Daily Archives: April 18, 2023

2023-04-18: News Headlines

Yanis Varoufakis (2023-04-18). Blow up the banking system! A free account for all is possible. indybay.org Harsh austerity policies for the vast majority of people and state socialism for bankers, both practiced at the same time in Europe and the U.S. after 2008 – this had two consequences, as they have characterized the financialized capitalism of the past 14 years. First, this course poisoned the West's money.

Mario Hernández (2023-04-17). Funcionarios norteamericanos visitan Argentina con el ojo puesto en China. globalizacion.ca La región necesita resistir la dominación estadounidense y negociar en bloque con China, para recuperar soberanía y revertir su regresión económica (Claudio Katz en "Integración, soberanía y socialismo en América Latina"). | Dos semanas después del encuentro entre Joe Biden y…

The Lever (2023-04-18). üéß MOVIES VS. CAPITALISM: Josie and the Pussycats (w/ Shannon Amabile). levernews.com On this week's MVC, Rivka and Frank are joined by psychotherapist and cinephile

Lee Camp (2023-04-17). Imagining A World Beyond Capitalism, with David Cobb. mintpressnews.com In this hour-long interview, former Green Party presidential candidate David Cobb discusses radical politics, community organizing, sustainable development, climate change, racial justice, the protests in France, indigenous sovereignty, and building power to confront the ruling class.

Editor (2023-04-18). Why the Republi-Fascists Can't Stop Calling the Capitalist Democrats 'Marxists'. scheerpost.com By Paul Street / CounterPunch The Capitalist Democrats… The Democratic Party is a militantly capitalist entity and always has been — and not just in the neoliberal era. The much beloved New Deal Democratic president Franklin Roosevelt, himself a wealthy member of the capitalist establishment, boasted that he had saved the US American profits system by overseeing …

Yanis Varoufakis (2023-04-18). Blow up the banking system! A free account for all is possible. indybay.org Harsh austerity policies for the vast majority of people and state socialism for bankers, both practiced at the same time in Europe and the U.S. after 2008 – this had two consequences, as they have characterized the financialized capitalism of the past 14 years. First, this course poisoned the West's money.

Mario Hernández (2023-04-17). Funcionarios norteamericanos visitan Argentina con el ojo puesto en China. globalizacion.ca La región necesita resistir la dominación estadounidense y negociar en bloque con China, para recuperar soberanía y revertir su regresión económica (Claudio Katz en "Integración, soberanía y socialismo en América Latina"). | Dos semanas después del encuentro entre Joe Biden y…

The Lever (2023-04-18). üéß MOVIES VS. CAPITALISM: Josie and the Pussycats (w/ Shannon Amabile). levernews.com On this week's MVC, Rivka and Frank are joined by psychotherapist and cinephile

Lee Camp (2023-04-17). Imagining A World Beyond Capitalism, with David Cobb. mintpressnews.com In this hour-long interview, former Green Party presidential candidate David Cobb discusses radical politics, community organizing, sustainable development, climate change, racial justice, the protests in France, indigenous sovereignty, and building power to confront the ruling class.

Editor (2023-04-18). Why the Republi-Fascists Can't Stop Calling the Capitalist Democrats 'Marxists'. scheerpost.com By Paul Street / CounterPunch The Capitalist Democrats… The Democratic Party is a militantly capitalist entity and always has been — and not just in the neoliberal era. The much beloved New Deal Democratic president Franklin Roosevelt, himself a wealthy member of the capitalist establishment, boasted that he had saved the US American profits system by overseeing …

Saheli Chowdhury (2023-04-18). Successive Governments in Ukraine have accommodated Nazis to counter Soviet nostalgia: Ukrainian Communist Dmitri Kovalevich (Interview). mronline.org Dmitri Kovalevich described a range of issues to Orinoco Tribune, including the 2014 coup, Ukrainian President Zelensky's rise to fame, war crimes and human rights violations in Ukraine, the economic collapse of the country, and many others.

Muhammed Shabeer (2023-04-17). "Czech government merely relies on EU and does not pursue independent policies" peoplesdispatch.org Interview with Kate≈ôina Koneƒçná, Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from the Czech Republic and leader of the Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia (KSƒåM)…

Pavan Kulkarni, People's Dispatch. (2023-04-17). Sudan: As Army And Forces Battle, Left Calls For Restoring The Revolution. popularresistance.org Tensions simmering between Sudan's army and the powerful paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) boiled over into armed clashes on the morning of Saturday, April 15, following disagreements over the integration of the autonomous RSF into the army's command chain. | The issue of integration was a key aspect of a deal that Sudan's ruling junta was to sign with right-wing civilian forces to share power with the latter. The left in Sudan has been critical of the proposed deal, questioning the sincerity of the parties. Speaking to Peoples Dispatch a few hours before the fighting broke out, the Sudanese Communist Party…

Roger McKenzie (2023-04-17). As civilian deaths mount in Sudan military feud, Communists call for immediate ceasefire. peoplesworld.org Sudanese Communists are calling for an "immediate" ceasefire as the civilian casualty count in the bitter struggle for power between Sudan's army and a notorious paramilitary force hit almost 100 dead and around 600 wounded. The fierce fighting in the capital, Khartoum, and other areas has dealt a new blow to hopes for a transition …

Staff (2023-04-18). "Poverty, by America": Author Matthew Desmond on How U.S. Punishes the Poor & Subsidizes the Wealthy. democracynow.org A new study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association finds that poverty is the fourth-greatest cause of death in the United States. Roughly 500 people die from poverty in the U.S. every day. Our guest, sociologist Matthew Desmond, is the author of the new book, Poverty, by America, the follow-up to his Pulitzer Prize-winning book Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City. "There's so much poverty in America, not in spite of our wealth, but because of it," says Desmond in an in-depth interview.

ecns.cn (2023-04-18). Choosing between U.S., China to bring less prosperity, more poverty: EU Central Bank chief. ecns.cn The rising political pressure on countries to choose between the United States and China would lead to less economic growth across the world and should be avoided by "all means".

Edward Curtin (2023-04-17). Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.: To Heal the Great Divide. dissidentvoice.org It has been fifty-five years since Senator Robert F. Kennedy stepped onto the presidential nominating stage to try to mend the massive breach that had opened in American society. The country was torn asunder by the Vietnam War, racism, poverty, the assassination of President Kennedy and the soon-to-be assassination of Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. …

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