Daily Archives: November 15, 2022

2022-11-15: News Headlines

Staff (2022-11-15). EU has delivered $8 billion in arms for Ukraine war, 45% of U.S. total. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com Azeri Press AgencyNovember 14, 2022 Europeans have delivered weapons and equipment worth 8 bln euros to Kyiv, EU says The European Union and its member states have provided weapons and military equipment worth at least eight billion euros ($8.27 billion) to Ukraine, the bloc's top diplomat said on Monday…. This sum amounts to about 45% …

Dave DeCamp (2022-11-15). US Looking to Send Weapons From Its Own Military Stockpiles to Taiwan. news.antiwar.com The Washington Post reported Sunday that Congress drafted a plan with input from the White House to authorize $1 billion in military aid for Taiwan annually under the presidential drawdown authority, which allows the US to ship weapons directly from Pentagon stockpiles. The US has employed this authority to arm Ukraine, and the bulk of …

Cynthia Papermaster (2022-11-15). Thursday 12/1: CODEPINK Co-Founder Medea Benjamin in conversation with Mickey Huff, Project Censored. indybay.org Hillside Club, 2286 Cedar St., Berkeley…

____ (2022-11-15). China's surveyed urban unemployment rate at 5.5 pct in October. ecns.cn China's surveyed urban unemployment rate stood at 5.5 percent in October, flat from the September level, data from the National Bureau of Statistics showed Tuesday.

____ (2022-11-14). State weapons contractors capitalize on growing global market for munitions. ecns.cn An exhibitor introduces a YS-101 series loitering munition to visitors at the 14th China International Aviation and Aerospace Exhibition in Zhuhai, Guangdong province, this month.

INDYRADIO (2022-11-15). Raytheon and Eli Lily Lose Billions on Twitter. indybay.org Shortly after Elon Musk decided to capitalize on the blue checkmark Twitter has used for "active, notable and authentic" accounts, billions of dollars worth of reputation was lost on Wall Street. Abuse of the "blue checkmark" by imposters brought corporate giants to their knees. You can provide anonymous feedback to Twitter about this debacle, via their help center.

____ (2022-11-15). Xi urges opposition to politicizing food, energy issues. ecns.cn Chinese President Xi Jinping said Tuesday that the world should resolutely oppose the attempt to politicize food and energy issues or use them as tools and weapons.

Suitbert Cechura, Guido Speckmann (2022-11-15). Who can afford capitalism anymore? and Why are prices rising? indybay.org When the state now debates the need to create relief packages for employees, pensioners, unemployment benefit recipients, trainees and families, this is official confirmation that the result of wage labor is also poverty. The majority of citizens, however, find themselves in a dual role in the market economy: as workers & as King Customer, they are supposed to buy, to return the money.

WSWS (2022-11-15). FTX collapse: A damning exposure of the criminality of capitalism. wsws.org The fraudulent operations of the FTX crypto exchange would not have even made it to first base had it not been for the promotion it received from top levels of the media, political, financial, and even sporting establishment.

WSWS (2022-11-15). "A way to tell the story of how the United States operates in the world": An interview with Jonathan M. Katz, author of Gangsters of Capitalism: Smedley Butler, the Marines, and the Making and Breaking of America's Empire. wsws.org Through recounting Butler's life and military career, Katz offers a brief but indelible history of the emergence of American imperialism in the first decades of the 20th century.

Dave DeCamp (2022-11-14). US Announces New Russia Sanctions Targeting Alleged Military Network. news.antiwar.com The US on Monday announced new Russia-related sanctions that target a network of people and companies accused of helping Moscow procure weapons. The Treasury Department said that 14 individuals and 28 entities were targeted by the new sanctions that are allegedly helping Russia procure weapons or providing financial assistance to Moscow. Unlike previous sanctions, the …

WSWS (2022-11-14). Tax rises and severe cuts expected in autumn budget as Britain enters longest ever recession. wsws.org This is nothing short of a declaration of war against the working class. It is not a plan for a one-off slash and burn budget, but an annual program of spending cuts and tax rises set to last at least five years.

WSWS (2022-11-14). Socialist Equality Party (UK) holds Sixth National Congress. wsws.org The party's sixth congress was held under conditions of an extraordinary political, economic and social crisis gripping British and world capitalism.

____ (2022-11-14). Stop Funding Climate Disaster. transcend.org 2 Nov 2022 – Big Bankers Are Part of the Problem, Not the Solution — Declaration: We cannot save the planet from disastrous climate change without tackling financial markets. As long as trillions of dollars go unhindered to fund yet more fossil fuels and deforestation, it will not be possible to halt climate change or enable communities to adapt.

Cynthia Papermaster (2022-11-14). COP27: Militarism Fuels the Climate Crisis. indybay.org CODEPINK will join hundreds of high school students from all over the Bay Area, led by the group Youth Vs. Apocalypse (YVA), for a COP27 Climate Strike march with the theme "Militarism and Climate".

Aram Aharonian (2022-11-14). El nuevo capitalismo de plataformas y vigilancia, øEl adiós a la esperanza? globalizacion.ca El contexto de la pandemia de la covid-19 creó las condiciones adecuadas para disponer de un marco institucional y normativo capaz de modificar las mentalidades, costumbres y valores de nuestras sociedades, impulsando nuevos deseos, hábitos y valores, pero, sobre todo,…

Finian Cunningham (2022-11-13). Scott Ritter: America's Hubris is Stunning and a Threat to World Peace. thealtworld.com In a wide-ranging interview with Finian Cunningham, former US military intelligence analyst Scott Ritter calls out a complex of American-made problems threatening world peace. | The Ukraine war is just one symptom of a bigger disease. The war in Ukraine began with the 2014 US-backed coup d'état in Kiev and the weaponizing by the United States and NATO of an anti-Russian regime over eight years. | "Absurd disconnect" in US foreign policy, "extraordinary provocations" toward Russia, the "scam" of nuclear weapons and US military defense doctrine, and the "stunning hubris" of American national myth-making propaganda…

Anonymous103 (2022-11-13). Military Situation In Ukraine On November 13, 2022 (Map Update). southfront.org Russia struck the AFU positions near Dubiyevka with high-precision missiles; | The Russian Army repelled the AFU attacks near Novosyolovskoye; | The Russian Army repelled the AFU attacks near Makeyevka; | The Russian Army repelled the AFU attacks on Pavlovka; | The Russian Army took control of the village of Mayorsk; | Clashes between the Russian Army and the AFU continue near Bakhmut; | Russian air defense systems shot down 6 Ukrainian drones near Kamenka in the Kharko…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-11-13). Ukraine Threatens War with Iran. libya360.wordpress.com Alex Rubinstein Mykhailo Podolyak, an advisor to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, has called for attacks inside Iran as the country's drones cause setbacks for the Ukrainian military. On November 5, Mykhailo Podolyak, an advisor to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, has advocated for military strikes on drone production sites located in Iran. President Zelensky echoed Podolyak's…

_____ (2022-11-13). Drones are changing the nature of armed conflicts. journal-neo.org The last few years the use of remotely controlled unmanned aerial vehicles has radically changed the way armed conflicts are being waged. However, this approach cannot be described as new, as the first experiments with the use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in combat took place during the Second World War, although the technology was …

Staff (2022-11-13). DM: Serbia doesn't want war with NATO, entire Western world, but…. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com B92November 13, 2022 "Serbian Army is competent and ready. No one is rattling the weapons, but…" Serbian Defense Minister Milo≈° Vuƒçeviƒá stated in an interview with Veƒçernje Novosti that our army is capable, trained and ready to perform any task. "We don't want wars, we don't want any of our children or officers to suffer. …

Jesse Jones (2022-11-13). Riot tactics and weapons used in Iran. indybay.org Important information on how police are handling protesters in Iran we should be aware of.

En.mehrnews (2022-11-13). Military plane collision in US leaves 6 killed (+VIDEO). en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Nov. 13 (MNA) — Media sources reported that six people are feared dead after a B-17 heavy bomber collided with another aircraft and crashed during an airshow in Dallas, Texas.

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