cameron orr (2024-01-29). Forward together: For pre-convention discussion. cpusa.org Editor's note: The CPUSA National Committee adopted the document below at its January 27th meeting to frame its preconvention discussion. It's the first of three, the second of which will be on the role of the party. The third will be on the international situation. | The U.S. is in the midst of a deep systemic crisis, perhaps the most severe since the Civil War and the Great Depression. It is a political, economic, social, cultural and ideological crisis of the capitalist system. Confidence in government is at an all-time low, while working-class anger at mounting inequality is at an all-time high. Gaza, Ukra…

Margaret Flowers, Clearing the FOG. (2024-01-30). Neoliberalism Plunges Ecuador Into A State Of Crisis; US Escalates Militarism. popularresistance.org On January 7, Adolfo Macias, known as "Fito", a leader of an Ecuadorian drug cartel, escaped from prison, which sparked uprisings across the country. In response, President Daniel Noboa declared a national state of emergency and decreed that the country is in a state of internal conflict, listing 20 gangs as terrorist groups. Clearing the FOG spoke with Alex Main of the Center for Economic Policy and Research about the conditions that have led to growing poverty, insecurity and violence in Ecuador. Main explains how the United States is exploiting the current situation to justify sending US weapons and military p…

Adam Fishbein (2024-01-29). January Jobs Preview: What to Expect in the January Jobs Report. cepr.net Barring an unexpected jump, January will be the 24th consecutive month of below 4.0 percent unemployment. The economy is closing in the record of 26 consecutive months, set between November of 1967 and January of 1970. There is little reason to expect unemployment to change much from the 3.7 percent rate of the last two …

Rick Baum (2024-01-30). Wealth of Musk Compared to the Income of Shohei Ohtani and a Tesla Assembly Line Worker. counterpunch.org Many people do not like reading articles containing numbers. Doing so is necessary to be able to grasp the extent of the wealth of the world's wealthiest individual, Elon Musk. Comparing Musk's wealth with the future income of baseball player Shohei Ohtani and that of a newly hired assembly line worker at the Tesla Fremont,

_____ (2024-01-29). How Wealthy Corporations Use Investment Agreements to Extract Millions from Developing Countries. transcend.org 14 Jan 2024 – A case in point: When Ecuador placed a windfall tax on foreign oil operations, French and U.S. companies filed claims—and were awarded more than $800 million.

_____ (2024-01-29). Nonviolent Strategy to Halt the Genocide in Gaza, Liberate Palestine and Defeat the Global Technocracy. transcend.org 24 Jan 2024 – In accordance with its long-planned, detailed and comprehensive blueprint labeled 'The Great Reset', the Global Elite is currently implementing its program to reshape world order, kill off a substantial proportion of the human population, enclose the Commons 'forever', transfer all remaining wealth to the Elite and enslave those left alive in one of their technocratic 'smart city' prisons.

albawaba (2024-01-29). Dubai housing prices could crash down. albawaba.com ALBAWABA — Dubai has seen a big surge in real estate sales, especially after the COVID Pandemic, with 2023 seeing a boost in property sales compared to 2022, especially from Russian buyers who took to Dubai in hopes to protect their assets after the Russia-Ukraine war started early 2022 according to The Media Line, later followed by a trend of Chinese buyers, seeing UAE's market as a target for wealthy customers, according to property agency Knight Frank, which added expectations for the city to become a major hub comparable to New York City, London and Singapore.However, a report by Reuters sheds light on…

albawaba (2024-01-29). Bernard Arnault Overtakes Elon Musk to become the world's richest person! albawaba.com ALBAWABA – French billionaire Bernard Arnault, Chairman and CEO of the global luxury goods conglomerate LVMH (Louis Vuitton Moet Hennessy), which includes brands like Louis Vuitton, has surpassed Elon Musk, the CEO of the American electric car company Tesla, to become the world's richest person.Arnault's net worth and family wealth increased to $207.8 billion after a $23.6 billion rise on Friday, according to Forbes magazine, as reported by the Indian site "Live Mint."In contrast, the net worth of Tesla's CEO reached $204.5 billion, while the market value of LVMH reached $388.8 billion on Friday, compared to Tesl…

Rosalind English (2024-01-30). Sanctions can be imposed on British subject. ukhumanrightsblog.com Philips v Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs [2024] EWHC 32 (Admin) This application for judicial review raised an interesting and novel question. Could a private individual, a British citizen, be designated under the Sanctions and Anti-Money Laundering Act 2018? The claimant, a British journalist, had reporting on the Donbas region of …

Jeffrey St. Clair (2024-01-26). Roaming Charges: The Impotent Empire. counterpunch.org The problem with American politics isn't that it's polarized (we need more polarization over inequality, over war, over climate), but that it's polarized around two of the most inept and ridiculous figures in American history. The only two people Americans can apparently think of to run their dying Empire have both lost their frigging marbles, if they ever had any, which is a sure sign that your Empire is in fact dying.