(2021-09-10). Freezing Afghanistan's assets, aid funds could 'throw millions into poverty' & spark 'massive' refugee crisis, UN envoy warns. rt.com 
A UN envoy to Afghanistan has warned of a looming humanitarian crisis in the war-torn nation, saying that cutting aid funds to the Taliban-run government could throw millions into severe poverty and trigger a major refugee crisis. | UN Special Representative for Afghanistan Deborah Lyons issued the dire warning during a
(2021-09-10). How One Little-Known Loophole Fuels Toxic Dynastic Wealth. inequality.org
(2021-09-10). News on China | No. 67. dissidentvoice.org Among the topics in this episode of News on China: how China plans to control housing prices, mushroom cultivation and poverty alleviation, and China seeking the integration of Guangdong and Macao.
(2021-09-09). UK: Planned cut to Universal Credit heralds savage assault on workers' living standards. wsws.org It is the largest welfare spending cut in British history, outstripping the Tories' 1988 slashing of housing benefits and even the 1931 cut to unemployment benefit during the Great Depression.
(2021-09-09). WHO chief calls for worldwide pause on vaccine boosters until 2022, to allow 'every country' to inoculate 40% of population. rt.com 
World Health Organization head Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has pushed for a global halt on Covid vaccine booster shots until next year, arguing the extra doses should go to low-income nations and not to "healthy" vaccinated people. | "I'm calling for an extension of the [booster] moratorium until at least the end of the year, to enable every country to vaccinate at least 40% of its population," Tedros said at a Wednesday briefing. He added that while nearly all wealthier countries had reached the 10% vaccination threshold, and some two-thirds hit the 40% mark, "Not a single low-income country has reached either…
(2021-09-09). The Unlearnt Lessons Of 9/11, Twenty Years Out. popularresistance.org Twenty years after 9/11, America is less safe, a deeply troubled country, ravaged by COVID, racism, inequality, extreme weather from global warming and political strife. Its political leaders have embraced an Orwellian approach to the truth in which war is peace and large segments of our society are polarized by widely divergent concepts of reality. | On the afternoon of 9/11, with the American media joining with the leaders of the two major parties in banging the drum for war, I wrote one of the first statements calling for America to seek peace instead, to not turn our cries of grief into a call for war. Eventu…
(2021-09-09). Look! Up in the Sky! Another Colossal Waste of Our Society's Talents and Skills! inequality.org
(2021-09-09). What United Us Was Empathy: Community Organizations Help Tackle Hunger in Argentina. libya360.wordpress.com Julián Inzaugarat, Ana Dagorret Children's Day in Villa del Parque, Luján, organized by the people's organizations. Photo: Victoria Nordenstahl The pandemic brought with it more inequality and injustice. Grassroots movements responded with solidarity and organization and food for those who were struggling What will the world be like when we emerge from the pandemic? Will we…
(2021-09-09). A New Online Educational Tool on the History of U.S. Wealth Extraction. inequality.org
(2021-09-09). Chinese president presses corporate giants to be philanthropic. wsws.org President Xi's call for "common prosperity"—a term he has increasingly used over the past year—reflects fear in the CCP apparatus of enormous social tensions being generated by inequality.
(2021-09-09). SEP electoral members denounce Australia's anti-democratic electoral laws and urge people to join the campaign. wsws.org "Every measure being enacted now, whether it's so-called controlling of the pandemic or unemployment or housing, is bound up with increasing forms of authoritarianism."
(2021-09-09). Anger Mounts Over Democrats' Refusal to Address Jobless Aid Crisis. zcomm.org Progressive critics warn failure to bolster the unemployment system during the pandemic "is a shocking dereliction of responsibility."
(2021-09-09). Pandemic and disrupted supply chains bring major problems for Australian economy. wsws.org The Commonwealth Bank has forecast that the Australian economy will contract by 4.5 percent in the September quarter and this "massive loss of production will be accompanied by a huge fall in jobs."
(2021-09-09). Gutting the Fiscal Stimulus. globalresearch.ca