Daily Archives: December 16, 2022

2022-12-16: News Headlines

Drago Bosnic (2022-12-16). Why Putin Says Russia Could Adopt US-style Preemptive Strike Doctrine. globalresearch.ca

____ (2022-12-16). Grassroots clinics being buffed up. ecns.cn Sourcing sufficient medical supplies for primary healthcare clinics, recruiting recent retirees and increasing the number of fever clinics are some of the measures being taken to relieve the strain on the grassroots level amid the Omicron outbreak.

cameron orr (2022-12-15). Marxist IQ: the Trumpian farce. cpusa.org Donald Trump is back in the news dining with lunatic fringe racists and neo-Nazi admirers of Adolf Hitler, even as he "prepares" to regain the presidency in 2024. He continues to claim he won in 2020. Karl Marx wrote about wild political adventurers like Napoleon III, the British leaders who equated the sale of …

Dave DeCamp (2022-12-15). US Will More Than Double Its Training Program for Ukrainian Troops. news.antiwar.com The Pentagon is planning a major expansion of the number of Ukrainian troops that it will train in Germany and aims to start the new program in early 2023, US officials told The New York Times on Thursday. The expanded program will enable the US military to train up to 800 Ukrainian troops each month, …

Staff (2022-12-15). U.S. to provide Ukraine with smart missiles/bombs for bombers, jet fighters — WP. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com Polish RadioDecember 15, 2022 US to give Ukraine smart-bomb kits: report The Pentagon is planning to send Ukraine advanced electronic equipment that transforms traditional missiles into "smart bombs" able to accurately target Russian positions, the Washington Post has reported. According to an article published in the Washington Post on Wednesday, the so-called Joint Direct Attack …

Maureen Clare Murphy (2022-12-15). Israel sinks to new low by smearing slain children as "terrorists" electronicintifada.net Tel Aviv aims to deflect responsibility for climbing fatalities.

Rachel Hu, Chris Garaffa (2022-12-15). CovertAction Bulletin — Eyewitness Report Iran Protests: Truth or Media Distortion? covertactionmagazine.com In the last few months, the western media has been reporting on large scale protests sweeping Iran against the hijab in the wake of the death of Mahsa Amimi. The protests were described by some journalists as a revolution against the Islamic Republic, and have been highlighted as a movement led by young women. Is this true? Is there a revolution? How much of this is part of a major media disinformation campaign? We are joined by Mazda Majidi, Iranian author, journalist, and anti-war activist who has recently returned from Iran.

Maximillian Alvarez (2022-12-15). Worker Solidarity Livestream: Striking workers need your help to win. therealnews.com With strikes and unionization drives spreading throughout the country, 2022 has been a year of intense labor struggle. However, the bosses, the ruling class, corporate politicians, and their lackeys in the media are doing everything they can to squash these rank-and-file movements and beat workers back into subservience. If we want to see the labor movement grow, we need to be there for workers when it counts the most, and we need to do whatever we can to make sure they win their fights. Now more than ever, we have to support working people on the front lines fighting for better lives, better workplaces, an…

_____ (2022-12-14). Egypt Joins the New Development Bank as IMF Twists the Screws. journal-neo.org Recently, Egypt ratified its participation in the New Development Bank (NDB) founded by Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa (BRICS) back in 2014. But interestingly, neither the New York Times nor any other mainstream western media outlet covered the news. Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi's cabinet finally ratified the agreement establishing the NDB and …

Media Lens (2022-12-14). "Nearly Every War Has Been the Result of Media Lies" dissidentvoice.org Julian Assange once observed that, 'Nearly every war has been the result of media lies.' For daring to publish evidence of US war crimes, Assange now sits in the high-security Belmarsh prison in London, at risk of being extradited to the US within the next few weeks. The prospects for a fair trial range from …

Prof Michel Chossudovsky (2022-12-14). The Covid "Killer Vaccine". People Are Dying All Over the World. It's A Criminal Undertaking. globalresearch.ca First published on November 26, 2022 | *** | We are being accused of "spreading disinformation" regarding the Covid-19 vaccine. | The Reuters and AP media "trackers" and "fact checkers" will be out to smear the testimonies of parents who have lost their …

WSWS (2022-12-14). New York Times covers up for Biden, Trump and other COVID-19 criminals. wsws.org At bottom, the death toll from the coronavirus pandemic does not result from a medical or health care crisis but from the subordination of public health to private profit.

WSWS (2022-12-14). Five more men to stand trial for 2020 plot to kidnap Michigan Governor Whitmer. wsws.org Michigan 86th District Court Judge Michael Stepka ruled last Wednesday that sufficient evidence was presented in a preliminary hearing by state prosecutors to bound five men over for a trial on felony charges in Antrim County circuit court in connection with the plot to kidnap the governor of Michigan.

Editor (2022-12-14). British empire killed 165 million Indians in 40 years: How colonialism inspired fascism. mronline.org A scholarly study found that British colonialism caused approximately 165 million deaths in India from 1880 to 1920, while stealing trillions of dollars of wealth. The global capitalist system was founded on European imperial genocides, which inspired Adolf Hitler and led to fascism.

2022-12-16 11:37:16 | 11:37 EST | tr | 18 | 6 | 6 | 3 | 0