Month: October 2024

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In the U.S.

Gov. Jeff Landry, lawmakers to spend millions on juvenile detention center expansions

October 21, 2024 Julie O’Donoghue | Louisiana Illuminator, Verite News
Oct. 16 — Louisiana officials expect to put tens of millions of dollars over the next two months into expanding juvenile detention centers that house children and teenagers accused of crimes. At the beginning of the […]
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In the U.S.

A law was meant to target teen violence. Instead, 17-year-olds are being charged as adults for lesser offenses.

October 21, 2024 Richard A. Webster, Verite News
This article was produced for ProPublica’s Local Reporting Network in partnership with Verite News. Sign up for Dispatches to get stories like this one as soon as they are published. In February, a prosecutor from […]
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Struggle ★ La Lucha PDF – October 21, 2024

October 20, 2024 Struggle - La Lucha
Get PDF here Hurricane chaos: Capitalism fails in a crisis Meat monopolies ripped off McDonald’s and everybody else Elections at a time of growing war budget and shrinking wages The U.S. war drive against China, […]
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U.S. to be ready for war on China by 2027: Navy Chief

October 19, 2024 Gary Wilson
On Tuesday, Oct. 15, a large-scale military exercise named Kamandang commenced in the Philippines. The exercise, scheduled to run until Oct. 25, involves over 2,300 military personnel from the United States, the Philippines, Japan, South […]
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Cuba

Cuba: Power outages prolonged due to delays in energy recovery

October 19, 2024 Struggle - La Lucha
Today, Cuba once again experienced a total power outage after the recovery process of the National Electric System (SEN), initiated the day before following a blackout caused by a failure at a thermoelectric plant, failed. […]
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La Lucha por el Socialismo

Robo del presupuesto de la Universidad

October 19, 2024 Berta Joubert-Ceci
La semana pasada, una firma británica que evalúa universidades a nivel global, la QS World University Rankings, posicionó por primera vez a la Universidad de Puerto Rico, nuestra universidad pública, como la primera en el […]
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Cuba

Cuba faces nationwide blackout, activists renew calls for an end to the blockade

October 19, 2024 Peoples Dispatch
The inclusion of Cuba on the state sponsors of terrorism list has severely limited the island nation from accessing funds and the international market. The Ministry of Energy and Mines in Cuba announced on Friday, […]
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Palestine

Arms shipment to Israel blocked by dockworkers in Greece

October 19, 2024 Struggle - La Lucha
Oct. 18 — Late last night the COSCO Dockers Union in Piraeus Port, ENEDEP, alerted its members and the unions of the area that a container transferring bullets to Israel was to arrive in Piraeus […]
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Palestine

Hamas statement on the martyrdom of Yahya Sinwar

October 18, 2024 Struggle - La Lucha
Halt the aggression in Gaza, withdraw and release our heroic prisoners from the occupiers’ jails With all the pride, dignity, and honor, the Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas, mourns to our Palestinian people, to our entire […]
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Environment

Capitalism’s climate catastrophe: How fossil fuel giants fueled the storm crisis

October 18, 2024 Scott Scheffer
On Sept. 26, Hurricane Helene hit near Tampa, Florida, and tore north and then northwest through Georgia, South Carolina, and North Carolina, even reaching the eastern part of Tennessee. Helene stretched about 400 miles across […]