Daily Archives: January 3, 2023

2023-01-03: News Headlines

Suds, Snacks,, Socialism Forum Committee (2023-01-03). Saturday 1/7: Election 2022: What Does It Mean for the Socialist Left? indybay.org

teleSUR, DRL (2023-01-03). Rusia reconoce que ataque ucraniano deja 63 muertos en Donetsk. telesurtv.net Durante los primeros días del año se ha mantenido el intercambio de misiles, ataques de bombardeos y derribo de drones.

H. Patricia Hynes (2023-01-03). Imagining a World Without Nuclear Weapons. juancole.com Greenfield, Mass. (Special to Informed Comment) &#1 ; January 22 marks the second anniversary of the UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, a global lifeboat supported by 70% of the world's countries. Meanwhile, the US Department of Energy's 2023 budget request for nuclear weapons' upgrade is more than $21 billion and close to $8 …

WSWS (2023-01-03). Kiev kills "hundreds" of Russian recruits in strike with US-supplied missile. wsws.org The attack, using US-provided weapons and likely based on US-provided targeting data, sends the world a message: Washington wants the bloodbath in Eastern Europe to escalate in the new year.

C.J. Polychroniou (2023-01-02). We Can't Combat Inequality Without First Valuing Care Work. truthout.org Patriarchy and capitalism are class-based systems that serve to compound inequalities of all sorts, including gender inequality. A feminist political economy not only addresses gender inequalities, but also seeks to rectify inequalities in the division of labor. Of course, there are different branches of feminism, but a strong case can be made that a socialist feminist perspective of political… |

Dr. Birsen Filip (2023-01-02). The 64th Anniversary of the Cuban Revolution: An Unprecedented Chapter in World History. globalresearch.ca January 2019: Cubans are commemorating the 60th anniversary of their independence. On this day in 1959, the Cuban Revolution was successfully conducted by Fidel Castro's 26th of July Movement[i] and became an enduring symbol of resistance to neo-colonialism, capitalism, and hegemony.

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-01-02). New Year Missile & Drone Strikes Continue Across Ukraine as NATO Recognizes Scale of Conflict. libya360.wordpress.com Update on Russian military operations in Ukraine for January 2, 2023: &#1 ; Fighting continues around Bakhmut and across the wider Donbass region; &#1 ; Russian missile and drone strikes continue for several days now; &#1 ; Ukrainian sources claim "all" drones were downed but damage to infrastructure proves otherwise; &#1 ; Ukraine claims to have hit Russian troops…

Antonio C.S. Rosa (2023-01-02). Militarism of the United States. transcend.org The U.S. Government Aims at Global Hegemony through Military Force – The military-industrial complex, against which President Dwight D. Eisenhower warned, has bipartisan support in the United States Congress and Senate. The amount of money involved is enormous.

Antonio C.S. Rosa (2023-01-02). BlackRock Logo to Be Added to Ukrainian Flag. transcend.org 29 Dec 2022 – Kyiv has announced the addition of a fifth corporate logo to the Ukrainian flag—BlackRock, world's largest investment management firm–which will be playing a crucial role in the reconstruction of the nation. BlackRock will join Raytheon Technologies, Northrop Grumman, Lockheed Martin, and McDonald's upon the blue and yellow flag.

Antonio C.S. Rosa (2023-01-02). Washington Is Waking Up on Weapons for Taiwan. transcend.org 19 Dec 2022 – The legislation includes guidance to the U.S. Defense and State Departments to prioritize the delivery of arms to Taiwan. The aim is to deter China by building U.S.-Taiwan interoperability.

Dave DeCamp (2023-01-02). NATO Chief Says Sending More Weapons to Ukraine Is Quickest Path to Peace. news.antiwar.com NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg claimed in an interview published Friday that the quickest path to peace in Ukraine is through NATO countries sending more weapons to Kyiv. "It may sound like a paradox, but military support for Ukraine is the fastest way to peace," Stoltenberg told the German news agency DPA. "We know that most …

WSWS (2023-01-02). Roger Stahl discusses Theaters of War: How the Pentagon and CIA Took Hollywood with WSWS. wsws.org Department of Defense interventions into American entertainment media is to "get people acclimated to the presence of military personnel, military bases, military operations, and weapons… normalizing the presence of the military in almost every aspect of life."

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