(2022-09-15). Online events w) Chomsky, John Clark, Silvia Federici, Roxanne Dunbar Ortiz, Joanna Macy.. indybay.org Here are about 8 online events taking place over the next 2 weeks (and starting at 7: 30 am tomorrow, Sept. 11), featuring people such as adrienne maree brown, Noam Chomsky, John P. Clark, Silvia Federici, Roxanne Dunbar Ortiz, Joanna Macy, Nancy Fraser, and many others. | These events are hosted from various locations all across the country, as well from Canada and the UK (however, the listed times are all for our "Pacific time zone"). Of course, feel free to share this info with others who might be interested in it.
(2022-09-15). Oppose the right-wing smear campaign aimed at silencing Canadian anti-COVID activist and former teacher Ryan Imgrund! wsws.org Imgrund, who built up a large following among workers in Ontario thanks to his advocacy for COVID-19 public health measures, has been targeted by a rabid alliance of far-right anti-vaxxers, COVID deniers, and "left" proponents of identity politics.
(2022-09-14). War propaganda threatens nuclear meltdown. workers.org Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Station The United States and its imperialist allies in the European Union have a big political problem. The embargo/boycott that they so swiftly and gleefully placed on Russia's energy exports, mainly oil and gas, had the unintended consequence of guaranteeing much higher profits to Russia in selling . . . |
(2022-09-14). Fear And Misinformation Dominate Discourses Of Brazilian Right. popularresistance.org Brazil is less than a month away from historic elections. Over 156 million Brazilians will go to the polls on October 2 to cast their vote for the president of the republic, State governors, 27 senators, 513 federal deputies, and State and district deputies. The elections take place amid an acute political, economic, and social crisis in the country. The past several years have seen a dramatic increase in hunger, homelessness, unemployment, and the prices of basic commodities. The currency, the Real, has tumbled. Above all, the colossal number of deaths due to COVID-19 continues to cast a shadow on the lives of m…
(2022-09-14). Video: 9/11 and the Global War on Terrorism. globalresearch.ca 9/11 marks the onslaught of the "Global War on Terrorism" (GWOT), used as a pretext and a justification by the US and its NATO allies to carry out a "war without borders", a global war of conquest. A far-reaching overhaul of US military doctrine was launched in the wake of 9/11.
(2022-09-14). Big Oil PR Firms a No-Show at House Hearing on Climate Disinformation. commondreams.org "This week Congress is set to take on Big Oil's lies and profiteering. The fossil fuel industry has made billions fueling the climate crisis and exploiting working people. We need to make them pay."
(2022-09-14). At Least 99 Killed in Fighting Between Azerbaijan and Armenia. news.antiwar.com The heaviest fighting between Azerbaijan and Armenia since the 2020 Nagorono-Karabakh war erupted early Tuesday morning, Armenia said Azerbaijan started the violence by launching intensive artillery shelling against Armenian military positions. | Azerbaijan claimed that its shelling was a response to "large-scale subversive acts" on the border that included attacks on its military. | Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said t…
(2022-09-14). Wall Street slumps as inflation data signify continued Fed interest rate hikes. wsws.org All 30 stocks in the Dow fell as the index dropped by nearly 1300 points, the S&P 0 slid 4.3 percent and the tech-heavy and interest-rate sensitive NASDAQ was down 5.2 percent, with the three indexes recording their biggest one-day fall since June 2020.
(2022-09-14). The Chris Hedges Report: Nathaniel Philbrick on How George Armstrong Custer Became a Martyr Used to Justify Genocide and US Imperialism. scheerpost.com Click | Chris HedgesChris Hedges is a Pulitzer Prize—winning journalist who was a foreign correspondent for fifteen years for The New York Times, where he served as the Middle East Bureau Chief and Balkan Bureau Chief for the paper. He previously worked overseas for The Dallas Morning…
(2022-09-14). Down With the Corporate Bean-Counters Who Spy on Their Workers. commondreams.org When overpaid corporate boneheads substitute slogans and computer metrics for real solutions, they're admitting that they are the problem.
(2022-09-14). Justice Department expands criminal probe of Trump's coup plot. wsws.org On Monday, the New York Times reported that in addition to the subpoenas, top Trump advisers Boris Epshteyn and Mike Roman had their phones seized by federal agents last week.
(2022-09-14). Activists Unlawfully Arrested In Raids On Palestine Action Camp. popularresistance.org Yesterday, 14 activists were unlawfully arrested after manning the Palestine Action Camp for the past two weeks. The activists were arrested under the pretext of "conspiracy to commit criminal damage", despite no evidence given for these claims. It would appear the arrests were part of an attempt to remove activists, ahead of an event outside the factory that called for mass mobilisation. During the raid, devices were seized, equipment damaged deliberately and packed up by police, who then cordoned the whole camp off, marking it a "crime scene". Those arrested were released in the early hours of today. | Although…
(2022-09-13). Chain of Corruption: How the White Helmets Compromised OPCW Investigations in Syria. orinocotribune.com By Aaron Maté Sep 9, 2022 | By enlisting the sectarian insurgent-allied, US-funded White Helmets for chemical weapons probes in Syria, the OPCW abandoned impartiality and broke its fundamental rules for collecting evidence. | Before it mired the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) in an international
(2022-09-13). Silencing The Lambs — How Propaganda Works. popularresistance.org In the 1970s, I met one of Hitler's leading propagandists, Leni Riefenstahl, whose epic films glorified the Nazis. We happened to be staying at the same lodge in Kenya, where she was on a photography assignment, having escaped the fate of other friends of the Fuhrer. | She told me that the 'patriotic messages' of her films were dependent not on 'orders from above' but on what she called the 'submissive void' of the German public. | Did that include the liberal, educated bourgeoisie? I asked. 'Yes, especially them,' she said. | I think of this as I look around at the propaganda now consuming Western societies. | O…