Toward increased Networking (2022-09-13). Online events w) Chomsky, John Clark, Silvia Federici, Roxanne Dunbar Ortiz, Joanna Macy.. indybay.org Here are about 8 online events taking place over the next 2 weeks (and starting at 7: 30 am tomorrow, Sept. 11), featuring people such as adrienne maree brown, Noam Chomsky, John P. Clark, Silvia Federici, Roxanne Dunbar Ortiz, Joanna Macy, Nancy Fraser, and many others. | These events are hosted from various locations all across the country, as well from Canada and the UK (however, the listed times are all for our "Pacific time zone"). Of course, feel free to share this info with others who might be interested in it.

Dave DeCamp (2022-09-13). Senior Israeli Official Says Iran Nuclear Deal Talks are Dead. news.antiwar.com A senior Israeli official said Monday that the negotiations to revive the Iran nuclear deal, known as the JCPOA, are over and that the US and Europe should start discussing a stronger agreement. "There's not going to be a JCPOA, say the Americans and most Europeans. They say, 'We have a lot of reservations about …

Staff (2022-09-13). Iran's latest response to nuclear deal proposal step backward. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Sep. 13 (MNA) — Iran has taken "a step backward" with its latest response to a nuclear deal proposal, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken claimed Monday, calling a near-term agreement "unlikely."

WSWS (2022-09-13). Spanish Morenoites back Podemos government's moves to suppress struggles against inflation. wsws.org The CRT is terrified of growing working class struggles against massive price hikes being used to pass costs of the US-NATO proxy war against Russia in Ukraine onto workers.

WSWS (2022-09-13). Amid Russian rout in Ukraine, US media demands greater NATO involvement in war. wsws.org Amid a military disaster for Russia, the US media ran a victory lap, praising the role of heavy American military equipment in the offensive and demanding the deployment of further US-NATO weapons systems to Ukraine.

WSWS (2022-09-13). Socialism 2022 Conference: The pseudo-left promote imperialist war. wsws.org The primary aim of the Socialism 2022 Conference was to promote the US-NATO war against Russia, in line with the policy of the Biden administration, while seeking to bolster the trade unions as instruments for the suppression of the class struggle.

WSWS (2022-09-13). Greek forces fire on a ship in Aegean Sea amid rising danger of war with Turkey. wsws.org Tensions exacerbated by NATO's war against Russia are increasing the danger of war between Turkey and Greece in the Aegean Sea.

Dave DeCamp (2022-09-13). Israel's Mossad Chief Vows to Continue Covert Attacks Inside Iran. news.antiwar.com

Jason Ditz (2022-09-13). ISIS Kills Seven US-Backed Fighters in Eastern Syria. news.antiwar.com ISIS has killed ISIS released a video showing the killing of six Kurds who had been captured in the operations. The six were all captured alive and executed later. | The US and the SDF took materially all of the ISIS territory in S…

WSWS (2022-09-13). Seattle educators: Expand the strike to join workers across the US! For adequate staffing, support staff and pay! wsws.org Seattle educators are in a powerful position to carry forward their struggle, expand and concretize their demands, and draw behind them the active support of broad sections of the working class.

KPFA (2022-09-13). Monday 9/26: Chris Hedges: The Greatest Evil is War. indybay.org First Congregational Church of Berkeley | 2330 Durant Avenue, Berkeley, CA 94704…

Staff (2022-09-13). Iran voices concern over Armenia-Azerbaijan tensions. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Sep. 13 (MNA) — Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Nasser Kan'ani expressed concern about the recent escalation of tension and border conflicts between Azerbaijan and Armenia and called on both sides to resolve disputes in a peaceful manner.

_____ (2022-09-12). Russia Retaliates For Ukrainian Strikes On Electricity Networks. popularresistance.org A typical U.S. attack on a foreign country begins with a swarm of cruise missiles which will disable the countries basic infrastructure. The U.S. attack on Iraq and other countries demonstrated that electricity and water supply will be gone in first days of a U.S. waged war. | Over more than 200 days the Russian special military operation in Ukraine had never attacked the basic infrastructure of the country. When the Ukraine used its electrified railway network to bring in weapons from the 'west' the Russian forces only took out electric substations that supplied the railway. But it never attacked the general ele…

____ (2022-09-12). Ukraine and the Crisis of Media Censorship. transcend.org 2 Sep 2022 – Throughout the Ukraine war, Western news outlets have mindlessly parroted the opinions of a ruling elite and overseen a public discourse that is often unhinged from the real world.

Ali Abunimah (2022-09-12). German Jews file war crimes charges against Israeli leaders. electronicintifada.net "Israel must be held accountable for war crimes like any other state."

____ (2022-09-12). The Ukraine Proxy War Has Been a Propaganda Win for Interventionists. transcend.org 6 Sep 2022 – Neocon erotica publication The Atlantic has a new article out titled "The Rise of the Liberal Hawks" which is infuriating as much for its sycophantic empire apologia as it is for the fact that much it is entirely correct.

Dave DeCamp (2022-09-12). Israel Does Not Believe Iran Deal Will Happen Before US Midterm Elections. news.antiwar.com A senior Israeli official speaking to reporters on Sunday said that Israel believes the Biden administration will not rejoin the Iran nuclear deal The Israeli official made the comments to reporters before Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid traveled to Germany, where he is expected to continue to lobby against the nuclear deal. | Israel is becoming increasingly confident that its pressure to sabotage a restoration of the agreement has worked. The official said that Israel was able to "able t…

Dave DeCamp (2022-09-12). Iran Says European Statement on Nuclear Deal Talks 'Unconstructive'. news.antiwar.com France, Germany, and the UK released a joint statement on Saturday accusing Iran of not taking the negotiations to revive the nuclear deal seriously. The three European countries, who are all signatories to the nuclear deal, criticized Tehran's demand for the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to close its inquiry into uranium traces found at …

Dave DeCamp (2022-09-12). Germany's Scholz Says Iran Deal Won't Happen Anytime Soon. news.antiwar.com German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said Monday that he doesn't expect an agreement with Iran to revive the nuclear deal Germany is a signatory to the nuclear deal, known as the JCPOA, along with Russia, China, France, and Britain. Scholz accused Iran of being responsible for the lack of an agreement. | He said that the European JCPOA signatories had "made proposals, a…

Dave DeCamp (2022-09-12). Ukrainian Forces Push Further Into Kharkiv Region. news.antiwar.com Ukrainian forces on Monday pushed further into the Kharkiv oblast as more Russian troops withdrew from the area and the northeastern counteroffensive continued to show success. Ukrainian forces pushed all the way back to the Russian border in some areas of northern and northeastern Kharkiv. Vitaly Ganchev, a Russian-installed official in the region, said that …

Dave DeCamp (2022-09-12). NYT: US, Ukraine Increased Intelligence Sharing Ahead of Kharkiv Counteroffensive. news.antiwar.com

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-09-12). Ukraine: About Scythian Tactics. libya360.wordpress.com Dmitry Vinnik In our case, it is important to answer the question whether the logic of the special military operation has exhausted itself and we should move on to the logic of war Our army withdrew from most of the Kharkov region, leaving only a part to the east of the Oskol River. We even…

WSWS (2022-09-12). Japan, South Korea seek to improve military cooperation. wsws.org Closer relations between Tokyo and Seoul come as Washington deepens its military preparations for war with China while stepping up its proxy war in Ukraine against Russia.

____ (2022-09-12). An Open letter to Mrs Olena Zelenska from Roger Waters. transcend.org 5 Sep 2022 – Dear Mrs Zelenska, peace may lie in your husband's previously stated good intentions and in the platform he so laudably ran for the office of President of Ukraine and won: | A) To end the civil war in the East and bring peace to the Donbas and partial autonomy to Donetsk and Luhansk.

Editor (2022-09-12). Richard Wolff: Sanctions Against Russia, Inflation and Class War. scheerpost.com Economist Dr. Richard Wolff joins Lowkey where he exposes ways economic policy can be a code term used by the political establishment for class war. Wolff explains how the cost of enmity with Russia is being placed on the shoulders of the working class in the West, whom recently experienced one of the worst crashes of capitalism in its history.

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-09-12). Crimea: The Peninsula of Discord. libya360.wordpress.com Oleg Yasinsky (Image by Oleg Yasinsky) In the 1970s, long before perestroika, the Soviet dissident writer Vasily Aksyonov wrote the most famous of his novels, "The Crimean Island". It is a historical fiction, where Crimea was transformed from a peninsula to an island. In the Russian civil war of the early 20th century, the White…

Anonymous103 (2022-09-12). Military Situation In Syria On September 12, 2022 (Map Update). southfront.org On September 12, the Russian Ministry of Defense recorded 3 ceasefire violations in the Idlib region in the past 24 hours; | On September 12, artillery of Turkish-backed forces shelled SDF positions in the Tal Tamar area; | On September 12, several SAA servicemen were wounded in an IED explosion in the Muzayrab area; | On September 12, SAA artillery shelled positions of Turkish-backed forces in the Fatirah area; | On September 12, SAA artillery shelled positions of T…

Staff (2022-09-12). While US Leaders Moralize About Alleged Human Rights Abuses in Russia and China To Justify Proxy Wars, Prisoners in the US Routinely Suffer From Inhumane Treatment (Alex Saab Prison). orinocotribune.com By Lauren Smith Sep 7, 2022 | A Miami Prisoner is Among Those Who Believe That U.S. Prison Authorities Are Trying to Kill Them | While U.S. leaders denounce Russia and China, and other official enemies for alleged human rights violations daily, they are silent about the massive human rights abuses that occur routinely in the U.S. prison system—the largest and most oppressive in the world. | Jonny, a pseudonym for a 45-year-old man currently being held in pretrial detention in Miami's Federal Detention Center (FDC Miami), believes that prison authorities are trying to kill him. Maria, Jonny's partner o…

Lowkey (2022-09-12). Economist Richard Wolff: Sanctions Against Russia, Inflation & Class War. mintpressnews.com Economist Dr. Richard Wolff joins Lowkey where he exposes ways economic policy can be a code term used by the political establishment for class war. Wolff explains how the cost of enmity with Russia is being placed on the shoulders of the working class in the West, whom recently experienced one of the worst crashes of capitalism in its history.

Staff (2022-09-12). Iran's response not serious obstacle to agreement. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Sep. 12 (MNA) — Mikhail Ulyanov who leads the Russian delegation at the Vienna talks says that there are no issues in the Iranian response to the EU coordinator that could be a serious obstacle on the way toward the agreement.

_____ (2022-09-12). Joint Statement On Rail Embargo. popularresistance.org Move announced by the nation's largest railroads today to further abuse shippers and gridlock the supply chain in order to extort a contract settlement from rail unions | Late on Friday, September 9, the nation's largest railroads began warning major shippers that they are declaring an embargo on certain types of new shipments five days in advance of the end of the federally mandated cooling-off period at 12: 00 AM EDT September 16. They further advised that all rail shippers could be blocked from making any rail shipments well in advance of next Friday's deadline for a lockout or strike. This completely unnecessa…

John McEvoy (2022-09-12). Recommendation X: Shell's Secret Plan for a Cold War Propaganda Unit. globalresearch.ca

Anonymous103 (2022-09-12). Military Situation In Iraq On September 12, 2022 (Map Update). southfront.org Four Turkish serviceman were killed during the Operation Claw Lock in northern Iraq, according to the Turkish MOD; | Turkish warplanes struck the alleged PKK positions in the Metina region; | On September 10, general Michael Kurilla, commander of the U.S. Central Command met with Masrour Barzani, Prime Minister of the Kurdish Regional Government in Erbil; | On September 9, general Michael Kurilla, commander of the U.S. Central Command met with Mustafa al-Kadhimi, Prim…

_____ (2022-09-12). Ten Years Ago, Chicago Teachers Gave Us All A Jolt Of Hope. popularresistance.org If you feel like your union needs a jump-start—whether you're a longtime shop steward or just started your first union job—this book is for you. | The impulse you have ("This union could be stronger and better, and I want to help change it") makes you part of a long tradition—what we at Labor Notes affectionately call the trouble-making wing of the labor movement. | One basic principle unites us troublemakers. We believe democracy, meaning broad member participation at every level of the union, is the heart of union power. | The Chicago Teachers Union's 2012 strike didn't just put the union on t…

Prof. Joseph H. Chung (2022-09-12). The Legacy of Shinzo Abe: Road to Self-Destructive Harakiri. Holy War 2.0. globalresearch.ca

Labor Video Project (2022-09-12). "Working In An Oven" IBT UPS Teamsters Speak Out On Deadly Heatwave, Life and Death. indybay.org IBT UPS drivers and warehouse workers speak out about the dangerous temperature conditions that workers must operate in. Additionally many UPS trucks do not even have a fan.

____ (2022-09-12). The Children of the Gods of War (Part 3): The Lost Innocence of a Generation of Syrian Children. transcend.org "The Forgotten War in Syria – The Lost World of Children"

Shadrack Omuka (2022-09-12). Kenya's Deadly Land Tussles Make Forest Safer Than Houses. towardfreedom.org Rural Kenyans said they have been attacked while struggling for land in central Kenya since the 1960s. Land struggles between squatters and deed holders have continued unabated since Kenya's 1963 independence from the British empire. Shadrack Omuka reports.

____ (2022-09-12). All-Day Peace Conference in the UK: The Game of War and the Path to Peace. transcend.org 24 September 2022 — 10am to 6pm — Harrogate, Yorkshire. Organized by HUFUD and Harrogate Quakers…

Prof Michel Chossudovsky (2022-09-12). 9/11, Osamagate and The "Blowback". America's "Just War" against Afghanistan. globalresearch.ca Author's Note | The article below entitled "Osamagate" was first published on October 9, 2001, two days after the onslaught of the bombing campaign directed against Afghanistan on October 7, 2001. | Within hours of the 9/11 attacks, Osama bin Laden was …

____ (2022-09-12). Let's Stop Pretending America Is a Functioning Democracy. transcend.org 4 Sep 2022 – The U.S. posits itself as a champion of opportunity, freedom, human rights and civil liberties, even as half the country struggles at subsistence level, militarized police gun down and imprison the poor with impunity, and the primary business of the state is war. This collective self-delusion masks who we have become. Under inverted totalitarianism, there is no attempt, unlike fascism and state socialism, to address the needs of the poor.

Deweylaura (2022-09-12). To defeat imperialism, build a movement for peace. cpusa.org The following remarks were presented by Joe Sims at the CPUSA International Conference 2022: Dismantling Imperialism in the 21st Century, Sept. 10, 2022. Good afternoon, comrades, And greetings to all and especially to our fraternal parties and those who have joined us from abroad. We're glad to have you with us. We hope everyone …

Staff (2022-09-12). Venezuela Rejects Washington's Statement on Imprisoned US Citizens. orinocotribune.com Caracas, September 11, 2022 ( At the time of his capture in September 2020, Heath had allegedly already taken photos of strategic m…

____ (2022-09-12). Film 'I Am Peace' from Alberto Portugheis Selected. transcend.org The Global Alliance for Ministries and Infrastructures for Peace (GAMIP) Short Film Forum 2022…

Staff (2022-09-12). Iran supporting ceasefire leading to lasting peace in Yemen. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Sep. 12 (MNA) — The Islamic Republic of Iran supports the ceasefire in Yemen, the Iranian Foreign Minister said, considering it a prelude to establishing lasting peace in this country.

Michelle Begue (2022-09-12). Colombia and Venezuela hope to improve diplomatic ties. america.cgtn.com Will relations between Colombia and Venezuela improve? That's what newly elected President Gustavo Petro is hoping for.

____ (2022-09-12). A Crisis of Consent in UN Peace Operations. transcend.org 2 Aug 2022 – Last week, at least 15 people died in protests demanding UN peacekeepers leave the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The week before, the military junta ruling Mali halted troop rotations for the UN mission there and ejected the mission's deputy spokesperson. These incidents highlight deep-seated crises of consent and legitimacy.

____ (2022-09-12). Venezuela invites Iran investors to partake in mining sector. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Sep. 12 (MNA) — Venezuelan Minister of Transportation Ramón Velásquez invited Iranian experts and investors to participate in mining and mineral sector of his country.

TeleSUR -HIM (2022-09-12). Venezuela rechaza postura de Washington sobre estadounidenses detenidos. telesurtv.net Venezuela soslayó que Washington insiste en conferir una inaceptable inmunidad o patente de corso a sus nacionales, en desprecio a la soberanía y autodeterminación de los pueblos.

Scorinoco (2022-09-11). Venezuela Estimates $2 Billion in Trade with Colombia. orinocotribune.com This past Friday, September 9, Venezuela's President Nicolás Maduro commented during an official event in Anzoátegui state that "the estimate of the commercial exchange between Venezuela and Colombia during 2022, starting from the opening of the border, is up to $2 billion." | "We plan to achieve up to $2 billion in commercial exchange between Colombia and Venezuela, because now we are going to have an export offer, something we did not have before. How nice to be able to do it," said the president. | He announced that the border with Colombia will be open from September 26 "so that trade can flow. Flights wil…

Scorinoco (2022-09-11). Difficulties in Venezuela-Colombia Reintegration After Years of Hostility. orinocotribune.com Colombia and Venezuela are two historically linked nations and for centuries they even constituted the same territory, first as the Viceroyalty of New Granada during the Spanish Empire and then as Gran Colombia in the early years of the independence of the Americas from Spanish colonial rule. | However, political events in the late 20th century and so far in the 21st century, particularly the coming to power of Hugo Chávez in Venezuela, have distanced the two nations to the extent that they broke diplomatic relations in 2019, despite sharing more than 2,200 kilometers of border. | This rupture, going on for a lon…