(2022-11-21). Swifties, Welcome to the Anti-Monopoly Movement. inequality.org
(2022-11-21). Updates: Billionaire Wealth, U.S. Job Losses and Pandemic Profiteers. inequality.org
(2022-11-21). Liberating Africa from Poverty Requires Changing Power Relations with the West. mintpressnews.com The elevated political discourse emanating from African leaders and intellectuals gives one hope that the supposedly 'poor' continent is plotting an escape from the grip of western domination.
(2022-11-20). Capitalism Has Ended the Issue of Scarcity But Worsened the Crisis of Inequality. truthout.org Capitalism has been around for such a long time that it is hard for people even to imagine a world without it. Yet, it is far from an immutable physical law. In fact, capitalism is now "materially outmoded and ideologically defunct," argues British author Steve Paxton in his forthcoming book, How Capitalism Ends (Zero Books, 2022). "The capitalist era has provided the material abundance required for a free human society, but capitalism cannot deliver the freedom its productive capacity makes possible." In the interview that follows, Paxton shares his thoughts on the contours, contradictions and twilight of capita…
(2022-11-20). Lebanon faces first cholera outbreak in decades. wsws.org Cholera has erupted in a once relatively affluent country due to the desperate poverty created by decades of imperialist wars, Washington's proxy war for regime change in neighbouring Syria, global "let it rip" pandemic policies, the economic impact of the US/NATO war on Russia, and profiteering by the world's pharmaceutical industry.
(2022-11-20). 53rd National Day Of Mourning Indigenous Pride, Power And Protest. popularresistance.org What are the United States' foundational myths? Who created them, and who do they erase and harm? For the past 52 years, United American Indians of New England (UAINE) and supporters have gathered on so-called Thanksgiving Day in Plymouth, Massachusetts, to ask these questions, confront settler mythologies and commemorate a National Day of Mourning for the Indigenous people murdered by settler colonialism and imperialism worldwide. | The National Day of Mourning protest was founded by Wamsutta Frank James, an Aquinnah Wampanoag tribal member. In 1970, Wamsutta had been invited by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts…
(2022-11-20). Global South Campaigners Secure Loss and Damage Fund in COP27 Deal. truthout.org 
A decades-long pressure campaign by policymakers and advocates in the Global South was credited Sunday with pushing wealthy nations to finally drop their opposition to a "loss and damage" fund to help developing countries that face some of the worst climate impacts, allowing the financing plan to be included in At the 27th United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP27), negotiators from nearly 200 countries finalized a deal which calls for the creation of a committee to determine…