2022-09-30: News Headlines

WSWS (2022-09-30). At UN, New Zealand PM backs war against Russia, promotes internet censorship. wsws.org Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern hypocritically called for nuclear disarmament, while aligning New Zealand with the war against Russia in Ukraine, and calling for greater censorship of the internet.

Jeremy Kuzmarov (2022-09-29). Is that a chilling echo of Dr. Strangelove we are hearing from Biden's nominee to oversee nuclear weapons arsenal? struggle-la-lucha.org

Shane Quinn (2022-09-29). An Overview of US Nuclear Weapons and Arms Expenditure. globalresearch.ca

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-09-29). Ukraine: Cuban Missile Crisis 2.0? libya360.wordpress.com Anatoly Antonov It is safe to assume that any use of nuclear weapons could quickly lead to an escalation of a local or regional conflict into a global one. As Henry Kissinger wrote in 2014, "The demonization of Vladimir Putin is not a policy; it is an alibi for the absence of one." I have commenced my…

Dave DeCamp (2022-09-29). US Targets Iran's Oil Exports With New Sanctions as Nuclear Deal Talks Stall. news.antiwar.com The US on Thursday announced new sanctions targeting Iran's oil exports in the latest sign that a revival of the Iran nuclear deal is unlikely. The State Department announced sanctions on two Chinese-based firms accused of trading Iranian oil, while the Treasury Department designated several entities based in Hong Kong, Iran, India, and the UAE. …

Prof Michel Chossudovsky (2022-09-29). "Preemptive Nuclear War": The Historic Battle for Peace and Democracy. A Third World War Threatens the Future of Humanity. globalresearch.ca US nuclear doctrine consists in portraying nuclear weapons as a means of "self defense" rather than a "weapon of mass destruction". There are powerful financial interests behind Joe Biden's $1.3 trillion nuclear weapons program initiated under Obama.

Ann Brown (2022-09-29). US Government: We Warned Russia Privately There Will Be Catastrophic Consequences If They Use Nukes. moguldom.com Behind closed doors, the U.S. government apparently warned Russian President Vladimir Putin against the use of nuclear weapons. Now, President Joe Biden's administration is sending the message through the media. Pentagon and U.S. officials made the rounds on Sunday talk shows Sept. 25 issuing the warning publicly. But on Sept. 28, Russia announced that it …

WSWS (2022-09-29). Sri Lankan SEP/IYSSE to hold online public meeting against nuclear war. wsws.org The online public meeting "Build an international working class movement to stop nuclear war danger" will be held at 4 p.m. on Sunday, October 16.

Jeffrey D. Sachs (2022-09-29). The Urgent Need for a Draft Ukraine-Russia Peace Agreement. commondreams.org Today's fraught situation can easily spin out of control, as the world has done on so many past occasions—yet this time with the possibility of nuclear catastrophe.

Robert C. Koehler (2022-09-29). Nuclear War and Moral Sanity. commondreams.org In a spiritual and moral sense, the world's nuclear powers are the most underdeveloped nations—committed to maintaining power over, rather than power with, the rest of the planet.

_____ (2022-09-29). PRC-ROK Relations: Cultural Exchanges. journal-neo.org After THAAD was deployed in the Republic of Korea in 2016, China restricted access to its market for South Korean (pop) culture content, including games, movies, TV series and popular music. Korean artists were banned from touring in China. However, the Chinese government did not issue any official decrees on this matter: restrictions were imposed …

Staff (2022-09-29). Harris, S Korea president discuss regional issues. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Sep. 29 (MNA) — US Vice President Kamala Harris and South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol met and held talks in Seoul, discussing regional issues.

SouthFront5 (2022-09-29). Kamala Harris' Visit To Tokyo Aims To Destroy Sino-Japanese Relations. southfront.org U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris holds her face mask as she hosts a roundtable discussion with Japanese business executives from companies in the semiconductor industry, at the Chief Mission Residence in Tokyo Wednesday, Sept. 28, 2022. (Leah Millis/Pool Photo via AP) | By Ahmed Adel, Cairo-based geopolitics and political economy researcher | US Vice President Kamala Harris is on a trip to Japan and South Korea, her first visit to Japan and her second to Asia since taking office early last year. Ahead of the US m…

_____ (2022-09-28). Russia Shifts to a Zero-waste Nuclear Cycle in its NPPs. journal-neo.org The global energy crisis, arguably the worst since 1973, is forcing adjustments in nuclear energy policy in the European Union and many other parts of the world. Washington's policy of squeezing Russia out of the European energy market, decommissioning European NPPs and forcing a "green agenda," for the express purpose of strangling its main economic …

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