2021-11-10: News Headlines

WSWS (2021-11-10). As strike movement grows, DSA-aligned groups push dead end of UAW "reform" wsws.org The corporate media has given prominent treatment to various "left" groups in the orbit of the UAW leadership and the Democratic Party promoting union reform.

Rainer Shea (2021-11-09). How Imperialist Propaganda Weaponizes Genocide to Justify War. orinocotribune.com By Rainer Shea — Nov 8, 2021 | The imperialists have a weapon more powerful than the atomic bomb. It's called propaganda. The type of propaganda that's been fine tuned by decades of practice in false flags, fabricated atrocity stories, and glorifications of militarism. With the onset of the new cold war, and its correlating advancements in the high-tech sector, the U.S. empire's cognitive warfare has taken on unprecedented scope and subtlety. Should aspiring U.S. revolutionaries succumb to the deceptions this manipulation matrix is laying down for us, the movement towards proletarian revolution in the imperi…

_____ (2021-11-09). Mutual Aid Goes Mainstream. popularresistance.org Last spring, within hours of the University of Chicago's announcement that classes would be held online, students created a Facebook group to coordinate mutual aid efforts. Even with finals right around the corner, UChicago Mutual Aid came alive with activity. Students eagerly offered and accepted support in the form of advice, essential supplies like food and moving boxes, and spreadsheets listing leads on resources like housing. | What I witnessed at my college was just one example of the many mutual aid networks, both college-based and non-college-based, that sprung up across the country in response to the COV…

Lori Robertson, Jessica McDonald, Eugene Kiely, FactCheck (2021-11-09). Aaron Rodgers' Inaccurate COVID-19 Claims. washingtoninformer.com Aaron Rodgers, the star quarterback of the Green Bay Packers, made headlines when he contracted COVID-19 and then defended his decision not to get vaccinated with a string of false and misleading claims that fact-checkers have frequently debunked.

Joris Leverink (2021-11-09). Economic Update: A Story of War. roarmag.org On this week's show, Prof. Wolff discusses how Amazon rips off small business and squeezes workers; US and China's military tactics; top mainstream economists grasp the deepening critique of capitalism; and how strikes at Nabisco and Kellogg expose capitalism's classic contours of class struggle. | The second half of the show features an interview with Prof Talia Lugacy on her new independent film This is Not a War Story released by Warner Media HBO Max. | You can support this show on

David Swanson (2021-11-09). Feel Like NPR Is Spewing Corrupt Propaganda? Here's Why. warisacrime.org NPR posted a story called "Feel like you don't fit in either political party? Here's why." Of course I knew why. Neither party supports anything remotely close to my views on government budgets, climate, environment, taxation, militarism, healthcare, retirement, housing, education, transportation, or any other significant policy area. But NPR's story was about a Pew …

MEE, agencies (2021-11-09). Tunisia police fire tear gas at protesters demanding closure of rubbish dump. middleeasteye.net Tunisia police fire tear gas at protesters demanding closure of rubbish dump | Interior ministry denies report that a young protester was killed during protests in the southern town of Agareb | Tue, 11/09/2021 – 08: 01 | The closing of the controlled landfill in Agareb earlier this year caused thousands of tonnes of household waste to accumulate for about a month in the streets of Sfax (AF…

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