Monthly Archives: September 2023

2023-09-07: News Headlines

sputnikglobe (2023-09-07). Iran to Construct 1st Space Navigation Satellite. sputnikglobe.com MOSCOW (Sputnik) – The Iranian Space Research Center is planning to hold a public tender for the construction of its first space navigation satellite, the country's space agency said on Thursday.

Peoples Dispatch (2023-09-06). Saudi Arabia and Iran take next step in re-establishing ties, exchange ambassadors. peoplesdispatch.org The Saudi and Iranian embassies had already resumed operations over the previous months. The developments are a result of an agreement in March which was brokered with Chinese mediation…

Kiran Yeh (2023-09-07). How I Fought for Trans Justice This Summer. aclu.org Holding up a pink and blue "Trans People Belong" poster, I marched alongside 150 fellow high school students in the heart of Washington D.C this summer. Angered by the direct attack on either themselves or their trans siblings, we linked our arms to protest the approximately As an intern and a participant in the ACLU National Advocacy Institute (NAI), I had spent the past week learning alongside other young activists about major ACLU issues. The NAI is an annual program th…

MEE correspondent (2023-09-07). Iranian press review: Taliban denounces executions in Iran. middleeasteye.net Iranian press review: Taliban denounces executions in Iran | Meanwhile, Green Movement leader demands political change in letter from house arrest, and anger boils over at dismissal of professors from universities
| Thu, 09/07/2023 – 09: 48 | Taliban fighters stand guard as Afghan protesters take part in a demonstration against reports of harassment of Afghan refugees in Iran…

Dave DeCamp (2023-09-06). Blinken Speaks With Netanyahu, Abbas Amid Saudi Normalization Push. news.antiwar.com On Tuesday, the State Department said Secretary of State Antony Blinken held separate phone calls with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas amid a US push to broker a normalization deal between Israel and Saudi Arabia. According to the State Department, Blinken and Netanyahu discussed several issues, including Iran and …

Dave DeCamp (2023-09-06). Blinken Speaks With Netanyahu, Abbas Amid Saudi Normalization Push. news.antiwar.com On Tuesday, the State Department said Secretary of State Antony Blinken held separate phone calls with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas amid a US push to broker a normalization deal between Israel and Saudi Arabia. According to the State Department, Blinken and Netanyahu discussed several issues, including Iran and …

Peoples Dispatch (2023-09-06). Saudi Arabia and Iran take next step in re-establishing ties, exchange ambassadors. peoplesdispatch.org The Saudi and Iranian embassies had already resumed operations over the previous months. The developments are a result of an agreement in March which was brokered with Chinese mediation…

MEE staff (2023-09-06). Saudi Arabia and Iran exchange ambassadors after seven-year fallout. middleeasteye.net

MEE staff (2023-09-07). Daniel Khalife: Terror suspect who escaped UK prison accused of spying for Iran, says BBC. middleeasteye.net

Revolution Books (2023-09-07). Sunday 9/17: An Evening of Poetry for the Mahsa Amini Uprising & the Heroic Political Prisoners in Iran. indybay.org Revolution Books, 2444 Durant Ave. Berkeley CA 94704…

Revolution Books (2023-09-07). Sunday 9/17: An Evening of Poetry for the Mahsa Amini Uprising & the Heroic Political Prisoners in Iran. indybay.org Revolution Books, 2444 Durant Ave. Berkeley CA 94704…

Fight Back (2023-09-06). SDS Denver escalates campaign around budget cuts in powerful lightning rally. fightbacknews.org Denver, CO – Around 10: 45 a.m. on August 30 Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), at the Auraria Campus staged a lightning rally to demand an adequate resolution to the $12 million budget crisis that University of Colorado Denver is currently facing. | As it stands, instead of cutting from an already massively bloated administrative budget, the university is vying to impose further restrictions on education and campus life. These "solutions" include, but are not limited to, increasing maximum class sizes, leaving faculty roles empty after retirements, cutting classes or moving them online, and raising tuition…

Joe Piette, Workers World. (2023-09-06). Flight Attendants Prepare To Fight. popularresistance.org Following the announcement that 99.47% of American Airlines (AA) flight attendants across the U.S. voted to authorize a strike if company officials fail to agree to a 35% wage increase, workers outside Philadelphia Airport's Terminal A West on Aug. 30, jumped up and yelled in unison, raising and waving their picket signs that said it all: "Ready to Strike!" | Members of the Association of Professional Flight Attendants, who haven't had a wage increase since 2019, also picketed in front of over nine airport terminals from Los Angeles' LAX to Boston's BOS on the same day. The vote and widespread picketing "made it…

Joe Piette (2023-09-06). Flight attendants prepare to fight. workers.org Following the announcement that 99.47% of American Airlines (AA) flight attendants across the U.S. voted to authorize a strike if company officials fail to agree to a 35% wage increase, workers outside Philadelphia Airport's Terminal A West on Aug. 30, jumped up and yelled in unison, raising and waving their . . . |

The Alternative World (2023-09-06). Developing: A bad month for Resistance media just got much worse. thealtworld.com Hekmat Aboukhater- Mint Press News suspended on TikTok, The Grayzone's fundraising campaign frozen by GoFundme, and now The Cradle's Facebook page is unpublished. Independent journalism is losing a war and few people seem to notice. | Truly Independent media sites have unfortunately become few and far in between, and in an age where media is dominated by corporate, state-sponsored, or pretend independent media like

Joe Piette, Workers World. (2023-09-06). Flight Attendants Prepare To Fight. popularresistance.org Following the announcement that 99.47% of American Airlines (AA) flight attendants across the U.S. voted to authorize a strike if company officials fail to agree to a 35% wage increase, workers outside Philadelphia Airport's Terminal A West on Aug. 30, jumped up and yelled in unison, raising and waving their picket signs that said it all: "Ready to Strike!" | Members of the Association of Professional Flight Attendants, who haven't had a wage increase since 2019, also picketed in front of over nine airport terminals from Los Angeles' LAX to Boston's BOS on the same day. The vote and widespread picketing "made it…

Fight Back (2023-09-06). SDS Denver escalates campaign around budget cuts in powerful lightning rally. fightbacknews.org Denver, CO – Around 10: 45 a.m. on August 30 Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), at the Auraria Campus staged a lightning rally to demand an adequate resolution to the $12 million budget crisis that University of Colorado Denver is currently facing. | As it stands, instead of cutting from an already massively bloated administrative budget, the university is vying to impose further restrictions on education and campus life. These "solutions" include, but are not limited to, increasing maximum class sizes, leaving faculty roles empty after retirements, cutting classes or moving them online, and raising tuition…

The Global Research Team (2023-09-06). Fundraising for Global Research's Anniversary: 22 Years of Courageous Reporting and Truth-Telling. globalresearch.ca Global Research was born on the same year the US embarked on its Global War on Terrorism. On September 9, 2001, just two days prior to the 9/11 attack, Prof. Michel Chossudovsky established what since has become a lifelong commitment. …

The Global Research Team (2023-09-06). Fundraising for Global Research's Anniversary: 22 Years of Courageous Reporting and Truth-Telling. globalresearch.ca Global Research was born on the same year the US embarked on its Global War on Terrorism. On September 9, 2001, just two days prior to the 9/11 attack, Prof. Michel Chossudovsky established what since has become a lifelong commitment. …

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2023-09-05: News Headlines

Dave DeCamp (2023-09-04). IAEA Report Shows Iran Slows Its Enrichment of Uranium at 60%. news.antiwar.com A report from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) shows Iran has slowed its enrichment of uranium at 60% purity, The Associated Press reported on Monday. Iran began enriching uranium at 60% in response to an Israeli attack on its Natanz nuclear facility in April 2021. The level is the highest uranium enrichment Iran has …

Revolution Books (2023-09-05). Sunday 9/17: An Evening of Poetry for the Mahsa Amini Uprising & the Heroic Political Prisoners in Iran. indybay.org Revolution Books, 2444 Durant Ave. Berkeley CA 94704…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-09-04). Unlocking the Trans-Afghan Railway's Transformative Potential. libya360.wordpress.com F.M. Shakil The Trans-Afghan Railway project represents a game-changing opportunity to build critical commercial ties throughout Eurasia, connecting China, Iran, Pakistan, and Afghanistan. However, its success hinges on unwavering determination to overcome the inescapable challenges of finance, security, and geopolitics. In a promising development for regional connectivity and trade, the Trans-Afghan Railway project received a…

Editor (2023-09-05). Victoria Nuland BEGGING For Help After Africa Trip (w/ Anya Parampil). scheerpost.com By Briahna Joy Gray / The Grayzone The Grayzone's Anya joins fresh from her trip to South Africa for last month's BRICS summit. She weighs in on what Victoria Nuland was surprised she found there, and what it means for Argentina, Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran, Saudi Arabia, & United Arab Emirates to have joined the economic …

infobrics (2023-09-04). Neo-Nazi junta raising its Volkssturm. infobrics.org In the last several months, there have been reports about people with severe physical disabilities getting conscription notices, including blind people, as well as those with no extremities. However, the madness doesn't stop there. People with severe mental disabilities are not spared either. Their apparent "physical fitness" makes them "the perfect cannon fodder" for the criminal Kiev regime.

Lowkey (2023-09-05). Understanding the Niger Coup, with David Hundeyin. mintpressnews.com The MintPress podcast, "The Watchdog," hosted by British-Iraqi hip hop artist Lowkey, closely examines organizations about which it is in the public interest to know — including intelligence, lobby and special interest groups influencing policies that infringe on free speech and target dissent. "The Watchdog" goes against the grain by casting a light on stories largely ignored by the mainstream, corporate media. | | The world holds its breath. Last month, the Nigerien military overthrew President Mohamed Bazoum, decl…

News Desk, The Cradle. (2023-09-04). Heavy Clashes Between US Proxy Militia, Arab Tribes In Eastern Syria. popularresistance.org Clashes between the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) and Arab tribesmen in Deir Ezzor governorate left at least 25 dead and more than a dozen wounded as of 30 August, raising tensions between the Kurdish proxy militia and Syrian locals to the highest point in years. | The fighting was reportedly sparked by the detention of Ahmed Khbeil, better known as Abu Khawla, in Hasakah governorate. Khawla leads the SDF-affiliated Deir Ezzor Military Council (DEMC). | SDF forces took him on Sunday after being invited to a meeting in Hasakah. | Local tribes issued a statement following Khawla's detention for Arab figh…

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