_____ (2022-11-22). The Case for Democratic Worker Control. popularresistance.org First it was the "Great Resignation." Then it was "nobody wants to work anymore." Now it's "quiet quitting." | Yet it seems like no one wants to talk about what I see as the root cause of America's economic malaise — work under contemporary capitalism is fundamentally flawed. | As a political philosopher studying the effects of contemporary capitalism on the future of work, I believe that the inability to dictate and meaningfully control one's own working life is the problem. | Democratizing work is the solution.

____ (2022-11-22). They Say: Business giants sound alarm on U.S. recession. ecns.cn Some business giants in the United States have sounded the alarm on a looming U.S. recession, joining a chorus of CEOs, investors and academics predicting a prolonged economic downturn, reported Insider on Sunday.

Staff (2022-11-22). NATO chief praises Turkey's Erdogan as great peacemaker in Ukraine war. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com Stoltenberg might also have expressed NATO's appreciation of Turkey's supplying the Zelensky regime with Bayraktar TB2 combat drones and building the flagship of Ukraine's navy; as well as stirring up Tatar separatism in Crimea preparatory to replicating that initiative in the Russian North Caucasus — RR ==== Anadolu AgencyNovember 22, 2022 Tàºrkiye played key role …

Staff (2022-11-22). Turkey leads NATO naval task force in Tunisian drills. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com Operation Sea Guardian is the successor to Operation Active Endeavor, established under NATO's activation of its Article 5 mutual war clause in 2001.Turkey has recently sold Bayraktar TB2 combat drones of the sort used to deadly effect in Ukraine, Nagorno-Karabakh, Syria, Libya, Iraq and Ethiopia to Tunisia, a founding member of NATO's Mediterranean Dialogue military …

Infobrics (2022-11-22). Kiev regime accuses Western companies of delivering 75% of components for Iranian drones. infobrics.org Allegedly, Western-made components include guidance systems, engines and parts of the control surfaces used to steer the drones.

Staff (2022-11-22). Venezuela's Army Seizes 26 Weapons Used by Illegal Mining Gangs. orinocotribune.com

Infobrics (2022-11-22). Kiev's provocations against ZNPP may cause nuclear disaster. infobrics.org Ukrainian forces continue to attack the ZNPP using Western weapons, ignoring the risks.

Fight Back (2022-11-21). Red Theory: The contradictions of socialist society. fightbacknews.org Contradiction is inherent in everything and is what causes things to change qualitatively. In socialist society there are also contradictions. Socialism is the revolutionary dictatorship of the proletariat, where the working class uses its state power to take society out of capitalism and towards the classless and stateless society of communism. | As a period of transition from capitalism to communism, socialism, of course, also contains many contradictions. After expropriating the means of production from the capitalists, a primary task of socialism is to develop the productive forces. | Transitioning to commun…

Editor (2022-11-21). China is building a truly ecological civilisation. mronline.org While the inertia of the market-led nations gives us terrifying forecasts for the planet, state socialism in the east has delivered on wind and energy, green infrastructure, electric vehicles, reforestation and carbon reduction, reports CARLOS MARTINEZ.

Party for Socialism, Liberation (2022-11-21). PSL Statement — Workers shouldn't be fooled: Trump is a tool of the ultra-rich. liberationnews.org Trump is nothing more than a tool for the millionaires and billionaires to grow even more disgustingly rich while workers' rights are trampled on.

_____ (2022-11-21). Daniel Ortega: What we are faced with is a gang of assassins who control the global economy, who control atomic weapons and who commit crimes every day. popularresistance.org I want to conclude by referring to a meeting currently taking place there in Egypt, they call it the COP. This is COP number I don't know what exactly, because since 1995 when they started doing these meetings there in Germany, because they were worried about global warming, about poisoning the planet, about the destruction of the planet. And they reach agreements, but they don't fulfill any of them, and then they get back together and they make more agreements, and they don't fulfill any of those either. Who does not comply? The countries that pollute the planet the most, the very ones that should comply with wh…

Anonymous103 (2022-11-21). US Delivered 236 Artillery Systems To Ukraine Since February 2022. southfront.org Ukrainian service members firing a M777 howitzer on an unspecified front in the Donbass region. Source: the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense. | According to the US State Department, the United States has delivered 236 artillery systems to Ukraine since the end of February 2022. In total, more than 88 thousand tons of weapons and military equipment have been delivered to Ukraine. The total amount of US military aid to Ukraine since the end of February has reached $21.5 billion. More military assista…

____ (2022-11-21). Don't Be Fooled: Climate Disasters Are Highly Lucrative. transcend.org 17 Nov 2022 – Companies involved in manufacturing weapons of mass destruction, the nuclear warheads, have been supported by over 150 big banks by lending them money or underwriting bonds, according to ICAN's 'Don't Bank on the Bomb' report.

____ (2022-11-21). Western Allies Look to Ukraine as a Testing Ground for Weapons. transcend.org 15 Nov 2022 – Delta is one example of how Ukraine has become a testing ground for state-of-the-art weapons and information systems, and new ways to use them, that Western political officials and military commanders predict could shape warfare for generations to come.

Editor (2022-11-21). US Empire Views Ukrainians and Russians as Lab Rats for Weapons Testing. scheerpost.com In addition to advancing longstanding U.S. geo-strategic aims, it seems the proxy war in Ukraine is also being used to sharpen the imperial war machine's claws for a looming hot war with China and/or Russia.

Medea Benjamin (2022-11-21). The U.S. Senate Is About to Pass a Bill Marking a Major Escalation in the Ukraine War. progressive.org An amendment meant to replenish stocks of U.S. weapons sent to Ukraine could lead to a U.S. ground war with Russia.

Timothy Alexander Guzman (2022-11-21). Armageddon in the Holy Land? Israel's Nuclear Weapons Program, Mordechai Vanunu, and the Coming War on Iran. globalresearch.ca

TeleSUR, jaa, JDO (2022-11-21). Sustraen fusiles de asalto de base de la Armada de Ecuador. telesurtv.net Las autoridades pertinentes se encuentran realizando las investigaciones para hallar el paradero de las armas y capturar a los ladrones.

_____ (2022-11-20). There Is An Alternative: Social Housing In Vienna. popularresistance.org Vienna, Austria – We all know we have a housing crisis all across our country. Rents have skyrocketed; there are insufficient numbers of apartments and houses available; many people in our cities are unhoused; rent control is considered too radical; there are few protections against evictions. The American dream has long included home ownership and stable safe neighborhoods. But the dream has become a nightmare as racism and capitalism leave some without homes altogether, and have displaced so many more. Most discouraging, few people see any alternatives to the current system of how housing is allocated and paid…

C.J. Polychroniou (2022-11-20). Capitalism Has Ended the Issue of Scarcity But Worsened the Crisis of Inequality. truthout.org Capitalism has been around for such a long time that it is hard for people even to imagine a world without it. Yet, it is far from an immutable physical law. In fact, capitalism is now "materially outmoded and ideologically defunct," argues British author Steve Paxton in his forthcoming book, How Capitalism Ends (Zero Books, 2022). "The capitalist era has provided the material abundance required for a free human society, but capitalism cannot deliver the freedom its productive capacity makes possible." In the interview that follows, Paxton shares his thoughts on the contours, contradictions and twilight of capita…

Cinnamon Janzer (2022-11-20). Organizing for Debt Cancellation Can Be a Gateway to Systemic Change. commondreams.org The elimination of student debt is just the first step in mitigating the pervasive effects of racial capitalism.

_____ (2022-11-20). Bolivians Will Not Allow A New Coup D'état To Take Place. popularresistance.org The indefinite strike called by the conservative opposition sectors in Bolivia's Santa Cruz department has been ongoing for almost a month. The primary demand of the opposition, regarding the Population and Housing Census, was resolved last weekend, nevertheless, they continue to remain in the streets against the progressive President Luis Arce and the government of the ruling Movement Towards Socialism (MAS) party. | The strike, which began on October 22, has not only affected the livelihood of the residents of Santa Cruz, but has also caused great distress to the population due to the climate of violence and in…

Editor (2022-11-20). "Bolivians Will Not Allow a New Coup D'état to Take Place" Says Gabriel Villalba Pérez. scheerpost.com Bolivian lawyer and professor Gabriel Villalba Pérez spoke to Peoples Dispatch about the political conflict at the center of the anti-government strike called by the conservative opposition.

_____ (2022-11-20). Climate Confusion And Complicity At The New York Times. popularresistance.org "Yes, Greenland's Ice Is Melting…" | The headline of the interactive New York Times opinion piece (10/28/22) by conservative columnist Bret Stephens is placed over an image of Greenland's melting ice cap crashing into the slushy meltwater below. With one more scroll, the word "But…" appears over the ice, which resembles a melting snowplowed slush pile in a parking lot. | From just a glance at the headline, it was clear where this article was going. The 6,000-word piece went on to chronicle Stephens' trip to Greenland as a self-proclaimed global warming "agnostic." There, the dramatic effects of climate change…

Cynthia Papermaster (2022-11-20). Thursday 12/1: CODEPINK Co-Founder Medea Benjamin in conversation with Mickey Huff, Project Censored. indybay.org Hillside Club, 2286 Cedar St., Berkeley…

Anonymous103 (2022-11-20). Military Situation In Ukraine On November 20, 2022 (Map Update). southfront.org Russia struck the Motor Sich defence industrial facilities in Zaporizhzhia with high-precision missiles; | Clashes between the Russian Army and the AFU continue near Makeyevka; | Clashes between the Russian Army and the AFU continue near Bakhmut; | Clashes between the Russian Army and the AFU continue in Chervonopopovka; | Russian air defense systems shot down 6 Ukrainian drones near Velikaya Lepetikha in the Kherson region, Olginka, Komsomolskoye and Novotroitskoye in…

_____ (2022-11-20). The US and the ROK will now consider deterring North Korea's use of nuclear weapons. journal-neo.org From reading the previous article, one could get the impression that, against the background of North Korea's unprecedented missile activity and the likelihood of a seventh nuclear test by Pyongyang, there are growing calls in the US for an end to Pyongyang through sanctions, a pre-emptive strike or the deployment of nuclear weapons on the …

Colin Todhunter (2022-11-19). What Was Covid Really About? Triggering A Multi-Trillion Dollar Global Debt Crisis. "Ramping up an Imperialist Strategy"? globalresearch.ca If it was indeed about public health, why close down the bulk of health services and the global economy knowing full well what the implications would be? And why mount a military-style propaganda campaign to censor world-renowned scientists and terrorise entire populations…

En.mehrnews (2022-11-19). Two firefighters killed in Peru as plane hits fire truck. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Nov. 19 (MNA) — Two firefighters were killed Friday at Lima's airport when a passenger plane hit their fire truck during takeoff and then crashed on the runway, officials said.

WSWS (2022-11-19). More Australian workers support November 20 public meeting to initiate united action to fight COVID-19. wsws.org "For me, the past three years have been a mixed bag of face-to-face and online work; and, most recently, unemployment." — Petra, a tertiary educator…

Nilàºfer Koàß (2022-11-18). Video: Kurdistan National Congress' Nilàºfer Koàß answers questions on Ukraine, Iran and Rojava. greenleft.org.au Nilàºfer Koàß, spokesperson for the Commission on Foreign Relations of the Kurdistan National Congress, spoke at the Brisbane session of Ecosocialism 2022. In the Q&A after her presentation, she answered questions on Ukraine, Iran and Rojava.

Anonymous669 (2022-11-18). In Video: Russian Kamikaze Drones Hit Ukrainian Troops On Donetsk Front. southfront.org On November 18, Russian sources shared a video documenting an attack with KUB-BLA loitering munitions, commonly called a kamikaze drones, on the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU). | The video shows three strikes on gatherings of AFU troops on a road near the village of Pavlivka on Donetsk front. Several Ukrainian soldiers were apparently killed or wounded as a result of the pinpoint strikes, which were coordinated with the help of a surveillance drone and took place at night time. | The KUB-BLA w…

____ (2022-11-18). U.S. reportedly running low on certain weapons to send to Ukraine. ecns.cn The United States is running low on some weapons and ammunition it has been sending to Ukraine amid the latter's military conflict with Russia, CNN reported Thursday.

Staff (2022-11-18). Germany weapons trade-off with Eastern European nations prolongs Ukraine war. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com Breaking DefenseNovember 17, 2022 With Slovakian deal, Germany expands three-way 'Ringtausch' dance to arm UkraineUnder the Ringtausch program, Germany has sent newer equipment to Slovakia, Greece, Slovenia and the Czech Republic, with those countries shifting older gear to Ukraine The Germans have a specific word for an exchange between at least three parties: "Ringtausch." So …

_____ (2022-11-18). U.S. Empire Views Ukrainians and Russians as Lab Rats for Weapons Testing. strategic-culture.org

Michael Shellenberger (2022-11-18). Crypto Fraud Exposes Woke Capitalism as a Scam. globalresearch.ca

Josh Pallas (2022-11-18). Video: NSW Civil Liberties Council president Josh Pallas — 'Fight for the right to protest as if our lives depended on it!'. greenleft.org.au NSW Civil Liberties Council president Josh Pallas gave a presentation on anti-protest laws and the right to protest at Ecosocialism 2022.

Veronica Koman (2022-11-18). Video: Free West Papua with Veronica Koman and George Dimara. greenleft.org.au West Papuan activist George Dimara and Indonesian Human Rights lawyer and West Papua solidarity activist Veronica Koman spoke as part of Ecosocialism 2022.

Infobrics (2022-11-18). The rising dollar is bringing the world closer to recession. infobrics.org De-dollarization is a pre-condition for stability in the emerging polycentric world…

Kevin Gosztola (2022-11-18). Unauthorized Disclosure: Medea Benjamin, Richard Roth. thedissenter.org We have two interviews for you in this week's episode of "Unauthorized Disclosure"—One with Medea Benjamin, co-founder of CODEPINK, and the second with attorney Richard Roth.Medea recently co-authored the Later, Medea highlights the work that CODEPINK did on COP27, the climate conference which was held in Egypt. They challenged Egypt's…

Alexander Rubinstein (2022-11-18). Top Zelensky Advisor Threatens War With Iran. orinocotribune.com By Alexander Rubinstein Nov 12, 2022 | Mykhailo Podolyak, an advisor to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, has called for attacks inside Iran as the country's drones cause setbacks for the Ukrainian military. | On November 5, Mykhailo Podolyak, an advisor to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, has advocated for military strikes on drone production sites located in Iran. President Zelensky echoed Podolyak's belligerent rhetoric the following day,

Editor (2022-11-18). Corporate Weapons Heaven is Hell on Earth. scheerpost.com

En.mehrnews (2022-11-18). North Korea test-fires ICBM with range to strike entire US. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Nov. 18 (MNA) — North Korea fired an intercontinental ballistic missile that landed near Japanese waters Friday in its second major weapons test this month that showed a potential ability to launch nuclear strikes on all of the US mainland.

Prof Michel Chossudovsky (2022-11-18). "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.

_____ (2022-11-18). Biden Needs To Accept That The US Can't Intimidate North Korea. popularresistance.org An increasingly tense standoff has been simmering on the Korean Peninsula for months, and is now escalating to a potentially "uncontrollable phase," North Korean officials warn. Since August, the US and South Korea have conducted five major joint military exercises and numerous smaller ones—the most recent of which, Vigilant Storm, just concluded on Nov. 5 and involved over 240 military aircraft in the largest ever aerial drills the countries have conducted together. | In the same time frame, North Korea has conducted several rounds of weapons tests involving dozens of ballistic missiles. The largest of the…

JANET (2022-11-17). Which way for the antiwar movement? Demand 'Negotiations' or 'Stop the Wars'? iacenter.org By Sara Flounders November 15, 2022 As the war in Ukraine grows more protracted and dangerous, its consequences will arouse fear among many and opposition among those making the greatest sacrifices. The economic consequences of recession and growing inflation in the U.S. and the far greater disarray in the EU, caused by imposing sanctions on Russia, will create the basis for a popular movement in the United States and in Europe. March against NATO on 70th anniversary, in Washington, D.C., 2019. (Credit: Alina Duarte, Telesur) The fundamental question is: Should we seek to arouse anger and outrage at the political…

Editor (2022-11-17). Congressional Amendment Opens Floodgates for War Profiteers and a Major Ground War on Russia. scheerpost.com By Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J.S. Davis / CounterPunch If the powerful leaders of the Senate Armed Services Committee, Senators Jack Reed (D) and Jim Inhofe (R), have their way, Congress will soon invoke wartime emergency powers to build up even greater stockpiles of Pentagon weapons. The amendment is supposedly designed to facilitate replenishing the weapons the United States …

Alex Bainbridge (2022-11-17). Nilàºfer Koàß: 'Iran uprising gives new hope for oppressed people'. greenleft.org.au Nilàºfer Koàß from the Kurdish National Congress spoke at the Ecosocialism 2022 conference about the popular uprising in Iran, war in Ukraine and Rojava Revolution. Alex Bainbridge and Susan Price report.

Contributing Writers (2022-11-17). Missiles crash in Poland | Ukraine ramps up provocations | Report from Donetsk | Scott Ritter Show. marktaliano.net READ MORE: |

Shannon Dawson (2022-11-17). Outrage After Death Of Jailed African Forced To Fight For Russia In Ukraine. newsone.com Source: Kristy-Anne Glubish / Getty | A 23-year-old Zambian student named Lemekhani Nathan Nyirenda was killed while in combat in Ukraine, Zambia's foreign ministry announced on Monday. | Nyirenda, who was jailed in Russia, was being sponsored by the Zambian government to study nuclear engineering at the country's prestigious Moscow Engineering Physics Institute. But in 2020, his educational dreams came crashing down when Russian authorities convicted him for unspecified crimes CNN In a statement, officials from th…

Dave DeCamp (2022-11-17). US Considering Modifying Gray Eagle Drones for Ukraine. news.antiwar.com For months now, Ukraine has been asking the US to supply powerful MQ-1C Gray Eagle drones, but Washington has held back. The Gray Eagles can fly for about 30 hours and are capable of carrying powerful Hellfire Missiles, giving Ukraine the ability to strike targets deep inside Russian territory. Media reports have said that the …

_____ (2022-11-17). Italian Police Bust Azov-Tied Nazi Cell Planning Terror Attacks. popularresistance.org Italian police announced a series of raids against the neo-Nazi Order of Hagal organization. Accused of stockpiling weapons and planning terror attacks, the group has established operational ties to the Ukrainian Azov Battalion. | Five members of an Italian neo-Nazi organization known as the "Order of Hagal" were arrested on November 15th while an additional member remains wanted by authorities. He happened to be in Ukraine, fighting Russian forces alongside the Azov Battalion, which has been formally integrated into the Ukrainian military. | The "Hagal" members are accused of plotting terrorist attacks on civili…

Caitlin Johnstone (2022-11-17). US Empire Views Ukrainians And Russians As Lab Rats For Weapons Testing. thealtworld.com Listen to a reading of this article: | A surprisingly frank article by The New York Times titled " "Ukraine has become a testing ground for state-of-the-art weapons and information systems, and new ways to use them, that Western political officials and military commanders predict could shape warfare for generations to come," write's NYT's Lara Jakes. | Jakes writes that "new advances in tech…

Paul Craig Roberts (2022-11-17). Washington is no longer certain that Russia even has any defense of her homeland other than nuclear weapons. thealtworld.com GEOFOR: Sir, what's your view of the prospects of the conflict between Russia and Ukraine? Dr. Roberts: The future …

Dave DeCamp (2022-11-17). Erdogan: US, Russia Have No Intention of Using Nuclear Weapons. news.antiwar.com Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Thursday that the US and Russia have no intention of using nuclear weapons and that Turkey is urging more dialogue between the two countries, Hurriyet Daily News reported. Erdogan's comments came after CIA Director William Burns and the head of Russia's Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR), Sergei Naryshkin, held talks …

Amy Goodman (2022-11-17). False Corporate Solutions at COP27 Further Entrench Capitalism and Colonialism. truthout.org Democracy Now! is broadcasting live from COP27, the U.N. climate conference in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, where hundreds of activists protested outside the plenary hall Thursday to demand climate justice. We speak to two Indigenous activists and land defenders at the summit, Eriel Tchekwie Deranger and Tom Goldtooth. "It is frontline communities, land defenders and Indigenous peoples that have experienced the loss of our territories at the hands of oil and gas and extractivism," says Deranger, executive director of Indigenous Climate Action and member of the Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation. "Colonialism has to be a…

Jessica Corbett (2022-11-17). New Bernie Sanders Book to Declare: "It's OK to Be Angry About Capitalism" commondreams.org "Humane, clear-eyed, and—yes—angry, this is a vital book for our times and for our future," said publishing director Thomas Penn.

Kelly Hayes (2022-11-17). Abolition Is About Escaping the Death Trap of "Normalcy" truthout.org "There's no doubt that we have to abolish the carceral state. And there's no doubt that policing and racial capitalism go hand in hand so that we can't be pursuing abolition in a capitalist context," says author and organizer Andrea Ritchie. In this episode of "Movement Memos," Ritchie and host Kelly Hayes talk about why the Democrats will not save us, the relationship between abolition and the state, and why it's so hard for most people to imagine political transformations. | Music by TRANSCRIPT: | Note: This a rush transcript and ha…

Maximillian Alvarez (2022-11-17). William Robinson: How COVID-19 will lead to a global capitalist police state. therealnews.com Capitalism was in crisis before the COVID-19 pandemic, and existing conditions of inequality, dispossession, and ecological ruin set the stage for the deadly success of the coronavirus. But how has COVID-19 changed capitalism, and where is the system headed now? The system shock of the pandemic has provoked growing resistance from the working class. At the same time, the wealthiest fraction of society has exploited the crisis of COVID-19 to accelerate their accumulation of wealth and violent dispossession of the world's majority. Professor William I. Robinson argues that humanity is now on a path towards th…

Staff (2022-11-17). At COP27 Indigenous Land Defenders from Mexico, Guatemala Warn "Green Capitalism" Creates Violence. democracynow.org We continue our coverage of the U.N. climate conference in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, by asking what Indigenous leaders at the frontlines of the climate crisis are calling for from world leaders. We speak to Andrea Ixchíu, a land defender from Guatemala, and Rosa Marina Flores Cruz, an Afro-Indigenous activist from Mexico, who are both part of the Futuros Indígenas collective. They discuss how their countries' megaprojects and big business are devastating Indigenous communities. "Green capitalism is affecting our communities. It's displacing people. It's creating violence," says Ixchíu.

WSWS (2022-11-17). Elon Musk issues ultimatum to Twitter employees: Submit to "extremely hardcore" culture, or face termination. wsws.org In a rational society, a platform like Twitter would be publicly owned, but under capitalism it has become the plaything of a single billionaire oligarch, and a fascistic buffoon to boot.

WSWS (2022-11-17). Michigan Medicine worker speaks out against capitalism's COVID policy. wsws.org "This place gave me COVID, but all they talk about is he, him or that I might be gay. I agree with the pandemic being a socially criminal policy, and this happening internationally."

_____ (2022-11-17). The Itaewon tragedy, a possible step towards national unity or a "Sewol" for Yoon Suk-yeol? journal-neo.org On October 30, 2022, a deadly stampede in Seoul's Itaewon district tragically killed more than 1 people and left 1 others with various degrees of injuries. The stampede was the worst tragedy in South Korea since the Sewol ferry crash in 2014, which killed 304 people. It should be noted right away that the Itaewon …

Ben Norton (2022-11-17). Oil as a geopolitical weapon: US hegemony, OPEC, Saudi Arabia, and the petrodollar. multipolarista.com Multipolarista host Ben Norton and historian Aaron Good discuss how oil is used as a geopolitical weapon, analyzing the 1973 OPEC oil embargo, Saudi-US alliance, petrodollar, Nixon shock and Volcker shock, and Washington-orchestrated 2014 oil crash.

Sam Knight (2022-11-17). FTX Crypto Crash Threatens Life Savings of Working People. truthout.org The dramatic collapse of the cryptocurrency exchange FTX sent shockwaves around the world last week, especially after it emerged that company managers allegedly stole at least $1 billion in customer funds to finance risky gambles that never paid off. About 1 million people have money frozen in the bankrupt exchange, in a collapse that also looks set to hurt poor and working class people worldwide who never owned so-called "digital assets." | In Canada, pensions managers had to reassure public school teachers that their exposure to FTX was limited after it emerged that the Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan invested $…

Cynthia Papermaster (2022-11-17). Thursday 12/1: CODEPINK Co-Founder Medea Benjamin in conversation with Mickey Huff, Project Censored. indybay.org Hillside Club, 2286 Cedar St., Berkeley…

_____ (2022-11-17). Israeli Drone Sales Are Fueling Military Occupations Around the World. strategic-culture.org By Jessica BUXBAUM | For nearly two decades, Israeli military censors prevented publication of the country's use of armed drones. In July, the gag order was lifted, allowing Israeli drone warfare to become public knowledge. | "Today I can speak of this openly," Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) Brigadier-General Neri Horowitz

Anonymous669 (2022-11-17). Syrian Army Shot Down Three Armed Drones Near Greater Idlib (Photos). southfront.org

Andy Kroll (2022-11-17). Corporate Weapons Heaven Is a Hell on Earth. tomdispatch.com Here's a seldom commented-upon reality of this century and this moment: the United States remains the number-one arms-exporting nation on the planet. Between 2017 and 2021, it grabbed 39% of the total global weapons market and there's nothing new about that. It has, in fact, been the top arms dealer in every year but one for the past three decades. And it's a remarkably lucrative business, earning American weapons makers tens of billions of dollars annually. It would be one thing if it were simply a matter of money raked in by the industrial half of the military-industrial complex. Unfortunately, in these years,…

INDYRADIO (2022-11-17). Raytheon and Eli Lily Lose Billions on Twitter. indybay.org Shortly after Elon Musk decided to capitalize on the blue checkmark Twitter has used for "active, notable and authentic" accounts, billions of dollars worth of reputation was lost on Wall Street. Abuse of the "blue checkmark" by imposters brought corporate giants to their knees. You can provide anonymous feedback to Twitter about this debacle, via their help center.

William Hartung (2022-11-17). The Shame of Being the World's Worst Weapons Dealer. commondreams.org Too few Americans even know about their nation's role as the world's largest weapons trader, much less the devastating impact of the arms it transfers.