Daily Archives: September 4, 2022

2022-09-04: News Headlines

Oneworld.press (2022-09-04). How The US Converted Taiwan Into A Launch Pad For War With China. oneworld.press By targeting China as a "threat", the Biden administration is reacting to mounting economic and political crisis at home.

Bernie Sanders (2022-09-04). The US has a ruling class — and Americans must stand up to it. zcomm.org In the year 2022, three multibillionaires own more wealth than the bottom half of American society — 160 million Americans. This is unsustainable…

Ruth Conniff (2022-09-04). Middle America: Democracy Slipping Away. zcomm.org Republicans' uneasy coalition of culture warriors and business elites have played the long game. Now we need to out-organize a rightwing, authoritarian state…

Otto Konig, Richard Detje (2022-09-04). Happy Anti-War Day! The weapons must be silent! indybay.org The DGB (the German alliance of unions) and its member unions, an important voice in the German peace movement, commemorate the barbaric consequences of war and fascism on September 1. Trade unionists fight for peace, democracy and freedom.

Fight Back (2022-09-04). Chicago: Election season begins for Police Accountability Councils. fightbacknews.org Chicago, IL – Chicago saw two developments this past week in the struggle for democratic control of the police by the Black and Latino communities in Chicago. First, after a long delay, Mayor Lori Lightfoot appointed the interim Community Commission for Public Safety and Accountability (CCPSA). This was created out of the passage of historic legislation in 2021, Empowering Communities for Public Safety (ECPS), the most democratic legislation for police accountability in the country. | Second, election season began on August 30, when candidates for municipal office can start circulating petitions to get on the bal…

____ (2022-09-04). Cradle of Civilization: Banpo Site. ecns.cn Banpo Site is located at the eastern outskirts of Xi'an in Shaanxi Province. It is a large Neolithic site of the Yangshao Culture dating back over 6,000 years ago, with an area of about 50,000 square meters.

____ (2022-09-04). Unsealed filing details items recovered from Trump's Mar-a-Lago in FBI search. ecns.cn A filing unsealed by a federal judge on Friday listed items that Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agents seized last month from former U.S. President Trump's Mar-a-Lago residence in Florida.

Staff (2022-09-04). Trump criticizes FBI at first rally after Mar-a-Lago search. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Sep. 04 (MNA) — Former US President Donald Trump has slammed the FBI's raid on his Florida home as a "travesty of justice" as he made his first public appearance since the August 8 search.

Center for Biological Diversity (2022-09-04). Biden Administration Backs Offshore Fracking in California. indybay.org Federal Filing Urges 9th Circuit to Overturn Ban Backed by Kamala Harris…

TeleSUR, JCM (2022-09-04). Cuba rechaza extensión de ley que prorroga bloqueo de EE.UU. telesurtv.net Díaz-Canel, criticó este sábado al mandatario estadounidense, Joe Biden, por renovar la Ley de Comercio con el Enemigo.

TeleSUR, JCM (2022-09-04). China pide a EE.UU. que cancele acuerdo de armas con Taiwán. telesurtv.net El paquete de ayuda es el mayor concedido hasta ahora a Taiwán por el Gobierno de Joe Biden.

Staff (2022-09-04). Senador Bernie Sanders llama a crear una economía y un gobierno en EEUU que funcione para todos, no solo para el uno por ciento. cubadebate.cu Según el senador Bernie Sanders, no es solo la desigualdad de ingresos y riqueza lo que azota a EE.UU., sino la mala distribución del poder económico y político. "Tengamos el coraje de unirnos y luchar contra la codicia empresarial (…) Unámonos y finalmente creemos una economía y un gobierno que funcione para todos, no solo para el 1%".

_____ (2022-09-03). Why I Interrupted A Major Funding Announcement. popularresistance.org On Wednesday, August 31, I interrupted a major funding announcement at McGill to ask the head of the university about her suppression of Palestine solidarity. | As she spoke from the Faculty Club's stage I asked Principal Suzanne Fortier, "Do McGill students have the right to oppose the killing of Palestinian children? Do they have the right to oppose Israeli colonialism and apartheid?" McGill's principal failed to respond. | I then stated that her administration's threat to cancel the student union's funding after students voted overwhelmingly for a "Palestine Solidarity Policy" was "anti-democratic and anti-Pal…

Benjamin Norton (2022-09-03). US Sends Ukraine $228 Million per Day in Military Aid to Wage Proxy War on Russia. orinocotribune.com By Benjamin Norton | The Joe Biden administration pledged Ukraine $39.87 billion in military aid between February and August 2022, for an average of $228 million per day, fueling a brutal proxy war causing tens of thousands of deaths. | The Joe Biden administration pledged Ukraine $39.87 billion in military aid in the six months between February and August 2022, for an average of $228 million per day, fueling what even former US government

Fight Back (2022-09-03). ECPS Coalition urges Chicagoans to run for District Council elections. fightbacknews.org Chicago, IL – The Empowering Communities for Public Safety (ECPS) Coalition held a press conference on Tuesday morning, August 30, in response to Mayor Lightfoot's Monday appointment of the citywide Interim Commission for Public Safety. According to the ECPS ordinance, the commission should have been appointed in January. The coalition held a press conference on July 20 demanding that the mayor end the delays and appoint the Interim Commission. With the appointments made, the coalition set its eyes towards the local District Council elections coming up in February 2023. | "This ordinance is a step towards gi…

WSWS (2022-09-03). Biden's speech and the danger of fascism in America. wsws.org While warning of the unprecedented threat to democratic forms of rule in the United States, Biden offered no explanation of how the country has reached such a point or what social forces are behind it.

_____ (2022-09-03). 96% Of Freight Rail Workers Want To Strike, Survey Finds. popularresistance.org 96 percent of freight rail workers still want to strike as soon as they can under federal law, despite a Joe Biden-appointed emergency mediation board recently drawing up terms for a potential compromise contract, according to a survey conducted by a railroad worker group. | The survey is the latest indication that the deep, years-long cleavage between workers and management centering on working conditions, pay, and health care benefits at the country's freight rail lines will not be easily reconciled. | "People are pretty furious," said Railroad Workers United secretary Ron Kaminkow, who conducted the survey. He…

Oneworld.press (2022-09-03). Biden Spit On The Soul Of The American Nation By Pitting His People Against One Another. oneworld.press Maliciously smearing approximately half of the country as existential terrorist-inclined threats to "the soul of the nation" is nothing but the crudest Machiavellian means of dividing and ruling the population.

Contributing Writers (2022-09-03). Still think Canada's foreign policy is about freedom, democracy, and human rights? marktaliano.net

Eforinoco (2022-09-03). Some Important Aspects of the Proposed New Constitution of Chile. orinocotribune.com Some of the main advances are declaration of an ecological and plurinational state; recognition of indigenous peoples; human right to water and education; democracy based on gender parity. | More than 15 million Chileans are summoned to participate in a refendum this Sunday, September 4, in order to decide whether they want to approve the new constitution drafted by the Constitutional Convention or maintain the current one which dates from the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet (1973-1990). | According to Chilean electoral law, in order to be approved the new Constitution must get at least % plus one of the total…

Staff (2022-09-03). FBI found empty folders that had contained classified docs. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Sep. 03 (MNA) — FBI agents found dozens of folders with "classified" banners, some of which were empty, at Donald Trump's Florida home when they searched it last month, an unsealed inventory of the recovered materials shows.

WSWS (2022-09-03). Texas attorney general threatens legal action against schools that try to mitigate the spread of COVID and monkeypox. wsws.org With the Democratic Party and the teachers' unions fully backing the murderous "let it rip" COVID policy, the Abbott government feels it has a free hand to carry out the most deranged provocations with impunity.

Staff (2022-09-03). Cuba slams US funding as intervention, aimed at toppling gov. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Sep. 03 (MNA) — Cuba's Vice Foreign Minister slammed Friday US funding for "democracy promotion" programs as interventionist and illegal, aimed at toppling the government.

Staff (2022-09-03). Díaz-Canel rechaza extensión de ley que prorroga el bloqueo contra Cuba. cubadebate.cu El presidente Miguel Díaz-Canel reafirmó este sábado la voluntad de resistencia de Cuba frente al bloqueo económico, comercial y financiero que mantiene Estados Unidos. Díaz-Canel, criticó a Joe Biden, por renovar la Ley de Comercio con el Enemigo, un estatuto de 1917 que sustenta el embargo económico a la isla desde hace más de seis décadas.

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-09-02). US Provocations Over Taiwan and Beijing's Steady Remedy. libya360.wordpress.com Brian Berletic The early August visit by US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi took place amid heavy protests from Beijing. The visit was a blatant violation of Washington's bilateral agreement with Beijing regarding the "One China" policy as well as a violation of international law regarding political independence and territorial integrity. As was pointed out by…

Gary Wilson (2022-09-02). Biden tonewsauthor"> Ukraine War General. globalresearch.ca

Julia Rock (2022-09-02). Biden Stalls Crackdown On Student Debt Predators. levernews.com

Liberation Staff (2022-09-02). PSL Statement: Yes, democracy is under threat — and Biden is part of the problem. liberationnews.org Joe Biden's prime-time address on democracy tonight was an attempt to cover up with rhetoric his and the Democratic Party's abject failure to prevent the extinguishing of abortion rights, the assault on Black voting rights, and the nationwide attack by Big Business against union rights and workers.

Special to People's World (2022-09-02). Labor Day weekend: Unions launch biggest election push in history. peoplesworld.org WASHINGTON The AFL-CIO today kicked off a massive voter mobilization to elect pro-worker candidates in November, aiming to empower working people to make the difference in scores of close races around the country. The 2022 mobilization kicks into high gear at a time when labor unions enjoy their highest approval rating in more than five decades, according to …

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