Aug 30, 2024

1. As the 9th wave of COVID-19 spreads, the United States government cruelly abandons protecting its population

2. Israel continues military raids and attacks in the West Bank (and in Gaza)

3. UK Socialist Equality Party National Secretary Chris Marsden speaks to historian and activist Ilan Pappé who was harassed at DTW by US Homeland Security in May: "Israel is losing its grip on civil society."

4. Imperialist elites trying to control war narratives: human rights activist and reporter Sarah Wilkinson arrested by UK  counter-terrorism police

5. Scarcely mentioned by the establishment media, Australian-war-crimes whistleblower David McBride has been in jail over 100 days

6. Democratic Party up-and-comer Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez rationalizes genocide under the Biden-Harris administration because... she wouldn't be comfortable with genocide under a Trump administration

7. Poverty cited as the greatest problem: the challenges and political issues public school teachers face in the US as classrooms reopen to students

8. Students speak to the World Socialist Web Site about returning to college during the latest wave of COVID

9. Anti-genocide student protesters at Ann Arbor campus are roughed up and arrested during a peaceful “die-in”

10. Witch-hunt targets University of Leeds emeritus professor for supporting a campus protest against a pro-Israel event

11. Xenophobia and fascistic anti-refugee measures accompany Germany's resurgent militarism 

12. An extraordinary affront to the rule of law-- Tamil asylum seekers whose fate depends on Washington D.C. are stuck in a concentration camp on Diego Garcia, a strategic Indian Ocean island

13. Socialists demand: workers have the right to live and work wherever they choose, with full citizenship rights! In Australia: Sri Lankan refugee dies after setting himself on fire after his asylum application was revoked

14. Chinese Central Bank's attitude about bond investing amid an economic slowdown adds to global financial fears

15. After years of privatization, government cost-cutting, understaffing and other problems worsened by COVID-19, Australia's underfunded and understaffed healthcare system challenged by shortages of intravenous fluids

16. Rise in the cost of heating and electricity in the United Kingdom expected to be painful, and deadly

17. Vote for Joseph Kishore and Jerry White in 2024!