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2022-10-05: News Headlines

____ (2022-10-05). Behind C919: China's path to first self-developed large passenger aircraft. ecns.cn The C919 project has involved over 300,000 people from over 1,000 enterprises from over 20 provinces and cities of China, Wu Guanghui, the chief designer of the C919 and a member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, told CMG.

WSWS (2022-10-05). Journalist Katie Halper censored and fired for telling the truth about Israeli apartheid. wsws.org The World Socialist Web Site condemns the censorship and firing of Katie Halper by The Hill. It must be condemned by the working class and all defenders of free speech as an attack on basic democratic rights.

WSWS (2022-10-05). CIA co-opts Harriet Tubman to boost its efforts to recruit spies and assassins. wsws.org The seamless marriage of identity politics and US imperialism is a devastating exposure of the real reactionary content of politics based on race, gender and sexuality.

WSWS (2022-10-05). Australian university union tries to impose sellout at Western Sydney University College. wsws.org The NTEU's false claims of an "historic win" at Western Sydney University were further exposed at a sparsely-attended union meeting last week at the college, where union officials sought to push through an even worse enterprise agreement.

Socialist Alliance (2022-10-05). Mass protest movement in Iran needs international solidarity. greenleft.org.au Socialist Alliance extends its solidarity to the mass protest movement in Iran that has developed in response to the killing of Mahsa Amini by the Iranian authorities.

WSWS (2022-10-05). UK Tory government faces meltdown as Truss faces threat of removal. wsws.org The chaos at the Conservative Party conference is fundamentally an expression of the crisis wracking British and world capitalism…

Michael Arney (2022-10-05). New York voters to play major role in 'vulnerable' House districts. peoplesworld.org For the upcoming midterms, liberals and progressives should be on red alert. Even President Biden calls the opponent "semi-fascist." If the Republican Party of Trump wins back the Senate or the House (or both), all federal legislative progress ends. Biden will be reduced to issuing executive orders that will be overturned by a hostile successor. …

Michael Arney (2022-10-05). New York voters to play major role in "vulnerable" House districts. peoplesworld.org For the upcoming midterms, liberals and progressives should be on red alert. Even President Biden calls the opponent "semi-fascist." If the Republican Party of Trump wins back the Senate or the House (or both), all federal legislative progress ends. Biden will be reduced to issuing executive orders that will be overturned by a hostile successor. …

Media Lens (2022-10-05). Mass Media Omertà : Burying Al Jazeera's The Labour Files. dissidentvoice.org The damaging revelations about the Labour Party in the recent four-part Al Jazeera series, The Labour Files, and the almost totalitarian silence in response by British news media, should ram home the illusory nature of 'democracy' in the UK. Based on the largest leak in British political history, Al Jazeera's Investigative Unit has exposed how …

John Bachtell (2022-10-05). New book, 'Power Concedes Nothing,' collects insights from on-the-ground electoral organizers. peoplesworld.org The future of U.S. democracy rests on a knife's edge. The November elections offer an opportunity to deal a blow to the GOP fascist movement, but the outcome depends on the ability and capacity of the broad pro-democracy coalition to turn out every voter possible. Like many of you, I'm deeply involved in this titanic …

Anatol Lieven (2022-10-04). The Blob's Dangerous Talk of War World III in Ukraine. commondreams.org These Washington foreign policy elites are recklessly suggesting that Russia is a universal threat that requires absolute victory over evil.

WSWS (2022-10-04). Grzegorz Rossoliński-Liebe's biography of Stepan Bandera: A devastating portrait of the figurehead of Ukrainian fascism. wsws.org Rossoliński-Liebe's biography of Bandera provides irrefutable evidence for the horrific crimes and fascist outlook of Stepan Bandera, who is now widely glorified as a "hero" by the Ukrainian regime.

Adam Ramsay (2022-10-04). Britain's Senseless Pursuit of Disaster Capitalism. commondreams.org As other nations return to state-led investment, Truss and Kwarteng act to weaken our democracy, economy and rights.

Atilio Borón (2022-10-04). It Won't be Easy for Giorgia Meloni to Keep Her Coalition Together. orinocotribune.com By Atilio Borón Sep 27, 2022 | The radical right has won a resounding victory in the Italian elections. Its parliamentary representation, from which the prime minister will emerge, has as many as 235 seats. This arises from the sum of the Brothers of Italy—by far the majority—the Northern League of Mateo Salvini, Forza Italia of the "cavaliere" Silvio Berlusconi, and the minimal contribution of the Moderates. The absolute majority, necessary to form a government, is 201 deputies. The center-left coalition (the Democratic Party plus the Green and Left Alliance, More Europe, and another minor forc…

Lucine (2022-10-04). Edmond Dantes' Last Laugh. indybay.org Dictators choose Preposterous Prepostoevsky while Scapegoats choose divine retribution…

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