(2022-12-09). Israel Warned Lebanon Over Iranian Weapons Shipment To Beirut Airport — Report. southfront.org 
Israel's first two F-35 stealth fighter jets on their maiden flight as part of the Israeli Air Force on December 13, 2016. (Israel Defense Forces) | Israel is tracking an Iranian attempt to establish a weapons smuggling route to Hezbollah in Lebanon via civilian airline flights to Beirut's Rafik Hariri International Airport, the Tel Aviv-based Channel 12 reported on December 8. | According to the Hebrew news channel, Iran is using Meraj Airlines, which started flying a direct route between Tehran and Beirut on November…
(2022-12-09). At the behest of world capitalism, Chinese Communist Party opens China to COVID-19. wsws.org The demand for mass infection in China comes not from the Chinese people but from international finance capital.
(2022-12-09). Silvia Federici: Elogio del cuerpo que baila. indybay.org Un fragmento de "Ir más allá de la piel. Repensar, rehacer y reivindicar el cuerpo en el capitalismo contemporáneo", nuevo libro de Silvia Federici…
(2022-12-08). Noam Chomsky: "We're on the Road to a Form of Neofascism" truthout.org Neoliberalism has reigned supreme as an economic philosophy for nearly half a century. But neoliberal policies have wreaked havoc around the world, reversing most gains made under managed capitalism after the end of the Second World War. Neoliberalism works only for the rich and the huge corporations. But the failures of neoliberalism extend beyond economics. They spread into politics as the… |
(2022-12-08). Russian Aerospace Forces Destroyed Five Of Ukraine's New MLRS, MARS II Rocket Launchers. southfront.org 
Click to see full-size image. | The Russian Aerospace Forces have destroyed five of Ukraine's newly-acquired M270 Multiple Launch Rocket System (MLRS) and MARS II systems in the Zaporozhye region, A spokesman for the Russian Ministry of Defense, Lieutenant General Igor Konashenkov, announced on December 8. "As a result of strikes by high-precision weapons of the Russian Aerospace Forces, five American-made MLRS and German-made MARS II rocket launchers were destroyed in the areas of the communities of Shevchenkovskoy…
(2022-12-08). West Ignores Evidence of Ukrainian Torture and Use of Prohibited Weapons When Making 'War Crimes' Claims. libya360.wordpress.com Olga Sukharevskaya, This week, Ukraine celebrated its Armed Forces Day. This public holiday was introduced in 1993 to replace Red Army Day, which was a Soviet holiday. Ironically, it also marks the anniversary of the 1240 fall of Kiev to the Mongol invasion led by Batu Khan. While not comparable to exploits of the Golden…
(2022-12-08). "Disaster Capitalism" in The Netherlands: Template for Ecomodernism's "Brave New World"? globalresearch.ca
(2022-12-08). Buzzfeed And Complex Networks Announce More Big Layoffs: 9 Signs The Ad And Media Recession Has Started. moguldom.com More than 3,000 media industry jobs have been cut this year through October, underscoring signs of a serious slowdown in the ad market that suggest a media recession has started. More than a third (1,100) of this year's layoffs came from the news media, according to new data from Challenger, Gray & Christmas, and more …
(2022-12-08). Bout Released: The Secret History of 9/11. thealtworld.com 
The 2014 Report Based on Leaked FBI/CIA/DOE Documents Exclusive to Gordon Duff who will be interviewing Victor Bout in Moscow | Key Update: VT specifically asked the real Able Danger team who owned the plane that delivered the nuclear weapons to the Teterboro Airport. Their answer: : | Jeffrey Epstein…who "lent" his planes to the Mossad on a regular basis…: |
| Editor's note: This is a reprint from 2016 of a recap of an investigation done between May 5, 2014, and June 2015 by select members of a combined team including but not limited to: | Gordon Duff, Ian Greenhalgh, Dr. James Fetzer, Je…
(2022-12-07). Russian Army Targets Ukrainian Radars, Air-Defense Systems With Lancet Drones (Video). southfront.org 
MOSCOW REGION, RUSSIA JUNE 25, 2019: A ZALA Lancet-3 attack drone developed by Kalashnikov Concern on display at the Army 2019 International Military Technical Forum at Patriot Park. Marina Lystseva/TASS | On December 5, Russia's Izvestia released footage documenting recent strikes with Lancet loitering munitions on Ukrainian radars and air-defense systems in the special military operation zone. | The footage shows strikes on a P-18 long-range VHF radar and a 36D6 long-range surveillance and mi…
(2022-12-07). Mark Sleboda: Russia-Ukraine SITREP, Missiles & What Comes Next. thealtworld.com Mark Sleboda joins me to talk about the situation on the ground in Ukraine: | positional fighting along the front; | possible Ukrainian offensives before New Year's; | Russia's large winter offensive; | dwindling Western arms supplies; | Russian cruise missile production; | where did the Geran-2 drones go?; | and what's coming next.
(2022-12-07). Russian Defence Ministry Reported On Progress Of Military Operations In Ukraine On December 7, 2022. southfront.org 
| In its daily briefing on December 7, the Russian Ministry of Defence reported on the progress of the ongoing Russian military operations in Ukraine over the past day. | As a result of Russian strike with a ground-based high-precision weapon on a missile and artillery weapons depot in one of the workshops of the ArcelorMittal metallurgical plant in the city of Krivoy Rog, more than 70 HIMARS multiple launch rocket system missiles, two MLRS launchers were destroyed. Four more installations of…
(2022-12-07). After 33 already killed, Ukraine continues to pressure Georgia for more arms, troops. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com Rustavi2December 7, 2022 Despite numerous requests, we didn't receive a response from the Georgian government regarding the supply of weapons and other equipment to Ukraine Andrii Kasianov Despite numerous requests, we have not received a response from the Georgian government regarding the supply of arms, ammunition, and other military and dual-purpose equipment to Ukraine. …
(2022-12-07). COP27 Recap and response: Green capitalism as class warfare. fightbacknews.org To no one's surprise, the COP27 conference has left the world much in the same place that COP26 did the year before, and COP25 before it, and so on. This November, world leaders convened in Egypt to discuss and debate what an international response to climate action could look like (or so they would like you to believe). | Some new measures were begrudgingly adopted, others swiftly shot down, and ultimately many attendees left exhausted and unenthused. For every step forward, there was a step back, as was summed up by chief Mexican climate negotiator Camila Zepeda, who said with quiet resignation, "you take a wi…
(2022-12-07). William Robinson: Global revolts in the age of COVID capitalism. therealnews.com 
Capitalism's response to the COVID-19 pandemic has come at the expense of the lives, health, and freedom of millions of poor and working people around the world. While corporations guzzle profits at every opportunity, governments have been ready to discipline workers to keep profits churning, and cooperation between capitalist states and the transnational capitalist class during COVID-19 has led to the erection of a global police state. What forms of resistance are taking shape around the globe to the emerging post-pandemic police state and a capitalist order dead set on destroying our shared planet and eve…
(2022-12-07). Red Theory: Socialism and patriarchy, women's liberation and LGBTQ liberation. fightbacknews.org The historic task of the working class in the socialist revolution is to eliminate all oppression. This includes the oppression of women and LGBTQ people from the shackles of patriarchy. | In her 1949 article "We Seek Full Equality for Women," Claudia Jones states, "Marxism-Leninism exposes the core of the woman question and shows that the position of women in society is not always and everywhere the same, but derives from woman's relation to the mode of production." | In The Origin of the Family, Private Property, and the State, Friedrich Engels gives us a historical materialist analysis of patriarchy's foundat…
(2022-12-07). Open Veins of Africa Bleeding Heavily. libya360.wordpress.com Ndongo Samba Sylla and Jomo Kwame Sundaram Africa's 'Black Gold' The ongoing plunder of Africa's natural resources drained by capital flight is holding it back yet again. More African nations face protracted recessions amid mounting debt distress, rubbing salt into deep wounds from the past. With much less foreign exchange, tax revenue, and policy space to face…
(2022-12-07). Congress Has No Business Shoveling Another $847 Billion Into the Military Industrial Complex. fpif.org The Pentagon just failed its fifth audit in as many years. After 20 years of war, there are better ways to spend tax dollars than on an agency that can't even account for half of its assets.
(2022-12-07). U.S. Forces Held Rehearsal Exercise With M777 Howitzers In Northeastern Syria. southfront.org 
Click to see full-size. (U.S. Army photo) | On December 6, the United States-led coalition announced that its forces in northeastern Syria had conducted an operational rehearsal exercise with M777 towed 155 mm howitzers. | On Twitter, the coalition said that the exercise was held at the Conoco Mission Support Site, which is located within a key gas facility in the eastern countryside of Deir Ezzor.According to the coalition, the exercise was conducted "to validate weapons systems and maintain readiness in m…
(2022-12-07). USF students protest at university president's mansion over declining Black enrollment. fightbacknews.org On Thursday, December 1, Tampa Bay Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) led a march to the president of the University of South Florida's mansion to protest the university's low Black student enrollment. The students also called for the University of South Florida (USF) police department to cancel its participation in the 1033 Program, which allows police to buy decommissioned military weapons from the Department of Defense, and students say the police department should return the equipment it received from the program. | This march came a few days after a call-in campaign in which the university president re…