(2021-10-24). In collaboration with Missile Defense Agency, U.S. Army and Navy test hypersonic missiles. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com ==== From 2010: Prompt Global Strike: World Military Superiority Without Nuclear Weapons Commentary on the article by Fidel Castro: The origin of wars ==== Navy and Army Demonstrate Advanced Hypersonic Technologies The Navy Strategic Systems Programs (SSP) and the Army Hypersonic Program Office (AHPO) successfully conducted a High Operational Tempo for Hypersonics flight campaign on …
(2021-10-24). Syrian Pilot Killed In Attack Helicopter Crash In Damascus Countryside. southfront.org 
Illustrative image. | On October 23, a Mi-25 attack helicopter of the Syrian Arab Air Force (SyAAF) made a hard landing in the countryside of Damascus while returning from a mission around the ancient city of Palmyra in eastern Homs. | Syrian pro-government sources said that the Soviet-made helicopter experienced "mechanical program", without elaborating. | The helicopter pilot, Major Muhammad Taher Nadim Abdullah, was killed in the incident. Several service members were also wounded. | As a result of a mechanical failure,…
(2021-10-24). China's Winding Road Toward Capitalism. counterpunch.org 
Image by There is perhaps no bigger controversy among partisans of the Left than the nature of China and its economy. Is it socialist? Capitalist? State capitalist? A hybrid? That so much debate swirls around this issue is its own proof that the question doesn't have a definitive answer, at least not yet. | What can be agreed upon is that China has experienced decades of extraordinary economic growth. But the nature of that growth, and the base upon which it has been created, are also subject to intense debate, arguments that necessarily rest on how a…
(2021-10-24). The Great Recoil Of Neoliberal Globalization. popularresistance.org The current political era is best understood as a "great recoil" of economic globalization. It is a moment when the coordinates of historical development seem to be inverting, upsetting many of the assumptions that dominated politics and economics over the last decades. This moment corresponds to the "second movement" socialist economic historian Karl Polanyi described in his book The Great Transformation, when phases of capitalist expansion recede and are met by "societal responses." | According to Polanyi, in phases of profound crisis like that opened by the 1929 Wall Street Crash, society tends to act defensiv…
(2021-10-24). Turkey to provide Kyrgyzstan with combat drones for next conflict with Tajikistan. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com Kyrgyzstan orders Turkey's Bayraktar TB2 drones [Kyrgyz President Sadyr] Japarov confirmed the statement made by Gen. Kamchibek Tasiyev, chairman of the Kyrgyzstan National Security State Committee, that they have ordered Turkey's Bayraktar TB2 drones. Mentioning an armed conflict along the border with Tajikistan this April, in which 36 people on the Kyrgyz side died, he …
(2021-10-24). Racist Western Monopoly Media Ignore Colin Powell's Horrendous War Crimes. dissidentvoice.org 
The pro-Apartheid Israel former African-American military commander, mass murderer and genocidal liar, Colin Powell, has just died. Mendacious, racist and pro-war Western Monopoly media and politicians have been fulsome in their praise for the first Black US Secretary of State, white-washing his deadly lies over non-existent Iraqi Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD), and ignoring the …
(2021-10-24). Police Increasingly Cite Climate Disasters When Seeking Military Gear. popularresistance.org When locals learned that the Johnson County, Iowa, sheriff's office had gotten hold of a massive, mine-resistant vehicle, Sheriff Lonny Pulkrabek reassured a skeptical public that officers would primarily use it during extreme weather events in order to save residents from the state's extraordinary blizzards or floods. | "Essentially it's really a rescue, recovery and transport vehicle," Pulkrabek said in 2014. | But in the seven years since, the vehicle — which comes from the Pentagon's much-maligned 1033 Program that arms local law enforcement with weapons, gear and vehicles leftover from the country's fo…
(2021-10-24). Nuclear Option Against Russia — German Dreams Of World War III. southfront.org 
Click to see full-size image | You can read this article in German: Although she is only temporarily in office due to the upcoming change of government, the German minister of defence, Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer, is tightening the escalation screw against Russia even further. | On October 21, on the side-lines of the NATO summit in Brussels, she gave an interview to Deutschlandfunk radio in which she threatened Russia with the use of nuclear weapons if the country did not bow to NATO's guidelines. The B…
(2021-10-23). Public Health or Private Wealth? How Digital Vaccine Passports Pave Way for Unprecedented Surveillance Capitalism. strategic-culture.org 
Public health or private wealth? How digital vaccine passports pave way for unprecedented surveillance capitalism | By Jeremy LOFFREDO, Max BLUMENTHAL | The titans of global capitalism are exploiting the Covid-19 crisis to institute social credit-style digital ID systems across the West. | The death by starvation of Etwariya Devi, a 67-year-old widow from the rural Indian state of Jharkhand, might have passed without notice had it not been part of a more widespread trend. | Like 1.3 billion of her fellow Indians, Devi had been pushed to enroll in a biometric digital ID system called Aadhaar in order to access pub…
(2021-10-23). SEP electoral members in Australia denounce premature ending of COVID-19 lockdowns. wsws.org "The reason they're telling us to live with the virus is because the economy is going downhill, and capitalism has to continue generating profits for companies and businesses. But the consequence is more infections, illness and deaths."
(2021-10-23). The 2020-21 Worldwide Corona Crisis: Destroying Civil Society, Engineered Economic Depression, Global Coup d'État and the "Great Reset" globalresearch.ca We are at the crossroads of one of the most serious crises in modern history. We are living history, yet our understanding of the flow of events since January 2020 has been blurred. Worldwide, people have been misled both by their governments and the media.
(2021-10-23). Bayraktar TB2s in ten countries: Turkey to provide combat drones to Kyrgyzstan. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com The deadly combat weapons, already tested by Turkey in Iraq, Libya, Syria, Nagorno-Karabakh and Ukraine, have been and will be provided to Albania, Angola, Azerbaijan, Ethiopia, Kyrgyzstan, Morocco, Poland, Qatar and Ukraine with no doubt more to come. ==== Kyrgyzstan becomes latest buyer of Turkish combat drones Kyrgyzstan is becoming the latest buyer of renowned …
(2021-10-23). New batch of U.S. military aid arrives in Ukraine for war in the Donbass. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com Ukraine receives third batch of US military aid The third batch of additional US military aid arrived in Ukraine, including ammunition, anti-tank and precision weapons as the Defense Ministry of Ukraine reported. "Today, October 22, the third final batch of additional aid worth $60 million from the United States government for the needs of the …