Daily Archives: October 16, 2021

2021-10-16: News Headlines

Subodh Varma (2021-10-16). In just one year, Indians are paying almost 50% more for cooking gas. peoplesdispatch.org Meanwhile, prices for petrol and diesel have risen by 26% and 31% across the four metros. These hikes are due to the Narendra Modi government's relentless increasing of the excise duty on petroleum products…

WSWS (2021-10-16). Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and New Zealand. wsws.org India: Ola and Uber drivers demonstrate in Tamil Nadu; Thai garment workers demand unpaid wages; Australia: Light rail drivers impose bans in Sydney…

Brenda Norrell (2021-10-16). BIA Occupation in Washington: Native People Under Arrest Demanding Justice. indybay.org Native People occupying the Bureau of Indian Affairs are now being arrested, during Day 4 of People vs. Fossil Fuels. Follow Censored News for this breaking news story.

Amah Mutsun Land Trust & UCSC (2021-10-16). Saturday 11/6: Settler Colonialism is a Sickness: How Federal Indian Health Failed Native Women. indybay.org Online via Zoom…

Simar Singh Bajaj, Lucy Tu, Fatima Cody Stanford (2021-10-16). [Perspectives] Superhuman, but never enough: Black women in medicine. thelancet.com Historically, Black women have long been disregarded in the USA. The Three-Fifths Compromise of the US Constitution discounted Black women as only "part" of a human being, to be counted for congressional representation and direct taxation but nothing more. Even in prominent social justice movements, Black women have been excluded. Racism and elitism were embedded within the 19th-century and early 20th-century US women's suffrage movement, which prioritised white women over voting rights for all women.

The Lancet (2021-10-16). [Editorial] Malaria vaccine approval: a step change for global health. thelancet.com On Oct 6, WHO announced that it will be recommending widespread use of the RTS,S/AS01 (RTS,S) malaria vaccine for children in sub-Saharan Africa and in other regions with moderate-to-high Plasmodium falciparum transmission. Malaria has ravaged people's lives for centuries; today the burden falls disproportionately on children in tropical regions. 229 million cases were recorded in 2019, and 409‚Äà000 people lost their lives, two-thirds of whom were younger than 5 years and living in sub-Saharan Africa.

sputniknews (2021-10-16). Another Day, Another Blunder: Psaki to 'Choose Words More Carefully' After Ethics Watchdog Complaint. sputniknews.com Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW), an ethics watchdog, slammed Jen Psaki's comments from the White House podium as appearing to violate the Hatch Act, which forbids officials from using their "official authority or influence for the purpose of interfering with or affecting the result of an election".

WSWS (2021-10-16). UK-European Union conflict over Northern Ireland Protocol amid spiralling national tensions. wsws.org Preparations are already being made in Europe for a trade war should Britain reject the EU's proposals and trigger Article 16.

WSWS (2021-10-16). Online meeting: No retreat from elimination! Mobilise the New Zealand and international working class to defeat COVID-19. wsws.org The Socialist Equality Group is holding an online public meeting on Saturday, October 23, at 4: 30 p.m. (NZ time) to discuss the urgent need for working people to organise a fight for a scientific strategy to eliminate COVID-19 nationally, and eradicate the deadly virus globally.

WSWS (2021-10-16). International Youth and Students for Social Equality demands the immediate reinstatement of Bright Sheng. wsws.org The IYSSE calls on the university administration to retract the slanders against Professor Sheng and immediately invite him to return to the classroom from which the distinguished artist should have never been removed.

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2021-10-16). Mayo Clinic Q&A podcast: Next steps, new leader for Mayo Clinic Cancer Center. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org Dr. Cheryl Willman was named executive director of Mayo Clinic Cancer Programs, and director of the Mayo Clinic Cancer Center in May. In this role, Dr. Willman is leading the expansion and strategic development of Mayo Clinic Cancer Center locations in Arizona, Florida and Minnesota, as well as newly developing Mayo Clinic global cancer programs in London and Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. Mayo Clinic Cancer Center is designated by the National Cancer Institute (NCI) as…

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2021-10-16). Blood donors urgently needed in Rochester. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org The Mayo Clinic Blood Donor Center in Rochester, Minnesota, urgently needs donations of Type O-positive and Type O-negative blood. "We are continuing to suffer a national blood shortage. As a result, blood products are still difficult to bring in from external sources to supplement our local collection capabilities," says Camille van Buskirk, M.D., medical director of the Mayo Clinic Blood Donor Program. "Despite these dire blood product shortages, the constant need for blood products for our patients…

Julia Conley (2021-10-16). 'Striketober' in Full Swing as Nearly 100,000 Workers Authorize Work Stoppages. zcomm.org "You might say workers have declared a national general strike until they get better pay and improved working conditions"

WSWS (2021-10-16). Widespread global participation in second school strike against COVID threat to children. wsws.org The strike received massive support globally, with the central hashtag for the event, #SchoolStrike2021, tweeted nearly 7,500 times and videos submitted from Britain, the US, Canada, Brazil, Germany, France, Poland, Turkey, Sri Lanka, Australia and New Zealand.

Martha Grevatt (2021-10-15). UAW members step up struggle against business unionism. workers.org Over 20 rank-and-file autoworkers spoke on a webcast Oct. 7, challenging the corruption, lack of union democracy and the "partnership" with corporations perpetuated for decades by the International Executive Board of the United Auto Workers. The multinational, multigendered and multigenerational group of unionists advocated for direct elections of International officers . . . |

A Guest Author (2021-10-15). Pandora Papers confirm that Latin America's veins are still wide open. workers.org By Alejandra Garcia from Havana Note: The following lightly edited article first appeared in Resumen Latinoamericano — English, Oct. 7. In 1971, Uruguayan political scientist and author Eduardo Galeano read the pulse of Latin American reality well with his gem of a phrase: "The world is divided above all between . . . |

Vijay Prashad (2021-10-15). Women Hold Up More Than Half the Sky. dissidentvoice.org Junaina Muhammed (India) / Young Socialist Artists, A woman working in the korai fields, where women often work from a young age to earn a living. Reminder: Indian peasants and agricultural workers remain in the midst of a country-wide agitation sparked by the proposal of three farm bills that were then signed into law by …

Vijay Prashad (2021-10-15). Women hold up more than half the sky: The Forty-First Newsletter (2021). mronline.org Indian peasants and agricultural workers remain in the midst of a country-wide agitation sparked by the proposal of three farm bills that were then signed into law by the right-wing Bharatiya Janata Party government in September 2020.

Staff (2021-10-15). Over 530 Arrested in Historic Indigenous-Led Climate Protests in DC. truthout.org Image Credit: People vs. Fossil Fuels | This week over 530 climate activists were arrested during Indigenous-led civil disobedience actions in Washington, D.C., calling on President Joe Biden to declare a climate emergency and stop approving fossil fuel projects. Indigenous leaders have issued a series of demands, including the abolition of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, whose offices they occupied on Thursday for the first time since the 1970s. The protests come just weeks before the start of the critica…

Staff (2021-10-15). "People vs. Fossil Fuels": Over 530 Arrested in Historic Indigenous-Led Climate Protests in D.C. democracynow.org This week over 530 climate activists were arrested during Indigenous-led civil disobedience actions in Washington, D.C., calling on President Joe Biden to declare a climate emergency and stop approving fossil fuel projects. Indigenous leaders have issued a series of demands, including the abolition of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, whose offices they occupied on Thursday for the first time since the 1970s. The protests come just weeks before the start of the critical U.N. climate summit in Glasgow, Scotland, which President Biden and senior Cabinet members are expected to attend. "We're not going anywhere," says S…

_____ (2021-10-15). Indigenous Demonstrators Make Statement At Interior. popularresistance.org Washington – Dozens of Indigenous leaders held a sit-in Thursday at the Interior Department in Washington, D.C., in an effort to stop the extractive fossil fuel industries. | Jennifer Falcon, Nakoda, Lakota and Dakota, with Indigenous Rising Media, was inside and said before Thursday's sit-in at the Bureau of Indian Affairs that they warned President Joe Biden to "respect us or expect us" and he didn't listen. | "So we're going to keep showing up until we die," Falcon said. | There's been a historic surge in Indigenous resistance in Washington since Indigenous Peoples' Day on Monday, where "expect us" was written…

K. Ravi Raman (2021-10-15). The Opposition "Emocracy" Exposed: Kerala's Landmark Left Victory. mronline.org The landslide victory of the Left Democratic Front (LDF) in the Indian state of Kerala in April 2021 is a historic achievement.

Vishal P. Singh (2021-10-15). 'Latinos 4 Trump' is Promoting a Proud Boy Rally Led by Violent Holocaust Supporter. itsgoingdown.org Vishal P. Singh reports on far-Right rally being promoted by Latinos 4 Trump and headlined by Proud Boy brawler, "Tiny" Toese. by Vishal P. Singh Support on Venmo at: $vishalsinghfilms photo: @chip_nooo Gunfire, explosions, and bear mace bursts shook Portland in August after far-Right groups invaded the city and clashed with anti-fascist activists. The Proud…

Sara Flounders (2021-10-15). Cape Verde, nearing designation as human rights abuser, criticized heavily by UN. workers.org The following is a statement from the International Action Center. The United Nations has put Cape Verde on notice: the torture, arbitrary detention and violations inflicted on Venezuelan diplomat Alex Saab must stop, and the government has been asked to explain itself. Free Alex Saab benefit concert, Caracas, Venezuela, Feb. . . . |

G. Dunkel (2021-10-15). U.S. rejects Haitians fleeing utter misery. workers.org There are two streams of Haitian refugees fleeing the utter devastation of their country, inflamed by the feckless, decades-long U.S. domination of their economy and politics and more recently the devastating magnitude 7.2 earthquake that struck Aug. 14. One by land comes from the over 200,000 Haitians who had been . . . |

A Guest Author (2021-10-15). Free Alex Saab delegation attends meeting of African Bar Association. workers.org By John Philpot and Roger D. Harris, Free Alex Saab Committee An international Free Alex Saab delegation attended the annual meeting of the African Bar Association in Niamey, Niger, on Oct. 3-7. Venezuelan diplomat Alex Saab, who has been under arrest in Cabo Verde since June 2020 by orders of . . . |

Editor (2021-10-15). How capitalism shackles the fight against climate change. mronline.org Journalists from the U.S. and Europe have warned that the summer of 2021 should be a wakeup call on climate catastrophe. Rightfully so.

a guest author (2021-10-15). Venezuela: U.S. ignorance of reality can't justify farce. workers.org By Sergio Rodriguez Gelfenstein Sent to Workers World by the author, a Venezuela analyst and writer. Translated by Michael Otto The erroneous views on Venezuela of those who observe the country through lenses reinforcing stereotypes have often led governments and international organizations to make decisions following opinions that have already . . . |

Martha Grevatt, Monica Moorehead (2021-10-15). Netflix: STOP promoting transphobia! workers.org Oct. 15 — Dave Chappelle has been rightfully criticized for transphobic, homophobic and misogynist comments made on his stand-up comedy special, The Closer, which aired Oct. 5. Netflix, which produced the show, has also come under fire for refusing to stop airing the show. Trans and queer people who work . . . |

Latino Rebels (2021-10-15). Haitian Advocacy Groups Call on Biden to End 'Cruel Asylum Policies'. latinorebels.com On Thursday, groups advocating for better treatment of Haitian asylum seekers published a full-page ad in the Washington, D.C. edition of the New York Times, calling on Pres. Joe Biden to end Title 42 and the continued expulsion of Haitian migrants.

Moderator (2021-10-15). Judith Ehrlich on the Brave Boys Who Helped End the Vietnam War. scheerpost.com Documentary filmmaker Judith Ehrlich. [Anders Krusberg/Peabody Awards] | Click to subscribe on: Decades after the end of the Vietnam War, the impact on both Vietnam and the United States is still felt. Yet few Americans are aware that the conflict, which killed several million people, ended in large part thanks to the anti-war movement made up of, among others, 57…

Editor (2021-10-15). Commemorate Indigenous Peoples Day/Support Workers World. workers.org Boston Mayor Kim Janey proclaimed Oct. 6 that the second Monday of October every year would be Indigenous Peoples Day. The document says this commemoration will be "'in lieu of' Columbus Day . . . and renounces the racist and colonial history of Boston and its impact on Indigenous peoples." . . . |

Kathy Durkin (2021-10-15). No abortion bans/'We won't go back!'. workers.org The right to access safe, legal abortions is under attack across the U.S., especially in the South and Midwest. It had been considered settled law since the Supreme Court of the United States legalized access to abortions in the landmark 1973 ruling in Roe v Wade. Bans Off Our Bodies . . . |

C.P. Chandrasekhar (2021-10-15). How emerging markets hurt poor countries. mronline.org Financial globalization was supposed to spur development. Instead, it transfers money to the global North and exacerbates existing inequalities.

a guest author (2021-10-15). National Week of Action in Support of Black Migrants. workers.org The following lightly edited statement was issued by Black Alliance for Just Immigration, Color of Change and other Black-led groups around the country. Oct. 11 is Day 1 of the National Week of Action in Support of Black Migrants led by Black Alliance for Just Immigration (BAJI), Color Of Change . . . |

Editor (2021-10-15). The Italian government confronts a new test: fascism in the streets. mronline.org Here is the "eternal fascism" that Umberto Eco warned us against, when he explicated the symptoms of the virus that made Italy the incubator, and then the European model, of an anti-parliamentary regime, violent, anti-freedom, anti-Semitic and warmongering.

Ann Brown (2021-10-15). Lebron James And Maverick Carter's Media Company Raises $100 Million Of Investment At $750M Valuation. moguldom.com NBA star LeBron James is making GOAT moves not only on the basketball court but on Wall Street as well with the announcement that his media company just secured $100 million in investment, bringing its valuation to $750 million. James launched his entertainment firm, SpringHill Co., with longtime business partner Maverick Carter in 2020, and they …

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2021-10-15). New Film Exposes English Village Key to Bombing Yemen. libya360.wordpress.com Matt Kennard and Phil Miller Village airport: A cargo plane taxis down Warton's runway, bound for Saudi Arabia (Photo: Phil Miller / Declassified UK) Harry Kane has just scored a late goal, confirming England's win over Germany in this summer's Euros. We are sat under a marquee outside a pub near a main road in…

Peter Weiss, Judy Weiss (2021-10-15). Ban the Use of Drones as Weapons. fpif.org Everyone who followed the withdrawal of American troops from Afghanistan was horrified by the drone attack, Zemari Ahmadi, who worked for Nutrition and Education International, a U.S.-based aid organization, became the target because he drove a white Toyota, went to his office, and stopped to pick up containers of clean water for his extended family. Those actions, deemed suspicious by the drone surveilla…

Staff (2021-10-15). Detachment of Power Lines Caused Blackouts in Caracas Today, Sabotage Not Ruled Out. orinocotribune.com Venezuela's Minister of Electric Energy, Néstor Reverol, reported this Thursday, October 14, that "a new attack on the National Electric System" occurred at approximately 10: 50 in the morning, when "a detachment occurred on lines 1 and 2 of the 69 KV line from Papelón-Convento in the Capital District (Caracas), affecting the Convento substation, which is a nodal substation of the National Electric System." | In a statement made by telephone to the public television network Venezolana de Televisión, Reverol indicated that this "detachment" produced "the de-energization of the Cota Mil, Santa Rosa, Chacao and Magal…

Mark Gruenberg (2021-10-15). Shuler, Abrams link worker rights to voting rights as showdown nears. peoplesworld.org WASHINGTON—AFL-CIO President Liz Shuler and nationally notable voting rights advocate Stacey Abrams are linking worker rights on the job to voters' rights to cast their ballots and have them accepted and counted, as a Senate showdown on that issue looms. The two traded comments back and forth on the two issues on an Oct. 14 …

John Philpot, Roger D. Harris (2021-10-15). Free Alex Saab Delegation at the African Bar Association. dissidentvoice.org An international Free Alex Saab delegation attended the October 3-7 annual meeting of the African Bar Association in Niamey, Niger. Venezuelan diplomat Alex Saab has been under arrest in Cabo Verde since June 2020 by orders of the US and is fighting extradition to Miami. His "crime" is organizing humanitarian missions to procure food and …

Jass Miranda (2021-10-15). Colombian union leaders fighting Philip Morris greeted in NYC with solidarity. liberationnews.org Leaders of Sintraintabaco, Colombia's National Union of Tobacco and Industry Workers, traveled to New York City this month to protest against tobacco giant Philip Morris International, headquartered here. Sintraintabaco is one of the unions at the forefront of the struggle against the multinational corporation — which it accuses of preying on and exploiting its workers …

Rick Rozoff (2021-10-15). NATO's new format for integrating 40 partners into global Strategic Concept. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com NATO Partners invited to discuss the upcoming Strategic Concept On 14 October 2021, the NATO International Military Staff hosted Partner Nations for informal workshops to discuss a series of topics pertaining to NATO's new Strategic Concept. This new format, to be held bi-annually, aims to improve the dialogue between NATO and Partners. Chair of the …

Ashley Smith (2021-10-15). The Haitian Migration Crisis: Made in the U.S.A. counterpunch.org In scenes that evoked the history of U.S. slave catchers, Border Patrol agents on horseback used their reins as whips to beat the refugees they chased down and captured. Eager to join the racist frenzy, Texas Governor Greg Abbott ordered the National Guard and Texas police to form a miles-long "steel wall" of patrol cars and military vehicles to block migrants from escaping Biden's dragnet.

Staff (2021-10-15). "Long March for Justice" Underway Across New Jersey to Demand Police Reform, Reparations. democracynow.org We get an update from New Jersey, where the People's Organization for Progress is leading a 67-mile march to demand the state Legislature pass legislation to hold police accountable. The nine-day march wraps up Saturday, and activists are demanding passage of a state policy that would give police review boards subpoena power, ban and criminalize chokeholds, establish requirements for use of deadly force and end qualified immunity in New Jersey. At the national level, they are calling for the passage of the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act and the John Lewis Voting Rights Act. "We know that electoral politics…

Anonymous103 (2021-10-15). Russia's Arctic Strategy Aimed At Guaranteeing Development. southfront.org Illustrative ImageMoscow wants to strengthen Arctic diplomacy, while the West insists on military plans. | Written by Lucas Leiroz, research fellow in international law at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. | Historically, the Arctic has been a Russian-influenced zone. As one of the greatest military powers in the world, Russia tends to expand its projection to geographically close regions, consolidating a broad regional space, in which the North Pole is included. The US, Canada and the European Union for a long time ignored the strategic potential of the Arctic, seeking power projection in other zones, su…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2021-10-15). Gaslighting 1.1 Billion Africans. libya360.wordpress.com Benjamin Attia and Morgan Bazilian The majority of the Congolese population doesn't have access to electricity. (Eduardo Soteras, AFP via Getty Images) Today's global energy inequities are staggering. Video gamers in California consume more electricity than entire nations. The average Tanzanian used only one-sixth the electricity consumed by a typical American refrigerator in 2014. Globally, the top 10 percent of countries consume 20…

Binoy Kampmark (2021-10-15). Waking up to Climate Change Dinosaurs. counterpunch.org Morning listening on October 13. Australia's Radio National. Members of the Morrison government are doing their interview rounds with the host, Fran Kelly. We enter a time warp, speeding away into another dimension where planet Earth, and Australia, look different. The first interview, with Nationals Senator Bridget McKenzie, is filled with the sort of rejigged

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2021-10-15). Colombia: British Forces Support Repression, Train Police and Armed Forces. libya360.wordpress.com Matt Kennard Colombian police (Photo: Colombian National Police) The UK embassy in Bogotá has launched an environmentally-focused public relations project while Britain trains the country's repressive security forces. The project promotes UK investment in Colombia and "joint work" with unnamed organisations on "security and defence". UK spent £31,000 on project launched in June to "establish…

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