Daily Archives: September 24, 2023

2023-09-24: News Headlines

Chris Hedges, The Real News Network. (2023-09-24). 'Silent Coup': How Capitalism Defeated Decolonization. popularresistance.org The 20th Century saw a great global uprising against European imperialism as the former colonial countries shook off their shackles and rose up for independence. More than a half century later, global inequality is sharper than ever before. To understand the current predicament of the vast majority of the world's people, we must understand the intervening decades. Matt Kennard and Claire Provost's book, Silent Coup: How Corporations Overthrew Democracy, looks inside the international architecture of global corporate governance that exists to flout and crush any attempts by the former colonial world to enact devel…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-09-23). Fascism is Capitalism in Decay. libya360.wordpress.com Ekaterina Cabylis The Relationship Between Economic Decline and Authoritarianism "Fascism is capitalism in decay," we have all heard this referenced to Lenin. While it's important to note that this specific quote may not be verbatim from his writings or speeches, it does capture the essence of Lenin's views on capitalism and its potential consequences. Lenin…

Peoples Health Dispatch (2023-09-23). Capitalism is the greatest threat to public health, warn researchers and activists. peoplesdispatch.org During the opening of the 19th conference of the International Association of Health Policy Europe, academics and activists warned that capitalism remains biggest threat to human and planetary health…

scorinoco (2023-09-24). It's Cuba or Daniel Blake. orinocotribune.com By Ana Hurtado — Sep 20, 2023 | The world is in turmoil. As the Western powers and their economic policies continue to tear apart the world, the countries of the South have united to demand justice. | This is a long story, one that continues and has been there on a planet where human beings have gone straight into an invisible plane. Since the emergence of capitalism, we have witnessed the progressive destruction of people, their cultures, communities, their environment and their freedoms by oppressive forces that increasingly abuse all people. | Is this what we human beings are destined for? | In 2016, the…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-09-23). The Success of Chinese Socialism. libya360.wordpress.com In the following article, originally published in the Young Communist League of Britain's Challenge magazine, Kate Woolford and Rares Cocilnau debunk some of the most persistent myths surrounding China's development. The first misconception discussed is that China is an undemocratic, "authoritarian" state. The authors point to China's system of whole-process people's democracy, "which allows citizens to…

Juan M. Garcia (2023-09-24). Kim Jong Un thanks China for supporting DPRK. plenglish.com Pyongyang, Sep 24 (Prensa Latina) The general secretary of the Labor Party and president of State Affairs of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), Kim Jong Un, acknowledged China's support for his country's struggles in defense of socialism.

Vijay Prashad, Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. (2023-09-23). NATO Destroyed Libya In 2011; Storm Daniel Came To Sweep Up The Remains. popularresistance.org Three days before the Abu Mansur and Al Bilad dams collapsed in Wadi Derna, Libya, on the night of September 10, the poet Mustafa al-Trabelsi participated in a discussion at the Derna House of Culture about the neglect of basic infrastructure in his city. At the meeting, al-Trabelsi warned about the poor condition of the dams. As he wrote on Facebook that same day, over the past decade his beloved city has been 'exposed to whipping and bombing, and then it was enclosed by a wall that had no door, leaving it shrouded in fear and depression'. Then, Storm Daniel picked up off the Mediterranean coast, dragged itself…

F. William Engdahl (2023-09-23). The "Great Zero Carbon" Conspiracy and the WEF's "Great Reset" globalresearch.ca The globalist Davos World Economic Forum is proclaiming the necessity of reaching a worldwide goal of "net zero carbon" by 2050. Yet transformations underway from Germany to the USA, are setting the stage for creation of what is called the New Word Order. In reality it is a blueprint for a global technocratic totalitarian corporativism, that promises huge unemployment, deindustrialization and economic collapse.

Connor Freeman (2023-09-24). Kyiv Launches More Attacks on Sevastopol in Crimea. news.antiwar.com Kyiv launched cruise missile attacks on the Crimean Peninsula with weapons provided by NATO on Friday. This was followed by another missile strike on Sevastopol, where Russia's Black Sea fleet is based, on Saturday morning. Kyrylo Budanov, Ukraine's intelligence chief, told Voice of America — the US state-funded media outlet — that at least nine …

Editor (2023-09-23). UK Intelligence Spun 2013 Syria Chemical Attack, Leaked Docs Show. scheerpost.com US officials suppressed internal assessments that Al Qaeda's Syrian wing had an "advanced" sarin production cell even as the US publicly blamed the Assad government for a 2013 chemical weapons attack, a report reveals. | Leaked documents obtained by The Grayzone show a shadowy British intelligence contractor helped sell the story that Assad was responsible — and nearly triggered Western intervention.

Brian Berletic (2023-09-24). Russia is WINNING as NATO's Weapons Burn in Ukraine w/ Brian Berletic and Angelo Giuliano. thealtworld.com NATO and its neocons handlers are promoting fake optimism for Ukraine while in reality admitting defeat. Brian Berletic, Angelo Giuliano, and myself explain the significance of this paradox.

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