Monthly Archives: January 2023

2023-01-04: News Headlines

Suds, Snacks,, Socialism Forum Committee (2023-01-04). Saturday 1/7: Election 2022: What Does It Mean for the Socialist Left? indybay.org

Caitlin A. Johnstone (2023-01-04). BlackRock logo to be added to Ukrainian flag. mronline.org Kyiv has announced the addition of a fifth corporate logo to the Ukrainian flag following news that BlackRock will be playing a crucial role in the reconstruction of the nation. The world's largest investment management firm will join Raytheon Technologies, Northrop Grumman, Lockheed Martin, and McDonald's upon the now-omnipresent blue and yellow flag.

H. Patricia Hynes (2023-01-04). Envisioning a World Without Nuclear Weapons. globalresearch.ca

John V. Walsh (2023-01-03). The First US Onslaught to "Weaken" Post-Cold War Russia. dissidentvoice.org The first post-cold war assault on Russia by the West began in the early 1990s well before the expansion of NATO. It took the form of a U.S.-induced economic depression in Russia that was deeper and more disastrous than the Great Depression that devastated the U.S. in the 1930s. And it came at a time …

Editor (2023-01-03). After Repeated Interest Rate Hikes, IMF Warns a Third of World Will Suffer Recession in 2023. scheerpost.com With the world's three largest economies slowing down, said the IMF managing director, economic conditions will "feel like recession for hundreds of millions of people" this year.

Dana Sanchez (2023-01-03). Solana Crypto Rebounds After Crashing Below $9 For 1st Time Since 2021, Down 96%+ From High. moguldom.com The price of Solana crypto enjoyed a slight rebound in a New Year price bump, rising above $11 over the weekend after crashing to about $8.30 on Thursday — its lowest point since February 2021, SOL is down more than 96 percent from its all-time high of $260 in November 2021. The so-called SOL rebound …

_____ (2023-01-03). A new step to the dangerous line: now with drones? journal-neo.org On December 26, 2022, there was an incident between North and South that some media outlets immediately hyped as "peninsula on the brink of war": five North Korean drones crossed the inter-Korean border, with one of them flying over northern Seoul. This was the first such incident in five years. Four downed drones were discovered …

Anonymous669 (2023-01-03). Russian Troops Receive New Small Drone With Recon, Combat Capabilities For Ukraine Operation. southfront.org File image. | Russian troops in the special military operation zone in Ukraine have begun to receive a new small drone dubbed "Binokl" with reconnaissance and combat capabilities, Dmitry Zubarev, a spokesman for Binokl manufacturer Syomka s vozdukha, told the Russian news agency that the new drone is two to three times cheaper than commercially-available Chinese-made DJI Mavic drones which are widely used by Russian troops. | The Binokl,…

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.

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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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