Daily Archives: December 10, 2022

2022-12-10: News Headlines

John Bachtell (2022-12-08). Elon Musk is turning Twitter into a fascist free-for-all. peoplesworld.org Has a billionaire ever ruined an investment and public good faster than Elon Musk is destroying Twitter? Aside from speculation about why the world's wealthiest capitalist bought Twitter for $44 billion, one thing is clear: The platform is going down the sewer quickly, and many wonder whether it will survive. Since Oct. 27, Musk has …

SAM (2022-12-08). An Invulnerable Financial Fortress on the Sand? inequality.org

_____ (2022-12-08). Robbing The Global South, Then Scorning Its Poverty. strategic-culture.org Michael Parenti has said that "Poor countries are not 'under-developed', they are over-exploited." The west tends to look down on the rest of the world for reasons that either directly or indirectly relate to the poverty in those nations, which is silly because that poverty comes largely from western theft and exploitation. It's like mugging someone and then scorning them for their empty wallet.

Hina Naveed (2022-12-08). The Child Welfare System Needs an Overhaul. aclu.org This article was When I graduated from nursing school five years ago, I worked for an agency in New York City's foster care system. I believed I was helping families. But what I saw there was not a system working for children's best interests, but one that was quick to separate children from their parents because they were living in poverty. | I've since gone to law school and now work as a human rights advocate. For the past year, as a fellow with Human Rights Watch and…

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