GenZ Protests Worldwide – Regime Change or “Youth Bulge”? The Globalization of Mass Poverty and Despair

 

GenZ Protests Worldwide – Regime Change or “Youth Bulge”? The Globalization of Mass Poverty and Despair By Hermann Ploppa The reality is this: people barely have anything to eat. Hardly anything to wear. Rarely a decent place to live. But almost everyone in developing countries has a cell phone. The Chinese have deployed inexpensive 5G networks in poor countries via Huawei. Read here

Battling Mainstream Economics. Prof. Michel Chossudovsky By Juliet O’Neill Augusto Pinochet’s military junta, which overthrew Salvador Allende in 1973, quadrupled the price of bread and introduced other measures that would now be referred to as “a structural adjustment program.” Mr. Chossudovsky set out, with a doctor, to study the malnourishment resulting from the bread price hike. He wound up with a paper that held the Pinochet regime responsible not only for conventional forms of political repression but for “economic repression” that impoverished three-quarters of Chile’s population. Read here

How Much Has the Sun Influenced Temperature Trends? By Mark Keenan In 2022, a team of 23 scientists from around the world — experts in solar physics, climatology, and atmospheric science — published a peer-reviewed paper in Research in Astronomy and Astrophysics (RAA) that could challenge one of the most entrenched assumptions in modern climate policy. Read here

Israeli Terror Unleashed on Gazans – A Final Genocide By Helena Glass With the Palestinians having moved back into Gaza, Netanyahu is calling for massive bombings of anything remaining including humanity. And Trump just lost the Nobel he so coveted as he boasts of his war/peace accomplishments. Oddly, despite the news, Trump is silent. Read here

Trump’s Orders to Arrest, Detain and Deport: Legal Challenges to Third Country Deportations of Africans Continue By Abayomi Azikiwe Ghanaian civil society organization files lawsuit against the government of President John Mahama saying the acceptance of United States deportees violates constitution while Liberia says it is considering accepting Kilmar Abrego Garcia who is fighting illegal removal. Read here

Putin’s Offer to Extend the Arms Control New START Agreement. Goodwill Gesture to Trump? By Andrew Korybko Putin offered in late September to extend the New START, which is the last arms control pact between Russia and the US, for another year following its expiry in early February. He then reaffirmed his proposal in early October, emphasizing that there’s still time to extend this crucial agreement if the US has the political will, which appears to be the case given Trump’s recent praise of it as “a good idea”. Read here

The Present Labor Situation in the Philippines: The Continuing Curse of Contractualization By Prof. Ruel F. Pepa Addressing the entrenched problem of contractualization requires a multidimensional approach that goes beyond mere legislative prohibition. While previous administrations have introduced partial reforms such as Department Orders and executive directives aimed at regulating labor contracting, these measures have often lacked coherence, enforceability, and alignment with the broader goal of decent work. Read here