Daily Archives: August 1, 2023

2023-08-01: News Headlines

Henry A. Giroux (2023-08-01). DeSantis's "Freedom" Is a Force for Domination, Not a Key Form of Empowerment. truthout.org We live in a time of menacing freedoms and the rise of fascist politics. Freedom in the current historical moment has turned ugly. The presence of "ugly freedoms" is not new, and its history is repeating itself with a politics that is as cruel as it is dangerous and widespread. This is an age inextricably defined by the question of who qualifies as a citizen of the United States and what kind of… |

WSWS (2023-07-31). Speaking in Iowa and Pennsylvania, Trump doubles down on fascistic threats. wsws.org In the face of 40 felony counts in the classified documents case and pending indictments in Georgia and Washington related to the failed coup, Trump repeated his fascistic appeals in speeches over the weekend.

Muhammed Shabeer (2023-08-01). First as tragedy, then as a farce: AfD recalibrates the slogan 'Germany first'. peoplesdispatch.org The far-right party's 'Germany first' campaign in many ways resembles the Nazi campaign for German supremacy propagated during the Hitler era, marked with militarism and racism…

Anonymous103 (2023-08-01). Ukrainian Forces Killed Three Civilians In Donetsk City Agglomeration. southfront.org Ukrainian Nazis continue bloody attacks on civilians in the regions that Kiev lost. Impotent on the frontlines, Ukrainian military commanders are intentionally shelling the residential areas in the Donbass. More than three hundred shells hit the settlements of the Republic over the past day. | On August 1, the Ukrainian military continued to terrorize the civilian population of the Donetsk People's Republic, inflicting multiple strikes, including with cluster munitions, killing more civilia…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-08-01). Ukrainian Nationalism: Russian Special Operation— Denazification of Ukraine. libya360.wordpress.com Vladimir G. Kiknadze Azov Battalion, March 11, 2022. This paper presents the results of the analysis of relevant aspects of the history of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN) in comparison with the policy of the Kiev regime in 2014-2022, using the secrets revealed with the beginning of demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine during the…

_____ (2023-07-31). Israel and Ukraine: Zionists and Nazis Collide. transcend.org 24 Jul 2023 – The extraordinary history of Zionist and Nazi collaboration.


Eduardo Camín (2023-08-01). La inseguridad laboral, la repetición del capitalismo o la retórica del eterno retorno. globalizacion.ca La reunión de Ministros de Trabajo y Empleo del G20, de la que India fue anfitriona y que tuvo lugar en Indore los días 20 y 21 de julio, se centró en tres temas principales: abordar las carencias mundiales de…

Richard D. Wolff, Counter Punch. (2023-08-01). Why Capitalism Is Leaving The US In Search Of Profit. popularresistance.org Early U.S. capitalism was centered in New England. After some time, the pursuit of profit led many capitalists to leave that area and move production to New York and the mid-Atlantic states. Much of New England was left with abandoned factory buildings and depressed towns evident to this day. Eventually employers moved again, abandoning New York and the mid-Atlantic for the Midwest. The same story kept repeating as capitalism's center relocated to the Far West, the South, and the Southwest. Descriptive terms like "Rust Belt," "deindustrialization," and "manufacturing desert" increasingly applied to ever more port…

Frank Cappello (2023-07-31). üéß MOVIES VS. CAPITALISM: Barbie (w/ Jessie Kahnweiler). levernews.com

_____ (2023-07-31). Reflections on 'Political Capitalism'. transcend.org Jul-Aug 2023 – The debate is an attempt to grapple with a succession of unprecedented crises—and the distinctive political reactions they elicited—in the heartlands of the capitalist system.

greenleft.org.au (2023-08-01). Socialist Alliance: Free Russian anti-war socialist Boris Kagalitsky! greenleft.org.au

Mercia Andrews (2023-08-01). Renewing the Left in South Africa: Not Just Doom and Gloom. socialistproject.ca This article seeks to respond to the questions


Fight Back (2023-07-31). Condemn the recent U.S. Congress resolution invoking unconditional support for Israel. fightbacknews.org By Anti-War Work Team of Freedom Road Socialist Organization | The Anti-War Work Team of the Freedom Road Socialist Organization (FRSO) condemns the recent U.S. Congressional resolution invoking unconditional support for Israel. | The resolution follows on the heels of comments made by Progressive Caucus Chairwoman Pramila Jayapal (D-WA) to a pro-Palestine protest in Chicago earlier this month in which she correctly identified Israel as a racist state and pointed out that the Palestinian people have a right to self-determination. In a bipartisan effort to exonerate Israel of its crimes and to shame those who spea…

Freedom Road Socialist Organization, Fight Back News!. (2023-07-31). Condemn Congress' Resolution Of Unconditional Support For Israel. popularresistance.org The resolution follows on the heels of comments made by Progressive Caucus Chairwoman Pramila Jayapal (D-WA) to a pro-Palestine protest in Chicago earlier this month in which she correctly identified Israel as a racist state and pointed out that the Palestinian people have a right to self-determination. In a bipartisan effort to exonerate Israel of its crimes and to shame those who speak out, the U.S. Congress passed a resolution defending Israel, which was supported by more than 400 Congressional Representatives, including 195 Democrats. | Denial of reality, however, does not change that reality. Israel is not o…

C.J. Hopkins (2023-08-01). The Second Coming of Literal Hitler. dissidentvoice.org So, the quadrennial simulation of democracy in the USA is getting underway, and personally, I couldn't be happier. It's been a challenging few years for unincorporated political satirists like myself. The roll-out of the new global-capitalist totalitarianism hasn't been particularly funny. In fact, it has been extremely not funny. Squeezing a little humor out of …

WSWS (2023-07-31). Sri Lankan free trade zone workers protest against new labour laws. wsws.org While workers want to fight to defend their rights, trade union leaders are calling for the establishment of corporatist bodies that will impose the demands of companies and the government.

_____ (2023-07-31). The International Community Must Stand Up to Myanmar's Junta. transcend.org 22 Jul 2023 – With authoritarianism on the rise in much of our world, the struggle of the Myanmar people is the struggle of all who cherish democracy and justice.

Andrew Bacewich (2023-08-01). Ukraine and the powerful resurgence of US empire. indybay.org "NATO is not what it claims to be," reads the headline. Contrary to the claims of its architects and defenders, the alliance's primary purpose since its inception has not been to deter aggression from the East, much less to promote democracy, but to "bind Western Europe to a much broader project of a world order led by the United States."

Fight Back (2023-07-31). Condemn the recent U.S. Congress resolution invoking unconditional support for Israel. fightbacknews.org By Anti-War Work Team of Freedom Road Socialist Organization | The Anti-War Work Team of the Freedom Road Socialist Organization (FRSO) condemns the recent U.S. Congressional resolution invoking unconditional support for Israel. | The resolution follows on the heels of comments made by Progressive Caucus Chairwoman Pramila Jayapal (D-WA) to a pro-Palestine protest in Chicago earlier this month in which she correctly identified Israel as a racist state and pointed out that the Palestinian people have a right to self-determination. In a bipartisan effort to exonerate Israel of its crimes and to shame those who spea…

Freedom Road Socialist Organization, Fight Back News!. (2023-07-31). Condemn Congress' Resolution Of Unconditional Support For Israel. popularresistance.org The resolution follows on the heels of comments made by Progressive Caucus Chairwoman Pramila Jayapal (D-WA) to a pro-Palestine protest in Chicago earlier this month in which she correctly identified Israel as a racist state and pointed out that the Palestinian people have a right to self-determination. In a bipartisan effort to exonerate Israel of its crimes and to shame those who speak out, the U.S. Congress passed a resolution defending Israel, which was supported by more than 400 Congressional Representatives, including 195 Democrats. | Denial of reality, however, does not change that reality. Israel is not o…

C.J. Hopkins (2023-08-01). The Second Coming of Literal Hitler. dissidentvoice.org So, the quadrennial simulation of democracy in the USA is getting underway, and personally, I couldn't be happier. It's been a challenging few years for unincorporated political satirists like myself. The roll-out of the new global-capitalist totalitarianism hasn't been particularly funny. In fact, it has been extremely not funny. Squeezing a little humor out of …

WSWS (2023-07-31). Sri Lankan free trade zone workers protest against new labour laws. wsws.org While workers want to fight to defend their rights, trade union leaders are calling for the establishment of corporatist bodies that will impose the demands of companies and the government.

_____ (2023-07-31). The International Community Must Stand Up to Myanmar's Junta. transcend.org 22 Jul 2023 – With authoritarianism on the rise in much of our world, the struggle of the Myanmar people is the struggle of all who cherish democracy and justice.

Andrew Bacewich (2023-08-01). Ukraine and the powerful resurgence of US empire. indybay.org "NATO is not what it claims to be," reads the headline. Contrary to the claims of its architects and defenders, the alliance's primary purpose since its inception has not been to deter aggression from the East, much less to promote democracy, but to "bind Western Europe to a much broader project of a world order led by the United States."

_____ (2023-07-31). We're Taught About Liberal and Conservative Bias in Media, but Not U.S. Empire Bias. strategic-culture.org

Anonymous103 (2023-07-31). Kiev Killed At Least Four Civilians In Bloody Shelling Of Donetsk With HIMARS MLRS (18+). southfront.org Since the morning of July 31, the Ukrainian military have been shelling peaceful streets of the Donetsk city agglomeration. The city center was struck with HIMARS MLRS in the morning when the streets are full of civilians going to work. | The Voroshilov and Kuybishev districts of Donetsk, Gorlovka and other areas were heavily shelled. In addition, the AFU struck a water utility in Yasinovataya with a UAV. The civlian infrastructure of the enterprise was damaged. | According to preliminary r…

Dr. Paul Craig Roberts (2023-07-31). Biden Regime Allows Big Pharma to Loot Medicare? globalresearch.ca

William D. Hartung (2023-07-31). "Oppenheimer" Ignores Birth of Nuclear-Industrial Complex — and Its Profiteers. truthout.org Unless you've been hiding under a rock for the past few months, you're undoubtedly aware that award-winning director Christopher Nolan has released a new film about Robert Oppenheimer, known as the "father of the atomic bomb" for leading the group of scientists who created that deadly weapon as part of America's World War II-era Manhattan Project. The film has earned widespread attention… |

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