(2022-09-14). US Democracy and Rule of Law: Alex Saab Hearing Postponed Until End of Year. orinocotribune.com
(2022-09-14). Seattle Education Association shuts down strike of teachers in antidemocratic maneuver. wsws.org Educators should reject this antidemocratic maneuver, vote down the still unreleased tentative agreement and organize themselves to take control of and continue the strike.
(2022-09-14). Transmission line across Yangtze River completed in Chongqing. ecns.cn The cross-Yangtze River wiring operation for the Baihetan-Zhejiang 800 kv ultra-high voltage direct current (UHVDC) transmission line project, a major part of China's west-to-east power transmission program, was completed on Tuesday.
(2022-09-14). Salvage of China's largest submerged shipwreck in Yangtze finds 600-plus artifacts. ecns.cn More than 600 artifacts had been revealed by Tuesday during the salvage of the Yangtze River Estuary No.2, China's largest and best-preserved ancient underwater wooden shipwreck.
(2022-09-14). Gov. Ron DeSantis – The New Nixon – cover-up worse than the crime. indybay.org How similar is Gov. Ron DeSantis' cover-up of the felony forgeries of Chief of Special Prosecutions (Fl 20th Judicial Circuit), Anthony Kunasek, Esq. and State's Attorney Amira Fox to Watergate? Especially in light of the Governor's suspension of Andrew Warren for simply exercising prosecutorial discretion.
(2022-09-14). Tim Black On Blaming Black Men For Low Stacey Abrams Polling: 'We Don't Owe Democrats A Damn Thing'. moguldom.com According to most reports, Stacey Abrams is struggling in her second bid for the governor's seat in Georgia. While it seems she has the Black female vote wrapped up, Abrams herself has said she needs Black men to vote her in. Some have taken this as Abrams blaming Black men for her low polling. Abrams …
(2022-09-14). House panel asks National Archives to determine if Trump retains sensitive gov't records. ecns.cn The chair of a U.S. House of Representatives committee on Tuesday asked the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) to determine whether former President Donald Trump is still possessing any sensitive government records.
(2022-09-14). Union opposes Michigan Medicine nurses' demands for strike action at informational meetings. wsws.org At a series of union meetings held nearly two weeks after an overwhelming vote to authorize a strike, the MNA-UMPNC told nurses to "be patient" and rely on "political influencers" in the Democratic administration of Michigan Governor Whitmer.
(2022-09-14). Far-right Sweden Democrats gain ground in election as composition of future government remains unclear. wsws.org While the vote totals of the two main blocs are so close that the final result will only be clear after postal votes and overseas ballots are tallied on Wednesday or Thursday, the Sweden Democrats emerge from Sunday's election with unprecedented political influence over the composition and policies of Sweden's next government.
(2022-09-14). NLRB rejects Amazon's objections to ALU Staten Island election win. wsws.org Even when all legal objections to the ALU's election victory are overcome, the company can delay for years signing a first contract.
(2022-09-14). El conocimiento, una de las claves para tratar el dengue. cubadebate.cu La vida de un enfermo de dengue no se salva en las terapias intensivas -insistió el doctor Osvaldo Castro Peraza, especialista del IPK-, a estas llevamos a los pacientes muy complicados; los enfermos de dengue se salvan desde los primeros días y en ello desempeñan un rol importante la atención primaria y los servicios de atención secundaria que se encargan del seguimiento y la evaluación de los casos.
(2022-09-13). Socialism 2022 Conference: The pseudo-left promotes imperialist war. wsws.org The primary aim of the Socialism 2022 Conference was to promote the US-NATO war against Russia, in line with the policy of the Biden administration, while seeking to bolster the trade unions as instruments for the suppression of the class struggle.
(2022-09-13). Okinawa Poll Results Hamper Plans To Expand US Military Presence. popularresistance.org In a major setback to plans for expanding US military presence in Japan, Denny Tamaki, the anti-US base governor of Okinawa, has won a second term in office, continuing his platform against US military bases in the prefecture. In the gubernatorial election held on Sunday, September 11, Tamaki won with a clear majority by defeating Japan's ruling party candidate Atsushi Sakima. | As per the final results released on Monday, Tamaki, supported by a coalition of opposition groups and local movements, secured 339,767 votes, nearly 51% of the total votes polled. Tamaki defeated his nearest rival Sakima for the second t…
(2022-09-13). UIC students want free reproductive health clinic. fightbacknews.org Chicago, IL – On September 7, 30 students marched at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) to demand the administration open a reproductive health clinic on campus that is free for students and the community. | Despite its roughly $3.6 billion budget, the university hasn't taken any steps to provide reproductive healthcare for its students. Other demands included access to birth control and an end to the university's contracts with companies based in heartbeat bill states. | The action, which drew members from Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), Young Democratic Socialists of America (YDSA) and Freed…
(2022-09-13). 'Follow the Money': Sanders Explains Why Medicare for All Stalled in Congress. commondreams.org "Since 1998, in our corrupt political system, the private healthcare sector has spent more than $10.6 billion on lobbying and over the last 30 years it has spent more than $1.7 billion on campaign contributions to maintain the status quo."
(2022-09-13). Will the UK Ever Have a People-led Social Revolution as It Heads Back Into the Dark Ages? orinocotribune.com By Fra Hughes Sep 10, 2022 | Unlike Latin America which has a real left-right political dichotomy, Britain has a false left-right political facade just like North America and most of western Europe, Canada and Australia. |
(2022-09-13). Police crackdown on UK anti-monarchy protesters tears apart democratic pretensions of ruling elite. wsws.org Widespread anger at the police clampdown led leading political commentators and newspaper columnists with a long record of upholding the interests of British imperialism to warn that police attacks on people with republican views—a position held by at least a quarter of the population—was undermining faith in the institutions of the state.
(2022-09-13). The Deepening Assault on Core Democratic Rights in the USA. liberationnews.org The United States is in the midst of a political upheaval right now, after the 2020 uprising, the Jan. 6 storming of the Capitol, and the Dobbs decision that overturned one of the Supreme Court's biggest decisions — access to abortion under Roe v. Wade.
(2022-09-13). EPA Workers Push Biden To Issue Climate Emergency, Hire Scientists. popularresistance.org Workers at the Environmental Protection Agency are calling on President Joe Biden to issue a climate emergency declaration at the same time they're calling for improvements in staffing and resources for the agency in their next union contract. | The largest union representing workers at the EPA, the American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE) Council 238—which represents nearly 7,500 EPA employees around the US—voted to declare a climate emergency in May 2022 and are calling on Biden to do the same. AFGE is the largest union representing federal government and District of Columbia employees (cu…
(2022-09-13). Donald Trump and the Espionage Act. Tense Political Atmosphere Ahead of the November Elections. globalresearch.ca
(2022-09-13). Fear and Misinformation Dominate Discourses of Brazilian Right. libya360.wordpress.com Zoe Alexandra Bolsonaro supporters on September 7 in Sà£o Paulo. Photo: Junior Lima In the lead-up to the general elections in Brazil, the far-right has intensified its campaign of hysteria and fear-mongering instead of providing concrete solutions to the crises affecting the people Brazil is less than a month away from historic elections. Over 156…
(2022-09-13). Democratic power of the people at the heart of Cuban socialism. liberationnews.org 
Cuba takes the democracy and power of the people more seriously than anything I have ever seen in the United States.
(2022-09-13). Is the Right-Wing Supreme Court the Actual Death Panel? commondreams.org Sadly, this radical right Supreme Court has become what the Republicans said they feared.
(2022-09-13). In 'Despicable Show of Cruelty', Graham Dismisses Woman's Story of Nonviable Pregnancy. commondreams.org "He just turns away from her and starts yelling about Democrats to drown her out," said one rights advocate. "Sort of a metaphor for the Republican Party."
(2022-09-13). Spain's Ryanair cabin walkout enters second month, defying PSOE-Podemos government anti-strike laws. wsws.org The PSOE-Podemos government's minimum service laws are aimed at stemming the growing upsurge of the class struggle in Spain and internationally.
(2022-09-13). Ohio voters too are alarmed by right wing Republican extremism. peoplesworld.org 
In Ohio voters, like elsewhere in the U.S., are alarmed by right-wing extremism. The 2022 mid-term elections are like no other. Most pundits predicted a "red wave," sweeping Republicans to majorities in the U.S. House and Senate. But something happened on the way to November — alarmed voters are repulsed by GOP extremism and fascist-leaning …
(2022-09-13). Una resolución en Connecticut exige el fin del bloqueo contra Cuba. cubadebate.cu Diplomáticos cubanos ante la ONU recibieron del Ayuntamiento de la ciudad estadounidense de Hartford, capital de Connecticut, un ejemplar de la resolución que exige el fin del bloqueo contra la isla. El documento pide al presidente Joe Biden el cese del cerco económico, comercial y financiero de Washington contra Cuba y la normalización de relaciones entre ambos países.
(2022-09-12). Ukraine: The CIA's 75-Year-Old Proxy. libya360.wordpress.com Gerald Sussman Friedrichstrasse, bisected by the Berlin Wall, in 1961. Operation Red Sox dropped 85 CIA agents into Soviet-controlled territory to gather intelligence about Moscow's plans. [Source: politico.com] Joe Biden "is fueling the fire in the Ukraine." — Roger Waters of Pink Floyd It takes a musical artist to cut through the morass of propaganda to…
(2022-09-12). Controversial Trump-era policy exacerbates U.S.-China tensions in academia. america.cgtn.com U.S.-China tensions may be bleeding into the academic sector, and specifically scientific collaboration, as Chinese American scientists feel the ugly legacy of the Trump-era China tensions.
(2022-09-12). Florida Democrat Charlie Crist taps Miami/Dade teachers' union head as running mate in gubernatorial election. wsws.org In naming Hernandez-Mats, Crist is boosting a union bureaucrat who carried out the demands of Biden, the NEA and the AFT that schools be reopened at the height of the Delta and Omicron surges of COVID-19.