A Guest Author (2024-01-31). Ukraine: 'Capitalism is always war'. workers.org By Dmitry Dezhnev Message to the International Assembly against Imperialism in Solidarity with Palestine, on Jan. 21, in New York City. Dear comrades, we sincerely greet you on behalf of the Union of Political Emigrants and Political Prisoners of Ukraine (UPPU)! Exactly 100 years ago, on Jan. 21, 1924, our . . . |

a guest author (2024-01-31). Ukraine: 'Capitalism is always war'. workers.org By Dmitry Dezhnev Message to the International Assembly against Imperialism in Solidarity with Palestine, on Jan. 21, in New York City. Dear comrades, we sincerely greet you on behalf of the Union of Political Emigrants and Political Prisoners of Ukraine (UPPU)! Exactly 100 years ago, on Jan. 21, 1924, our . . . |

Germán Gorraiz López (2024-01-31). Out of the Euro? Is Germany Heading for the Dexit? Recession, Social Fracture and Unemployment. globalresearch.ca

WSWS (2024-02-01). UPS cuts 12,000 jobs: The ruling class accelerates its policy of mass unemployment. wsws.org The logistics giant's mass layoffs, which will go into effect in the first half of this year, are part of an accelerating and global wave of job-cutting in auto, technology and other industries.

Angela (2024-02-01). Tuesday 2/6: Virtual Event: Yemen Explained – Codepink Congress Capitol Calling Party. indybay.org Zoom (Registration link is below)…

CODEPINK (2024-01-31). Five Peace Activists Arrested for Disrupting UNRWA Hearing, Demand Humanitarian Aid for Gaza. globalresearch.ca

Codepink (2024-01-31). BREAKING: 5 Peace Activists Arrested For Disrupting UNRWA Hearing, Demand Humanitarian Aid for Gaza. pressenza.com Five peace activists were arrested today as CODEPINK and other organizations disrupted the House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing titled "UNRWA Exposed: Examining the Agency's Mission and Failures." The protest aimed to draw attention to the urgent need for humanitarian aid in Gaza. | The disruption comes in the wake of the International Court of Justice's recent ruling, which found South Africa's charge of genocide against Israel to be credible. The court issued provisional measures demanding that Israel cease the killing of Palestinians and restore the flow of humanitarian aid to Gaza. Despite these urgent cal…

Codepink (2024-01-31). Redefining US-Latin American Relations: From Outdated Monroe Doctrine to a 21st Century Good Neighbor Policy. pressenza.com An all-encompassing expression of goodwill in the form of a New Good Neighbor Policy will meet resistance from vested economic and military interests, as well as those persuaded by racist arguments. | By Medea Benjamin and Steve Ellner | The Trump administration dusted off the 19th century Monroe Doctrine that subjugates the nations of the region to U.S. interests. The Biden administration, instead of reversing course, followed suite, with disastrous results for the region and a migration crisis that threatens Biden's re-election. | It has left most of Trump's sanctions against Venezuela and Cuba intact and has…

albawaba (2024-02-01). Germany to provide Ukraine with $7.6b worth of weapons. albawaba.com ALBAWABA – German Chancellor urged on Thursday European Union countries to increase their arms deliveries to Ukraine amid the war with Russia, which began on Feb. 24, 2022. | ‚Ä® | Olaf Scholz told reporters in Brussels ahead of an extraordinary EU summit, complained that the military weapons sent to Ukraine are not enough to fight Russia.He maintained that military pledges by EU countries have been "far from being enough," while Ukraine is in desperate need to get more advanced weapons. | ‚Ä® | "The discussion must start immediately because we know that what has been planned so far,…

Scott Ritter (2024-01-31). Scott Ritter: War with Iran is Coming and the U.S. will LOSE. thealtworld.com Former US Marine Corps Officer and UN Weapons Inspector Scott Ritter reacts to the US base attack on the Jordan/Syrian border and how Biden administration threats are increasing the risk of war with Iran, a war that he claims cannot be won. This video breaks it all down.

Angela (2024-02-01). Friday 2/23: 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…

Kate Hudson (2024-02-01). The Unthinkable Looms: Nuclear-Armed Israel is at War. counterpunch.org Israeli nuclear weapons pose a particular risk to peace and security in the Middle East region and internationally; not surprisingly they are seen as a significant threat by neighbouring non-nuclear states, and the ongoing catastrophe in Gaza and the extending war is exactly the situation in which they are likely to be used.

Larry Johnson (2024-02-01). May nation "A" Attack Nation "B" If "B" is supplying Weapons Used to Attack Nation "A" sonar21.com As I write this the Biden Administration has not produced evidence that the attack on the U.S. base in Jordan was carried out with the help of Iran. Despite that lack of evidence, the usual suspects in Washington are braying at full voice for the United States to strike Iran. This is one of the key rules of the "rules based international order (aka RBIO). If you provide the weapons to a third party that attacks me then you also are culpable for that crime. Do we all agree? | Well, if it is good for the goose then it must be good for the gander. The United States supplied Patriot Missiles to Ukraine and Ukra…

Angela (2024-01-31). 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…

Binoy Kampmark (2024-01-31). Mesmeric Weapons: South Africa's Nuclear Program. counterpunch.org The lessons of the South African nuclear weapons program are deep, profound and largely ignored by non-proliferation dogmatists. They show that a regime, even one subject to sanctions and exiled to the diplomatic cold room, can still show aptitude and resourcefulness in creating such murderous weapons. The white regime of Apartheid South Africa was marginalised, the globe's

Dave DeCamp (2024-01-31). US to Deploy Nukes in the UK for the First Time in 15 Years. news.antiwar.com The US will deploy nuclear weapons to the UK for the first time in 15 years in a move Russia will view as a provocation, The Telegraph reported, citing Pentagon documents. Pentagon procurement contracts show that the US is planning to station B61-12 nuclear warheads at RAF Lakenheath, a base in Suffolk, England. The US …

Leonard Eiger, Glen Milner, Ground Zero Center. (2024-01-31). Abolishing Nuclear Weapons Is No Utopian Dream. popularresistance.org The Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) went into effect three years ago (on January 22, 2021) making nuclear weapons illegal under international law for the first time in history. | The TPNW is the first legally binding international agreement to comprehensively prohibit nuclear weapons, with the goal of leading towards their total elimination. It specifically prohibits countries from producing, testing, acquiring, possessing or stockpiling nuclear weapons. It also outlaws the transfer of the weapons and forbids signatories from allowing any nuclear explosive device to be stationed, installed or…

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), …