(2021-04-07). China Offers To Tutor Planet Following Extreme Poverty Elimination. popularresistance.org Home to nearly one-fifth of the world's population, China's social policies have a dramatic effect on humanity as a whole. Despite a shift toward allowing capitalist markets in the late 1970s, the socialist state has still accounted for nearly three-quarters of global poverty elimination since then. | China's State Council Information Office has published a white paper outlining how the socialist country can teach the rest of the world about how to alleviate poverty. In the last 40 years, China has lifted 770 million people out of poverty, declaring an end to its most extreme forms in November. | Titled "Poverty…
(2021-04-07). $20,000 dollars so far in FRSO fundraising campaign. fightbacknews.org Minneapolis, MN — In just a few weeks, the Freedom Road Socialist Organization (FRSO) Spring Fundraising campaign has netted more than $20,000. FRSO has grown rapidly in this past year and will use the funds to establish a national office. | FRSO members have active in many of the key struggles of working and oppressed peoples during the past year — especially the struggle against police crimes. | Linden Gawboy, an unemployed worker and activist in the fight against police terror in Minnesota is one of those who has contributed their stimulus checks. "This country is at a turning point, and we have to…
(2021-04-07). $20,000 dollars so far in FRSO fundraising campaign. fightbacknews.org Minneapolis, MN — In just a few weeks, the Freedom Road Socialist Organization (FRSO) Spring Fundraising campaign has netted more than $20,000. FRSO has grown rapidly in this past year and will use the funds to establish a national office. | FRSO members have active in many of the key struggles of working and oppressed peoples during the past year — especially the struggle against police crimes. | Linden Gawboy, an unemployed worker and activist in the fight against police terror in Minnesota is one of those who has contributed their stimulus checks. "This country is at a turning point, and we have to…
(2021-04-07). What is exploitation? mronline.org 
The word "exploitation" is special for Marxists because it contains a unique insight about the way wealth is produced in class societies. | April 7, 2021 | Newswire…
(2021-04-07). President Maduro Announced New Economic Measures to Counter COVID-19's Second Wave. orinocotribune.com Tuesday, April 6, President Nicolás Maduro announced new economic measures for the protection of the Venezuelan people in the midst of the fight against COVID-19. From Miraflores Palace, he reported that about 15.1 million cardholders, through the Patria System, will in the coming days receive a special support bonus from the Chavista government to face the pandemic, similar to US stimulus checks. | In this regard, the Head of State also announced the extension, until September, of the prohibition on the collection of credit guarantees, the prohibition on reclassifying credit risk, and the express prohibition of…
(2021-04-07). The UK's Official Report on Racism is a Travesty. counterpunch.org 
Protests over the killing of George Floyd occurred outside the US. In the UK these protests prompted the government to order an official report on racial inequality. The setting-up of the Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities (CRED, a sardonic appellation worthy of George Orwell's 1984) by Boris "BoJo" Johnson was a version of an age-old strategy, namely, appoint a commission of trusties who can then be guaranteed to deliver a whitewash (even though the 10-person commission had only 1 white member).
(2021-04-07). Biden And Yellen Are Pushing A Global Minimum Tax Rate: The EU Is Very Pleased — OpEd. eurasiareview.com 
By Ryan McMaken* | It has long been a dream of central planners and interventionists to set a global, uniform tax rates for all regimes. These globalists know that so long as sovereign states have the ability to freely set their own tax rates, some regimes are tempted to engage in "tax competition" in order to attract capital. When this happens "tax havens" which allows companies and individuals to "shop around" in terms of where to put their productive wealth. | The antidote to this "problem," we are told, is so-called tax harmonization. Under tax harmonization schemes, all governments are forced to impose a…
(2021-04-07). How America's 'Bootstraps' Myth Hurts Farmers — And All of Us. progressive.org When Black farmers received aid from the last stimulus package, it drew the ire of conservatives like Lindsey Graham, who cast them as less deserving than whites.
(2021-04-07). IMF Reports Pandemic Economic Outlook Uncertain. indybay.org Amidst Rising Inequality, Ninety Million Could Fall into Extreme Poverty…
(2021-04-07). Monday 4/12: "The Wealth Hoarders": New Book Talk w/ Author Chuck Collins on Billionare Corruption. indybay.org Online via livestream…
(2021-04-07). Conflicts Compounded By COVID-19 Devastating Socio-Economic Development In Sub-Saharan Africa. eurasiareview.com 
The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed the terrible legacy of deliberately divisive and destructive policies that have perpetuated inequality, discrimination, and oppression across Sub-Saharan Africa, Amnesty International said in its annual report published early April 2021. | Across the Sub-Saharan region, the devastating impact of armed conflict in countries such as Ethiopia, Mozambique, Cameroon, and Nigeria, was compounded by the pandemic as a number of states weaponized it to crack down on human rights. The crackdowns included killings of civilians and arrests of opposition politicians and supporters and huma…
(2021-04-07). The Heat: China's white paper on poverty alleviation. america.cgtn.com 
China releases a new report to share its experience eliminating extreme poverty.
(2021-04-07). Financial Tyranny: Footing The Tax Bill For The Government's Fiscal Insanity — OpEd. eurasiareview.com 
We're not living the American dream. We're living a financial nightmare. | The U.S. government—and that includes the current administration—is spending money it doesn't have on programs it can't afford, and "we the taxpayers" are the ones who will be forced to foot the bill for the government's fiscal insanity. | We've been sold a bill of goods by politicians promising to pay down the national debt, jumpstart the economy, rebuild our infrastructure, secure our borders, ensure our security, and make us all healthy, wealthy and happy. | None of that has come to pass, and yet we've still been loaded d…
(2021-04-06). The Art Of The New Racism — OpEd. eurasiareview.com 
"Certain San Francisco artists may receive $1,000 a month under a new city program, the latest in a series of universal basic income initiatives cropping up in cities across California," writes They must be "San Francisco residents under certain income thresholds who faced economic loss during the pandemic." The recipients can be from "every artistic tradition," b…
(2021-04-06). The War On Drugs Is Driving The Displacement Crisis. popularresistance.org We are torn by images of unaccompanied minors and overcrowded facilities at our southern border, but few in the United States are asking why so many Central American families are so desperate to escape their own countries that they are willing to risk everything — including family separation. | These migrants are not fleeing some Act of God — drought or hurricanes or the like — that could not be anticipated or prevented. Rather, they are fleeing cartel violence and governmental corruption. | As CNN recently noted, "poverty, crime, and corruption in Latin America have long been drivers of migrati…
(2021-04-06). How Police Preserve Inequality in Los Angeles—and Everywhere Else. counterpunch.org 
The 1974 classic Hollywood film "Chinatown" features a scene set on a picturesque lake in Los Angeles where J.J. "Jake" Gittes, played by Jack Nicholson, spies on two characters, Hollis Mulwray and Katherine Cross, snapping photos of them as he leans back in a boat. The iconic location where this and many other Hollywood movie scenes were filmed was near the site of a violent confrontation by hundreds of Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) officers against protesters on March 24. Riot gear-clad law enforcement faced off against protesters and bystanders, including residents of the surrounding neighborhood, legal…
(2021-04-06). IMF Predicts Inequality in LatAm and the Caribbean's Recovery. telesurenglish.net The International Monetary Fund (IMF) released this Tuesday its new Global Economic Outlook (WEO) report, in which it predicts growth, although uneven and slight, of the Latin American economy. | RELATED: | "After a sharp downturn in 2020, only a mild and multi-speed recovery is expected in Latin America and the Caribbean in 2021," is the IMF forecast, according to which the region will grow at an average rate of 4.6 percen…
(2021-04-06). Torrential rain and flash floods kill seven people in Nashville and middle Tennessee. wsws.org The flood revealed the growing class divisions and income inequality in the "It" city, as Nashville has come to be known, as a result of its rapid growth and the increasing presence of major corporations.
(2021-04-06). How China Has Lifted Nearly 800 Mln People Out of Poverty. telesurenglish.net Under the leadership of the Communist Party of China (CPC), the world's largest developing country has achieved a complete eradication of extreme poverty, raising more than 770 million poor people from poverty since its reform and opening up in late 1970s. | RELATED: | According to the World Bank standard, the figure accounted for more than 70 percent of the global total over the same period, said a white paper released Tuesday by the State Council Inf…
(2021-04-06). Amnesty International's Annual Global Human Rights Report Details Harm—and Heroism—Amid Pandemic. commondreams.org "Covid-19 has brutally exposed and deepened inequality both within and between countries, and highlighted the staggering disregard our leaders have for our shared humanity." | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/headline/thumbs/pfizer_2.jpg …
(2021-04-06). Yemen: Fishermen find valuable 'whale vomit' and become rich overnight. middleeasteye.net 
Yemen: Fishermen find valuable 'whale vomit' and become rich overnight | Thanks to a displaced fisherman from Hodeidah, a huge chunk of precious ambergris was found in a sperm whale, bringing wealth to a whole village | Tue, 04/06/2021 – 08: 55 | Yemeni fisherman and the 120kg piece of ambergris they found in a sperm whale (social media) | Life as a fisherman in Yemen has become near-im…