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Debt-pushing as financial inclusion
Ajay Banga was anointed World Bank president for promoting financial inclusion. Thanks to its success and interest rate hikes, more poor people are drowning in debt as consumer prices rise.
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Liberal alliances with Nazis produce inevitable blowback
NaziGate highlights Canadian ties to far-right Ukrainian nationalism, support for NATO and a long history of conflict with Russia.
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UNSC approves deployment of troops to Haiti despite protests
On Monday, the Security Council of the United Nations (UN) authorized the deployment of Kenyan troops to Haiti.
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International uproar following mass raids and arrest of Indian journalists
There has been an outpouring of solidarity following the raid and arrest of journalists in India, who have been targeted as a result of baseless accusations published in the New York Times.
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Wab Kinew becomes first First Nations premier in Canadian history
For the first time in Canada’s history, one of its provinces has a First Nations person as its premier.
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Experiments with truth, India: Truth and dare in Bhima Koregaon
The Bhima Koregaon–Elgar Parishad ‘Maoist’ conspiracy case is a grand experiment with truth where the State is daring the people to stand up for justice.
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Ukraine’ assassination program has gotten so out of control that some of its members are starting to speak out
On September 9th, The Economist ran a remarkable story entitled “Ukraine’s Assassination Programme: Its Agents Have Become Expert in Dark Revenge.”
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News from nowhere: Game over
In a mind-numbingly irresponsible political gamble, British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak last month announced a reversal of the UK’s key climate change pledges.
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U.S. Academic Steve Ellner: ‘Venezuela needs more checks and balances to fight corruption and abuse of power’
Orinoco Tribune interviewed U.S. academic Steve Ellner on different issues, ranging from Venezuelan domestic issues to global matters.
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Indian police raid major Left news website, detain journalists, based on New York Times article attacking left activists
Delhi police on Tuesday raided the offices of news media company NewsClick. The news media house has been under investigation for allegedly receiving funds from China.
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Blinken factchecked: X users give U.S. Secretary of State history lesson
In a post on X, U.S. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken accuses Russia of manipulating history by actually twisting facts himself.
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Another United States invasion scheme in Haiti
Speaking at the 78th session of the United Nations General assembly on 19 September, President Biden called on the UN Security Council to immediately authorise the planned U.S. invasion of Haiti.
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Shouldn’t the United Kingdom and France relinquish their permanent seats at the United Nations?: The Thirty-Ninth Newsletter (2023)
At its fifteenth summit in August 2023, the BRICS (Brazil-Russia-India-China-South Africa) group adopted the Johannesburg II Declaration, which, amongst other issues, raised the question of reforming the United Nations, particularly its security council. To make the UN Security Council (UNSC) ‘more democratic, representative, effective, and efficient, and to increase the representation of developing countries’, BRICS urged the expansion of the council’s membership to include countries from Africa, Asia, and Latin America.
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‘Systemic racism’ rampant in U.S. police, judiciary: UN
The UN International Independent Expert Mechanism to Advance Racial Justice and Equality in the Context of Law Enforcement calls on authorities to amp up efforts of reform.
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“Welfare for Markets: A Global History of Basic Income” – book review
“Welfare for Markets” exposes the neoliberal links of basic income, and helps to explain why it is not a useful demand for the left, argues Dominic Alexander
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Poverty is growing in Puerto Rico, under U.S. colonialism
Poverty is rising in one of the world’s oldest colonies: In Puerto Rico, 41.7% of people, including 57.6% of children, live in poverty. This is nearly four times the U.S. rate. And Puerto Rican workers are getting poorer even while unemployment falls.
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In the AI of the Beholder: Discussing Artificial Intelligence – Part 1
In an introductory article discussing artificial intelligence, Memet Uludağ looks at the historical context around technological advancement and takes stock of some of the hype around AI. Will AI be the gamechanger it is being heralded as? To what extent will it change our societies? How will it affect work practices and workers?
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The World’s Most Dangerous Marxist | John Bellamy Foster | #182 HR
Foster explains Marx’s ecological critique of capitalism and how the concept of “metabolic rift” highlights the alienation between humans and nature caused by capitalism’s focus on profit over sustainability.
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Capitalism: an unstoppable force meets an immovable object
Ah, money, the driving force behind life in the modern world.
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Hersh reveals U.S. motive for destruction of Nord Stream pipelines
Seymour Hersh just published a new piece about the bombing of the Nord Stream pipelines.