(2021-04-20). Biden's Anti-China Ambitions. tomdispatch.com Like his immediate predecessor, Joe Biden is committed to a distinctly anti-China global strategy and has sworn that China will not "become the leading country in the world, the wealthiest country in the world, and the most powerful country in the world… on my watch." In the topsy-turvy universe created by the Covid-19 pandemic, it was, however, Jamie Dimon, the CEO and chairman of JP Morgan Chase, a banking giant with assets of $3.4 trillion, who spoke truth to Biden on the subject. While predicting an immediate boom in the U.S. economy "that could easily run into 2023," Dimon had grimmer news on the future as…
(2021-04-20). Bolivia's Fight for Food Sovereignty. orinocotribune.com 
Food security and food sovereignty are perhaps the most important issues facing Latin America and its campesino farmers. Being able to produce what one consumes is key in reducing poverty and guarding against hunger and external economic shocks. Since 2006, Bolivia has made it a priority. Evo Morales came through the ranks of the campesino social movements and was keenly aware of the poverty and other challenges facing the rural areas. After huge investments in rural communities, Bolivia now produces 95% of what it consumes. | To understand this issue and how Bolivia is grappling with it, Kawsachun News spoke exc…
(2021-04-20). The classes of capitalism. mronline.org 
Capitalist society is divided into different classes, and the relationships between those classes shape the production of wealth, the dissemination of ideas and the nature of politics. | April 20, 2021 | Newswire…
(2021-04-20). A Third of U.S. Billionaire Wealth Gains Since 1990 Have Come During Pandemic. counterpunch.org 
The wealth of U.S. billionaires has steadily grown over the last 31 years. But a third of the $4.3 trillion in billionaire wealth gains since 1990 have come during the last 13 months of the pandemic. Between 1990 and April 2021, the combined wealth of U.S. billionaires increased 19-fold, from $240 billion in today's dollars
(2021-04-20). Biden endorses Democrat proposal to make Washington, DC the 51st US state. rt.com 
The Biden administration "strongly supports" a bill that would make the District of Columbia a new US state named Douglass Commonwealth, and shrink the seat of the US government to a tiny enclave in downtown Washington. | In a "statement of policy" released on Tuesday, the White House endorsed "For far too long, the more than 700,000 people of Washington, DC have been deprived of full representation in the US Congress. This taxation witho…
(2021-04-20). Berlin: Protests Against End Of 'Rent Cap' And Real Estate Swindlers. popularresistance.org The repeal of the Berlin "rent cap" by the Supreme Court means massive rent increases, arrears payments and poverty for hundreds of thousands of people. The ruling, which exacerbates homelessness amid the coronavirus crisis, has a signal effect for the whole of Germany and is emblematic of the inhuman enrichment policies of the ruling elites in Germany and Europe. | Balakrishnan Rajagopal, UN Special Rapporteur on the right to housing, spoke on Twitter on Thursday of a "deeply disturbing judgment" and, referring to the pandemic, warned, "The German government still has an international legal obligation to respect…
(2021-04-20). China expects to deepen int'l cooperation in poverty reduction. ecns.cn China has long maintained close cooperation with the international community in poverty alleviation and rural development, and expects to deepen such cooperation, Wang Zhengpu, head of the national administration for rural vitalization, said on Monday.
(2021-04-20). New Green Deal + Old War Deal = Same Rotten Deal. dissidentvoice.org While a new American administration presides over what many believe is a return to normal after the more openly blatant worship of wealth and Israel of the Trump regime, what's missed is that what passes for normal is what needs radical change. As long as market normalcy in the USA means hundreds of thousands of …
(2021-04-20). The War of Global Corporate Wealth against Life and Humanity. globalresearch.ca Corporations, multinational investment banks, and the rich that they support, are …
(2021-04-20). Billionaires Cut: Autopilot to Extinction. indybay.org "A few ultra-wealthy individuals are making decisions about the future of the planet with little accountability or transparency," according to Matthew Nisbet, a professor of communication and public policy at Northeastern University in Boston.
(2021-04-19). Arabic press review: Palestinian Authority mulls cancelling elections. middleeasteye.net 
Arabic press review: Palestinian Authority mulls cancelling elections | Meanwhile, Saudi Arabia investigates 11 corruption cases, an Egyptian journalist disappears after being deported from Jordan, and thousands of Jordanians are at risk of unemployment | Mon, 04/19/2021 – 14: 28 | Employees of the Palestinian Central Elections Commission display electoral lists at the commission's district offi…
(2021-04-19). Three million dead from the coronavirus pandemic. wsws.org From the beginning of the pandemic, a rational and scientific response has been blocked by the prioritization of personal wealth over social need and the subordination of the necessary global response to national geopolitics.
(2021-04-19). UN chief to Indigenous Forum: 'Prioritize inclusion and sustainable development'. news.un.org Although they represent the greater part of the world's cultural diversity and speak the major share of its languages, indigenous people are three times more likely to live in extreme poverty, the UN chief told the opening session of the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues on Monday.