2022-07-20: News Headlines

Dave DeCamp (2022-07-20). Ukraine Defense Minister Offers Ukraine as a 'Testing Ground' for NATO Weapons. news.antiwar.com Ukrainian Defense Minister Oleksii Reznikov on Tuesday Reznikov said that Ukraine "is essentially a testing ground" for the advanced weaponry the US and its allies are pouring into the country. "Many weapons are now getting tested in the field in the real condit…

Dave DeCamp (2022-07-20). IMF Warns of Deep Recessions in Europe If Russia Cuts Gas Supply. news.antiwar.com The IMF warned Tuesday that if Russia cuts off its natural gas supplies to the European Union, IMF researchers

Dave DeCamp (2022-07-20). Russia Orders Troops to Target Ukraine's Western-Provided Long-Range Weapons. globalresearch.ca

_____ (2022-07-19). Europe Facing Major Economic Crisis From Sanctions Against Russia. popularresistance.org The US-led sanctions campaign against Russia has done nothing to stop the war in Ukraine or hurt Vladimir Putin, but the toll continues to mount on Western economies and there are increasing signs that Europe is facing a major economic crisis. | The euro has reached a 20-year low against the dollar, inflation is at a record-high 8.6%, and economists are predicting a recession if the EU is cut off from Russian gas. Russia has already stopped supplying some EU members for their refusal to pay in rubles, something Putin required in retaliation for sanctions that targeted Russia's use of the dollar and euro. | The No…

Dave DeCamp (2022-07-19). Europe Facing Major Economic Crisis from Sanctions Campaign Against Russia. news.antiwar.com The US-led sanctions campaign against Russia has done nothing to stop the war in Ukraine or hurt Vladimir Putin, but the toll continues to mount on Western economies and there are The euro has reached a 20-year low against the dollar, inflation is at a record-high 8.6%, and economists are predicting a recession if the EU is cut off from Russian gas. Russia has already stopped supplying some EU members for their refusal to pay in rubles…

Anonymous811 (2022-07-19). Secrets Of Ukrainian Cargo Aircraft That Crashed in Greece. southfront.org Obstacles of plane | On the night of July 16, a Ukrainian An-12BK transport plane crashed in Greece. The plane fell 16 km west of Kaval airport, which is located in Greece. The plane was designed to transport cargo. The aircraft was on a Nis-Amman flight, flying from Serbia to Jordan. It was supposed to make two stops for technical reasons in Riyadh and Ahmedabad. Eventually, the plane was supposed to fly to Bangladesh. | When the aircraft entered the airspace of Greece, one of its engines caught fire. The…

Anonymous103 (2022-07-19). Military Situation In Ukraine On July 19, 2022 (Map Update). southfront.org Russia struck military assets of the AFU near Kamyshevakha with high-precision missiles; | Russia struck military assets of the AFU near Dolina with high-precision missiles; | Russia struck military assets of the AFU near Belen'koye with high-precision missiles; | Russian air defense systems shot down 4 Ukrainian drones near Peschanoye, Petropavlovka, Topolskoye and Izyum in the Kharkov region; | Russian air defense systems shot down 4 Tochka-U missile and 5 Uragan rockets…

Caitlin A. Johnstone (2022-07-19). This proxy war has no exit strategy. mronline.org The International Committee of the Democratic Socialists of America has released a statement opposing the U.S. government's ongoing proxy war in Ukraine, saying the billions being funneled into the military-industrial complex "at a time when ordinary Americans are struggling to pay for housing, groceries, and fuel" is "a slap in the face for working people."

Anonymous103 (2022-07-19). Russian Missiles Destroyed Bridge In Odessa Region Used For Supply Of Foreign Weapons To Ukraine. southfront.org One of the main targets for Russian missiles in the Ukrainian Odessa region is the bridge across the Dniester Estuary located in the town of Zatoka. | Since the beginning of the Russian military operation in Ukraine, the bridge

_____ (2022-07-19). Brian Becker On Socialism And The US Campaign Against China. popularresistance.org In the US, where I live, more than one million people have died. More than 60 million workers lost their jobs in 2020. More than 100,000 small businesses were sent into bankruptcy. While the US was plunged into an economic recession and a healthcare crisis of unprecedented proportions, the Chinese government pursued a policy preventing such loss of life inside a country with 1.4 billion people. This would have been impossible had it not been for the policy, guidance, and unified approach of the government. That does not mean that there aren't still significant challenges, but this was a huge achievement. Also, wh…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-07-19). Gramsci in the Midst of Brazil's Landless Workers' Movement (MST). libya360.wordpress.com Tricontinental Dossier no. 54 (July 2022) An Interview with MST Militante Neuri Rossetto Introduction Despite the persistent hegemony of capitalism and its ruling neoliberal ideology, various forms of resistance, social struggle, and proposals for an emancipated future continue to emerge. This is taking place in the face of economic, political, social, and environmental crises as…

Editor (2022-07-19). VIDEO: Ask Prof Wolff: Why Are Strikes and Unions Increasing? scheerpost.com By Richard Wolff / Democracy At Work A Patron of Economic Update asks: "Workers are organizing and Trade Unionism is on the rise in the UK and around the world. Can you offer an analysis of the present wave of class consciousness and what it means for the workers movement in the period of increasing …

The Tricontinental (2022-07-19). Dossier no. 54: Gramsci in the midst of Brazil's Landless Workers' Movement (MST): an interview with MST Militante Neuri Rossetto. mronline.org Despite the persistent hegemony of capitalism and its ruling neoliberal ideology, various forms of resistance, social struggle, and proposals for an emancipated future continue to emerge.

Party for Socialism, Liberation (2022-07-19). PSL Editorial — Deadly heat wave sweeping Europe highlights criminal inaction on climate crisis. liberationnews.org The unfolding disaster in Europe has rightfully drawn global attention to the woefully inadequate action taken by the governments of the wealthy capitalist countries to address the climate change crisis.

Yanis Iqbal (2022-07-19). Six Theses on Imperialism. orinocotribune.com By Yanis Iqbal &#1 ; Jul 16, 2022 | 1.- During the Middle Ages and early modern period, the West occupied a marginal position in the world-system. In the Middle East, China, Japan and India, productive forces were equally or more developed. The emergence of capitalism in Europe was driven by intensifying class antagonisms between the feudal ruling classes and peasants and artisans, which resulted in the victory of the latter. Similar conflicts in China, Japan, India and the Middle East could not create a bourgeois rupture due to the entrenched power of landed elites and state bureaucracies, which discouraged merc…

Karen Conner (2022-07-19). The Fed Should Not Allow Itself to Get Bullied into Bringing on a Recession. cepr.net There is a loud and growing chorus demanding that the Fed follow a path of aggressive rate hikes, which will inevitably lead to higher unemployment and likely a recession. The rationale is that inflation is far higher than the Fed's 2.0 percent target. The argument is that much higher rates of unemployment are needed to bring the inflation rate back in line with this target. | There are several points that this analysis misses. Most obviously, much of the inflation we have been seeing comes from food and energy, not the core. The sharp price increases in these areas have been partially reversed in the last couple…

____ (2022-07-19). U.S. urged to stop selling weapons to Taiwan. ecns.cn The United States should stop all of its arms sales to Taiwan, according to Senior Colonel Tan Kefei, a spokesman for the Ministry of National Defense.

WSWS (2022-07-19). IAM calls for contract rejection after anger erupts over Boeing offer. wsws.org The IAM has called for the rejection of a contract offer by aircraft maker Boeing to workers at its St. Louis military aircraft operation that provided for a 5 percent raise, far below the current 9.1 percent annual rate.

WSWS (2022-07-19). Europe's "apocalypse of heat" highlights capitalism's climate crisis. wsws.org Thousands are dying, vast swaths of land are burning, and harvests are being destroyed as global warming makes heat waves and droughts ever more frequent and severe.

____ (2022-07-18). Graduates encouraged to look at jobs at grassroots. ecns.cn According to figures by the National Bureau of Statistics released on Friday, the surveyed unemployment rate of young people aged 16 to 24 was 19.3 percent in June. By comparison, the same figure for June 2019, before the pandemic hit, was 11.9 percent.

Staff (2022-07-19). Cuadrando la Caja: Evasión fiscal, causas y consecuencias (+ Video). cubadebate.cu El 17 de julio conversamos sobre la evasión fiscal en Cuba. | øCuáles son las principales causas de la evasión fiscal en nuestro país? øA quiénes afecta? øQué acciones podemos realizar desde el socialismo para evitar este delito?

Staff (2022-07-19). Israeli drone has fallen in southern Lebanon. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Jul. 19 (MNA) — Local media in lebanon said on Tuesday that an Israeli drone has crashed in southern Lebanon.

Staff (2022-07-19). Presentan el libro "Cuba en contexto", aporte a la resistencia en tiempos de guerra mediática. cubadebate.cu El libro "Cuba en contexto. Artículos de opinión bajo fuego mediático", de Karima Oliva Bello, será presentado este miércoles en la Biblioteca Nacional José Martí. Publicado por Ocean Sur, busca "brindar un aporte a la resistencia y la lucha en defensa del socialismo en los momentos más duros de guerra mediática que ha vivido Cuba en los últimos tiempos".

Dawn Heinbach (2022-07-19). Abuse by Wellpath LLC healthcare in Pennsylvania prisons spurs lawsuits. peoplesworld.org Daniel Newberg arrived at the Pennsylvania State Correctional Institution in Collegeville (SCI Phoenix) in January 2020. He informed the correctional officers and nurses processing his intake that he had a history of attempted suicide and would need his prescribed medications for bipolar disorder and depression. Over the next several days, the staff ignored the obvious …

Jamanetwork (2022-07-19). Remote Patient Monitoring During COVID-19—Reply. jamanetwork.com In Reply In our recent Viewpoint, we suggested that health systems should consider implementing continuous pulse oximetry as part of a harm reduction strategy. In his letter, Dr Kenik equates the absence of evidence with evidence of no effect. The retrospective study that we referenced was limited to patients receiving sedatives or analgesics. This does not imply that other patients would not benefit; other patients were not studied. The health system in that study expanded continuous monitoring to all patients, demonstrating significant benefit, with 0 deaths occurring from drug-induced respiratory depression in…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-07-18). Ukrainian Plane Crash Reveals US Deals of US-Sanctioned Serbian Arms Dealer. libya360.wordpress.com Dilyana Gaytandzhieva "White", according to the Greek authorities, can be seen at the site where the Ukrainian An-12 crashed on Saturday loaded with 11.5 tons of Serbian weapons en-route to Bangladesh with two scheduled technical landings in Amman (Jordan) and Riyadh (Saudi Arabia). Photo: AP The Serbian arms company Valir DOO which exported weapons on…

_____ (2022-07-18). Political 'Lame Ducks' are Fleeing the European Union. journal-neo.org The West, in its intention to hurt Russia with sanctions, has shot itself in the foot, many media outlets have been writing for a while now. The result is high inflation, energy and food shortages, recession, and many political and social problems that Europeans don't know how to deal with. The IMF itself admits that …

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