Internationalist 360 ∞ (2024-01-30). Crisis in the Red Sea: Death Blow to Global Capitalism. libya360.wordpress.com Yoselina Guevara López On January 29th, Yemen's Shiite Houthi militias stated that they attacked a U.S. military vessel in the Gulf of Aden, in the southern Red Sea. Likewise, the shipping company Maersk assured this January 24 that two of its merchant ships were attacked by the Yemeni Armed Forces; these ships were carrying U.S….

Ian Angus (2024-01-29). Ecosocialist Bookshelf, January 2024. greenleft.org.au From killer insects to trash to degrowth, Climate and Capitalism editor Ian Angus presents six new books for understanding and changing the world…

cameron orr (2024-01-29). Forward together: For pre-convention discussion. cpusa.org Editor's note: The CPUSA National Committee adopted the document below at its January 27th meeting to frame its preconvention discussion. It's the first of three, the second of which will be on the role of the party. The third will be on the international situation. | The U.S. is in the midst of a deep systemic crisis, perhaps the most severe since the Civil War and the Great Depression. It is a political, economic, social, cultural and ideological crisis of the capitalist system. Confidence in government is at an all-time low, while working-class anger at mounting inequality is at an all-time high. Gaza, Ukra…

albawaba (2024-01-29). Dubai housing prices could crash down. albawaba.com ALBAWABA — Dubai has seen a big surge in real estate sales, especially after the COVID Pandemic, with 2023 seeing a boost in property sales compared to 2022, especially from Russian buyers who took to Dubai in hopes to protect their assets after the Russia-Ukraine war started early 2022 according to The Media Line, later followed by a trend of Chinese buyers, seeing UAE's market as a target for wealthy customers, according to property agency Knight Frank, which added expectations for the city to become a major hub comparable to New York City, London and Singapore.However, a report by Reuters sheds light on…

geo.tv (2024-01-29). Plane crash in Brazil kills seven. geo.tv Images taken by locals — which show the wreckage of the plane shortly after falling on the side of a hill…

newarab (2024-01-30). Inside the secret camel race of South Sinai. newarab.com Boys strapped to camels streak through the desert at dawn as hundreds of beeping pick-up trucks packed with Bedouins try to keep up with the frenetic pace. | Riders whip their camels to overtake one another as spectators navigate crashes and dust to follow the race as closely as possible in their cars. It's the annual Zalaga Camel Race in South Sinai, Egypt. | At 7.30 am on January 10 every year, over 40 camels, their riders and more than three hundred cars carrying spectators gather at Wadi Zalaga in Southern Sinai for a 30-kilometre race through the dusty valley. | The competition has taken place between the…

Adam Fishbein (2024-01-29). January Jobs Preview: What to Expect in the January Jobs Report. cepr.net Barring an unexpected jump, January will be the 24th consecutive month of below 4.0 percent unemployment. The economy is closing in the record of 26 consecutive months, set between November of 1967 and January of 1970. There is little reason to expect unemployment to change much from the 3.7 percent rate of the last two …

WSWS (2024-01-30). Passenger flights resume on Boeing 737 Max 9 planes three weeks after midair door plug blowout. wsws.org Behind the rush to return the Max 9 planes to service are the considerable financial and profit interests of Boeing and the airline companies.

Angela (2024-01-30). Tuesday 1/30: Virtual Meeting: Codepink Community Call. indybay.org

Angela (2024-01-29). Tuesday 1/30: Virtual Meeting: Codepink Community Call. indybay.org

teleSUR- jaa, MS (2024-01-30). Rusia frustró dos ataques con drones por parte de Ucrania. telesurtv.net El gobernador de Briansk, Alexánder Bogomaz detalló que ambos drones enemigos fueron derribados y los ataques totalmente evadidos.

teleSUR, JCM (2024-01-29). Mueren tres militares de EE.UU. tras ataque con drones en Jordania. telesurtv.net El ataque tuvo como objetivo un pequeño lugar en Jordania, la Torre 22 en Al-Tanf, cerca de la frontera con Siria.

Angela (2024-01-30). Friday 2/2: San Jose: Peace Vigil – Call for Ceasefire Not More Weapons for Ukraine or Israel! indybay.org in front of MLK Library | 4th and San Fernando | San Jose, CA…

Margaret Flowers, Clearing the FOG. (2024-01-30). Neoliberalism Plunges Ecuador Into A State Of Crisis; US Escalates Militarism. popularresistance.org On January 7, Adolfo Macias, known as "Fito", a leader of an Ecuadorian drug cartel, escaped from prison, which sparked uprisings across the country. In response, President Daniel Noboa declared a national state of emergency and decreed that the country is in a state of internal conflict, listing 20 gangs as terrorist groups. Clearing the FOG spoke with Alex Main of the Center for Economic Policy and Research about the conditions that have led to growing poverty, insecurity and violence in Ecuador. Main explains how the United States is exploiting the current situation to justify sending US weapons and military p…

The Independent (2024-01-30). Police get new leads on Pastor Bugingo attack. independent.co.ug Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Detectives investigating the shooting of Pastor Aloysius Bugingo have gathered clues regarding the weapons used and potential suspects, according to the Ugandan Police. Pastor Bugingo of the House of Prayer Ministries was attacked earlier this month in the Namungoona-Lubaga Division in Kampala, resulting in the tragic death of his bodyguard, …

Dave DeCamp (2024-01-29). White House Denies Report That It's Considering Leverage Military Aid to Israel. news.antiwar.com The White House on Sunday dismissed a report from NBC News that said the Biden administration was considering leveraging military aid to Israel to pressure Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to scale down the violence in Gaza. The report said the White House asked the Pentagon to review what weapons could be used as leverage …

Elijah Magnier (2024-01-29). 'America should exert more control over the Israelis': Analysis. thealtworld.com While the US blamed Iran for a deadly attack on its forces in Jordan, one analyst says Washington should instead focus on halting Israel's invasion of Gaza. | Elijah Magnier, a Brussels-based military analyst, noted the "escalation" of the types of weapons used and the frequency of attacks from Lebanon, Iraq, Syria, and Yemen because of the Gaza war. | "I think the US is looking in the wrong place because instead of looking who's behind these attacks … it should work towards stopping the war on Gaza," said Magnier. | He noted halting the supply of US weapons to Israel would stop its war on Gaza. "It seems the A…

albawaba (2024-01-30). Morocco announces dismantling four-member ISIS cell. albawaba.com ALBAWABA – On Monday and Tuesday, Morocco's Central Bureau of Judicial Investigations (BCIJ) announced the dismantling of a four-member ISIS cell that operated in several Moroccan cities, including Tangier, Casablanca, Beni Mellal, and Inezgane. According to preliminary findings, the network has been coordinating with leaders of this organization in the Sahel-Saharan region to facilitate extremist recruitment in this area.During searches of the four suspects' homes, security services seized various electronic devices, money, and bladed weapons in the form of large sabers, as well as rifles.The Central Bureau of J…

Andy Kroll (2024-01-30). Remote Warfare and Expendable People. tomdispatch.com In war, people die for absurd reasons or often no reason at all. They die due to accidents of birth, the misfortune of being born in the wrong place — Cambodia or Gaza, Afghanistan or Ukraine — at the wrong time. They die due to happenstance, choosing to shelter indoors when they should have taken cover outside or because they ventured out into a hell-storm of destruction when they should have stayed put. They die in the most gruesome ways — shot in the street, obliterated by artillery, eviscerated by air strikes. Their bodies are torn apart, burned, or vaporized by weapons designed to destroy p…

Staff (2024-01-30). NIA files charge-sheet against 3 in Rajasthan PFI conspiracy case. muslimmirror.com New Delhi : The NIA has filed a charge-sheet against three activists of the banned PFI in a case related to radicalisation of Muslim youths, and giving them weapons training to fight and establish Islamic rule in India by 2047. Further cracking down on unlawful and anti-national activities of the Popular Front of India (PFI), …

WSWS (2024-01-26). Killing for Country: A Family History—a harrowing but distorted view of the massacres of Australian Aboriginal people. wsws.org David Marr's Killing for Country documents many mass killings of indigenous people but falsely blames the entire population, not the ruling class and Australian capitalism.

Andreas Hellgermann (2024-01-26). Instrumental Reason and Left Politics. indybay.org In the neoliberal variant of capitalism, postmodern pluralism dominates and with it a reason that is no longer trusted to understand the whole.. For instrumental reason, the actual world is always the best of all possible worlds since the question of a better world cannot arise in it. No problem arises that makes another, not yet existing world necessary or desirable.

Luis Linares Petrov (2024-01-26). President of Honduras is committed to the refoundation of the country. plenglish.com Tegucigalpa, Jan 26 (Prensa Latina) President of Honduras Xiomara Castro stated that the refoundation project being developed by the government is not a slogan, and her political proposal is based on the principles of democratic socialism.

Kathy Deacon (2024-01-26). Fear and Loathing on Long Island: a Real Estate Story. counterpunch.org We'd planned to relocate, maybe not right away. And then—-on a bright Tuesday morning that begins like any other—Tower I crashes down just north of my husband's workplace on lower Broadway. "You're going to miss the city like crazy," a coworker warns, "and they'll tar and feather you out there." Our new home on the

The Lever (2024-01-26). Allegations Of Cost Cutting, Safety Lapses, And Falsified Records Behind Boeing Plane Defects. levernews.com

Eve Ottenberg (2024-01-26). Boeing's 737 Planes Flunk Again. counterpunch.org By now, no one with any sense wants to fly in a Boeing 737. On January 5, the large door plug in the side of a 737 Max-9 popped out mid-air, leaving a gaping hole into the sky and terrifying passengers, none of whom, miraculously, were harmed. In 2018 and 2019, a different model, the

Melissa Garriga, CODEPINK. (2024-01-26). Prominent Jewish Activists Send Open Letter To German Officials. popularresistance.org United States — In anticipation of UN-designated Holocaust Remembrance Day, Saturday, January 27th, over 300 Jews worldwide have released an Open Letter to the German Government and other European Nations: Support South Africa at the World Court-Do Not Aid and Abet Israeli Genocide in Gaza. | Signed by rabbis, scholars, policy makers, filmmakers and activists, the letter reads, "We call on the governments of Germany, Austria and all European nations involved in the Nazi Holocaust to stand on the right side of history, to stand with South Africa in its courageous appeal to the highest court in the United Nations…

News Desk, The Cradle. (2024-01-26). Iraqi Drones Target Israel's Ashdod Port For Second Time In Three Days. popularresistance.org The Islamic Resistance in Iraq (IRI) announced a new attack on the Israeli Port of Ashdod on 25 January, one day after the start of "phase two" of Iraqi operations in support of Gaza. | "In continuation of our approach to resisting [US] occupation, in support of our people in Gaza, and in response to [Israeli] massacres … the Islamic Resistance in Iraq today, Thursday … attacked the port of Ashdod in the occupied territories with drones," the IRI said in a statement on Thursday. | This marks the second time in less than a week that the Iraqi coalition has launched a drone attack on Ashdod. | On Wednesday, Abu…

Brian Berletic (2024-01-26). FPV Drones & Artificial Intelligence: How Russia is Transforming Drone Warfare. thealtworld.com — FPV drones transform cheap, easy-to-produce drones into precision guided weapons; | — FPV drones have several disadvantages including loss-of-signal as it begins its attack dive or encounters electronic warfare; | — AI targeting allows an operator to designate a target while still in signal line-of-sight and before entering an area defended by electronic warfare, for the AI to then automatically guide the drone to its target without any external signal; | — Russia's large military industrial base lends its an advantage in both quantity and quality over Ukraine and its Western sponsors;…

teleSUR- hvh, DRL (2024-01-26). Yemen confirma ataques de 200 drones contra barcos en mar Rojo. telesurtv.net Según el líder del movimiento hutí, los ataques contra los barcos continuarán hasta que cese el genocidio de Israel.

Free Palestine (2024-01-26). Stop Bombing Hospitals: Genocide Manufactured in the Bay. indybay.org Healthcare workers protest, disrupt work at L3Harris for its role in manufacturing weapons technology for Israel…