Monthly Archives: September 2021

2021-09-30: News Headlines

Thom Hartmann (2021-09-30). When Will the US Break Free from the Clutches of Its Grifters? counterpunch.org Trump just unleashed an unhinged, barely coherent rant about the possibility President Biden might reveal what was going on in the White House on January 6th, the day Trump tried to finally end, once and for all, any possibility of governmental oversight of his ongoing criminal career. He believed he could follow in the footsteps

Editor (2021-09-30). AUKUS makes workers pay for war with China. mronline.org We are witnessing an aggressive build-up by the U.S. and its allies for a confrontation with China. The Biden administration is making massive upgrades to the US's military capacity, and sharply reorienting it to focus on China.

Staff (2021-09-30). Headlines for September 30, 2021. democracynow.org As Government Shutdown Looms, Biden's Legislative Agenda Hangs in the Balance, Second Alaska Hospital to Ration Care Amid Surge in Unvaccinated COVID Patients, YouTube to Ban Anti-Vaccine Misinformation, CDC Urges Pregnant People to Get Vaccinated, Protesters Target Moderna CEO and Top Biden Aide, Demanding Vaccine Equity , U.N. Warns Tigray Blockade Leading to Famine, Dire Medical Shortages for Millions, Pentagon Knew U.S. Drone Strike in Kabul Missed Target, Hit Civilians Weeks Before Public Admission, Ecuador Prison Riot Claims 116 Lives , North Korea Says It Tested New Hypersonic Missile, La Palma Residents L…

Adam Andrzejewski (2021-09-30). Biden's Vax Mandate to be Enforced by Fining Companies $70,000 to $700,000? globalresearch.ca

scorinoco (2021-09-30). Borders, Blackness, and Empire. orinocotribune.com By Jemima Pierre — Sep 22, 2021 | It took two days. It took two days for the United States government to deport more than 6,000 asylum seekers to Haiti. Almost 15,000 people, all presumably Haitian, have been encamped on the banks of the Rio Grande River between Del Rio, Texas and Ciudad Acuña, Mexico. On September 18, the mainstream media of the US proclaimed a border "crisis" with "Haitian migrants" flooding the border; by September 20, the Biden administration moved to get rid of them, deploying hundreds of Homeland Security agents, supported by both the US Coast Guard and the Department of Defense. "This…

Julia Rock (2021-09-30). Sanders to House Progressives: Hold Strong or Senate Will Tank Biden's Agenda. zcomm.org Dozens of Progressive Caucus members remain steadfastly opposed to a bipartisan infrastructure bill unless paired with a more expansive reconciliation package…

sputniknews (2021-09-30). Pentagon Leaders Told Senators US in Talks to Use Russian Bases for Afghan Ops – Reports. sputniknews.com WASHINGTON (Sputnik) – US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Mark Milley told lawmakers in a classified briefing that the Biden administration is in talks about using Russian bases in Central Asia to conduct counterterrorism missions against targets in Afghanistan, Politico reported on Wednesday.

Jomo Kwame Sundaram (2021-09-30). Rich countries prolong the pandemic: what Biden must do. mronline.org Most rich countries have opposed most developing countries' request to temporarily suspend World Trade Organization (WTO) intellectual property (IP) rules to more quickly contain the COVID-19 pandemic. Expectations were high as Biden had supported a patent waiver, albeit only for vaccines.

sputniknews (2021-09-30). Biden Administration to Issue New Memo to Terminate Trump-Era Remain in Mexico Policy. sputniknews.com WASHINGTON (Sputnik) – The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said in a press release it will issue a new memorandum to terminate the Trump-era Migrant Protection Protocols after a Texas judge ordered the federal government to reinstate the rule, which required asylum-seeking migrants to stay in Mexico while awaiting court proceedings.

Anonymous103 (2021-09-30). Biden Admin Denies Entry To Chartered Rescue Flight Carrying American Citizens & Afghans. southfront.org Illustrative Image | Originally published on A nonprofit organized by a loose network of veterans and current service members to help evacuate vulnerable Americans and Afghans from Kabul is seeing a chartered flight with more than 100 Americans and green-card holders being denied entry to the US by the Department of Homeland Security, according to a Reuters report. | Bryan Stern, a founder of non-profit group Project Dynamo, which organized the flight, told Reuters d…

José Manuel Blanco Diaz (2021-09-30). New Chapter in Stormy 21N Opposition Electoral Battle: Lara State (Marquina vs. Florido). orinocotribune.com A new chapter was written this week in the turbulent chronicle of frequent clashes between factions of the Venezuelan opposition. The most recent tensions occurred in the ongoing competition for nominations to the candidacy of governorships and mayoralties among right-wing politicians, this time in Lara state. | The spat involved Alfonso Marquina and Luis Florido, as the former expressed his annoyance on social media networks at what he considered the imposition of the latter by the self-styled Democratic Unity Roundtable (MUD), which brings together several opposition parties. … Yo pedí una explicación y rec…

WSWS (2021-09-30). Video: Internationally acclaimed model Andreja Pejic discusses Australia's anti-democratic electoral laws. wsws.org "We deserve to have a revolutionary movement that lifts the world out of the dark ages."

WSWS (2021-09-30). Congressional Armed Services committee hearings skirt January 6 coup attempt. wsws.org In the first public hearings in which Gen. Mark Milley has testified under oath since the publication of books detailing his fears that Trump would stage a fascistic coup, both Democrats and Republicans skirted the issue.

Staff (2021-09-30). "A Moral Crisis": Reverend William Barber on Why Congress Must Pass $3.5 Trillion Bill. democracynow.org Activists continue to call on Democratic leaders to pass the $3.5 trillion Build Back Better Act, which expands the social safety net and includes measures to address the climate crisis. Progressives remain resolute in their opposition to passing a bipartisan $1 trillion infrastructure bill unless it is paired with the larger package. The Build Back Better Act represents "economic investment in the lives of poor and low-wealth people in this country," says Reverend William Barber, co-chair of the Poor People's Campaign. "The question here is not 'What will it cost if we do this?' What will it cost if we don't do…

Staff (2021-09-30). Missing White Woman Syndrome: Media Obsess Over Some Cases as Black, Brown & Indigenous Women Ignored. democracynow.org Wall-to-wall coverage of the case of Gabby Petito — a 22-year-old white woman and blogger who went missing while traveling with her fiancé Brian Laundrie and whose remains were found in a national park in Wyoming — has renewed attention on what some call "missing white woman syndrome," the media's inordinate focus on white female victims and the disparity in coverage for women of color. We host a roundtable discussion with Amara Cofer, host and executive producer of the podcast "Black Girl Gone"; Mary Kathryn Nagle, a citizen of the Cherokee Nation and lawyer focused on tribal sovereignty; and Melissa…

Joe Emersberger (2021-09-30). The Media Myth of 'Once Prosperous' and Democratic Venezuela Before Chávez. zcomm.org The following piece is adapted from the authors' new book, Extraordinary Threat: The US Empire, the Media and 20 Years of Coup Attempts in Venezuela, published by Monthly Review Press.

ecns.cn (2021-09-30). DRC receives a batch of Chinese COVID-19 vaccines. ecns.cn The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) on Wednesday received a batch of Chinese Sinovac COVID-19 vaccines offered by the Chinese government at the N'djili Airport in the capital city Kinshasa.

Paul Haeder (2021-09-30). It's What the Babies Eat: Inflammatory Capitalism in Mush. dissidentvoice.org Again, you can't shuttle through the headlines, the so-called news, without having spasms and fits. You will not get journalists doing shit to really go after the capitalists, uh? Baby food. And these transnational Wall Street thieves, these stockholding companies, not even a slap on the wrist. So, if I as an unjabbed person goes …

Stansfield Smith (2021-09-30). Is the US Global Empire Actually in Decline? Part 3. orinocotribune.com By Stansfield Smith and Roger D. Harris — Sep 25, 2021 | PART 4: THE WORLD IF THE US WERE IN DECLINE | Revolutions on the International Stage | A weakened US imperialism would encourage peoples and nations to "seize the time" and score significant gains against this overlord's hold on their countries. Yet since shortly after 1975, with the victories in Vietnam and Laos, a drought in socialist revolutions has persisted for almost half a century. If the US empire were in decline, we would find it handicapped in countering victorious socialist revolutions. However, the opposite has been the case, with the US ru…

William Pesek (2021-09-30). US default is global economy's ticking time bomb. asiatimes.com TOKYO — In July, Fitch Ratings analyst Charles Seville put out a rather perfunctory report on how the US Congress might handle America's credit rating. Like most, he assumed lawmakers would be prudent. He spelled out, though, what might transpire if Republicans acted as irresponsibly as they did in 2011, back when Standard & Poor's …

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2021-09-30). The Hidden Hunger in Morocco. libya360.wordpress.com Madaar An Informal housing settlement in Karyan Touma, Ain Sebaa, Casablanca. It is very hot during the summer and floods in the winter. Photo: Madaar While official statistics suggest the North African country does not suffer with hunger, the reality is a different story covered up by lack of reliable data and social stigma Hunger…

Editor (2021-09-30). Out of the shadows: female Leninists and Russian socialism. mronline.org In 1922, the great radical journalist Louise Bryant observed that Lenin drew great strength from the women close to him. Her observation contrasts sharply with the exploitative Lenin who has come to dominate historical studies and biographies.

KPFA Radio 94.1 FM (2021-09-30). Tuesday 11/9: Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz with Steve Wasserman: Not a Nation of Immigrants. indybay.org Online webinar…

Sondra Youdelman (2021-09-29). Big Money's War on the Build Back Better Plan. otherwords.org Right now, corporations and the ultra-rich are spending millions to derail President Biden's Build Back Better plan. Behind the scenes, they're hard at work to keep our elected officials from helping our country recover from the pandemic. | Poll after poll tells us that Biden's plan is full of things people want: lower drug costs, greater access to health care, a green economy, and restorative investments in our communities.

Staff (2021-09-29). Backed by Sanders and Warren, House Progressives Are Firm on Infrastructure Vote. truthout.org Sen. Bernie Sanders, no stranger to making himself clear, has made himself abundantly clear about the "Let's be crystal clear,"

Johanna Kichton (2021-09-29). People's Action and Dƒìmos Unveil Report Revealing Corporate Sabotage of Biden's Build Back Better Agenda. peoplesaction.org New Report Exposes Corporate Push to Derail Popular, Progressive Provisions in $3.5T Budget Package Johanna Kichton, j.kichton@peoplesaction.org, 202.660.0605 Colleen A. Roache, croache@demos.org, 862.400.5099 WASHINGTON, D.C.—People's Action and Dƒìmos today unveiled an incriminating report that reveals the depths of corporate sabotage of President Biden's Build Back Better agenda. Just 20 corporations or groups representing them have …

Basav Sen (2021-09-29). Why Did A U.S. Envoy Meet With The Head Of A Fascist Militia in India? fpif.org The fact that India is well on its way to full-fledged authoritarianism hasn't factored into the Biden administration's approach to the "world's largest democracy."

Dr. Jack Rasmus (2021-09-29). Down the Corporate Rabbit Hole: Biden's Reconciliation Bill. $3.5 Trillion Allocated to "Human Infrastructure and Climate Change" globalresearch.ca

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2021-09-29). Top Cuban Diplomat Responds to Renewed US Assault. libya360.wordpress.com Red Lines host Anya Parampil speaks with Carlos F. de Cossio, the Director General of the United States for Cuba's Foreign Ministry, about continuing US attempts to overthrow his country's government. He discusses Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel's address before the UN General Assembly, continuity between Trump and Biden policy on Cuba, US support for recent…

Staff (2021-09-29). Trump Planning Lawsuit to Block January 6 Committee From Getting His Records. truthout.org Former President Donald Trump is preparing to sue the Biden White House over its plans to release records from his administration to a select committee in Congress. The records pertain to the January 6 attack on the United States Capitol building, which was carried out by a mob of Trump loyalists upset with the outcome of the 2020 presidential election. |

Cesar Chelala (2021-09-29). The Failure of Intervention. counterpunch.org President Joe Biden's remarks to the United Nations struck a positive tone in international relations, a tone that has not been heard for several years from an American president. This is happening as United States allies criticize the president for not having consulted them when the U.S. withdrew from Afghanistan. This dismal experience shows the

_____ (2021-09-29). New Report Exposes Corporate Scheme to Derail Biden Agenda and 'Upend Democracy'. commondreams.org "Extinction is not inevitable. It is a political choice."

_____ (2021-09-29). 'It's Sickening': Sinema Draws Progressive Ire for Obstructing Biden Agenda. commondreams.org Calls for his recusal aim to undercut the Biden administration's antitrust enforcement and should be rejected by DOJ.

Erik Molvar (2021-09-29). How the Park Service Sold Out Point Reyes National Seashore to the Livestock Industry. counterpunch.org Thirteen ranchers won a sweeping victory this week, defeating the interests of three million annual visitors to Point Reyes National Seashore, by securing a plan amendment that extends their commercial livestock operations on Park lands for at least 20 years. The plan amendment — the first epic public lands fail by the nascent Biden administration — sells out native ecosystems, rare wildlife, and the beachgoing public. The plan extends beef and dairy operations well beyond the terms well Congressional intention for the Seashore's establishment in 1978, which prescribed livestock leases for "a definite…

Peoples Dispatch (2021-09-29). Violent deportations of Haitian refugees expose Biden's record on migrant rights. peoplesdispatch.org The violent expulsion of Haitian migrants in Del Rio, at the behest of the Joe Biden administration, has put a spotlight on the president's record of continuing Trump-era laws to expel hundreds of thousands of asylum seekers and undocumented migrants…

MEE staff (2021-09-29). US senators call on Biden to end lethal force outside war zones. middleeasteye.net US senators call on Biden to end lethal force outside war zones | Lawmakers say it is 'long past time to make a decisive shift away from lethal force policies' | Wed, 09/29/2021 – 17: 39 | Senator Leahy has worked for years on the issue of issuing condolence payments to civilians killed as a result of US military actions (AFP/File photo) | Two top

Staff (2021-09-29). Biden's spending bill, infrastructure, and a looming government shutdown: What the hell is going on? therealnews.com Even people who follow DC politics closely are struggling to keep up with this week's political drama. Between a looming government shutdown, the need to raise the debt ceiling by next month, and the Democrats' intra-party fight over infrastructure and the Build Back Better Act, a tangled political mess is unfolding on Capitol Hill—and the results will directly impact the lives of everyday people. In this installment of The Marc Steiner Show, Sarah Anderson of the

Claudio Della Croce (2021-09-29). Se resquebraja el consenso neoliberal y Biden pide más impuestos para los superricos. globalizacion.ca Durante las últimas semanas crecieron las dudas sobre una recuperación virtuosa de la economía global: importantes economistas hablan de una amenaza de estanflación y advierten que la combinación actual de políticas monetarias, crediticias y fiscales persistentemente laxas estimulará en exceso…

David Sirota (2021-09-29). Billionaires' Democratic Bag Man. dailyposter.com

_____ (2021-09-29). VIDEO: Biden's UNGA Speech Does Not Absolve the U.S. of Violence. strategic-culture.org In order to lead the world, Biden's America cannot rely on empty hypocritical statements. Watch the video and read more in the article by Ramona Wadi.

_____ (2021-09-29). Public Health Advocates Target Top Biden Aide, Moderna CEO in Protest Demanding Vaccine Equity. commondreams.org This reconciliation bill is being opposed by every Republican in Congress as well as the drug companies, the insurance companies, the fossil fuel industry, and the billionaire class. They want to maintain the status quo in which the very rich get richer while ordinary Americans continue to struggle to make ends meet. Well, I disagree.

The Associated Press (2021-09-29). Biden Caught Between Allies and Critics on Border Policy. latinorebels.com WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is caught between a hard place and an even harder one when it comes to immigration.

_____ (2021-09-29). 'We Had a Deal': Warren Joins Sanders and House Progressives in Fight for Biden's Agenda. commondreams.org "President Biden has the power to remake…

_____ (2021-09-29). Wildlife Defenders Cheer Restoration of Migratory Bird Protections Gutted Under Trump. commondreams.org They are trying to create chaos the media will blame on the Democrats while making it infinitely more difficult to pass Biden's $3.5 trillion Build Back Better legislation.

_____ (2021-09-29). The Utterly Baseless Case for Recusal of Biden Antitrust Nominee, Jonathan Kanter. commondreams.org A "public option" for health insurance is broadly popular with Americans.

_____ (2021-09-29). 'Everything Is on the Line': Senate Under Pressure to Protect Abortion Rights. commondreams.org The Cook Political Report's Editor and Publisher on Biden, Trump and Democratic Chances in 2022 and 2024.

Rick Rozoff (2021-09-29). Putin offered U.S. use of Central Asian bases, Democrats tell Biden to refuse — because Russians can't be trusted. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com President Joe Biden should not position U.S. troops at Russian bases, his congressional allies warned following a report that a top Pentagon official discussed such an idea with his Russian counterpart. "You can't trust them," House Foreign Affairs Chairman Gregory Meeks, a New York Democrat…. Russian President Vladimir Putin floated the idea during the Geneva …

Jeremy Kuzmarov (2021-09-29). The US May Have Lost the Military War in Syria, But Has Won the Propaganda War at Home By Portraying its Murderous Invasion as a Moral Crusade. orinocotribune.com By Jeremy Kuzmarov — Sep 22, 2021 | As It Did with Castro in Cuba and Noriega in Panama, the "Mighty Wurlitzer" of U.S. Propaganda Defused Antiwar Sentiment by Painting Syrian President Bashar al-Assad as a Brutal Animal Who Had to Be Removed. | In 1991, famed MIT linguist Noam Chomsky published a political pamphlet called Media Control: The Spectacular Achievements of Propaganda, which provided an examination of U.S. war propaganda and its success from Woodrow Wilson's World War I Creel Commission to Bush Sr.'s war on Iraq. | According to Chomsky, "Propaganda is to democracy what the bludgeon is to a totali…

Peter Certo (2021-09-29). In OtherWords: September 29, 2021. otherwords.org It's crunch time for the Democrats' jobs and infrastructure package, also known as the reconciliation bill or the Build Back Better plan. | There's a big debate in Congress right now between members who support a more ambitious package a handful of moderates and conservatives trying to pare it back. But there's not much debate among the American people, as Sondra Youdelman explains this week. In fact, the bill's main provisions — more health and child care, green jobs, lower drug prices, and the like — are really, really popular. So is the idea of funding them by reversing big tax cuts for the wealthy…

Brittani Banks (2021-09-29). Europe After Angela Merkel: Is the Atlantic Era Over? independentmediainstitute.org Just what shape Germany's governing coalition will take is still unclear in the aftermath of the September 26 election, which saw the Social Democrats (SPD), led by finance minister Olaf Scholz, come away with just over a quarter of the vote, at 25.7 percent. The balance of power in Germany is now held by the …

Staff (2021-09-29). Republicans Show They'd Rather Risk Recession Than Allow Democrats to Pass Bills. truthout.org Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Kentucky) blocked Democrats' latest attempt to stave off economic disaster on Tuesday — and the more options Republicans shoot down to avoid a shutdown and debt default, the more the already fragile economy is at risk. | McConnell

Staff (2021-09-29). We Seized 240K Properties From Corporate Landlords Through Grassroots Organizing. truthout.org The stunning victory won by grassroots activists in Germany this week — seizing 240,000 public housing apartments owned by corporate landlords in Berlin and putting them in the hands of renters themselves — has the potential to reverberate globally, inspiring ongoing and emerging struggles for more democratic and ecological approaches to housing. | Having won the referendum, the army of grassroots activists that composed the expropriation campaign will now be pushing the gover…

Staff (2021-09-29). Yanis Varoufakis on Angela Merkel's Legacy, European Politics & the "Sordid Arms Race" on the Seas. democracynow.org The center-left Social Democratic Party in Germany has narrowly claimed victory in an election that marks an end to the 16-year era of Angela Merkel's conservative chancellorship. We look at what this means for Europe and the world with Yanis Varoufakis, a member of the Greek Parliament and the former finance minister of Greece. The SDP's narrow victory should be viewed critically, says Varoufakis, noting that the party "ruthlessly" practiced austerity in 2008 and 2009. "Not much has changed," Varoufakis says. "It's not as if an opposition party won."

George Ochenski (2021-09-29). The Perils of One-Party Rule. counterpunch.org We find ourselves in a strange situation right now with one-party rule by Democrats at the national level and one-party rule by the Republicans in Montana. Of course there are tremendous benefits to holding the majority — primarily, not being overly concerned with the travails of the minority party. But there are also perils because there's

Staff (2021-09-29). Progressives "Hold the Line" for $3.5T Package to Expand the Social Safety Net. truthout.org Progressives in the House of Representatives say they will oppose the $1 trillion infrastructure bill, after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said she would seek a vote on the measure separately from the Build Back Better Act, the $3.5 trillion bill that expands the social safety net and combats the climate crisis. Conservative Democratic Senators Kyrsten Sinema and Joe Manchin, who receive major donations from financial institutions, fossil fuel companies and other industries, continue to oppose the $…

Staff (2021-09-29). Headlines for September 29, 2021. democracynow.org Progressives Hold Firm on Opposing Infrastructure Bill Without Vow to Pass Build Back Better Act, Vanessa Nakate, Greta Thunberg Condemn Climate Inaction, U.S. Military Leaders Acknowledge "Strategic Failure" in Afghanistan During Senate Questioning, Gen. Milley Denies Going Around Chain of Command During Trump Term, Pfizer-BioNTech Submits Vaccine Data on 5-to-11-Year-Olds to FDA; Mask Mandate Bans Halted in SC and AZ, Cuba Starts Shipping Abdala Vaccine; COVID Surges in Russia and Syria; Japan Lifts State of Emergency, Fumio Kishida, from Ruling Party Establishment, Set to Become Next Japanese Prime Minister, R…

scorinoco (2021-09-29). We Need to Talk More About China's Socialist Democracy. orinocotribune.com By Roland Boer — Sep 26, 2021 | We need to talk more—much more—about China's socialist democratic system. Why? There are many reasons, but the main reason is that we should not let the criticisms of China from the small number of "Western" countries set the agenda. So let me propose the following thesis: China's socialist democratic system is already quite mature and superior to any other democratic system. Actually, this is not my proposition, but that of a host of Chinese specialists. They are very clear that China's socialist democratic system is already showing its latent quality. Obviously,…

WSWS (2021-09-29). SEP (Australia) electoral members condemn anti-democratic legislation as "both cynical and sinister in intent" wsws.org "More than anything the ruling class and the political parties that support it want to prevent a socialist perspective and Marxist analysis being presented in elections."

Staff (2021-09-29). "Hold the Line!": Can Progressives Force Passage of $3.5T Package to Expand the Social Safety Net? democracynow.org Progressives in the House of Representatives say they will oppose the $1 trillion infrastructure bill, after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said she would seek a vote on the measure separately from the Build Back Better Act, the $3.5 trillion bill that expands the social safety net and combats the climate crisis. Conservative Democratic Senators Kyrsten Sinema and Joe Manchin, who receive major donations from financial institutions, fossil fuel companies and other industries, continue to oppose the $3.5 trillion package. While the $1 trillion infrastructure bill is "kind of a half-measure," the Build Back Better Act…

_____ (2021-09-29). If Sinema Won't Stand With Arizona Democrats, We Will Vote Her Out. commondreams.org The administration's jobs and infrastructure package is very popular, but big money is fighting it tooth and nail.

WSWS (2021-09-29). COVID-19 outbreaks and staff resignations deepen crisis in Southwest US schools. wsws.org Teachers in school districts in the Southwest, whether in states run by Democrats or Republicans, are confronted by overwork, inadequate COVID-19 measures, fear and lack of transparency.

_____ (2021-09-29). Congressional Report on Toxic Metals in Baby Food Spurs Demand for FDA Action. commondreams.org A recent poll showed that if Sinema continues to protect the filibuster and block the Democratic agenda, 66% of likely Democratic primary voters would back a challenger who will help end the filibuster.

_____ (2021-09-29). Rep. Jared Golden Among Corporate Democrats Obstructing Extension of Expanded Child Tax Credit. commondreams.org "This is what happens when you let the food and chemical companies, not the FDA, decide whether our food is safe to eat."

Anonymous007 (2021-09-29). Fired And Jailed For Speaking Out After Fighting For "Democracy" In Afghanistan. southfront.org Click to see full-size imageDEAR FRIENDS. IF YOU LIKE THIS TYPE OF CONTENT, SUPPORT SOUTHFRONT WORK : | BITCOIN: bc1qv7k70u2zynvem59u88ctdlaw7hc735d8xep9rq : | BITCOIN CASH: qzjv8hrdvz6edu4gkzpnd4w6jc7zf296g5e9kkq4lx: | PAYPAL, WESTERN UNION etc: write to , : | A US Marine lieutenant colonel was sent to military jail after criticizing Washington's fiasco of a wit…

WSWS (2021-09-29). New York Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez reneges on pledge to vote against bill funding Israeli war crimes. wsws.org After initially voting "no," the Democratic Socialists of America member released a long letter apologizing for her abrupt reversal.

Stansfield Smith (2021-09-29). Is the US Global Empire Actually in Decline? Part 2. orinocotribune.com By Stansfield Smith and Roger D. Harris — Sep 25, 2021 | PART 2: MILITARY AND IDEOLOGICAL FORMS OF DOMINATION | The US regards as its Manifest Destiny to rule the world. The US bosses equate their national security interests with global security interests; no place or issue is insignificant. The US sees its role as defending the world capitalist order even if narrow US interests are not immediately and practically involved. | The Question of a US Military Decline | The second central element of the waning US empire argument is based on the US armed forces failures in the Middle East wars. However, they overl…

_____ (2021-09-29). GOP Suicide Bombers Threaten Debt-Ceiling Sabotage of US Economy. commondreams.org "We obviously didn't envision having Republicans as part of our party," said Rep. Ilhan Omar.

Sergio Rodríguez Gelfenstein (2021-09-29). Estados Unidos: Reflexiones dramáticas en voz alta. globalizacion.ca En Estados Unidos están ocurriendo algunas cosas sorprendentes, la presidenta de la cámara de representantes Nancy Pelosi durante un evento en Londres ha admitido que el capitalismo "no ha servido a nuestra economía tan bien como debería". | Asumiendo la diferencia…

Binoy Kampmark (2021-09-29). Morrison's tour of deception. greenleft.org.au Scott Morrison's prehistoric approach to climate change may not have been clocked by US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, but will the advertising man get away with it? Binoy Kampmark reports.

Mark Gruenberg (2021-09-29). Voting rights 'compromise' allows state lawmakers to trash voter choice. peoplesworld.org The Senate's Freedom to Vote Act, a compromise alternative to the House-approved For the People Act, contains some provisions that expand voting rights but fails to prevent Republican legislators, in states they control, from throwing out election results they don't like. Failure to pass the original bill backed by the House could turn voting in …

Henry Redman (2021-09-29). Wisconsin Republicans Enforce Cursive but Not Race. progressive.org Joining states such as Texas, Wisconsin passed a bill that bans the teaching of critical race theory and other tangential topics.

_____ (2021-09-29). 'We Are Not Deterred': Water Protectors Vow to Keep Fighting as Line 3 Completed. commondreams.org "The Republican Party in a nutshell: contemptible, cruel, and corrupt."

Richard C. Gross (2021-09-29). Republicans Plotting Against America. counterpunch.org "Oh, what men dare do! What men may do." — William Shakespeare, "Much Ado About Nothing." The Republican Party with Donald Trump as its leader is trying to destroy America as we know it. It's becoming clearer as more details emerge that the Jan. 6 Trump-inspired mob uprising against the government appeared to be a

Ryan Hamby (2021-09-29). HelloFresh workers demand a union. liberationnews.org If these workers win their union, they would be the first in the food-kit production and delivery industry.

Ryan Zickgraf (2021-09-29). Mark Zuckerberg's "Metaverse" Is a Dystopian Nightmare. zcomm.org The Facebook founder intends to usher in a new era of the internet where there's no distinction between the virtual and the real — and no logging off…

_____ (2021-09-29). Liverpool Mobilises Against The Europe Arms Fair. popularresistance.org A national protest against an upcoming arms fair took place in Liverpool on 11 September with over 3,000 people in attendance. Jeremy Corbyn and Maxine Peake were among those who showed support. In his speech to the gathered crowd of protestors Corbyn urged, 'let's turn the page and learn the lessons from the past. Let humanity prevail.' | AOC Europe, the Association of Old Crows' electronic warfare conference, is set to be hosted by the city's ACC Exhibition Centre between 11 and 13 October. For an event of this nature to occur in the wake of US withdrawal from Afghanistan, feels particularly offensive. The ongo…

Kaya Purchase (2021-09-29). Liverpool mobilizes against the AOC Europe arms fair. zcomm.org After two decades of war in Afghanistan, there is no option but to protest a conference for companies complicit in human rights violations…

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2021-09-29: News Headlines

Sondra Youdelman (2021-09-29). Big Money's War on the Build Back Better Plan. otherwords.org Right now, corporations and the ultra-rich are spending millions to derail President Biden's Build Back Better plan. Behind the scenes, they're hard at work to keep our elected officials from helping our country recover from the pandemic. | Poll after poll tells us that Biden's plan is full of things people want: lower drug costs, greater access to health care, a green economy, and restorative investments in our communities.

Erik Molvar (2021-09-29). How the Park Service Sold Out Point Reyes National Seashore to the Livestock Industry. counterpunch.org Thirteen ranchers won a sweeping victory this week, defeating the interests of three million annual visitors to Point Reyes National Seashore, by securing a plan amendment that extends their commercial livestock operations on Park lands for at least 20 years. The plan amendment — the first epic public lands fail by the nascent Biden administration — sells out native ecosystems, rare wildlife, and the beachgoing public. The plan extends beef and dairy operations well beyond the terms well Congressional intention for the Seashore's establishment in 1978, which prescribed livestock leases for "a definite…

Johanna Kichton (2021-09-29). People's Action and Dƒìmos Unveil Report Revealing Corporate Sabotage of Biden's Build Back Better Agenda. peoplesaction.org New Report Exposes Corporate Push to Derail Popular, Progressive Provisions in $3.5T Budget Package Johanna Kichton, j.kichton@peoplesaction.org, 202.660.0605 Colleen A. Roache, croache@demos.org, 862.400.5099 WASHINGTON, D.C.—People's Action and Dƒìmos today unveiled an incriminating report that reveals the depths of corporate sabotage of President Biden's Build Back Better agenda. Just 20 corporations or groups representing them have …

Basav Sen (2021-09-29). Why Did A U.S. Envoy Meet With The Head Of A Fascist Militia in India? fpif.org The fact that India is well on its way to full-fledged authoritarianism hasn't factored into the Biden administration's approach to the "world's largest democracy."

Cesar Chelala (2021-09-29). The Failure of Intervention. counterpunch.org President Joe Biden's remarks to the United Nations struck a positive tone in international relations, a tone that has not been heard for several years from an American president. This is happening as United States allies criticize the president for not having consulted them when the U.S. withdrew from Afghanistan. This dismal experience shows the

Peoples Dispatch (2021-09-29). Violent deportations of Haitian refugees expose Biden's record on migrant rights. peoplesdispatch.org The violent expulsion of Haitian migrants in Del Rio, at the behest of the Joe Biden administration, has put a spotlight on the president's record of continuing Trump-era laws to expel hundreds of thousands of asylum seekers and undocumented migrants…

Dr. Jack Rasmus (2021-09-29). Down the Corporate Rabbit Hole: Biden's Reconciliation Bill. $3.5 Trillion Allocated to "Human Infrastructure and Climate Change" globalresearch.ca

Staff (2021-09-29). Biden's spending bill, infrastructure, and a looming government shutdown: What the hell is going on? therealnews.com Even people who follow DC politics closely are struggling to keep up with this week's political drama. Between a looming government shutdown, the need to raise the debt ceiling by next month, and the Democrats' intra-party fight over infrastructure and the Build Back Better Act, a tangled political mess is unfolding on Capitol Hill—and the results will directly impact the lives of everyday people. In this installment of The Marc Steiner Show, Sarah Anderson of the

Claudio Della Croce (2021-09-29). Se resquebraja el consenso neoliberal y Biden pide más impuestos para los superricos. globalizacion.ca Durante las últimas semanas crecieron las dudas sobre una recuperación virtuosa de la economía global: importantes economistas hablan de una amenaza de estanflación y advierten que la combinación actual de políticas monetarias, crediticias y fiscales persistentemente laxas estimulará en exceso…

_____ (2021-09-29). 'We Had a Deal': Warren Joins Sanders and House Progressives in Fight for Biden's Agenda. commondreams.org

Jeremy Kuzmarov (2021-09-29). The US May Have Lost the Military War in Syria, But Has Won the Propaganda War at Home By Portraying its Murderous Invasion as a Moral Crusade. orinocotribune.com By Jeremy Kuzmarov — Sep 22, 2021 | As It Did with Castro in Cuba and Noriega in Panama, the "Mighty Wurlitzer" of U.S. Propaganda Defused Antiwar Sentiment by Painting Syrian President Bashar al-Assad as a Brutal Animal Who Had to Be Removed. | In 1991, famed MIT linguist Noam Chomsky published a political pamphlet called Media Control: The Spectacular Achievements of Propaganda, which provided an examination of U.S. war propaganda and its success from Woodrow Wilson's World War I Creel Commission to Bush Sr.'s war on Iraq. | According to Chomsky, "Propaganda is to democracy what the bludgeon is to a totali…

WSWS (2021-09-29). SEP (Australia) electoral members condemn anti-democratic legislation as "both cynical and sinister in intent" wsws.org "More than anything the ruling class and the political parties that support it want to prevent a socialist perspective and Marxist analysis being presented in elections."

George Ochenski (2021-09-29). The Perils of One-Party Rule. counterpunch.org We find ourselves in a strange situation right now with one-party rule by Democrats at the national level and one-party rule by the Republicans in Montana. Of course there are tremendous benefits to holding the majority — primarily, not being overly concerned with the travails of the minority party. But there are also perils because there's

WSWS (2021-09-29). New York Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez reneges on pledge to vote against bill funding Israeli war crimes. wsws.org After initially voting "no," the Democratic Socialists of America member released a long letter apologizing for her abrupt reversal.

WSWS (2021-09-29). COVID-19 outbreaks and staff resignations deepen crisis in Southwest US schools. wsws.org Teachers in school districts in the Southwest, whether in states run by Democrats or Republicans, are confronted by overwork, inadequate COVID-19 measures, fear and lack of transparency.

Peter Certo (2021-09-29). In OtherWords: September 29, 2021. otherwords.org It's crunch time for the Democrats' jobs and infrastructure package, also known as the reconciliation bill or the Build Back Better plan. | There's a big debate in Congress right now between members who support a more ambitious package a handful of moderates and conservatives trying to pare it back. But there's not much debate among the American people, as Sondra Youdelman explains this week. In fact, the bill's main provisions — more health and child care, green jobs, lower drug prices, and the like — are really, really popular. So is the idea of funding them by reversing big tax cuts for the wealthy…

Brittani Banks (2021-09-29). Europe After Angela Merkel: Is the Atlantic Era Over? independentmediainstitute.org Just what shape Germany's governing coalition will take is still unclear in the aftermath of the September 26 election, which saw the Social Democrats (SPD), led by finance minister Olaf Scholz, come away with just over a quarter of the vote, at 25.7 percent. The balance of power in Germany is now held by the …

Staff (2021-09-29). Headlines for September 29, 2021. democracynow.org Progressives Hold Firm on Opposing Infrastructure Bill Without Vow to Pass Build Back Better Act, Vanessa Nakate, Greta Thunberg Condemn Climate Inaction, U.S. Military Leaders Acknowledge "Strategic Failure" in Afghanistan During Senate Questioning, Gen. Milley Denies Going Around Chain of Command During Trump Term, Pfizer-BioNTech Submits Vaccine Data on 5-to-11-Year-Olds to FDA; Mask Mandate Bans Halted in SC and AZ, Cuba Starts Shipping Abdala Vaccine; COVID Surges in Russia and Syria; Japan Lifts State of Emergency, Fumio Kishida, from Ruling Party Establishment, Set to Become Next Japanese Prime Minister, R…

Anonymous007 (2021-09-29). Fired And Jailed For Speaking Out After Fighting For "Democracy" In Afghanistan. southfront.org Click to see full-size imageDEAR FRIENDS. IF YOU LIKE THIS TYPE OF CONTENT, SUPPORT SOUTHFRONT WORK : | BITCOIN: bc1qv7k70u2zynvem59u88ctdlaw7hc735d8xep9rq : | BITCOIN CASH: qzjv8hrdvz6edu4gkzpnd4w6jc7zf296g5e9kkq4lx: | PAYPAL, WESTERN UNION etc: write to , : | A US Marine lieutenant colonel was sent to military jail after criticizing Washington's fiasco of a wit…

scorinoco (2021-09-29). We Need to Talk More About China's Socialist Democracy. orinocotribune.com By Roland Boer — Sep 26, 2021 | We need to talk more—much more—about China's socialist democratic system. Why? There are many reasons, but the main reason is that we should not let the criticisms of China from the small number of "Western" countries set the agenda. So let me propose the following thesis: China's socialist democratic system is already quite mature and superior to any other democratic system. Actually, this is not my proposition, but that of a host of Chinese specialists. They are very clear that China's socialist democratic system is already showing its latent quality. Obviously,…

Staff (2021-09-29). "Hold the Line!": Can Progressives Force Passage of $3.5T Package to Expand the Social Safety Net? democracynow.org Progressives in the House of Representatives say they will oppose the $1 trillion infrastructure bill, after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said she would seek a vote on the measure separately from the Build Back Better Act, the $3.5 trillion bill that expands the social safety net and combats the climate crisis. Conservative Democratic Senators Kyrsten Sinema and Joe Manchin, who receive major donations from financial institutions, fossil fuel companies and other industries, continue to oppose the $3.5 trillion package. While the $1 trillion infrastructure bill is "kind of a half-measure," the Build Back Better Act…

Staff (2021-09-29). Yanis Varoufakis on Angela Merkel's Legacy, European Politics & the "Sordid Arms Race" on the Seas. democracynow.org The center-left Social Democratic Party in Germany has narrowly claimed victory in an election that marks an end to the 16-year era of Angela Merkel's conservative chancellorship. We look at what this means for Europe and the world with Yanis Varoufakis, a member of the Greek Parliament and the former finance minister of Greece. The SDP's narrow victory should be viewed critically, says Varoufakis, noting that the party "ruthlessly" practiced austerity in 2008 and 2009. "Not much has changed," Varoufakis says. "It's not as if an opposition party won."

Stansfield Smith (2021-09-29). Is the US Global Empire Actually in Decline? Part 2. orinocotribune.com By Stansfield Smith and Roger D. Harris — Sep 25, 2021 | PART 2: MILITARY AND IDEOLOGICAL FORMS OF DOMINATION | The US regards as its Manifest Destiny to rule the world. The US bosses equate their national security interests with global security interests; no place or issue is insignificant. The US sees its role as defending the world capitalist order even if narrow US interests are not immediately and practically involved. | The Question of a US Military Decline | The second central element of the waning US empire argument is based on the US armed forces failures in the Middle East wars. However, they overl…

Binoy Kampmark (2021-09-29). Morrison's tour of deception. greenleft.org.au Scott Morrison's prehistoric approach to climate change may not have been clocked by US House speaker Nancy Pelosi, but will the advertising man get away with it? Binoy Kampmark reports.

Sergio Rodríguez Gelfenstein (2021-09-29). Estados Unidos: Reflexiones dramáticas en voz alta. globalizacion.ca En Estados Unidos están ocurriendo algunas cosas sorprendentes, la presidenta de la cámara de representantes Nancy Pelosi durante un evento en Londres ha admitido que el capitalismo "no ha servido a nuestra economía tan bien como debería". | Asumiendo la diferencia…

Richard C. Gross (2021-09-29). Republicans Plotting Against America. counterpunch.org "Oh, what men dare do! What men may do." — William Shakespeare, "Much Ado About Nothing." The Republican Party with Donald Trump as its leader is trying to destroy America as we know it. It's becoming clearer as more details emerge that the Jan. 6 Trump-inspired mob uprising against the government appeared to be a

Ryan Hamby (2021-09-29). HelloFresh workers demand a union. liberationnews.org If these workers win their union, they would be the first in the food-kit production and delivery industry.

Ryan Zickgraf (2021-09-29). Mark Zuckerberg's "Metaverse" Is a Dystopian Nightmare. zcomm.org The Facebook founder intends to usher in a new era of the internet where there's no distinction between the virtual and the real — and no logging off…

Kaya Purchase (2021-09-29). Liverpool mobilizes against the AOC Europe arms fair. zcomm.org After two decades of war in Afghanistan, there is no option but to protest a conference for companies complicit in human rights violations…

_____ (2021-09-29). Liverpool Mobilises Against The Europe Arms Fair. popularresistance.org A national protest against an upcoming arms fair took place in Liverpool on 11 September with over 3,000 people in attendance. Jeremy Corbyn and Maxine Peake were among those who showed support. In his speech to the gathered crowd of protestors Corbyn urged, 'let's turn the page and learn the lessons from the past. Let humanity prevail.' | AOC Europe, the Association of Old Crows' electronic warfare conference, is set to be hosted by the city's ACC Exhibition Centre between 11 and 13 October. For an event of this nature to occur in the wake of US withdrawal from Afghanistan, feels particularly offensive. The ongo…

Dean Baker (2021-09-28). The US and China: A Productive Path Forward. zcomm.org The Biden administration, with the overwhelming support of the foreign policy establishment, seems determined to start a new Cold War with China…

Collin Binkley, Lisa Mascaro (2021-09-28). Black college funding slashed, what else will right-wing Dems strip from education plan? peoplesworld.org WASHINGTON (AP)—As Democrats push ahead with President Joe Biden's $3.5 trillion rebuilding plan, they're promising historic investments across the arc of an education—from early childhood to college and beyond—in what advocates describe as the most comprehensive package of its kind in decades. The education provisions in Biden's "Build Back Better" proposal would serve as a bedrock for schooling …

Juan Cole (2021-09-28). In Height of Hypocrisy, Nuclear-Armed Israeli PM Bennett slams Iran, which has no weapons or program, for "crossing all red Lines" juancole.com Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) — The Israeli newspaper Arab 48 reports that far-right Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, in his address to the U.N. General Assembly on Monday, ignored the Israeli-Palestinian struggle and focused instead on the issue of Iran. He alleged that the Iranian nuclear program had "surpassed all red lines," asserting that Iran …

_____ (2021-09-28). Three Lessons to Chart a Path Forward in Solidarity With Afghan Women. commondreams.org "Physical infrastructure is important," said Sen. Bernie Sanders, "but the needs of working families and combating climate change is more important."

Russell Mokhiber (2021-09-28). Danny Glover Under Cover for Big Pharma and Insurance Companies. counterpunch.org Ask your liberal friends about Danny Glover. They will say — superstar actor featured in the Lethal Weapon film series. Civil rights activist. Democracy Now regular. Supporter of Bernie Sanders for President and for single payer national health insurance. But ask older Americans who watch a lot of cable television about Danny Glover, and they

Dean Baker (2021-09-28). Winning the Tax Game: Tax Stock Returns. cepr.net President Biden efforts to raise taxes on corporations and the wealthy has been getting seriously bogged down in recent weeks. More conservative Democrats have objected to the 28 percent corporate tax rate he proposed. Others seem to have nixed plans for raising the estate tax by making the capital gains held by large estates taxable. And, the Republicans working on the bipartisan infrastructure package were adamantly opposed to increasing the resources available to the I.R.S. so that it could better crack down on tax cheats. | Sometimes, when a particular game is not going well, the best way to turn things aroun…

Sarah Brannon (2021-09-28). Here's What You Need to Know About the White House's Plan to Promote Voting Access. aclu.org Today on voter registration day, the Biden administration has a crucial opportunity to promote voting access. This past March, the Biden administration issued an executive order instructing federal agencies to put together plans to promote voting access through voter registration. The federal agencies will submit their plans to the White House this month. Especially with the innumerable attacks on the right to vote — more than

Karen Conner (2021-09-28). Joe Biden Could Be Tempted to Reach for the Platinum Coin. cepr.net Other than Denmark, our country is alone in the world in having a self-imposed limit on the amount of money it can borrow. In other countries, legislatures approve spending and taxes, and governments borrow to cover any gaps.

_____ (2021-09-28). Biden's UNGA Speech Does Not Absolve the U.S. of Violence. strategic-culture.org How has the U.S. changed, when it is still advocating for violence and determining which countries are worthy of U.S. support, based upon subservience to imperialism? | U.S. President Joe Biden's speech made a big deal of portraying his administration as different from that of his predecessor. But apart from rejoining and engaging with UN institutions, there is little to account for a change in U.S. foreign policy. Running contradictory statements, particularly around the U.S. terror narrative and military violence, is not the way to convince an audience, particularly countries which have been targeted by U.S. in…

MEE staff (2021-09-28). Biden official meets Saudi crown prince days before anniversary of Khashoggi killing. middleeasteye.net Biden official meets Saudi crown prince days before anniversary of Khashoggi killing | National security adviser Jake Sullivan discussed the war in Yemen and will later visit United Arab Emirates and Egypt | Tue, 09/28/2021 – 14: 33 | National security adviser Jake Sullivan speaks during a daily press briefing at the White House on 23 August 2021 (AFP) | US national security adviser Jake Sullivan held talks ab…

Anonymous103 (2021-09-28). US Tired Of Ukraine And Will Not Defend Kiev's Interests In Talks With Russia. southfront.org Thomas GrahamFormer White House adviser believes Washington will stop discussing the Ukrainian issue during dialogue with Moscow. | Written by Lucas Leiroz, research fellow in international law at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. | Ties between the US and Ukraine seem gradually more uncertain. Analysts believe that Washington is "tired" of Ukraine and that the intention of the Biden government from now on is to maintain the status quo and not put the Ukrainian issue on the agenda in bilateral negotiations between the US and Russia, considering the low probability of both countries come to a common unders…

Veterans for Peace (2021-09-28). Veterans to President Biden: Just Say No to Nuclear War! globalresearch.ca

Staff (2021-09-28). Headlines for September 28, 2021. democracynow.org As Government Shutdown Looms, Senate GOP Blocks Bill to Fund Government and Raise Debt Ceiling, Sen. Kyrsten Sinema Solicits Funds from Lobbyists Opposing Democrats' $3.5T Spending Bill, R. Kelly Found Guilty on All Counts in Sex Trafficking Trial, Biden Receives COVID-19 Booster, Urges Unvaccinated to Get First Shots, New York National Guard May Fill Roles of Healthcare Workers Who Refuse Vaccinations, CIA Pushed Trump Administration to Kidnap or Assassinate WikiLeaks' Julian Assange, International Criminal Court Probe on Afghanistan War Crimes Excludes U.S. and Allies, Taliban Tightens Restrictions on Afghan Wo…

The Texas Tribune (2021-09-28). Texas Reduces Black and Hispanic Majority Congressional Districts in Proposed Map, Despite People of Color Fueling Population Growth. latinorebels.com The proposed congressional map also increases the number of districts where Trump would have had a majority of voters over Biden in 2020 and protects Republican incumbents who might have been vulnerable by packing their districts with more Trump voters.

_____ (2021-09-28). Frustrated Tribal Leaders Urge Biden to Immediately Restore Bears Ears Monument. commondreams.org "Backtracking on this reconciliation bill means people will continue to die at the hands of the climate crisis," said one Sunrise Movement activist.

The Associated Press (2021-09-28). Biden Rule to Shield DREAMers Seeks to Bypass Congress. latinorebels.com WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration on Monday renewed efforts to shield hundreds of thousands of immigrants who came to the United States as young children from deportation, the latest maneuver in a long-running drama over the policy's legality.

MEE staff (2021-09-28). Biden official to meet Saudi crown prince days before anniversary of Khashoggi killing. middleeasteye.net Biden official to meet Saudi crown prince days before anniversary of Khashoggi killing | National security adviser Jake Sullivan left the US on Monday to meet with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and the UAE's Mohammed bin Zayed | Tue, 09/28/2021 – 14: 33 | National security adviser Jake Sullivan speaks during a daily press briefing at the White House on 23 August 2021 (AFP) | US national security advis…

Anna Pha (2021-09-28). Nuclear submarine pact uses Australian people as pawns in new Cold War. peoplesworld.org People's World recently reported on the nuclear submarine deal concluded between Australia, the United States, and Britain and the danger it represents to peace in the Asia-Pacific region. Below, we present a guest op-ed from analyst Anna Pha, who writes regularly for The Guardian, a weekly socialist newspaper in Australia. U.S. President Joe Biden, British …

Higinio Polo (2021-09-28). Afganistán, bajo el fascismo yihadista. globalizacion.ca En Arlington, cada ataúd norteamericano recibe en homenaje una salva de 21 cañonazos. Así lo hicieron con los últimos trece marines llegados desde Afganistán a finales de agosto de 2021. El presidente Biden, que había recibido compungido los féretros en…

ecns.cn (2021-09-28). DPRK envoy denounces U.S. hostile policy. ecns.cn The permanent representative of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) to the United Nations (UN) on Monday denounced U.S. hostile policy against his country, describing Washington's hostility as a "clearest expression in its military threats" against Pyongyang.

_____ (2021-09-28). America's Fate: Oligarchy Or Autocracy. popularresistance.org The competing systems of power in the United States are divided between oligarchy and autocracy. There are no other alternatives. Neither are pleasant. Each have peculiar and distasteful characteristics. Each pays lip service to the fictions of democracy and constitutional rights. And each exacerbates the widening social and political divide and the potential for violent conflict. | The oligarchs from the establishment Republican Party, figures such as Liz Cheney, Mitt Romney, George and Jeb Bush and Bill Kristol, have joined forces with the oligarchs in the Democratic Party to defy the autocrats in the new Repub…

_____ (2021-09-28). Reconciling The Reconciliation Bill: A Preview. popularresistance.org This past week maneuvers within the Democratic party intensified over the content and magnitude of the two pending fiscal stimulus bills—the Infrastructure Bill (with $550B of net new spending) and the Reconciliation Bill ( with initial $3.5T 'human infrastructure & climate change' spending). While the maneuvering appears as a deep difference of views between progressives in the US House and Senate demanding both bills pass simultaneously and Democrat Senators, Manchin and Sinema in that body blocking both bills in current form, the actual conflict is really between the corporate wing of the Democratic…

_____ (2021-09-28). HBO's Anti-Maduro Propaganda Is Cruder Than Venezuelan Oil. popularresistance.org HBO Max began streaming a documentary on September 15: A La Calle ("To the Street"). It portrays US-backed opposition leaders in Venezuela as pro-democracy heroes battling a brutal dictatorship—a total reversal of the truth. A Daily Beast article (9/13/21) promoting the film is headlined "Capturing Venezuela's Descent Into Socialist Hell," which succinctly conveys the film's slant, and suggests why it found a big corporate platform like HBO Max, a subsidiary of AT&T's WarnerMedia. | From the trailer alone, it's obvious that A La Calle depicts Venezuelan opposition leader Leopoldo López as a noble democ…

Staff (2021-09-28). Venezuela's Justice First Blames Guaidó's Popular Will Party for Misuse of National Assets Abroad. orinocotribune.com Justice First [PJ/Primero Justicia] conveniently omitted any mention of its own complicity in the crimes against Venezuela. | As negotiations progress between the government of Venezuela and the opposition in Mexico City, it is becoming increasingly evident that there is practically no consensus remaining in the well-known G4 coalition (PJ, Democratic Action, Popular Will, and A New Era) for the false "interim presidency" of Juan Guaidó. | Earlier today, the Justice First [Primero Justicia] party published a statement in which it washed its hands of the seizure and misuse of the assets of the Venezuelan State abr…

Staff (2021-09-28). After Pelosi Breaks Dual-Bill Promise, Progressives Are Now in the Driver's Seat. truthout.org House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has On Monday night before a private gathering of the Democratic caucus, Speaker Pelosi announced that she will no longer support the policy she had promised to back since June — to bring the infrastructure bi…

Peoples Dispatch (2021-09-28). Christian Democrats face setback as Social Democrats and Greens gain in German federal polls. peoplesdispatch.org The center left Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) emerged as the single largest party in the German federal parliament, surpassing German chancellor Angela Merkel's center-right CDU/CSU alliance…

Rescue Pacifica (2021-09-28). Want a democratic KPFA/Pacifica? Vote for the RESCUE PACIFICA slate of candidates. indybay.org If listeners and supporters of Pacifica and KPFA want a democratic KPFA/Pacifica they should support Rescue Pacifica's slate.

_____ (2021-09-28). Flotilla Protest at Manchin's Yacht Tells Right-Wing Democrat: 'Don't Sink Our Bill'. commondreams.org While Uganda's Nakate said humanity "cannot adapt to extinction," Thunberg from Sweden said lack of action is "a betrayal of all present and future generations."

Timothy Ryan (2021-09-28). Child Labor: Which Side are Democracies On? counterpunch.org Two years ago, when Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro favorably promoted the idea of labor for children as young as eight or nine, his minister for Human Rights, Family, and Women shot back: "Let us be clear that for children to work is a violation of their rights, something that cannot be allowed." The Brazilian National Forum for

Joris Leverink (2021-09-28). Economic Update: Socialism & Worker Co-ops. roarmag.org Twentieth-century socialism is now behind us. Socialists continued to evaluate both its achievements and failures via extensive self-criticism. A changed socialism has emerged, focused on a transition of workplaces from top-down hierarchical capitalist structures into democratic worker cooperatives. The powerful appeal of worker co-ops as grounding a new 21st century socialism is presented. | You can support this show on

_____ (2021-09-28). Democrat's Inept Messaging: It's Not a $3.5 Trillion Bill But $350 Billion a Year. commondreams.org

Staff (2021-09-28). The Plot to Kill Julian Assange: Report Reveals CIA's Plan to Kidnap, Assassinate WikiLeaks Founder. democracynow.org Did the CIA under the Trump administration plan to kidnap and assassinate WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange during a shootout in London? That is one of the explosive findings in a new exposé by Yahoo News that details how the CIA considered abducting and possibly murdering Assange while he took refuge in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London to avoid being extradited to Sweden for rape allegations, charges that were dropped in 2017. More than 30 former officials say former CIA Director Mike Pompeo was apparently motivated to get even with WikiLeaks following its publication of sensitive CIA hacking tools, which the age…

Staff (2021-09-28). Protest at Manchin's Yacht Demands End to His Obstruction of Reconciliation Bill. truthout.org West Virginia activists in kayaks and electric boats converged on Sen. Joe Manchin's yacht in Washington, D.C. on Monday to protest the right-wing Democrat's continued "West Virginians have been trying to reach Sen. Manchin every way w…

Women of the IPA* (2021-09-28). The struggle for reproductive rights is global. peoplesdispatch.org Capitalism's need for the reproduction and care of the labor force was institutionalized during the creation of the modern state, which legislated the biological determinism of women towards the home, motherhood and the private sphere of social reproduction. Since then, the women of the world have been organized, fighting for a concept of citizenship that does not exclude women, migrants, LGTBQ or racialized people. In this struggle, they have widened the path of democracy and brought forth revolutions, as well as broadening the theory and practice that transform the world. | This path has been one of twists and…

_____ (2021-09-28). 'Sickening Betrayal': Panel Finds 83 Cases of Alleged Abuse During WHO's Ebola Work in Congo. commondreams.org "The agreement from the beginning was that all the pieces would move together," said the Massachusetts Democrat. "I don't want to see that deal broken."

_____ (2021-09-28). Sunrise Movement Warns of 'Betrayal' as Pelosi Bends Toward Corporate Democrats. commondreams.org This time we can stand with Afghan women on their own terms, by asking them what they want and working hand-in-hand with them to support their leadership and meet their communities' needs.

Robert Reich (2021-09-28). The week of two high-stakes games of chicken. nationofchange.org Neither of these games of chicken would be as fraught if Democrats were united.

Staff (2021-09-28). El Milagro Tortilla Workers Walk Out to Demand Fair Wages & Workload Amid Staff Shortage, COVID Deaths. democracynow.org We go to Chicago for an update on workers at El Milagro tortilla plants who staged a temporary walkout last week to protest low pay, staff shortages and abusive working conditions, including intimidation and sexual harassment. El Milagro claims an ongoing tortilla shortage is due to supply chain issues, but organizers say the company has lost staff due to their poor treatment of workers, including their mishandling of the pandemic, resulting in dozens of infections and five deaths. Workers gave El Milagro management until this Wednesday to respond to their demands. "The company, instead of offering better wages a…

MEE staff (2021-09-28). Tunisian parties launch movement against President Kais Saied's power grab. middleeasteye.net Tunisian parties launch movement against President Kais Saied's power grab | Democratic Current, the Republican Party, Afek Tounes, and Ettakatol pledged to do whatever is required to restore the constitution | Tue, 09/28/2021 – 20: 05 | Ghazi Chawashi (L), from the Democratic Current Party, Khalil Zaouia from the Ettakatol Party, Fadhel Abdelkefi from the Afek Tounes Party and Issam Chebbi (R), of the Republi…

WSWS (2021-09-28). Wide support for farmers' all-India mobilization against Modi's pro-agribusiness laws. wsws.org The farmers' protest is an indication of mounting opposition to the Modi government over its assault on working people's social and democratic rights and its criminal mishandling of the pandemic.

WSWS (2021-09-28). SEP national committee member interviewed on radio about Australia's anti-democratic electoral laws. wsws.org Grenfell said Australia's new electoral laws imposed by the dominant parliamentary parties were a blatant attempt to bolster the two-party system.

_____ (2021-09-28). Despite Our Despair, There's a Reality Worth Fighting For. commondreams.org Democrats are misrepresenting the size of their own reconciliation package to their own detriment.

_____ (2021-09-28). Progressives Warn Democrats Against Means-Testing Reconciliation Bill to Death. commondreams.org "Your record gives me grave concern," Sen. Elizabeth Warren told Jerome Powell. "Over and over, you have acted to make our banking system less safe."

Staff (2021-09-28). Sinema Will Hold Fundraiser With Groups Lobbying Against Reconciliation Bill. truthout.org Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, a conservative Democrat from Arizona, is slated to hold a fundraiser courting lobbyist groups that are vehemently opposed to the Democrats' Build Back Better Act, which aims to widen the country's social safety net and address climate disruption. | The National Association of Wholesaler-Distributors and its PAC, the National Grocers Association, lobbyists for roofers and electrical contractors, and a conservative-leaning group called S-Corp Political Action Committee used S…

Staff (2021-09-28). Justice for Black Women & Girls: R. Kelly Found Guilty in Sex Crimes Case After Decades of Abuse. democracynow.org R&B singer R. Kelly is guilty of a series of charges, including racketeering based on sexual exploitation of children, kidnapping, forced labor and transporting people across state lines for sex. Jurors in the federal trial returned their verdict Monday after 11 accusers — nine women and two men — and 34 other witnesses detailed Kelly's pattern of sexual and other abuse against dozens of women and underage girls for nearly two decades. "He just became more egregious, more bold, with the kind of crimes that he was committing against Black girls and women," says dream hampton, executive producer of the…

Isheka N. Harrison (2021-09-28). Top Rutgers Biology Professor Suggests EcoHealth Is 'Cut Out' For US Government, Involved In Potential Wuhan Lab Leak. moguldom.com A well-respected Rutgers University professor said that the international nonprofit EcoHealth Alliance, which has been under increased scrutiny over its ties to China's Wuhan Institute of Virology, is a "cut out" — a word used in espionage — for the U.S. government to spy on China's bioweapons research. According to Military Wiki, a cut out …

Stansfield Smith (2021-09-28). Is the US Global Empire Actually in Decline? Part 1. orinocotribune.com By Stansfield Smith and Roger D. Harris — Sep 25, 2021 | It is almost taken for granted, if not an article of faith, in the progressive milieu (e.g., First, it is essential not to confuse the ongoing decline of the living conditions of US working people with a decline in the power of the US corporate empire. T…

_____ (2021-09-28). Activists Confront Pelosi at Fundraiser, Demanding She 'Hold the Line' on $3.5 Trillion Package. commondreams.org "This is the biggest finding of sexual abuse perpetrated during a single U.N. initiative in one area or one country during the time-bound period of a U.N. response effort," said one campaigner.

_____ (2021-09-28). 'We Aren't Bluffing': Progressives Hold the Line as Pelosi Moves Ahead With Bipartisan Bill. commondreams.org

Ann Brown (2021-09-28). 4 Hip-Hop Figures Pardoned By Donald Trump On His Way Out. moguldom.com Before leaving office, former President Donald Trump went on a pardoning spree and some of the recipients were from the world of hip-hop. Presidential pardons were issued to Trump adviser Steve Bannon, former Republican National Committee chairman Elliott Broidy, former Detroit mayor Kwame Kilpatrick and Ken Kurson. Here are four hip-hop figures who were pardoned …

Staff (2021-09-28). GOP Threatens Economic Disaster by Refusing to Raise Debt Limit Before Shutdown. truthout.org On Monday, Senate Republicans voted against raising the U.S.'s debt limit, rejecting a measure that would have avoided a government shutdown and provided billions for disaster aid and Afghan refugees. If Congress continues its deadlock, economists project that the looming shutdown and debt default could lead to an economic crash. | Though some Republicans had

imperial.ac.uk (2021-09-28). Science advice key to solving global challenges, says interim Vice-Provost. imperial.ac.uk Imperial's interim Vice-Provost (Research and Enterprise), Professor Mary Ryan, spoke at the Labour Party conference on the government use of science.

_____ (2021-09-28). Opposing His Renomination, Warren Calls Fed Chair Powell 'A Dangerous Man'. commondreams.org Assassins-in-Chief and their brood.

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