Monthly Archives: May 2023

2023-05-26: News Headlines

CRD (2023-05-26). G7 Protest Against US-led War; Banko Brown's Murder; Turkey's Critical Elections By CRD. indybay.org Pacifica's Capitalism, Race and Democracy on G7 Protest Against US-led War; Banko Brown's Murder & Turkey's Critical Elections By CRD…

Stephan Schulmeister (2023-05-26). Inflation in the Age of Finance Capitalism. indybay.org The shift of profit-striving from the real- to the financial-economy lowered economic growth Unemployment and atypical jobs soared. The welfare state was weakened. At the same time, financial wealth grew exorbitantly (the DAX increased 14-fold since 1988). The development of financial derivatives made possible profiting from short-term changes in stocks, currencies and bonds.

Colin Todhunter (2023-05-26). What Was Covid Really About? Triggering A Multi-Trillion Dollar Global Debt Crisis. "Ramping up an Imperialist Strategy"? globalresearch.ca If it was indeed about public health, why close down the bulk of health services and the global economy knowing full well what the implications would be? And why mount a military-style propaganda campaign to censor world-renowned scientists and terrorise entire populations…


Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-05-25). Slavery and Prior Accumulation in Venezuela. libya360.wordpress.com Cira Pascual Marquina Enrique S. Rivera is a historian, journalist, and documentary film producer. He teaches at UCLA, and his recent book, The Untold History of Capitalism: Primitive Accumulation and the Anti-Slavery Revolution (2021), focuses on the 1795 anti-slavery rebellion in the west of what we now know as Venezuela, but it also examines the origins of…

Steve Gillis (2023-05-25). WWP solution to debt crisis: Defund the Pentagon! workers.org Credit: Tony Murphy It's television news teaser material that on June 1, the U.S. government will run out of money to pay its debts — everything from wages for its vast global armies and civilian government workers, to Social Security checks and interest payments on Treasury bonds. According to President . . . |

Suds, Snacks, Socialism Forum Committee (2023-05-26). Saturday 6/3: Attack on Trans People: A Page in the Fascist Playbook. indybay.org Starry Plaugh Pub | 3101 Shattuck Avenue, Berkeley, CA 94705 | also online…




Robert Reich (2023-05-25). Why anti-worker Musk pushed anti-woke DeSantis on Twitter. peoplesworld.org Did you catch Ron DeSantis's announcement on Twitter? No? Of course not. Who in their right mind would waste their time listening to DeSantis being interviewed by Elon Musk? Who would want to give any credence at all to the anti-woke culture warrior and the anti-worker robber baron? It was a technical fiasco, anyway. So …

Fight Back (2023-05-25). Detroit day of resistance sends message: "No to APEC! Not in our city!" fightbacknews.org Detroit, MI – The International League of Peoples' Struggle (ILPS), Public Citizen, and local organizers united in a day of resistance to APEC (Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation). The senior officials of APEC stopped in Detroit for some of their U.S. meetings to solidify the IPEF (Indo-Pacific Economic Framework) deal. | The IPEF represents more of the same failed policy the U.S. attempts to push on workers both here and abroad – hyper exploitation and investment abroad, deindustrialization and unemployment at home. Much like the embattled TPP (Trans Pacific Partnership) which was pushed by the U.S. until 2…

Staff (2023-05-25). The Censorship Industrial Complex Has Been Revealed. leecamp.com




Palestine Action. (2023-05-26). Palestine Action Blockade Leicester's Israeli Weapons Factory. popularresistance.org On the 24th day of Palestine Action's siege against Leicester's Israeli Elbit factory — UAV Tactical Systems, another blockade has successfully locked down the company's only entrance gates in the early hours of this morning. | An immovable vehicle and two Palestine Actionists have locked-on in the road outside the perimeter fence, evading their paramilitary-style security workforce, the site's surveillance cameras, and inhibiting the company's ability to open by blocking staff entry. | In Leicester, and in Elbit's 7 other remaining sites in Britain, weaponry is being manufactured and exported to Israel.

Maddi Johnson (2023-05-26). Nakba in Portland Solidarity with Palestine. workers.org Portland, Oregon U.S. imperialism was in the crosshairs of the Nakba event in Portland on May 21. Speeches and signs alike identified U.S. weapons and money as the critical factor that allows Israel to perpetrate genocide and apartheid on the Palestinian people. Credit: Sarah Kowaleski Speakers, including those from organizers . . . |

Anonymous349 (2023-05-25). Military Situation In Donbass On May 25, 2023 (Map Update). southfront.org Click to see the full-size image | Russian artillery struck the AFU positions near Avdeevka | Russian artillery struck the AFU positions near Ivanivske | Russian artillery struck the AFU positions near Dibrova | The Russian Army destroyed an ammo depot of the AFU near Avdeevka | The Russian Army destroyed an ammo depot of the AFU near Stupochka | The AFU reportedly hit 3 command posts, 4 concentrations of weapons and military equipment, 1 ammo depot, 2 artillery units in the pa…




Anonymous349 (2023-05-25). Military Situation In Ukraine On May 25, 2023 (Map Update). southfront.org The Russian Army destroyed an ammo depot of the AFU near Avdeevka | The Russian Army destroyed an ammo depot of the AFU near Stupochka | The AFU reportedly 3 command posts, 4 concentrations of weapons and military equipment, 1 ammo depot, 2 artillery units in the past 24 hours | Russian forces destroyed 3 motor vehicles, 1 howitzer in the Kupyansk region | Russian forces destroyed 2 armored vehicles, 3 howitzers in the Krasny Liman region | Russian forces destroyed 3 pickups, 1 motor vehicles, 1 howitz…

Nermeen Shaikh (2023-05-25). Ukrainians Are Demanding a Just Postwar Reconstruction. truthout.org As calls grow for an end to the war in Ukraine, a number of recent developments indicate the war could instead be expanding beyond Ukraine's borders. Russia has signed an agreement with Belarus to begin deploying tactical nuclear weapons there, and a group of pro-Ukrainian fighters from Russia has attacked sites in the Russian region of Belgorod using what appears to be U.S. |

Alex Bainbridge (2023-05-25). Sydney rallies against AUKUS, after Quad meeting rescheduled. greenleft.org.au International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons Australian director Gem Romuld said that the hundreds at the rally were just the tip of the iceberg of a new movement that is building against militarism. Alex Bainbridge reports.

Anonymous349 (2023-05-25). Military Situation In Ukraine On May 25, 2023 (Map Update). southfront.org The Russian Army destroyed an ammo depot of the AFU near Avdeevka | The Russian Army destroyed an ammo depot of the AFU near Stupochka | The AFU reportedly 3 command posts, 4 concentrations of weapons and military equipment, 1 ammo depot, 2 artillery units in the past 24 hours | Russian forces destroyed 3 motor vehicles, 1 howitzer in the Kupyansk region | Russian forces destroyed 2 armored vehicles, 3 howitzers in the Krasny Liman region | Russian forces destroyed 3 pickups, 1 motor vehicles, 1 howitz…

Nermeen Shaikh (2023-05-25). Ukrainians Are Demanding a Just Postwar Reconstruction. truthout.org As calls grow for an end to the war in Ukraine, a number of recent developments indicate the war could instead be expanding beyond Ukraine's borders. Russia has signed an agreement with Belarus to begin deploying tactical nuclear weapons there, and a group of pro-Ukrainian fighters from Russia has attacked sites in the Russian region of Belgorod using what appears to be U.S. |

Alex Bainbridge (2023-05-25). Sydney rallies against AUKUS, after Quad meeting rescheduled. greenleft.org.au International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons Australian director Gem Romuld said that the hundreds at the rally were just the tip of the iceberg of a new movement that is building against militarism. Alex Bainbridge reports.

Dave DeCamp (2023-05-25). Lukashenko Says Efforts to Move Russian Nukes to Belarus Have Begun. news.antiwar.com Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko said Thursday that the efforts to send Russian nuclear weapons to Belarus have begun as the two nations signed an agreement to formalize the deployment. The agreement was signed by Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu and his Belarusian counterpart in Minsk. According to Russia's TASS news agency, the documents outline the …

Federico Fuentes (2023-05-25). Norway's Red Party: 'Sweden and Finland joining NATO is no excuse to store nuclear weapons in the Nordic region'. greenleft.org.au Tobias Drevland Lund, an MP for Norway's radical left party Rà∏dt (Red Party) speaks to Federico Fuentes about the party's rise and response to Russia's war on Ukraine.

Prof Michel Chossudovsky (2023-05-25). "Preemptive Nuclear War": The Historic Battle for Peace and Democracy. A Third World War Threatens the Future of Humanity. globalresearch.ca US nuclear doctrine consists in portraying nuclear weapons as a means of "self defense" rather than a "weapon of mass destruction". There are powerful financial interests behind Joe Biden's $1.3 trillion nuclear weapons program initiated under Obama.

Lyn Neeley (2023-05-25). Haydée Santamaría, central figure in the Cuban Revolution. workers.org Haydee Santamaría In the early hours of July 26, 1953, Fidel Castro and nearly 150 Cuban rebels traveled to the Moncada garrison to capture the barracks and seize the many weapons stored there. They planned for this to be the beginning of the Cuban Revolution to overthrow the Cuban dictator, . . . |

Rania Khalek (2023-05-25). G7 Sends F-16 Jets to Ukraine: Flirting with Disaster, Direct War on Russia. thealtworld.com As South Africa and China advocate for peace, President Vladimir Zelensky of Ukraine embarked on a tour to secure additional weapons, including a stop at the Group of Seven (G7) Summit held in Hiroshima. | Brian Becker, host of The Socialist Program, National Director of ANSWER Coalition, discusses the current critical juncture of the war and how the G7 is pushing towards a nuclear standoff.

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2023-05-25: News Headlines

CRD (2023-05-25). G7 Protest Against US-led War; Banko Brown's Murder; Turkey's Critical Elections By CRD. indybay.org Pacifica's Capitalism, Race and Democracy on G7 Protest Against US-led War; Banko Brown's Murder & Turkey's Critical Elections By CRD…

Stephan Schulmeister (2023-05-25). Inflation in the Age of Finance Capitalism. indybay.org The shift of profit-striving from the real- to the financial-economy lowered economic growth Unemployment and atypical jobs soared. The welfare state was weakened. At the same time, financial wealth grew exorbitantly (the DAX increased 14-fold since 1988). The development of financial derivatives made possible profiting from short-term changes in stocks, currencies and bonds.

Steve Gillis (2023-05-25). WWP solution to debt crisis: Defund the Pentagon! workers.org Credit: Tony Murphy It's television news teaser material that on June 1, the U.S. government will run out of money to pay its debts — everything from wages for its vast global armies and civilian government workers, to Social Security checks and interest payments on Treasury bonds. According to President . . . |

_____ (2023-05-24). Kissinger's Fairy Tales for Idiots. strategic-culture.org Kissinger's idea of bringing peace by having Ukraine join NATO is as crazy as the thought of putting out a fire with kerosene. | In October 2019, the online edition of Progressnews.ge published the article "The Dissolution of the Soviet Union was the Biggest Crime of the United States — Henry Kissinger is Disappointed with Capitalism", which quotes an alleged statement by Henry Kissinger, the 56th U.S. Secretary of State and 7th U.S. National Security Advisor, from which it could be concluded that the experienced politician, diplomat, political theorist, and geopolitical advisor, in the later years of his l…


W. T. Whitney Jr. (2023-05-24). Worker empowerment stalls in Venezuela as left unity fractures. peoplesworld.org Hugo Chavez, Venezuela's president from 1999 until 2013, inspired and led a "Bolivarian Revolution" that sought independence from U.S. domination, regional integration, and so-called "socialism of the 21st century." The obstacles that lay before these goals have been many: capitalism in control of the national economy, unrelenting right-wing political opposition, U.S. intervention—and longstanding political divisions …

In Defense of Liberation! (2023-05-24). An introduction to Imperialism. podcasters.spotify.com In this episode, similarly to other reason, short introductory episodes, we go over the topic of imperialism in nine minutes. Of course, this doesn't come close to covering every aspect or the historical development of the phenomenon known as Capitalism imperialism, however, it does bring us into a bit better have an understanding that the majority of us have from our high school education or from the phony and hypocritical western media sources…

In Defense of Liberation! (2023-05-24). Expanded Intro: Capitalism, Commodity Production and Imperialism. podcasters.spotify.com In this episode, we expand on two previous episodes, one on capitalist exploitation, and the other on imperialism. In this episode, we talk about commodity production under capitalism, and especially, the shift from production for the use and needs of society to the production, for the sake of exchange and profit from exchange solely for the owning class. We also talk about imperialism, what its characteristics are, and what we need to do to avoid simplistic analysis, both of its history and current existence.

Suds, Snacks, Socialism Forum Committee (2023-05-25). Saturday 6/3: Attack on Trans People: A Page in the Fascist Playbook. indybay.org Starry Plaugh Pub | 3101 Shattuck Avenue, Berkeley, CA 94705 | also online…




teleSUR (2023-05-24). Mexican Journalist Ramirez is Shot to Death in Puebla. telesurenglish.net On Tuesday, 69-year-old journalist Marco Aurelio Ramirez was shot dead in the city of Tehuacan, in the state of Puebla. | RELATED: | At 1: 30 p.m. local time, several armed men shot at Ramirez as he was driving after leaving his home. As a result of this attack, his car crashed near the town of Agua Blanca. | "Ramirez was a journalist for almost 3 decades and worked in media such as Periodico Central. In 2018 he worked at t…

Dave DeCamp (2023-05-24). Russia Says Warship Attacked By Ukrainian Sea Drones Near Bosphorus Strait. news.antiwar.com Moscow said Wednesday that a Russian warship protecting pipelines in the Black Sea was attacked by unmanned Ukrainian speedboats near the Bosphorus Strait, far from Russian and Ukrainian territory. The Russian Defense Ministry said the naval ship Ivan Khurs repelled the attack by three unmanned watercraft in an incident that took place about 87 miles …

Editor (2023-05-24). The Limits of Saudi Normalization With Israel. scheerpost.com By Juan Cole / Informed Comment Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) — The Biden administration is devoting what energy the State Department has aside from the effort to defend Ukraine to achieving diplomatic normalization between Israel and Saudi Arabia. The premise for this entry of the Saudis into the Abraham Accords is that it would seek …

Federico Fuentes (2023-05-25). Norway's Red Party: 'Sweden and Finland joining NATO is no excuse to store nuclear weapons in the Nordic region'. greenleft.org.au Tobias Drevland Lund, an MP for Norway's radical left party Rà∏dt (Red Party) speaks to Federico Fuentes about the party's rise and response to Russia's war on Ukraine.




Lyn Neeley (2023-05-25). Haydée Santamaría, central figure in the Cuban Revolution. workers.org Haydee Santamaría In the early hours of July 26, 1953, Fidel Castro and nearly 150 Cuban rebels traveled to the Moncada garrison to capture the barracks and seize the many weapons stored there. They planned for this to be the beginning of the Cuban Revolution to overthrow the Cuban dictator, . . . |

Anonymous103 (2023-05-24). Military Situation In Donbass On May 24, 2023 (Map Update). southfront.org Click to see full-size image | Russian artillery struck the AFU positions near Avdeevka; | Russian artillery struck the AFU positions near Ivanivske; | The Russian Army destroyed an ANT/PQ-36 counter-battery system near Ugledar; | The Russian Army destroyed an ammo depot of the AFU near Verkhnekamenskoye; | The AFU reportedly destroyed 3 command posts, 4 concentrations of weapons and military equipment, 1 ammo depot, 2 artillery units in the past 24 hours; | Clashes between Rus…

Anonymous834 (2023-05-24). Kiev Used US-Supplied Vehicles To Invade Russia. southfront.org Click to see the full-size image | Written by Lucas Leiroz, journalist, researcher at the Center for Geostrategic Studies, geopolitical consultant. | The US claims that the weapons sent to Ukraine are only used within the borders of the conflict zone, but it is increasingly clear that this equipment is being used by Ukrainian forces to carry out terrorist attacks in the undisputed Russian territory. Photos and videos shared on the internet show that US armored vehicles were used by pro-Kiev forces to…

Editor (2023-05-24). Chris Hedges on Weapons to Ukraine, Military Buildup to China and Pentagon Spending. scheerpost.com By Mnar Adley and Alan MacLeod / MintPress News The war in Ukraine is well into its second year, and the United States is insistent on pumping billions more into the quagmire that has already seen thousands of lives lost and millions displaced. The U.S. has already approved more than $113 billion in aid to …

Lyn Neeley (2023-05-25). Haydée Santamaría, central figure in the Cuban Revolution. workers.org Haydee Santamaría In the early hours of July 26, 1953, Fidel Castro and nearly 150 Cuban rebels traveled to the Moncada garrison to capture the barracks and seize the many weapons stored there. They planned for this to be the beginning of the Cuban Revolution to overthrow the Cuban dictator, . . . |

Anonymous103 (2023-05-24). Military Situation In Donbass On May 24, 2023 (Map Update). southfront.org Click to see full-size image | Russian artillery struck the AFU positions near Avdeevka; | Russian artillery struck the AFU positions near Ivanivske; | The Russian Army destroyed an ANT/PQ-36 counter-battery system near Ugledar; | The Russian Army destroyed an ammo depot of the AFU near Verkhnekamenskoye; | The AFU reportedly destroyed 3 command posts, 4 concentrations of weapons and military equipment, 1 ammo depot, 2 artillery units in the past 24 hours; | Clashes between Rus…

Anonymous834 (2023-05-24). Kiev Used US-Supplied Vehicles To Invade Russia. southfront.org Click to see the full-size image | Written by Lucas Leiroz, journalist, researcher at the Center for Geostrategic Studies, geopolitical consultant. | The US claims that the weapons sent to Ukraine are only used within the borders of the conflict zone, but it is increasingly clear that this equipment is being used by Ukrainian forces to carry out terrorist attacks in the undisputed Russian territory. Photos and videos shared on the internet show that US armored vehicles were used by pro-Kiev forces to…

Editor (2023-05-24). Chris Hedges on Weapons to Ukraine, Military Buildup to China and Pentagon Spending. scheerpost.com By Mnar Adley and Alan MacLeod / MintPress News The war in Ukraine is well into its second year, and the United States is insistent on pumping billions more into the quagmire that has already seen thousands of lives lost and millions displaced. The U.S. has already approved more than $113 billion in aid to …

Caitlin Johnstone (2023-05-24). Biden Okays F-16s for Ukraine, US Weapons to Attack Crimea. globalresearch.ca

thecommunists (2023-05-24). Zelensky piling up his millions as Nato tries regime change via assassination. thecommunists.org The failed bid to assassinate Russian president Vladimir Putin in May, whether directly ordered by the west-backed junta in Ukraine or the work of freelancing fascists, signalled a new level of provocation and threat against Russia. The drone attack on the Kremlin, taken together with the supply by Britain and others of long-range weapons capable …

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