(2022-10-09). Macao science workers actively join payload specialist selection for manned space program. ecns.cn Science workers in China's Macao Special Administrative Region (SAR) have responded actively to payload specialist selection for the country's manned space program.
(2022-10-09). Brazil at crossroads: Bolsonaro means subordination and deindustrialization, Lula means independence and development. multipolarista.com Round two of Brazil's presidential election offers deeply opposing visions: Bolsonaro would mean more subordination and deindustrialization. Lula would mean independence, economic nationalism, and multipolarity.
(2022-10-09). Saturday 10/15: Elections Forum. indybay.org Roosevelt Community Center | 901 East Santa Clara Street | San Jose, CA 95116 | (Access Parking lot from North 21st Street)…
(2022-10-09). Friday 10/14: Jan. 6 Justice: Our Freedom, Our Vote Rally for Democracy in Oakland. indybay.org Oakland City Hall | 1 Frank H. Ogawa Plaza | Oakland, CA 94612…
(2022-10-09). DPRK criticizes S. Korea-U.S. joint drills for negative impact on regional situation. ecns.cn The Defense Ministry of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) on Saturday voiced grave concern over the escalating tensions on the Korean Peninsula, the official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) reported.
(2022-10-09). WorkWeek On LA SEIU 399 Organzing Struggles, Democracy & Business Unionism. indybay.org The struggle in Los Angeles SEIU 399 was central to the Justice For Janitors campaign. The workers however who led this struggle faced a struggle to continue the fight for the membership when they won control of the Local through the Multi-Racial Alliance. Prior to the AFL-CIO convention in LA they had a sit-in at their offices. The International sent in SEIU president's aid Bill Fletcher to end the sit-in. He promised that they would get control of the local but as soon as the sit-in ended they sold the building and merged the local into SEIU 1877.
(2022-10-08). White House Says Biden's 'Armageddon' Comment Not Based on New Intelligence. news.antiwar.com White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said there is no new intelligence suggesting Russia was deploying nuclear weapons. She was speaking with reporters about President Joe Biden's statement that the US and Russia are approaching armageddon. The comment raised alarms of a potential nuclear war between NATO and Russia.Biden warned that the world is closer …
(2022-10-08). Report: US Special Operations Forces Are On The Ground In Ukraine. popularresistance.org US special operations forces are on the ground in Ukraine as part of a broad covert operation that includes CIA personnel, *The Intercept* reported on Wednesday, citing unnamed US intelligence and military officials. | The report said that the US withdrew its CIA and special operations assets from Ukraine shortly before Russia's invasion, although one US official said the CIA "never completely left." | The CIA initially predicted that Kyiv would fall quickly to Russia, but after it became clear that wouldn't happen, the Biden administration sent its covert assets back into Ukraine. | The report said that US cland…
(2022-10-08). European Political Community summit pledges to escalate war on Russia. wsws.org Even as US President Biden admitted that the NATO war with Russia threatens to unleash nuclear Armageddon, 44 European countries met and pledged to escalate the war.
(2022-10-08). Who Deserves a Nobel Peace Prize in Ukraine? commondreams.org A critical look at the committee's latest selection.
(2022-10-08). CIA strengthens presence in Ukraine on Biden's orders. struggle-la-lucha.org 
(2022-10-08). Will Lehman: "Oppose threats to Stellantis Warren Truck Plant workers' jobs!" wsws.org "I call on all workers to oppose this attack on the workers at Warren Truck and mobilize in defense of their jobs," Lehman said.
(2022-10-08). Lula Wins Brazil's Presidential First Round by Over 6 Million Votes — Fears that Bolsonaro Won't Accept the Results if He Loses Run-Off (Statement). orinocotribune.com By Brazil Solidarity Initiative — Oct 4, 2022 | On Sunday, progressive candidate Lula Da Silva came top in the first round of Brazil's Presidential election. Lula won 48.43% of the vote, with over 57 million voters backing him at the ballot box. | Despite the impression given in some media reports, this was not a close election. Lula received over 6 million more votes than his nearest rival, the far-right incumbent president Jair Bolsonaro, who came second with 42.20%. | In the first round, over 118 million votes were cast with Lula just 1.5% short of passing the % threshold needed to win the presidency in…
(2022-10-08). YOU LOVE TO SEE IT: Biden's Midterm Marijuana Play. levernews.com Good things are happening! For starters, ahead of the midterms, Biden is taking some steps (although not nearly enough) to change his position on cannabis policy. What's more, young Americans are taking the labor movement's message to heart, a new act in California rolls back the harmful effects of criminal records, workers have a new tool in salary negotiations, and researchers have found that embracing basic food waste practices could have major impacts on the climate crisis. All this and much more in this week's edition of You Love To See It, available for supporting subscribers below.Biden (Somewhat) F…
(2022-10-08). Government Credibility: Joe Biden Hands Pandemic Policy Opponents "Leg Up" in Legal Disputes. globalresearch.ca
(2022-10-08). Here's the Brutal Truth: Republicans Have Given Up on Democracy. commondreams.org America is polarized on what the crisis is—but one side is dead wrong.
(2022-10-08). Australia: Nurses' union promotes New South Wales Labor election campaign. wsws.org Despite the token character of Labor's proposed measures, which would do nothing to resolve a healthcare meltdown, New South Wales Nurses and Midwives' Association leader Shaye Candish hailed "a fantastic announcement."
(2022-10-08). The Heat: Critical U.S. midterm elections just weeks away. america.cgtn.com 
Critical midterm elections just weeks away in the United States. What's on the minds of voters in the race for control of Congress?>
(2022-10-08). OPEC's Slap in the Face Shows Biden Critics Were Right About Meeting With Murderous Saudi Prince. commondreams.org Further proof Biden should have stuck to his instincts and declined to visit Saudi Arabia earlier this year.
(2022-10-08). CDC deepens COVID-19 cover-up, switches to weekly reporting of cases and deaths. wsws.org Coming just before what is tipped to be another devastating surge of the pandemic across the US this fall and winter, the move is a major escalation of the Biden administration's homicidal "forever COVID" policy.
(2022-10-08). Endless Australian university union betrayals result in election debacle. wsws.org While the incumbent NTEU leadership scraped back into office with small votes, "opposition" groups failed in their bankrupt appeals to "rebuild" or "renew" the discredited union.
(2022-10-07). Biden: Nuclear 'Armageddon' Risk Highest Since Cuban Missile Crisis. news.antiwar.com President Biden said Thursday that the risk of nuclear "armageddon" is at its highest point since the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, a rare admission of the danger his policy of supporting Ukraine in a war on Russia's border poses. Biden said that Russian President Vladimir Putin is "not joking when he talks about the use …
(2022-10-07). Biden warns of nuclear "Armageddon" as Zelensky calls for "preventive strikes" on Russia. wsws.org President Joe Biden said Thursday that the world is at risk of nuclear "Armageddon," implying that the rapid escalation of the war in Ukraine could lead to nuclear war between the United States and Russia.
(2022-10-07). Republicans crank up their hypocrisy and lie machines in Georgia. peoplesworld.org 
Republicans, anti-abortion groups, and fascist Christian white supremacists have desperately rallied around Georgia Senate candidate Herschel Walker despite new revelations he paid for the abortion of an ex-girlfriend who was also the mother of one of his children. Walker is running on a "no exceptions" anti-abortion platform, even in the case of rape, incest, or …
(2022-10-07). Organizing the Congress: Three lawmakers' staffs go union. peoplesworld.org 
WASHINGTON —It's a little-known nickname, but Capitol Hill's workers—the staff, not the lawmakersoften call their job site "The Last Plantation." Now, exploited staffers are starting to change that. Congress received that moniker from their own aides and especially from the cafeteria cooks, servers and others who toil in its warrens. The reasons: Low pay, no …
(2022-10-07). Gilmar Mauro: "Defeating Fascism in Brazil is Fundamental" libya360.wordpress.com Days after the first round of elections in Brazil, Gilmar Mauro, of the national board of the Landless Rural Workers' Movement spoke to Peoples Dispatch about the challenges ahead for people's movements in Brazil to secure the victory of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva of the Workers' Party of Brazil.
(2022-10-07). Sudanese Resistance Committees Agree on Revolutionary Charter for the Establishment of People's Power. libya360.wordpress.com Sudanese demonstrators attend rally to demand the return to civilian rule, in Khartoum, Sudan, October 6, 2022. (AP) More than Sudanese pro-democracy groups have agreed on a new draft constitution, in one of the largest shows of unity from the country's opposition since the 2019 popular uprising. The document, signed Wednesday evening, is meant…
(2022-10-07). A Recap Of The Reparations And Political Panels At The Revolt Summit. moguldom.com Paying the debt of reparations to Black Americans is not a new idea. Black leaders have been advocating for them since the 1800s when President Andrew Johnson reneged on the promise of his assassinated predecessor, President Abraham Lincoln, to give each newly freed man 40 acres and a mule to atone for slavery. However, no one can …
(2022-10-07). Alabama lied: Prisoners face deadly retaliation for their strike. peoplesworld.org 
Last Friday, five days after Alabama prisoners launched a statewide labor strike, Republican Gov. Kay Ivey assured reporters that the head of the state's beleaguered corrections department had things "well under control." But images and interviews from inside the state's prisons show a system in disarray, with deteriorating conditions, pervasive violence, multiple deaths and little …