Daily Archives: August 11, 2024

2024-08-11: News Headlines

Clifton D'Rozario (2024-08-11). Clifton D'Rozario (CPIML Liberation, India): Understanding the rise of the global far right. links.org.au Clifton D'Rozario — There is no denying the far right has emerged as a formidable political force around the world. In India, fascism is not just being fought in the electoral arena; it is also being confronted on the streets.

Editor (2024-08-10). Why Americans should be worried by the rise in British fascism. mronline.org The racist pogroms on the streets of Britain are the result of British support for genocide in Palestine and the construction of a "migrant threat".

Editor (2024-08-10). Anti-fascist rallies take the streets away from the racists. mronline.org Counterfire members attended demonstrations across the country and sent the following reports of the heartening mobilisations against racism and fascism.

It's Going Down (2024-08-10). As Texas Antifascist Found "Not Guilty," Billionaire GOP Mega-Donor Reportedly Bankrolling Lawsuit for Fascist, Anti-Semitic Group. itsgoingdown.org On Thursday, August 8th, Chris "Big Tex," was found not guilty by a jury in a criminal trial on charges of "assault on a police officer," following a mobilization in the spring of 2023 in defense of a drag event at a brewery in Fort Worth, Texas in response to threats from fascist groups. In…

Phil Hearse (2024-08-10). Britain: Thousands mobilise to face down fascist rioters. links.org.au Phil Hearse — Thousands of anti-fascists mobilised to face down fascist groups threatening immigration lawyers and mosques in cities across Britain on August 7.

Arvind Dilawar (2024-08-11). The Transfer Agreement: Nazi Support for a Jewish State in Palestine. counterpunch.org

WSWS (2024-08-10). Ukrainian attack on Kursk prompts media calls for US escalation against Russia. wsws.org US and European news outlets have hailed what The Economist dubbed "The second battle of Kursk," referencing the World War II battle in which Soviet forces, then allied with the United States, France, and England, decisively defeated the armies of Nazi Germany.

WSWS (2024-08-10). Ukrainian attack on Kursk prompts media calls for US escalation against Russia. wsws.org US and European news outlets have hailed what The Economist dubbed "The second battle of Kursk," referencing the World War II battle in which Soviet forces, then allied with the United States and Britain, decisively defeated the armies of Nazi Germany.

Tom Tanuki (2024-08-10). Media, government, spies — collectively they're memory-holing neo-Nazism. independentaustralia.net

newleftreview (2024-08-11). Sanjay Subrahmanyam: Blood and Bombast. newleftreview.org Sanjay Subrahmanyam on Vinayak Chaturvedi, Hindutva and Violence and Janaki Bakhle, Savarkar and the Making of Hindutva. Intellectual biographies of Hindu nationalism's Mazzini-inspired theoretician.

James Risen (2024-08-10). Racism Is Why Trump Is So Popular. theintercept.com

newleftreview (2024-08-10). Sanjay Subrahmanyam: Blood and Bombast. newleftreview.org Sanjay Subrahmanyam on Vinayak Chaturvedi, Hindutva and Violence and Janaki Bakhle, Savarkar and the Making of Hindutva. Intellectual biographies of Hindu nationalism's Mazzini-inspired theoretician.

Jenny Ufer, Resilience. (2024-08-11). Towards A Degrowth Border Perspective. popularresistance.org What do we do with our borders? The right-wing shift in the European political climate in recent years has meant a higher degree of securitisation. At the same time, some are calling for border controls to be reduced or even abolished. Perhaps the answer lies in a change of perspective; a new outlook free from the shackles of capitalism and inspired by degrowth. | Recent national and European elections have marked a shift to the right in European politics. While the far-right Rassemblement National (National Rally, RN) failed to win a majority in France's parliamentary election, it will still be the most represen…

Ashley Smith, Michael Roberts (2024-08-11). The Persistence of Global Capitalism's Long Depression. cadtm.org

newleftreview (2024-08-11). Cédric Durand: Landscapes of Capital. newleftreview.org A critical engagement with the work of Brett Christophers, whose books—The New Enclosure, Rentier Capitalism, Our Lives in Their Portfolios and The Price Is Wrong—unfold a novel critique of the 'rentier stage' of contemporary capitalism, in the tradition of radical historical geography developed by Lefebvre, Harvey and Davis.

Ashley Smith, Michael Roberts (2024-08-10). The Persistence of Global Capitalism's Long Depression. cadtm.org

newleftreview (2024-08-10). Cédric Durand: Landscapes of Capital. newleftreview.org A critical engagement with the work of Brett Christophers, whose books—The New Enclosure, Rentier Capitalism, Our Lives in Their Portfolios and The Price Is Wrong—unfold a novel critique of the 'rentier stage' of contemporary capitalism, in the tradition of radical historical geography developed by Lefebvre, Harvey and Davis.

Rhoda Wilson (2024-08-11). UK government is supercharging its assault on free speech, both within the UK and globally. expose-news.com By criminalising open discussion and sharing of content online relating to the unrest in the UK, the new socialist UK government under TwoTierKeir, assisted by an ideologically two-tier police force, is suppressing …

scorinoco (2024-08-10). PSUV Leader Diosdado Cabello: We Have Submitted All Documents to the Supreme Court. orinocotribune.com The vice president of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV), Diosdado Cabello, reported that the PSUV has delivered all the documents asked for by the Electoral Chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice (TSJ) regarding the July 28 presidential elections. | "The United Socialist Party of Venezuela and the comrades of the different parties of the Great Patriotic Pole, the alliance that nominated President Nicolás Maduro, attended the TSJ summons in recognition of its authority, of the authority of the Electoral Chamber in everything concerning the electoral issue," Cabello declared to the press after exiting…

GABRIELLE PROSSER (2024-08-10). 'We say the working class needs its own party, a party of labor'. themilitant.com Minnesota: Thousands hear the SWP campaign program: | MINNEAPOLIS — "No offense, but how are you guys going to change things?" Steven Lutchen, a truck driver, asked Dennis Richter, Socialist Workers Party candidate for vice president, at a Hmong Farmers Market in St. Paul Aug. 4. "They won't give you any publicity." | "We're counting on what's beginning to change among working people," Richter replied, pointing to recent labor struggles, from flight attendants fighting for a new contract to the autoworkers strike last fall. | "We need to build a party of labor, to organize to fight in the interests…

Róger Calero (2024-08-10). 1952: Cuban farmworkers in a fight get help from Fidel Castro. themilitant.com Earlier this year the Militant received a letter from Javier Perdomo, one of the millions of working people caught up by the "enormous machine for grinding people up" that is the U.S. criminal "justice" system. That quote comes from Ramón Labañino, one of the five Cuban revolutionaries framed up by the FBI in 1998 for monitoring counterrevolutionary groups that operate in Florida and carry out attacks against Cuba. | Perdomo wrote about receiving the socialist newsweekly in the Florida prison where he is incarcerated. "I am grateful an issue of the paper fell into my hands. It spoke about Che, Fidel, and the work…

WSWS (2024-08-10). SEP (Sri Lanka) presidential election meeting: Fight for international socialism against war, austerity and dictatorship! wsws.org Only our party speaks the truth and explains to workers, the poor and young people the serious situation they confront and the necessity of fighting for a revolutionary socialist alternative.

Robert Kurz (2024-08-11). Totalitarian Economy and Paranoia of Terror: The Death Wish of Capitalist Reason. indybay.org While the financial capitalist crisis mechanisms of shareholder value threw billions of people into poverty and despair, the majority of the global intelligentsia mockingly sang the song of capitalist democratic optimism. They now have paid the price: When critical reason is silenced, its place is taken by murderous hate.

Robert Kurz (2024-08-10). Totalitarian Economy and Paranoia of Terror: The Death Wish of Capitalist Reason. indybay.org While the financial capitalist crisis mechanisms of shareholder value threw billions of people into poverty and despair, the majority of the global intelligentsia mockingly sang the song of capitalist democratic optimism. They now have paid the price: When critical reason is silenced, its place is taken by murderous hate.

Staff (2024-08-10). AAP's Sisodia calls upon people to fight against 'dictatorship'. muslimmirror.com NEW DELHI : AAP leader Manish Sisodia on Saturday called upon party workers and people to fight against "tyranny" in the country and said if all opposition parties stand united against "dictatorship", Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal will come out of prison within 24 hours. Addressing AAP workers at the party headquarters here a day …

Staff (2024-08-10). AAP's Sisodia calls upon people to fight against 'dictatorship'. muslimmirror.com NEW DELHI : AAP leader Manish Sisodia on Saturday called upon party workers and people to fight against "tyranny" in the country and said if all opposition parties stand united against "dictatorship", Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal will come out of prison within 24 hours. Addressing AAP workers at the party headquarters here a day …

Prof Michel Chossudovsky (2024-08-10). Nuclear War Is "On the Table". Build Awareness. Say No to A Two Trillion Dollar Nuclear Weapons Program! globalresearch.ca Will the US launch "Mini-nukes" against Iran in Retaliation for Tehran's "Non-compliance"?

yalensis (2024-08-11). Ukraine War Day #900: NATO Invades Russia. awfulavalanche.wordpress.com Dear Readers: | In its 1,000 year history Russia has been invaded quite a lot of times. For this reason, Russian rulers (at least the wise ones) always placed much emphasis on fortifying and controlling the border areas. For example, Tsar Ivan Grozny, who put together the basic architecture of the centralized Empire, had designated four major border cities: Smolensk, Pskov, Novgorod, and Kazan. The first three were assigned to keep out Poles and Swedes; and the latter, Crimean Tatars. To govern these border towns, the Tsar appointed four Dukes of high-ranking nobility who also served in his privy council. Thes…

newleftreview (2024-08-11). Grey Anderson: Imperium Uncloaked. newleftreview.org Grey Anderson on Tom Stevenson, Someone Else's Empire. Lucid anatomization of the American imperium, with a devastating assessment of the UK's equerry role.

Caitlin Johnstone (2024-08-10). Nobody Would Vote For Any Of This Bullshit Without Extensive Manipulation. caitlinjohnstone.com.au It is a well-documented fact that under the western empire not only are our political systems aggressively manipulated by the rich and powerful for the benefit of the rich and powerful, but public opinion is as well. Insane systems which rely on exploitation, injustice, ecocide, militarism and war are actively normalized via mass-scale psychological manipulation, and we are then presented with candidates and platforms which support those systems and told that anything else is fringe commie extremism.

Caitlin Johnstone (2024-08-10). Nobody Would Vote For Any Of This Bullshit Without Extensive Manipulation. thealtworld.com One of the biggest lies we are sold in western politics is that election results paint an accurate picture of what the public truly wants. We are told that candidates who promote peace and economic justice lose elections because their platforms are unpopular with the wider public, as though the people are organically coming into worldviews which support poverty, inequality, war and militarism all on their own. | "Socialism just isn't popular!" we are told, as though we don't live under a capitalist empire that has spent generations violently stomping out socialism wherever it pops up and brainwashing the public i…

newleftreview (2024-08-10). Grey Anderson: Imperium Uncloaked. newleftreview.org Grey Anderson on Tom Stevenson, Someone Else's Empire. Lucid anatomization of the American imperium, with a devastating assessment of the UK's equerry role.

Irene Torres, Daniel Romero-Alvarez, Daniel Fernando López-Cevallos (2024-08-10). Correspondence] Lancet Commissions must challenge colonial knowledge hegemony. thelancet.com A recent Correspondence highlighted the well known fact that the O'Neill—Lancet Commission on Racism, Structural Discrimination, and Global Health was launched in Mexico without including any of the Commissioners based there or elsewhere in Latin America.1 However, the authors conflate such an omission with the potential to perpetuate power imbalances in global health and propose a symbolic (tokenising) reparation as an inclusive approach. If colonising enterprises were designed to engage (subjugate) us all, the decolonising project should concern (empower) us all.

Felicity Arbuthnot (2024-08-10). Hiroshima — A Criminal Enterprise From Which Nothing Has Been Learned. Felicity Arbuthnot. globalresearch.ca When Paul Tibbets was thirteen years old he flew a bi-plane over Florida's Miami Beach dropping a promotional cargo of Babe Ruth Candy Bars directly on to the promotional target area. 30 years later: "I was told I was going to destroy one city with one bomb.

Alan Waring (2024-08-11). Is the Search for Justice Futile in Today's Tyrannical Climate? fairobserver.com We live in an era of increasing exposure to harmful threats and risks to individuals, groups, societies, nations and humankind. As the 2024 World Economic Forum Global Risks Report narrates, many of these hazards, whether natural or manmade, are made worse by the failure of public and private authorities to act decisively and appropriately. Many…

Prof Michel Chossudovsky (2024-08-10). Pfizer's "Secret" Report on the Covid "Vaccine". Beyond Manslaughter. The Evidence is Overwhelming. The Vaccine Should Be Immediately Withdrawn Worldwide. globalresearch.ca Pfizer was fully aware that the mRNA vaccine which it is marketing Worldwide would result in a wave of mortality and morbidity. This is tantamount to a crime against humanity on the part of Big Pharma.

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