2022-10-19: News Headlines

Editor (2022-10-19). Senate Looks To Give Taiwan $10 Billion in Military Aid. scheerpost.com

DLI (2022-10-19). UCS(Union of Concerned Scientists) article highlights Big Lie on N. Korea's nuclear aims. indybay.org The Summer 2022 issue of UCS Catalyst Quarterly highlighted a Big Lie on the dangers of North Korea's Nuclear Capabilities.

WSWS (2022-10-19). India strengthening anti-China alliance with US as Washington wages war on Russia. wsws.org India's far-right Narenda Modi-led government is doubling down on its military-strategic partnership with US imperialism even as Washington demonstrates that it is ready to risk triggering nuclear war to prevail over Moscow and China.

Binoy Kampmark (2022-10-19). Feeble and Invisible: Sports Protests at the Qatar FIFA World Cup. dissidentvoice.org Sports stars are often adored like dumb show animals, suitably pretty, happily disposed to the cause they are paid for. For the FIFA Men's World Cup being held in Qatar next month, football can count on the face of former English star David Beckham as its prized animal. This month, the principle-free player signed a …

Staff (2022-10-19). Death toll of terrorist clashes in NW Syria risen to 58. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Oct. 19 (MNA) — At least 48 terrorists and 10 civilians were killed in clashes between the armed terrorist groups in the northwest of Syria.

WSWS (2022-10-19). Sri Lankan petroleum workers strike against privatisation, defying essential services laws. wsws.org About 4,000 Ceylon Petroleum Cooperation workers joined the action, but the trade unions halted it at noon, bowing to the government's threats.

Trailing Ellamae (2022-10-19). Navajo Woman Walks to Washington so Missing Aunt Will Not Be Forgotten. indybay.org Seraphine Warren arrived in Washington DC in time for Indigenous Peoples Day, after having walked all the way from Sweetwater, Arizona, on the Navajo Nation, a trek of over 2,500 miles. She set out to raise awareness about the failures of government agencies and law enforcement in handling the MMIW, Murdered and Missing Indigenous Women, terror on the reservations. This terror struck Seraphine Warren's family when her beloved Auntie Ella Mae Begay went missing.

_____ (2022-10-19). The United States and Britain continue secret biological research in Central Asia. journal-neo.org Despite numerous publications about military research in secret US biology laboratories in…

Marcel Cartier (2022-10-19). Iran: 'Society has risen to overthrow the Islamic Republic'. greenleft.org.au Marcel Cartier spoke to Communist Party of Iran leaders Marzieh Nazeri and Abbas Mansouran about the uprising that has been sweeping Iran for more than a month.

Staff (2022-10-19). 2 PKK elements killed in Turkey drone attack on N Iraq. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Oct. 19 (MNA) — Sources in the Iraqi Kurdistan region on Sunday reported that 22 PKK members were killed during a drone attack conducted by the Turkish military in the Iraqi Sinjar region.

WSWS (2022-10-19). What does the "Labour and Freedom Alliance" in Turkey stand for? wsws.org The record of this alliance's constituent parties and its founding statement show it is a political extension of bourgeois opposition parties like the Kemalist Republican People's Party.

Staff (2022-10-19). Iraqi Army says 1 ISIL chieftains killed during 2022. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Oct. 19 (MNA) — Iraqi Army announced that 1 ISIL chieftains were killed since the beginning of the year 2022.

TeleSUR, odr, YSM (2022-10-19). Indonesia demanda a Países Bajos devolución de patrimonio cultural. telesurtv.net Países Bajos alberga miles de objetos indonesios como espadas, reliquias religiosas y estatuas.

TeleSUR, lvm, MER (2022-10-19). Gobierno de Venezuela presenta balance tras afectaciones por lluvias en el estado Aragua. telesurtv.net El Puesto de Comando Presidencial está activado las 24 horas del día para supervisar y establecer las estrategias para atender las afectaciones por las lluvias en el país.

_____ (2022-10-18). In Bangladesh, Concerns Mount Over Mass Displacement And Climate Change. popularresistance.org Rising sea levels and extreme flooding in Bangladesh are devastating lives and livelihoods. This year, floods in Bangladesh killed more than 100 people and, according to AFP, eroded at least 1,800 hectares (4,500 acres) of land according to estimates by Bangladesh's Center for Environmental and Geographic Information Services (CEGIS). The homes of at least 10,000 people were also affected. | Totally, as many as 7.2 million have been affected by the floods, as per the International Federation of Red Cross (IFRC) and Red Cross Societies, and nearly half a million had to flee their homes and take refuge elsewhere as…

Caitlin A. Johnstone (2022-10-18). We're being pushed toward nuclear war on a fiction: notes from the Edge of The Narrative Matrix. mronline.org We're being driven toward nuclear war on the completely fictional claim that Putin is a Hitler-like megalomaniac who's just invading countries completely unprovoked, solely because he is evil and hates freedom, and won't stop invading and conquering until he's stopped by force.

Jason Ditz (2022-10-18). Nearly 60 Killed in Intra-Rebel Fighting in NW Syria. news.antiwar.com Over the course of ten days, fighting has raged in NW Syria between Turkey-backed rebels and Islamists centering on al-Qaeda's Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS). HTS had its start early in the Syrian War as an al-Qaeda affiliate and rival to ISIS. ISIS tried to merge with them, unsuccessfully, and HTS has ended up in charge of an ever-shrinking territory around Idlib Province. | Turkey's collection of rebels, organized to go after the Kurds, includes al-Qaeda-linked factions as well. With several…

_____ (2022-10-18). DPRK exercises: Pyongyang has revealed its cards and the dangerous line is half a step closer. journal-neo.org Since the publication of the visit of the US carrier group to the ROK, the vicious circle of tensions has taken another turn or two. The previous digest was ended with Pyongyang launching two short-range ballistic missiles on October 6, while 8 North Korean fighter jets and 4 bombers flew near the line of emphasis …

____ (2022-10-18). VIDEO: Turkey tests fire its first missile project. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Oct. 18 (MNA) — Turkey test-fired a locally made, short-range ballistic missile, dubbed Tyfun, or Typhoon, over the Black Sea on Tuesday.

____ (2022-10-18). Sotheby's unveils 303.1 carats flawless diamond. ecns.cn A Golden Canary polished diamond is displayed at the Sotheby's Dubai gallery, Dubai, UAE, Oct. 17, 2022.

____ (2022-10-18). Borrell's remarks show racism, West cultural-moral decline. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Oct. 18 (MNA) — In reaction to the racism statements of EU Foreign Policy Chief Josep Borrell, Qatari Minister of Interior said that his statements show the racism and cultural-moral decline of the West.

____ (2022-10-18). 4 missing in S.Korea's fishing boat overturn accident. ecns.cn Four sailors went missing after a fishing boat overturned in waters near South Korea's southern resort island of Jeju, Yonhap news agency reported Tuesday citing the country's coast guard.

Judy Chu (2022-10-18). This Supreme Court Is a Threat to Asian American Communities. commondreams.org The Court continues to turn a blind eye to racism and discrimination.

TeleSUR, MER (2022-10-18). teleSUR anuncia a ganador de "Buscando una canción Qatar 2022" telesurtv.net Trigo Junco ganó el concurso con el tema El Grito, que tiene un ritmo de cumbia electrónica con sonoridades latinoamericanas y caribeñas.

____ (2022-10-17). War through the Media and the Role of Journalism. transcend.org 16 Oct 2022 – From a journalist who covered wars for 30 years in Latin America, the Balkans, the Middle East and Asia, the book "Truth Is Bombed: Media and War through the Eyes of a War Correspondent" is the result of a long-term research on the role of powerful news organizations in the coverage of armed conflicts, fake news, propaganda and censorship in the major wars from the 19th to the 21st century.

____ (2022-10-17). US sends trucks carrying stolen wheat, oil from Syria to Iraq. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Oct. 17 (MNA) — The United States sent 65 trucks carrying stolen Syrian oil and wheat from Al-Hasakah region in northeastern Syria to northern Iraq on Monday evening.

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