(2024-10-20). CADTM International Council | Day 1 | The polycrisis of capitalism. cadtm.org
(2024-10-20). IAM union announces snap vote in bid to shut down Boeing strike. wsws.org The proposed contract confirms every warning made by the World Socialist Web Site since the beginning of the strike, that Boeing and the IAM are colluding to get a pro-company contract passed so that Boeing can resume production on its terms and force workers to pay for the company's mountain of self-inflicted debt.
(2024-10-20). Hezbollah drone hits Netanyahu's residence after interception fiasco. presstv.ir A drone launched by the Lebanese resistance movement Hezbollah hit Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu's residence in Caesarea, north of Tel Aviv, amid an interception failure.
(2024-10-20). Killing the words of Gaza: Why Israel targets writers & teachers. newarab.com 
Palestinians have a deep-rooted love for learning, research, and profound respect for knowledge. Long before Zionists turned their attention — and later their weapons — toward Palestine, Palestinians have had a long cultural and educational tradition dating back to antiquity, as scholar Nur Masalha demonstrates in his
(2024-10-20). Is Israel using uranium, cluster munition in attacks on Lebanon. newarab.com 
Lebanese investigators and international law experts have accused Israel of using unconventional weapons, such as depleted uranium, in its recent wave of Lebanon's Atomic Energy Commission said it was investigating Israel's use of depleted uranium in its weapons, such as phosphorus bombs, smart guided bombs, and, lately, bunker-buster bombs, particularly in its air strikes on the Lebanese capital Beirut over the past three weeks. | The intensity of the explosions, particularly in B…
(2024-10-20). ICRC congratulates Nihon Hidankyo on Nobel Peace Prize and work to ensure nuclear weapons are never used again. icrc.org
(2024-10-19). Is Capitalism really the cause of global inequality? independent.co.ug 
Western observers have treated inequality as a domestic issue but this framing often overlooks the plight of hundreds of millions of impoverished people around the world COMMENT | KENNETH ROGOFF | In 2014, the French economist Thomas Piketty's Capital in the Twenty-First Century became an international sensation, reshaping the inequality debate and launching its author into …
(2024-10-19). Resetting BRICS for the South Slavs, New Europe and the World. orinocotribune.com By Batko MIlacic — Oct 17, 2024 | On October 22, in the capital of the Russian Republic of Tatarstan, located less than five hours along the M-12 "Vostok" highway from Moscow, the 16th Kazan BRICS summit opens — an association of 10 countries of a new geopolitical format, ahead of all the slow-moving Western alliances that has fallen into recession or stagnation. | Already, Kazan is fully ready to host the leaders of more than 33 countries participating in the BRICS summit in a year when Russia is the chairman of the association of leaders of the multipolar world. The Moscow Kremlin noted that Kazan is…
(2024-10-19). Resetting BRICS for the South Slavs, New Europe and the World. orinocotribune.com By Batko MIlacic — Oct 17, 2024 | On October 22, in the capital of the Russian Republic of Tatarstan, located less than five hours along the M-12 "Vostok" highway from Moscow, the 16th Kazan BRICS summit opens — an association of 10 countries of a new geopolitical format, ahead of all the slow-moving Western alliances that has fallen into recession or stagnation. | Already, Kazan is fully ready to host the leaders of more than 33 countries participating in the BRICS summit in a year when Russia is the chairman of the association of leaders of the multipolar world. The Moscow Kremlin noted that Kazan is…
(2024-10-19). Diabetes Patients Are Starting To Beat Big Pharma's Price Gouging. popularresistance.org T1International was born out of anger. | Elizabeth Pfiester had lived with type 1 diabetes since she was four years old. The daughter of a Monticello, Illinois railroad worker and library clerk, Pfiester and her family together had to learn the daily regimen of insulin injections, finger pricks for blood testing, and constant fear of blood sugar spikes and crashes. Fortunately, her dad's railroad job provided solid health coverage, which got even better when Pfiester enrolled in the London School of Economics, where she qualified for the U.K.'s National Health Service program.
(2024-10-19). IAM bureaucrats seek to ram through Textron deal to isolate Boeing strike. wsws.org That the IAM apparatus even brought this contract to a vote is a clear indication that the bureaucracy never had any intention of waging a serious strike.
(2024-10-19). Ukraine's "Victory Plan" Implies NATO Intervention. thealtworld.com 
Update on the conflict in Ukraine for October 20, 2024… | Ukraine unveils its "victory plan," including membership in NATO, additional weapons, and all restrictions on their use lifted; | Ukraine has also warned that it will pursue nuclear weapons if NATO membership is not granted; | No aspect of the "victory plan," or the pursuit of nuclear weapons acknowledges the disparity between Ukraine, its Western sponsors and Russia in terms of military industrial capacity or trained manpower; | Western-Ukrainian escalation with Russia at this juncture risks forcing a greater imperative for Russia in expanding the sc…
(2024-10-19). The FBI's Weapons of Mass Destruction Program Has a New Target: Animal Rights Activists. theintercept.com 
On a chilly, early morning in January 2019, a group of animal rights activists descended upon a poultry farm in central Texas. Donning plastic gloves, medical masks, hazmat suits, and T-shirts emblazoned with "Meat the Victims," they slipped through the unlocked door of a massive, windowless barn. | Inside, they found 27,000 chicks densely packed across the floor, like "just a sea of yellow," recalled Sarah Weldon, one of the activists. "There were a lot of chicks that were already deceased, in various stages of decomposition," she said. "Some were so deformed you couldn't even tell they used to be baby chicks…