Nov 1, 2024

1. What is the secret former president Donald Trump is sharing with House Speaker Mike Johnson in the final week of the 2024 US presidential campaign?

2. Campaigning on behalf of Kamala Harris who is running for president in the US, former president Bill Clinton defends Israel's barbaric genocide of Palestinians in Gaza

3. The abandonment by officials of an expelled pro-Palestinian Ontario legislator in Canada underscores how the pseudo-left supports genocide in Gaza and why protests aimed at appealing to the establishment are a dead end

4. Unprecedented since World War II: Volkswagen provocatively demands a 20% wage cut of its workers as it loses sales to Chinese manufacturer, BYD

5. The recent assassination attempt on its former President Evo Morales marks a sharp intensification of the conflict between factions of the ruling class in resource-rich Bolivia

6. New pseudo-leftist Sri Lankan government reneges on campaign promises to abolish repressive military and police powers

7. The idling of a Ford EV truck manufacturing plant in Dearborn, Michigan is part of an international jobs massacre automakers are pursuing to move inventory and increase profits

8. Officials and lawmakers in New Zealand are determined to avoid punishing those responsible for covering up decades of institutional abuse and neglect of children, young people, and psychiatric patients

9. Passenger rail workers across New South Wales, Australia stage a toothless five-minute work-stoppage strike in a prescribed effort to influence wage bargaining

10. The European Union is set to impose tariffs on importing Chinese electric vehicles despite warnings that tariffs and other protectionist measures are fracturing the global economy

11. The IAM union bureaucracy delivers a third sellout contract agreement for 33,000 striking Boeing machinists to vote on only one day before the US presidential election

12. An autopsy of a pig from an Oregon farm reveals that it was infected with the potentially pandemic-causing H5N1 bird flu virus

13. A worthwhile British documentary (that lost a theatrical release due to safety concerns) exposes the international and financial connections of the global fascist movement

14. A Palestinian academic who was suspended and branded an anti-semite by Sheffield Hallam University in England, Shahd Abusalama, wins a settlement with the help of crowd-funding

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