Army Ground Forces gain uinque achievments in drone sector
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2021-01-06
TEHRAN, Jan. 06 (MNA) — The commander of Iranian Army Ground Forces said the body has gained great and unique achievements in manufacturing drones.
en.mehrnews.com/news/168171/Army-Ground-Forces-gain-uinque-achievments-in-drone-sector
It wasn't 2020, it was the ruling class trying to kill you
Eds. | mronline.org | 2021-01-06
Reflections on COVID-19, capitalism, empire, and the worst year ever from the Hood Communist editorial staff.
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Environmental Capitalism and Climate Change Wars: Australia in 2000
Binoy Kampmark | counterpunch.org | 2021-01-06
The Australian was convinced. "Australia could have avoided two decades of climate change wars had the Howard government pushed ahead with its majority view of an emissions trading scheme (ETS), newly released documents reveal." Historian Chris Wallace is not as unequivocal in this assertion, but nonetheless observes in The Conversation that…
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US adventurism caused Ukrainian plane crash
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2021-01-06
TEHRAN, Jan. 06 (MNA) — IRGC in a statement on Wednesday said the Urkarnian flight PS752 tragedy was the result of adventure-seeking terrorism of the US.
en.mehrnews.com/news/168181/US-adventurism-caused-Ukrainian-plane-crash
Syria deplores US support to Israeli mass destruct. weapons
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2021-01-06
TEHRAN, Jan. 06 (MNA) — Syria has condemned the attempt by the US administration to protect the Israeli regime's arsenal of chemical, biological and nuclear weapons.
en.mehrnews.com/news/168152/Syria-deplores-US-support-to-Israeli-mass-destruct-weapons
IRIAF to announce good news of Iranian drones progress soon
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2021-01-05
TEHRAN, Jan. 05 (MNA) — The Commander of the Islamic Republic of Iran Air Force (IRIAF) said there will be good news about the development of Iran's knowledge of drones in the near future.
en.mehrnews.com/news/168138/IRIAF-to-announce-good-news-of-Iranian-drones-progress-soon
Polarization, Then A Crash: Michael Hudson On The Rentier Economy
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2021-01-05
I'm delighted to have Michael Hudson join us today. He'll be discussing how under a neoliberal shift from industrial to finance capitalism, today's most pressing economic conflict is not simply between labor and employers. It's a conflict in which rentier interests have the upper hand over labor, industry and government together. This is the political economy in which the COVID-19 economic shock is playing out with dire consequences. Michael Hudson is a research professor of economics at the University of Missouri – Kansas City and a research associate at the Levy Economics Institute of Bard College. Michael Huds…
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Who to believe about Venezuela's election? Firsthand observation or PBS Newshour?
Rick Sterling | dissidentvoice.org | 2021-01-05
In early December I travelled to Venezuela to be an election observer at their national assembly election. I was part of a group of eight persons from Canada and US organized by CodePink. There were about two hundred international observers in total, including the Latin American Council of Electoral Experts. I have previously been an official …
dissidentvoice.org/2021/01/who-to-believe-about-venezuelas-election-firsthand-observation-or-pbs-newshour/
Who to Believe about Venezuela's Election? US Meddling
Rick Sterling | globalresearch.ca | 2021-01-05
In early December I travelled to Venezuela to be an election observer at their national assembly election. I was part of a group of eight persons from Canada and US organized by CodePink. There were about two hundred international observers …
globalresearch.ca/who-to-believe-about-venezuelas-election-us-meddling/5733618
The environment movement we have, and the one we need
Eds. | mronline.org | 2021-01-05
The ecological crisis–the disasters of earth, water, air and fire that are afflicting the global environment and the human society that depends on it–is a crisis of capitalism's making. Karl Marx famously described capital as coming into the world "dripping from head to foot, from every pore, with blood and dirt".
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Israelis, Saudis plotting for creating crisis in region
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2021-01-05
TEHRAN, Jan. 05 (MNA) — Deputy Commander of IRGC Quds Force said that Zionist regime and Saudi Arabia are plotting to create crisis in the region in order to take revenge on Iran.
en.mehrnews.com/news/168112/Israelis-Saudis-plotting-for-creating-crisis-in-region
Woman, Child Killed After Fall From Tennessee Interstate Overpass
Rafael Figueroa | laprensalatina.com | 2021-01-05
MADISON COUNTY, TN (WKRN) — A 26-year-old Memphis woman and a child are dead after falling from an interstate overpass in Madison County early Monday morning. The Madison County Sheriff's Office said deputies responded just after midnight to a crash at the Shell Station on Law Road, just south of exit 93 on Interstate 40 …
laprensalatina.com/woman-child-killed-after-fall-from-tennessee-interstate-overpass/
Syria: 'Identified gaps, inconsistencies' raise questions over elimination of chemical weapons
news.un.org | 2021-01-05
"Identified gaps, inconsistencies and discrepancies" that remain unresolved, have brought into question the true extent of the elimination of chemical weapons during Syria's bloody conflict, the UN disarmament chief told the Security Council in her briefing on Tuesday.
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Army to hold large-scale drone exercise
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2021-01-04
TEHRAN, Jan. 04 (MNA) — The first joint and large drone combat exercise of the Army with the participation of hundreds of operational drones of the different sections of the force will be held in Semnan for two days.
en.mehrnews.com/news/168065/Army-to-hold-large-scale-drone-exercise
2020: Annus Horribilis, The Worst Is Yet to Come? Poverty, Unemployment, Despair
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2021-01-04
| For most Americans, 2020 was disastrous for their safety, well-being and future. | Unprecedented numbers of people lost jobs — a greater percent of working-age Americans than in the 1930s Great Depression. | Millions more became way underemployed earning poverty wages with | …
globalresearch.ca/2020-annus-horribilis-the-worst-is-yet-to-come/5733533
COVID-19: The Emergence of the Pandemic Industrial Complex
Brian Berletic | globalresearch.ca | 2021-01-04
: | If official numbers are to be believed, the United States is one of the worst hit countries in terms of COVID-19 infections and deaths. According to the US Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), at the time of writing, | …
globalresearch.ca/covid-19-the-emergence-of-the-pandemic-industrial-complex/5733526
The Political Lessons Of The Pandemic
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2021-01-04
1. As the New Year begins, the COVID-19 pandemic continues to sweep across the globe. This is a world crisis of vast historical significance. The pandemic is a "trigger event" that manifests in a highly concentrated form the contradictions of the world capitalist system and is unleashing long-suppressed forces of social transformation. | 2. The pandemic cannot be described as merely a medical crisis. In the course of the past year, the thoroughly reactionary character of world capitalism has been exposed. The interaction of the drive for profit regardless of social cost, the lust of the oligarchs for obscene leve…
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The political lessons of the pandemic and the fight for socialism in 2021
wsws.org | 2021-01-04
The pandemic is a "trigger event" that manifests in a highly concentrated form the contradictions of the global capitalist system and is unleashing long-suppressed forces of social transformation.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2021/01/04/pers-j04.html
All in for $2K
Dean Baker | counterpunch.org | 2021-01-04
A few weeks ago I had exchanges with people on Twitter in which I argued against across the board payments to individuals. I was concerned that these were likely to come out of other provisions (most importantly unemployment insurance) in the pandemic relief package. Since most people have actually not seen their income cut from…
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Selected Articles: The Emergence of the Pandemic Industrial Complex
Global Research News | globalresearch.ca | 2021-01-04
Planet Lockdown and US Dollar Hegemony: Catherine Austin Fitts | By Catherine Austin Fitts, January 04 2021 | This sit down interview with Catherine Austin Fitts covers the spectrum of the current situation we find ourselves in. It was conducted as | …
globalresearch.ca/selected-articles-the-emergence-of-the-pandemic-industrial-complex/5733557
American Imperialism: Crash Course U.S. History #28
Eds. | mronline.org | 2021-01-04
John Green teaches us about Imperialism.
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KRG rep. says Gen. Soleimani helped Kurdistan to fight ISIL
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2021-01-04
TEHRAN, Jan. 04 (MNA) — Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) representative in Tehran says that martyr. Gen. Qassem Soleimani helped Iraqi Kurdistan by sending weapons and military advisers to defeat ISIL.
en.mehrnews.com/news/168047/KRG-rep-says-Gen-Soleimani-helped-Kurdistan-to-fight-ISIL
Netanyahu reacts to resumption of 20% enrichment by Iran
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2021-01-04
TEHRAN, Jan. 04 (MNA) — In his latest baseless claim, Zionists' Netanyahu said Iran's resumption of 20 percent uranium enrichment is aimed at developing nuclear weapons.
en.mehrnews.com/news/168070/Netanyahu-reacts-to-resumption-of-20-enrichment-by-Iran
Iraq secures $2bn from Chinese firm in prepaid oil deal
MEE and agencies | middleeasteye.net | 2021-01-03
Iraq secures $2bn from Chinese firm in prepaid oil deal | Iraq's oil revenues fell by half last year amid a pandemic-related global oil price crash | MEE and agencies | Sun, 01/03/2021 – 23: 30 | An aerial view of an oil field near Iraq's southern port city of Basra (AFP) | Iraq has secured a $2bn boost from a state-owned Chinese oil company paying upfront, as it continues to reel from the Coronavirus-trigge…
www.middleeasteye.net/news/iraq-secures-2bn-chinese-firm-prepaid-oil-deal
The Marxist Pioneer
Doug Enaa Greene | counterpunch.org | 2021-01-03
Jules Guesde: The Birth of Socialism and Marxism in France Palgrave Macmillan, London, 2020. 213 pp., $74.99 When the French left looks at its founders, the socialist Jean Jaurès is often fondly remembered as a great orator, historian, and a champion of peace who was murdered for that belief in 1914. By contrast, his Marxist…
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