2024-11-17: News Headlines

Sudip Bhattacharya (2024-11-17). The Fight for Palestine and the Fight for Socialism is The Same. counterpunch.org

Sudip Bhattacharya (2024-11-17). The Fight for Palestine and the Fight for Socialism is The Same. counterpunch.org

presstv.ir (2024-11-17). Yemen stages drone strike against Eilat in fresh anti-Israeli operation. presstv.ir Yemen's Armed Forces strike the city of Eilat in the southernmost tip of the occupied Palestinian territories in their most recent anti-Israeli operation.

presstv.ir (2024-11-17). Yemen stages drone strike against Eilat in fresh anti-Israeli operation. presstv.ir Yemen's Armed Forces strike the city of Eilat in the southernmost tip of the occupied Palestinian territories in their most recent anti-Israeli operation.

presstv.ir (2024-11-17). US support for Israel fuels settler violence in West Bank: Presidency. presstv.ir The spokesperson for Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas holds the US responsible for Israel's persistence in defying international law due to their continuous support through money, weapons and political cover.

bwitanek (2024-11-16). MIddle East Eye Features Noura Erakat: What is the link between Zionism, capitalism and the American empire? fightbackbetter.com FightBackBetter amplifies this presentation by Noura Erakat and reports her success in achieving a report by the esteemed Middle East…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2024-11-16). Israel Convicted of Genocide at People's Tribunal in Rio de Janeiro. libya360.wordpress.com Brasil de Fato People's Tribunal judged the crimes of capitalism at Fundiàßà£o Progresso, Rio de Janeiro (RJ) on November 15, 2024. Photo: Priscila Ramos / MST-RJ Palestinian lawyer Rula Shadeed, who filed the complaint against Israel at the Tribunal, spoke to Brasil de Fato about the need to increase international pressure against the Zionist state….

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2024-11-16). Three Women, Three Perspectives on the Division in MAS. libya360.wordpress.com Javier Larraín In "the street", in friends' meetings, in the press… everywhere the population wonders about the veracity, depth and state of the division within the Movement Towards Socialism (MAS). There are those who wish it were a bad dream and that when they wake up everything would be as before; others are determined to…

Guest Blogger (2024-11-16). Cold, Hungry, Mass Unemployment, No Cars, Blackouts—Welcome To Starmer's Dystopian Future. wattsupwiththat.com For too long, the impact and cost of the Climate Change Act has been deliberately hidden from the public. Partly this has been the result of a political conspiracy between all of the major political parties and establishment in general. It has also been aided and abetted by all of the media, with a handful of notable exceptions.

Alexandra Bradbury, Labor Notes. (2024-11-16). Letter Carriers Are Organizing Against An Insulting 1.3 Percent Raise. popularresistance.org A wave of anger is cresting at post offices across the country. Letter carriers are looking at the big raises that other union members have won—38 percent over four years at Boeing, 62 percent in six years at the East Coast ports, $7.50 in five years at UPS. | They're comparing those gains to the tentative agreement their president handed them in October: 1.3 percent a year for three years. | "It doesn't account for everything we went through with Covid," said Saqia Talbert, a letter carrier in Allentown, Pennsylvania. "We were massively understaffed, and we were working 70 to 80 hours a week, every week, f…

Alexandra Bradbury (2024-11-16). Unionized Letter Carriers Organize for Better Than Meager 1.3 Percent Raise. truthout.org A wave of anger is cresting at post offices across the country. Letter carriers are looking at the big raises that other union members have won — 38 percent over four years at Boeing, 62 percent in six years at the East Coast ports, $7.50 in five years at UPS. They're comparing those gains to the tentative agreement their president handed them in October: 1.3 percent a year for three years. |

english.almanar.com.lb (2024-11-16). Yemeni Drones Hit Vital Israeli Target in Eilat. english.almanar.com.lb In support for the oppression of the Palestinian and Lebanese peoples and resistance, the Yemeni UAV force carried out a military operation targeting a vital Israeli target in Umm al-Rashrash (Eilat) area southern occupied Palestine with a number of drones. The operation has successfully achieved its objectives, General Yahya Sarea, the military spokesman said in …

aljazeera (2024-11-16). Israel escalates Lebanon bombardment as officials considers ceasefire plan. aljazeera.com The Israeli military said the attacks were directed at Hezbollah infrastructure, including a weapons storage facility.

Staff (2024-11-16). How the U.S. and Israel Are Exterminating the 2.3 Million Gazans. defenddemocracy.press by Eric Zuesse* Nov 12, 2024 The United States supplies virtually all of the weapons and ammunition as well as satellite intelligence to guide the bombers and the gunmen, and Israel supplies the troops. The killing is being carried out not only by bombs and guns etc., but by Israel's blocking food, medicine, and other …

Rania Khalek (2024-11-16). How Palestinian Activists Made Spain Block U.S. Weapons to Israel. thealtworld.com Lea Kayali, an organizer with the Palestinian Youth Movement (PYM), discusses a huge win for their "Mask Off Maersk" campaign: In Spain, two Israel-bound Maersk ships loaded with US-made weapons were blocked after months of pressure from activists and PYM's campaign exposing the shipping giant's violation of Spain's arms embargo on Israel. | Kayali discusses where the global movement to stop arms to Israel goes next.

Robert Inlakesh, MintPress News. (2024-11-16). The High Cost Of Empire: US Weapons Depletion Fuels Concerns. popularresistance.org As the United States channels tens of billions of dollars into wars in Palestine and Ukraine, data reveals a concerning depletion in its missile production capacity. Critics argue that the primary beneficiaries are weapons manufacturers, not American security. | Since the Hamas-led attack on Israel on October 7, 2023, U.S. defense companies have significantly outperformed major stock indexes. RTX, which produces the 2,000-pound bunker-busting bombs used by Israel in Gaza, outpaced the S&P 500 by roughly 46 percent. | In 2023, U.S. weapons sales to foreign governments surged 16% to a record $238 billion, as d…

The Canary. (2024-11-16). Palestine Action Scores Another Victory; Another Company Drops Elbit. popularresistance.org Palestine Action has scored another victory against the Israel war machine in the UK — after another company cut ties with genocide enabler Elbit System. However, the victory only came about after some corporate media smeared the group's campaign against Hydrafeed as being "misinformed".In an email to Palestine Action on 14 November, Hydrafeed announced they've cut ties with Israel's biggest weapons firm, Elbit Systems, and their subsidiaries. | This victory comes after a sustained direct action campaign by Palestine Action which involved activists abseiling inside Hydrafeed to dismantle their equipment, sm…

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