WSWS (2022-09-23). Vowing "pain," Federal Reserve pledges to slash workers' wages. wsws.org Behind the Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell's rhetoric about "fighting inflation" is a brutal class policy of using mass unemployment to drive down wages.

Dave DeCamp (2022-09-22). Medvedev Says Russia Can Defend New Regions With Nuclear Weapons. news.antiwar.com Former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev Referendums to join Russia will be held in the Donbas republics of Donestk and Luhansk and the Kherson and Zaporizhzhia regions starting Friday. "Referendums will be held, and the Donbas republics and other territories will be accepted into Russia," Medvedev wrote on Telegram. | Medvedev, who currently serves as…

_____ (2022-09-22). Statement Condemns 'Assessment Of Human Rights Concerns' In China. popularresistance.org We strongly condemn the publication by the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights of its Assessment of human rights concerns in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, People's Republic of China. In the words of former OHCHR lawyer and human rights expert Alfred de Zayas, this document "should be discarded as propagandistic, biased and methodologically flawed." | Based on substandard research methods and biased sources, the Assessment is completely lacking in credibility. It treats arms of the military-industrial complex, such as the Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI), along with professional a…

WSWS (2022-09-22). Fed makes clear recession and job losses are its goal. wsws.org In his opening remarks to a press conference at the conclusion of a meeting of the Fed's policy-making body, chair Jerome Powell said the central bank would "likely require maintaining a restrictive policy stance for some time" and "the historical record cautions strongly against prematurely loosening policy."

Monica Moorehead (2022-09-22). Slap on Sarver's wrist, funds for Favre — capitalist culture in sports. workers.org NBPA Executive Director Tamika Tremaglio calls for lifetime ban on Robert Sarver on NBA Today, Sept. 16. U.S. sports — whether professional or amateur — like almost every institution under capitalism, is all about making profits before meeting human needs. Bosses of professional teams, usually referred to as owners, are . . . |

Anonymous669 (2022-09-22). Turkey Delivered 20 Bayraktar TB2 Combat Drones To UAE — Report. southfront.org A Bayraktar TB2 combat drone. Source: Baykar. | Turkish drone manufacturer Baykar has delivered 20 Bayraktar TB2 combat drones to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) since the beginning of the month and could sell more, Bayraktar TB2 drones saw major success in conflicts in Libya, Syria and the disputed region of Nagorno-K…

WSWS (2022-09-22). The Nicole Linton case: Deadly crash in Los Angeles sheds light on exhausting conditions, mental stress facing nurses. wsws.org The nurse behind the wheel of a deadly car crash is being demonized to cover up the social roots of the tragedy.

WSWS (2022-09-22). Fed makes clear recession and job losses are its goal. wsws.org In his opening remarks to a press conference at the conclusion of a meeting of the Fed's policy-making body, chair Jerome Powell said the central bank would "likely require maintaining a restrictive policy stance for some time" and "the historical record cautions strongly against prematurely loosening policy."

WSWS (2022-09-22). The Nicole Linton case: Deadly crash in Los Angeles sheds light on exhausting conditions, mental stress facing nurses. wsws.org The nurse behind the wheel of a deadly car crash is being demonized to cover up the social roots of the tragedy.

_____ (2022-09-21). Evo Morales: US the Only Pariah That Provokes Coups and Wars. popularresistance.org After warnings from the Biden Administration to Russia against the use of nuclear weapons, Evo Morales recalled that the US is the only one that has used such weapons against civilians. | In the event that Russian President Vladimir Putin resorts to a nuclear arsenal, his American counterpart, Joe Biden, in an interview with the local network CBS, promised on Friday that Russia "will become more of a pariah in the world than they ever have been." | Through a message published this Sunday, September 18, on Twitter, the former president of Bolivia Evo Morales criticized the aggressive policy of the US and its role…

Editor (2022-09-21). Busing migrants, targeting socialism. workers.org Playing with human lives in a despicable political stunt, Greg Abbott, right-wing governor of Texas, has bused thousands of undocumented migrants north from the U.S. border with Mexico since the beginning of August. The buses dump homeless, jobless, hungry people — far from their own countries, with few to . . . |

Joseph Gerson (2022-09-21). Ukraine War: Still a Cuban Missile Crisis in Slow Motion. commondreams.org Russia's use of tactical nuclear weapons could trigger a cataclysmic nuclear exchange.

____ (2022-09-21). Drones used in project to measure plateau weather. ecns.cn China has started to explore using drones to observe and measure weather on its plateaus, according to the Aviation Industry Corp of China, the nation's leading aviation enterprise.

The Socialist Program (2022-09-21). Inflation Crisis & the March Towards Recession. liberationnews.org The capitalist class remains determined to drive the economy off a cliff to eviscerate workers' living standards and bargaining power.

WSWS (2022-09-21). Key question from today's policy meeting: Where the US Fed is heading? wsws.org The phrase "fighting inflation" is essentially a cover for the Fed's real agenda which is the suppression of wage claims being advance by workers to try to compensate for the biggest price hikes in four decades by contracting the economy and driving up unemployment.

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-09-21). This Odious Global System. libya360.wordpress.com Paul Cudenec Throughout my adult life I have tended to describe the thing to which I am primarily opposed as "capitalism". Over the last couple of years, however, I have started to wonder whether this is quite the right word. Not only does it hinder communication with people used to different political terminologies, but it…

_____ (2022-09-21). UN Women & Blackrock. popularresistance.org An open letter signed by 700-plus feminist groups and activists sent on Aug. 8 to UN Women, protesting a recently announced partnership between the agency and BlackRock, a United States-based hedge fund, resulted in the cancellation of the arrangement. | The letter pointed out that BlackRock personifies "crisis-prone speculation-based capitalism" and that the May 25 joint press releases announcing the partnership by both parties offered no useful or explicit details on what it would accomplish. | Such vagueness, the letter writers contended, could give UN Women the appearance of "pinkwashing" BlackRock, since the…

Anonymous669 (2022-09-21). US Acknowledges One Of Its Bases In Syria Came Under Attack. southfront.org U.S. Marines with Weapons Company, 3rd Battalion, 7th Marine Regiment provide security support during mission on Sept. 9, 2018, at an undisclosed location in Syria. (Cpl. Gabino Perez/Marine Corps) | The United States have acknowledged that one of its bass in Syria's northeastern region came under In a statement released a few hours after the attack, the US Central Comm…

WSWS (2022-09-20). Biden on "60 Minutes": American capitalism is at war with the world, at war with reality. wsws.org In the space of 25 minutes, Biden declared the COVID-19 "pandemic over," threatened a massive escalation of war against Russia and pledged US forces to a possible war with China.