2022-11-22: News Headlines

_____ (2022-11-22). The Case for Democratic Worker Control. popularresistance.org First it was the "Great Resignation." Then it was "nobody wants to work anymore." Now it's "quiet quitting." | Yet it seems like no one wants to talk about what I see as the root cause of America's economic malaise — work under contemporary capitalism is fundamentally flawed. | As a political philosopher studying the effects of contemporary capitalism on the future of work, I believe that the inability to dictate and meaningfully control one's own working life is the problem. | Democratizing work is the solution.

____ (2022-11-22). They Say: Business giants sound alarm on U.S. recession. ecns.cn Some business giants in the United States have sounded the alarm on a looming U.S. recession, joining a chorus of CEOs, investors and academics predicting a prolonged economic downturn, reported Insider on Sunday.

Staff (2022-11-22). NATO chief praises Turkey's Erdogan as great peacemaker in Ukraine war. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com Stoltenberg might also have expressed NATO's appreciation of Turkey's supplying the Zelensky regime with Bayraktar TB2 combat drones and building the flagship of Ukraine's navy; as well as stirring up Tatar separatism in Crimea preparatory to replicating that initiative in the Russian North Caucasus — RR ==== Anadolu AgencyNovember 22, 2022 Tàºrkiye played key role …

Staff (2022-11-22). Turkey leads NATO naval task force in Tunisian drills. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com Operation Sea Guardian is the successor to Operation Active Endeavor, established under NATO's activation of its Article 5 mutual war clause in 2001.Turkey has recently sold Bayraktar TB2 combat drones of the sort used to deadly effect in Ukraine, Nagorno-Karabakh, Syria, Libya, Iraq and Ethiopia to Tunisia, a founding member of NATO's Mediterranean Dialogue military …

Infobrics (2022-11-22). Kiev regime accuses Western companies of delivering 75% of components for Iranian drones. infobrics.org Allegedly, Western-made components include guidance systems, engines and parts of the control surfaces used to steer the drones.

Staff (2022-11-22). Venezuela's Army Seizes 26 Weapons Used by Illegal Mining Gangs. orinocotribune.com

Infobrics (2022-11-22). Kiev's provocations against ZNPP may cause nuclear disaster. infobrics.org Ukrainian forces continue to attack the ZNPP using Western weapons, ignoring the risks.

Fight Back (2022-11-21). Red Theory: The contradictions of socialist society. fightbacknews.org Contradiction is inherent in everything and is what causes things to change qualitatively. In socialist society there are also contradictions. Socialism is the revolutionary dictatorship of the proletariat, where the working class uses its state power to take society out of capitalism and towards the classless and stateless society of communism. | As a period of transition from capitalism to communism, socialism, of course, also contains many contradictions. After expropriating the means of production from the capitalists, a primary task of socialism is to develop the productive forces. | Transitioning to commun…

Editor (2022-11-21). China is building a truly ecological civilisation. mronline.org While the inertia of the market-led nations gives us terrifying forecasts for the planet, state socialism in the east has delivered on wind and energy, green infrastructure, electric vehicles, reforestation and carbon reduction, reports CARLOS MARTINEZ.

Party for Socialism, Liberation (2022-11-21). PSL Statement — Workers shouldn't be fooled: Trump is a tool of the ultra-rich. liberationnews.org Trump is nothing more than a tool for the millionaires and billionaires to grow even more disgustingly rich while workers' rights are trampled on.

_____ (2022-11-21). Daniel Ortega: What we are faced with is a gang of assassins who control the global economy, who control atomic weapons and who commit crimes every day. popularresistance.org I want to conclude by referring to a meeting currently taking place there in Egypt, they call it the COP. This is COP number I don't know what exactly, because since 1995 when they started doing these meetings there in Germany, because they were worried about global warming, about poisoning the planet, about the destruction of the planet. And they reach agreements, but they don't fulfill any of them, and then they get back together and they make more agreements, and they don't fulfill any of those either. Who does not comply? The countries that pollute the planet the most, the very ones that should comply with wh…

Anonymous103 (2022-11-21). US Delivered 236 Artillery Systems To Ukraine Since February 2022. southfront.org Ukrainian service members firing a M777 howitzer on an unspecified front in the Donbass region. Source: the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense. | According to the US State Department, the United States has delivered 236 artillery systems to Ukraine since the end of February 2022. In total, more than 88 thousand tons of weapons and military equipment have been delivered to Ukraine. The total amount of US military aid to Ukraine since the end of February has reached $21.5 billion. More military assista…

____ (2022-11-21). Don't Be Fooled: Climate Disasters Are Highly Lucrative. transcend.org 17 Nov 2022 – Companies involved in manufacturing weapons of mass destruction, the nuclear warheads, have been supported by over 150 big banks by lending them money or underwriting bonds, according to ICAN's 'Don't Bank on the Bomb' report.

____ (2022-11-21). Western Allies Look to Ukraine as a Testing Ground for Weapons. transcend.org 15 Nov 2022 – Delta is one example of how Ukraine has become a testing ground for state-of-the-art weapons and information systems, and new ways to use them, that Western political officials and military commanders predict could shape warfare for generations to come.

Editor (2022-11-21). US Empire Views Ukrainians and Russians as Lab Rats for Weapons Testing. scheerpost.com In addition to advancing longstanding U.S. geo-strategic aims, it seems the proxy war in Ukraine is also being used to sharpen the imperial war machine's claws for a looming hot war with China and/or Russia.

Medea Benjamin (2022-11-21). The U.S. Senate Is About to Pass a Bill Marking a Major Escalation in the Ukraine War. progressive.org An amendment meant to replenish stocks of U.S. weapons sent to Ukraine could lead to a U.S. ground war with Russia.

Timothy Alexander Guzman (2022-11-21). Armageddon in the Holy Land? Israel's Nuclear Weapons Program, Mordechai Vanunu, and the Coming War on Iran. globalresearch.ca

TeleSUR, jaa, JDO (2022-11-21). Sustraen fusiles de asalto de base de la Armada de Ecuador. telesurtv.net Las autoridades pertinentes se encuentran realizando las investigaciones para hallar el paradero de las armas y capturar a los ladrones.

_____ (2022-11-20). There Is An Alternative: Social Housing In Vienna. popularresistance.org Vienna, Austria – We all know we have a housing crisis all across our country. Rents have skyrocketed; there are insufficient numbers of apartments and houses available; many people in our cities are unhoused; rent control is considered too radical; there are few protections against evictions. The American dream has long included home ownership and stable safe neighborhoods. But the dream has become a nightmare as racism and capitalism leave some without homes altogether, and have displaced so many more. Most discouraging, few people see any alternatives to the current system of how housing is allocated and paid…

C.J. Polychroniou (2022-11-20). Capitalism Has Ended the Issue of Scarcity But Worsened the Crisis of Inequality. truthout.org Capitalism has been around for such a long time that it is hard for people even to imagine a world without it. Yet, it is far from an immutable physical law. In fact, capitalism is now "materially outmoded and ideologically defunct," argues British author Steve Paxton in his forthcoming book, How Capitalism Ends (Zero Books, 2022). "The capitalist era has provided the material abundance required for a free human society, but capitalism cannot deliver the freedom its productive capacity makes possible." In the interview that follows, Paxton shares his thoughts on the contours, contradictions and twilight of capita…

Cinnamon Janzer (2022-11-20). Organizing for Debt Cancellation Can Be a Gateway to Systemic Change. commondreams.org The elimination of student debt is just the first step in mitigating the pervasive effects of racial capitalism.

_____ (2022-11-20). Bolivians Will Not Allow A New Coup D'état To Take Place. popularresistance.org The indefinite strike called by the conservative opposition sectors in Bolivia's Santa Cruz department has been ongoing for almost a month. The primary demand of the opposition, regarding the Population and Housing Census, was resolved last weekend, nevertheless, they continue to remain in the streets against the progressive President Luis Arce and the government of the ruling Movement Towards Socialism (MAS) party. | The strike, which began on October 22, has not only affected the livelihood of the residents of Santa Cruz, but has also caused great distress to the population due to the climate of violence and in…

Editor (2022-11-20). "Bolivians Will Not Allow a New Coup D'état to Take Place" Says Gabriel Villalba Pérez. scheerpost.com Bolivian lawyer and professor Gabriel Villalba Pérez spoke to Peoples Dispatch about the political conflict at the center of the anti-government strike called by the conservative opposition.

_____ (2022-11-20). Climate Confusion And Complicity At The New York Times. popularresistance.org "Yes, Greenland's Ice Is Melting…" | The headline of the interactive New York Times opinion piece (10/28/22) by conservative columnist Bret Stephens is placed over an image of Greenland's melting ice cap crashing into the slushy meltwater below. With one more scroll, the word "But…" appears over the ice, which resembles a melting snowplowed slush pile in a parking lot. | From just a glance at the headline, it was clear where this article was going. The 6,000-word piece went on to chronicle Stephens' trip to Greenland as a self-proclaimed global warming "agnostic." There, the dramatic effects of climate change…

Cynthia Papermaster (2022-11-20). Thursday 12/1: CODEPINK Co-Founder Medea Benjamin in conversation with Mickey Huff, Project Censored. indybay.org Hillside Club, 2286 Cedar St., Berkeley…

Anonymous103 (2022-11-20). Military Situation In Ukraine On November 20, 2022 (Map Update). southfront.org Russia struck the Motor Sich defence industrial facilities in Zaporizhzhia with high-precision missiles; | Clashes between the Russian Army and the AFU continue near Makeyevka; | Clashes between the Russian Army and the AFU continue near Bakhmut; | Clashes between the Russian Army and the AFU continue in Chervonopopovka; | Russian air defense systems shot down 6 Ukrainian drones near Velikaya Lepetikha in the Kherson region, Olginka, Komsomolskoye and Novotroitskoye in…

_____ (2022-11-20). The US and the ROK will now consider deterring North Korea's use of nuclear weapons. journal-neo.org From reading the previous article, one could get the impression that, against the background of North Korea's unprecedented missile activity and the likelihood of a seventh nuclear test by Pyongyang, there are growing calls in the US for an end to Pyongyang through sanctions, a pre-emptive strike or the deployment of nuclear weapons on the …

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