Daily Archives: July 20, 2023

2023-07-20: News Headlines

Art Persyko (2023-07-20). Tuesday 7/18: Voting Rights & Fighting Fascism, an SF Gray Panther Forum. indybay.org Zoom: us02web.zoom.us/j/86465752525?pwd=Tzh1YVh5SE9mdWkzdjI2clZrVEczdz09 | MEETING ID: 864 6575 2525; PASS CODE: 465295 | PHONE IN: 699-900 9128 US…

teleSUR, JGN (2023-07-20). Presidente Ortega pide a la Unión Europea respeto para Nicaragua. telesurtv.net Ortega reveló que los europeos presionaron para que "el fascista, el nazi presidente de Ucrania (Volodímir Zelenski)" estuviera en la Cumbre de la Celac y la UE.

Staff (2023-07-19). The Whitewashing of Neo-Nazis: Lev Golinkin & Ben Makuch on How Far Right Is Exploiting Ukraine War. democracynow.org Multiple reports are reinvestigating the neo-Nazi fighters and militias involved in the war both in Russia and Ukraine. "You have neo-Nazis on both sides of this conflict," says Ukrainian American journalist Lev Golinkin, a longtime reporter on the far right in Ukraine and Russia who is critical of the Western media's normalization of groups like the Azov Battalion. "We are sending a very dangerous message that if you're the right type of neo-Nazis, we will not only work with you, we will celebrate you," Golinkin notes. | We also speak with national security reporter Ben Makuch…

Drago Bosnic (2023-07-19). Ukraine's Unrelenting Demographic Collapse. Towards a Failed State under Kiev Nazi Regime. globalresearch.ca

WSWS (2023-07-19). Historical falsification in the service of pro-war propaganda. wsws.org The Times' pro-war propaganda has given way to pro-Nazi apologetics.

Timothy Alexander Guzman (2023-07-19). The US-Nazi Connection Since World War II: From Inspiring the Third Reich to Supporting the Neo-Nazis of Ukraine. globalresearch.ca

greenleft.org.au (2023-07-20). Video: Capitalism in Crisis. greenleft.org.au

Tanupriya Singh, People's Dispatch. (2023-07-20). There Can Be No Justice Until Capitalism Is Removed From The Earth. popularresistance.org "What is the path that we are going to chart towards socialism?" This is the question that animated the first day of the 'Dilemmas of Humanity: Pan African Dialogues to Build Socialism' conference, which is being held in South Africa between July 17 to 20. | The conference has been divided into commissions, each with a mandate to deliberate upon a particular theme and draft a concrete plan of action which will be adopted in the form of a resolution on the final day. The commissions on July 17 addressed the themes of food sovereignty and agroecology, gender struggles against patriarchy, and urban struggles for hou…

Editor (2023-07-19). Patriarchy and the origins of women's oppression. mronline.org Any vision of a world beyond capitalism involves the liberation of women from oppression, exploitation and discrimination. But just because we might have been able to win revolutionary social change, it does not mean that equal economic, social and cultural rights will be automatic for women.

Ian Angus (2023-07-19). Ecosocialist Bookshelf, July 2023. greenleft.org.au Wildfires, deadly heat, climate strategy, sensing the world, anti-science, mining resistance. Climate and Capitalism editor Ian Angus presents six important new books for reds and greens.

Peoples Dispatch (2023-07-19). What are the Dilemmas of Humanity today? peoplesdispatch.org We bring you glimpses from the first day of the Dilemmas of Humanity: Pan African Dialogues to Build Socialism conference that is currently underway in South Africa. Delegates from across the continent are deliberating on the crisis of capitalism and the socialist alternatives of our time…

Peoples Dispatch (2023-07-19). For US workers, capitalism brings the heat. peoplesdispatch.org

Peter Boyle (2023-07-20). Malaysian socialists in election pact with youth-based party. greenleft.org.au The Socialist Party of Malaysia (PSM) and the Malaysian United Democracy Alliance (MUDA) have agreed on an electoral pact for the upcoming state assembly elections on August 12, reports Peter Boyle.

Staff (2023-07-20). How the Israel Lobby Tried to Tank Jeremy Corbyn: In-Depth Analysis w/ Asa Winstanley. soundcloud.com A massive, years-long smear campaign was launched against anti-war, anti-elite Jeremy Corbyn shortly after his election to lead the British Labour Party. The campaign targeted Corbyn and his supporters as being anti-Semitic. What's the truth and what really happened? Walter Smolarek is joined by investigative journalist Asa Winstanley, who writes for the Electronic Intifada and …

WSWS (2023-07-19). US students oppose censorship of IYSSE by Macquarie University in Sydney. wsws.org "The rejection to affiliate is not accidental. It is consciously intended to block students from hearing a genuine socialist perspective."

WSWS (2023-07-19). Former Amazon worker Christina Brown campaigns among UPS workers to seek justice for her sister Poushawn Brown. wsws.org Christina Brown, a former Amazon worker, visited a UPS hub with a team of World Socialist Web Site reporters to share the story of how her sister, Poushawn Brown, fell ill and died while working as a COVID-19 tester at a nearby Amazon facility.

Jon Jeter, Black Agenda Report. (2023-07-20). USSR's Support For Black Liberation Earns Russia Grace With Africans. popularresistance.org On the first week of spring in 1931, at the nadir of the Great Depression, nine Black teenagers stowed away on a Memphis-bound train scuffled with a gaggle of white youths who took exception to their presence. The Black youths made quick work of their counterparts, heaving all but one, Orville Gilley, from the slow-moving railcars to the grassy knoll below. Gilley would have met the same fate as his friends but by the time the Black youths got to him, the train had picked up considerable speed, and he was hanging perilously from the gondola. Fearing Gilley might fall underneath one of the railcars, two Black teen…

Jim Hightower (2023-07-19). Extremists Want to Ban Discussing Their Abortion Bans. otherwords.org Unfortunately, it's 1984 again in America. | Not the year. The book. George Orwell's classic novel tells of a far-right totalitarian clique that uses "newspeak" and "doublethink" to impose their rigid, anti-democratic doctrine on society. | Their regime held power through mind control — they had a "Ministry of Truth" for perverting language and manipulating facts, while their "Thought Police" enforced ideological purity and suppressed dissent. | Thirty-nine years later, here comes a clique of theocratic extremists in our country using Orwellian manipulation in its crusade to take control over every woman's…

Editor (2023-07-19). The history of affirmative action exposes its reactionary weaknesses. mronline.org Affirmative action began as a reparations program but ends as a "diversity" project which barely benefits Black people.

Mike Whitney (2023-07-20). "Empire of Lies". Dr. Paul Craig Roberts. globalresearch.ca

Nicholas Schou (2023-07-19). The CIA: Up Close and Personal. dissidentvoice.org Nicholas Schou interviews Douglas Valentine about his new book, Pisces Moon: The Dark Arts of Empire, published in May of this year by Trine Day. Listen To This Story Introduction by Nicholas Schou: In the early 1990s, when the US began to normalize relations with Vietnam, Douglas Valentine, then a young author and historian of …

_____ (2023-07-19). It's Not the Really Blatant Propaganda That Gets You. strategic-culture.org One of my favorite follows on Twitter right now is a smallish account run by an anti-imperialist activist who goes by "Left I on the News", because he has a real knack for going through articles in the mainstream press and highlighting the mundane little manipulations we're fed each day to shape our worldview in alignment with the US empire.

Jessica Buxbaum (2023-07-20). Sierra Club Workers Challenge Leadership's Greenwashing 'Apartheid Tours'. mintpressnews.com In June, members of the Sierra Club unit of the Progressive Workers Union (PWU) passed a resolution pledging solidarity with the Palestinian people as the environmental organization pushes forward with its planned trips to Israel. | The workers' resolution puts its words into action by ensuring union funds aren't investing in Israel's settler enterprise and contributing to the oppression of Palestinians. It also calls for establishing a Palestine solidarity committee to foster relationships with Palestinian-led organizations and help educate members on the connections between Palestine and Indigenous struggles in…

Catherine Salgado (2023-07-19). WEF Partner Aimed to 'End' 'Private Car Ownership' to Save the Planet. globalresearch.ca

Prof Michel Chossudovsky (2023-07-20). The Road Ahead: Building a Worldwide Movement Against "Corona Tyranny" globalresearch.ca We do not seek to negotiate with corrupt government officials. They are liars. Our intent is to confront the powerful actors behind this criminal endeavor which is literally destroying people's lives worldwide.

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