Monthly Archives: July 2023

2023-07-03: News Headlines

Caitlin Johnstone (2023-07-03). Ask Who Benefits: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix. thealtworld.com Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley): | It is the Republican Party's job to expand the US military, rob and oppress the working class, serve US plutocrats, facilitate ecocidal capitalism, and foment division among the electorate. It is the Democratic Party's job to do these same things while blaming it on Republicans. | ‚ùñ | One of the weirdest things to happen last year was the entire western political/media class deciding to start pretending Ukrainian Nazis aren't Nazis based on literally nothing whatsoever, just because it's convenient, and a substantial portion of…

Tomasz Konicz (2023-07-03). The End of the "Golden Age" of Capitalism and the Rise of Neoliberalism. indybay.org The rise of the neoliberal world economic system marked by the dominance of financial markets — whose financial superstructure collapses over us — resulted from the radical economic crises of the early 1970s that seized nearly all western industrial countries. This crisis ended a period of economic prosperity in Western Europe and the US that continued since the early 1950s.

Jessica Buxbaum, MintPress News. (2023-07-04). With Drone Strike, The West Bank Could Turn Into War-Ravaged Gaza. popularresistance.org Last week, the Israeli military killed three Palestinians in its first aerial drone strike in the occupied West Bank in nearly 20 years — marking a grave escalation in state violence against the territory. | Using an Elbit Systems Hermes 450 drone, the military struck a vehicle in Jenin carrying Palestinians suspected of fatally shooting four Israelis the day before. According to the Israeli military, this was the first drone strike since 2006 during the Second Intifada, or Palestinian uprising against Israeli occupation. | Drones have been mainly used in the West Bank for intelligence and surveillance purp…

Staff (2023-07-03). Jenin rises: Palestinian resistance confronts imperialist-backed Zionist aggression. samidoun.net In the early morning hours of Monday, 3 July 2023, Zionist forces began invading and assaulting Jenin city and refugee camp with a massive military presence involving 1,000 soldiers and at least 150 armored Caterpillar bulldozers, armed drones, armored vehicles and aerial military equipment. The aim of these attacks is to target the growing Palestinian …

teleSUR (2023-07-03). Israel's Large-Scale Military Operation in Jenin Leaves 8 Dead. telesurenglish.net On Monday, the Israeli occupation forces launched a large-scale military strike early on the city of Jenin. So far, this offensive has left eight Palestinians dead and fifty wounded. | RELATED: | Dozens of armored vehicles backed by drones and helicopters stormed the city and the refugee camp, said Palestinian eyewitnesses, adding that airstrikes were carried out during the exchange of fire between Palestinian militants and Israeli s…

Editor (2023-07-03). Report Shows How Military Industrial Complex Sets Media Narrative on Ukraine. scheerpost.com By Bryce Greene / Fairness and Accuracy In Reporting (FAIR) Wealthy donors have long funded think tanks with official-sounding names that produce research that reflects the interests of those funders (Extra!, 7/13). The weapons industry is a major contributor to these idea factories; a recent report from the Quincy Institute (6/1/23) demonstrates just how much influence …

Bryce Greene, Fairness, Accuracy in Reporting. (2023-07-03). How Military Industrial Complex Sets Media Narrative On Ukraine. popularresistance.org Wealthy donors have long funded think tanks with official-sounding names that produce research that reflects the interests of those funders (Extra!, 7/13). The weapons industry is a major contributor to these idea factories; a recent report from the Quincy Institute (6/1/23) demonstrates just how much influence war profiteers have on the national discourse. | The Quincy Institute—whose own start-up funding came mainly from George Soros and Charles Koch—looked at 11 months of Ukraine War coverage in the New York Times, Washington Post and Wall Street Journal, from March 1, 2022, through January 31, 202…

Mnar Adley (2023-07-03). MintPress News Is Being Targeted: Join Us in Standing up to the War Machine. mintpressnews.com Stand up for truth. Stand up against war. Today, we invite you to join us in empowering MintPress News, the vanguard of fearless investigative journalism that unearths the hidden web of the military industrial complex.

Anonymous103 (2023-07-03). Russian Forces Destroyed Almost All Leopard Tanks Supplied By Poland And Portugal — Russian MoD. southfront.org The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue to successfully resist the Ukrainian formations during the special operation, launching high precision strikes on them and limiting their offensive potential, Russian Minister of Defence Army General Sergei Shoigu. | During the meeting of the Russian military command on June 3, Sergey Shigu revealed that since June 4, the AFU had lost about two and a half thousand units of various weapons. 15 planes, 3 helicopters and 920 enemy armored…

Anonymous834 (2023-07-03). Poland Wants To Join NATO's Nuclear Weapons Sharing Program. southfront.org Written by Lucas Leiroz, journalist, researcher at the Center for Geostrategic Studies, geopolitical consultant | Poland continues to escalate tensions against Russia and Belarus. In a recent speech, the country's

thecommunists (2023-07-03). Why does Russia now believe that Covid-19 was a US-created bioweapon? thecommunists.org Western mainstream media reporting of chemical, biological and genetic experimentation, 'biosecurity' and bioweapons has become so integral to the information war that it has become hard to disentangle fact from fiction, and truth from psychological operation, even for those with sound political instincts and a healthy scepticism. Yet the war in Ukraine is shedding some …

_____ (2023-07-03). Huge Increase in Transnational Crime in Asia's 'Golden Triangle'. transcend.org 27 Jun 2023 – How come that in a world where technology is able to detect an ant in a jungle, the traffickers of death continue to carry out their lucrative criminal activities everywhere and in all fields, from weapons to prostitution, enslavement and drugs to deadly fake medicines, through oil, gas and poisoned food.

_____ (2023-07-03). PETA Demands U.S. Army Ban 'Classified' Weapon-Wounding Tests on Dogs, Others. transcend.org The U.S. Army is now explicitly permitting formerly banned laboratory experiments involving the wounding of dogs, cats, marine animals, and primates using weapons.

_____ (2023-07-03). U.S. Intelligence Agencies Advance Disinformation about Chinese Spy Base in Cuba… transcend.org to Gain Support for Cruel Embargo Costing Cubans $455 Million per Month – After having lied about WMDs, Russiagate, chemical weapons in Syria and so much more, the U.S. is now advancing the lie that Cuba is hosting a Chinese spy base.

Paul Larudee (2023-07-03). Armageddon and the Limits of Evolution. dissidentvoice.org On March 28, 2022, the Biden administration sent to Congress a revised version of its classified National Defense Strategy. The new version removed the longstanding doctrine of "no first use" of nuclear weapons, and opened the door to a nuclear response to a non-nuclear threat. Within months of the new U.S. policy, but without referring …

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2023-07-02: News Headlines

Tomasz Konicz (2023-07-02). The End of the "Golden Age" of Capitalism and the Rise of Neoliberalism. indybay.org The rise of the neoliberal world economic system marked by the dominance of financial markets — whose financial superstructure collapses over us — resulted from the radical economic crises of the early 1970s that seized nearly all western industrial countries. This crisis ended a period of economic prosperity in Western Europe and the US that continued since the early 1950s.

Ileana Ferrer Fonte (2023-07-01). Communist Party of Serbia welcomes DPRK's achievements. plenglish.com Pyongyang, Jul 1 (Prensa Latina) The Communist Party of Serbia has expressed admiration for the great achievements of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) in building socialism, KCNA reported on Saturday.

teleSUR, YSM (2023-07-02). Rusia y Cuba reanudan servicios aéreos regulares. telesurtv.net Aeroflot es la encargada de ejecutar los vuelos con un Boeing-777, que demorará unas 13 horas en volar desde Moscú hasta Varadero.

Anonymous669 (2023-07-02). Russia Says U.S.-led Coalition Drones Violated Flight Safety Protocols Over Syria 315 Times In June. southfront.org A MQ-9 Reaper unmanned aerial vehicle prepares to land after a mission in support of Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan. (U.S. Air Force photo/Staff Sgt. Brian Ferguson) | Drones of the United States-led coalition in Syria violated flight safety protocols 315 times in June, deputy head of Russia's Center for Reconciliation in Syria, Rear Admiral Oleg Gurinov, said on July 1."There are continued gross violations of the deconflicting protocols and the bilateral Memorandum on Flight Safety in Syria by…

Anonymous669 (2023-07-01). Russia Unveils Two New Anti-Drone Electronic Warfare Systems. southfront.org File image. | Russia's Kaysant Research and Production Association unveiled two new anti-drone electronic warfare systems on the sideline of the Special Gear exhibition that was held in Moscow on June 29-30. | The association's director for development Alyona Balandina told TASS that the first system, dubbed Argus-Kupol, was designed to provide all-around protection against drones."The Argus-Kupol is capable of thwarting the flights of one or several unmanned aerial vehicles within its operational range a…

Anonymous669 (2023-07-01). U.S. Drones Are Violating Memorandum Of Understanding Over Syria, Russia Warns. southfront.org A fully armed MQ-9 Reaper unmanned aerial vehicle taxis down the runway at an air base in Afghanistan on its way to another wartime mission. (U.S. Air Force photo/Staff Sgt. Brian Ferguson). | The United States-led coalition's drones were spotted flying over Syria five times during the past day in violation of the memorandum of understanding with Russia, Rear Admiral Oleg Gurinov, deputy chief of the Russian Center for Reconciliation in Syria said on June 30. "During the day, five violations of the memorandum of…

ecns.cn (2023-07-01). Regulations address use of civilian drones. ecns.cn China has issued a set of rules to govern the use of civilian drones.

John LaForge, CounterPunch. (2023-07-02). US Depleted Uranium To Make Ukraine War Dirtier. popularresistance.org The Biden administration is expected to supply Ukraine with highly controversial depleted-uranium munitions which are to be fired from the Abrams battle tanks the U.S. is sending to Kyiv, the Wall St. Journal reported June 13. | Any delivery of U.S. depleted uranium (DU) weapons to Ukraine would be in addition to the State Department's Dec. 22, 2022 approval of the sale to Poland of as many as 112,000 heavy 120-millimeter DU shells, which was announced by the Pentagon's Defense Security Cooperation Agency. | The British Ministry of Defense announced last March 20 that it too would send depleted uranium munitions…

Anonymous669 (2023-07-01). Russian Army Strikes Ukrainian Command Posts In Donetsk, Repels Attacks In Other Sectors (Videos). southfront.org File image. | Russian forces successfully targeted the command and control posts of Ukraine's Donetsk operational and tactical group, a spokesman for the Russian Ministry of Defense, Lieutenant General Igor Konashenkov, announced on July 1. "Russia's Armed Forces inflicted a strike with high-precision land-and sea-based weapons on the command posts of the Donetsk operational and tactical group," the spokesman said, confirming that the targets were hit. | Konashenkov added that Kiev forces launched several n…

Yasiel Betancourt Clavijo (2023-07-01). Panama speeds up destruction of firearms. plenglish.com According to the report from the Ministry of Security (Minseg), the operation took place on Thursday in the presence of national and capital authorities, including Governor Carla García and the director of Patrimonial Assets at the Ministry of Economy and Finances, Orlando Barria. | Security Minister Juan Manuel Pino pointed out that this was the 37th ceremony of this kind during the administration of President Laurentino Cortizo (2019-2024). | The official explained specified that 349 of the total number of weapons destroyed came from criminal activities, 642 were property of the National Police and others belo…

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