(2023-03-07). Rally In Solidarity With Resistance To Cop City In Avon, Massachusetts. popularresistance.org The Weelaunee Forest in Atlanta is the proposed site of a massive police training facility, known to most as "Cop City." Cop City is the logical outgrowth of violent, racialized capitalism in the United States. Corporations and wealthy Atlantans believe that they need a large and well-equipped police force to tamp down "crime" in the city they are working to gentrify, and have thus contributed financially to this project. As landlords and cops push Black residents out, wealthy, mostly white neighborhoods like Buckhead demand ever more police intervention to keep them and their ill-gotten wealth "safe." With all t…
(2023-03-07). Thursday 3/9: Raymond Lotta, Industrialization of Sexual Exploitation and Global Capitalism. indybay.org 2444 Durant Avenue Berkeley…
(2023-03-07). üéß Movies vs. Capitalism: Modern Times (w/ Pedro àÅngel Rivera Muñoz). levernews.com
(2023-03-08). PSL Statement — 50 years after Roe, mass resistance the key in abortion struggle. liberationnews.org To win back and extend the right to abortion requires continuous grassroots organizing and a return to powerful, large-scale mobilizations…
(2023-03-07). Nearly lost: "History of the Labor Movement in the United States, Volume 11, The Great Depression, 1929-1932", by Philip Foner. fightbacknews.org When legendary and prolific labor history researcher and author Phil Foner died in 1994, he left behind more than 100 meticulously researched and detailed histories of the U.S. labor movement. But Foner was not merely an historian in the usual university mold; he was a partisan, a lifetime communist, and he saw his work as not just chronicles of past events but serious guides to action for those still on the labor battlefront. His books in many ways became the untold stories of our class struggle. | Probably his most accomplished and massive work is the 11-volume History of the Labor Movement in the United State…
(2023-03-07). Rally In Solidarity With Resistance To Cop City In Avon, Massachusetts. popularresistance.org The Weelaunee Forest in Atlanta is the proposed site of a massive police training facility, known to most as "Cop City." Cop City is the logical outgrowth of violent, racialized capitalism in the United States. Corporations and wealthy Atlantans believe that they need a large and well-equipped police force to tamp down "crime" in the city they are working to gentrify, and have thus contributed financially to this project. As landlords and cops push Black residents out, wealthy, mostly white neighborhoods like Buckhead demand ever more police intervention to keep them and their ill-gotten wealth "safe." With all t…
(2023-03-07). Thursday 3/9: Raymond Lotta, Industrialization of Sexual Exploitation and Global Capitalism. indybay.org 2444 Durant Avenue Berkeley…
(2023-03-07). üéß Movies vs. Capitalism: Modern Times (w/ Pedro àÅngel Rivera Muñoz). levernews.com
(2023-03-08). PSL Statement — 50 years after Roe, mass resistance the key in abortion struggle. liberationnews.org To win back and extend the right to abortion requires continuous grassroots organizing and a return to powerful, large-scale mobilizations…
(2023-03-07). Nearly lost: "History of the Labor Movement in the United States, Volume 11, The Great Depression, 1929-1932", by Philip Foner. fightbacknews.org When legendary and prolific labor history researcher and author Phil Foner died in 1994, he left behind more than 100 meticulously researched and detailed histories of the U.S. labor movement. But Foner was not merely an historian in the usual university mold; he was a partisan, a lifetime communist, and he saw his work as not just chronicles of past events but serious guides to action for those still on the labor battlefront. His books in many ways became the untold stories of our class struggle. | Probably his most accomplished and massive work is the 11-volume History of the Labor Movement in the United State…
(2023-03-07). More Primary Care Visits Address Mental Health. jamanetwork.com Between 2006 and 2018, the number of visits during which primary care physicians managed mental health concerns increased by 50%, from about 11% of visits to about 16%, according to an analysis of 109‚ÄØ989 visits published in Health Affairs. Visits that had focused on depression and other affective disorders decreased over time as those tackling anxiety and stress-related conditions increased.
(2023-03-07). Unintended Pregnancy and Maternal and Infant Health Outcomes. jamanetwork.com To the Editor A recent systematic review and meta-analysis concluded that unintended pregnancy was significantly associated with higher odds of depression during pregnancy and postpartum, and increased maternal experience of interpersonal violence, preterm birth, and infant low birth weight. However, we have several concerns about this study.
(2023-03-07). Venezuela's Economy in 2023: Growth, Devaluation and Wages. orinocotribune.com The Venezuelan economy has evolved favorably since the last quarter of 2021, breaking with the recession of previous years. Since then, it has shown growth indicators that have remained stable. | The national economy, as a whole, showed an increase in GDP (gross domestic product) of more than 15% in 2022, as noted by President Nicolás Maduro recently, the largest increase registered on the continent during the past year. | But this strong trend, according to several private firms, may have slowed down by the end of 2022 and the beginning of this year, as a new cycle of devaluations has intensified, bringing wages…
(2023-03-07). GOP's Debt Limit Plan Would Cost 2.6 Million Jobs, Report Finds. truthout.org House Republicans' plan to majorly slash federal spending over the next decade as a supposed "solution" to the national debt would likely cost millions of jobs and trigger a recession next year, a new report by Moody's Analytics economists finds. With Republicans in charge of only one chamber of Congress, the party has turned to the debt limit as a vehicle for their policy priorities… |
(2023-03-07). Pilgrims Group: The British Intelligence-Linked Firm that Warped MH17 News Coverage. libya360.wordpress.com Kit Klarenberg Staffed by British special forces veterans, Pilgrims' Group quietly shaped international coverage of the MH17 disaster as it shepherded journalists to and from the crash site. In November of 2022, a final judgment arrived in the trial of alleged perpetrators of the attack on Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 (MH17). Russian nationals Igor Girkin…
(2023-03-07). Before RR Co. Norfolk Southern Poisoned Palestine, Oh., It Poisoned the Ohio Statehouse. juancole.com The company plied state lawmakers with cash and lobbied against common sense rail safety measures. By Jim Hightower | ( Otherwords.org — "The Wreck of the Old 97" is a classic bluegrass song recounting a spectacular train crash in 1903, caused by the company's demand that the engineer speed down a dangerous track to …
(2023-03-07). Daily Round-up Venezuela marks 10 years of Hugo Chavez's death & other stories. peoplesdispatch.org In today's episode we look at Venezuela marking 10 years of Hugo Chavez's death, Tunisians protest against economic decline, Syria condemns US military's official visit to occupied Syrian territory, and thousands continue protests over train crash in Greece.
(2023-03-07). Facebook Parent Meta Announces 1000s More Layoffs As Fed Reserve Chair Says Inflation Still Higher Than Expected. moguldom.com Meta plans thousands more layoffs starting as soon as this week in its second round of job cuts in four months while Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell's testimony on Tuesday before Congress raised fears that continuing to raise interest rates would risk even more unemployment and hardship. Powell suggested before Congress on March 7 that …
(2023-03-07). Subsidized Employment Can Help Fight Poverty in Good Times & Bad. cepr.net Nearly 15 million people in the U.S. who would like to work are unable to find a job right now—despite a historically low national unemployment rate.[1] This joblessness is not uniformly distributed across the country but concentrated in the most disadvantaged communities, particularly Black and Brown communities. A targeted, large-scale subsidized employment program can help …
(2023-03-08). Drone show staged to mark 200-day countdown of Hangzhou Asian Games. ecns.cn A light show featuring Hangzhou's iconic attractions is staged with 500 drones to mark the 200-day countdown of Hangzhou 2022 Asian Games at Hangzhou Olymic Sports Center Stadium, nicknamed "the Big Lotus", east China's Zhejiang Province, March 7, 2023.
(2023-03-07). Six war mongering think tanks and the military contractors that fund them. liberationnews.org The funding sources of the most influential think tanks reveals whose interests they really serve: that of the U.S. military and its defense contractors.
(2023-03-07). How Israeli Cyber Weapons Are Taking Over Latin America. scheerpost.com By Jessica Buxbaum / MintPress News 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, …