2022-09-21: News Headlines

Editor (2022-09-21). Busing migrants, targeting socialism. workers.org Playing with human lives in a despicable political stunt, Greg Abbott, right-wing governor of Texas, has bused thousands of undocumented migrants north from the U.S. border with Mexico since the beginning of August. The buses dump homeless, jobless, hungry people — far from their own countries, with few to . . . |

Anonymous103 (2022-09-20). Military Situation In Southern Ukraine On September 20, 2022 (Map Update). southfront.org The AFU are transferring reinforcements to Novohrednevo and Malaya Seidemenukha; | The AFU attempt to build five pontoon crossings south of Bereznegovatoe under constant fire of Russian artillery; | The AFU attempted to attack Russian forces in the area of Davidov Brod, but were repelled; | In the area of Andreevka, the AFU were repelled from the area of Karlo-Marxovskoe and Bezimennoe to Sukhoi Stavok; | The AFU are preparing a landing operation on th…

____ (2022-09-20). China, Russia hold new round of strategic security consultation. ecns.cn Yang Jiechi, a member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, Monday co-chaired the 17th Round of Strategic Security Consultation between China and Russia with Nikolai Patrushev, secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation, in east China's Fujian Province.

WSWS (2022-09-20). Biden on "60 Minutes": American capitalism is at war with the world, at war with reality. wsws.org In the space of 25 minutes, Biden declared the COVID-19 "pandemic over," threatened a massive escalation of war against Russia and pledged US forces to a possible war with China.

Ahmed Al-Sammak, Aya Emad (2022-09-20). Suicide in Gaza: "A message of anger" electronicintifada.net Poverty, unemployment and hopelessness are some of the reasons why Palestinians in Gaza are dying by suicide.

WSWS (2022-09-20). African countries face double whammy of debt crisis and food crisis. wsws.org The World Bank has warned that the number of Africans living in extreme poverty is set to rise from 424 million before the pandemic in 2019 to 463 million this year, more than one third of the continent's 1.2 billion population.

WSWS (2022-09-20). COVID, Capitalism, and Class War: A Social and Political Chronology of the Pandemic. wsws.org Mehring Books, the publishing arm of the Socialist Equality Party (US), is proud to announce the publication of Volume 1 of COVID, Capitalism, and Class War: A Social and Political Chronology of the Pandemic, a compilation of the World Socialist Web Site's coverage of this global crisis. We post today Evan Blake's introduction to the book.

Orinoco Tribune 2 (2022-09-20). As African Countries Kick off Local Energy Projects, West Rolls Out Climate Agenda-Based Opposition. orinocotribune.com By Olga Borodkina Sep 17, 2022 | While many countries in Africa are experiencing energy poverty, suffering from electricity cuts, and are working on regional energy projects, the West appears to be skeptical of African nations' strive for self-sufficiency in this area. | The Nigeria-Morocco Gas Pipeline (NMGP) project, an initiative of Nigeria and Morocco that was initially proposed in December 2016, officially kicked off with the signing of a memorandum of understanding (MoU) between Nigeria, Morocco, and the Economic Community of West African States on Thursday in Rabat. | "Once completed, the project wil…

TeleSUR (2022-09-20). UN: Bolivia Asks for Peace and Blames Capitalism for Conflicts. telesurenglish.net The President of Bolivia, Luis Arce, advocated for world peace in his speech at the seventieth session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York and accused the transnational corporations of the capitalist system of generating global conflicts. | President of Bolivia, Luis Alberto Arce Catacora delivers his address during the 77th General Debate inside the General Assembly Hall at United Nations Headquarters in New York, New York, USA, 20 September 2022.

WSWS (2022-09-20). A conversation with film historian Max Alvarez about Hollywood blacklist victim, actress Marsha Hunt (1917—2022): "The entertainment industry hierarchy is … more acquiescent than ever" wsws.org Hunt was one of last surviving victims of the Hollywood blacklist of the late 1940s and early 19 s. Never a Communist Party member, she nonetheless became identified with opposition to the vicious witch-hunting in the film industry.

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