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2022-02-08: News Headlines

Staff (2022-02-08). Scientists invent '4-minute' Covid test. rt.com The new electromechanical sensors are as precise as PCR lab tests and show results in four minutes, researchers say | Scientists at Fudan University in Shanghai have come up with a new method for coronavirus testing, which they say is as sensitive but much quicker than PCR lab testing. | The new method involves electromechanical sensors capable of detecting, with high precision, SARS-CoV-2 RNA in human genetic material, according to the study published Monday in Nature Biomedical Engineering science journal. | "We implemented an electromechanical biosensor for the detection of SARS-CoV-2 into an integrated and…

Al-Shabaka (2022-02-08). Challenging Israel's Climate Apartheid in Palestine. juancole.com By Muna Dajani | — ( Al-Shabakah ) — Through its participation in the 2021 UN Climate Change Conference (COP26) and other international forums, the Palestinian Authority (PA) continues to promote a state-centric approach to climate change that ultimately blocks legitimate climate and environmental justice in Palestine. In effect, Palestinian leadership has reduced the Palestinian …

Ari Paul (2022-02-08). The news is not that Israel has apartheid, but that Amnesty dares say so. mronline.org Does the state of Israel now endorse cancel culture?>

Staff (2022-02-08). Iran nuclear deal: The role of the Israel lobby & pressure groups in derailing an agreement. rt.com Different impact groups try to prevent a new deal between the West and Tehran. How are some of them connected to Israel? | On January 24, it was revealed in a

Staff (2022-02-08). 'Dust walls' could defeat hypersonic weapons — think tank. rt.com A modern version of the nuclear 'dust defense' could be key to countering the threat, a Raytheon and Lockheed-backed paper says | The US could defend itself against enemy hypersonic gliders by dispersing clouds of dust over large areas through which such projectiles are expected to fly, a new white paper has suggested. Traveling through such an area at high speed would degrade and potentially destroy the weapon. | The idea was discussed in a document

Editor2 (2022-02-08). What Makes Amnesty's Apartheid Report Different? orinocotribune.com By Maureen Clare Murphy — Feb 3, 2022 | What makes Amnesty International's Certainly, Israel's "hysterical" reaction — (in the

Staff (2022-02-08). France's Macron claims he averted Russian invasion of Ukraine. rt.com According to the French leader, he managed to get a pledge from Putin that there will be no escalation in the conflict | French President Emmanuel Macron has claimed a breakthrough in the tense standoff between Russia and Ukraine, taking credit after supposedly obtaining guarantees from his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin that the situation will not escalate further, following a crunch summit between the two heads of state. | Speaking to journalists in Kiev ahead of talks with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Tuesday, Macron claimed that he has secured what he sees as a pledge from Moscow on the ma…

Editor (2022-02-08). Canada: The Left is nowhere on COVID. And that's a big problem. mronline.org They have failed to step into the current political climate and counter far-right protests, and get workers the income, housing and other social support they need.

Staff (2022-02-08). Woman conned into believing she's training to be federal agent. rt.com A criminal complaint claims an Oregon man used fake badges, tactical vests, and a BB gun to deceive her | A man has been charged with impersonating a federal agent in a criminal complaint that alleges he posed as a member of the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA), conning a woman into believing she was training to be an officer with the department. | The alleged offender, named as Robert Edward Golden, was spotted with the woman by a Portland police sergeant, with body armor that had the words 'DEA Police' written across it in his car trunk. When questioned, the victim showed the officer a badge and credentials cla…

Staff (2022-02-08). Germany promises 'very tough sanctions' on Russia. rt.com If Moscow launches an invasion of Ukraine, it will be hit with "far-reaching" measures, Chancellor Scholz says | Russia will face serious consequences if it decides to launch a military incursion into Ukraine, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz warned on Sunday, ahead of a trip to the US to meet President Joe Biden at the White House. | Speaking to German channel ARD, Scholz said that current Western efforts are aimed at ensuring there is no need to impose economic measures against Russia, but that a range of ideas had been discussed. | "We have very concrete preparations with our allies in the EU and the US. We ar…

Juan Cole (2022-02-08). Even Red-State Louisiana Eyes 5 Gigawatts of Offshore Wind Generation, replacing declining Oil Industry. juancole.com Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) — Windpower Monthly reports that the state of Louisiana's Climate Commission Task Force assembled by Louisiana governor John Bel Edwards is eyeing 5 gigawatts of electric power generation through massive new wind farms in the Gulf of Mexico, by 2035. The project would be part of the state's goal of getting …

Andrew Wong (2022-02-08). USA uses Solomon Islands protests against China. indybay.org Recently the US Department of State has issued a condemnation of mass unrest acts in the Solomon Islands.

_____ (2022-02-08). First Document on National Security to Be Published in Pakistan. journal-neo.org At the end of December last year, the National Security Council of Pakistan, chaired by the Prime Minister, adopted the National Security Policy of Pakistan 2022-2026 (or NSP), apparently the first such document in the country's history. However, its originality was immediately questioned by representatives of highly influential army circles in Pakistan who say that a …

_____ (2022-02-08). Antiwar Groups Rally To Stop Us From Being Lied Into War With Russia. popularresistance.org Clearing the FOG provides excerpts from the speakers at the National Online Rally to stop war with Russia over Ukraine that was held on Feb. 5 as part of the national actions that took place in about 70 cities in Hawaii and coast to coast. The rally and actions were organized based on a unified call to action issued by 12 national and international antiwar organizations, which was endorsed by more than 200 more organizations. The demands include stopping the war with Russia, stopping the supply of weapons to Nazis in Ukraine, ending NATO, de-escalating the threat of nuclear war and resolving the current conflict…

teleSUR (2022-02-08). Nicaragua Asks El Salvador to Abide by International Law. telesurenglish.net On Monday, Nicaragua recommended that El Salvador resolve any eventual territorial dispute through peaceful methods and using international norms and institutions. | RELATED: | Previously, the Salvadoran Naval Forces made statements claiming sovereignty in the Nicaraguan exclusive economic zone in the Golf of Fonseca. Since Feb. 5, Salvadoran military vessels remain less than 30 miles from the Nicaraguan coasts in a maritime terr…

Fight Back (2022-02-08). New Yorkers say 'No war with Russia'. fightbacknews.org New York, NY – Dozens upon dozens of organizers and anti-war activists gathered at two different rallies to protest the U.S. military threats against Russia. | | The first event began at 2 p.m. in Columbus Circle and was organized by Struggle-La Lucha. Organizers gathered near the USS Maine National Monument — the Maine warship exploded due to an accident and became a pretext for the 1898 Spanish-American War. Bill Doares of Struggle-La Lucha explained the important symbolism of the moment and likened it to a false flag operation, similarly to what's happening in Ukraine now. | Speakers denounced spendi…

sputniknews (2022-02-08). Iran's IRGC to Unveil New Domestically Developed Strategic Missile. sputniknews.com The Islamic Republic has been actively upgrading and developing its defence industry in light of international sanctions that have long prevented the country from buying weapons abroad. The nation's missile programme has sparked numerous protests in the West, with Tehran, however, refusing to slash it, and insisting on its right to defend itself.

WSWS (2022-02-08). Health and Care Bill drives another nail in the coffin of the UK National Health Service. wsws.org The legislation will further enshrine the ability of the private sector to cherry pick the most profitable parts, while those that produce no "shareholder value" will be left to a cash-strapped NHS.

WSWS (2022-02-08). Maritime Union of Australia tries to sell out Patrick Terminals workers. wsws.org The proposed union-management deal would deliver the company exactly what it demands—a workforce at its beck and call, whose personal lives must be subordinated to the vagaries of international supply chains.

Leon Kunstenaar (2022-02-08). Protest in Oakland Says No to War with Russia. indybay.org Rally part of a day of international action to protest US/NATO war plans against Russia…

WSWS (2022-02-08). Maritime Union of Australia deal to sell out Patrick Terminals workers. wsws.org The proposed union-management deal would deliver the company exactly what it demands—a workforce at its beck and call, whose personal lives must be subordinated to the vagaries of international supply chains.

WSWS (2022-02-08). Sri Lankan justice minister calls for strike ban in key sectors. wsws.org Workers in Sri Lanka must take a sharp warning from the Rajapakse regime's moves to further outlawing strikes in the state sector and other strategic industries.

_____ (2022-02-07). Putting Technology (And Billionaires) In Its Place. popularresistance.org In the International Forum on Globalization, I worked with forty writers, journalists, academics and social and environmental leaders from around the world to inform the public about the ways in which "free-trade" treaties, the principal drivers of globalization, have eroded democracy, destroyed livelihoods, and accelerated resource extraction. In countries as disparate as Sweden and India, I have seen how globalization intensifies competition for jobs and resources, leading to dramatic social breakdown — including not only ethnic and religious conflict, but also depression, alcoholism and suicide.

Antonio C.S. Rosa (2022-02-07). The Execution of Love as a Tool in Ethnic and Religious Cleansing in India (Part 4). transcend.org "Love Jihad": Deadly, Peace Destroying, New Strategies in Ensuring the Survival of a Political Ideology…

Sanket Jain (2022-02-07). Photo Essay: India's Lockdown Happened Two Years Ago, But the Poor Still Suffer. towardfreedom.org Far-right Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced in March 2020 a 21-day nationwide lockdown to curb a pandemic caused by COVID-19, the novel coronavirus. The lockdown was extended to 67 days, causing 121 million people to lose their jobs within the first month, writes Sanket Jain.

Chris Slee (2022-02-07). Online rally demands Tamil self-determination. greenleft.org.au A Tamil Refugee Council online rally for 'black day' called on the Australian government to stop aiding the Sri Lankan government's genocidal policies. Chris Slee reports.

Peoples Dispatch (2022-02-07). Argentina and China sign key agreements on cooperation and trade and other stories. peoplesdispatch.org Today we look at the Memorandum of Understanding signed between Argentina and China, the arrest of journalist Fahad Shah in Kashmir, and more…

Peoples Dispatch (2022-02-07). Farmers protest in Pakistan over fertilizer shortage and other issues, rally announced for February 14. peoplesdispatch.org The Pakistan Kissan Ittehad, which has been spearheading the farmers' protests since November, has announced a Punjab State-wide strike action by farmers if the government fails to act upon their demands till February 20…

Editor (2022-02-07). No-knock terror, again — Abolish the police! workers.org No one knocked on Amir Locke's apartment door before Minneapolis police entered, using a key, at 6: 48 a.m. Feb. 2. They murdered the 22-year-old Black man, nine seconds later. Protesters demand justice for Amir Locke in Minneapolis, Feb. 5. Locke, who police killed while carrying out a search warrant, was . . . |

Patricia Ferrer (2022-02-07). RT Censored: Germany Prohibits Russian TV Channel to Broadcast. orinocotribune.com This Wednesday, February 2, German media licensing and supervision commission (ZAK) has banned the Russian TV channel, Russia Today (RT), from broadcasting. | ZAK indicated, that RT does not have a media license. According to the media regulator, German law indicates that the Russian channel requires a broadcast license. It also states that RT did not receive or request permission to broadcast its programming. For this reason, it ordered the medium to stop broadcasting in German territory on all its platforms. | With this guideline RT will not be able to transmit its programming on the air, internet, through the…

Zach Kerner (2022-02-07). U.S.-EU hide their role in Afghan hunger crisis. workers.org On Jan. 24, U.S. and European Union representatives met with representatives of the Taliban in Oslo to discuss the situation in Afghanistan. The meeting's purpose, according to the U.S. State Department, was the "urgency in addressing the humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan" and the need to "help alleviate the suffering of . . . |

Editor (2022-02-07). The Code of families, a document built among all Cubans. mronline.org This week, Cuba began a historic process as Cubans started to going to more than 78,000 meeting points to discuss the new draft of the Family Code, a broad, complex, but very important process for Cuban families.

Editor (2022-02-07). How Israel's occupation of Palestine intensifies climate change. mronline.org "Israel's actions over the last almost 75 years demonstrate that there is very little regard for the indigenous landscape, the indigenous flora and fauna, the wildlife population, and the indigenous people." — Zena Agha, Middle East Institute.

Editor (2022-02-07). Leonard Peltier has COVID-19: Action needed to get him care. mronline.org Indigenous activists and supporters held a news conference in Tampa, Florida, on Jan. 31 to announce that Indigenous political prisoner Leonard Peltier had contracted COVID-19 in prison, endangering his life.

Editor (2022-02-07). The end of growth? The capitalist economy & ecological crisis. mronline.org Many ecologists, activists and academics argue that an obsession with economic growth is the cause of our current ecological crisis and a commitment to "degrowing" the economy is the solution.

Editor (2022-02-07). 'Look up', Australia: How capitalism and climate change are turning our food bowl to dust. mronline.org Quentin Beresford's book Wounded Country: The Murray-Darling Basin—a contested history, published in September 2021, is a warning. State officials, politicians and agribusinesses risk turning Australia's premier food bowl—the Murray-Darling Basin, which covers 14 percent of the Australian mainland—into desert.

Craig Murray (2022-02-07). How the Establishment functions. mronline.org The functioning of the Establishment, the way it forms a collective view and how that view is transmitted, is a mystery to many.

Moderator (2022-02-07). The Antiwar Movement That Wasn't Enough. scheerpost.com Protest against the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan in 2010 in Minneapolis, Minn. [ By Nan Levinson | When I urge my writing students to juice up their stories, I tell them about "disruptive technologies," inventions and concepts that end up irrevocably changing industries. Think: iPhones, personal computers, or to reach deep into history, steamships. It's the tech version of what we used to call a paradigm shift. (President Biden likes to…

Editor (2022-02-07). Richard Levins and Richard Lewontin: 'The Dialectical Biologist'. mronline.org One reason why this review came to be decades after said book's publication involves the loss of Richard Lewontin, the great American geneticist and evolutionary biologist, who passed away last July at his home in Cambridge at the age of 92.

Editor (2022-02-07). Election year in France: Some background notes. mronline.org The French presidential election looks to once more see a run-off between Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen. Can the Left break through? And what is the threat of Eric Zemmour?>

Rick Rozoff (2022-02-07). Two-front offensive: U.S. ambassador Emanuel insists Russian islands belong to Japan. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com Emanuel is a former mayor of Chicago, White House chief of staff during the Barack Obama presidency, congressman, senior advisor for policy and strategy to President Bill Clinton and chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. Based on past performance, he is the least diplomatic person to fill a diplomatic post. From the TASS news …

Antonio C.S. Rosa (2022-02-07). Israel's Apartheid against Palestinians: Cruel System of Domination and Crime against Humanity. transcend.org 1 Feb 2022 – Amnesty International has analysed Israel's intent to create and maintain a system of oppression and domination over Palestinians and has concluded that this system amounts to apartheid. Israel must dismantle this cruel system and the international community must pressure it to do so. All those with jurisdiction over the crimes committed to maintain the system should investigate them.

Antonio C.S. Rosa (2022-02-07). Ukrainian Sovereignty Means Not Joining NATO. transcend.org 1 Feb 2022 – Taking international law seriously requires looking at the world in a particular way. And this view of the world is very different from the view presented to Americans by their foreign policy establishment.

Antonio C.S. Rosa (2022-02-07). US National Debt Surpasses $30 Trillion for the First Time. transcend.org 2 Feb 2022 – On Monday [31 Jan], the U.S. Treasury Department announced that the national debt surpassed US$30 trillion, which included US$23.5 trillion in debt held by the public and US$6.5 trillion in intergovernmental holdings.

Antonio C.S. Rosa (2022-02-07). Why Amnesty Is Taking Aim at the 'Root Causes' of Israeli Apartheid. transcend.org Amnesty International's Saleh Hijazi elaborates about his organization's new report, the Israeli government's harsh response, and why our analysis of Israeli apartheid needs to begin from 1948.

Isheka N. Harrison (2022-02-07). More Symbolism: Black America Calls Top Democrat Clyburn 'Useless' After Championing New Bill About Song To Unify America. moguldom.com U.S. House Majority Whip Rep. Jim Clyburn is under fire again as some members of Black America are unhappy with his stance that a song will unify America. Some have deemed Clyburn's HR 301 bill — which proposes that the U.S. make "Lift Every Voice and Sing" its national hymn — as more empty symbolism. …

Liberation Staff (2022-02-07). VIDEO: Stop the war with Russia over Ukraine — National online rally. liberationnews.org As part of a national day of action against war on Russia, an online rally was held sponsored by a wide range of anti-war organizations…

Mark Gruenberg (2022-02-07). Poor People's Campaign: Pass Build Back Better and protect voting rights. peoplesworld.org CHARLESTON, W. Va.—The closer the midterm election looms, the sharper the words to Congress from the Poor People's Campaign, both for passing the Build Back Better bill and for defending democracy against white nationalism and the radical right. The warnings came from campaign members—the rank and file, if you will—from New York and West Virginia …

teleSUR (2022-02-07). Argentine President Fernandez to Visit Barbados. telesurenglish.net Argentina's President Alberto Fernandez will arrive in Barbados on Monday afternoon after an international tour that previously included official visits to Russia and China. | RELATED: | During his meeting with Prime Minister Mia Mottley on Tuesday, he is expected to discuss issues related to the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC), climate change, gender equality, and bilateral cooperation. | During the meeting, Fernand…

Staff (2022-02-07). Is the NFL Run Like a Plantation? Ex-Player Donté Stallworth Responds to Bombshell Racism Lawsuit. democracynow.org Ahead of the Super Bowl this weekend, we speak to former National Football League player Donté Stallworth about racism and anti-Blackness in the league. Last week, former Miami Dolphins head coach Brian Flores sued the NFL, as well as three teams — the Dolphins, Broncos and Giants — for discriminating against him as a Black candidate during his interview process. In his complaint, Flores says the NFL is "racially segregated and is managed much like a plantation," with wealthy white owners and head coaches at the top while the majority of players who risk bodily injury are Black. "Hop…

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2022-02-07: News Headlines

WSWS (2022-02-07). US combat troops arrive in Eastern Europe as Washington steps up war hysteria. wsws.org Biden National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan made several television appearances Sunday to warn, without evidence, that Russia could invade Ukraine "at any moment."

Andrew Wong (2022-02-07). USA uses Solomon Islands protests against China. indybay.org Recently the US Department of State has issued a condemnation of mass unrest acts in the Solomon Islands.

Sandipan Talukdar (2022-02-07). Omicron-specific vaccines: can be helpful, but needs a global policy, experts opine. peoplesdispatch.org Ever since Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech have started the variant-specific vaccine's clinical trials, the international community of researchers and scientists are arguing about the necessity, need or sustainability of such variant-specific vaccines…

Leon Kunstenaar (2022-02-07). Protest in Oakland Says No to War with Russia. indybay.org Rally part of a day of international action to protest US/NATO war plans against Russia…

ecns.cn (2022-02-07). Australian borders open to fully vaccinated tourists from Feb. 21: PM. ecns.cn Australia's international borders will reopen to fully vaccinated tourists within weeks after almost two years since the COVID-19 pandemic.

ecns.cn (2022-02-07). IAEA to visit crippled Fukushima plant ahead of Japan's plan to dump toxic water into Pacific. ecns.cn The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) plans to visit the disaster-hit Fukushima plant next week to evaluate the safety of Japan's contentious plan to discharge radioactive water from the plant into the Pacific Ocean.

Editor (2022-02-06). Katrina vanden Heuvel: The Exit From the Ukraine Crisis That's Hiding in Plain Sight. scheerpost.com [ By The crisis over Ukraine grows simultaneously more dangerous and more absurd. Russia has amassed more than

Project Censored (2022-02-06). Arrests Aim to Silence Kashmiri Journalists and Human Rights Defenders. projectcensored.org By Tara Dorabji India, the world's largest democracy, continues to use draconian laws to silence and incarcerate journalists and human rights defenders in Kashmir. On February 4, Fahad Shah, founder…

Staff (2022-02-06). Estados Unidos supera las 900 000 muertes por COVID-19. cubadebate.cu Estados Unidos superó el viernes último la cifra de 900 000 fallecidos por COVID-19 desde que comenzó la pandemia, según informó recientemente la Universidad Johns Hopkins de ese país. La nación norteña también encabeza los contagios a nivel global, con cifra superior a los 76 220 000 de infecciones, y secundada por la India y Brasil.

ecns.cn (2022-02-06). Political leaders worldwide praise Beijing Winter Olympics opening ceremony. ecns.cn The opening ceremony of the 24th Olympic Winter Games held here on Friday evening at the National Stadium, known as the Bird's Nest, has drawn praise from political leaders across the world.

Editor (2022-02-06). Chris Hedges and Louis Hyman on the Harmful Gig Economy. scheerpost.com After the end of World War II two generations of workers in the United States were blessed with a period of unprecedented prosperity. Wages for the working class were high. Jobs were stable and came with benefits and health insurance. Unions protected workers from abuse by the business elites. Taxes on the wealthiest individuals and corporations was as high as 91 percent. The public school system provided a quality education to the poor and the rich. The nation's infrastructure and technology were cutting edge and unrivaled. But by the 1970s it all began to go south. Wages stagnated. Income inequality grew,…

Editor (2022-02-06). The Warmongers Miscalculated. scheerpost.com By David Swanson / Video from the White House on Saturday: | @WorldBeyondWar, because defense contractors & imperial politicians will lie us into one for Video from webinar on Saturday

_____ (2022-02-06). Student Granted Bail After Protesters Threaten To Render Kingdom 'Ungovernable'. popularresistance.org A court in the city of Manzini granted bail to Colani Maseko, the president of Swaziland National Union of Students (SNUS) on Friday, February 4. The student leader had been arrested on January 31 and charged with sedition. | His bail came a day after the SNUS marched to the Manzini regional police headquarters and held a demonstration on February 3. A cross section of Swaziland's pro-democracy forces, including the banned political parties, trade unions, and youth organizations, attended the action. | Outside the police headquarters, protesters at the demonstration openly threatened to render the kingdom "ungove…

Anonymous Contributor (2022-02-06). Stay Out of DC: A Report on Confronting Patriot Front at 'March for Life'. itsgoingdown.org Report back on antifascist mobilization against the neo-Nazi group Patriot Front, who attempted to march at the anti-abortion, 'March for Life' rally in DC in late January. We, speaking as DC AFA, Frederick AF, DCYLF, MDYLF and other DC community members united against Patriot Front on January 21, 2022 during the National March for Life…

Editor2 (2022-02-06). The Siege of El Estor: Resistance to the Continuation of an Extractive and Repressive Neoliberal Status Quo in Guatemala. orinocotribune.com By Ben Gutman — Feb 1, 2022 First-hand reporting and analysis of the Maya Q'eqchi' resistance movement against multinational corporate…

Prof Michel Chossudovsky (2022-02-06). There are No Neo-Nazis in Ukraine. The US and Canada do not Support Fascism. globalresearch.ca First published by Global Research on March 1, 2014 Svoboda is a Neo-Nazi Party, Ukraine's fourth biggest party holding 36 seats out of 450 in parliament. | They're also part of the Alliance of European National Movements along with the …

David DeGraw (2022-02-06). National Security Alert: Thousands of U.S. Special Forces and Combat Troops Discharged as Total Force 'Vaccination' Decimates Military Readiness. globalresearch.ca

International Action Center, Bay Area (2022-02-06). Saturday 2/5: No War Against Russia! Fund Schools and Covid Relief Not War! indybay.org In front of Grand Lake Theater (Grand and Lake Park) Oakland…

United Health Professionals (2022-02-06). International Alert Message about COVID-19. United Health Professionals. globalresearch.ca We are more than 1,500 members (including professors of medicine, intensive care physicians and infectious disease specialists) from more than 30 countries. The lockdown has not only killed people, it has destroyed physical and mental health, economy, education and other aspects of social life.

Asa Winstanley (2022-02-06). How Israel lost the War of Words over its Apartheid. juancole.com ( Middle East Monitor ) — Who wrote the following quote? "Whereas the Afrikaner apostles of apartheid in South Africa, for example, brazenly proclaimed their sin, the [Israeli] practitioners of apartheid in Palestine beguilingly protest their innocence." Amnesty International? Human Rights Watch (HRW)? Perhaps even the Israeli human rights group, B'Tselem? Since January of last …

ecns.cn (2022-02-06). World leaders wish complete success for Games. ecns.cn Leaders of foreign countries and international organizations have recently extended Spring Festival greetings to the Chinese people and conveyed their wishes that the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics and Paralympics will be a complete success.

Emily Mangiaracina (2022-02-06). Big Pharma, Gates, Fauci, UK Officials Accused of Crimes against Humanity in Complaint to International court. globalresearch.ca First published on December 18, 2021 | Activists are charging UK officials and the world's most powerful health figures with genocide, citing a range of statistics on the effects of COVID "vaccines" and policies. | A group that includes former Pfizer vice …

Juan Cole (2022-02-06). Beer Hall Putsch 2.0: Republican Nat'l Committee Channels their inner Hitler in defending Capitol Insurrectionists. juancole.com Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) — The Republican National Committee's censure of Representatives Liz Cheney (R-WY) and Adam Kinzinger (R-IL) slammed the two for "participating in a Democrat-led persecution of ordinary citizens engaged in legitimate political discourse" and of "utilizing their past professed political affiliation to mask Democrat abuse of prosecutorial power for partisan purposes." The …

Carlos Aznarez (2022-02-06). Argentina: An Agreement of More Submission. orinocotribune.com By Carlos Aznárez and Roberto Perdía — Jan 30, 2022 | On Friday last week, President Alberto Fernández announced the new agreement with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) by which he set the will of his government to extend the payment of the debts contracted by former right wing President Macri, and agreed to a series of commitments with the international financial organization where the US has the leading voice. | Since our incorporation into the IMF in 1956, this is the 22nd agreement, and in all of them there are mutual commitments to "lay the foundations for a sustained development". | In none of the…

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2022-02-06: News Headlines

_____ (2022-02-06). Olympic Games 1936: How USA Supported Hitler Amid International Protest. strategic-culture.org The U.S. agitates against China as a host country for the Olympics. But in 1936, Hitler's Germany was able to stage glittering Winter and Summer Olympics — with U.S. help against international protests from Jewish and labor movements | Despite the worldwide boycott movement against awarding the 1936 Olympics to Berlin, they finally took place, bigger and more brilliant than ever before. Dictator Hitler stood with them in the summit of his international recognition. | The crimes of Hitler's government were internationally known since the beginning of 1933. They began immediately after the seizure of power i…

WSWS (2022-02-05). Workers Struggles: Asia and Australia. wsws.org Indian power distribution workers protest nationally against privatisation; Pakistan: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government workers demand pay rise; New South Wales commuter rail workers resume limited industrial action…

Jyotsna Singh (2022-02-05). Cuba is helping vaccinate the world. peoplesdispatch.org Only 9.5% of people in low-income countries have received a single dose of the vaccine. Cuba has a comprehensive plan to support vaccine distribution in the global south to make sure none are left behind…

Jyotsna Singh (2022-02-05). The people of the world vs Pfizer Inc. peoplesdispatch.org During the Covid-19 pandemic, Pfizer has used every opportunity to maximize its profits, even if this meant reduced access to life-saving medical products for most of the world. The same is about to happen in the case of Paxlovid, the company's Covid-19 oral treatment…

Martha Grevatt (2022-02-05). New trend/ U.S. workers strike and organize at a new pace. workers.org This lightly edited article, based on an interview with Workers World Managing Editor Martha Grevatt, was published Feb. 2 in the Danish Communist Party's newspaper, "Worker." In March 2021, protesters took to the streets in 50 cities across the U.S. to support workers in the state of Alabama who were . . . |

Peoples Dispatch (2022-02-05). AFCON and the politics of the beautiful game. peoplesdispatch.org New Frame's sports editor Njabulo Ngidi talks about the politics around the conduct of the Africa Cup of Nations in Cameroon, the stampede at Olemebe stadium, and the controversial statements of FIFA head Gianni Infantino…

Editor (2022-02-05). Ralph Nader on Facilitating Civic and Political Energies for the Common Good. scheerpost.com By Ralph Nader / Some readers responded to one of my earlier columns urging the national progressive civic groups, with millions of members back home, to overcome the dominance of giant corporatism with a Ten-Year Plan budgeted at $1 billion a year (See,

Editor (2022-02-05). Lee Camp and Adam McKay on Social Criticisms and Government Corruption. scheerpost.com This week on VIP Lee Camp looks back to a 2016 interview with the director of the Netflix smash-hit "Don't Look Up." Adam McKay is responsible for brilliant social criticisms in movies like "The Big Short" that took on the 2008 financial crisis and a satire of corporate media in "Anchorman." His latest movie skewers …

Mike Walter (2022-02-05). The Heat: Beijing Winter Games underway. america.cgtn.com A dazzling celebration inside Beijing's National Stadium, as China marks the official start of the 2022 Winter Olympics.

Carol Brayne, Paul O'Mahoney, Joanne Feeney, Rose Anne Kenny (2022-02-05). [Correspondence] The challenges of open access data. thelancet.com The demand that publicly funded scientific research be freely available to the public and the larger research community (including beyond academia—eg, government departments and non-governmental organisations) has increased in recent years. In line with the goal of open access science, funders of epidemiological cohort studies often mandate that study teams make anonymised datasets available for wider use.

Ana Perdigón (2022-02-05). Venezuelan Authorities Announce New Phase of Vuelta a la Patria Program (+Xenophobia). orinocotribune.com The President of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, announced this Wednesday, February 2, that a new phase of the Vuelta a la Patria program will start in March, to guarantee the safe return of Venezuelan nationals residing in countries of Latin America and the Caribbean. | During a meeting at the Miraflores Palace, the president stated that starting from March the number of flights of the Plan Vuelta a la Patria will be tripled, and called on Venezuelans who are outside the country to return. | President Maduro explained that initially the program will serve Venezuelans who are already registered to return to the countr…

Colin Todhunter (2022-02-05). An Inconvenient Truth: The Peasant Food Web Feeds the World. dissidentvoice.org In October 2020, CropLife International said that its new strategic partnership with the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) would contribute to sustainable food systems. It added that it was a first for the industry and the FAO and demonstrates the determination of the plant science sector to work constructively in a partnership where …

Ron Forthofer (2022-02-05). US Corporate Media and Israel. dissidentvoice.org Israel is greatly concerned about the Palestinian Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) effort that seeks: 1) to end international support for Israel's oppression of Palestinians; and 2) to pressure Israel to comply with international law. Israel claims that this campaign is a threat to its legitimacy. Unsurprisingly, Israel doesn't want to acknowledge that it is …

Staff (2022-02-05). Internationalism and local activity: Emancipation without false dichotomies — Judit Rodríguez Fernández. samidoun.net The following article by Judit Rodríguez Fernández was published first in Spanish at laU — Revista de cultura y pensamiento. A French translation is also available, via the Collectif Palestine Vaincra. "What binds me to her is something that I could not explain exactly, although perhaps it is her deep roots in that heroic and …

scorinoco (2022-02-05). The Beijing Winter Olympics are a Symbol of Multipolarity and International Friendship. orinocotribune.com By Carlos Martinez — Feb 2, 2022 | With over 30 heads of state and government gathered in Beijing to attend the opening ceremony of the 2022 Winter Olympics, in spite of the pandemic which is still raging in most parts of the world, the Games will prove to be a symbol of a deepening multipolarity and global solidarity. | A tiny handful of imperialist countries, led by the United States, tried and failed to coordinate a so-called "diplomatic boycott," based on absurd and debunked fabrications about the treatment of Xinjiang's Uygur population. | When Joe Biden announced a year ago that "diplomacy is back," mo…

sputniknews (2022-02-05). French National Assembly Rejects Draft Resolution on Call for Political Asylum for Assange. sputniknews.com PARIS (Sputnik) – The French National Assembly has rejected the draft resolution with a call on the country's government to provide political asylum for the founder of the WikiLeaks whistleblowing website, Julian Assange.

Michael Lord (2022-02-05). Klaus Schwab's WEF "School for Covid Dictators", a Plan for the "Great Reset" globalresearch.ca First published on December 18, 2022 | Economist Ernst Wolff believes that a hidden alliance of political and corporate leaders is exploiting the pandemic with the aim of crashing national economies and introducing a global digital currency. | How is it that …

ecns.cn (2022-02-05). International participants extol opening ceremony of Beijing 2022. ecns.cn The Beijing 2022 Olympic Winter Games officially commenced on Friday, and the opening ceremony, as the curtain raiser to the Games, won much praise from overseas participants.

Michael Welch (2022-02-05). Freedom Convoy 2022: The Rising of Unity and International Solidarity. globalresearch.ca These of the words of a duly elected head of government, who claims to represent Canadians: | "The small fringe minority who are on their way to Ottawa who are holding unacceptable views that they're expressing do not represent the views …

sputniknews (2022-02-05). Watch New Zealand Parrot Snatching GoPro to Film Its Own Vid. sputniknews.com Fiordland National Park in New Zealand's South Island is one of the largest parks in the country and one of the most picturesque. Sometimes a literal bird's-eye-view is what's needed to get the proper perspective.

Hannah Rose (2022-02-05). Before the International Criminal Court (ICC). The Corona Virus "Vaccines". Nuremberg Code, Crimes against humanity, War Crimes and Crimes of Aggression" globalresearch.ca We bring to the attention of Global Research readers, the full text …

Rick Rozoff (2022-02-05). Russian-Chinese statement on NATO: what it says and what it doesn't. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com Much has already been and even more will be said about the joint statement issued on February 4 by the presidents of Russia and China, Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping, entitled Joint Statement of the Russian Federation and the People's Republic of China on the International Relations Entering a New Era and the Global Sustainable …

Seth Galinsky (2022-02-05). Join Socialist Workers Party, 'Militant' in campaigning. themilitant.com The international In California the fight for ballot status for SWP candidates Eleanor García for U.S. Senate and Joel Britton for governor is underway. García and Britton explain why working people need ou…

WSWS (2022-02-05). Chilean and international capital praise Boric's cabinet picks. wsws.org Like SYRIZA in Greece and Podemos in Spain, the Chilean pseudo-left and Stalinist front has the task of dissipating seething opposition among workers and young people to capitalism.

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2022-02-05: News Headlines

International Action Center, Bay Area (2022-02-05). Saturday 2/5: No War Against Russia! Fund Schools and Covid Relief Not War! indybay.org In front of Grand Lake Theater (Grand and Lake Park) Oakland…

Moderator (2022-02-05). Joint Russia-China Statement Articulates United Opposition to Western Alliance. scheerpost.com Editors note:

_____ (2022-02-04). Some Consequences of the Latest hate Speech Incident in India. journal-neo.org On January 10 the Supreme Court of India agreed to urgently consider a petition on "hate speech" against the country's Moslem communities, with reference to specific incidents, most notoriously an incident in December 2021 in Haridwar — a city venerated in the Himalayan foothills on the banks of the River Ganges. Both the city and …

WSWS (2022-02-04). As India passes 41 million official COVID-19 cases, Modi boasts of his "great success" wsws.org Modi's criminal profits-over-human-lives policy has already created an unbelievable humanitarian crisis in the world's second most populous country.

Swaran Singh (2022-02-04). Biden administration must rejig its North Korea strategy. asiatimes.com The UN Security Council was to hold an emergency meeting this Friday to discuss North Korea's seven missile tests in the past four weeks. The meeting was requested by the United States, along with Britain and France, and agreed by Russia, which holds the presidency of UNSC for the month of February. However, given the …

teleSUR (2022-02-04). Argentine President Fernandez Starts Official Visit to China. telesurenglish.net On Friday, Argentinian President Alberto Fernandez arrived in Beijing to fulfill a busy agenda before meeting Chinese President Xi Jinping. | RELATED: | After being welcomed by Ambassador Wu Jie, Fernandez was virtually awarded an Honoris Causa at Tsinghua University. He visited then the headquarters of the Chinese Communist Party, where he signed the visitors' honorary book. Later, he attended the opening ceremony of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic…

Joris Leverink (2022-02-04). "City on the Second Floor": Clarion call from a poetic craftsman. roarmag.org Police investigate at a homeless people's encampment in Los Angeles, US. September 15, 2022. Credit: Ringo Chiu / Shutterstock | Matt Sedillo's poetry is electric, like a lightning bolt. He is a man on a mission, with a message to spread and fire on the tongue. With the tone and the tenor of a biblical prophet — though one with a profound sense of the farcical, too — he delivers a scathing critique, a desperate denunciation of the patriarchal, white supremacist and capitalist dystopia that we inhabit. His latest book, City on the Second Floor, is a cohesive and compelling compendium of some 32 poems a…

Marie Kelly (2022-02-04). Pandemic exposes U.S. health care crisis. workers.org In the book "The Great Influenza: The Deadliest Pandemic in History" by John Barry, written in 2005 about the so-called Spanish Flu of 1918, we learn that pandemic actually started in the U.S. The army barracks in the Midwest were the breeding ground for the deadly virus. World War I . . . |

Mumia Abu-Jamal (2022-02-04). Mumia Abu-Jamal: Un Nuevo Movimiento por la Libertad ahora. workers.org El gran revolucionario caribeño Frantz Fanon escribió en su ya clásica obra, The Wretched of the Earth (Los condenados de la tierra), el siguiente llamado a acción: "Cada generación debe, desde la relativa oscuridad, descubrir su misión, cumplirla o traicionarla en relativa opacidad. Esa misión la tenemos nosotros." øCuál misión? . . . |

Staff (2022-02-04). Super-mutant HIV strain discovered in Europe. rt.com The new variant is said to be more transmissible and dangerous | A new highly transmissible and dangerous HIV variant has been discovered in the Netherlands, confirming scientists' worst expectations. | An international collaborative study, led by researchers from the University of Oxford's Big Data Institute, identified 109 cases of the new 'virulent subtype B' (VB) variant after analyzing more than 6,700 positive samples. | The research revealed significant genome differences between the VB strain and other HIV variants. | "Individuals with the VB variant had a viral load (the level of the virus in the blood…

Vijay Prashad (2022-02-04). Make noise about the silent crisis of global illiteracy: The Fifth Newsletter (2022). mronline.org In October 2021, the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) held a seminar on the pandemic and education systems.

Staff (2022-02-04). Do you trust Biden or ISIS, Psaki asks skeptical reporter. rt.com The White House spokeswoman dismissed a question about evidence in deadly Syria raid | White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki mocked the idea that the US administration may provide journalists inaccurate information about its military operations abroad. | When asked if Washington would be giving any proof that the target of a US commando raid in Syria blew himself up along with members of his family, Psaki asked whether skeptics would rather trust terrorists. | She was confronted by a journalist on Air Force One over an account of events that President Joe Biden gave to the public. | Speaking a few hours after…

Rick Rozoff (2022-02-04). 30 NATO members, 37 partners from around the world forge new global strategic doctrine. mronline.org The 67 nations involved include ones on all six populated continents. Why the world stubbornly persists in ignoring the evolution of an ever-expanding international military alliance is beyond my ability to comprehend.

Editor (2022-02-04). The struggle to decolonise the mind: Frantz Fanon and his Irish translator, Constance Farrington. mronline.org Last month marked 70 years since the passing of psychiatrist, political radical, Marxist and philosopher of the Algerian Revolution, Frantz Fanon, at the young age of 36.

Staff (2022-02-04). Covid-hit Russian women's team earn first Beijing win. rt.com The ROC women's hockey team beat Switzerland in their opening game at the Beijing Winter Games | The Russian women's ice hockey team put some major disruptions behind them to pick up an opening win against Switzerland at the Beijing Olympics. | The Russian team — competing under the banner of the Russian Olympic Committee (ROC) — was hit by a spate of positive Covid tests in the buildup to their opening encounter in the Chinese capital which severely disrupted their opportunities to train. | But still despite missing six players due to Covid protocols, the ROC team eventually eased past their Swiss r…

teleSUR (2022-02-04). Beijing Kicks off Winter Games. telesurenglish.net The Beijing Olympic Winter Games were inaugurated on Friday night, with the city hosting the Olympic flame for the second time in the Bird's Nest Stadium. | RELATED: | The Chinese President Xi Jinping decreed the opening of the Beijing Winter 2022 at 21: 51 local time, in the presence of 40 000 home audience and the state leaders and international diplomatics, such as Russian President Vladimir Putin and United Natio…

Staff (2022-02-04). Ukrainian Olympic skaters admit they prefer to use Russian. rt.com The duo explained why they prefer the language when speaking with the press | Artem Darenskyi and Sofiia Holichenko, who represent Ukraine in pairs skating, have refuted reports that they are prohibited from speaking Russian, adding that it's up to them to decide which language to use. | The figure skaters took part in the Olympic team event and

teleSUR (2022-02-04). Greece Begins Parade of Athletes at the Olympic Winter Games. telesurenglish.net On Friday, the 2022 Winter Games opening ceremony started. As an Olympic tradition, Greece, which hosted the first modern Olympic Games in 1896, is the first team to start the parade of athletes into the Bird's Nest Stadium. | RELATED: | China, as hosts, will march in last; future Olympic Winter Games hosts Italy (Milano-Cortina 2026) will enter the second-from-last under a change approved by the IOC Executive Board…

Vijay Prashad (2022-02-04). Can Israel stop the world from saying 'apartheid'? Concealing the suffering in Palestine. mronline.org Israel attempts to improve its public image to counter efforts by human rights organizations that reveal the nature of Israeli apartheid.

Staff (2022-02-04). Russia and China sign major energy deal. rt.com The 30-year agreement will boost gas supplies by 10 billion cubic meters and will be settled in euros | Russia's Gazprom and the China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) signed a second long-term contract on Friday for the supply of 10 billion cubic meters (bcm) of natural gas from the Russian Far East. The agreement comes as Russian President Vladimir Putin is in China on an official visit. | According to Gazprom, the agreement is "an important step in further strengthening mutually beneficial cooperation between Russia and China in the gas sector." After the project reaches its full capacity, the volume o…

Nauman Sadiq (2022-02-04). How Erdogan Scapegoated ISIS Caliph to Appease Biden? dissidentvoice.org Whilst Turkish President Erdogan was in Kiev on Thursday, ostensibly brokering a peace deal between Russia and Ukraine to defuse escalating tensions following the Russian troop build-up along Ukraine's borders and the deployment of 3,000 US forces in Poland and Romania, Biden announced that the Islamic State leader had been killed in a special-ops raid …

_____ (2022-02-04). How Israel's Occupation Of Palestine Intensifies Climate Change. popularresistance.org Al-Naqab — On Sunday, roughly 200 activists demonstrated outside Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett's office in Jerusalem against the Jewish National Fund's (JNF) tree-planting project in al-Naqab, maintaining the forestation is an attempt to displace the indigenous Bedouin population. | Contracted by the Israeli government, the JNF razed fruit trees and seeded fields in al-Naqab in January to "make the desert bloom" with non-native plants. The purported environmental project has been met with fierce protest from the local villagers, with more than 60 Bedouin arrested in the last few weeks. | JNF mainta…

_____ (2022-02-04). Appalachians Are Building A Green New Deal Blueprint For Themselves. popularresistance.org The Green New Deal proposal is one of the only effective, broadly recognized pathways to tackle the climate crisis and address its social and economic consequences. It is technologically possible and economically sustainable. Yet although the Green New Deal project is already under way in some shape or form in various states, it has yet to be scaled up to the national level. In fact, climate policy as a whole has been stalled in Congress, and the Biden administration has so far engaged more in symbolic gestures than in living policy processes. | With time quickly running out to prevent a greenhouse apocalypse, ac…

Anonymous Contributor (2022-02-04). Update on Antifascists Facing Repression from Opposing the NSM in Newnan, Georgia. itsgoingdown.org Report and update from the International Anti-Fascist Defense Fund on those facing charges stemming from protests in Newnan, GA against the NSM. Back in April 2018, full-on nazis from the National Socialist Movement held a rally in Newnan, GA. Anti-fascists showed up to defend the community from that threat and were attacked — by Georgia…

deweylaura (2022-02-04). Dimitrov on the ideological struggle against fascism. cpusa.org The following excerpt, "The Ideological Struggle against Fascism," is from Georgi Dimitrov's report at the 7th Communist International on August 2, 1935. One of the weakest aspects of the anti-fascist struggle of our Parties is that they react inadequately and too slowly to the demagogy of fascism, and to this day continue to neglect …

Editor2 (2022-02-04). Amnesty: 'Israel' Imposing 'Apartheid' on Palestinians. orinocotribune.com Occupied Palestine (QNN)- 'Israel' is carrying out "the crime of apartheid against Palestinians" and must be held accountable for treating them as "an inferior racial group", Amnesty International said in a new report. | Released on Tuesday, the 278-page report by the leading rights group details how Israeli occupation authorities enforce a system of oppression and domination against the Palestinians. | The damning investigation sets out how massive seizures of Palestinian land and property, unlawful killings, forcible transfer, drastic movement restrictions, and the denial of nationality and citizenship to Pales…

Editor2 (2022-02-04). Palestine is Nearing its 'South Africa Moment,' Campaigners Declare. orinocotribune.com By Bethany Rielly — Feb 1, 2022 | Amnesty International becomes the latest human rights group to accuse Israel of the crime of apartheid | PALESTINE is nearing its "South Africa moment," campaigners declared today after Amnesty International became the latest human rights group to accuse Israel of the crime of apartheid. | In a damning 280-page report, Amnesty details how Israeli authorities enforce a system of oppression and domination against Palestinians across Israel and the occupied territories. | The report, based on decades of research and witness testimonies, lists a range of Israeli abuses, includin…

Jesús Rodríguez-Espinoza (2022-02-04). Recent Polls Show Venezuelans Expect Economic and Political Improvements. orinocotribune.com Caracas, February 4, 2022 (OrinocoTribune.com)—According to the last Hinterlaces national survey, carried out this January, 29% of voters sympathize with the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) and 1% with other organizations that are grouped around the Great Simón Bolívar Patriotic Pole (GPP), which places partisan support for the government of President Nicolás Maduro at 30%. | Last May, 2021, Orinoco Tribune

Mark Gruenberg (2022-02-04). Landmark landslide win for independent union at big GM Mexico plant. peoplesworld.org SILAO, Mexico—The landmark landslide win for an independent union at the big General Motors plant in Silao, Mexico, may well be a precursor of the future of Mexican organized labor—a precursor that augurs well for their U.S. colleagues, too. That's because the 4,192-932 February 3 victory by SINTTIA, The National Independent Union for Workers in …

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2022-02-04: News Headlines

Rick Rozoff (2022-02-04). France plans to head Baltic-style NATO battle groups in Black Sea region. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com France wants to Lead a New Multinational NATO Contingent in the Balkans French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian, who is in Bucharest, met virtually today with nine of his Eastern European counterparts to discuss the crisis over Ukraine…. In a speech to the Romanian parliament yesterday, Le Drian said Paris wanted to show its solidarity …

Chris Hedges (2022-02-04). Hedges: Heeding James Joyce's 'Ulysses'. nationofchange.org A century after its publication, the timeless novel warns us about the poisons of nationalism and idolatry and the commonality of our sojourns between birth and death.

MK Bhadrakumar (2022-02-04). US outruns regional states in race for Kabul. asiatimes.com In a hugely consequential advisory, the US Treasury Department quietly signaled on Wednesday (February 2) that it was "tweaking" sanctions against Afghanistan's Haqqani Network. International banks can now transfer money to the Taliban, including its affiliated Haqqani Network, without fear of breaching sanctions. Washington simply issued clarifications dilating on the relaxation of sanctions announced in …

WSWS (2022-02-04). Poorer countries facing sovereign debt crisis. wsws.org One of the most vulnerable countries is Sri Lanka. Rating agency S&P Global warned last month the country faced a possible default this year as it downgraded its sovereign bonds.

Benjamin Norton (2022-02-03). How Israel is an apartheid regime, with Ali Abunimah. multipolarista.com Mainstream human rights organization Amnesty International admitted Israel is committing apartheid against Palestinians, a crime against humanity. Journalist Ali Abunimah discusses the parallels to South Africa and roots in settler-colonialism.

Staff (2022-02-03). Amnesty International Defends Report on Israeli Apartheid, Rejecting Criticism from U.S. & Israel. democracynow.org Amnesty International has become the third major human rights organization to accuse Israel of committing the crime of apartheid against Palestinians in a new report released on Tuesday. Amnesty finds Israel's system of apartheid dates back to the country's founding in 1948 and has materialized in abuses including massive seizures of Palestinian land and property, unlawful killings, forcible transfer, drastic movement restrictions, and the denial of nationality and citizenship to Palestinians — all of which constitute apartheid under international law. We speak with Amnesty International USA's executive dir…

Vijay Prashad (2022-02-03). Can Israel stop the world from saying 'Apartheid'? greenleft.org.au The Israeli state is pulling out all stops to delegitimise international organisations that dare use the term "apartheid" to describe its decades-long brutal occupation of Palestine, writes Vijay Prashad.

Middle East Monitor (2022-02-03). Israel's Claims to be a Democracy ring Hollow as Amnesty Finds it an Apartheid State. juancole.com By Nasim Ahmed | — ( Middle East Monitor ) — Amnesty International became the latest human rights group to label Israel an apartheid state. In a damning report titled "Israel's Apartheid against Palestinians" the rights group concludes that the occupation state has imposed a "cruel system of domination" and is committing "crimes against humanity." …

Staff (2022-02-03). Russia & China set to make new declaration — Moscow. rt.com The announcement comes as Moscow and Beijing increase their cooperation in a number of spheres | Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping are set to declare the two countries will work shoulder to shoulder on their most important missions, Moscow has announced, as relations with the US and its allies in Europe come under increased strain. | Speaking to reporters on Wednesday, Kremlin foreign policy adviser Yuri Ushakov revealed that the text of a major announcement would be on the agenda for the Russian leader's upcoming visit to China. | "A joint statement on international relat…

Staff (2022-02-03). Russia reveals plans in case of cut-off from US dollar. rt.com The Kremlin has urged calm in the face of massive US sanctions | Moscow is prepared for the possibility that harsh US sanctions could restrict its banks' access to dollar transactions, the Kremlin has said, admitting that the potentially unprecedented measures have officials worried. | Kremlin Press Secretary Dmitry Peskov told journalists on Wednesday that Moscow is well aware of the threat of massive sanctions coming from the American side amid an ongoing row over Ukraine. "Certainly, the Kremlin is concerned, because the sanctions behavior of the US is absolutely unpredictable," he said. | The spokesman wen…

Ralph Nader (2022-02-03). Facilitating Civic and Political Energies for the Common Good. dissidentvoice.org Some readers responded to one of my earlier columns urging the national progressive civic groups, with millions of members back home, to overcome the dominance of giant corporatism with a Ten-Year Plan1 budgeted at $1 billion a year (See, "Think Big to Overcome Losing Big to Corporatism," January 7, 2022). Readers wanted to know more about …

WSWS (2022-02-03). Deepening crisis of American capitalism as national debt hits $30 trillion. wsws.org The endless rise of the national debt, now $7 trillion more than the size of the entire US economy, is the outcome of deeply rooted processes whereby profits are increasingly obtained through stock market and other financial operations.

Editor2 (2022-02-03). Cuba's Resumen Latinoamericano Website Silenced Due to Blockade. orinocotribune.com By Graciela Ramírez — Jan 29, 2022 | This January 27, while we were preparing different notes on national and international affairs, our website cubaenresumen.org was silenced. We could not upload any information, we thought at first it was due to a technical problem with the website. | After an hour we began to receive messages via WhatsApp from friends and readers of Cuba en Resumen in Argentina, Brazil, Honduras, Venezuela, Spain, the United States and Italy who were asking what was happening, since they could not access not only what was published in the morning, nor anything on our website. | We immedia…

Staff (2022-02-03). Spike Lee to produce Kaepernick series. rt.com The filmmaker was tapped by ESPN for its documentary about the 49ers quarterback-turned activist | ESPN Films announced on Tuesday that Spike Lee will take charge of its upcoming documentary series about Colin Kaepernick. Lee will have access to never-before-seen footage from Kaepernick's archive. | The director will record additional interviews with the NFL star to create "a full, first-person account of his journey" from childhood in an adoptive white family to athletic stardom to black rights advocacy. | The 34-year-old was born to a white mother from a black father and was put up for adoption, with the Kae…

Rick Rozoff (2022-02-03). Closing ranks against Russia: NATO's North Atlantic Council, EU's Political and Security Committee, Ukrainian envoys meet. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com NATO and EU Ambassadors meet to discuss crisis in Ukraine Russia's military build-up in and around Ukraine and the implications for European and international security were discussed at today's (03 February 2022) informal meeting between the North Atlantic Council and the European Union's Political and Security Committee (PSC). The meeting, part of the regular high-level …

Rick Rozoff (2022-02-03). Pentagon: National Guard troops training Ukrainian counterparts to stay. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com U.S. National Guard forces remain in Ukraine as of now — Pentagon The Pentagon will not recall U.S. National Guard fighters from Ukraine, who stay there as part of a mission to train Ukrainian servicemen as U.S. Defense Department Spokesperson John Kirby stated. "On the National Guard, again, no change to their presence, or posture …

Moderator (2022-02-03). Ilhan Omar Warns Democrats' Ukraine Proposal Only 'Escalates the Conflict'. scheerpost.com By Jessica Corbett / Common Dreams Congresswoman Ilhan Omar on Wednesday delivered a detailed rebuke of congressional Democrats' proposed legislative response to the escalating crisis involving Ukraine and Russia, declaring that "when the United States says it champions human rights, democracy, and peace, we should mean it." "Instead of spending $500 million on weapons, we should …

G. Dunkel (2022-02-03). Hunger, violence and earthquakes — Haiti's problems intensify. workers.org Former Haitian senator MoàØse Jean Charles, was deported to Haiti from Miami, Jan. 25 The last week of January, two moderately severe earthquakes shook southwest Haiti in the department of Nippes. An official said 191 homes were destroyed, and 591 were damaged. At least two people were killed. Dozens of . . . |

_____ (2022-02-03). The Year of the Tiger Starts With a Sino-Russian Bang. strategic-culture.org The Year of the Black Water Tiger will start, for all practical purposes, with a Beijing bang this Friday, as Presidents Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin, after a live meeting before the initial ceremony of the Winter Olympics, will issue a joint statement on international relations. | That will represent a crucial move in the Eurasia vs. NATOstan chessboard, as the Anglo-American axis is increasingly bogged down in Desperation Row: after all, "Russian aggression" stubbornly refuses to materialize. | After an interminable wait arguably due to the lack of functionaries properly equipped to write an intelligible lett…

_____ (2022-02-03). How US Meddling Split Sudan. popularresistance.org Like most countries, the Republic of South Sudan is a complex nation of shifting alliances and external influences. | Recently, President Salva Kiir, who sports a Stetson hat gifted him by George W. Bush, signed a peace agreement with old enemies, the Sudan People's Liberation Army-In Opposition. Around the same time, the so-called Embassy Troika consisting of the US, Britain, and Norway facilitated International Monetary Fund (IMF) programs for South Sudan. | When China proposes investment schemes, US politicians call it "debt-trap diplomacy." As has been seen in South Sudan, when Western corporations seek to pl…

Yves Engler (2022-02-03). Anti-China Canadian MPs claim Sovereignty over Argentine Mine. dissidentvoice.org The anti-China panic sweeping Canadian politics has descended from tragedy into farce. A month ago I mocked Globe and Mail Report on Business columnist Eric Reguly for complaining about China-based Zijin Mining purchasing Neo Lithium. The nominally Canadian firm extracts lithium in Argentina. Reguly succeeded in stirring a national security scare about minerals extracted 10,000 …

Andrew Wong (2022-02-03). Biden continues to pressure China. indybay.org Joe Biden approved a further anti-China bill and, by amazing coincidence, did it on the eve of binational summit. That's a great attack on China, it has to be said.

_____ (2022-02-03). Burkina Faso Military Coup Reflects Wave Of Insecurity In West Africa. popularresistance.org This time lower-ranking army officers staged a mutiny in Burkina Faso over the weekend of January 22-23 leaving millions domestically and throughout the region wondering who was actually in control of the landlocked agricultural country formerly colonized by France. | During the afternoon on January 24, several soldiers appeared on national television saying they had taken control of the government removing President Roche Marc Christian Kabore who was elected during a transitional process in 2015. The deposed president was reportedly being held at a military camp where one of the mutinies occurred. | Other offic…

Richard S. Dunn (2022-02-03). Peltier has COVID-19: President Joe Biden, Do The Right Thing, Free Leonard! covertactionmagazine.com On January 28th, Brian Schatz, (D-Hawai'i), chairman of the U.S. Senate Committee on Indian Affairs urged President Biden to commute …

WSWS (2022-02-03). As oil giants announce massive profits, BP oil refinery worker in Indiana declares: "We're ready to strike" wsws.org Oil workers are angered over being kept in the dark by the United Steelworkers (USW) and are ready to fight the highly profitable oil giants.

Arjae Red (2022-02-03). First-hand report: The truth about Nicaragua's revolution. workers.org Delegates from Labor Against Racism and War and Workers World Party with members of the ATC (Asociación de Trabajadores del Campo), Managua. Based on a talk by the author at a Jan. 30 webinar, hosted by the Alliance for Global Justice, entitled "Nicaragua: What We Saw; What's Next." Red traveled . . . |

Minnie Bruce Pratt (2022-02-03). Amazon worker organizing accelerates with union voting. workers.org Worker organizing at Amazon received international coverage when the Associated Press used a photo of this Workers Assembly Against Racism rally for the Amazon Labor Union, on Oct. 25, 2021, to announce upcoming union elections in February 2022. Headlines screamed alarm Jan. 26 in capitalist business media like the Wall . . . |

Staff (2022-02-03). Survey describes chances of ex-president becoming leader again. rt.com Brazil's former president is poised to beat incumbent Jair Bolsonaro, a poll shows | Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva was polling at 41%, ahead of President Jair Bolsonaro with 30%, according to a survey conducted by PoderData between January 31 and February 1. Lula da Silva's lead over Bolsonaro has slightly narrowed compared to a 42-28 difference two weeks ago. | In a runoff vote, Lula da Silva would beat Bolsonaro with 54% against 37%, the same poll found. Both men have not yet formally declared their candidacies. A different poll last month showed that Lula da Silva could win in the first round. | Famous for his…

Editor (2022-02-03). George Jackson's "Blood in my eye:" A critical appraisal. mronline.org Originally from Chicago, Ill, George L. Jackson grew up in California. In 1961, a young Jackson convicted of armed robbery for allegedly stealing $70 from a gas station. Outrageously, Jackson was sentenced to one year to life, despite assurances from his attorney of a favorable deal if he plead guilty.

Editor (2022-02-03). Solidarity forged from slave chains. mronline.org When the American Civil War ended, Lincoln and his successor Andrew Johnson gave the defeated Confederacy generous peace terms. Vengeance upon the slaveocracy was to be no part of the reconciliation process. It was to be amnesty for Southern slave-owners but new chains for the former slaves.

Staff (2022-02-03). Hackers steal over $320mn in major crypto heist. rt.com The fast-growing decentralized finance (DeFi) sector has been increasingly targeted by cyber criminals | One of the most popular bridges linking the Ethereum and Solana blockchains became a victim of a hack attack on Wednesday resulting in a crypto theft worth more than $320 million. | Developers representing Wormhole confirmed the exploit on its Twitter account, saying the network bridge is currently down while the team investigates a potential exploit. The official website says that the portal is temporarily unavailable. | Wormhole is a protocol that lets users move their tokens and NFTs between Solana and E…

Editor (2022-02-03). Why wouldn't Biden grant clemency to Leonard Peltier? mronline.org Last Friday, it became known that the 77-year-old Native American political prisoner Leonard Peltier was sick with COVID-19. Peltier has been in prison for over 46 years, which makes him the oldest political prisoner in the United States.

Editor (2022-02-03). School Privatization Week: Charles Koch Buys into National Parents Union. mronline.org There's millions of dollars sloshing around Massachusetts Parents United and National Parents Union these days. Some of it is from Charles Koch.

Kevin Mwanza (2022-02-03). Don't Send Out The Crypto: How To Stay Safe From Crypto Airdrop Scam Giveaways. moguldom.com The crypto airdrop — a marketing strategy followed by blockchain based services that helps crypto startups to stand out from the crowd — has become a way for scammers to lure people into a clicking frenzy with the goal of separating them from their assets. The aim of crypto airdrops is to spread awareness about …

José Manuel Blanco Diaz (2022-02-03). President Maduro Announces Expansion of Credit & Other Economic Decisions. orinocotribune.com This Wednesday, February 2, Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro announced measures aimed at expanding access to financing through Venezuela's banks, including the implementation of mechanisms to democratize credit, allowing entrepreneurs and businessmen to expand productive capacity. | The announcements were made during a meeting held at Miraflores Palace in Caracas, in the framework of the National Council of Economy, with the participation of all the representatives of the country's public and private financial institutions, and the Central Bank of Venezuela, among other state agencies. | "We have been amalgama…

Patricia Ferrer (2022-02-03). Mothers of Plaza de Mayo Demonstrate Against Argentina's Agreement with IMF. orinocotribune.com The President of the Association of the Mothers of Plaza de Mayo, Hebe de Bonafini, through a letter published this Monday, January 31, expressed the organization's disagreement to the payment of Argentina's external debt with the International Monetary Fund (IMF). An exorbitant loan was issued by the Washington, DC-based IMF to the Argentine government during the mandate of former neoliberal President Mauricio Macri. The $56.7 billion loan was the largest ever issued to a single country. | The Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo organization was formed to struggle against the Argentine dictatorship of 1976 to 1983. Par…

Staff (2022-02-03). Argentina: Máximo Kirchner Resigns as President of Frente de Todos Parliamentary Block (+IMF). orinocotribune.com Máximo Kirchner resigned on Monday, January 31, from his responsibility as the head of the Frente De Todos (ruling party) in the Congress of the Argentine Republic. The deputy, who until Monday presided over the block of deputies of the ruling party, made his decision public through a statement in which he expressed his disagreement with President Alberto Fernández's economic policy, embodied in the recent agreement with the International Monetary Fund (IMF). | With this position, the son of former President Néstor Kirchner and current Vice President of Argentina, Cristina Fernández, distanced himself from the pr…

Staff (2022-02-03). Jorge Rodríguez: Deputies Failing to Fulfill their Oath Will be Jailed. orinocotribune.com This Tuesday, February 2, the president of Venezuela's National Assembly (AN) Jorge Rodríguez, warned that deputies who fail to comply with their oath will go to prison. This was said after referring to the case of PSUV parliamentarian, Taina González Rubio, who was arrested in Falcón for her alleged involvement in a drug trafficking network. | "Jail will be the destination for any deputy failing to fulfill their oath, thus becoming a despicable traitor. Everyone who deviates from the right path will be sent to jail," he asserted during his speech at the session this Tuesday, in which the parliamentary immunity o…

WSWS (2022-02-03). Governor Ron DeSantis refuses to denounce Florida Nazis, attacks Democrats instead. wsws.org The Florida governor's refusal to condemn members of the National Socialist Movement is another example of the transformation of the Republican Party into a fascist movement.

Joachim Hagopian (2022-02-03). Reaching Covid-19 "Turning Point of Critical Mass": Is Nuremberg 2 Next? London Metropolitan Police Criminal Investigation. globalresearch.ca Not only is Britain's largest police force actively involved in the probe, the Hammersmith Police alongside the ICC are working together in what's being called the world's largest international crime investigation.

WSWS (2022-02-03). Ottawa police mull appealing for military support to end far-right occupation of Canada's capital. wsws.org The Conservatives, right-wing media outlets like the Toronto Sun and National Post, and sections of big business have incited a far-right extra-parliamentary movement to push politics sharply to the right, beginning with the elimination of all remaining anti-COVID-19 public health measures.

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2022-02-03: News Headlines

Vijay Prashad (2022-02-03). Can Israel stop the world from saying 'Apartheid'? Concealing the suffering in Palestine. greenleft.org.au The Israeli state is pulling out all stops to deligitmise international organisations that dare use the term "apartheid" to describe its decades-long brutal occupation of Palestine, writes Vijay Prashad.

_____ (2022-02-03). The Year of the Tiger Starts with a Sino-Russian Bang. strategic-culture.org The Year of the Black Water Tiger will start, for all practical purposes, with a Beijing bang this Friday, as Presidents Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin, after a live meeting before the initial ceremony of the Winter Olympics, will issue a joint statement on international relations. | That will represent a crucial move in the Eurasia vs. NATOstan chessboard, as the Anglo-American axis is increasingly bogged down in Desperation Row: after all, "Russian aggression" stubbornly refuses to materialize. | After an interminable wait arguably due to the lack of functionaries properly equipped to write an intelligible lett…

Staff (2022-02-02). VIDEO: Ukraine Crisis Webinar: Peace Activists and Experts Gather. davidswanson.org Here's the video: Speakers include: Katrina vanden Heuvel, editorial director of The Nation magazine, columnist for the Washington Post. Ann Wright, retired U.S. Army colonel, retired diplomat, author, activist. Vladimir Kozin, member of Russian Academy of Military Sciences, speaking from Moscow. Norman Solomon, co-founder and national director of RootsAction.org, author, activist. Moderator: David Swanson, campaign …

A Guest Author (2022-02-02). At Russia-Ukraine border NO U.S.-NATO WAR! workers.org An ad-hoc coalition of anti-imperialist organizations located in the United States has published the following call for protests in the following week of U.S. and NATO's aggressive actions directed at Russia, building up to demonstrations and a webinar on Feb. 5: We must act now to stop the war with . . . |

Staff (2022-02-02). Russia & US commit to further talks on security guarantees. rt.com Continued engagement from both sides will allow room for serious discussion, but situation appears to be a stalemate | Washington is willing to continue diplomatic discussions with Russia over mutual security concerns, the US State Department revealed on Tuesday, following a phone call between Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov. | The discussion comes as tensions between Russia and the West continue to remain high, with Moscow accused of placing over 100,000 troops on the border with Ukraine. The buildup has triggered a response from multiple NATO members, with many se…

Editor (2022-02-02). The Petro-War of Chrystia Freeland: Canada's military support for Ukraine. mronline.org According to the Globe and Mail, the Minister of Finance, Chrystia Freeland, is in charge of the campaign of military support for the Ukraine.

Margaret Kimberley (2022-02-02). Ukraine and U.S. war propaganda. mronline.org The corporate media always carry water for the state, and they are never more dangerous than when the nation is on a war footing. Right now the United States government is sending weapons to Ukraine.

Rick Rozoff (2022-02-02). 30 NATO members, 37 partners from around the world forge new global strategic doctrine. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com The 67 nations involved include ones on all six populated continents. Why the world stubbornly persists in ignoring the evolution of an ever-expanding international military alliance is beyond my ability to comprehend. ==== NATO engages with partners to help shape the next Strategic Concept 37 participating partners: Algeria, Armenia, Australia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Bosnia and …

Staff (2022-02-02). Leaked US & NATO replies to Russia: Here's what you need to know. rt.com It seems the West has rejected Moscow's core demands, but proposed steps to ease tensions | In December, Russia requested that the US and NATO produce definitive written responses to its proposals on assurances addressing security concerns. The letters were sent to Moscow last week. US Secretary of State Antony Blinken told reporters at the time that the correspondence should stay confidential. However, the two letters were allegedly Wh…

Anonymous103 (2022-02-02). US-Qatar Rise In Cooperation May Be Related To Washington's Energy Strategy. southfront.org Click to see full-size imageThe American government is trying to promote Qatar's gas production in order to ensure US allies energy security, preventing them from any cooperation with Russia. | Written by Lucas Leiroz, research fellow in international law at the Rural Federal University of Rio de Janeiro; geopolitical consultant. | US-Qatar relations seem to be getting better and better. During a conversation at the White House with Qatari Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, US President Joe Biden promis…

_____ (2022-02-02). Russia Opens Doors for Iran's Eurasian integration. strategic-culture.org Raisi and Putin's January meeting may have seemed anticlimactic, but Russia is now opening doors for Iran's Eurasian integration | By Yeghia TASHJIAN | On 20 January, Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi traveled to meet his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin in Moscow, with the express purpose of advancing bilateral ties between both countries at the highest level. | Among the talking points of the two leaders were their shared regional and international issues, the Vienna negotiations for Iran's nuclear program, and regional cooperation in Eurasia. | Contrary to expectations and to the positive statements made befor…

WSWS (2022-02-02). International Viewpoint supports war propaganda against Russia. wsws.org Under the misleading title "Time for International Anti-War Solidarity," unnamed "Ukrainian socialists" called on the "international left" to "condemn the imperialist policies of the Russian government."

_____ (2022-02-02). Central Asia becomes a Platform for Cooperation between Russia, India and China. journal-neo.org Central Asia (CA), due to its geostrategic location at the junction of Europe and Asia, its proximity to the leading international actors such as Russia and China, its wealth of natural resources and its yet-to-be fully exploited trade and economic opportunities, has recently attracted increasing interest from international actors. In order to create a stable …

Staff (2022-02-02). Ski starlet who swapped USA for China puts gold medals before politics. rt.com The teenage sensation switched allegiances to China in 2019 | At a Winter Olympics where Instagram is giving fans the chance to gain the inside track from athletes, Chinese-American sensation Eileen Gu's first post from the Beijing Games was telling. | Mildly sending up her usual glossy, high-fashion posts on a platform where the 18-year-old already has more than 245,000 followers, Gu haphazardly opened a box of "Olympic gear", goofishly modeling clothing provided by organizers before leaving it strewn across her sparse-looking room. | Gu might have been on a catwalk rather than dorm-style accommodation this w…

Daniel Alan Bey (2022-02-02). US 'rules-based order' is a myth and China knows it. asiatimes.com A new bill in the United States will only add extra weight in Beijing to fears that the "rules-based" international order American politicians like to talk about is really about keeping the world's most populous country down. The America Competes Act of 2022, passed by the US House of Representatives last week, comes in at …

Editor2 (2022-02-02). Sabbagh: Western Coercive Measures Escalate Suffering of Millions of Syrians. orinocotribune.com Syria's Permanent Representative to the United Nations stressed that the US and EU illegitimate unilateral coercive measures escalated the suffering of millions of Syrians. | Ambassador Bassam Sabbagh made his remarks in a session of the Security Council on Friday on the humanitarian situation in Syria. | "The economic terrorism and the collective punishment policies represented by the illegitimate unilateral coercive measures imposed by the US and the EU have escalated the suffering of millions of Syrians who bear big burden to obtain their basic needs, in flagrant violation of all international legal standards…

Editor (2022-02-02). What's at stake with SCOTUS nomination — an editorial. workers.org On the eve of Black History Month — February — President Joe Biden announced his intentions of nominating an African American woman to replace the soon-to-be-retired U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer. Sitting on the court now are six men and three women. All justices have life tenure, until either . . . |

Julie Hollar (2022-02-02). Presidential Debates May Be a Thing of the Past. otherwords.org Are debates for America's highest office now a thing of the past? | The Republican National Committee now plans to make future GOP candidates for president "sign a pledge not to participate in any debates sponsored by the Commission on Presidential Debates," or CPD, The CPD has run general election presidential debates since wresting control of them from the League of Women Voters in the late 1980s. Although it's often characterized as a "nonpartisan" group, "bipartisan" would be mo…

Olivia Alperstein (2022-02-02). Banned Books Should Be Required Reading. otherwords.org In January, a Tennessee county school board voted unanimously to Decisions like these shortchange kids in every community. | Authors like Spiegelman didn't just write (or illustrate) their books for a Jewish audience. They wrote for a wider audience of people who don't know how horrific the Holocaust was, w…

Peter Certo (2022-02-02). In OtherWords: February 2, 2022. otherwords.org This Black History Month, many teachers are bracing for a chill wind as states and school districts across the country pass bans on so-called "critical race theory." Many wonder if they'll be penalized simply for teaching history or inviting reflection on it. | This week in OtherWords, Tracey L. Rogers explains why those bans make Black History Month so important this year — not only for Black Americans, but for white Americans too. We need to reckon with our country's history honestly, she argues, so we can make it work better for all us. | Of course, that's not the only ban classrooms are grappling with.

Sonali Kolhatkar (2022-02-02). This Pandemic Showed the Benefits of Universal Health Care. otherwords.org There has been a Jekyll and Hyde quality to American health care over the past two years. | One the one hand, the federal government has been actively intervening to help people avoid COVID-19 or recover from it. On the other, it's standing by as Americans struggle with other ailments, exposing the vast fissures of The government's pandemic response has been imperfect but successful in many respects. Are there lessons for how we treat other diseases? | For example, the Biden administration is now taki…

Editor (2022-02-02). This Black History Month, Don't Ban Our History — Teach It. scheerpost.com By Tracey L. Rogers / When President Gerald Ford officially recognized Black History Month in 1976, he It's true — Black Americans have excelled "in every area of endeavor," from arts and culture to sports and entertainment to everyday living and thriving in this countr…

Eds. (2022-02-02). Spanish translations of pamphlets / manifestos published by Daraja Press. mronline.org We are delighted to announce the online Spanish translations of pamphlets/ manifestos published by Daraja Press and Monthly Review Essays. These pamphlets are parts of the series, Moving Beyond Capitalism — Now! and Thinking Freedom.

A Guest Author (2022-02-02). Puerto Rican organizations rally against crypto colonizers. workers.org This article was based on a leaflet issued by the New York City organizing coalition of Puerto Rican and anti-imperialist groups sponsoring the Jan. 28 rally. New York City, Jan. 28 A coalition of Puerto Rican and global anti-imperialist groups rallied Jan. 28 at the New York City Housing Authority. . . . |

Staff (2022-02-02). 'Remarkable' image of our galaxy's center revealed. rt.com A supermassive black hole lurking in the center of the Milky Way is the brightest spot | A new MeerKAT telescope image of the galactic center reveals the "complex heart" of the Milky Way, with astronomers saying they now have "the best insight yet into the population of mysterious 'radio filaments' found nowhere else." | Released by the South African Radio Astronomy Observatory, the "remarkable" image is based on a mosaic of 20 separate observations, which took a total of 200 hours of MeerKAT telescope time to acquire. | | A rare, almost-perfect spherical supernova remnant that has been discovered at the edg…

Editor (2022-02-02). IMF says to Nepal Rastra Bank: "COVID-19 related support measures in the financial sector should however be gradually unwound, and the remaining ones should be targeted and time bound. mronline.org The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has expressed dissatisfaction over the role played by Nepal Rastra Bank to ensure stability of Nepal's banking sector.

Staff (2022-02-02). Heating costs double in Europe's biggest economy. rt.com Germany's household energy costs saw the greatest rise in 2021 | The cost of heating and electricity in Germany increased by 107% and 41% respectively over the past year, Der Spiegel reported, citing a spokesperson of the Check24 portal, which compares prices for goods and services in the country. | According to data, the average household in Germany had to pay €1,193 for gas and fuel oil in January 2021, with the cost rising to almost €2,472 last month. The main reason for that was the sharp rise in energy prices, the newspaper said, adding that high wholesale gas prices have affected end-user price…

Maxximilian Seijo (2022-02-02). Historicizing Inflation and Price Controls with Andrew Elrod. mronline.org Andrew Elrod joins Money on the Left to discuss the political economy of inflation and price controls, past and present. Elrod holds a Ph.D. in History from the University of California, Santa Barbara and is presently Research Specialist at United Teachers Los Angeles, a 36,000-member labor union. In our conversation, Elrod overturns one of the …

Moderator (2022-02-02). Teachers Union Warns Pandemic Burnout Destroying Schools. scheerpost.com By Andrea Germanos / Common Dreams New polling out Tuesday reveals pervasive burnout among the nation's educators as pandemic-related staffing shortages and other difficulties drive a potential exodus from the teaching profession. Released by the National Education Association, the nation's largest union of any profession, the member survey shows, according to NEA president Becky Pringle, that "after persevering …

Editor (2022-02-02). Greenwald: The Pressure Campaign on Spotify to Remove Joe Rogan Reveals the Religion of Liberals: Censorship. scheerpost.com Joe Rogan interviews Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) on Aug. 6, 2019, roughly six months before he endorsed the Vermont independent for president. | By Glenn Greenwald / American liberals are obsessed with finding ways to silence and censor their adversaries. Every week, if not every day, they have new targets they want de-platformed, banned, silenced, and otherwise prevented from speaking or being heard (by "liberals," I mean the term of self-description used by th…

Editor (2022-02-02). Non-capitalist mixed economies: what makes a socialist? mronline.org In this paper I attempt to provide a short overview of the subject. Words like democracy, freedom, anarchist, Marxist, communist are used in so many different meanings that they become meaningless. One such word is "socialist." — László Tàºt≈ë…

_____ (2022-02-02). Feb. 3 Webinar: Camila Saab, Wife Of Diplomat/US Political Prisoner. popularresistance.org Alex Saab is a Venezuelan diplomat the US government has illegally seized and imprisoned for what the US considers "violation" of the illegal US economic warfare on Venezuela. He was in fact assisting Venezuela in legally working around the US blockade on his country by finding the means to import food, medicine, and materials for the Venezuelan oil industry. The US is seeking to coerce Alex Saab into disclosing the methods Venezuela uses to circumvent the US-Canadian-European sanctions with the goal of further tightening the economic blockade and suffering on the Venezuelan people. These sanctions are illegal ac…

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2022-02-02: News Headlines

Andrew Wong (2022-02-02). Biden continues to pressure China. indybay.org Joe Biden approved a further anti-China bill and, by amazing coincidence, did it on the eve of binational summit. That's a great attack on China, it has to be said.

Staff (2022-02-02). 'No animosity' as Russia and Ukraine prepare for rare showdown. rt.com Russia and Ukraine will face off in the semifinals of the UEFA Futsal Euro 2022 championships in the Netherlands | Russia and Ukraine are preparing to meet in the semifinal of the UEFA European Futsal Championships amid a backdrop of political and military tensions, but members of the Russian team insist that will not be a factor in the match. | The unbeaten Russian team booked their spot in the last four of UEFA Futsal Euro 2022 with victory over Georgia on Tuesday. | They will next face a Ukrainian team which shocked favorites Kazakhstan in their quarterfinal meeting in Amsterdam on Monday. | The Ziggo Dome…

Staff (2022-02-02). Native American tribes win $590 million opioid settlement. rt.com Johnson & Johnson insisted that the deal was not an admission of liability or wrongdoing | Native American tribes have reached a landmark $590 million settlement with Johnson & Johnson and three major US drug distributors over the devastation caused to indigenous people by opioid addiction. | According to the deal, Johnson & Johnson is going to pay out $150 million over the next two years, with the AmerisourceBergen, McKesson, and Cardinal companies paying another $440 million over a seven-year period. | The filing in US District Court in Cleveland, which was made public on Tuesday, said that the settlement mo…

Binoy Kampmark (2022-02-02). Special Privileges: Charlotte Bellis, Fortress New Zealand and the Taliban. dissidentvoice.org Not wishing to be left out from the brutal closed border system that has characterised COVID-19 policy in Australia, New Zealand has also been every bit as extreme in limiting the return of its nationals. Pandemic policy, if not logic, has taken issue with the nature of citizenship, which, truth be told, is simply not …

Juan Cole (2022-02-02). Apartheid 2.0: Amnesty International Joins Chorus condemning Israeli rule over stateless Palestinians. juancole.com Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) — The Israeli state has won the trifecta of condemnation by major human rights organizations, as, on Tuesday, Amnesty International joined with Human Rights Watch and B'Tselem in calling Israeli rule over the 5 million Palestinians of the Occupied Palestinian Territories a form of Apartheid. Amnesty carried out its investigation and …

WSWS (2022-02-02). Far-right "Freedom Convoy" besieges Canada's parliament—an inflection point in the breakdown of Canadian democracy. wsws.org Powerful sections of Canada's ruling elite have incited a far-right, extra-parliamentary movement that is now encamped menacingly outside the national parliament and vows to remain until its demands are met.

Fight Back (2022-02-02). USW rejects Marathon's proposal, offers 24-hour rolling extensions of current oil agreements. fightbacknews.org Pittsburgh, PA – The United Steelworkers union (USW) announced today that it rejected Marathon Petroleum's most recent proposal for a pattern settlement on wages, benefits and working conditions for approximately 30,000 USW members in the oil and petrochemical industry. The union then offered rolling 24-hour extensions of the current labor agreements. | The USW has been in talks with Marathon, which represents industry as its lead negotiator, since January 13. The current national agreement expired at midnight on February 1. | "Our members remain strong and united in their commitment to reaching a deal that meets…

ecns.cn (2022-02-02). U.S. national debt surpasses 30 trln USD as Fed prepares to raise rates. ecns.cn The U.S. national debt has surpassed 30 trillion U.S. dollars for the first time, raising concerns about future fiscal sustainability, as the Federal Reserve prepares to raise interest rates to tame inflation.

WSWS (2022-02-02). COVID-19 death of a student reported in Sri Lanka. wsws.org This tragic death demonstrates the criminality of the reopening of Sri Lankan schools amid the continuing spread of COVID-19.

ecns.cn (2022-02-01). Macao SAR chief executive vows more efforts to integrate into national development in Year of Tiger. ecns.cn Chief Executive of China's Macao Special Administrative Region (SAR) Ho Iat Seng on Monday said people in Macao must devote united and diligent effort to make use of fresh opportunities arising from the country's overall development, and further promote Macao's unique strengths in the Year of the Tiger.

Benjamin Norton (2022-02-01). Ex VP Dick Cheney confirmed US goal is to break up Russia, not just USSR. multipolarista.com Former Vice President and Iraq War architect Dick Cheney wasn't content only breaking up the Soviet Union. Balkanizing Russia (and China) is a bipartisan foreign-policy goal among top US national security state officials.

ecns.cn (2022-02-01). Chinese Embassy in U.S. Holds Online Reception for 2022 Chinese New Year of Tiger. ecns.cn A Reception for the 2022 Chinese New Year of the Tiger, which Winter‚ÄÇthemed "A VigoroU.S. Year of the Tiger, A Joyful RendezvoU.S. for‚ÄÇis on the‚ÄÇOlympics", was held online by the Chinese Embassy in the U.S. evening of January 30. At the reception, Ambassador Qin Gang delivered a speech, former U.S. President Jimmy Carter sent a congratulatory letter, and invited guests including President of the National Committee on China-U.S. Relations Stephen Orlins, President of the China-U.S. BU.S.iness Council Craig Allen, Chairman of the Board for the Utah Chinese…

ecns.cn (2022-02-01). Beijing 2022 to usher in new era for winter sports globally, says IOC president Bach. ecns.cn As China has fulfilled its commitment of engaging 300 million people in winter sports prior to the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics, International Olympic Committee (IOC) president Thomas Bach said the country's efforts would "open a new era for winter sports globally."

ecns.cn (2022-02-01). 'Warm Spring and Flowers' Transnational Spring Festival Gala was Online on the Lunar New Year's Eve. ecns.cn Today is the eve of the Chinese Lunar New Year. Kunming of China, Colombo of Sri Lanka and Kuala Lumpur of Malaysia were lit up simultaneously to officially kick off Seasonal Celebration for Enduring Bonds: 2022 Spring Festival Cultural Events and International Spring Festival Gala. Overseas Chinese and friends from all over the world gathered together on the Cloud to enjoy this Spring Festival cultural feast from many countries in South and Southeast Asia hosted by Yunnan.

ecns.cn (2022-02-01). 2022 Yunnan Spring Festival Cloud cultural exchange event officially kicked off. ecns.cn Today is the eve of the Chinese Lunar New Year. Kunming of China, Colombo of Sri Lanka and Kuala Lumpur of Malaysia were lit up simultaneously to officially kick off Seasonal Celebration for Enduring Bonds: 2022 Spring Festival Cultural Events and International Spring Festival Gala. Overseas Chinese and friends from all over the world gathered together on the Cloud to enjoy this Spring Festival cultural feast from many countries in South and Southeast Asia hosted by Yunnan.

Staff (2022-02-01). Germany Refuses to Send Arms to Ukraine Despite Pressure from U.S. & NATO. democracynow.org Germany's new coalition government is refusing to send lethal weapons to Ukraine but has offered to send over 5,000 combat helmets to protect Ukrainian soldiers in case of a Russian attack. The move has been ridiculed as the U.S. and other NATO countries continue to send military support to Ukraine. In response, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has promised his country will stay in tune with European Union and NATO policies toward Russia. To speak more about Germany's stance toward Ukraine, we're joined by German peace activist and executive director of the International Peace Bureau Reiner Braun, who calls on the E…

Dave DeCamp (2022-02-01). Ukraine's Security Chief: Kyiv Shouldn't Be Forced to Fulfill Minsk Agreements. news.antiwar.com Ukraine's security chief on Monday warned that Western powers Under the agreement, Ukraine is required to give autonomy to the breakaway Republics of Luhansk and Donetsk in the Donbas region. Oleksiy Danilov, the secretary of Ukraine's National Security and Defense Council, said fulfilling the deal could mean the "destruction"

Peoples Dispatch (2022-02-01). Haiti's National Transition Commission elects new interim president and prime minister. peoplesdispatch.org On January 30, Haiti's National Transition Council (CNT) elected economist and former governor of the Bank of the Republic of Haiti, Fritz Alphonse Jean, as the Caribbean country's new interim president. The CNT, made up of 42 members from various political parties and civil society organizations, also elected former senator Steven Irvenson Benoit as the new interim prime minister. The duo will administer the country for a transitional period of 24 months, beginning this February 7. | Jean was elected with 25 votes against 15 for his only opponent, former senator Edgard Leblanc Fils, in the first round of electio…

Editor (2022-02-01). New Amnesty Report Outlines 'True Extent of Israeli Apartheid Regime'. scheerpost.com The separation wall in the West Bank. [ By Palestine advocates on Tuesday welcomed a new report in which Amnesty International became the latest on a growing list of human rights organizations to explicitly call Israeli policies and actions against Palestinians "apartheid." | "There is no possible just…

Mark Gruenberg (2022-02-01). Group of Google workers seeks union recognition vote in Kansas City. peoplesworld.org KANSAS CITY, Mo. (PAI)—When the nation thinks "Google," and its renamed parent firm, Alphabet, the location that comes to mind is Silicon Valley, not the U.S. heartland. But not for Communications Workers Local 1400, the 800-person-and-counting nationwide Alphabet Workers Union. Its first formal union recognition vote filing with the National Labor Relations Board occurred Jan. …

Ann Brown (2022-02-01). Joe Biden White House Has Issues With DNC Chair Jaime Harrison, Former Lobbyist May Quit. moguldom.com Democratic National Committee Chairman Jaime Harrison may be leaving his position early amid increased tension with President Joe Biden's administration. It seems the White House has issues with Harrison and he has limited his power. According to insiders, Harrison feels isolated and frustrated in his role, NBC reported. Major decisions for the DNC are made by White House Deputy …

Anonymous Contributor (2022-02-01). Indigenous Prisoner in Struggle Marcelino Ruíz Gómez Demands Freedom for Yaqui Political Prisoner Fidencio Aldama. itsgoingdown.org Communique from Indigenous Tzotzil prisoner in struggle Marcelino Ruíz Gómez showing solidarity with Yaqui political prisoner Fidencio Aldama To the Zapatista Army of National Liberation To the Human Rights Defenders To the National and International Sixth To the National Indigenous Congress To the Indigenous Governing Council To the Media To the Believers To the Organized…

José Manuel Blanco Diaz (2022-02-01). Venezuela's Opposition Already has Substitute for Guaidó. orinocotribune.com Venezuela's Justice First Party already has someone in mind to replace former deputy Juan Guaidó in case he ceases to be the "interim president" of the parallel government, which the Venezuelan far-right insists on keeping alive. | According to comments made to Miami-based EVTV by political analyst Antonio de la Cruz, based on his work as executive director of the Inter-American Trends think tank, Juan Pablo Guanipa should assume the leadership of the opposition, which continues to abide by the directives of the National Assembly which was in power from 2015 to 2020, during which Guaidó led the coup against Presi…

Tequesta Black Star (2022-02-01). Antifascists Confront Neo-Nazis in Orlando; Police Offer Racists Protection. itsgoingdown.org Report back from Tequesta Black Star, about antifascists opposing recent neo-Nazi rally in so-called Orlando. Antifascists resisted the presence of the National Socialist Movement in two separate instances in the Orlando area, counter-protesting and redecorating the sites in which they rallied. On the 29th of January, 15-20 neo-Nazis representing the National Socialist Movement held a…

Matt Sedlar (2022-02-01). Private Equity in Healthcare: Profits before Patients and Workers. cepr.net This was originally published in the magazine — Labor and Employment Relations Association (LERA), Perspectives on Work. | On March 25, 2021, U.S Representative Bill Pascrell, Jr. (D-NJ-09), Chairman of the House Ways and Means subcommittee on Oversight, held hearings into the growing power of Wall Street firms in the healthcare industry. The hearings focused on recent research documenting higher than average death rates in private equity (PE) owned nursing homes. A rigorous study published by the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), found that mortality rates in PE-owned nursing homes were 10 percen…

Peoples Dispatch (2022-02-01). Protests demanding affordable housing continue in the Netherlands. peoplesdispatch.org Progressive sections in the city of Amersfoort in the Netherlands organized a demonstration demanding affordable housing on Sunday, January 30. On the call of the housing rights coalition #Woonrevolte Amersfoort, activists from various youth/student groups, feminist groups, trade unions and political parties marched in the city. The Communist Youth Movement (CJB), FNV Vakbond, BIJ1 and the Socialist Party (SP) participated in the march to demand local and national authorities to immediately formulate policies to resolve the aggravating housing crisis in cities across the country. | Major cities in the Netherlands…

C.J. Polychroniou (2022-02-01). Inflation Policies Must Deal With Impact of Rising Food Prices on the Poor. truthout.org Consumer prices in 2021 rose 7 percent over the past year, making this the largest rise in consumer prices over a 12-month period since 1982. Why are prices rising, especially global food prices? Is the current inflationary episode related to the pandemic? Is aggressive monetary policy the main inflation culprit? And how does inflation affect the world, and the poor in particular? Can it be controlled? | Alastair Smith, an international expert on issues of global sustainable development, seeks…

_____ (2022-02-01). Australia Slow to Learn From the Lessons of History. journal-neo.org Australia will hold a general election no later than May of this year. According to the opinion polls, it should be a victory for the Labor Party. They have consistently held a lead over the governing coalition of Liberal and National party members for a considerable period of time, the last opinion poll published less …

Staff (2022-02-01). Iran, Australia FMs discuss deepening relations. en.mehrnews.com Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian and his Australian counterpart Marise Payne discussed expanding and deepening ties between the two countries as well as the regional and other international issues by phone.

ecns.cn (2022-02-01). Indonesia cuts quarantine period for int'l travelers from 7 to 5 days. ecns.cn The Indonesian government on Monday announced that the quarantine period for fully vaccinated international travelers is cut from seven to five days, amid soaring daily cases of the Omicron variant of COVID-19.

WSWS (2022-02-01). Canada records highest daily COVID-19 death toll since start of pandemic. wsws.org A grim milestone was reached on January 27 as 309 COVID-19 deaths were recorded nationally, the highest-ever daily total since the start of the pandemic.

Fra Hughes (2022-02-01). Yemen: How Many Must die Before the World Intervenes? orinocotribune.com By Fra Hughes — Jan 26, 2022 | A beautiful historic country of poetry and art, of ancient buildings and centuries-old culture, has been devastated, destroyed, and bankrupted by fierce aggression led by imperialist forces. | As the death toll rises and nearly 20 million civilians face starvation… When will the international community intervene to end this suffering? Needless slaughters, bombs, regional politicking, airstrikes, the imposed siege, weapons of mass starvation targeting the infrastructure, including hospitals, prisons, and the fabric of civil society that holds a nation together in Yemen. | As I…

WSWS (2022-02-01). The fight for Trotskyism and the political foundations of the World Socialist Web Site. wsws.org The World Socialist Web Site is publishing today the text of a report delivered by David North 25 years ago, on February 1, 1997, motivating a decision to end publication of the SEP's printed newspaper and replace it with an international website.

Peoples Dispatch (2022-02-01). Pegasus was not just a cyberweapon but a diplomatic tool. peoplesdispatch.org Senior journalist and author Paranjoy Guha Thakurta talks to Peoples Dispatch about how the Israeli state used the Pegasus spyware to advance the country's diplomatic interests.

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WSWS (2022-01-31). US-NATO war threats against Russia intensify war dangers facing India. wsws.org The Indian ruling elite's moves to integrate India closely into US war planning against China has dragged India into the world capitalist system's drive towards World War III.

Gwenaà´lle Lenoir (2022-01-31). Sudan: A coup against justice. greenleft.org.au Since the coup last October, the military have been sweeping away any hope of justice in Sudan. After holding it back during the transition that followed the fall of former president Omar al-Bashir, they are now acting alone to methodically bury judicial reforms, investigations, cooperation with the International Criminal Court, and promises of transitional justice, reports Gwenaà´lle Lenoir.

Staff (2022-01-31). Leonard Peltier Has COVID; His Lawyer — an Ex-Federal Judge — Calls for Native Leader to Be Freed. democracynow.org Jailed 77-year-old Native American activist Leonard Peltier has tested positive for COVID-19 less than a week after describing his prison conditions as a "torture chamber." Peltier was convicted of aiding and abetting the killing of two FBI agents during a shootout on South Dakota's Pine Ridge Reservation in 1975 while a member of the American Indian Movement. He has long maintained his innocence and is considered by Amnesty International as a political prisoner. We speak with his lawyer and former federal judge Kevin Sharp, who says Peltier's case was riddled with misconduct, including witness intimidation and w…

Amy Goodman (2022-01-31). Leonard Peltier Has COVID. Will Biden Finally Consider Freeing Him? truthout.org Jailed 77-year-old Native American activist Leonard Peltier has tested positive for COVID-19 less than a week after describing his prison conditions as a "torture chamber." Peltier was convicted of aiding and abetting the killing of two FBI agents during a shootout on South Dakota's Pine Ridge Reservation in 1975 while a member of the American Indian Movement. He has long maintained his innocence and is considered by Amnesty International as a political prisoner. We speak with his lawyer and former fede…

Subodh Varma (2022-01-31). Modi govt. sits on hundreds of thousands of vacancies, while youth fight for jobs. peoplesdispatch.org There are at least 870,000 vacancies in various ministries and another 360,000 in different services under the Indian central government, as per official data…

M. K. Bhadrakumar (2022-01-31). U.S. reminds India it's showtime. mronline.org The Biden-Harris Administration is sensing that Modi Govt, a perceived ally, is not to be seen as its war machine revs up in anticipation of a horrific war. Typically, if a country is not with the U.S., then, it must be against it. But India falls in a category by itself.

Jim McMahan (2022-01-31). Cement workers strike transnational corporations. workers.org Seattle A major strike by concrete mixer drivers and cement plant workers against cement company bosses has shut down much of Seattle's $23 billion construction industry. The workers are members of Teamsters Local 174. Concrete mixer drivers, dump truck drivers and cement plant workers walk off the job in Seattle . . . |

Judy Greenspan (2022-01-31). Free Leonard Peltier! COVID-19 inside prison. workers.org In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic currently raging through the jail, prison and detention centers of this country, Leonard Peltier (Turtle Mountain Band, Chippewa Nation), an Indigenous leader and political prisoner, has issued a cry for help. Leonard Peltier Peltier, 77 years old, who has been imprisoned for 45 . . . |

Mumia Abu-Jamal (2022-01-31). Mumia Abu-Jamal: 'A new Freedom Now Movement'. workers.org Mumia Abu-Jamal's commentaries are recorded by prisonradio.org/. The great Caribbean revolutionary Franz Fanon wrote in his now-classic work, "The Wretched of the Earth," the following call to action: "Each generation must, out of relative obscurity, discover its mission, fulfill it or betray it, in relative opacity. That mission is now . . . |

Editor (2022-01-31). Juan Cole: The FBI's Islamophobia Enabled the January 6th Insurrection. scheerpost.com [ By Juan Cole | Fox News anchor Tucker Carlson

Moderator (2022-01-31). Civil Rights Groups Reject Electoral Count Act as a 'Charade'. scheerpost.com By Andrea Germanos / Common Dreams Amid continued GOP obstruction of Democrats' voting rights legislation, a coalition of civil rights groups on Monday issued a joint statement pushing back against a bipartisan plan to reform the Electoral Count Act, calling the proposal woefully insufficient to address nationwide voter suppression efforts. The core of the issue, the groups said, …

Editor (2022-01-31). Africa was at the centre of Lenin's work. mronline.org Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, the father of Bolshevism, never stepped foot in Africa, but his influence upon the continent has been tremendous. Alongside the ideas of Karl Marx and Frederick Engels, Lenin's revolutionary theories provided the framework for an entire generation of African socialists during the twentieth century.

Editor (2022-01-31). Replacing imports to guarantee greater biotechnological sovereignty in the production of medicine. mronline.org Interview with president of Cuba's leading pharmaceutical enterprise group, BioCubaFarma, working to strengthen the country's technological sovereignty and contribute to the population's quality of life.

Moderator (2022-01-31). Hedges: Heeding James Joyce's 'Ulysses'. scheerpost.com By Chris Hedges / Original to ScheerPost | "Rejoyce," an original work by Mr. Fish. | One hundred years ago this week, Sylvia Beach, who ran the bookstore Shakespeare and Company on 12 rue de l'Odéon in Paris and nurtured a community of expatriate writers that included Richard Wright, T.S. Eliot, D. H. Lawrence, Thornton Wilder, Ezra Pound, F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway, placed in the bookstore's front window a 732-page novel she had published, "Ulysses" by James Joyce. "Ulysses" had been rejected by numerous publishers in English speaking countries. The book, which was banned in the United States a…

Alasdair Baverstock (2022-01-31). Meet Mexican skater Donovan Carrillo. america.cgtn.com Mexico isn't normally a country associated with winter sports, yet it's a regular presence at winter Olympic Games, and despite never having placed an athlete on the medal podium, there are high hopes for one young figure skater at Beijing 2022.

Editor (2022-01-31). Wikileaks' invaluable contributions to journalism and people's movements. mronline.org The information shared by Wikileaks has strengthened the resistance against repressive governments by exposing the gaps between their actions and their carefully crafted narratives.

A Guest Author (2022-01-31). Cuba: La próxima no será colonizada. workers.org Por Pedro Jorge Velázquez. Resumen Latinoamericano, 18 de enero Hay fracasos a los que se le coge el gusto, digo yo; øo cómo puede ser posible que los derrotados se regeneren en formas nuevas de fracaso? øSerá como esa sensación de que algún día resultará, después de tanto intentarlo? Santiago . . . |

Cira Pascual Marquina (2022-01-31). Radical Land Reform in Venezuela: A Conversation with Juan Carlos Loyo (Part I). mronline.org Chávez's agriculture minister talks about the revolutionary changes in land tenure that took place under the former president.

Ramzy Baroud (2022-01-31). Israel's Hasbara in Sheikh Jarrah: On Gilad Erdan's 'Terrorist' Rock and Faulty Logic. towardfreedom.org Israel is no longer the party shaping events in Palestine and controlling the discourse around these events. Palestinians, and a growing international movement of supporters, are proactively shaping global perceptions of the realities on the ground, writes Ramzy Baroud.

Staff (2022-01-31). PSUV Training System to be Relaunched Within '3 Rs Dot Net' Strategy. orinocotribune.com The National Training System of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) will be reactivated throughout Venezuela within the framework of the "three Rs dot net" initiative carried out by the president of the party, Nicolás Maduro, to build the new era of transition to socialism. | Reading circles, courses, and diplomas, as well as the Institute of Higher Studies, will return to their activities "with more force," following the exceptional situation created by COVID-19. The pandemic will force them to adapt to a new work methodology, said PSUV Vice President for Training, Héctor Rodríguez, in this regard. Th…

Staff (2022-01-31). Venezuela will Debate Law to Protect Fighting Bulls. orinocotribune.com The Attorney General of Venezuela, Tarek William Saab, reported that a law will soon be presented to the Venezuelan National Assembly to protect the lives of fighting bulls and stop the practice of bullfighting in the country. | He explained that he has offered his opinion on the subject. Because Venezuela is "a democratic country," said Attorney General Saab, "there is a debate, and we are having that battle of ideas that is important and that does not have any personal overtones, it is neither for nor against this or that." | "It has to do with the defense of life," Attorney General Saab said, reiterating "this…

Michael Lord (2022-01-31). Klaus Schwab's WEF "School for Covid Dictators", a Plan for the "Great Reset" globalresearch.ca Economist Ernst Wolff believes that a hidden alliance of political and corporate leaders is exploiting the pandemic with the aim of crashing national economies and introducing a global digital currency. | How is it that more than 190 governments from all …

_____ (2022-01-31). Firearms Violence — an All-American National Trend. journal-neo.org Fashion, whatever form it may take, is a key element of human culture, an expression of the unique spirit of an age or nation. When discussing the fashion industry, we are generally referring to clothes and accessories. We even talk about the "fashion capitals of the world". The number one fashionable nation, naturally, is France, …

WSWS (2022-01-31). National Labor Relations Board schedules new election at Amazon warehouse in Bessemer, Alabama. wsws.org The RWDSU's campaign at Amazon has relied on unprecedented support from the Democratic Party, for whom the pro-corporate unions are a key element in their strategy to enforce labor discipline upon and increasingly restive workforce.

WSWS (2022-01-31). Thousands of Sri Lankan health workers hold one-day strike in Western Province. wsws.org Repeated struggles in the health sector indicate that the working class will not accept the government's attack, and is determined to defend its living conditions and social rights.

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