(2023-07-11). It's Hard To Engage In China-Bashing Without Tripping On Contradictions. popularresistance.org The contradictions of China-bashing in the United States begin with how often it is flat-out untrue. The Wall Street Journal reports that the "Chinese spy" balloon that President Joe Biden shot down with immense patriotic fanfare in February 2023 did not in fact transmit pictures or anything else to China. White House economists have been trying to excuse persistent U.S. inflation saying it is a global problem and inflation is worse elsewhere in the world. China's inflation rate is 0.7 percent year-on-year. Financial media outlets stress how China's GDP growth rate is lower than it used to be. China now estimates…
(2023-07-11). Capitalism is the Tumor, Solidarity Is Our Medicine. itsgoingdown.org Reflections from Peter Gelderloos on his ongoing crowdfunding campaign and its implications for health-care, capitalism, and solidarity. Support his GoFundMe campaign here. At the end of April I had a seizure and after some scans they found a brain tumor. At the end of June I had an operation in which they took out half…
(2023-07-11). Ecosocialism 2023 strengthens the fight for a world beyond capitalism. greenleft.org.au 
(2023-07-11). The Rise and Rise of the Cult of the Ego. indybay.org All types of people are convinced to buy something to ward off feelings of inner emptiness. A mix of clickbait hyper-capitalism will hoodwink an entire generation.
(2023-07-11). üéß MOVIES VS. CAPITALISM: Dude, Where's My Car? (w/ Devon Young). levernews.com 
(2023-07-11). Here's How Organizing to Abolish the Prison Industrial Complex Works in Practice. truthout.org As more activists embrace abolition of the prison industrial complex, here's what this work demands of us in practice. In the early 2000s, I sat in an organizing meeting discussing how to prevent a new prison from being built. After listening to several people talk about ways our coalition could encourage the prison to be sited somewhere else or on a smaller footprint, I wondered aloud if we… |
(2023-07-11). Sullivan Says US to Move Forward With $20 Billion F-16 Sale to Turkey. news.antiwar.com National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan said Tuesday that the Biden administration will move forward with a $20 billion sale of Lockheed Martin-made F-16 fighter jets to Turkey. Sullivan's comments came a day after Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan agreed to back Sweden's NATO bid after over a year of negotiations. NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said …
(2023-07-11). British intelligence in the dock for CIA torture. thegrayzone.com Recent developments raise the prospect that British intelligence agents could finally face justice for their little-known role in the CIA's global torture program. Britain's foreign and domestic intelligence apparatus is facing scrutiny by a tribunal tasked with intelligence oversight. On May 26, London's infamously opaque Investigatory Powers Tribunal (IPT) unanimously issued a landmark ruling which means the complaints of two Saudis brutally tortured at CIA black sites and jailed for years in Guantanamo Bay can finally be heard, at least …
(2023-07-11). US Intelligence Report Says Iran Is Not Trying to Make Nuclear Weapons. news.antiwar.com A new US intelligence report has reaffirmed that Iran is not trying to build nuclear weapons despite constant claims made by Israel and Western media outlets to the contrary. "Iran is not currently undertaking the key nuclear weapons-development activities that would be necessary to produce a testable nuclear device," an unclassified summary of a report …
(2023-07-11). Russia may use similar weapons if US supplies cluster bombs to Kyiv. plenglish.com Moscow, Jul 11 (Prensa Latina) Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said on Tuesday that Moscow would be forced to use "similar" weapons if the United States supplied cluster bombs to Ukraine, Russian news agencies reported.
(2023-07-11). Defense Minister Shoigu Recalled Russia Has Cluster Munitions That Are More Effective Than American Ones. southfront.org 
Illustrative Image | In response to Washington's decision to supply the Ukrainian military with dangerous cluster munition, Russian Defense Minister Army General Sergei Shoigu recalled that Russian forces also have similar weapons and they will be forced to use them against the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU). Shoigu noted that similar Russian shells are more effective than those made by the US, but the Russian military refrained from using them because of the threat to civilians. | Cluster munitions consist of s…
(2023-07-11). Tuesday 7/11: Banking on a Safe World: Divest from Nuclear Weapons & Fossil Fuels w/ Indigenous Leaders. indybay.org Online event via Zoom…
(2023-07-11). Monday 7/17: Banking on a Safe World: Divesting from Nuclear Weapons & Fossil Fuels. indybay.org Online event via Zoom…
(2023-07-11). Outcry Grows Over US Cluster Munitions Delivery to Ukraine. telesurenglish.net The United States has doubled down on a decision to send controversial cluster munitions to Ukraine as part of a new military aid package, setting off sweeping fears over life risks on civilians for decades to come. | RELATED: | The cluster bombs will be a part of a new US$800 million military assistance package, which also includes armored vehicles and anti-armor weapons, said the Pentagon on Friday. | Though the highly c…
(2023-07-10). Sending Cluster Bombs to Ukraine, Washington Makes Clear It Will Stop at Nothing. strategic-culture.org By Andre DAMON | On Friday, the Biden administration said it would send cluster munitions—weapons that scatter unexploded bomblets across a wide area, killing and maiming civilians for decades—to Ukraine. | Facing the failure of Kiev's military offensive, the United States is desperately seeking to use the provision of ever more destructive and indiscriminate weapons to reverse its setbacks on the battlefield. | Critically, the announcement precedes next week's NATO summit in Vilnius, at which the United States and NATO are planning to massively expand their involvement in the war. Driven into a corne…
(2023-07-10). Cluster Bomb Deliveries to Ukraine Alarm Human Rights and Antiwar Advocates. truthout.org The Biden administration is drawing outrage after announcing it will send cluster bombs to Ukraine as part of a new weapons package. When deployed, cluster munitions spread smaller "bomblets" across a wide area and regularly kill civilians, either on initial impact or from unexploded segments that go off later. Their use has been banned by 123 countries that signed the Convention on Cluster… |
(2023-07-10). Trump Officials Held Meetings Over Concerns President May Incite Nuclear War. truthout.org Miles Taylor, a former Department of Homeland Security (DHS) official who served during part of Donald Trump's tenure in the White House, has said that the former president's rhetoric around nuclear weapons prompted multiple meetings among administration officials to prepare for the possibility of war. In October 2020, Taylor was revealed to be the author of a New York Times op-ed attributed to… |
(2023-07-11). Monday 7/17: Banking on a Safe World: Divesting from Nuclear Weapons & Fossil Fuels. indybay.org Online event via Zoom…
(2023-07-11). Outcry Grows Over US Cluster Munitions Delivery to Ukraine. telesurenglish.net The United States has doubled down on a decision to send controversial cluster munitions to Ukraine as part of a new military aid package, setting off sweeping fears over life risks on civilians for decades to come. | RELATED: | The cluster bombs will be a part of a new US$800 million military assistance package, which also includes armored vehicles and anti-armor weapons, said the Pentagon on Friday. | Though the highly c…
(2023-07-10). Sending Cluster Bombs to Ukraine, Washington Makes Clear It Will Stop at Nothing. strategic-culture.org By Andre DAMON | On Friday, the Biden administration said it would send cluster munitions—weapons that scatter unexploded bomblets across a wide area, killing and maiming civilians for decades—to Ukraine. | Facing the failure of Kiev's military offensive, the United States is desperately seeking to use the provision of ever more destructive and indiscriminate weapons to reverse its setbacks on the battlefield. | Critically, the announcement precedes next week's NATO summit in Vilnius, at which the United States and NATO are planning to massively expand their involvement in the war. Driven into a corne…
(2023-07-10). Cluster Bomb Deliveries to Ukraine Alarm Human Rights and Antiwar Advocates. truthout.org The Biden administration is drawing outrage after announcing it will send cluster bombs to Ukraine as part of a new weapons package. When deployed, cluster munitions spread smaller "bomblets" across a wide area and regularly kill civilians, either on initial impact or from unexploded segments that go off later. Their use has been banned by 123 countries that signed the Convention on Cluster… |
(2023-07-10). Trump Officials Held Meetings Over Concerns President May Incite Nuclear War. truthout.org Miles Taylor, a former Department of Homeland Security (DHS) official who served during part of Donald Trump's tenure in the White House, has said that the former president's rhetoric around nuclear weapons prompted multiple meetings among administration officials to prepare for the possibility of war. In October 2020, Taylor was revealed to be the author of a New York Times op-ed attributed to… |