2022-10-10: News Headlines

Staff (2022-10-10). North Korea says tests nuclear warning to S Korea, US. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Oct. 10 (MNA) — North Korea has said its recent barrage of missile launches were "tactical nuclear" drills personally overseen by Kim Jong Un, and a response to joint United States-South Korea naval exercises.

Staff (2022-10-10). Tehran opposes arming sides involved in Ukraine war. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Oct. 10 (MNA) — Iranian Foreign Minister says Islamic Republic of Iran had not provided any weapon for either side in the Ukraine war, as Tehran's basic stand is opposing arming any side in order to help end the war.

Dave DeCamp (2022-10-10). Chinese Ambassador Thanks Elon Musk for Taiwan Proposal. news.antiwar.com China's ambassador to the US on Saturday thanked Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk for suggesting a solution to the dispute over Taiwan, while his idea drew criticism from Taiwanese officials. In an interview with Financial Times, Musk said he believes a conflict over Taiwan is inevitable. War in the region could significantly hurt his …

____ (2022-10-09). Musk interview underscores peaceful reunification principle. ecns.cn China expects and is glad to see that more and more people understand and support its principle of "peaceful reunification and one country, two systems", a Foreign Ministry spokeswoman said Sunday after Tesla CEO Elon Musk proposed setting Taiwan up as a special administrative zone.

Dave DeCamp (2022-10-10). Biden Changes Drone Strike Policy. news.antiwar.com President Biden on Friday issued guidance requiring presidential approval for drone strikes outside of Iraq and Syria, which are the only two countries officially recognized as active US war zones. This means that drone strikes in countries like Somalia, Yemen, and Afghanistan would need to be approved by President Biden. The guidance comes as the …

Jason Ditz (2022-10-10). Iraq's Kurdish Regional Government Extends Term by a Year. news.antiwar.com In a Sunday vote This means The big parties could not agree on districting, nor for quotas for ethnic a…

WSWS (2022-10-10). The "choice" in the 2022 US midterm elections: Fascist Republicans vs. war-crazed Democrats. wsws.org Whatever the results of the November 8 vote, the working class must break with the capitalist two-party system and build an independent political party of its own, based on socialist policies.

WSWS (2022-10-10). Build an international movement of the working class against imperialist war! wsws.org "The same contradictions and crisis of world capitalism are also propelling the working class into struggle, providing the basis for the building of an international anti-war movement."

Toward increased Networking (2022-10-10). Online events w) Fred Hampton, Jr., Jenny Brown, Robin Hahnel, Richard Heinberg and others. indybay.org Here are some 10 online events taking place over the next 2 weeks (and starting early tomorrow morning, 10/7), featuring people such as Fred Hampton, Jr., Judith Le Blanc, Jonathan Taplin, Jenny Brown, Robin Hahnel, Kate Booth, Richard Heinberg, David Camfield, Cynthia Kaufman, and many others. | These events are hosted from various locations all across the country, as well from Canada, Australia, 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.

WSWS (2022-10-10). Eugene V. Debs and the struggle of railroaders. wsws.org Debs' life—from locomotive fireman, to trade unionist, to socialist candidate for American president, to class war prisoner—holds crucial lessons for today's workers.

WSWS (2022-10-10). German neo-Nazis remain at large after assassination attempt on journalists. wsws.org The verdict in the trial against the neo-Nazis reveals the extent of the rightward shift by the German judicial system. More than four years after the attack and after more than 30 days of trial, the perpetrators got off virtually scot-free.

WSWS (2022-10-10). Australian Labor government to cut social spending to pay for tax handouts and war plans. wsws.org Labor's May election slogan of "a better future" has been replaced by chilling warnings of "global economic storms" and "the most challenging circumstances" since World War II.

Staff (2022-10-10). New York Times: Whether Washington Likes It or Not, Nicolás Maduro Is President of Venezuela. orinocotribune.com This Saturday, October 8, in an opinion piece Recently, the US released two Venezuelans being held in US jails, Efraín Antonio Campo and Francisco Flores de Freitas, which the author considered an "incoherence of US policy towards Venezuela," by Joe Biden's administration. He added that, "even as it negotiates with Mr…

Roland Rottenfusser (2022-10-10). Peace and Provocation: Is Zelensky intent of WW3? indybay.org

Rqorinoco (2022-10-10). BAP Rejects Calls for More Foreign Intervention in Haiti & Stands for Respecting Haitian Sovereignty and Self-Determination. orinocotribune.com "The Black Alliance for Peace Rejects the Calls for Foreign Intervention in Haiti and Demands that International Community Respect Haitian Sovereignty and the Wishes of the Haitian People for National Self-Determination" |

Staff (2022-10-10). Landslide in Venezuela leaves at least 22 dead, 52 missing. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Oct. 10 (MNA) — A landslide caused by heavy rainfall has left at least 22 people dead and 52 missing in central Venezuela, authorities said.

Staff (2022-10-10). Iran, Venezuela envoys to Iraq review intl. developments. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Oct. 10 (MNA) — The Ambassador of the Islamic Republic of Iran to Iraq Mohammad Kazem Al-e Sadeq in a meeting with his Venezuelan counterpart in Iraq discussed the latest international developments.

Staff (2022-10-10). Venezuela registra al menos 25 muertos y 52 desaparecidos tras deslave en poblado Las Tejerías. cubadebate.cu En Las Tejerías, la escena es apocalíptica. Casas destruidas y con varios metros de lodo, montones de árboles arrastrados desde la montaña hasta las calles y negocios completamente devastados dejó el peor deslave registrado este año en el país. La tragedia llegó luego de tres horas de intensas lluvias que comenzaron en la tarde del sábado.

TeleSUR, JDO (2022-10-10). Naciones del ALBA-TCP se solidarizan con Venezuela tras deslave. telesurtv.net Caracas recibe muestras de solidaridad de Nicaragua, Cuba y Bolivia, así como de la Secretaría Ejecutiva de ALBA-TCP.

TeleSUR, DRL, JDO (2022-10-10). Venezuela decreta duelo nacional por víctimas de deslave en Las Tejerías, Aragua. telesurtv.net La vicepresidenta Delcy Rodríguez confirmó que hay 22 fallecidos y 52 desaparecidos por las lluvias e inundaciones.

TeleSUR, DRL (2022-10-10). Gobierno venezolano atiende emergencia creada por lluvias. telesurtv.net Vicepresidenta Delcy Rodríguez confirma el fallecimiento de 22 personas y al menos 52 desaparecidos.

Staff (2022-10-10). Las Tejerías Landslide Tragedy: 22 Deaths and 58 Missing, Three Days of Mourning in Venezuela (Photos & Videos). orinocotribune.com This Sunday, October 9, President of Venezuela Nicolás Maduro reported through his Twitter account that, "Vice President Delcy Rodríguez, the social cabinet and all security agencies, [are at] a maximum deployment for the comprehensive care of the people. They are not alone!" This comes after, "the difficult and painful situation caused by heavy rains in Las Tejerías," Aragua state. | More than a thousand men and women from the Bolivarian National Armed Force (FANB), firefighters, civil protection and police forces were deployed to serve communities in Las Tejerías, after Saturday's tragedy that was the result of…

Anonymous103 (2022-10-09). War In Ukraine: Overview Of Military Developments On October 9. southfront.org

Staff (2022-10-09). Moscow warns over West's long-range weapon deliveries to Kiev. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Oct. 09 (MNA) — The West's deliveries of long-range or more powerful weapons to Kyiv will be a red line for Russia, Director of the Russian Foreign Ministry's Second CIS Department Alexey Polischchuk said.

Abayomi Azikiwe (2022-10-09). Imperialist Militarism and the African Crisis. towardfreedom.org Since the beginning of the Transatlantic slave trade, European colonialists have used systematic violence to control and exploit the African people and other oppressed geopolitical regions, writes, Abayomi Azikiwe.

_____ (2022-10-09). Poll: Young People Want To Cut Pentagon Budget. popularresistance.org Young Americans appear highly skeptical of Washington's ability to improve the world through military force, according to a new poll from the Eurasia Group Foundation (EGF). | A majority of respondents aged 18 to 29 told pollsters that the United States should cut its military budget, end arms sales to Israel and Saudi Arabia, and emphasize diplomacy over other tools when engaging with the world. | Zuri Linetsky, a research fellow at EGF, argued that youth respondents have likely been formed by the failures of recent U.S. military policies. | "If you are 29 right now, you came of voting age towards the end of the…

_____ (2022-10-09). °Patria O Muerte! Che Guevara's 1964 United Nations Speech. popularresistance.org Cuba comes here to state its position on the most important points of controversy and will do so with the full sense of responsibility that the use of this rostrum implies, while at the same time fulfilling the unavoidable duty of speaking clearly and frankly. | We would like to see this Assembly shake itself out of complacency and move forward. We would like to see the committees begin their work and not stop at the first confrontation. Imperialism wants to turn this meeting into a pointless oratorical tournament, instead of solving the serious problems of the world. We must prevent it from doing so. This sessio…

_____ (2022-10-09). New Studies: Big Pharma Has Been Lying About Anti-Depressants For Years. popularresistance.org So I know that I'm supposed to cover the Most Censored News and the fact that massive new studies show antidepressants don't do nearly what we were told they do is on the cover of Newsweek does not exactly count as the most censored news. But I'll get to the censored part in a minute. | Newsweek reports, "In 2019, one in eight Americans—43 million in all—were taking a Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitor (SSRI), and those numbers have likely risen among a public ridden with COVID-induced anxiety." | In fact, over the past few years, so many people were demanding Zoloft that the FDA warned there woul…

_____ (2022-10-09). Two Sixties' Radicals Recall Fighting Times In US Labor. popularresistance.org The University of Wisconsin at Madison was a hotbed of student radicalism in the 1960s. Unlike some other centers of campus opposition to the Vietnam War, left-wing activists there were among the first of their generation to organize around issues related to their own mistreatment as workers. In 1963, undergraduates employed in campus jobs formed a Wisconsin Student Employees Union to force the administration to raise their wages to the federal minimum (a 50 cent per hour increase). Seven years later, the UW Teaching Assistants Association organized the first TA strike in U.S. history, a 24-day walk-out that won…

Irwin Jerome (2022-10-09). Western World Propaganda and Nuclear War Threat in Ukraine. globalresearch.ca

Dave DeCamp (2022-10-09). Putin Calls Crimea Bridge Blast a Terrorist Attack Carried Out by Ukraine. news.antiwar.com Russian President Vladimir Putin on Sunday called the explosion on the Kerch Bridge that connects the Crimean peninsula to mainland Russia a "terrorist act" on civilian infrastructure carried out by the Ukrainian government's special services. "This is a terrorist act aimed at destroying the critical civilian infrastructure of the Russian Federation. It was ordered, authored, …

Anonymous103 (2022-10-09). Military Situation In Syria On October 9, 2022 (Map Update). southfront.org On October 9, the Russian Ministry of Defense recorded no hostilities and ceasefire violations in the Idlib region in the past 24 hours; | On October 9, unknown militant groups attacked an airstrip of the U.S. in the Rumalyn area with several rockets. No casualties were reported; | On October 8, SAA artillery shelled positions of Turkish-backed forces in the Maarat al-Naasan village; | On October 8, several SAA servicemen were reportedly killed or wounded as a result of…

Dave DeCamp (2022-10-09). White House Arctic Strategy Calls for Increased Military Presence in the Region. news.antiwar.com The White House released a new Arctic strategy on Friday that calls to "enhance" the US military presence in the region to counter Russia and China. As the Pentagon has shifted its focus toward so-called "great power competition" with Russia and China, the US military has identified the Arctic as a potential future battleground. The …

Dave DeCamp (2022-10-09). CENTCOM Says Rocket Attack Targeted US Troops in Syria. news.antiwar.com

WSWS (2022-10-09). Reject Go-Ahead's below-inflation pay offer of 10.5 percent for London bus drivers, vote NO! wsws.org The Merton garage rank-and-file committee is putting forward a strategy for London bus drivers to win their fight for a cost-of-living pay rise.

WSWS (2022-10-09). Reject Go-Ahead's below-inflation pay offer of 10.5 percent, vote NO! wsws.org The Merton garage rank-and-file committee is putting forward a strategy for London bus drivers to win their fight for a cost-of-living pay rise.

Anonymous103 (2022-10-09). Military Situation In Iraq On October 9, 2022 (Map Update). southfront.org

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-10-09). Climate Tipping Points, Capitalist Collapse, & War as a Death-Denial Tool. libya360.wordpress.com Rainer SheaIn his book The Denial of Death, Ernest Becker observes how human beings are unique as the only creatures with the mental capacity to know that death is coming for them. The other types of animals don't live with this knowledge as far as we're aware, and therefore they don't have to experience the…

Peter Koenig (2022-10-09). Video: Digital Tyranny and the Rockefeller-Gates WHO "Vaxx-Certificate Passport": Towards a World War III Scenario. globalresearch.ca It's an electronic ID-program using the Covid-19 "vaccine as a platform for digital identity, linking everything to everything of each individual (records of health, banking, personal and private, etc.), managed by a state agency or in extremis, by the private sector.

Staff (2022-10-09). Yemen threatens UAE again with punitive actions. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Oct. 09 (MNA) — A member of Yemen's Ansarullah political bureau warned the leaders of the UAE not to continue the war on the impoverished country.

Yuri Rubtsov (2022-10-09). History: Hitler was Financed by the Federal Reserve and the Bank of England. globalresearch.ca Note to readers: please click the share buttons above | feature image: Hitler, Schacht and Prescott Bush | First published by Global Research in May 2016, Minor edits by Global Research. Title as in the original. | Incisive historical analysis. | From World War …

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-10-09). Under Suella Braverman, UK Set for an Ever Harsher Policy Towards Refugees. libya360.wordpress.com Tanupriya Singh British Home Secretary Suella Braverman. Suella Braverman is considering banning people crossing the English Channel from claiming asylum in the UK. She added that it was her "dream" and "obsession" to have asylum seekers deported to Rwanda. Activists and campaigners in the UK have slammed a slate of measures targeting asylum seekers announced…

Fight Back (2022-10-09). Red Theory: Against the theory of a peaceful transition to socialism. fightbacknews.org Marxism-Leninism is the science of revolution. The purpose of revolutionary theory is to guide revolutionary practice. Nevertheless, since Marxism was young, there have always been opportunists and revisionists who tried to distort its revolutionary essence. The leading edge of this attack on Marxism – from the misleaders of the Second International, Eduard Bernstein and Karl Kautsky in the early 1900s, to Khrushchev's modern revisionism, beginning with the 20th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) in 1956 – has been the advocacy of a peaceful transition from capitalism to socialism. | Can t…

Staff (2022-10-09). Arriba a Cuba buque con donativo de Venezuela. cubadebate.cu Procedente de Venezuela arribó a Cuba un donativo de 400 mil bolsas de alimentos, material eléctrico y techos como contribución a la recuperación de los severos daños causados por el huracán Ian. La carga fue recibida en el puerto del Mariel, a 45 kilómetros de la capital cubana, por el embajador Adán Chávez, y la ministra de Comercio Interior Betsy Díaz.

Scorinoco (2022-10-09). Colombia to Facilitate New Entry Measures for Venezuelan Nationals. orinocotribune.com On Friday, October 7, the new director of Migración Colombia, Fernando García Manosalva, announced new measures to facilitate the mobility of Venezuelans throughout the Colombia-Venezuela border area. | "In considering the protection of migrants, we have decided that Venezuelans will be able to enter the country presenting any of the following documents: identity card, passport, or TMF [Border Mobility Card]," García announced during his visit to the Simón Bolívar International Bridge in the Colombian city of Cúcuta. | "Trabajaremos en la construcción de una Migración más humana. Una Migración que respete los Der…

TeleSUR, ysm, MER (2022-10-09). Presidente de Venezuela no desestima adelanto de elecciones. telesurtv.net "Elecciones en el 2024 ó antes (…) Lo cierto es que nosotros estamos preparados para que cuando haya elecciones salir a una gran victoria popular", dijo el mandatario.

TeleSUR, jaa, SH (2022-10-09). Venezuela rechaza renovación de mecanismo de monitoreo de la ONU. telesurtv.net Venezuela denunció que la resolución se oculta la pretensión de alentar y justificar a los sectores más extremistas de la oposición venezolana e internacional.

_____ (2022-10-08). Combat Nihilism: Revolutionary Optimism In The Age Of US Imperial Decline. popularresistance.org Hurricane Ian. The threat of nuclear war. Inflation. Mississippi's water crisis. Any one of these developments have the potential to send even the most clear-headed individual into a state of nihilism and despair. And this is just the short list of calamities currently plaguing humanity. | Life under the decline of U.S. imperialism is far from easy. Little relief exists from the toxic stress induced by poverty, debt, racism, militarism, social isolation, and mainstream media propaganda. Exhaustion is widespread. Trust in the institutions that form the fabric of U.S. society is incredibly low. These conditions hav…

Anonymous103 (2022-10-08). Military Situation In Eastern Ukraine On October 8, 2022 (Map Update). southfront.org Clashes between the AFU and the Russian Army continue near Pervomaiske; | Russian-led forces took control of Debrova village; | The AFU took control of Makiivka village; | Clashes between the AFU and the Russian Army continue near Nevske; | Clashes between the AFU and the Russian Army continue near Bakhmut; | Clashes between the AFU and the Russian Army continue near Avdiivka; | The AFU reportedly struck the Russian ammunition warehouse in Donetsk; | Russian-led f…

Medea Benjamin, Ariel Gold (2022-10-08). Who Deserves a Nobel Peace Prize in Ukraine? commondreams.org A critical look at the committee's latest selection.

Fight Back (2022-10-08). Join the effort to promote the political program of FRSO. fightbacknews.org To obtain a copy of the new FRSO Program book, reach out to your local FRSO organizers. If you are not in an area where FRSO has an organized district, you can order a copy at Comrades and friends, | The political program of Freedom Road Socialist Organization is being printed in book form. It is something that all revolutionaries will want to read and consider. It deals in a forthright manner with the enemy we are up against, the conditions we face, and most importantly what is to be done to move forward. | Members and supporters of…

Michael Welch (2022-10-08). Conform or be Cast Out! The New Model of Journalism During a Time of War. globalresearch.ca

Bill Lueders (2022-10-08). Beyond Good and Evil: On Wendell Berry's Brave New Book. commondreams.org A book by the celebrated author, poet, and farmer that takes on racism, the Civil War, and his life's work.

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