Daily Archives: May 26, 2023

2023-05-26: News Headlines

Raymond Nat Turner (2023-05-25). Paragons of modern American fascism: Two new poems by Raymond Nat Turner. peoplesworld.org Count Ghouliani's Grift Shop— government of the rich on display I. 90 proof most matters handled after 2PM. Law partners Jim Beam, Jack Daniels, Johnny Walker Red, et al. High profile firm the renown Scandal, Scandal and Scandalous, LLC… II. No Amos and Andy operation. No lil slow mom-and-pop shop. His Grift Shop's where big …

WSWS (2023-05-25). Roger Waters in Berlin: A powerful musical and political statement against fascism, militarism and war. wsws.org There were two exciting evenings in the almost sold-out Mercedes-Benz Arena. Many thousands of Berliners of all generations praised the music of the now almost 80-year-old former Pink Floyd mastermind and his clear political messages.

Philip A. Faruggio (2023-05-25). Farruggio for President 2024. dissidentvoice.org Since my governor, Fascism Forever Captain Ron as I call him, just announced for President, allow me to jump into the fray. Of course, I have not much of a chance as anyone else who stands apart from the Two Party/One Party scam to get the support needed without raising and spending a fortune. Issues! …


Staff (2023-05-25). Desde Cuba, artistas e intelectuales condenan agresión contra Buena Fe. cubadebate.cu Hoy, desde La Habana, un grupo de intelectuales y artistas se reúnen para condenar un acto de este tipo, dónde el odio y la violencia, la cara más horrenda del fascismo se interpuso a la música, pero el arte puede más y como dijo el propio Israel "la música es nuestra fortaleza. La manera más violenta en que golpeo al que me ofende".

teleSUR, MER (2023-05-25). Condenan agresión contra artistas cubanos en Barcelona, España. telesurtv.net Uno de los integrantes del dúo, Israel Rojas, resaltó que de ellos saldrá música y que le han visto el rostro al fascismo.

Suds, Snacks, Socialism Forum Committee (2023-05-26). Saturday 6/3: Attack on Trans People: A Page in the Fascist Playbook. indybay.org Starry Plaugh Pub | 3101 Shattuck Avenue, Berkeley, CA 94705 | also online…




WSWS (2023-05-26). DeSantis joins Republican presidential race, challenging Trump from the right. wsws.org The candidacy of the Florida governor is another step in the shift of the Republican Party towards outright fascist authoritarianism.

WSWS (2023-05-26). Behind Boric's defeat and strengthening of fascists in vote on Chile's constitution. wsws.org The party receiving the most votes was the fascistic Republicans, led by José Antonio Kast, the son of a Nazi German officer and admirer of US president Donald Trump.

Jeferson Miola (2023-05-26). Brasil — Asfixiar al gobierno de Lula. globalizacion.ca Una poderosa articulación del establishment actúa cohesivamente en la estrategia de hacer inviable y asfixiante al gobierno de Lula. En este empeño, la oposición de ultraderecha y fascista va de la mano de ciertos partidos de derecha que, sorprendentemente, incluso…

WSWS (2023-05-26). DeSantis joins Republican presidential race, challenging Trump from the right. wsws.org The candidacy of the Florida governor is another step in the shift of the Republican Party towards outright fascist authoritarianism.

WSWS (2023-05-26). Behind Boric's defeat and strengthening of fascists in vote on Chile's constitution. wsws.org The party receiving the most votes was the fascistic Republicans, led by José Antonio Kast, the son of a Nazi German officer and admirer of US president Donald Trump.

Jeferson Miola (2023-05-26). Brasil — Asfixiar al gobierno de Lula. globalizacion.ca Una poderosa articulación del establishment actúa cohesivamente en la estrategia de hacer inviable y asfixiante al gobierno de Lula. En este empeño, la oposición de ultraderecha y fascista va de la mano de ciertos partidos de derecha que, sorprendentemente, incluso…

It's Going Down. (2023-05-25). Antifascists Shut Down Neo-Nazis And Proud Boys In Sacramento. popularresistance.org Sacramento, California – Clashes broke out inside the Sacramento City Council chambers on May 23rd, as angry community members chanted, held banners, and shut down a small group of neo-Nazis who threw up Hitler salutes and attempted to address the council. | The group of white supremacists was led by Ryan Messano of the bay area, who made headlines last week for attending a previous city council meeting, spewing racist and anti-Semitic conspiracy theories. Writing on the neo-Nazi friendly social media platform Gab, Messano gloated, "I've commented 20+ times under my name. None of the Leftists have put it together…

_____ (2023-05-25). Operation Stiff Upper Lip… British Minister Rushes to Kiev Following Artyomovsk Debacle. strategic-culture.org When the NATO-backed Nazi regime in Kiev is finally defeated, people like Ben Wallace will be answerable to war crimes prosecutions. | Britain's top military minister Ben Wallace was in Kiev this week on a This year marks the 80th anniversary of the same city being liberated by the Soviet Red Army from the Nazi Wehrmacht and their Ukrainian fascist collabor…

Staff (2023-05-25). Georges Abdallah sends a message to French resistance gathering on Glières plateau. samidoun.net From 19 to 21 May, thousands of people converged on the Glières plateau in Haute-Savoie France, a historic site of the French resistance to Nazi occupation, for the Resistance Forum organized by the Resistant Citizens of Yesterday and Today association. The 2023 gathering, which marked the 17th such occasion, highlighted solidarity with Palestine at the …

CRD (2023-05-26). G7 Protest Against US-led War; Banko Brown's Murder; Turkey's Critical Elections By CRD. indybay.org Pacifica's Capitalism, Race and Democracy on G7 Protest Against US-led War; Banko Brown's Murder & Turkey's Critical Elections By CRD…

Stephan Schulmeister (2023-05-26). Inflation in the Age of Finance Capitalism. indybay.org The shift of profit-striving from the real- to the financial-economy lowered economic growth Unemployment and atypical jobs soared. The welfare state was weakened. At the same time, financial wealth grew exorbitantly (the DAX increased 14-fold since 1988). The development of financial derivatives made possible profiting from short-term changes in stocks, currencies and bonds.

Colin Todhunter (2023-05-26). What Was Covid Really About? Triggering A Multi-Trillion Dollar Global Debt Crisis. "Ramping up an Imperialist Strategy"? globalresearch.ca If it was indeed about public health, why close down the bulk of health services and the global economy knowing full well what the implications would be? And why mount a military-style propaganda campaign to censor world-renowned scientists and terrorise entire populations…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-05-25). Slavery and Prior Accumulation in Venezuela. libya360.wordpress.com Cira Pascual Marquina Enrique S. Rivera is a historian, journalist, and documentary film producer. He teaches at UCLA, and his recent book, The Untold History of Capitalism: Primitive Accumulation and the Anti-Slavery Revolution (2021), focuses on the 1795 anti-slavery rebellion in the west of what we now know as Venezuela, but it also examines the origins of…

Steve Gillis (2023-05-25). WWP solution to debt crisis: Defund the Pentagon! workers.org Credit: Tony Murphy It's television news teaser material that on June 1, the U.S. government will run out of money to pay its debts — everything from wages for its vast global armies and civilian government workers, to Social Security checks and interest payments on Treasury bonds. According to President . . . |

Robert Reich (2023-05-25). Why anti-worker Musk pushed anti-woke DeSantis on Twitter. peoplesworld.org Did you catch Ron DeSantis's announcement on Twitter? No? Of course not. Who in their right mind would waste their time listening to DeSantis being interviewed by Elon Musk? Who would want to give any credence at all to the anti-woke culture warrior and the anti-worker robber baron? It was a technical fiasco, anyway. So …

Daniel Woo (2023-05-26). Socialist Lalo Vargas announces campaign for CD14 in Los Angeles. liberationnews.org On May 20, in Lincoln Heights, Lalo Vargas, the first openly socialist candidate launched their campaign for Los Angeles City Council District 14 — contesting the seat of disgraced Councilmember Kevin de Leon.

Fight Back (2023-05-25). Appleton, WI: Activists shut down county board meeting, call for removal of transphobic member. fightbacknews.org Appleton, WI – Over 50 outraged community members gathered outside the Outagamie County Courthouse on May 23 for a protest demanding accountability around Tim Hermes, a member of the Outagamie County Board of Supervisors. The event took aim at Hermes after recent transphobic comments he made during a board meeting became public. A look at his social media reveals a long history of bigotry and racism. The demand put forward was for Hermes's removal from office. | The action was organized by members of Freedom Road Socialist Organization (FRSO), Appleton Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), and a brand ne…

Fight Back (2023-05-25). Programa Político de la OSCL ahora disponible en español. fightbacknews.org El libro traducido al español del programa político de la Organización Socialista Camino de la Libertad ya está disponible. Esperamos que esta nueva traducción ayude a traer ideas revolucionarias a una mayor audiencia, incluyendo al movimiento de la liberación Chicano y el movimiento para los derechos inmigratorios. | OSCL es una organización que reconoce la existencia de la nación Chicano de Aztlán y miramos la lucha por su liberación como parte importante de nuestra estrategia para la revolución en los Estados Unidos. La introducción de nuestro programa dice: | En 1846, Estados Unidos lanzó una guerra que re…

Rania Khalek (2023-05-25). G7 Sends F-16 Jets to Ukraine: Flirting with Disaster, Direct War on Russia. thealtworld.com As South Africa and China advocate for peace, President Vladimir Zelensky of Ukraine embarked on a tour to secure additional weapons, including a stop at the Group of Seven (G7) Summit held in Hiroshima. | Brian Becker, host of The Socialist Program, National Director of ANSWER Coalition, discusses the current critical juncture of the war and how the G7 is pushing towards a nuclear standoff.

WSWS (2023-05-26). Spy agency-instigated anti-China furor within Canada's political establishment intensifies after rapporteur's report. wsws.org The Trudeau government's Special Rapporteur has endorsed the reactionary, pro-war narrative of a Chinese threat to Canadian "democracy." But because he rejected and qualified some of the claims made in illegal intelligence leaks and opposes a public inquiry, he is being pilloried.

Clau O'Brien Moscoso, Black Agenda Report. (2023-05-26). US Troops To Train Peruvian Armed Forces, Proves US Behind Coup. popularresistance.org Amid continuing social upheaval five months after the parliamentary coup against Pedro Castillo, the Peruvian Congress, controlled by the hard right, has approved the entrance of US troops into national territory to train the Peruvian military and National Police beginning June 1st through the end of the year. This comes after the Supreme Court ruled that protest is not a protected right under the 1993 Fujimori dictatorship era constitution. This also comes after a visit from the UN Special Rapporteur on the Rights to Peaceful Assembly and Association Clément Nyaletsossi Voule stated that there was no evidence of…

Lyn Neeley (2023-05-25). Haydée Santamaría, central figure in the Cuban Revolution. workers.org Haydee Santamaría In the early hours of July 26, 1953, Fidel Castro and nearly 150 Cuban rebels traveled to the Moncada garrison to capture the barracks and seize the many weapons stored there. They planned for this to be the beginning of the Cuban Revolution to overthrow the Cuban dictator, . . . |

Boaventura de Sousa Santos (2023-05-26). The US empire and the complicity of intellectuals. indybay.org Interventions have always been dictated by the geopolitical and economic interests of the country. In fact, the United States is no exception to this rule. On the contrary, every empire acts in this way (see, for example, the invasions of Russia by Napoleon and Adolf Hitler). History also shows that imperial interests have often led to the suppression of aspirations for self-determination.

Richard Horton (2023-05-27). Comment] Offline: China—what is to be done? thelancet.com Former UK Prime Minister Liz Truss used the word "threat" nine times during her speech in Taiwan last week. She was talking about China. Truss described the Chinese Government as a "tyranny" that sought "to gain power on the global stage". She insisted that western nations must end dialogue with China since the "globalist model" had failed. Instead, she argued, we needed to recognise that China and the West were engaged in "the most consequential struggle of our time", in which western countries must use "hard power" for "meaningful deterrence".

Peter Koenig (2023-05-25). Towards Digital Tyranny? Beware of the QR Code, Remember Agenda ID2020? globalresearch.ca It's Agenda ID2020 on steroids. It's the worldwide invasion of the QR code — QR coding of everything, all of your most intimate data, health, personal behaviors, habits — track records of where we have been and even where we may be planning to go. Nothing will escape the QR code. Nobody talks about it.

Paul Craig Roberts (2023-05-25). Insouciant Americans Have Doomed America to Tyranny. thealtworld.com Bombshell Video: The "COVID Pandemic" Was the Result of Extensive Media Propaganda: "Nobody Is Safe, BE AFRAID!" | www.globalresearch.ca/covid-pandemic-was-entirely-product-propaganda-nobody-safe/5820225 | Time and time and time again, insouciant Americans allow the presstitutes to brainwash, indoctrinate, and deceive them. Afterwards they, or some of them, eventually catch on. But despite lesson learned, another precedent that erodes truth and liberty has been established. And despite lesson le…

WSWS (2023-05-25). Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa. wsws.org Europe is seeing a wave of teachers' strikes over pay, funding and workload in Germany, Romania, Hungary, Northern Cyprus, and Finland.

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2023-05-25). Nucleus RadioPharma to open manufacturing facility in Rochester, Minnesota. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org Facility aims to manufacture next generation of radiopharmaceuticals ROCHESTER, Minn. — Nucleus RadioPharma, a radiopharmaceutical company founded by Eclipse and Mayo Clinic, announced today it has received approval from the Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development (DEED) for its economic incentive request to support a facility in Rochester. The facility will be based in the Two Discovery Square building within Destination Medical Center's Discovery Square District. Nucleus was established to address the acute manufacturing…

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