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Seventy Years On: Remembering Korea’s Pain

7Aug

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North Korea, South Korea

Seventy Years On: Remembering Korea’s Pain

BY NILANTHA ILANGAMUWA Traditional Korean dance (Jinju geommu). Photograph Source: SJ Yang – CC BY-SA 2.0 Amidst these precarious times, where our humanity is continuously put to the test, nothing holds greater importance than our inflexible dedication to pursuing peace. However, it is truly enraging to witness self-proclaimed guardians of peace traversing the globe, stoking the flames of conflict in countries such as Ukraine and sabotaging any attempts at negotiations between warring factions. The inferno of war, which once consumed distant lands, now threatens to engulf the Asian continent again. The impending doom looms, and it is only a matter of time before an Asian nation succumbs to the whims of a deluded comedian, masquerading as a false hero, playing with the lives...

Jobs Growth Slows Slightly in July, Unemployment Edges Down to 3.5 Percent

7Aug

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USA

Jobs Growth Slows Slightly in July, Unemployment Edges Down to 3.5 Percent

BY DEAN BAKER Photo by Clem Onojeghuo The establishment survey showed a gain of 187,000 jobs in July, slightly less than was generally expected. The prior two months’ gains were revised down by 49,000, bringing the average gain over the last three months to 218,000. The unemployment rate edged down to 3.5 percent, putting just 0.1 percentage point above the half-century low hit in April. Wage Growth Picks Up, Strongest Gains at the Bottom The pace of wage growth accelerated somewhat in the July report, with the annual rate of growth in the average hourly wage rising to 4.9 percent over the last three months. It had been under 4.0 percent earlier this year. This is the opposite direction that we have seen in the Employment Cost Index (ECI), where the rate of wage growt...

7Aug

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Palestine Affairs, ZIO-NAZI

Apartheid “Democracy”

BY LAWRENCE DAVIDSON Image by Chris Hearn. The term “democracy” is back in the news from the Middle East. Americans will assume that this has nothing to do with the Arabs. They know that news about democracy in this region must be about Israel because it “is the only democracy in the Middle East.” Well, it now turns out that Israelis too can’t agree as to what is and is not a “real” democracy. There is an increasingly violent Zionist brawl going on over this question: two sides, two different claims to know what democracy is, and both parties claiming to be the sole representative of the real thing. Each side screaming at the other. And, by the way, they are both wrong. Part I—The Israeli “Right” Israel’s governing rightwing coalition has staked its claim to defending “rea...

Kiwirok: When the Sky Rained Metallic Death

7Aug

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USA

Kiwirok: When the Sky Rained Metallic Death

BY JULIE WARK Screen Shot from the documentary Paradise Bombed A West Papuan friend has just sent me a new documentary (please watch it, reader). It`s called Paradise Bombed and it’s about what happened when burning metal death rained down on Kiwirok, one of the most remote places on earth in October 2021. First contact was made with some villages here in 2000 but modernity in the form of Chinese drones, Serbian mortars, French rockets came just twenty-one years later to annihilate them. The Indonesian military attacks on Kiwirok, some twelve kilometres from occupied West Papua’s border with independent Papua New Guinea (PNG), in dense rainforest and high mountains, are terrible enough to make anyone who doesn’t have a heart of stone cry when watching this fi...

10 Years After Historic Hunger Strike, Will CA Finally End Solitary Confinement?

7Aug

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Human Rights, USA

10 Years After Historic Hunger Strike, Will CA Finally End Solitary Confinement?

10 Years After Historic Hunger Strike, Will CA Finally End Solitary Confinement? Prisoners refused food, demanding changes to solitary confinement. Now they are pushing to end the practice altogether.By Victoria Law , TRUTHOUT Pelican Bay State Prison in Crescent City, California is surrounded by razor wire, tall fences and towers manned by guards with rifles on October 13, 2012. Pelican Bay State Prison in Crescent City, California is surrounded by razor wire, tall fences and towers manned by guards with rifles on October 13, 2012.MARK BOSTER / LOS ANGELES TIMES VIA GETTY IMAGES. PRISONS & POLICING Prisoners refused food, demanding changes to solitary confinement. Now they are pushing to end the practice altogether.By Victoria Law , TRUTHOUT Pelican Bay Stat...

Reps. Omar and Jacobs Move to Stop Biden From Sending Cluster Bombs to Ukraine

7Aug

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Russia, Ukraine, USA

Reps. Omar and Jacobs Move to Stop Biden From Sending Cluster Bombs to Ukraine

Unexploded cluster bombs have been known to kill civilians for generations after conflict is over, the reps emphasized. By Blaise Malley U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar speaks during a press conference with family members of Palestinian-American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh outside the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., on May 18, 2023. Did you know that Truthout is a nonprofit and independently funded by readers like you? If you value what we do, please support our work with a donation. President Joe Biden’s looming decision to include cluster munitions in the next weapons package to Ukraine could prove to be a political challenge. Democratic Reps. Sara Jacobs (D-California) and Ilhan Omar (D-Minnesota) have introduced an amendment to the 2023 NDAA that would effectively ...

What is happening in the Russian economy?

7Aug

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Russia

What is happening in the Russian economy?

Enforced separation from the world market has reinforced moves back towards nationalisation and planning. Proletarian writers Subscribe to our channel All serious commentators now agree that, far from bringing Russia to its knees, the need to respond to the sanctions war that was launched in 2014 has motivated a consolidation of its economy and a big shift back towards planning and state control of key industries. Whilst continuing to sing hymns in praise of capitalism, Russia’s leaders are increasingly looking to the period of socialist construction for inspiration. Ever since the treacherous ‘secret’ speech given by Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev in 1956, the reputation of the revolutionary period of socialist construction in the USSR&nb...

Military Invasion Signals Israel May Be Trying to Turn Jenin Into a New Gaza

7Aug

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Human Rights, Palestine Affairs, West Bank, ZIO-NAZI

Military Invasion Signals Israel May Be Trying to Turn Jenin Into a New Gaza

Israel’s massive operation in the West Bank refugee camp resembles its strategy of “mowing the lawn” with Gaza bombings. By Yumna Patel , MONDOWEISS People sit amid the rubble along a street in the occupied West Bank Jenin refugee camp on July 6, 2023, following a large-scale Israeli military raid that lasted for two days. Truthout is a vital news source and a living history of political struggle. If you think our work is valuable, support us with a donation of any size. Earlier this week, Palestinians in the occupied West Bank witnessed the bloodiest and most violent Israeli military operation in recent memory. Over the course of 48 hours, Israeli land and air forces besieged the Jenin refugee camp in the northern West Bank, killed 12 Palestinians, and wounded o...

Niger’s neighbors activate standby force for intervention

6Aug

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Africa

Niger’s neighbors activate standby force for intervention

The West African authority says it has directed defense chiefs to prepare troops while the bloc seeks diplomatic solutions Mohamed Toumba, one of the leading figures of the National Council for the Protection of the Fatherland, attends the demonstration of coup supporters and greets them at a stadium in the capital city of Niger, Niamey on August 6, 2023. © Balima Boureima/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has ordered the mobilization of a standby force for possible use in Niger, where the military seized power more than two weeks ago. Leaders of the regional bloc reached the resolution at a summit in Nigeria’s capital, Abuja on Thursday, saying they remain committed to “the restoration of constitutional ord...

Zelensky holds ‘closed talks’ with top British generals

6Aug

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Ukraine

Zelensky holds ‘closed talks’ with top British generals

The discussions took place amid growing Western disappointment with the slow progress of Kiev’s counteroffensive Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky © Getty Images / Clodagh Kilcoyne Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky says he has held talks with the UK's top military leadership and has stated that more weapons are being readied for delivery to Kiev. In a video address published to his Telegram channel on Wednesday, Zelensky described the meeting as “closed, but productive.” He did not, however, elaborate on any specific details of the talks, stating only that new packages of military aid are being prepared for Ukraine, including air defense systems. His statement came on the same day that the head of his office, Andrey Ermak, said repres...