(2022-01-12). Virginia legal aid groups drop lawsuit against unemployment agency despite massive backlog of unresolved claims. wsws.org The dropping of the lawsuit comes as the Democratic Party statewide and nationally seeks to accustom the population to an unending pandemic in which nearly 900,000 Americans have lost their lives and over 500,000 people contract COVID-19 daily.
(2022-01-11). As Calm Returns to Kazakhstan, Tokayev Admits Social Ailments. telesurenglish.net The president of Kazakhstan, Kasym-Zhomart Tokayev, said today that social inequality in the country is exacerbated and worsens every year, while the availability of measures to support society generates doubts. | RELATED: | In a speech in the Mazhilis (Lower House of the Kazakh Parliament), the president said that this problem is occurring despite the fact that the average income of the population seems to be growing, at…
(2022-01-11). No Letup In Economic And Social Decline. dissidentvoice.org 
Economic and social conditions have been worsening for decades at home and abroad, especially in the context of the neoliberal antisocial offensive which was launched more than 40 years ago by the international financial oligarchy. But they have been getting even worse in recent years and over the past two years in particular. Inequality, poverty, …
(2022-01-11). Pope should know poverty, not pets, keeps people from having kids under capitalism. peoplesworld.org 
As a pet companion, who often feels like I occupy my cat's apartment and not my own, I was disappointed at the Pope's recent scolding of couples opting for pets over having children or having only one child. It was a missed opportunity the Pope did not seize. "Today…we see a form of selfishness," Pope …
(2022-01-11). Lee Camp: We Know the Silver Bullet to Ending Poverty and Destitution But Choose Not to Use It. scheerpost.com 
[ By Lee Camp / Original to ScheerPost | Here's how the world should operate in simple terms: A certain country or region or city or township or Hobbit hole tries something in order to help their society or group or hovel — if it works, other places then do it. If it doesn't work, other places don't do it. It's like when you were a kid and you saw your brother slide down the banister and rack himself on the newel post — You then thought, "Maybe that activity is not for me." But if he didn't nail himself in the…
(2022-01-11). Republicans Only Extend Unemployment When It Protects Anti-Vaxxers. truthout.org 
U.S. politics these days is all too often an Alice-through-the-looking-glass absurdity. | Over the last few weeks, at least
(2022-01-11). Tennis Player Novak Djokovic Versus the Australian Commonwealth. asia-pacificresearch.com
(2022-01-11). Knighthood won't rehabilitate blood-soaked Blair. greenleft.org.au Former British prime minister Tony Blair should be on trial at The Hague rather than parading the medieval trappings of wealth and power, argues Lindsey German.
(2022-01-11). Djovokic versus the Australian Commonwealth. greenleft.org.au Binoy Kampmark writes that the federal government has done its bit to conjure up a monster of its own making and that the Novak Djokovic episode of pandemic bureaucracy ranks high among its inglorious achievements.
(2022-01-11). Djokovic versus the Australian Commonwealth. dissidentvoice.org January 10, 2022 will be remembered as one of the odder days in the annals of sport. For one, it had little to do with physical exertion. Tennis proved secondary to the claims of one Novak Djokovic, currently the world's number one ranked player. Instead of finding himself training on court in preparation for the …