2022-07-22: News Headlines

WSWS (2022-07-22). US unemployment claims and job cuts mount as interest rate hikes begin to hit economy. wsws.org US initial claims for unemployment insurance rose for the third week in a row, while Ford announced 8,000 salaried job cuts as the impact of recent interest rate increases starts to be felt.

Foreign Policy in Focus (2022-07-22). President Biden Must Commit to Ending the War in Yemen. juancole.com By Farrah Hassen | &#1 ; ( Foreign Policy in Focus ) &#1 ; Biden once said the U.S. should never "check its principles at the door just to buy oil or sell weapons." He should take his own advice. By Farrah Hassen | July 13, 2022 The United Nations has called the Saudi Arabia-led war in …

Anonymous103 (2022-07-22). Up To 300 Ukrainian Nationalists Killed In Kramatorsk (Photos, Video). southfront.org On July 21st, Russian forces destroyed the temporary deployment point of Ukrainian forces in the city of Kramatorsk in the Donetsk People's Republic. The city is under Ukrainian control. | On July 22nd, the Russian Ministry of Defence reported that Russian precision ground-based weapons hit the temporary deployment point of the nationalist battalion "Black Hundred", deployed in the building of school No. 23 in the city of Kramatorsk of the Donetsk People's Republic. As a result of th…

Michael Roberts (2022-07-22). Is China headed for a crash? mronline.org So, is this the moment of collapse in the Chinese model of development and the end of all that talk about 'moving towards socialism' etc? Many Western experts think so.

Editor (2022-07-22). Les Miserables, Living and Dying on American Streets. scheerpost.com By Eve Ottenberg / CounterPunch Statistics lie. Some lie more than others. The ones regarding unemployment lie brazenly and have done so for years, erasing the very existence of the long-term unemployed by simply deleting them from the regular tally. Statistics about homelessness lie. But they have an excuse: the homeless are hard to keep …

Tony Norman (2022-07-22). Capitalism's 'Practicality' While We Bake to Death. commondreams.org During one of the hottest summers ever, we're weirdly blasé.

Thiemo Kirmse (2022-07-22). Guidance to the system change, parts 1 and 2. indybay.org World War II led to U.S. domination of the political West, which was able to make its mark on the part of the world it more or less controlled. Led and dominated by the military-industrial complex and engaged mentally in a war with the Soviet Union, the USA suppressed any efforts of autonomous state developments that contradicted its interests.

Staff (2022-07-22). Turkish base in Iraqi Kurdistan targeted with drones. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Jul. 22 (MNA) — A security force announced that a Turkish base located in Iraq's Kurdistan region was targeted with two drones.

Labor Video Projectt (2022-07-22). US Covid-19 Insanity, The Working Class. Covid & Capitalism & THE NEW NORMAL By Dr. Gordon. indybay.org Dr. Nayvin Gordon reports on abandonment of any public health protection as the Covid-19 pandemic expands over two years after the pandemic starts.

____ (2022-07-21). Lavrov says Russia aims at more than Donbass. ecns.cn The "geographical objectives" of Russia's special military operation in Ukraine have changed as the West is providing Ukraine with more long-range weapons, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Wednesday.

_____ (2022-07-21). Open Letter To President Biden From Veterans For Peace. popularresistance.org Dear President Biden, | We, members of Veterans For Peace who are concerned about the growing possibility of nuclear war, have researched and written our own Nuclear Posture Review, with the goal of reducing the risk of nuclear war and ultimately eliminating all nuclear weapons. Because your own Nuclear Posture Review has not yet been released, we strongly encourage you to put it on hold while you review the Nuclear Posture Review of Veterans For Peace. | The war in Ukraine, with its relentless escalation toward a possible nuclear confrontation, is of great concern to the American public, including those in unifo…

Jason Ditz (2022-07-21). ISIS Kills Six Iraqi Police North of Baghdad. news.antiwar.com At least six Iraqi police were ISIS is known to be active in the area, which is why the police are there. ISIS tends to favor hitting police sites as a way of looting weapons and equipment. After years of war almost all of the gear is shared across both sides. | Police were overrun in fighting in about an hour, and ISIS is still believed to be in the area. Such fights are not as common as they o…

_____ (2022-07-21). Gramsci In The Midst Of Brazil's Landless Workers' Movement. popularresistance.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. This is taking place in the face of economic, political, social, and environmental crises as well as a continuing lack of vision of how to overcome the health crisis. Our intellectuals must put their hearts and souls precisely into this orientation toward the future, one based on the possibility of change and hope for human emancipation, as we argued in Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research dossier no. 13, The New Intell…

Staff (2022-07-21). La Tortuga Island to Become Caribbean Tourism Center. orinocotribune.com Venezuela's vice minister for productive economy, Héctor Silva, announced that 10 upscale resort hotels will be built on La Tortuga Island using renewable and wind energy. The project was evaluated for 10 months by the Office of the Presidency of Venezuela and the ministries for science and technology, tourism, ecosocialism, and transportation. | "This project was developed taking into account the environment, respecting the rules and regulations through the framework of the ministry of ecosocialism," Silva said. The project will be carried out "on the edge of the island … respecting the fauna and flora o…

Editor (2022-07-21). Pelosi could spark 'more serious' Taiwan Straits crisis; China-U.S. ties would fall off cliff if Washington intended to crash 'guardrails'. mronline.org

Fight Back (2022-07-21). Number of people collecting unemployment benefits jumps by 51,000. fightbacknews.org San José, CA – On Thursday, July 21, the U.S. Department of Labor reported that the number of people collecting unemployment insurance benefits, increased by 51,000 for the week ending July 16. This brought the total number to 1,384,000, the highest since November 2021. New claims for unemployment insurance increased to 251,000, also the highest since November. The increase was only 7000 over the week before, but most economists had expected the number of new claims to fall. | The uptick in new claims reflects a rising trend in layoffs, while the rise in continuing claims shows that hiring has slowed, both showin…

Brett Wilkins (2022-07-21). Progressive Lawmakers Push Biden to Stop Transferring Military Weapons to Cops. commondreams.org "Militarized law enforcement increases the prevalence of police violence without making our communities safer," 22 members of Congress asserted.

Anonymous669 (2022-07-21). Russian Air Defenses Shot Down Drones That Attempted To Attack Hmeimim Air Base In Syria. southfront.org Late on July 20, Russian air defenses intercepted two unidentified drones which attempted to attack Hmeimim Air Base on the Syrian coast. "On July 20, 2022, at about 10: 10 p.m., Russian air defense systems detected unmanned aerial vehicles approaching the area of the Russian Khmeimim airbase from the northeast," RIA Novosti quoted Russian sources as saying. | The source said that drones were shot down two kilometer…

Staff (2022-07-21). Iran envoy criticizes UNSC approach to Syria. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Jul. 21 (MNA) — Deputy Permanent Representative of Iran to the United Nations Zahra Ershadi has criticized the UN Security Council for repeating baseless accusations against Syria regarding the chemical weapons.

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