1. Signing off on a decision that has already been made: the United States and Russia are on the verge of open warfare
2. Sticking together: Day one of 33,000 Boeing workers being on strike
3. Two years after the mass uprising of millions: Sri Lankan capitalist presidential candidates jockey to appease the International Monetary Fund and it's austerity measures
4. With immigrants “scared for their lives", Trump vows to carry out “the largest deportation in the history of our country"
5. The World Socialist Web Site interviews the director of Paradise, set in Sri Lanka, who says his goal was to draw out the social fabric, the social situation, and to show how the personal interacts with the political
6. The
Toronto International Film Festival is pressured into canceling screenings of
a documentary about the lives of Russian soldiers fighting in Ukraine
7. Russian authorities under Putin's Bonapartist regime calls for greater restrictions on the rights of immigrants
8. Chilling ugliness: passage of German warships through the Taiwan Strait is a deliberate provocation against China
9. Cases of COVID infection in Brazil, whose vaccination response has been inadequate and plagued with problems, more than doubled in August, and continues to rise
10. Air Canada and other business interests demand that the union-backed Liberal government intervene to impose binding arbitration and stop a pilot strike
11. Hurricane Francine makes landfall in Louisiana, power company Entergy looks for profit in bailouts
12. Even as billions are hauled in by the super rich and military, a government-commissioned report describes the UK's National Health Service as being starved of funds
13. Far-right group, favored by officials, raises money to keep Canadian government from declassifying the names of more than 900 Nazi war criminals who were once admitted as immigrants
14. Australian socialists host forum on government's xenophobic exclusion of foreign exchange students
15. Vote for Joseph Kishore and Jerry White in 2024!
