Daily Archives: September 12, 2023

2023-09-12: News Headlines

infobrics (2023-09-12). Kiev to recruit people with health problems. infobrics.org The regime is allegedly planning to change rules in order to allow people suffering from certain medical conditions to enroll in military service.

infobrics (2023-09-12). Stoltenberg directly admitted SMO was launched due to NATO aggression. infobrics.org Busy with trying to present recent historical events as a success for the world's most aggressive alliance, NATO Secretary General probably isn't even aware that the remarks he made have been repeatedly decried by the mainstream propaganda machine as "Russian disinformation" and "parroting Putin's talking points".

infobrics (2023-09-12). Ukrainian military contemplating whether to depose Zelensky — Former US Army Colonel. infobrics.org Zelensky promised to regain all territory lost to Russia, including Crimea. Since this will not be achieved, the Ukrainian president can be used as the perfect scapegoat by the military.

Richard D. Wolff, NewsClick. (2023-09-12). Economic Growth In G7 Versus Brics: A Reality Check. popularresistance.org In the United Kingdom, the BBC prepared and published data from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in January about different nations' growth forecasts for 2023 and 2024. The BBC foregrounded some really bad news for the UK. Of nine major industrial economies—the G7 (the US, Canada, Japan, Germany, the UK, France, and Canada), plus Russia, and China—the UK would be the only one to suffer real economic decline: a contraction in its 2023 GDP (its total annual, national output of goods and services). | So dubious a distinction for the UK followed the long political night of rule by the Conservative Pa…

Caitlin Johnstone. (2023-09-12). NATO Chief Admits Russia Invaded Ukraine Because Of NATO Expansion. popularresistance.org During a speech at the EU Parliament's foreign affairs committee on Thursday, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg clearly and repeatedly acknowledged that Putin made the decision to invade Ukraine because of fears of NATO expansionism. | His comments, initially flagged by journalist Thomas Fazi, read as follows: | 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. That was what he sent us. And was a pre-condition for not invade Ukraine. Of course we didn't sign that. | The opposite happene…

Staff (2023-09-12). Headlines for September 12, 2023. democracynow.org Thousands Feared Dead in Libya as Torrential Rains Cause Dams to Collapse, Greece Warns of Infectious Diseases After Cyclone Brings Unprecedented Flooding, Death Toll from Morocco Earthquake Nears 3,000, U.S. Breaks Record for Billion-Dollar Climate Disasters, U.N. Human Rights Chief on Climate Inaction: "The Dystopian Future Is Already Here", Ukraine Seizes Russian-Held Oil and Gas Platforms in Black Sea, NATO Plans Largest War Games Since Cold War; U.S. Launches Military Exercises with Armenia, North Korea's Kim Jong-un Arrives in Russia for Talks with Putin, France Defies Niger Coup Leaders&#…

Drago Bosnic (2023-09-12). Stoltenberg Directly Admitted Special Military Operation Was Launched Due to NATO Aggression. globalresearch.ca

Reproductive Justice SF (2023-09-12). Saturday 9/16: Protest the Transphobes–TERFs Off Our Turf! indybay.org In front of the Hilton San Francisco (Chinatown) | 750 Kearny St…

Lucas Leiroz de Almeida (2023-09-12). Kiev to Recruit People with Health Problems. globalresearch.ca

Staff (2023-09-12). The World Is Undergoing "Significant Realignments": Economist Jayati Ghosh on G20, India, China & More. democracynow.org We get an update on the G20 summit, which welcomed the African Union as a permanent member and took place for the first time in India as the country faces criticism for bulldozing slums near the site of the meeting. "What we are seeing is a period of significant realignments," says economics professor Jayati Ghosh, who critiques the meeting for a lack of action and largely performative events such as a negotiated joint statement which stopped short of condemning Russia's aggression in Ukraine. "This G20 has done nothing for the major problems of our time," says Ghosh, who calls on th…

Editor (2023-09-12). Sep 12, 2023. sitrepworld.info ‚ô´ Mark Knopfler & Emmylou Harris — Done With Bonaparte Remembering the 9/11 Truth Movement, by Ron Unz 9/11 After 22 Years, by Paul Craig Roberts Patrick Lawrence: Exceptionalism & Its Consequences If The US Really Was What It Pretends To Be, by Caitlin Johnstone The Mackinder Strategic 'Bible' Reconsidered, by Alastair Crooke A Day that Never Ended, by Matt Taibbi The Dogs of War Are Winning, by Bill Astore The Mills of the Gods, by James Howard Kunstler Chance Encounters as the Walls Close In, by Edward Curtin Greenwald: Was Musk's Refusal to Comply with All of Ukraine's Demands Treason…

Ashley Smith, Hanna Perekhoda, Ilya Budraitskis (2023-09-12). Resisting Russian Imperialism: 2 Socialists—a Ukrainian and a Russian—on Ukraine's Struggle for Self-Determination. internationalviewpoint.org An interview with Hanna Perekhoda and Ilya Budraitskis. | – | / |

WSWS (2023-09-12). After "climbdown" at G20, US plans to step up involvement in Ukraine war. wsws.org Following what was widely seen as a humiliating failure to recruit developing countries for its war drive against Russia at the G20, the United States is preparing to further escalate its involvement in the Ukraine war.

Dr. Binoy Kampmark (2023-09-12). Ukraine's Bandera Itch. globalresearch.ca

Moon Of Alabama. (2023-09-12). Zelensky Threatens To Terrorize Europe. popularresistance.org Zelenski goes on to threaten, in rather unthankful fashion, those countries which have delivered aid to Ukraine but may want to cut their losses: | Curtailing aid to Ukraine will only prolong the war, Mr Zelensky argues. And it would create risks for the West in its own backyard. There is no way of predicting how the millions of Ukrainian refugees in European countries would react to their country being abandoned. Ukrainians have generally "behaved well" and are "very grateful" to those who sheltered them. They will not forget that generosity. But it would not be a "good story" for Europe if it were to "drive the…

Ted Galen Carpenter (2023-09-12). Will Ukraine's Western Apologists Finally Admit the Truth? globalresearch.ca

Frank Haubold' (2023-09-12). 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 (2023-09-12). 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 (2023-09-12). 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…

Kirill Medvedev (2023-09-12). Russia Policing and Repression Prisons The Persecution of Azat Miftakhov Is Designed to Silence Russia's Left. internationalviewpoint.org

ecns.cn (2023-09-12). Eastern Economic Forum: China, Russia to strengthen cooperation. ecns.cn The Eastern Economic Forum kicked off in Vladivostok on Sunday as a key platform for discussing economic issues concerning Russia and Asia, in particular China.

Ileana Ferrer Fonte (2023-09-12). DPRK leader to visit Russia at Putin's invitation. plenglish.com Moscow, Sep 12 (Prensa Latina) Kim Jong-un, leader of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), will pay an official visit to Russia in the coming days at the invitation of President Vladimir Putin, the Kremlin press service announced in this capital.

Ileana Ferrer Fonte (2023-09-12). Russian cosmonauts will break record for time spent on ISS. plenglish.com Moscow, Sep 12 (Prensa Latina) Russian cosmonauts Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitry Petelin will break the record for the total time they have spent in the International Space Station (ISS), the Russian Space Agency (Roscosmos) announced.

Ahmed Adel (2023-09-12). Ukrainian Military Contemplating Whether to Depose Zelensky: U.S. Army Colonel Douglas MacGregor. globalresearch.ca

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