(2022-09-01). The death of Mikhail Gorbachev and the legacy of Stalinist counterrevolution. wsws.org Gorbachev, who is being hailed in the Western press as a statesman, was responsible for the final act of betrayal carried out by the parasites who raised themselves up above and fed off the Soviet working class—the full-scale restoration of capitalism in the USSR and the dissolution of that country into more than a dozen states.
(2022-08-31). Taiwan Says It Fired at Chinese Drone for First Time. news.antiwar.com Taiwan's Defense Ministry said Tuesday that Taiwanese troops fired warning shots at a Chinese drone that was flying in airspace over Kinmen County, an archipelago of Taiwanese-controlled islands off the southeastern coast of mainland China. The Taiwanese Army's Kinmen Defense Command said that three "civilian" drones flew over the Kinmen islands, also known as Quemoy …
(2022-08-31). Jerome Powell: Fed Must Keep Raising Interest Rates, U.S. Economy Should Brace For Pain. moguldom.com 
U.S. Stock prices have fallen for three straight days since Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell said the central bank must keep raising interest rates for a while to control the fastest rise in inflation in 40 years, even if doing so dampens growth and causes unemployment. Failure to curb inflation now raises the risk of …
(2022-08-31). "Preemptive Nuclear War": The Historic Battle for Peace and Democracy. A Third World War Threatens the Future of Humanity. globalresearch.ca US nuclear doctrine consists in portraying nuclear weapons as a means of "self defense" rather than a "weapon of mass destruction". There are powerful financial interests behind Joe Biden's $1.3 trillion nuclear weapons program initiated under Obama.
(2022-08-31). Over One Million Bolivians Mobilize To Support President Arce's Government. popularresistance.org On Thursday, August 25, under the banner of 'March in Defense of Democracy and Economic Reconstruction', over one million Bolivians mobilized in support of the government of President Luis Arce and Vice President David Choquehuanca and its socialist economic policies. | Workers from diverse sectors, peasants, students, and members of various Indigenous organizations and social movements from all nine departments of the country arrived in capital La Paz to ratify their support for the national government of the ruling Movement Towards Socialism (MAS) party. | The call for the march was given by the Pact of Unity (…
(2022-08-31). Hungary & China: Mutually Beneficial Cooperation. oneworld.press China, with its capital surplus and dominant industrial position, is a viable alternative to the financial capitalism New World Order.
(2022-08-31). Preview: Will Job Growth Finally Slow? cepr.net (The monthly Employment Situation is scheduled for release by the Bureau of Labor Statistics on Friday, September 2nd, at 8: 30 AM Eastern Time.) | The two big questions that the Federal Reserve Board, and just about everyone else, will be asking with the August jobs numbers are: "Is job growth slowing to a sustainable pace?" and "Is wage growth falling back to a more normal rate?" | The 528,000 new jobs reported for July pushed total employment above the pre-pandemic level, but it is clearly not a sustainable growth rate for an economy with a 3.5 percent unemployment rate. (The preliminary benchmark revisions ann…
(2022-08-31). Taiwan shoots at Chinese drone for first time. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Aug. 31 (MNA) — Taiwan has begun targeting Chinese drones flying over its outlying islands for the first time.
(2022-08-31). The same criminal "profits before lives" response by capitalism to COVID-19 and monkeypox is allowing the resurgence of polio. wsws.org Years of negligence and underfunding have created the current conditions under which a dread disease that causes severe, lifelong paralysis and sometimes death, which should have been eradicated from the globe decades ago, is resurging.
(2022-08-31). US helicopters grounded over "dangerous" engine fires. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Aug. 31 (MNA) — The US army has grounded its entire fleet of Boeing CH-47 Chinook helicopters after several dangerous engine fires.
(2022-08-30). Malaysia's Ex PM Explains Imperialism's Roots In Capitalism. popularresistance.org Malaysia's longest-serving Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad warned that the US is trying to start a war with China over Taiwan. He also explained how imperialism is rooted in capitalism and detailed its economic exploitation of the Global South. | It's quite obvious that when the Eastern bloc was still there, it was a bustle between capitalism and communism. Once communism was defeated, then capitalism could expand and show its true self. It's no longer constrained by the need to be nice, so that people will choose their so-called free-market system as opposed to the centrally planned system. | So because of that,…
(2022-08-30). The Biotech Plan To Destroy Us. thealtworld.com Dear Readers, This article by Lew Rockwell reporting on Jeffrey Sachs' investigation for the medical journal, The Lancet, of the origin of the Covid virus is of the utmost importance. The virus is man made and is only the tip of the iceberg of the ongoing creation of dangerous pathogens in biotech laboratories. This work, a form of criminal insanity, is kept secret. Legislative bodies are unaware, and there is no accountability of what is being done or of how the pathogens will be used. The situation for all of us is dangerous beyond belief. The risks are great and totally needless. Unlike nuclear weapons, there…