2022-10-06: News Headlines

____ (2022-10-06). Gunman in Thailand kills 34 people at day-care center: report. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Oct. 05 (MNA) — A former policeman killed 34 people on Thursday in a mass shooting at a children's day-care center in Thailand, with media reporting the gunman later shot and killed himself.

Dave DeCamp (2022-10-06). US Stepping Up Effort to Turn Taiwan Into an Arms Depot. news.antiwar.com The US is stepping up its efforts to turn Taiwan into a major weapons depot, The New York Times reported on Wednesday. US officials have long called for turning Taiwan into a "porcupine" that could withstand a Chinese attack, but support for Taiwan has intensified in recent years as Washington has grown more confrontational toward …

WSWS (2022-10-06). Modi booster, Gautam Adani becomes world's second richest man amid social misery for Indian working class. wsws.org Pro-investor economic reforms‚ÄÜcarried out since 1991 by successive Indian governments, led by both the Congress Party and Modi's BJP, have dramatically deepened social inequality and concentrated wealth in the hands of rapacious billionaires like Adani.

WSWS (2022-10-06). Sri Lankan cabinet tables repressive "rehabilitation" bureau bill. wsws.org Wickremesinghe's new bill is to further strengthen repressive measures in preparation for the re-emergence of mass struggles in response to the next round of IMF austerity.

Infobrics (2022-10-06). India, Brazil Support Each Other's Candidacy at UNSC. infobrics.org As India has been at the forefront of the efforts at the UN to push for long-pending reforms of the Security Council and looking for a permanent seat at the United Nations Security Council (UNSC), the Brazilian Ambassador to India Andre Aranha Correa do Lago highlighted the fact that both India and Brazil are discussing that and support each other's candidacy very strongly…

_____ (2022-10-06). How sincere is London in its desire to normalize relations with Beijing? journal-neo.org On September 29, in an interview with Channel News Asia, British Foreign Secretary James Cleverly, who was appointed by new Prime Minister Liz Truss, said with typical British duplicity that the kingdom allegedly wants to normalize relations with the PRC. J. Cleverly, however, stressed that Beijing should play a major role in this process, specifying …

Anonymous669 (2022-10-06). U.S.-led Coalition Conducts First Known Raid In Government-Held Village In Northeastern Syria. southfront.org LUNGI, Sierra Leone — An HH-60G Pave Hawk helicopter prepares to land after training here. The helicopter is assigned to the 56th Rescue Squadron and is deployed with the 398th Air Expeditionary Group in Senegal. (U. S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. Justin D. Pyle) | On October 6, the U.S.-led coalition conducted an unprecedented raid in a village held by Syrian government forces in the country's northeastern region. | U.S. special operations forces landed early in the morning from se…

For Workers Power In Iran (2022-10-06). Mass Iran Solidarity Protest At SF Union Square. indybay.org Thousands of Iranian Americans rallied in San Francisco's Union Square to protest the regime.

____ (2022-10-06). Skirmishes break out between Syrian army, US troops in NE. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Oct. 06 (MNA) — Mass media on Thursday reported the clash broke out between Syrian army and the American forces in the southern suburbs of the Kurdish city of Qamishli, located in the northeast of Syria.

Jake Johnson (2022-10-06). After OPEC Move, Sanders Says US Must 'Eliminate Military Assistance to Saudi Arabia'. commondreams.org Sen. Bernie Sanders accused Saudi-led OPEC of a "blatant attempt to increase gas prices at the pump."

Anonymous669 (2022-10-06). Crisis In Syria's Al-Tanf Ends With U.S. Imposing Its Will On Its Proxies. southfront.org Muhammad Farid Qassem on the right side. Source: (@MaghaweirThowra) on Twitter. | The U.S.-led coalition has finally imposed its will on its proxies in the southeastern Syrian area of al-Tanf by installing a new leader for Maghaweir al-Thowra (MaT) of its own choosing. | A crisis emerged in al-Tanf late in September when the U.S. coalition sacked Muhanad Tala, a former colonel of the Syrian Arab Army (SAA), from his position as the leader of the MaT. The coalition replaced Tala with Muhammad F…

_____ (2022-10-05). 'The Greatest Evil Is War' Excerpt Details The Horrors Of Post-War Life. popularresistance.org I flew to Kansas City to see Tomas Young. Tomas was paralyzed in Iraq in 2004. He was receiving hospice care at his home. I knew him by reputation and the movie documentary Body of War. He was one of the first veterans to publicly oppose the war in Iraq. He fought as long and as hard as he could against the war that crippled him, until his physical deterioration caught up with him. | "I had been toying with the idea of suicide for a long time because I had become helpless," he told me in his small house on the Kansas City outskirts where he intended to die. "I couldn't dress myself. People have to help me with th…

Dave DeCamp (2022-10-05). Poland Says It's Discussed Hosting Nuclear Weapons With the US. news.antiwar.com Polish President Andrzej Duda said in an interview published Wednesday that Poland is open to hosting US nuclear weapons and has approached Washington about the idea. Currently, NATO members Belgium, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, and Turkey host US nuclear weapons under NATO's nuclear sharing program. The US and NATO have previously said that they wouldn't place nuclear weapons in …

Anonymous669 (2022-10-05). In Video: Syrian Army's 4th Division, Republican Guards Conduct Large-Scale Drills. southfront.org Click to see full-size image. | On October 4, the Syrian Ministry of Defense announced that different formations of the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) conducted large-scale drills over the span of several days. | The drills, which mimicked a large offensive, began with a series of strikes with artillery, ballistic missiles and warplanes. Under the cover of the strikes, armored formations advanced across the frontline, while several commando units landed from helicopters behind enemy defenses…

KATIE (2022-10-05). PHROC Open Letter to Siemens Regarding EuroAsia Interconnector. bdsmovement.net

Sajjad Shaukat (2022-10-05). Sikh Movement for the Liberation of Indian Punjab Accelerates. globalresearch.ca

____ (2022-10-05). HKSAR gov't vows full cooperation to country's recruitment of payload specialists in Hong Kong. ecns.cn The Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) government said on Sunday that it will render its full assistance and cooperation to the country's selection exercise for recruitment of payload specialists in the HKSAR.

SP Editor (2022-10-05). Pakistan Flooding 'Calamity' Prompts Call for Reparations. scheerpost.com "I have seen many humanitarian disasters in the world, but I have never seen climate carnage on this scale," says UN Secretary General António Guterres of the recent floods in Pakistan.

Anonymous669 (2022-10-05). Five Syrian Soldiers Killed Or Wounded In New Attack By HTS In Western Aleppo (Photos). southfront.org On October 5, terrorists of al-Qaeda-affiliated Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), the de-facto ruler of the northwestern Syrian region of Greater Idlib, raided a position of the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) near the 46th Regiment Base in the western countryside of Aleppo. | The raid was carried out by the Inghamiseen Division of HTS's Umar ibn al-Khattab Brigade, which is specialized in suicide attacks. | A spokesman for HTS claimed that five soldiers of the SAA were killed or wounded as a result of the raid, which…

Staff (2022-10-05). Que las relaciones bilaterales con Cambodia alcancen un estadio superior. cubadebate.cu Cuba y Cambodia firmaron este martes dos acuerdos de cooperación en los ámbitos de la cultura y el deporte, con el propósito de ´fomentar, promover y fortalecer ª la colaboración técnica en estas áreas, así como el intercambio de expertos.

Staff (2022-10-05). Autoridades cubanas chequean recuperación en Artemisa tras el paso de Ian. cubadebate.cu Hasta la provincia llegó el Comandante de la Revolución Ramiro Valdés para recorrer varios puntos del territorio y chequear el avance en las labores de recuperación. Por su parte, el jefe del Estado Mayor Nacional de la Defensa Civil, General de División, Ramón Pardo Guerra, llegó hasta consejo popular de montaña Niceto Pérez, del municipio de San Cristóbal.

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