(2021-10-07). Stop Calling the Military Budget a 'Defense' Budget. counterpunch.org It's bad enough that mainstream news outlets routinely call the Pentagon budget a "defense" budget. But the fact that progressives in Congress and even many antiwar activists also do the same is an indication of how deeply the mindsets of the nation's warfare state are embedded in the political culture of the United States. The
(2021-10-07). Teamsters for a Democratic Union convention looks forward to defeat of old guard. fightbacknews.org Chicago, IL — Teamsters for a Democratic Union (TDU) held its annual convention from October 1-3 in Chicago. Rank-and-file union activists from around the country traveled there to plan out the next steps for the upcoming international union election. TDU is supporting the reformer O'Brien-Zuckerman slate against the other slate, which is backed by the Hoffa old guard within the Teamsters union. | The O'Brien-Zuckerman slate, also known as the OZ Teamsters United slate, has gained a lot of momentum since announcing their intent to run. Ballots for the international union election are being mailed out on Oc…
(2021-10-07). 123 Arrested as Climate Activists Block Central Bridge in Finnish Capital. sputniknews.com The demonstrators urge the Finnish government declare a climate emergency and act more forcefully on the climate change, including binding legislation in order to achieve carbon neutrality by 2025, a decade ahead of the government's current goal of 2035.
(2021-10-07). Tamil activists speak out for rights here and in Sri Lanka. greenleft.org.au Rachel Evans spoke to Tamil refugees and activists Kalyani Inpakumar and Renuga Inpakumar about the continuing persecution of Tamils in Sri Lanka and the campaign for rights here.
(2021-10-07). Public housing campaigners pre-selected to contest NSW Senate. greenleft.org.au Long-term community and union activists Andrew Chuter and Rachel Evans will run for the Socialist Alliance in the New South Wales Senate. Jim McIlroy reports.
(2021-10-07). Why Do so many in Congress resist funding Childcare But swoon over F-35s? juancole.com ( Code Pink) — President Biden and the Democratic Congress are facing a crisis as the popular domestic agenda they ran on in the 2020 election is held hostage by two corporate Democratic Senators, fossil-fuel consigliere Joe Manchin and payday-lender favorite Kyrsten Sinema. But the very week before the Dems' $350 billion-per-year domestic package hit …
(2021-10-07). Foreign ministers to honor Ukrainian troops killed in Donbass, Turkish troops killed in Ukraine. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com The Turkish troops to be honored by the foreign ministers of Turkey and Ukraine are presumably those attached to the 15th Corps deployed to Galicia to fight against the Russian Empire, of which contemporary Ukraine was a part. Foreign Minister of Turkey to visit Ukraine During their stay in Lviv, the ministers will lay flowers …
(2021-10-07). Congress fights over money for child care — but never questions billions for war. salon.com Most Americans support cuts in military spending to pay for social programs — but somehow that's never on the table…
(2021-10-07). Why Does Congress Fight Over Childcare But Not F-35s? zcomm.org Manchin has hypocritically described the domestic spending bill as "fiscal insanity," but he has voted for a much larger Pentagon budget every year since 2016…
(2021-10-06). Solidarity with Longtime Anti-War Activist Joe Lombardo! (Statement). orinocotribune.com Fight Back News Service is circulating the following statement from the Committee to Stop FBI Repression. | On the heels of its defeat in Afghanistan, the United States government has made it clear it is now once again setting its sights on anti-war activists in the United States. Their latest target is Joe Lombardo, a leader of the country's largest anti-imperialist coalition. | Joe Lombardo is 73 years old and has been an organizer in the anti-war movement for decades. He is a cofounder and lead organizer for Bethlehem Neighbors for Peace, a local anti-war group based near Albany, New York. Lombardo also serves…
(2021-10-06). Israel court allows Jewish silent prayer at al-Aqsa mosque compound. middleeasteye.net 
Israel court allows Jewish silent prayer at al-Aqsa mosque compound | Landmark ruling comes after repeated incursions into the compound by Jewish activists at a time of heightened tensions at the holy site | Wed, 10/06/2021 – 20: 06 | Jewish worshippers, with police protection, visit Jerusalem's al-Aqsa mosque compound, the third-holiest site of Islam which is also revered by Jews as the T…
(2021-10-06). Water as Weapon of War: Israel is Drying Out the West Bank to Drive Out Palestinians. libya360.wordpress.com Jessica Buxbaum MASAFER YATTA, OCCUPIED WEST BANK — Last weekend, around 600 Israeli, Palestinian and international activists marched across Masafer Yatta in the Occupied West Bank to deliver a water tanker to Palestinian villagers. Their message was clear: Water is a human right, and Israel is depriving Palestine of this basic necessity. Amid a sea…
(2021-10-06). Psychiatry Films and Politics: Filmmakers Take Issue with my CounterPunch Review of Their Doc. counterpunch.org Cured, as I noted in my September 24, 2021 CounterPunch review, is an upcoming PBS documentary (October 11) about how gay activists forced the American Psychiatric Association (APA) in 1973 to rescind its declaration that homosexuality is a psychiatric illness. I had speculated that what allowed this documentary to get aired on PBS is that
(2021-10-06). Massachusetts Activists Are Changing The Conversation On Israel. popularresistance.org Rep. Betty McCollum's (D-MN) historic Palestinian Children & Families Act still lacks a companion bill in the Senate. At a recent event local JVP Action leader named Jill urged Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) to introduce the legislation. Here's her question: | I am Jewish and, like you, I am passionate about justice for all. You probably know that the U.S. government sends about $3.8 billion a year in military funding to the Israeli government. Massachusetts sends $1.3 million a year and Massachusetts taxpayers send Israel $352,000 a day. Some of these tax dollars are used to support Israeli oppression of P…
(2021-10-06). The Vindictive Empire Strikes Back, in Peru. strategic-culture.org There are hints that reliable imperial pawn Llosa is being cultivated as the new Latin American "elder statesman" who will be entrusted with whipping errant colleagues into line, Stephen Karganovic writes. | Not content with conning the gullible natives in Ecuador to elect its favoured candidate to the Presidency (assuming the vote was honest and Dominion had nothing to do with counting it) the empire is now focusing its resources to undermine, and if possible politically destroy, the recently elected government of Pedro Castillo in Peru. | The insistence of native peoples on acquiring a semblance of political in…