(2022-07-13). DPP warned not to use mainland patrol vessel for political manipulation. ecns.cn A Chinese mainland spokesperson on Wednesday warned Taiwan's Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) authority to stop using the mainland's patrol vessel Haixun 06 to bring about political manipulation and confusion.
(2022-07-14). Humanitarian crisis in England? workers.org 
Boris Johnson's hypocrisy plus anti-popular policies finally did him in. The resignation of Boris Johnson as leader of the Conservative Party of Great Britain, which means he will be replaced as prime minister, was not just the comeuppance of a slapdash serial liar, forced out of office by 59 cabinet . . . |
(2022-07-13). Even Goldwater Would Be Too Left for Today's Republicans. otherwords.org Perhaps you remember Senator Barry Goldwater, the GOP's fringy, far-right-wing 1964 presidential nominee who famously said, "Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice." | Today, however, the core of the Republican Party would boo Goldwater's right-wingism as insufficiently rabid. Instead, their new rallying cry is: "Nuttiness in the defense of extremism is no vice." | The GOP's mainline officialdom now proclaim themselves the party of extremism. They are openly embracing the crazy, including conspiracy theorists, neo-confederates, and Q-Anon cultists, hoping to harness the fanatical horsepower of these antid…
(2022-07-13). Andrew Yang To Speak Alongside Far-right Figures at 'FreedomFest'. splcenter.org Former Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang will speak Saturday about his new Forward Party and creating political coalitions at the 2022 FreedomFest in Las Vegas, which will feature far-right libertarians with ties to white nationalists and antisemites.
(2022-07-13). Pro-corporate Workers Party signals sweeping attack on public education in Brazil. wsws.org In recent weeks, Lula and party officials have assuredbusinessmen and bankers that a PT government will unload the full weight of the capitalist crisis on the Brazilian working class.
(2022-07-13). Wednesday 7/13: Labor History Online Discussion Group – Session 5: Beyond "Bread & Butter" indybay.org Zoom (Register at http: //bit.ly/FSFD-Labor)…
(2022-07-13). Xi encourages young people across the Taiwan Strait to strive for national rejuvenation. ecns.cn Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, on Monday encouraged young people across the Taiwan Strait to jointly strive for the Chinese Dream of national rejuvenation. He made the remarks in a letter replying to young people from China's Taiwan who were attending the Straits Youth Forum.
(2022-07-13). Further rail strikes announced amid UK Tory leadership contest. wsws.org The great task that must be resolved is to break through the political disenfranchisement and demobilisation of the working class by the combined forces of the Labour Party and the trade union bureaucracy.
(2022-07-12). How Shinzo Abe Whitewashed Genocidal Imperial Crimes. popularresistance.org Japan's longest serving prime minister, Shinzo Abe tried to rewrite the history of the fascist Japanese empire and its genocidal crimes. And he and his Nazi-collaborating grandfather enjoyed staunch Western support. | After World War II, the US government pardoned and recruited many of the fascists who had led imperial Japan, putting in power war criminals who had committed genocide in China, Korea, and Southeast Asia, carrying out biological warfare, human experimentation, and mass sexual slavery. | Multipolarista editor Benjamin Norton discusses how Japan's political system still today is a one-party right-wing…
(2022-07-12). Roland Martin Pleads His Case On Why Black America Should Keep Voting For The Democratic Party. moguldom.com Journalist Roland Martin, host of the podcast "Roland Martin Unfiltered, likens the voting rights atmosphere today to that of 1890 in Mississippi when Black people were stripped of the right to vote by Dixiecrats. Voting rights are in danger today because of efforts by Republicans, Martin said during a July 10 discussion with hip-hop legend …