Daily News 09/09
Daily News 09/09
Daily News Archives Since June 2026
In The United States of War, David Vine, an anthropologist, faces the challenge of analyzing the global expansion of the United States of America (USA), a task that political scientists, historians, and international relations analysts have mastered. Moreover, Vine characterizes the US as an Empire. The concept is out of fashion because it declines or disappears along with the nation-state. However, as if shouting that “the Emperor has no clothes”, Vine reconstructs the history of the collection of military bases that US governments built and rebuilt in all parts of the world to sustain the Empire of an American elite with transnational ties to subaltern groups. In the process, building bases abroad has become a powerful machine of war and profit.
As El Niño Floods are Predicted: Critics Decry Trump HUD’s Proposed Rollback of Flood Protections for Low-Income HomesOne group said that the proposal “puts poor and working families that rely on HUD assistance at greater risk of danger, displacement, and homelessness.”
Corporatization of Prisons and Immigration Detention
Labor of the US Military-Industrial Complex Jobs in the military industry have declined even as the Pentagon budget soars, exposing a broken industrial model. Despite record-high military spending now exceeding $1 trillion annually, the arms industry is producing fewer and lower-quality jobs. Once a source of stable, unionized manufacturing work, emerging trends across the sector are deepening conditions of stagnant job creation and declining wages. The capital-intensive nature of weapons production makes military spending one of the least effective ways for the federal government to create jobs, while the rise of defense-tech companies that aim to produce “attritable” weaponry in lean, automated factories is likely to further reduce employment. At the same time, these shifts highlight an opportunity to redirect public investment and industrial capacity toward civilian sectors that generate more jobs and greater social returns, including urgent priorities like green manufacturing and the energy transition.
Prison Industrial Complex: Sixteen years ago, just a girl in her fifties. It was a tough time for me as I was being prosecuted for a bogus offense (eventually thrown out by a judge). The direct result of having low social capital. But it launched a new career in fighting our horrific criminal legal system. We are a country with just over 4% of the world’s population but 25% of its incarcerated people. The system was designed to perpetuate slavery. Slavery was abolished in the 13th amendment to the constitution but with a loophole “unless duly convicted of a crime.” People work for 26 cents an hour in prison… running call centers, doing manufacturing for major companies. These are competitive wages for these companies, what they would have to pay people in Southeast Asia. In addition, the 30% of American adults with a criminal record, most of whom have never been incarcerated, get to be legally discriminated against in employment for the rest of their lives. Having that marginalized caste also helps corporate profits! — Louellyn Lambros
Video: Exposed: How the CIA created ‘feminist’ icon Gloria SteinemLiberal feminist icon Gloria Steinem, a close ally of warmonger Hillary Clinton, has passed away at age 92. What many people don’t know is that she was a CIA agent. Ben Norton explains how the CIA has cultivated a pro-imperialist, anti-communist “compatible left”, who spread propaganda portraying the US empire as a “progressive” force, while the USA oppresses the Global South, waging nonstop wars and organizing countless coups d’etat.
Video: Michael Hudson: The West’s Financial System on the Brink of Collapse
Video: ‘Nuclear War Will Start’: Jeffrey Sachs WARNS Americans Of U.S And Israel’s Disaster War Plan
As El Niño Floods are Predicted: Critics Decry Trump HUD’s Proposed Rollback of Flood Protections for Low-Income HomesOne group said that the proposal “puts poor and working families that rely on HUD assistance at greater risk of danger, displacement, and homelessness.”
The United States’ Major Wars and Direct Military Interventions Since 1945
Iranian President Pens Open Letter to American People Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian has penned an open letter to the American public, in which he appealed to them to “look beyond” what he characterized as “the machinery of misinformation” amid the U.S.-Israeli war with his country. “Portraying Iran as a threat is neither consistent with historical reality nor with present-day observable facts,” he wrote. “Such a perception is the product of political and economic whims of the powerful—the need to manufacture an enemy in order to justify pressure, maintain military dominance, sustain the arms industry, and control strategic markets. In such an environment, if a threat does not exist, it is invented.”
PatricK Lwarence: “‘Russia is running out of steam.’ Really?” … This is the first of The Floutist’s Summer Readings, and we can do no better than begin these with Guy Mettan’s exceptional pieces. A second report will follow. This first includes extracts from an exchange with Alexander Khinstein, governor of the Kursk Oblast. “What Ukrainian militants did in our region,” he tells Metttan and his colleagues, “constitutes pure 21st–century Nazism.” KURSK—For the past four months, we have been told over and over again that Russia is on its last legs. Putin, we are assured, is panicking, hiding in his bunker, while the Russian people are supposedly on the verge of rebellion, angry at having to queue at petrol stations running dry because of Ukrainian strikes on oil refineries. This narrative, tirelessly echoed by virtually every medium in the West, appears to have become an indisputable truth.Yet, when confronted with reality, this proves to be just as false as the many narratives that have preceded it since the beginning of Russia’s military offensive in 2022. In Moscow, hotels are packed with Indian, Saudi, and Turkish tourists. And in the provinces, even in areas close to the front line, such as the Kursk region, life goes on almost as if nothing of any consequence has happened.
Russia will collapse tomorrow – and invade Europe in five yearsRussia is about to collapse. The economy is cracking at the seams. Sanctions have finally worked. Oil refineries are going up in flames one after another. Ukrainian drones have paralysed half the country. There is no petrol, no money, and soon there will be no soldiers left either. The regime is living out its final months, and after the coming elections the Kremlin will have no option left but another mass mobilisation. This is the Russia we are shown in the western press. But turn the page of the very same newspapers, and suddenly an entirely different Russia appears. No longer is it a half-ruined country barely capable of continuing the war: it is a terrifying military machine, preparing to storm into the Baltic states, march on Poland and challenge the whole of Europe within a few years.mmmm. Of course, we do not expect bourgeois propaganda to be logically consistent. But this contradiction is far too revealing to ignore.
Working People Must Recognize the Reform Limits of Our Economic Model
Our business model results in chronic exploitation, deprivation, and immiseration that cannot be eliminated by reform; the organization, production, and distribution of goods and services must be transformed into a democratic model.
Labor Day 2026: The oligarchy demands that workers pay for the crisis of American capitalism On Labor Day 2026, the American working class confronts an assault without precedent in the post-World War II period. The economic crisis of American capitalism has produced a single response from the ruling class and both of its political parties: make the working class pay. Under Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill Act,” Medicaid, which insures 74.9 million people, including 35.7 million children, is being cut by more than $900 billion over a decade through work requirements, eligibility purges and monthly re-certification. The Congressional Budget Office estimates that between 11 and 17 million people will lose coverage. The same law triggers nearly $500 billion in automatic Medicare cuts. Food stamps have been slashed by $187 billion, the largest reduction in the program’s history, stripping benefits from roughly 5 million people, at least 1.2 million of them children. The Wall Street Journal, celebrating this as reform, demands that “mandatory spending”—that is, Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid—be cut further.