Daily Archives: June 8, 2023

2023-06-08: News Headlines

Richard Wolff (2023-06-07). The world economy is changing—the people know, but their leaders don't. peoplesdispatch.org China has been able to mobilize many other nations to resist and oppose United States and G7 policies in various global forums. The source of China's remarkable economic growth—and the key to BRICS countries' now successful challenge to the G7's global economic dominance—has been its hybrid economic model…

Capitalism, Race & Democracy (2023-06-08). Pacifica's CRD Longshore Workers Shut Down Ports;Protests over Florida Anti-immigrant Bill. indybay.org Pacifica's Capitalism, Race & Democracy On Longshore Workers Shut Down Ports; Protests over Florida Anti-immigrant Bill; South Africa Stands Up to the ICC…

Editor (2023-06-07). Train horror in India: Another crime of decaying capitalism. mronline.org The deadliest train crash in India in more than a quarter of a century has killed nearly 300 passengers and injured more than 1,000. It is a tragedy that has horrified the world and exposed the criminal neglect of basic infrastructure by the ultra-right regime of Hindu chauvinist Narendra Modi and the capitalist governments that preceded it.


WSWS (2023-06-08). SEP/IYSSE public meeting in Colombo: Oppose the Sri Lankan government's privatisation of state enterprises! Build workers' action committees to fight for jobs and wages! wsws.org The SEP/IYSSE public meeting will elaborate on the program and perspective of international socialism that the working class needs to fight the government's austerity measures.

WSWS (2023-06-07). Australian Labor treasurer manoeuvres as RBA lifts interest rates again. wsws.org In line with policies of major central banks around the world, the RBA is lifting rates to slow the economy, or even induce a recession, to crush the growing wages struggles of the working class under the banner of the need to "fight inflation."

WSWS (2023-06-08). Scrambling of fighter jets over Washington against off-course Cessna raises many questions. wsws.org The jet, a Cessna Citation carrying several passengers, later crashed in the Northern Virginia wilderness as it ran out of fuel.


teleSUR (2023-06-07). 14 Killed and 12 Injured in a Crash in Bangladesh. telesurenglish.net On Wednesday, in Bangladesh's Sylhet district, a collision between a truck and a pickup van in the lead to the demise of at least 14 individuals, with an additional 12 sustaining injuries. | Related: | "At least 14 people were killed and 12 sustained injuries in the head-on collision, and all of the deceased were construction workers," Md Abul Hossain, inspector at Sylhet's Dakshin Surma Police Station said. | According to Hossain, s…

Ann Wright (2023-06-07). Why There Should be a Treaty Against the Use of Weaponized Drones. covertactionmagazine.com Citizen activism to bring about changes in how brutal wars are conducted is extremely difficult, but not impossible. Citizens have successfully pushed through the United Nations General Assembly treaties to abolish nuclear weapons and to ban the use of landmines and cluster munitions. Of course, countries that want to continue to use these weapons will not …

Andreas Urban (2023-06-08). Loss of reality and bellicism. indybay.org Ukraine is "worn out" here, which is supposed to fight a proxy war "until the last Ukrainian" and is equipped for this with weapons, ammunition, financial means, etc., in the desperate hope to finally force Russia to surrender or at least to gain a negotiating position in which the West can impose all possible maximum demands on the enemy. None of this is even remotely realistic.

teleSUR (2023-06-07). 14 Killed and 12 Injured in a Crash in Bangladesh. telesurenglish.net On Wednesday, in Bangladesh's Sylhet district, a collision between a truck and a pickup van in the lead to the demise of at least 14 individuals, with an additional 12 sustaining injuries. | Related: | "At least 14 people were killed and 12 sustained injuries in the head-on collision, and all of the deceased were construction workers," Md Abul Hossain, inspector at Sylhet's Dakshin Surma Police Station said. | According to Hossain, s…

Ann Wright (2023-06-07). Why There Should be a Treaty Against the Use of Weaponized Drones. covertactionmagazine.com Citizen activism to bring about changes in how brutal wars are conducted is extremely difficult, but not impossible. Citizens have successfully pushed through the United Nations General Assembly treaties to abolish nuclear weapons and to ban the use of landmines and cluster munitions. Of course, countries that want to continue to use these weapons will not …

Andreas Urban (2023-06-08). Loss of reality and bellicism. indybay.org Ukraine is "worn out" here, which is supposed to fight a proxy war "until the last Ukrainian" and is equipped for this with weapons, ammunition, financial means, etc., in the desperate hope to finally force Russia to surrender or at least to gain a negotiating position in which the West can impose all possible maximum demands on the enemy. None of this is even remotely realistic.

krish-rad_ind (2023-06-07). What is Behind the Entry of US Troops and Weapons Into Peru? orinocotribune.com

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