(2021-10-21). This Is America #150: University Occupations Spread; Daniel Baker Gets 3.5 Years for Facebook Posts. itsgoingdown.org photo: @ChuckModi1 Welcome, to This Is America, October 20th, 2021. On today's episode, we speak with attorney Brad Thomson about the case of anarchist and antifascist, Dan Baker, who was sentenced to 3.5 years in prison in Florida, after posting calls to social media for counter-demonstrations against the far-Right, directly after the attempted January 6th…
(2021-10-21). Lasso decide no ir a la comisión investigadora de Pandora Papers. telesurtv.net Tampoco lo harán la esposa e hijo del presidente ecuatoriano, quien dijo estar dispuesto a recibir la comisión.
(2021-10-21). Congreso colombiano abrirá el debate sobre los Pandora Papers. telesurtv.net La vicepresidenta Marta Lucía Ramírez es una de las funcionarias colombianos citadas en la investigación de los Pandora Papers.
(2021-10-21). Trump and Miller attempted to deploy 250,000 troops to US-Mexico border in Spring 2020. wsws.org Stephen Miller's plan to deploy troops with Trump's support was part of a fascist political strategy that played out over the course of 2020 and 2021 and remains a threat today.
(2021-10-21). Mobilize the working class to eliminate COVID-19! Attend the October 24 meeting on "How to end the pandemic!" wsws.org The New York City Educators Rank-and-Files Safety Committee is calling on educators, parents and all workers to attend the October 24 webinar "How to end the pandemic," which is being hosted by the World Socialist Web Site and the International Workers Alliance of Rank-and-File Committees.
(2021-10-21). Brazil's Foràßa Sindical issues phony support for John Deere workers' strike in the US. wsws.org Workers in the US, Brazil and around the world must reject the reactionary alliance between pro-capitalist unions determined to suppress their struggles.
(2021-10-21). Selected Articles: Forced Vaccination Was Always the End Game. America's Move Towards Authoritarianism. globalresearch.ca 
By The unspoken truth is that the novel coronavirus provides a pretext…
(2021-10-21). TWU workers continue struggle for fair agreement. greenleft.org.au Transport Workers Union members at StarTrack walked off the job for 24 hours following the company's refusal to negotiate a fair enterprise agreement. Jim McIlroy reports.
(2021-10-20). Democrats' Toothless Drug Pricing Alternative Is A Coup For Big Pharma. popularresistance.org Under the Build Back Better Act, Congress can expand and strengthen Medicare and Medicaid, improving the lives of millions of seniors while also throwing a lifeline to folks living in states where GOP politicians are strangling public benefits. | But to win these popular reforms, we have to defeat the efforts of Big Pharma, their greedy lobbyists and the politicians who take their money. | It wasn't enough for Democratic Representatives Kurt Schrader of Oregon, Scott Peters of California, Kathleen Rice of New York and Stephanie Murphy of Florida to vote against a robust bill that would allow Medicare to negotiate…
(2021-10-20). The Empire of Lies Breaks Down: Ugly Truths the Deep State Wants to Keep Hidden. dissidentvoice.org 
the world is in greater peril from those who tolerate or encourage evil than from those who actually commit it. —Albert Einstein1 America is breaking down. This breakdown—triggered by polarizing circus politics, media-fed mass hysteria, racism, classism, fascism, fear-mongering, political correctness, cultural sanitation, virtue signaling, a sense of hopelessness and powerlessness in the face …
(2021-10-20). Multimillionaire counterrevolutionary: Mark R. Levin's new book 'American Marxism'. peoplesworld.org 
Every thuggish movement needs its cover of respectability and even scholarly, theoretical pillars. This is the role played by Mark R. Levin, whose newest tome American Marxism provides squawking points for the radically neo-fascist, lumpen Republican Party, which has been increasingly embracing the political agenda of libertarian infiltrators from fossil fuels, tobacco, agribusiness, Big Pharma, …
(2021-10-20). Podemos escalates its promotion of Spanish militarism. wsws.org The PSOE-Podemos government is actively covering for fascist officers within the army even after they launched coup threats against the government.
(2021-10-20). Klaus Schwab's Marx: A Sorcerer With the Powers of the Netherworld. strategic-culture.org 
Combining Marxian ideas of historical materialism and technological determinism with fascist-futurist ideas of technocracy and bureaucratic managerial scientism, the World Economic Forum pursues a path of 'inclusivity' for the managerial class elite. | "No servant can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or else he will be loyal to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon." | — The Holy Bible (Luke 16: 13) | "Modern bourgeois society, with its relations of production, of exchange and of property, a society that has conjured up such gigantic means of prod…
(2021-10-20). Tens of thousands protest in Rome against fascist anti-vaccine riot. wsws.org The protest followed a fascist riot which targeted the parliament building and stormed the offices of the CGIL trade union federation on October 9.
(2021-10-20). Public health or private wealth? How digital vaccine passports pave way for unprecedented surveillance capitalism. thegrayzone.com The titans of global capitalism are exploiting the Covid-19 crisis to institute social credit-style digital ID systems across the West. The death by starvation of Etwariya Devi, a 67-year-old widow from the rural Indian state of Jharkhand, might have passed without notice had it not been part of a more widespread trend. Like 1.3 billion of her fellow Indians, Devi had been pushed to enroll in a biometric digital ID system called Aadhaar in order to access public services, including …
(2021-10-20). An Unrealized Political Possibility: Remembering the Grenada Revolution. libya360.wordpress.com Kevin Edmonds The United States overthrow of the Grenada Revolution in 1983 initiated a vicious and unrelenting regime of neoliberalism that has gutted the Caribbean nation. But revolutionary Grenada showed the world a radical alternative to capitalism and neocolonialism is possible. October 25th marks the 38th anniversary of Operation Urgent Fury — the name given…
(2021-10-20). Digital Vaccine Passports Pave Way For Surveillance Capitalism. popularresistance.org The death by starvation of Etwariya Devi, a 67-year-old widow from the rural Indian state of Jharkhand, might have passed without notice had it not been part of a more widespread trend. | Like 1.3 billion of her fellow Indians, Devi had been pushed to enroll in a biometric digital ID system called Aadhaar in order to access public services, including her monthly allotment of 25kg of rice. When her fingerprint failed to register with the shoddy system, Devi was denied her food ration. Throughout the course of the following three months in 2017, she was repeatedly refused food until she succumbed to hunger, alone i…
(2021-10-20). Public health or private wealth? How digital vaccine passports pave way for unprecedented surveillance capitalism. thegrayzone.com The titans of global capitalism are exploiting the Covid-19 crisis to institute social credit-style digital ID systems across the West. The death by starvation of Etwariya Devi, a 67-year-old widow from the rural Indian state of Jharkhand, might have passed without notice had it not been part of a more widespread trend. Like 1.3 billion of her fellow Indians, Devi had been pushed to enroll in a biometric digital ID system called Aadhaar in order to access public services, including …
(2021-10-20). Generational, Historical, Familial, Capitalism Trauma. dissidentvoice.org 
Whew, the realities of so many people as part of the walking wounded in high and low places. The landscape in USA, now Canada, UK and parts of Europe, where the Capitalists buff their gold-plated toilets and polish their collection of cars, there are hundreds of millions of people, rudderless, broken, flayed, laid prostrate from …
(2021-10-20). Meet India Walton: Black Socialist on Democratic Ticket for Buffalo Mayor Snubbed by NY Dem Party. democracynow.org 
As early voting kicks off Saturday in a nationally watched mayoral race in Buffalo, New York, we speak with India Walton, who shocked the Democratic establishment when she defeated four-term Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown in the Democratic primary. Since then, the self-described socialist has faced stiff opposition from within her party, with many top Democrats in the state, including Governor Kathy Hochul and Senator Chuck Schumer, refusing to endorse her. State Democratic Party Chair Jay Jacobs even compared Walton to former KKK leader David Duke in an interview, for which he later apologized. Walton is a Black sing…
(2021-10-20). Desolate Democracy and Other Political Wonders of 2121. southfront.org 
Vladislav Surkov. IMAGE: Alexei Druzhinin / TASSSouthFront foreword: MSM and Western diplomats work hard to present Russia as an aggressive totalitarian regime ruled by an iron hand of Vladimir Putin. The only issue with this narrative is that in reality the structure of the Russian state system is more complex. Contrary to delusions of globalist propagandists, the modern Russia in many cases appears to be a more 'democratic' state than 'Western democracies' pretend to be. | Dear readers, SouthFront proposes to your attention an article of former personal adviser of President Putin — Vladislav Surkov. In th…
(2021-10-20). Scientific truth and the global fight to end the pandemic. wsws.org The efforts of scientists require mass support, particularly in a period when reactionary forces shamelessly propagate ignorance, confusion and superstition.
(2021-10-20). America's Cold Civil War. counterpunch.org "Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty." — Plato So many millions of people have been duped into believing Donald Trump's Big Lie that he won the election, it seems as if we're reliving the North-South hatred over slavery. We know
(2021-10-20). Waiting for Anya — teaching kids about the Holocaust. greenleft.org.au Barry Healy reviews a recent film about how French villagers saved Jewish children from the Holocaust during World War II.
(2021-10-20). Waiting for Anya — teaching kids about the Holocaust. greenleft.org.au Barry Healy reviews a recent film about how French villagers saved Jewish children from the Holocaust during World War II.
(2021-10-20). Forced Vaccination Was Always the End Game. America's Move Towards Authoritarianism. globalresearch.ca
(2021-10-20). Super Imperialism: The Economic Strategy of American Empire With Economist Michael Hudson. strategic-culture.org Economist Michael Hudson discusses the update of his book "Super Imperialism: The Economic Strategy of American Empire" and the financial motivations behind the US new cold war on China and Russia. | By Ben NORTON, Max BLUMENTHAL | Economist Michael Hudson has published a new,
(2021-10-20). How Zillow And iBuyers Are Buying Houses At Scale, Affordability Consequences Highlighted. moguldom.com The U.S. housing market is becoming more and more difficult to navigate for the average American looking to purchase a home. The dream of homeownership is not as attainable as it once was with the skyrocketing cost and demand for real estate, along with limited supply. Some say iBuyers — instant-buyer companies that use algorithms …
(2021-10-20). NFT Bubble Heats Up: Investors Are Borrowing Against Their NFTs And Defaulting. moguldom.com Investors are borrowing against their non-fungible tokens (NFTs) as the market bubble heats up but some are defaulting on their repayments due to the volatility of the new asset class. NFTs are a blockchain-based record of ownership of digital items such as an image or a video. The NFT market is considered a bubble — an economic cycle marked …
