Unitarian Universalists of SF (2023-10-02). Sunday 10/29: Global Conversations: U.S. Capitalism/Imperialism Is there an alternative? indybay.org 1187 Franklin Street, San Francisco, CA 94109 (corner of Geary Blvd).

Frank Cappello (2023-10-03). MOVIES VS. CAPITALISM: Heaven's Gate (w/ Matthew Donovan). levernews.com

Party for Socialism, Liberation (2023-10-03). PSL Statement: Modi's police targets progressive Indian outlet NewsClick with mass raids. liberationnews.org The Party for Socialism and Liberation condemns this assault on press freedoms, carried out to intimidate all those who speak out against the far right agenda of the Modi government.

Luis Linares Petrov (2023-10-03). Ukraine employs toxic substances in conflict zone. plenglish.com Moscow, Oct 3 (Prensa Latina) The Ukrainian Armed Forces have begun using drones treated with toxic substances and "Cheremukha" (lit. "bird cherry") grenades loaded with tear gas in the areas where the special military operation is taking place, the Union of Russian Veterans reported.

Joel Stein (2023-10-03). LEFT WONDERING: Is Oil Extraction Tilting The Earth? levernews.com Welcome to a new edition of Left Wondering with Joel Stein, our advice column for paid subscribers of The Lever on how to lead an ethical life in an increasingly unethical world.Have a question about how to make a personal decision related to climate change, corporatization, politics, wealth inequality, globalization, or other matters that you'd like Joel to answer? Send it to .Dear Left Wondering,There was a report recently that pulling trillions of gallons of groundwater from the ground over the last many decades has caused the earth t…

greenleft.org.au (2023-10-03). Killing by algorithm: Australia lacks adequate ethical restraints. greenleft.org.au

Dave DeCamp (2023-10-02). Pentagon Tells Congress It's Running Out of Money to Replace Weapons Sent to Ukraine. news.antiwar.com The Pentagon has warned Congress that it's running out of money to replace stockpiles of weapons that have been sent to Ukraine and has been forced to slow down the replenishment of the US military. The warning comes after Congress passed a short-term funding bill to avert a government shutdown that did not include money …

Dave DeCamp (2023-10-02). White House Says US to Send More Weapons to Ukraine 'Soon'. news.antiwar.com

Drago Bosnic (2023-10-02). How Soviet-era Doctrine and Weapons Trump American Warfighting. globalresearch.ca

greenleft.org.au (2023-10-02). Killing by algorithm: Australia lacks adequate ethical restraints. greenleft.org.au

Luis Linares Petrov (2023-10-02). Heavy fighting breaks out in Sudan once again. plenglish.com The paramilitaries claimed to be in control of a military base in Wad Ashana, where they announced that they had captured weapons, ammunition and 12 combat vehicles from the Army, which was denied by their adversaries. | The head of the Sudanese Armed Forces, General Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan, stated that the discourse promoted by the RSF about democracy, justice and a call for dialogue is false. | Al-Burhan told members of the artillery corps in the city of Atbara, to the north of the country, that the RSF intends to divide the country, and described their actions as a stab in the back of the people of Sudan. | Th…

Tomasz Konicz (2023-10-01). We are Zombies. indybay.org Zombie movies are an apocalyptic genre, in which there is an inkling that the given social order cannot last & has reached its development limits. The first great wave of zombies hit the Western culture industry during the crisis period of the seventies of the 20th century, when the "Golden Age" of post-war capitalism, full employment and mass consumption, came to an end.

Unitarian Universalists of SF (2023-10-01). Sunday 10/29: Global Conversations: U.S. Capitalism/Imperialism Is there an alternative? indybay.org 1187 Franklin Street, San Francisco, CA 94109 (corner of Geary Blvd).

Tomasz Konicz (2023-09-30). We are Zombies. indybay.org Zombie movies are an apocalyptic genre, in which there is an inkling that the given social order cannot last & has reached its development limits. The first great wave of zombies hit the Western culture industry during the crisis period of the seventies of the 20th century, when the "Golden Age" of post-war capitalism, full employment and mass consumption, came to an end.

Unitarian Universalists of SF (2023-09-30). Sunday 10/29: Global Conversations: U.S. Capitalism/Imperialism Is there an alternative? indybay.org 1187 Franklin Street, San Francisco, CA 94109 (corner of Geary Blvd).

David Bollier. (2023-10-01). The Anthropocene? No, We're Actually Entering The Ecocene! popularresistance.org We moderns are so self-important that we've even named a geological epoch after ourselves, the Anthropocene. Sure, human civilization has massively transformed and destabilized the planet's ecosystems. But Anthropocene is ultimately a misleading moniker because it implies that we humans are the driving force on Earth. | How self-regarding! As a parade of wildfires, floods, droughts, and extreme heat are showing, it's Gaia who is calling the shots. She's making her own fierce, non-negotiable demands on us. She's bursting the frames of order that humans have long used to shape civilization, capitalism, the state, a…

Javier Arana Villasusa (2023-09-30). Syrian army destroys terrorist headquarters and shoots down drones. plenglish.com Damascus, Sep 30 (Prensa Latina) The Syrian Defense Ministry announced today a series of ground and air operations in which radicals' headquarters were destroyed and drones were shot down in the northwest of this nation.

Caitlin Johnstone (2023-10-01). The Mad Propaganda Push To Normalize War Profiteering In Ukraine. caitlinjohnstone.com.au "This move has been accompanied in recent weeks by some of the most appalling mass media headlines that I have ever seen, all geared toward normalizing the military industrial complex in the eyes of the public."

Dave DeCamp (2023-10-01). Zelensky Pitches Arms Makers on Producing Weapons in Ukraine. news.antiwar.com Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Friday urged arms makers to produce weapons inside Ukraine in a speech opening Ukraine's first International Defense Industries Forum. "Right now, for the next decades, the most powerful defense-industrial complexes are being determined, what their priorities will be, and what the standard of defense in the world will be. It …

Dave DeCamp (2023-10-01). Report: Saudis Determined to Get Defense Pact With US for Israel Normalization. news.antiwar.com Saudi Arabia is determined to secure a defense pact with the US in exchange for normalizing with Israel regardless of whether or not concessions are made to the Palestinians, Reuters reported Friday, citing regional sources. Riyadh is looking for a commitment from the US that it would defend Saudi Arabia if it comes under attack, …

greenleft.org.au (2023-10-01). Killing by algorithm: Australia lacks adequate ethical restraints. greenleft.org.au

Prof Michel Chossudovsky (2023-10-01). "Preemptive Nuclear War": The Historic Battle for Peace and Democracy. A Third World War Threatens the Future of Humanity. globalresearch.ca US nuclear doctrine consists in portraying nuclear weapons as a means of "self defense" rather than a "weapon of mass destruction". There are powerful financial interests behind Joe Biden's $1.3 trillion nuclear weapons program initiated under Obama.

greenleft.org.au (2023-09-30). Killing by algorithm: Australia lacks adequate ethical restraints. greenleft.org.au

Liam Cosgrove (2023-09-30). As conservatives ramp up opposition to Ukraine war, Dems dodge The Grayzone. thegrayzone.com As a budget showdown looms in Congress, MAGA Republicans are alone in challenging the vast quantities of American weapons and cash being funneled to Kiev, with Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene warning The Grayzone that increasing escalation could turn the proxy war into a "potential nuclear conflict." When approached for comment, progressive members of the 'Squad' dodged our questions. When the US House of Representatives passed a stopgap funding measure Tuesday evening, the lone Republican no-vote against it was cast by …

presstv.ir (2023-10-01). Blood of thousands of Americans, Iraqis stains Sen. Feinstein's soul: Ex-US official. presstv.ir An analyst says the blood of thousands of Americans and hundreds of thousands of Iraqis stain the soul of US Senator Dianne Feinstein, because she was aware that Iraq did not possess weapons of mass destruction and yet authorized the war.