2023-07-27: News Headlines

WSWS (2023-07-27). Flagging DeSantis campaign lays off dozens of staff, including neo-Nazi communications aide. wsws.org The 25-year-old former National Review writer was revealed to have created DeSantis' latest fascist advertisement, featuring the governor in front of a glowing Sonnenrad and marching soldiers.

M. K. Bhadrakumar, People's Dispatch. (2023-07-27). Glimpses Of An Endgame In Ukraine. popularresistance.org The problem with the war in Ukraine is that it has been all smoke and mirrors. The Russian objectives of "demilitarization" and "de-Nazification" of Ukraine wore a surreal look. The Western narrative that the war is between Russia and Ukraine, where central issue is the Westphalian principle of national sovereignty, wore thin progressively leaving a void. | There is a realization today that the war is actually between Russia and NATO and that Ukraine had ceased to be a sovereign country since 2014 when the CIA and sister Western agencies — Germany, the UK, France, Sweden, etc.— installed a puppet regi…

Chris Walker (2023-07-26). DeSantis Staffer Fired After He Shares Video With Gov in Front of Nazi Imagery. truthout.org An employee of Gov. Ron DeSantis's (R-Florida) presidential campaign was fired on Tuesday after he produced a video featuring Nazi imagery and posted it on Twitter. Nate Hochman, who served as a speechwriter for the DeSantis campaign and previously wrote for the right-wing publication The National Review, created a meme-filled video promoting DeSantis and disparaging former President Donald Trump… |

Sharon Zhang (2023-07-26). Twitter Threatens to Nix Advertisers' Verification If They Don't Spend More. truthout.org Instead of banning neo-Nazis and white supremacists who have overrun Twitter (recently renamed X) and caused concerns for advertisers on the platform, the company is threatening advertisers, saying that if they don't spend a certain amount of money each quarter, they could risk losing their verification and being impersonated on the platform. According to emails reviewed by The Wall Street Journal… |

Capitalism, Race & Democracy (2023-07-27). Jailed in TX Suffer from Heat-related Illnesses; Justice for Shireen; UC Union Busting. indybay.org On Pacifica's Capitalism, Race & Democracy, Incarcerated People in Texas Suffer from Heat-related Illnesses; Justice for Shireen; Unions call out UC and Netflix; Florida to Teach that African Americans Benefited from Enslavement…

WSWS (2023-07-27). Sri Lankan government's employment bill aims to abolish workers' basic democratic rights. wsws.org The Wickremesinghe government's new labour laws are in order to impose the International Monetary Fund's austerity program and make workers and the poor pay for the crisis of Sri Lankan capitalism.


WSWS (2023-07-27). Film and television strikers in Los Angeles are determined to fight: "It's theft. That's what capitalism comes down to." wsws.org Major concerns are being raised by actors and writers on the picket lines pertaining to Artificial Intelligence (AI) and its potential to replace tens of thousands of entertainment workers.

Robert Reich (2023-07-27). 5 crises Republicans made up to distract you. nationofchange.org Are they using fake crises to disguise what's really going on?>

Federico Fuentes (2023-07-27). Solidarity needed for Russian anti-war socialist Boris Kagarlitsky. greenleft.org.au Internationally renowned Marxist sociologist and anti-war socialist Boris Kagarlitsky is currently being held in a Russian pre-trial detention centre and faces the possibility of up to 7 years' jail if found guilty of the trumped-up charge of "justifying terrorism". Federico Fuentes reports.

Federico Fuentes (2023-07-27). Free Russian anti-war socialist Boris Kagarlitsky! greenleft.org.au

Federico Fuentes, Sonny Melencio (2023-07-26). The Philippines: Amid threat of regional war, socialists oppose US militarisation and China's bullying. greenleft.org.au Filipino socialist activist and Party of the Labouring Masses (PLM) chairperson Sonny Melencio speaks with Federico Fuentes about global imperialism and the Filipino left's response to the threat of a US-China war.

WSWS (2023-07-26). UK jury finds Kevin Spacey not guilty of all charges. wsws.org All the allegations against Spacey tested in court have now failed. The outcomes have vindicated the principled stand taken by the World Socialist Web Site against the #MeToo witch-hunt.


Elsy Fors Garzon (2023-07-26). Venezuela highlights Cuban people as example of resistance. plenglish.com Caracas, Jul 26 (Prensa Latina) What we have to thank the brother people of Cuba the most is the example of its men and women who never gave up, the first vice president of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV), Diosdado Cabello, highlighted today.

Ahmed Adel (2023-07-26). Germany, France Face Economic Depression, High Energy Costs, Declining Industrial Production, Cheap Russian Energy "Still Off the Table" globalresearch.ca

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-07-26). Peruvians Take Over Lima, Continuing to Pressure Boluarte Coup Regime. libya360.wordpress.com Clau O'Brien Moscoso Seven months in, and in the face of brutal state repression, the people of Peru continue their struggle against the neoliberal dictatorship of the Boluarte coup regime. National Strike, Day 196 On July 19th, over 7 months after the parliamentary coup that ousted President Pedro Castillo, tens of thousands of Peruvians gathered…

C.J. Atkins (2023-07-26). Disco and dictators: Imelda and Ferdinand Marcos overthrown again, this time on Broadway. peoplesworld.org Eva Perón may have long reigned as the "First Lady of Broadway," but Santa Evita better make way because the Philippines' Iron Butterfly is storming the stage in Here Lies Love, which opened July 20 at New York's Broadway Theater. A creative collaboration between singer-songwriter David Byrne and musician Fatboy Slim, the show portrays the …

teleSUR (2023-07-26). A Setback Can Become a Victory: Cuban President Diaz-Canel>. telesurenglish.net In the early hours of Wednesday morning, Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel participated in the closing of the official acts in commemoration of the assault on the Moncada and Carlos Manuel de Cespedes barracks that occurred on July 26, 1953. | RELATED: | On that date, a group of revolutionaries led by Fidel Castro and his brother Raul carried out an unprecedented action against the U.S.-backed dictatorship of F…

teleSUR (2023-07-26). Chilean Teachers Association Calls for 24-Hour Strike. telesurenglish.net The national board of the Chilean Teachers' Association called for a 24-hour national strike today to demand improvements in education and other demands. | Related: | In this capital, the teachers will concentrate in Plaza de la Dignidad and will march along the emblematic avenue of La Alameda. | The union demands reparations for the historical debt of the State with teachers, when during the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet…

Elsy Fors Garzon (2023-07-26). Venezuela highlights Cuban people as example of resistance. plenglish.com Caracas, Jul 26 (Prensa Latina) What we have to thank the brother people of Cuba the most is the example of its men and women who never gave up, the first vice president of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV), Diosdado Cabello, highlighted today.

Ahmed Adel (2023-07-26). Germany, France Face Economic Depression, High Energy Costs, Declining Industrial Production, Cheap Russian Energy "Still Off the Table" globalresearch.ca

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-07-26). Peruvians Take Over Lima, Continuing to Pressure Boluarte Coup Regime. libya360.wordpress.com Clau O'Brien Moscoso Seven months in, and in the face of brutal state repression, the people of Peru continue their struggle against the neoliberal dictatorship of the Boluarte coup regime. National Strike, Day 196 On July 19th, over 7 months after the parliamentary coup that ousted President Pedro Castillo, tens of thousands of Peruvians gathered…

C.J. Atkins (2023-07-26). Disco and dictators: Imelda and Ferdinand Marcos overthrown again, this time on Broadway. peoplesworld.org Eva Perón may have long reigned as the "First Lady of Broadway," but Santa Evita better make way because the Philippines' Iron Butterfly is storming the stage in Here Lies Love, which opened July 20 at New York's Broadway Theater. A creative collaboration between singer-songwriter David Byrne and musician Fatboy Slim, the show portrays the …

teleSUR (2023-07-26). A Setback Can Become a Victory: Cuban President Diaz-Canel>. telesurenglish.net In the early hours of Wednesday morning, Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel participated in the closing of the official acts in commemoration of the assault on the Moncada and Carlos Manuel de Cespedes barracks that occurred on July 26, 1953. | RELATED: | On that date, a group of revolutionaries led by Fidel Castro and his brother Raul carried out an unprecedented action against the U.S.-backed dictatorship of F…

teleSUR (2023-07-26). Chilean Teachers Association Calls for 24-Hour Strike. telesurenglish.net The national board of the Chilean Teachers' Association called for a 24-hour national strike today to demand improvements in education and other demands. | Related: | In this capital, the teachers will concentrate in Plaza de la Dignidad and will march along the emblematic avenue of La Alameda. | The union demands reparations for the historical debt of the State with teachers, when during the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet…

teleSUR (2023-07-26). Cuba Celebrated the Moncada Barracks Assault at Dawn on July 26. telesurenglish.net On early Wednesday, in Cuba, commemorative activities began on the 70th anniversary of the assault on the Moncada and Carlos Manuel de Céspedes barracks, led by Fidel Castro with the aim of overthrowing the dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista. | RELATED: | The Heredia Theater in Santiago de Cuba was the venue for an artistic gala to celebrate the 508th anniversary of the founding of the city and the 70th anniversary of the ass…

Andrew Bacewich (2023-07-27). 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."

_____ (2023-07-26). The Empire Knows It's Pouring Ukrainian Blood Into an Unwinnable Proxy War. strategic-culture.org

José Ernesto Novaez Guerrero (2023-07-26). Moncada: the dawn of the Cuban Revolution. peoplesdispatch.org Lee en español July 26, 2023 marks 70 years since the attack on the Moncada and Carlos Manuel de Céspedes barracks in eastern Cuba. The attack on Moncada is of fundamental importance in the history of Cuba. This is not only because of the military importance of the fortress — the second biggest after Columbia in Havana — but also because of the bloody repression carried out by the tyrannical regime, which took dozens of valuable lives from a generation that with its blood would change the destiny of the island…

unitedEditor (2023-07-27). Perspective on relations between Türkiye and NATO. uwidata.com The recent NATO summit had Sweden's membership as one of the main topics of diplomatic negotiation. Türkiye and Hungary remain the two member countries that have not yet approved that membership. Regarding his country's approval, President Erdoƒüan presented three main demands: The fight against the PKK, the updating of the customs union and the elimination …

Health Freedom Defense Fund (2023-07-26). Pfizer's Neurontin: A Drug for All Seasons — A Lesson in Big Pharma Mass Marketing Manipulation. globalresearch.ca

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