Daily Archives: February 16, 2023

2023-02-16: News Headlines

americanthinker (2023-02-15). Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez calls Christian Super Bowl ads pro-fascism. americanthinker.com A Christian group spent approximately $20 million on two Super Bowl advertisements. AOC was not happy.

Ullrich Mies, Felix Feistel (2023-02-15). The coup from above and The Decline of Civilization. indybay.org Ignazio Silone (14), an important theorist of Italian fascism is reported to have said: "When fascism returns, it will not say: 'I am fascism' No, it will say: 'I am anti-fascism'." And I say: we are on the threshold of an internationalized super-fascism, which merely uses new, more perfidious and, above all, more complex methods than the traditional one. | The traditional one was based on nationalist-racist-ethnic ideologemes and came to power through the terror of street and hall battle shock troops of fascist militias.

WSWS (2023-02-16). "Rage Against the War Machine" rally promotes alliance between the "left" and the extreme right. wsws.org The February 19 rally, organized by the Libertarian Party and the People's Party, is a reactionary political amalgam, including outright fascists, that has nothing to do with developing a genuine movement against imperialist war.

americanthinker (2023-02-15). Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez calls Christian Super Bowl ads pro-fascism. americanthinker.com A Christian group spent approximately $20 million on two Super Bowl advertisements. AOC was not happy.

Ullrich Mies, Felix Feistel (2023-02-15). The coup from above and The Decline of Civilization. indybay.org Ignazio Silone (14), an important theorist of Italian fascism is reported to have said: "When fascism returns, it will not say: 'I am fascism' No, it will say: 'I am anti-fascism'." And I say: we are on the threshold of an internationalized super-fascism, which merely uses new, more perfidious and, above all, more complex methods than the traditional one. | The traditional one was based on nationalist-racist-ethnic ideologemes and came to power through the terror of street and hall battle shock troops of fascist militias.

WSWS (2023-02-16). "Rage Against the War Machine" rally promotes alliance between the "left" and the extreme right. wsws.org The February 19 rally, organized by the Libertarian Party and the People's Party, is a reactionary political amalgam, including outright fascists, that has nothing to do with developing a genuine movement against imperialist war.

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-02-15). The More the Class Conflict Escalates, the More Important Anti-Imperialist Principles Become. libya360.wordpress.com Rainer Shea Russell "Texas" Bentley "This war is not a war between Russians and Ukrainians," says the Texan Russell Bentley in a documentary interview about why he came to help fight for the Russian side after 2014's fascist U.S. coup in Ukraine. "It's not a Ukrainian civil war, it's really a war between good and evil. It's…

The Tricontinental (2023-02-15). 'Socialism is the best prophylaxis': The German Democratic Republic's Health Care System. mronline.org The German Democratic Republic (DDR) was a socialist state founded in East Germany in 1949 as a democratic, antifascist reaction to the Second World War and the subsequent restoration of monopoly capitalism in West Germany.

Raúl Zibechi (2023-02-15). El capitalismo de la impunidad. globalizacion.ca El reciente informe de Oxfam, ´La supervivencia de los más ricos ª, distribuido el mismo día que comenzaba el Foro de Davos, revela que el 1% más rico del planeta se apoderó de casi dos tercios de la nueva riqueza creada…

WSWS (2023-02-15). Super Bowl LVII: Money, militarism, spectacle … and football. wsws.org The sponsors and organizers of the Super Bowl at State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Arizona were at pains to keep anything about the multiple crises of world capitalism from finding its way into the festivities.

Emanuel Pastreich (2023-02-15). What is Reality? The Rise of Fake Truth. The Case for a "Constitution of Information" globalresearch.ca

ecns.cn (2023-02-15). Developing farming a national priority. ecns.cn The "No 1 central document "issued by the central authorities sends a strong signal about China's firm intention to invigorate its agricultural sector and vast countryside as the country embarks on a new leg of the journey toward socialist modernization.

Independent Jewish Voices (2023-02-15). Civil Society Groups to Canadian Heritage: Ditch IHRA Anti-Semitism Definition. socialistproject.ca Independent Jewish Voices Canada (IJV) has joined together with 30+ other Canadian organizations to call on the federal government to abandon prospective measures that would integrate a controversial antisemitism definition into granting procedures of the Department of Canadian Heritage (PCH). Signatories of the letter include those that currently receive PCH funds or have in the past, as well as other organizations who share concerns about the impacts of the measures; among them, the Canadian Association of University Teachers, Amnesty International Canada, the Canadian Arab Institute, the Jewish Faculty Netw…

Susan Norrie (2023-02-15). Telling the story of sovereignty versus colonial corporatisation. greenleft.org.au There is a disconnect of time scales between the relatively short-lived exploitative mining and Traditional Owners' ancient connection to Country. Susan Norrie writes about her and artist colleagues' approach to a commission.

John W. Whitehead, Nisha Whitehead (2023-02-15). Don't Bow Down to a Dictatorial Government. dissidentvoice.org If all that Americans want is security, they can go to prison. They'll have enough to eat, a bed and a roof over their heads. But if an American wants to preserve his dignity and his equality as a human being, he must not bow his neck to any dictatorial government. — President Dwight D. …

John W. Whitehead (2023-02-15). Don't Bow Down to a Dictatorial Government. America Is a Prison Disguised as Paradise. globalresearch.ca

No to Israeli Dictatorship (2023-02-15). Demo Demands on Crissy Field. indybay.org The Golden Gate Bridge at their back, demonstrators on San Francisco's Crissy Field posed for photos as wind blew around banners, flags and signs reading "No to Israeli Dictatorship" and calling the current leadership corrupt.

Peter Boyle (2023-02-15). Turkish dictator Erdogan weaponising earthquake disaster against Kurds. greenleft.org.au Turkish dictator President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is using the earthquake disaster as a weapon in his ongoing war on the Kurdish people, according to Zerebar Karimi.

Editor (2023-02-15). Lula flirts with Montezuma. mronline.org Montezuma was the last de facto emperor of the Aztecs. It is known that during his reign the Aztec Empire reached its peak in terms of expansionist activity, political reforms and infrastructure construction…

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