2023-09-24: News Headlines

Henry A. Giroux (2023-09-23). Mouths Full of Blood: Trump and His Backers Spread Lies, Violence and Fascism. truthout.org Former President Donald Trump has achieved a unique status in United States history. He is the first president to be indicted for conspiring to overturn a presidential election, defraud the U.S. and obstruct official proceedings by attempting to subvert the peaceful transfer of power. It's now a matter of public record that Trump faces four indictments and 91 felony counts for his criminal… |

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-09-23). Fascism is Capitalism in Decay. libya360.wordpress.com Ekaterina Cabylis The Relationship Between Economic Decline and Authoritarianism "Fascism is capitalism in decay," we have all heard this referenced to Lenin. While it's important to note that this specific quote may not be verbatim from his writings or speeches, it does capture the essence of Lenin's views on capitalism and its potential consequences. Lenin…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-09-23). History of Fascism in Ukraine Part III: 1944-1963 UPA War, Ratlines, and the Assassination of Stepan Bandera. libya360.wordpress.com Hugo Turner Dedicated to the memory of Luciana Bohne. With special thanks to T.P. Wilkinson. The "Heroes" monument in Ellenville incorporates busts of Roman Shukhevych and Stepan Bandera, both Nazi collaborators. A monument to Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists and Ukrainian Insurgent Army was unveiled in Hamptonburgh in 1989. Just prior to the Russian invasion of…

Dave Id (2023-09-24). Taking a Stand Against the Transphobic TERF Conference in SF, Part 1: Picket Line and Speakers. indybay.org The transphobic hate group Women's Declaration International (WDI) held a conference in San Francisco from Friday, September 15 through Sunday, September 17, 2023. The TERFs were met with several rounds of protests and counter-protests, trans rights activists aptly calling them out as fascists in sheep's clothing. This post includes photos and video from the first protest on Saturday, September 16.

Dave Id (2023-09-24). Taking a Stand Against the Transphobic TERF Conference in SF, Part 2: Direct Action Street Party. indybay.org The transphobic hate group Women's Declaration International (WDI) held a conference in San Francisco from Friday, September 15 through Sunday, September 17, 2023. The TERFs were met with several rounds of protests and counter-protests, trans rights activists aptly calling them out as fascists in sheep's clothing. This post includes photos and video from the second protest on Saturday, September 16.

Dave Id (2023-09-24). Taking a Stand Against the Transphobic TERF Conference in SF, Part 4: City Hall Counter-Protest. indybay.org The transphobic hate group Women's Declaration International (WDI) held a conference in San Francisco from Friday, September 15 through Sunday, September 17, 2023. The TERFs were met with several rounds of protests and counter-protests, trans rights activists aptly calling them out as fascists in sheep's clothing. This post includes photos and video from the counter-protest on Monday, September 18.

JANET (2023-09-24). Remembering the martyrs of the 1963 Birmingham bombing. iacenter.org By Monica Moorehead September 21, 2023 The 60th anniversary of the infamous Birmingham, Alabama, bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church occurred on Sept. 15. On this day in 1963, four Black girls — Denise McNair, Carole Robertson, Addie Mae Collins and Cynthia Wesley — ranging from ages 11-14, were murdered while participating in a Bible study class in the basement of the church. Members of the fascistic Ku Klux Klan claimed responsibility for this heinous crime, along with a stream of other bombings targeting Civil Rights activists. Three of the four KKK members responsible for the bombing were co…

Dave Id (2023-09-23). Taking a Stand Against the Transphobic TERF Conference in SF, Part 1: Picket Line and Speakers. indybay.org The transphobic hate group Women's Declaration International (WDI) held a conference in San Francisco from Friday, September 15 through Sunday, September 17, 2023. The TERFs were met with several rounds of protests and counter-protests, trans rights activists aptly calling them out as fascists in sheep's clothing. This post includes photos and video from the first protest on Saturday, September 16.

Dave Id (2023-09-23). Taking a Stand Against the Transphobic TERF Conference in SF, Part 2: Direct Action Street Party. indybay.org The transphobic hate group Women's Declaration International (WDI) held a conference in San Francisco from Friday, September 15 through Sunday, September 17, 2023. The TERFs were met with several rounds of protests and counter-protests, trans rights activists aptly calling them out as fascists in sheep's clothing. This post includes photos and video from the second protest on Saturday, September 16.

WSWS (2023-09-23). Biden orders deployment of 800 soldiers to US-Mexico border. wsws.org Locking hands with Republican anti-immigrant fascists, the Biden administration announced on Wednesday the deployment of an additional 800 US Army soldiers to the border.

Ali Abunimah (2023-09-24). Canada hails Nazi SS veteran from Ukraine as "hero" electronicintifada.net Holocaust distortion and revisionism is apparently fine as long as it serves the pro-war agenda of the West.

Prof Michel Chossudovsky (2023-09-24). Video: A Jewish-Russian Proxy President: Zelensky Transformed into a Nazi. globalresearch.ca

Manlio Dinucci (2023-09-23). Il Grande Business della Guerra. globalresearch.ca Dopo il suo show alle Nazioni Unite, in cui ha declamato che "l'aggressione russa potrebbe espandersi oltre l'Ucraina", Zelensky ha chiesto altri miliardi di dollari al Congresso USA. Questo ha stanziato finora 43 miliardi in "assistenza alla sicurezza dell'Ucraina", ossia …

Chris Hedges, The Real News Network. (2023-09-24). 'Silent Coup': How Capitalism Defeated Decolonization. popularresistance.org The 20th Century saw a great global uprising against European imperialism as the former colonial countries shook off their shackles and rose up for independence. More than a half century later, global inequality is sharper than ever before. To understand the current predicament of the vast majority of the world's people, we must understand the intervening decades. Matt Kennard and Claire Provost's book, Silent Coup: How Corporations Overthrew Democracy, looks inside the international architecture of global corporate governance that exists to flout and crush any attempts by the former colonial world to enact devel…

Peoples Health Dispatch (2023-09-23). Capitalism is the greatest threat to public health, warn researchers and activists. peoplesdispatch.org During the opening of the 19th conference of the International Association of Health Policy Europe, academics and activists warned that capitalism remains biggest threat to human and planetary health…

scorinoco (2023-09-24). It's Cuba or Daniel Blake. orinocotribune.com By Ana Hurtado — Sep 20, 2023 | The world is in turmoil. As the Western powers and their economic policies continue to tear apart the world, the countries of the South have united to demand justice. | This is a long story, one that continues and has been there on a planet where human beings have gone straight into an invisible plane. Since the emergence of capitalism, we have witnessed the progressive destruction of people, their cultures, communities, their environment and their freedoms by oppressive forces that increasingly abuse all people. | Is this what we human beings are destined for? | In 2016, the…

Franz Hinkelammert, Matthias Hui & B Dietschy (2023-09-24). Making the Kingdom of God Present. indybay.org Freedom does not come from the market. Rather, in socialist terms, we need a market to which we are free. What we have, on the other hand, is a market that dictates everything. Our Mrs. Merkel says that democracy must conform to the market. What we have developed in our work in Costa Rica runs exactly the opposite way: the market must conform to democracy.

Freedom Socialist Party (2023-09-24). Tuesday 9/26: Reading Circle: The Planetary Crisis & the Crucial Role of a Revolutionary Party. indybay.org New Valencia Hall 747 Polk St. (near Ellis St.), San Francisco. | Seven blocks from Civic Center BART, on or new Muni bus lines #5, 19, 27, 31, 38, 49 | Or register to attend via zoom: bit.ly/ReadingCircleRegistration

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-09-24). Media Counterinsurgency Against the African People's Socialist Party: Ignore the Show Trial, Reinforce the Anti-Russia Psyop Behind it. libya360.wordpress.com Rainer Shea The fraudulent charges against the African People's Socialist Party are supposed to represent the starting stage in our national security state's war against dissent during…

Franz Hinkelammert, Matthias Hui & B Dietschy (2023-09-23). Making the Kingdom of God Present. indybay.org Freedom does not come from the market. Rather, in socialist terms, we need a market to which we are free. What we have, on the other hand, is a market that dictates everything. Our Mrs. Merkel says that democracy must conform to the market. What we have developed in our work in Costa Rica runs exactly the opposite way: the market must conform to democracy.

WSWS (2023-09-23). Campaign for active boycott of Australian Voice referendum wins support from workers and students. wsws.org Socialist Equality Party campaign teams are finding widespread distrust or opposition to the Albanese Labor government's referendum, seeing it as a diversion from, and a cover for, for the underlying ruling class program of war and austerity.

WSWS (2023-09-23). Socialist Alternative hysterically defends Voice referendum as its crisis deepens. wsws.org Socialist Alternative does not even pretend that the Voice will solve anything for ordinary indigenous people. But despite this, the pseudo-left is aggressively pushing Labor's policy.

Editor (2023-09-24). System Change: An Ecosocialist Discussion on Environmental Crisis. socialistproject.ca The worst wildfire season in Canadian history, worsening environmental degradation, and the hottest week ever recorded. Amid the consequences of human impact on our planet becoming increasingly dire, large corporations — including the fossil fuel industry — continue to hold enormous sway over environmental policy and enjoy record levels of profit. Despite numerous international climate agreements and corporate pledges, market based solutions have failed at every stage to offer a credible way out of our current crisis. | It's in this moment that many in the environmental and climate justice moveme…

midwesternmarx (2023-09-23). Marxism & Class By: Helena Sheehan. midwesternmarx.com This is the text of a talk at the conference of the Irish Labour History Society on September 17, 2023.What does Marxism bring to a conference on visions of labour and class?For me, this is connected to what Marxism brings to everything: context, clarity, coherence, comprehensiveness.Marxism is an intellectual tradition connected to a political movement that focuses on totality, on how everything is connected to everything else. It is a theory of everything, one that is open-ended and alw …

Vijay Prashad, Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. (2023-09-23). NATO Destroyed Libya In 2011; Storm Daniel Came To Sweep Up The Remains. popularresistance.org Three days before the Abu Mansur and Al Bilad dams collapsed in Wadi Derna, Libya, on the night of September 10, the poet Mustafa al-Trabelsi participated in a discussion at the Derna House of Culture about the neglect of basic infrastructure in his city. At the meeting, al-Trabelsi warned about the poor condition of the dams. As he wrote on Facebook that same day, over the past decade his beloved city has been 'exposed to whipping and bombing, and then it was enclosed by a wall that had no door, leaving it shrouded in fear and depression'. Then, Storm Daniel picked up off the Mediterranean coast, dragged itself…

F. William Engdahl (2023-09-23). The "Great Zero Carbon" Conspiracy and the WEF's "Great Reset" globalresearch.ca The globalist Davos World Economic Forum is proclaiming the necessity of reaching a worldwide goal of "net zero carbon" by 2050. Yet transformations underway from Germany to the USA, are setting the stage for creation of what is called the New Word Order. In reality it is a blueprint for a global technocratic totalitarian corporativism, that promises huge unemployment, deindustrialization and economic collapse.

Editor (2023-09-23). Chilean Mothers' Long Search for Babies Stolen During Pinochet's Dictatorship. scheerpost.com

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-09-23). Plan Condor 3.0: The Ideological Rearmament of the Conservative Restoration. libya360.wordpress.com Miguel Ernesto Salazar During the 1960s and 1970s, the United States national security doctrine established the Condor Plan as an instrument of terror and repression to defend and promote its interests in Latin America and the Caribbean, and to consolidate the capitalist system through ferocious and bloody dictatorships that would lay the foundation for a…

Yves Engler (2023-09-23). Canada's Envoy to Defend Apartheid gets Israel Medal. dissidentvoice.org Canada's special envoy to combat antisemitism is actually a government emissary to promote Jewish supremacy. In a stark example of the Liberals' anti-Palestinian policies, they have given public resources and prestige to an aggressive apartheid proponent. Last Friday foreign affairs minister Mélanie Joly tweeted, "I spoke with Canada's Special Envoy on Preserving Holocaust Remembrance and …

WSWS (2023-09-23). Hitler would be proud: German Chancellor Olaf Scholz delivers anti-Russian tirade at the United Nations. wsws.org German Chancellor Olaf Scholz's appearance at the United Nations in New York underlined how aggressively German imperialism is behaving again, despite its historical crimes.

Patricia Harrity (2023-09-24). This is the Sign You Have Been Waiting For — This is Now Tyranny. expose-news.com If you are still waiting for a sign that you need to act against the corrupt government agenda, then the newly passed into law, Online Safety Bill surely has to be it. …

Peter Koenig (2023-09-23). Video: Digital Tyranny and the Rockefeller-Gates WHO "Vaxx-Certificate Passport": Towards a World War III Scenario. globalresearch.ca It's an electronic ID-program using the Covid-19 "vaccine as a platform for digital identity, linking everything to everything of each individual (records of health, banking, personal and private, etc.), managed by a state agency or in extremis, by the private sector.

Juan M. Garcia (2023-09-24). Slovakia suggests retaking control over border with Hungary. plenglish.com Bratislava, Sep 24 (Prensa Latina) The president of the Slovak Parliament, Boris Kollar, and the former Prime Minister and leader of the Social Democratic Party, Robert Fico, on Sunday suggested retaking control over the border with Hungary.

Juan M. Garcia (2023-09-24). Slovakia suggests retaking control over border with Hungary. plenglish.com Bratislava, Sep 24 (Prensa Latina) The president of the Slovak Parliament, Boris Kollar, and the former Prime Minister and leader of the Social Democratic Party, Robert Fico, on Sunday suggested retaking control over the border with Hungary.

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