July 2022 Archives

Monthly Archives: July 2022

2022-07-11: News Headlines

____ (2022-07-11). NATO: The Most Dangerous Military Alliance on the Planet. transcend.org 10 022 – The massive expansion of NATO, not only in Eastern and Central Europe but the Middle East, Latin America, Africa and Asia, presages endless war and a potential nuclear holocaust.

Editor (2022-07-11). Ruins of Azov Steel Factory display Nazi insignia and signs of NATO support. mronline.org Owner of plant, Rinat Akhmetov, is allegedly connected to organized crime.

____ (2022-07-11). (Italiano) Medio Oriente e giornalismo mancante su conflitto e pace. transcend.org 8 Luglio 2022 – Due immagini di affari internazionali, affari umani a dire il vero, due discorsi: l'approccio securitario e l'approccio pacifista; che competono per la nostra attenzione trattando la stessa preoccupazione per la violenza ma in modo diametralmente opposto.

Freedom Socialist Party Bay Area (2022-07-11). Wednesday 7/6: Labor History Online Discussion Group – Rise of the Excluded. indybay.org Zoom (Register at http: //bit.ly/FSFD-Labor)…

WSWS (2022-07-11). Oath Keepers brought grenades, rifles, "suitcases full of ammunition" to Washington D.C. on eve of January 6. wsws.org The new evidence comes as the January 6 House Select Committee prepares to hold its seventh hearing, centered on the nexus between fascist militia groups and the Trump White House.

____ (2022-07-11). Cuba Should Be Removed from the U.S. List of State Sponsors of Terrorism. transcend.org 8 022 – There are currently four countries on that list: Cuba, North Korea, Iran and Syria. Cuba, rather than exporting weapons around the world, has a long history of medical internationalism with an international campaign for Cuban doctors to win the Nobel Peace Prize. Why would a country that floods the world with health care be targeted as a state sponsor of terrorism?>

Sajeev Kumar (2022-07-11). Bosses blame workers for inflation, but it's really about war and profits. peoplesworld.org Capitalism is a system that has an innate tendency to get into a cul-de-sac of crisis, and the only way it knows for coming out of a crisis is by further exploitation of the working class. The cost-of-living crisis—caused by inflation, which eats up the earnings of the working class by price increases—and starvation have …

Freedom Socialist Party Bay Area (2022-07-11). Wednesday 7/13: Labor History Online Discussion Group – Session 5: Beyond "Bread & Butter" indybay.org Zoom (Register at http: //bit.ly/FSFD-Labor)…

_____ (2022-07-10). War Scars The Earth. To Heal, We Must Cultivate Hope, Not Harm. popularresistance.org "No War 2022, July 8 — 10," hosted by World BEYOND War, will consider major and growing threats faced in today's world. Emphasizing "Resistance and Regeneration," the conference will feature practitioners of permaculture who work to heal scarred lands as well as abolish all war. | Listening to various friends speak of the environmental impact of war, we recalled testimony from survivors of a Nazi concentration camp on the outskirts of Berlin, Sachsenhausen, where over 200,000 prisoners were interned from 1936 — 1945.

_____ (2022-07-10). Is The US Now Trying To Destabilize Uzbekistan? popularresistance.org Unfortunately, the failure of the recent attempt to create an armed conflict in the Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Region (GBAR) has not dampened Washington's ardor in searching for ways to destabilize the situation in Central Asia and in creating an additional inconvenience for Russia, which at present is conducting a special military operation to de-Nazify Ukraine, by creating a "second front." The United States, to this end, continues to use its sponsored NGOs, media and US intelligence capabilities to foment old conflicts in the region to put pressure on regional security, with a subsequent threat to Russia, as…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-07-10). The U.S.'s Cynical Misuse of Human Rights. libya360.wordpress.com Carlos Martinez Global politics seems to be moving in two opposite directions. On the one hand, the US and its closest allies are stepping up their efforts to consolidate and expand US hegemony. On the other hand, the countries of the developing world, the socialist countries and the formerly-colonised countries are increasingly united in their…

Benjamin Norton (2022-07-10). US-backed fascism in Japan: How Shinzo Abe whitewashed genocidal imperial crimes. multipolarista.com Japan's longest serving prime minister, Shinzo Abe tried to rewrite the Japanese empire's genocidal history. After World War II, the US rehabilitated fascist war criminals, like Abe's grandfather Nobusuke Kishi, putting them in power in a right-wing one-party regime.

Fight Back (2022-07-10). Red Theory: The revolutionary significance of Marx's critique of capitalism. fightbacknews.org Thanks to Marxism, we know that ideological superstructure of society arises from and supports the material, economic base of society. What we think is shaped primarily by our practical activity in production, class struggle and scientific experiment. Furthermore, Marx was fundamentally a revolutionary organizer, interested in helping the working class to understand and overthrow its exploitation. This is why Marx devoted the bulk of his theoretical work to an analysis of political economy. | Marx's historical materialism explains how any given mode of production arises historically, based on dialectical and mate…

Peoples Dispatch (2022-07-10). Daily Round-up | North Macedonians protest EU discussions and more stories. peoplesdispatch.org In today's episode, we bring you stories from the protests in North Macedonia, the sentencing of Argentine security officers for crimes during the military dictatorship, and tax policy changes affecting relief work in the Brazilian state of Pernambuco…

Liberation Staff-Davis (2022-07-10). LGBTQ community defeats fascist assault on Pride event in Woodland, California. liberationnews.org When the Proud Boys attempted to forcefully enter, they were maced and forced to retreat across the street.

David Duhalde (2022-07-10). The Socialist Left Should Be Giving the Jan. 6 Hearings the Attention They Deserve. commondreams.org Socialists should be front and center, demanding that there be actual repercussions for the anti-democratic effort to overturn the election.

Urs Fischer, Johannes Kaesmacher, Daniel Strbian, Omer Eker, Christoph Cognard, Patricia S Plattner, Lukas Bàºtikofer, Pasquale Mordasini, Sandro Deppeler, Vitor M Pereira, Jean Franàßois Albucher, Jean Darcourt, Romain Bourcier, Guillon Benoit, Chrysanthi Papagiannaki, Ozlem Ozkul-Wermester, Gerli Sibolt, Marjaana Tiainen, Benjamin Gory, Sébastien Richard, Jan Liman, Marielle Sophie Ernst, Marion Boulanger, Charlotte Barbier, Laura Mechtouff, Liqun Zhang, Gaultier Marnat, Igor Sibon, Omid Nikoubashman, Arno Reich, Arturo Consoli, Bertrand Lapergue, Marc Ribo, Alejandro Tomasello, Suzana Saleme, Francisco Macian, Solène Moulin, Paolo Pagano, Guillaume Saliou, Emmanuel Carrera, Kevin Janot, María Hernández-Pérez, Raoul Pop, Lucie Della Schiava, Andreas R Luft, Michel Piotin, Jean Christophe Gentric, Aleksandra Pikula, Waltraud Pfeilschifter, Marcel Arnold, Adnan H Siddiqui, Michael T Froehler, Anthony J Furlan, René Chapot, Martin Wiesmann, Paolo Machi, Hans-Christoph Diener, Zsolt Kulcsar, Leo H Bonati, Claudio L Bassetti, Mikael Mazighi, David S Liebeskind, Jeffrey L Saver, Jan Gralla, SWIFT DIRECT Collaborators (2022-07-09). [Articles] Thrombectomy alone versus intravenous alteplase plus thrombectomy in patients with stroke: an open-label, blinded-outcome, randomised non-inferiority trial. thelancet.com Thrombectomy alone was not shown to be non-inferior to intravenous alteplase plus thrombectomy and resulted in decreased reperfusion rates. These results do not support omitting intravenous alteplase before thrombectomy in eligible patients.

2022-07-12 00:17 | 20:17 EST | jz | 19 | 1 | 9 | 8 | 0 ∧

2022-07-10: News Headlines

Editor2 (2022-07-10). The Deeper Meaning of Ukraine. orinocotribune.com By Alastair Crooke , 2022 | The wider Ukraine meaning lies in this insight: Other leaders are no longer naàØve when the West offers glass beads (or paper dollars) in exchange for their real riches | The West, in its cavalier manner, entered upon war with the Russia-China axis, without due care. It expected easy 'wins' with sanctions imploding the Russian economy, and with military urban-war tactics borrowed from Syria, bleeding out the Russian army. Instead, it is turning-out to be a monumental débacle. More than that, its multiple failures and insultingly-cocksure propaganda are proving a break…

Staff (2022-07-10). US, China FMs discuss Ukraine crisis, ties. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Jul. 10 (MNA) — US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Saturday he had discussed the Russian special military operation in Ukraine during more than five hours of talks with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi.

Contributing Writers (2022-07-10). DONBASS — PROGRESSION DES FORCES ALLIÉES EN DIRECTION DE SLAVIANSK, ARTIOMOVSK ET SEVERSK/Par Christelle Néant. marktaliano.net Original Link Here: Donbass Progression des forces alliées en direction de Slaviansk, Artiomovsk et Seversk Donbass Insider (donbass-insider.com) 09/07/2022 Suite à la prise de contrà¥le de Lissitchansk, les forces alliées continuent sur leur lancée et avancent sur les trois axes de Slaviansk, Artiomovsk et Seversk, afin de poursuivre la libération du Donbass. Alors …

Anonymous669 (2022-07-10). Russian Army Destroyed Two More Hangars Housing US-Supplied M777 Howitzers In Donetsk. southfront.org Ukrainian service members firing a M777 howitzer on an unspecified front in the Donbass region. Source: the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense. | The Russian military had destroyed hangars housing US-supplied M777 155 mm self-propelled howitzers near the settlement of Kostantinovka in the Donetsk, the Russian Ministry of Defense announced on July 10."Over the past day tactical aviation, the rocket and artillery forces struck 17 Ukrainian command posts, four platoons of Grad MLRS and, in the area of Konstantinovka…

Anonymous103 (2022-07-10). Military Situation In Ukraine On July 10, 2022 (Map Update). southfront.org On July 10, the Russian Ministry of Defence recorded no hostilities and ceasefire violations in the Idlib region in the past 24 hours; | On July 9, a male refugee was killed by unknown individuals in the al-Hawl camp; | On July 9, a Turkish drone was spotted over the areas west of Tal Abyadh; | On July 10, the Russian Military Police carried out a patrol near the town of Tal Saman north of Raqqah; | On July 10, artillery of Turkish-backed forces shelled SAA positions in the…

Anonymous103 (2022-07-10). Ukraine's War Began With Ukraine's Coup In February 2014, NOT With Russia's Invasion In February 2022. southfront.org Russia's invasion was a result from the U.S. Government's Ukrainian coup, 8 years after the fateful event. Written by Eric…

Anonymous669 (2022-07-10). In Video: Russian Strike Destroys British Brimstone Missile Launcher Of Kiev Forces. southfront.org Screen grab from a video by MBDA showing a live-fire test of the Brimstone. | The Russian military has destroyed one of the Brimstone precision-guided missile launchers recently supplied to Kiev forces by the UK. | On July 10, RIA Novosti released a video showing the destruction of the launcher. Three heavy artillery rockets struck the launcher, which was camouflaged as a civilian truck, right after it fired a salvo of three Brimstone missiles on an unspecified front. | In April, the UK pledged to supply Ukraine w…

Kungu Al-Mahadi Adam (2022-07-10). Training for thousands of Ukrainian soldiers begins in UK. plusnews.ug The first cohort of Ukrainian troops has arrived in the UK to undergo specialist military training, with up to 10,000 service members expected to take part in the program in the coming months. British Defence Secretary Ben Wallace has personally welcomed the soldiers. According to a statement published by Britain's Ministry of Defence on Saturday, …

Anonymous669 (2022-07-10). Turkey Won't Cancel Plans For New Operation In Syria: Akar. southfront.org The Turkish military is ready for a new operation in northern Syria and the order to start it can be given at any time, Turkish National Defense Minister Hulusi Akar said on July 10. | Speaking during a visit to a military base in Daglica, along the Turkish-Iraqi border, Akar stressed that Turkey will not cancel or postpone its military plans. The minister said that bilateral meetings on the sidelines of the NATO summit in Madrid did not change the plans of the Turkish leadership."We have do…

TeleSUR, JL (2022-07-10). Abren urnas para comicios a senadores en Japón después de asesinato del exprimer ministro. telesurtv.net Sondeos estiman que el Partido Liberal Democrático podría obtener la mayoría en el Senado.

____ (2022-07-10). Wang Yi co-hosts 2nd meeting of China-Indonesia High-level Dialogue Cooperation Mechanism in Indonesia. ecns.cn Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi co-hosted the Second Meeting of China-Indonesia High-level Dialogue Cooperation Mechanism on Saturday with Indonesia's Coordinator for Cooperation with China and Coordinating Minister Luhut Binsar Pandjaitan.

TeleSUR, DRL (2022-07-10). Asesinan a otro firmante de la paz en Colombia. telesurtv.net Forma parte del contexto de violencia en el cual se propone combatir desde agosto el nuevo presidente Gustavo Petro.

____ (2022-07-10). Elon Musk decides to terminate Twitter deal. ecns.cn Tesla CEO Elon Musk decided on Friday to terminate his $44 billion deal to buy Twitter, blaming the company for withholding information on its number of spam and fake accounts.

Staff (2022-07-10). Felicitations to Muslims on Eid al-Adha. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Jul. 10 (MNA) — Eid al-Adha, celebrated by around 1.5 billion Muslims around the world, is one of the most significant occasions in the Islamic calendar.

Nameunknown (2022-07-10). Universally Mastering the Basics is Paramount in any Relief From COVID-19. Unknown

Anonymous103 (2022-07-10). Military Situation In Afghanistan On July 10, 2022 (Map Update). southfront.org On July 6, unknown gunmen assassinated Shir Agha, the former governor of Deh Rawood district in Leblan village in Uruzgan province; | On July 6, forces loyal to to Ahmad Masoud attacked Taliban positions in Khost and Farang district in Baghlan province. Five Taliban members including Mullah Bahauddin, the deputy governor of the Taliban were killed; | On July 7, more than 10 Taliban members were killed and wounded as a result of the internal conflict in the presidentia…

Anonymous103 (2022-07-10). Military Situation In Syria On July 10, 2022 (Map Update). southfront.org On July 10, the Russian Ministry of Defence recorded no hostilities and ceasefire violations in the Idlib region in the past 24 hours; | On July 9, a male refugee was killed by unknown individuals in the al-Hawl camp; | On July 9, a Turkish drone was spotted over the areas west of Tal Abyadh; | On July 10, the Russian Military Police carried out a patrol near the town of Tal Saman north of Raqqah; | On July 10, artillery of Turkish-backed forces shelled SAA positions in t…

Editor (2022-07-10). Media Support 'Self-Determination' for US Allies, Not Enemies. scheerpost.com By Article 1 of the UN Charter

Ranjani Iyer Mohanty (2022-07-10). "The Lady Vanishes" But She Must Not. fairobserver.com My mother, aged 81, had a couple of errands and so I was driving her around Calgary. First, we went to her bank so she could deposit a check. Wanting to ensure she didn't slip on the well-polished floor, I held her arm gently as she walked up to the teller. She greeted the teller…

Editor2 (2022-07-10). Peru: The Political Crisis Worsens. orinocotribune.com By Carlos Noriega — , 2022 | The crisis in Pedro Castillo's government is worsening. Less than a month before the rural teacher and trade unionist who came to power as candidate of the left completes his first year in the presidency, the right wing, which from the first day of the government has bet on a coup, accelerates its plans to remove him from office abusing the power of the Congress that it controls. | The instability of the government is accentuated by the destabilizing maneuvers of the right wing, which in its coup plans has the support of the big media, but one cannot deny the responsibility…

Staff (2022-07-10). En video, la Tira de los Lectores en homenaje a Nicolás Guillén. cubadebate.cu Esta vez La Tira de los Lectores está dedicada a Nicolás Guillén, quien cumple este 10 de julio 120 años. Envíanos a nuestro Facebook/Messenger un video recitando tu fragmento favorito de uno de sus poemas. Hace unos días lanzamos esta convocatoria y hoy publicamos el video del pequeño Diego Mejías recitando Un son para niños antillanos,como homenaje al Poeta Nacional de Cuba.

Staff (2022-07-10). Terrorists shelled areas in Syrian Idlib: Russian source. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Jul. 10 (MNA) — A Russian source reported that the Al-Nusra Front terrorists have shelled some areas in Idlib five times.

TeleSUR, SH (2022-07-10). Policía investiga fiesta anual del partido del canciller alemán. telesurtv.net El colíder de los socialdemócratas, Lars Klingbeil, expresó su enojo por los hechos ocurridos en la fiesta anual de su partido.

TeleSUR, DRL (2022-07-10). Fallece el expresidente mexicano Luis Echeverría a los 100 años. telesurtv.net Murió a sus 100 años de edad y gobernó México por el Partido Revolucionario Institucional, durante el sexenio 1970-1976.

Newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2022-07-10). Mayo Clinic joins Better Climate Challenge, committing to further reduce greenhouse gas emissions. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org ROCHESTER, Minn. — Mayo Clinic recently joined the Better Climate Challenge, an initiative launched by the Department of Energy that encourages organizations to set ambitious goals for reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Mayo Clinic is committed to cutting certain greenhouse gas emissions by 50% and reducing energy use by 20% within 10 years. Participating in the Better Climate Challenge requires Mayo Clinic to develop and submit a plan to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, share progress and solutions…

____ (2022-07-10). Chinese zither player in France charms netizens. ecns.cn Young Chinese Peng Jingxuan has charmed netizens for playing Chinese zither, or Guzheng, in France.

Labor Video Project (2022-07-10). "They Only Understand Power" 2022 SF "Bloody Thursday" ILWU Local 10 Trent Willis Speaks. indybay.org At the ILWU Local 10 "Bloody Thursday" commemoration past ILWU Local 10 president talked about the conditions facing ILWU members including covid and the contract fight with the shipping companies. This took place on July 5, 2022…

TeleSUR, ldp, SH (2022-07-10). Costa Rica declara la emergencia nacional a causa de las lluvias. telesurtv.net Hasta el momento el paso del huracán Bonnie dejó al menos 276 casas destruidas y 151 derrumbes por atender.

Gregory Shupak (2022-07-10). Corporate Media Continue Double-Standard on When 'Self-Determination' Is a Good Thing. commondreams.org An American public that the corporate media have given only part of the story is more likely to acquiesce to a war with no end in sight.

Juan Cole (2022-07-10). The Islamic Peace Studies Initiative. juancole.com The Islamic Peace Studies Initiative Presentation by Juan Cole at the Conference "Fi Subul al-SalƒÅm: Pacifism and Nonviolence in Contemporary Islam" at Manchester University, Tuesday, May 17 2022. Many thanks to Walaa Quisay. "Juan Cole and Samer Ali have directed the Islamic Peace Studies Initiative at the Center for Middle Eastern and North African …

____ (2022-07-10). (W.E. Talk) Dialogue: When Drucker 'meets' Confucius. ecns.cn There's a likelihood that Confucius would have been friends with Peter Drucker, who is described as the "father of modern management" in the West, if they had been living in the same time period. Whereas Confucius advocated "harmonious culture" and a "harmonious yet different" social order throughout his life, Peter Drucker similarly worked on the concept of "synergistic effectiveness" as his goal.

____ (2022-07-10). Geologists find rare 'cave cloud' in south China's Guangxi. ecns.cn A joint Sino-French cave exploration team has discovered a rare "cave cloud" — a special kind of natural mineral deposit within a cave — in south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, according to the Institute of Karst Geology of China Geological Survey.

Sam Pizzigati (2022-07-10). The Stupid Luck—and Sheer Ruthlessness—of the Filthy Rich. commondreams.org Deep pockets like Elon Musk have taken us all to the cleaners — and we let them.

Freedom Socialist Party Bay Area (2022-07-10). Wednesday 7/6: Labor History Online Discussion Group – Rise of the Excluded. indybay.org Zoom (Register at http: //bit.ly/FSFD-Labor)…

Toby Blomé (2022-07-10). Sunday 7/10: STOP the WAR on WOMEN! — RESCHEDULED TO JULY 24. indybay.org Golden Gate Bridge, South plaza, San Franicisco…

KQED Live (2022-07-10). Tuesday 8/9: Isabel Allende & Michael Krasny. indybay.org The Commons, KQED Headquarters | 2601 Mariposa Street | San Francisco, CA 94110…

Staff (2022-07-10). Mojtaba Amani appointed as new Iranian envoy to Lebanon. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Jul. 10 (MNA) — Iran's former head of the Iranian Interests Section in Cairo Mojtaba Amani was appointed as the new ambassador of Iran to Lebanon.

Newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2022-07-10). Mayo Clinic receives first-of-its-kind accreditation for diagnosis of primary ciliary dyskinesia. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org ROCHESTER, Minn. — Mayo Clinic's Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, the academic testing arm for Mayo Clinic Laboratories, has been accredited as a diagnostic site by the PCD Foundation. Mayo Clinic is the first and only center of excellence to receive PCD Foundation accreditation for the diagnosis of primary ciliary dyskinesia, a rare and debilitating lung disease. "This recognition of our laboratory services by the PCD Foundation is a clear reflection of our shared commitment to…

TeleSUR, DRL (2022-07-10). Lula encabeza acto por la democracia y contra el hambre. telesurtv.net Forma parte de la precampaña electoral del líder petista de cara a los comicios presidenciales de octubre próximo.

Perestroika.de (2022-07-10). 95 Theses Against the Rule of the Financial Markets. indybay.org The financial markets have made themselves independent of the real economy. As the selling of indulgences led to Martin Luther's 95 Theses in 1517, the dominance of speculative financial markets has led to revenue shortfalls of US cities and states. Tax havens hide between $22 trillion and $33 trillion according to the Tax Justice Network.

TeleSUR, gao, SH (2022-07-10). Cancilleres de China y EE.UU. se reúnen en Indonesia. telesurtv.net Ambos declararon su satisfacción por el buen tono de las conversaciones.

Newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2022-07-10). Plant power: Using diet to lower cancer risk. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org The choices you make at the grocery store have a bigger impact than just your dinner plans. Filling your plate with foods that are grown in the ground may be the best diet for cancer prevention. An estimated 1.9 million cases of cancer will be diagnosed in the U.S. in 2022, according to the American Cancer Society. While some people have a higher genetic risk to develop cancer, research shows that nearly 25% of overall…

____ (2022-07-10). Beautiful Mount Fanjing in Guizhou Province attracts tourists. ecns.cn The world natural heritage site Mount Fanjing, located in Tongren, Guizhou Province, is seething with tourists from various places.

____ (2022-07-10). Upper section of steel containment installed at Linglong One reactor. ecns.cn The upper cylinder of the steel containment in the "Linglong One" reactor was put in place at Changjiang Nuclear Power Base in South China's Hainan Province on Wednesday morning, 70 days ahead of the schedule.

Repost (2022-07-10). The Abe Cult Murder & The Japanese Cults Behind The Curtin. indybay.org The murderer of former Japanese Prime Minister Abe said to police his mother was a member of a cult the she gave large amounts of money to. He said he agreed with the politics of Abe but not what his cult did. This is some of the background of Abe's relationship with these cults. Also the corruption scandal of his wife who was part of this right wing nationalist religious cult.

Reenvia Red Latina sin fronteras (2022-07-10). Enlaces -Red Latina sin fronteras 08.07.2022. indybay.org ENLACES de Red Latina sin fronteras 08.07.2022 | comunicaciones e información para la liberación…

Khubaka, Michael Harris (2022-07-10). July 2022 – Existing California Juneteenth "Optional" Holiday Observance. indybay.org Restoring the Past: California Pioneers of African Descent both free and enslaved throughout California deserve an official paid holiday through and amended AB 1655 in alignment with our Juneteenth Federal Holiday established June 2021, nearly 20 years after AB 1749 became law.

TeleSUR, SH (2022-07-10). EE.UU. anuncia el envió de 361 millones de dólares a Ucrania. telesurtv.net Según el secretario de EE.UU. desde el comienzo del conflicto en Ucrania su país ha destinado más de 1.280 millones de dólares en ayuda.

2022-07-10 21:29 | 17:29 EST | jz | 52 | 4 | 1 | 52 | 0 ∧

2022-07-09: News Headlines

Caitlin Johnstone (2022-07-09). UK to Swap Out Top Sociopath for a Different Sociopath: Notes From the Edge of the Narrative Matrix. orinocotribune.com By Caitlin Johnstone Jul 7, 2022 | Boris Johnson Remember when rich people were so worried about Jeremy Corbyn raising their taxes that they spent months pretending to believe he was a closet Nazi? They really committed to the bit, too. You weren't even allowed to call it a bit because they'd start saying you're a Nazi…

WSWS (2022-07-09). Sri Lankan Socialist Equality Party rejects appeal to participate in "all-party" talks. wsws.org The Sri Lankan section of the International Committee of the Fourth International has bluntly told the opposition Samara Jana Balavegaya that it will under no circumstances engage in talks with the political parties of the ruling class.

Freedom Socialist Party Bay Area (2022-07-09). Wednesday 7/6: Labor History Online Discussion Group – Rise of the Excluded. indybay.org Zoom (Register at http: //bit.ly/FSFD-Labor)…

Steven Hill (2022-07-09). US Democracy Is Teetering on the Edge of an Abyss. commondreams.org If we don't restore majority rule—and to do so we must vanquish the tyranny of a corporate-backed minority—we will never solve climate change, inequality, balanced gun control, or ensure the sanctity and security of our elections.

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-07-08). Ruins of Azov Steel Factory Display Nazi Insignia and Signs of NATO Support. libya360.wordpress.com Sonja Van den Ende Among the ruins of the Azov Steel factory. [Photo courtesy of Sonja van den Ende] The Azov Steel factory was an important propaganda tool of the Western media since the Azov Battalion occupied the factory in March this year. In the official narrative, there were "good fellows" inside the factory, defending…

WSWS (2022-07-08). After Johnson's resignation: Mobilize the working class against capitalism and war. wsws.org Johnson is such a divisive and discredited figure that he could not be entrusted with the next stage of the ruling class offensive against the working class or with prosecuting NATO's war against Russia.

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-07-08). Before its Final Defeat, the U.S. Empire Will Try to Take the Rest of the World Down With it. libya360.wordpress.com Rainer Shea If U.S. imperialism gets its way, during our generation it will commit a gargantuan series of atrocities that take many millions of lives. It could carry out nuclear attacks against one or more of the countries challenging it, repeating its great crimes against the people of Japan with the bombings of Hiroshima and…

Cooper Feste (2022-07-08). Phoenix reproductive justice movement grows despite police attacks. liberationnews.org On July 1, over a thousand people joined a coalition of socialist organizations in Phoenix, Arizona to demand Biden and the Democrats take action on the overturning of Roe v. Wade.

WSWS (2022-07-08). The July 9 protest in Sri Lanka: A socialist program for workers and youth. wsws.org In opposition to the perspective of the Galle Face protest leaders, who call for the formation of an alternative bourgeois government, the Socialist Equality Party (SEP) advocates for a revolutionary socialist program for the working class.

Freedom Socialist Party (2022-07-08). Sunday 7/10: Voting Blue Won't Do–Build a Movement for Reproductive Justice. indybay.org Please register for zoom event: tinyurl.com/FSP-July10…

Deweylaura (2022-07-08). "The Man Who Broke Capitalism" (book review). cpusa.org David Gelles, The Man Who Broke Capitalism: How Jack Welch Gutted the Heartland and Crushed the Soul of Corporate America — and How to Undo His Legacy, Simon & Schuster, 2022. The Man Who Broke Capitalism is the intriguing title of a new book by New York Times business columnist David Gelles. It offers …

____ (2022-07-08). Experts urge U.S. to remove import tariffs. ecns.cn The United States should roll back all the additional tariffs on Chinese imports as soon as possible. Such a rollback will benefit consumers and enterprises and safeguard global trade and industrial chains.

Contributing Writers (2022-07-07). Kirovsk, a City Under Ukrainian Fire/ By Eva Bartlett. marktaliano.net READ MORE: NATO Media and NATO governments Support Nazism Why is the West Silent About Ukrainian Neo-Nazi Movements, Azov Battalion, & Bandera Legacy?/By Ekaterina Blinova Nazi collaborator monuments in Ukraine/ By Lev Golinkin "Lviv is packed full of Nazis, Fascists and Mercenaries" Vanessa Beeley Interviews Steve Sweeney NaziWashing 4 You/ Cindy Sheehan interviews Mark …

Fight Back (2022-07-07). Detroit group joins the Freedom Road Socialist Organization. fightbacknews.org Detroit, MI – A group of activists in the Detroit area joined the Freedom Road Socialist Organization (FRSO) in June 2022. This expands FRSO to an important and historic city for labor and Black struggles. The young workers and activists organized together during the George Floyd rebellion of 2020, and continued protesting through 2021, when they formed their own study group. | Late last year they approached the FRSO about joining and a comrade led them in a three-part study of the new book Marxist-Leninist Perspectives on Black Liberation and Socialism by Frank Chapman. They followed this with a study series on…

Fight Back (2022-07-07). Appleton WI: "Nothing to celebrate" July 4 rally demands non-enforcement of state's anti-abortion law. fightbacknews.org Appleton, WI — On July 4, hundreds of community members gathered in downtown Appleton to make their voices heard in support of reproductive rights for all. | What started earlier in the week as two separate events converged into one mass gathering of people who are stirred to action in the wake of the Supreme Court ruling in Jackson v. Dobbs on June 24, which erased the 50 years of affirmed federal protection for access to safe, legal abortion. | Concerned community individuals were supported by members of Freedom Road Socialist Organization (FRSO), Food Not Bombs-Fox Valley (FNBFV), United Action Oshkosh…

JANET (2022-07-07). Opening the boxes of capitalism's skeletons. iacenter.org By Julia Wright July 5, 2022 "This is the hour of the furnaces; we only see the light" — Che Guevara "Blossoming purple, a forgotten artichoke in a dark cupboard" — haiku by Richard Wright, 1960 Emmett Till and his mother, Mamie Till-Mobley These are strange days during the floundering of what was said to be our unsinkable "democracy," when each dark event seems to be the butterfly effect of a deja vu going back to slavery or to our Civil Rights Movement. Science fiction would appear to be old hat. We, writers, will have to invent something else. This July 3 marks the 40th year of the incarceration of…

2022-07-09 23:23 | 19:23 EST | jz | 19 | 4 | 9 | 5 | 0 ∧

2022-07-08: News Headlines

Sorry, there are no relevant citations today. Please check back later.

2022-07-09 03:44 | 23:44 EST | jz | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 ∧

2022-07-07: News Headlines

Contributing Writers (2022-07-07). Kirovsk, a City Under Ukrainian Fire/ By Eva Bartlett. marktaliano.net READ MORE: "Lviv is packed full of Nazis, Fascists and Mercenaries" Vanessa Beeley Interviews Steve Sweeney NaziWashing 4 You/ Cindy Sheehan interviews Mark Taliano Mark Taliano Ukraine Nazism Brian Berletic on Western Support for Nazism Canada denies training Ukrainian Neo-Nazis/By RT How Ukraine's Jewish president Zelensky made peace with neo-Nazi paramilitaries on front …

Freedom Socialist Party (2022-07-07). Sunday 7/10: Voting Blue Won't Do–Build a Movement for Reproductive Justice. indybay.org Please register for zoom event: tinyurl.com/FSP-July10…

Freedom Socialist Party Bay Area (2022-07-07). Wednesday 7/6: Labor History Online Discussion Group – Rise of the Excluded. indybay.org Zoom (Register at http: //bit.ly/FSFD-Labor)…

Anonymous103 (2022-07-07). Boris Johnson's Dream Of A New Roman Empire Ends With Downsized Army. southfront.org Retired General Lord Richard Dannatt describes British Army downsizing as "madness". | Written by Paul Antonopoulos, independent geopolitical analyst | Former Chief of the General Staff, General Lord Richard Dannatt, believes that the plan to slash 9, 0 soldiers from the British Army is "madness" and could "break" what remains of the force. According to him, cutting troop numbers from 82,000 to just 72, 0 will put unsustainable pressure on what is left of the British…

Amarynth (2022-07-06). The Empire is not done torturing Afghanistan. thesaker.is Despite its resounding defeat, NATO is not quite done with inflicting misery on the land of the Afghans By Pepe Escobar, posted with the author's permission and cross-posted with The…

_____ (2022-07-06). White Socialist Left: Seeing A Bleak Future For 'Black And White Unite'. popularresistance.org The Red Summer of 1919 put paid to the lie of a monochromatic class struggle as thousands of hysterical white workers took to the streets around the country over the course of the year to lynch, beat, shoot and burn to death more than 250 of their African American coworkers who they feared were replacing them in the workplace. | One-hundred and ten years after O'Hare published her racist polemic, another white woman with ties to the political Left in the U.S., Krystal Ball, appeared on the Marxist economist Richard Wolff's podcast to once again downplay the role that racism plays in the struggle between capital a…

_____ (2022-07-06). Senate Urged To Block Biden's Pro-Privatization Nominee For Social Security Board. popularresistance.org Defenders of Social Security on Tuesday urged the U.S. Senate to block President Joe Biden's little-noticed nomination of Andrew Biggs—an American Enterprise Institute senior fellow with a history of supporting Social Security privatization—to serve on the independent and bipartisan Social Security Advisory Board. | Social Security Works, a progressive advocacy group, is leading the charge against Biggs, highlighting his role in the George W. Bush administration's failed attempt to privatize the New Deal program in 2005.

Daniel Kovalik (2022-07-06). In An Attempt to Offset Rising Oil Prices, Biden Administration Makes Nice with Brutal Saudis—But Spurns Socialist Venezuela. covertactionmagazine.com Right-wing lobbies and ideological zealotry continue to prevent initiation of rational policy toward Venezuela On June 2, Saudi-led OPEC and …

Staff (2022-07-06). President Maduro at Venezuela's Independence Day Parade: As Long as Empires Exist We Will Continue to Fight (Remote Video Address). orinocotribune.com Earlier today, the president of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, inaugurated a civic-military parade in the nation's capital commemorating 211 years since the signing of the Declaration of Independence of Venezuela. | In an unusual remote video address from Miraflores Palace in Caracas, the head of state said that Venezuela will preserve its sovereignty against attacks from any empire, as it did on July 5, 1811. He called for Venezuelans not to lower their guard against the attacks of any empire. In recent days, President Maduro has mentioned intelligence reports outlining Colombian plans for sabotage and terrorist act…

Fight Back (2022-07-06). People's Independence Day: Milwaukee takes to the streets to protest Supreme Court rulings. fightbacknews.org Milwaukee, WI – In the calm before the storms hitting Milwaukee on July 4, over 1000 protested around the following six demands: True separation of church and state; repeal of Wisconsin State Statute 940.04; law enforcement shall not enforce abortion bans; the state of Wisconsin shall require law enforcement officials to read off Miranda Rights to those being detained; the city of Milwaukee and Milwaukee County shall not prosecute abortion cases – dismiss them all; and community control of the police now. | The protest was led by Freedom Road Socialist Organization (FRSO), the Milwaukee Alliance Against Racist an…

Amarynth (2022-07-06). Russia Sanctions and Asset Grab 2022. thesaker.is Russia Sanctions and ASSET GRAB 2022 The Coming Sanctions-Induced Economic Tsunami? July 6, 2022 by Yves Smith. www.nakedcapitalism.com/2022/07/the-coming-sanctions-induced-economic-tsunami.html Today I am risking being too glib, but my excuse is aspiring to meet…

Dr. Hedley Rees (2022-07-06). Video: "Taming The Big Pharma Monster". Corona Investigative Committee. Dr. Hedley Rees. globalresearch.ca

WSWS (2022-07-06). Workers and students demand freedom for Assange at Melbourne protest. wsws.org The Socialist Equality Party is holding an online meeting this Sunday, 3 p.m. (AEST), to discuss how to take forward the fight for the WikiLeaks founder's freedom.

WSWS (2022-07-06). As death toll rises in July Fourth Highland Park shooting, more evidence emerges linking gunman to pro-Trump fascist circles. wsws.org The death toll in the July Fourth massacre in Highland Park, Illinois has risen to seven, amid new information linking the accused gunman, 21-year-old Robert Crimo III, to social media networks steeped in fascistic ravings about mass shootings.

Prof. Daniel Broudy (2022-07-06). The Serpent and the Staff: Symbols of Safety and Security in the Propaganda of a Global Medical Tyranny. globalresearch.ca

Albert Bender (2022-07-06). Rogue Supreme Court's latest Indian law decision a huge step back in time. peoplesworld.org As the retrograde Supreme Court has taken steps back in time on abortion rights, blurring the time-enshrined separation between church and state, limiting the authority of the EPA to control carbon emissions, lowering restrictions on the carrying of firearms, and restricting Miranda rights, it has now also struck a reactionary blow against the tribal sovereignty of …

Fight Back (2022-07-05). FRSO: Resolution Against the U.S./NATO-Provoked War in Ukraine. fightbacknews.org Fight Back News Service is circulating the following resolution was that was adopted at Freedom Road Socialist Organization's 9th Congress. | We, Freedom Road Socialist Organization, hold the United States and NATO squarely responsible for the conflict in Ukraine. Since the disintegration of the socialist bloc in Europe, NATO has pursued a policy of expansion and military aggression that has brought instability to the region and beyond. In Ukraine, NATO and its de facto leader, the United States, created the conditions for the war that is now unfolding between the Russian Federation and the Ukrainian state. | Th…

2022-07-07 12:57 | 08:57 EST | jz | 20 | 1 | 12 | 5 | 0 ∧

2022-07-06: News Headlines

Prof. Daniel Broudy (2022-07-06). The Serpent and the Staff: Symbols of Safety and Security in the Propaganda of a Global Medical Tyranny. globalresearch.ca

Freedom Socialist Party Bay Area (2022-07-06). Wednesday 7/6: Labor History Online Discussion Group – Rise of the Excluded. indybay.org Zoom (Register at http: //bit.ly/FSFD-Labor)…

Dr. Hedley Rees (2022-07-06). Video: "Taming The Big Pharma Monster". Corona Investigative Committee. Dr. Hedley Rees. globalresearch.ca

Freedom Socialist Party (2022-07-06). Sunday 7/10: Voting Blue Won't Do–Build a Movement for Reproductive Justice. indybay.org Please register for zoom event: tinyurl.com/FSP-July10…

_____ (2022-07-05). Is the US Now Trying to Destabilize Uzbekistan? journal-neo.org Unfortunately, the failure of the recent attempt to create an armed conflict in the Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Region (GBAR) has not dampened Washington's ardor in searching for ways to destabilize the situation in Central Asia and in creating an additional inconvenience for Russia, which at present is conducting a special military operation to de-Nazify Ukraine, by …

Dr. Paul Craig Roberts (2022-07-05). Algo para pensar sobre el 4 de julio: "La nazificación de América" globalizacion.ca Peter Navarro, de 73 años, fue Asistente del Presidente para Política Comercial y de Manufactura durante la administración Trump. No lo conozco. En febrero pasado, los demócratas lo citaron para comparecer ante el "Comité Selecto sobre el Ataque del 6…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-07-05). The Empire is Not Done Torturing Afghanistan. libya360.wordpress.com Pepe Escobar Photo Credit: The Cradle Despite its resounding defeat, NATO is not quite done with inflicting misery on the land of the Afghans Once upon a time, in a galaxy not far away, the Empire of Chaos launched the so-called "War on Terror" against an impoverished cemetery of empires at the crossroads of Central and South Asia….

Staff (2022-07-05). The People's Party is suing Florida for ballot access. peoplesparty.org The Democrats and Republicans together have hurled this country into crushing inflation, mass homelessness, endless war, and growing authoritarianism. Every American has the right to vote against the establishment parties and for third party candidates who don't answer to their billionaire donors. But in state after state, the increasingly unpopular corporate parties are trying to entrench their advantage with laws meant to suppress third parties and deny millions of Americans the right to vote for them. | That's what the People's Party is facing in Florida, where, despite having achieved ballot access last fall,…

_____ (2022-07-05). Lawyers Speak Out On Supreme Court: 'This Is A Revelation Of The Future'. popularresistance.org The recent US Supreme Court rulings set legal precedents that will further erode human and civil rights and empower corporations as well as open the door for more cases that will advance Christian and capitalist ideologies. Clearing the FOG speaks with two legal experts, Shahid Buttar and Marjorie Cohn, about the specifics of the recent decisions on abortion, gun rights, school prayer, and the EPA and how they fit into the bigger picture. They also provide guidance on what we need to do to stop growing fascism in the United States.

JANET (2022-07-05). January 6 hearings and the fascist threat. iacenter.org By Martha Grevatt Since June 9, the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol has built a case against former President Donald Trump, members of his administration and Trump allies. The Committee will hold additional hearings this month, keeping the spotlight on a very real, growing and dangerous fascist movement. This movement did not appear from out of nowhere on Jan. 6, 2021; the election of an openly racist and xenophobic president in 2016 encouraged it. Events like the 2017 "Unite the Right" mobilization in Charlottesville, Virginia, where one anti…

JANET (2022-07-05). France election yields stinging rebuke for Macron. iacenter.org By G. Dunkel The second round of parliamentary elections in France held June 19 established two key facts. President Macron's party suffered a stinging rebuke. For the first time since France went to five-year terms for its president and held parliamentary elections after the presidential elections, the president's party failed to win a majority. It got 245 seats, 44 seats less than a majority. It was clear that Macron won the presidential elections only because French voters didn't want fascist Marine Le Pen, his rival in the runoff vote, to be president. His party's left-wing opponents, united in a…

Newsclick (2022-07-05). What Warren Buffett knows that you don't Part 3. peoplesdispatch.org Warren Buffett's smartest investment is not in any manufacturing or service company, but in several insurance businesses. Although the business itself doesn't generate much profits, it gives Buffett access to a huge insurance 'float' which is stable over a long period of time. It is practically a giant loan for which Buffett pays nothing. Buffett's insurance float strategy shows that the only way to make money in Capitalism is if you already have a lot of money.

Dr. T. P. Wilkinson (2022-07-05). "Religious Precepts" Sustained by the Covid Crisis: The UN "Sustainable Development" Project Serves the Interests the Financial Elites. globalresearch.ca

____ (2022-07-05). Self-developed airplane by Hubei company makes maiden flight. ecns.cn The first airplane independently developed by an enterprise in central China's Hubei Province made its maiden flight Monday afternoon.

A Guest Author (2022-07-05). Opening the boxes of capitalism's skeletons. workers.org By Julia Wright "This is the hour of the furnaces; we only see the light" — Che Guevara "Blossoming purple, a forgotten artichoke in a dark cupboard" — haiku by Richard Wright, 1960 Emmett Till and his mother, Mamie Till-Mobley These are strange days during the floundering of what was . . . |

Julia Conley (2022-07-05). 'Grave Injustice': Judge Rules Against West Virginia Community Devastated by Opioids. commondreams.org Three pharmaceutical companies distributed 81 million opioid painkillers in a West Virginia county over an eight-year period, but the federal judge ruled they were not liable for the damage done by the opioid epidemic.

Margaret Anna Alice (2022-07-05). Video: Covid Propaganda and Social Engineering. Massive Transfers of Wealth. Towards A "One-world Dictatorship". Margaret Anna Alice. globalresearch.ca

Dimitri Lascaris (2022-07-04). Ukraine's 'servant of the people' is a Western fiction. canadiandimension.com Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy walks under a camouflage net in a trench as he visits the war-hit Donetsk region in eastern Ukraine, December 6, 2021. Image by manhhai/ From the outset of Russia's invasion in February of this year, Western elites have bestowed upon Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky a level of adulation that few (if any) leaders have enjoyed. | Zelensky's political rock star tour began with a speech to the European Parliament on March 1. He spoke with the United States Congress on March 16. By April…

Fight Back (2022-07-04). California: Boyle Heights rallies for reproductive rights. fightbacknews.org Los Angeles, CA – On June 30, the Freedom Road Socialist Organization-Los Angeles (FRSO-LA), along with Centro Community Service Organization (Centro CSO), rallied for reproductive rights in Boyle Heights. This event, held at Mariachi Plaza, was called as a response rally to the Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade. Young community members came out to listen to speakers from FRSO and Centro CSO who expressed how this decision will impact women, gender fluid people, and anyone who can become pregnant. | The attendees angrily chanted, "Que queremos? Opción! Cuando? Ahora!" along with "What do we want?

2022-07-06 21:37 | 15:37 EST | jz | 27 | 2 | 15 | 9 | 0 ∧

2022-07-05: News Headlines

WSWS (2022-07-04). Ukrainian ambassador to Germany Andrey Melnyk defends Nazi collaborator and anti-Semite Stepan Bandera. wsws.org The German government's silence on Melnyk's recent remarks is not simply a scandal. It is part of a deliberate campaign to rehabilitate fascism and ultimately Hitler himself.

Anonymous103 (2022-07-04). Donetsk On Fire: More Civilians Killed As A Result Of Shelling By Ukrainian Nazis. southfront.org On July 4, the total number of civilian casualties from the attacks of the Ukrainian Armed Forces (AFU) in the Donetsk People's Republic is 30 people. 3 civilians were killed and 27 others were wounded. | According to the DPR representative in the JCCC, as of 18: 00, the AFU fired 730 ammunition of various types, including from the BM-27 Hurricane MLRS and BM-21 "Grad", as well as artillery ammunition of 155, 152 and 122 mm caliber. | On the outskirts of Donetsk, a woman was killed by the…

Rqorinoco (2022-07-04). All Search-Engines Are Effectively Controlled By The US Government. orinocotribune.com By Eric Zuesse — Apr 28, 2022 | Any intelligent user of the internet knows that ANY censorship on the Web is dictatorial, NOT democratic. It's at least as dictatorial if it is coming from billionaires such as Gabriel Weinberg, or Jack Dorsey, or Mark Zuckerberg, or their agents, as it is if it comes from the Government itself — which the user can vote against at election-time without needing to purchase shares of stock in some corporation in order to become enabled to vote against its CEO and other officials. | Because it has become widely known that Google search-results exclude any find that proves…

Rqorinoco (2022-07-04). Mein Kampf: Hitler's Love Letter to Western Imperialism. orinocotribune.com By Joe Emersberger — Jun 29, 2022 | "Appeals to all civilized and reasonable people." | Volume I of Hitler's Mein Kampf [My Struggle] was published in 1925. Volume II was published in 1926.

WSWS (2022-07-04). Kenosha far-right vigilante Kyle Rittenhouse announces a shooter video game targeting media organizations. wsws.org Following his elevation to cult-like status within far-right circles, Rittenhouse is cashing in with fascistic propaganda.

____ (2022-07-04). Chinese firms in U.S. recover from disruptions amid mounting uncertainties: survey. ecns.cn Chinese enterprises operating in the United States reported stabilization and slight improvement in their performance in 2021 while their optimism about opportunities in the United States is declining on various headwinds.

Muhammed Shabeer (2022-07-04). Pride for people, not for profit. peoplesdispatch.org LGBTQ+ rights groups and progressive sections across the world organized pride marches and other festivities throughout the month of June, raising the rainbow flag of LGBTQ+ emancipation and joining the fight against prejudices and witch hunting. This year marked the 53rd anniversary of the Stonewall Uprising by the gay community against police repression in the US. Despite homophobic hate mongering, repression, attacks and ostracization, the LGBTQ+ community has continued to organize and agitate for visibility, recognition and rights. However, dominant religious groups, totalitarian regimes, and conservative and…

Freedom Socialist Party (2022-07-04). Sunday 7/10: Voting Blue Won't Do–Build a Movement for Reproductive Justice. indybay.org Please register for zoom event: tinyurl.com/FSP-July10…

Staff (2022-07-04). LGBTIQ+ Pride March in Caracas & Photo Gallery. orinocotribune.com LGBTIQ+ movements from all over the country marched this Sunday, July 3, through the streets of Caracas to celebrate pride month, which is commemorated throughout the world and was put on pause for two years due to the Covid-19 pandemic. | The national commissioner for youth sex diversity of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV), and one of the organizers of this activity, Isamari Matute, stressed that this march vindicates the struggles of the community, "struggles made invisible by capitalism," she indicated. Likewise, she pointed out that in Venezuela full inclusion" and the freedom to raise the flags…

WSWS (2022-07-04). From the Fourth of July to the Sixth of January. wsws.org The working class—in the US and internationally—must be warned of the ongoing danger of dictatorship and mobilized in time to stop it.

Eva Bartlett (2022-07-03). The Lugansk People's Republic has now been brought under the control of the LPR & Russia. ingaza.wordpress.com All of the Lugansk People's Republic has now been brought under the control of the LPR & Russia. The population who were treated as subhuman (at best), or imprisoned, starved, tortured, executed…by Ukrainian forces & Nazis can now lively freely & without enduring the hell of Ukrainian rule any longer. RELATED:…

Fight Back (2022-07-03). Red Theory: Marxism against postmodernism. fightbacknews.org In the ideological terrain today, Marxism must struggle against postmodernism. What is postmodernism? In…

Fight Back (2022-07-03). Appleton, WI: FRSO members and allies confront the mayor and condemn police response to protests. fightbacknews.org Appleton, WI — On June 29, a group of Fox Valley activists led by members of the Freedom Road Socialist Organization gathered together to demand that Appleton Mayor Jake Woodford take action against the renewed abortion ban in Wisconsin and to hold local police accountable for their response to weekend demonstrations. Others joining FRSO included Food Not Bombs, Appleton Students for a Democratic Society, and a handful of community members, all of whom were present at the rallies since the decision came down on June 24. | During the rallies, demonstrators were harassed by Appleton police, with march leaders…

2022-07-05 10:17 | 04:17 EST | tr | 19 | 3 | 12 | 4 | 0 ∧

2022-07-04: News Headlines

Freedom Socialist Party (2022-07-04). Sunday 7/10: Voting Blue Won't Do–Build a Movement for Reproductive Justice. indybay.org Please register for zoom event: tinyurl.com/FSP-July10…

Daniel Kovalik (2022-07-03). World's Largest Imperial Power Sponsors Calls for Russia to 'Decolonize' and the Lack of Self-Awareness is Palpable. orinocotribune.com By Daniel Kovalik Jun 28, 2022 | The United States, the most powerful colonial empire in modern history, is sponsoring a discussion on its adversary's 'imperialism' | On June 23, 2022, an organization funded by the US Congress, the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe — also known as the Helsinki Commission — This begs the question of why they are not seeking t…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-07-03). National Identity: The US and Russia Mark Pearl Harbor and Hitler's Invasion Very Differently. libya360.wordpress.com Scott Ritter The word 'Remember' in Russian is lit up as the date of Nazi Germany's 1941 invasion of the Soviet Union is commemorated in Moscow. © Sputnik / Evgeny Odinokov Over generations, perceptions distort history, and keeping memory alive is important for national identity Last month, Russia marked June 22, the date Operation Barbarossa…

_____ (2022-07-03). Newsletter: Color Revolution Comes Home? popularresistance.org By Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers for Popular Resistance. The United States has perfected the art of regime change operations. The US is the largest empire in world history with more than 1,000 military bases and troops operating throughout the world. In addition to military force, the US uses the soft power of regime change, often through 'Color Revolutions.' The US has been building its empire since the Civil War era, but it has been in…

Fight Back (2022-07-03). Red Theory: Marxism against postmodernism. fightbacknews.org In the ideological terrain today, Marxism must struggle against postmodernism. What is postmodernism? In…

Jason Hickel (2022-07-03). To Force Radical Climate Action, the Global South Should De-Link From Western Capitalism. commondreams.org After all, Western economies—and their economic growth—depend utterly on labour and resources from the South.

TeleSUR, AA, JGN (2022-07-03). øCómo evolucionó Vietnam tras proclamarse República Socialista. telesurtv.net El exitoso proceder socialista en Vietnam es un ejemplo para los gobiernos socialistas y de izquierdas han tenido que superar las agresiones de los países más poderosos.

_____ (2022-07-03). The Terrible Origins of July 4th. popularresistance.org "He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages, whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions." — Declaration of Independence | The July 4 holiday in the United States commemorates the signing of the Declaration of Independence in 1776. Anyone educated in this country has been propagandized with lies about patriotic colonists seeking freedom from a tyrannical British monarch. Our minds were filled with tales of Paul Revere and Betsy Ross which erase the role that i…

____ (2022-07-03). China ratchets up efforts to ease burdens on enterprises. ecns.cn The combination of tax and fee cuts is estimated to relieve enterprises of 2.86 trillion yuan in expenses in the first half of this year.Meanwhile, priorities have been given to small businesses as about 70 percent of the tax and fee support went to micro, small and medium-sized enterprises.

2022-07-04 19:29 | 15:29 EST | jz | 19 | 0 | 11 | 8 | 0 ∧

2022-07-03: News Headlines

Freedom Socialist Party (2022-07-03). Sunday 7/10: Voting Blue Won't Do–Build a Movement for Reproductive Justice. indybay.org Please register for zoom event: tinyurl.com/FSP-July10…

Scorinoco (2022-07-02). Lavrov Gets It Right by Comparing European Union and NATO to Hitler's Old Axis. orinocotribune.com By Guilherme Wilbert — June 28, 2022 | Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov stated on June 24 that the European Union and NATO appear to be building a military coalition for a war against Russia. The statement was given in Baku in Azerbaijan during an "They are creating a new coalition for fighting, that is, for war with Russia. We will follow this very closely," the minister rightly declared, because that is what has been happening anyway. But first let's go to the archetypes of the entities mentioned. | The…

Editor (2022-07-02). Ralph Nader: How Can Dictators Control So Many Millions of People? scheerpost.com By Ralph Nader How do dictators manage for decades to control 1.4 billion (China) or 146 million (Russia) people and on down to other smaller totalitarian regimes? Answer: one power hungry man at the top. Political scientists have written about the various "pillars" sustaining autocratic regimes. Professor Christoph H. Stefes (University of Colorado Denver) focuses …

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-07-02). Fascist USA: Coeur d'Alene and a Legacy of Hate. libya360.wordpress.com Cassandra Devereaux Large group of "Patriotic Front" fascists arrested when preparing to attach Pride March in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho. Part I Coeur d'Alene,the largest city in Northern Idaho, is set in truly breathtaking country. It's on a lake that shares its name to the south, and another lake to the east. To the east, west,…

Editor (2022-07-02). 'Self-Actualization' in a World Full of Exploitation. scheerpost.com By Eamon Martin / CounterPunch "The logic of worldly success rests on a fallacy: the strange error that our perfection depends on the thoughts and opinions and applause of [others]! A weird life it is, indeed, to be living always in somebody else's imagination, as if that were the only place in which one could …

Editor (2022-07-02). Peter Schumann turns sketches into comics—and comics into street theater. mronline.org Five o'clock in the morning is a "preferred time" for Peter Schumann to make comics, he said. Ideas can come from just about anywhere: the weather in the Northeast Kingdom, where he lives, or a piece in the Monthly Review, a long-running socialist publication. "I go by what's happening in the world," he said.

Editor (2022-07-02). Economist Michael Hudson on inflation and Fed plan to cut wages: A depression is coming. mronline.org Economist Michael Hudson explains the inflation crisis and U.S. Federal Reserve's "austerity program to reduce wages" and boost unemployment. He warns a "long depression" is coming, due to the new cold war on Russia and China.

WSWS (2022-07-02). "Any self-respecting nurse would run screaming from HCA"—Pennsylvania nurse describes her experience working for Healthcare Corporation of America. wsws.org The World Socialist Web Site received a letter from a nurse with several decades of experience working for the Healthcare Corporation of America, the world's largest private hospital owner.

____ (2022-07-02). They Should Dissolve Most Of US "Higher Education" As Useless… smoothiex12.blogspot.com Including very many military "educational" and "national security" programs because they are taught by amateurs and people, including from Pentagon, who have no clue of the subject. This is what happens when much of your military history is a fantasy created in Hollywood. I always talk about it. When elites' "knowledge" of strategy is derived primarily from entertainment (I am sure some in the US State Department believe in the superpowers which Marvel movies show) this is the inevitable result. They still cannot come to grips with the fact that VSU doesn't exist anymore. The Kiev regime begins to draft 22 y…

WSWS (2022-07-02). LAUSD high school valedictorian rips into the erosion of public education in graduation speech, sparking mass support. wsws.org Reporters with the World Socialist Web Site spoke with Axel Brito about his impassioned speech which has been viewed nearly 3 million times on social media.

2022-07-03 21:12 | 17:12 EST | jz | 21 | 1 | 9 | 11 | 0 ∧

2022-07-02: News Headlines

Juan Cole (2022-07-02). Unlike SCOTUS, Iraqi Kurds are Rethinking Lax Gun Laws after Shootings; Will even Iraq be Safer than the US? juancole.com Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) Other countries can just adopt rational policies to deal with severe social problems. The United States is locked into various weird metaphysical dogmas that make reasoning about such issues difficult. The second amendment, for instance, has nothing to do with universal gun ownership, whatever ideologues on the Right assert. The …

TeleSUR, AA, JGN (2022-07-02). øCómo evolucionó Vietnam tras proclamarse República Socialista. telesurtv.net El exitoso proceder socialista en Vietnam es un ejemplo para los gobiernos socialistas y de izquierdas han tenido que superar las agresiones de los países más poderosos.

Anonymous103 (2022-07-01). Help SouthFront To Stay Afloat. southfront.org Dear Friends, | Despite the severe pressure on SouthFront, our Team continues its work, covering military and political developments in various war-torn regions. | SouthFront remained afloat only thanks to your donations! | In June, we were glad to present you the web game "Smash the Nazis". You may play In the current difficult conditions, we stay still to save the vestiges of freedom of speech and to show you the real face of the world most dangerous crises. If you like the work of the SF Team, support us. Without your assistance,…

_____ (2022-07-01). Economist Michael Hudson On Inflation And Fed Plan To Cut Wages. popularresistance.org Hey, everyone, this is Ben Norton, and you are watching or listening to the Multipolarista podcast. I am always privileged to be joined by one of my favorite guests, Michael Hudson, one of the greatest economists living today. | We're going to be talking about the inflation crisis. This is a crisis around the world, but especially in the United States, where inflation has been at over 8%. And it has caused a lot of political problems. It's very likely going to cause the defeat, among other factors, of the Democrats in the mid-term elections in November. | And we've seen that the response of the US government and…

Deweylaura (2022-07-01). Imperialism isn't the solution to capitalism's woes. cpusa.org When I read about the June 18 Poor People's Campaign Moral March on Washington, I came across this statement by Bishop William Barber, the campaign's national co-chair: Republicans say poverty is just a personal failure. And Democrats too often talk about the working class and those trying to make it into the middle class …

Joe Glenton (2022-07-01). Troop cuts and spending hikes: a big week for the war pigs. thecanary.co Troop cuts, defence budget hikes, billions in military aid and the spectre of war with China. It's been a busy week for warmongers and war profiteers. British foreign secretary Liz Truss addressed High on the agenda was threatening China.

Robert Reich (2022-07-01). 4 myths about raising the minimum wage. nationofchange.org We're the richest country in the world, home to the richest people on the planet. We can, and we must, treat our workers with the dignity and respect they deserve.

_____ (2022-07-01). Studying The Venezuelan Approach To Learning. popularresistance.org The merits of the Bolivarian system are plain to see through the country having one of the highest educational progress rates in Latin America and a truly comprehensive system funded by the Venezuelan government led by the United Socialist Party of Venezuela. | In order to understand the Venezuelan education system, it is necessary to examine both its foundations and the reality of education under the illegal US sanctions. In the decades preceding the successful election of Hugo Chavez, education in Venezuela was not prioritized. | Governments effectively abandoned education in the rural and working-class areas f…

_____ (2022-07-01). Economist Michael Hudson on inflation and Fed plan to cut wages: A depression is coming. popularresistance.org Economist Michael Hudson explains the inflation crisis and US Federal Reserve's "austerity program to reduce wages" and boost unemployment. He warns a "long depression" is coming, due to the new cold war on Russia and China.

WSWS (2022-07-01). US Supreme Court preemptively blocks EPA regulations which would mitigate global warming. wsws.org In a 6-3 decision split along ideological lines, the conservative majority on the court has taken a provocative and reactionary action defending the interests of the fossil fuel industry.

Socialist Alternative San Francisco (2022-07-01). Tuesday 6/28: We Will Not Go Back: Build the Socialist Feminist Movement! indybay.org Embarcadero Plaza, SF (near the fountain)…

The Green Arcade (2022-07-01). Sunday 7/10: Overcoming Capitalism: Strategy for the Working Class in the 21st Century. indybay.org 1680 Market Street | San Francisco, CA 94102…

Carson Robb (2022-07-01). 'No Jim Crow in the IWO': America's radical Depression-era mutual aid society. peoplesworld.org The Great Depression was among the most spectacular failures of capitalism. The unprecedented and unregulated expansion of corporate greed during the roaring 1920s led to the creation of several mass monopolies on a scale never seen in human history. The stock market expanded exponentially into previously quiet Main Street economies. Smaller hometown hospitals and schools …

Aram Aharonian (2022-07-01). Cambia, øAlgo cambia? La ola progresista y la respuesta libertaria. globalizacion.ca La fuerte ofensiva derechista de los últimos años en América Latina no logró estabilizar una nueva situación; los fascismos sociales y culturales crecieron pero no consiguieron (aún) una nueva hegemonía. Y la imposición "democrática" que pretendió el presidente estadounidense Joe…

Robert Reich (2022-07-01). Supreme Court's Attack on Regulatory State Means Senate Filibuster Must Go. commondreams.org For the Supreme Court to give itself the authority to say whether Congress intended to delegate this much regulatory authority to the EPA is a truly radical act—more radical than any Supreme Court in modern history.

Leslie Feinberg (2022-07-01). War, sexual freedom and fascism in Germany — Lavender and Red 4 & 5. workers.org In addition to the legislative attacks on women, gender-nonconforming people and LGBTQ+ lives, in June white-supremacist groups like the Proud Boys have attempted a military-style raid on Pride in the Park in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, and invaded public libraries— in Wilmington, North Carolina, and San Lorenzo, California — to disrupt . . . |

WSWS (2022-07-01). SEP (Australia) public meeting: Oppose British extradition order: Fight to free Julian Assange! wsws.org The Socialist Equality Party calls on workers, students and professional people to attend its online meeting on Sunday July 10, at 3 p.m. AEST to mobilise to defend and free Julian Assange.

Jenny Breen (2022-07-01). Right-Wing Supreme Court Imperils Democratic Self-Governance. commondreams.org A powerful and reactionary judiciary at work alongside a dysfunctional Congress and hamstrung bureaucracy is a recipe for disaster.

Newsroom (2022-07-01). COVID-19 Drives Global Surge in use of Digital Payments. moderndiplomacy.eu The COVID-19 pandemic has spurred financial inclusion — driving a large increase in digital payments amid the global expansion of formal financial services. This expansion created new economic opportunities, narrowing the gender gap in account ownership, and building resilience at the household level to better manage financial shocks, according to the Global Findex 2021 database. As …

WSWS (2022-07-01). Why was there no organized resistance to Trump's January 6 coup? wsws.org New facts as well as old ones point incontrovertibly to the reality that Donald Trump and his accomplices attempted to wipe out the results of a national election and bring down the US government and Constitution on January 6, 2021, seeking to establish a presidential dictatorship.

Amarynth (2022-06-30). Michael Hudson interviewed by Ben Norton (Multipolarista) Update with transcript. thesaker.is Economist Michael Hudson on inflation and Fed plan to cut wages: A depression is coming Transcript: BENJAMIN NORTON: Hey, everyone, this is Ben Norton, and you are watching or listening…

Editor (2022-06-30). The United States Extends Its Military Reach Into Zambia. scheerpost.com Dr Fred M'membe, President of Socialist Party Zambia. Photo: Socialist Party Zambia | By Vijay Prashad / On April 26, 2022, the United States Africa Command (AFRICOM)

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-06-30). Are We Able to Face the Reality of American Fascism? libya360.wordpress.com Rainer Shea In front of us, something is unfolding that we don't want to properly see, but that we subconsciously recognize. The warning signs for a fascist crackdown in America have been here for years, if not decades. It's now that they've become too big for much of this country's complacent left to ignore. We're…

Editor (2022-06-30). VIDEO: Ask Prof Wolff: What the NYTimes Gets Wrong About Inflation. scheerpost.com By Richard Wolff / Democracy At Work A Patron of Economic Update asks: "Christopher Leonard, author of "The Lords of Easy Money" has a piece in the 6/11/22 NYT (www.nytimes.com/2022/06/11/op…) that addressed the issue of inflation's cause(s). He danced around your principal point, without actually saying it, namely that capitalism is in its death throes. …

Editor (2022-06-30). Cuba, Haiti, the Helms-Burton and the crime of insubordination. mronline.org Empires never forgive rebels; an insubordinate rebel plants a seed that can sprout many generations later.

2022-07-03 01:25 | 21:25 EST | jz | 34 | 5 | 18 | 9 | 0 ∧

w3c-requires-heading