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…

Andreas Hellgermann (2024-01-25). 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.

thecommunists (2024-01-25). Joti Brar and Garland Nixon: Parasitic imperialism, episode 1. thecommunists.org Joti Brar, vice-chair of the CPGB-ML, in an introductory discussion on the nature of imperialism, discusses with Garland Nixon the origins of monopoly in the womb of capitalism. They talk about how this huge concentration of wealth into a few massive fortunes, which is accompanied by the immiseration of the vast masses of the world's …

RT (2024-01-24). Belgorod Plane Attack: Kiev Deliberately Shot Down Plane Carrying Its POWs, Moscow Says. dissidentvoice.org Kiev's forces knowingly downed a Russian plane carrying Ukrainian prisoners of war that crashed on Wednesday, killing all on board, in order to pin the attack on Moscow, the Defense Ministry has said, adding that Kiev had once again shown its "true colors". In a statement following the incident, the ministry revealed that a Russian IL-76 cargo plane had crashed in …

Katya Schwenk (2024-01-24). Will Biden Rescind Trump's Boeing Immunity Deal? levernews.com Allegations of fraud in a recent federal lawsuit — if substantiated — could empower President Biden's Justice Department to rescind a controversial deferred prosecution agreement granted to Boeing by Donald Trump's administration and blessed by an archconservative judge in the wake of two 737 Max crashes, according to experts interviewed by The Lever. The deal, which has long been criticized by crash victims' families and recently challenged in court by air safety advocates, allowed Boeing to avoid criminal prosecution on fraud charges and shielded Boeing's senior executives from such prosecution a…

WSWS (2024-01-25). Alaska Airlines CEO says many of the carrier's Boeing 737 MAX 9 planes have loose bolts. wsws.org The CEO of Alaska Airlines said an inspection of its fleet of Boeing 737 MAX 9 jets showed there are loose bolts on many of the company's planes.

Freddy Brewster (2024-01-24). Airlines Filed 1,800 Reports Warning Regulators About Boeing's 737 Max. levernews.com

Freddy Brewster (2024-01-24). Airlines Filed 1,800 Reports Warning Regulators About Boeing's 737 Max. levernews.com

Katya Schwenk (2024-01-24). Will Biden Rescind Trump's Boeing Immunity Deal? levernews.com

Kevin Gosztola (2024-01-24). Texas Drone Restrictions Opposed By Journalists Once Again Upheld By US Appeals Court. thedissenter.org The following article was made possible by paid subscribers of The Dissenter.  A United States appeals court refused to reverse a prior decision that upheld provisions in a Texas state law, which may be used to criminalize journalists who gather news by flying drones. In 2019, the National Press Photographers Association (NPPA), Texas Press Association, and a freelance reporter named Joe Pappalardo sued Texas state officials and urged the U.S. Dist…

Staff (2024-01-24). "The Military-Industrial Complex: An Unseen Beneficiary of War. muslimmirror.com By Hadiqa Maryam Abbasi Today, the world is grappling with horrible wars, whether it's the Russia-Ukraine, the Israel-Palestine war, or any other conflict. Innocent civilians are the ultimate victims of dumb bombs, bunker busters, artillery shells, mortars, and pellet guns. But, who is the winner in these destructive war episodes? The states? The people? No. …

Staff (2024-01-25). Korean movements demand: South Korea, stop arming Israel! peoplesdispatch.org On January 19, 150 people protested in front of the Defense Acquisition Program Administration (DAPA) office in the city of Daejeon, demanding the South Korean government stop arming Israel. While Palestine may seem like a distant conflict to South Koreans, the South Korean military-industrial complex is a key pillar in the Israeli war machine. According …

Free Palestine (2024-01-25). 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…

Alex Bainbridge (2024-01-24). Activists defy intimidation, shut down Ferra weapons factory. greenleft.org.au Pro-Palestine activists picketed a Ferra Engineering factory to protest its provision of weapons components to Israel. Alex Bainbridge reports.

John Mecklin, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. (2024-01-24). A Moment Of Historic Danger: It Is Still 90 Seconds To Midnight. popularresistance.org Ominous trends continue to point the world toward global catastrophe. The war in Ukraine and the widespread and growing reliance on nuclear weapons increase the risk of nuclear escalation. China, Russia, and the United States are all spending huge sums to expand or modernize their nuclear arsenals, adding to the ever-present danger of nuclear war through mistake or miscalculation. | In 2023, Earth experienced its hottest year on record, and massive floods, wildfires, and other climate-related disasters affected millions of people around the world. Meanwhile, rapid and worrisome developments in the life sciences a…

W. T. Whitney, Jr. (2024-01-24). The terror returns: Cuba discloses latest attacks by the U.S. mronline.org When the U.S. government launched its so-called "Global War on Terror" after the al Qaeda attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, U.S.-led terror attacks against Cuba had already been ongoing for over 40 years.

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2024-01-25). Ukraine in 2024: Offering Up the Personal Data and Lives of its Citizens to Western Powers. libya360.wordpress.com Dmitri Kovalevich In January, Ukraine was again shaken by large-scale corruption scandals, primarily related to the Defense Ministry. Against this background, Volodymyr Zelensky stepped up his pleas to Western countries to send more money and more weapons to his beleaguered regime in Kiev. Back at the end of 2023, Zelensky demanded that Ukrainian journalists keep…

krish-rad_ind (2024-01-25). U.S. President & Congress screwed U.S. victims of U.S. nuclear-weapons tests so as to fund more weapons. theduran.com