Daily Archives: September 13, 2021

2021-09-13: News Headlines

Peoples Dispatch (2021-09-13). In Netherlands, students protesting housing crisis occupy Groningen University building. peoplesdispatch.org On September 9, Thursday, Dutch progressive youth and student groups occupied the academy building of the University of Groningen to protest the acute housing crisis faced by students in the city. Several groups, including the Democratic Academy Groningen (DAG), Groninger Studentenbond, Communist Youth Movement (CJB), Groningen Feminist Network, ROOD Groningen, and International Socialists Groningen, among others, organized the campaign called Shelter Our Students (SOS), demanding that the municipality and the university immediately provide free emergency housing for all homeless students in the city. More than 1…

Tom Engelhardt (2021-09-13). Tomgram: Alfred McCoy, Washington Strikes Out. warisacrime.org This article originally appeared at TomDispatch.com. To receive TomDispatch in your inbox three times a week, click here. What is it about this country and enemies? It can't even pretend to do without them. Of course, it just lost one enemy, the Taliban, in a humiliating fashion, even as President Biden bragged that no country had …

Vyshakh T (2021-09-13). Bringing the state closer to people: 25 years of Kerala's 'People's Plan'. peoplesdispatch.org The Left Democratic Front (LDF) of the south Indian state of Kerala, led by the Communist Party of India (Marxist), came to power for a consecutive second time this year, securing 99 out of 140 seats in the state Legislative Assembly elections that took place in April. This victory, breaking a 40-year-old trend of alternating governments, has been majorly attributed to the successful handling of natural disasters that struck the state during the last government's term and that of the COVID-19 pandemic. The highlight of Kerala's internationally celebrated disaster management strategy, as argued by historians, poli…

_____ (2021-09-13). On Contact: Inverted Totalitarianism. popularresistance.org In his books 'Democracy Incorporated: Managed Democracy and the Specter of Inverted Totalitarianism' and 'Politics and Vision', a massive survey of Western political thought that his former student Cornel West calls "magisterial," Wolin lays bare the causes behind the decline of American empire and the rise of a new and terrifying configuration of corporate power he calls "inverted totalitarianism." Wolin throughout his scholarship charted the steady devolution of American democracy and in his last book, 'Democracy Incorporated', wrote: "One cannot point to any national institution[s] that can accurately be descr…

Prof. Graeme MacQueen (2021-09-12). The "Inside Job" Hypothesis of the 9/11 Attacks: JFK, Fidel Castro and the American Left. globalresearch.ca Incisive and carefully documented analysis by Prof. Graeme MacQueen. | First published by Global Research on March 15, 2017 | . | . | On November 23, 1963, the day after John F. Kennedy's assassination, Fidel Castro gave a talk on Cuban radio …

Tatiana Coll (2021-09-12). El pueblo de Cuba y la OEA. globalizacion.ca Un inmenso mar de personas apretujadas y vitales llenaba toda la plaza, marea que se extendía a perder de vista, a tal grado que Fidel Castro exclamó que no esperaba que acudiera tanta gente, y que ello era la medida…

Andy Kroll (2021-09-12). The Winner in Afghanistan: China. tomdispatch.com The collapse of the American project in Afghanistan may fade fast from the news here, but don't be fooled. It couldn't be more significant in ways few in this country can even begin to grasp. "Remember, this is not Saigon," Secretary of State Antony Blinken told a television audience on August 15th, the day the Taliban swept into the Afghan capital, pausing to pose for photos in the grandly gilded presidential palace. He was dutifully echoing his boss, President Joe Biden, who had earlier rejected any comparison with the fall of the South Vietnamese capital, Saigon, in 1975, insisting that "there's going to be no…

Staff (2021-09-12). Trump Razed the Resettlement Infrastructure That Afghan Refugees Now Need. truthout.org President Joe Biden's chaotic exit from Afghanistan has fueled a significant slide in his

_____ (2021-09-12). Less Than an Inkblot, A Failed Congress Jeopardizes Our Future. commondreams.org "Many of us made a major compromise in going from the $6 trillion bill that we wanted" to the proposed $3.5 trillion package, said Sen. Bernie Sanders.

TASS (2021-09-12). FBI publishes first document unclassified under Biden's decree. tass.com This material is being released in response to the executive order, signed September 3, 2021…

Richard Falk — Daniel Falcone (2021-09-12). 9/11: The Doctrines of Bush, Obama, Trump & Biden. counterpunch.org Image by Daniel Falcone: Can you comment on September 11, 2001 as a historical event and provide how this day continues to shape the way the United States sees itself in the world? | Richard Falk: The attack itself on 9/11 was a most momentous event from the perspective of international relations, undermining the dominating historic role of hard power under the control of national governments in explaining historical agency. | Dramatically, 9/11 revealed the vulnerability of the most powerful country, as measured by military capabilities and global security hegem…

Anonymous103 (2021-09-12). FBI Released First Declassified 9/11 Document, Without Proving Riyadh's Involvement In Attacks. southfront.org Click to see full-size image | The FBI has released the first document related to its investigation of the 11 September 2001 attacks, following an executive order by President Joe Biden. | Fulfilling one of his election promises, Joe Biden ordered the Ministry of Justice and other involved agencies to audit the array of documents and publish declassified information within six months. Relatives of the victims had recently called on President to skip memorial events of the attack's 20th anniversary if he did not decla…

_____ (2021-09-12). FBI Releases First Declassified 9/11 Document Following Biden Order. commondreams.org In the world since Tuesday, I fear that there are other sorrowful Tuesdays to come.

Staff (2021-09-12). "X" Isn't Enough: We Must Abolish All Gender Markers on IDs. truthout.org Earlier this year, the Biden administration announced that

Nino Pagliccia (2021-09-12). Canadian Elections. Democracy is First and Foremost Informed Choice. orinocotribune.com By Nino Pagliccia — Sep 9, 2021 | The CBC News The invited leaders represent the dominant parties in Canada: | ‚Ä¢ Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau | ‚Ä¢ Conservative Leader Erin O'Toole | ‚Ä¢ NDP Leade…

_____ (2021-09-12). This Anti-Democratic, Unconstitutional Filibuster Must Be Destroyed. commondreams.org Congress has so lowered the public's expectations, by fueling cynicism and always blaming others, that people do not realize how easy it can be to turn Congress around and improve our society.

Luis Britto García (2021-09-12). Participative Democracy under Siege. zcomm.org Chávez used to say: Commune or nothing! We should add that communes without means of production are almost nothing…

PBS: "Laura Flanders Show" (2021-09-12). Sunday 9/12: Democracy: A National Temperature Check w/ Exec. Director of Women's March & other guests. indybay.org Online broadcast via YouTube…

Mouris Salloum George (2021-09-12). La República de los impostores. globalizacion.ca Cuando firmó el "Manifiesto al Surrealismo", André Bretón, su autor, no dudó en redactar: "Somos ‚Äéel automatismo psíquico puro, por cuyo medio se intenta expresar verbalmente, por escrito o de cualquier modo, el funcionamiento real del pensamiento, sin la intervención…

_____ (2021-09-12). Evil Spawns Evil: The US Routinely Sends Incendiary Messages. commondreams.org Every time Republicans use or defend the filibuster they're directly violating the Constitution—the document they claim to be dedicated to.

Anonymous007 (2021-09-12). Military Situation In Donetsk People's Republic On September 12, 2021 (Map Update). southfront.org Click to see full-size image | 1. UAF in Troytskoe shelled Ozeryanovka with 120-mm artillery | 2. UAF in Verhnetoretskoe shelled Verhnetoretskoe with 120-mm artillery | 3. UAF targeted an oil refinery in Donetsk city with UAVs | 4. UAF east of Volnovaha shelled Dokuchaevsk with 120-mm, 122-mm artillery and BMP-2 | 5. DPR forces in Verhnetoretskoe shelled UAF positions in Verhnetoretskoe with 122-mm artillery | 6. DPR forces in Gorlovka shelled UAF positions in Niu-York with 82-mm artiller…

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