(2022-07-18). Ukraine president sacks security chief, cites hundreds of treason cases. tribune.com.pk 
Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskiy sacked the head of the country's domestic security service and state prosecutor, citing hundreds of cases of alleged treason and collaboration with Russia, as Moscow appeared set to step up military operations. | Zelenskiy said more than 60 officials from the SBU security service and prosecutor's office were working against Ukraine in Russian-occupied territories, and 651 treason and collaboration cases had been opened against law enforcement officials. | The sackings on Sunday of Ivan Bakanov, head of the security service, and Prosecutor General Iryna Venediktova, who l…
(2022-07-18). Science Saturday: Leveraging technology to transform Anatomic Pathology. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org In January, as part of Mayo Clinic's Digital Pathology Program, the Division of Anatomic Pathology in Mayo's Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology in Rochester, Minnesota, transitioned a significant portion of its clinical practice, including both surgical and biopsy cases, into digital workflows. The transition means all surgical — or frozen section — biopsy slides will be scanned into digital images prior to a pathologist's review. Historically, patient tissue has been evaluated by generating glass slides, applying stains, and evaluating…
(2022-07-18). Hundreds of Millions of Human Workers Treated Worse than Robots. transcend.org 14 Jul 2022 – While big private business pours billions of dollars in producing automatic machines, barely no money has been invested in the human workers who are left unprotected, treated like cheap robots, or even worse.
(2022-07-18). Anthony Blair: Estamos llegando al final del dominio político y económico de Occidente. cubadebate.cu El expremier de Gran Bretaña, el laborista Tony Blair, advirtió que el mundo está "llegando al final del dominio político y económico de Occidente", que se encuentra en camino hacia la multipolaridad y que que China "ya es la segunda superpotencia del mundo".
(2022-07-18). Left Unity slate wins big in California primary elections. liberationnews.org 
Hundreds of thousands vote for Left Unity slate, socialist candidates in California. The final results of California's June 7 primary election show Left Unity Slate and socialist candidates receiving hundreds of thousands of votes.
(2022-07-18). Collective statement: Biden in occupied Palestine and the 'Jerusalem Declaration'. fightbacknews.org Fight Back News Service is circulating the following statement on Biden in Palestine and the Jerusalem Declaration, signed by 80 organizations, including Freedom Road Socialist Organization (FRSO). | The joint declaration of U.S. President Joe Biden and Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid reveals not only the fundamental bankruptcy of the imperialist and Zionist systems they represent but also underlines the necessity to act and stand now in solidarity with the Palestinian people and their resistance, to liberate their land from the river to the sea. This strategic partnership of violence, warmongering, repression…
(2022-07-18). Turkish attack inside Iraqi Kurdistan kills five civilians, injures two. peoplesdispatch.org Scores of Iraqis have been killed since Turkish forces launched their so-called Operation Claw Lock in Iraqi Kurdistan in April, allegedly to fight the Kurdish Workers Party (PKK)…
(2022-07-18). Nepalese student union launches hunger strike at Tribhuvan University to demand educational reform. peoplesdispatch.org The students, who began their hunger strike on July 12, have demanded reforms from the University administration regarding policy, infrastructure, management, courses and more…
(2022-07-18). California United States Colored Troops Help Save the Union. indybay.org Rev. Thomas Starr King helped keep the thin margin of Union California vs Confederate California. US Colored Troops from California helped preserve the Union and begin the ending of legal slavery in America. Today, we honor National Buffalo Soldiers Day and share our unique California Journey from Slavery to Freedom.
(2022-07-18). The B61-12 Mini-Nukes "Made in America" Coming Soon to Italy, Belgium, Germany, Netherlands. transcend.org 15 Jul 2022 – To Be Used in "a Nuclear First Strike" – Europe is thus being turned by the U.S. into the front line of a nuclear confrontation with Russia, even more dangerous than that of the Cold War.
(2022-07-18). Monday 7/25: Dockers Rebellion and Betrayal, The Lessons For Today of the Liverpool Dockers Strike. indybay.org LaborFest On Line Event with link on laborfest.net…
(2022-07-18). Congress urged to boost appropriations for Biden's Defense Production Act orders. indybay.org In June Biden invoked the Defense Production Act to manufacture panels, insulation and heat pumps. Biden's plan encourages high labor standards tied to increased manufacturing. It also calls for boosting community-based clean energy and distributed generation. But more funding than $100 million needs to be invested to make the difference we need to become energy independent from fossil fuels.
(2022-07-18). The Nitrogen Problem in Agriculture. transcend.org 7 Jul 2022 – Reduce the use of chemical fertilisers, make the chemical industry pay for pollution instead of criminalising farmers who were trapped by the chemical treadmill through industrial agriculture.
(2022-07-18). "We should be getting paid enough to live": Ford workers throughout the Midwest support Will Lehman for UAW president. wsws.org At the massive Ford Rouge complex in Dearborn Michigan, one worker said, "The union hasn't done anything for us. Why not put rank-and-file workers in power."
(2022-07-18). Documents show Australian Labor government does not oppose Assange's extradition to the US. wsws.org The Labor government documents accept Assange's extradition to the US and his prosecution in a kangaroo court, as a fait accompli.
(2022-07-18). 1980s US Central America Wars. transcend.org Updated January 2022 – Less than a decade after U.S. troops were withdrawn from Vietnam, the United States became deeply involved in Central America. The catalyst was a popularly supported leftist revolution in Nicaragua led by the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN).
(2022-07-18). Third strike of dock workers at major German seaports. wsws.org On Thursday thousands of dock workers at Germany's major seaports in Hamburg, Emden, Bremerhaven, Bremen, Brake and Wilhelmshaven once again went on strike. It is the third and, at 48 hours, the longest warning strike in the current round of collective bargaining.
(2022-07-18). Wednesday 7/20: Labor History Online Discussion Group – Regaining Labor's Mojo. indybay.org Zoom (Register: bit.ly/FSFD-Labor)…
(2022-07-18). WorkWeek California Class Struggle & The Life of Elaine Black Yoneda & The SF Mime Troupe. indybay.org WorkWeek covers California Class Struggle & The Life of Elaine Black Yoneda and The SF Mime Troupe's "Back to the Way Things Were" With Michael Sullivan…
(2022-07-18). One Year After July 11, 2021. orinocotribune.com 
By Ike Nahem — Jul 11, 2022 | "The heroism of normality in Cuba does not generate headlines." | -Cuban revolutionary journalist Rosa Miriam Elizalde | July 11, 2021 in Cuba quickly went from legitimate, valid, peaceful street protests to violent provocations and destructive acts directed by US clients in Cuba. Thousands of people in many cities, towns, and working-class neighborhoods took to the streets in response to harsh, deteriorating conditions — the worst of the Covid Delta infections, hospitalizations, and deaths on the island before the application of the Cuban-vaccines; the electricity blacko…
(2022-07-18). Ecuador: Revista àëawpa. indybay.org Ecuador: Revista àëawpa | Espacio de reflexión plurinacional, intercultural y socialista…
(2022-07-18). UAW 2022 Convention Issues With Scott Houldieson UAW 551 Convention Delegate. indybay.org UAW 551 convention delegate Scott Houldieson talks about the issues facing the UAW Constitutional convention. For the first time there will be a direct election of the international officers. He discusses two tier contracts, labor management partnerships and also the refusal of the UAW International to invite Mexican GM workers to the convention. Most of the former UAW International officials have been charged with corruption and taking money from the auto companies through their joint company union projects in return for two tier and concession contracts.
(2022-07-18). Imagination: Finding the End of the World as Capitalists Know It! dissidentvoice.org 
It's truly amazing that the capitalists see the end of the world — human species, I suppose — way before they can imagine the end of capitalism. You know, that perfect system of slavery then, slavery now, and even more draconian slavery for the future. That sort is not based on whips, 15 hours a …
(2022-07-18). Following appeal by unions, Biden announces Emergency Board, blocking nationwide railroad strike. wsws.org While the unions are attempting to present the Presidential Emergency Board as a "neutral arbiter," There is no question that the intervention will lead to a settlement which is favorable to the railroads.
(2022-07-18). Frantz Fanon (20 Jul 1925 — 6 Dec 1961). transcend.org Born on the island of Martinique under French colonial rule, Frantz Omar Fanon was one of the most important writers in black Atlantic theory in an age of anti-colonial liberation struggle. His work drew on a wide array of poetry, psychology, philosophy, and political theory, and its influence across the global South has been wide, deep, and enduring.
(2022-07-18). UFCW claims passage of Indianapolis Kroger contract, deletes local's Facebook page in response to opposition. wsws.org One day after the contract vote totals were released by the UFCW, the union took down its Facebook page after workers flooded the page with comments in opposition to the sellout contract and accused the union of manipulating the vote.
(2022-07-18). Surging prices push US workers to the brink. wsws.org The rise of inflation is being used as deliberate policy by the ruling class to further impoverish workers, who are being made to pay the cost of the criminal and incompetent response by capitalist governments to the pandemic.
(2022-07-18). Australia: Union tells Queensland teachers to vote for government deal without seeing it. wsws.org The "offer" means keeping wages well below the soaring cost of living, and putting off any possible answer to the acute staffing, workloads and funding crisis until a promised review report in 2024.
(2022-07-18). 15,000 Minnesota nurses still working without contract as union continues to block strike. wsws.org It has been over a month since 12, 0 Minneapolis-St. Paul nurses' contracts expired on May 31, and over two weeks since 2, 0 nurses in Duluth, Hastings and other Minnesota cities saw their contracts expire on June 30.
(2022-07-18). Stop Privatization Of Education, Port & Public Services: SLAP Educational Conf Intros Pt 1. indybay.org The Schools and Labor Against Privatization SLAP had an educational conference on July 9, 2022 and these were the first two presentations…
(2022-07-18). Oppose union-sanctioned monitoring and speedups at Australia Post! wsws.org The Sustainable Delivery Model is a revised attempt to restructure Australia Post after the Alternative Delivery Model failed to deliver on the demands of management and the federal government.
(2022-07-18). South Korean Hyundai workers to vote on wage agreement. wsws.org The latest deal is part of ongoing efforts by the unions to suppress class struggle in South Korea.
(2022-07-18). Mayo Clinic Laboratories launches monkeypox test to increase access, availability. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org ROCHESTER, Minn. — Mayo Clinic Laboratories can now test for monkeypox, a rare viral infection, using the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) orthopoxvirus test kit. This announcement comes shortly after the Department of Health and Human Services' news release naming Mayo Clinic Laboratories as a crucial resource to address monkeypox testing access in communities throughout the country. "Our teams have worked collaboratively with the CDC to validate this test to provide patients with accurate…
(2022-07-17). The Belarus Tactical Group: Belarusians in the DUK SS International. libya360.wordpress.com Laurent Brayard Denis Prokhorov The Belarus Tactical Group was in fact a squad that grew out of a small company founded by Belarusian neo-Nazi activists who came to Ukraine to fight in the Donbass. They initially joined various battalions, most notably the Azov Battalion, but some also participated in the Maidan Revolution during the winter…
(2022-07-17). Ukraine Loses Another HIMARS as Russian Advance Continues. libya360.wordpress.com Update on Russian military operations in Ukraine for July 17, 2022 — Russian forces continue operations against Bakhmut-Siversk defense line; — Russian forces have reportedly destroyed another HIMARS; — The Pentagon has been deliberately vague regarding HIMARS performance in briefings; — Striking behind Russian lines may be possible for Ukraine, but not in the quantities…
(2022-07-17). A View from Donbass: Ukraine Treated the People of this Region as Sub-humans, Making Peace Impossible. libya360.wordpress.com Vladislav Ugolny How Kiev has tried to dehumanize people in its former East — first domestically, then everywhere… The military conflict in Ukraine, which began on February 24, was preceded by a long war in Donbass. Over the course of eight years, it claimed the lives of at least 14,200 people (according to the OHCHR),…
(2022-07-17). Russian Strike Destroyed Harpoon Anti-Ship Missiles In Ukraine's Odessa. southfront.org 
A Harpoon missile is launched from the Ticonderoga-class guided-missile cruiser USS Shiloh (CG-67) during a live-fire exercise on Sept. 15, 2014. US Navy Photo | A Russian missile strike had destroyed a storage warehouse for Harpoon anti-ship missiles in the southern Ukrainian city of Odessa, the Russian Ministry of Defense announced on July 17. "A warehouse for Harpoon anti-ship missiles supplied to Ukraine by NATO countries was destroyed with [Russian] high-precision long-range missiles at an industrial site in Odes…
(2022-07-17). Russia's State-Of-The-Art LMUR Missiles Score Direct Hits On Ukrainian Positions (Videos). southfront.org 
The LMUR missile at in the International Military-Technical Forum Army-2021. Source: the Analytical Network News Agency (ANNA). | The Russian military continue to attack Ukrainian military positions behind the frontline with Izdeliye 305 precision-guided missiles. | On July 17, the Russian Ministry of Defense released footage of two recent strikes which were carried out with the Izdeliye 305, also known as the LMUR [Lightweight Multifunction Missile]. Both missiles scored direct hits, impacting th…
(2022-07-17). On Marxism and decolonisation. mronline.org 
IN 1959, one of the revolutionary leaders in Cuba, Haydée Santamaria, a hundred years old this year, arrived at a cultural centre in the heart of Havana, Cuba.
(2022-07-17). London Falling: Britain's Military Decline Exposes NATO's Collapse in Credibility and Capability. libya360.wordpress.com Scott Ritter NATO's plan to vastly increase its forward force is wishful thinking, and the UK's struggle for military relevance is a perfect case in point The secretary general of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), Jens Stoltenberg, recently announced the US-led military bloc's goal of expanding its so-called 'Response Force' from its current strength of 40,000…
(2022-07-17). Two Weeks Of National Strike In Panama. popularresistance.org The protests began on July 1 after the government showed no interest in addressing the issue or meeting with activists for negotiations to solve the crisis. | The last two weeks were marked by massive mobilizations against the high cost of living and an escalating economic crisis in Panama. Movements with the People United for Life Alliance have presented a list of 32 demands to the government to address the crisis but the government has refused to take serious action. The protests have seen broad participation from people across Panamanian society such as workers, fisherfolk, Indigenous communities, students, ed…
(2022-07-17). Live With Our Eyes Open Without Allowing Ourselves To Be Defeated. popularresistance.org It is July 20, 1969. The Apollo 11 manned space mission lands on our Moon, and a few hours later, Neil Armstrong takes his first steps on the lunar surface, filling the world with amazement and admiration. With this accomplishment emerges the deep emotion of feeling an intimate union with an Earth that impels us to love and protect it, the home of all the humans we have known and, in all probability, will know. | Four years earlier, Aleksei Leonov, the Russian astronaut, made the first spacewalk in history, expressing that the Earth is "our home, small, blue and touchingly lonely," a point lost in the enveloping…
(2022-07-17). Energy: The Recession Trigger? popularresistance.org There is confusion among mainstream economists and policy-makers on whether the major economies are heading for a recession, or are already in a recession; or will avoid one altogether. The majority view, at least in the US, is the latter. This optimistic view argues that, while inflation rates are high, they will start to fall over the next year, enabling the Federal Reserve to avoid hiking its policy interest rates too much to the point where it could restrict investment and spending. At the same time, the US unemployment rate is very low and the 'labour market' remains strong. Such a scenario hardly suggests a…
(2022-07-17). 'Jerusalem Declaration': Imperialism, Zionism And Settler Colonialism. popularresistance.org Below are key points identified by Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network in responding to the Biden-Lapid Declaration ("The U.S.-Israel Strategic Partnership Joint Declaration") issued on Thursday, 14 July 2022. While the declaration largely holds nothing new, it once again reveals the joint commitment to imperialism and Zionism that is responsible for the past 75 years of colonization in Palestine. | Imperialism here means more arms, more support and more money for Israel. It means Phantom jets, atomic bomb secrets, and the building of an economy capable of facing the permanent blockade and state of w…
(2022-07-17). Lumumba's Politics Are What Really Need To Return. popularresistance.org After sixty-one years, the gold tooth of the assassinated Congolese independence leader Patrice Lumumba has been returned to his family and laid to rest. It is the only part of him that remains. | After his brutal murder in 1961, Lumumba's tooth was pocketed by a Belgian police officer and later held captive by the Belgian government. Its repatriation was preceded by a grotesque 'colonial guilt' show, in which Belgian King Phillipe expressed his 'deepest regrets for those wounds of the past'. | The King of the Belgians did not go so far as to formally apologize, nor did he offer reparations for the devastation in…
(2022-07-17). The Washington Post Says the Economy Is Terrible: Multiple Job Holders Edition. cepr.net 
In yet another episode in the Washington Post's efforts to tell readers the economy is horrible, in spite of unemployment being near a half century low, the paper told us about the problem of multiple job holders. It headlined a piece on multiple job holders: "Workers are picking up multiple jobs just to pay for …
(2022-07-17). Heat waves tied to Big Energy capitalism. mronline.org 
The population of the world is enduring crises from climate change that, until recently, climatologists thought may only happen decades from now.
(2022-07-17). "The American Production System": The Rise and Fragmentation of a Manufacturing Empire. scheerpost.com 
By Yan Peng / Manufacturing is the industrial foundation of the United States' rise to world system hegemony and the material basis on which the United States has been able to maintain its hegemony to date. Within the political shell of the United States, a manufacturing empire continued to evolve under the name "The American System. The concept of the American System has two connotations, one refers to the 19th century A…
(2022-07-17). Red Theory: The historic emergence of capitalism. fightbacknews.org Despite what bourgeois economists, the priests of property and profit, would have us believe, capitalism isn't the eternal way of things. It had a beginning, and it will have an end. As we begin our discussion of political economy, let's draw upon historical materialism to examine how capitalism arose. | Capitalism didn't arise out of nowhere, and it wasn't born from the minds of Adam Smith or David Ricardo. It emerged historically and materially from the womb of feudalism, and like any mode of production is limited and conditioned by what came before it. There are several phases in its history, from agrarian to…
(2022-07-17). GMB union pushes through de facto pay cut at Cadent after blocking strike by 2,000 field engineers. wsws.org The union waged a smoke and mirrors campaign to promote the company's revised proposals as a "very good deal".
(2022-07-17). Xi stresses implementing Party's policies on Xinjiang, highlights stability, security. ecns.cn President Xi Jinping has stressed efforts to fully and faithfully implement the policies of the Communist Party of China (CPC) for the governance of Xinjiang in the new era, highlighting social stability and lasting security as the overarching goal.
(2022-07-17). Ontario Education Minister arrogantly demands "stability" in the classroom as contract talks begin. wsws.org Lecce's declaration was a none-to-subtle warning that the government is preparing to illegalize any strike by teachers or education assistants, janitors, and administrative staff seeking to recoup years of real-terms wage cuts and oppose the dismantling of public education.
(2022-07-17). Condena ALBA-TCP sanciones impuestas por Estados Unidos a Nicaragua. cubadebate.cu La Alternativa Bolivariana para los Pueblos de Nuestra América- Tratado de Comercio de los Pueblos (ALBA-TCP) condenó las medidas coercitivas unilaterales impuestas por Estados Unidos contra de 23 jueces y fiscales de Nicaragua. El bloque remarcó que esta medida impuesta de manera ilegal e ilegítima busca desestabilizar política y socialmente a ese país.
(2022-07-17). Saturday 7/16: Author Event About a *Real* Political Revolution. indybay.org Book Passage Bookstore & Cafe, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd., | Corte Madera 94925…
(2022-07-17). Ghost Stories Of Capitalism: Watching The Shutters Of Austerity Close. popularresistance.org By the end of the 1970s,U.S. capitalism entered its neoliberal phase where austerity and privatization reigned supreme. Federal agencies such as the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) were reduced to near non-existence. Welfare was eradicated all together in 1996 and tens of thousands of public housing units were demolished or privatized under the Bill Clinton administration. CAP agencies either shut their doors permanently or offered only the services that were supported by a mixture of private philanthropy and meagre government subsidy. It was out of this environment that Tri-CAP formed to addres…
(2022-07-17). 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…
(2022-07-17). Grassroots Organizing Should Dump Biden. indybay.org Clear the Path for a Better Democratic Nominee in 2024…
(2022-07-17). US CENTCOM Commander Visited Al-Tanf Garrison In Syria, Inspected Site Of Russian Airstrikes. southfront.org 
CENTCOM commander General Michael "Erik" Kurilla at al-Tanf garrison in Syria. Source: US Army. | The commander of the US Central Command (CENTCOM) General Michael "Erik" Kurilla has paid a surprise visit to al-Tanf garrison in Syria's southeastern region. | The CENTCOM announced the visit on July 16, without clarifying when exactly it took place. During the visit, Gen. Kurilla met with militants from the Revolutionary Commando Army (MaT), the US-led coalition's main proxy in al-Tanf, and inspected a comp…