(2021-10-29). Why the Troubled U.S. Empire Could Quickly Fall Apart. independentmediainstitute.org The U.S. wars lost in Iraq and Afghanistan showed imperial overreach beyond what even 20 years of war could manage. That the defeats were drawn out for so many years shows that domestic politics and the funding of the domestic military-industrial complex were, more than geopolitics, the key drivers of these wars. Empires can die …
(2021-10-29). Power to the (working) people: The Great Resignation could change how we relate to work. nationofchange.org Only time will tell if working people, both those organized in unions and those who are not, will be able to take advantage of this moment to overthrow the mini dictatorships so many labor under.
(2021-10-29). US Secretary of Labor Marty Walsh feigns support for Kellogg's strike in visit to picket line. wsws.org Walsh, the former mayor of Boston and ex-union bureaucrat, exemplifies the corrupt corporatist relations between the unions, the corporations and the capitalist state which Biden is seeking to develop in order to strangle the growing movement of the working class.
(2021-10-29). Panopticon: How Mainstream Academia Normalized Mass Imprisonment. strategic-culture.org 
The panopticon of the Smart City is a system set up so that free citizens police, interrogate, and report on each other. | Academia, with its woke newspeak, is a god-awful thing. Only through the complete destruction of language can actually fascist policies, which threaten to eradicate humanity, be passed off as progressive, even social-democratic. Our aim is to build upon our previous chapters to show that these were not intellectual fishing expeditions — we're here with the receipts. | Jeremy Bentham's horrific theory and model of the Panopticon is openly presented as a 'positive vision of the future' wh…
(2021-10-29). Campaign for Venezuela's 21N Regional Elections Begins: How Many Candidates are There? orinocotribune.com According to the schedule established by Venezuela's National Electoral Council (CNE), the campaign for Venezuela's November 21 regional and municipal "mega-elections" officially began today. Venezuelans will select governors, mayors, city councilors, and regional legislators during the process. | It is an event that brings together almost 68,000 male and female candidates from the different opposition groups against 3,072 candidates nominated by the Great Patriotic Pole (GPP). This last alliance, that of Chavismo, has as its strength the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV), Venezuela's leading party since…
(2021-10-29). Prospects for Chile: New president, new constitution, continuing turmoil. peoplesworld.org 
The 1973 U.S.-supported military coup against Chile's socialist government and the murder of President Salvador Allende may be old history. The Pinochet dictatorship ended in 1988 and democratic forms—elections, political parties, debate—are in place. And Chile's economy, recovering from the pandemic, is booming. For the U.S. State Department, Chile is now "a leader in promoting …
(2021-10-29). Meet the Detroit Socialist Running to Rein in the Police. zcomm.org Landis Spencer is a socialist running for the civilian board that oversees the Detroit Police Department. His goal: to curb police power and shift public money to poor and working-class residents…
(2021-10-29). Strikes erupt across Portugal as government fails to adopt budget. wsws.org António Costa's seven-year minority Socialist Party government is tottering as strikes for higher wages and better working conditions erupt across Portugal.
(2021-10-29). The Psychological Impacts of Covid-19 Pandemic Measures: Lockdowns, Warnings, "Social Distancing", "New Variants". Drastic Increase in Depression and Anxiety. globalresearch.ca
(2021-10-28). Anti-Imperialism You Can Try at Home. tomdispatch.com Robin Rue Simmons had been very curious about the truth of American life as a young person. But it was only after she finished high school, left her native Evanston, Illinois, and returned as an adult — ready to buy a house in the historically Black neighborhood in which she grew up — that she delved deep into her city's history and fully understood the policies that had kept Black residents poor while enriching their white neighbors. Of course, this isn't the kind of history that's taught in school, even if today's students do sometimes learn unsavory truths about the American empire. Local history i…
(2021-10-28). Is a multipolar world the answer to U.S. imperialism? mronline.org 
Is there a growing resistance to the unipolar imperial order? Is the U.S. an empire in decline? Will the future be a multipolar one? If so, what does that mean ans how should the left in the imperialist core respond?>
(2021-10-28). Tomgram: Mattea Kramer, All Empire Is Local. warisacrime.org This article originally appeared at TomDispatch.com. To receive TomDispatch in your inbox three times a week, click here. The request arrived by email, but read as if it were from another age. Would I be open, an executive assistant asked, to having tea with the president of an Ivy League university? A longtime éminence grise, the …
(2021-10-28). The Battle for Workers' Rights and Democracy in South Korea. liberationnews.org 
Brian and Ju-Hyun Park discuss the rising tide of labor activism in South Korea demanding not only economic and social justice for workers, but also an expansion of democracy.
(2021-10-28). Portugal snap election likely after left wing rejects Socialist Party's budget. peoplesworld.org 
Portugal is on course for a snap general election after its parliament rejected the proposed state budget for 2022 on Wednesday evening. Prime Minister Antonio Costa was defeated by 117 votes to 108, with five abstentions, after left-wing parties, including the Portuguese Communist Party (PCP), refused to back the Socialist Party's budget. It is the …
(2021-10-28). No new anti-socialist laws! Defend the SGP against the German secret service! wsws.org On November 18, the Berlin Administrative Court will begin hearing the case of the Sozialistische Gleichheitspartei (Socialist Equality Party, SGP) against the Federal Republic of Germany. The SGP is defending itself against being subject to surveillance by the secret service and being named as "left-wing extremist" in the secret service annual report.
(2021-10-28). Amazon Canada workers need organizations of struggle, not pro-corporate Teamsters. wsws.org Amazon workers are brutally exploited, but the unionization drive launched by the corporatist Teamsters has nothing to do with mobilizing them to put an end to poverty wages and a punishing, injury-inducing work regime.
(2021-10-28). Proxy army: With U.S., Israeli assistance, Georgia produces NATO-standard arms. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com Georgia launches production of NATO standard GI-4 rifles Georgia is launching the production of an automatic rifle of NATO standards GI-4 (5.56) at a Georgian-Israeli enterprise Delta CAA, which was incorporated at the premises of Delta, Manufacturing of the automatic firearms of NATO standards was observed by the Prime Minister of Georgia. *** "…We imported …