Daily Archives: September 17, 2022

2022-09-17: News Headlines

____ (2022-09-17). China to impose sanctions on CEOs of Raytheon Technologies, Boeing Defense. ecns.cn China has decided to impose sanctions on two senior executives of American firms involved in the latest U.S. arms sales to Taiwan, to defend China's national sovereignty and security interests, Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Mao Ning said on Friday.

Erin McCarley (2022-09-17). It's Time to Call it What It Is: A Capitalism-Induced Ecological Crisis. zcomm.org We must make ourselves useful to the movements around us that are already taking the biggest risks and doing the hardest work…

Dave DeCamp (2022-09-16). US Pledges New $600 Million Weapons Package for Ukraine. news.antiwar.com On Thursday, the Biden administration announced a new weapons package for Ukraine worth $600 million, bringing the total US military aid pledged to Kyiv since Russia invaded on February 24 to $15.1 billion. The new package is being sent to Ukraine through the presidential drawdown authority, which allows President Biden to send arms directly from …

Editor (2022-09-16). Scott Ritter Joins The Grayzone to Discuss Ukraine's Counter-Offensive, Russia's Next Move. scheerpost.com Military expert and former UN weapons inspector Scott Ritter joins The Grayzone's Max Blumenthal and Aaron Mate live to discuss.

____ (2022-09-16). China's surveyed urban unemployment rate down to 5.3 pct in August. ecns.cn China's surveyed urban unemployment rate stood at 5.3 percent in August, down from 5.4 percent in July, data from the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) showed Friday.

_____ (2022-09-16). Ridiculous Right-Wing Grifters Cash In Posing As 'Patriotic Socialists'. popularresistance.org MAGA 'Communism'? Ben Norton and Danny Haiphong discuss the absurd concepts of MAGA "communism" and "patriotic socialism" in the imperialist US. Pro-Trump opportunists are posing as leftists to recruit the right – and make lots of money.

Dana Sanchez (2022-09-16). After Biden And Federal Reserve Said No Recession, FedEx Warns Of Slowing Deliveries, Starts Closing Offices. moguldom.com Faced with lower-than-expected revenue and declining volumes of packages moving around the world, FedEx announced that it is closing 90 offices, grounding some cargo aircraft and freezing hiring. The announcement came about a week before FedEx is expected to report quarterly results. The company's shares fell Thursday by as much as 19 percent in off-hours …

Phillip Dexter, Roscoe Palm (2022-09-16). Hiding in Plain Sight: The Capture of South African 'Independent' Media by the U.S. State and Big Capital. towardfreedom.org It is time we knew who the masters of South African media really are, write Phillip Dexter and Roscoe Palm of Pan-African Institute for Socialism.

Erin McCarley (2022-09-16). It's Time to Call It What It Is—A Capitalism-Induced Ecological Crisis. commondreams.org Capitalism as an economic system requires constant growth, constant profit, and endless extraction in order to achieve profit.

Anonymous669 (2022-09-16). US-led Coalition Surveillance Blimp Spotted Over Syria's Al-Hasakah (Video). southfront.org U.S. Marines with Weapons Company, 3rd Battalion, 7th Marine Regiment provide security support during mission on Sept. 9, 2018, at an undisclosed location in Syria. (Cpl. Gabino Perez/Marine Corps) | On September 16, a US-led coalition aerostat was spotted over the northern countryside of al-Hasakah in Syria's northeastern region. | The Syrian state TV said that the coalition launched the aerostat from its base in the town of Tell Beydar, which oversees several key roads leading to al-Hasakah city, the…

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