Monthly Archives: September 2022

2022-09-10: News Headlines

Anonymous103 (2022-09-10). Key Chinese Components In F-35s Show Vulnerabilities Of US Military Industrial Complex. southfront.org F-35A Lightning II in the Heart of Texas Airshow April 7, 2019. (Senior Airman Alexander Cook/U.S. Air Force)The F-35 is a premier ISR platform that allows the US unprecedented access to other countries' intelligence, which is aimed against Russia and China. | Written by Drago Bosnic, independent geopolitical and military analyst | It is no secret that in the last couple of decades the global economy has become so intertwined that any sort of trouble in one seemingly unimportant market can cause a ripple effect on a sc…

Harsha Walia (2022-09-10). We Need a World Without Borders on Our Increasingly Warming Planet. zcomm.org Mass migration is the outcome of the actual crises of capitalism, conquest and climate change…

WSWS (2022-09-10). With one week left before potential national rail strike, showdown building between US railroaders and Biden administration. wsws.org All of the institutions, which the ruling class has relied upon for so long to suppress the class struggle, are now mired in crisis, while the working class is being thrust into struggle by the deepest crisis of American and world capitalism in a century.

Suds, Snacks,, Socialism Forum Committee (2022-09-10). Saturday 9/10: Housing: Commodity or Human Right? indybay.org

Kyle Anzalone (2022-09-09). North Korea Vows To Strengthen Nuclear Deterrent in Response to American Imperialism. news.antiwar.com For the first time in a decade, Supreme Leader Kim Jong-un signed a new law updating North Korea's nuclear policy for the first time in a decade. Pyongyang hardened its nuclear options by vowing never to abandon its ultimate weapons and declaring it will use nukes to prevent regime change. The new legislation lays out …

Kyle Anzalone (2022-09-09). Zelensky Will Request More Weapons Directly at Conference With Top US Arms Makers. news.antiwar.com According to Reuters, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky will appear at a summit with Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, and other American weapons manufacturers later this month. The Ukrainian leader is expected to appeal for more arms transfers. On Thursday, top White House officials announced nearly $3 billion in military support for the war. The conference will be …

Benjamin Norton (2022-09-09). Economist Michael Hudson on debt relief, inflation, Ukraine disaster capitalism, petrodollar crisis. multipolarista.com Economist Michael Hudson discusses partial student debt relief in the US, inflation and the Fed, disaster capitalism in Ukraine, and China's challenge to the petrodollar.

Aaron Maté (2022-09-09). Chain of corruption: how the White Helmets compromised OPCW investigations in Syria. thegrayzone.com By enlisting the sectarian insurgent-allied, US-funded White Helmets for chemical weapons probes in Syria, the OPCW abandoned impartiality and broke its fundamental rules for collecting evidence. Before it mired the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) in an international cover-up scandal, the April 2018 probe of an alleged gas attack in the Syrian town of Douma achieved a milestone. After numerous claims of chemical weapons use in Syria, Douma marked the first time that an OPCW fact-finding mission …

Editor (2022-09-09). An indictment of modern capitalism — a WW editorial. workers.org Just imagine if the Joe Biden administration and Congress had agreed to spend $54 billion to advance health care in the U.S. as COVID-19 variants continued to claim more lives. Instead of life expectancy dropping for the second year in a row, more lives would have been saved. That $54 . . . |

TeleSUR (2022-09-09). Canada's Unemployment Rate Rises in August. telesurenglish.net

Anonymous669 (2022-09-09). Israeli Drone Crashes In Disputed Maritime Border With Lebanon. southfront.org quadron 161 ("The Black Snake") marks its reopening as the only "Zik" Squadron (Hermes 4 ) in the UAV, absorbing all the "Zik" aircraft from Squadron 166 ("Firebirds"). Taken on 6 December 2020 by Amit Agronov. Source: the Israeli Defense Forces. | On September 9, the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) announced that one of its drones crashed in the disputed maritime border with Lebanon as a result of a "malfunction." | On Twitter, the army said that the drone wreckage was recovered fro…

Party for Socialism & Liberation (2022-09-09). Sunday 9/11: Climate Solutions Beyond Capitalism — National Book Tour. indybay.org Peace & Justice Center | 467 Sebastopol Ave., Santa Rosa…

Betsey Piette (2022-09-09). Housing activists crash developers' party. workers.org Philadelphia Residents of the University City Townhomes and their supporters, determined to save their homes from destruction by property developers, have taken their fight directly to the movers and shakers behind most gentrification in Philadelphia. Over 100 residents and supporters converged on the University of Pennsylvania convocation for the incoming . . . |

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2022-09-09: News Headlines

Editor (2022-09-09). An indictment of modern capitalism — a WW editorial. workers.org Just imagine if the Joe Biden administration and Congress had agreed to spend $54 billion to advance health care in the U.S. as COVID-19 variants continued to claim more lives. Instead of life expectancy dropping for the second year in a row, more lives would have been saved. That $54 . . . |

Party for Socialism & Liberation (2022-09-09). Sunday 9/11: Climate Solutions Beyond Capitalism — National Book Tour. indybay.org Peace & Justice Center | 467 Sebastopol Ave., Santa Rosa…

Betsey Piette (2022-09-09). Housing activists crash developers' party. workers.org Philadelphia Residents of the University City Townhomes and their supporters, determined to save their homes from destruction by property developers, have taken their fight directly to the movers and shakers behind most gentrification in Philadelphia. Over 100 residents and supporters converged on the University of Pennsylvania convocation for the incoming . . . |

Suds, Snacks,, Socialism Forum Committee (2022-09-09). Saturday 9/10: Housing: Commodity or Human Right? indybay.org

TeleSUR (2022-09-08). Supplying Weapons Won't Bring Peace to Ukraine: Chinese Envoy. telesurenglish.net "China has always maintained that dialogue and negotiation is the most realistic and feasible way to resolve the crisis. Only by seeking common, comprehensive, cooperative, and sustainable security can there be long-term stability and security in Europe and the rest of the world," a Chinese envoy said. | China's deputy permanent representative to the United Nations Geng Shuang (R, front), speaks at the Security Council briefing on the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, at the UN headquarters in New York, Sept. 6, 2022.

WSWS (2022-09-08). FBI found documents on nuclear weapons at Mar-a-Lago, Washington Post claims. wsws.org The latest press salvo against Trump underscores the extraordinary intensity of the political conflict within the US ruling elite.

Liberation Staff (2022-09-08). PSL Editorial — U.S. pours more weapons into spiraling Ukraine conflict. liberationnews.org Secretary of State Antony Blinken is in Kiev on a surprise visit with a clear mission: make the spiraling crisis even worse.

Staff (2022-09-08). EMTRASUR Boeing 747 Crew to Appear in Argentinian Court. orinocotribune.com The 19 member Venezuelan and Iranian crew of the EMTRASUR aircraft illegally retained in Argentina will have to go to trial to clarify the situations that involved the retention of the Boeing 747-300 cargo jet and the impediment of its crew to leave the country. | The information was released by the manager of Conviasa and director of international relations of the Venezuelan ministry of transport, Eliana Salazar, in a radio interview. | She informed that: "On…

Reyna Wang (2022-09-08). Labor Day rally demands recognition of Amazon and Starbucks unions. liberationnews.org On Sept. 5, hundreds of workers and organizers gathered in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of New York City for a Labor Day March for Recognition rally. Amazon Labor Union (ALU) and Starbucks Workers United (SWU) organized the action to demand recognition of their respective unions and show support for labor struggles across the city. They were joined in solidarity by workers from Google's Alphabet Workers' Union, the Trader Joe's Union, the Retail, Wholesale, and Department Store Union (RWDSU), and members from the Party for Socialism and Liberation.

TeleSUR (2022-09-08). East and Horn of Africa Epicenter of Forced Migration – IOM. telesurenglish.net 13.2 million people were forcibly displaced in the East and Horn of Africa last year, according to the International Organization for Migration (IOM). | Conflict, insecurity, climate stress, poverty, unemployment and pandemic-related shocks fuel the forced migration of vulnerable populations, namely women, children and youth, according to IOM report. Sep. 8, 2022.

Mark Gruenberg (2022-09-08). For Sen. Sherrod Brown, 'dignity of work' is essential to life. peoplesworld.org WASHINGTON—For progressive Democratic Sen. Sherrod Brown, "the dignity of work" means more than just quantity of jobs, symbolized by the latest low monthly unemployment rate of 3.7%. The same could be said for Biden Administration Labor Secretary Marty Walsh. "It means hard work pays off no matter who you are or what you do," the …

Deweylaura (2022-09-08). Marxist IQ: Dismantling imperialism. cpusa.org The CPUSA is sponsoring an international conference this weekend on the topic of dismantling imperialism in the 21st century. This quiz is dedicated to the goals of that conference. 1. Empires have existed for thousands of years, but it was the rise of capitalism that led nations to a. face for the first time …

TeleSUR -HIM (2022-09-07). ALBA-TCP se suma a exigencia de liberar tripulación venezolana de Boeing 747 secuestrado en Argentina. telesurtv.net El ALBA-TCP condenó la política injerencista de EE.UU. y ratificó su compromiso con los postulados de la "Proclama de América Latina y el Caribe como Zona de Paz" de la CELAC.

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