(2022-07-20). Russia's campaign in Ukraine: Nearing an inflection point? mronline.org 
Notice how the amount of Western reporting on Ukraine has fallen off dramatically? That's because the war is going well for Russia and its allies.
(2022-07-20). Kononovich brothers thank supporters as trial resumes in Ukraine. mronline.org 
Jailed communist Mikhail Kononovich thanked supporters who have protested in solidarity with Ukrainian political prisoners as the trial of him and his brother Alexander resumed on Monday.
(2022-07-20). Medical Debt Is a Rip-Off. otherwords.org Many big business CEOs turn out to be grifters who rip off consumers, workers, and others. But the corporate con artists I consider most vile are those who profiteer from people's health care needs. | We've had such infamous, high-profile scammers as Medicare fraudster (and now Florida Senator)
(2022-07-20). House Endorses Expanding NATO Into Sweden and Finland. scheerpost.com 
Swadim, CC BY-SA 4.0 By Dave DeCamp / The bipartisan consensus for expanding NATO remains strong as the House approved a resolution on Monday endorsing Sweden and Finland's memberships On Tuesday, the Senate Armed Services Committee easily gave approval for Sweden and Finland's NATO bids, se…
(2022-07-20). In OtherWords: July 20, 2022. otherwords.org This week, Sonali Kolhatkar examines the seemingly unusual incidence of women who oppose abortion rights seeking abortions for themselves. It's more common than you'd expect, Sonali argues — and actually key to understanding a range of common conservative policy positions. | Also this week, Jim Hightower sheds a light on the growing problem of medical debt. And cartoonist Khalil Bendib deftly illustrates what Senator Joe Manchin is doing the Democratic agenda in Washington. | New This Week… |
(2022-07-20). Ghana's unions and left reject bailout talks with the IMF as economic crisis spirals. peoplesdispatch.org Ghana has initiated talks with the International Monetary Fund to seek a potential bailout amid a major economic crisis. This has been rejected by the Socialist Movement of Ghana and trade unions who argue that this will do nothing to alleviate the structural problems in the economy…
(2022-07-20). From Invading Iraq to Guaidó's Flop: The CV of Coup-Plotter John Bolton. orinocotribune.com 
By Tanupriya Singh — Jul 15, 2022 | In a recent interview with CNN, former US National Security Advisor John Bolton affirmed his role in coups abroad. The hardliner was an architect of the invasion of Iraq, and most recently, played a role in the attempted coup against Venezuelan President Maduro. | On July 12, former US National Security advisor John Bolton, admitted on national television that he had helped orchestrate coups in foreign countries. Bolton was speaking to CNN host Jake Tapper amid the hearings in Congress on the January 6, 2021 attack on the Capitol, by supporters of former president Donald…
(2022-07-20). The Infernal Manchin Machine. otherwords.org
(2022-07-20). Selfishness Fuels the War on Abortion. otherwords.org The Supreme Court's Contrary to the idea that men have foisted the abortion ban on women, though, the ban is a patriarchal attack by conservatives — men and women — on the rest of us. | There's a general attitude that forms th…
(2022-07-20). Interview With a Representative of Ansar Allah. orinocotribune.com 
(2022-07-20). Breaking the map with the machete's edge: the internationalism of the landless. mronline.org 
Landless, but with a lot of history, the peasants of Brazil's MST have been practicing internationalism as a principle since 1984. As in their own flag, the machete overflows the borders and traces the itinerary of new possible maps.
(2022-07-20). Despite the evidence, courts yet to take note of spyware used against Elgar Parishad accused. mronline.org 
The evidence of malware use has now come in from multiple studies, but the accused remain in jail and the trial is yet to begin.
(2022-07-20). Swaziland: Regime fears upsurge in resistance, intensifies persecution of leaders. mronline.org 
The police attempted to arrest CPS member Bongi Nkambule, who was abducted and tortured by the police in March. When they failed to capture him, they took his wife into custody and beat her up in the police station. There has been an upsurge of resistance in Swaziland recently.
(2022-07-20). Wages, prices and the minimum wage. mronline.org 
Today the federal minimum wage is $7.25! Let that sad fact sink in. Right now you can barely buy a gallon of gas in some parts of the country with that little cash.
(2022-07-20). Will we learn the lessons from the defeat of Roe? mronline.org 
When Sydney Harper, producer of the New York Times' podcast the Daily, went to the Supreme Court of the United States in the wake of the overturning of Roe vs. Wade, she talked to a bystander who was "shocked" to see a large celebration of anti-abortion activists outside the courthouse.
(2022-07-20). 'A Possible Coup' Against The Labour Government? scheerpost.com 
Former Prime Minister Harold Wilson in 1986. (Allan Warren, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons) | By Richard Norton-Taylor / A file released on Tuesday by the National Archives, titled "Allegations concerning a possible coup in 1968", reveals how rattled MI5 and the Home Office were many years later about conspiracies that have never been properly investigated. | The declassified file refers to discussions about how to topple the then Labour prime minister, Harold Wilson. Wilson was smeared by right-wing…
(2022-07-20). Organizers Don't Care That 2028 Olympics Could Be on Fire. scheerpost.com 
The LA 2028 Summer Olympics reveals its new logo through murals across Los Angeles, including one with a surfboard design in Venice Beach. (Getty Images) | By Dave Zirin and Jules Boykoff / This week, the International Olympic Committee rolled into Los Angeles, host of the 2028 Summer Olympics, to hobnob with the city's political elites. With IOC President Thomas Bach on hand, along with Nicole Hoevertsz, the IOC executive board member and former Olympic synchronized swimmer from Aruba who is chairing the Los Angel…
(2022-07-20). UAW Delegates Head to Convention and Prepare for First Direct Elections. scheerpost.com 
By Jonah Furman / Labor Notes Auto Workers (UAW) members made history last November, winning direct elections of national officers ("one member, one vote") in a membership referendum. Now delegates are headed to a Constitutional Convention where candidates will be nominated for the top slots. The whole process will put to the test whether reformers …
(2022-07-20). VIDEO: Police Used This Dangerous Restraint During a Fatal Arrest, so Why Isn't Anyone Talking About It? scheerpost.com 
Screenshot of the arrest of Christopher Robert Hensley. Video courtesy of Shafaa Lucinda | By Taya Graham and Stephen Janis / | The death of Christopher Robert Hensley in the custody of Fletcher, North Carolina, police is raising new questions about the use of deadly restraint by law enforcement. In this episode of Police Accountability Report, Taya Graham and Stephen Janis talk to independent pathologist Cyril Wecht, who reviewed footage of the arrest, t…
(2022-07-20). In Middle East visit, oil access trumps human rights. workers.org 
No Palestinians living under Israeli occupation benefitted one iota from President Joe Biden's brief Middle East visit. Biden had the executive power to reverse the damage done when former President Donald Trump moved the U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem, recognizing Israel's control over the disputed capital. Biden chose to not do . . . |
(2022-07-20). WW editorial: Beyond Biden. workers.org 
Young people who backed Joe Biden in 2020, because they feared or hated Donald Trump, are now fed up with the Democratic Party. Fed up, disillusioned, disgusted and looking for new solutions. That was the message in a July 14 article in The New York Times interviewing youth from around . . . |
(2022-07-20). In the crosshairs of the abortion battle — WW commentary. workers.org 
Dr. Caitlin Bernard did what any dedicated doctor would do when faced with a medical emergency: Provide care. That is what she did for a 10-year-old rape victim, who could not obtain an abortion in Ohio, her home state, because she had missed the state's six-week abortion deadline. This traumatized . . . |
(2022-07-20). 'Cleveland: no contract, no coffee!'. workers.org 
WW Photo: Martha Grevatt Starbucks workers, union and community supporters demonstrated outside the University Circle Starbucks store in Cleveland July 15. In addition to showing solidarity with the workers trying to unionize that store, demonstrators were protesting the firing of a member of the union organizing committee by Starbucks the . . . |
(2022-07-20). Extreme weather and mass incarceration deaths. workers.org 
Houston Across the hottest places in the U.S., people in prisons, jails and detention centers often face unbearable and sometimes lethal conditions behind the walls, where air conditioning is not provided. The Prison Policy Initiative has found that many famously hot states lack universal air conditioning in prisons and jails. . . . |
(2022-07-20). Young workers show the way forward as economic crisis deepens. workers.org 
A global economic crisis is emerging, and for readers of Workers World, this comes as little to no surprise. As Marxists and dialectical materialists, we are cautious about making predictions. It is no secret that corporations are bragging about record profits at the same time working people are struggling to . . . |
(2022-07-20). People's Action: We are in a climate emergency, and Biden must act. peoplesaction.org WASHINGTON, D.C.—People's Action released the following statement from Lead Climate Justice Organizer Ben Ishibashi after President Biden failed to declare a national climate emergency today: "We welcome Biden's executive actions to boost wind energy production and help low-income families keep cool, but this week's apocalyptic heat waves make it clear that these steps are overdue …
(2022-07-20). Reject CPTPP, Stay out of New Cold War. popularresistance.org Joining or ratifying dubious trade deals is supposed to offer miraculous solutions to recent lackluster economic progress. Such naàØve advocacy is misleading at best, and downright irresponsible, even reckless, at worst. | 'US President Barack Obama's 'pivot to Asia' after his 2012 re-election sought to check China's sustained economic growth and technological progress. Its economic centerpiece was the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). | But the US International Trade Commission (ITC) doubted the Washington-based Peterson Institute for International Economics (PIIE) and other exaggerated claims of significa…
(2022-07-20). US Threatens Venezuela and Other Countries With Sanctions for Detaining US Citizens. orinocotribune.com On Tuesday, July 19, US President Joe Biden signed an executive order that gives Washington the right to impose unilateral coercive measures against states that "unjustly" detain US citizens, "The sanctions authority included in this EO enables the United States to impose financial and travel sanctions on those who are responsible for unjustly holding US nationals, whether their captor is a terrorist netw…
(2022-07-20). Imperial and Indian Institute of Science form research and education partnership. imperial.ac.uk Imperial College London and the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore have launched an ambitious partnership in research and education.
(2022-07-20). No gaps should be left in child protection: Chinese envoy. ecns.cn Perpetrators of grave violations against children should be held accountable, a Chinese envoy said on Tuesday, while calling on the international community to leave no gaps in child protection.
(2022-07-20). Ranil Wickremesinghe es elegido como presidente de Sri Lanka. telesurtv.net Tras ser electo, Wickremesinghe, dirigirá los destinos de Sri Lanka hasta 2024, completando así el mandato del depuesto Gotabaya Rajapaksa.
(2022-07-20). Ranil Wickremesinghe elected as new president of Sri Lanka. ecns.cn Acting President Ranil Wickremesinghe was elected as the new president of Sri Lanka in an election held in parliament on Wednesday.
(2022-07-20). Ranil Wickremesinghe is elected president of Sri Lanka. peoplesdispatch.org Ranil Wickremesinghe won the presidential election held by secret ballot on Tuesday, July 20, after Gotabaya Rajapaksa stepped down from his position earlier this month. Wickremesinghe is to remain president for the rest of Rajapaksa's term which is to end in 2024…
(2022-07-20). Hysterical Populism and the Appetite of the Leviathan. indybay.org The relationship between economy and social order has been turned upside down: economy is no longer a function of an overarching culture, but conversely, "human society has sunk to being an accessory of the economic system" (Karl Polanyi). Robert Kurz, the founder of Exit and Krisis journals, on scapegoating, moral panics and conspiracy theory culture.
(2022-07-20). Science whiz kids take home prizes. ecns.cn Nine Chinese high school students took the podium at two top-level chemistry and physics olympiads recently.
(2022-07-20). Christian Nationalists want to Control your Body: How Dobbs Is an Attack on Us All. juancole.com 
( Tomdispatch.com ) When I was the age that my daughter is now, my favorite sweatshirt had the words "Choice, Choice, Choice, Choice" in rainbow letters across its front. My mom got me that sweatshirt at a 1989 rally in response to Webster v. Reproductive Health Services. In that case, the Supreme Court upheld …
(2022-07-20). MNCs see positives growing in nation. ecns.cn China will remain a hot investment destination for multinational corporations seeking to expand manufacturing and innovative businesses in the coming years, said executives of foreign businesses on Tuesday.
(2022-07-20). National Education Association's annual convention ignores plight of US teachers fighting COVID and austerity. wsws.org This year's gathering further exposed the chasm between the NEA officials and rank-and-file educators who are battling COVID-19, stagnant wages and further cuts to school funding.
(2022-07-20). China urges U.S. to stop looting Syrian national resources. ecns.cn The United States should immediately stop plundering Syria's national resources, a Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson said here Wednesday.
(2022-07-20). Endangered giant Corpse Flower blooms in Beijing's National Botanical Garden. ecns.cn The flower, also known as the Corpse Flower, only blooms for an average of 48 hours. A night event was held in the National Botanical Garden, where visitors can enjoy the rare blooming.
(2022-07-20). UAW 2022 Convention Issues With Scott Houldieson UAW 551 Convention Delegate. indybay.org UAW 551 convention delegate Scott Houldieson talks about the issues facing the UAW Constitutional convention. For the first time there will be a direct election of the international officers. He discusses two tier contracts, labor management partnerships and also the refusal of the UAW International to invite Mexican GM workers to the convention. Most of the former UAW International officials have been charged with corruption and taking money from the auto companies through their joint company union projects in return for two tier and concession contracts.
(2022-07-20). Indigenous rights take center stage in Chile's new constitution. peoplesworld.org 
Chile's new constitution will give official recognition to the Indigenous peoples within its borders, making it the third plurinational country in South America, after Ecuador and Bolivia. It is part of the sweeping reforms of President Gabriel Boric Font, whose broad coalition of left-wing parties, including Chile's Communist Party, came to power on Nov. 19, …
(2022-07-20). Women charge abuse at Georgia's Stewart Detention Center. workers.org 
Activists march to shut down Stewart Detention Center, Lumpkin, Georgia, November 2014. Atlanta July 17 — Once again, a privately-operated immigrant detention center in Georgia is the focus of abuse charges by several women detainees. A male nurse employed by CoreCivic at the Stewart Detention Center (SDC) in Lumpkin, Georgia, . . . |
(2022-07-20). Inicia votación para elegir al nuevo presidente de Sri Lanka. telesurtv.net El actual presidente interino, Ranil Wickremesinghe, parte como favorito para ser designado como nuevo mandatario del país.
(2022-07-20). China, India agree to keep peace at border. ecns.cn China and India have agreed to maintain security and stability in the western sector of China-India border areas, according to a joint news release.
(2022-07-20). Customary Barbarity: Britain's SAS in Afghanistan. scheerpost.com 
By Binoy Kampmark / CounterPunch The insistence that there is a noble way of fighting war, one less bloody and brutal, has always been the hallmark of forces self-described as civilised. Restraint characterises their behaviour; codes of laws follow in their wake, rather than genocidal impulses. Killing, in short, is a highly regulated, disciplined affair. …
(2022-07-20). Sri Lanka's parliament to elect president Wednesday with vast authoritarian powers in fraudulent anti-democratic exercise. wsws.org The Socialist Equality Party (SEP) has denounced Wednesday's vote as "a fraud and a conspiracy against the working class, youth and rural poor."
(2022-07-20). California United States Colored Troops Help Save the Union. indybay.org Rev. Thomas Starr King helped keep the thin margin of Union California vs Confederate California. US Colored Troops from California helped preserve the Union and begin the ending of legal slavery in America. Today, we honor National Buffalo Soldiers Day and share our unique California Journey from Slavery to Freedom.
(2022-07-19). This proxy war has no exit strategy. mronline.org 
The International Committee of the Democratic Socialists of America has released a statement opposing the U.S. government's ongoing proxy war in Ukraine, saying the billions being funneled into the military-industrial complex "at a time when ordinary Americans are struggling to pay for housing, groceries, and fuel" is "a slap in the face for working people."
(2022-07-19). Class struggle inside Ukraine. mronline.org 
Two recent articles in Open Democracy report responses from Ukrainian trade unions to the "Lugano Declaration", which came out of a conference between high Western and Ukrainian officials in Switzerland last week and sets out plans for economic reconstruction "after the war is over" by the Ukrainian Oligarchy* and its major imperial sponsors; the U.S., UK and EU.