Daily Archives: February 13, 2023

2023-02-13: News Headlines

repost (2023-02-13). Why The Rage Against The War Machine Rally Is #AntiWarSoWhite. indybay.org I'm looking at this Rage Against The War Machine rally that is being organized by the Libertarian Party and I am genuinely confused about how folks on the left are involved in this at all.

Dave DeCamp (2023-02-13). US, Papua New Guinea Hold Talks on Military Agreement. news.antiwar.com The US and Papua New Guinea just wrapped up talks on signing a military agreement as the Biden administration is looking to expand military ties in the Asia Pacific as part of its strategy against China. "The United States and Papua New Guinea held negotiations on February 6 — 10 in Honolulu, HI to discuss …

Dave DeCamp (2023-02-12). Pentagon Wants to Restart Special Ops Programs Inside Ukraine. news.antiwar.com The Pentagon is looking to restart special operations programs that it was conducting inside Ukraine before Russia invaded last year, The Washington Post reported on Friday. The programs, known as surrogate operations, involve employing Ukrainian operatives to track Russian military movements and information warfare. The Ukrainians involved in the programs would be overseen by US …




Dave DeCamp (2023-02-12). Report: British Weapons Could Be Manufactured in Ukraine. news.antiwar.com British weapons could soon be manufactured in Ukraine under a plan that would significantly boost cooperation between Kyiv and NATO and further raise tensions with Moscow, The Telegraph reported on Saturday. The report said UK defense industry executives are discussing the plans with their Ukrainian counterparts and have recently traveled to the country. Their vision …

Dave DeCamp (2023-02-12). US Conducts Aircraft Carrier Drills in the South China Sea Amid Balloon Tensions. news.antiwar.com The US Navy and Marines Corps are conducting drills in the South China Sea amid heightened tensions between Washington and Beijing over the Chinese balloon incident. The US Navy's Seventh Fleet said in a statement that the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz and its strike group conducted the drills on February 11 with the 13th Marine …

Dave DeCamp (2023-02-12). US Eases Some Sanctions on Syria for 180 Days After Earthquake. news.antiwar.com The US has issued a 180-day exemption for its sanctions on Syria that applies to "all transactions related to earthquake relief efforts," according to the US Treasury Department. The exemption was announced on Thursday night and came days after a devastating earthquake hit northern Syria and Turkey. As of Sunday, over 33,000 people have been …

Dave DeCamp (2023-02-12). Report: British Weapons Could Be Manufactured in Ukraine. news.antiwar.com British weapons could soon be manufactured in Ukraine under a plan that would significantly boost cooperation between Kyiv and NATO and further raise tensions with Moscow, The Telegraph reported on Saturday. The report said UK defense industry executives are discussing the plans with their Ukrainian counterparts and have recently traveled to the country. Their vision …

Dave DeCamp (2023-02-12). US Conducts Aircraft Carrier Drills in the South China Sea Amid Balloon Tensions. news.antiwar.com The US Navy and Marines Corps are conducting drills in the South China Sea amid heightened tensions between Washington and Beijing over the Chinese balloon incident. The US Navy's Seventh Fleet said in a statement that the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz and its strike group conducted the drills on February 11 with the 13th Marine …

Dave DeCamp (2023-02-12). US Eases Some Sanctions on Syria for 180 Days After Earthquake. news.antiwar.com The US has issued a 180-day exemption for its sanctions on Syria that applies to "all transactions related to earthquake relief efforts," according to the US Treasury Department. The exemption was announced on Thursday night and came days after a devastating earthquake hit northern Syria and Turkey. As of Sunday, over 33,000 people have been …

Fight Back (2023-02-13). After the earthquake: End the U.S. war on Syria once and for all. fightbacknews.org Adapted from a presentation given at a Solidarity Committee of the Americas event in Minneapolis, Minnesota on February 11. | I'm not a scholarly expert; I'm a maintenance worker in Minneapolis who volunteers with a local activist group called the Anti-War Committee. In May of 2021, I traveled with a peace delegation to Syria. The delegation spent one week in the country, in and around the capital Damascus, to witness elections that were taking place, and to investigate conditions on the ground with the hope of building solidarity and raising awareness about the effects that U.S. foreign policy has on life in Syr…

ecns.cn (2023-02-13). Tribute held on mainland for monk. ecns.cn The Chinese mainland held a tribute for Hsing Yun, founder of the Fo Guang Shan Monastery in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, who was committed to promoting peace and reunification across the Taiwan Straits.

Veterans for Peace Chapter 11, Santa Cruz (2023-02-13). Monday 2/13: David Rovics – "Songs of Social Significance" Healer Trio & Russell Brutsche. indybay.org Resource Center for Nonviolence | 612 Ocean Street, Santa Cruz, CA 9 60…

Anonymous103 (2023-02-12). No To NATO Song by Mistahi. southfront.org We present to you the song of a friend of SouthFront This song by Mistahi goes out to all peace loving people who are taking a courageous stand against US empire building and expansion of the aggressive, warmongering military alliance, NATO.

Ben Norton, Geopolitical Economy Report. (2023-02-12). Zelensky Admits He Refused To Implement Minsk Peace Deal. popularresistance.org Ukraine's leader Volodymyr Zelensky admitted to a major German newspaper that he refused to implement the Minsk peace deal with Russia. | The Minsk accords were two agreements, negotiated in Belarus; signed by Ukraine, Russia, and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE); and overseen by Germany and France, in the so-called Normandy Format. | The accords aimed to stop the conflict in Ukraine that broke out following a violent US-backed coup in 2014, which set off a civil war between Kiev's pro-Western, post-coup government and pro-Russian separatists in the east. | The first deal, known as M…

teleSUR, jaa, JDO (2023-02-13). Presidente de Colombia anuncia ampliación de vuelos a Venezuela. telesurtv.net Las nuevas operaciones de la aerolínea Satena en territorio venezolano empezarán el próximo 3 de marzo.

teleSUR, jaa, JDO (2023-02-13). Movilizaciones en Venezuela celebran Día de la Juventud. telesurtv.net El presidente venezolano, Nicolás Maduro Moros, estuvo presente en las movilizaciones junto a otro altos dirigentes de la revolución bolivariana.

teleSUR, JCM (2023-02-13). Equipos de Venezuela, China y Japón rescatan a mujer en Türkiye. twitter.com Bajo duras condiciones climáticas, el equipo de rescate venezolano trabajó durante 12 horas para llegar al punto donde se encontraba la sobreviviente.

Chris Gilbert, Cira Pascual Marquina, Venezuelanalysis. (2023-02-12). 'News From Nowhere' — Building Communal Life In Venezuela. popularresistance.org In the world at large, the fact that a group of ordinary people comes together in some remote part of Venezuela to democratically determine their production and their way of living in a commune could seem to be completely unimportant. In the eyes of most who shape public opinion, this would be a quintessential nonevent. To be sure, it is never news. Nevertheless, if there were such a thing as a revolutionary news agency, the formation of such a commune and its advances would be the stuff of front-page articles, with banner headlines such as EXTRA! A NEW COMMUNE IS FORMED! or COMMUNARDS TAKE THE NEXT STEP!

Misión Verdad (2023-02-12). Wilson Center Think Tank Reloads the US Roadmap Against Venezuela. orinocotribune.com By Misión Verdad Feb 5, 2023 | The recent teachers' protests in Venezuela took place in a climate where, along with the inflationary pressure of the beginning of 2023, they seem to be linked to a type of mobilization that has been gradually getting expressed, at the national level, with unions and other "visible" platforms of "civil society," in the background of the advances and tensions around the government-opposition dialogue process in Mexico. | In the midst of this, the definitive collapse of the "Guaidó project," the reckoning of Voluntad Popular with the G3 [other main parties of the opposition], an…

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