Monthly Archives: June 2022

2022-06-24: News Headlines

____ (2022-06-24). U.S. to send Ukraine more rocket systems in new weapons package. ecns.cn The United States will provide Ukraine with an additional 450 million U.S. dollars' worth of security assistance, including four more advanced rocket systems, the Department of Defense announced Thursday.

Anonymous103 (2022-06-23). Military Situation In Ukraine On June 23, 2022 (Map Update). southfront.org Russia struck military assets of the AFU near Nikolayev with high-precision missiles; | Russia struck military assets of the AFU near Avdiivka with high-precision missiles; | Russia struck military assets of the AFU near Artyomovsk with high-precision missiles; | On June 23, 6 AFU members were killed and 37 military vehicles were destroyed by Russian forces, according to the Russian MOD; | Russian air defense systems shot down 21 Ukrainian drones near near Snake Island, Pe…

Dave DeCamp (2022-06-23). Biden Authorizes New $4 Million Weapons Package for Ukraine. news.antiwar.com On Thursday, President Biden The Biden administration first sent HIMARS to Ukraine as part of a previous arms package that was announced on June 1, which represented a significant escalation in US military aid to Kyiv. Ukrainian officials said Thursday that they Accord…

Editor (2022-06-23). VIDEO: Richard Wolff: Marxism and Communism | Lex Fridman Podcast #295. scheerpost.com By Richard Wolff and Lex Fridman / Conversation between Richard Wolff and Lex Fridman exploring questions surrounding Marxism, communism, capitalism, socialism, human nature, economics, governments, corporations and more. | Richard WolffRichard D. Wolff is Professor of Economics Emeritus, University of Massachusetts, Amherst where he taught economics from 1973 to 2008. He is currently a Visiting Professor in the

Editor (2022-06-23). America's Second Civil War is Underway. scheerpost.com By Blake Fleetwood / Original to ScheerPost | The frightening epidemic of gun violence in the US has become a commonplace reality. Easy access to firearms is an obstacle that national politicians have not been able to overcome with more than lip service. But gun violence is merely one ominous symptom of a growing social collapse that directly threatens our nearly 2 -year old system of democratic capitalism. | We begin with this: There have been 260 mass shootings so far this year, and 2022 is projected to hit an all-time record.

Editor (2022-06-23). Who Is to Blame for Inflation? The Power Brokers of Capitalism. scheerpost.com To save not just the bankers but also the labyrinth itself, central bankers stepped in to replace the financiers' pyramids with public money. (Photo: Getty Images/ By Yanis Varoufakis / The blame game over surging prices is on. Was it too much central-bank money being pumped out for too long that caused inflation to take off? Wa…

_____ (2022-06-23). You Can't 'Green' The Military. popularresistance.org In 2021, the U.S. Department of Defense issued its Climate Adaptation Plan, which has been lauded by corporate media as a supposedly serious mobilization against climate change. More recently, the U.S. Army has followed suit with its own Climate Strategy. More and more frequently, Democratic politicians are learning to frame the eternal imperative of an eternally expanding military budget in the language of "greening" the military. Similar language is used by Pentagon higher-ups, and even more frequently by those from the "industry" side of the military-industrial complex. | Make no mistake: the military is one o…

Staff (2022-06-23). Reject Repression: Support the Mapping Project. samidoun.net We, the undersigned organizations, reaffirm our support for the Mapping Project out of Boston. The project identifies hundreds of policing institutions, universities, weapons manufacturers, and explicitly political Zionist organizations that collaborate with one another to further systems of oppression. We reject any attempts to isolate or ostracize segments of our movement that are doing this …

Staff (2022-06-23). Prioriza Cuba desarrollo energético con fuentes renovables. cubadebate.cu Construir un socialismo próspero y sostenible no es posible sin considerar el desarrollo energético, expresó este miércoles el Comandante de la Revolución Ramiro Valdés Menéndez, vice primer ministro de Cuba.

Contributing Writers (2022-06-23). Vatican Endorses "Killer Vaccine": Commemorative Coins Promoting the 'Need to be Vaccinated' against COVID/By Kennedy Hall. marktaliano.net An eight-piece set includes a 20 euro silver coin depicting a young person getting jabbed with a needle. Original Link Here: Vatican Endorses "Killer Vaccine": Commemorative Coins Promoting the 'Need to be Vaccinated' against COVID &#1 ; Global ResearchGlobal Research &#1 ; Centre for Research on Globalization By Kennedy H..]…

Staff (2022-06-23). 6 killed in West Virginia helicopter crash. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Jun. 23 (MNA) — Six people were killed when a helicopter crashed in southwestern West Virginia on Wednesday, authorities said.

Brett Wilkins (2022-06-23). Amid Putin's Saber-Rattling, 65 Nations Condemn 'Any and All Nuclear Threats'. commondreams.org "We will not rest until the last state has joined the treaty, the last warhead has been dismantled and destroyed and nuclear weapons have been totally eliminated from the Earth."

Edu Montesanti (2022-06-23). The Yemeni War and the Rule of Impunity, Interview with Noam Chomsky. orinocotribune.com Biden vowed to stop U.S. arms sales to Saudi Arabia; particularly about Yemen, he claimed he would end all U.S. support for offensive operations in the Middle Eastern-torn country | As the American president now contradicts his promises, the Yemeni humanitarian catastrophe is today much worse than when Trump was in power | Chomsky, in this exclusive interview, strongly questions Biden's "defensive weapons" trading to the Saudi while, more than ever, Yemen the stage of a Saudi-U.S. proxy war against Iran at expense of dozens of millions of innocent Yemeni civilians | June 21, 2022—As the world's attention is…

Dennis Broe (2022-06-23). Meet Juan Guaidó: Capra's Depression-era comedy replayed as imperial farce. peoplesworld.org In 1941, Frank Capra directed Meet John Doe, the last of his Depression-era Populist trilogy, extolling the virtues of the common man and woman. In this film, Gary Cooper, a down-on-his-luck hobo, gets chosen by a newspaper magnate as the ultimate symbol of an America still ravaged by the economic failure of the Stock Market …

Jordan Schachtel (2022-06-23). Already Expired: Moderna's upcoming Omicron shot is formulated for a variant that no longer exists. globalresearch.ca Moderna's reformulated mRNA COVID injection, the highly touted — and continuously delayed — "Omicron vaccine," was tailored to an Omicron subvariant that no longer exists. | The pharmaceutical company's Omicron-specific shot was formulated for the BA.1 subvariant of Omicron, which hasn't …

Fight Back (2022-06-22). Poor People's Campaign protests at Capitol in DC. fightbacknews.org Washington, DC – On the morning of Saturday, June 18, thousands of people poured into the streets in front of the United States Capitol to participate in the Poor People's Campaign (PPC) political action. They are demanding justice and redressal for millions of people in the United States facing poverty and deplorable living conditions under U.S. capitalism. | "54 years ago my father launched the Poor People's Campaign to revolutionize the economic landscape of our nation. Unfortunately, Dr. King did not live long enough to see it come to fruition. However, on June 19, 1968, my mother Coretta Scott King was here…

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2022-06-22: News Headlines

WSWS (2022-06-22). German Air Force chief calls for the use of nuclear weapons against Russia. wsws.org While NATO powers escalate the proxy war in Ukraine against Russia, the German armed forces is threatening Moscow with the use of nuclear weapons.

WSWS (2022-06-22). Australian central bank aims at real wage cuts for years. wsws.org A speech by RBA governor Philip Lowe yesterday and his response to questions contained a thinly veiled threat that if wages rose any faster than a sub-inflation rate, the bank would accelerate its interest rate hikes and drive the economy into recession if that proved necessary.

Editor (2022-06-21). Nagasaki Survivor Denounces 'Absolute Evil' of Nuclear Bombs on Eve of Vienna Summit. scheerpost.com Sueichi Kido. [ By A survivor of the August 9, 1945 bombing of the Japanese city of Nagasaki by the United States conveyed the inhumanity of atomic weapons on Monday ahead of an international meeting that seeks to eliminate the world's…

Contributing Writers (2022-06-21). "The First Casualty of War is the Truth". What is Really Happening in Donbass/By Christelle Néant and Dr. Leon Tressell. marktaliano.net A Conversation with Christelle Neant of Donbass Insider on the War in Ukraine By Christelle Néant and Dr. Leon Tressell Global Research, June 21, 2022 To receive Global Research's Daily Newsletter (selected …

Al Mayadeen (2022-06-21). The United Nations Slams Ukrainian Attack on Donetsk Maternity Hospital. globalresearch.ca The allegations of shelling of a maternity facility in Dujarric stated that "we have seen the media …

_____ (2022-06-21). Community Land Trusts As A Proactive Model For Post-Capitalist Development. popularresistance.org On paper, a Community Land Trust [C.L.T.] is a non-profit organization first, but not necessarily foremost. Indefinite land leases within inflated financial and real estate markets are most desirable for the procurement of actual wealth equity. C.L.T.'s are a proactive model for sustainability and break the vicious cycle of our archaic Colonial past. The sociological relevance of a C.L.T. is in developing a community orientation for living a life aligned with autonomous Degrowth and the promotion of New Local Post-Capitalism. | New localism is therefore characterized by a cautious devolution of power to the local…

_____ (2022-06-21). Community Land Trusts as a Proactive Model for Post-Capitalist Sustainable New Local Development. popularresistance.org On paper, a Community Land Trust [C.L.T.] is a non-profit organization first, but not necessarily foremost. Indefinite land leases within inflated financial and real estate markets are most desirable for the procurement of actual wealth equity. C.L.T.'s are a proactive model for sustainability and break the vicious cycle of our archaic Colonial past. The sociological relevance of a C.L.T. is in developing a community orientation for living a life aligned with autonomous Degrowth and the promotion of New Local Post-Capitalism. | New localism is therefore characterized by a cautious devolution of power to the local…

_____ (2022-06-21). Global Planned Financial Tsunami has Just Begun. journal-neo.org Since the creation of the US Federal Reserve over a century ago, every major financial market collapse has been deliberately triggered for political motives by the central bank. The situation is no different today, as clearly the US Fed is acting with its interest rate weapon to crash what is the greatest speculative financial bubble …

_____ (2022-06-21). How The US Could Lose The New Cold War. popularresistance.org The United States appears to have entered a new cold war with both China and Russia. And US leaders' portrayal of the confrontation as one between democracy and authoritarianism fails the smell test, especially at a time when the same leaders are actively courting a systematic human-rights abuser like Saudi Arabia. Such hypocrisy suggests that it is at least partly global hegemony, not values, that is really at stake. | For two decades after the fall of the Iron Curtain, the US was clearly number one. But then came disastrously misguided wars in the Middle East, the 2008 financial crash, rising inequality, the op…

WSWS (2022-06-21). New York Times series The Ransom absolves capitalism for Haiti's oppression. wsws.org It is well known that Haiti has been looted by foreign governments, banks and comprador leaders since its birth. However, the Times cannot even pose the question why, let alone answer it, because this leads in a revolutionary direction.

Staff (2022-06-21). VIDEO: Moment Russian boat blown up by two Harpoon missiles. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Jun. 21 (MNA) — The video footage shows the moment a Russian boat loaded with weapons is blown up by two Harpoon missiles.

____ (2022-06-20). Is There Life After Death? transcend.org 16 Jun 2022 – A review of 'James and Whitehead on Life after Death' by David Ray Griffin – The meaning of death, and whether humans do or do not survive it in some form, has always obsessed people, from the average person to the great artists and thinkers. Death is the mother of philosophy and all the arts and sciences.

____ (2022-06-20). Will the Global South Break Free from Dollarized Debt? transcend.org 9 Jun 2022 – In his latest book, economist Michael Hudson pits socialism against finance capitalism and tears apart the 'dream civilization' imposed by the 1 percent.

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