(2022-01-11). Descubriendo la narrativa alrededor del coronavirus: øSe planeó todo cuidadosamente? Análisis de Ernst Wolff. globalizacion.ca 
‚Å£‚Å£Explicación magnífica de una gran razón por la que el mundo se volvió psicótico corona. Conferencia de Ernst Wolff, reconocido economista y periodista alemán. Su enfoque está en el sistema financiero y monetario global, especialmente el papel del FMI, el…
(2022-01-11). Winter of death: Two deadly housing fires in less than a week expose the reality of American capitalism. wsws.org New York City and Philadelphia saw their deadliest housing fires in decades amid a climate of official indifference to death as the COVID-19 pandemic has been allowed to rage out of control.
(2022-01-11). Taiwanese F-16 fighter jet vanishes. rt.com 
Search and rescue operation is underway | An F-16V fighter jet, the most advanced aircraft in the Taiwanese Air Force fleet, has gone missing, with witnesses claiming that they saw the aircraft crash into the sea. A search and rescue operation is ongoing. | The plane went missing from Air Force radars on Tuesday afternoon, shortly after taking off from Chiayi Air Base in the south of the island. The government's Rescue Command Centre said eyewitnesses had told them they saw the plane crash into the sea. | President Tsai Ing-wen demanded that no efforts should be spared in the search and rescue operation and re…
(2022-01-11). Republicans Only Extend Unemployment When It Protects Anti-Vaxxers. truthout.org 
U.S. politics these days is all too often an Alice-through-the-looking-glass absurdity. | Over the last few weeks, at least
(2022-01-10). Despite arms restrictions, Germany supports Ukraine's war in Donbass. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com German government says provides multilateral support to Ukraine, including in military field In response to the latest call by Ukrainian Ambassador Andrij Melnyk to provide Kyiv with defensive weapons, the German government said that the country was already helping Ukraine in the military sphere and that it would not change its policy. *** In particular, …
(2022-01-10). Holmes verdict: In the US, it is fine to lie to consumers, but not investors. peoplesdispatch.org Hyper-capitalism has systematically weakened regulations to help capital at the cost of consumers. The verdict on Elizabeth Holmes and Theranos simply illustrates the growing post-90s disregard for consumers…
(2022-01-10). Cognitive Warfare: Imperialist Psyops, Social Control, & Making Reality Malleable. libya360.wordpress.com Rainer Shea Since capitalism reached its highest stage, the stage where the imperialist countries export capital in order to perpetuate their dominance, the bourgeoisie have been aware that this system is crucial for more than merely gaining profits. It lets them project social control. Within the core imperialist countries, where capitalism's most brutal and extreme…
(2022-01-10). Piketty says it's 'Time for Socialism,' but has no time for class struggle. peoplesworld.org 
Thomas Piketty has a new collection of essays, entitled, Time for Socialism: Dispatches from a World on Fire, 2016-2021. It is not possible to understate the positive impact that the French author's masterwork, Capital in the 21st Century, has had on the economics profession. The book, and the massive data collection projects on global and …
(2022-01-10). Job market stumbles to end 2021. fightbacknews.org San José, CA – On Friday, January 7 the U.S. Department of Labor released its last report on the 2021 job market. There were only 199,000 new jobs created, less than half of what economists and the business media expected. Most types of jobs showed slower growth, and there were 10,000 jobs lost by local governments. Despite strong job growth in 2021, there were still 3.6 million fewer jobs in December as compared to February 2020, right before the last recession began. | The official unemployment dropped 0.3% to 3.9%. Normally this would be getting close to full employment, which has only happened five times in t…
(2022-01-10). As Job Gains Slow, the Fed and Congress Apply the Wrong Medicine. scheerpost.com 
Photo by Karolina Grabowska on By Robert Reich / Friday's jobs report from the Department of Labor was a warning sign about the US economy. It should cause widespread concern about the Fed's plans to raise interest rates to control inflation. And it should cause policymakers to rethink ending government supports such as extended unemployment insurance and the child tax credit. These will soon be needed to keep millions of families afloat.
(2022-01-10). More Than Ever, Food Not Bombs Needs To Become A Reality. popularresistance.org Food Not Bombs was founded in 1980 to provide direct aid to people while educating about the perversion of spending so much on the Military-Industrial Complex (MIC) while tens of millions of people do not have the basic necessities. It has turned into a global movement to build food sovereignty and organize systems outside the establishment. Clearing the FOG speaks with Keith McHenry, the co-founder of Food Not Bombs, about the criminalization of homelessness, their recent legal victory in Florida and why we must be concerned about increasing homelessness in the United States and the overall direction the country…
(2022-01-10). Keep Your LAWS Off My Planet. zcomm.org Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems and the Fight to Contain Them…
(2022-01-10). Australia agrees on new weapons deal. rt.com 
Australia commits to purchasing tanks & other armored vehicles from US suppliers | Australia has agreed on a AU$3.5bn (US$2.5bn) deal with the US to upgrade its army's armored vehicle fleet. The news comes months after the country signed a security pact with the US and UK amid heightened tensions with China. | Canberra agreed to buy 75 M1A2 Abrams main battle tanks to replace the 59 M1A1 tanks it purchased in 2007. | "Teamed with the infantry fighting vehicles, combat engineering vehicles, and self-propelled howitzers, the new Abrams will give our soldiers the best possibility of success and protection from ha…