Orinoco Tribune 2 (2023-03-04). Tech Layoffs Expose Capitalism. orinocotribune.com By Otis Grotewohl — Feb 20, 2023 | High-tech companies are laying off workers at record levels. More than 93,000 tech positions have been eliminated this year, and it is only the second month. These cuts include 6,650 job losses announced by Dell and the layoff of 1,300 Zoom employees in early February. (crunchbase.com, Feb. 15, 2023) | The abrupt reduction of high-tech positions started last fall. Amazon, Lyft and Meta, the parent company of Facebook, unleashed major cuts against their workforce in November. Twitter slashed several thousand jobs one month prior. Both the app company Robinhood and Snap, the…

teleSUR, DRL (2023-03-04). ALBA Movimientos debate crisis sistémica del capitalismo global. telesurtv.net Alba Movimientos es un instrumento de integración que nos ayuda a mirar de forma conjunta para enfrentar esos tiempos de inestabilidad.

WSWS (2023-03-04). Dana workers fired with UAW consent for reporting exploitation, wage theft and sexual harassment. wsws.org The real aim of this ongoing purge is to remove militant workers, lower labor costs, and terrify those remaining to accept worse conditions. This is a lesson in the reality of capitalism.

Carl Gibson (2023-03-03). Capitalism's Conclusion, Part I: What the Ohio train derailment exposed. nationofchange.org The recent derailment of trains in East Palestine isn't just a once-in-a-generation environmental disaster, it's what will continue to happen when profit is put above public health.

Orinoco Tribune 2 (2023-03-04). Tech Layoffs Expose Capitalism. orinocotribune.com By Otis Grotewohl — Feb 20, 2023 | High-tech companies are laying off workers at record levels. More than 93,000 tech positions have been eliminated this year, and it is only the second month. These cuts include 6,650 job losses announced by Dell and the layoff of 1,300 Zoom employees in early February. (crunchbase.com, Feb. 15, 2023) | The abrupt reduction of high-tech positions started last fall. Amazon, Lyft and Meta, the parent company of Facebook, unleashed major cuts against their workforce in November. Twitter slashed several thousand jobs one month prior. Both the app company Robinhood and Snap, the…

teleSUR, DRL (2023-03-04). ALBA Movimientos debate crisis sistémica del capitalismo global. telesurtv.net Alba Movimientos es un instrumento de integración que nos ayuda a mirar de forma conjunta para enfrentar esos tiempos de inestabilidad.

WSWS (2023-03-04). Dana workers fired with UAW consent for reporting exploitation, wage theft and sexual harassment. wsws.org The real aim of this ongoing purge is to remove militant workers, lower labor costs, and terrify those remaining to accept worse conditions. This is a lesson in the reality of capitalism.

Carl Gibson (2023-03-03). Capitalism's Conclusion, Part I: What the Ohio train derailment exposed. nationofchange.org The recent derailment of trains in East Palestine isn't just a once-in-a-generation environmental disaster, it's what will continue to happen when profit is put above public health.

Chris Hedges (2023-03-03). COVID-19 proved workers make the world run, not the bosses. therealnews.com The start of the COVID-19 pandemic compounded the existing crises of capitalism for workers everywhere. This was most obviously apparent for "frontline" or "essential" workers, who were forced by their need to survive to risk disease, disability, and potential death on a daily basis at their jobs. While lauded in media and culture in the early days of the pandemic, the rewards these workers have actually received have been precarity, damaged health, depressed wages, and for far too many, an early death. As a new ruling class narrative that insists the pandemic is over becomes hegemonic, the stories and ongo…

In Defense of Liberation! (2023-03-03). The Psychology and Reality of Colonialism, Capitalism and Imperialism. anchor.fm In this episode we begin by sharing our explicit support and solidarity with the revolutionary masses, parties and governments of Cuba, Nicaragua, Venezuela, Vietnam, China, Democratic People's Republic of Korea, Iran, Palestine and elsewhere. We then speak about oppression, class society, colonialism and its consequences psychologically, socially, and it's revolutionary conclusions to come.

Robert S. Becker (2023-03-03). New 1% stock buyback tax better than nothing, but won't fix systemically-broken capitalism. nationofchange.org Right now, inequality is as predictable as another decade of authoritarian Republican politics—banish the thought.

Editor (2023-03-03). Kohei Saito: 'Marx in the Anthropocene: Towards the Idea of Degrowth Communism'. mronline.org In 2017, Japanese Marx scholar Kohei Saito published 'Karl Marx's Ecosocialism', which won the Isaac Deutscher Memorial Prize the following year.

Special to People's World (2023-03-03). International Women's Day Event: Black Women's Struggle for Democracy and Socialism. peoplesworld.org Join us on March 8th for an International Women's Day celebration. Titled "Black Women's Struggle for Democracy and Socialism," the virtual Zoom event will begin at 8: 00 PM Eastern, 7: 00 PM Central, 6: 00 PM Mountain, and 5: 00 PM Pacific time. Register here. Among those whose lives will be highlighted: are Artist Elizabeth Catlett CPUSA leader …

Roger McKenzie (2023-03-03). Greek rail workers stage 24-hour strike after deadly train crash kills 43. peoplesworld.org Rail workers in Greece staged a 24-hour strike Thursday in protest over what they describe as a dangerous failure to modernize the Greek railway system and the lack of public investment in the network. This comes days after the country's deadliest rail crash in northern Greece which killed at least 43 people when a train …

WSWS (2023-03-03). Protests and strikes over deadly Greek train crash denounce government and private rail firm. wsws.org All the parties of the ruling class are implicated in the deaths, having overseen an unsafe rail system for years.

Julia Conley (2023-03-03). East Palestine Residents Confront Norfolk Southern at Town Hall Meeting. truthout.org At a town hall meeting in East Palestine, Ohio Thursday night, hundreds of residents had their first chance to directly confront the rail company responsible for the train derailment that took place in the town last month, and used the opportunity to share their outrage over Norfolk Southern's failure to keep residents safe following its release of toxic chemicals from the crash site. |

Jared Gans, The Hill. (2023-03-04). Protesters Disrupt House China Panel's First Hearing. popularresistance.org Protesters disrupted the first hearing of a House select committee investigating potential threats that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) poses to the country and U.S.-China competition late Tuesday, arguing that the country should cooperate with China instead of competing with it. | "China is not our enemy," read a sign held by Olivia DiNucci, an organizer for CODEPINK: Women for Peace, which advocates against the United States engaging in wars and "regime change efforts." A CODEPINK release states that DiNucci delivered a message that "The American people need cooperation, not competition with China" before she…

Anonymous669 (2023-03-03). Russian Lancet Drones Take Out Two More Ukrainian M109 Howitzers (Videos). 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 | On March 2, news sources released videos documenting recent Russian strikes on two M109 self-propelled 155 mm howitzers of Kiev forces within the special military operation zone in Ukraine. | The howitzers were targeted with Lancet loitering munitions. At least one of the howitzers was repor…

Anonymous669 (2023-03-03). U.S. Forces Are Searching For Drones, Anti-Aircraft Missiles In Syria's Al-Tanf (Photos). southfront.org Green Berets and their partner force, the Maghaweir al-Thowra (MaT), during a joint patrol mission near At-Tanf Garrison, Syria, April 29, 2020. (U.S. Army photo by Staff Sgt. William Howard) | The United States-led coalition is searching for drones and anti-aircraft missiles near its garrison in the southeastern Syrian area of al-Tanf. | On March 1, the coalition's proxy in al-Tanf, the Syrian Free Army (SFA), released photos showi…

Answer Coalition (2023-03-03). Atlanta event April 1 featuring Eugene Puryear: Peace in Ukraine – No to Endless U.S. Wars! answercoalition.org Peace in Ukraine – No to Endless U.S. Wars!, Fund People's Needs, Not the War Machine!: | , Featured speaker: Eugene Puryear, journalist and organizer with ANSWER Coalition: | , Atlanta, GA, Saturday, April 1 – 1pm ET, The Neighborhood Church (1561 McLendon Ave NE): | The moment is now to inaugurate a new, multi-national, grassroots movement to demand an end to the war in Ukraine. There is no road to peace if the U.S. government policy remains to obstruct negotiations and send endless weapons into the war zone to escalate its war against Russia. | We must begin to build a peace movem…

Dave DeCamp (2023-03-03). Russia Says It Suspended New START Treaty Because the US Helped Ukraine Attack Strategic Sites. news.antiwar.com Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov said Thursday that one of the reasons Moscow suspended its participation in the New START treaty was because the US helped Ukraine attack a facility housing Russian nuclear weapons. New START is the last nuclear arms control treaty between the US and Russia and limits the deployment of warheads …

infobrics (2023-03-03). Borrell boasts how he broke EU's "taboo" of not wanting to send weapons. infobrics.org EU's diplomacy chief equalises assistance to French dairy farmers to sending arms to Ukraine.

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-03-03). Medvedev Defines the Red Line for Direct War with NATO. libya360.wordpress.com British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky meet Ukrainian troops being trained on Challenger 2 tanks at Lulworth in Dorset Training Ukrainians on Western weapons qualifies, said Dmitry Medvedev after the Bryansk attack Canadian and German troops teaching Ukrainians how to use Leopard tanks already qualifies as participation in the conflict, but…

Jessica Buxbaum (2023-03-03). How Israeli cyber weapons are taking over Latin America. mintpressnews.com In January, Salvadoran newspaper El Faro revealed that the country's police have purchased three Israeli surveillance tools. Through the approximately $2.2 million contract, El Salavador's police acquired the Wave Guard Tracer, from Wave Guard Technologies, designed to trace calls, text, and data, the GEOLOC system sold by an unknown Israeli firm, which intercepts signals between …

Larry Johnson (2023-03-03). Will China Send Weapons to Russia? sonar21.com Yes. I think they will. But not because Russia is running out of shells and rockets. Nope. I think China wants a chance to field test some of its weaponry…

Julia Gledhill (2023-03-03). Lawmakers Quietly Gave Weapons Firms a Bailout for So-Called Inflation Relief. truthout.org The defense industry spent the majority of 2022 exploiting inflation as a justification for more military spending. It succeeded when Congress delivered a budget $45 billion higher than the president requested, but lesser known is how Congress quietly slipped contractors another form of so-called inflation relief in the annual defense policy bill. Lawmakers authorized potential sweeping price… |

WSWS (2023-03-02). New Zealand's flooding disaster and the case for socialism. wsws.org The avoidable devastation caused by Cyclone Gabrielle, which has left thousands of people homeless and threatens to plunge many more into poverty, is an unanswerable indictment of capitalism.

WSWS (2023-03-02). The East Palestine disaster: A crime of capitalism. wsws.org The poisoning of East Palestine, Ohio, is not merely an environmental catastrophe. It is a man-made disaster which raises fundamental questions about the structure of the society which produced it.

Birrion Sondahl (2023-03-01). Socialism Works and History Proves It. realprogressives.org If capitalism were so successful at eliminating poverty, the United States today should be a paradise on earth.

SAM (2023-03-01). When Will Congress Vote To Condemn The Horrors Of Capitalism? progressivehub.net ROB LARSON | CURRENT AFFAIRS…

The Tricontinental (2023-03-01). Dossier No. 61: The Strategic Revolutionary Thought and Legacy of Hugo Chávez Ten Years After His Death. mronline.org Hugo Chávez emerged in the history of Venezuela, the Global South, and the international revolutionary movement when the thesis that ideological disputes throughout the world had ended was most entrenched. Far from being over, history had an important task for the Venezuelan people, who rose up against neoliberalism in 1989 and who continue to build a project of twenty-first-century socialism today.

Dana Sanchez (2023-03-01). The Wealthy Are Buying Up Properties, Profiting From Housing Recession And Shortages. moguldom.com As labor continued its shift to remote work and property prices crashed in the covid bust, wealthy investors in 2022 were the most active buyers of commercial property and they paid cash for almost a third of U.S. homes purchased. The housing market is in a recession, and all-cash offers continue as a way to sidestep …

Jim Hightower (2023-03-01). Before Norfolk Southern Poisoned Ohio, It Poisoned the Statehouse. otherwords.org "The Wreck of the Old 97" is a classic bluegrass song recounting Fully 120 years later we have the "Wreck of the Norfolk Southern" — a devastating crash caused by the company's demand that it be allowed to run an ill-equipped, understaffed, largely unregulated, 1.7 mile train carrying flammable, cancer-causing toxins through communities, putting profit over people and public safety. | This rolling bomb of…

Scott Ferguson (2023-03-01). Gramatneusiedl's Job Guarantee w/ Thomas Schwab. mronline.org This month, Money on the Left is joined by Thomas Schwab who, as mayor of Gramatneusiedl in Lower Austria, oversees a promising Job Guarantee pilot program. Seeking to eliminate long-term unemployment, the program guarantees public jobs to anyone in the community who seeks them. In our conversation, we explore the philosophy and structure of Gramatneusiedl's municipal employment service.

Anonymous103 (2023-03-01). Dozens Of Drones Targeted Crimea. southfront.org Click to see full-size image | On the night of March 1, ten unmanned aerial vehicles were shot down over the Crimean peninsula. The attempt of a massive UAV attack on Crimea was confirmed by the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation."An attempt by the Kiev regime to conduct a massive drone attack on the objects of the Crimean Peninsula has been prevented. Six Ukrainian unmanned strike vehicles were shot down by air defense and four more Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles were disabled by electronic warfare. The…

Anonymous103 (2023-03-01). Military Situation In Iraq On March 1, 2023 (Map Update). southfront.org Click to see full-size image | On February 27, Turkish drones targeted a car in the Khana Sor area near Sinjar town. PàÆr àáeko, commander of the PMU 80th Brigade along and two fighters were killed; | On March 1, Turkish drones targeted a car in Sinjar town. A YBS commander reportedly was killed; | On February 28, Iraqi Defense Minister Thabit Mohammad Saeed Reza met with Seyed Ebrahim Raisi, President of Iran, Major General Hossein Salami, Commander of the IRGC in Tehran. | MORE ON THE…

Dana Sanchez (2023-03-01). The Wealthy Are Buying Up Properties, Profiting From Housing Recession And Shortages. moguldom.com As labor continued its shift to remote work and property prices crashed in the covid bust, wealthy investors in 2022 were the most active buyers of commercial property and they paid cash for almost a third of U.S. homes purchased. The housing market is in a recession, and all-cash offers continue as a way to sidestep …

Jim Hightower (2023-03-01). Before Norfolk Southern Poisoned Ohio, It Poisoned the Statehouse. otherwords.org "The Wreck of the Old 97" is a classic bluegrass song recounting Fully 120 years later we have the "Wreck of the Norfolk Southern" — a devastating crash caused by the company's demand that it be allowed to run an ill-equipped, understaffed, largely unregulated, 1.7 mile train carrying flammable, cancer-causing toxins through communities, putting profit over people and public safety. | This rolling bomb of…

Scott Ferguson (2023-03-01). Gramatneusiedl's Job Guarantee w/ Thomas Schwab. mronline.org This month, Money on the Left is joined by Thomas Schwab who, as mayor of Gramatneusiedl in Lower Austria, oversees a promising Job Guarantee pilot program. Seeking to eliminate long-term unemployment, the program guarantees public jobs to anyone in the community who seeks them. In our conversation, we explore the philosophy and structure of Gramatneusiedl's municipal employment service.

Anonymous103 (2023-03-01). Dozens Of Drones Targeted Crimea. southfront.org Click to see full-size image | On the night of March 1, ten unmanned aerial vehicles were shot down over the Crimean peninsula. The attempt of a massive UAV attack on Crimea was confirmed by the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation."An attempt by the Kiev regime to conduct a massive drone attack on the objects of the Crimean Peninsula has been prevented. Six Ukrainian unmanned strike vehicles were shot down by air defense and four more Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles were disabled by electronic warfare. The…

Anonymous103 (2023-03-01). Military Situation In Iraq On March 1, 2023 (Map Update). southfront.org Click to see full-size image | On February 27, Turkish drones targeted a car in the Khana Sor area near Sinjar town. PàÆr àáeko, commander of the PMU 80th Brigade along and two fighters were killed; | On March 1, Turkish drones targeted a car in Sinjar town. A YBS commander reportedly was killed; | On February 28, Iraqi Defense Minister Thabit Mohammad Saeed Reza met with Seyed Ebrahim Raisi, President of Iran, Major General Hossein Salami, Commander of the IRGC in Tehran. | MORE ON THE…

teleSUR, JCM (2023-03-01). Rusia denuncia ataques con drones en diferentes ciudades. telesurtv.net El Aeropuerto Pulkovo de San Petersburgo se paralizó cuando las autoridades cerraron el espacio aéreo circundante.

Victor Grossman (2023-03-01). Despair and Joy: Berlin Bulletin 208, February 28, 2023. mronline.org Were any flags of sympathy displayed when the people of Serbia, Iraq or Afghanistan were bombed? When drones exploded on hospitals and wedding processions—were there also calls for tribunals against Bush—or Obama?>

Dee Knight (2023-03-02). Dr. Strangelove is No Longer Satire. covertactionmagazine.com Expansion of U.S. weapons supplies to Ukraine makes nuclear war more conceivable "We are fighting a war against Russia," German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock told the Council of Europe on January 24. The next day German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and U.S. President Joe Biden announced plans to send high-powered tanks to Ukraine, in a major …

DLI (2023-03-02). China's 12-point Peace Proposal to end Ukraine war. indybay.org This week, China released a 12-point Peace plan for ending the Ukraine war. It is the first comprehensive Peace proposal by a major power(there has been no Peace plan at all proposed by the G7 nor NATO, who are instead the major arms provider of over $100 Billion of lethal weapons to Ukraine–an amount more than the entire annual war budget of Russia!) Significantly, China's Peace Plan specifically calls for serious consideration of long-term security concerns on BOTH sides.

infobrics (2023-03-02). West demands South Korea to supply weapons to Ukraine. infobrics.org Russia could respond to any South Korean provocation by boosting ties with North Korea.

infobrics (2023-03-02). Kiev regime flooding black markets with NATO-sourced weapons. infobrics.org US officials claim they're unable to audit Ukraine-bound weapons once they leave Poland, but the real issue is if they even want to know. Considering the nearly mythical status they've given to Zelensky, revealing his involvement in arms smuggling could be rather "uncomfortable" and might even backfire.

Staff (2023-03-02). Headlines for March 2, 2023. democracynow.org Top U.S. and Russian Diplomats Meet Briefly at G20 Talks as Ukraine War Rages On, Finland Advances Bid to Join NATO as Turkey Holds Up Sweden's Bid, U.S. Approves $619 Million Sale of High-Tech Weapons to Taiwan, U.S. Air Force Relieves Six Officers over Safety Lapses at North Dakota Nuclear Base, Israeli Protesters Opposed to Judicial Overhaul Met with Police Violence, "Repugnant": U.S. Condemns Israeli Minister's Call to "Erase" Palestinian Town of Huwara, U.S. Spy Agencies Reject Claims That "Havana Syndrome" Was Caused by Foreign Power, Protests Erupt in Greece…

infobrics (2023-03-01). Ukraine might stage false flag operation using chemical weapons. infobrics.org The objective would be to blame the Russian side, thus damaging Moscow's image among public opinion.

Jason Ditz (2023-03-01). IAEA Iran Report: Inspectors Find Some 83.7% Enriched Uranium Particles. news.antiwar.com A new International Atomic Energy Agency report was leaked on Tuesday, stating that IAEA inspectors That last part is important, as the weapons grade enrichment level is 90%, meaning there is still no weapons threat. | Efforts are being made to explain the new particles. Iran has suggested they accidentall…

Sam Husseini (2023-03-01). State Dept: Israel in Charge of When We'll Enforce US Bans on Foreign Aid Over Its Nuclear Weapons Program. globalresearch.ca

Staff (2023-03-01). Venezuelan Foreign Minister at UN: Blockades Continue Colonialism. orinocotribune.com This Tuesday, February 28, Venezuelan Foreign Affairs Minister Yván Gil, during his speech at the Human Rights Council of the United Nations (UN), said that blockades represent the "continuity of neocolonialism, and now they are implemented as political and economic weapons by the hegemonic countries against the peoples of the south." | The top Venezuelan diplomat reiterated that the 928 coercive measures issued against Venezuela are crimes against humanity. In the same way, he reviewed the most serious of the illegal coercive economic measures—euphemistically referred to as "sanctions"—that the Venez…

WSWS (2023-03-01). US demands for "existential struggle" threaten war with China. wsws.org As the United States surged troops, ships and weapons to the Pacific, Congress held a prime-time hearing Tuesday aimed at promoting public hostility toward China to justify the United States' belligerent military actions on the other side of the world.