2021-10-05: News Headlines

WSWS (2021-10-05). IATSE movie and television workers vote overwhelmingly to strike. wsws.org IATSE workers voted to strike for the first time in its 128-year history because the conditions to which they are subjected are untenable, including constant 12-16 hour days, no rest, no sleep and poverty wages.

Olivia Engling (2021-10-05). IMF Urges Wealthy Countries to Send COVID Aid to Poor Countries. indybay.org IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva urged wealthy countries to donate IMF emergency COVID aid to developing countries. Her remarks opened an event organized by Jubilee USA Network in preparation for October IMF and G20 meetings.

Editor (2021-10-05). China's Fortune Cookie Crumbles: Michael Hudson and Renegade Inc. mronline.org Welcome to Renegade Inc. With China's increasing wealth, Western investors want some of the action. One of those investors is a bullish gentleman called George Soros.

Sarah Anderson (2021-10-04). Inside the Pandora Papers. inequality.org

Michael Liedtke, Jonathan Mattise (2021-10-04). Leaked 'Pandora Papers' expose how billionaires and corrupt leaders hide wealth. peoplesworld.org (AP)—A new report sheds light on how billionaires, world leaders, powerful politicians, and others have used offshore accounts to shield assets collectively worth trillions of dollars over the past quarter-century. The report by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists brought promises of tax reform and demands for resignations and investigations, as well as explanations and denials from …

Dana Sanchez (2021-10-04). What Are The Pandora Papers? New Leaked Records Expose Politicians, Business Elite Financial Secrets. moguldom.com A cache of 11.9 million files leaked from companies hired by wealthy clients to create offshore accounts and trusts in tax havens has been reported in a massive exposé known as the Pandora Papers, which shares information on the secret stash of 35 world leaders, more than 100 billionaires and 300 public officials. Caught up …

Oscar Rickett (2021-10-04). Pandora Papers: Lebanon's power players tied to vast offshore wealth. middleeasteye.net Pandora Papers: Lebanon's power players tied to vast offshore wealth | Prime Minister Najib Mikati, former prime minister Hassan Diab and central bank governor, Riad Salameh, featured in leaks | Mon, 10/04/2021 – 12: 00 | Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Mikati is included in the Pandora Papers leaks (AFP) | Some of Lebanon's most powerful political and economic leaders, including Prime Minister Najib…

Prof Michel Chossudovsky (2021-10-04). Video: #Yes, It's a "Killer Vaccine": Michel Chossudovsky. globalresearch.ca The unspoken truth is that the novel coronavirus provides a pretext to powerful financial interests and corrupt politicians to precipitate the entire World into a spiral of mass unemployment, bankruptcy, extreme poverty and despair.

Isheka N. Harrison (2021-10-04). 7 Things To Know About The Wealthy Community Of Buckhead Trying to Separate From Atlanta. moguldom.com The wealthy, predominately white community of Buckhead is trying to secede from the City of Atlanta. Though calls to create a "Buckhead City" are not new, an uptick in crime in Atlanta has given the idea more traction in recent months. Here are seven things to know about the wealthy community of Buckhead trying to …

teleSUR (2021-10-04). Bacteria Can Wipe Out Disease-carrying Mosquitoes: Study. telesurenglish.net In a study published on Tuesday, a team including researchers from the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO) found that bacteria can successfully sterilize the disease-carrying Aedes aegypti mosquito. | RELATED: | Over the course of 20 weeks in 2018, researchers released 3 million male mosquitoes that had been sterilized with the Wolbachia bacteria into three Queensland trial sites. | Female Aedes a…

Brittani Banks (2021-10-04). The Child Tax Credit Is a Proven Boost to American Families—Why Are Conservative Democrats Trying to Stop It? independentmediainstitute.org American families have struggled for decades to make ends meet with wages simply not rising as fast as the cost of living and a government social safety net that has been so deeply decimated that the U.S. now spends less on children than nearly any other wealthy nation. This year there was a small glimmer …

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