(2021-10-25). Evo Morales: Plurinational America Not Compatible With Imperialism. orinocotribune.com 
On Saturday, October 23, the former president of Bolivia and current president of the Movement towards Socialism (MAS) party, Evo Morales, in an exclusive interview for the international TV station teleSUR, discussed the role of indigenous movements to recover territories and fight against colonialism. | "The invasion of 1492 was under an alliance between the monarchy and the Catholic Church," said Morales. "Pope Francis apologized to the indigenous movement, but not the Europeans… From Bolivia, from South America, we are proclaiming plurinational states." | The former president reiterated that to refer to the…
(2021-10-25). Historian Enrique Rivera says the history of capitalism needs a fresh narrative. peoplesworld.org 
International Publishers in New York has recently issued The Untold History of Capitalism: Primitive Accumulation and the Anti-Slavery Revolution by the young scholar Enrique S. Rivera. As a fellow student of Latin American history (a long time ago!) I read his book with awe at his scholarship and at the daring conclusions he draws. I …
(2021-10-25). The Fake "Delta Variant" and the Fourth Wave: Another Lockdown? Upcoming Financial Crash? Worldwide Economic and Social Sabotage? globalresearch.ca The alleged dangers of the Delta Variant are being used to speed up the vaccination program and the imposition of the vaccine passport. The WEF has announced a scenario of a cyber attack "leading to a halt to power supply, transportation, hospital services"
(2021-10-25). Preparing For Escalation: U.S. Delivers Third Batch Of Weapons To Ukraine In October. southfront.org 
Click to see full-size image | On October 22nd, the Kiev government received another batch of Javelin anti-tank missiles from the United States. | A Boeing 747-400F cargo plane of the American airline National Airlines delivered the third consignment of additional American military aid to Ukraine in the amount of $60 million to Kiev Boryspil airport. | Both missiles and launchers were delivered. | Attending to meet the plane and the US representative was Deputy Minister of Defense of Ukraine Oleksandr Nosov, Commander…
(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). 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). 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…