The Hudak Report (9/09/24)
News Featured On Social Media
Thursday (9/05/24)
War Taxes Are Making You Poorer - Ken Klippenstein
Exposed: The US and Canadian Funding Behind Israeli Soldiers Accused of Rape - Mint Press News
Canadian forestation policies add fuel to the fires - Canadian Dimension
Friday (9/06/24)
What would an adequate COVID response look like? - The Gauntlet
Russian Influence Operations Are a Joke - Ken Klippenstein
Summer 2024 is already the hottest on record - The Verge
UN Expert Warns Israel on Track to Exterminate Nearly Entire Gaza Population - Truthout
Saturday (9/07/24)
Israeli killing of US woman spurs accountability calls by US lawmakers - Al Mayadeen English
‘Stop all arms to Israel’ say marchers on London Palestine demo - Socialist Worker
Sunday (9/08/24)
Israeli protesters bring Tel Aviv to a halt, demand deal to free captives - Al Jazeera English
"Why Should I Care About Gaza?" - Caitlin Johnstone
Other News
North America News
Over at People’s World, W. T. Whitney Jr. has written an article showing how the US aggravated the recent political unrest in Bangladesh.
Speaking of U.S. imperialism, the U.S. has now stiff-armed Dutch DUV lithography machine manufacturer, ASML, into not doing business with China.
The NDP in Canada has just ended their pact with Trudeau. World Socialist Web Site is here to explain what’s going on (for those who don’t live in Canada).
Portland, Maine has become the fourth city in the US to divest from Israel.
U.S. steelworkers are under attack right now in a way that hasn’t been seen in over a hundred years.
SAG-AFTRA is sabotaging the video game strikes.
In good news for U.S. labor, a thousand autoworkers in Tennessee have joined the UAW.
In Canada, a list of 900 names of Nazis living in the country was going to be released. But, the country that applauds Nazis in Parliament has decided not to after Ukraine asked them not to.
World News
The right-wing in New Zealand are racing to strip the Māori of the rights they’ve fought hard for, and now, the Māori have anointed a new queen during this crisis.
In Bahrain, King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa has pardoned 457 prisoners. Political prisoners are expected to be among those pardoned.
In a shock move, Swedish Foreign Minister Tobias Billstrom has announced his resignation after just two years in office.
The UK will be investing $35 million into a port in the Democratic Republic of Congo that enriches politicians and is expected to harm the environment.
Displacement is a massive problem in Somalia and now Prime Minister Hamza Abdi Barre has an initiative to provide housing and other necessary services to the displaced.
Israel is getting bold enough than even Israeli citizens are getting evicted by illegal settlers in the West Bank.
17 are dead and 14 more are injured in a fire at a boarding school in Kenya.
In Peru, indigenous rights got a major boost after a record number of land titles were granted to indigenous peoples.
The left always says that liberals would rather side with fascists than the left. French President Emmanuel Macron isn’t doing anything to disprove that saying after appointing a fascist approved prime minister.
After this appointment, thousands took to the streets in protest.
Speaking of France, AXA, one of the largest insurance companies in the country, has finally divested from Israeli banks after years of pressure.
Aysenur Ezgi, an American activist, was killed by Israeli forces in the West Bank.
In Pakistan, anti-corruption laws that former PM Imran Khan opposed, have been reinstated by the Supreme Court.
Meanwhile, also in Pakistan, thousands took to the streets to demand the release of Imran Khan.
Germany’s Special Commissioner for Migration Joachim Stamp has suggested using facilities funded by the UK to process asylum seekers in Rwanda in a plan that seems reminiscent of the UK’s racist (now scrapped) Rwanda Plan.
Climate destruction is leading to deaths of dolphins in the Amazon.
59 were killed in Vietnam from Typhoon Yagi, adding to the storm’s death count after 24 were killed in China and the Philippines.
48 were killed in Nigeria after a fuel tanker collided with a truck.
Edmundo Gonzalez Urrutia, the American supported far-right opponent of Nicolás Maduro in Venezuela has left the country and is now taken asylum in Spain.
Finally, in two separate incidents this past month, two workers were killed at Byerwen Coal Mine in central Queensland, Australia.
Opinion
Tom Valovic at CounterPunch has a list of three important questions that should be asked at the presidential debates but won’t.
Ray McGovern writes about how Americans are being conditioned for war against Russia.
Hamilton Nolan writes at How Things Work about how screwed America is by having built this country around cars.
Caitlin Johnstone talks about Dick Cheney endorsing Kamala Harris and why it makes perfect sense.