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Tech jobs bloodbath continues with Amazon announcing new round of layoffs
Amazon announced last week it would be cutting thousands of employees as part of an ongoing series of layoffs by the tech giant. The latest cuts will focus on its human resources division known as the People eXperience Technology team. Fifteen percent of a worldwide staff of 10,000, or approximately 1,500 employees, are being let go.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/10/20/zabr-o20.html

US court orders spyware company NSO to stop targeting WhatsApp, reduces damages
Hamilton also handed NSO a significant break on the damages awarded in a recently concluded jury trial, reducing the punitive damages it owes Meta from about $167 million to $4 million. The injunction is likely to pose a challenge to NSO, which has for years been accused of facilitating human rights abuses through its flagship hacking tool, Pegasus.
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/society-equity/us-court-orders-spyware-company-nso-stop-targeting-whatsapp-reduces-damages-2025-10-18/

‘A Betrayal’: Ranchers Slam Trump Plan to Buy Beef From Argentina With US Tax Dollar
“President Trump’s plan to buy beef from Argentina is a betrayal of the American rancher,” Christian Lovell, an Illinois cattle producer and senior director of programs at the organization Farm Action, said in a Monday statement. “Those of us who raise cattle have finally started to see what profit looks like after facing years of high input costs and market manipulation by the meatpacking monopoly.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/argentina-beef

DHS purchase of business jets during shutdown draws Democrats’ ire
Democrats in Congress on Saturday criticized the Trump administration's decision to buy two Gulfstream G700 jets for $172 million during the ongoing government shutdown that are to be used by Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and other senior leaders. The U.S. Coast Guard entered into a sole-source contract on Friday, according to a government contracting website. The jets will be used for the Coast Guard’s Long Range Command Control fleet of aircraft.
https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/dhs-purchase-business-jets-during-shutdown-draws-democrats-ire-2025-10-18/

14 arrested after 'No Kings Day' protest in downtown Los Angeles, police say
More than a dozen people were arrested after a mostly peaceful "No Kings Day" demonstration in downtown Los Angeles over the weekend. Twelve adults and two juveniles were taken into custody Saturday, according to the Los Angeles Police Department. It's unclear what charges they are facing. Video obtained by Eyewitness News shows several people being detained and loaded onto buses.
https://abc7.com/post/14-arrested-no-kings-day-protest-downtown-los-angeles-police-say/18043801/

Thousands of Orthodox Jews rally in New York to protest change in Israel’s military draft rules
The two influential, and often rival, grand rebbes of the Satmar community both called on adherents to participate in the demonstration. The Central Rabbinical Congress of the U.S.A. and Canada, a consortium of Orthodox Jewish groups, said it helped organize the protest.
https://apnews.com/article/orthodox-jews-protest-israel-military-282b2c3cbba15fa9fda78a8b5435fb0a

The China spy trial fiasco and Britain’s decline on the world stage
What is Britain’s place in the world? The British ruling class has been asking itself this question for the best part of a hundred years, as it has struggled to come to terms with its ever-deepening decline, decade after decade. The latest event to expose its diminished status and prompt a bout of soul searching is the collapse of the China spy trial, an episode reminiscent of the recent Netflix spy drama Black Doves. Two British citizens, Chris Cash and Chris Berry, were accused of spying on Britain for China over a sustained period of time. But last week, the case against them collapsed, for what are on the surface technicalities: the law was changed after they had been charged, which now required the government to state that the country in question (China), was a threat to national security at the specific time those charged were spying on its behalf. According to the Crown Prosecution Service, it proved impossible to get the government to state this. Instead, it said that “the UK Government is committed to pursuing a positive relationship with China.” It is therefore clear that the trial collapsed because Starmer has changed the government’s attitude to China, from it being a “threat”, as Liz Truss defined it, to a country with which to seek a “positive relationship”.
https://communist.red/the-china-spy-trial-fiasco-and-britains-decline-on-the-world-stage/

Blame finance capital, not Brexit, for budget crisis
LABOUR Party members are clear on what Rachel Reeves’s priorities should be as she prepares to present her Budget next month. They believe she should protect public services by raising taxes, if needs be, according to a poll by Survation. More than three-quarters of party members back that view, the survey found. The members are prepared to see the government set aside its manifesto commitment not to raise income tax, National Insurance for workers, or VAT if needs be. It is not normally good politics to break clear promises made at election time. It only increases cynicism towards politicians, whose public standing is already very low. But here Labour is in a vice of its own making. The tax pledges it made cover most of the available means of raising government revenue. Yet the party also pledged, as the behest of City interests, to keep borrowing down. And it has also committed to huge increases in military spending, while also claiming that there would be no return to the austerity imposed by the Tories — with Liberal Democrat connivance — which blighted so many lives and has left scars on our society still deeply felt today.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/blame-finance-capital-not-brexit-budget-crisis

Who’s Profiting off of the Criminalization of Homelessness?
From the Trump administration to Democrats in California, responses to the homeless crisis in the US continue to ignore the main drivers of the problem and aim to make the unhoused magically disappear. Like so many of the faux social policies in the US, this one increasingly looks designed for big private players to profit off the disappearing. . Let’s first look at the main tenets of the US response at both the state and federal level before examining how such ruthless policy offers opportunities for economic elite to cash in on the added layers of cruelty. Trump’s July executive order frames the country’s homelessness crisis as the sole product of mental illness and drug addiction and helps make it easier to arrest and involuntarily commit the homeless. This is a continuation of a years-long effort by American elites to redirect attention away from the root causes of homelessness. According to a study from UCSF’s Benioff Homelessness and Housing Initiative last year (one of the deepest dives into California’s crisis in decades), the number one problem that is fueling the homelessness crisis is the increasing precariousness of the working poor. Trump’s order largely copies plans that California Democrat Governor Gavin Newsom has rolled out in a Democrat super majority state in recent years. (There’s always plenty of bipartisanship when it comes to wars or kicking the poor). Unsurprisingly, California’s efforts have done nothing to bring down the number of people sleeping on the streets. Neither has the criminalization wave across the country—although it could potentially be contributing to the rebound in the US’ exceptional prison population.
https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2025/10/whos-profiting-off-of-the-criminalization-of-homelessness.html