(2022-07-09). Biden's reckless new provocation ratchets up risk of nuclear war with China. mronline.org 
Sending U.S. Warships into South China Sea and Taiwan Strait in violation of UN Convention on the Law of the Sea…
(2022-07-09). Journalists In India Face Many-Sided Threats And Hurdles. popularresistance.org On May 3 World Freedom Day ten international human rights and press freedom organizations (including the Committee to Protect Journalists and PEN America) expressed serious concern at the increasing assaults on journalists and media freedom in recent times. They called upon the Indian authorities to stop targeting journalists and critics, and more particularly to desist from prosecuting them under sedition and/or counterterrorism laws. | This was just one among several several statements to emerge from international media and rights organizations to express concern regarding the fast deteriorating press freedom s…
(2022-07-09). Whistleblower Relief: Dropping the Collaery Case. southfront.org 
Written by Dr. Binoy Kampmark | The Anglo-Australian legal system has much to answer for. While robed lawyers and solemn justices proclaim an adherence to the rule of law, the rule remains a creature in state, more fetish than reality. Had the farcical prosecution of former ACT Attorney General Bernard Collaery gone on, all suspicions about a legal system slanted in favour of the national security state would have been answered. | Collaery, a sagacious and well-practiced legal figu…
(2022-07-09). President Maduro Ratifies Vladimir Padrino López as Defense Minister of Venezuela (FANB Graduation Ceremony). orinocotribune.com 
Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro announced the ratification of the military high command of the nation during the Joint Graduation Act to the Rank of Lieutenants, Lieutenant Commanders, and Retirement of the Class of 1989 of the Bolivarian National Armed Force (FANB) on Thursday, July 7. Major General Vladimir Padrino López was ratified as the Minister of Defense of Venezuela, and hence he will continue in his post. | President Maduro also announced the ratification of Major General Domingo Hernández Lárez in…
(2022-07-09). The Breakdown of Legitimacy: A Good and Necessary Thing. scheerpost.com 
By Gary Leupp / CounterPunch Last December Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor questioned whether the Supreme Court would retain its legitimacy if it overturned Roe v. Wade. "Will this institution survive the stench that this creates in the public perception that the Constitution and its reading are just political acts?" she asked, adding, "I don't …
(2022-07-09). Heroic Oakland community strikes and occupies elementary school to prevent closures. mronline.org 
For months, school board meetings have been flooded with outcry from parents, teachers and children defending public education. Since May 25, the community has been occupying Parker Community School to protest its closure.
(2022-07-09). The making of the Evangelical anti-abortion movement. mronline.org 
In 1971, the Southern Baptist Convention, the largest Protestant denomination in the United States, adopted a resolution calling on fellow Southern Baptists to work to make abortion legal under certain conditions, namely, 'rape, incest, clear evidence of severe fetal deformity, and carefully ascertained evidence of the likelihood of damage to the emotional, mental, and physical health of the mother'.
(2022-07-09). Iran's female volleyball team ranks 10th in Asia. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Jul. 09 (MNA) — International Volleyball Federation has released the newest FIVB Senior World Ranking for Women in which Iran ranks 10th in Asia.
(2022-07-09). World Bronchiectasis Day targets chronic, progressive lung disease. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org A chronic, progressive lung disease is attracting new global attention. Today marks the inaugural World Bronchiectasis Day, an awareness day set for July 1 each year. Goals include increasing recognition and treatment of the disease by health care providers and encouraging more research, says a Mayo Clinic expert helping to lead the effort internationally. In bronchiectasis, the walls of the bronchial tubes, which carry air into and out of the lungs, are injured, becoming enlarged….
(2022-07-09). Mayo Clinic joins Better Climate Challenge, committing to further reduce greenhouse gas emissions. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org ROCHESTER, Minn. — Mayo Clinic recently joined the Better Climate Challenge, an initiative launched by the Department of Energy that encourages organizations to set ambitious goals for reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Mayo Clinic is committed to cutting certain greenhouse gas emissions by 50% and reducing energy use by 20% within 10 years. Participating in the Better Climate Challenge requires Mayo Clinic to develop and submit a plan to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, share progress and solutions…
(2022-07-09). (W.E. Talk) Dialogue: When Drucker 'meets' Confucius. ecns.cn There's a likelihood that Confucius would have been friends with Peter Drucker, who is described as the "father of modern management" in the West, if they had been living in the same time period. Whereas Confucius advocated "harmonious culture" and a "harmonious yet different" social order throughout his life, Peter Drucker similarly worked on the concept of "synergistic effectiveness" as his goal.
(2022-07-09). Hancock Health, Hendricks Regional Health in Indiana join Mayo Clinic Care Network. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org ROCHESTER, Minn. — Hancock Health, Hendricks Regional Health and Mayo Clinic announced Wednesday, June 29, that the two Indiana health systems have joined the Mayo Clinic Care Network. Members of the Mayo Clinic Care Network, a group of carefully vetted, independent health care organizations, have special access to Mayo Clinic's knowledge and expertise. Hancock Health and Hendricks Regional Health have a shared vision to provide central Indiana with excellent health care and keep communities healthy…
(2022-07-09). More firms to attend second China International Consumer Products Expo. ecns.cn More companies will attend the second China International Consumer Products Expo in Haikou, the capital city of the southernmost Hainan Province, from July 26 to 30, Shu Jueting, spokesperson for the Ministry of Commerce, said Thursday.
(2022-07-09). The Abe Cult Murder & The Japanese Cults Behind The Curtin. indybay.org The murderer of former Japanese Prime Minister Abe said to police his mother was a member of a cult the she gave large amounts of money to. He said he agreed with the politics of Abe but not what his cult did. This is some of the background of Abe's relationship with these cults. Also the corruption scandal of his wife who was part of this right wing nationalist religious cult.
(2022-07-09). California Juneteenth Holiday Bill – AB 1655 – Our Unique Journey From Slavery to Freedom. indybay.org Since 2003, California has recognized Juneteenth through Assembly Bill 1749 (Longville) and signed into law by Governor Gray Davis. However, today 20 years later, it is our goal that Juneteenth through Assembly Bill 1655 (Jones-Sawyer) becomes an official California State Holiday.
(2022-07-09). Iran's Farabi Intl. Festival calls for works. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Jul. 09 (MNA) — The secretariat of the 14 the Farabi International Award has called for works on various topics with a focus on "Iranology", "Islamology" and "Religious Science".
(2022-07-09). Massive floods in South Asia kill hundreds, displace millions. wsws.org The Indian and Bangladesh governments have responded to the crisis with contempt for the victims, refusing to provide adequate relief materials, rescue equipment, medicines, trained personnel and infrastructure.
(2022-07-09). Preparing to Defend the Likely Sweeps. indybay.org We did a little tabling downtown yesterday, distributing flyers and circulating petitions encouraging activists to rise up again in support of basic justice for those outside. We were testing the waters for Pacific Ave. passersby. The literature challenged the false "all is well–we've got shelter & housing for those outside" narrative. The flyers and petition set out a more truthful counter-narrative. Our ultimate goal is to provide support for resistance to Benchlands removal at the end of the summer..
(2022-07-09). Partidos políticos de Sri Lanka piden la renuncia del Gobierno. telesurtv.net El primer ministro ofreció su dimisión y la formación de un Gobierno de unidad, en una jornada de manifestaciones contra el presidente.
(2022-07-09). Manifestantes asaltan la residencia presidencial en Sri Lanka. telesurtv.net El Ministerio de Defensa comunicó que Gotabaya Rajapaksa se encontraba en un lugar secreto protegido por el ejército.
(2022-07-09). Sri Lankan Socialist Equality Party rejects appeal to participate in "all-party" talks. wsws.org The Sri Lankan section of the International Committee of the Fourth International has bluntly told the opposition Samara Jana Balavegaya that it will under no circumstances engage in talks with the political parties of the ruling class.
(2022-07-09). Veterans who are elected officials urge passage of clean energy provisions in Senate bill. indybay.org For energy independence EV incentives are imperative, Biden administration action on light and heavy-duty vehicles and US Senate action on climate say veterans who are elected officials | More investment than the president's DPA authorization is needed in order to set the United States on a path to a -52 percent reduction in carbon pollution by 2030—the goal scientists say is necessary to prevent the worst impacts of climate change. The good news is that there is legislation before the Senate that would meet that goal. The bill, formally the Build Back Better Act, was passed by the House last November and…
(2022-07-09). Mayo Clinic Minute: Concerning rise in syphilis cases across Minnesota. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org The Minnesota Department of Health (MDH) is raising a red flag over what it says was a sharp rise in syphilis cases across the state in 2021, according to an annual report of sexually transmitted diseases and HIV data. According to MDH, the increase in syphilis cases in the state mirrors a disturbing national trend of starkly rising syphilis cases, affecting all communities. Of special concern was a syphilis outbreak in the Duluth area and…
(2022-07-09). Sri Lanka protesters force president to flee palace. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Jul. 09 (MNA) — Thousands of protesters in Sri Lanka have broken through police barricades and stormed the president's official residence in one of the largest anti-government marches this year.
(2022-07-09). Incendian residencia de primer ministro tras su renuncia en Sri Lanka. telesurtv.net Horas antes, también miles irrumpieron en la casa y la oficina del presidente, Gotabaya Rajapaksa, quien fue obligado a huir de su residencia.
(2022-07-09). Dealing with Police and Government Agents. indybay.org "Any lawyer worth his salt will tell the suspect in no uncertain terms to make no statement to police under any circumstances." (U.S. Supreme Court Justice Robert H. Jackson writing in Watts v. Indiana, 338 U.S. 49 (1949))…
(2022-07-09). International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers sells out Canadian National Railway signal and communications strike. wsws.org In recent months, binding arbitration has become the weapon of choice wielded by a ruling class determined to make workers pay for the economic crisis and spiralling cost of living.
(2022-07-09). How can American women's human rights be guaranteed. ecns.cn The case of a 10-year-old child rape victim in Ohio who was six weeks pregnant but ineligible for an abortion in her own state and forced to travel to Indiana for the procedure has shocked the U.S. and the world. The abortion ban does secondary harm to the girl.
(2022-07-08). G20 Diplomats Fail to Reach Consensus on Ukraine War. news.antiwar.com The G20 summit in Bali, Indonesia, on Friday Many G20 members have not followed the US-led sanctions campaign against Russia, including Indonesia, China, India, Brazil, and South Africa. The meeting opened with Indonesian Foreign Minister Retno Marsudi calling for the G20 nations to work together to end the war. | Marsud…
(2022-07-08). Biden's Reckless New Provocation Ratchets Up Risk Of Nuclear War. popularresistance.org On June 25, the U.S. Navy sent a warship, the USS Benfold, to the South China Sea, only one day after a U.S. spy plane provocatively flew over the Taiwan Strait under the close monitoring of the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA). | According to CNN, the U.S. flyover came after China sent 29 planes into Taiwan's self-declared air defense identification zone (ADIZ). | From China's point of view, the U.S. spy plane mission on June 24 was especially provocative because it was the first U.S. military activity in the region after China made it clear that there are no "international waters" in the Taiwan Strait.
(2022-07-08). Ruins of Azov Steel Factory Display Nazi Insignia and Signs of NATO Support. libya360.wordpress.com Sonja Van den Ende Among the ruins of the Azov Steel factory. [Photo courtesy of Sonja van den Ende] The Azov Steel factory was an important propaganda tool of the Western media since the Azov Battalion occupied the factory in March this year. In the official narrative, there were "good fellows" inside the factory, defending…
(2022-07-08). G7, NATO and BRICS summits confirm a global divide. iacenter.org By Sara Flounders July 8, 2022 Three very different international meetings were held during the week of June 23-30. The three "summits" confirm a growing global divide. It is worth examining these meetings; who attended, and especially what they projected. Two focused on confrontation and military escalation — in sharp contrast to the first — BRICS — which focused on cooperation, sustainable development and trade. BRICS Summit — June 23-24 The 14th BRICS Summit was the first gathering. It was held virtually June 23-24 and was chaired this year by China. BRICS stands for the countries of Br…
(2022-07-08). US, Allies Discussing Trying to Cap Russian Oil at $40-$60 Per Barrel. scheerpost.com 
Ludvig14, CC BY-SA 4.0 By Dave DeCamp / Bloomberg reported Wednesday that the US and its allies But the US-proposed…
(2022-07-08). Glory to the Heroes: Sidor Kovpak and the War for Ukraine's Memory. libya360.wordpress.com Evan Reif The Ukrainian identity, complex as it is, was shaped by the many groups that inhabited the territories wedged between forces in Moscow and Warsaw. This rich culture that birthed literary geniuses like Taras Schevchenko, Ivan Kotliarevsky, and Nikolai Gogol, has become coopted by those who glorify a narrow, "Galician" view of what it…
(2022-07-08). ACLU Takes Fight Against Palestinian-Exception in the First Amendment To Supreme Court. scheerpost.com 
By Jessica Buxbaum / MintPress News LITTLE ROCK, ARKANSAS — In June, a federal appeals court upheld an Arkansas law barring state contractors from boycotting Israel, sparking concerns over First Amendment rights in the United States. The Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals reversed a decision made last year by a panel of three judges who found …
(2022-07-08). How Cuba is eradicating child mortality and banishing the diseases of the poor. mronline.org 
The drastic reduction in infant mortality rates is yet another testimony to the Cuban Revolution's attention to the health of the country's population.
(2022-07-08). The United States wants to prevent a historical fact—Eurasian integration: The Twenty-Seventh Newsletter (2022). mronline.org 
Over the course of the past fifteen years, European countries have found themselves with both great opportunities to seize and complex choices to make. Unsustainable reliance on the United States for trade and investment, as well as the curious distraction of Brexit, led to the steady integration of European countries with Russian energy markets and more uptake of Chinese investment opportunities and its manufacturing prowess.
(2022-07-08). Chinese Official Puts Taiwan 'Reunification' at Center of National Rejuvenation Plans. news.antiwar.com China's top official for cross-strait affairs laid out a framework for dealing with Taiwan for the first time on Thursday with a focus on "reunification," Liu Jieyi, the head of the Taiwan Affairs Office, wrote in China's People's Daily that reunification with Taiwan should be promoted as part of China's rejuvenation. He said that tensions and dangers across the Taiwan Strait should gradually be resolved as China grows. | Liu said tha…
(2022-07-08). Before its Final Defeat, the U.S. Empire Will Try to Take the Rest of the World Down With it. libya360.wordpress.com Rainer Shea If U.S. imperialism gets its way, during our generation it will commit a gargantuan series of atrocities that take many millions of lives. It could carry out nuclear attacks against one or more of the countries challenging it, repeating its great crimes against the people of Japan with the bombings of Hiroshima and…
(2022-07-08). France to Nationalize 100% of Electricity, What about Guatemala? libya360.wordpress.com Ollantay Itzamná The socio-political movement CODECA, for more than a decade, has been proposing the renationalization of electricity for the electrical sovereignty of Guatemala. But, for raising this public policy, in the last three years, 24 defenders of the right to electricity belonging to this movement have been assassinated. The Prime Minister of France, Élisabeth…
(2022-07-08). PFLP message for international commemorations of th anniversary of Ghassan Kanafani's assassination. samidoun.net Suhair Khader, a member of the Central Committee of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, based in the Gaza Strip, has a message to all people around the world, including Palestinians and Arabs in exile and diaspora and internationalists, today commemorating the th anniversary of the assassination of Ghassan Kanafani, Palestinian revolutionary leader …
(2022-07-08). Alex Saab Hails Venezuela on Its Independence. orinocotribune.com By Alex Saab Jul 5, 2022 | Dear President Nicolas Maduro and beloved people of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela. I would like to send you my greetings on the occasion of our Independence Day. | Our country is moving steadily towards economic growth, stability and national reconciliation despite the sanctions and the inhumane blockade imposed by the United States. | Of course, we would make much faster progress if, in a show of patriotic sorrow, the small section of the opposition that supports these sanctions would also join us, especially on this important date, in our demand for an immediate end to th…
(2022-07-08). Black Alliance for Peace condemns massacre of African migrants by U.S.- backed Moroccan armed forces. mronline.org 
Video images captured the horrific actions of Moroccan security forces armed and trained by the United States through the U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM) and working on behalf of the Spanish government, systematically beating and slaughtering African migrants on June 24, 2022.
(2022-07-08). Reproductive justice and the U.S. carceral system. iacenter.org By Marie Kelly July 8, 2022 The Supreme Court ruling against reproductive rights guaranteed for 50 years in the SCOTUS Roe v. Wade decision has had dramatic and devastating consequences for anyone who can get pregnant but is trapped in the U.S. carceral system. Number of incarcerated women accelerating Ban the shackling of incarcerated pregnant people! Illustration by Molly Crabapple According to the Prison Policy Initiative, the incarceration rate of women in the U.S. has grown at twice the pace of men over the past 40 years. There has been a startling 475% increase in women incarcerated. The majority of women (…
(2022-07-08). Schools and Labor Against Privatization — fight to keep Oakland schools open. workers.org 
Oakland, California Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr on mural of Parker School. The Schools and Labor Against Privatization (SLAP) coalition held a barbecue on June 26 at Parker School, which the school board has ordered to be closed and eliminated. But the East Oakland elementary school is still operating this . . . |
(2022-07-08). Communism, the Manifesto, and Hate. mronline.org 
We have no reason to succumb to the complex comfort of despair, a lugubriousness by which failure is foreordained. But to stress the repeated failures of the Left is a necessary corrective to its history of boosterism and bullshit, and to stress how appalling these days are, even if we can also find in them hope.
(2022-07-08). Ending pandemic aid created a disaster. mronline.org 
New data show the end of pandemic relief coincided with a 49 percent increase in the number of families struggling to survive.
(2022-07-08). The perennial seeds of Zapata. mronline.org 
Under the banner of Mexican Revolution leader Emiliano Zapata, their movement has maintained territorial control for over twenty-eight years without official recognition by the Mexican government beyond the failed San Andrés Accord.
(2022-07-08). America's $1.4 Trillion 'National Security' Budget Makes Us Ever Less Safe. scheerpost.com 
By William D. Hartung / TomDispatch William Hartung, Call It the National (In)security Budget Yes, Afghanistan went down the drain and Washington's global war on terror ended (more or less) in disaster 20 years after it began. But the urge to militarize the planet? Not a chance in an American world where, as TomDispatch regular William Hartung lays …
(2022-07-08). Ellen Brown: Achieving Self-Funding Local Sovereignty as Global Food Systems Collapse. scheerpost.com 
[ By "Deglobalizing" and "dedollarizing" have been much in the news. Reducing dependence on the global supply chain and the U.S. dollar are trends that are happening not just internationally but locally. In the United States, we have seen movements both for local food independence and to divest from Wall Street banks. The burgeoning cryptocurrency movement is another push to "dedollarize" and escape the international bankers' control grid. | This ar…
(2022-07-08). Mundo Obrero Editorial — El derecho a la autodefensa. workers.org 
Todavía estábamos conmovidos por la masacre racista en Buffalo, Nueva York, la matanza de niños en Uvalde, Texas. Luego llegó la noticia de un intento de emboscada el 11 de junio por parte de supremacistas blancos en una celebración pública del Orgullo en el Parque en Coeur d'Alene, Idaho. Protest . . . |
(2022-07-08). Haiti: Masses take to the streets June 26. workers.org 
At the call of Lavalas, a political party led by former President Jean Bertrand Aristide — who was deposed by U.S.-backed coups twice — thousands of Haitians took to the streets of Port-au-Prince June 26. Tens of thousands of Haitians came out June 26 in Port-au-Prince. According to interviews in . . . |
(2022-07-08). 'The future is in the people, and the people can't wait'. workers.org 
These edited remarks were made at the July 3 Free Mumia rally in Philadelphia. I owe my start in political organizing to Workers World Party and to the movement to free Mumia Abu-Jamal. To Pam Africa and Mike Africa Jr., to Asantewaa Nkrumah Ture and to YahNé Ndgo, to Joe . . . |
(2022-07-08). Gabriela USA and International Women's Alliance condemn overturn of Roe v. Wade. iacenter.org July 8, 2022 This slightly edited joint statement was released on June 24 by Terrie Cervas, GABRIELA USA Secretary General and Angelica Lim, GABRIELA USA International Relations Officer and International Women's Alliance Secretariat Member. You can email both organizations at gabrielawomen@gmail.com and internationalwomensalliance@gmail.com. GABRIELA USA and International Women's Alliance (IWA) vehemently condemn the United States Supreme Court overturn of Roe v. Wade and call on all people to defend basic human rights to health care, including access to abortion, and to fight the attacks on women's rights. Roe v…
(2022-07-08). Justice is Global Unveils New Report on How to Counter the Politics of Scapegoating China. peoplesaction.org Report Reveals That Anti-China, Populist Rhetoric Masks Anti-Democratic Forces in the U.S. and Offers Solutions to Combat It Contact: Johanna Kichton, press@peoplesaction.org, 202.660.0605 WASHINGTON, DC—Justice is Global today released a new report revealing the increasing popularity of politicians who win over working-class voters by using China as a scapegoat for social and economic problems in …
(2022-07-08). Chicago demands justice for Jayland Walker, community control of police. fightbacknews.org Chicago, IL – 200 protesters marched in Chicago's Federal Plaza, Wednesday evening, July 6, to demand justice for Jayland Walker, who was murdered on June 27 by Akron Ohio police. Speakers at the rally connected the murder to similar police killings and other police crimes such as torture and wrongful conviction. The protesters demanded that the officers who killed Jayland Walker be convicted, and that community control of the police be enacted. | The march was organized by the Chicago Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression and was one of several protests this week called for by the National Allian…
(2022-07-08). Boris Johnson's Downfall Also Marks Brexit's Final Act. scheerpost.com 
UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson leaves after announcing his resignation outside 10 Downing Street on July 7, 2022, in London, England. (Photo by Carl Court / Getty Images) | By Gary Younge / As the ethical lapses kept piling up, Boris Johnson, who studied classics at Oxford university's Balliol College, reached for the moral code of the Iliad. "He thinks in classical terms," one MP told the London Times. "For him there is no greater honour in resigning than being killed…. if you are going to die, go down figh…
(2022-07-08). Australia: As floods continue, Albanese maintains indifferent response of former Liberal-National government. wsws.org Flood-impacted residents in 29 eligible local government areas will receive just $1,000 per adult and $400 per child, the same miserly figure afforded to those affected by the March floods.
(2022-07-08). Japan's Former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe Assassinated on Campaign Trail. scheerpost.com 
[ By Former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was fatally shot Friday as he delivered a campaign speech on behalf of a member of his party just days ahead of the country's parliamentary elections. | Abe, Japan's longest-serving prime minister, was rushed to a hospital with wounds to his neck and left collar…
(2022-07-08). Ontario government inspectors made scores of visits to National Steel Car plant where three workers died in past 22 months. wsws.org Successive governments have gutted workplace regulations and presided over a broken occupational health and safety system that allows companies like National Steel Car to turn workplaces into death traps.
(2022-07-08). New Report Details Ways to Counter Anti-China Scapegoating in US. commondreams.org "While it's easy for people ripped off by bad worker policies at home to map their economic anxieties onto those they deem foreign, racist scapegoating will only divide us further."
(2022-07-08). One person killed at Baghdad Airport shooting. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Jul. 08 (MNA) — Local sources in Iraq reported late on Thursday that a shooting at Baghdad International Airport has left at least one killed.
(2022-07-08). China's spectacular achievements in space a benefit for entire humankind. ecns.cn China's spectacular achievements in space are actually a benefit for the entire humankind, Dumitru Prunariu, the first and only Romanian astronaut, told an international conference on Thursday.
(2022-07-08). Genocide in Indian Country: Torture Experiments, Trafficking and Mining. indybay.org Censored News: Exposing the Genocide: Torture Experiments, Trafficking and Mining. Mohawk Mothers continue their case in Quebec Superior Court. Their case exposes the U.S. CIA torture experiments, as Mohawk Mothers demand a search for unmarked graves of their children at McGill University in Montreal.
(2022-07-08). Deforestation in Venezuela's Sierra Nevada National Park. america.cgtn.com Residents living in Venezuela's Sierra Nevada National Park say firewood is the only way they can cook. But environmentalists warn, tree removal is impacting the land.
(2022-07-08). The July 9 protest in Sri Lanka: A socialist program for workers and youth. wsws.org In opposition to the perspective of the Galle Face protest leaders, who call for the formation of an alternative bourgeois government, the Socialist Equality Party (SEP) advocates for a revolutionary socialist program for the working class.
(2022-07-08). UFCW announces second tentative agreement for Kroger in Indianapolis. wsws.org It is clear even from the UFCW's self-serving "highlights" handed out to workers in stores Wednesday that this is not a "new" contract from the one which workers rejected weeks ago.
(2022-07-08). Contract talks continue after ILWU's West Coast pact expires. peoplesworld.org 
LOS ANGELES —With encouragement from Biden administration Labor Secretary Marty Walsh, talks between the International Longshore and Warehouse Unionthe independent union which represents almost 23,000 West Coast dockworkersand West Court port executives are continuing, even after ILWU's current contract expired June 30. In a joint statement, ILWU and the Pacific Maritime Association, the coalition of …
(2022-07-08). One person reportedly killed at Baghdad Airport shooting. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Jul. 08 (MNA) — Local sources in Iraq reported late on Thursday that a shooting at Baghdad International Airport has left at least one killed.
(2022-07-08). US Chamber of Commerce calls on Biden to head off national railroad strike. wsws.org The fact that the nation's pre-eminent business organization is calling upon the government to intervene to prevent a strike is wholly expected. But in fact, the Chamber of Commerice is trailing after the Brotherhood Of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen and the other eleven unions in the United Rail Unions bargaining coalition, which has been pushing for the appointment of a PEB since late May.
(2022-07-08). Northern Iraq Operation Claims Lives Of Five More Turkish Service Memebers. southfront.org 
FILE PHOTO: Turkish soldiers seen at the border town of Akcakale © Reuters / Murad Sezer | The Turkish military has lost five more service members in the Iraqi Kurdistan Region, where it has been conducting a large-scale operation against the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK). | The operation, codenamed Claw-Lock, was launched on April 17 to neutralize PKK cells in the areas of Metina, Zap and Avashin Basyan. | On July 7, the Turkish Ministry of National Defense announced that three service members were killed and fi…
(2022-07-08). The Death Of A Capable Revisionist. popularresistance.org Last night some man with a self build gun killed the former prime minister of Japan Shinzo Abe. | Adhering to family tradition Shinzo Abe has been an Japanese imperialist. As Peter Lee wrote about him back in 2013: | Myth: Shinzo Abe is a leading member of the team of world and Asian democracies standing up to China in the name of universal values like "freedom of navigation" and to help ensure the shared peace and prosperity of Asia. | Reality: Shinzo Abe is a revisionist nationalist using friction with China to pursue Japanese national interests, put Japan on the right side of a zero-sum economic equation oppos…
(2022-07-08). Union shuts down strike against impending closure of Ford India assembly plant. wsws.org A militant, more than month-long strike by workers at Ford's Tamil Nadu assembly plant was arbitrarily shut down by the union last Saturday after it signed an agreement with management that completely abandoned the workers' demand for job security.
(2022-07-08). UK Bill Threatens Journalists With Life in Prison. scheerpost.com 
Assange supporters marching on Parliament, February 2020. (Joe Lauria) | By Mohamed Elmaazi / The British Parliament is debating a national security bill which could undermine the basis of national security reporting and ultimately throw journalists in jail for life. | A person convicted under the new offense of "obtaining or disclosing protected information," defined in Section 1 of National Security Bill 2022, faces a fine, life imprisonment, or both, if convicted following a jury trial.
(2022-07-07). Life in a Time of Conflict in the Russia-Ukraine Frontier City of Belgorod. libya360.wordpress.com Employees of the Russian Emergency Situations Ministry are seen near the damaged residential buildings in the border town of Belgorod, Russia. © Sputnik / Taisia Liskovets Mark Bratchikov-Pogrebisskiy reports from –∞ region where an accident of geography has again placed it centre stage. Belgorod is one of seven Russian regions that border Ukraine. In 2014,…
(2022-07-07). North Africa Becomes an Arena for NATO's Confrontation with Russia and China. libya360.wordpress.com Abdelhamid Jmahri North Africa is now part of the area of strategic interests of NATO, as it is an arena of confrontation with Russia, writes the pan-Arab media Al Araby Al Jadeed. And Spain will play a significant role in this confrontation. NATO's new strategic concept has placed North Africa in the area of strategic…
(2022-07-07). The World is Facing a Stark Choice Between the NATO and BRICS View of the World. libya360.wordpress.com James ONeill The recent NATO summit held in Spain included as guests the nations of Australia, New Zealand and Japan. By expanding the invited countries, NATO was signaling that it was the longer confined to the North Atlantic, as its name consistently represents, but instead was expanding its sphere of influence to the Asia and…
(2022-07-07). Fueling the Warfare State. tomdispatch.com This March, when the Biden administration presented a staggering $813 billion proposal for "national defense," it was hard to imagine a budget that could go significantly higher or be more generous to the denizens of the military-industrial complex. After all, that request represented far more than peak spending in the Korean or Vietnam War years, and well over $100 billion more than at the height of the Cold War. It was, in fact, an astonishing figure by any measure — more than two-and-a-half times what China spends; more, in fact, than (and hold your hats for this one!) the national security budgets of th…
(2022-07-07). Afro-Colombia and the Elections of 2018: Keys to What the Future Holds. libya360.wordpress.com Cindy Forster Francia Márquez Gustavo Petro, the progressive who won the presidential race in Colombia on June 19th, said right before the elections that "Sunday's vote will break down exactly like that of the referendum in support of the Peace Accords," which lost by a narrow margin in 2016. The referendum won in regions of…