People with lots of money benefit from high interest rates, and they're an important weapon in class warfare. Higher interest rates push more people into accepting worse labour conditons.

Real talk if that restaurant makes 1 of surplus value on that 20 burger the owner is happy. Restaurants (fast food aside) are not surplus value machines, quite the opposite.

I'd also like to know where food is still that cheap in the west.

I had a great attention span in high school. Played Minecraft for hours in class on my school issued laptop.

You'd be right!

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/11/bolivias-protests-outcome/602644/

The citation here seems to be a bit of a game of "telephone," and a really careless one at that.

The linked page cites a Xinhua article from January 30th quoting the Russian central bank governor Elvira Nabiullina, who said "that 159 foreign participants from 20 countries have already joined the Russian system (SFRS)."

She's a neoliberal economist (ie someone who lays down academic cover for the empire). She was the Federal Reserve chair under Obama and has been the Treasury Secretary under Biden.

Her earlier career included time at the Fed, during which she wrote a paper clearly stating the purpose of raising interest rates: to further oppress the working class.

The additional trouble with the DMCA is that the IP lobby groups try to make it apply globally. Many countries which have trade agreements with the US agree to enforce or allow enforcement of the DMCA within their own borders in exchange for getting access to US based IP.

So if Alice shoots Bob, and Bob survives the initial shooting only to die later from, say, blood loss or additional shock due to the very same bullet wound, Bob committed suicide and Alice didn't do anything wrong?

You mean this Ukraine?

https://mronline.org/2022/07/12/the-ukrainian-army-is-murdering-the-donbass-children-with-the-help-and-approval-of-the-west/

But there's no additional money available for infrastructure and social services within Germany. Something something Bundeshaushalt excuse and EU federal debt limit.

The western world could also turn to investment in development and quality of life and do away with downturns.

They Grayzone has also done investigative reporting into the inner workings of Wikipedia. Spoiler: it's part of the imperial propaganda machine, and that's partly by design.