The US’ weapons companies spent $101 million on lobbying in the first 3 quarters of 2022

Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, Boeing, Northrop Grumman & General Dynamics raked in $775 billion from the federal govt between 2016-2021

#midterms

More humiliation for the US’🇺🇸 decades-long policy of pursuing regime change in Venezuela🇻🇪

John Kerry of Biden’s administration shakes Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro’s hand at #COP27 after sanctions impoverished millions of Venezuelans.

Another ‘please give oil’ moment

The illegal occupation NATO media won’t cover:

US🇺🇸 troops established another military base in Northern Syria🇸🇾 in Naqara village.

US troops illegally occupy the region which holds 90% of Syria's oil & most of Syria's wheat-keeping the country in a state of economic crisis.

On this day in 1975, the UN General Assembly approved a resolution equating Zionism with racism.

“[Palestinians] are beasts, they are not human.” -Rabbi Eli Ben-Dahan, the former Israeli Deputy Defence Minister.

3 years ago on this day, Bolivia’s Evo Morales was ousted from power in a US-backed coup. He had reduced poverty from 38.2% in 2006
to 15.2% in 2019.

The Movement for Socialism is back in power, President Luis Arce’s govt reduced extreme poverty from 13.7% to 11.1% in 2021.

Proposed expansion of the BRICS which would create an alliance of some of the largest natural resource reserves on Earth, over 50% of the world’s population and the world’s rising economic powers.

Could serious BRICS integration topple the current US-led Western hegemony?

‘This is my homeland, no one can kick me out’

On this day in 2004, the leader of the PLO🇵🇸 Yasser Arafat passed away. While he was criticised by many for being submissive in concessions to Israel, he is widely-regarded as the face of Palestinian resistance’s fight for freedom.

The UK🇬🇧 is the only major economy to be shrinking in the 3 months to September.

It is also the only economy to not have recovered the amount of the economy lost during the pandemic, with the UK economy still 0.4% smaller than measured in Q4 2019.

"We know where the attack was coordinated. We have received the message given to us and we know what kind of message it is. We do not accept the condolences of the US Embassy”

-Türkiye’s🇹🇷 Interior Minister implying the hand of the US🇺🇸 behind yesterday’s Istanbul terror attack?

NEW⚡️: Russia🇷🇺 and US🇺🇸 delegations reportedly holding negotiations in Ankara, Türkiye

BREAKING⚡️: 2 killed by Russian missiles that hit Polish territory, near the border of Ukraine🇺🇦

-US Intelligence Reports

Pentagon states it cannot confirm the report at this time

Russia denies missile strikes on Poland

Russia🇷🇺 says reports of missiles struck inside Poland are a 'deliberate provocation with the goal of escalating the situation'

US initial findings: missile that struck Poland was fired by the Ukrainian🇺🇦 military in response to an incoming Russian🇷🇺 missile.

"Everything we discussed has leaked to the newspaper, that's not appropriate, that's not how we do things."

-China’s🇨🇳 Xi Jinping blasts Canada’s🇨🇦 Justin Trudeau at the #G20Summit

The UK is already in recession according to Jeremy Hunt, PM Rishi Sunak’s chancellor.

£54 billion in tax rises and spending cuts has been outlined.

Around 1 in 5 in the UK now live in poverty, including 1 in 4 children. The result of 12 years of Conservative rule.

On this day in 1933, the United States under President Franklin Delano Roosevelt recognised the Soviet Union and established diplomatic and trade relations after extensive negotiations with Joseph Stalin’s Foreign Minister Maxim Litvinov.

George H W Bush bombed Iraqi hospitals, sewage systems, schools & power plants

Post-war Iraq could only produce 4% of its pre-war electrical capacity, destroying its healthcare system

Why only war crimes labels for Russia’s strikes in Ukraine, and never those labels for the US?