Daily Archives: May 16, 2023

2023-05-16: News Headlines

Frank Cappello (2023-05-16). üéß MOVIES VS. CAPITALISM: You've Got Mail (w/ Robin Johnson). levernews.com

_____ (2023-05-15). (Português) O Colapso Atual da Ética. transcend.org 12 maio 2023 – Percebo dois fatores principais, entre outros, que atingem o coraàßà£o da ética: a globalizaàßà£o do capitalismo depredador e a mercantilizaàßà£o da sociedade.

_____ (2023-05-15). The Current Collapse of Ethics. transcend.org 13 May 2023 – I perceive two main factors, among others, that strike at the heart of ethics: the globalization of predatory capitalism and the commodification of society.

Suds, Snacks, Socialism Forum Committee (2023-05-15). Saturday 5/13: Climate Chaos: An Existential Crisis. indybay.org The Starry Plough Pub | 3101 Shattuck Avenue, Berkeley, CA 94705 | also by ZOOM Please register in advance at | bit.ly/ClimateChaos-230506 | to receive your personal link to participate in this event online…


Dana Sanchez (2023-05-15). Federal Reserve's Bostic Suggests No Interest Rate Cuts, Even If Recession Hits America. moguldom.com Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta President Raphael Bostic said Monday he does not expect any interest-rate cuts this year and well into 2024, even if there's a recession. If anything, rates will go up because inflation is probably stickier than financial markets are betting. The Fed raised its key interest rate by a quarter-point in …

Jodie Evans (2023-05-15). First Person Singular: We'll Stop When Wars Do. progressive.org As the perpetual war machine churns on, CODEPINK won't stop fighting for an 'economy of peace.'

Anonymous103 (2023-05-15). London Will Train Ukrainian Pilots, Send Long-Range UAVs, Anti-Aircraft Missile Systems To Kiev — Report. southfront.org Sunak welcomes Zelensky In London | On May 15, Zelensky came to London. According to The Telegraph, British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak intends to announce a new aid package for Ukraine, which will include "hundreds of anti-aircraft missile systems" and long-range attack drones. | The promised weapons reportedly "will be delivered in the coming months, as Ukraine is preparing to increase its resistance," the Prime Minister's office said. The drones that the UK is going to transfer to Ukraine reportedly have a…

Anonymous103 (2023-05-15). Russian Air Defence Forces Intercepted First Storm Shadow Cruise Missile — Russian Defence Ministry. southfront.org Illustrative Image | On May 15, the Russian Ministry of Defence reported on the first Anglo-French cruise missile Storm Shadow intercepted in the Donbass. Over the past day, Russian air defense systems intercepted one long-range cruise missile Storm Shadow, as well as ten HIMARS shells, seven US-made HARM anti-radar missiles the Russian Defense Ministry said. | In the Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics, in the Zaporozhye and Kherson regions, 21 drones were shot down, the Defence Ministry said in a statemen…




Dave DeCamp (2023-05-15). Zelensky Visits UK, Sunak Promises More Military Support. news.antiwar.com Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky visited Britain Monday and secured pledges for more military equipment from London, including air defense missiles and long-range attack drones. British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak also expressed support for giving Ukraine Western-made fighter jets. According to Sunak's office, the attack drones have a range of over 200 kilometers (124 miles). Zelensky's …

Susan Schmidt, Andrew Lowenthal, Tom Wyatt, Techno Fog, others, Racket News. (2023-05-16). The Censorship-Industrial Complex: Top 50 Organizations To Know. popularresistance.org On January 17, 1960, outgoing President and former Supreme Allied Commander Dwight D. Eisenhower gave one of the most consequential speeches in American history. Eisenhower for eight years had been a popular president, whose appeal drew upon a reputation as a person of great personal fortitude, who'd guided the United States to victory in an existential fight for survival in World War II. Nonetheless, as he prepared to vacate the Oval Office for handsome young John F. Kennedy, he warned the country it was now at the mercy of a power eve he could not overcome. | Until World War II, America had no permanent arms ma…

_____ (2023-05-15). Senate Report: Nearly 700 Former High-Ranking Pentagon and Other Government Officials Now Work at the Top 20 Defense Contractors. transcend.org 12 May 2023 – Ideally, Warren's report would precipitate a much larger congressional investigation of the military-industrial complex modeled after the 1934 Nye Committee hearings.

Jake Johnson (2023-05-15). "Greatest Wealth Transfer in History" Is Poised to Further Entrench Inequality. truthout.org The United States' astronomical levels of economic inequality are poised to become further entrenched in the coming years as what The New York Times described Sunday as "the greatest wealth transfer in history" gets underway, with the richest members of the Baby Boomer generation set to pass trillions of dollars in assets on to their descendants — often paying little or nothing in taxes. |

Dave DeCamp (2023-05-15). Zelensky Visits UK, Sunak Promises More Military Support. news.antiwar.com Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky visited Britain Monday and secured pledges for more military equipment from London, including air defense missiles and long-range attack drones. British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak also expressed support for giving Ukraine Western-made fighter jets. According to Sunak's office, the attack drones have a range of over 200 kilometers (124 miles). Zelensky's …

Susan Schmidt, Andrew Lowenthal, Tom Wyatt, Techno Fog, others, Racket News. (2023-05-16). The Censorship-Industrial Complex: Top 50 Organizations To Know. popularresistance.org On January 17, 1960, outgoing President and former Supreme Allied Commander Dwight D. Eisenhower gave one of the most consequential speeches in American history. Eisenhower for eight years had been a popular president, whose appeal drew upon a reputation as a person of great personal fortitude, who'd guided the United States to victory in an existential fight for survival in World War II. Nonetheless, as he prepared to vacate the Oval Office for handsome young John F. Kennedy, he warned the country it was now at the mercy of a power eve he could not overcome. | Until World War II, America had no permanent arms ma…

_____ (2023-05-15). Senate Report: Nearly 700 Former High-Ranking Pentagon and Other Government Officials Now Work at the Top 20 Defense Contractors. transcend.org 12 May 2023 – Ideally, Warren's report would precipitate a much larger congressional investigation of the military-industrial complex modeled after the 1934 Nye Committee hearings.

Jake Johnson (2023-05-15). "Greatest Wealth Transfer in History" Is Poised to Further Entrench Inequality. truthout.org The United States' astronomical levels of economic inequality are poised to become further entrenched in the coming years as what The New York Times described Sunday as "the greatest wealth transfer in history" gets underway, with the richest members of the Baby Boomer generation set to pass trillions of dollars in assets on to their descendants — often paying little or nothing in taxes. |

Fight Back (2023-05-16). SDS Denver wins a major victory in the fight for police demilitarization. fightbacknews.org Denver, CO – After a nearly two year campaign, the Denver chapter of Students for a Democratic Society won a significant milestone in their campaign to demilitarize the campus police. After four months of work plagued with delays and obfuscation by campus administrators, SDS fought to successfully get a resolution passed that takes the power from the Auraria Campus Police from being able to obtain military weapons from the 1033 program – a federal program designed to transfer surplus military equipment from the U.S. Department of Defense to local law enforcement. | The resolution states that the Auraria Campus P…

Editor (2023-05-15). Biden breaks all-time record for most weapons sold during fiscal year. mronline.org The U.S. President, who has constantly held up the banner of human rights in his policies with non-friendly states, has sold weapons to the majority of 'autocratic' states in 2022.

Stephen Semler (2023-05-15). Biden Is Selling Weapons to the Majority of the World's Autocracies. globalresearch.ca

Telesur English. (2023-05-15). Japanese Rally Against G7 Summit In Hiroshima. popularresistance.org Over 200 Japanese people rallied at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park in a protest against the upcoming Group of Seven (G7) summit, carrying banners reading "No War Accomplices" and "No G7." | "Japan is saying it will send a peaceful message of abolishing nuclear weapons to the world through this summit, but at the same time it is seeking to rely on nuclear weapons to achieve 'national security.' This is contradictory," said Ichiro Yuasa, a Peace Depot spokesperson. | Participant Fumi Akiyama said that Japan's use of Hiroshima, which had suffered the atomic bombing during World War II, to hold the G7 summit compl…

krish-rad_ind (2023-05-15). Lies are the biggest weapons. Censorship increases their power. theduran.com

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