Daily Archives: September 19, 2022

2022-09-19: News Headlines

Dave DeCamp (2022-09-19). Biden Again Says the US Would Defend Taiwan If China Attacks. news.antiwar.com In an interview with 60 Minutes that aired Sunday, President Biden said the US would defend Taiwan in the event of a Chinese attack, marking the fourth time of his presidency that he's made the pledge despite the long-standing US policy of strategic ambiguity. When asked by host Scott Pelley if US forces would defend …

Staff (2022-09-19). Biden says US forces would defend Taiwan against China. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Sep. 19 (MNA) — US armed forces will protect Taiwan in case of potential attack from China, US President Joe Biden said.

Staff (2022-09-19). Violating sanctions against Russia to be gigantic mistake. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Sep. 19 (MNA) — US President Joe Biden says he told Chinese President Xi Jinping it would be a "gigantic mistake" to violate sanctions against Russia.

Contributing Writers (2022-09-19). US Veterans: If NATO Didn't Want Ukraine Grid Hit, It Shouldn't Have Taken Part in Kiev's Offensive/By Ekaterina Blinova. marktaliano.net Original Link Here: US Veterans: If NATO Didn't Want Ukraine Grid Hit, It Shouldn't Have Taken Part in Kiev's Offensive US defense officials have advised the Biden administration against supplying Kiev with the longer range missiles, known as Army Tactical Missile Systems (ATACMs), citing fears that the Ukrainian military would use these weapons against Russia …

____ (2022-09-19). Yangtze River drought reveals ancient railway tracks in Wuhan. ecns.cn Ancient railway tracks are exposed due to continuous drought in the Yangtze River in Wuhan, central China's Hubei Province, Sept. 18, 2022.

Staff (2022-09-19). Gobierno de Biden ampliará las restricciones a las exportaciones de chips y herramientas tecnológicas a China. cubadebate.cu El Gobierno de Joe Biden planea a partir del próximo mes ampliar las restricciones a las exportaciones estadounidenses a China de semiconductores que se utilizan en inteligencia artificial y herramientas para fabricar chips, como parte de la guerra comercial contra el gigante asiático.

Orinoco Tribune 2 (2022-09-19). Fear and Misinformation Dominate Discourses of Brazilian Right. orinocotribune.com By Zoe Alexandra Sep 13, 2022 | In the lead-up to the general elections in Brazil, the far-right has intensified its campaign of hysteria and fear-mongering instead of providing concrete solutions to the crises affecting the people | Brazil is less than a month away from historic elections. Over 156 million Brazilians will go to the polls on October 2 to cast their vote for the president of the republic, State governors, 27 senators, 513 federal deputies, and State and district deputies. The elections take place amid an acute political, economic, and social crisis in the country. The past several years h…

Labor Video Project (2022-09-19). Barbara Lee & "Pete" Get An Earful In Oakland Over Tax Dollars For A's Owner John Fisher. indybay.org Congresswoman Barbara Lee, US Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg and Oakland Mayor Libby Schaff joined together to talk about Federal funding for Oakland projects. Barbara Lee and "Pete" refused to say whether they supported Federal funds going to the GAP A's billionaire owner John Fisher's proposed new A' stadium on Port of Oakland public land at Howard Terminal. "Pete" also refused to say whether this project would harm the Port of Oakland as a working port.

Stephen Sefton (2022-09-19). Naciones Unidas, democracia y terrorismo. globalizacion.ca La causa fundamental de estos altos niveles de inseguridad y conflicto es el rechazo de parte de los Estados Unidos y sus aliados de acomodarse a la nueva realidad de un mundo multipolar. | Esta semana se abre la sesión setenta…

Dr. Abraham Gasparyan (2022-09-19). "Nagorno-Karabakh is not the property of the elected elite to be surrendered." Interview with Abraham Gasparyan. globalresearch.ca

Dean Baker (2022-09-19). NYT Spreads Myths on Inflation. cepr.net There is a common myth that Germany's hyperinflation led to the collapse of democracy in Germany and the rise of Hitler. That is a nice story for pushing the inflation hawks' agenda, but it doesn't correspond to reality. | The hyperinflation had

____ (2022-09-19). 88 soldiers who fell in 19 s war laid to rest in Shenyang cemetery. ecns.cn A burial ceremony for the remains of fallen soldiers of the ninth group of martyrs of the Chinese People's Volunteers was held in Shenyang, Liaoning province, on Saturday morning.

Paul Joseph Watson (2022-09-19). Biden Declares COVID Pandemic Is "Over" globalresearch.ca

Leo Hohmann (2022-09-19). Biden Signs Executive Order Designed to Unleash "Transhumanist Hell" on America and the World. globalresearch.ca

Rqorinoco (2022-09-19). Workers Building New US Embassy in Honduras Strike Over Severed Fingers, Illegal Contracts. orinocotribune.com By Judy Ancel — Sep 12, 2022 | The Biden administration has pledged that "the United States will work with governments to strengthen… the enforcement of labor laws, promote decent work, and support workers in exercising their freedom of association and collective bargaining rights," as one of four pillars of its strategy to address the root causes of migration from Central America. | In Honduras today the US has an opportunity to practice this with the 1,100 workers it has hired to build a new embassy. But it's blowing it. | Instead, police have been called in to bust a strike that's been going on at the…

WSWS (2022-09-19). Trump headlines fascist rally in Youngstown, Ohio, calls for mass execution of "drug dealers" wsws.org Campaigning for his endorsed candidates, Trump spent the majority of his speech inciting violence against immigrants, his political enemies and transgender people, while appealing overtly to Q-Anon fascists.

WSWS (2022-09-19). Seattle educators: Vote "no" on the sellout tentative agreement! wsws.org The strike was ended through with an entirely undemocratic process and the resultant TA meets none of the teachers' demands.

Brenda Norrell (2022-09-19). Oak Flat: Biden's Justice Dept opposes Apache Elder, NCAI, Grandmothers in Federal Court. indybay.org In an insulting blow, President Biden's Justice Department is opposing an Apache Elder, the National Congress of American Indians, the International Council of Thirteen Indigenous Grandmothers, and the MICA Group, who filed as friends of the court in support of the Apache Stronghold's protection of sacred Oak Flat in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco.

Local housing advocates (2022-09-19). Tuesday 9/20: The Fight For Housing — PUSH Screening & 2022 Election Informational Event. indybay.org Grand Lake Theater | 3200 Grand Avenue | Oakland, CA 94610…

PAI (2022-09-19). It's in vogue to be a union member at Vogue magazine. peoplesworld.org NEW YORK (PAI)—Sorry, but we can't resist this: It's now in vogue to be a New York News Guild member at Vogue. That's right, staffers at Vogue magazine and 11 other Condé Nast publications signed so many union election recognition cards for the News Guild-CWA's New York local that bosses granted them voluntary recognition, a.k.a. …

WSWS (2022-09-19). Oppose the anti-democratic shutdown of the EMU faculty strike! wsws.org EMU faculty should decisively vote down the sellout contract being foisted on them by the AAUP and begin now to organize independently of the union bureaucracy.

Kenny Stancil (2022-09-19). Biden Rebuked for Claiming 'Pandemic Is Over' as Hundreds Die of Covid Each Day in US. commondreams.org "What's ending here is political commitment and funding, not cases or deaths," said one medical anthropologist.

TeleSUR, JGN (2022-09-19). Biden afirma que terminó la pandemia de la Covid-19 en EE.UU. telesurtv.net "Se acabó la pandemia. Todavía tenemos un problema con (la) Covid (…) Pero la pandemia ha terminado", aseveró el mandatario estadounidense.

TeleSUR, DRL (2022-09-19). Huracán Fiona se dirige fortalecido hacia Puerto Rico. telesurtv.net Un millón y medio de clientes se quedan sin suministro eléctrico por el paso en las inmediaciones del huracán Fiona.

Jorge Alemán (2022-09-19). Ultraderecha internacional argentina. globalizacion.ca Del mismo modo que el neoliberalismo no rechaza al Estado, la nueva ultraderecha no se opone a la democracia, más bien quiere controlarla y manipularla a su antojo. | Por otro lado, la ultraderecha no surge exclusivamente del odio político a…

_____ (2022-09-19). On the First Ministerial Meeting of IPEF Member Countries. journal-neo.org On September 8-9, the first meeting of the trade ministers of the member countries of the Indo-Pacific Economic Framework for Prosperity, which is oftentimes abbreviated to, for some reason, only IPEF (rather than, say, IPEFP), was held in Los Angeles. US President Joe Biden announced the very fact of this association being created on May …

Common Dreams staff (2022-09-18). Biden Says Nukes in Ukraine 'Would Change the Face of War Unlike Anything Since WWII'. commondreams.org Biden's advice to any consideration by Putin to use so-called tactical nuclear weapons: "Don't. Don't. Don't."

Dave DeCamp (2022-09-18). US Hesitant to Provide Ukraine With Longer-Range Missiles. news.antiwar.com The Biden administration is hesitant to give Ukraine the longer-range missiles it is asking for as Russia has warned providing such arms would make the US a party to the conflict. Ukraine has asked the US for Army Tactical Missile System, or ATACMS, which have a range of about 190 miles, significantly farther than anything …

Felicity Arbuthnot (2022-09-18). Ukraine: US Launches a Fascist Government, and World War Three? globalresearch.ca It all started on March 5, 2014: a US sponsored fascist coalition government under the disguise of democracy was installed in Ukraine. | With historical foresight this article by Felicity Arbuthnot was first published on March 15, 2014 in the immediate …

Ana Perdigón (2022-09-18). Marco Rubio Criticizes Biden's Intentions to Recognize Maduro as the President of Venezuela. orinocotribune.com US Senator Marco Rubio criticized the Biden administration for wanting to recognize the government of Nicolás Maduro as the legitimate government of Venezuela after the mid-term elections in the United States. | The Republican senator from Florida claimed that after the mid-term elections, to be held in November, Biden will recognize Nicolás Maduro as the president of Venezuela. | He also claimed that after the mid-term elections, the White House will look for a way to "reestablish relations" with the Cuban government. | "And we will see what they will say that the new Colombian government is looking for an agree…

Dave DeCamp (2022-09-18). In Armenia, Nancy Pelosi Slams Azerbaijan's 'Illegal' Attack. news.antiwar.com House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) led a congressional delegation to Armenia, from where she slammed on Sunday Azerbaijan's "illegal" attacks on the country. Pelosi's visit came after clashes erupted on the Azeri-Armenian border in the heaviest fighting in the region since the 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh war. A ceasefire has held since Wednesday, but over 200 troops …

Thecommunists (2022-09-18). US-south Korean war games are fuelling the drive towards war in the Pacific. thecommunists.org US imperialism and its minion, the south Korean regime, began large-scale joint military exercises on 22 August 2022 — the first in four years. These exercises, held along the border with the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), included joint aircraft carrier strike drills and amphibious landing training, making them the largest-scale drills undertaken since …

EDMIN (2022-09-18). The Overview: An all-encompassing Axiom. sitrepworld.info I used to develop databases in Filemaker, an Apple software product so easy that it was often the Administrative Assistant who created the organization's database(s). Except for enormous transactional systems, like those handling the ATMs of large banks, Filemaker was a far better choice, for many reasons, than the clumsy, dysfunctional piece of junk called Oracle, for a tiny fraction of the cost. I bring this up because this is one of innumerable examples of the innate corruption of the Imperialist/Capitalist system, where profit predictably trumps common sense, not to mention simple human decency. Oracle,…

TeleSUR (2022-09-18). Biden Declares State of Emergency in Puerto Rico Due to Hurricane Fiona. telesurenglish.net U.S. President Joe Biden on Sunday approved the declaration of a state of emergency in Puerto Rico in the face of the arrival of Hurricane Fiona. | RELATED: | With maximum sustained winds of 130 kilometers per hour (80 miles), the tropical storm has gained strength and has already become a hurricane as it approaches the island, where it threatens heavy rains, flooding and mudslides. | With this decision, the President has ordered the Dep…

John W. Lawrence (2022-09-18). The U.S. Corporate Elite Is Killing Democracy and the Planet: We Need a United Multicultural, Multiracial Working-Class Progressive Front Now! covertactionmagazine.com "For 20 years, the motto of the world social forum has been another world is possible…As we meet today that question is overshadowed by another one. Is this world possible? And the answer is 'no.' This world is not possible. This world is hurdling to self-annihilation. And only the creation of another world can reverse …

Staff (2022-09-18). Pelosi reacts to recent conflict between Azerbaijan, Armenia. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Sep. 18 (MNA) — In reaction to the recent conflict between Azerbaijan and Armenia, Nancy Pelosi, the Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, condemned the attacks of the Republic of Azerbaijan on Armenia.

Staff (2022-09-18). No meeting with Biden on sidelines of UNGA session: Raeisi. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Sep. 18 (MNA) — Iranian President said that he has no plans for either meeting or talking with his American counterpart, Joe Biden, during his upcoming trip to New York to attend the 77th Session of the United Nations General Assembly.

Florence CGTN (2022-09-18). Controversy over Texas migrant busing. america.cgtn.com Another migrants have been dropped at Vice-President Kamala Harris's Washington, D.C. residence on Saturday, the latest in a wave to be bused from Texas to the country's capital. It follows months of efforts by Texas Governor Greg Abbott, who has sent more than …

Anonymous669 (2022-09-18). Two Syrian Soldiers Killed Near Kobane In Turkish Revenge Airstrikes (Videos). southfront.org On September 18, two soldiers of the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) were killed in a series of Turkish airstrikes that hit the eastern outskirt of the border town of Kobane in Syria's northeastern region. | Kobane, one of the largest urban centers in northeastern countryside of Aleppo, is a stronghold of the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF). The SAA established a network of positions in the town and its outskirts in the wake of the 2019 Turkish invasion of the northeastern region.

Staff (2022-09-18). US' Pelosi Arrives in Armenia amid conflict with Azerbaijan. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Sep. 18 (MNA) — US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi arrived in the Armenian capital of Yerevan on Saturday.

Staff (2022-09-18). Pelosi condena a Azerbaiyán y pregunta a Armenia sus necesidades en defensa. cubadebate.cu Pelosi es la funcionaria estadounidense de más alto nivel que llega a Armenia desde su independencia tras la desintegración de la URSS. Además de reunirse con su homólogo armenio, la congresista tiene previsto mantener un encuentro con el primer ministro Nikol Pashinián.

Kyle Anzalone (2022-09-17). White House Announces Massive $10 Billion Aid Package for Jordan. news.antiwar.com The Joe Biden administration rolled out a new assistance agreement with Jordan. Washington will send Amman $10.15 billion over the next seven years. The new deal will make Jordan the third largest recipient of American aid, following only Ukraine and Israel. The White House signed the new memorandum of understanding (MOU) on Friday. The Biden …

_____ (2022-09-17). Sanctions Won't Stop Latin American Leaders From Talking With US Workers. popularresistance.org On September 24, leaders from Cuba and Venezuela will speak at an event titled "The People's Summit: Democracy Beyond the US Empire". The event is convened by the International Peoples' Assembly, an international network of people's movements and organizations. The event will be held in the historic Riverside Church in Morningside Heights, as the UN General Assembly convenes further downtown in Manhattan. | Speakers include Bruno Rodriguez, the Foreign Minister of Cuba, Carlos Faria, the Foreign Minister of Venezuela, Kristin Richardson Jordan, District 9 Council Member for New York City, Vijay Prashad, Director…

Fight Back (2022-09-17). Austin students rally in defense of abortion rights. fightbacknews.org Austin, TX — The Austin Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) organized a rally at the University of Texas at Austin on September 15 in defense of women's and reproductive rights, as a part of the National SDS Day of Action. About 35 students rallied at 6 p.m. at the corner of Speedway and 21st Street on UT campus. Speakers from six other organizations gave speeches condemning the overturning of Roe v. Wade and the Texas Heartbeat Act. | The Texas Heartbeat Act (SB8) was passed in September last year in preparation for the overturning of Roe v. Wade. It bans abortions when there are cells that will l…

Anonymous669 (2022-09-17). Turkish Drone Strike Kills Five SDF Fighters In Northeastern Syria. southfront.org Late on September 16, a Turkish combat drone targeted a position of the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) near the town of Ain Issa in the northern countryside of Syria's Raqqa. | The drone strike reportedly killed five members of the SDF. Two were fighters of the group, while the rest were members of its Military Police unit. | In an initial response to the deadly strike, the SDF targeted positions of the Turkish military and its proxies in the villages of Jahbal and al-Misherfah wh…

Staff (2022-09-17). Agostinho Neto: La claridad política y la firmeza revolucionaria (+ Fotos). cubadebate.cu Sobre el primer presidente de la Angola independiente, el líder de la Revolución Fidel Castro dijo en 1992: "Una de las cualidades excepcionales de Agostinho Neto fue la firmeza revolucionaria, la defensa intransigente de los principios, la tenacidad en su lucha que lo llevó a la victoria".

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