(2021-10-08). Indigenous people take over a pipeline station in the Peruvian Amazon. peoplesdispatch.org 
The Indigenous people of the Loreto region in the Peruvian Amazon are demanding environmental remediation against numerous oil spills. They also seek infrastructure guaranteeing basic services in the region…
(2021-10-08). Newsom Administration Issued 138 Offshore Well Permits in California Waters Prior to New Oil Spill. counterpunch.org As birds, fish and other wildlife die from the over 126,000 gallons of crude oil unleashed by the devastating oil spill off Huntington Beach, the oil and gas regulatory agency under Governor Gavin Newsom has issued 138 oil permits for operations in state waters since he assumed office, Consumer Watchdog and FracTracker Alliance revealed on October 4. And while "marine
(2021-10-08). Were Pandora Papers a Controlled Leak?—Misión Verdad's William Serafino Comments. orinocotribune.com The Pandora Papers are a controlled leak that does not take aim at the system that privileges US and UK interests, explained William Serafino, a researcher at the Samuel Robinson Institute. | For Serafino, a Venezuelan political scientist, this new case of the Pandora Papers, that recently linked world political leaders and celebrities accused of trying to hide their fortunes in infamous tax havens, constitutes a controlled leak in that "it touches intermediate sectors of the transnational elite" but does not point out "the true root of the problem, which is the system of incentives and privileges that the United…
(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). Ukrainian MP Involved In Corruption Probe Dies After Falling Ill In The Back Of A Taxi. southfront.org Early on October 8th, Anton Poliakov, a Ukrainian member of parliament died in a taxi after "falling ill". Police said…
(2021-10-08). How Facebook algorithms promote hate and toxic content. peoplesdispatch.org Whistleblower Frances Haugen has revealed hard evidence—internal Facebook documents—that show it knew its algorithms promote dangerous content but did nothing about it so that it could maximize its advertising revenue.
(2021-10-08). Blowing the Whistle at Facebook. counterpunch.org The only surprise was that it did not come sooner. Big Tech whistleblowers are not exactly running out of the offices of Silicon Valley, so it was with some excitement that Facebook could produce a person willing enough to show us the laundry, with the dirt still caking the content. And the laundry in question
(2021-10-08). How to Challenge Online Censorship. Support Global Research. globalresearch.ca Dear Readers, | For much of this year, independent media — including Global Research — has felt the sting of increased online censorship", in the form of a "crackdown on news that challenges official government narratives". | September 2021 marks our 20th …
(2021-10-08). Leaked details of UAW-Deere contract reveal attacks on pay, benefits. wsws.org The deal includes paltry wage increases which would fall far below the current rate of inflation of 5 percent.
(2021-10-08). Localizing Reparations During an Era of Intensified Repression. globalresearch.ca
(2021-10-08). Revolutionizing the Cities: 10 Years of Housing, Self-Management, and Communes in Venezuela. orinocotribune.com By Alba Movimientos — Oct 5, 2021 | Ten years ago we gathered in the Ezequiel Zamora Park (or El Calvario) of Caracas—as part of a public dialogue alongside Commander Hugo Chávez—and began an ongoing process of urban revolution that has allowed the people of Venezuelan to recover previously abandoned or underutilized lands. Today, millions of houses have been built on these lands, thousands of units have been constructed by people's power, many of which are now self-managed by the community. The right to housing for working families is fully protected, in stark contrast to a past in which people…
(2021-10-08). Over 140,000 US children have lost a parent or caregiver to COVID-19. wsws.org While the ruling elite and their media endlessly repeat the mantra that everyone must "learn to live with the virus," in reality more and more families are being ripped apart as nearly 7,000 people continue to die from COVID-19 worldwide each day.
(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). Immigration Cruelty Extends Far Beyond the Border. counterpunch.org Images of Border Patrol officers on horseback whipping Black migrants shocked many Americans. President Biden called them "outrageous" and "wrong" and promised an investigation. Many members of Congress also spoke out. Given this reaction, you could be forgiven for thinking that abuse like this isn't normal for Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) or Immigration and Customs Enforcement
(2021-10-08). Want a Working Democracy? Try Democratizing Work. counterpunch.org Google's well-known motto, "Don't be Evil," might imply the company expects employees will use their moral compass. Then again, maybe not. The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) recently reviewed a case regarding Google's termination of several employees for applying their conscience at work. What the NLRB decides will have major implications for workplace rights. But
(2021-10-08). Silencing Julian Assange: Why Bother with a Trial When You Can Just Kill Him? globalresearch.ca
(2021-10-08). International Observers Take Part In Venezuelan Electoral Drill. telesurenglish.net On Thursday, Venezuela's National Electoral Council (CNE) President Pedro Calzadilla announced that the Latin American Council of Electoral Experts (CEELA) and the Carter Center will send observers to the electoral drill to be held on Sunday. | RELATED: | Around 3,232 public officials will participate in this drill, which will be held from 7: 00 a.m. to 4: 00 p.m. (local time) at 1,336 polling stations located in 333 municipalit…
(2021-10-08). No retreat from elimination! The New Zealand and international working class must fight to stamp out COVID-19! wsws.org The working class must oppose the Ardern government's plan to "transition" away from a strategy of elimination, which threatens to allow COVID-19 to spread throughout the country, killing thousands of people.
(2021-10-08). Lies the Timber Industry Tells. counterpunch.org An employee of RY Timber presented misleading commentary in his essay "Forest Service is Right to Restore Forest Health." First, keep in mind that the timber industry and forestry profession (both dependents on logging for their employment) have conveniently defined forest health. For example, the commentator suggests dead beetle-kill lodgepole pine represents an "unhealthy" forest.
(2021-10-08). SPD, Greens and FDP discuss social cuts, herd immunity and war in German coalition talks. wsws.org Talks on forming a new coalition government are taking place behind closed doors, while all parties intend to continue and intensify the hated policies of the outgoing grand coalition government.
(2021-10-08). What Does India Get Out of Being Part of 'The Quad'? counterpunch.org The recent Quad leaders meeting in the White House on September 24 appears to have shifted focus away from its original framing as a security dialogue between four countries, the United States, India, Japan and Australia. Instead, the United States seems to be moving much closer to Australia as a strategic partner and providing it with nuclear submarines. Supplying
(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). End the 1917 Espionage Act. counterpunch.org Violation of the 1917 Espionage Act is the law that Julian Assange faces if he is extradited to the US from England. If found guilty of the charges under this violation, Assange faces up to 175 years in a US supermax prison. For what? many people ask. This is where it gets tricky. The 1917
(2021-10-08). Macron lifts mandatory masking in French primary schools. wsws.org The government's "immunity by infection" policy amongst unvaccinated children will lead to more death and long-term disability.
(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). Maritime Union of Australia calls off strikes at Patrick Terminals. wsws.org More than 100 workers at Patrick's Melbourne port are in isolation due to COVID-19 exposure.
(2021-10-08). The Winds of Sixties Change. counterpunch.org Readers of Beverly Gologorsky's new novel, Can you See the Wind?, (Seven Stories; $24.95) might be reminded of Bob Dylan's Sixties anthem, "Blowing in the Wind." In the pages of fiction, Gologorsky doesn't offer answers or solutions to social and political problems, though she captures the winds of change that blew across the decade. Elsewhere
(2021-10-08). Paris demands aggressive EU policy after AUKUS treaty signed against China. wsws.org Australia's repudiation of multibillion-dollar weapons deals with France to ally with the UK and America against China has led to a lasting US-EU conflict.
(2021-10-08). Solar Energy on the Frontlines and Old-Fashioned Clotheslines. dissidentvoice.org 
Solar energy comes to Earthlings in many ways. Ancient Persians used passive solar architecture. East Africans about the same time funneled cool ocean wind through tunnels to cool themselves. Now at long last, solar energy is outpacing new fossil fuel and nuclear facilities on price, environmental safety, and speed of installation. One use of solar …
(2021-10-08). AE911Truth Celebrates the Milestone — and Verification — of 3,500 Architects and Engineers. globalresearch.ca
(2021-10-08). US Settler-Colonialism will Die When we Stop Believing in It. orinocotribune.com By Rainer Shea — Oct 6, 2021 | For the same reason Mao
(2021-10-08). India to provide pittance in "compensation" to families of COVID-19 dead. wsws.org The Modi government's compensation scheme is a cruel sham. The families of the vast majority of the 5 million Indians whose deaths are attributable to the pandemic will never receive the paltry 50,000 rupee (US$671) payment.
(2021-10-08). Bolivian Workers Central Calls March To Defend Democracy. telesurenglish.net On Oct. 12, Bolivia's Indigenous movements and workers unions will hold rallies in La Paz, Cochabamba, and Santa Cruz to defend President Luis Arce, the Indigenous flag ("The Whipala"), and democracy. | RELATED: | Called by the Bolivian Workers Central (COB) Secretary Juan Huarachi on Thursday, these rallies are a response to the far-right movements that have threatened to implement destabilization actions. | The COB ask…
(2021-10-08). Anti-Capitalist Chronicles: Chinese Property Markets & Affordable Housing. roarmag.org Season 3, Episode 22 — Chinese Property Markets & Affordable Housing: | In this episode of ACC, Prof. David Harvey talks about the crisis of affordable housing on a global level, with particular emphasis on China and the US. Harvey argues that providing affordable housing for people cannot be accomplished by the private sector as it conflicts with the capitalist profit motive, and it therefore requires an anti-capitalist approach. | You can support this podcast on
(2021-10-08). Canadian Christians And Secularists Contest Including God's Name in the Un Charter of 1948 and the Canadian Charter of 1982. counterpunch.org Canadian historian George Egerton has provided us with two case studies that can serve our purposes of illustrating how the translation process from religious to secular domains works in two epochal moments in Canadian religious and political history: the formation of the United Nations Charter of Human Rights (in 1948) and the Canadian Charter of
(2021-10-08). 10,000 Alberta Superstore workers vote overwhelmingly in favour of strike action. wsws.org The poorly-paid grocery workers are outraged over poverty wages, the company's erratic scheduling practices and the virtual absence of COVID-19 protections in the workplace.
(2021-10-08). The US, Mexico To Discuss Security Topics in Bilateral Meeting. telesurenglish.net On Friday, the government of Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO) will meet a U.S. delegation headed by State Secretary Anthony Blinken to discuss possible ways to counteract the migration crisis and drug trafficking in their region. | RELATED: | Currently, about 14,000 Haitian migrants are stranded in Mexican border crossings or shelters, where they wait for the U.S. authorities to process their asylum clai…
(2021-10-08). The Child Credit Absolutely Shouldn't Have an Earnings Test, But If It Does, It Should Apply to Married Mothers. counterpunch.org Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) has called for adding "work requirements" to the expanded Child Tax Credit (CTC) currently moving through Congress as part of the Build Back Better Act. Manchin was dismissive when initially asked by Tara Golshan of the HuffPost to expand on "what kind of work requirements he'd like added to the benefit, saying they
(2021-10-08). Nurses left behind by Croatian government. peoplesdispatch.org 
Several hundred health workers from the trade union Nurses United, held a protest on 23 September this year in Zagreb, Croatia, calling on the government to improve their working conditions. The rally was the first significant public action in the healthcare sector after a large protest in 2019, when over 2,000 nurses, ambulance drivers, and other health workers protested exhausting working hours and worsening rights in the workplace. | In addition to the unresolved issue of overtime work, the nurses' requests expanded to more employment in public health facilities and a reversal of mandatory COVID-19 passes for…
(2021-10-08). Anti-Iran and Anti-Venezuela Agents Conspire. orinocotribune.com Two prominent individuals working against Iran and Venezuela met this week to continue their conspiracies against the governments of their respective countries. | The Venezuelan coup plotter and fugitive Leopoldo López and the US journalist of Iranian descent Masih Alinejad held a meeting on Tuesday, October 7, within the framework of the so-called Oslo Freedom Forum, held in the US state of Florida. | Alinejad and López, who are known for their illegitimate actions against their governments, advocated strengthening their cooperation in their "struggle for freedom"—a euphemism for defending Washington's int…
(2021-10-08). Liberal Democrats launch legal challenge to Australia's anti-democratic electoral laws. wsws.org Rather than preventing "confusion," the veto power over the use of political names is designed to keep voters in the dark as support plunges for the major capitalist parties.
(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). Kellogg's mobilizes scabs to break strike of 1,400 workers. wsws.org The company announced that it intends to use salaried staff and "third-party resources" to restart production at four cereal factories in the United States.
(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). How to Avert Afghanistan's Food and Economic Crises. counterpunch.org Afghanistan's humanitarian situation is spiraling into catastrophe. Millions of Afghans are now facing severe economic stress and food insecurity in the wake of the Taliban's August takeover, set off by widespread lost income, cash shortages, and rising food costs. Officials with the UNand several foreign governments are warning of an economic collapse and risks of worsening acute malnutrition and outright
(2021-10-08). Beware of Any War On Terror Fought by a Terrorist Nation. counterpunch.org January 6 was a day that will live on in infamy, an unparalleled assault on the precious vital organs of our exceptional democracy that this great nation is still reeling to recover from, or at least so I'm told. According to the mainstream media and heavy hitters in both parties, this thing was worse than
(2021-10-08). Jerusalem as Memory and Place: Itzhak, Igor, and Aaron. counterpunch.org "Memory is like a pomegranate layered and compacted in segments redolently rich. Each kernel is attached with a tiny nodule, its own umbilical cord. Place is also that umbilical cord that links you to the same spring." Every once in a long while I read a text rich in imagery, metaphor, symbolism, and creativity and,
(2021-10-08). ISU graduate students vote on union-backed contract enforcing poverty wages. wsws.org The Illinois State University Graduate Workers Union is working to push through a sellout contract that enforces poverty-like conditions in a no-strike contract.
(2021-10-08). Abolish the Debt Ceiling Before It Commits Austerity Again. zcomm.org The GOP used the debt ceiling to force spending cuts in 2011. It can't be allowed again…
(2021-10-08). Never Having to Say You're Sorry: War Without Apologies. counterpunch.org The anniversary of the 9/11 attacks was marked by days of remembrances — for the courageous rescue workers of that moment, for the thousands murdered as the Twin Towers collapsed, for those who died in the Pentagon, or in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, fighting off the hijackers of the commercial jet they were in, as well as