Daily Archives: September 29, 2023

2023-09-29: News Headlines

sputnikglobe (2023-09-28). Theory or Theater: What's the Difference Between Bidenomics and Trumponomics? sputnikglobe.com US President Joe Biden looks likely to face off against his predecessor Donald Trump for a second time in the 2024 presidential election. Despite the hostile rhetoric between the two figures, Marxist economics professor Richard Wolff argues that both are peddling the same economic policy.

TASS (2023-09-29). UK blacklists Russian Emergencies Minister Kurenkov, Central Elections Commission. tass.com The new sanctions come one year after Russia's referendums in the Donetsk People's Republic and the Lugansk People's Republic as well as the Kherson Region and the Zaporozhye Region, the British government said…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-09-29). How Canada Emerged as a Haven for Nazi War Criminals. libya360.wordpress.com Roger Jordan Government House Leader Karina Gould (left) and House of Commons Speaker Anthony Rota (right) embrace Yaroslav Hunka, a Ukrainian former member of Adolf Hitler's Waffen SS. Standing behind Hunka in the middle is his son Martin. [Photo: @karinagould] WSWS Editorial Note: Aided by the corporate media, Canada's political establishment is trying to claim that…

Amanda Brown (2023-09-28). Canada Launches UN Declaration Targeting Online 'Disinformation'. globalresearch.ca

Prof Michel Chossudovsky (2023-09-28). Biggest Lie in World History: There Never Was A Pandemic. The Data Base is Flawed. The Covid Mandates including the Vaccine are Invalid. globalresearch.ca Fake science was supportive of this devastating agenda. The lies were sustained by a massive media disinformation campaign. The historic March 11, 2020 lockdown triggered economic and social chaos Worldwide. It was an act of "economic warfare": a war against humanity.

WSWS (2023-09-29). Canadian establishment doubles down on its efforts to "move on" from parliament's hailing of Ukrainian Nazi SS veteran. wsws.org Canada's political establishment and corporate media are now desperately seeking to move on from any discussion, let alone serious probing, of how Canada's parliament came to give a hero's welcome to a 98-year-old Ukrainian veteran of the Nazi Waffen-SS, Yaroslav Hunka.

Staff (2023-09-28). Ralph Nader: Why Is GOP Not Debating Corporate Crime Wave & the Weakening of Our Democratic Society? democracynow.org Former presidential candidate Ralph Nader responds to Wednesday's second Republican debate, saying, "It's pretty embarrassing that this is what they put forward to become the president of the most powerful country in the world." Nader discusses the debate's topics of social media, former President Donald Trump and wealth inequality in America. Nader also calls for the Democratic Party to "stop engaging in candidate suppression" and respect third-party candidates such as Cornel West to run for public office as a constitutional right.

Erica Caines, Black Agenda Report. (2023-09-29). All Black Feminisms Ain't Created Equal. popularresistance.org My initial introduction to radical feminist politics was through convoluted, often antagonistic online discourses, where past works of radical feminists are engaged, discussed, and ultimately flattened. Audre Lorde has always been among the most popularly referenced Black feminists cited online, for example, but always for her gender critical analysis (which could be used as fodder in heated discourse) and never for her anti-imperialist analysis. It's much easier for one to gain attention and retweets through cherrypicking her words on gender and sexuality, but much less popular to dive into her works on the impe…

infobrics (2023-09-29). How Soviet-era doctrine and weapons trump American warfighting. infobrics.org Ukrainians are better soldiers than Americans, says US combat veteran.

Alfred de Zayas (2023-09-29). Responsibility to Protect the Armenian population of Nagorno Karabakh. counterpunch.org If the "doctrine" of Responsibility to Protect (R2P) means anything[1], then it applies to the tragedy unfolding since 2020 in the Armenian Republic of Artsakh, better known as Nagorno Karabakh. The illegal aggression by Azerbaijan in 2020, accompanied by war crimes and crimes against humanity, as documented among others by Human Rights Watch[2], constituted a

| APP | (2023-09-28). Sikhs protest at UN headquarters against India over Khalistan leader's murder. tribune.com.pk Hundreds of Sikh community representatives gathered in front of the United Nations headquarters in New York to condemn the murder of the Khalistan leader in Canada and press their demand for Khalistan as an independent Sikh homeland. | The protest was held a week after Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau told parliament that his government had seen "credible allegations" that India was responsible for the murder of Hardeep Singh Nijjar, a prominent Canadian Sikh leader. | Read More: Sikhs protest against killing of pro-Khalistan leader | The demonstrators chanted slogans to condemn the Indian Prime Minister…

Revolutionary Workers Front (2023-09-29). Monday 10/2: SF Speak Out-Stop Attacks On Civil Service &. Outsourcing/Privatization Using Non-Profits. indybay.org San Francisco City Hall | Room 400 | San Francisco…

Revolutionary Workers Front (2023-09-28). Monday 10/2: SF Speak Out-Stop Attacks On Civil Service &. Outsourcing/Privatization Using Non-Profits. indybay.org San Francisco City Hall | Room 400 | San Francisco…

Staff (2023-09-29). Headlines for September 29, 2023. democracynow.org Ahead of Shutdown, Biden Says GOP Extremists Are Trying to "Burn the Place Down", Biden Warns Trump & MAGA Movement Are a Threat to Democracy, Activist Disrupts Biden Speech, Urges Him to Declare Climate Emergency, 18 Youth Climate Activists Arrested for Occupying Speaker McCarthy's Office, GOP Witnesses Admit No Evidence Yet to Support Impeaching Biden, GOP Lawmakers Refuse to Say Trump Should Be Held Accountable If Convicted, NY Appeals Court Rejects Trump Effort to Delay Civil Fraud Trial, Dozens Killed in Two Blasts in Pakistan, U.N.: Over 2,500 Migrants Have Died or Gone Missing This Year T…

WSWS (2023-09-29). Sydney's Macquarie University doubles down on its political censorship of the IYSSE. wsws.org The university is simply ignoring the preponderance of evidence against its original decision, highlighting that this is a case of open political censorship of the IYSSE—the only socialist, anti-war club on campus.

WSWS (2023-09-29). Next New Zealand government could include right-wing nationalist NZ First. wsws.org The NZ First Party, which is running a campaign based on racist dog whistles, bigotry and anti-vax pseudo-science, played a major role in Jacinda Ardern's Labour government from 2017‚Äí2020.

WSWS (2023-09-29). German media and politicians launch smear campaign against refugees. wsws.org Refugees are being targeted in a campaign by the ruling class to advance its war against the working class and to strengthen the most right-wing forces in doing so.

Editor (2023-09-29). Scolding striking auto workers in advance for wrecking economy. mronline.org The first person quoted in the New York Times' rundown (9/19/23) on the United Auto Workers strike was a lawyer representing management from Littler Mendelson, the go-to firm for big corporations' union avoidance.

Dave DeCamp (2023-09-28). Russia Has Gained More Territory This Year Than Ukraine. news.antiwar.com Russian forces have gained more territory in Ukraine this year than the Ukrainian side despite the Ukrainian counteroffensive that was launched in June, The New York Times reported on Thursday. The report noted that despite nine months of heavy fighting in Ukraine, only about 500 square miles of territory have changed hands this year. Russia …

Dean Baker (2023-09-28). Yes, Donald Trump's Lies on Financial Statements Did Cost Businesses Money. cepr.net Donald Trump claims that no one was harmed when he lied about the value of his assets on statements he made to lenders, because loans were paid off with interest. New York Times columnist, Peter Coy takes this claim far more seriously than he should. The key point that Coy misses is that lenders base …

Michael F. Brown (2023-09-28). The New York Times, a cheerleader for Israel and its crimes. electronicintifada.net Newspaper of record helps launder the theft of Palestinian land and rights.

Seth Stern, Freedom of the Press Foundation. (2023-09-28). Arrests Of Independent Journalists Should Make Headlines Too. popularresistance.org The New York Times, CNN, and many other national outlets reported on NewsNation journalist Evan Lambert's arrest at a news conference in Ohio earlier this year. Same when Phoenix police detained Wall Street Journal reporter Dion Rabouin outside a bank. | We're glad those arrests made headlines — if anything, they should have gotten more coverage. The publicity prompted Phoenix's mayor to apologize to Rabouin for his detainment and Ohio's governor to denounce Lambert's arrest while authorities dropped the charges. Without the backlash, who knows — his case might have proceeded to trial.

CounterSpin (2023-09-29). Stephen Zunes on Menendez Indictment. fair.org CounterSpin230929.mp3 New York Times ( This week on CounterSpin: You can't say elite US news media aren't on the story of the federal indictment of Robert Menendez, Democratic chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. But

Dean Baker (2023-09-29). Yes, Trump's Lies on Financial Statements Did Cost Businesses Money. counterpunch.org Donald Trump claims that no one was harmed when he lied about the value of his assets on statements he made to lenders, because loans were paid off with interest. New York Times columnist, Peter Coy takes this claim far more seriously than he should. The key point that Coy misses is that lenders base

Dean Baker (2023-09-28). Washington Post Columnist Charles Lane Wants Auto Workers to Lose Their Jobs. cepr.net The Washington Post has a long history of hating on powerful unions, like the United Auto Workers (UAW), or any factor that allows blue-collar workers to earn a decent living. In keeping with that tradition, editorial writer and columnist Charles Lane argued that the UAW strike is highlighting the "contradictions" in Bidenomics. Lane's argument is …

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