2023-01-26: News Headlines

Labor Video Project (2023-01-26). South Africa Power Outages, The ANC & Capitalism With Weizemann Hamilton. indybay.org The power outages in South Africa threaten the lives, jobs and future of South Africa. Weizmann Hamilton was one of the founders of the ANC and is now a leader of the Marxist Workers Party talks about the causes of this energy crisis, the role of the ANC, Imperialism and capitalism. T…

Suds, snacks,, socialism forum committee (2023-01-26). Saturday 2/4: Haiti: Past, Present, and Future. indybay.org Starry Plough Pub | 3101 Shattuck Avenue, Berkeley, CA 94705…

Michael G. Roskin (2023-01-26). Mike Pompeo, seeking White House, runs interference for the Saudis, Trashing murdered Journalist Khashoggi. juancole.com Nashville &#1 ; (Special to Informed Comment) &#1 ; Mike Pompeo asserts that murdered Washington Post columnist Jamal Kashoggi was no mild critic of the Saudi regime but a dangerous radical trying to subvert it. This, I suspect, has been the Saudi line fed to Washington since Kashoggi's 2018 dismemberment at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul. Trump …

WSWS (2023-01-25). The mass shootings in California and the social pathology of capitalism. wsws.org Whatever the specific motivations and circumstances behind the latest horrific mass shootings in the United States, their regularity is a social phenomenon and requires a social explanation.

Dave DeCamp (2023-01-25). Lockheed Says It's Ready With F-16s If US and Allies Choose to Send Them to Ukraine. news.antiwar.com Lockheed Martin has said that it's ready to meet demands for F-16 fighter jets if the US and its allies choose to ship them to Ukraine. So far, the US and its allies have been hesitant to send fighter jets to Ukraine due to concerns that they could be used to target Russian territory. But …

infobrics (2023-01-25). Ukraine could stage false flag operation on nuclear power plant to force Western intervention. infobrics.org Russia warns that Ukraine is storing Western weapons in nuclear power plants.

infobrics (2023-01-25). Latest resignation scandal reveals massive scope of Kiev regime's corruption. infobrics.org The scandal could also explain why the Pentagon has been "unable" to track over $20 billion in weapons as the black market became flooded with Western-made arms. And yet, Volodymyr Zelensky is requesting a trillion dollars for the alleged "reconstruction" of Ukraine.

Jake Johnson (2023-01-25). 'This is a national emergency': Dems push for assault weapons ban amid string of massacres. nationofchange.org "Every time you vote for a lawmaker who opposes gun safety, you're voting for policies that make it more likely your loved one will be slaughtered."

Kit Klarenberg (2023-01-25). Israel promotes Iron Fist weapons in London. electronicintifada.net Birmingham media outlet publishes lies about Palestine Action…

Staff (2023-01-25). Doomsday Clock Moves Closer to Midnight: Peace Activist Frida Berrigan Demands Nuclear Disarmament. democracynow.org On Tuesday, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists reset the Doomsday Clock for 2023 to 90 seconds to midnight, warning the world is closer to global annihilation than ever before, in part due to Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Since 1947, the Bulletin has maintained a Doomsday Clock to illustrate how close humanity is to the end of the world due to existential threats including nuclear war and the climate emergency. We speak with Frida Berrigan, longtime peace activist and nuclear weapons abolitionist, whose new cover story for In These Times is "How to Avoid Nuclear Stand-Offs That Threaten the Entire…

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