____ (2022-09-28). Washington admits to conducting biological research on low-income Ukrainians: Russian media. ecns.cn The U.S. delegation in Geneva has admitted that Washington had been conducting biological research on low-income citizens from Ukraine at a meeting of the states parties to the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention.

Dave DeCamp (2022-09-28). Report: US Preparing $1.1 Billion Arms Package for Ukraine. news.antiwar.com The US is preparing a new $1.1 billion arms package for Ukraine that will be announced soon, Reuters reported Tuesday, citing unnamed US officials. The weapons package will likely include HIMARS rocket systems, HIMARS ammunition, counter-drone systems, radar systems, training, and technical support. The arms package is expected to be provided to Kyiv using the …

Dave DeCamp (2022-09-28). Sanctions on Russia Opens Markets for US Weapons Makers: White House Official. news.antiwar.com Sanctions that make it harder for Russia to export military equipment create an "opportunity" for US weapons makers to find new markets, a White House official "As a practical matter, countries that have had to rely on Russian equipment are going to find it very difficult to get even basic supplies from Russia's defense industrial base," Cara Abercrombie, the National Security Council's director of defense policy and arms con…

Suds, Snacks,, Socialism Forum Committee (2022-09-28). Saturday 10/8: The California Propositions Demystified. indybay.org

____ (2022-09-28). Xi Jinping visits exhibition themed "Forging Ahead in the New Era," stresses vigorousness, resoluteness and solidarity in striving for new success of socialism with Chinese characteristics. ecns.cn Xi Jinping visited an exhibition themed "Forging Ahead in the New Era" at Beijing Exhibition Center on September 27.

_____ (2022-09-27). 'We've Incentivized Corporations To Go After This Price-Gouging Strategy'. popularresistance.org Janine Jackson: In a section labeled "Core of the matter," the Economist declared: "Despite rosier figures, America still has an inflation problem. Is higher unemployment the only cure?" | I guess we're meant to find solace in the idea that the magazine thinks there might conceivably be other responses, in addition to what we are to understand is the proven one: purposely throwing people out of work, with all of the life-changing harms that come with that. | CNBC's story, "Inflation Fears Spur Shoppers to Get an Early Jump on the Year-End Holidays," encouraged us to think that "inflation is a Scrooge." | So[mdash…

Staff (2022-09-27). What Would We Do Without Police, Prisons, Surveillance, Borders, Wars, Nukes, and Capitalism? Watch and See! davidswanson.org

_____ (2022-09-27). Rural County Jails Are Now The Main Driver Of Mass Incarceration. popularresistance.org All across the United States, city and state governments have increasingly turned to fines and fees to make up for budget shortfalls. This has required a corresponding explosion in police department budgets, creating a perverse cycle where local governments must consistently expand policing in order to continue to pay for policing. Rural America has not escaped this trend, and a new Vera Institute report has found that small and rural counties are now the main drivers of growth in the prison industrial complex. According Vera's research, the boom in county jails appears to be driven by an increased amount of peop…

Staff (2022-09-27). Talk World Radio: Women for Weapons Trade Transparency. davidswanson.org

Editor (2022-09-27). Weapons Firms Install Staff Inside UK Ministry of Defense. scheerpost.com Ministry of Defence (MoD) Main Building in Whitehall, London. Harland Quarrington, OGL v1.0OGL v1.0, via By Lucas Amin / More than paid employees of global arms companies are working inside the UK's Ministry of Defence, openDemocracy can reveal, sparking questions about conflicts of interest and national security. | They include n…

Jeremy Kuzmarov (2022-09-26). Is That a Chilling Echo of Dr. Strangelove We Are Hearing from Biden's Nominee to Oversee America's Nuclear Weapons Arsenal? covertactionmagazine.com Anthony J. Cotton Says if Confirmed He Will Prepare U.S. Army Officers to Deploy Nuclear Weapons—Which is No Longer Unthinkable Stanley Kubrick's classic 1964 film Dr. Strangelove featured an unhinged Air Force General named Jack D. Ripper, who orders a nuclear strike on the Soviet Union after he becomes convinced that the Soviets were polluting …

____ (2022-09-26). Brainwashed for War with Russia. transcend.org 22 Sep 2022 – Most Americans are oblivious to the reality that Western media are owned and operated by the same corporations that make massive profits by helping to stoke small wars and then peddling the necessary weapons. Corporate leaders, and Ivy-mantled elites, educated to believe in U.S. "exceptionalism," find the lucre and the luster too lucrative to be able to think straight.

Dave DeCamp (2022-09-26). Russia Says It's Had 'Sporadic' Contacts With the US on Nuclear Weapons. news.antiwar.com Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Monday that the US and Russia "There are channels for dialogue at the proper level, but they are of a very sporadic nature. At least they allow for the exchange of some emergency messages about each other's positions," Peskov said. | When Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered a partial mobilization las…

Infobrics (2022-09-26). US spinning the narrative as it threatens Russia and China with nuclear weapons. infobrics.org The US is the most vocal about supposed "threats" coming from others despite being the only country in history that has used all three types of weapons of mass destruction in war.

Jeremy Kuzmarov (2022-09-26). Is That a Chilling Echo of Dr. Strangelove We Are Hearing from Biden's Nominee to Oversee America's Nuclear Weapons Arsenal? covertactionmagazine.com Anthony J. Cotton Says if Confirmed He Will Prepare U.S. Army Officers to Deploy Nuclear Weapons—Which is No Longer Unthinkable Stanley Kubrick's classic 1964 film Dr. Strangelove featured an unhinged Air Force General named Jack D. Ripper, who orders a nuclear strike on the Soviet Union after he becomes convinced that the Soviets were polluting …

WSWS (2022-09-26). US pledges "catastrophic" response to potential Russian use of nuclear weapons. wsws.org In the aftermath of statements by Russian President Vladimir Putin Wednesday threatening to use nuclear weapons in the war in Ukraine, US officials have made clear they are actively discussing the possibility that the conflict will erupt into a nuclear war.

Anonymous587 (2022-09-26). Does Russia Need Iranian Drones? southfront.org Russian Geran-2 bomber ammunition | Iranian strike drones Shahed are more and more often used by the Russian military in the war in Ukraine. Over the past week, drone strikes have targeted Ukrainian military facilities in the Kharkiv, Mykolaiv, and Dnipropetrovsk regions. In late September, Geranium UAVs (as drones from Iran were rebranded in Russia) destroyed several military facilities in the Odessa region, including the headquarters of the AFU South command in Odessa. | Experts note the difficulty of targeting UAVs…

Dave DeCamp (2022-09-26). Democrats in Congress Divided on Sending Ukraine Longer-Range Weapons. news.antiwar.com Democrats in Congress are divided on whether or not to send Ukraine the longer-range and more advanced weaponry that it's seeking, Among Ukraine's requests for new weapons is the Army Tactical Missile System, or ATACMS, which has a range of about 190 miles. The missiles have a significantly longer range than anything Washington has provided Kyiv to this point. | Russia has warned that if the US sends Ukraine longer-range weapons, it wou…

Fight Back (2022-09-26). Red Theory: The party of a new type. fightbacknews.org In order to have a successful revolution that can overthrow the capitalist ruling class, put the working class into power, and build socialism, we need to be organized in the way that is best suited to that task. The great leader of the Bolshevik revolution, V.I. Lenin, took up this question of Marxist revolutionary organization in 1902 in his book, What is to be Done? In this book, Lenin for the first time gives us the theory of the "Party of a new type." | In this early period of the revolutionary movement in Russia, much like in the U.S. today, there were many groups and organizations contending for leadershi…

____ (2022-09-26). Brainwashed for War with Russia. transcend.org 22 Sep 2022 – Most Americans are oblivious to the reality that Western media are owned and operated by the same corporations that make massive profits by helping to stoke small wars and then peddling the necessary weapons. Corporate leaders, and Ivy-mantled elites, educated to believe in U.S. "exceptionalism," find the lucre and the luster too lucrative to be able to think straight.

Benjamin Norton (2022-09-26). Imperialism and capitalism are 'bleeding the world dry': At UN, Nicaragua calls for global rebellion. multipolarista.com At the United Nations General Assembly, Nicaragua's Sandinista government called for a global rebellion against the "imperialist and capitalist system" that is "bleeding the world dry." Condemning illegal sanctions and war, it urged a new multipolar order.

Benjamin Norton (2022-09-26). El imperialismo y capitalismo están 'desangrando al mundo': En la ONU, Nicaragua llama a una rebelión global. multipolarista.com En la Asamblea General de las Naciones Unidas, el gobierno sandinista de Nicaragua llamó a una rebelión global contra el "sistema imperialista y capitalista" que está "desangrando al mundo". Condenando las sanciones ilegales y la guerra, instó a un nuevo orden multipolar.

TeleSUR (2022-09-26). Dow Slips Into Bear Market on Recession Fears. telesurenglish.net The Dow decreased 329.60 points, or 1.11 percent, to 29,260.81, down about 20.5 percent from its Jan. 4 closing high. The move put the Dow into a bear market, commonly defined by a fall of at least 20 percent from a recent peak. | Traders work at the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York, the United States, on Aug. 26, 2022.

_____ (2022-09-26). At United Nations, Colombia Condemns 'Addiction To Money And Oil'. popularresistance.org Colombia's first ever left-wing President Gustavo Petro delivered a historic speech at the United Nations declaring, "The war on drugs has failed." | Petro emphasized that drug addiction is a social problem, and cannot be solved with violence and militarization. Rather, he argued, it is a mere symptom of a much deeper problem: the capitalist system itself, with its "addiction to money and oil." | The Colombian leader warned that the infinite greed of capitalism is destroying the planet, threatening life on Earth. | "The cause of the climate disaster is capital — the logic of dedicating ourselves to consume…

_____ (2022-09-26). Bolivia's Social Progress Shows A Better Way Is Possible. popularresistance.org Since the re-election of the Movement Towards Socialism (MAS) government in 2020, led by former economic minister Luis Arce, the Bolivian government has ensured that the social progress initiated by Evo Morales' government continues across all sections of society. | These progressive steps can be seen in a range of measurers: the introduction of progressive and pluralistic economic policies, the implementation of bold education policies centred around improving access to education for every community in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the initiation of partnerships with fellow progressive governments across La…

Staff (2022-09-26). Six Pakistani army officials killed in helicopter crash. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Sep. 26 (MNA) — A Pakistani military helicopter crashed in the southwest area of the country late on Sunday, killing all six soldiers on board, the military said on Monday.

Staff (2022-09-26). Malaysia, Indonesia interested in buying armed drones. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Sep. 26 (MNA) — Turkey said on Monday that Malaysia and Indonesia had expressed keen interest in buying armed drones from Turkish defence firm Baykar.