(2023-10-09). Saturday 10/21: Capitalism and the Climate Crisis: Everything to Lose and a World to Win. indybay.org 2727 Event Space, 2727 California Street, Berkeley, CA 94703 | CAN'T JOIN IN-PERSON? JOIN THE EVENT VIA ZOOM | TINYURL.COM/OCTOBER-TH-2023…
(2023-10-09). Pro-Trump election deniers vie for speakership of US House. wsws.org With no clear solution to the impasse in the House of Representatives at hand, Washington's political breakdown is eroding confidence within ruling classes around the world in US imperialism's ability to crush a growing insurgency of the oppressed masses in the Middle East as well as an emerging mass movement of workers in the centers of world capitalism, including the US.
(2023-10-08). Human Rights and Basic Income. counterpunch.org 
Image by Markus Spiske. | Not long ago I was asked to speak about "minority" rights and basic income at a symposium in Barcelona leading up to the celebration of the 75th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Among the human rights professionals, who were also speaking, the gagged elephant in the room was ginormous because it is, in fact, immeasurable: the crime of ecocide—the result, in particular, of capitalism, imperialism, and neoliberalism—which is also universal because it affects everyone and everything that is alive now and also future generations. Well, it may be univer…
(2023-10-08). Saturday 10/21: Capitalism and the Climate Crisis: Everything to Lose and a World to Win. indybay.org 2727 Event Space, 2727 California Street, Berkeley, CA 94703 | CAN'T JOIN IN-PERSON? JOIN THE EVENT VIA ZOOM | TINYURL.COM/OCTOBER-TH-2023…
(2023-10-08). Household water bills to soar in UK. wsws.org Neither Starmer's "new regulatory approach" or Corbyn's renationalisation under capitalism can solve the problems of a water industry that has been systematically looted.
(2023-10-09). Bolivia's Ruling Party Confirms Evo Morales' Candidacy. popularresistance.org The split in Bolivia's ruling political party has become official. President Luis Arce and vice-president David Choquehuanca are no longer part of the MAS (Movement towards Socialism) party, which ratified the decision, informally announced on the 24, to present former president Evo Morales (2006-2019) as its candidate in the 2025 elections. | The MAS held its tenth congress from October 3-4 in the town of Lauca àë, a coca growing region in the center of the country. On that occasion, the party decreed the "self-expulsion" of Arce and Choquehuanca, for not attending the meeting, and of 20 other deputies alig…
(2023-10-08). Evo Morales Will Stand for the Presidency, Luis Arce Expelled. orinocotribune.com The congress of the Movement Towards Socialism (MAS-IPSP) has voted to present Evo Morales as its candidate for the presidency at the 2025 elections and has also voted to expel current President Luis Arce from the MAS, signifying the party's formal split with the government. | At the national party congress today in Lauca àë, Cochabamba, the plenum voted to approve two resolutions of the political co…
(2023-10-09). Peace Comes with Justice, not War. dissidentvoice.org CODEPINK strongly opposes Secretary Lloyd J. Austin's just-announced plan to send troops to the Eastern Mediterranean — including U.S. Navy aircraft carriers and defense munitions. Escalating the violence in Palestine is not the path to peace, it's the path to destroying any chance the Palestinians have for peace, justice and freedom from Israeli Apartheid. Our …
(2023-10-09). Lloyd J. Austin's "Call for War in Palestine": Peace Comes with Justice, Not War. Statement by Codepink. globalresearch.ca
(2023-10-09). EE.UU. envía portaaviones y destructores para apoyar a Israel. telesurtv.net Washington también tomará "medidas para aumentar los escuadrones de aviones de combate F-35, F-15, F-16 y A-10 de la Fuerza Aérea en la región".
(2023-10-08). US-led coalition's drones created dangerous situations in Syria 4 times in past day. tass.com Seven attacks on positions of the Syrian armed forces were recorded in the Idlib de-escalation zone…
(2023-10-08). Seven terrorist drones shot down in northern Syria. tass.com The Syrian Armed Forces responded by "opening air, rocket and mortar fire on enemy command posts, fortifications and warehouses"
(2023-10-09). Ukraine acquires 2,000 China-made drones to 'harass' Russia military. firstpost.com Ukraine has ordered 2,000 drones of Chinese origin as it gears up for yet another round of drone battles with Russia. Ukraine has managed a number of tactical wins by destroying Russian equipment but has lost most of its planes to electronic warfare and anti-aircraft fire. | Drones that are readily accessible for purchase are utilised for attack missions, ISR functions, and directing artillery fire. Even Russia used Chinese DJI drones for a long time to adjust the howitzer barrage and make sure the shells hit their targets. | Russia has considerably decreased the usage of UAVs built outside of the country. To les…
(2023-10-10). US Scrambles to Get More Arms to Israel. news.antiwar.com As Israel has declared a "complete siege" on Gaza in response to the Hamas attack on southern Israel, the US is scrambling to get more weapons in the hands of the Israelis. A Pentagon official told POLITICO on Monday that planes carrying new military aid for Israel have "already taken off." The US is sending …
(2023-10-09). The Gaza Ghetto Uprising. counterpunch.org The uprising began on the anniversary of another one, which had become a revolution. The occupying power had had informants throughout the ghetto, but despite their extensive networks of surveillance and control, they were completely blindsided when the uprising began. Those who did rise up did so primarily with ingenuity and homemade weapons, but they
(2023-10-09). Kiev regime's hunger for weapons exacerbated by latest Israel-Gaza conflict. infobrics.org If the fighting in Gaza ends up becoming a stalemate, Israel will need a constant supply of artillery munitions, which isn't a very good prospect for the Neo-Nazi junta forces.
(2023-10-09). Any Antidote To Climate Anxiety Involves Organizing. popularresistance.org I first realized the ameliorative power of organizing when, as a teenager, awareness of the threat of nuclear war gave me overwhelming anxiety. In the 1980s people in the Reagan administration where talking about "fighting and winning" a nuclear war with the Soviet Union. A massive direct action movement rose up in opposition to this in Europe, where the U.S. hoped to station a new generation of "first strike" nuclear weapons, and it eventually rose in the U.S. as well. I threw myself into this movement, marching with 70,000 people in downtown Chicago and over a million in New York City; attending and organizing…
(2023-10-09). Loewenstein: Occupied Palestine 'used as a testing ground' for Israeli weapons, surveillance technology. greenleft.org.au 
Independent investigative journalist, filmmaker and best-selling author Anthony Loewenstein recently spoke about his latest book, How Israel Exports the Technology of Occupation Around the World, on Green Left Radio. Ruth Heymann reports.
(2023-10-09). Loewenstein: Occupied Palestine 'used as a testing ground' for Israeli weapons, surveillance technology. greenleft.org.au Independent investigative journalist, filmmaker and best-selling author Antony Loewenstein recently spoke about his latest book, How Israel Exports the Technology of Occupation Around the World, on Green Left Radio. Ruth Heymann reports.
(2023-10-08). Hamas Could Have Used US Weapons From Afghanistan or Ukraine – House Rep. sputnikglobe.com On October 7, Hamas militants launched a coordinated series of incursions into Israeli territory in an escalation of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
(2023-10-09). US devising secret strategy to counter weapons of mass destruction — Russia's top brass. tass.com By abandoning work on a verification protocol within the BTWC, the United States is creating administrative and technical structures that can be involved in dual-use research, including for offensive purposes, Igor Kirillov stressed…
(2023-10-09). US Weapons to Ukraine Sold through Back Door to Terrorists. transcend.org 4 Oct 2023 – According to former Ukrainian Defense Ministry informants, the Foundation to Battle Injustice identified which NATO weapons are being resold by the Ukrainian government and revealed the scale and routes to resell Western weapons on the black market.
(2023-10-09). Israel continues to raze Hamas targets in Gaza. firstpost.com The Israeli Air Force Monday continued to raze Hamas targets in Gaza. | On Monday morning, the Israeli jets attacked "a weapons warehouse and an entrance shaft to an underground terrorist tunnel in the Gaza Strip, which are used by senior members of the terrorist organisation Hamas." | ◊ó◊ô◊ú-◊î◊ê◊ï◊ï◊ô◊® ◊û◊û◊©◊ô◊ö ◊ú◊™◊ß◊ï◊£ ◊û◊ò◊®◊ï◊™ ◊©◊ú ◊ê◊®…