Editor (2023-09-15). The pyramid scheme that is racial capitalism. mronline.org On August 26, a lone white gunman, 21-year-old Ryan Christopher Palmeter, fired 11 rounds from his semi-automatic weapon into the windshield of a car parked outside a Jacksonville Dollar General, killing the African American driver. Then he walked into the discount store, and fatally shot two other African Americans before turning the gun on himself.

People's Dispatch. (2023-09-15). Why Democracy Is Not Possible Under Capitalism. popularresistance.org In Atlanta, residents are using the existing democratic systems under capitalism to fight the construction of a multi-million dollar training ground for militarized police repression, and finding those systems lacking. Meanwhile, in socialist Cuba, the people and the government collaborated on formulating the world's most progressive family code. | Is it possible to have democracy under a capitalist system? Under a different economic system, such as socialism, what would democracy look like? Mariah Parker, Stop Cop City activist, labor organizer with the Union of Southern Service Workers, and rapper, spoke to ove…

Vijay Prashad (2023-09-15). Beneath the polycrisis is the singular dilemma of humanity called capitalism: The Thirty-Seventh Newsletter (2023). mronline.org Dilemmas of humanity abound. There is little need to look at statistical data to know that we are in a spiral of crises, from the environmental and climate crisis to the crises of poverty and hunger.

Alex Salmon (2023-09-14). Bernie Sanders: Don't just get angry, get organised. greenleft.org.au Alex Salmon reviews Bernie Sanders' new book, It's Ok to be Angry about Capitalism.

Vijay Prashad (2023-09-14). Beneath the Polycrisis Is the Singular Dilemma of Humanity Called Capitalism. dissidentvoice.org Tsherin Sherpa (Nepal), Lost Spirits, 2014. Dilemmas of humanity abound. There is little need to look at statistical data to know that we are in a spiral of crises, from the environmental and climate crisis to the crises of poverty and hunger. In 1993, the philosophers Edgar Morin and Anne-Brigitte Kern used the term 'polycrisis' …

WSWS (2023-09-14). Australian property developer Tim Gurner reveals the real face of capitalism. wsws.org Gurner said the unemployment rate must rise by 50 percent to hit the working class and change its "attitudes" and "arrogance" by bringing "pain" to the economy.

Fidel Vascós González (2023-09-15). Hacia una democracia directa en Cuba socialista. globalizacion.ca Presentación en el Panel titulado "La estructura del sistema del Estado cubano para un socialismo próspero y sostenible", organizado por el Consejo Científico de la Sociedad Económica de Amigos del País el 8 de septiembre de 2023. | El objetivo principal…

teleSUR, JGN (2023-09-15). Presidente de Nicaragua conmemora aniversario de independencia. telesurtv.net El mandatario de la nación centroamericana ratificó su compromiso con el pueblo y la juventud nicaragüense en ideas de justicia, igualdad y socialismo.

WSWS (2023-09-15). Oppose all capitalist parties in the New Zealand election! Fight against war and for world socialism! Build the Socialist Equality Group! wsws.org This statement of the Socialist Equality Group explains the socialist perspective needed to unite the working class against the agenda of war and austerity shared by Labour, National and all the parliamentary parties.

WSWS (2023-09-15). Millionaire speculator blurts out ruling class strategy of mass unemployment and wage-slashing. wsws.org The comments of Australian property developer Tim Gurner reveal the real policy of the auto bosses, the banks, and capitalist governments everywhere.

Max Jones, Scheer Post. (2023-09-14). Poverty Rose In 2022 As Inflation Surged, Pandemic Aid Terminated. popularresistance.org In the aftermath of pandemic relief programs such as increased unemployment and nutrition benefits, greater rental assistance and the child tax credit — policies which the Biden administration allowed to expire in 2021 — Americans faced the largest one-year increase of poverty on record. | According to a report from the Census Bureau published on Sept. 12, the sharpest increase in poverty affected children, as child poverty more than doubled from a record low of 5.2 percent to now 12.4 percent. This was indicated by the Supplemental Poverty Measure, which "factors in the impact of government assistanc…

sputnikglobe (2023-09-14). Russia's Air Defenses Drop 11 Ukrainian Drones Over Crimea Overnight. sputnikglobe.com MOSCOW (Sputnik) – Russian air defense systems shot down 11 Ukrainian aircraft-type unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) over Crimea overnight, the Russian Defense Ministry said early Thursday.

TASS (2023-09-14). Aeroflot not planning to reduce night flights at Moscow airports due to drones — CEO. tass.com The general director of the group, Sergei Aleksandrovsky, clarified that at the peak, 19 flights of the group were sent to alternate airfields in one day…

TASS (2023-09-14). Two Ukrainian drones shot down in Bryansk Region – defense ministry. tass.com Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles were shot down by air defense systems…

TASS (2023-09-14). Another Ukrainian drone shot down in Bryansk Region – defense ministry. tass.com Earlier, the ministry said that Ukrainian drones were destroyed over the Bryansk Region at about 10: 00 p.m. on Wednesday evening and at 0: 10 a.m. on Thursday…

TASS (2023-09-14). One more Ukrainian drone shot down in Bryansk Region – defense ministry. tass.com Earlier, the ministry said that Ukrainian drones were destroyed over the Bryansk Region at about 10: 00 p.m. on Wednesday evening and at 0: 10 and 0: 30 a.m. on Thursday…

TASS (2023-09-14). 11 Ukrainian drones shot down over Crimea — Russian defense ministry. tass.com According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, the attack took place around 05: 30 Moscow time…

TASS (2023-09-14). Ukraine's attempted attack on Russian ship with surface drones in Black Sea thwarted. tass.com The attack was repelled and five enemy unmanned boats were destroyed from the Russian ship's onboard weapons…

Daniel Borgstrà∂m (2023-09-14). Is KPFA Transitioning from Antiwar to Peacewashing? dissidentvoice.org Early morning radio listeners might've thought they'd tuned into the wrong station. No, they had the right one — KPFA at 94.1 FM. But yes, something was strange, weird, and even downright wrong. Listeners were hearing a pitch for improving the Military Industrial Complex, a need to build up U.S. defense industries in order to …

Rhoda Wilson (2023-09-15). IPCC should include weather warfare as part of the global climate change debate. expose-news.com Two of the defence contractors dominating the directed energy weapons ("DEWs") market — Raytheon and BAE — are also involved with environmental modification techniques. One such environmental modification project was HAARP in …

MEE staff (2023-09-14). Saudi-US arms deal called off over ties to sanctioned Russian, Chinese firms: Report. middleeasteye.net

Amitabha Roychowdhury (2023-09-15). Western arms proliferate in Afghanistan, spike violence. peoplesdispatch.org A huge cache of arms, ammunition and sophisticated military equipment was left behind by the United States and its NATO allies when they pulled out their forces in 2021. Since the Taliban takeover, a chunk of this military gear and weapons has also found way into the arms black market, from where the ruling Taliban has been making money through their sale…

Anna Stavrianakis, Consortium News. (2023-09-15). A Very British Arms Fair. popularresistance.org This week, 35,000 arms company representatives, military officers and state officials from around the world are congregating at the Excel Centre in Newham, East London. | Over four days, [Sept. 12-15] guests at Defence and Security Equipment International (DSEI) can watch demonstrations of new weapons systems, listen to keynote speakers euphemise the global appetite for war-making, visit warships moored on the Thames, and make connections with buyers and sellers via a dedicated networking app. | For the more sportingly inclined, there is the tri-force tug of war to show off the brawn and teamwork of the British A…

infobrics (2023-09-15). Blinken openly endorses Kiev regime's attacks on Russia with US-made missiles. infobrics.org American weapons are not exactly groundbreaking for the Russian military that possesses far more potent missiles, but the real issue comes from the fact that the political West is providing the necessary ISR data. This is a significant force multiplier that can make even a relatively mediocre weapon such as the ATACMS more dangerous.

TASS (2023-09-15). High-ranking Ukrainian official claims domestic weapons used in attacks on Crimea. tass.com Advisor to the head of the office of the President of Ukraine denies that the Ukrainian Armed Forces used British Storm Shadow cruise missiles to attack Sevastopol…

Yves Engler (2023-09-15). Depleted Uranium Added to Toxic Mess in Ukraine. dissidentvoice.org Following on from its decision to donate widely banned cluster munitions to Ukraine the US is sending armor-piercing depleted uranium (DU) munitions to fight Russia. Indifferent to the poisonous effect of these weapons, the Justin Trudeau government has remained mum on Washington's escalatory move. Depleted uranium (DU) is a by-product from the production of fuel …

Rady Ananda (2023-09-14). Planetary Weapons and Military Weather Modification: Chemtrails, Atmospheric Geoengineering and Environmental Warfare. globalresearch.ca "The key to geophysical warfare is the identification of the environmental instabilities to which the addition of a small amount of energy would release vastly greater amounts of energy."

sputnikglobe (2023-09-14). Powerful Russian Weapons Tear NATO Hardware to Shreds in Ukraine. sputnikglobe.com The ongoing Ukrainian "counteroffensive," which has been dragging on for three months now, has essentially confirmed that Western military hardware is not superior to Russian weaponry.

Richard D. Wolff, NewsClick. (2023-09-12). Economic Growth In G7 Versus Brics: A Reality Check. popularresistance.org In the United Kingdom, the BBC prepared and published data from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in January about different nations' growth forecasts for 2023 and 2024. The BBC foregrounded some really bad news for the UK. Of nine major industrial economies—the G7 (the US, Canada, Japan, Germany, the UK, France, and Canada), plus Russia, and China—the UK would be the only one to suffer real economic decline: a contraction in its 2023 GDP (its total annual, national output of goods and services). | So dubious a distinction for the UK followed the long political night of rule by the Conservative Pa…

Richard D. Wolff (2023-09-11). Economic growth in G7 versus BRICS: a reality check. nationofchange.org Like rose-colored glasses, anti-systemic glasses make economic problems appear less dangerous, narrower, and more limited in effects than they actually are.

Orinoco Tribune 2 (2023-09-12). Prettification of Capitalism Is Backfiring. orinocotribune.com By Prabhat Patnaik — Sep 8, 2023 | Metropolitan economies that arm-twisted the Third World to accept that 'global trade is beneficial for all', are now taking the lead in protecting themselves against imports by violating their own neoliberal rules. | Liberal bourgeois writers tend to explain the problems that arise under capitalism not by the immanent tendencies of the system but by the capriciousness of particular governments. This way they can continue to believe in their own false theories that prettify capitalism, while putting the blame for the travails it generates on political bloody-mindedness. One…

Staff (2023-09-12). "Capitalism Is an Insecurity Machine": Astra Taylor on Student Debt & Our Radically Unequal World. democracynow.org As the COVID-19 era pause on federal student debt payments comes to an end and some 40 million Americans will resume payments next month, we speak with Debt Collective organizer Astra Taylor about Biden's new Saving on a Valuable Education, or SAVE, plan and her organization's new tool that helps people apply to the Department of Education to cancel the borrower's debt. Taylor also discusses her new book, The Age of Insecurity: Coming Together as Things Fall Apart, in which she writes, "How we understand and respond to insecurity is one of the most urgent questions of our moment, for nothi…

Corinne Loperfido, In These Times. (2023-09-11). No Parties On A Dead Planet: It's Time We Reimagine Burning Man. popularresistance.org For the past 37 years, people have flocked to Burning Man to celebrate art, radical self expression and community. The first iteration of Burning Man began in 1986 when a small group of friends met on a San Francisco beach with an eight-foot statue of a man they built with scrap lumber. They soaked the statue in gasoline and burned it, symbolizing the destruction of the powers that be. | The world does not look today as it did in 1986: As about 72,000 "Burners" lined up in their cars and campers to take reprieve from the grind of capitalism and attend this year's Burning Man, which now conven…

Editor (2023-09-11). Review: "Forces of Production, Climate Change and Canadian Fossil Fuel Capitalism" mronline.org Nicolas Graham's book on forces of production and fossil-fuel capitalism gives an important analysis of why fundamental change is needed to solve the climate crisis, finds John Clarke…

Peoples Dispatch (2023-09-11). Socialist "movement incubator" celebrates five year anniversary in the heart of NYC. peoplesdispatch.org The People's Forum in New York City, founded in 2018 as a "movement incubator" to unite working class movements in the US and abroad, celebrated its five year anniversary on Saturday, September 9. In its five years of existence, TPF has been able to support the strengthening of progressive and socialist organizations from the heart of world capitalism. | "Over the past five years, TPF has become a reference for people who are seeking to understand what's going on in the world around them, and who want a place where they can ask questions and exchange ideas, and where there's space for socialist and internationali…

WSWS (2023-09-12). "Socialism 2023" conference: Imperialist warmongering and Democratic Party politics. wsws.org The "Socialism 2023" conference was dominated by the self-absorption and reactionary politics of the upper middle class milieu populating the DSA, the fraudulent "reformists" of the trade union bureaucracy and pro-imperialist state operatives.

Walden Bello (2023-09-11). Remembering Salvador Allende and the Chilean Counterrevolution. fpif.org When I heard that Salvador Allende won the Chilean presidential elections in September 1970 and sought to bring his country to socialism by peaceful means, I decided to do my doctoral dissertation on Chile. In May 1972, I went to take a crash course in Spanish in Cuernavaca in the Mexican state of Morelos, the birthplace of the legendary peasant leader Emiliano Zapata whose life had been made into a movie starring Marlon Brando that I had seen and liked as a teenager. After three weeks, I felt that the course had substantially improved the rudimentary Spanish I had from high school in the Philippines. So, I flew…

jamanetwork (2023-09-12). Benefits of Pulmonary Vein Isolation Beyond Rhythm Control. jamanetwork.com The prevalence of atrial fibrillation (AF) is continually increasing, with major implications for patients and health care systems given the increased morbidity and mortality. Approximately one-third of patients with AF additionally are affected by mental health conditions (notably depression, anxiety, and perceived stress). Psychological distress conditions are independent risk factors for adverse cardiovascular outcomes (including stroke and major bleeding) in patients with AF and promote AF recurrence. Without doubt, these associations add more complexity to comprehensive treatment decisions for patients with…

Lia Becker (2023-09-12). De-escalation instead of war of attrition. indybay.org The call for negotiations alone is no longer enough. In a situation in which parts of the Western alliance are struggling to find ways out of the war and at the same time more and more heavy weapons are being supplied for a war that will last for years, the social left should campaign more strongly than before for "mutual de-escalation" and security guarantees, for European independence…

Steve Topple, The Canary. (2023-09-12). Opposition To Arms Fair Intensifies, Israeli Arms Companies Make A Killing. popularresistance.org The Defence and Security Equipment International (DSEI) arms fair is taking place at the ExCeL centre in London. Meanwhile, activists and campaigners have already been robustly protesting it — causing some major disruption along the way. However, one group has revealed the extent of the Israeli state's death and destruction that's being represented at DSEI. It includes over 40 arms companies from the country selling their weapons there. There was also a Faith Day on Thursday 7 September. This was where people from all denominations (or those with none) held vigils, but also blocked deliveries to DSEI.

Dave DeCamp (2023-09-11). Blinken: US Does Not Oppose Ukraine Targeting Russian Territory With US-Provided Missiles. news.antiwar.com Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Sunday that it was up to Ukraine whether or not to target Russian territory with US-provided weapons, a policy that brings the US and Russia closer to a direct clash. Blinken made the comments after ABC News reported that it's likely the Biden administration will soon arm Ukraine with …

Lawrence S. Wittner (2023-09-11). From the Partial Test Ban Treaty to a Nuclear Weapons-Free World. fpif.org

Matt Agorist (2023-09-11). US Admits to Sending Radioactive Weapons to Ukraine that Left Thousands of Iraqi Babies Deformed. globalresearch.ca

MEE staff (2023-09-11). More than 40 Israeli firms among 'world's worst arms dealers' at London weapons fair. middleeasteye.net

Victor Grossman (2023-09-11). Othello and the war: Berlin Bulletin, September 11, 2023. mronline.org The war in Ukraine, a horrific tragedy for the people of that unhappy country, fateful as well for many young Russians and potentially menacing for all the world, with burnished weapons of every size and destructive power waiting in silos or submarines for a slip, a blunder, a provocation.