Monthly Archives: September 2023

2023-09-19: News Headlines

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-09-18). Ukraine's Worst Enemies Are Those Who Demand Russia's Strategic Defeat. libya360.wordpress.com Dimitri Lascaris Ukrainian soldiers ride on the back of an armoured vehicle in the Luhansk region. Photo courtesy the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine/Facebook. By insisting upon Russia's strategic defeat and excluding any possibility of meaningful compromise with Russia, we doom Ukraine to destruction. *** There is certainly a moral component to…

ecns.cn (2023-09-18). Sales of Xinjiang's aquatic products surge. ecns.cn Sales of aquatic products from Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region have jumped in recent days after going viral on Chinese social media platforms, sparking discussion and buying interest among Chinese netizens.

Staff (2023-09-18). Jack Dorsey Allowed Saudi Dictator To Infiltrate Twitter. trofire.com The royal family in Saudi Arabia has been routinely murdering people who are critical of the regime on social media, and a new lawsuit claims that Twitter, under the leadership of Jack Dorsey, was made aware that Saudis had actually infiltrated the company to send information about critics so the government could arrest them. Mike Papantonio & Farron …


Editor (2023-09-18). Bidenomics: Millions to Rebuild Maui, Billions for Ukraine. scheerpost.com By Eve Ottenberg / CounterPunch Last month, President Joe "No Comment on Hawaii" Biden's Twitter boosters hurried to claim that the measly $700 he initially boasted of for Maui fire victims was but the first installment of more generous help to come. But the proof of the pudding is in the eating, and even with …

teleSUR (2023-09-18). Congo Government Denies Rumors About Coup D'éTat. telesurenglish.net The Minister of Communication of the Republic of the Congo, Thierry Moungalla, denied this Sunday the rumors that circulated on social networks about a coup d'état against the president of the country, Denis Sassou Nguesso, taking advantage of his trip to New York to attend the 78th session General Assembly of the United Nations. | Related: | Moungalla said responded on Sunday on his X account (formerly Twitter): "The…

Alejandro Marcó del Pont (2023-09-18). Big Tech, el dominio de la economía del siglo XXI. globalizacion.ca La tecnología puede ser un sirviente provechoso o un amo peligroso. En agosto de 2020, cuando la Administración de Trump prohibió a los empleados de agencias gubernamentales de EE.UU. usar TikTok y WeChat, China dijo que podría prohibir el uso…


2023-09-19 08:43:13 | 08:43 EST | rz | 10 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 0 

2023-09-17: News Headlines

Luis Feliz Leon, Jane Slaughter, Labor Notes. (2023-09-16). Auto Workers Strike Plants At All Three Of The Big Three. popularresistance.org Tick, tock. At midnight the clock ran out, and auto workers massed on picket lines. | The first-ever simultaneous strike at the Big 3 automakers—General Motors, Ford, Stellantis—started September 15 with 13,000 workers walking out of three assembly plants in Michigan, Ohio, and Missouri. There are 146,000 Auto Workers (UAW) members at the Big 3. | The UAW is calling its strategy the "stand-up strike," a nod to the Flint sit-down strike of 1936-1937 that helped establish the union. | The shot across the bow came two hours shy of midnight via a very short Facebook Live video where UAW President Shawn Fa…

Amy Westervelt, Geoff Dembicki, DeSmog. (2023-09-16). Meet The Shadowy Network Vilifying Climate Protestors. popularresistance.org Earlier this year, news footage began making the rounds on social media of young activists from the German climate organization Letzte Generation (Last Generation) being assaulted by their fellow citizens as they obstructed streets in an effort to draw attention to the German government's inaction on climate. A young woman, with her hand glued to a road was ripped off the road by her hair; a young man was run over by a truck driver; a passerby punched the protestors and was cheered on. A few months later, German police raided the homes of Last Generation activists and seized their bank accounts. It all seemed lik…

2023-09-17 23:27:55 | 23:27 EST | rz | 4 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0