(2021-09-17). Why Do Europeans Live Longer Than Americans? inequality.org
(2021-09-17). Mexico Got Rid of a Prominent Columbus Statue. Neo-Colonial Economic Policies Should Fall Next. inequality.org
(2021-09-17). National Philanthropic (Mis)Trust. inequality.org
(2021-09-17). Afghan refugee crisis poised to explode. asiatimes.com 
PESHAWAR- None of Afghanistan's neighbors is prepared to take in Afghan refugees and internally displaced persons despite the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) warning that 97% of Afghanistan's population is at risk of poverty and starvation. The UN agency cautions that Afghanistan is inching towards a total collapse given "frozen foreign reserves, collapsing public finances, …
(2021-09-17). 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.
(2021-09-17). South Yemen Separatists Declare Emergency, Trying to Handle Protests. news.antiwar.com Protests in southern Yemen continue to grow this week as economic collapse fuels unemployment and widespread shortages. The Southern Transitional Council (STC), a separatist group, Years of war has taken the Middle East's poorest country and made things even worse, while a Saudi blockade has kept basic goods, including food, in desperately short supply. This has many protesters complaining that the Hadi government is a failure. | The STC…
(2021-09-17). Saving $3.5 Trillion on Prescription Drugs to Pay for Bernie Sanders's Big Agenda. counterpunch.org According to a draft document being circulated, the Democrats are looking to save $600 billion over a decade by negotiating lower prescription drug prices. The basic story here is that the United States pays more than twice as much, on average, for prescription drugs than Germany, France, Canada, and other wealthy countries. If we paid
(2021-09-17). As Democrats shield wealth of billionaires, Biden pleads with super-rich to pay their "fair share" wsws.org More significant than the minor tax increases on the wealthy that are contained in the House bill is what is omitted.
(2021-09-17). Headlines for September 17, 2021. democracynow.org U.S. Resumes Deportation Flights to Haiti as 10,000 Haitian Asylum Seekers Cross Rio Grande, Haitian Prime Minister, Accused of Aiding President's Murder, Sacks Justice Minister, Federal Judge Bars Biden Administration's Use of Trump-Era Rule to Fast-Track Deportations, U.N. Warns Time Is Rapidly Running Out to Limit Global Heating to 1.5 Degrees Celsius, U.S. Reports 3,400 COVID Deaths in One Day; One-Quarter of ICU Beds Are At or Near Capacity, France, China Blast U.S.-U.K.-Australia Nuclear Partnership, Biden Calls for Corporations and Super Wealthy to Pay Fair Share of Taxes, Police Put Fence Around Capitol A…
(2021-09-16). What the Expanded Child Tax Credit Means to Me. inequality.org
(2021-09-16). Biden Admin. Sued for Letting Big Oil Harass 'Imperiled' Polar Bears. commondreams.org Such an expansion would "dramatically reduce childhood poverty in the United States," they said.
(2021-09-16). Black and Asian American Workers Falling Behind in Getting Back Jobs. cepr.net This article investigates how demographic groups are transitioning from unemployment into employment and how that compares to their historical relationship between job openings and transitions.
(2021-09-16). The Land of the Free, Where So Many of the Brave Are Homeless. tomdispatch.com Over the past weeks, multiple crises have merged: a crisis of democracy with the most significant attack on voting rights since Reconstruction; a climate crisis with lives and livelihoods upended in the Gulf Coast and the Northeast by extreme weather events and in the West by a stunning fire season; and an economic crisis in which millions are being cut off from Pandemic Unemployment Insurance, even as August job gains proved underwhelming. There's also a crisis taking place in state legislatures with an ongoing attack on women's autonomy over our own bodies. The Supreme Court let a law go into effect that makes…
(2021-09-16). Cutoff of federal jobless aid in the US leaves millions of workers scrambling to make ends meet. wsws.org The ending of federal unemployment programs and eviction moratoriums with the support of both Republican and Democratic officials has left millions of workers in the US desperate as they rush to figure out how they will provide for themselves and their families.
(2021-09-16). As wealthy nations debate giving booster vaccine shots, calls grow for global vaccine equity. nationofchange.org "This is an emergency that affects all of us because variants are coming from areas where there are large numbers of unvaccinated people."
(2021-09-16). Fraud vs reality—Canada's New Democrats and the 2021 federal election. wsws.org After two years of propping up Justin Trudeau's big business minority Liberal government, the NDP is attempting to market itself as an implacable opponent of the super-rich and ally of workers fighting for the wealthy to pay their "fair share."