Daily Archives: July 12, 2022

2022-07-12: News Headlines

David Giesen (2022-07-12). Friday 7/15: Reviewing KPFA's Economic Update w/Richard Wolff. indybay.org ZOOM: | zoom.us/j/98494427833?pwd=NERHSWZnR2cybFlWQWswRnRQNG1LQT09

Staff (2022-07-12). US claims Iran plans to send Moscow armed drones. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Jul. 12 (MNA) — National security adviser Jake Sullivan said on Monday that US intelligence suggests Iran will be providing Russia with a rushed delivery of "weapons-capable" UAVs and other unmanned aircraft.

____ (2022-07-11). War Scars the Earth. To Heal, We Must Cultivate Hope, not Harm. transcend.org 8 022 – The persistence of militarism is promoted by so-called "realists." Nuclear armed opponents push the world closer and closer to annihilation. Sooner or later these weapons are bound to be used. Cooperation is the only way forward. The "realist" option leads to collective suicide.

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-07-11). Ten-Year-Old Girl Among Those Killed with Western Weapons in Ukrainian Shelling of Donetsk. libya360.wordpress.com Jeremy Kuzmarov [Source: donbass-insider.com] Among "unworthy victims" ignored by western media In the first week of July, Ukrainian army bombing of the Donetsk People's Republic—carried out with western supplied weapons—resulted in the death of four children. One of those kids was a 10-year-old girl, Veronica Sergeevna Badina, who was killed by a standard NATO 155 millimeter shell…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-07-11). Perpetual War: Western Arms and Money Delivered to Ukraine. libya360.wordpress.com Observateur Continental Western countries have provided Kiev with more than $10 billion in military aid since February 24, 2022, when the Russian special military operation in Ukraine began. Which weapons and which countries have provided or promised to provide Kiev? The United States leads in terms of aid to Ukraine: according to the White House,…

Dave DeCamp (2022-07-11). Report: US Weighs Resuming 'Offensive' Weapons Sales to Saudi Arabia. news.antiwar.com Reuters reported on Monday that the Biden administration is Sources told Reuters that the decision hinges on whether Riyadh makes progress toward ending its war in Yemen, where a ceasefire has been holding relatively well. The report said that the Biden administration wants the ceasefire to stick. | In February 2021, Biden said he…

____ (2022-07-11). Cuba Should Be Removed from the U.S. List of State Sponsors of Terrorism. transcend.org 8 022 – There are currently four countries on that list: Cuba, North Korea, Iran and Syria. Cuba, rather than exporting weapons around the world, has a long history of medical internationalism with an international campaign for Cuban doctors to win the Nobel Peace Prize. Why would a country that floods the world with health care be targeted as a state sponsor of terrorism?>

Johanna Chao Kreilick (2022-07-11). The Intersection of Science and Faith: Finding Unity With the Poor People's Campaign. commondreams.org Working with the broadest range of allies, we must address the existential threats bearing down on us simultaneously, including our changing climate, threats to our democracy, and the threat posed by nuclear weapons.

Brett Wilkins (2022-07-11). Outrage as Biden Reportedly Considers Lifting Ban on 'Offensive' Arms Sales to Saudi Arabia. commondreams.org "Saudi Arabia and the UAE are fabulously wealthy oil states and do not need any aid," noted one progressive. "U.S. weapons transfers are intended to throw our money to American arms corporations."

Sajeev Kumar (2022-07-11). Bosses blame workers for inflation, but it's really about war and profits. peoplesworld.org Capitalism is a system that has an innate tendency to get into a cul-de-sac of crisis, and the only way it knows for coming out of a crisis is by further exploitation of the working class. The cost-of-living crisis—caused by inflation, which eats up the earnings of the working class by price increases—and starvation have …

____ (2022-07-11). Selling Weapons, Selling War. transcend.org War was always madness, always immoral, always the cause of unspeakable suffering, economic waste and widespread destruction, and always a source of poverty, hate, barbarism and endless cycles of revenge and counter-revenge. A Freely Downloadable Book…

John Bachtell (2022-07-11). Highland Park MAGA murders spur Illinois gun action, spotlight Republican intransigence. peoplesworld.org HIGHLAND PARK, Ill.—As this community buries its dead from the nation's latest horrific mass shooting, a rising chorus of residents and lawmakers is calling for a ban on the purchase of assault weapons. The killer, a known MAGA terrorist, sprayed bullets from a high-powered military-style assault weapon into a festive July 4 Independence Day Parade. …

Juan Cole (2022-07-11). On Cusp of Biden visit to Saudi Arabia, GAO questions US Accounting for Civilian Harm caused in Yemen by its Weapons. juancole.com Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) &#1 ; President Biden is on the cusp of going off to Saudi Arabia as one part of his upcoming Middle East trip. One of the failures of Mr. Biden has been completely disengaging the US from the Saudi-led war on Yemen, which he had pledged to do. Although there has been …

Brett Wilkins (2022-07-11). Advocates Demand Justice for Boy, 15, Killed During Albuquerque Police Attack. commondreams.org "They do not care for our lives," said one demonstrator protesting the killing of Brett Rosenau. "They use war weapons in our communities that created a fire that burned a child alive."

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