(2022-11-30). Major study finds that bacterial infections were the second leading cause of death globally in 2019. wsws.org The study, based on data prior to the outbreak of COVID-19, found a marked disparity between the rate of fatalities due to bacterial infections between relatively wealthy and poor populations.
(2022-11-30). Inequality and Dishonesty Will Kill Democracy. scheerpost.com 
By Jim Mamer / Original to ScheerPost On November 2, 2022, less than a week before the recent national election, President Biden delivered a speech warning against voter intimidation, political violence and threats to democracy. He also added that those who question the results of any election they lose are attempting to "subvert the electoral …
(2022-11-29). Inequality kills. But we can stop the killing.Ôøº. nationofchange.org So argues a gripping new book from an activist physician who's helped divine the keys to long and healthy life.
(2022-11-29). The Two Types Of Death Penalties. popularresistance.org A political prisoner is a person targeted or imprisoned because of their political actions, affiliations and/or beliefs. A political prisoner is also an individual, who while incarcerated, transforms themselves from a social prisoner by gaining clarity, embracing and maintaining political struggle. | Thirty-seven-year-old Kevin "KJ" Johnson is scheduled to be executed by the State of Missouri on November 29th; most would not view him as a "political prisoner." However, given the poverty, neglect, suffering and abuse that comes with being a captive in domestic colonies and urban enclaves within a capitalist and im…
(2022-11-29). Liberating Africa From Poverty Requires Changing Power Relations With the West. orinocotribune.com By Ramzy Baroud Nov 21, 2022 | Soon after arriving in Oslo, my taxi zigzagged through the city's well-organized streets and state-of-the-art infrastructure. Large billboards advertised the world's leading brands in fashion, cars, and perfumes. Amid all the expressions of wealth and plenty, an electronic sign by a bus stop flashed the images of poor looking African children needing help. | Over the years, Norway has served as a relatively good model of meaningful humanitarian and medical aid. This is especially true if compared to other self-serving western countries, where aid is often linked to direct poli…
(2022-11-29). SA jails social media activist for criticizing unemployment. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Nov. 29 (MNA) — The Saudi regime authorities arrested an activist for critical tweets about the House of Saud and unemployment in the kingdom, in yet another sign of the Riyadh regime's aggressive crackdown on dissent on social media.
(2022-11-29). Evangelical Lobbying Threatens Supreme Court's Independence. truthout.org Recent exposés have uncovered an emerging pattern of improper lobbying of right-wing Supreme Court justices by wealthy evangelicals. They reveal serious threats to the independence of the judiciary. But equally alarming is that the Supreme Court is unconstrained by a code of judicial ethics. |
(2022-11-29). Populist Climate Action Requires Thinking About Freedom From Specific Oppressors—Not Just Species Survival. independentmediainstitute.org 
The climate crisis is a form of oppression by a wealthy few. By Carter Dillard, Independent Media Institute 6 min read In September 2022, an international group of climate scientists published a study showing that the world was close to, or in some cases had even surpassed, key tipping points in the climate crisis that …
(2022-11-29). Australians Against COVID holds vigil for 16,000 COVID deaths. wsws.org SEP National Secretary Cheryl Crisp told the vigil that the mass deaths were the result of "conscious, premeditated decisions in the interests of finance, production, profits and the wealth of the tiny elite."
(2022-11-28). 'Tis Always the Season for Billionaire Philanthropy. inequality.org
(2022-11-28). How to Stop Inequality That Kills. commondreams.org A new book rests on a grim reality: Americans have spent recent decades dying at much higher rates than people living in our peer nations.
(2022-11-28). Could China Help Brazil to Overcome Its Economic Crisis? independentmediainstitute.org The election victory of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva as the president of Brazil for a third term on October 30 is expected to revise the relations between Brasília and Beijing. Brazil is going through a serious economic, political, social, and environmental crisis. Fighting poverty, resuming economic growth with income redistribution, reindustrializing the country, and …
(2022-11-28). Big Wallet Crypto Nerds Spending at Miami Nightclubs Hits Brick Wall: 'They were booking tables for $ ,000'. moguldom.com The crypto market has gone from bragging to bombing — and big wallet crypto nerds have ceased their extravagant partying in Miami nightclubs in the process. At least that's what nightlife insiders in the city have said. According to a report by the Financial Times, newly wealthy young traders went from spending millions at the Miami clubs …
(2022-11-28). In First, Barbados Considers Plans To Make Wealthy Plantation Family Pay Reparations. moguldom.com Barbados has long been vocal about its belief that reparations are owed to help atone for the sin of slavery. Now leaders of the Republic are turning their attention to one of the most premier slave-holding families in its history and considering plans to make one of its prominent, wealthy descendant pay reparations if negotiations for …
(2022-11-28). COP27: Loss & Damage Deal, But No Fossil Fuel Phaseout. orinocotribune.com 
By Julia Conley — Nov 21, 2022 | Despite a hard-fought victory on a developing world fund, campaigners said COP-27 failed to call for a phaseout of all fossil fuels. | A decades-long pressure campaign by policymakers and advocates in the global south was credited last Sunday with finally pushing wealthy nations to drop their opposition to a "loss and damage" fund to help developing countries, which face some of the worst climate impacts, to be part of At the 27th United Nati…
(2022-11-28). Rev. Barber Breaks Down Why Democrats Must Engage With Low-Wealth Voters. commondreams.org In future elections, said the co-chair of the Poor People's Campaign, Democrats must "focus clearly and intensely on poor and low-wealth voters who tend to, when they vote, vote progressive if they're targeted."
(2022-11-28). "A Forgotten Conflict": Sahrawi Activists Slam Moroccan Greenwashing Amid Western Sahara Occupation. democracynow.org 
As climate Sahrawi activists in occupied Western Sahara accuse Morocco of greenwashing, the Spanish Film Academy, the Spanish equivalent to the Oscars, has just given its social justice award to the Western Sahara International Film Festival and its film school. We feature our interview at the U.N. climate summit with Mahfud Bechri, who explains how Morocco sells the natural resources and wealth of Western Sahara without the consent of the Sahrawi people as part of an effort to greenwash its military occupation of Western Sahara, and his larger campaign to demand companies end complicity with the occupation. The…