(2021-10-08). Pandora Papers: How London became a financial hub for Gulf rulers and the super-rich. middleeasteye.net 
Pandora Papers: How London became a financial hub for Gulf rulers and the super-rich | Many of the secretive structures used to hide wealth from scrutiny were created during the British Empire and involved the Middle East | Fri, 10/08/2021 – 12: 00 | A statue of a dragon marks the boundary of the City of London, the British capital's financial hub (Reuters) | Since leaving the European Union, the B…
(2021-10-08). On anniversary of ban on Golden Dawn, Greek youth reiterate resolve to fight fascism. peoplesdispatch.org The neo-Nazi Greek fascist party Golden Dawn was declared a criminal organization by a Greek court last year, which convicted its leadership for involvement in multiple hate crimes, including the murder of Greek rapper Pavlos Fyssas…
(2021-10-08). Interim Senate Judiciary Report confirms Trump's repeated attempts to enlist Department of Justice into January 6 coup attempt. wsws.org The preliminary report details Trump's numerous attempts, working in concert with Republican lawmakers and sympathetic figures within the Department of Justice, to carry out a fascist coup.
(2021-10-08). Following xenophobic attacks, hundreds of Venezuelans return from Chile. peoplesdispatch.org A group of 200 Venezuelans voluntarily returned to their country from Chile with the assistance of the socialist government of President Nicolás Maduro, following the xenophobic attacks in Chile's Iquique last month…
(2021-10-08). The Postal Service is a Service…Not a Business. counterpunch.org Corporate ideologues never cease blathering that government programs should be run like a business. Really? What businesses would they choose? Pharmaceutical profiteers? Big Oil? Wall Street money manipulators? High tech billionaires? Airline price gougers? The good news is that the great majority of people aren't buying this corporatist blather. Instead, by a 2-to-1 margin, Americans
(2021-10-08). Open Letter to Australian Labor MPs re IHRA & Labor "Progressive Except Palestine" (PEP). dissidentvoice.org At the outset I must declare that I am an anti-racist Jewish Australian scientist and humanitarian writer with a sole allegiance to Australia. Coming from a famous Jewish Hungarian family near-eradicated from Hungary by the WW2 Jewish Holocaust, I am inescapably bound by the key moral imperatives from that catastrophe, to whit "zero tolerance for …
(2021-10-08). Construction workers campaign for work agreement. greenleft.org.au CFMEU members are campaigning for an enterprise agreement, three years after the old one expired. Steve O'Brien reports.
(2021-10-07). Auguries of Late Capitalism. counterpunch.org I To see evolution in a bee's flight And biodiversity in a leaf of grass. To know Gaia from the passing of day to night And complexity from the biomass. II Wildfires rage from May to December, Hurricanes from June to November. Few believed the river would rise higher, Then every yard became a quagmire.
(2021-10-07). Facebook: The New Evil Empire? strategic-culture.org By Tim GRAHAM | In the last few years, Facebook has become Public Enemy No. 1 in the media's imagination, and Mark Zuckerberg is suddenly the creepy James Bond villain. Celebrated PBS filmmaker Ken Burns even ranted on a podcast that Zuckerberg was an "enemy of the state" who should be in jail. | After Facebook went down for six hours on Oct. 4, CBS late-night "comedian" Stephen Colbert joked, "Facebook did not say what might be causing the outage. Now, I'm no computer expert, but my theory is: A just God?" | It does not matter one iota that Facebook employees donated 90% of their political money to the Democrats…
(2021-10-07). Russian Foreign Minister accuses NATO of supporting neo-Nazis in Ukraine. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com Russian Foreign Minister accuses NATO of "supporting neo-Nazis" in Ukraine Foreign Minister of the Russian Federation Sergei Lavrov accused the NATO of "supporting neo-Nazis" in Ukraine. He said so during the negotiations with the Alliance's Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, writes The Washington Post. According to the outlet, Lavrov made these statements during the closed session …
(2021-10-07). Recalling Victor Klemperer (1881-1960) and his 'Language of the Third Reich'. peoplesworld.org 
(2021-10-07). Video: Electoral Members of the Socialist Equality Party support campaign against Australia's anti-democratic laws. wsws.org "The legislation… is in tune and tone with authoritarian movements right across the world."
(2021-10-07). Public housing campaigners pre-selected to contest NSW Senate. greenleft.org.au Long-term community and union activists Andrew Chuter and Rachel Evans will run for the Socialist Alliance in the New South Wales Senate. Jim McIlroy reports.
(2021-10-07). Preface to the Turkish-language edition of Leon Trotsky and the Development of Marxism. wsws.org This is a preface by David North to a new Turkish translation of North's essay, Leon Trotsky and the Development of Marxism, written in 1982 to commemorate the fifth anniversary of the political assassination of Tom Henehan.
(2021-10-07). Brazen disregard for Filipinos killed: movements condemn Marcos Jr.'s presidential bid. peoplesdispatch.org Progressive movements are ramping up their resistance against the presidential bid of Bongbong Marcos, son of former dictator Ferdinand Marcos, in the upcoming 2022 election…
(2021-10-07). Foreign ministers to honor Ukrainian troops killed in Donbass, Turkish troops killed in Ukraine. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com The Turkish troops to be honored by the foreign ministers of Turkey and Ukraine are presumably those attached to the 15th Corps deployed to Galicia to fight against the Russian Empire, of which contemporary Ukraine was a part. Foreign Minister of Turkey to visit Ukraine During their stay in Lviv, the ministers will lay flowers …
(2021-10-07). Concord Hospitality and Whitman Peterson to Construct New Hilton Hotel at Mayo Clinic in Florida. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — To offer patients and visitors a premiere hospitality experience, Concord Hospitality Enterprises and Whitman Peterson, in collaboration with Mayo Clinic, will build an eight-story Hilton hotel with 252 guest rooms at Mayo Clinic in Florida. Expected to join Hilton's flagship brand, Hilton Hotels & Resorts, construction on the $70 million project is scheduled to begin in the summer of 2022, with completion slated for early 2024. The 179,000-square-foot hotel will offer guests…
(2021-10-07). Peru: "Agrarian Reform" Without Changing the Structure of Land Ownership and Tenure. orinocotribune.com By Ollantay Itzamná — Oct 4, 2021 | On Sunday, October 3, in the emblematic Andean city of Cusco, the President of bicentennial Peru, Pedro Castillo, proclaimed what he promised during his electoral campaign: The second agrarian reform for Peru. | What does an agrarian reform consist of? | Agrarian reform consists of the redistribution of land ownership and tenure, complemented with public policies (technical and financial assistance, market creation, etc.) that guarantee rural "development". Agrarian reform, in order to be such, must change the structure of land ownership and tenure. | The 1969 agrarian ref…