2023-09-11: News Headlines

infobrics (2023-09-11). On Brink of Joining BRICS. infobrics.org Many Nigerians were expressing what they called "worry" and "sadness" that Nigeria was not admitted into BRICS, the grouping of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa that just ended its summit meeting in Johannesburg…

infobrics (2023-09-11). BRICS Will Change the Power Balance in The Global Energy Market. infobrics.org Citing calculations based on 2022 OPEC oil exports and production data, the InfoTech news outlet reported: The BRICS is going to change the power balance in the global energy market…

infobrics (2023-09-11). BRICS Expansion a Big Boost for Business in South Africa: CEO. infobrics.org Business Leadership South Africa (BLSA) CEO Busisiwe Maviso says the expansion of BRICS could substantially boost South Africa's trade…


infobrics (2023-09-11). Grigoryan risks Armenia's sovereignty by changing alliances when Azerbaijan threatens war. infobrics.org Armenia is strengthening NATO influence in the Caucasus by hosting exercises with US…

infobrics (2023-09-11). Germany trying to find a way to supply long-range missiles without escalating the conflict. infobrics.org

infobrics (2023-09-11). Did Musk really prevent 'Crimean mini-Pearl Harbor'. infobrics.org Not wanting to cause escalation that could turn into a world-ending thermonuclear conflict is certainly commendable — if that's what actually happened. However, Musk's close cooperation with the Pentagon casts serious doubts on the claims that he's trying to "save the world".

infobrics (2023-09-11). US politicians talking about sending Special Forces into Mexico over cartel crisis, accusing China. infobrics.org Because political actions often have economic repercussions, adding further across-border militarization into this complicated dynamic could have quite unpredictable and escalating consequences.

Richard D. Wolff (2023-09-11). Economic growth in G7 versus BRICS: a reality check. nationofchange.org Like rose-colored glasses, anti-systemic glasses make economic problems appear less dangerous, narrower, and more limited in effects than they actually are.

ecns.cn (2023-09-11). First round of nuclear-contaminated wastewater release from Fukushima completed. ecns.cn The first release of 7,800 metric tons of nuclear-contaminated wastewater release from Fukushima was completed on Monday. The second round of release is expected to begin as early as the end of September.


Lawrence S. Wittner (2023-09-11). From the Partial Test Ban Treaty to a Nuclear Weapons-Free World. fpif.org

Melissa Garriga, Tim Biondo, Peace, Planet News. (2023-09-11). The Pentagon Is The Elephant In The Climate Activist Room. popularresistance.org With nearly 10,000 people expected to take to the streets of New York City on September 17 for the March to End Fossil Fuels, the climate justice movement seems more organized than ever. But, there's a big elephant in the room, and it has the Pentagon written all over it. | The U.S. military is the world's largest institutional oil consumer. It causes more greenhouse gas emissions than 140 nations combined and accounts for about one-third of America's total fossil fuel consumption. The Department of Defense (DoD) also uses huge amounts of natural gas and coal, as well as nuclear power plants at its bases around t…

ecsorinoco (2023-09-11). NATO Chief Openly Admits Russia Invaded Ukraine Because Of NATO Expansion. orinocotribune.com By Caitlin Johnstone — Sep 9, 2023 | During a His

Dave DeCamp (2023-09-11). NATO Says 'No Risk' of Romania Being Dragged Into Russia-Ukraine War. news.antiwar.com NATO Deputy-General Secretary Mircea Geoana said Monday that there was "no risk" NATO member Romania would be dragged into the Russia-Ukraine war after Bucharest said drone fragments were found on Romanian territory. Russia has been targeting Ukrainian ports on the Danube River, a narrow waterway that acts as a border between Romania and Ukraine. Despite …

Dave DeCamp (2023-09-11). Stoltenberg Acknowledges Putin Invaded Ukraine Over NATO Expansion. news.antiwar.com NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg acknowledged last week that Russian President Vladimir Putin invaded Ukraine last year to prevent NATO from expanding into the country. "The background was that President Putin declared in the autumn of 2021, and actually sent a draft treaty that they wanted NATO to sign, to promise no more NATO enlargement," Stoltenberg …

_____ (2023-09-11). NATO Chief Openly Admits Russia Invaded Ukraine Because of NATO Expansion. transcend.org During a speech at the EU Parliament on 7 Sep, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg clearly and repeatedly acknowledged that Putin made the decision to invade Ukraine because of fears of NATO expansionism.


Jeremy Kuzmarov (2023-09-11). Sweden's Joining NATO Was Set in Motion in the 1980s in a False Flag Attack Orchestrated by the CIA. covertactionmagazine.com U.S. and British Intelligence Staged a Soviet Naval Incursion in Swedish Waters in Order to Turn Sweden Against Russia and Draw It Closer to the U.S. At the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) summit in Vilnius in early July, Sweden was admitted into NATO together with Finland, pending ratification by Turkey's Grand National Assembly. Turkish …

_____ (2023-09-11). "The War Worth Waging": Afghanistan's Vast Reserves of Minerals and Natural Gas. transcend.org 6 Sep 2023 – The War on Afghanistan Is a Profit-driven "Resource War" – US-NATO forces invaded Afghanistan more than 20 years ago on 7 Oct 2001. It's been a continuous war marked by US military occupation. In the wake of the withdrawal of US troops, Afghanistan's assets were confiscated.

ecns.cn (2023-09-11). China ready to advance sci-tech cooperation. ecns.cn President Xi Jinping has said that China is willing to work with all nations to create an open, fair, impartial and nondiscriminatory environment for the development of science and technology.

ecns.cn (2023-09-10). Premier calls on Europe to provide fair business environment. ecns.cn Premier Li Qiang has called for abandoning the practice of politicizing economic issues, urging European countries to provide a fair, just and nondiscriminatory business environment for Chinese companies in their markets.

ecns.cn (2023-09-10). China ready to advance sci-tech cooperation. ecns.cn President Xi Jinping has said that China is willing to work with all nations to create an open, fair, impartial and nondiscriminatory environment for the development of science and technology.

Abayomi Azikiwe (2023-09-11). Nigerian Trade Unions Stage Two-day Strike Amid Economic Crisis. globalresearch.ca


Eric Zuesse (2023-09-11). Joe Biden Wanted to Escalate to WW III but Elon Musk Said No. globalresearch.ca

_____ (2023-09-11). Fears of 'Plantation Disaster Capitalism' Mount in Wake of Maui Fires. transcend.org "Justice is returning control of public resources like land and water to the people," wrote one activist. "For too long the strings of Maui and thousands of communities like it have been pulled by forces indifferent to their soul."

Editor (2023-09-11). Cuban soldiers in the Russian army? mronline.org The "news" that Cuban troops are participating in combat actions on the Russian side in Ukraine, that comes well seasoned with melodramatic stagings, is grabbing headlines in the main counterrevolutionary media and their affinities in the world.

Editor (2023-09-11). The U.S. announces 1 billion in new aid for Ukraine. mronline.org Washington also provided a US$203-million funding for support to transparency and accountability of institutions.

Victor Grossman (2023-09-11). Othello and the war: Berlin Bulletin, September 11, 2023. mronline.org The war in Ukraine, a horrific tragedy for the people of that unhappy country, fateful as well for many young Russians and potentially menacing for all the world, with burnished weapons of every size and destructive power waiting in silos or submarines for a slip, a blunder, a provocation.

Binoy Kampmark (2023-09-11). Ukraine's Bandera Itch. dissidentvoice.org The Russian invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022 has been justified by Russian President Vladimir Putin as a "special military operation" with a few barbed purposes, among them cleaning the country's stables of Nazis. As with so many instances of history, it was not entirely untrue, though particularly convenient for Moscow. At the core …


Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-09-11). G20's New Delhi Declaration: A Successful Balancing Act. libya360.wordpress.com Peoples Dispatch The declaration omitted the use of the word aggression in the context of the Ukraine war, which had been a major point of contention. It recognized that the G20 is not the platform to resolve geopolitical and security issues while acknowledging their impact on the global economy The 18th Summit of G20 (Group…

Jonathan Cook (2023-09-11). The West's Blueprint for Goading China Was Laid Out in Ukraine. globalresearch.ca

Matt Agorist (2023-09-11). US Admits to Sending Radioactive Weapons to Ukraine that Left Thousands of Iraqi Babies Deformed. globalresearch.ca

Peoples Dispatch (2023-09-11). G20's New Delhi Declaration is a successful balancing act. peoplesdispatch.org The declaration omitted the use of the word aggression in the context of the Ukraine war, which had been a major point of contention. It recognized that the G20 is not the platform to resolve geopolitical and security issues while acknowledging their impact on the global economy…

Dave DeCamp (2023-09-11). Blinken: US Does Not Oppose Ukraine Targeting Russian Territory With US-Provided Missiles. news.antiwar.com Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Sunday that it was up to Ukraine whether or not to target Russian territory with US-provided weapons, a policy that brings the US and Russia closer to a direct clash. Blinken made the comments after ABC News reported that it's likely the Biden administration will soon arm Ukraine with …

Dave DeCamp (2023-09-11). Milley Says Time Is Running Out for Ukraine's Counteroffensive. news.antiwar.com Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley said Sunday that Ukraine's counteroffensive could only have 30-45 days left before the assault is hindered by weather. "There's still a reasonable amount of time, probably about 30 to 45 days' worth of fighting weather left, so the Ukrainians aren't done," Milley told BBC. "There's …


_____ (2023-09-11). Peace and War: Russia-Ukraine Conflict Urgently Needs a Dialogue for Peace. transcend.org 5 Sep 2023 – Mankind Is Being Traumatized for Its Hopes for Peace and Sustainable Future…

Frank Haubold' (2023-09-11). Ukraine war: the business with death. indybay.org State-sponsored arms shipments cause corporate profits to skyrocket. That warlike conflicts boost the business of arms corporations is a well-known fact, but never in recent history have Western arms firms and corporations been able to enrich themselves so shamelessly from human suffering as in the Ukraine conflict.

Peace in Ukraine Coalition (2023-09-11). Wednesday 10/4: Global Days of Action: Yes to Peace In Ukraine: No to War Profiteering. indybay.org BlackRock Financial Investments | 400 Howard Street (between First and Fremont Sts) | San Franciisco, CA…

Peace in Ukraine Coalition (2023-09-11). Wednesday 10/4: Continuation: Yes to Peace In Ukraine: No to War Profiteering. indybay.org Montgomery BART Station | Market Street (Montgomery and Sansome Sts) | San Franciisco, CA…

_____ (2023-09-11). Revisiting John Pilger's 2016 Warnings about US Warmongering against Russia and China. transcend.org 6 Sep 2023 – "It's like listening to a time traveler warning people from the past about a grave mistake they were about to make."

ecns.cn (2023-09-11). Djokovic wins 24th Grand Slam singles title at 2023 U.S. Open. ecns.cn Novak Djokovic of Serbia kisses the U.S. Open championship trophy after defeating Daniil Medvedev of Russia in the men's singles final at the 2023 U.S. Open tennis tournament at USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in New York, Sept. 11, 2023.


M. K. Bhadrakumar (2023-09-11). Ice Cracking Sounds on Frozen Lake of US-Russia Relations. globalresearch.ca

News Desk, The Cradle. (2023-09-11). Biden Announces Deal Connecting Europe And West And South Asia. popularresistance.org US President Joe Biden announced a multinational rail and ports deal linking Europe, West Asia, and South Asia on 9 September at a gathering on the sidelines of the G20 summit in New Delhi. | The deal, known as the India-Middle East-Europe Economic Corridor (IMEC), comes as the White House seeks to counter China's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) and Russia and Iran's North-South Transportation Corridor (INSTC) by pitching Washington as an alternative partner and investor for developing countries. | A memorandum of understanding for the deal was signed by the European Union, India, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emi…

Editor (2023-09-11). Blinken, Assange, And The 20th Anniversary Of The Palestine Hotel Bombing. scheerpost.com By Chip Gibbons / The Dissenter When Secretary of State Antony Blinken visited Australia in August, he was, as expected, asked about WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. Blinken confirmed that he discussed the Assange case with his Australian counterpart Foreign Minister Penny Wong. He stated that while he understood Australians' views on the matter, Australians needed …

Staff (2023-09-11). Headlines for September 11, 2023. democracynow.org 6.8-Magnitude Quake Kills 2,500+ in Morocco as Rescuers Struggle to Reach Remote Areas, African Union Joins G20; U.S., EU, India Unveil Alternative to China's "Belt and Road", In Vietnam, Biden Denies Strengthening Ties with Vietnam Is an Effort to "Contain" China, Dutch Police Detain 2,400, Unleash Water Cannons on Massive Climate Protest, Activists Confront Democratic Rep. Steny Hoyer over Climate Crisis Hypocrisy, Airstrike in Khartoum Kills 40+ Civilians Amid Ongoing Fighting Between Sudanese Army and RSF, At Least 4 Die as Fighting Resumes Between Rival Groups in Palestinian Ref…

Editor (2023-09-11). Women-Led Groups in Chicago Spearhead Response to Migrant Influx. scheerpost.com

WSWS (2023-09-11). Democratic Mayor Eric Adams says migrants "will destroy New York City." wsws.org Two days after New York City Mayor Eric Adams said migrants were destroying the city, police raided a migrant shelter and confiscated motorized bikes. The following day, Adams announced budget cuts of 15 percent, blaming migrants.


WSWS (2023-09-11). Democratic Mayor Eric Adams says migrants "will destroy New York City" wsws.org Two days after New York City Mayor Eric Adams said migrants were destroying the city, police raided a migrant shelter and confiscated motorized bikes. The following day, Adams announced budget cuts of 15 percent, blaming migrants.

_____ (2023-09-11). Does Islam Disenfranchise Women? transcend.org 29 Aug 2023 – Girls who had exposure to modern careers ranging from journalism to teaching have chosen in the past few years to wear the hijab. Most strikingly, however, these women fluently and cogently articulate how they believe Islam has liberated and empowered them.

greenleft.org.au (2023-09-11). Labor needs to step up support for Palestine, meeting hears. greenleft.org.au

greenleft.org.au (2023-09-11). Socialists slam Queensland Labor for locking up children indefinitely. greenleft.org.au

Binoy Kampmark (2023-09-11). Children in Police Watch Houses. counterpunch.org They really are a brutal lot. While the Queensland Labor Government croons on matters regarding rights, liberties and, it should be said, the plight of the First Nations Peoples, its policy, notably on youth detention, is a contradictory abomination. This situation finds itself repeated across the country, though the Sunshine State, as it is sometimes called, does

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-09-11). 50 Years After Chile's Coup, Salvador Allende's Grandson Speaks About Britain's Role in the Rise of Pinochet. libya360.wordpress.com John McEvoy and Pablo Navarrete Pablo Sepúlveda Allende speaks to Declassified UK in Santiago, Chile, 2023 In Santiago, Declassified spoke with Pablo Sepúlveda Allende about Margaret Thatcher's friendship with Chile's dictator and how Labour helped him evade justice for crimes against humanity. "The colonialist countries in general have collaborated so that the decolonised countries can't become independent",…


Peoples Dispatch (2023-09-11). Boric and former Chilean presidents sign commitment for democracy on 50th anniversary of coup. peoplesdispatch.org The leaders committed to always take care of and defend democracy, face the challenges of democracy, defend and promote human rights, and strengthen spaces for collaboration among states…

WSWS (2023-09-11). Australia: Qantas CEO resigns early amid public anger. wsws.org The move came after multiple scandals emerged, involving not just Australia's largest airline and "national flag carrier," which Joyce had led since 2008, but the Labor government.

WSWS (2023-09-11). New York school bus workers kept on the job despite strike authorization. wsws.org The union is collaborating with the Adams administration to sabotage the struggle by thousands of school bus workers.

WSWS (2023-09-11). Pseudo-left Socialist Alternative promotes Australian Labor government's Voice referendum. wsws.org Socialist Alternative is lining up with a pro-war, pro-business Labor government, while slandering the majority of the population as "racist" for opposing its right-wing policy of establishing an indigenous Voice to parliament.

Don Moniak (2023-09-11). Are They Already Cutting Corners on Worker Protection at DOE's New Plutonium Processing Plant? counterpunch.org As of this past Labor Day, there are strong indications that future workers at the planned, new Savannah River Plutonium Processing Plant (SRPPF) may face unnecessary, increased risks of exposure to radiological hazards inherent in plutonium toxicity and chemical complexity. According to an August 3, 2023 letter from the Defense National Facilities Safety Board (DNFSB)

Kate Horgan (2023-09-11). Challenging Media Integrity and Labor Rights: Fox TV Renewal and Sex Work Perspectives. projectcensored.org Media scholar Steve Macek joins Mickey for a look at a case from Philadelphia, where media activists are challenging the broadcast-license renewal of the local Fox TV station. Macek says…


Ricardo Vaz (2023-09-11). Venezuelan Socialist Party Activist Calls for Scrap Metal Corruption Investigation. venezuelanalysis.com Workers' organizations have repeatedly denounced the dismantling of factories to be sold as scrap.

WSWS (2023-09-11). Sri Lankan government moves to impose draconian media laws and Anti-Terrorism Bill. wsws.org When enacted, the main target of these repressive measures, will be workers, youth and the rural masses seeking a way to defeat Wickremesinghe's IMF-dictated austerity measures.

WSWS (2023-09-11). "Oppose the system designed to steal our wages": US Postal Service workers found rank-and-file committee. wsws.org The following the founding statement of the USPS Rank-and-File Committee, which was established in a meeting held September 3 to organize a fight against…

Raging Grannies (2023-09-11). Thursday 9/14: Grannies Stand with Workers! Starbucks Palo Alto. indybay.org Starbucks | 2000 El Camino Real (x-street Stanford Ave) | Palo Alto 94306…

Working Families Party, partners (2023-09-11). Sunday 9/10: Show Solidarity w/ United Auto Workers Union Virtual Rally. indybay.org Virtual rally to support UAW: www.mobilize.us/moveon/event/578744/

Phil Pasquini (2023-09-11). Nobel Laureate Maria Ressa Speaks on Press Freedoms and Democracy. indybay.org Nobel Laureate journalist Maria Ressa spoke at the National Press Club Headliners luncheon September 5 discussing the existential threat of press freedoms faced by journalists and media worldwide and warned about the demise of democracy in the wake of those threats.

Andrew Korybko (2023-09-11). Why'd Lula Flip-Flop on Whether Brazil Will Arrest Putin If He Visits? globalresearch.ca

Anya Parampil (2023-09-11). Announcing 'Corporate Coup: Venezuela and the End of US Empire' by Anya Parampil. thegrayzone.com After four years of frontline reporting and research, The Grayzone's Anya Parampil unveils her forthcoming book, Corporate Coup: Venezuela and the End of US Empire. Based on four years of original investigative work and interviews with diplomats from across the globe, Corporate Coup uses the case of Venezuela to examine the West's blueprint for modern regime change war: the hybrid diplomatic assaults, economic terrorism, covert destabilization tactics, and information warfare that the US and its allies unleash against all governments …

PACBI (2023-09-11). 'Pride Not Apartheid' — Activists Hold Symbolic Action During Netta Barzilai's Performance at EuroPride in Malta. bdsmovement.net

Prof. Juan Cole (2023-09-11). Former Head of Israel's Mossad: Israel Is an Apartheid State with the 'KKK' in Government and "Antisemitic" Policies Toward Palestinians. globalresearch.ca

_____ (2023-09-11). In Hottest Summer Ever, West Bank Sears from Israeli Water Apartheid. transcend.org Across the West Bank, Palestinians and Israeli settlers have very different access to water resources — even when they live on the same hill.

_____ (2023-09-11). The Elite's 5,000-Year War on Your Mind Is Climaxing—Can We Defeat It? (Part 1). transcend.org "The most potent weapon of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed." | — Steve Biko, South African freedom fighter, beaten to death in an Apartheid prison cell in 1977…

Dr. Binoy Kampmark (2023-09-11). G20 Aesthetics: Modi's Brutal Delhi Facelift. globalresearch.ca

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-09-11). G20 Aesthetics: Modi's Brutal Delhi Facelift. libya360.wordpress.com Dr. Binoy Kampmark Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi really wanted to make an impression for his guests and dignitaries, and coarse realities would simply not do. The occasion of the G20 summit presented him with a chance to give the city an aggressive touch-up, touching up a good number of its residents along the way, not to…

Caitlin Johnstone (2023-09-11). Laws Don't Exist To Prevent Wrongdoing. thealtworld.com Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley): | Humans have two adulthoods: the first is physical maturity, the second is intellectual maturity. The second adulthood is the process of learning that everything you were taught about the world in childhood is false, and discovering the truth of what's really going on. The first adulthood is thrust upon us by nature and time, while the second is a conscious and deliberate process we choose for ourselves. All humans reach the first adulthood if they live long enough. Very few reach the second. | ‚ùñ | Part of growing up is learning…

Ramzy Baroud (2023-09-11). The Twisted Israeli Logic of Murdering Palestinian Children. mintpressnews.com

Whitney Webb (2023-09-11). More Americans Questioning Official 9/11 Story As Evidence Contradicts Official Narrative. mintpressnews.com Evidence continues to mount that the official narrative itself is the irrational narrative of September 11, and it becomes ever more clear that the media remains committed to preventing legitimate questions about that day from receiving the scrutiny they deserve.

Lowkey (2023-09-11). The Other 9/11 with Roberto Navarrete and John McEvoy. mintpressnews.com On the anniversary of the CIA-sponsored coup against the democratically elected leader of Chile, Salvador Allende, Lowkey speaks to survivor Roberto Navarrete and investigative journalist John McEvoy.

Larry Johnson (2023-09-11). An American Irishman Spins Ukrainian Fantasies in scotland. sonar21.com European racism and revanchism is alive and well and toxic as ever. The latest manifestation of this toxicity comes courtesy of the Atlantic Magazine publishing a piece by Phillips Payson…

WSWS (2023-09-11). Zelensky government cracks down on conscription loopholes. wsws.org Amidst the failure of the counteroffensive and declarations by the US that it will fund the war for "as long as it takes," the Zelensky government is ramping up its attacks on draft dodgers and the Ukrainian working class as a whole.

_____ (2023-09-11). International Rules-Based Order vs UN Charter: What You Need to Understand Now. transcend.org 5 Sep 2023 – It has become commonplace amongst alternative media to see efforts to reframe the conflict between multipolar vs unipolar systems as a chimera devoid of meaning for the "wise" to the Great Game.

Corinne Loperfido, In These Times. (2023-09-11). No Parties On A Dead Planet: It's Time We Reimagine Burning Man. popularresistance.org For the past 37 years, people have flocked to Burning Man to celebrate art, radical self expression and community. The first iteration of Burning Man began in 1986 when a small group of friends met on a San Francisco beach with an eight-foot statue of a man they built with scrap lumber. They soaked the statue in gasoline and burned it, symbolizing the destruction of the powers that be. | The world does not look today as it did in 1986: As about 72,000 "Burners" lined up in their cars and campers to take reprieve from the grind of capitalism and attend this year's Burning Man, which now conven…

Jerry Redfern, Scheer Post. (2023-09-11). After A Century, Oil And Gas Problems Persist On Navajo Lands. popularresistance.org It's a Saturday morning in late June and Garry Jay, a member of the Navajo Nation, pilots a white crew-cab Chevy pickup on a lumpy dirt road across the grasslands north of his house in Shiprock, New Mexico, heading for the round, wood-framed hogan his grandfather built by hand in the 1970s. | His route weaves 20 miles among the hundreds of oil wells that dot Horseshoe Canyon as he chases the bittersweet memories of childhood weekends and summers 40 years ago in that house, on that land, with his grandparents. The family's former winter sheep ranch sits at the base of a sharp cliff, five miles south of the Colorad…

Micah Herskind, Kamau Franklin, The Forge. (2023-09-11). The Struggle To Stop Cop City By Any Means Necessary. popularresistance.org Cop cars on fire. Occupations of the Weelaunee Forest. Weeks of action. Volunteers with clipboards, collecting referendum petition signatures in the summer heat. Weekly canvassing. Town halls and open mic sessions. Direct action and civil disobedience. Record-breaking numbers of people showing up for public comment (on three separate occasions!). Regular food distributions and mutual aid. Surveillance cameras smashed. Music festivals in the forest. Comrade care clinics. Protests outside the homes of politicians and CEOs. Trivia night fundraisers at local restaurants. Shareholder divestment campaigns. Wheatpasting…

Cristen Hemingway Jaynes, EcoWatch. (2023-09-11). Amazon Deforestation Down 66% From Last July In Lula's Brazil. popularresistance.org The Amazon rainforest is the largest tropical rainforest on the planet. It is home to more animal and plant species than any terrestrial ecosystem, including one-third of the world's tropical trees. This diverse sanctuary is also one of the last refuges for jaguars, pink river dolphins and harpy eagles, according to WWF. | Brazil has an Action Plan for the Prevention and Control of Deforestation in the Amazon by 2030, and since President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva took office at the start of this year, deforestation has fallen dramatically. | The country's Minister of the Environment and Climate Change Marina Silv…

Reuters. (2023-09-11). Dutch Police Use Water Cannon To Clear Climate Activists From Highway. popularresistance.org Police in the Netherlands said they were deploying a water cannon to clear a major highway blocked by climate activists for the third straight day on Monday in protests over government subsidies for fossil fuels. Protesters earlier walked onto the A12 highway at The Hague around noon local time preventing traffic from using it, local police said. | News agency ANP said dozens of protesters were blocking the major traffic artery into the Dutch seat of government in both directions. | Over the weekend around 3,000 activists were detained by police during two days of protests on and around the A12.

Tanya Wadhwa, People's Dispatch. (2023-09-11). Mexico's Supreme Court Decriminalizes Abortion Nationally. popularresistance.org On Wednesday, September 6, Mexico's Supreme Court of Justice (SCJN) unanimously ruled to decriminalize abortion at the national level. The SCJN resolved that the legal system that criminalizes abortion in the Federal Penal Code is unconstitutional as it violates the human rights of women and people with capacity for pregnancy. | The ruling came two years after the SCJN first declared criminal penalties for abortion as unconstitutional and ordered the northern State of Coahuila to remove sanctions for abortion from its criminal code in September 2021. The ruling was in response to a case filed in 2018 challenging…

Editor (2023-09-11). Sep 11, 2023. sitrepworld.info Today I'm breaking my pattern of publishing 36 links every day. Instead, I'm featuring a single link, from someone I never heard of before, by the name of N.S. Lyons. It's long and dense but well worth your full attention. It is the closest attempt I've seen to successfully putting together the 100,000 piece puzzle that has riveted our attention for at least the last decade. The China Convergence: Yes, the West is becoming more like China, by N.S. Lyons How could our world — so familiar and taken somewhat for granted — have turned into clown world, full of absurdities like infantilist Wokery, crimes of…

Staff (2023-09-11). Maduro Continues Historic Tour of China, Visits Shandong Province. orinocotribune.com

ecns.cn (2023-09-11). China hits back at U.S. pangolin trade claims. ecns.cn China lodged solemn representations to the United States on Saturday rejecting accusations that it has enabled illicit trade in pangolins.

ecns.cn (2023-09-11). U.S. citizen sentences to life in prison for espionage. ecns.cn A citizen of the United States has been given a life sentence by a Chinese court for espionage, China's national security agency released on Monday.

Karsten Riise (2023-09-11). The New IMEC Eurasian Rail Corridor Will Contribute to Enhancing China's "Belt and Road" globalresearch.ca

Dave DeCamp (2023-09-11). US and Canadian Warships Sail Through Taiwan Strait. news.antiwar.com A US and Canadian warship sailed through the Taiwan Strait on Saturday, a transit condemned by China's People's Liberation Army (PLA). The US Navy's Seventh Fleet said the guided-missile destroyer USS Ralph Johnson made the transit along with the Canadian frigate HMCS Ottawa. "The ships transited through a corridor in the strait that is beyond the …

Luis Linares Petrov (2023-09-11). Leaders from several countries confirm attendance at G77+China Summit. plenglish.com Havana, Sep 11 (Prensa Latina) Leaders and personalities from several countries have confirmed participation in the upcoming G77+China Summit that will take place on September 15-16, sources from the Cuban Foreign Ministry (MINREX) announced on Monday.

_____ (2023-09-11). As the U.S. Wages War on It China Reacts with Defiance. transcend.org 1 Sep 2023 – Just as U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo returns from China her department issues new restrictions on chip deliveries. But China is not only autarkic in making chips but also in making the delicate machines needed to make them.

Editor (2023-09-11). Washington's expanding military footprint on China's doorsteps. mronline.org A series of announcements by the US reflect its large and still growing military presence across Asia-Pacific, particularly in East and Southeast Asia. Together, they reflect a continued and increasingly desperate desire by Washington to encircle and contain China.

Adam H Johnson (2023-09-11). New At 6:30: Anti-Union Propaganda. levernews.com

Editor (2023-09-11). Chile: This is how they killed Allende. mronline.org For the 50th anniversary of the coup d'état in Chile against the then president, Salvador Allende, analysis and publications are flourishing.

Editor (2023-09-11). Review: "Forces of Production, Climate Change and Canadian Fossil Fuel Capitalism" mronline.org Nicolas Graham's book on forces of production and fossil-fuel capitalism gives an important analysis of why fundamental change is needed to solve the climate crisis, finds John Clarke…

Editor (2023-09-11). 86 Cents For a Day of Work Is a Reality For Most Incarcerated People. scheerpost.com

Editor (2023-09-11). Mexico's Supreme Court Decriminalizes Abortion Nationally in Landmark Ruling. scheerpost.com

Edward Curtin (2023-09-11). Chance Encounters as the Walls Close In. dissidentvoice.org "Apple Blossom — Blue Sky" by amandabhslater A treasure stumbled upon, suddenly; not gradually accumulated, by adding one to one. The accumulation of learning, 'adding to the sum-total of human knowledge'; lay that burden down, that baggage, that impediment. Take nothing for your journey; travel light. — Norman O. Brown, Love's Body, 1966 These are …

Global Research News (2023-09-11). Selected Articles: In Remembrance of 9/11 and the 1973 Chilean Coup. globalresearch.ca In commemoration of the 9/11 attack and the 1973 Chilean coup, we have compiled the following articles to serve as a reminder that democracy has long been backsliding in the Western world. | | By

greenleft.org.au (2023-09-11). Anti-war protesters tell Prime Minister Anthony Albanese 'AUKUS out of Asia'. greenleft.org.au

greenleft.org.au (2023-09-11). Campaign continues to halt Binybara/Lee Point defence housing project. greenleft.org.au

greenleft.org.au (2023-09-11). Criminalising activism: Woodside, protests and climate change. greenleft.org.au

greenleft.org.au (2023-09-11). Cross-party mission goes to Washington seeking Assange's freedom. greenleft.org.au

greenleft.org.au (2023-09-11). Cross-party MPs to travel to US to call for Assange's release. greenleft.org.au

greenleft.org.au (2023-09-11). Farmers discuss protecting prime crop land from coal seam gas mining. greenleft.org.au

greenleft.org.au (2023-09-11). Monash NTEU calls for pay rises, secure jobs. greenleft.org.au

greenleft.org.au (2023-09-11). Protests continue against Japan's dumping of radioactive water. greenleft.org.au

greenleft.org.au (2023-09-11). Qld gov't referred to UN Committee Against Torture for suspending human rights law. greenleft.org.au

greenleft.org.au (2023-09-11). Rising Tide national speaking tour gathers new support. greenleft.org.au

greenleft.org.au (2023-09-11). Socialist Alliance reaffirms 'critical Yes' position on Voice to Parliament referendum. greenleft.org.au

greenleft.org.au (2023-09-11). Uriel Barrera (1930-2023): A life of revolutionary struggle and solidarity. greenleft.org.au

greenleft.org.au (2023-09-11). WA gov't, police go after climate protesters. greenleft.org.au

Hal McNulty (2023-09-11). The Weekly Round-up: Terrorist convict escapes Wandsworth, lawsuit against Google and Strasbourg questions conditions in UK prisons. ukhumanrightsblog.com In the news Questions have been raised over the state of the British prisons system after the escape of Daniel Khalife. The 21 year-old former soldier who had been convicted for terrorist offences escaped from Wandsworth prison by hiding under a food delivery lorry, reportedly, but was later recaptured by police on a Chiswick towpath. …

John W. Whitehead, Nisha Whitehead (2023-09-11). Death by a Thousand Cuts. dissidentvoice.org Those who gave us the Constitution and the Bill of Rights believed that the government exists at the behest of its citizens. It is there to protect, defend and even enhance our freedoms, not violate them. Unfortunately, although the Bill of Rights was adopted as a means of protecting the people against government tyranny, in …

Karla Martin, Sebastian Link (2023-09-11). 50 years after the coup against Allende: Lessons from the Chilean revolutionary movement. liberationnews.org September 11, 2023 marks the 50th anniversary of Salvador Allende's overthrow in a CIA-backed coup that ushered in a blood-soaked fascist dictatorship.

Mansa Musa (2023-09-11). Alabama's pure nitrogen execution of Kenneth Smith could take over 15 minutes. therealnews.com While the death penalty has been abolished in 23 states and Washington, DC, other states are doubling down on the barbaric practice of capital punishment. Idaho wants to bring back firing squads, and now the state of Alabama is pushing to become the first state to execute a death row inmate, Kenneth Smith, by forcing him to inhale pure nitrogen. Why are these states seeking such cruel execution methods? Alabama-based investigative journalist Studio Production: David Hebden, Cameron Gran…

Staff (2023-09-11). "The Other 9/11": Ariel Dorfman on 50th Anniversary of U.S.-Backed Coup in Chile That Ousted Allende. democracynow.org We look at the 50th anniversary of what is sometimes called the "other 9/11" — the U.S.-backed coup in Chile, when General Augusto Pinochet ousted President Salvador Allende and inaugurated almost two decades of brutal military rule. Allende died in the presidential palace on September 11, 1973, marking the end of Chile's first socialist government. During Pinochet's military dictatorship, more than 3,000 people were disappeared or killed, and some 40,000 more were tortured as political prisoners as Chile remained a close partner to the United States during the Cold War. "We&#8…

Staff (2023-09-11). Morocco: Earthquake Death Toll at 2,500; Criticism Grows over King's Response to Humanitarian Crisis. democracynow.org We get an update from Morocco, which has declared three days of mourning after the strongest earthquake to hit the region in at least a century. About 2,500 people died in the 6.8-magnitude earthquake that struck the country on Friday, with another 2,500 injured and the death toll expected to rise. The epicenter was in the High Atlas Mountains located about 44 miles from Marrakech, where many villages remain largely inaccessible and lack both electricity and running water. The earthquake also damaged parts of Marrakech, including its old city, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. We speak with Moroccan scholars Abdellah…

Tanupriya Singh (2023-09-11). Massacre in the DRC: 56 killed in protests against UN forces. therealnews.com This story originally appeared in Several roads in Goma in the DRC's eastern province of North Kivu were barricaded and commercial establishments shut down as part of a "dead city" protest organized by civil society movements on Monday, September 4. | The action was called in response to the killing of at least…

teleSUR Desk (2023-09-11). Salvador Allende's last words to the nation. mronline.org "History is ours, and people make history." | Salvador Allende…

Amanda Becker (2023-09-11). GOP May Force Government Shutdown Over Abortion and Gender-Affirming Care. truthout.org When the U.S. House of Representatives joins the Senate back in Washington this week, both chambers will be racing to complete the annual government-funding process and avoid a shutdown at the end of September. Among the major sticking points are proposals offered by House Republicans that aim to restrict access to abortion and gender-affirming care. Here's what you need to know as Congress… |

Amy Goodman (2023-09-11). Morocco Earthquake Claims Over 2,500 Lives, With Death Toll Expected to Rise. truthout.org We get an update from Morocco, which has declared three days of mourning after the strongest earthquake to hit the region in at least a century. About 2,500 people died in the 6.8-magnitude earthquake that struck the country on Friday, with another 2,500 injured and the death toll expected to rise. The epicenter was in the High Atlas Mountains located about 44 miles from Marrakech… |

Ann Brown (2023-09-11). Bernice King Tells America: Reparations Are Warranted, My Father MLK Would Have Supported Them. moguldom.com In recent years, the idea of reparations for descendants of slaves has sparked debates across the country. Dr. Bernice King, the youngest child of civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr., has voiced her support for reparations and believes they are not only "warranted" but also have the capacity to address various societal issues. Dr. …

Ann Brown (2023-09-11). VP Kamala Harris Host Concert With Lil Wayne And Too Short: Will Juneteenth Holiday, Concerts, And More Symbolism Help Biden? moguldom.com The White House held a Hip-Hop, star-studded outdoor bash on Sept. 9, courtesy of Vice President Kamala Harris. While the event was to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the genre, some are wondering if it was another tactic by President Joe Biden's administration to win Black votes. In attendance for the Front Lawn house party was a …

Carey Gillam (2023-09-11). Exposure to Contaminated Drinking Water Is Undercounted by EPA, New Study Finds. truthout.org environmental regulators are failing to adequately account for how extensively vulnerable communities are exposed to contaminated drinking water, a new study has determined. From 2018-2020, one in ten people in the United States were exposed to water quality violations that could impact their health, the study found. And roughly 70% of those affected are considered "socially vulnerable" under… |

Charles Lipson (2023-09-11). Trump Survived Impeachment. Biden May Not be So Lucky. Joe and Hunter's "5000 Secret Emails" globalresearch.ca

Chris Walker (2023-09-11). Redrawing of GOP Gerrymandered Districts Could Tip House in Dems' Favor in 2024. truthout.org A series of court decisions affecting congressional maps that were gerrymandered by Republican state legislatures following the latest decennial Census may tilt 2024 House elections toward Democrats, depending on how the cases are resolved. Currently, the U.S. House of Representatives is comprised of 222 Republicans and 212 Democrats, with one seat in a Democratic-leaning district vacant. |

Chris Walker (2023-09-11). Trump Advantage Over Biden in Electoral College Is Fading, Political Expert Says. truthout.org A bevy of recent polling data suggests that voters are split on which candidate they would prefer in the 2024 presidential election when faced with a potential race between Democratic incumbent President Joe Biden and former president and likely Republican nominee Donald Trump. As of Monday morning, an aggregate of polling data from RealClearPolitics shows that Biden is leading Trump by just 0.4… |

Cullen Linebarger (2023-09-11). JFK Assassination Witness Breaks 60-Year Silence and Blows Up Key Government Claim Regarding the President's Death — Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Responds. globalresearch.ca

Dana Sanchez (2023-09-11). 12 Facts About The Current Economics And Science Of Podcasting: Spotify And Industry Trends. moguldom.com Contrary to popular belief, podcasting is experiencing robust growth. However, several myths and misconceptions are holding the industry back from reaching its full growth potential, according to marketing and technology insight provider Mar Tech Series. The portion of Americans who listen to online audio and podcasts has reached record highs, Edison Research said in its …

David Ray Griffin (2023-09-11). The Destruction of the World Trade Center: Why the Official Account of 911 Cannot be True. globalresearch.ca Fire has never—prior to or after 9/11—caused steel-frame high-rise buildings to collapse…

Dr. Mike Yeadon (2023-09-11). Malice Aforethought on the COVID-19 Pandemic: "This is a global coup d'etat and intentional mass murder." Dr. Mike Yeadon. globalresearch.ca

Dr. Paul Craig Roberts (2023-09-11). 9/11 After 22 years. globalresearch.ca

Dr. William Makis (2023-09-11). Pfizer and Moderna mRNA Vaccines Attack Bone Marrow Stem Cells and Drastically Alter Gene Expression. globalresearch.ca

ecsorinoco (2023-09-11). For Second Time in Two Days, SDF Announces 'End' to Battles with Syrian Arab Tribes. orinocotribune.com The US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) This was the According…

Fight Back (2023-09-11). LA Chicanos demand justice for Adrian Rios and booting Banditos Sheriffs' gang. fightbacknews.org Los Angeles, CA – On September 9, 40 friends, family and community members rallied in front of the East LA Sheriff's station demanding justice for the in-custody brutal murder of Adrian Rios, a 28-year-old Chicano. They were joined by the family of David Ordaz Jr., who was killed by East LA Sheriff's deputies. | The rally was organized by Centro CSO in solidarity with the grieving family and their demands for justice. Veteran Chicano revolutionary Carlos Montes led the family in the rally. He also tied the fight against police killings to the struggle for Chicano liberation. | Adrian Rios was killed while in cus…

Ileana Ferrer Fonte (2023-09-11). El Salvador and Canada seek to boost tourism. plenglish.com San Salvador, Sep 11 (Prensa Latina) El Salvador and Canada are seeking to boost Canadian tourism by signing an agreement to increase flights by Air Transat to this Central American country, industry sources reported.

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-09-11). Chile: How they Killed Allende. libya360.wordpress.com Geraldina Colloti September 11, 1973, Allende's body is taken from the Presidential Palace For the 50th anniversary of the coup d'état in Chile against the then president, Salvador Allende, analysis and publications are flourishing. Among them, the journalistic investigation by Francisco Marín Castro (sociologist, writer and director of the newspaper El Ciudadano) and Luis Ravanal…

Jake Johnson (2023-09-11). Wall Street Donors Are Reportedly Pushing Biden to Fire FTC Chair. truthout.org Federal Trade Commission Chair Lina Khan's efforts to challenge corporate consolidation across the U.S. economy — from gaming to pharmaceuticals to semiconductors — have drawn vocal outrage from industry-backed Republican lawmakers and other mouthpieces for big business. And now, according to the Financial Times, some of the Democratic Party's Wall Street donors are privately calling on President… |

James Kilgore (2023-09-11). "E-Carceration" Is the Newest Surveillance Trend Spreading Across the Globe. truthout.org From the shanty town favelas of Rio de Janeiro, to working-class community housing estates in New Zealand, to the battle-weary streets of Chicago's South Side, electronic monitors — digital tracking devices that monitor the location and behaviors of people facing increased surveillance by police — have become normalized. Like police cars and bodegas, they are part of the social landscape. |

John McEvoy (2023-09-11). 50 Years After Chile's Coup, Salvador Allende's Grandson Speaks About Britain's Role in the Rise of Pinochet. globalresearch.ca

Juan M. Garcia (2023-09-11). Casa de las Américas to recall coup d'état in Chile. plenglish.com Havana, Sep 11 (Prensa Latina) The Havana-based Casa de las Américas will on Monday host the 50th-Anniversary Concert in Chile, Coup, Life and Resistance, a musical tribute that will unite voices from both nations in this capital.

Junaid S. Ahmad (2023-09-11). Mass Protest Against the US-backed Regime Change in Pakistan. globalresearch.ca

Kester Kenn Klomegah (2023-09-11). G20 and African Union (AU) Membership: Implications for Africa. globalresearch.ca

Manlio Dinucci (2023-09-11). Chile September 11, 1973: The Actuality of a Coup d'Etat. Manlio Dinucci. globalresearch.ca

Margaret Power (2023-09-11). 50 Years After Chilean Coup, Let's Remember Pinochet Resisters' Inspiring Legacy. truthout.org I barely slept the first night I arrived in Chile in December 1976. The military dictatorship of Gen. Augusto Pinochet, which had seized power 3 years before on September 11, 1973, following its violent, United States-backed overthrow of President Salvador Allende's left-wing Popular Unity government, was at the height of its power. Before traveling to Chile, I had been active in the United States… |

noreply (2023-09-11). Something From America's… smoothiex12.blogspot.com actual military professionals. And why it is not going to change much.

Olivia Rosane (2023-09-11). Small Island States Say Global Ocean Treaty Must Cover Climate Pollution. truthout.org Do greenhouse gas emissions from the burning of fossil fuels count as ocean pollution under the Law of the Sea? That's the question that nine small island states that are low emitting but extremely vulnerable to the climate crisis have asked the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS) in a landmark hearing that began Monday in Hamburg, Germany. "We come here seeking urgent help… |

Oraily Madruga Rios (2023-09-11). Cuba to host Nicolás Guillén Colloquium and Festival in 2024. plenglish.com Havana, Sep 11 (Prensa Latina) The 14th Nicolás Guillén Colloquium and Festival will be held in Havana from May 8 to 10, 2024, according to the event's organizers, and it will focus on the life and work of Cuba's National Poet.

Patricia Harrity (2023-09-11). Climate Researcher Admits He Left Out the Full Truth to Get His Paper Published. expose-news.com

Patricia Harrity (2023-09-11). Microplastics May Be Harming Your Body and Brain — Analysis by Dr Mercola. expose-news.com "We live in a throwaway society. The next time you're in a grocery store, take a look around you and note the number of items packaged in plastic. The problem is, many …

Patricia Harrity (2023-09-11). What Really Happened On 911? expose-news.com Today, September 11th, 2023, marks the 22nd anniversary of the 9/11. Our thoughts and prayers are with all those who lost their lives that awful day, those who died since then as …

Peoples Dispatch (2023-09-11). Finnish Left slams government's decommunization attempts in the name of anti-discrimination. peoplesdispatch.org The government has been widely criticized for defending two ministers in the right-wing coalition with a history of making racist comments and for trying to use a recently announced anti-discrimination drive to ban communist symbols…

Peoples Dispatch (2023-09-11). Morocco earthquake death toll continues to climb as rescue operations intensify. peoplesdispatch.org The 6.8 earthquake which struck the country in the late hours of Friday was the deadliest in the last 60 years, and the region's most powerful earthquake in the last 120 years…

Peter Baker (2023-09-11). J.F.K. Assassination Witness Breaks His Silence and Raises New Questions. NYT. globalresearch.ca

Peter Baker (2023-09-11). J.F.K. Assassination Witness Breaks His Silence. Evidence of A Second Shooter. "The Magic Bullet" Theory is an Outright Lie. globalresearch.ca

Peter Kornbluh (2023-09-11). September 11, 1973: The Chile Coup: The U.S. Hand. globalresearch.ca

Pierre-Henri Bunel (2023-09-11). Al Qaeda: The Data Base. globalresearch.ca Global Research Editor's Note | Today, September 11, 2023, we are commemorating 9/11. Today our thoughts are with the thousands of Victims of the 9/11 attacks. | This incisive article by Pierre-Henri Bunel, a former member of France's Military Intelligence, initially published …

Prof Michel Chossudovsky (2023-09-11). Fifty Years Ago: Chile, September 11, 1973: The Ingredients of a Military Coup. globalresearch.ca We are commemorating September 11, 2001 as well as September 11, 1973 (Fifty years ago) | *** | Half a century ago on September 11, 1973, the Chilean military led by General Augusto Pinochet, crushed the democratically elected Unidad Popular government of …

Prof Michel Chossudovsky (2023-09-11). 9/11 Analysis: "Who Is Osama Bin Laden?" globalresearch.ca In the course of the month of September, Global Research will be featuring a selection of articles by prominent authors, which indelibly reveal the lies and fabrications underlying the official 9/11 story. | The following article entitled "Who is Osama bin …

Prof. Graeme MacQueen (2023-09-11). The 9/11 Anniversary: Conspiracy Theory or Critical Thinking? globalresearch.ca First published on September 22, 2018 | On the 22nd anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, the public has a right to ask what really happened on that day. | Here are eight points to ponder. | 1. Questioners of the official account of …

Rhoda Wilson (2023-09-11). GPs Kill Retail but Hospitals Kill Wholesale. expose-news.com Hospitals are terrible places. People die in them. You should go into hospital only as a last resort. And you should escape the minute you can. By Dr. Vernon Coleman As a …

Scott Ritter (2023-09-11). Why Swiss Neutrality Is Essential for American National Security: Scott Ritter. globalresearch.ca

Steven Sahiounie (2023-09-11). U.S. Sponsored Kurdish SDF Forces Battle with Arab Tribes in Eastern Syria. U.S Withdrawal from Syria? globalresearch.ca

Taroa Zúñiga Silva (2023-09-11). 'Chile Needs a Communist Party': Interview With Lautaro Carmona. orinocotribune.com The general secretary of the Communist Party of Chile says with the resumption of democracy, the Communist Party has made the case for its legality by reviving this slogan in the country. | On August 31, 2023, the President of the Communist Party of Chile, Guillermo Teillier, was buried in the historical cemetery of Recoleta. In this graveyard lies the remains of a range of important people, from former Chilean President Salvador Allende to the socialist singer Victor Jara. Both Allende and Jara were victims of the military coup d'état that took place 50 years ago on September 11, 1973. | Teillier, who was tortur…

Walden Bello (2023-09-11). Remembering Salvador Allende and the Chilean Counterrevolution. fpif.org When I heard that Salvador Allende won the Chilean presidential elections in September 1970 and sought to bring his country to socialism by peaceful means, I decided to do my doctoral dissertation on Chile. In May 1972, I went to take a crash course in Spanish in Cuernavaca in the Mexican state of Morelos, the birthplace of the legendary peasant leader Emiliano Zapata whose life had been made into a movie starring Marlon Brando that I had seen and liked as a teenager. After three weeks, I felt that the course had substantially improved the rudimentary Spanish I had from high school in the Philippines. So, I flew…

WSWS (2023-09-11). From the archives of Marxism: Lessons of the 1973 coup in Chile. wsws.org This statement was published by the International Committee of the Fourth International on September 18, 1973, in response to the overthrow of the government of Salvador Allende in Chile.

WSWS (2023-09-11). Over 2,000 people killed as earthquake devastates Morocco. wsws.org With thousands critically injured or still buried underneath the rubble, the death toll is tragically set to rise substantially.

Cristen Hemingway Jaynes (2023-09-11). Half of Earth's glaciers could melt with 1.5 ∞C of warming, NASA study finds. nationofchange.org "We are not trying to frame this as a negative look at the loss of these glaciers, but instead how we have the ability to make a difference."

Ileana Ferrer Fonte (2023-09-11). Cuban Parliament's Vice President visits Laos. plenglish.com Vientiane, Sep 11 (Prensa Latina) The Vice President of the National People's Power National Assembly and the Council of State of Cuba, Ana María Mari Machado, kicked off a visit to Vientiane on Monday to strengthen interparliamentary relations between Cuba and Laos.

Jon Queally (2023-09-11). 'Furious' at Army Corps, tribe calls for public support to shut down Dakota Access Pipeline. nationofchange.org "The Corps' covering for the pipeline company's outrageous safety record and the reviewer's serious conflict of interest have now resulted in a failed effort," said Standing Rock Sioux Tribe Chairwoman Janet Alkire. "They need to start over with adult supervision."

Luis Linares Petrov (2023-09-11). Brazilian President criticizes US blockade against Cuba. plenglish.com New Delhi, Sep 11 (Prensa Latina) Brazilian President Luis Inácio Lula da Silva criticized the blockade imposed by the United States on Cuba, and stated that Cuba is not a country of terrorists, India's news website Firstpost reported on Monday.

Melissa Garriga, Tim Biondo (2023-09-11). The Pentagon is the elephant in the climate activist room. nationofchange.org We can't keep ignoring its enormous "bootprint."

Peoples Dispatch (2023-09-11). Socialist "movement incubator" celebrates five year anniversary in the heart of NYC. peoplesdispatch.org The People's Forum in New York City, founded in 2018 as a "movement incubator" to unite working class movements in the US and abroad, celebrated its five year anniversary on Saturday, September 9. In its five years of existence, TPF has been able to support the strengthening of progressive and socialist organizations from the heart of world capitalism. | "Over the past five years, TPF has become a reference for people who are seeking to understand what's going on in the world around them, and who want a place where they can ask questions and exchange ideas, and where there's space for socialist and internationali…

Pierre-Henri Bunel (2023-09-11). Al Qaeda: The Data Base. globalresearch.ca Global Research Editor's Note | Today, September 11, 2023, we are commemorating 9/11. Today our thoughts are with the Thousands of Victims of the 9/11 attacks. | This incisive article by Pierre-Henri Bunel, a former member of France's Military Intelligence, published by …

_____ (2023-09-11). A Bad One. transcend.org No Comment…

_____ (2023-09-11). A Psychological Evaluation of a Certain Megalomaniacal Narcissistic Paranoid Demagogic Leader from Recent World History. transcend.org This sometimes charismatic political leader was one of the richest persons in his country yet he was often joked by comedians, regarded as a buffoon, but he impressed his followers at his campaign stops by flying in to his political rallies on a private airplane.

_____ (2023-09-11). Belgian Minister Says What Biden Won't: Israel Is Wiping Entire Palestinian Villages Off the Map. transcend.org 3 Sep 2023 – Belgium's Minister of Development, Caroline Gennez, said in an interview that "Entire villages are being wiped off the map by the Israelis" in the Occupied Palestinian West Bank. The Israeli ambassador to Brussels lambasted the remarks as "libel." To her credit, Ms. Gennez has stood her ground since she is right.

_____ (2023-09-11). Exploring the Centrality of Nonviolent Communication for Resolution of Conflicts and a Culture of Peace. transcend.org It can be an important starting point of analyzing and linking Johan Galtung's conflict triangle using the Gandhian nonviolent communication. It may also be mentioned that Galtung himself was much influenced by Gandhi.

_____ (2023-09-11). Fan the Flames: Lahaina on Fire. transcend.org 6 Sep 2023 – The Looting of Lahaina…

_____ (2023-09-11). In AI Regulation Coverage, Media Let US Lawmakers off the Hook. transcend.org 8 Sep 2023 – Corporate Press: 'US Policymakers would like to place guardrails on artificial intelligence, but, given its novel and evolving nature, they'll need more time.' This narrative minimizes their responsibility— excusing, rather than interrogating, regulatory inertia.

_____ (2023-09-11). Luis Rubiales the King of the Machirulos. transcend.org 5 Sep 2023 – Machirulo in Spain is a man who boasts of being undisguisedly macho, and is generally used in a derogatory sense. Luis Rubiales, the suspended president of the Royal Spanish Football Federation, has confirmed in every performance the well-earned title of "king of the machirulos".

_____ (2023-09-11). Media: Bad Faith & Blank Checks. transcend.org 4 Sep 2023 – All mainstream journalism is "embedded journalism" now, for the battlefield is everywhere. An excerpt from Lawrence's new book, 'Journalists and Their Shadows.'

_____ (2023-09-11). 'Occupied by the US': Wildfires Renew Native Hawaiian Call for Sovereignty. transcend.org 7 Sep 2023 – As Disaster Capitalists Descend on Lahaina, Indigenous Hawaiians Fight for Self-Governance…

_____ (2023-09-11). Peace Ambassador of Old: Hazrat Baba Fariduddin Ganj-E-Shakar, R.A. transcend.org

_____ (2023-09-11). Story of Krishna. transcend.org Today, 7 September, is an important day for Hindus — it is called Krishna Janmashtami — the birth of Lord Krishna and the several aspects that are known and believed about his birth. Janam-ashtami indicates the eighth day of the Moon.

_____ (2023-09-11). The Pentagon Is the Elephant in the Climate Activist Room. transcend.org 8 Sep 2023 – The climate justice movement seems more organized than ever. But, there's a big elephant in the room, and it has the Pentagon written all over it. The U.S. military is the world's largest institutional oil consumer.

_____ (2023-09-11). What Constitutes an "Ungood" Person? transcend.org There are several signs that someone may not be a good person. Here are a few, to be aware of:…

_____ (2023-09-11). What Makes You Makes the Universe: Nobel Laureate Erwin Schrà∂dinger on Quantum Physics, Vedanta, and the Ongoing Mystery of What We Are. transcend.org To face the question of what makes us who we are with courage, lucidity, and fullness of feeling is to face, with all the restlessness and helplessness this stirs in the meaning-hungry soul, the elemental fact of our choicelessness in the conditions that lead to our existence.

_____ (2023-09-11). What Must Be Done. transcend.org Videos produced by The Drawdown Project outline what must be done to prevent more climate catastrophes worse than the ones already happening. The main staff members of the project, including narrator Jonathan Foley, are climate scientists.

CounterPunch News Service (2023-09-11). Investigative Reporter Peter Byrne Sues National Park Service. counterpunch.org This piece first appeared in Pacific Sun. On Aug. 31, Davis Wright Tremaine LLP filed a lawsuit against the National Park Service in California Northern District Court in San Francisco on behalf of freelance journalist Peter Byrne. The complaint alleges that the National Park Service is violating the Freedom of Information Act by refusing to disclose public

Jim Hightower (2023-09-11). We Can Stop Drug Price Gouging. Here's How. counterpunch.org We human beings sometimes do some terrible things in pursuit of the almighty dollar. But to our credit, one moral line most humans don't cross is to gouge sick people on the price of medicines their lives depend on. Unless, of course, you count executives of giant pharmaceutical corporations as human beings. Gouging patients is

John Kendall Hawkins (2023-09-11). Poem: It's 9/11 Day. counterpunch.org It's 9/11 Day I feel all jumpy and June Taylor legs-high inside. What will Rudy say? The road ahead's bumpy I miss Norman Mailer No, I don't, I lied Will towers fall or sway? Will I wake grumpy? Vlad the Impaler wearing Jan 6 pride? We have lost our way, universe all lumpy, days grow

Angela (2023-09-11). Sunday 9/10: Art of the Palestinian Thobe – An Exhibit featuring Palestinian textiles, embroidery. indybay.org Zoom (Registration link is below)…

FNNCH (2023-09-11). Walgreens deglazed; Banko Forever. indybay.org °Avenge Banko!

MomsRising (2023-09-11). Wednesday 9/13: Learn How to Bust Book Bans Virtual Training. indybay.org Online via Zoom: www.mobilize.us/momsrising/event/579576/ | Join from anywhere…

Norman Solomon (2023-09-11). How 9/11 Bred a "War on Terror" from Hell. indybay.org America's Response to 9/11 in the Lens of History…

Editor (2023-09-11). 9/11 — Never Remember. scheerpost.com

Editor (2023-09-11). Chris Hedges: The Pedagogy of Power. scheerpost.com

Editor (2023-09-11). The Four Billionaires Who Want to Control the Universe. scheerpost.com

Connor Freeman (2023-09-11). Iran, US Prisoner Swap and Funds Release Imminent in Qatari-Mediated Deal. news.antiwar.com As the result of a deal made possible by at least eight rounds of shuttle diplomacy mediated by Doha, the US and Iran may soon be conducting a prisoner swap. This agreement will additionally see $6 billion in previously frozen funds belonging to Iran transferred to banks in Qatar, where that money will be spent …

Editor (2023-09-11). Morocco Earthquake Death Toll Continues to Climb as Rescue Operations Intensify. scheerpost.com

teleSUR, dcdc, JDO (2023-09-11). Ejército sudanés intensifica bombardeos contra grupo paramilitar. telesurtv.net Se estima que el número de muertos por el conflicto armado en el país africano ronda los 5.000, en tanto que la ONU ha contabilizado más de 4.8 millones de desplazados y refugiados.

teleSUR, dcdc, JDO (2023-09-11). Líder de Junta de Justicia de Perú rechaza intento de remoción. telesurtv.net La presidenta del ente, Imelda Tumialán, denunció que la investigación sumaria aprobada por el Congreso "no tiene ninguna garantía" y que sus imputaciones "carecen de fundamento".

teleSUR, JGN (2023-09-11). Presidente venezolano dialoga con secretario del PCCh de Shanghái. telesurtv.net La entrevista se llevó a cabo en el marco de la visita histórica que el jefe de Estado de Venezuela efectúa por la nación asiática.

teleSUR, nbb, JCM (2023-09-11). Presidente de Colombia asistirá a Cumbre del G77 en La Habana. telesurtv.net Por primera vez, Cuba preside el G77+China, que congrega a 134 países miembros de la ONU.

teleSUR, dcdc, JCM (2023-09-11). Presidente turco pide no excluir a Rusia de acuerdo de granos. t.co Erdogan indicó que para reactivar el acuerdo Rusia exige que el banco agrícola ruso vuelva al sistema de comunicación interbancario internacional SWIFT.

teleSUR, dcdc, JDO (2023-09-11). Presidente de Bolivia insta a accionar para enfrentar sequía. telesurtv.net El mandatario indicó que el déficit hídrico tiene efectos devastadores en sectores clave como la agricultura, la ganadería y la economía de las regiones productivas.

teleSUR, JCM (2023-09-11). Presidente Lula asegura que si Putin va a Brasil no será arrestado. telesurtv.net Aunque el país ratificó el Estatuto de Roma de 1998, Lula subrayó que sus palabras deben tomarse "muy en serio", ya que "intentar detener Putin en Brasil es una falta de respeto a Brasil".

teleSUR, JCM (2023-09-11). Cifra de muertos por el terremoto en Marruecos supera los 2.100. telesurtv.net La provincia con más muertos es Al Haouz, que ha registrado al menos 1.351, y la segunda es Taurudant, donde el sismo ha dejado ya 492 decesos, según un recuento oficial.

teleSUR, JDO (2023-09-11). Gobierno de Brasil entrega fondos para reconstrucción en Rio Grande do Sul. telesurtv.net Vicepresidente Geraldo Alckmin visitó regiones afectadas por las inundaciones, que hasta el momento dejaron 46 fallecidos en ese estado y otro en Santa Catarina.

teleSUR, JDO (2023-09-11). Concluyen con alta afluencia elecciones locales en Rusia. telesurtv.net Presidenta de autoridad electoral denuncia que piratas informáticos intentaron más de 30.000 ataques contra la plataforma del voto digital a distancia.

teleSUR, nbb, JGN (2023-09-11). Miles de mujeres chilenas realizan velada en La Moneda. telesurtv.net El presidente Gabriel Boric destacó que "las mujeres de Chile, una vez más, como siempre, dándonos a todos una lección".

teleSUR, nbb, JGN (2023-09-11). Siria revela daños por saqueos de EE.UU. y su milicia FDS. telesurtv.net El Ministerio de Asuntos Exteriores de Siria exigió que los funcionarios estadounidenses rindan cuentas por estos robos.

teleSUR, JCM (2023-09-11). Alemania gana el Mundial de baloncesto tras derrotar a Serbia. telesurtv.net La selección, bronce en 2002 cuando estaba liderada por la leyenda Dirk Nowitzki, se hace con su segundo gran título, tras el Eurobasket logrado en 1993.

teleSUR, JCM (2023-09-11). Presidente de Venezuela continúa su gira en la provincia china de Shandong. telesurtv.net El Jefe de Estado arribó al Aeropuerto Internacional Yaoqiang de la ciudad de Jinan.

teleSUR, JDO (2023-09-11). Federativo de fútbol español anuncia dimisión tras escándalo. telesurtv.net Luis Rubiales se hallaba suspendido por la FIFA. Dimite de su cargo al frente de la RFEF y como vicepresidente de la UEFA.

teleSUR, nbb, JGN (2023-09-11). Aspirante presidencial mexicana llama a continuar ideales de AMLO. telesurtv.net La ex jefa de Gobierno de la Ciudad de México recibió este domingo su acreditación como coordinadora nacional de defensa de la transformación…

People's Dispatch. (2023-09-11). Manifiesta To Kick Off A New Political Year For The Left In Europe. popularresistance.org Left-wing forces in Belgium are unofficially kicking off a new political year as thousands of people pour into the coastal city of Ostend to participate in yet another edition of Manifiesta, the fest of solidarity, scheduled for the weekend of September 9-10. Launched for the first time in 2010, Manifiesta has evolved into a gathering of at least 15,000 people who convene not only for discussions and debates but also for bonding and evenings of music. | The festival provides passersby with a glimpse of the diversity of left-wing movements. The program is shaped to address pressing topics such as workplace rights…

teleSUR, JGN (2023-09-11). øCómo sucedieron los hechos del golpe de Estado en Chile. telesurtv.net Pinochet, mediante el golpe, interrumpió el Gobierno democrático de Allende e instauró uno de los períodos más crueles y terribles de la historia de la nación suramericana.

teleSUR, JCM (2023-09-11). Presidente de Venezuela asiste a banco de los Brics en Shanghái. telesurtv.net El mandatario Maduro se entrevistó con la presidenta de la institución financiera y exjefa de Estado de Brasil, Dilma Rousseff, quien asumió el cargo desde marzo de 2023.

teleSUR, nbb, JGN (2023-09-11). Descarrilamiento de tren en Perú deja un muerto y dos heridos. telesurtv.net La circulación de trenes entre Ollantaytambo y Machu Picchu se reanudará sólo con la confirmación del buen estado de la línea férrea en este tramo.

teleSUR, JCM (2023-09-11). Presidente de Venezuela visita isla de la inteligencia artificial de Zhangjiang. telesurtv.net El mandatario recibió un recorrido en el centro experimental de Zhangjiang, epicentro de desarrollo tecnológico y científico al más alto nivel de la República Popular China.

Peoples Dispatch (2023-09-11). Manolo De Los Santos: Un horizonte socialista es aquel donde lo imposible se encuentra con lo posible. peoplesdispatch.org El codirector ejecutivo del Foro de los Pueblos reflexiona sobre el futuro de la lucha de clases en Estados Unidos y en todo el mundo…

teleSUR, nbb, JGN (2023-09-11). La India entrega la presidencia del G20 a Brasil. telesurtv.net "Felicito al presidente brasileño Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva y le entrego el mazo de la presidencia", dijo Modi en la ceremonia de clausura de la cumbre del G20.

teleSUR, dcdc, JCM (2023-09-11). Reportan récord de rescates diarios en ruta migratoria canaria. telesurtv.net Las cifras de migrantes arribando a dichas islas ya se había superado esta misma semana con la llegada de 634 personas en 24 horas, el lunes, 4 de septiembre.

teleSUR -JCM (2023-09-11). Nuevo sismo se reporta en Marruecos tras el terremoto del viernes. telesurtv.net El número de víctimas mortales del potente terremoto en Marruecos ascendió a 2.012. Además, el desastre natural dejó al menos 2.059 heridos, más de 1.400 de ellos en estado grave.

teleSUR, JCM (2023-09-11). Carabineros reprimen manifestación en las calles de Santiago. telesurtv.net La "gran marcha por los derechos humanos" en el día previo a los 50 años del golpe de Estado en Chile, convocada a metros del Palacio de la Moneda en Santiago, inició con incidentes con carabineros.

teleSUR, JGN (2023-09-11). Candidato opositor gana elección en Santa Fe, Argentina. telesurtv.net Con el escrutinio del 99.7 por ciento de las mesas instaladas, el radical Pullaro obtuvo 1.023.759 votos, equivalentes al 58.4 por ciento.

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