Daily Archives: November 30, 2022

2022-11-30: News Headlines

Ben Radford (2022-11-30). Deep-sea mining: Capitalism's next destructive frontier. greenleft.org.au Mining companies argue that deep-sea mining is necessary to achieve the global transition to renewables, reports Ben Radford, but this is a lie.

Matthias Brockers, Michael Haller (2022-11-30). Farewell to the unipolar world and Disaster capitalism: back to Marx! indybay.org The sanctions have already proved to be a dangerous boomerang because they hit Europe harder than Russia… It is a suicidal illusion to try to win a war against the raw materials giant Russia – which possesses more than a third of all fossil energies and raw materials on earth – and the world's largest high-tech workshop, China, which is united with it.

Fight Back (2022-11-29). Bookstore packed for FRSO program release party. fightbacknews.org Minneapolis, MN — About 70 activists packed Mayday Bookstore, November 20, for the release of the print edition of the Freedom Road Socialist Organization's (FRSO) political program. | FRSO Political Secretary Mick Kelly told the excited crowd, "Our program amounts to a declaration war against the existing order things. It is a clear statement that analyzes the conditions we face, lays bare the laws of capitalism, the need for revolution and socialism – and defines a clear strategy getting from here to there." | The room was filled with many of the movers and shakers in the Twin Cites people's struggles.

Misión Verdad (2022-11-29). The Countries Which Participate in the World Cup of Opportunism. orinocotribune.com by Ernesto Cazal Nov 24, 2022 | Venezuela is once again a protagonist on the international scene, and on its own merits. Of course, a lot has to do with the current international situation, with disaster capitalism having already devastated the global status quo and the economic dynamics being shattered. | All the factors converge to rekindle the importance of our country on the regional scene and in other latitudes. We can speak with certainty that oil and the political and diplomatic importance that Chavismo holds for other countries is essential for the resolution of multiple crises manifesting themselve…

Prof Michel Chossudovsky (2022-11-29). "Economic Warfare" Directed against China? The Shanghai "Covid Zero Tolerance Mandate" Extends its Grip to Major Industrial Cities. globalresearch.ca "Covid Tolerance Zero" has contributed to destabilizing Shanghai's financial sector as well as China's buoyant export economy. It has created social havoc for millions of people, requiring the imposition of PCR tests, using the QR code as a means of social control.

En.mehrnews (2022-11-29). SA jails social media activist for criticizing unemployment. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Nov. 29 (MNA) — The Saudi regime authorities arrested an activist for critical tweets about the House of Saud and unemployment in the kingdom, in yet another sign of the Riyadh regime's aggressive crackdown on dissent on social media.

Brian Berletic (2022-11-29). West Admits Ukraine's Bakhmut Setbacks + Boeing's Long-Range Rockets Proposed for Ukraine. thealtworld.com Update on Russian military operations in Ukraine for November 29, 2022 | Western media admits heavy losses by Ukraine around eastern city of Bakhmut; | Pentagon worries Ukraine is expending more artillery rounds than can be supplied by the West; | West appears "baffled" over Russia fighting a battle absorbing huge amounts of Ukrainian soldiers' lives, equipment, and ammunition, despite Moscow declaring "demilitarization" as the first objective of the current special military operation; | US defense contract Boeing proposes sending 1 km long-range rockets for Ukraine's remaining HIMARS and…

Anonymous103 (2022-11-29). Military Situation In Syria On November 29, 2022 (Map Update). southfront.org On November 29, Russia reported that Idlib militants violated the ceasefire regime in Greater Idlib 2 times: 1 in Latakia province, 1 in Idlib province; | On November 29, Turkish artillery shelled SDF positions near Tal Tamar; | Five SDF members were killed by the Turkish Army in the Euphrates Shield area in the northern Syria, according to the Turkish MOD; | On November 28, Turkish drones struck SDF positions in the west of Tal Abyadh; | On November 29, a…

Dave DeCamp (2022-11-29). Ukraine Says NATO Must Step Up Weapons Production or It Won't Win War. news.antiwar.com Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said Monday that NATO countries need to ramp up weapons production, or Kyiv won't be able to win the war against Russia. Kuleba said that NATO countries must "begin the production of necessary weapons today." If that doesn't happen, he said Ukraine "won't be able to win — as simple …

Drago Bosnic (2022-11-29). NATO Running Out of Weapons for Kiev Regime. globalresearch.ca

William D. Hartung (2022-11-29). Corporate Weapons Heaven Is a Hell on Earth. America is the World's "Top Weapons Maker" globalresearch.ca

Editor (2022-11-28). Beating around the bush: polycrisis, overlapping emergencies, and capitalism. mronline.org It is in vogue nowadays to describe the multifaceted and intertwined crises of capitalism without referring to capitalism itself. Obscure jargon of 'overlapping emergencies' and 'polycrisis' are brought up to describe the complexity of the situation, and they serve, with or without intention, to conceal the culprit, namely the totality of capitalist relations.

Fight Back (2022-11-28). Red Theory: Socialism and the national question. fightbacknews.org The Russian Empire under the Tsar was rightly called a "prisonhouse of nations," because it oppressed, within its borders, whole nations of people. The Bolsheviks saw that it was a principal task of the socialist revolution to dismantle national oppression and support self-determination for the oppressed nations. | The United States is likewise a prisonhouse of nations, where the African American nation in the Black Belt South, the Chicano nation in the Southwest and the Hawaiian nation are all oppressed within the borders of the imperialist U.S. It will be a principal task of the socialist revolution in the U.S…

_____ (2022-11-28). Study Throws New Light On Impact Of Great Depression On Human DNA. popularresistance.org Did the Great Depression of 1929 have an impact on people's genetics? This sounds an enthralling question and scientists have now found more information on this issue. In research published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), it was reported that the economic recession impacted how people would age, even before they are born. The findings suggest that the cells of those conceived during the Great Depression show signs of faster ageing. | The question arises as to how the scientists map the genes of people conceived almost a century ago and how did they come to this conclusion? The answer li…

En.mehrnews (2022-11-28). Small plane crashes into transmission tower in Maryland. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Nov. 28 (MNA) — A small plane crashed into power lines and a transmission tower in Maryland on Sunday night, trapping the pilot and a passenger on board while thousands in the area remain without power.

En.mehrnews (2022-11-28). Two killed in private helicopter crash in Russia's Tver. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Nov. 28 (MNA) — Two people died in the crash of a private Robinson helicopter in the Tver region in central European Russia, a spokesman for the local emergencies services says.

Ben Norton (2022-11-28). Europe angry that US profits from Ukraine proxy war while destroying EU economy. multipolarista.com EU leaders are furious that the US is making lots of money from the proxy war in Ukraine by selling weapons and exporting expensive natural gas. Meanwhile European industries are being destroyed as high energy prices and US subsidies push its companies to go overseas.

Brett Wilkins (2022-11-28). Biden Mulls Sending Long-Range Missiles to Ukraine. commondreams.org While Ukrainians and supporters welcomed Boeing's proposal to arm Ukrainian forces with long-range precision-guided bombs, one anti-war voice accused the American military-industrial complex of "dictating the U.S. foreign policy and profiteering from wars."

Dave DeCamp (2022-11-28). US Considering Sending Rockets With 100-Mile Range to Ukraine. news.antiwar.com The US is considering supplying Ukraine with a new longer-range rocket system that can hit targets up to about 100 miles away, twice the range of the artillery systems the US has been providing Ukraine. According to a report from Reuters, Boeing has proposed to manufacture small precision-guided bombs that can be fit onto widely …

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-11-28). The New York Times' Report: NATO's Military-Industrial Limitations. libya360.wordpress.com Andrew Korybko NATO's Anglo-American core evidently didn't expect that Russia would militarily react to their crossing of its national security red lines in Ukraine, instead predicting that it would strategically capitulate. This explains why they didn't scale up their military-industrial complex in advance nor advise their "junior partners" to do the same in preparation of…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-11-28). Washington is Running Out of Weapons to Give Ukraine. Is This Checkmate for U.S. Imperialism? libya360.wordpress.com Rainer Shea The imperialist media's big secret at the moment is that Washington is exhausting its arms supply for Ukraine. With a global series of occupations to maintain, and a military-industrial complex that prioritizes profits over outcome, the U.S. can no longer keep sending optimal or sufficiently numerous equipment. It's having to tap into its lower-quality spare…

En.mehrnews (2022-11-28). German, US companies should be brought to justice: Deputy FM. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Nov. 28 (MNA) — Iran's Deputy Foreign Minister for Legal and International Affairs Reza Najafi said that German and American companies equipping ex-Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein with the chemical weapons must be brought to justice.

Infobrics (2022-11-28). EU accuses US of profiteering from Ukraine crisis. infobrics.org "The fact is, if you look at it soberly, the country that is most profiting from this war is the US because they are selling more gas and at higher prices, and because they are selling more weapons," a senior EU official stated.

Sharon Zhang (2022-11-28). With Biden's Support, Democrats Push Assault Weapons Ban After Deadly Shootings. truthout.org

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