Daily Archives: February 15, 2023

2023-02-15: News Headlines

Raúl Zibechi (2023-02-15). El capitalismo de la impunidad. globalizacion.ca El reciente informe de Oxfam, ´La supervivencia de los más ricos ª, distribuido el mismo día que comenzaba el Foro de Davos, revela que el 1% más rico del planeta se apoderó de casi dos tercios de la nueva riqueza creada…

WSWS (2023-02-15). Super Bowl LVII: Money, militarism, spectacle … and football. wsws.org The sponsors and organizers of the Super Bowl at State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Arizona were at pains to keep anything about the multiple crises of world capitalism from finding its way into the festivities.

Editor (2023-02-14). Capitalism in Black and Blue. mronline.org Policing is inextricably linked to racism and to capitalism.

Peoples Dispatch (2023-02-14). 'For the French working class, this pension reform is a gift to capitalism'. peoplesdispatch.org To understand more about the movement against pension reform in France, we spoke to Ramon Vila, the secretary of the trade union SUD Santé-Sociaux.

Nino Brown (2023-02-14). Marshall "Eddie" Conway (1946-2023): A life committed to the people and revolutionary change. liberationnews.org The Party for Socialism and Liberation sends our condolences to the family and loved ones of Marshall 'Eddie' Conway and salute his life of service, self-sacrifice, and struggle for the people.

jamanetwork (2023-02-14). Approaches to Prevention of Firearm Violence—Reply. jamanetwork.com In Reply Dr Nathan's thoughtful letter highlights 2 often overlooked elements in suicide prevention: the profound effects of suicide among affected populations, and the critical role of policy in prevention. In the US in 2020, there were nearly 46‚ÄØ000 suicide deaths, or approximately 1 every 11 minutes. In the same year, an estimated 12.2 million adults in the US seriously considered suicide and 1.2 million made an attempt. For each suicide death, approximately 6 close family or friends are affected; those who have experienced such losses have an elevated risk of depression, posttraumatic stre…

Raúl Zibechi (2023-02-15). El capitalismo de la impunidad. globalizacion.ca El reciente informe de Oxfam, ´La supervivencia de los más ricos ª, distribuido el mismo día que comenzaba el Foro de Davos, revela que el 1% más rico del planeta se apoderó de casi dos tercios de la nueva riqueza creada…

WSWS (2023-02-15). Super Bowl LVII: Money, militarism, spectacle … and football. wsws.org The sponsors and organizers of the Super Bowl at State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Arizona were at pains to keep anything about the multiple crises of world capitalism from finding its way into the festivities.

Editor (2023-02-14). Capitalism in Black and Blue. mronline.org Policing is inextricably linked to racism and to capitalism.

Peoples Dispatch (2023-02-14). 'For the French working class, this pension reform is a gift to capitalism'. peoplesdispatch.org To understand more about the movement against pension reform in France, we spoke to Ramon Vila, the secretary of the trade union SUD Santé-Sociaux.

Nino Brown (2023-02-14). Marshall "Eddie" Conway (1946-2023): A life committed to the people and revolutionary change. liberationnews.org The Party for Socialism and Liberation sends our condolences to the family and loved ones of Marshall 'Eddie' Conway and salute his life of service, self-sacrifice, and struggle for the people.

jamanetwork (2023-02-14). Approaches to Prevention of Firearm Violence—Reply. jamanetwork.com In Reply Dr Nathan's thoughtful letter highlights 2 often overlooked elements in suicide prevention: the profound effects of suicide among affected populations, and the critical role of policy in prevention. In the US in 2020, there were nearly 46‚ÄØ000 suicide deaths, or approximately 1 every 11 minutes. In the same year, an estimated 12.2 million adults in the US seriously considered suicide and 1.2 million made an attempt. For each suicide death, approximately 6 close family or friends are affected; those who have experienced such losses have an elevated risk of depression, posttraumatic stre…

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2023-02-14). Mayo Clinic Minute: Postpartum depression is more than baby blues. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org Postpartum depression is real. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says 1 out of every 10 new moms suffer from it. It's much more than what's called the "baby blues" because it lasts longer and tends to be more severe. Symptoms include mood swings, anxiety, sadness, crying irritability and feeling overwhelmed. Prompt treatment is important, and Mayo Clinic experts say it works. Watch: The Mayo Clinic Minute youtu.be/WhmJuesp9ck Journalists: Broadcast-quality video pkg (0: 57) is…

WSWS (2023-02-15). Report of higher than expected price rises in January points to continued rate hikes. wsws.org The report of higher than expected inflation in January caused a drop on Wall Street, as investors anticipated that the US Federal Reserve will press on with its program of interest rate increases aimed at triggering a recession to undermine workers' wage demands.

David Hill (2023-02-14). Railroad hunger for profits blasts Ohio community with massive dose of poisons. peoplesworld.org EAST PALESTINE, Ohio—A catastrophic derailment of 50 train cars on Feb. 3 has led to a mounting humanitarian and ecological disaster that continued to develop in the days since the crash. The immediate result of the wreck was an enormous fireball looming over the border of Ohio and Pennsylvania, necessitating the evacuation of at least …

Staff (2023-02-14). "Bomb Train" in Ohio Sickens Residents After Railroad Cutbacks, Corporate Greed Led to Toxic Disaster. democracynow.org Fears of a wider health and environmental disaster are growing, after a 150-car freight train operated by Norfolk Southern derailed and a so-called controlled burn released toxic chemicals last week in East Palestine, Ohio. Residents reported seeing a fireball and mushroom cloud of smoke fill the skyline. Data released by the Environmental Protection Agency shows the train contained more toxic and carcinogenic chemicals than initially reported, including phosgene, a poisonous gas that has been used as a chemical weapon in war. Officials lifted an evacuation order for residents last Wednesday, saying the air and w…

Julia Gledhill (2023-02-15). Merger Mania in the Military-Industrial Complex. globalresearch.ca

Tomdispatch (2023-02-15). Merger Mania in the Military-Industrial Complex: Tackling Pentagon Waste Means Battling the Big Weapons Makers and Asking More of Congress. juancole.com By Julia Gledhill and William D. Hartung | — ( Tomdispatch.com ) — It's early in the new Congress, but lawmakers are already hotly debating spending and debt levels. As they do so, they risk losing track of an important issue hiding in plain sight: massive Pentagon waste. At least in theory, combating such excess …

Alex Aldridge (2023-02-14). Portland Took Cops Out of Schools in 2020. Now It May Put Them Back. truthout.org While public schools have increasingly taken center stage in the far right's quest to take over school boards and fight the boogeyman of Critical Race Theory, LGBTQ2S+ existence, and "woke" policies and books, they have also been a key site of struggle for prison-industrial complex (PIC) abolition over the presence of police in the form of School Resource Officers (SROs). |

WSWS (2023-02-14). US Fed at the centre of financial crisis. wsws.org According to analysts at the Better Markets organisation, the Fed's policies over the past 14 years, the pumping of trillions of dollars into the financial system, mean that in many ways it is "fighting problems of its own creation."

Orinoco Tribune 2 (2023-02-15). Shin Bet Agents Brandish Weapons at Palestinian Protesters. orinocotribune.com By Richard Silverstein — Feb 2, 2023 | Armed Agents in Germany and Spain threaten to shoot Palestinian and Israeli protesters | On February 8th, a group of pro-Palestinian students at the Complutense University of Madrid

Staff (2023-02-15). Guns Leading Killer of Kids: With MSU Massacre, U.S. Averages More Than One Mass Shooting a Day. democracynow.org The Michigan State University community is in mourning after a mass shooting on campus Monday in which a gunman killed three students and severely wounded five more. In response to Monday's killings, both Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer and President Joe Biden have called for tighter gun laws to restrict the purchase of weapons. Monday's bloodshed came just a day before the fifth anniversary of the 2018 mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, highlighting the ever-present risk of gun violence in the lives of young people in the United States. "Young people…

Dr. Stephen Sizer (2023-02-15). "Palestinians are being attacked by Israeli settlers, and weapons are replacing stones." Interview with Dr. Stephen Sizer. globalresearch.ca

Scott Ritter (2023-02-14). Scott Ritter LIVE on Ukraine's Future and Rage Against the War Machine Controversy. thealtworld.com Former UN Weapons Inspected and geopolitical analyst Scott Ritter joins the program for a discussion about Ukraine's future one year into Russia's special military operation.

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