(2022-10-13). NATO Has 10-Year Plan to Rebuild Ukraine's Military. news.antiwar.com NATO is developing a 10-year plan to rebuild Ukraine's military and arms industry with a focus on shifting the country from using Soviet equipment to primarily using NATO weapons, "We will be looking at defense planning requirements to get Ukraine fully interoperable with NATO," a senior NATO official told Politico on the condition of anonymity. "It's about shifting away from Soviet equipment … to NATO-compatible Western equipment." | The first meeting between NATO and Ukraine on t…
(2022-10-13). NATO Evaluating Possibility of Nuclear Strikes on Russia, Belarus. orinocotribune.com The Belarusian State Security Committee (KGB) revealed that the United States and NATO are considering using tactical nuclear weapons against Russia and Belarus. | "According to the information that we have extracted from Western political and military circles, they believe that they should not lose in any case" said the president of the organization, Ivan Tertel, during a television broadcast on Belarus-1. "Hence the possibility of using tactical nuclear weapons or using those terrorist groups that are created to directly attack our country and our allies." | Recently, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko s…
(2022-10-13). Services rendered: Ben Bernanke awarded Nobel Prize for economics. wsws.org As Fed chair Bernanke was the architect of the bank and corporate bailouts of 2008 and initiated the program of quantitative easing by which the Fed and other central banks poured trillions of dollars into financial markets, facilitating an orgy of speculation the like of which has never been seen, while widening social inequality to unprecedented levels.
(2022-10-13). The COVID disaster and the political crisis of Australian capitalism. wsws.org "The criminal 'let it rip' pandemic policies of governments—invariably enforced by the labour and trade union bureaucracies—have exposed the brutality of capitalism, and its readiness to sacrifice lives for corporate profit and private wealth accumulation."
(2022-10-13). Israeli regime's drone crashes in West Bank. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Oct. 13 (MNA) — The Zionist Israeli regime's military has said one of their drones crashed in the city of Hebron (Al-Khalil) in the West Bank.
(2022-10-13). Sunday 10/30: A Marxist Look at Capitalism's Meltdown. indybay.org 747 Polk St. @ Ellis, San Francisco or via zoom tinyurl.com/MarxistLookCapitalismMeltdown…
(2022-10-13). Optus data breach exposes surveillance capitalism. greenleft.org.au The media's attention is largely focused on personal data and privacy, but we need to examine what data is being collected, how it is being used and better systems to protect personal data, argues Vivien Miley.
(2022-10-12). "Preemptive Nuclear War": The Historic Battle for Peace and Democracy. A Third World War Threatens the Future of Humanity. globalresearch.ca US nuclear doctrine consists in portraying nuclear weapons as a means of "self defense" rather than a "weapon of mass destruction". There are powerful financial interests behind Joe Biden's $1.3 trillion nuclear weapons program initiated under Obama.
(2022-10-12). Possible response to Russia use of nuclear weapons discussed. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Oct. 12 (MNA) — The US administration was engaged in discussions on a possible response to Russia's hypothetical use of a tactical nuclear weapon in Ukraine, US President Joe Biden said.
(2022-10-12). Armed Forces of Russia Continue Airstrikes on Ukraine Energy System and Military Command. orinocotribune.com The Russian military began large-scale precision missile strikes on Ukrainian infrastructure, military communications and command posts on Monday, October 10, in retaliation to the terror attack against the Crimean Bridge and other acts of terror attributed to Kiev. | Russia is continuing its campaign of precision missile strikes on Ukraine, the Russian Ministry of Defense has indicated. | "Today the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continued to conduct mass strikes using high-precision, long-range air and sea-based weapons at military command and control facilities and the energy system of Ukraine. The goa…
(2022-10-12). Debt agony throws the US against the Arab world. journal-neo.org 
Due to the US administration's policy of continuous borrowing, including to finance the armed conflict in Ukraine, amid record inflation and fears of an impending recession, public debt exceeded $31 trillion for the first time. The Federal Reserve continues to raise interest rates, but tighter lending policies are causing the federal government to spend $ 0 …
(2022-10-12). A good And righteous proxy war wouldn't need such cartoonish PR. mronline.org 
Star Wars megastar Mark Hamill was recently named an ambassador for United24, the fundraising platform of the Ukrainian government, where according to The Times his attention will center on "the procurement, repair and replacement of drones as well as pilot training."
(2022-10-12). Fact Check: Container Shipping Prices From China To LA Have Collapsed From $20K To $3K. moguldom.com In a sign that a global recession may be coming, the cost to ship containers from China to the West Coast of the U.S. has undergone "extraordinary hemorrhaging," with spot rates halving in the four weeks ending Oct. 7 alone. Freight rates have been falling for months as global trade slows due to reduced demand …
(2022-10-12). IMF cuts growth forecast amid warnings of global recession. wsws.org Despite the worsening economic outlook, the IMF is insisting there must be no letup in the interest rate hikes by central banks, spearheaded by the US Federal Reserve, which are bringing financial turmoil and recession.
(2022-10-12). The sinking of El Faro: Sailors take warning…of disaster capitalism. peoplesworld.org 
On September 29, 2015, the container ship El Faro, which means lighthouse, left port in Jacksonville, Fla. It was carrying 25 million pounds of cargo, including such diverse commodities as 149 cars and fructose syrup. Its destination was San Juan, Puerto Rico, but it never got there. How does a ship, stretching more than two-and-a-half …
(2022-10-12). Night Owls #2: Summer of Sabotage. itsgoingdown.org 
Download pamphlet: Print Tabloid [For a Risograph] Download action poster: Print Tabloid [For a Risograph] Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz writes in An Indigenous People's History of the United States, "Everything in U.S. history is about the land." All nation-states rely on maintaining control over a particular territory, while capitalism has forced people across the world…
(2022-10-12). Want to Punish the Saudis? Fast-Track Nuke Agreement With Iran and the Green New Deal. commondreams.org The U.S. is going green because of the climate crisis. The Saudis are happy to wreck the planet to get the last penny of value from their stranded asset.
(2022-10-12). Anti-imperialism is central to the struggle against capitalism. cpusa.org 
A feature which distinguishes our communist parties from other tendencies which define themselves as "socialist" is our emphasis on anti-imperialist solidarity. A starting point for anyone who wants to understand imperialism is V.I. Lenin's 1916 book Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism. In this important work, Lenin outlines the essential features of 20th-century imperialism …
(2022-10-12). Asteroid's path altered in NASA's DART mission. ecns.cn The spacecraft NASA deliberately crashed into an asteroid last month succeeded in nudging the rocky moonlet from its natural path into a faster orbit, marking the first time humanity has altered the motion of a celestial body.
(2022-10-12). Venezuelan Authorities Give Las Tejerías Tragedy Update: 43 dead, 56 Missing. orinocotribune.com 
President Maduro directed relevant authorities to deliver financial aid through the Patria System to families affected by the landslide. | This Tuesday, October 11, President Nicolás Maduro reported that nearly deaths and 56 missing persons have been recorded to date after torrential rains caused a landslide in Las Tejerías, Santos Michelena municipality, Aragua state. | From Miraflores, Caracas, the president explained that a study was carried out using satellite images and drones from before and after the tragedy in Las Tejerías. "Venezuela has accumulated experience and scientific knowledge, given that we…
(2022-10-11). Healthy Ecosystems Need Birds, but Billions Fatally Strike Our Windows Every Year. independentmediainstitute.org 
Birds cannot see glass windows, fatally crashing in alarming numbers. That's bad for them, humans, and the environment. By Daniel Klem Jr., Independent Media Institute 7 min read Glass windows have existed since as long ago as 290 CE, if only in a limited supply of small sheets. It seems fair to say that window …
(2022-10-11). The Heat: IMF and World Bank meeting. america.cgtn.com In the next four years, losses from a potential worldwide recession could equal the equivalent of the German economy. That's the prediction of the Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund, Kristalina Georgieva. The annual IMF and World Bank meetings are underway here in Washington …
(2022-10-11). Qatari and US gas won't save Europe. journal-neo.org 
Experts estimate that in order to avoid a catastrophic fall in GDP and the risk of a prolonged economic depression, the total public spending by European countries to mitigate the energy collapse unleashed by Washington will have to exceed ‚Ǩ1 trillion! A crisis of this magnitude would result in more bankruptcies and a domino effect …