(2022-08-11). Negative impact of forced labor in U.S. affects other countries: report. ecns.cn The appalling history and status quo of forced labor in the United States is so serious and long-standing that its spillover effect has impacted other countries, said a report released on Tuesday entitled "The United States' Practise of Forced Labor at Home and Abroad: Truth and Facts."
(2022-08-11). EU Expects Quick Responses on the Iran Nuclear Deal. news.antiwar.com Negotiations are done, the text is as final as it is ever going to be, and the European Union seems surprisingly upbeat on the nuclear deal chances, saying they That hope comes in spite of there not being a quick anything in the years of negotiations. Both the US and Iran
(2022-08-11). When Billions of our Tax Dollars are given to Corporations then our Labor is Slave Labor. indybay.org Modern Slavery Exists! When we pay taxes and then the U.S. Congress votes to give billions of our tax dollars to corporations as subsidies, then we have worked as slave labor.
(2022-08-11). Expert Alert: What a formula change may mean for Black patients in need of a kidney transplant. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org ROCHESTER, Minn. — Experts are hoping a new requirement that all U.S. transplant centers use a race-neutral formula to determine eligibility for a kidney transplant will improve African American access to lifesaving transplants. "This is an essential step toward reducing racial inequity in access to kidney transplantation," says Naim Issa, M.D., a Mayo Clinic nephrologist. "The inclusion of race in the calculation of kidney function has been linked to disparities in care for African Americans,…
(2022-08-11). Starbucks union wave comes to Houston. liberationnews.org 
The Montrose Starbucks is the first store to unionize in Houston, and it has the potential to inspire other Starbucks workers in Houston to organize their own stores…
(2022-08-11). New York City Taxi Workers are fighting for raises and job security. liberationnews.org 
The central demand of the drivers is raising wages to $25 per hour in take-home pay, after all expenses such as gasoline.
(2022-08-11). IUOE Local 150 wins big after seven week strike. liberationnews.org 
After walking the picket lines for seven weeks, 300 members of the International Union of Operating Engineers Local 150 voted unanimously to adopt their new contract.
(2022-08-11). What Was Covid Really About? Triggering A Multi-Trillion Dollar Global Debt Crisis. "Ramping up an Imperialist Strategy"? globalresearch.ca If it was indeed about public health, why close down the bulk of health services and the global economy knowing full well what the implications would be? And why mount a military-style propaganda campaign to censor world-renowned scientists and terrorise entire populations…
(2022-08-11). Hyundai Motor Company exposed for using child labor. liberationnews.org 
In Luverne, Alabama — the self-styled "Friendliest City in the South" — a Reuters report found that a subsidiary of Hyundai Motor Company has used child labor after the disappearance of a young migrant child from her home in Alabama.
(2022-08-11). Fences Torn Down at 24th and Mission BART Plaza. itsgoingdown.org Action report from San Francisco, CA, on the recent tearing down of fences around a subway station after local politicians and a business association launched a crackdown on non-permitted vendors. For more background, go here. Last night, 24th St & Mission Plaza in San Francisco was reclaimed for the people in solidarity with People's Park…
(2022-08-11). U.S. out of — where you don't belong! indybay.org What do we want? Sovereignty, not oligarchy, colonialism, imperialism, nor meddling with our bodies.
(2022-08-11). Irony Alert: Amateurish Iranian attempt to hit John Bolton may derail Nuclear Negotiations Bolton wanted Derailed. juancole.com Ann Arbor (Informed Comment)  ; An attempt to hire a hit man to kill former National Security Adviser John Bolton by an alleged member of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps was revealed by the Department of Justice at a delicate time in the negotiations to bring both the US and Iran back into compliance with …
(2022-08-11). Espanyol confirms departure of Chinese striker Wu Lei. ecns.cn Spanish La Liga club Espanyol confirmed on Thursday morning that Chinese international striker Wu Lei is leaving the club to return to his homeland.
(2022-08-11). Store Walkout Over Firing of Starbucks Union Organizer Racks Up 20 Million Views on TikTok. commondreams.org "Starbucks continues its rampant firing of union leaders."
(2022-08-11). Thursday 8/11: South Bay Indigenous Solidarity General Meeting. indybay.org Online. Zoom registration page: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMoc-GrrjgqGtB8UTFIR6csLrp1rCiAG0RC…
(2022-08-11). US, Europe greenlight Israel's latest Gaza massacre. greenleft.org.au Western weapons, money and political support sustain and prolong Israel's settler-colonial persecution of the Palestinian people and ensure that the blood keeps flowing, writes Ali Abunimah.
(2022-08-11). Science Saturday: Addressing the challenges of chimeric antigen receptor-T cell therapy. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org Chimeric antigen receptor-T cell therapy (CAR-T cell therapy) — a type of immunotherapy that reprograms a patient's T cells to recognize and destroy cancer cells — has revolutionized the treatment of blood cancers. While the technique has successfully sent patients with advanced disease into remission, it is far from perfect. CAR-T cell therapy has three main problems that Mayo is seeking to address to bring the full potential of this promising treatment to patients, says Saad Kenderian,…
(2022-08-10). Iran Censures 'World's Regrettable Silence' on Israeli Assault on Gaza. orinocotribune.com Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman has sharply criticized the latest Israeli regime's deadly airstrikes in Gaza, saying the international community's inaction and silence about the illegal entity's crimes against the Palestinians is "regrettable". | Nasser Kan'ani made the remarks in a post on his Twitter account on Sunday as Israeli jets continue to shell the coastal enclave for the third day, leaving 34 dead and more than 200 wounded. | Attaching to his tweet several photos of the victims of the latest Israeli aggression against the Palestinians he wrote that "These are examples of the Zionist apartheid regi…
(2022-08-10). ALBA-TCP Condemns US Attempt to Seize Venezuelan Jumbo Jet in Argentina. orinocotribune.com Monday, August 8, the Bolivarian Alliance for the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America—Peoples' Trade Treaty (ALBA—TCP) condemned the United States intention to hijack the plane belonging to EMTRASUR, a subsidiary of the Venezuelan airline Conviasa, held in Argentina since June 6 under false allegations. | Through a statement, ALBA-TCP described as "illegitimate and illegal" the request of the United States Department of Justice to seize the aircraft. | "The illegitimate and illegal seizure order of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia is a consequence of the uni…
(2022-08-10). China Gives America a Taste of its Own Geopolitics. libya360.wordpress.com Brian Berletic Under the US' own one China policy, Washington recognizes there is only one China, that Taiwan is a part of China, and that there is only one government of China, the People's Republic of China (PRC) in Beijing. Despite this, the US undermines Chinese sovereignty over Taiwan by treating the island as a…
(2022-08-10). Russia's Latest Military Aid to Mali Confirms its Regional Anti-Terrorist Commitment. libya360.wordpress.com Andrew Korybko Instead of fleeing in the face of foreign-backed Al Qaeda-connected terrorists recently declaring war on it in Mali, Russia proved that it's ready to double down by doing its utmost to ensure that its regional ally can wipe out these destabilizing forces once and for all after France failed to do so despite…
(2022-08-10). US Threatens Ethiopia and Eritrea with "Genocide Designation" libya360.wordpress.com Ann Garrison Eugene Puryear, author Ann Garrison, Rania Khalek, Simon Tesfamariam at Eritrea Festival in Dallas (Photo: Twitter @SebleTsehaye) I had the honor of being invited to address the annual Eritrean Festival, which was held in Dallas this year during the first week of August. These are my remarks. Greetings. Thank you for inviting me…
(2022-08-10). Ukraine and its Western Backers Should Be Held Accountable for the 'Suicidal' Attack on Europe's Largest Nuclear Powerplant. libya360.wordpress.com Scott Ritter The US secretary of state hoped to make Russia look like a 'nuclear terrorist'. Instead, he implicated himself Even as UN Secretary-General António Guterres addressed survivors of the World War Two US atomic bomb attack on Hiroshima, halfway around the world, the armed forces of Ukraine seemed hellbent on unleashing a modern-day nuclear holocaust on Europe…
(2022-08-10). In Video: Russian Loitering Munition Takes Out Norwegian M109 Howitzer In Ukraine. southfront.org 
MOSCOW REGION, RUSSIA  ; JUNE 25, 2019: A ZALA Lancet-3 attack drone developed by Kalashnikov Concern on display at the Army 2019 International Military Technical Forum at Patriot Park. Marina Lystseva/TASS | The Russian military has destroyed one of the M109A3GN 155 mm self-propelled howitzers which were recently supplied by Norway to Kiev forces near the front in Mykolaiv with a Lancet loitering munition. | On August 9, Russian sources shared footage of the strike which took place somewhere on Mykolaiv front.
(2022-08-10). The Provocations Behind The 'Unprovoked' War. popularresistance.org Back in 1949, the United States, Canada and 10 Western European countries formed a military alliance called the North Atlantic Treaty organization, or NATO. Washington had decided that the Soviet Union, its wartime ally — the one that had broken the back of the Nazi war machine — now was its peacetime enemy. | By 1990, the Soviet Union and most of its socialist allies were collapsing, the result of internal contradictions and outside pressures. The U.S. was promoting the reunification of Germany — a move opposed by Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, who still remembered how his country had lost 20…
(2022-08-10). UN Security Council Holds Emergency Meeting On Gaza Amid Fragile Truce. popularresistance.org On Monday, August 8, the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) held an emergency meeting on the situation in Gaza amid uncertainty around the fate of the truce reached the previous day after three days of Israeli aggression. | Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process Tor Wennesland reported during the meeting that in three days, Israel had carried out 147 airstrikes which killed 46 Palestinians, including 16 children, and injured 360 more. In retaliation, Palestinian groups fired over 1,100 rockets, in which a total of 70 Israelis were lightly injured. | Wennesland also noted that increased border c…
(2022-08-10). US Launches Airstrikes in Somalia, Says Four al-Shabaab Fighters Dead. news.antiwar.com The US launched airstrikes in Somalia on Tuesday against al-Shabaab, US Africa Command (AFRICOM) said on Wednesday. | AFRICOM said in a But the Pentagon is notorious for undercounting civilian casualties,…
(2022-08-10). Fact Check: 36% Of Americans Earning $2 K Or More Live Paycheck To Paycheck. moguldom.com With inflation driving up the cost of almost everything, workers in all income levels — including those who make more than $2 ,000 a year — report they are living paycheck to paycheck and devoting almost all their salaries to expenses with little or nothing left at the end of the month. Paycheck to paycheck generally …
(2022-08-10). New Turkish Drone Strike On Northeastern Syria Leaves Three Dead. southfront.org 
Click to see full-size image. Source: the Hawar News Agency. | On August 10, a Turkish combat drone targeted a vehicle near the village of Mala Sbat to the west of the town of al-Qamishli in the northern countryside of Syria's al-Hasakah. | The drone strike completely destroyed the vehicle, killing three people who were aboard. The victims may have been members of the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) or its civil administration. | It's worth noting that the Syrian Arab Army maintains a pos…
(2022-08-10). Russian Warplanes Rain Hell On ISIS Hideouts In Raqqa After Attack On Syria Army. southfront.org 
Russian Su-25 attack aircraft take off from the Khmeimim airbase in Syria © Dmitriy Vinogradov / Sputnik | On August 10, warplanes of the Russian Aerospace Forces (VKS) carried out a series of airstrikes on hideout of ISIS cells in Syria's central region. | According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, more than 13 airstrikes targeted caves in the outskirts of the town of Resafa in the southern Raqqa countryside, where ISIS terrorists have been taking shelter. The London-based monitoring group didn't rep…
(2022-08-10). The United States Has Many Political Prisoners — Here's A List. popularresistance.org The United States constantly accuses its adversaries of holding political prisoners, while insisting it has none of its own. But for its entire history, the US government has used incarceration of its political opponents as a tool to crush dissent and advance the interests of economic elites. | Well-known cases are those entrapped or framed in US national security state sting operations, or imprisoned with extreme sentences for a minor offense because of their political activism, such as Black revolutionary George Jackson. | Each period of struggle by the working class and oppressed peoples against ruling-class c…
(2022-08-10). Political Prisoners in the United States, 2022. orinocotribune.com By Stansfield Smith  ; Aug 6, 2022 | There are many ways to define what is a political prisoner. The most well-known cases are those the national security state framed-up, or imprisoned with extreme sentences for an offense because of their political activism, such as Each period of struggle by the working class and oppressed peoples against ruling class control results some activists locked up for their effective revolutionary work. "Political prisoner" has often means those jailed for fighting their national oppression, as the…
(2022-08-10). Immigrant Detainees Strike Over $1 A Day Pay, Working Conditions. popularresistance.org At two federal detention centers in California, more than 50 immigrant workers are on strike over unsafe working conditions and low wages. | "We are being exploited for our labor and are being paid $1 per day to clean the dormitories," said strikers at a central California detention center in a June statement received by public radio station KQED. | Detained workers, known as "housing porters," participate in a supposedly volunteer working program while locked up. They use their earnings to pay for the exorbitant cost of phone calls and commissary items like dental floss and tortillas. | "They are compelled to do…
(2022-08-10). Sudanese Communist Party Forms a New Alliance Committed to Ending Military Rule. libya360.wordpress.com Abayomi Azikiwe Sudanese Communist Party Leader Mohamed Mokhtar Al Khatib Forms New Alliance After withdrawing from the Forces for Freedom and Change (FFC), the SCP has continued to call for democratic civilian rule Since December of 2018, the Republic of Sudan has undergone general strikes, mass demonstrations, the forced removal of longtime former President Omar…
(2022-08-10). Free Khalil Awawdeh: 161 days of hunger strike, Palestinian prisoner's life at risk #FreeKhalil. samidoun.net 
Khalil Awawdeh, the 40-year-old Palestinian prisoner on hunger strike for 161 days, is in an extremely desperate health condition in the Ramle prison clinic. The Israeli occupation has repeatedly attempted to evade its commitments to the resistance, as promised by Egyptian mediators, to release Awawdeh to a hospital and free Bassam al-Saadi. He has not …
(2022-08-10). Manufacturing Consent: How the United States Has Penetrated South African Media. libya360.wordpress.com Ajit Singh, Roscoe Palm In recent weeks, South African public discourse has been focused on concerns about alleged Chinese influence in the country's media landscape. However, these conversations have tended to overlook the already existing spheres of influence within South African media. Politically motivated sponsorship of prominent South African media outlets by the United States dates…
(2022-08-10). Xenophobia Escalates in South Africa. libya360.wordpress.com Richard Pithouse Members and supporters of a coalition of organizations under the banner of Kopanang Africa march against xenophobia in Johannesburg in March 2022. Photo: Gopolang Ledwaba With no national force with the vision and power to offer an emancipatory alternative to politics that turns neighbors against each other, the country is on a knife…
(2022-08-10). The Dark Side of the Digital Revolution: "Slowly Closing its Grip on our Lives" globalresearch.ca
(2022-08-10). Letter Carriers' Rolando spells out Amazon threat to postal workers. peoplesworld.org 
CHICAGO  ; Organizing Amazon against its ever-expanding reach and the radical right extremist threat to democracy are two main challenges confronting Letter Carriers and all unions in coming years, union President Fredric Rolando said at his union's convention here this week. The other challenge facing the Letter Carriers, of course, is negotiating a new contract with …
(2022-08-10). Iranian Para swimmers win medals at Turkey's games. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Aug. 10 (MNA) — Iranian Para swimmers Shahin Izadyar and Sina Zeighaminejad won a gold medal and a silver, respectively in the 2021 Islamic Solidarity Games.
(2022-08-10). The Unbroken: Evo Morales. indybay.org Recent events give hope for a resurgence of the left on the continent. Morales points to recent electoral victories in Peru, Chile, Colombia, as well as Lula's soon expected return to the Brazilian presidency. "These times are coming again," he says. "We have to work to consolidate these democratic revolutions, for the benefit of humanity. I have a lot of hope."
(2022-08-10). Medical workers arrive in Hainan from all corners. ecns.cn More than 10,000 medical workers from 19 provincial-level regions have been sent to Hainan province to assist in its fight against a recent COVID-19 outbreak, a senior health official said on Wednesday.
(2022-08-10). Four SDF Fighters, Kurdish-Iranian Leader Were Killed In Recent Turkish Drone Strikes On Syria's Al-Qamishli. southfront.org 
On August 10, the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) acknowledged that four of its fighters were killed and three others were wounded as a result of a Turkish drone strike that targeted the northeastern Syrian town of al-Qamishli a day earlier. | In a statement, the Kurdish-led group said that the fighters were manning a post guarding a number of hospitals in al-Qamishli. | The slain fighters were identified as Ali al-Maslat, 56, Muhyiddin Ibrahim, 31, Maher Al-Ezbeh, 18, and 18-years-old woman Heaven Osman.
(2022-08-10). Iranian sprinter Fasihi takes silver at Islamic Games. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Aug. 10 (MNA) — Iran's Farzaneh Fasihi claimed a silver medal in the women's 100m final of the 2021 Islamic Solidarity Games.
(2022-08-10). La Unión Europea deja de importar carbón ruso como parte de sanciones. cubadebate.cu Como parte del quinto paquete de sanciones a Moscú, la Unión Europea no importará más carbón ruso a partir de este miércoles. Según la Comisión Europea, las sanciones afectarán el 25% de las exportaciones en este renglón, que tendrían un valor de 8 000 millones de euros al año. La India y Turquía han aumentado los pedidos de carbón ruso luego del anuncio de la UE.
(2022-08-09). Who killed the POWs at Yelenovka? All signs on the ground point to a Ukrainian attack/ By Eva Bartlett. marktaliano.net 
There is every reason to believe that the July 29 bombing of a detention center holding Ukrainian POWs was carried out on Kiev's orders Original Link Here: Who killed the POWs at Yelenovka? All signs on the ground point to a Ukrainian attack — RT Russia & Former Soviet Union Eva Bartlett is a Canadian …
(2022-08-09). Dublin Demonstration: Ireland Stay Out Of NATO. popularresistance.org On Saturday the sixth of August, members of Ireland's Russian community held a protest in Dublin against the current trajectory that the 26 County State appears to be taking in regards to joining NATO. | Supported by Irish Republican groups, Republican Sinn Féin and the Irish Republican Socialist Party, the demonstration took place on O'Connell Street, Dublin's main thoroughfare, facing the General Post Office — the historic site where the Irish Republic was declared in arms on Easter Monday 1916. | Indeed, just as Irish men and women fought against British imperialism in 1916, the US and UK-supported Imper…
(2022-08-09). Africa Remains at the Center of a 21st Century Cold War. towardfreedom.org Officials from Russia, France and the United States are vying for influence over the 1.3 billion people living within the African Union's 55 member-states. Abayomi Azikiwe analyzes the situation.
(2022-08-09). Remembering One of Humanity's Worst Catastrophes Seventy Seven Years On. covertactionmagazine.com President Harry S. Truman's decision to drop atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki set the groundwork for an era of U.S. global hegemony and enriched corporations like General Electric, DuPont, Union Carbide, Bechtel and Westinghouse which made hundreds of billions of dollars developing generation after generation of "first-strike" nuclear weapons. U.S. leaders, intent on provoking …
(2022-08-09). 220+ Organizations Call on Biden Administration to Regulate Rent to Curb Inflation. peoplesaction.org Demands for Federal Action to Regulate Rent Released in Memo and Letter to the Administration Contact: Johanna Kichton, press@peoplesaction.org, 202.660.0605 WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Homes Guarantee campaign, based at People's Action, today led a coalition of over 220 tenant unions, community organizations, and legal partners to call on President Biden to regulate rents in a …
(2022-08-09). Joseph Stalin out on bail after mass Sri Lanka protests. peoplesworld.org 
Sri Lankan trade union leader Joseph Stalin has been released on bail a week after he was arrested for leading an anti-government protest. The general secretary of the Sri Lanka Teachers Union was one of the organizers of a large demonstration on May 28 calling for the government to resign over the country's deep economic …
(2022-08-09). Indiana passes first post-Roe abortion ban. liberationnews.org 
The ban introduced by Indiana lawmakers will have the most significant impact on poor and working class people.
(2022-08-09). A Legislative Staff Unionization Wave Is Hitting Blue State Capitols. popularresistance.org A white-collar unionization wave is hitting legislative chambers in Democratic-leaning states across the nation. | Frustrated by low pay and long hours, state house staffers in Massachusetts, California, New York and Washington state are seeking to organize. They hope to join their counterparts in Oregon, who became the first in the nation to unionize in 2021. | The organizing effort in state capitols mirrors a similar push in Congress. In May, the Democratically-controlled U.S. House of Representatives passed a resolution giving congressional staffers the legal right to negotiate over salaries, schedules, pay di…
(2022-08-09). Damning Report Shows Unions Have Plenty Of Money To Organize. popularresistance.org Many people who are passionate about the labor movement, myself included, have long had the vague but haunting sense that the most powerful institutions in the union world are not doing enough to stem the bleeding that has been sucking power from unions for decades. Well, there's good news and bad news on that front. The bad news is: that sickening feeling was correct. The good news is: now we can put some numbers on it. | A new report from Chris Bohner, who runs the labor research firm Radish Research, has done an amazing service by systematically assembling thousands of financial records from unions over the pa…
(2022-08-09). Milwaukee Alliance holds march and vigil for Brieon Green. fightbacknews.org Milwaukee, WI — On Saturday, August 6, the Milwaukee Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression held a march and vigil with the family of Brieon Green and other community members. Green died at the jail on June 26. With a small but energetic crowd, the Milwaukee Alliance led people in a loop through the downtown area that began and ended in front of the Milwaukee County Courthouse. | After the march, Angela Lang, executive director of Black Leaders Organizing Communities; Monique Dunlap, Green's aunt, and Omar Flores, co-chair of the MAARPR, spoke about Green's case and the need for transparency…
(2022-08-09). How Activism Labour Defies Capitalism. popularresistance.org It only takes one doom scroll through social media to see there is no shortage of injustice in the world. But there is also no shortage of people who have dedicated themselves to dismantle systems of violence and advance justice through activism. | With how deeply entrenched injustice is in our society, the work to dismantle injustice is a full-time job. Despite the hours put in, this job does not fit a capitalist and colonial view of labour. | El Jones, a prison abolitionist dedicated to fighting state violence, said that for Black people, there is a historical precedent that makes it easier for this work to go…
(2022-08-09). Australian Labor Party And Assange: Burying The Politics. popularresistance.org The difficulty for the Australian Labor government in deciding how to respond to the Julian Assange case is that once a prosecution is characterised as a political prosecution then, by its nature, there can be no expectation of due process. | The U.S.-U.K. Extradition Treaty forbids extradition in the case of "political offences." Former Australian High Commissioner to the U.K. George Brandis — who was commissioner for almost the entirety of Assange's Belmarsh imprisonment since 2019 — doesn't agree that Assange is a political prisoner. | The Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) and its new…
(2022-08-09). Why Is There More Media Talk About Using Nuclear Weapons Than About Banning Them? scheerpost.com 
By Karl Grossman / FAIR It's of critical importance—indeed, existential importance—to the world: the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. And a coalition of peace organizations in the United States is charging that media are acting like the treaty "does not exist." The Nuclear Ban Treaty Collaborative is waging a campaign to encourage press coverage …