 Dear reader, Here are the latest articles published today on the World Socialist Web Site. The normal platitudes about "love and good cheer" are being overshadowed by massive inequality. U.S. Representatives Jim Himes and Adam Smith said Thursday that the full video of the September 2 missile strike that killed 11 people in the Caribbean showed that two "shipwrecked individuals" were "killed by the United States military." Capitalist governments around the world have taken no serious steps to address climate change and other forms of environmental degradation that contribute to the extreme weather events now unfolding on a regular basis. Nuwara Eliya District, with a population of 724,957 and located in a hilly region, is among the worst hit by heavy rainfall, flooding, landslides and stone slides. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, once the premier disease-fighting institution in the US, and even the world, has been taken over by anti-vaccine quacks under the direction of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. The lawsuits allege that camp management was long aware of the risk of flooding at the camp and failed to take action to save the lives of the 25 children who died during the July flood. A packed meeting of the Royal Oak Board of Education heard parents describe the forming of a Turning Point USA club at the local high school as a threat to their children. Healthcare workers at Oregon Health & Science University overwhelmingly vote to authorize strike action, demanding higher wages and safe staffing, as unions work to isolate struggle from broader working class movement. The strike by 3,000 educators and support staff has shut down normal operations in one of the San Francisco Bay Area's largest school districts. The Liverpool supporters were crushed and suffocated to death after police gave the order to open an egress gate just before the kick-off of an FA Cup semi-final between Liverpool and Nottingham Forest on April 15, 1989. Thousands of fans were directed into two already dangerously overcrowded pens. Over 36 years, an orchestrated cover-up was organised by Britain's ruling elite to ensure that no-one was ever brought to justice over the deaths of 97 Liverpool Football Club supporters. Increased military spending demands an intensifying assault on the living standards of Taiwanese workers and masses. The attack on benefits for the poor is part of unprecedented attacks on living standards, as the government imposes the austerity measures demanded by the IMF. Caught between the demands of global finance capital and the resistance of the working class, Bolivia's ruling class is incapable of governing in the old way. The data shows a drop to zero in the per capita growth rate, under conditions of rising inflation, a continuing cost-of-living crisis and low levels of corporate investment, except for AI-related data centres. Tens of thousands in Bulgaria and thousands in France take to the streets to oppose austerity budgets; strikes and protests continue across Iran as currency in freefall; health union suspends Nigerian doctors' month-long stoppage with demands unfulfilled About the WSWS The World Socialist Web Site is published by the International Committee of the Fourth International, the world Trotskyist movement, and its affiliated sections in the Socialist Equality Parties around the world. Find out more about joining the Socialist Equality Party.
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