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“the very fact that Boris Johnson keeps popping up in support of Ukraine is sufficient in my view to question the whole thing.”
I have an inkling that he preparing for his post-PM career and is taking a leaf out of Tony Blair’s play-book to ready himself for some future international statesman role.
Moderna announced that it had filed a lawsuit against two of its competitors: Pfizer and BioNTech, alleging that that the companies copied technology that Moderna developed before the COVID-19 pandemic but used in its COVID-19 vaccine.
https://www.alternet.org/2022/08/moderna-sues-two-competitors-vaccine/
Colombia’s new leftist government has proposed to tax the rich in an effort to combat poverty in one of the most unequal countries in the Americas. If implemented, the President Gustavo Petro could raise more than $11.5bn annually to fund anti-poverty efforts, free public university and other social welfare programs.
The plan would raise taxes on the country’s highest earners – approximately 2% of Colombia’s population – cut tax benefits for the richest and fight tax evasion.
The tax hikes would progressively increase as income increases. It would add an annual wealth tax on savings and property above $630,000, and would add a 10% tax on some of Colombia’s biggest exports – oil, coal and gold – after prices rise above a certain threshold.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/aug/26/colombia-tax-the-rich-plan-poverty-gustavo-petro
The founder of Huawei, Ren Zhengfei, in a leaked internal memo, Ren Zhengfei told Huawei staff “the chill will be felt by everyone…The next decade will be a very painful historical period, as the global economy continues to decline…”
RSPCA has recorded a 24% increase in pets being dumped this year as shelters report they are “drowning in animals” amid the cost of living crisis.
Workers are being inundated with calls from owners struggling to feed and care for their pets.
“We’re now really seeing the issue of the cost of living crisis. People are having to choose between feeding themselves and feeding their pets. It’s a horrible situation for a lot of people to be in.”
Enough is Enough, a campaign that now has close to 450,000 supporters and a growing network of local activists in more than 70 towns and cities, after it was set up earlier this month by trade unions whose leaders are planning 50 rallies in the coming months against the cost of living crisis
“It is growing at such a rate we have had to update our database infrastructure,” said Chris Webb, head of communications at the Communication Workers Union, which is helping organise the movement. “There is potential for us to call our own mass demonstrations.”
Excellent initiative.
Now on our blog
https://socialismoryourmoneyback.blogspot.com/2022/08/socialist-voices-ep-1audio.html
I very much look forward to many more
When the Republicans move right, the Democratic Party also shifts right too.
Democrats have picked Charlie Crist to challenge Florida’s Republican Governor Ron DeSantis
Tara Sepehri Far of Human Rights Watch pointed to the introduction of a population bill in November 2021, which restricts access to abortion and contraception in an attempt to increase Iran’s falling birthrate, as part of political process aiming “to put women back in the house.”.
Adding evidence to our position that the Ukraine war is not the major reason for the food price crisis is this article on Big Ag profits
In October, Israel labeled as terror groups Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association, Al-Haq, the Bisan Center for Research and Development, Defense for Children International–Palestine, the Union of Agricultural Work Committees, and the Union of Palestinian Women Committee. A few days ago Israel raided a number of their premises.
The EU found the allegations unsubstantiated and resumed its funding of them.
https://uk.news.yahoo.com/eu-resumes-funding-six-palestinian-100226807.htmlNow the CIA finds them false
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/aug/22/cia-report-israel-palestinian-rights-groups
But the veracity of Israeli government claims will often go unchallenged by the media.
