The exploitation time bomb
Jayati Ghosh | nationofchange.org | 2019-07-18
Since reducing inequality became an official goal of the international community, income disparities have widened. This trend, typically blamed on trade liberalization and technological advances that have weakened the bargaining power of labor vis-à -vis capital, has generated a political backlash in many countries, with voters blaming their economic plight on "others" rather than on national policies. And such sentiments of …
nationofchange.org/2019/07/18/the-exploitation-time-bomb/

Presidential Candidates Update Tax Plans, Propose Tax Increases on Wealthy & Corporations
commondreams.org | 2019-07-18
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Wealth, sex work and sexual abuse
Editor | workers.org | 2019-07-18
The U.S. Secretary of Labor resigned last week, July 12. Maybe you didn't notice? Just another turnover in the revolving door of scandal that's the Trump administration. The wrongdoing that sent Labor Secretary Alexander Acosta out the door might not, at first glance, seem to be related to labor or . . . | Continue reading Wealth, sex work and sexual abuse at Workers.org…
workers.org/2019/07/18/wealth-sex-work-and-sexual-abuse/

Australia needs a 'Green Fair Go'
pip.hinman | greenleft.org.au | 2019-07-18
RMIT University professor Rob Watts believes Australia needs a "Green Fair Go" — akin to the United States proposal of a "Green New Deal" — that would include a commitment to full employment through jobs linked to combating climate change. To make this a reality would require "people power", he said. | Watts was speaking at a Fair Go For Pensioners conference on July 10, where he provided an overview of the neoliberal policies pursued by Labor and Coalition governments during the past four decades. | He spoke of the decline of the union movement, growing inequality, the abandonment of the goal of full…
greenleft.org.au/content/australia-needs-green-fair-go

Free the children, close the camps
Liberation Staff | liberationnews.org | 2019-07-17
Trump's racist statements against Mexicans and Central Americans is intended for one purpose: To stir up hatred of immigrants, to mobilize his base and deflect blame away from millionaires and billionaires, who are the real cause of the economic crisis and unemployment.
liberationnews.org/free-the-children-close-the-camps/

Global Britain's real climate changers: Big Oil must be taken down
Andy Higginbottom | mronline.org | 2019-07-17
There is no global social unity in the face of climate disaster. We risk a 'climate apartheid' scenario where the wealthy pay to escape overheating, hunger, and conflict while the rest of the world is left to suffer. | Source…
mronline.org/2019/07/17/global-britains-real-climate-changers-big-oil-must-be-taken-down/

Billionaires and American Politics
Lawrence Wittner | counterpunch.org | 2019-07-17
Is the United States becoming a plutocracy? With the manifestly unqualified but immensely rich Donald Trump serving as the nation's first billionaire president, it's not hard to draw that conclusion. And there are numerous other signs, as well, that great wealth has become a central factor in American politics. Although big money has always played…
counterpunch.org/2019/07/17/billionaires-and-american-politics/

Billionaires and American Politics
Lawrence Wittner | dissidentvoice.org | 2019-07-17
Is the United States becoming a plutocracy? With the manifestly unqualified but immensely rich Donald Trump serving as the nation's first billionaire president, it's not hard to draw that conclusion. And there are numerous other signs, as well, that great wealth has become a central factor in American politics. Although big money has always played an …
dissidentvoice.org/2019/07/billionaires-and-american-politics/

Hundreds protest over drowning of refugee schoolgirl in UK
wsws.org | 2019-07-17
In the area surrounding the school just outside Manchester, one-third of all children live in poverty, that is in families whose income is less than 60 percent of the national median income.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/07/17/shuk-j17.html

Rentier Britain: All the Rent Goes to the 1%
RT | dissidentvoice.org | 2019-07-15
There are three fundamental issues that lie at the heart of our current economic malaise: the first is unearned income and wealth from land rent, second the creation of money by privately owned banks, and the third is rent-seeking that is used to juice profits out of intellectual property through copyright and patents. But the …
dissidentvoice.org/2019/07/rentier-britain-all-the-rent-goes-to-the-1/

Ousted Honduran President Zelaya: The 2009 U.S.-Backed Coup Helped Cause Today's Migrant Crisis
Staff | democracynow.org | 2019-07-12
Since the 2009 U.S.-backed military coup in Honduras, extreme poverty and violence has skyrocketed in the country, forcing tens of thousands of Hondurans to flee to the U.S. with the hope of receiving political asylum. We speak with ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya in the capital of Tegucigalpa about the 10th anniversary of the coup in Honduras, U.S. intervention in Central America and its link to today's migration crisis.
www.democracynow.org/2019/7/12/manuel_zelaya_honduras_coup_immigration_crisis

Bring down the global fences
pip.hinman | greenleft.org.au | 2019-07-12
As the Titanic sank in 1912, the wealthy were given safety on lifeboats while the poor were left to die, locked in the sinking ship. | Today, the countries of the Global North are taking a similar approach to the climate crisis. | Going full steam ahead, countries such as Australia continue to burn fossil fuels, ignore the warnings of scientists and, when crises hit, turn people away from safety. | There were more than 70 million displaced people around the world last year according to conservative United Nations figures — the highest this figure has ever been. | Many were displaced as a direct or indirec…
greenleft.org.au/content/refugees-first-victims-climate-change

Global Inequality in a Time of Climate Emergency
Tom Athanasiou | commondreams.org | 2019-06-17
Extreme economic inequality turns out to be a social poison that makes it almost impossible for us to mobilize to save ourselves and our civilization. (Photo: STAN HONDA/AFP/GettyImages) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/gettyimages-152211297.jpg…
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'Everybody Has the Right to Live': The Visionary Budget at the Heart of Our Moral Uprising
Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II, Rev Dr Liz Theoharis | commondreams.org | 2019-06-17
In 2018, the Poor People's Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival, led by Rev. Dr. William Barber II and Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis, released a Moral Agenda and set of demands to address systemic systemic, poverty, ecological devastation, militarism and the war economy. This year, the Poor People's Campaign and the Institute for Policy Studies has released a Moral Budget outlining how those demands can be paid for and achieved. (Image: Poor People's Campaign/Institute for Policy Studies) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/po…
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A 'Poor People's Moral Budget' because 'everybody has the right to live'
Ruth Milka | nationofchange.org | 2019-06-17
This week another new budget proposal was released. This time it didn't come from campaigning politicians or corrupt administrations but rather from two groups — the Poor People's Campaign and the Institute for Policy Studies — in an effort to show the people of the United States how to "invest in life." | The 'Poor People's Moral Budget' demands a "comprehensive response to the systemic racism, poverty, ecological devastation, militarism, and war economy plaguing our country today." It includes seven sections that detail…
nationofchange.org/2019/06/17/a-poor-peoples-moral-budget-because-everybody-has-the-right-to-live/

'Blatant Theft': Netanyahu Unveils Illegal Settlement Named 'Trump Heights' in Occupied Syrian Territory
Jake Johnson, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2019-06-17
"Trump Heights is such a great name for the colony built on theft, since Trump's whole life has been about being wealthy and powerful enough to escape the consequences of his crimes." | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/headline/thumbs/trump_heights_netanyahu.jpg…
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Instead of Death and Destruction, Poor People's Moral Budget Shows What It Looks Like to 'Invest in Life'
Jessica Corbett, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2019-06-17
A new report released Monday by the Poor People's Campaign and the Institute for Policy Studies declares that "the United States has abundant resources for an economic revival that will move towards establishing a moral economy" and details policies the country can pursue to combat systemic racism, poverty, ecological devastation, the war economy, and "the distorted moral narrative of religious nationalism." | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/headline/thumbs/ppc.jpg…
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Faurecia workers voice their anger and determination to fight
wsws.org | 2019-06-17
Faurecia workers face near-poverty level wages that force many workers to work two full-time jobs, for a total of at least 80 hours a week, just to make ends meet.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/06/17/faur-j17.html

Spain's Supreme Court endorses 1936 fascist coup
wsws.org | 2019-06-17
If Franco is rehabilitated, it is because powerful factions of the ruling class are considering another break with legality and democratic forms of rule, in order to defend their wealth.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/06/17/spai-j17.html