2022-10-15: News Headlines

Anonymous103 (2022-10-15). The All-Encompassingness of the U.S. Government's Secret Global Police-State. southfront.org | Written by The U.S. Government is controlled by its Deep State, America's billionaires, whom their Government has been assisting, ever since 25 July 1945, to extract the world's wealth by control of not only their 'news' media but the social 'sciences' — duping the public. They have thus been gradually taking control over, and replacing, international law that comes…

Colin Todhunter (2022-10-15). An Engineered Food and Poverty Crisis to Secure Continued U.S. Dominance. globalresearch.ca The issue is not food shortage but speculation on food commodities and the manipulation of an inherently flawed global food system that serves the interests of corporate agribusiness traders and suppliers of inputs at the expense of people's needs and genuine food security.

Sarah Lazare (2022-10-15). Joe Manchin Says He's Pro-Job Creation, But He's Lobbying the Fed to Increase Unemployment. zcomm.org Manchin has justified fossil fuel extraction because it "creates jobs." He's also pushing a policy that would cut them…

WSWS (2022-10-15). Floods, hunger, disease and IMF austerity devastate Pakistan's workers and poor. wsws.org The poverty-stricken flood victims face an explosion of disease and hunger which the ruling elite in Islamabad and the major imperialist powers are doing virtually nothing to combat.

Sanket Jain (2022-10-14). 'I Don't Want to Live Anymore': Suicides Rise 17% Since India's Lockdown Began. towardfreedom.org Within the first month of India's nationwide lockdown starting March 2020, 122 million people lost their jobs. Daily-wage laborers and small traders comprised roughly 75 percent. A report found that a year of the lockdown pushed 230 million Indians into poverty. By the end of 2020, 15 million workers were still out of jobs. Sanket Jain reports on the recently rising suicide rates in India.

WSWS (2022-10-14). Washington D.C. protest honors memory of Amazon COVID tester Poushawn Brown. wsws.org Thursday's protest took place amid a growing movement of Amazon workers against poverty wages and unsafe working conditions.

Editor (2022-10-14). The Scandal of Congressional Stock Trading. scheerpost.com Photograph Source: Steve Jurvetson — By Eve Ottenberg / Multimillionaires pack the halls of congress. That's because the only people who can afford congressional campaigns are rich. But what you might not know is that once these very wealthy individuals arrive in Washington, they use their committee assignments, and often the insider info those assignments provide, to make even more money — trading stocks. | On Septem…

Jeffgang (2022-10-13). Take Action: Charitable Giving Must Go to Charities. inequality.org

SAM (2022-10-13). What Threatens Florida More, Hurricanes or the Rich? inequality.org

WSWS (2022-10-13). The COVID disaster and the political crisis of Australian capitalism. wsws.org "The criminal 'let it rip' pandemic policies of governments—invariably enforced by the labour and trade union bureaucracies—have exposed the brutality of capitalism, and its readiness to sacrifice lives for corporate profit and private wealth accumulation."

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