(2022-09-26). Democrats in Congress Divided on Sending Ukraine Longer-Range Weapons. news.antiwar.com Democrats in Congress are divided on whether or not to send Ukraine the longer-range and more advanced weaponry that it's seeking, Among Ukraine's requests for new weapons is the Army Tactical Missile System, or ATACMS, which has a range of about 190 miles. The missiles have a significantly longer range than anything Washington has provided Kyiv to this point. | Russia has warned that if the US sends Ukraine longer-range weapons, it wou…
(2022-09-26). Neo-Colonial Apologia, Imperialist Hypocrisy, & the Chauvinism Driving Pro-NATO Liberals. libya360.wordpress.com Rainer Shea None are more hypocritical than the Americans who say that Russia is waging an imperialist war. The same goes for when they say China is carrying out a colonial genocide, or when they say the DPRK violates its people's human rights, or when they say Cuba is anti-democratic. The biggest of these projections…
(2022-09-26). Chris Hedges: The Return of Fascism. scheerpost.com 
The Bankruptcy of the Liberal Ass — by Mr. Fish | By Chris Hedges / Original to ScheerPost | Energy and food bills are soaring. Under the onslaught of inflation and prolonged wage stagnation, wages are in free fall. Billions of dollars are diverted by Western nations at a time of economic crisis and staggering income inequality to fund a proxy war in Ukraine. The liberal class, terrified by the rise of neo-fascism and demagogues such as Donald Trump, have thrown in their lot with discredited and reviled establishment politicians who slavishly do the bidding of the war industry, oligarchs and corporations…
(2022-09-26). Joe Biden's speech at the UN General assembly. Accuses Putin. "A War chosen by one man"… No One threatened Russia" globalresearch.ca
(2022-09-26). China's FM Tells Blinken the US Is Sending 'Dangerous Signals' Over Taiwan. news.antiwar.com Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi told Secretary of State Antony Blinken on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly on Friday that the US is sending "very wrong, dangerous signals" on the issue of Taiwan. The conversation between the two diplomats was focused on Taiwan and came after President Biden said the US would defend …
(2022-09-26). Judge's Arizona abortion ban sparks resistance firestorm ahead of elections. peoplesworld.org 
PHOENIX (AP)—Arizona Democrats vowed Saturday to fight for women's rights after a court reinstated a law first enacted during the Civil War that bans abortion in nearly all circumstances, looking to capitalize on an issue they hope will have a major impact on the midterm elections. Republican candidates were silent a day after the ruling, which said …
(2022-09-26). CIA Discussed Assassination of Fidel Castro with UK Officials. globalresearch.ca
(2022-09-26). Remember The Pastor Lusting Over A Movado Watch? Elder From Same Church Convicted On Charges Of Murdering Wife. moguldom.com A Missouri man, Robert Harris, has been convicted of first-degree murder of his wife of fewer than two years. Harris is a former church elder at the non-denominational Repairers Kansas City. Carlton Funderburke is a former pastor of the Repairers Kansas City. Funderburke recently got in hot water at his current church, Church at the …
(2022-09-26). Hypocrisy of U.S. government, corporate media on display in reaction to Iran protests. liberationnews.org 
Since Sept. 16, protests have been taking place across Iran…
(2022-09-26). Italy: Fascism Returns to Europe's Centerstage. libya360.wordpress.com M. K. BHADRAKUMAR The troika leading the far-right coalition that won Italy's election: Giorgia Meloni (R), Silvio Berlusconi (C) and Matteo Salvini (L) The stunning victory of a far-right coalition in Italy's parliamentary election on Sunday is largely seen from the distinct prospect of Giorgia Meloni becoming the country's next prime minister, whose hardline views on immigration…
(2022-09-26). Meet Our New 'Secretary of State' … Nancy Pelosi. scheerpost.com 
Nancy Pelosi during a meeting with Armenia's Ministry of Defence in September 2022. Official YouTube channel of Ministry of Defence of Armenia, CC BY 3.0 By Melvin Goodman / Nancy Pelosi mu…
(2022-09-26). How the rail unions plan to ram through their sellout contracts. wsws.org The unions would no have hope of passing the deal in a free, democratically-run vote. This is why they have no intention of conducting one. This underscores the need for the rank-and-file to organize themselves to take control over the entire process.
(2022-09-26). Sunday 10/23: Election discussion with Tim Redmond. indybay.org Unitarian Universalist Society | 1187 Franklin St. San Francisco | In person in the Thomas Starr King room. | And on Zoom: zoom.us/j/94266592820?pwd=QUw1czcyb29rQ3NrZ0IzRG9McUVudz09…
(2022-09-26). Center-right coalition wins Italian parliamentary election. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Sep. 26 (MNA) — A center-right coalition consisting of the Brothers of Italy, League and Forza Italia parties gained 44.53% of the vote in the Senate election in Italy with more than 90% of the ballots counted.
(2022-09-26). Cradle of Civilization: Yangshao Village Site. ecns.cn
(2022-09-26). Rank-and-file ticket contests NSW nurses and midwives union election. greenleft.org.au The New South Wales Nurses and Midwives Association will have its first openly contested leadership election since 2003 in October. Niko Leka reports.
(2022-09-26). Lawsuits and investigations launched over Florida migrant flights. wsws.org While the actions of Republican Governor Ron DeSantis are both cruel and unconstitutional, Democratic state legislators voted to provide the $12 million he is using to ship asylum seekers from Texas to Massachusetts.
(2022-09-26). Experts See the Hidden Downside for Democracy in the Patagonia Sale. transcend.org 21 Sep 2022 – There's a worrying detail in Yvon Chouinard's recent sale of outdoor retail giant Patagonia.
(2022-09-26). Reportan al menos 13 fallecidos por temporales en Honduras. telesurtv.net La presidenta de Honduras, Xiomara Castro recorrió este domingo lugares afectados por inclemencias climáticas que azotan el territorio de esa nación centroamericana.
(2022-09-26). El Código de las Familias: los derechos son el camino. globalizacion.ca El Código ha sido escenario de una disputa política pública desconocida hasta la fecha en Cuba. No hay idea mínimamente fuerte de democracia que no suponga conflicto. Mis hijos tenían siete años cuando me divorcié, en 2009, de su madre….
(2022-09-26). Raúl Castro acude a votar en referendo popular en Cuba. telesurtv.net El Líder de la Revolución cubana votó en un colegio electoral en el cual están inscritos 281 electores y es uno de los más de 23.000 habilitados en todo el país.
(2022-09-26). El colmo del dislate: Trump declara en Truth Social que solo lo supera Jesús. cubadebate.cu El expresidente Donald Trump compartió el viernes una publicación en las redes sociales en la que se le declaraba "segundo" después del Jesús, considerado por los cristianos el hijo de Dios. Al usar su propia plataforma, Truth Social, (sigue vetado en Twitter y Facebook), Trump "reformuló" una publicación de otro usuario.
(2022-09-25). Over % Voter Turnout -Donbass & Zaporozhye Referenda Valid. telesurenglish.net According to the Electoral Commission, this Sunday, at the end of three days of voting, the referendums in the Donbass republics and the Zaporozhye region were recognized as valid with over percent of citizen participation. | RELATED: | "High voter turnout is reported from the entire territory of the Luhansk People's Republic," said the LPR's Central Election Commission (CEC) Yelena Kravchenko. She put the turnout at…
(2022-09-25). Cuba votes in referendum its new Family Code. en.cubadebate.cu This September 25, Cuba submits the new Family Code to a popular referendum, a step that will decide on the entry into force of this important legislation. From seven in the morning, the more than 24,000 polling stations in the country will open their doors in a civic and democratic process that constitutes an unprecedented event: never before has a law been submitted to the will of the people, who will have the last word (Yes or No), which as simple as it may seem, has great significance for the present and future of the nation.
(2022-09-25). Kiev's NATO-Backed Terrorist Attack in Kherson Was a Strike Against Democracy & Journalism. libya360.wordpress.com Andrew Korybko No number of missiles will succeed in stopping the exercise of the locals' democratic rights as enshrined in the UN Charter nor in deterring world-class Russian journalists from reporting on this historic event. Kiev bombarded a hotel in the former Ukrainian city of Kherson with missiles on Sunday morning in what local authorities described as…
(2022-09-25). In Mind-Blowingly Hypocritical UN Speech, Biden Tries To Rewrite History. popularresistance.org US President Joe Biden spoke at the United Nations General Assembly on September 21. He used the platform to try to portray the United States, the world's leading violator of international law, as its protector. | Biden called "to hold Russia accountable for the atrocities and war crimes" it allegedly committed in Ukraine. | But Biden declared from the UN podium: "If nations can pursue their imperial ambitions without consequences, then we put at risk everything this very institution stands for, everything." | In the following analysis, journalist Ben Norton fact-checked the deeply misleading claims Biden made in…
(2022-09-25). John Pilger's 2014 Warning About Ukraine. popularresistance.org Why do we tolerate the threat of another world war in our name? Why do we allow lies that justify this risk? The scale of our indoctrination, wrote Harold Pinter, is a "brilliant, even witty, highly successful act of hypnosis", as if the truth "never happened even while it was happening". | Every year the American historian William Blum publishes his "updated summary of the record of U.S. foreign policy" which shows that, since 1945, the U.S. has tried to overthrow more than 50 governments, many of them democratically elected; grossly interfered in elections in 30 countries; bombed the civilian populations of 30…
(2022-09-25). Despite What Biden Says, The Pandemic Isn't Over. popularresistance.org On Sunday night, Joe Biden declared in an interview on CBS's 60 Minutes that the Covid-19 "pandemic is over." Not so coincidentally, this statement comes right after existing federal pandemic response funding has run out, and after attempts at approving more money were routinely removed from spending bills in order to designate more money for Ukraine. If the pandemic is "over," the government can be excused for failing to provide additional support. But while official cases, hospitalization, and death counts are all much lower now compared to the peak of the Omicron wave in January, and while vaccines continue to…
(2022-09-25). White House Sent Multiple Threats to the Kremlin Via Backchannels. southfront.org 
A Yars intercontinental ballistic missile is launched from an airfield during military drills on Feb. 19, 2022. (Russian Defense Ministry Press Service/AP)Russia recently said it could use nukes to defend its territory | Written by The Joe Biden administration has sent several warnings to Russia…
(2022-09-25). China's largest freshwater lake records lowest water level. ecns.cn The water level at Poyang Lake, China's largest freshwater lake in the eastern province of Jiangxi, dropped to its lowest on Friday morning since record-keeping began in 1951, said local authorities."ÄÄ…
(2022-09-25). Without Culture, Freedom Is Impossible. scheerpost.com 
The city of Trinidad, Cuba is a UNESCO World Heritage site with five hundred years of culture and history. Gregory "Slobirdr" Smith, CC BY-SA 2.0 By Vijay Prashad / In 2002, Cuba's President Fidel Castro Ruz visited the country's National Ballet School to inau…
(2022-09-25). Polls Open in Italy in Snap Election for New Parliament. telesurenglish.net Over million Italians are eligible to cast their ballots at 61,566 polling stations, which will remain open from 7 a.m. to 11 p.m. local time. They are set to choose the 400 lawmakers and 200 senators that will form the two houses of the next assembly. | RELATED: | A right-wing coalition and a center-left alliance are seen as the main contenders. Adding to them are a smaller coalition of two centrist parties, and the populist Five Star Movement (M5S), with both…
(2022-09-25). Chris Hedges Report: Julian Assange's Father Speaks Out. popularresistance.org The long campaign against Julian and WikiLeaks is a window into the collapse of the rule of law, and the rise of what the political philosopher Sheldon Wolin calls a system of inverted totalitarianism—where the outward symbols of capitalist democracy remain, but the system itself is captured by corporate interests. Assange has spent over a decade fighting imprisonment, extradition, and CIA espionage. On Oct. 8, Chris Hedges and others will gather in Washington, DC, to demand Assange's release at the same time that protestors surround the British Parliament. For this special episode of The Chris Hedges Repor…
(2022-09-25). Bolsonaro is Harshly Criticized in the 2nd Presidential Debate. telesurenglish.net On Saturday night, Brazilian viewers witnessed the second debate between six candidates who will compete for the presidency of Brazil in the elections to be held on Oct. 2. | RELATED: | In this event, however, the Workers' Party candidate Lula da Silva, who is leading all voting intentions polls with over 47 percent of preferences, was not present. | President Jair Bolsonaro and five other candidates with little c…
(2022-09-25). Despite having majority, Senate Democrats postpone marriage equality bill vote until after midterms. liberationnews.org 
Seventy percent of the U.S. population supports marriage equality, including 83% of Democrats and 55% of Republicans.
(2022-09-25). Asylum, Migration And US Foreign Policy. popularresistance.org Every day the republican governors of Texas, Greg Abbott, and Florida, Ron DeSantis, eagerly announce that they are sending people generically labeled as migrants to what are known as sanctuary cities. The corporate media report that thousands of people have been convinced to board buses to New York City or Washington DC or Sacramento or Chicago or even chartered flights to Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts. What they don't explain is who these migrants are and why their status is highly problematic and a function of imperialist foreign policy. | Republicans rail against what are called sanctuary cities and imply…
(2022-09-25). Far-Right Brothers of Italy Leads in ItalianElections. telesurenglish.net The center-right coalition leads the early elections to the Italian Parliament by obtaining 44.06 percent of the votes, according to the first data from the Italian Ministry of the Interior after counting 10 percent of the ballots. | RELATED: | Giorgia Meloni's Brothers of Italy (Fratelli d'Italia) party won 26.27 percent of support in the Senate elections, showing the best result of the individual political forces. | Their all…
(2022-09-25). LEVER WEEKLY: The Lever Goes To Washington. levernews.com Friends: This is Lever Weekly, a supporting subscriber-only feature that reviews our reporting from the past week, plus showcases major must-reads from around the world. If you only read one email from us all week, this one should be it.This week, The Lever and ProPublica's groundbreaking reporting on the largest political advocacy donation in U.S. history took center stage, as President Joe Biden and major lawmakers referenced our work while advocating for the DISCLOSE Act, which would force dark money groups to disclose their donors. While the bill failed in the Senate on Thursday, we aren't giving up the fig…
(2022-09-25). Punishing Cuba: The Self-Serving 'State Sponsors Of Terror' List. popularresistance.org Today car and bike caravans in many U.S. cities are rightly demanding that Cuba be taken off the U.S. State Department's "State Sponsors of Terrorism" list. | Did you know there was such a thing? | Every presidential administration appoints a secretary of state. Now it is Antony Blinken; before him was Mike Pompeo, and under Obama it was John Kerry and Hillary Clinton. And the president, through the secretary of state, can put countries on this list or take them off. It is that arbitrary. | As a parting slam against Cuba, on Jan. 12, 2021, just eight days before Joe Biden assumed the presidency, the Trump adminis…
(2022-09-25). Raúl Castro receives the Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Cambodia in Havana. en.cubadebate.cu Army General Raúl Castro Ruz received this Saturday the Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Cambodia, Samdech Techo Hun Sen, who is on an official visit to Cuba. In the fraternal exchange, both leaders referred to the historic relationship that both countries have maintained since 1960, the year in which diplomatic ties were established. The Cambodian Premier recalled his visit to Cuba in 1999, when he received the José Martí Order from the hands of the Historical Leader of the Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro Ruz.
(2022-09-25). EPA's Environmental Justice Office 'Won't Make Up for' Manchin Deal, Campaigner Says. commondreams.org "We've seen a lot of structural changes on environmental justice in the Biden, Obama and Clinton administrations, but we need to see the results," said Wes Gobar of the Movement for Black Lives.
(2022-09-25). Lula Calls for Fighting Abstention to Avoid a 'Trump Effect'. telesurenglish.net During a meeting in Rio de Janeiro on Sunday, the Workers' Pary presidential candidate Lula da Silva asked Brazilians to go to the polls on Oct. 2 to avoid "the Trump effect", which allowed Republicans to win the 2016 election in the United States. | RELATED: | Lula recalled that Robert de Niro referred in derogatory terms to Donald Trump. In his reply to the harsh criticism, however, the Republican candidate remi…
(2022-09-25). Raúl Castro ejerce su derecho al voto en referendo popular. cubadebate.cu El General de Ejército Raúl Castro ejerció su derecho al voto este domingo en el referendo, como parte del ejercicio de participación democrática de elevada trascendencia que en esta jornada vive Cuba. Los más de 24 000 colegios electorales del país abrieron sus puertas en un proceso cívico y democrático que constituye un hecho inédito.
(2022-09-25). Presidenta hondureña declara la emergencia nacional por lluvias. telesurtv.net La presidenta Castro ordenó a sus ministros desplazarse a las zonas afectadas por las inundaciones que han dejado más de 17.000 damnificados.
(2022-09-25). Raúl Castro recibe en La Habana a primer ministro del Reino de Cambodia. cubadebate.cu El primer ministro del Reino de Cambodia, Samdech Techo Hun Sen, rememoró su visita a Cuba en 1999, momento en que recibió la Orden José Martí de manos del Líder Histórico de la Revolución Cubana, Fidel Castro Ruz. Asimismo, destacó la colaboración médica como un pilar en las relaciones desarrolladas a través de los años.
(2022-09-24). [Articles] Socioeconomic inequalities in cancer incidence and access to health services among children and adolescents in China: a cross-sectional study. thelancet.com Our study showed that the burden of cancer in children and adolescents in China is much higher than previously nationally reported from 2000 to 2015. The distribution of the accessibility of health services, as a social determinant of health, might have a notable role in the socioeconomic inequalities in cancer incidence among Chinese children and adolescents. With regards to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals, policy approaches should prioritise increasing the accessibility of health services for early diagnosis to improve outcomes and subsequently reduce disease burdens, as well as narrowing the socioe…