Over 500,000 Women Participate in Switzerland Women’s Strike Truthout
Is Big Oil’s Plastic Bet Going Sour? OilPrice
Venezuela
From Exxon to ‘ambassador’: How Carlos Vecchio became Venezuela’s top coup lobbyist Grayzone
What About Venezuela’s Hacked Power Grid? Counterpunch
Canada Hires Hitman to Overthrow Venezuelan Government Internationalist 360°
‘This Pipeline Will Not Be Built,’ Indigenous and Climate Leaders Tell Trudeau After Canada Approves Trans Mountain Expansion Common Dreams
War
‘NYT’ readers call out the newspaper for abetting war against Iraq and now Iran Mondoweiss
Bret Stephens, Warmonger American Conservative
Have you heard of the CIA’s Iran mission center? Vijay Prashad
The United States Has A Permanent Temp Worker Problem Indypendent
Why a hipster, vegan, green tech economy is not sustainable Al Jazeera
Improving eco-efficiency within a capitalist growth-oriented system will not save the environment.
Financial Times explains Facebook’s Libra
It’s actually an ETF (exchange traded fund) with a light sprinkling of blockchain pixie dust to make it seem
cool.
Notes on Marx’s “General Law of Capitalist Accumulation” Monthly Review
One of the U.S.’s top capitalist mouthpieces, The Harvard Business Review(October 24th 2017), admits that hourly inflation-adjusted wages for the typical American worker have, since the early 1970s, hardly risen, edging upwards a mere 0.2% per year. Throughout this period, remember, the overall economy has been growing. Thus American workers haven’t participated in any of the growth, nor benefited from gains in their own productivity. The reason why is classic Marx Volume One: new technology has put downward pressure on less-skilled workers’ wages; and workers displaced from work send disciplinary messages to those still active in work: work harder or else!
Joe Biden Fondly Recalls The ‘Civility’ Of Pro-Segregation Senators NewsOne
Biden Under Fire For His Nostalgia For Segregationist Senators Daily Beast
White-Ass Joe Biden Claims Old White-Ass Segregationist Never Called Him ‘Boy’ The Root
Mohamed Morsi death: Former Egyptian leader was murdered, says Turkish president Erdogan Independent
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