growing every day on both sides of the front line. From the signing of the "Minsk 2" peace agreement in …

_____ (2022-08-20). Lessons From A Radical Past: One Man's Journey Into The Factories In The 1970s. popularresistance.org A national direct election will be held in the fall for the United Auto Workers (UAW), which held its 38th constitutional convention the week of July 25 in Detroit. Once an industrial union power with almost 1.5 million members in 1979, the union has been reduced to roughly 400,000 active members (though it has nearly 600,000 retirees)‚Äâ—‚Äâand about a quarter of its members are graduate teaching assistants and other university workers in higher education. | The union, for decades, has been governed by the Administration Caucus, which perpetuated its rule by tightly managi…

_____ (2022-08-20). Minneapolis: Recently Unionized Starbucks Workers On Two-day Strike. popularresistance.org Minneapolis, Minnesota — The corner of 47th Street and Cedar Avenue in Minneapolis was quiet for the first time after spirited drumming and chants of, "What's disgusting? Union busting!" filled the air from July 31-August 1. Employees of the Cedar Avenue Starbucks had returned to work after a two-day strike in protest of the company's refusal to bargain with the newly formed union, as well as what the workers say are backhanded attempts to undermine union efforts. | Baristas and shift supervisors united to raise grievances against the manager of the location and Starbucks corporate for difficult working con…

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