Daily Archives: October 12, 2021

2021-10-12: News Headlines

Shawgi Tell (2021-10-12). No Substantive Economic Recovery In Sight. dissidentvoice.org One of the fundamental economic laws under capitalism is for wealth to become more concentrated in fewer hands over time, which in turn leads to more political power in fewer hands, which means that the majority have even less political and economic power over time. Monopoly in economics means monopoly in politics. It is the …

WSWS (2021-10-12). Harvard University student workers overwhelmingly authorize strike. wsws.org About 92 percent of student workers voted in favor of a strike at Harvard, the oldest and wealthiest university in the US.

Julia Conley (2021-10-12). Omar Demands Release of Memo Detailing Biden's Authority to Cancel Student Debt. zcomm.org "With a single signature," the lawmaker and her colleagues wrote, "you can improve the economy, create new jobs, transform the lives of 45 million Americans, narrow the racial wealth gap, and maintain the trust of voters."

Ann Brown (2021-10-11). Report: Police and DEA Teamed Up For 'Covert Surveillance' Of George Floyd Protests In 50 Cities. moguldom.com The protests that materialized nationwide following the May 2020 police killing of George Floyd were not only attended by people demonstrating against police brutality and racial inequality and also by undercover Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) agents. Following the murder of Floyd by Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin on May 25, 2020, thousands of people took …

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2021-10-11). Women Hold Up Half the Sky: How China Eradicated Extreme Poverty. libya360.wordpress.com Tings Chak Tongren, Guizhou, China, 2021. Photo: Tricontinental. Artist and researcher Tings Chak writes for Capire on grassroots organizing and policies to fight poverty in China. Grandmother He was born three years after the Chinese Revolution, into a poor village in the southwestern province of Guizhou. At the time, China was the world's 11th poorest…

Tom Morello (2021-10-11). 'We came within a baby's breath of a fascist coup in the US'. zcomm.org Poverty and hunger kill more people than anything else on the planet and they are human-made problems. Those are the things that we need to be digging into, rather than being sidetracked by this carnival barker bullshit…

Nikolaus Gietinger, Justus Cider (2021-10-11). Capitalist dilemmas and The Greed for More. indybay.org The overexploitation of nature did not remain without resistance. However, these were ignored by both the left and the right due to the hopelessness of the capitalist form of wealth. The "requirements of shipping and agriculture" destroy original functions of the floodplain landscapes. "And if solutions within the system are so impossible to find, maybe we should change the system itself," said Greta Thurnberg…

Anonymous103 (2021-10-11). Billions In Offshore Bank Accounts. Saving For A Very Rainy Day. southfront.org Illustrative Image | Written by Eric Margolis, originally published on The really wealthy, vexed by tax collectors, pesky relatives, ex-wives and just plain thieves, long ago learned the wisdom of hiding their money and property. This is twice true for politicians. | An investigation by an international consortium of journalists just examined a massive leak of 11.9 million records of offshore financial firms that have been evading taxes and financial disclosure for their many clients. The r…

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