Daily Archives: December 3, 2022

2022-12-03: News Headlines

Felicity Arbuthnot (2022-12-03). Ukraine: US Launches a Fascist Government, and World War Three? globalresearch.ca It all started on March 5, 2014: a US sponsored fascist coalition government under the disguise of democracy was installed in Ukraine. | With historical foresight pertaining to the dangers of a Third World War, this article by Felicity Arbuthnot was …

Agency (2022-12-03). Elon Musk's New Direction for Twitter: Not "Free Speech," but Banning the Left while Welcoming Fascists. itsgoingdown.org Agency looks at billionaire Elon Musk banning various anarchist and antifascist accounts on Twitter at the bequest of far-Right trolls as the social media giant moves to embrace the far-Right. On November 25, at the urging of a far-right troll, Elon Musk banned the @crimethinc Twitter account. The account had some 67,000 followers on the day of its…

J Goldberg, A Leisewitz, G Wiegel & M Zander (2022-12-03). Lockdown light – Corona crisis and capitalism. indybay.org The pandemic and countermeasures have effects shaped by the neoliberal form of capitalism[6] that has dominated since the 1980s. Three aspects are worth mentioning: 1.the independence of the financial sphere,2.the fragmentation of the labor markets, and | 3.the weakening of social systems. In the financialized economy, measures to cushion the crisis strengthen the haves.

WSWS (2022-12-03). Will Lehman, socialist candidate for UAW president, wins 4,777 votes amid anemic turnout. wsws.org Despite a massive effort at voter suppression by the United Auto Workers bureaucracy in the union's presidential election, Lehman won 4.6 percent of the vote, having run on an explicitly socialist and internationalist program.

Prof Michel Chossudovsky (2022-12-03). "Economic Warfare" Directed against China? The Shanghai "Covid Zero Tolerance Mandate" Extends its Grip to Major Industrial Cities. globalresearch.ca "Covid Tolerance Zero" has contributed to destabilizing Shanghai's financial sector as well as China's buoyant export economy. It has created social havoc for millions of people, requiring the imposition of PCR tests, using the QR code as a means of social control.

Labor Video Project (2022-12-03). Biden & Republicrats Union Busting Bill Against Railway Workers & Their Fight For Sick Pay. indybay.org The Biden administration with the support of most of the Democrats and Republicans in Congress pushed a bill that imposes a reactionary contract that severely limits sick pay and benefits BNSF railroad owner Warren Buffet and the other railroad corporations.

TeleSUR, hvh, JDO (2022-12-03). Promulgan en Bolivia ley para aplicar resultados del censo. telesurtv.net Presidente Luis Arce denunció a la oposición por aplicar "una lógica dictatorial" contra quienes no apoyaron el paro.

_____ (2022-12-02). Maligned in Western Media, Donbass Forces are Defending their Future from Ukrainian Shelling and Fascism. popularresistance.org Smeared, stigmatized, and lied about in Western media propaganda, the mostly Russian-speaking people of the Donbass region were being slaughtered by the thousands in a brutal war of "ethnic cleansing" launched against them by the neo-Nazi regime in Kyiv, which the U.S. installed after the CIA overthrew Ukraine's legally elected president in a 2014 coup. | Although the Donbass people had been pleading for Russian military aid to defend them against the increasingly murderous military assaults by the Ukraine government forces, which killed more than 14,000 of their people, Russian President Vladimir Putin declined…

_____ (2022-12-02). Maligned In Western Media, Donbass Forces Are Defending Their Future. popularresistance.org Smeared, stigmatized, and lied about in Western media propaganda, the mostly Russian-speaking people of the Donbass region were being slaughtered by the thousands in a brutal war of "ethnic cleansing" launched against them by the neo-Nazi regime in Kyiv, which the U.S. installed after the CIA overthrew Ukraine's legally elected president in a 2014 coup. | Although the Donbass people had been pleading for Russian military aid to defend them against the increasingly murderous military assaults by the Ukraine government forces, which killed more than 14,000 of their people, Russian President Vladimir Putin declined…

Finian Cunningham (2022-12-02). America's Fate: Revolution or Fascism? thealtworld.com Daniel Lazare in this interview with Finian Cunningham says that the United States of America is locked in a fateful political and economic crisis that will produce either of two outcomes. Either the country is heading towards more authoritarian rule or there will be a second American revolution. | Daniel Lazare is a journalist, author and commentator who specializes in critically analyzing the politics and Constitution of the United States. He has authored several books, including The Velvet Revolution and the Decline of American Democracy. | The Covid-19 pandemic over the past two years exposes the pathological…

_____ (2022-12-02). NATO Expands but Original Anti-Russia Mission Is Static 73 Years On. strategic-culture.org The organization is the heir to the throne that was vacated after Nazi Germany's defeat. | The foreign ministers of the NATO military alliance met this week for a summit in the Romanian capital Bucharest for what was a celebration of the bloc's expansion. | The anti-Russia rhetoric and hostility were also effervescent. "Russia does not have a veto," It's astounding how such ghoulish warmongering…

Eric Horowitz (2022-12-02). NYT Has Found New Neo-Nazi Troops to Lionize in Ukraine. "The Bratstvo Battalion", "The Christian Taliban" globalresearch.ca

T.P. Wilkinson (2022-12-02). Transformation of Political Language (Part 1). dissidentvoice.org In response to Jeff J. Brown's article "The Myth of Chinese Capitalism," Ron Leighton wrote an article published at Dissident Voice, Counterpunch, and elsewhere. Dr. T. P. Wilkinson has interviewed Jeff J. Brown about his article and much more. ***** The debate about what system actually governs the People's Republic of China has continued since …

Robert Reich (2022-12-02). The Fed's inflation mistake continues. nationofchange.org Most of the pain is borne by people who are already struggling to keep up with rising prices: lower-wage workers and the poor.

Fight Back (2022-12-02). UW-Milwaukee SDS rallies against transphobia and police violence for Trans Day of Remembrance. fightbacknews.org Milwaukee, WI – On November 21, a dozen members from Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) at UW-Milwaukee and Freedom Road Socialist Organization (FRSO) gathered in Spaights Plaza at UWM to condemn transphobic violence and to advocate for a hiring freeze on UWM's police department. A moment of silence was also observed to honor the victims of the Club Q shooting in Colorado that occurred two days before the event. | Speeches condemned the increase in anti-LGBTQ+ bigotry that has occurred in recent years, the erasure and criminalization of trans people, and advocated for UWM Police Department funding to be redi…

Freedom Socialist Party (2022-12-02). Sunday 12/11: Speaker: Fight the Far Right to Win Reproductive Justice! indybay.org In person in San Francisco (or via ZOOM link below) | New Valencia Hall | 747 Polk Street (at Ellis), San Francisco | (7 blocks from Civic Center BART, on/near #5, 19, 27, 31, 38 Muni bus lines)…

Ron Ridenour (2022-12-02). Can An American Scientist Who Smuggled Critical Nuclear Secrets to the Russians After World War II Be Considered a "Good Guy"? New Film Says Yes. covertactionmagazine.com Controversial New Documentary Reveals How A Teenage Army Physicistnewsauthor">D Ted Hall Saved The Russian People From A Treacherous U.S. Sneak Attack In 1950-51—And May Well Have Prevented A Global Nuclear Holocaust The provocative documentary "A Compassionate Spy" tells the amazing but almost unknown story of a "near-genius" 16 year-old Harvard junior physics major who …

Isheka N. Harrison (2022-12-02). Amazon CEO Says Banning 'Hebrews To Negroes' From Bookstore Would Be A Slippery Slope. moguldom.com After NBA star Kyrie Irving posted a link to "Hebrews To Negroes: Wake Up Black America," the book and movie became a bestseller on Amazon — despite many deeming it hate-filled and antisemitic. The author and creator, Ronald Dalton Jr., disagreed and said many feared the film's message that Black people are the true Israelites by blood …

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-12-02). Surrounded: An Ethnography of New Colonialism. libya360.wordpress.com Yusuf Serunkuma Julius Nyerere demanding complete independence from the British Empire in 1961 ROAPE contributor Yusuf Serunkuma asks if the pillage we are witnessing on the African continent—mostly from the 1980s-onwards—is worse than the exploitation of the 1884-1960s, where is the resistance? Serunkuma writes that even after decolonisation has been achieved (the academy decolonised, stolen artefacts…

Mark Gruenberg (2022-12-02). Free elections come under attack Dec. 7 at the Supreme Court. peoplesworld.org WASHINGTON—On Dec. 7, 1941, "a date which will live in infamy," as FDR put it, the Empire of Japan attacked the United States at Pearl Harbor. On Dec. 7, 2022, the empire of the right-wing attacks the United States election system—at the Supreme Court. That's the day when the right-wingers, seizing on two small phrases …

Staff (2022-12-02). Polish F-16s take control of NATO air mission aimed at Kaliningrad. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com Polish Press AgencyDecember 1, 2022 Polish F-16s take over command of Baltic Air Policing mission in Lithuania The Polish Air Force has taken over from Hungary the command of the Nato Baltic Air Policing mission based in Siauliai, Lithuania. Poland's 150-strong Orlik 11 group will now guard the skies over the Baltic Sea with its …

Peter Koenig (2022-12-02). "EU Harakiri"on Behalf of Washington. The Nord Stream Destruction, Is the EC Planning to Destroy the European Union? globalresearch.ca

Dr. Joseph Mercola (2022-12-02). Banking on a Shot in the Dark. Big Pharma is Fast Tracking mRNA Vaccine Boosters, Ignoring all Scientific Protocols. globalresearch.ca

Bennett Shoop (2022-12-02). Drag against fascism: D.C. LGBTQ+ community raises funds for Club Q workers. peoplesworld.org WASHINGTON—Seven different talented drag performers—Jane Saw, Rico Pico, Jaxknife Complex, Ricky Rose, Dirty Sanchez, Mari Con Carne, and Molasses—took the stage at As You Are, a local queer bar and café in Southeast D.C., on Nov. 27 for a solidarity fundraiser for the workers of Club Q in Colorado Springs. The event was the third …

It's Going Down (2022-12-01). How Transphobia Built a Coalition of Eco-Radicals, White Nationalists and Right-Wing Think Tanks. itsgoingdown.org Last month, antifascists and members of the LGBTQ+ community, mobilized against a group of TERFs (Trans-Exclusionary Radical Feminists), holding events across the US, under the banner of "Let Women Speak." While these rallies were small, drawing only a few dozen and opposed by much larger crowds, they also brought out far-Right anti-trans activists and members…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-12-01). Interviews with Ukrainian Ultranationalists: "When I Learned Who Dylann Roof Was, I Began to Admire Him." libya360.wordpress.com Lindsey Snell and Cory Popp As Ukrainian forces took control of Kherson on Friday, soldiers flooded social media with victorious pictures and videos of themselves in the city. Nazi insignia was abundant, including Azov Regiment's Nazi Wolfsangel, Totenkopfs, Black Suns, and patches advertising Misanthropic Division, a neo-Nazi organization that has recruited far-right volunteers for Azov from dozens of…

Miko Peled (2022-12-01). UN Resolution 181: 75 Years of Myth Making and False Israeli Legitimacy. mintpressnews.com Seventy-Five years after the United Nations' fatal decision to partition Palestine, the carnage and oppression of Palestinians by those who would claim they represent the Jewish people continues — and it promises to get much worse. | Some claim that Zionism came to save the Jewish people from another Holocaust, that they speak for defenseless Jews so that they will never again have to endure a genocide the likes of the Nazi genocide of the Jews in Europe. But these assertions are merely excuses to allow the Zionist regime to exercise its cruelty and brutality without interruption. | The United Nations Parti…

WSWS (2022-12-01). German parliament declares 1930s famine in Ukraine a genocide: Falsification of history in the service of war propaganda. wsws.org The German parliament explicitly places the "Holodomor" on par with the Holocaust and the Nazi crimes against the Soviet Union. With this line of argument, the Bundestag places itself squarely in the tradition of the Ukrainian and international far right.

Barry Healy (2022-12-01). Ways of seeing Australia through capitalist and Aboriginal eyes. greenleft.org.au Barry Healy reviews two Perth art exhibitions exploring the Australian landscape as seen through the eyes of invading capitalism and surviving Aboriginality.

Fight Back (2022-12-01). Dallas celebrates People's Thanksgiving. fightbacknews.org Dallas, TX – On Saturday, November 26, more than 60 activists gathered at the Pan-African Connection bookstore in Dallas to celebrate People's Thanksgiving, a celebration honoring those who struggle against imperialism, capitalism and national oppression. | The event was emceed by Ammar Hussein of Freedom Road Socialist Organization, who gave an opening speech welcoming the many organizations and participants to the event as well as praising the struggle of indigenous peoples for whom Thanksgiving is a national day of mourning. | "We reject the colonialist myth of Thanksgiving, and we stand in unwavering sol…

Matthias Brockers, Michael Haller (2022-12-01). Farewell to the unipolar world and Disaster capitalism: back to Marx! indybay.org The sanctions have already proved to be a dangerous boomerang because they hit Europe harder than Russia… It is a suicidal illusion to try to win a war against the raw materials giant Russia – which possesses more than a third of all fossil energies and raw materials on earth – and the world's largest high-tech workshop, China, which is united with it.

WSWS (2022-12-01). Ruben àñstlund's Triangle of Sadness: Today's "master class" and "subject class" wsws.org The English-language film is uneven, but its skewering of capitalism is certainly welcome.

_____ (2022-12-01). Ukraine Demands Yet More NATO Weapons and Generators. strategic-culture.org Although Ukraine's power grid has been heavily hit, it is as nothing compared to what Syria is suffering this very day. | NATO's BBC outlet reports that their NATO masters have promised to supply the rump Ukrainian Reich with

Fight Back (2022-12-01). Tallahassee FRSO hosts October Revolution event. fightbacknews.org Tallahassee, FL – On November 6, the Tallahassee District of the Freedom Road Socialist Organization held a celebratory meeting at Florida State University to honor the 105th anniversary of the October Revolution. | The October Revolution is the 1917 revolution that saw the overthrow of the czar, a Russian monarch, and the establishment of working-class power led by the Bolshevik party. | About a dozen or so students and community members gathered to learn about the October Revolution and the lessons it presents for today. | The event was facilitated by FRSO members Alex Carson, Regina Joseph and Delilah Pierre.

Nino Brown (2022-12-01). Interview with the Socialist Movement of Ghana: The IMF and the class struggle. liberationnews.org "We need to take control of our system, our resources, and distribute them for the benefit of the ordinary Ghanaian and the ordinary African."

Peter Boyle (2022-12-01). Challenges for Malaysia's new 'national unity government'. greenleft.org.au Dr Jeyakumar Devaraj from the Socialist Party of Malaysia discusses the recent election result and the challenges facing the new government.

WSWS (2022-12-01). Socialist candidate Will Lehman on pace to win thousands of votes in UAW election with suppressed turnout. wsws.org Initial results from the first-ever direct election in UAW history show an important level of support for rank-and-file socialist candidate Will Lehman, as well as widespread alienation from the UAW apparatus, as reflected in the abysmal 10 percent turnout.

_____ (2022-12-01). In the Netherlands, a Discriminatory Algorithm has Impoverished Thousands of Families. strategic-culture.org By Alexia EYCHENNE | Aided by an algorithm, the Dutch tax office has plunged into distress tens of thousands of families — in particular, foreign-born mothers, in wrongfully demanding from them staggering sums. The state is proving incapable of setting things right. | Rotterdam. Each day, Sabrina Sliep picks up her telephone to listen to the same despairing stories. There are families evicted from their residence, today camping with relatives or friends, mothers who work two jobs to keep their heads above water, parents who struggle with depression. Personal trajectories broken one day by a letter from the…

____ (2022-12-01). Experts say COVID stress can be eased. ecns.cn Putting down the mobile phone, talking about negative feelings with friends or seeking professional counseling are some of the methods to help tackle depression and anxiety during the COVID-19 outbreak, experts said.

____ (2022-11-30). Foreign firms flourishing in Shanghai. ecns.cn As a move to better enhance foreign-invested enterprises' role in the city's economic development, four ranking lists for 2021 foreign-invested enterprises were unveiled.

____ (2022-12-01). Hainan FTP exports first cross-border e-commerce goods using '9710' mode. ecns.cn A batch of commodities exported by cross-border e-commerce enterprises in Hainan Province went through customs at Hainan Free Trade Port on Wednesday.

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