Daily Archives: October 12, 2023

2023-10-12: News Headlines

Basav Sen (2023-10-11). Ignoring Indian Fascism Will Lead to Blowback. fpif.org

Chris Hedges, Scheer Post. (2023-10-11). Fascism Comes To America. popularresistance.org The parting gift, I expect, of the bankrupt liberalism of the Democratic Party will be a Christianized fascist state. The liberal class, a creature of corporate power, captive to the war industry and the security state, unable or unwilling to ameliorate the prolonged economic insecurity and misery of the working class, blinded by a self-righteous woke ideology that reeks of hypocrisy and disingenuousness and bereft of any political vision, is the bedrock on which the Christian fascists, who have coalesced in cult-like mobs around Donald Trump, have built their terrifying movement. | Trump, as the writer Jeff Shar…

WSWS (2023-10-11). El Conde: The Chilean dictator Pinochet and counterrevolution through the years. wsws.org It is a complicated, dark, disturbing film about fascism, bourgeois corruption and counterrevolution. The film is currently streaming on Netflix.

krish-rad_ind (2023-10-11). It's Happening Here — A US Version of Fascism. consortiumnews.com

Phil Hearse (2023-10-12). Suella Braverman's speech shows Tory culture wars' election strategy. internationalviewpoint.org "Anti-racism grew up in the 1970s in opposition to Powell and the fascist National Front and gave a voice to the lived experiences of many millions of people from multicultural communities and multicultural classrooms too." | – | / |

Phil Hearse (2023-10-11). Suella Braverman's speech shows Tory culture wars' election strategy. internationalviewpoint.org "Anti-racism grew up in the 1970s in opposition to Powell and the fascist National Front and gave a voice to the lived experiences of many millions of people from multicultural communities and multicultural classrooms too." | – | / |

Musem of Tolerance (2023-10-12). Thursday 10/26: Exposing & Correcting Shameful Nazi Influence on Medical Textbook History. indybay.org Virtual event: museumoftolerance.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_VDbTDQLcSzyS792W1frRJw#/registration

Editor (2023-10-11). Yaroslav Hunka, Politico and the rehabilitation of Nazi war crimes. mronline.org The logic of the war in Ukraine requires the rehabilitation of the worst crimes of the Nazi regime.

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-10-11). Not Just Canada: The UK Has a Nazi Problem. libya360.wordpress.com Sonja van den Ende Hallmuir Ukrainian Chapel in Lockerbie, UK. We all remember the standing ovation in the Canadian parliament for Yaroslav Hunka, a 98-year-old Ukrainian-Canadian World War II veteran of the 14th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS. In Ukraine, which the Germans invaded during Operation Barbarossa, they found many Ukrainians sympathetic to the German Empire…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-10-11). Sustained Peace With Russia? Is It Possible? libya360.wordpress.com Alastair Crooke Reinhard Gehlen, from Nazi criminal to "honorable" collaborator with the United States and NATO This Ukrainian identitarian 'play' has a crucial part in the story of why sustained peace with Russia is foreclosed. Few people even know the name 'Gehlen', yet Reinhart Gehlen and his SS men not only shaped politically the newborn…

Musem of Tolerance (2023-10-11). Thursday 10/26: Exposing & Correcting Shameful Nazi Influence on Medical Textbook History. indybay.org Virtual event: museumoftolerance.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_VDbTDQLcSzyS792W1frRJw#/registration

WSWS (2023-10-11). Canadian politicians and media rally behind Israel's murderous response to Palestinian uprising. wsws.org Little more than two weeks after they rose in unison to applaud a Nazi war criminal, the leaders of all the parties in Canada's parliament have joined together to endorse the Israeli state's "right" to wantonly slaughter Palestinians and denounce opposition to Israeli repression as "anti-Semitic."

Michael Arria (2023-10-11). The Shift: ADL CEO compares Palestine solidarity events to 1939 Nazi rally. mondoweiss.net In MSNBC appearances ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt accused the network of pushing pro-Hamas stories and compared recent Palestine events to a 1939 Nazi rally.

Juan Cole (2023-10-12). Is California's Climate Lawsuit against Big Oil a Gamechanger? counterpunch.org The depths of depravity into which unvarnished capitalism can plunge mortal souls is incalculable. It should come as no surprise then that oil company executives and the officials of petrostates like Saudi Arabia have so assiduously lied to us about the catastrophic effects of climate change. After all, the executives of tobacco firms have been perfectly content

Julio Adamor, Orinoco Tribune. (2023-10-11). Haiti Is The Victim Of Orchestrated Chaos. popularresistance.org Haiti was once self-sufficient in grain production. In the early 1970s, it produced almost 100% of what it needed. Five decades later, the country buys 82% of the rice its population consumes from the United States. The causes are the structural adjustment policies imposed on the country, which encourage imports and prevent the state from financing the peasant economy. Among the consequences is unemployment, which today affects 70% of the population. | This is the assessment of Haitian scholar Camille Chalmers, leader of the Rasin Kan Pèp la (Socialist Regroupment for a New National Initiative) party. According t…

midwesternmarx (2023-10-11). The US Left Must Unwaveringly Stand for Palestinian Freedom. By: Carlos L. Garrido. midwesternmarx.com The US "socialist" left currently playing the bothsides-ism game with Israeli genocide of Palestinians in the name of some bullshit notion of 'nuance,' must remember the words of Howard Zinn: "You can't be neutral on a moving train."Nothing is accomplished with an abstract support of Palestine when it's convenient. It is when the empire's ideological apparatuses are pumping out atrocity propaganda to dehumanize Palestinian anti-colonia …

Pavan Kulkarni (2023-10-11). The socialist solution to soaring prices of Zambia's staple food. peoplesdispatch.org The unchecked price rise of Zambia's staple maize meal is forcing a reduction of nutritional intake in a country with one of the highest malnutrition rates in the world…

WSWS (2023-10-12). Freight industry publication discusses "surprise" Mack Trucks strike, "socialist fervor" among autoworkers. wsws.org An article in the industry publication Freight Waves expresses concern within corporate management that workers are not only increasingly militant, but are turning toward socialist politics.

Herman Rosenfeld (2023-10-11). Similar Challenges, Different Narratives: A Tale of Two Unions. socialistproject.ca The 2023 auto bargaining between the auto unions and the Detroit "Big 3" is shaking out to be different in a way that few of us could have imagined. | The objective conditions favour an environment of working-class gains, with some countervailing factors. Job markets favour workers, despite a post-COVID inflationary period and high interest rates used to force neoliberal levels of inflation. Workers across the economies of both the US and Canada have been looking to make up for the huge losses resulting from previous concessions (since the early 2000s and inflation and the recent inflationary period). | The st…

Morning Star (2023-10-11). No one should cheer the slaughter in Israel. peoplesworld.org Editor's note: The following is an editorial that appears today in Morning Star, Britain's socialist daily newspaper. Those Israeli families in their homes, the young people at the music festival deserve to be alive. The small Israeli boy taken hostage and videoed being tormented deserves to be home and safe. And when Jews are massacred …

WSWS (2023-10-12). Oppose the outlawing of solidarity protests in defense of Gaza! wsws.org In a move with the most far-reaching and reactionary implications, imperialist governments are banning pro-Palestinian protests, falsely equating them with anti-Semitism and terrorism.

US Holocaust Memorial Museum (2023-10-12). Thursday 11/30: Holocaust History Warns Us: When Extremist Ideas Are No Longer Considered "Extreme" indybay.org Virtual event…

sputnikglobe (2023-10-11). Holocaust Comparisons Seek to 'Exceptionalize' Hamas Violence, Not Contextualize It. sputnikglobe.com In the 75 years since Israel was founded in 1948 there have been numerous civilian massacres by both Israelis and Palestinians – a context that has been erased in recent reporting on the killings of hundreds of Jewish civilians in towns on the Gaza border, a Jewish peace activist told Sputnik.

US Holocaust Memorial Museum (2023-10-11). Thursday 11/30: Holocaust History Warns Us: When Extremist Ideas Are No Longer Considered "Extreme" indybay.org Virtual event…

Chris Gilbert (2023-10-12). Venezuelan Migrants: Survivors from a Passenger Ship That You Sunk. counterpunch.org The empire throws the stone but hides its hand, and the obedient mass media (The New York Times included) follows suit by telling only of the reactions provoked by repeated imperial stonings. Two million Palestinians have been made hostage in the world's largest open-air prison for decades, where they are subjected to repeated attacks and humiliations. Then, lo

TASS (2023-10-11). Defense firm delivers new batch of T-90M, T-72B3M tanks to Russian troops. tass.com "I would like to highlight the work of the enterprise's designers and engineers who continue improving the armor taking into account the experience of its combat employment," Denis Manturov stated…

ecns.cn (2023-10-11). China's tax and fee cuts exceed $137 bln. ecns.cn China's newly implemented tax refunds, as well as tax and fee cuts and deferrals, exceeded 1.15 trillion yuan ($137 billion) in the first eight months of this year, with 75 percent targeting private enterprises.

ecns.cn (2023-10-12). China's tax and fee cuts exceed $137 bln. ecns.cn China's newly implemented tax refunds, as well as tax and fee cuts and deferrals, exceeded 1.15 trillion yuan ($137 billion) in the first eight months of this year, with 75 percent targeting private enterprises.

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2023-10-12). Mayo Clinic to deploy and test Microsoft generative AI tools. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org ROCHESTER, Minn., and REDMOND, Wash. — Mayo Clinic, a world leader in healthcare known for its commitment to innovation, is among the first healthcare organizations to deploy Microsoft 365 Copilot. This new generative AI service combines the power of large language models (LLMs) with organizational data from Microsoft 365 to enable new levels of productivity in the enterprise. Mayo Clinic is testing the Microsoft 365 Copilot Early Access Program with hundreds of its clinical staff,…

Peter Bach (2023-10-11). Letter from London: Sat Sri Akaal. counterpunch.org There is a Sikh saying I came across last week in addition to the above 'Sat Sri Akaal' Punjabi Sikh greeting which means 'Truth is the Timeless One'. The saying is, 'If he who plays the tyrant is honored, then deem it to be the surest sign of the Dark Age.' Well, there were a

Jim Hightower (2023-10-11). Corporate Thievery in America's Mobile Home Parks. otherwords.org Over time, words with beautiful meanings occasionally get degraded into ugliness. "Gentle," for example. | Originally meaning good natured and kindly, it was twisted into "gentry" in the Middle Ages by very un-gentle land barons seeking a patina of refinement. Then it became a pretentious verb — to "gentrify" — meaning to make something common appear upscale. | And now the word has devolved to "gentrification," describing the greed of developers and speculators who oust middle-and-low-income families from their communities to create trendy enclaves for the rich. | The latest move by these profiteers i…

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