1. Joseph Kishore explains that with less than three weeks to go, trivialities, personal attacks and demagogic lies dominate the US presidential election-- while issues of war and peace are shoved out of the sight and hearing of the majority of the American population
2. Where is justice? An heartbreaking story about an innocent man in Texas scheduled to die for a crime that was never committed
3. Putting international law and imperialistic objectives to the test, Indo-Canadian diplomatic relations crumble following unspecified, but undoubtedly massive evidence, that the Indian government had sanctioned targeting Canadian citizens for assassination
4. Francis Ford Coppola's Megalopolis is "a confused, shallow mess." Why?
5. Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum continues her predecessor's policy of utilizing the military as a powerful and unaccountable instrument of repression
6. COVID is not over and is not the flu: new XEC variant of COVID causing great concern as it spreads
7. Amid price gouging and government red tape, Florida hurricane victims try to cope in the aftermaths of Helene and Milton
8. Nurse's union in New Jersey holds a vote
on a tentative contract without giving the nurses, who want safe staffing, time to study it
9. Taiwan’s President Lai Ching-te delivers a National Day speech tailored to provoke China and side with US war aims
10. In the "public's interest" government officials reserve the right to shut down an impending strike of public transit workers who cite overwork and understaffing concerns in the prohibitively expensive Aspen, Colorado area
11. US Secretary of State Antony Blinken utilizes the ASEAN-organized East Asia Summit held in Laos to needle China and construct alliances and alibis in advance of war preparations
12. Sri Lanka's new "progressive" president rejects UN human rights inquiries into war crimes dating back to the genocidal communal war against the separatist Tamil Tigers (in which an estimated 40,000 Tamil civilians were slaughtered)
13. Michigan Medicine hospital workers offered an opportunity to vote soon on an SEIU "mystery agreement" announced after the workers were told not to strike; workers say they "smell a rat"
14. The CEO of Walgreens pharmaceutical and sundries chain hopes to make the company more profitable by closing 1,200 stores over the next three years
15. Workers on the Rank-and-File Committee at StarPlus Energy battery plant in Kokomo, Indiana reveal grim and hazardous working conditions that exist with the complicity of the UAW
16. Against a backdrop of escalating world conflict, Russia is set to outstrip spending on social needs by hugely increasing its military and security spending
17. Adamant striking machinists have Boeing on the ropes and scrambling for money infusions to crush their rebellion, but how can they win against the corporate giant so long as the US government can intervene?
18. Like their counterparts at Boeing in the United States, aerospace workers at Embraer in Brazil are also rejecting their union's "poisoned" contract
19. The Socialist Equality Party and its youth and student movement win a big victory at the University of Michigan on behalf of students' democratic rights and free speech
20. Europeans are eager to hear David North speak at an international book fair event to be held in Frankfurt, Germany on October 19th
21. Vote for Joseph Kishore and Jerry White in 2024!
